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2017 World Snooker Championship

The 2017 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament. It took place from 15 April to 1 May 2017 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the 19th and final ranking event of the 2016-17 season, after the China Open. It was the 41st year that the World Snooker Championship had been held at the Crucible.
The winner of the title was defending champion Mark Selby. He defeated John Higgins 18-15 in the final despite having fallen 4-10 behind in the second session of the match. Selby defeated Ding Junhui 17-15 in the semi-finals, whilst Higgins defeated Barry Hawkins 17-8. This was Selby's third World Championship win. He had also won the title in the 2014 and 2016 tournaments.
The total prize fund for the event was PS1,750,000. The winner got the top prize of PS375,000. There were 74 century breaks in the main stage of the championship, with a further 84 in qualifying. Englishman Ronnie O'Sullivan made a break of 146 in the quarter-finals, the highest of the tournament. Gary Wilson scored a maximum break of 147 in qualifying during his first round win over Josh Boileau. The tournament was broadcast in Europe by the BBC and Eurosport, and internationally by World Snooker on Facebook.
Prize fund
The total prize money for the event was raised to PS1,750,000 from the previous year's prize fund of PS1,500,100. The winner of the event won PS375,000. The prize money for the 2017 World Snooker Championship is shown below.
Winner: PS375,000
Runner-up: PS160,000
Semi-final: PS75,000
Quarter-final: PS37,500
Last 16: PS25,000
Last 32: PS16,000
Last 48: PS12,000
Last 80: PS8,000
Total: PS1,750,000
Main draw
The numbers in parentheses beside some of the players are their seeding ranks. Match winners are shown in bold.
Century breaks
There were 74 century breaks made by 23 players in the main stage of the 2017 World Snooker Championship. The highest break of the tournament, a 146, was compiled by Ronnie O'Sullivan in his quarter-final loss to Ding Junhui.
146, 128, 124, 122, 111, 104 Ronnie O'Sullivan
143, 139, 132, 131, 128, 121, 101, 100 Mark Selby
141, 135, 129, 127, 124, 120, 120, 111 John Higgins
139, 136, 132, 132, 128, 128, 120, 117, 117, 113, 111, 110, 103 Ding Junhui
137, 122 Stuart Bingham
135, 114 Stephen Maguire
132, 126, 115 Barry Hawkins
131 Xiao Guodong
130 Liang Wenbo
129, 116, 105, 102, 100, 100 Mark Allen
125 Ryan Day
124, 107, 101 Stuart Carrington
118, 115, 109, 105 Marco Fu
118, 112, 109 Shaun Murphy
113, 105 Neil Robertson
111, 104 Ali Carter
110 Kyren Wilson
109 Luca Brecel
109 Yan Bingtao
108, 100 Martin Gould
105 Graeme Dott
104 David Grace
103, 100 Gary Wilson
References
Other websites
World Snooker Championship
Călărași, Dolj

Calarasi is a commune in Dolj County, Romania.
References
Communes in Dolj County
2021 Facebook outage

On October 4, 2021, American social network Facebook and its subsidiaries Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Mapillary, and Oculus became globally unavailable. The outage started close to 12:00 pm Eastern Time and lasted around six hours. The reason is known as the loss of IP routes to the Facebook Domain Name System (DNS) servers.
This is believed to have been caused by a problem with Facebook's Border Gateway Protocol. The outage also reportedly broke internal systems used by Facebook employees.
References
October 2021 events
Cry to Me

"Cry to Me" is a 1962 song by Solomon Burke. It went to number 44 in the United States and number 5 on the R&B charts in the United States. It has been covered by the Pretty Things, The Rolling Stones for their 1965 album Out of Our Heads and Dionne Warwick. It was written by Bert Berns.
References
1962 songs
Soul songs
Solomon Burke songs
The Rolling Stones songs
Dionne Warwick songs
Pretty Things songs
Eric Burdon songs
Digital divide

Digital divide is the gap between parts of the world where access to information technology is very different. Developed countries have plentiful internet, mobile phones, computers and Wi-Fi. Other parts of the world do not. It is the difference of people that can access the internet, and the people that cannot.
Problems
A digital divide can be born for many reasons like socioeconomic problems (few people are rich and many are poor), racial problems (there is a majority or a minority that controls the other), or geographical problems (in the cities there are technologies but there are not in rural areas).
Countries on the rich side of the divide include Canada, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Europe and Australasia. They have big communication infrastructure, and most people can afford computers and other technology. On the poor side is Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, where there are many social problems. Technology has a long way to go before getting interest in those countries, because of problems like the price of technology and the fact that sometimes there are not any resources to help.
Inner conflict
In some parts of the world there is a large digital divide. Sometimes it is just in half of a country, or just a region, for example Africa. As with other things like education or transport, some people have things that others don't have. There are big cities where technologies are cheap and there are many villages and rural communities where there is no digital/electronic technology. In this case the digital divide creates other problems. Because a part of the country is rich and another part is poor, there are often problems with trading and connections.
Technology
Social issues
Diplomatic immunity

