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David Wilkerson

**David Ray Wilkerson** (May 19, 1931 in Hammond, Indiana – April 27, 2011 in Cuney, Texas) was an American pastor, evangelist, and author.

Although not officially linked to a any denomination, Wilkerson can be considered a Pentecostal in teachings and practice.

Wilkerson was a pastor in Pennsylvania. Around 1960 he started a ministry in New York City to help and evangelize teenagers, who were involved in drugs and crime. In 1960, he founded for that reason the Christian relief organization Teen Challenge. With the Sherrills he wrote a book about his experiences called *The Cross and the Switchblade* (1962).

Some years later, in 1967, he founded Youth Crusades, again aimed at teenagers but this time to prevent them from the bad things mentioned above. 

In 1971, he founded again a Christian organization, World Challenge, to evangelize worldwide.

In 1987, he erected the Times Square Church, an independent and very succesful church in Manhattan, New York City.

Wilkerson wrote several Christian books, like the already mentioned *The Cross and the Switchblade* (1962) and the very impressive *The Vision* (1974). Last book and its successor (*The Vision and Beyond*, 2003) are dealing with divine prophecies about severe misconduct, problems and disasters the world is facing in the future (and already partly happening); he also revealed that the so-called "Number of the Beast" (Antichrist) will be composed of a combination of three times six numbers. He also wrote about other divine prophecies such as riots and arsons cities in the United States (especially New York City) but also worldwide are going to endure in the future because of their sinful behavior, and countries going bankrupt causing shopping and money problems worldwide.

David Wilkerson died as a result of a car accident in eastern Texas in 2011, aged nearly 80.

## References 
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Marge Champion

**Marjorie Celeste** "**Marge**" **Champion** (née **Belcher**; September 2, 1919 &ndash; October 21, 2020) was an American dancer, choreographer, and actress. She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography in 1975.

## Career
At a young age she was hired as a dance model for Walt Disney Studios animated movies. Snow White was modeled after Champion for the 1937 animated classic *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs*. Later she performed as an actress and dancer in movie musicals, and in 1957 had a TV show based on song and dance.

Champion has also done creative choreography for liturgy, and served as a dialogue and movement coach for the 1978 TV miniseries, *The Awakening Land*, set in the late 18th century in the Ohio Valley.

Together as a dance team, the Champions performed in MGM musicals of the 1940s and 50s, including *Show Boat* (1951) and *Everything I Have Is Yours* (1952). MGM wanted the couple to remake Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies, but only one, *Lovely to Look At* (1952), a remake of *Roberta* (1935), was completed.

## Death
Champion turned 100 in September 2019. She died on October 21, 2020 in Los Angeles at the age of 101.

## References
## Other websites
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* http://www.valyermodancers.org/DanceCompany.html
* Marge Champion performing Dancing in 1986 at Jacob's Pillow 
* Archival footage from Jacob's Pillow PillowTalk: Hippo in a Tutu featuring Marge Champion, 8/28/2010
DWWW

**DWWW** (774 AM) is a C-QUAM AM radio station owned and operated by Interactive Broadcast Media in the Philippines. The station is also an affiliate station of the Radio Mindanao Network. The studio is in Unit 808, Atlanta Centre, Annapolis St., Greenhills, San Juan City, while the transmitter is at Brgy. Tagalag, Valenzuela City, Philippines.

## Other websites
*DWWW website 
*DWWW  on Ustream
Veyras, Switzerland

**Veyras** was a municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. On 1 January 2021, the former municipalities of Miège, Venthône and Veyras merged to form the new municipality of Noble-Contrée.
 near Veyras, where poet Rainer Maria Rilke completed the *Duino Elegies* in 1922]]

## References
## Other websites
* Official website
Anniviers

**Anniviers** is a municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It was formed through the merger of six municipalities in Val d'Anniviers: Ayer, Chandolin, Grimentz, Saint-Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie merged into the new municipality of Anniviers. The merger became on 1 January 2009, creating the third largest municipality of Switzerland by area.

## References
## Other websites
* Official website
Andrews County, Texas

**Andrews County** is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 18,610 people lived there. The county seat is Andrews.

