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Fine Air Flight 101

**Fine Air Flight 101** was a scheduled cargo flight from Miami International Airport, in Miami, Florida, to Las Américas International Airport in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. On August 7, 1997 the Douglas DC-8 ed into a road (72nd Avenue) at 28th Street, in Miami near the airport. There were four people on the plane but only three bodies were found hours after the crash. Two people on the ground were reported to be injured.

## Accident 
The probable cause was the airplane was the cargo being loaded too far to the back of the plane. Combined with an incorrect stabilizer trim setting, the aircraft pitched up too far at takeoff. Witnesses said the plane looked like it was going to flip backwards as it took off. The plane, weighing , struggle to an altitude of . Then it fell back to the ground, tail first. When the plane hit the ground it broke apart and caught fire.

## References 
## Other websites 
* Fine Air Flight 101; YouTube
* NTSB Aircraft Accident Report, Fine Air Flight 101, August 7, 1997
Howard Frank Mosher

**Howard Frank Mosher** (June 16, 1942 – January 29, 2017) was an American author and retired high school teacher. He was known for his novels *Where the Rivers Flow North* (1978) and *A Stranger In the Kingdom* (1991). He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1979, and is the 1981 recipient of the Literature Award bestowed by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. 

Mosher was born in Cato, New York. He studied at Syracuse University in 1964. He taught English in Vermont at Orleans High and Lake Region Union High School during his early years. Mosher died of prostate cancer under hospice care in Irasburg, Vermont, aged 74.

## References
## Other websites
* Howard Frank Mosher Official Website
* 2007 interview with The Optimistic Curmudgeon
Stuart Timmons

**Stuart Timmons** (January 14, 1957 &ndash; January 28, 2017) was an American journalist, activist, and historian. He was an award-winning author specializing in LGBT history. He was the author of *The Trouble With Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement* and the co-author of *Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, And Lipstick Lesbians* with Lillian Faderman. In 2007, Stuart began developing walking tours of LGBTQ historic sites in Los Angeles.

Timmons was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2008, he suffered a massive stroke that left him paralyzed from the waist down. 

Timmons died on January 28, 2017 at a hospital in Hollywood, California from cardiac arrest, at the age of 60.

## References
## Other websites
* Official Site of Stuart Timmons
Ion Ungureanu

**Ion Ungureanu** (2 August 1935 &ndash; 28 January 2017) was a Moldovan actor and politician. He served as a member of parliament for first Parliament of Moldova from 1990 to 1994. During this time, he was Minister of Culture of Moldova. He was a screen actor between 1962 and 1990. He was born in Opaci.

Ungureanu died on 28 January 2017 in Bucharest, Romania at the age of 81.

## References
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Psyonix

**Psyonix Inc.** is an American video game development studio. It is based in San Diego, California. They were founded in 2000. They were officially incorporated on April 30, 2001. Psyonix are best known for publishing and developing *Rocket League* since 2015. *Rocket League* is a sequel to their other game, *Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars* (2008).

Psyonix also worked on games such as *Gears of War*, *Bulletstorm* and *Homefront*.

## Other websites
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Darryl Sutton

**Darryl Sutton** (27 July 1952 &ndash; 28 January 2017) was an Australian rules footballer. He played for North Melbourne, Richmond and the Sydney Swans in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was born in Tasmania.

Sutton had dementia. He died from pneumonia on 28 January 2017 at the age of 64.

## References
Rocket League

***Rocket League*** is a vehicular association football video game. It is developed and published by Psyonix. It was first released on Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 4 in July 2015. It was later released on Xbox One, OS X and Linux in 2016. It is a sequel to *Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars* (2008).

It is multiplayer and single-player. Single-player has the "Season" game mode where the player plays against bots. Multiplayer is online and has 1 versus 1, 2 versus 2, 3 versus 3 and 4 versus 4 modes.

Players control a rocket-powered car and use it to hit big balls that is much larger than the cars towards the other team's goal area to score points.

Since 2019 the game has been owned by Epic Games

The game has received very positive reviews. As of January 2017, the game has had 25 million players since 2015.

## Modes 
Rocket League offers both casual and competitive game modes. In casual mode, players can engage in various team sizes, including 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, and 4v4 matches. In the competitive mode, players can participate in ranked matches, including 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 2v2 Hoops, 3v3 Rumble, 3v3 Snow Day, and 3v3 Dropshot.

The competitive mode features a ranking system, where players are assigned different ranks based on their performance. The ranks are as follows:

* Bronze  1-3
* Silver  1-3
* Gold 1-3
* Platinum  1-3
* Diamond  1-3
* Champion  1-3
* Grand champion 1-3
* Supersonic Legend (Maximum rank)
* The matchmaking rating (MMR) system in Rocket League determines a player's skill level and matchmaking placement. In the lower ranks up to Diamond 3, it typically takes two consecutive wins to advance to the next division. However, in the higher ranks, such as Champ to Supersonic Legend, it usually requires four to seven consecutive wins to progress to the next division.

Rocket League has a thriving esports scene known as the Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS). The RLCS features 16 professional teams competing in various tournaments throughout the year. These tournaments include seasonal majors and annual LAN (Local Area Network) events, where players compete for glory and substantial prize pools. Notably, professional players participating in RLCS are required to hold the highest rank achievable in the game, which is Supersonic Legend.

The Supersonic Legend rank is an exclusive achievement, with only approximately 0.05% of players reaching this elite status. It represents the pinnacle of skill and mastery in Rocket League.