Diplomatic immunity is a special law that covers people who work in embassies or consulates. The people are called diplomats. The diplomatic immunity means that although they live and work as a visitor inside a "host country", they are not ruled by the law of that country. They are only ruled by the law of their home country.
A diplomat can work without interference from the police and government of the country where he/she works. Diplomatic immunity means that a diplomat can keep the secrets of his own country's government, without the government of the host country being able to find out about them.
Police from the host country cannot arrest a diplomat, or search a diplomat's house or office. They cannot even give a diplomat's car a parking ticket without the permission of the diplomat's government.
Honorary consuls only work part-time as diplomats, so only have diplomatic immunity when working as diplomats. Police may search their offices, but not the part where they keep their diplomatic work.
Diplomacy
Yoshinobu Harada

is a Japanese professional athlete. He is best known as a Association football or soccer player.
Club career statistics
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1986 births
Living people
Footballers from Saitama Prefecture
Pune

Pune is the 8th largest metropolis in India. It is on the Deccan Plateau in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The city is famous for the great Maratha king Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. It is also the birthplace of spiritual teacher Meher Baba. Mutha are the two rivers that flow through the city.
It has a major Information Technology (IT) center. This city is managed by the Pune Municipal Council (PMC).
Pune is a city of knowledge and often known as the Oxford of the east. In Marathi, it is known as vidyeche maherghar. It means the hometown of education. The population of Pune was 8,242,142 by 2015.
Name
The name Pune comes from the Sanskrit word - . It means "city of virtue". Pune is known for its educational facilities, having more than hundred educational institutes and nine universities. Pune has well-established glass, sugar and metal forging industries since the 1950s. Pune is also known as the "Oxford of the East." Pune was once the centre of power for the Maratha Empire. It is known to have existed as a town since 847 AD. Pune was the first capital of Shivaji Maharaj.
It is the cultural capital of Maharashtra. There are many historic places like Shaniwar Wada, Lal Mahal and many museums like the Aga Khan Palace, Raja Kelkar Museum, and the National War museum.
The climate of Pune is suitable to reside in, so many people settled there. Today, Pune has many complexes, shopping malls and multiplexes. There are many research centres present in Pune.
Students not only from other cities and States come here to study, but international students from various countries are also found here. There are many clubs for different sports activities in this city. The main attraction of the city is the Ganesh Festival which is celebrated with great joy.
There are many educational institutions like Symbiosis, SP and Fergusson. Many people in Pune are food lovers, there are many famous Bhelpuri and Vada pav centres.
References
Red Barber

Walter Lanier "Red" Barber (February 17, 1908 - October 22, 1992) was an American sports commentator.
Barber, nicknamed "The Ol' Redhead", by the radio broadcasts of Major League Baseball. He broadcasted for forty years with the Cincinnati Reds (193438), Brooklyn Dodgers (19391953), and New York Yankees (19541966).
Further reading
Other websites
Baseball Memories: The Red Barber Centennial - NPR Morning Edition Feb. 15, 2008
Fan essay on Red Barber
Baseball Hall of Fame - Frick Award recipient
Red Barber Collection at University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries
Red Barber Radio Scholarship
Audio: Barber calls Cookie Lavagetto's base hit in Game 4 of the 1947 World Series
Audio: Barber calls Al Gionfriddo's catch in Game 6 of the 1947 World Series
1908 births
1992 deaths
Major League Baseball broadcasters
Sportspeople from Missouri
Dimorphodon

Dimorphodon was a prehistoric flying pterosaur from the early Jurassic period. It had a big head, a small brain, a tall beak, and two types of teeth. Variation in teeth is rare in pterosaurs.
Like Rhamphorhynchus, Dimorphodon is only found in Jurassic strata. It was the first pterosaur found in England, by Mary Anning, in 1828.
Most of the known specimens were found in the Jurassic chalk of the south coast of England in the 19th century. Another species of Dimorphodon has been found in La Boca Formation in Tamaulipas, Mexico, from the Lower Jurassic.
References
Pterosaurs
Chelsea F.C. Women

Chelsea Football Club Women are an English women's football club based in Fulham, England. Previously, they were named Chelsea Ladies Football Club.
Chelsea Women were a founding member of the FA WSL in 2010, the top level of women's football in England since 2011.
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1992 establishments in England
Women's football clubs in England
American Wedding

American Wedding is a 2003 American sex comedy movie and a sequel to American Pie and American Pie 2. It is the third (originally intended final) installment in the American Pie theatrical series. It was written by Adam Herz and directed by Jesse Dylan. Another sequel, American Reunion, was released nine years later. This also stands as the last movie in the series to be written by Herz, who conceptualized the franchise.
Cast
Jason Biggs as Jim Levenstein
Molly Cheek as Mrs. Levenstein
Alyson Hannigan as Michelle Flaherty
January Jones as Cadence Flaherty
Thomas Ian Nicholas as Kevin Myers
Seann William Scott as Steve Stifler
Eddie Kaye Thomas as Paul Finch
Fred Willard as Harold Flaherty
Eugene Levy as Noah Levenstein
Deborah Rush as Mary Flaherty
Jennifer Coolidge as Jeanine Stifler
Eric Allan Kramer as Bear/Mr. Belvedere
Angela Paton as Grandma Levenstein
John Cho as John
Justin Isfeld as Justin
2003 comedy movies
2000s buddy comedy movies
2000s sequel movies
2000s sex comedy movies
2000s teen comedy movies
American Pie movies
American sequel movies
American sex comedy movies
American teen comedy movies
American buddy comedy movies
2000s English-language movies
Teen sex comedy movies
Movies set in the United States
Ronnie Vannucci Jr.