## History 
Andrews County was made in 1910.

## Geography 
Andrews County has a total area of 1,501 square miles.

### Bordering counties 
* Gaines County (north)
* Martin County (east)
* Midland County (southeast)
* Ector County (south)
* Winkler County (southwest)
* Lea County, New Mexico (west)

## People 
In 2020, the county had 18,610 people living there.

## Places 
### City 
* Andrews

## References
Archer County, Texas

**Archer County** is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 8,560 people lived there. The county seat is Archer City.

## Places 
### Cities 
* Archer City (county seat)
* Holliday
* Scotland

## References
Jaak Panksepp

(December 2004).]]
**Jaak Panksepp** (June 5, 1943 &ndash; April 17, 2017) was an Estonian-born American neuroscientist, a psychobiologist, the Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science at Washington State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, and Emeritus Professor of the Department of Psychology at Bowling Green State University. He was born in Tartu, Estonia.

Panksepp created the term 'affective neuroscience', the name for the field that studies the neural mechanisms of emotion. He was known in the popular press for his research on laughter in non-human animals.

Panksepp died on April 17, 2017 from cancer at his home in Bowling Green, Ohio at the age of 73.

## More reading
* Panksepp, Jaak; Gordon, Nakia; Burgdorf, Jeff Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol 25(1), Feb 2002, 43-44. 

## References
## Other websites
* Jaak Panksepp's Bowling Green State University website
* Jaak Panksepp's Washington State University website
* Biography at the Muskingum College website 
* Interview with the Autism Research Institute 
* Empathy and the action-perception resonances of basic socio-emotional systems of the brain
Delbert Daisey

**Delbert Lee "Cigar" Daisey** (March 6, 1928 &ndash; April 19, 2017), known as **"Cigar" Daisey**, was an American waterfowl wood carver and decoy maker. He was born in Chincoteague, Virginia. He lived at the Refuge Waterfowl Museum.  His decoy carvings are recognized for both their artistic value and functionality as working pieces for waterfowl hunting.  

His works include black ducks, mallards, redheads, ruddys and red-breasted mergansers and often crafted in drake (male) and hen (female) pairs.  

He had carved about 1900 ducks in total and he generally used cork or wood as his medium.  He carved his first duck out of balsa wood in 1940 at his father's wood shop.  

The Smithsonian has his works in their collection.  He earned his nickname in 1945 while leaving cigar butts to taunt game wardens while poaching ducks on Assateague Island.  Later in life, Daisey was an avid conservationist.

## References
Attilio Nicora

**Attilio Nicora** (March 16, 1937 &ndash; April 22, 2017) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Bishop of Verona Emeritus, and President Emeritus of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See. He served as President of the four-person Executive Board of the Vatican's Financial Information Authority (FIA) from January 2011 until January 2014.

Pope Benedict XVI appointed Cardinal Nicora Pontifical Legate for the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi. After being a cardinal-deacon for ten years, he was promoted to cardinal-priest by Pope Francis on 12 June 2014.

Nicora died on April 22, 2017 in Milan, Italy, aged 80.

## References
## Other websites
*An interview with Nicora
Witold Pyrkosz

**Witold Pyrkosz** (24 December 1926 &ndash; 22 April 2017) was a Polish actor. He was born in Krasnystaw, Poland.

He was best known as Lucjan Mostowiak in Polish TV series "M jak miłość", as Pyzdra in "Janosik", as Wichura in "Czterej pancerni i pies" and as Balcerek in "Alternatywy 4".

In 1974, Pyrkosz was decorated with the Gold Cross of Merit and in 1984, with the Knight's Cross of Polonia Restituta. In 2009, he received the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis.

Pyrkosz died on 22 April 2017 in Warsaw from complications of Alzheimer's disease, aged 90.

## References
## Other websites
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Ramjet

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A **ramjet** is a type of jet engine which uses the forward motion of the engine to produce thrust. Ramjets are most often attached to aircraft, and require that the aircraft is moving above the speed of sound (Mach 1). They are different from turbojets ("normal" aircraft engines) because they do not have any moving parts which compress the air. Instead, they use a shock cone to compress the air. The ramjet gets its name from this fact; it "rams" the air hard enough to compress it to a combustible pressure.

