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John Herron

John Joseph Herron AO (4 September 1932 -- 25 February 2019), was an Australian politician, ambassador and surgeon.
Herron was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1990 to 2002, representing Queensland. From 1996 to 2001 he was the Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs. From 2002 to 2006 he was the Australian Ambassador to Ireland and the Holy See.
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1932 births
2019 deaths
Australian Roman Catholics
Ambassadors of Australia
Politicians from Queensland
Huambo

Huambo, formerly Nova Lisboa ("New Lisbon" in Portuguese), is the capital of Huambo Province in Angola. The city is about 220 km east of Benguela and 600 km south-east of Luanda. The city is the second largest in Angola, after the capital city, Luanda. It has the Albano Machado Airport.
The name Huambo comes from Wambu. Wambu was one of the 14 old Ovimbundu kingdoms of the central Angolan plateau.
Cities in Angola
Franco-Prussian War

The Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) was a war between France and Prussia, which was helped by German allies of Prussia. The war was provoked by Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck, who wanted to unite Germans under Prussian rule by making them fight together against a common enemy. Bismarck irritated French Emperor Napoleon III into declaring war on 19 July 1870. The war ended by a Prussian victory on 10 May 1871.
Causes
The French feared a Protestant country on their border. France had helped Prussia beat Austria during the Austro-Prussian War (1866), but it would not allow the North German Confederation and South German states to unify. In 1869, the throne of Spain was offered to a prince of the Catholic branch of the Prussian Hohenzollern royal family.
France found out about the offer, and demanded for Prussia to reject it since France did not want to be surrounded by Hohenzollerns. The prince refused, but the French wanted Prussia to do the same. Prussian King Wilhelm I sent a telegram from Ems that assuring French Emperor Napoleon III that the prince would not become king of Spain. Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck publicly released a version that he had edited or doctored to make it seem that his king had insulted the emperor's ambassador. That was part of his plan to unify the German states. Both sides exchanged angry words, and France declared war. On July 19 1870 the war started, and Prussia was fully supported by the South German states.
Results
With its German allies and universal conscription, Prussia brought together a bigger army than the French. The Prussian Army also had better weapons, training and leadership. For example, the Prussian General Staff were very well organised. The army had some old-fashioned equipment like the Dreyse needle gun, but its Krupp mobile artillery (heavy-duty guns) were far better than the old French muzzleloaders. Notable victories occurred at Sedan, Mars-la-Tour, Gravelotte and Metz. The Germans captured Napoleon in Metz, but French Republicans overthrew the Second French Empire and continued the war for a few months. The Germans conquered Paris and then made peace.
After the war, France had to give Prussia some regions that had been under French control. They were most of Alsace and some of Lorraine, most of which spoke German dialects. Prussia took steps to unite the independent German states into one country, the German Empire. The historical term for that is the Unification of Germany.
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1870s in France
1870s in Germany
Prussia
Wars involving France
Wars involving Germany
1870
1871
19th-century conflicts
Latham, Kansas

Latham is a city in Butler County, Kansas, United States.
Cities in Kansas
Edward

Edward is an English male given name. It is an old name, dating from before the Norman conquest of England in 1066. It means "wealthy" (rich) and "guard". Ted, Teddy, and Ned are often used as nicknames for people called Edward, such as Ted Kennedy, or Ned Kelly. There have been many kings of England called Edward, such as Edward the Confessor, and Edward VIII.This name was ranked #217 on the US Popular Names in 2021.
Variations of "Edward" in other languages
Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese: Eduardo
Spanish and Portuguese also use Duarte
Italian also uses Edoardo
French: Edouard
Norwegian: Edvard
People named Edward
English people
Edward the Elder (c. 874-924), the son of Alfred the Great
Edward the Martyr (c. 962-978), English king and Christian martyr
St. Edward the Confessor (c. 1003-1066), English King; patron saint of England until 1348
Edward I of England (1239-1307), called Longshanks; conqueror of Wales
Edward II of England (1284-1327), deposed in January 1327, probably murdered
Edward III of England (1312-1377), one of the most successful English kings of medieval times
Edward, the Black Prince (1330-1376), eldest son of King Edward III
Edward, Duke of Guelders (1336-1371)
Edward IV of England (1442-1483), older brother of Richard III, father of Edward V
Edward V of England (1470-c. 1483), one of the princes in the Tower
Edward VI of England (1537-1553), the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour
Edward VII of the United Kingdom (1841-1910), the son of Queen Victoria
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (1894-1972), the son of George V, abdicated
Other people
Edward Balliol (c. 1283-1367), pretender to the Scottish throne during the reign of David II
Ed Gainey, American player of Canadian football
Edward Gierek (1913-2001), First Secretary of Polish United Workers Party from 1970-1980
Edward Heath (1916-2005), former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Edward Stanley Kellogg (1870-1948), 16th Governor of American Samoa
Ed Miliband (born 1969), former leader of the UK Labour Party
Edward Snowden (born 1983), American who disclosed National Security Agency secrets
Edward Stettinius, Jr. (1900-1949), former United States Secretary of State
References
Given names
Choiseul Quarter

Choiseul is a Quarter in Saint Lucia. It is on the southwestern side of the Caribbean island. The capital is Choiseul.
Quarters of Saint Lucia
Clinton County, New York

Clinton County is a county in the state of New York, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, 79,843 people lived there. Its county seat is the city of Plattsburgh. The county lies to the south of the border with the Canadian province of Quebec. This county is part of New York's 21st congressional district.
References
1788 establishments in New York (state)
New York (state) counties
Karl-Josef Rauber

