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AK-47

The AK-47 is a Russian combat rifle first used in 1949. It and an updated version called the AKM were used by the Soviet Union's military (which was called the Soviet Army). It was later replaced by the AK-74 and AK-12.
The AK-47 was designed in 1947 by Mikhail Kalashnikov.
The AK-47 quickly became famous and spread all around the world because it was simple to fire, clean and maintain, and also because of its reliability, meaning that it can be fired for a long time without jamming. The AK-47 and its successors continue to be used by many of the world's armies. Many terrorist and insurgent groups also use the AK-47. It is a cheap, reliable, and easy-to-use weapon. The AK-47 was also available with a folding stock, the AKS-47, and a shortened version with the AKS74 folding stock, the AKMSU (used by armoured vehicle crews), although this was soon replaced by the AKS74U, which fires the 5.45 cartridge of the AK-74. There was also a light machine gun variant with a longer barrel and different shaped stock called the RPK.
The Russian military liked the AK's design so much that it was even used to design other types of weapons as well, including the SKS, Dragunov sniper rifle and the Saiga-12 semi-automatic shotgun.
The AK-47 uses gas-operated reloading. When the bullet is moved down the barrel, a little bit of the gas behind the bullet is made to go up a small tube that pushes away the bolt. The shooter does not have to reload by hand for every shot - the gun reloads by itself. When you pull the trigger, the bullet in the chamber fires. You then release and then pull the trigger again to fire another round. When used this way, it is called a semi-automatic firearm. A few AK-47's are made to be used only this way but most are fully automatic firearms.
Spread in third world countries
In the pro-communist states, the AK-47 became a symbol of the Third World revolution.
They were used in the Cambodian Civil War and the Cambodian-Vietnamese War. During the 1980s, the Soviet Union became the principal arms dealer to countries embargoed by Western nations. This included Middle Eastern nations such as Iran, Libya, and Syria, which welcomed Soviet Union backing against Israel. After the end of the Soviet Union (1989/90), AK-47s were sold openly and on the black market to any group with cash, including drug cartels and dictatorial states. More recently they have been seen in the hands of Islamic groups such as Al-Qaeda, ISIL, and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Iraq, and FARC, Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional guerrillas in Colombia.
The proliferation of this weapon is shown by more than just numbers. The AK-47 is included in the flag of Mozambique, an acknowledgment that the country gained its independence in large part through the effective use of their AK-47s. It is also found in the coats of arms of East Timor and the revolution era Burkina Faso, as well as in the flags of Hezbollah, FARC-EP, the New People's Army in the Phillipines, TKP/TIKKO and other "Revolutionary Peoples" groups.
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References
Other websites
AK-47 Museum virtual tour
AK-47 - Encyc
Assault rifles
Rifles of the Cold War
Military of Russia
7.62 mm rifles
CowParade

CowParade is one of the largest public art events of the world. First it began in Chicago and New York. This was in 1999 and 2000. The Cow Parade runs many cities of the United States up to the year 2001. In 2002 it moved to Europe, in London. This Parade has covered a lot of countries through all the five continents. In 2008 they moved to the fourth Latin-American country, Costa Rica. The Cow Parade has been in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, also.
This public art event is about painting cows with some cultural messages. It doesn't need to be a professional sculpture. You can find urban and crazy sculptures too. This exhibition is taking place on the principal parks and boulevards of San Jose, Costa Rica.
The principal purpose of this event is to auction each cow and then the proceeds go to charity.
In San Jose there are a total of one hundred twenty cows, each one with their topic. There is an amazing level of creativity from the national sculptors who painted and sculpted the cows. They are a lot of beautiful cows made of several material including the rice and beans of the traditional breakfast. Some of the cows have the message of doesn't forget the traditional customs. Also, some cows have a message to make a country with more love, generosity and with more solidarity.
Some cows also encourage people to take care of Costa Rican nature and all the biodiversity that this small country has. The principal message is just to create a better planet for the future.
Other websites
The official (US) Cowparade website
CowParade Rio de Janeiro 2007 - pictures
Cow Parade Europe
Sculpture
Festivals
Alexander Ross (writer)

Alexander Ross (c. 1590-1654) was a Scottish writer. He wrote many books. One of his most important works was complete translation of the Qur'an into English.
He was vicar of St. Mary's Church, Carisbrooke in the Isle of Wight from 1634 to his death.
Other websites
The Alcoran of Mahomet (first edition 1946, London, printed, Anno Dom.), first edition online
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1590s births
1654 deaths
People from Aberdeen
Scottish writers
Quran
Hiroshi Noguchi