## Parts of a Ramjet 
Ramjets are made up of 4 main sections.

### Inlet 
The first section is called the inlet. The purpose of the inlet is to capture air and compress it. Compression is required in order to burn the fuel correctly. The compression comes from a process called a shock wave. Shock waves only occur when the aircraft is moving at or above Mach 1. For this reason, ramjets are more efficient if moving around Mach 2 or 3. 

### Diffuser 
The second part of the ramjet is called the diffuser. Air that comes through the inlet is moving very fast, which makes it very hard to burn fuel. The job of the diffuser is to slow the flow down in an efficient way. By the time the air has passed all the way through the inlet, it is traveling slower than Mach 1. This is important for the diffuser to work properly. The diffuser is essentially just a pipe that increases in area as you move along it. Because the flow moving slower than Mach 1, the increasing area causes the air to slow down.

### Combustion chamber 
The third part of the ramjet is the combustor, also called the combustion chamber. The combustor is where the fuel is introduced to the air, and then burns. Burning fuel adds energy to the air, which will be later used to create thrust. The air must be moving relatively slowly for the combustor to work properly. There is a part inside the combustor called the flame holder. The flame holder, as the name suggests, holds the flame in place. A typical flame holder looks like a ring of small v-shaped pieces of metal. They create little pockets of slow air, which make it easier for the fuel to keep burning.

### Nozzle 
After the fuel is burned and the air is heated, it flows through the last part, the nozzle. The purpose of the nozzle is to turn all of the energy in the air into thrust. In order to do this, the nozzle must first get smaller then get larger. The smallest area of the nozzle is called the "throat". The air coming from the combustor is moving slower than Mach 1, so as the nozzle gets smaller, the air speeds up. The nozzle is designed so that once the air reaches the throat, it has sped all the way up to Mach 1. This is an important detail for the nozzle to work properly. Once the air passes the throat, the air gets larger again. Since the flow reached Mach 1 in the throat, increasing the area also increases the speed of the air. This is the key to creating thrust. The air exiting the nozzle essentially "pushes" the ramjet forward.

## Related pages 
* Gas turbine
* Turbojet
Michele Scarponi

**Michele Scarponi** (25 September 1979 − 22 April 2017) was an Italian road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2002 and 2017 for the 2002, Domina Vacanze–Elitron, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2017 teams. 

Scarponi was declared the winner of the 2011 Giro d'Italia after the disqualification of Alberto Contador. Other major results of his career were the 2009 Tirreno–Adriatico, the 2011 Volta a Catalunya and the 2011 Giro del Trentino stage races.

Scarponi died at the age of 37 on 22 April 2017, after being hit by a truck, while riding his bicycle, close to his home in Filottrano, in the Italian region of Marche. He had competed in the 2017 Tour of the Alps only the day before.

## References
Wiesław Gołas

**Wiesław Ryszard Gołas** (9 October 1930 &ndash; 9 September 2021) was a Polish actor and Armia Krajowa's soldier. From 1970 to 1974, he starred in the comedy series *Czterdziestolatek*. He was born in Kielce, Poland.

Gołas was cast in a role of Tomasz Czereśniak in a widely popular TV World War II series *Czterej pancerni i pies*. He has appeared in a number of movies including *Ogniomistrz Kaleń* (1961) and *Dzięcioł* (1970).

Gołas died in Warsaw on 9 September 2021, exactly one month before his 91st birthday.

## References
## Other websites
* 
* Wiesław Gołas  at the Culture.pl . Retrieved 2015-01-25.
2017 French presidential election

The **2017** **French presidential election** is a presidential election in France that took place on May 7th, 2017. The incumbent president, François Hollande, decided not to run for a second term because of his low approval ratings.

The main candidates are Nicolas Dupont-Aignan from Debout la France, Marine Le Pen from the National Front, Emmanuel Macron from En Marche!, Benoît Hamon from the Socialist Party, Nathalie Arthaud from Lutte Ouvrière, Philippe Poutou from the New Anticapitalist Party, Jacques Cheminade from Solidarity and Progress, Jean Lassalle from Résistons!, Jean-Luc Mélenchon from La France insoumise, François Asselineau from Popular Republican Union and François Fillon from The Republicans.