Ronald Vannucci Jr. (born February 15, 1976) is an American musician. He is best known for being the drummer for the American rock band the Killers. Vannucci is also involved in a side project called Big Talk, and became the drummer of the Rentals in 2018.
1976 births
Living people
American drummers
Musicians from Las Vegas
Peterbilt

The Peterbilt Motors Company is an American company. It makes medium or heavy duty Class 5 through 8 trucks.
The Peterbilt company started making trucks in 1939 and built 15 trucks that year. Their semi-trucks are made in different styles.
History
The company can trace its roots to the Fageol Motor Company. It was a regional truck maker that started in Oakland, California in 1916. The company made automobiles, trucks and tractors. The company made trucks that could stand up to the tough conditions of the deserts and mountains of the western United States. In 1923 they shut down all other products to concentrate on trucks. They made trucks from the 1920s and 1930s. Due to the Great Depression, the company went into bankruptcy in 1932. It kept operating under control of its creditors but by 1938 was about to shut down. In 1939 the company assets were purchased by T.A. Peterman, a logger and businessman from Tacoma, Washington. The name Peterbilt was already being used by one of his wood products companies and was used for his new truck manufacturing company.
References
Other websites
Peterbuilt home page
Companies based in Texas
20th-century establishments in Texas
1939 establishments in the United States
American automobile companies
Communes of the Puy-de-Dôme department

The following is a list of the 470 communes of the Puy-de-Dome departement, in France.
(CAC) Communaute d'agglomeration Clermont Communaute, created in 2000.
(CCHL) Communaute de communes of Haut-Livradois.
Puy-de-Dome
Diebach

Diebach is a municipality in Ansbach in Bavaria in Germany.
References
Ansbach (district)
Post-credits scene

A post-credits scene appears after or during the closing credits of a movie. They are mostly used to amuse the audience or tell them that a sequel is coming soon.
The first post-credits scene is usually thought to be in 1903's The Great Train Robbery, in which the leader of the outlaw aims his gun at the audience and fires it. They gained popularity during the 1980s. An example is Ferris Bueller's Day Off, in which the title character tells the audience to leave the theatre.
Marvel Cinematic Universe movies are famous for these scenes, in which they usually tell the audience that a movie based on another Marvel hero is coming.
Other websites
What's after the credits?
Movies with stingers
Movie industry
Reimar Lüst

Reimar Lust (25 March 1923 - 31 March 2020) was a German astrophysicist. He was the president of the German Max Planck Society from 1972 to 1984 and the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA) from 1984 until 1990. Lust was a professor at New York, MIT and Caltech before he became the director general of the ESA.
References
1923 births
2020 deaths
German physicists
German educators
Pir Noor Muhammad Shah Jeelani

Pir Noor Muhammad Shah Jeelani (; 15 September 1951 - 24 December 2020) was a Pakistani politician. He was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 until his death. He was also a member of the assembly from June 2013 to May 2018. Jeelani was a member of the Pakistan Peoples Party.
Jeelani died in Karachi on 24 December 2020, at age 66, from COVID-19, during the pandemic in Pakistan.
References
2020 deaths
1951 births
Politicians from Sindh
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan
Don Sandburg

Don Sandburg (1930 - October 6, 2018) was an American television writer, actor, and producer. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has worked in television, most notably as producer of The Banana Splits for Hanna-Barbera as well as WGN-TV's Bozo's Circus as Sandy the Clown. In 1967, Sandburg appeared in local McDonald's ads as Ronald McDonald.
Sandburg died of complications from Alzheimer's disease in Springfield, Oregon on October 6, 2018 at the age of 87.
References
Other websites
Various shorts clips and original commercial breaks from airings of Bozo's Circus/The Bozo Show
1930 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Disease-related deaths in Oregon
American television producers
American television actors
American television writers
Actors from Cincinnati
Writers from Ohio
Damián De Santo

Damian Alvaro De Santo (Born June 12, 1968) is an Argentine actor and former singer. He acted in theater, cinema and television.
Private life
He has been married for years to Vanina Bilous, a tango dancer. He has two children, Joaquin and Camilo. Although he is not much of a soccer fan, he is a River fan. He was the boyfriend of the Argentine singer Laura Miller. Since 2005, he has lived for much of the year in the town of Villa Giardino in Cordoba, where he owns a complex of cabins.
Filmography
Television
Other websites
1968 births
Living people
Singers from Buenos Aires
Actors from Buenos Aires
Charles Bernstein