Karl-Josef Rauber (11 April 1934 - 26 March 2023) was a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was a papal nuncio from 1982 until his retirement in 2009. He was born in Nuremberg, Nazi Germany.
References
1934 births
2023 deaths
German cardinals
Piedimulera

Piedimulera is a comune in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region of Piedmont.
References
Settlements in Piedmont
Debbie Watson

Debbie Watson (born 28 September 1965) is an Australian water polo player. She competed for the Australian women's national water polo team in the 1986 World Aquatics Championships.
References
1965 births
Australian water polo players
Adair County, Kentucky

Adair County is a county in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 18,656. The county seat is Columbia.
References
1800s establishments in Kentucky
1801 establishments in the United States
Kentucky counties
William Saroyan

William Saroyan () (August 31, 1908 - May 18, 1981) was an American author who wrote many plays and short stories about growing up impoverished as the son of Armenian immigrants. These stories were popular during the Great Depression. Saroyan grew up in Fresno, the center of Armenian-Americans in California, where many of his works are set (although he sometimes gave the city a fictional name).
Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest "In Armenian it is sor-row'yan, accent on row. In America it is mispronounced with... 'roy.'"
Life
Saroyan was born in Fresno, California, the son of an Armenian immigrant. His father moved to New Jersey in 1905 - he was a small vineyard owner, who had been educated as a Presbyterian minister. At a certain point his father was forced to take farm-laboring work, and he died in 1911. At the age of four, William Saroyan was placed in the Fred Finch Orphanage in Oakland, California, together with his brother and sister - an experience he later described in his writing. Five years later the family reunited in Fresno, where his mother, Takoohi, had obtained work in a cannery.
Quotations
"The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy - the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops." (from The William Saroyan Reader, 1958)
"I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia. See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia."
References
Other websites
The William Saroyan Society
William Saroyan article on Armeniapedia.org
The William Saroyan Literary Foundation Intl. on WilliamSaroyan.org
People from Fresno, California
1908 births
1981 deaths
Writers from California
Murray Westgate

Murray Westgate (April 16, 1918 - August 27, 2018) was a Canadian actor. He was best known for his longtime role as a television pitchman in Canadian commercials for Esso on Hockey Night in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s.
He was also known for his roles in Blue City Slammers and for his role in the adaptation of Two Solitudes, as the Prime Minister of Canada.
References
Other websites
1918 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from cardiopulmonary arrest
Canadian movie actors
Canadian television actors
Canadian stage actors
Canadian voice actors
Canadian centenarians
Actors from Toronto
Actors from Regina, Saskatchewan
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts

Shrewsbury is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 35,644 according to the 2010 US Census, in nearly 12,400 households.
Shrewsbury is home to three current and one former Nationally Registered Historic Places:
The Gen. Artemas Ward Homestead on Main Street
The Shrewsbury Historic District, in the town center which includes parts of Church Road, Main Street, Prospect Street, Boylston Street, and Grafton Street
1767 Milestones, of which two surviving milestones are in town, along the route of the old Boston Post Road.
Other websites
Town of Shrewsbury Official Website
Commission on Disabilities
Shrewsbury Historical Society
Old Shrewsbury Historical Society Page
Towns in Massachusetts
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was an American immigration policy that allowed some individuals who entered the country as minors, and had either entered or remained in the country illegally, to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and to be eligible for a work permit.
As of 2017, about 800,000 individuals--referred to as Dreamers after the DREAM Act bill--were enrolled in the program created by DACA. The policy was established by the Obama Administration in June 2012 and rescinded by the Trump Administration in September 2017. In November 2014 President Barack Obama announced his intention to expand DACA to cover additional illegal immigrants. But multiple states immediately sued to prevent the expansion, which was ultimately blocked by the courts.
References
Barack Obama
Donald Trump
2014 establishments in the United States
Immigration
2017 disestablishments in the United States
Nanboku-chō period

The , also known as Nambokucho or the period of Northern and Southern Courts, started in 1333 or 1336 and ended 1392.
History
[[File:Nanbokucho-capitals.svg|thumb|left|130px|In the Nanboku-cho period, there were two rival Imperial courts and two rival capitals of Japan. They were:Northern capital : KyotoSouthern capital : Yoshino.]]
During 60+ years of the 14th century, Kyoto was the seat of an pretender Imperial group known as the Northern Court. The series of pretender emperors in Kyoto were supported by the Ashikaga shogunate, but some disputed whether they were true monarchs.
During these years, a Southern Court was established in the Yoshino District of what is today Nara Prefecture. The series of emperors in Yoshino were rejected by the Ashikaga shoguns and their supporters.
Forces loyal to the two rival courts fought for more than six decades. This period of rivalry is sometimes identified as the early part of the Muromachi period of the History of Japan.
In 1392, the Southern court stopped fighting; and the Northern Court seemed to have won the long struggle. However, the claims of the Kyoto pretenders were undermined by scholars and historians. The so-called "emperors" in Kyoto did not have of the essential Imperial regalia until after 1392. The succession (senso) was not passed to them from Emperor Go-Daigo. The pretenders were not confirmed with valid ceremonies (sokui).
In 1911, an Imperial decree confirmed that the only legitimate reigning monarchs of this period were the Southern Court emperors.
Northern Court pretenders
Emperor Kogon, 1331-1333
Emperor Komyo, 1336-1348
Emperor Suko, 1348-1351
Emperor Go-Kogon, 1352-1371
Emperor Go-En'yu, 1371-1382
Emperor Go-Komatsu, 1382-1412
Southern Court emperors
Emperor Go-Daigo, 1318-1339
Emperor Go-Murakami, 1339-1368
Emperor Chokei, 1368-1383
Emperor Go-Kameyama, 1383-1392
Related pages
Northern Court
Southern Court
List of Japanese eras
Muromachi period
Sengoku period
References
Other websites
Periods in Japanese history
1330s establishments in Japan
1390s disestablishments in Japan
1392 disestablishments
Vaddukoddai