On 23 April 2017, Macron won 24% of the vote with Le Pen winning 21%. During the second round, Macron beat Le Pen by a Landslide victory with 66% of the vote to Le Pen's 34%.

## Results 
### Maps 
#### First round 

File:Élection présidentielle de 2017 par département T1.svg|Results of the first round by department 
File:2017 French Presid election - 1st round - Macron.svg|Support for Macron by department and major city
File:2017 French Presid election - 1st round - Le Pen.svg|Support for Le Pen by department and major city
File:2017 French Presid election - 1st round - Fillon.svg|Support for Fillon by department and major city
File:2017 French Presid election - 1st round - Melenchon.svg|Support for Mélenchon by department and major city

#### Second round 

File:Élection présidentielle de 2017 par département T2.svg|Results of the first round by department 
File:EN - 2017 French presidential election - Second round - Majority vote (Metropolitan France, communes).svg|First-place candidate by commune 

## Polling 
### First round 
### Second round 
## References 
## Other websites 
*Constitutional Council 
*Ministry of the Interior 
*List of all sponsorships by elected officials 
*Data and graphics for sponsorships
Red West

**Robert Gene "Red" West** (March 20, 1936 &ndash; July 18, 2017) was an American actor, movie stuntman and songwriter. He was probably best known to American movie audiences for his role as Red in *Road House*, alongside Patrick Swayze. Recently, he appeared as Roger in the 2013 drama movie *Safe Haven*.

West was born in Memphis, Tennessee. His cousin was Sonny West, the bodyguard of Elvis Presley. He studied at Jones County Junior College. In 1961, he married Pat Boyd. West and Presley were very close friends and worked with Presley during his tours.

West was fired by Presley and later helped write the book *Elvis: What Happened?*, which was published weeks before Presley's death. The book, according to West in the book, was an attempt to help Presley, but believed by some to be an attempt to retaliate and earn an income after being fired. Presley offered the publisher of the book $1,000,000 ($1million) to stop printing the book.

Wets died of an aortic aneurysm in Memphis, Tennessee on July 18, 2017, aged 81.

## References
## Other websites
*
*Interview with Red West
Nadiya Hussain

**Nadiya Jamir Hussain** (*née* **Begum**; born 25 December 1984) is a British baker, columnist, author and television presenter.

She rose to fame in 2015 on the sixth series of the BBC show *The Great British Bake Off* in which she went on to win. In April 2016, she baked a cake for Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th birthday. She would then go on to present a variety of cookery shows for the BBC.

## Bibliography
### Cookery
* ''Nadiya's Kitchen* (Michael Joseph, June 2016) 
* *Nadiya's Bake Me a Story'' (Hodder Children's Books, September 2016) 

### Fiction
* *The Secret Lives of the Amir Sisters* (Harlequin, January 2017) 

## References
## Other websites
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Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas

**Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano** (; born May 1, 1934) is a Mexican politician. He was a  former Head of Government of the Federal District and a founder of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).

Cárdenas ran for the presidency of Mexico three times. His 1988 loss to the Institutional Revolutionary Party candidate by the narrowest of margins had long been considered a direct result of electoral fraud, later acknowledged by President Miguel de la Madrid.

Cárdenas previously served as a Senator, having been elected in 1976 to represent the state of Michoacán and also as the  Governor of Michoacán between 1980-1986.

## References
## Other websites
*PBS: Charles Krause interviews Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas 
* Biography  on Televisa's website.
* Government of the Mexican Federal District: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas .
* Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano, A progressive proposal .
* http://www.laprensasa.com/309_america-in-english/2814492_cuauhtemoc-cardenas-leaves-mexico-s-prd.html
Cryotherapy

**Cryotherapy** is using a freezing chamber (usually -110 degrees) to help muscles recover. Cyrotherapy is said to multiple applications. The word "Cryo" comes from Greek language, which means icy or cold. Cryotherapy is a procedure that exposes the body to temperatures colder than -200 degrees for about 3 minutes. The practice is said to have originated in Japan in late 1970s when a Japanese rheumatologist used cold temperatures to treat his patients painful joints. Cryotherapy is also used to treat cancer, wherein, extreme cold temperatures destroy cancer cells which is made due to cryotherapy chambers. 