Charles Bernstein (born April 4, 1950) is an American poet, essayist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein is the Donald T. Regan Chair in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is one of the most famous members of the Language poets (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets).
In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Bernstein's selected poetry from the past thirty years, All the Whiskey in Heaven, was published in 2010.
Poetry
Asylums (1975)
Parsing (1976)
Shade (1978)
Poetic Justice (1979)
L E G E N D, with Bruce Andrews, Steve McCaffery, Ron Silliman, Ray DiPalma (1980)
Controlling Interests (1980)
The Nude Formalism, with Susan Bee (1989)
Islets/Irritations (1983)
The Sophist (1987)
Rough Trades (1991)
Dark City (1994)
Republics of Reality: 1975-1995 (2000)
With Strings (2001)
Shadowtime (opera libretto) (2005)
Girly Man (2006)
All the Whiskey in Heaven (2010)
Recalculating (2013)
Near/Miss (2018)
Topsy-Turvy (2021)
Prose
Content's Dream: Essays 1975-1984 (1986)
"Artifice of Absorption" (1987)
A Poetics (1992)
My Way: Speeches and Poems (1999)
A Conversation with David Antin (2002)
Attack of the Difficult Poems (2011)
Pitch of Poetry (2016)
References
1950 births
Living people
American poets
American essayists
Writers from New York City
Writers from Pennsylvania
Educators from Pennsylvania
Scopello

Scopello is a comune in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region of Piedmont, in the Valsesia region. It is known for its winter ski resort.
References
Settlements in Piedmont
Ski areas and resorts in Italy
Prime Minister of Greenland

The Prime Minister of Greenland (, lit Leader of the Government; ), officially referred to as the Premier, is the head of the Government of Greenland. The incumbent prime minister is Mute Bourup Egede of the Siumut party.
The prime minister is usually leader of the majority party in the Parliament of Greenland. Jonathan Motzfeldt became Prime Minister after home rule was granted to Greenland in 1979.
List of prime ministers of Greenland
References
Greenland
Cheslie Kryst

Cheslie Corrinne Kryst (April 28, 1991 - January 30, 2022) was an American beauty queen and television presenter. She won Miss USA in 2019. She also represented the United States in Miss Universe. Kryst was born in Jackson, Michigan. From 2019 until her death, she was a presenter for the television show Extra.
Kryst, aged 30, jumped off from her New York City apartment building on January 30, 2022.
References
1991 births
2022 deaths
American television presenters
Miss USA
Models from Michigan
Entertainers from Michigan
Suicides by jumping in the United States
Suicide in 2022
Saint-Pierre-de-Chevillé

Saint-Pierre-de-Cheville is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France.
Communes in Sarthe
Mire language

Mire, or Mulgi, is an East Chadic language spoken by around 5,000 people in southwestern Chad. It is mainly spoken in Tandjile Prefecture and Lai Prefecture. Most speakers speak Ndam or Kimre as a second language.
References
East Chadic languages
Central Atlantic magmatic province

The Central Atlantic magmatic province (CAMP) is the result of a huge volcanic outburst which started at the end of the Triassic period.
It is the Earth's biggest continental large igneous province, with an area of about 11 million km2. It is mainly of basalt, and formed before the breakup of Pangaea in the Mesozoic Era. It may have caused the end-Triassic extinction event.
The subsequent breakup of Pangaea created the Atlantic Ocean and provided a legacy of basaltic dikes, sills, and lavas over a vast area around the present central North Atlantic Ocean.
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Volcanic landforms
Triassic
Extinction events
Large igneous provinces
Cilegon

Cilegon is a city in the Indonesian province of Banten.
Banten
Cities in Indonesia
Yellow fever

Yellow fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic disease transmitted by infected mosquitoes. The illness can cause bleeding problems. It is called yellow because it makes the skin and the eyes yellow in color, like jaundice.
There is a vaccine which can stop the disease, but many people in Africa and South America are not vaccinated against it. The World Health Organization say that 200,000 people are made ill with yellow fever every year, and that 30,000 people die from it.
Yellow fever peaked in 1842, killing hundreds of people. There was an outbreak in Philadelphia in 1793.
Yellow fever is spread through the bite of an infected mosquito. The name of the mosquito which commonly carries the virus is Aedes Aegypti. The female carries the disease.
The yellow fever originated in Central Africa.
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Diseases caused by viruses
Diseases spread by insects
Gino Cappelletti

Gino Cappelletti (March 26, 1934 - May 12, 2022) was an American professional football player. He played college football at University of Minnesota. He played for the Boston Patriots from 1960 until 1970. Cappelletti is a member of the Patriots Hall of Fame. He was the Patriots' radio color commentator until July 2012. His nicknames included "The Duke" and "Mr. Patriot". Cappelletti was born in Keewatin, Minnesota.
Cappelletti died on May 12, 2022 at the age of 89.
References
1934 births
2022 deaths
New England Patriots players
American sports commentators
American radio personalities
Sportspeople from Minnesota
American football wide receivers
Structural color

Structural coloration is a coloring that results from the special structure of the surface. Sometimes structural coloration is combined with pigments: for example, peacock tail feathers are pigmented brown, but their structure makes them appear blue, turquoise, and green, and often they appear iridescent.
English scientists Robert Hooke and Isaac Newton were the first who observed structural coloration. Thomas Young described its principle a century later and called it wave interference. Young described iridescence as the result of interference between reflections from several surfaces of thin films, combined with refraction as light enters and leaves such films. The geometry then determines that at certain angles, the light reflected from both surfaces adds (interferes constructively), while at other angles, the light subtracts. As a result, different colors appear at different angles.
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Biology
Color
Light
Tea bag

A tea bag is a small bag of tea leaves. It is put in a cup with boiling water to turn it into tea. They can be made of paper or silk. A tea bag is often removed with a teaspoon, some have a string to remove it.
Tea
Nearctic