## Notes
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Arthur H. Rosenfeld

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**Arthur Hinton** "**Art**" **Rosenfeld** (June 22, 1926 &ndash; January 27, 2017) was an American physicist. He was Commissioner of the California Energy Commission from 2000 to 2010. From 1994 to 1999, he was a Senior Advisor for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in the United States Department of Energy. In 2011, he was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by U.S. President Barack Obama.

Rosenfeld was born in Birmingham, Alabama. His wife of 53 years, Roselyn Bernheim "Roz" Rosenfeld, had died in 2009. They had two children.

Rosenfeld died from pneumonia on January 27, 2017 in Berkeley, California. He was 90.

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Robert Garcia (California politician)

**Robert Garcia** (born December 2, 1977) is an American politician who is the U.S. Representative for California's 42nd congressional district since 2023. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was the Mayor of Long Beach, California from 2014 to 2023.

Garcia was born in Lima, Peru. He moved to the United States at the age of five. He is gay.

In December 2021, Garcia announced that he would be a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2022. He won the election in November 2022.

## References
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Richard Portman

**Richard Portman** (April 2, 1934 &ndash; January 28, 2017) was an American sound engineer. He worked on over 160 movies between 1963 and 2004. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for *The Deer Hunter* (1978). He was nominated ten other times for *Kotch* (1971), *The Godfather*, *The Candidate* (both 1972), *Paper Moon*, *The Day of the Dolphin* (both 1973), *Young Frankenstein* (1974), *Funny Lady* (1975), ''Coal Miner's Daughter* (1980), *On Golden Pond* (1981) and *The River'' (1984). He was born in Los Angeles, California.

Portman died of problems from a fall on January 28, 2017 in Tallahassee, Florida. He was 82.

## References
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Azerbaijan Volleyball Federation

The **Azerbaijan Volleyball Federation** () also known as **AVF**, is the governing body of volleyball and beach volleyball in Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijan Volleyball Federation was ed in 1992. It became a member of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) in 1992. The Azerbaijan Volleyball Federation's president is Javid Gurbanov. Its headquarters are located in Baku.

## References
## Other websites
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Iraqi Airways

**Iraqi Airways** is the flag carrier of the Iraq. It began in 1944. It's first flight was to Syria in January 1945. It bought its first jet aircraft in the 1960s. They allowed the airline to add flights to cities in the Middle East, Asia and Europe. 

During the 1970s, it began its first flight to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. In 1991, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, all of its planes were grounded by the United Nations. A few years later, they allowed the airline to operate a few domestic flights. The airline was allowed to resume international flights 12 years later on May 30, 2003, after the War in Iraq ended. In 2015, the European Union banned the airline from flying there.

## Gallery

File:Iraqi Airways Logo.svg|Current Iraqi Airways logo
File:Iraqi Airways 727-200, 747-SP.jpg|2 Iraqi Airways planes that were grounded during the war.
File:Iraqi Airways Boeing 747-200 1977 Marmet.jpg|An Iraqi Airways plane in the 1970s paint job.
File:Iraqi Airways Boeing 737-81Z at Munich Airport.jpg|Iraqi Airways Boeing 737-800 at Munich Airport.

## References
ISO 3166-2:PA

**ISO 3166-2:PA** is the entry for Panama in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces, departments or states) of all countries that are in ISO 3166-1.

Currently for Panama, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 10 provinces and 3 indigenous regions.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is , the code of Panama. The second part is either of the following:
* one or two digits (1&ndash;10): provinces
* two letters: indigenous regions

The codes for the provinces are assigned in traditional Spanish alphabetical order.

## Current codes
Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).

(*) ISO 3166-2 uses the name "Ngöbe-Buglé" even though "Ngäbe-Buglé" is the more widely used variant.

## Related pages
* Provinces of Panama

## Other websites
* ISO Online Browsing Platform: PA
* Provinces of Panama, Statoids.com
Smith & Wesson

**Smith & Wesson** (**S&W**) is an American firearms manufacturing company. Their headquarters are in Maryville, Tennessee. The company was ed in 1852. Smith & Wesson's pistols and revolvers have become standard issue to police and military forces. Smith & Wesson firearms are very  among sport shooters.

Smith & Wesson is also known for the many types of ammunition it has d over the years. Many cartridge calibers bear the S&W name.

## History 
### Early history
Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson founded the Smith & Wesson Company in 1852. The purpose was to develop a lever action pistol. That same year Smith and Wesson formed the second company called Smith & Wesson. Their timing was right. Not long after they built their new factory in Springfield, the American Civil War started.

### The Civil War
One of the most popular pistols during the war was the Smith & Wesson Model 2. Many Civil War soldiers purchased the No 2 revolver privately. In 1875, at age 65, Smith sold his share of the company to Wesson. It was a double-action which set a standard for modern revolvers. It also introduced what has become a very popular caliber, the .38 S&W Special.

### World wars 
Smith & Wesson received large government contracts for military revolvers from the American government. All authorized S&W dealers and distributors had to follow a “code of conduct” to eliminate the sale of firearms to prohibited persons. Dealers had to agree to not allow children under 18 access to gun shops or sections of stores that contained firearms. thousands of retailers and tens of thousands of firearms consumers boycotted Smith & Wesson.

### Acquisition by Saf-T-Hammer 
On 11 May 2001, Saf-T-Hammer Corporation acquired Smith & Wesson  from Tomkins plc for $15 million USD. This was a fraction of the $112 million originally paid by Tomkins.