## References
Isiaka Adeleke

**Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke** (15 January 1955 – 23 April 2017) was a Nigerian politician. He was a two time senator who represented the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State from 2007 to 2011 and was elected again under the banner of the All Progressives Congress in 2015. He became a member of the Nigerian Senate in 2007.
He ran for reelection in April 2011 on the PDP platform, coming second with 77,090 votes.
The winner was Mudasiru Oyetunde Hussein of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) with 121,971 votes.

Adeleke suffered a heart attack and died on 23 April 2017 in Osogbo, Nigeria, aged 62.

## References
Damián Iguacén Borau

**Damián Iguacén Borau** (12 February 1916 – 24 November 2020) was a Spanish Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. When he died he was the oldest Catholic bishop in the world.

Iguacén Borau was born in Fuencalderas, Spain. He was ordained a priest on June 7, 1941. He was the bishop of the Barbastro Diocese since October 11, 1970. Later, he was made Diocese of Teruel and Albarracín on September 23, 1974 and then to Diocese of Tenerife on August 14, 1984 where he remained until his retirement on June 12, 1991. 

Iguacén Borau turned 100 in February 2016. 

Iguacén Borau died on 24 November 2020 from pneumonia caused by COVID-19 in Huesca, Spain at the age of 104.

## References
## Other websites
*Catholic Hierarchy
*Ternerife site
Imre Földi

**Imre Földi** (8 May 1938 &ndash; 23 April 2017) was a Hungarian weightlifter. Competing at a record of five Olympic Games, he won a gold medal in 1972 and silver medals in 1964 and 1968.

During his career he set 21 world records, and after his retirement he coached his daughter to become a European champion. Földi earned numerous awards for his results and achievements, most notably he was named Weightlifter of the Century by the International Weightlifting Federation and was elected for Sportsperson of the Nation in Hungary.

## References
## Other websites
Sylvia Trent-Adams

**Sylvia Trent-Adams** (born circa 1965) is a rear admiral in the USPHS. She was the acting Surgeon General of the United States from April 21, 2017 through September 5, 2017. 

As surgeon general, she directs the operations of the USPHS Commissioned Corps and communicates scientific information to advance the health of the nation. Previously, she was the deputy surgeon general. She has served as the chief nurse officer of the USPHS, since November 2013.

## References
James O. Mason

**James Ostermann Mason** (June 19, 1930 &ndash; October 9, 2019) was an American physician and public health administrator.

Mason was the United States Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH) from 1989 to 1993 and the Acting Surgeon General of the United States from 1989 to 1990. As the ASH he was also a former four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

Mason was also a director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

Mason served in the church as a bishop, stake president, and regional representative. In 1974, while serving as Church Commissioner for Health Services, Mason wrote a pamphlet for the church titled, "Attitudes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Toward Certain Medical Problems", which expresses the church's views on abortion, birth control, and homosexuality.

Mason died on October 9, 2019 in Salt Lake City at the age of 89.

## References
## Other websites
*"Elder James O. Mason of the Seventy", *Ensign*, May 1994
Joycelyn Elders

**Minnie Joycelyn Elders** (born **Minnie Lee Jones**; August 13, 1933) is an American pediatrician and public health administrator. 

Elders was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the first African American appointed as Surgeon General of the United States. Elders is best known for her frank discussion of her views on controversial issues such as drug legalization and distributing contraception in schools. She was forced to resign in December 1994 amidst controversy as a result of her views. She is currently a professor emerita of pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

## References
Vivek Murthy

**Vivek Hallegere Murthy** (born July 10, 1977) is an American physician and a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Murthy was the 19th and 21st Surgeon General of the United States from 2014 to 2017 and again from 2021 to 2025. 