For the thoroughbred racehorse see Nearctic (horse).
The Nearctic is one of the eight terrestrial ecozones dividing the Earth's land surface.
In ecology, an ecozone is a large land mass that contains many terrestrial ecoregions, each of which has unique plants and animals.
The Nearctic ecozone covers most of North America, including Greenland and the highlands of Mexico.
Southern Mexico, southern Florida, Central America, and the Caribbean islands are part of the Neotropic ecozone, together with South America.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) divides the Nearctic into four Bioregions, defined as "geographic clusters of ecoregions that may span several habitat types, but have strong biogeographic affinities, particularly at taxonomic levels higher than the species level (genus, family)."
Other websites
Map of the ecozones
Nearctica, the natural world of North America
References
Flannery, Tim 2001. The eternal frontier: an ecological history of North America and its peoples. Grove Press, New York.
Ricketts, Taylor H., Eric Dinerstein, David M. Olson, Colby J. Loucks et al. 1999. Terrestrial ecoregions of North America: a conservation assessment. Island Press, Washington DC.
Ecozones
Linear B

Linear B is an ancient script, used to write Mycenaean Greek, as the oldest known form of Ancient Greek. This was proved by Michael Ventris in the early 1950s. Linear B came before the Greek alphabet by several centuries.
The script is based on Linear A, a script which cannot be read today. The oldest texts written in Linear B date from about 1450 BC. Linear B was found mainly in the palace archives at Knossos, Cydonia, Pylos, Thebes and Mycenae. The writing of Linear B language disappeared with the fall of the Mycenaean civilization.
There are about 87 signs in Linear B that represent syllables. In addition, there are many ideographic signs: These represent objects or commodities. They do not represent sounds, and are never used as word signs in writing a sentence.
Linear B seems to have only been used for administration. In all the thousands of clay tablets, a relatively small number of different "hands" (or writers) have been detected: 45 in Pylos (west coast of the Peloponnese, in southern Greece) and 66 in Knossos (Crete). The script may have only been used by a guild of professional scribes. These scribes worked at the different palaces: when the palaces were destroyed, the script disappeared.
References
Writing systems
Ancient Greece
Inkwil

Inkwil is a municipality in the administrative district of Oberaargau in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
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Municipalities of Bern
Louise Peltzer

Louise Peltzer (born 18 February 1946 in Huahine) is a French Polynesian linguist and professor at the University of French Polynesia. From 2005 to 2011, she was president of the University of French Polynesia.
She taught at Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales and University of Waikato.
References
1946 births
Living people
Linguists
French Polynesia
Westmorland, California

Westmorland is a city in Imperial County, California, United States.
Cities in California
Settlements in Imperial County, California
Pyrrhic War

With the end of the Samnite Wars, Rome had established itself as the lord of central Italy. Conflict with the Greek city-states (Magna Graecia) of southern Italy was unavoidable as its influence grew in the Mediterranean. In the early third century BC, the Lucanians and Bruttians continued to attack these Greek settlements, and in 283 BC, they appealed to the Roman provincial power for assistance. Tarentum was the most powerful city in Magna Graecia at the time.
Its location in southern Italy made it a significant hub for Mediterranean Sea trade while also isolating it from Roman naval action on the Tryrrhenum Sea, which connected Rome to the islands of Corsica and Sardinia. Tarentum had the most formidable naval of any Italian city at the time due to its location and relationship with Greece, and a standing treaty with Rome had been in effect since 302 BC. This contract denied Roman fleets access to the harbour of Tarantum (in Italy's heel), ensuring the Greek navy's autonomy.
In 282 BC, Rome deployed troops by sea to garrison the town of Thurii in response to an appeal for help from regional city-states like as Locri, Rhegim, Croton, and Thurii against the Lucanians. Despite the plea for assistance, Tarentum saw this as a breach of the pact and an act of hostile assault. Tarentum's first response was to drown the Roman fleet and evacuate the garrison from Thurii. In response, the Roman Senate dispatched an embassy to Tarentum under the command of L. Postumius Megellus to demand reparations. During the exchange, the Romans appear to have been insulted (a frequent theme in Livy and Polybius' history to excuse Roman invasion), and Rome declared war. Tarentum, unable to defuse the situation, raised their own army and began fighting.
Pyrrhus, a distant relative of Alexander the Great, imagined himself as a successor to Alexander the Great. He was looking to Italy for growth and glory after just confirming his rule via battle in Epirus. According to Plutarch, the fertile soil of Sicily, rather than Italy, was probably the original goal, but the opportunity to combat the burgeoning might of Rome was too good to pass up. The armies of the post-Alexander Macedonian kingdoms were the most modern and well-equipped of the time, with the Epirotes far ahead of their Roman counterparts. Pyrrhus accepted Tarentum's challenge and sailed across the Adriatic with his own soldiers and those pledged by other regional Greek Kings with the understanding that they would be employed overseas.
Wars
Hare and Wolf