On 15 February 2002, the name was changed to Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation.

### Recent history
In December 2014, Smith & Wesson Holding announced it was paying $130.5 million for Battenfeld Technologies. This is a Columbia, Missouri-based designer and distributor of hunting and shooting accessories. This was part of a plan to merge all its existing Smith & Wesson, M&P and Thompson Center Arms accessories into a single division.

In August 2016 the company bought Crimson Trace, a laser-sight manufacturer, for $95 million. They bought Taylor Brands, a tool and knife maker, for $85 million. In November 2016 the company bought UST Brands, a survival equipment maker, for $32.3 million. On November 7, 2016, Smith & Wesson announced that it would be changing the name of its holding company to American Outdoor Brands Corporation.

Smith and Wesson moved their corporate headquarters from Springfield, Massachusetts to Maryville, Tennessee on October 7, 2023 citing anti-second amendment legislation in Massachusetts as their reason for the relocation. Following trends from Winchester, Kimber, Mossberg, Daniel Arms, Remington, and Taurus firearms.

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Tokitenkū Yoshiaki

**Tokitenkū Yoshiaki** (born **Altangadasyn Khüchitbaatar**, ; 10 September 1979 &ndash; 31 January 2017) was a Mongolian sumo wrestler. He made his professional debut in 2002. He reached the top *makuuchi* division just two years later. The highest rank he reached was *komusubi*. He held this three separate times, but never for more than one tournament. He earned one special prize, for Technique. He wrestled for Tokitsukaze stable. He was born in Altanbulag, Töv Province. He became a Japanese citizen in January 2014.

Yoshiaki died from lymphoma on 31 January 2017 in Tokyo. He was 37.

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Leonard H. Perroots

**Leonard Harry Perroots Sr.** (April 24, 1933 &ndash; January 29, 2017) was an American Air Force general. He was the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from October 1985 to December 1988. He retired on January 1, 1989. He was born in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Perroots died after a short illness on January 29, 2017 at the age of 83.

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Erland Kolding Nielsen

**Erland Kolding Nielsen** (13 January 1947 &ndash; 23 January 2017) was a Danish librarian and academic. He was best known as director of The Royal Library. He was also the president of the library organisation LIBER from 2003 to 2006. He was born in Frederiksberg.

Kolding Nielsen died on 23 January 2017 at the age of 70.

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Elizabeth Báthory

**Elizabeth Bathory** (1560–1614) was a countess who lived in Transylvania, then a part of the Kingdom of Hungary. She was from a very important family that included kings, cardinals, knights, and judges. She was well-educated, beautiful and wealthy. She was also virtually untouchable as a member of the Bathory family. 
## Reputation
She may have been a  female serial killer. She is the central character in a number of books, plays and movies. It also claimed she bathed in human blood. The movie suggested she did not spend her time bathing in blood. It was a rumor spread by those who were after her wealth. 

## References 
## Other websites 
* Countess Dracula - Elizabeth Bathory (part 1); YouTube
* Countess Dracula - Elizabeth Bathory (part 2); YouTube
Charles Michel

**Charles Yves Jean Ghislaine Michel** (born December 21, 1975) is a Belgian lawyer and politician of the Mouvement réformateur. He was the President of the European Council from 2019 to 2024. From October 11, 2014 through October 27, 2019, he was the Prime Minister of Belgium.

## Career
Michel studied at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the University of Amsterdam. He successively worked as a lawyer in Brussels. He held several political posts like government minister of Development Cooperation and an alderman and mayor of Wavre. When he became the Prime Minister of Belgium in 2014, Michel was the youngest Belgian Prime Minister in 173 years since Jean-Baptiste Nothomb in 1841, and was only the second Francophone liberal to become Prime Minister.

### Presidency of European Council
On July 2, 2019, the President of the European Council Donald Tusk announced a deal reached by EU Leaders which would make Michel his replacement and took office on December 1, 2019. In January 2024, he announced he would resign as president of the European Council to run in the 2024 election, before reversing his decision within the same month, saying he would finish his current term.

## Family
Former European Commissioner Louis Michel is his father.

## References
Louis d'Orléans, Prince of Condé

**Prince Louis of Orléans, "Prince of Condé"** (*Louis Philippe Marie Léopold*; 1845 – 24 May 1866 was a French prince given the title of Prince of Condé at birth. He died in Australia in 1866 at age 20. 

## Brief biography
He was born on 15 November, 1845 at the Château de Saint Cloud outside Paris. He was the eldest son of Henri d'Orleans, Duke of Aumale and his wife Princess Carolina Augusta of the Two Sicilies. Through his father Louis was he was a grandson of Louis Philippe I. As a result of this Louis was a "Prince of Orléans" at birth. He was later given the courtesy title of Prince of Condé. Following the French Revolution of 1848, he and his parents fled to England. He was educated at the "Royal High School" in Edinburgh. He was also the first member of a royal house to visit the Australian continent. This is where he died after catching a cold. He was eventually buried at the Royal Chapel of Dreux in France.

## Titles and styles
***15 November 1845 – 24 May 1866** *His Royal Highness* The Prince of Condé Prince of Orléans.

## Notes 
## References
Dana Air Flight 992

**Dana Air Flight 992** was a scheduled passenger flight from Abuja to Lagos, Nigeria. The aircraft was a McDonnell Douglas MD-83. On July 3, 2012, both engines stopped working. The aircraft crashed into a neighborhood in Lagos. All 153 people on board the flight died. Ten people on the ground also died.