Hiroshi Noguchi (born 25 February 1972) is a former Japanese football player.
Club career statistics
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|1994||rowspan="9"|Kyoto Purple Sanga||rowspan="2"|Football League||25||9||0||0||colspan="2"|-||25||9
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|1995||27||5||0||0||colspan="2"|-||27||5
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|1996||rowspan="5"|J. League 1||29||2||3||0||8||0||40||2
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|1997||29||4||1||0||3||0||33||4
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|1998||25||1||2||0||3||0||30||1
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|1999||22||1||2||1||4||0||28||2
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|2000||30||1||1||0||6||0||37||1
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|2001||J. League 2||40||4||4||1||1||0||45||4
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|2002||J. League 1||1||0||0||0||1||0||2||0
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|2003||Omiya Ardija||J. League 2||24||1||0||0||colspan="2"|-||24||1
252||28||13||2||26||0||291||30
252||28||13||2||26||0||291||30
|}
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1972 births
Living people
Footballers from Ibaraki Prefecture
Siméon Denis Poisson

Simeon Denis Poisson ( 21 June 1781 in Pithiviers - 25 April 1840 in Sceaux, near Paris) was a French mathematician and physicist. From 1798 he studied mathematics at the Ecole Polytechnique, where he met Pierre-Simon Laplace and Joseph-Louis Lagrange. In 1802 he became professor, in 1806 he took the position Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier had before him. Napoleon sent Fourier to Grenoble. Poisson was a disciple of Laplace. Poisson worked on the mathematical bases of wave theory, acoustics, elasticity, electricity and heat. He was also interested in the electric properties of solids. In 1812, he published his extension of Laplace's equation, which allowed its use for electric charge at the surface of solids. In the year 1818, he predicted the existence of a phenomenon called the Poisson spot, in the case that light should have the character of a wave. Poisson thought that was not the case and that it had the character of particles. He had long discussions with Augustin-Jean Fresnel, who thought that light was indeed a wave. This discussion only ended when Fresnel could show the existence of the spot Poisson had predicted in an experiment. In 1838, Poisson published his ideas on probability theory, which also included what is now known as Poisson distribution. This distribution was already known to Abraham de Moivre.
The relation between pressure and volume in the adiabatic process is constant, this is known as Poisson's Law today. In thermodynamics, the same relation is formulated as a number of equations, which are known as Poisson's equations. Poisson's ratio which gives the amount an object is stretched under load, is also named after him.
His name is one of 72 honored on the Eiffel tower.
French mathematicians
1781 births
1840 deaths
Alumni of the Ecole Polytechnique
Roberto Boninsegna

Roberto Boninsegna (born 13 November, 1943) is a former Italian football player. He has played for Italy national team.
Club career statistics
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|1963-64||Prato||Serie B||22||1
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|1964-65||Potenza||Serie B||0||0
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|1965-66||Varese||Serie A||28||5
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|1966-67||rowspan="3"|Cagliari||rowspan="3"|Serie A||34||9
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|1967-68||19||5
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|1968-69||30||9
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|1969-70||rowspan="7"|Internazionale Milano||rowspan="7"|Serie A||30||13
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|1970-71||28||24
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|1971-72||28||22
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|1972-73||27||12
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|1973-74||29||23
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|1974-75||29||9
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|1975-76||26||10
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|1976-77||rowspan="3"|Juventus||rowspan="3"|Serie A||29||10
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|1977-78||21||10
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|1978-79||8||2
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|1979-80||Hellas Verona||Serie B||14||3
402||167
402||167
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International career statistics
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|1967||1||0
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|1968||0||0
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|1969||0||0
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|1970||7||3
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|1971||6||4
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|1972||3||1
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|1973||0||0
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|1974||5||1
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!Total||22||9
|}
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1943 births
Living people
Italian footballers
People from Mantua
Ray O'Connor

Raymond James O'Connor (6 March 1926 - 25 February 2013) was the 22nd Premier of Western Australia from 25 January 1982 until 25 February 1983. He was from the Liberal Party. He became Premier when Charles Court resigned. Later he was convicted of fraud and spent time in prison.
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2013 deaths
Australian criminals
Fraudsters
Liberal Party of Australia politicians
Politicians from Perth, Western Australia
Premiers of Western Australia
Halifax, Massachusetts

Halifax is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.
Towns in Massachusetts
Lauderdale, Mississippi

Lauderdale is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, United States.
Census-designated places in Lauderdale County, Mississippi
Aldemaro Romero

Aldemaro Romero (March 12, 1928 - September 15, 2007) was a Venezuelan pianist, composer, arranger and orchestral conductor. He was born in Valencia, Carabobo State.
Biography
Romero was a prolific composer, creating a wide range of music, such as Caribbean, Jazz, Venezuelan waltzes, including works for orchestra, orchestra and soloist, orchestra and choir, chamber music, up to symphonic works of great dimensions. In 1951 Romero signed contract with RCA Victor to record with a full orchestra, what was to be a very successful album in the "Dinner In..." series, featuring popular Latin American music. Under the RCA label he published his LP Dinner in Caracas, with which beat all sales records in South America until then. Afterwards, recorded numerous LP albums in different countries. In America, his ability as arranger/conductor led him to collaborate with popular orchestras and singers, such as Dean Martin, Jerry Lee Lewis, Stan Kenton, Machito and Tito Puente, among others. He also toured extensively, performing in numerous countries: Mexico, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, France, Greece, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, Russia, Egypt and Japan.
Romero was the creator of a new form of Venezuelan music, known as "New Wave" (Onda Nueva), derived from the joropo and influenced by Brazilian Bossa Nova. He also had an important role in the field of learned music.
Aldemaro Romero died in Caracas on September 15, 2007, at the age of 79.
Other websites
Aldemaro Romero Discography
Aldemaro Romero official website
Jazz musicians
Pianists
Venezuelan musicians
1928 births
2007 deaths
20th-century composers
Conductors
People from Caracas
Marcel Amont