Hare and Wolf () is a Vietnamese animated series. It was directed by M.A. Dang Nhan Lap.
Plot
Episode 01 (1991) : A tail of Wolf ()
Episode 02 (1992) : The ear and the eye ()
Episode 03 (1993) : Travelling a day... ()
Episode 04 (2000) : Believing the sky is as small as the cooking pot's lid ()
Episode 05 (2001) : Believing the sky will ruin ()
Production
Assistant : Bui Quynh
Artist : Ly Thu Ha, Lap Thu
Animators : Lan Phuong, Thanh Viet, Tuong Long, Nguyen Thi Mang, Phung Van Ha, Ngo Ngoc Long, Hoang Linh, Doan Thuy, Thanh Huyen, Minh Nguyet
Decorating : Thu Ly, Hong Son, Binh Minh
Sound : Ta Quoc Khanh, Manh Kien, Tran Toan
Montager : Kim Oanh, Viet Phu
Actors : Phu Don (Wolf), Trung Hieu (Fox & Pup the Police)
Theme : Why you in a hurry to get married (Sao em no voi lay chong) composed by Tran Hieu with Wolf's singing
Color printing by National Studio for Documentary and Scientific Films
Related pages
Tom and Jerry
References
1990s animated television series
2000s animated television series
Vietnamese animated movies
Movies about rabbits and hares
Movies about wolves
Television shows about rabbits and hares
Where No Vultures Fly

Where No Vultures Fly is a 1951 British adventure movie directed by Harry Watt and starring Anthony Steel, Dinah Sheridan, Harold Warrender, William Simons. It was followed up by the 1954 sequel West of Zanzibar.
Other websites
1951 adventure movies
British adventure movies
Movies directed by Henry Watt
Snowmass, Colorado

Snowmass (sometimes known locally as Old Snowmass) is an unincorporated community and a U.S. Post Office in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. It is in the valley of the Roaring Fork River, near the mouth of Snowmass Creek. It is on State Highway 82 between Aspen and Basalt. It consists largely of a post office, several commercial businesses, and surrounding houses and ranches. The Snowmass Post Office has the ZIP Code 81654.
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Unincorporated communities in Colorado
2021–2022 Iraqi political crisis

Since October 2021, there has been a political crisis in Iraq, with members of the Council of Representatives of Iraq being unable to form a stable coalition government, or elect a new President.
Violent clashes in Baghdad after the 2021 parliamentary election and the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi began the crisis. On 18 November Muqtada al-Sadr said he would like to form a majority government.
On 27 July, supporters of al-Sadr stormed the Green Zone and the Iraqi Parliament in Baghdad.
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July 2022 events
2021 in Asia
2022 in Asia
2020s in Iraq
Igor Cvitanović

Igor Cvitanovic (born 1 November 1970) is a former Croatian football player. He has played for Croatia national team.
Club career statistics
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|1989/90||rowspan="2"|Dinamo Zagreb||rowspan="2"|First League||10||5
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|1990/91||0||0
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|1992||Varteks||Prva HNL||21||9
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|1992/93||rowspan="6"|Croatia Zagreb||rowspan="6"|Prva HNL||15||9
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|1993/94||34||27
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|1994/95||26||11
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|1995/96||23||19
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|1996/97||27||20
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|1997/98||25||17
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|1997/98||rowspan="2"|Real Sociedad||rowspan="2"|La Liga||17||3
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|1998/99||12||0
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|1999/00||Croatia Zagreb||Prva HNL||12||6
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|2000/01||rowspan="2"|Dinamo Zagreb||rowspan="2"|Prva HNL||24||9
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|2001/02||4||3
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|2002||Shimizu S-Pulse||J. League 1||5||1
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|2002/03||rowspan="2"|Osijek||rowspan="2"|Prva HNL||0||0
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|2003/04||5||0
10||5
216||130
29||3
5||1
260||139
|}
International career statistics
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|1992||1||0
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|1993||0||0
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|1994||5||2
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|1995||0||0
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|1996||7||1
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|1997||7||0
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|1998||1||0
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|1999||6||1
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|2000||1||0
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|2001||1||0
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!Total||29||4
|}
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1970 births
Living people
Croatian footballers
Thomas R. Pickering

Thomas Reeve "Tom" Pickering (born November 5, 1931) is an American politician and writer. He was the 18th U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1989 to 1992. He was born in Orange, New Jersey.
Pickering worked during the presidencies of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
Pickering was the U.S. Ambassador to India, El Salvador, Israel, Jordan, Nigeria and Russia during his 27 year diplomatic career.
References
Other websites
Thomas Reeve Pickering (1931 - ) U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian
Thomas R. Pickering at The American Academy of Diplomacy
Charting the Future of U.S.-India Relations, June 2011 interview with Ambassador Thomas Pickering
1931 births
Living people
United States Ambassadors to the United Nations
Educators from New Jersey
American political writers
Politicians from New Jersey
Writers from New Jersey
People from Orange, New Jersey
Ambassadors of the United States to Israel
Ambassadors of the United States to Russia
Ambassadors of the United States to India
Serial killer