Vaddukoddai (also spelled Vattukkottai, Vatukotai, or Vattukotai; ) is a town in northern Sri Lanka. It is a small but important town located on the Jaffna peninsula. This part of the country is dominated by Tamil people.
Settlements in Sri Lanka
Northern Province, Sri Lanka
Yekaterina Mulyuk-Timofeyeva

Yekaterina Nikolayevna Mulyuk-Timofeyeva or Katsiaryna Mikalayeuna Muliuk is an archer from Belarus. Mulyuk-Timofeyeva competed at the 2008 and the 2012 Summer Olympics. She was born on 13 November 1976.
References
Other websites
Belarusian archers
Belarusian Olympians
1976 births
Living people
Irvington, Virginia

Irvington, Virginia is a town in the U.S. state of Virginia.
Towns in Virginia
Merbes-le-Château

Merbes-le-Chateau is a municipality in the Belgian province of Hainaut.
In 2007, 4141 people lived there.
It is at 50deg 19 North, 04deg 09 East.
References
Municipalities of Hainaut
German Grand Prix

Winners
Multiple winners (drivers)
Active drivers are in bold.
Multiple winners (constructors)
Embolded constructors are competing in the Formula One championship in the current season.
Active constructors are in bold.
By year
References
Formula One Grands Prix
Khat

Khat is a flowering plant native to tropical East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. It is also known as qat, qaat, quat, gat, jaad, chat, chad, chaad and miraa. The plant is grown commercially in Kenya, Ethiopia, Oman, and Yemen.
Khat is a shrub. When grown commercially, the shrubs grow to a size of about 5m, in the wild they can reach about 20m.
Khat is used as a stimulant in Eritrea, Somalia, and Yemen the effects are comparable to those of drinking tea or coffee.
Problems
There are some problems with Khat. People can become psychologically addicted to the drug. Many anti-drug organisations, such as the Drug Enforcement Administration target this drug. It is illegal to use in many countries, though not in Yemen.
Khat is very popular in Yemen. Much of the country's farming resources are used for it because farmers get more money than for other cash crops. It is estimated that 40% of the country's water supply goes towards irrigating it. Its production is said to increase by about 10% to 15% every year. It uses so much water that groundwater levels in the Sana'a basin are getting lower. For this reason, government officials have proposed to move large portions of the population of Sana'a to the coast of the Red Sea.
Some studies done in 2001 estimated that the income from growing khat was about 2.5 million Yemeni rials per hectare, while it was only 0.57 million rials per hectare if fruits were grown. This is a strong reason farmers prefer to grow khat over coffee and fruits. It is estimated that between 1970 and 2000, the area on which khat was cultivated grew from 8,000 hectares to 103,000 hectares.
References
Celastrales
Shrubs
Medicinal plants
Live USB system creator

The Live USB system creator is to tool designed to create Live USBs of Ubuntu from a running Ubuntu Live CD
Features
Detects available USB flash drives (using HAL)
Partitions USB flash drive with 1 partition
Sets partition bootable
Writes MBR to USB flash drive
Formats partition FAT32
Installs bootloader (syslinux) to partition
Writes bootloader configuration file
Copies necessary files from running Live CD to USB flash drive
Sets language and keyboard of USB Live system to match running Live CD
Optionally: Downloads and integrates Adobe Flash Player
Optionally: Enables persistent /home (Ubuntu 8.10 and later only)
Related pages
List of tools to create Live USB systems
Ubuntu Live USB creator
Linux software
Fescamps

Fescamps is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
References
Communes in Somme
County Westmeath

Westmeath is a county in the middle of Ireland. Westmeath and Meath once formed a fifth province in Ireland known as Mide. Westmeath is known as the lakeland county. Its main town is Mullingar.
Westmeath
Harry Hoch

Harry Keller Hoch (January 9, 1887 - October 26, 1981) was an American professional baseball player and lawyer. He played as a pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies (1908) and St. Louis Browns (1914-1915).
Hoch was born in Woodside, Delaware. He died on October 26, 1981 in Lewes, Delaware, at the age of 94.
References
Other websites
1887 births
1981 deaths
American baseball players
Lawyers from Delaware
Philadelphia Phillies players
Sportspeople from Delaware
St. Louis Browns
Jagmohan Singh (athlete)

Jagmohan Singh (1 April 1932 - 17 November 2020) was an Indian hurdler. He competed in the men's 110 metres hurdles at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Chandigarh, India.
Singh died on 17 November 2020 from a heart attack in Chandigarh at the age of 88.
References
1932 births
2020 deaths
Indian athletes
Indian Olympians
Hurdlers
Khandi Alexander