## References
Masaya Nakamura (Namco)

was a Japanese businessman. He was the founder of Namco. He was sometimes called the "father of Pac-Man". He was the CEO of Namco until he stepped down in 2002. He also produced movies for entertainment company Nikkatsu. He was born in Tokyo.

On 30 January 2017, it was announced that Nakamura died on 22 January at the age of 91.

## References
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Butch Trucks

**Claude Hudson** "**Butch**" **Trucks** (May 11, 1947 &ndash; January 24, 2017) was an American drummer. He was a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He was a member of the rock band from 1969 until they finally disbanded in 2014. He was added to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida.

Trucks died on January 24, 2017 in West Palm Beach, Florida at the age of 69. Police said that he had taken his own life by gunshot.
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James S. C. Chao

**James Si-Cheng Chao** (; born December 29, 1927) is a Chinese-American businessman and philanthropist. His daughter, Elaine, previously served as the 18th United States Secretary of Transportation.

## Career
He is the founder of the **Foremost Group**, a New York-based shipping, trading, and finance enterprise. The James S.C. Chao Scholarship is named after him. Active philanthropists, Chao and his wife, Ruth Mulan Chu, established the Mulan Foundation in 1984 to provide scholarships to help students in the U.S. and China access higher education.

Chao has served for more than a decade as Chairman of both the Chiao-Tung University Alumni Association in America and the Chiao-Tung University Alumni Foundation of America from 1988 to 1999.

## Personal life
Chao married Ruth Mulan Chu in 1951. Chu died in 2007 from lymphoma. They had six children. They immigrated to the United States in 1961. He now lives in New York City.

## References
## Other websites
* Chao Family Foundations 
* Foremost Foundation 
* Harvard Gazette
John Wetton

**John Kenneth Wetton** (12 June 1949 – 31 January 2017) was a British singer-songwriter and bass guitarist. He was born in Willington, Derbyshire. He rose to fame with bands Mogul Thrash, Family, King Crimson, Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry, Uriah Heep, and Wishbone Ash. He was known for playing the bass guitar. 

Wetton died in his sleep at his home in Bournemouth, Dorset on 31 January 2017 from colon cancer. He was 67. He was survived by his wife, Lisa and son, Dylan.

## References
## Other websites
* Official site
* Official Asia Reunion Website
Philip M. Bilden

**Philip Michael Bilden** (born 1964) is an American business leader. He is a private equity pioneer in Asia. Bilden is also a national security and cybersecurity advocate, and philanthropist.

Bilden was nominated to serve as the 76th Secretary of the Navy by President Donald Trump on January 25, 2017. He withdrew his nomination on February 26, 2017.

## References
Lucia Bosè

**Lucia Bosè** ('** **Borloni'*; 28 January 1931 – 23 March 2020) was an Italian actress. She reached peak fame during the time of Italian neorealism in the 1940s and 1950s. She appeared in the movies *Under the Olive Tree*, *Story of a Love Affair* (both 1950), *The Lady Without Camelias* (1953), *Death of a Cyclist* (1955) and *Harem Suare'' (1999). In 1947, she was Miss Italia.

Bosè was born in Milan. She was married to Spanish bullfighter Luis Dominguín from 1955 to 1967. The couple had three children, including Miguel (b. 1956, Panama City). She was the grandmother of Bimba Bosé (1975–2017).

On 23 March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, Bosè died of pneumonia caused by COVID-19 in Segovia. She was 89.

## References
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James Comey

**James Brien "Jim" Comey, Jr.** (born December 14, 1960) is an American lawyer. He was the 7th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from September 4, 2013 until May 9, 2017 when he was fired by President Donald Trump.

Comey was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from January 2002 to December 2003, and later, the United States Deputy Attorney General, from December 2003 to August 2005. As Deputy Attorney General, Comey was the second-highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), and ran its day-to-day operations.

In September 2025, Comey was indicted by a federal grand jury on one charge of making false statements and one charge of obstruction. 

### Investigation on Hillary Clinton and 2016 election
Comey was responsible for overseeing the FBI's investigation of the Hillary Clinton email controversy. His role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, particularly with regard to his public communications, was highly controversial. His decisions have been regarded by many analysts, including Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight, to have likely cost Clinton the election.

### Dismissal
Comey was fired by President Donald Trump on May 9, 2017 reportedly days after Comey asked increased funding from the Justice Department for the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. The Justice Department called the *New York Times* report that Comey asked for more funding "totally false". In a statement by the White House, they released a statement saying that "removing Comey will help bring the Russia investigation to end" quickly and rapidly, and that it would be ended soon.

## Indictment
In September 2025, Comey was indicted by a federal grand jury on one charge of making false statements and one charge of obstruction. He pleaded not guilty.

## Personal life
Comey and his wife Patrice Failor are the parents of five children. He was raised in a Roman Catholic household. 

Comey was a member of the Republican Party until 2016 when he announced that he was an Independent.

## References
## Other websites
* Department of Justice Farewell Address
* James B. Comey – White House Biography
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* James B. Comey Professional Biography, United States Department of Justice
* Transcript of James Comey's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, May 15, 2007
* "Intelligence Under the Law", a speech delivered by James Comey to the National Security Agency on Law Day, May 20, 2005 
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* Profile on Columbia Law School
E. Ahamed

**E. Ahamed** (29 April 1938 &ndash; 1 February 2017) was an Indian politician. He served as Minister of State for External Affairs in the Manmohan Singh government from 2004 through 2014. He represented the Malappuram Lok Sabha constituency of Kerala and is the National President of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) from 2009 until his death in 2017. He was born in Malappuram, Kerala.