A serial killer is someone who murders several people at different times (similar killers of more than one person are mass murderers and spree killers). The victims are usually people the serial killer does not know, and the killer commits his crimes to get a certain kind of excitement or other feeling. They usually have no practical motive such as robbery or revenge.
Serial killer first became a commonly used phrase for this kind of killer in the 1970s. This was the result of the crimes of people like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. Jack the Ripper is thought by many to be one of the first serial killers that many people knew about, even though his victims were killed long before the phrase was invented.
A serial killer's crimes are nearly always alike in some way. The killer may only attack a certain type of person, for instance women of a certain age or appearance (young or old, blonde or dark-haired). He may always use the same kind of weapon to kill his victims, or may treat them in a certain manner, such as tying them up with the same kind of rope or adhesive tape. Some serial killers have had very strange habits which leave evidence of their work at each crime; for instance Albert de Salvo, the Boston Strangler, would tie the cord with which he had strangled a woman around her neck in a special bow. To law enforcement officers a serial killer's habits are known as his signature, and they are always valuable leads in detecting who he is and capturing him.
Some of the worst serial killers have been doctors. Harold Shipman, a British general practitioner, is thought to have killed up to 250 of his patients. John Bodkin Adams, also British, is thought to have killed 163 patients. Burke and Hare, the 'resurrectionists', killed to sell bodies to a doctor, Robert Knox.
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Cecilia Caballero Blanco

Cecilia Caballero Blanco (30 September 1913 - 13 August 2019) was the widow of the 24th President of Colombia, Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, and served as First Lady of Colombia from 1974 to 1978.
Caballero Blanco was born on 30 September 1913 in Bogota. She married Alfonso Lopez Michelsen on 23 October 1938. They had three children: Alfonso, Juan Manuel, and Felipe.
Caballero Blanco turned 100 in September 2013. She died on 13 August 2019 in Bogota at the age of 105.
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1913 births
2019 deaths
Centenarians
First Ladies of Colombia
People from Bogota
Matthew Quashie

Vice Admiral Mathew Quashie (23 March 1951 - 9 January 2020) was a Ghanaian naval officer. He was the twenty-ninth Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces from 2013 through 2016. He also was the Chief of Naval Staff of the Ghana Navy from 3 April 2009 to 28 March 2013. He was born in Accra.
Quashie died at an Accra hospital on 9 January 2020 from an illness at the age of 68.
References
1951 births
2020 deaths
People from Accra
African military people
Congo national football team

Congo national football team is the national football team of the Republic of the Congo.
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African national football teams
Organizations based in the Republic of the Congo
Valentin Bakulin

Valentin Ivanovich Bakulin (; 30 January 1945 - 24 February 2022) was a Russian politician. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. He was in the Federation Council from 2001 to 2004.
Bakulin died in Ivanovo, Russia on 24 February 2022, at the age of 77.
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1945 births
2022 deaths
Russian communists
Russian politicians
Activities of daily living

Activities of daily living are the basic grooming, chores and other related activities of everyday life. These include cooking, financial skills, putting on and removing one's clothes, brushing one's teeth, etc.
Life
Londonderry, New Hampshire

Londonderry is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. 11,307 people lived there at the 2010 census.
Other websites
Town of Londonderry official website
Londonderry Times, local newspaper
Towns in New Hampshire
1720s establishments in the Thirteen Colonies
Deltoid muscle

The deltoid muscle is the muscle forming the rounded contour of the human shoulder. Electromyography suggests that it is at least seven groups that can be independently coordinated by the central nervous system.
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Muscles
Attic fan

An attic fan, is a fan that controls the heat level of a building's attic by removing the hot air. A thermostat is used to turn the fan off and on based on the heat level, while sometimes a manual switch is used. An attic fan can be gable mounted or roof mounted. Extra vents are required to draw in fresh air as the hot air is exhausted. Attic fans are typically used in warmer months when temperatures in an attic can get above . A fan may be installed in an attic for the purpose of cooling a whole house by venting hot air out via the attic. These fans are often called whole-house fans.
Mechanical attic ventilation fans may be powered in a variety of different ways. Most attic vents fitted to homes are powered off electricity supplied by the power meter. A trend towards solar-powered attic ventilators is observable in the interest of conserving electricity and lowering monthly utility bills. Wind-powered roof turbines, often referred to as "whirly-birds", are also used to ventilate attics and other confined spaces.
Wiring methods
Attic fans may be wired in different ways. Normally, the fan is wired directly into an electric circuit and is controlled by a thermostat commonly ranging from to . It may also be hardwired but turned on and off using a switch. Another method is to have the fan plugged into an electric outlet mounted nearby. An environmentally friendly method is to wire a fan to a roof-mounted solar panel.
References
HVAC
Home appliances
Alphonso Taft

Alphonso Taft (November 5, 1810 - May 21, 1891) was the United States Attorney General and United States Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant. He was the father of U.S. President William Howard Taft.
Taft was born on November 15, 1810 in Townshend, Vermont. He was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. Taft stuided at Yale College, at Yale Law School, and at Yale University. He was married to Fanny Phelps from 1841 until her death in 1951. They had five children. Then he was married to Lousie Maria Torrey from 1853 until his death in 1891. They had five children. Taft died on May 21, 1891 in San Diego, California from heart failure, aged 80.
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1810 births
1891 deaths
American judges
Lawyers from Cincinnati
Deaths from heart failure
Politicians from Cincinnati
William Howard Taft
Politicians from Vermont
Republican Party (United States) politicians
United States Attorneys General
Essam el-Erian