Khandi Alexander (born September 4, 1957) is an American dancer, choreographer, and movie and television actress.
She played the character Catherine Duke on NewsRadio and the character Jackie Robbins on ER. She is best known for the character Alexx Woods, a coroner on the CBS drama CSI: Miami. She is currently appearing in the HBO series Treme.
Other websites
1957 births
Living people
American television actors
American dancers
American movie actors
Actors from New York City
American choreographers
Joe Grant

Joe Grant (May 15, 1908 - May 9, 2005) was an American animator, writer and illustrator. He worked for Walt Disney between 1933 and 1949 and again from 1989 until his death just a few days before his 97th birthday.
Joe Grant was born at 1908 in New York City. After school, he began his career as a caricaturist. In 1933, he was hired by Disney for the Mickey Mouse short movie Mickey's Gala Premiere. In the next years, he, Albert Hurter, Dick Huemer and Fred Moore were the studios' most important character animator. He created the witch in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Grant and Huemer created books for Fantasia and Dumbo. Later, he was the head of the "Character Animation Department" at Disney. This department was closed in 1949 and Grant left Disney.
40 years later, in 1989, Grant began working for Disney again. He created characters and sketches for Disney's Beauty and the Beast, (1991). The movie was the first animated movie which was nominated for the Academy Award for "Best Picture". He was the only person who worked on Fantasia (1940) and Fantasia 2000.
In 2005, his animation short movie Lorenzo was nominated for an Academy Award. Just a few weeks later, Joe Grant died while working with his drawing board at the age of 96 in Glendale, California.
1908 births
2005 deaths
American animators
Disney animators
Writers from New York City
American illustrators
On the Right Track

On the Right Track is a 1981 American comedy movie directed by Lee Philips and starring Gary Coleman, Kim Basinger, Norman Fell, Bill Russell, Lisa Eilbacher. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Other websites
1981 comedy movies
American comedy movies
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a private and nonprofit organization. United States Congress established the organization in mid-June 1984. The chairperson of this organization is the child safety advocate Patty Wetterling, the mother of Jacob Wetterling, an eleven-year-old-boy who was murdered in Minnesota in October 1989. The NCMEC handle cases of missing or exploited children between when they're babies and young adulthood through age 20.
The Center not only advocates for finding missing children, teenagers or young adults, it helps identify the dead.
The CyberTipline
The NCMEC operates the CyberTipline. The CyberTipline was established by the United States Congress for processing reports of child exploitation (this includes online enticement, child pornography and inappropriate contact with children). The NCMEC reviews the reports and shares them with appropriate law enforcement agencies or Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces. Along with the information from the reporting party, NCMEC also adds geolocation information (when appropriate) and cross-references identifying information, like email addresses, usernames and IP addresses with the existing CyberTipline reports.
Related pages
AMBER Alert
Child theft
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Kidnapping
References
Non-profit organizations of the United States
Child safety
1984 establishments in the United States
United States law
Berlin, Massachusetts

Berlin is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.
Towns in Massachusetts
Moufida Tlatli

Moufida Tlatli (; 4 August 1947 - 7 February 2021) was a Tunisian movie director and politician. She was the first Arab woman to direct a full feature-length movie (The Silences of the Palace) in the Arab World. She was born in Sidi Bou Said, French Tunisia. Her career began in 1970. In 2011, she was the Minister of Culture.
Tlatli died on 7 February 2021 in Tunis from COVID-19 at the age of 73.
References
1947 births
2021 deaths
Tunisian politicians
Movie directors
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Tunisia
Ignition (album)

Ignition is the second album by American punk rock band The Offspring, released in 1992. This was their first album released on Epitaph Records (a label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz).
Released during the breakthrough year for alternative rock and grunge, The Offspring achieved small success with Ignition in Southern California and gathered a small following. This success would grow with their next album Smash. "Kick Him When He's Down" was released as a promotional single in 1995 after the band had risen in popularity; it is one of the few singles that did not appear on the Greatest Hits album.
Track listing
"Session" (Kristine Luna, Jill Eckhaus, The Offspring) - 2:32
"We Are One" - 4:00
"Kick Him When He's Down" - 3:16
"Take It Like a Man" - 2:55
"Get It Right" - 3:06
"Dirty Magic" - 3:49
"Hypodermic" - 3:22
"Burn It Up" - 2:43
"No Hero" - 3:22
"L.A.P.D." - 2:46
"Nothing from Something" (Marvin Fergusen, The Offspring) - 3:00
"Forever and a Day" - 2:37
Personnel
The Offspring
Dexter Holland - Vocals
Noodles - Guitar
Greg K. - Bass
Ron Welty - Drums
Other
Recorded and mixed by Thom Wilson at Westbeach Recorders, Hollywood, USA
Recorded and mixed by Ken Paulakovich at Track Record, North Hollywood, USA
Produced by Thom Wilson
Assistant engineered by Donnell Cameron and Joe Peccerillo
Mastered by Eddie Schreyer
References
1992 albums
The Offspring albums
Punk albums
New England, North Dakota

New England is a city in North Dakota, United States.
Cities in North Dakota
Flag of Tajikistan

The national flag of Tajikistan (, ) was created in November 1992, replacing the flag of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic of 1953.
Appearance
It has three horizontal tricolour of red, white and green; charged with a crown surmounted by an arc of seven stars at the center.
Tajikistan
Tajikistan
Nathan Shaham