Ahamed died at the age of 78 at a hospital in Delhi, India after suffering from cardiac arrest during President Pranab Mukherjee's address to the parliament.

## References
## Other websites
* Members of Fourteenth Lok Sabha - Parliament of India website
Filostrato (poem)

**Filostrato** is a poem by 14th-century Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio. It tells about Troilo's love for Criseyda. The historical importance comes from two reasons. One reason is that it is one of the first long poems written in ottava rima. The second is that it was a source for Geoffrey Chaucer's *Troilus and Criseyde*. Ottava rima is a strophe built of eight lines and rhymed abababcc.

:Alcun di Giove sogliono il favore
:ne’ lor principii pietosi invocare,
:altri d’Apollo chiamano il valore;
:io di Parnaso le Muse pregare
:solea ne’ miei bisogni, ma Amore
:novellamente m’ha fatto mutare
:il mio costume antico e usitato,
:po’ fui di te, madonna, innamorato.

Boccaccio's poem was based on *Roman de Troie* by Benôit de Sainte Maure, *Historia troiana* by Guido delle Colonne, a similar story by Binduccio dello Scelto and *Historia Troiae* by Filippo Ceppi.

## References 
## Bibliography 
* Giovanni Boccaccio, Il Filostrato, Parigi 1798.

## Other websites 
* Filostrato di Giovanni Boccaccio at Italian Wikisource.
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Concha Ibáñez

**Concha Ibáñez Escobar**, also, **Conxa Ibáñez** (26 March 1926 – 22 December 2022) is a Catalan painter and writer. She is known as a landscape artist. She has painted scenes in Catalonia, Castile, Andalusia, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Venice, Greece, Maghreb, Cuba, New York City.

Her illustrations in oil or engraving accompanied the works of the writers Baltasar Porcel, Miquel de Palol, Marta Pessarrodona, Cesareo Rodriguez-Aguilera and Josep Maria Carandell.

Ibáñez was born in Canet de Mar, Catalonia. She died on 22 December 2022, at the age of 93.

## References
Etel Adnan

**Etel Adnan** (24 February 1925 &ndash; 14 November 2021) was a Lebanese-American Feminist writer, poet, essayist, and visual artist.

## Honors
In 2003, Adnan was named "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today" by the academic journal *MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States*.

## Legacy
Besides her literary works, Adnan worked on visual works in a variety of media, such as oil paintings, movies and tapestries, which have been exhibited at galleries across the world.

## Personal life
She lived in Paris and Sausalito, California. Adnan openly identifies as lesbian.

Adnan died in Paris on 14 November 2021, at the age of 96.

## Related pages 
*List of poets from North America

## References
## Other websites
* Website of Etel Adnan 
* Translated excerpt from *Sitt Marie Rose*
* Culturebase  (in German)
* Anne Mullin Burnham, ''Reflections in Women's Eyes'', 1994, Saudi Aramco World
Grethe Bartram

**Maren Margrethe Thomsen**, known as **Maren Margrethe "Grethe" Bartram** and **"Thora"** (23 February 1924 – ) was a Danish war criminal. 

She was known for informing on at least 53 people from the Danish resistance movement during the Second World War. It resulted in the early communist resistance groups being dismantled and many of their members being sent to concentration camps. Bartram informed on her brother, husband and close friends.

Bartram was given the death penalty after the war but was later pardoned and the sentence was changed to life in prison. In 1956 she was released and moved to Halland in Sweden where she lived under her married name.

Bartram's was announced on 31 January 2017. She had died at her home in Halland, aged 92.

## References
## Other websites
* Grethe Bartram – biography in *Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon*
* Storstikkeren – Chapter 10 in Erik Haaests book, *Udyr – eller hvad* from 1977 in an updated e-version from 2006.
* *Myter, Mordet i Højbjerg*, Marie Lock-Hansen, Forlaget Din Bog
John N. Mather

**John Norman Mather** (June 9, 1942 &ndash; January 28, 2017) was an American mathematician. He was known for his work on singularity theory and Hamiltonian mechanics. He worked at Princeton University. He was born in Los Angeles, California. He studied at Princeton and Harvard University.

Mather died on January 28, 2017 in Princeton, New Jersey at the age of 74.

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Bharati Mukherjee

**Bharati Mukherjee** (July 27, 1940 &ndash; January 28, 2017) was an American writer. She was a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She was known for her books about the experiences of being an immigrant. She was well known for her book *Jasmine* (1989).

Mukherjee was born in Calcutta, West Bengal, India. She later studied in the U.S. and Canada. She was married to writer Clark Blaise. They had two children.

Mukherjee died from problems caused by rheumatoid arthritis and takotsubo cardiomyopathy on January 28, 2017 in Manhattan. She was 76.

## References
Frank Pellegrino (actor)

**Frank Joseph Pellegrino** (May 19, 1944 &ndash; January 31, 2017) was an American actor, restaurateur and writer. He was best known for his roles in *Goodfellas*, *Law & Order* and *The Sopranos*. He was the co-owner of the restaurant Rao's in New York City. He also wrote cookbooks.

Pellegrino was born in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York. His son, Frank "Frankie" Pellegrino Jr., was also a restaurateur.

Pellegrino died from lung cancer on January 31, 2017 in Manhattan. He was 72.