## Career
Murthy, founder of nonprofit Doctors for America, replaced Boris Lushniak, who had been acting Surgeon General since 2013. Murthy was the first Surgeon General of Indian descent and was the youngest active duty flag officer in federal uniformed service.

On November 9, 2020, then President-elect of the United States Joe Biden announced that Murthy would co-chair his COVID-19 Advisory Board, alongside former U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner David A. Kessler and Yale public health professor Marcella Nunez-Smith. His nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 23, 2021 with a 57‒43 vote.

## References
Santa Ana Department

**Santa Ana** is a department in El Salvador. The capital is Santa Ana, one of the largest cities in El Salvador.

The department was created in 1855 during the presidency of José María San Martín. The Santa Ana Volcano is in this department. The main rivers are the Lempa and the Guajoyo rivers. The most important lakes in the department are Lake Güija on the border with Guatemala, and Lake Coatepeque which is in the southern part of the department.

## Municipalities 
Santa Ana is divided into 13 municipalities:
Weinviertel

s in the Weinviertel]]

The **Weinviertel** (*Wine Quarter*), also called the **Viertel unter dem Manhartsberg** (*Quarter below the Manhartsberg*), is a region in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

The Weinviertel is the most northeastern part of (Lower) Austria. It lies above the Danube River and borders both the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The city/state of Vienna lies in the south.

It consists of low hills, which form the most western spur of the Carpathian Mountains.

It is well known for its winegrowing (the biggest of Austria).

The maximum temperature in July and August is about 24&nbsp;°C.

The Weinviertel comprises the following districts:
* Gänserndorf District
* Hollabrunn District (most of it)
* Korneuburg District
* Mistelbach District
and:
* Horn District (small part in the east)
* Krems-Land District (small part in the east)
* Tulln District (northern part)

## Other websites
* www.wienviertel.at
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting

The **United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting** was a shooting at that nation's memorial to The Holocaust in Washington, D.C. on June 10, 2009. Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns was shot, and later died from his injuries.

## The suspect
Suspect James Wenneker von Brunn was charged in federal court on June 11, 2009, with first-degree murder and firearms violations. On July 29, 2009, von Brunn was indicted on seven counts, including four which made him eligible for the death penalty. In September 2009, a judge ordered von Brunn to undergo a competency evaluation to determine whether or not he could stand trial. While awaiting his trial, von Brunn died on January 6, 2010 of congestive heart failure caused by sepsis at the age of 89.

## Attack
According to the six-page indictment, von Brunn entered the building and shot Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns, who died from his injuries. Von Brunn was a white supremacist and Holocaust denier who had been arrested and convicted for entering a federal building with various weapons in 1981 while trying to place the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, who he considered to be treasonous, under citizen's arrest.

## References
## Other websites
* "Kill the Best Gentiles!", James von Brunn's book
* United States Holocaust Memorial Museum *official website*
* "In Memoriam: Stephen Tyrone Johns" , by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
* *Voices on Antisemitism* interview with Scott Simon , by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
* Criminal Complaint *U.S. v. von Brunn* (June 11, 2009), by FindLaw
* "James Von Brunn: An ADL Backgrounder Beliefs and Activities" , by the Anti-Defamation League
* Statement by Erik von Brunn, by ABC News
Stella Turk

**Stella Maris Turk, MBE** (1925 – 3 April 2017) was a British zoologist, naturalist, and conservationist. 

Turk was known for her activities in marine biology and conservation as it applies to marine molluscs and mammals. Turk became a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2002, and was awarded the Stamford Raffles Award by the Zoological Society of London in 1979.

## References
## More reading
* J. Light, 2003. "In conversation with Stella Turk." *Mollusc World* 3: 16–17, 20.

## Other websites
* Photograph of Stella Maris Turk in an article that mentions a film about her
Carole Hersee

**Carole Hersee** (born 25 November 1958) is an English costume designer known for being the "Test Card Girl" on BBC. She is the most aired face in British television history. 

## References
Popular Republican Union (2007)

The **Popular Republican Union** (French: *Union Populaire Républicaine*, ***UPR***) is a French political party. It was formed in 2007 by François Asselineau.