Nathan Shaham (Hebrew: ntn SHHm; born 1925 - June 18, 2018) was an Israeli writer. In 2012, he was awarded the Israeli Prize. Shaham was editor-in-chief of Sifriat Poalim Publishing House. He was Israel's cultural attache in the United States from 1977-80, and a former vice-chairman of the Israel Broadcasting Authority.
His best known novel was Tabula Rasa (2010).
Shaham died in his home in Beit Alfa on June 18, 2018 from complications of Alzheimer's disease, aged 93.
References
Other websites
Biography , Hebrew at Stanford
1925 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Disease-related deaths in Israel
Israeli Jews
Israeli writers
Raymon Anning

Raymon Harry Anning (Chinese: Yan Li Guo , 22 July 1930 - 20 December 2020) was a British police officer and civil servant. He was the Commissioner of Police of Hong Kong. In the early 1970s, he was a commander of the Metropolitan Police in Greater London. He was Hong Kong Police commissioner from 1985 to 1989.
Anning died on 20 December 2020 at the age of 90.
References
1930 births
2020 deaths
Hong Kong people
Police officers
People from London
Communes of the Territoire de Belfort department

The following is a list of the 102 communes of the Territoire de Belfort departement, in France.
(CAB) Communaute d'agglomeration de l'agglomeration Belfortaine, created in 2000.
Territoire de Belfort
Grocon

Grocon Pty Ltd is a big Australian construction company based in Melbourne. It is owned by the Grollo family.
The company was involved in building the Eureka Tower and Rialto Towers.
Companies of Australia
Alexandru Lăpușan

Alexandru Lapusan (1 February 1955 - 17 May 2016) was a Romanian politician. He served as Minister of Agriculture from 1992 through 1996. He was member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1990 through 1992. He was born in Tandarei, Romania.
Lapusan died on 17 May 2016, aged 61.
References
Other websites
Alexandru Lapusan on Chamber of Deputies official site.
1955 births
2016 deaths
Romanian politicians
Étaule

Etaule is a commune. It is found in the Yonne department in the center of France.
References
INSEE
Communes in Yonne
Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof (; born 20 November 1858, dead 16 March 1940, She was 81 years old. Was a Swedish writer. In 1909, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature becoming the first woman to do so. She is mostly known for her children's book Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils). She also worked for women's rights.
Related pages
List of Swedish-language writers
References
1858 births
1940 deaths
LGBT Nobel Prize winners
LGBT writers
Swedish writers
Swedish Nobel Prize winners
Hugh Keays-Byrne

Hugh Keays-Byrne (18 May 1947 - 2 December 2020) was an English-Australian actor and movie director. He moved to Australia in 1973. He was known for his roles as Toad in the 1974 movie Stone, Toecutter in the 1979 movie Mad Max, and Immortan Joe in the 2015 movie Mad Max: Fury Road. He was born in Srinagar, then-British India.
Keays-Byrne died on 2 December 2020 at a hospital in Gosford, New South Wales at the age of 73.
References
Other websites
Hugh Keays-Byrne at Theatricalia.
1947 births
2020 deaths
English movie actors
English television actors
English stage actors
English voice actors
English movie directors
Australian movie actors
Australian television actors
Australian stage actors
Australian voice actors
Australian movie directors
Naturalised citizens of Australia
Richard Axel

Richard Axel (born July 2, 1946 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American neuroscientist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004 for working on the olfactory receptors which he shared with Linda B. Buck.
References
1946 births
Living people
American biologists
Jewish Nobel Prize winners
American Nobel Prize winners
Columbia University alumni
Scientists from Brooklyn
Saint-Christoly-de-Blaye

Saint-Christoly-de-Blaye is a commune. It is found in the region Aquitaine in the Gironde department in the southwest of France.
References
Communes in Gironde
Jisoo

Jennie kim (; born January 3, 1995) is a South Korean singer, actress, and model. She goes by the mononym Jennie. She is known for being a member of Blackpink, which as of 2019 is the highest-charting female k-pop group. Jennie is also well known as a model in advertisements in South Korea, including for LG. She has also appeared in a few television series. Jennie is well known on social media in South Korea, with 38.2 million followers.
Jennie was born in South Korea on 3 January 1995. In 2011, she joined YG Entertainment as a trainee. Later she became a member of Blackpink. In 2015, she made her first appearance as an actress.
References
Other websites
Blackpink official website
1995 births
Living people
K-pop singers
Blackpink members
South Korean singers
South Korean models
Jennifer Stone

Jennifer Lindsay Stone (born February 12, 1993) is an American actress. She played Harper Finkle on the television series Wizards of Waverly Place and Harriet Welsh in the movie Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars.
References
Other websites
1993 births
Living people
American television actors
American movie actors
Actors from Texas
Arlington, Texas
Dave Obey

David Ross Obey ( ; born October 3, 1938) is an American politician. He was the United States Representative for from 1969 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Obey served as Chairman of the powerful House Committee on Appropriations from 1994 to 1995 and again from 2007 to 2011. He is the longest-serving member ever of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Wisconsin.
On May 5, 2010, Obey announced that he would not seek reelection to Congress in November 2010. He left Congress in January 2011.
References
1938 births
Living people
United States representatives from Wisconsin
Politicians from Oklahoma
Democratic Party (United States) politicians
Johan Santana

Johan Alexander Santana () (born March 13, 1979, in Tovar, Merida State, Venezuela) is a Major League Baseball left-handed starting pitcher who plays for the New York Mets. His first team was the Minnesota Twins.
1979 births
Living people
Venezuelan baseball players
New York Mets players
Minnesota Twins players
National League All-Stars
René Auberjonois