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Eli Zelkha

**Elias** "**Eli**" **Zelkha** (May 4, 1950 &ndash; January 8, 2017) was an Iranian-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and professor. He was the inventor of ambient intelligence, an idea from computer science to create an environment of machines that meaningfully interact with people. He studied at Colgate University and Stanford University.

Zelkha was born in Tehran, Iran and he was of Jewish faith. He was married to Alice and had three children.

Zelkha died on January 8, 2017 in Woodside, California at the age of 66.

## References
Tabor

**Tabor** or **tabret** () refers to a portable snare drum played with one hand. The word "tabor" is simply an English variant of a Latin word meaning "drum" It has been used in the military as a marching instrument. It has also been used in parades.

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Queenstown, New Zealand

**Queenstown** () is a  town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island. It has a population of 13 200 (2015). The town is built around an  called Queenstown Bay on Lake Wakatipu. It has spectacular views of nearby mountains. These include The Remarkables, Cecil Peak, Walter Peak, Ben Lomond and Queenstown Hill. It was named after Queen Victoria.

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Sandy Gandhi

**Sandy Gandhi** (born **Sandra Aranha**; 28 January 1958 &ndash; 1 February 2017) was an Australian comedian and columnist. She was based in Byron Bay, New South Wales. She called herself "Australia's Most Easterly Indian". She was best known for her stand-up comedy based on an Indian character she acted as. She was also an entertainment editor for *The Echo*. She appeared on ''Australia's Got Talent''.

Gandhi was born in New Delhi, India. She grew up in Bangalore and Melbourne.

Gandhi died on 1 February 2017 in Byron Bay at the age of 59.

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Deke Leonard

**Roger** "**Deke**" **Leonard** (18 December 1944 &ndash; 31 January 2017) was a British rock guitarist. He began his career in the 1960s. He was best known a member of the bands Man and Iceberg. He was born in Llanelli, south Wales.

Leonard died on 31 January 2017 at the age of 72.

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Porth

**Porth** is a village in the Rhondda Valleys, Wales. Porth is at the joint of the Rhondda Fawr and Rhondda Fach, Porth sees itself as the capital of the Rhondda.

## History
On 11 April 1877 the Tynewydd Colliery was the scene of a mine disaster that led to a mine rescue operation following which four first-class and twenty-one second-class Albert Medals for Lifesaving were awarded. A build-up of water in old Cymmer Colliery resulted in flooding of the Tynewydd mine. Only fourteen of 100 miners employed at the mine were working underground at the time of the accident. Four of the trapped miners were rescued after eighteen hours.

The nearby village of Dinas was the site of the first coal mine in the Rhondda valley.

## Transport
From Porth you can travel by bus to places such as Cardiff, Treochy, Pontypridd, Porth has a train station in Hannah Street.

## Schools
There are schools in Porth. Porth Infants for 3-6 yrs old. Porth Juniors for 6-11 yrs old. Porth County Community School for 11-18 yrs old (opened in 1973).Michael Sheen (the Welsh actor) visited PCCS in May 2009.

## Notes
Cymmer, Rhondda Cynon Taf

**Cymmer** is a village in the Rhondda Valley Wales. Cymmer is in the lower Rhondda Valley about half way between Treorchy and Pontypridd.

## History
Cymmer, which is now seen as a part of Porth takes its name from the old Welsh word that describes a spot where two rivers of the same name join.
Before coal mining, not many people lived in Cymmer. Cymmer was one of the first villages within the Rhondda Valley. The Lewis colliery had many examples of the pithead gear in South Wales Rhondda Heritage Park now has the only pithead gear in the Rhondda.  In 1847 George Insole opened his first mine in Cymmer. In 1855 he opened a second pit in Cymmer near the old pit.

St John Church is in a prominent position on the hillside above the earlier settlement of Cymmer centred round the Cymmer Chapel.

## Transport
Cymmer is on the A4119 road half a mile from its junction with the A4058 road.

## Notes
Rhondda

**Rhondda** or **Rhondda Valley** is a former coal mining community in Wales. The area is actually two valleys: the larger Rhondda Fawr valley (mawr large) and the smaller Rhondda Fach valley (bach small). The singular term 'Rhondda Valley' and the plural 'Rhondda Valleys' are both commonly used.

## Rhondda Fawr
The larger of the two valleys, the Rhondda Fawr, extends from Porth and rises through the valley until it reaches Blaenrhondda, near Treherbert. The villages that make up the Rhondda Fawr are:

* Blaencwm a district of Treherbert.
* Blaenrhondda a district of Treherbert.
* **Cwm Clydach** a community.
* Cwmparc a district of Treorchy.
* Cymmer a district of Porth.
* Dinas Rhondda a district of Penygraig.
* Edmondstown a district of Penygraig.
* Gelli a district of Ystrad
* Glynfach a district of Cymmer
* **Llwynypia** a community.
* **Pentre** a community.
* **Penygraig** a community
* **Porth** a community that sees itself as the unofficial capital of the Rhondda, mainly due to its geographic location.
* Ton Pentre a district of Pentre.
* **Tonypandy** a community.
* **Trealaw** a community.
* Trebanog a district of Cymmer
* **Trehafod** the most southernmost and smallest of the Rhondda Valley communities.
* **Treherbert** a community.
* **Treorchy** the largest community in either of the valleys.
* Tynewydd a district of Treherbert
* Williamstown a district of Penygraig.
* Ynyswen a district of Treorchy.
* **Ystrad** a community.