Dr. Essam Mohamed Hussein el-Erian () (28 April 1954 - 13 August 2020) was an Egyptian physician and politician. He was the vice chairman of the Freedom And Justice party. Between 2011 and 2013, he was a member of the Parliament of Egypt.
After the 2013 Egyptian coup, prosecutors ordered his arrest on 10 July 2013. On 14 July 2013, Egypt's new prosecutor general Hisham Barakat ordered his assets to be frozen. El-Erian was arrested by the government on 30 October 2013.
El-Erian died of a heart attack while in prison in Cairo on 13 August 2020, aged 66.
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1954 births
2020 deaths
People who died in prison custody
Egyptian politicians
Physicians
Egyptian criminals
Suiko Seamount

is an underwater volcano (seamount) of the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain in the Pacific Ocean. Suiko is an extinct volcano.
The seamount is also known as the "Suiko Guyot" because it has a flat top. This undersea geologic feature is also called a "guyot" or "tablemount".
This seabed mountain is named after Empress Suiko of Japan.
The last eruption from Suiko seamount was 60 million years ago.
Related pages
Submarine volcano
Active volcano
Dormant volcano
References
Other websites
Seamount Biogeosciences Network, database
Seamounts
Pacific Ocean
Volcanoes of Oceania
Walker Lake

Walker Lake is a salt lake in Nevada.
Other websites
Lakes of the United States
Geography of Nevada
CW Leonis

CW Leonis is a red giant star that is mostly made out of Carbon. It is over 500 times larger than the Sun and is located in the Leo constellation.
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Red giants
Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne

Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne is a municipality in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is a suburb of Lausanne.
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Other websites
Official website
Municipalities of Vaud
Adrienne Corri

Adrienne Corri (13 November 1930 - 13 March 2016) was a British actress. She was known for her role as Mrs. Alexander in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.
Corri died at her home in London on 13 March 2016 from coronary artery disease at the age of 84.
References
Other websites
Adrienne Corri at HorrorStars
1930 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from coronary artery disease
British movie actors
British television actors
British stage actors
Actors from Glasgow
Bank of America Plaza (Atlanta)

Bank of America Plaza is a skyscraper in Atlanta, United States. It is tall and has 55 floors. It was built in 1992. It is one of the tallest buildings in the United States.
Related pages
List of tallest buildings in the United States
List of tallest buildings in the world
Other websites
Official Website - Bank of America Plaza
Emporis.com - Bank of America Plaza
SkycraperPage.com - Bank of America Plaza
Skyscrapers in the United States
Buildings and structures in Atlanta
1992 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Electoral district of Wollondilly

Wollondilly is an electoral district of New South Wales. It was created in 1904, abolished in 1981 and recreated in 2007.
Wollondilly is mostly a rural seat, but also includes a few suburbs on the outskirts of southwestern Sydney.
Election results
References
Wollondilly
Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure

Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure is an action-adventure video game developed by Atomic Planet and released in 2007 for the Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, and Wii consoles. The game is based on the National Geographic documentary film series Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure directed by Sean MacLeod Phillips.
Story & gameplay
In the oceans of earth millions of years ago, danger was never far away and monsters lurked in every shadow. Experience this astounding world by playing as six different prehistoric marine reptiles, each with special skills - from extreme speed to thick armor and powerful crunching jaws. Start your adventure in an area of inland sea that will only get more dangerous as time passes.
Other websites
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ds/942036-sea-monsters-a-prehistoric-adventure/data
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/wii/942034-sea-monsters-a-prehistoric-adventure/data
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps2/942035-sea-monsters-a-prehistoric-adventure/data
PlayStation 2 games
Wii games
Nintendo DS games
Action video games
Adventure games
2007 video games
2008 video games
Jack B. Farris

Jack Brodie Farris (December 5, 1935 - December 14, 2019) was a United States Army Lieutenant General. He commanded the military ground forces during Operation Urgent Fury, the United States invasion of Grenada in 1983; at the time of his retirement in 1991 he was Deputy Commander of the United States Pacific Command in Hawaii.
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1935 births
2019 deaths
American generals
American military personnel of the Vietnam War
People from Charlotte, North Carolina
Military people from North Carolina
Ogden, Iowa

Ogden is a city in Iowa in the United States.
Cities in Iowa
Poway, California

Poway is a city in San Diego County, California. As of the 2020 census the city had a population of 48,841. The ZIP code is 92064.
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Cities in California
Settlements in San Diego County, California
Albany, Vermont

Albany is a town in Orleans County, Vermont, United States.
Towns in Vermont
Peille

Peille is a commune. It is found in the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the south of France.
Communes in Alpes-Maritimes
Mary Simon

Mary Jeannie May Simon (; born August 21, 1947) is a Canadian former broadcaster, civil servant and diplomat. She is the governor general of Canada since 2021.
Simon was born in Kangiqsualujjuaq, Quebec and briefly worked as a producer and announcer for CBC North in the 1970s.
Simon served as Canada's first ambassador for Circumpolar Affairs from 1994 to 2004, and was a lead negotiator for the creation of the Arctic Council. She then was the Canadian ambassador to Denmark from 1999 to 2002.
On July 6, 2021, the federal government announced that Simon was selected to replace Julie Payette as the 30th governor general of Canada. She became governor-general on July 26, 2021.
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1947 births
Living people
Ambassadors of Canada
Governors General of Canada
Politicians from Quebec
Latgallia (Saeima constituency)

Latgallia () is a constituency of Latvia. It was created in 1922.
Election results
References
Constituencies of Latvia