Rene Murat Auberjonois (June 1, 1940 - December 8, 2019) was an American movie, television, stage, and voice actor. He was known for his roles as Father Mulcahy in movie version of M*A*S*H, as Chef Louis in The Little Mermaid, and as Odo in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine television program. He won a Drama Desk Award and a Tony Award.
Auberjonois was born on June 1, 1940 in New York City, New York. He married Judith Mihalyi in 1963. They had two children.
Auberjonois died from lung cancer at his home in Los Angeles on December 8, 2019, at age 79.
References
Other websites
1940 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
Cancer deaths in Los Angeles
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American voice actors
Actors from New York City
Drama Desk Award winners
Tony Award winning actors
Eduardo Coutinho

Eduardo Coutinho (May 11, 1933 - February 2, 2014) was a Brazilian movie director, screenwriter, and actor.
He directed and wrote the script to the 1967 popular Brazilian movie, ABC do amor. It was made near the beginning of his career. The movie was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.
He died on February 2, 2014 in a suspected murder in Rio de Janeiro, aged 80.
References
Other websites
1933 births
2014 deaths
Murder victims
Brazilian movie actors
Brazilian movie directors
Brazilian movie producers
Brazilian screenwriters
Actors from Sao Paulo
Chahar Cheragh Square

Chuar-chira Square (, ) (meaning Square of the four candles), is a known square in center of city of Mahabad where after Iranian invasion in 1947, Qazi Muhammad the president of Republic of Mahabad was hanged in public as well as other leaders of the republic in Mahabad and Bukan. In 2005 the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran reported that about 50.000 persons had demonstrated against the Iranian gouverment. The reason was the death of Shivan Qaderi.
It is now officially called Shardari Square. This square is one of the oldest places of Mahabad city.
Other websites
Photo of the Chuwar Chira Square
Buildings and structures in Iran
History of Iran
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is one of the leading British orchestras. It is based in the Symphony Hall, Birmingham, England. It became particularly famous during the years when it was conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.
The orchestra was founded in 1920 by Neville Chamberlain, the man who later became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. At that time it was called City of Birmingham Orchestra. Appleby Matthews conducted its first concert. In November of the same year the composer Edward Elgar conducted the orchestra in a programme of his own music in Birmingham Town Hall. Adrian Boult was chief conductor from 1924 to 1930.
History
The CBO became a full-time organisation in 1944. It changed its name to the "City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra" (CBSO) in 1948. Chief conductors since then included Rudolf Schwarz and the composer Andrzej Panufnik.
The CBSO became internationally famous when Simon Rattle became chief conductor in 1980. The orchestra became known for their playing of late romantic and 20th century works, especially those of Sibelius and Gustav Mahler. During this period, the orchestra moved from Birmingham Town Hall to a new concert hall: the Symphony Hall, which was inside Birmingham's International Convention Centre.
Rattle was named music director of the CBSO in 1990. That same year, a new job was created for a composer who would be associated with the orchestra. It was called "Radcliffe Composer in Association", and the first person to have this post was Mark-Anthony Turnage. In 1995 Judith Weir became Fairbairn Composer in Association, followed in 2001 by Julian Anderson.
After Rattle gave up his job with the CBSO in 1998 and the Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo became chief conductor that year, and music director in 1999.
In October 2007, the orchestra named the Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons as the CBSO's 12th music director, starting with the 2008-2009 season.
The CBSO has made many recordings for EMI Classics and Warner Classics, as well as smaller labels. The Orchestra's chief executive is Stephen Maddock.
Conductors of the CBSO
Other websites
City of Birmingham Symphony official site
British orchestras
Ibi River

The is a tributary of the Kiso River in Gifu and Mie Prefectures in Japan. Along with the Nagara and Kiso rivers, the Ibi is the third of the Kiso Three Rivers of the Nobi Plain. It is one of Japan's first class rivers. The former Tokaido post station of Kuwana-juku was on the western banks of this river during the Edo period.
Rivers of Japan
Frankie Randall (singer)

Frankie Randall (born Franklin Joseph "Frank" Lisbona; January 11, 1938 - December 28, 2014) was an American singer, dancer, songwriter, vocalist, actor, and comedian. He was known for appearing on The Dean Martin Summer Show and Day of the Wolves.
Randall died of lung cancer in Palm Springs, California, aged 76.
1938 births
2014 deaths
Actors from New Jersey
American dancers
American singer-songwriters
American television actors
Cancer deaths in California
Comedians from New Jersey
Deaths from lung cancer
People from Passaic, New Jersey
Singers from New Jersey
Writers from New Jersey
Abraxas grossulariata

Abraxas grossulariata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It lives in Europe and North America. Its speckled color patterns have given it the common name magpie moth. The caterpillar is about the same in color as the adult and feeds on the leaves of shrubs such as gooseberry.
Geometridae
Fourcigny

Fourcigny is a commune. It is in the Picardie region in the Somme department in the north of France. In 2011, 183 people lived there. It is found 26 miles southwest of Amiens.
Communes in Somme
Sense Bank