## Rhondda Fach
The Rhondda Fach is the smaller of the two valleys. Villages include Wattstown, Ynyshir, Pontygwaith, Ferndale, Tylorstown and Maerdy. The settlements that make up the Rhondda Fach are as follows:

* Blaenllechau a district of Ferndale.
* **Ferndale** a community.
* **Maerdy** a community.
* Penrhys a district of Tylorstown.
* Pontygwaith a district of Tylorstown.
* **Tylorstown** a community.
* Stanleytown a district of Tylorstown.
* Wattstown a district of Ynyshir.
* **Ynyshir** a community.
Ynyshir

**Ynyshir** is a village in Rhondda, Wales which neighbours Porth. Its name means "Long Meadow" or "Long Island".

## History
Before the 18th century only a few farms were found in Ynyshir. In 1845 the first deep coal mine was made in the village, it was the first coal mine to be opened in the Rhondda Fach valley. Ynyshir was part of the British coal empire.

Ynyshir village began along the west side of the Rhondda Fach river on the land owned by Ynyshir farm, later followed by the building of houses east of the river on land owned by Maendy and Penrhiw farms. By 1900 much of the village which you can see today was in place.

In 1841 the Taff Vale Railway reached the next village, Dinas and with the train this meant the owners of the coal mines could send their coal across South Wales.

## Important Buildings
Ynyshir was home to several chapels/churches, namely Ainon Chapel (Welsh Baptist), Bethany Chapel (English Baptist), Moriah Chapel (Calvinistic Methodist), St Anne's (Church in Wales), Saron Chapel (Welsh Independent), Ynyshir Welsh Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Bethel Chapel (Welsh Baptist), Penuel Chapel (English Independent), Tabernacle Chapel (Congregational Methodist) and Ynyshir English Wesleyan Methodist Chapel.

## Education
In 1882, the first boys school was made. Then, a girls and infants school was made in 1903.

## Notes
German Americans

**German Americans** are an ethnic group of American citizens of German ancestry. According to the United States Census Bureau, in 2013 there were 46 million Americans who claimed some German ancestry.
There are also Germans Americans of Danube Swabians Background 

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Étienne Tshisekedi

**Étienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba** (14 December 1921 &ndash; 1 February 2017) was a Congolese politician. He was the leader of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS). He served as the Prime Minister of Zaire three times: in 1991, 1992&ndash;1993 and 1997. He was born in Kabeya Kamwanga, Belgian Congo.

Tshisekedi died from a pulmonary embolism on 1 February 2017 in Brussels, Belgium at the age of 95.

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Paul-Eerik Rummo

**Paul-Eerik Rummo** (born 1942) is an Estonian politician and poet. He was born in Tallinn. His father, Paul-Eerik Rummo, was a writer. He studied philology at Tallin University. He worked as literary critic for some theatres. He was a secretary of Estonian Writers Society from 1987 to 1989. In 1994 he joined Estonian Reform Party. He became a member of parliament. The he was a minister of culture in cabinet of Mart Laar. He published many books of poetry, for example *Ankruhiivaja* (*Anchor Heaver*, 1962).

## References 
## Other websites 
* Paul-Eerik Rummo reading poetry. 
* Paul-Eerik Rummo's poems.
Dan Spiegle

**Dan Spiegle** (December 12, 1920  &ndash; January 28, 2017) was an American comic book and cartoon artist. He was born in Cosmopolis, Washington. He was best known for comics based on movie and television characters from a group of companies including Dell Comics, DC Comics and Marvel Comics. He was known for illustrating the Jonah Hex and Scooby-Doo comic books.

Spiegle died on January 28, 2017 at the age of 96.

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Guitar Gable

**Gabriel Perrodin** (August 17, 1937 &ndash; January 28, 2017), known as **Guitar Gable**, was an American Louisiana blues, swamp blues and swamp pop singer-songwriter and musician. He was best known for recording the original version of "This Should Go On Forever", and his part in the vibrant swamp blues and pop scene in Louisiana in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Gable died in hospital at Opelousas, Louisiana, on January 28, 2017, aged 79.

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Aleksander Jackowski

**Aleksander Jackowski** (19 January 1920 &ndash; 1 January 2017) was a Polish cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, and art critic. He worked at the University of Warsaw until his death in 2017. 

## Early life
Jackowski was born in Warsaw, Poland. During World War II, Jackowski was sent by the Soviet government to serve with the General Berling Army in Serbia. He returned to Warsaw in 1945 after the war ended. He graduated from a university in Warsaw.

## Career
Until 1948, he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the director of the Minister’s Cabinet managing the Press and Information Department. In 1948, he became the deputy editor in chief of the weekly “Odrodzenie” (Renascence). From the end of 1949, he was the Deputy Director and Head of the Department of Folk and Naïve Art at the Art Institute in the Polish Academy of Sciences.

In his later years, he worked as a professor and anthropology expert at the University of Warsaw until his death.

## Death
Jackowski died in Warsaw on 1 January 2017, aged 96.

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Air France Flight 358

On August 2, 2005, **Air France Flight 358** was an Airbus A340 that overran the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport, due to the pilots deploying the thrust reversers too slowly. Despite 12 people sustaining injuries, all 309 people on board the plane survived.