The party is nationalistic, and is very critical of the European Union. They are against federalism and the Americanisation of France.

Asselineau qualified to run in the 2017 French presidential election on 23 April 2017. He received almost 1% of the national vote, with 332,588 votes.

## References 
## Other websites 
* Official website
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.

## Performances 
### Parliamentary elections 
## References 
## 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.

## Performances 
### Parliamentary elections 
## References 
## 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.

File:Scalinata Castiglioni, come una cascata a lago, Piazzetta di Lierna Lago Como,1940.png|Castiglioni staircase, like a waterfall on the lake, Piazzetta di Lierna Lake Como, 1940
File:El trabajo (Jardines del Palacio Legislativo) - Giannino Castiglioni.JPG|*El trabajo*, bronze, Palacio Legislativo, Montevideo, Uruguay
File:Sculpture dedicated to Antonio Bernocchi by Giannino Castiglioni realized in Lierna, Lake Como, 1925.jpg|Sculpture dedicated to Antonio Bernocchi installed in Legnano, 1925
File:PiusXItomb2.jpg|Tomb of Pope Pius XI in St. Peter's Basilica, Rome
File:Antonio Bernocchi grave Milan 2015.jpg|Mausoleum of Antonio Bernocchi, Cimitero Monumentale di Milano

## Related pages
* List of Italian painters

## References 
## Other websites 
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*Giannino Castiglioni Museum
* Portal - Scenes from the life of S. Ambrogio from the Milan cathedral, Opera Giannino Castiglioni, affixed in 1950 Milan Cathedral
List of kings of the Picts

This list includes Pictish kings since 312, kings have ruled the Picts since around 800 BC but the monarchs listed here are the kings and queens who have ruled the whole of Pictland or claimed to have ruled the whole of Pictland.

## Kings of Pictland since 312 
* Vipoig 312-342
* Canutulachama 342-345
* Vuradech 345-347
* Gartnait 347-387
* Talorg 387-412
* Drest I 412-452
* Talorc 452-456
* Nechtan I 456-480
* Drest II 480-510
* Galan 510-522
* Drest III & Drest IV 522-530 & 522-531
* Gartnait II 531-537
* Cailtram 537-538
* Talorc II 538-549
* Drest V 549-550
* Galam 550-555
* Bridei I 555-584
* Gartnait III 584-595
* Nechtan II 595-616
* Cinioch 616-631
* Gartnait IV 631-635
* Bridei II 635-641
* Talorc III 641-653
* Talorgan 653-657
* Gartnait V 657-663
* Drest VI 663-672

* Bridei III 672-693
* Taran 693-697
* Bridei IV 697-706
* Nechtan III 706-724 (ferst ren)
* Drest VII 724-726 (deposed bi Alpín)
* Alpín 726-728
* Nechtan III 728-729 (seecond ren)
* Onuist 729-761 & Talorcan 736-750
* Bridei V 761-763
* Ciniod 763-775
* Alpín II 775-778
* Talorc IV 778-782
* Drest VIII 782-783
* Talorc V 783-785
* Conall 785-789
* Caustantin 789-830
* Óengus 820-834
* Drest IX 834-837 & Talorc VI 834-837 
* Éogan 837-839
* Uurad 839-842
* Bridei VI 842-843
* Ciniod II 843
* Bridei VII 843-845
* Drest X 845-848

## Kings of Pictland & Alba/Scotland 
* Cináed mac Ailpín (843-858)
* Domnall mac Ailpín (858-862)
* Causantín mac Cináeda (862-877)

## Disputed (kings of Pictland) 
* Áed mac Cináeda (877-878)
* Giric mac Dúngail (878-889)
* Domnall mac Causantín (889-900)

## Disputed (kings of Pictish Alba) 
* Caisantín mac Áeda (900-943), abdicated. Died 952
Chris Bearde

**Chris Bearde** (18 June 1936 &ndash; 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.

## References
## Other websites
*Interview with Chris Bearde
*
Hubert Dreyfus

**Hubert Lederer Dreyfus** (; October 15, 1929 &ndash; 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".

## References
## 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
William Hjortsberg

**William "Gatz" Hjortsberg** (February 23, 1941 &ndash; 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.

## References
## Other websites
*William Hjortsberg official website 
*
*Photograph of the author
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.
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.