Sense Bank is a bank in Ukraine, which is part of the Russian holding company with an office in Luxembourg ABH Holdings S.A. It was rebranded as Sens bank in 2022.
Sense Bank has become a part of the joint banking network POWER BANKING, created at the NBU's initiative. It means that 74 critical branches of Sense Bank will operate even during long-term blackouts. All of them are equipped with alternative energy sources and backup communication channels.
The bank is owned by citizens of Russia. As of September 2022, the beneficiaries of the bank are Russian oligarchs Andriy Kosogov (40.96%), Petro Aven (12.4%) and Mykhailo Fridman (32.86%).
Founded in 1993, as of 2021 it is among the ten largest financial institutions in the country in terms of assets, is a member of the Individual Deposit Guarantee Fund and is included in the systemically important banks of Ukraine.
According to the NBU, as of March 1, 2021, the bank's assets amounted to UAH 96.8 billion. According to the bank, as of January 1, 2021, the bank had 210 branches and 706 ATMs. As of July 18, 2022, the bank served more than 3 million individuals, 55,000 legal entities, 82,000 self-employed individuals, and employed almost 5,000 employees.
References
Banks of Ukraine
Matthew Bingley

Matthew Bingley (born 16 August 1971) is a former Australian football player. He has played for Australia national team.
Club career statistics
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|1989/90||rowspan="3"|St. George Saints||rowspan="2"|National Soccer League||25||5
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|1990/91||12||3
|-
|1991/92||||2||0
|-
|1992/93||rowspan="5"|Marconi Fairfield||rowspan="5"|National Soccer League||24||2
|-
|1993/94||25||4
|-
|1994/95||14||3
|-
|1995/96||32||8
|-
|1996/97||22||2
|-
|1997||rowspan="2"|Vissel Kobe||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||14||1
|-
|1998||10||1
|-
|1998||JEF United Ichihara||J. League 1||11||0
|-
|1998/99||rowspan="3"|Northern Spirit||rowspan="3"|National Soccer League||10||1
|-
|1999/00||27||5
|-
|2000/01||23||0
|-
|2001/02||rowspan="2"|Newcastle United||rowspan="2"|National Soccer League||27||1
|-
|2002/03||28||1
|-
|2003/04||Perth Glory||National Soccer League||26||0
|-
|2004||Pahang||Super League||||
|-
|2005/06||rowspan="2"|Sydney||rowspan="2"|A-League||17||1
|-
|2006/07||8||0
322||36
35||2
||
357||38
|}
International career statistics
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|1993||1||0
|-
|1994||0||0
|-
|1995||2||0
|-
|1996||3||1
|-
|1997||8||4
|-
!Total||14||5
|}
References
1971 births
Living people
Australian men's soccer players
Sportspeople from Sydney
Anita Filipovics

Anita Filipovics (born 9 April 1988) is a Hungarian volleyball player. She played at the 2010 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship European qualification, and 2011 Women's European Volleyball League. In 2005, she was the Hungarian Women's Volleyball League champion, with Vasas SC.
She played for Vasas SC, Crema Volley, Volleyball Santa Croce, and Volley 2002 Forli.
References
1988 births
Living people
Hungarian volleyball players
Picabo Street

Picabo Street (born April 3, 1971) in Idaho. She is a retired alpine ski racer who won gold medals at 1998 Winter Olympics and downhill at the 1996 World Championships. She also won silver medals at 1994 Winter Olympics and won World Cup downhill titles in 1995 and 1996, making her the first American woman to do so.
References
Sportspeople from Idaho
American Olympic gold medalists
American skiers
1971 births
Living people
Julie Van de Velde

Julie Van de Velde is a racing cyclist from Belgium. De Velde competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She was born on 2 June 1993.
References
Other websites
1993 births
Living people
Belgian cyclists
Belgian Olympians
People from Bruges
Mladen Mladenović

Mladen Mladenovic (born 13 September 1964) is a former Croatian football player. He has played for Croatia national team.
Club career statistics
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|1996||rowspan="2"|Gamba Osaka||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||20||11||1||1||2||0||23||12
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|1997||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
20||11||1||1||2||0||23||12
20||11||1||1||2||0||23||12
|}
International career statistics
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!Total||19||3
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References
1964 births
Living people
Croatian footballers
The Son of Neptune

The Son of Neptune is a 2011 fantasy-adventure book written by American author Rick Riordan in the series Heroes of Olympus. It follows Percy Jackson after his memories have been erased. He meets Roman demigods Frank Zhang and Hazel Lavesque and they start their adventure to defeat Gaea and save Hera.
2011 books
Fantasy books
Palazzo Canavese

Palazzo Canavese is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont.
Settlements in Piedmont
Big Stone Gap, Virginia

Big Stone Gap is a town in the U.S. state of Virginia.
Towns in Virginia
List of bridges to the Island of Montreal