## Passengers
## Aftermath
Following the accident many flights departing from and arriving at Pearson were cancelled, and many other flights to Toronto Pearson were diverted to other Canadian airports such as Ottawa, London, Hamilton and Winnipeg. Many of the large aircraft were diverted to Montreal, as well as Syracuse, New York, and Buffalo, New York.  Flights from Vancouver had to turn around. Around 540 flights were cancelled.
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Klootschieten

**Klootschieten** ("Ball shooting" in English) is a sport played in the Netherlands and Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany. In the game, s try to throw a ball (called a **kloot**) as far as they can. A heavier ball is used when played on streets. Two teams play at a time. Each team acts as the other's jury.

## References 
## Other websites 
* Klootschieten in Ootmarsum; YouTube
Bobby Freeman

**Robert Thomas "Bobby" Freeman** (June 13, 1940 &ndash; January 23, 2017) was an African-American soul and R&B singer-songwriter and record producer. He was best known for his two Top Ten hits, the first in 1958 on Josie Records called "Do You Want to Dance" and the second in 1964 for Autumn Records, "C'mon and Swim".

Freeman was born in Alameda County, California. He was raised in San Francisco, California. He studied at Mission High School. He began his career in 1956 when he was 16 years old. Bobby was well known and liked as a local figure in Richmond California in the early 60's. Freeman died in San Francisco, California on January 28, 2017, aged 76.

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Desmond Carrington

**Desmond Herbert Carrington** (23 May 1926 – 1 February 2017) was a British actor and broadcaster. He was best known for his weekly evening show, *The Music Goes Round*, on BBC Radio 2. His show went out on Sundays for 23 years from 1981 to 2004, when it moved to Tuesdays – then to Fridays. He retired in his final broadcast on 28 October 2016. He was known for playing Dr. Chris Anderson in the British soap opera *Emergency – Ward 10*. He was born in Bromley, Kent.

Carrington died at his home in Perthshire, Scotland on 1 February 2017 from complications of Alzheimer's disease, aged 90.

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Marcel Prud'homme

'''Marcel Prud'homme''' (November 30, 1934 &ndash; January 25, 2017) was a Canadian politician. He was a member of the Senate of Canada for La Salle, Quebec from 1993 until his resignation in 2009. Before, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of Canada from 1963 through 1993 for Saint-Denis. He was born in Montreal, Quebec. He served as a Liberal in the MP from 1963 through 1993 and as an Independent from 1993 until his death in 2017.

In 2007, he was awarded the Order of Friendship of Russia.

Prud'homme died in Ottawa, Ontario on January 25, 2017 from a heart attack, aged 82.

## References
## Other websites
*Official Senate biography
Ken Morrison

**Sir Kenneth Duncan "Ken" Morrison** CBE (20 October 1931 &ndash; 1 February 2017) was an English businessman. He was the Life President and former chairman of Morrisons (Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC), the fourth largest supermarket group in the United Kingdom since 1956.

Morrison died on 1 February 2017 from a short-illness at his home in Myton-on-Swale, North Yorkshire, aged 85.

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*Morrisons 
*Leeds University
Abdulkadir Kure

**Abdulkadir Kure** (26 February 1956 &ndash; 8 January 2017) was a Nigerian politician. He was a member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP). He served as Governor of Niger State from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007.

Kure was born in Lapai, Niger State. He was married to Zainab Abdulkadir Kure. They had two daughters and four sons.

Kure died on 8 January 2017 in Germany at the age of 60.

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José Antonio Alonso

**José Antonio Alonso Suárez** (28 March 1960 &ndash; 2 February 2017) was a Spanish politician and judge. He was a member of the Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). He was the Minister of the Interior from 2004 to 2006 and the Minister of Defence from 2006 to 2008. He was born in León, León.

Alonso died from lung cancer on 2 February 2017 in Madrid. He was 56.

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Albano Bortoletto Cavallin

**Albano Bortoletto Cavallin** (25 April 1930 – 1 February 2017) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop. He was born in Lapa, Paraná.

Bortoletto Cavallin became a priest in 1953. He served as the Bishop of Guarapuava from 1986 to 1992. He later served as the Archbishop of Londrina from 1992 until his retirement in 2006.

He died from surgical problems on 1 February 2017 in Londrina, Paraná. He was 86.

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Stig Grybe

**Stig Rudolf Grybe** (18 July 1928 &ndash; 1 February 2017) was a Swedish actor and comedian. He was born in Stockholm. He was best known for his voice work and dubbing. He also appeared in original Swedish productions. He began his career in the 1940s. He appeared in 22 Swedish movies between 1947 and 2011.

Grybe died after a short illness on 1 February 2017 at the age of 88.

## Filmography
### Dubbing
**One Hundred and One Dalmatians* (1961)
**The Jungle Book* (1967)
*''Pete's Dragon* (1977)
**The Smurfs* (1981)
**Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* (1982)
**DuckTales* (1987)
**Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey* (1993)
**A Goofy Movie* (1995)
**Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco* (1996)
**A Bug's Life* (1998)
### Swedish movies
**Kalle Stropp, Grodan Boll och deras vänner* (1956)
**Dunderklumpen!* (1974)
**Maria* (1975)
**Charlie Strapp and Froggy Ball Flying High* (1991)
**The Dog Hotel'' (2000)

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Ramón Martínez Pérez

**Ramón Martínez Pérez** (6 February 1929 &ndash; 6 January 2017), also known as **Romaní**, was a Spanish footballer. He played as a midfielder for Sevilla and Granada of La Liga. He also played for CD Málaga and made two appearances for the national team in 1952.

Martínez Pérez died on 6 January 2017 at the age of 87.

## References
## Other websites
* Ramón Martínez Pérez at Footballdatabase