## References
## Other websites
* Interview by Koen van Santvoord for the magazine Carp
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.

## References
Agustín Edwards Eastman

**Agustín Iván Edmundo Edwards Eastman** (24 November 1927 &ndash; 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.

## References
## Other websites
* Perfil  
* Agustín Edwards Eastman 
* Líos de familia: La oscura historia detrás del edificio de el Mercurio
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.

## References 
## 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
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**The Spokan Indians*, by John Alan Ross, published 2011, , the definitive ethnography
* Spokane Salish Blog
Dante Parini

**Dante Parini** (Milan, 21 November 1890 – Milan, 11 April 1969) was an Italian painter and sculptor.

## Biography 
Parini studied at Accademia di Brera under the guidance of masters such as Enrico Butti along with Giannino Castiglioni with whom she shared ideas and projects becoming her friend. Parini left for the front of World War II where he was decorated for heroic acts.

He was a sculptor of monuments to the fallen soldiers of world wars and burial monuments, following the example of his Butti master with great technical skill and personal style.

It is its fountain-monument made in 1924 in Piazza Gran Paradiso in Milano in memory of the fallen of Niguarda. Amongst others are the monuments to the fallen of Tarquinia, a work inspired by profound sentiment and suffering humanity, and the monument to the soldiers fallen into Induno Olona war.

Some of his works are in the Monumental Cemetery of Milan, in Sanctuary of San Felice (Parabiago), and in the cemetery of Sarzana. He made a marble bas-relief in the church of Santa Maria at the Maggiore Hospital at Ca 'Granda in Milan with a subject "The healings of Christ". Several of his works are preserved at the Ospedale di Niguarda, known as *"the City of art"*. In 1882 Dante Parini took part in the second competition for the execution of the sculptures of Vittoriano "Altar of the Homeland" in Rome, but his project was not chosen.
Dante Parini also devoted himself to painting. During his long life he participated in several international exhibitions.
In 1924 he received the Diploma of Honorary Member of the Accademia di Brera.

He was the first mayor of Brusimpiano after the end of World War II.

## Related pages
* List of Italian painters

## References 
## More reading 
* Carlo E. Accetti, Il Libro italiano: rassegna bibliografica generale, Librerie Ulpiano, 1942
* Carlo E. Accetti, Biografia *Dante Parini*, Tipografia sociale, Monza, 1942
* Arduino Anselmi, *Milano storica: nelle sue vie, nei suoi monumenti*, Hoepli (casa editrice), 1933
* Giacomo C. Bascapè, La Raccolte d'arte dell'Ospedale Maggiore di Milano dal XV al XX secolo, Silvana Editoriale, 1956
* Alfonso Panzetta, ''Nuovo dizionario degli scultori italiani dell'Ottocento e del primo Novecento: da Antonio Canova ad Arturo Martini (Dante Parini)*, Volume 2, AdArte, 2003
* Vincenzo Vicario, *Gli scultori italiani dal Neoclassicismo al Liberty: L-Z (Dante Parini)'', Volume 2, Pomerio, 1994

## Other websites 
* Schede oggetti ed opere d'arte di Parini Dante, Ministero dei Beni Culturali, Istituto Centrale per il catalogo e la documentazione 
* Bianca Maria Visconti di Parini Dante, Lombardia Beni Culturali 
* Monumento sepolcrale - Monumento Famiglia Pini-Defendini di Parini Dante, Lombardia Beni Culturali
* Ritratto di Bianca Maria Visconti di Parini Dante, Lombardia Beni Culturali
* Studio di ramo con foglie dal vero di Dante Parini, Società Operaia di Mutuo Soccorso di Viggiù, Lombardia Beni Culturali
* Raccolta d'arte Museo del Policlinico di Milano
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 constellations 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. 

## References
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.

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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.

## References
## Other websites
* Official Web page
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.

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Kathleen Crowley

**Betty Jane "Kathleen" Crowley** (December 26, 1929 &ndash; 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.

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