This is a list of bridges in Montreal.
Crossings
Spanning the Saint Lawrence River and Saint Lawrence Seaway
The construction of the Saint Lawrence Seaway in the 1950s required large changes for all bridges that existed at the time. Those are not reflected in the table below.
Spanning the Riviere des Prairies
Spanning the Lake of Two Mountains and the Ottawa River East Channel
All three spans across the Ottawa River East Channel are twinned by another span, built simultaneously, across the West Channel.
Related pages
List of bridges in Canada
Notes
The section of Honore-Mercier bridge spanning over the St. Lawrence Seaway was rebuilt to seaway standards in the 1950s. The bridge was twinned by an identical one, on the downriver side, which opened in 1963.
The Champlain Bridge Ice Structure, known in French as "l'Estacade Champlain," was built to control ice floes coming from the Laprairie Basin.
At the north end of Champlain Bridge, two spans, one north-south (aut. 15 and 20) and one east-west (aut. 10) connect Ile des Soeurs to I. of Montreal. These two spans, called Pont Ile-des-Soeurs and Pont Clement, are part of the Champlain Bridge complex.
Victoria Bridge was built as a one-track tubular bridge which opened in 1860. It was the first bridge to cross the St. Lawrence River, and the longest bridge in the world. It was rebuilt as a two-track truss bridge in 1898. The South Y approach was rebuilt around the Saint Lambert locks of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1961.
Pont de la Concorde (Concorde Bridge) and Pont des Iles ("Bridge of the Islands") were built for Expo 67. Pont de la Concorde connects Montreal Island to Saint Helen's Island, while Pont des Iles connects Saint Helen's Island to Notre-Dame Island.
Jacques-Cartier Bridge was originally named Harbour Bridge/Pont du Havre, and renamed after Jacques Cartier in 1934 (400th anniversary of Cartier's first voyage). The section over the St. Lawrence Seaway was lifted to a new height in 1962.
The Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine complex consists of a tunnel from Montreal to Ile Charron and a bridge from Ile Charron to the South Shore.
Construction of the Highway 25 Bridge started in early 2008 and was finished in May 2011. It is a toll bridge.
The Riviere des Prairies hydro complex is a set of three dams: one from Montreal I. to Ile de la Visitation (west of the Papineau-Leblanc Bridge), which includes a footpath; another between Ile de la Visitation and Ile du Cheval de Terre; and the longest span between Ile du Cheval-de-Terre and Ile Jesus. Ile de la Visitation is joined to Montreal by another two small bridges: a road bridge, which also serves as a dam (historically, a water mill) and a footbridge.
The railway crossing at Ile Bigras consists of two spans, one north and one south of Ile Bigras.
A structure known as "Ile Bray Bridge" was abandoned while still under construction in favor of Ile aux Tourtes Bridge.
Galipeault Bridge was first built in 1925 and doubled in 1964. Both spans have been replaced since. Taschereau Bridge, which was part of the same project, spans the West Channel along the same highway.
References
Montreal
Island of Montreal
Timrå IK

Timra IK is an ice hockey club in Timra in Sweden. The club ended up on the second place in the Swedish national championship in 1974.
References
Other websites
Official website
Ice hockey teams in Sweden
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (movie)

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing is a 1955 American romance movie directed by Henry King and was based on the 1952 novel A Many Splendored Thing by Han Suyin. It stars William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom, Murray Matheson, Virginia Gregg, Richard Loo, Soo Young and was distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was nominated for 8 Oscars and won 3 Academy Awards in 1956.
Other websites
1955 movies
1955 romance movies
American romance movies
Movies based on books
20th Century Fox movies
Movies directed by Henry King
Baukje Wytsma

Baukje Wytsma (1 April 1946 - 29 December 2022) was a Dutch journalist, writer and poet.
Biography
Wytsma was born in 1946 in Reduzum. She became a kindergarten teacher, but stopped after a few years. She started studying journalism and became a freelance journalist. For Leeuwarder Courant she wrote reviews and a children's page.
Wytsma made her debut as a writer in 1976 with the children's book Romke Timen Tomke and oare opsizferskes. In 1980 her first poetry collection was published named Noch ien slach om 'e buorren. Some books were induced in the Honour List of the International Board on Books for Young People. Birthplace desire and also death were important themes in her works.
In 2007 Wytsma received the Fryske Anjer and in 2018 she was appointed Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau for her great service to the Frisian language.
Wytsma died on 29 December 2022, at the age of 76.
References
Dutch writers
Dutch poets
Dutch journalists
1946 births
2022 deaths
Hiroshi Soejima

is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for the Japan national team.
Biography
Soejima was born in Saga on July 26, 1959. After graduating from Saga Commercial High School, he joined Japan Soccer League club Yanmar Diesel in 1978. After reserve team in 2 season, he was promoted top team in 1980. In 1980, the club won the champions in Japan Soccer League and he was selected Best Eleven. The club also won 1983 JSL Cup and 1984 Emperor's Cup. He played 167 matches for the club until 1991. In 1991, he moved to Division 2 club Sumitomo Metal and played in 1 season. He retired in 1992.
On June 9, 1980, Soejima debuted for the Japan national team against Hong Kong. He played 3 games for Japan in 1980.
After retirement, Soejima started coaching career at Kashima Antlers (former Sumitomo Metal) in 1992. He moved to Gamba Osaka in 1996. In 1998, he returned to Cerezo Osaka (former Yanmar Diesel) and became a manager in 2000. He was sacked in August 2001. He managed his local club Sagan Tosu in 2002 and Vissel Kobe in 2003. In 2005, he returned to Cerezo Osaka and managed youth team until 2008. He moved to Kataller Toyama and became an assistant coach. In 2010, he moved to Thespa Kusatsu and managed until 2012.
Statistics
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|1980||rowspan="11"|Yanmar Diesel||rowspan="11"|JSL Division 1||18||0
|-
|1981||11||1
|-
|1982||18||0
|-
|1983||2||0
|-
|1984||18||0
|-
|1985/86||22||0
|-
|1986/87||20||1
|-
|1987/88||21||0
|-
|1988/89||19||4
|-
|1989/90||11||0
|-
|1990/91||7||0
|-
|1991/92||Sumitomo Metal||JSL Division 2||15||0
182||6
182||6
|}
|-
|1980||3||0
|-
!Total||3||0
|}
References
Other websites
1959 births
Living people
Footballers from Saga Prefecture
Japan international footballers
Cerezo Osaka managers
Japan Soccer League players
Cerezo Osaka players
Kashima Antlers players