Marcel Amont (; born Marcel Jean-Pierre Balthazar Miramon ; 1 April 1929 - 8 March 2023) was a French singer and actor of the 1960s and 1970s. Amont also recorded in Occitan and promoted Bearn culture from the 1950s.
He was a singer of great artistic career, being one of the most popular in France, and the most prolific of the French language with many years of career. He has sold 300 million albums, has recorded 30 albums, 79 singles 126 ep, 11 compilations and about 1,000 songs in different languages (English, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, German, Irish and Spanish).
He is famous for having performed songs by composers such as Georges Brassens, Leo Ferre and Georges Moustaki. Inspired by American pop and jazz in the style of Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Andy Williams. He recorded international hits such as "Blue, bland, blond", "L'amour ca fait passer le temps", "Ballade pour l'espagnol", "Le plus beau tango du monde" and "Cathy, fais-moi danser". His famous song entitled "Le Mexicain" reached number 1 on the charts in France. He has also made movies and is director of soundtracks.
Marcel Amont married Tamara Vladimirovna Deiness in 1952 and divorced in 1959; He had three children, Pascual, Jean and Pierre. Amont died in Saint-Cloud on 8 March 2023, at the age of 93.
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1929 births
2023 deaths
French singers
People from Bordeaux
Al Khor

Al Khor (; also spelled Al Khawr), officially Al Khor and Al Thakhira, is a municipality in Qatar.
References
Geography of Qatar
Kungsör Municipality

Kungsor Municipality () is a municipality in Vastmanland County in central Sweden. The seat is in Kungsor.
References
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Kungsor Municipality
Municipalities of Vastmanland County
Wildsville, Louisiana

Wildsville is an unincorporated community in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Unincorporated communities in Concordia Parish, Louisiana
Maserati MC12

The Maserati MC12 was a sports car that was built by the Maserati company from 2004 to 2005. There were only 50 cars that were produced. The MC12 was closely based on the Enzo Ferrari. The MC12 was succeeded by the Maserati MC12 Corsa in 2006.
Other websites
Maserati MC12's Official website
Maserati automobiles
Sports cars
2000s automobiles
Taylor, Pennsylvania

Taylor is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States, four miles (six km) southwest of Scranton on the Lackawanna River.
The population at the 2010 census was 6,263.
References
Boroughs in Pennsylvania
Suchosaurus

Suchosaurus (meaning "crocodile lizard") is a carnivorous theropod dinosaur from Cretaceous England, it was mistaken for a genus of Crocodile when it was found. The first fossils were of its teeth, two species have been named so far.
History of discovery
In 1820, scientist Gideon Mantell got hold of some fossilized teeth discovered near East Sussex, and in 1822, the British naturalist William Clift identified them as crocodile teeth. Two years later in 1824, Georges Cuvier mentioned them in the first interpretation of a spinosaurid fossil. But at the time, paleontologists didn't know about the crocodile-like teeth of spinosaurids
In 1897 the second species "Suchosaurus girardi" was named, after two pieces of its jaw and one tooth were found in Portugal.
During the nineteenth and most of the twentieth century, scientists thought that Suchosaurus was probably some kind of obscure Crocodilian. But in 1998, paleontologist Angela Milner was publishing a new description of Baryonyx, and she realized that the teeth of that spinosaurid dinosaur were extremely similar to those from Suchosaurus. Later in 2003, she suggested that they could be the same animal. Suchosaurus teeth are also very close to the ones from Cristatusaurus and Suchomimus, all this means it has the general features of a member from the family Baryonychinae.
References
Other websites
First post of a long discussion of Suchosaurus as a dinosaur and its implications , in the Dinosaur Mailing List Archives
Spinosauridae
Cretaceous dinosaurs
Elimination Chamber (2013)

Elimination Chamber (2013) (No Escape (2013) in Germany) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by WWE. It was held on February 17, 2013 at New Orleans Arena in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was the fourth Elimination Chamber event held by the WWE.
The main even saw The Rock defeat CM Punk to retain his WWE Championship. Jack Swagger defeated Daniel Bryan, Chris Jericho, Kane, Mark Henry and Randy Orton in the Elimination Chamber match for a World Heavyweight Championship match against Alberto Del Rio at WrestleMania 29.
Matches
Entrances and eliminations
References
Other websites
Official Elimination Chamber 2013 website
2013 in American television
2013 in professional wrestling
Elimination Chamber
Sports in New Orleans
2010s in New Orleans
Alexis Carrel

Alexis Carrel (28 June 1873 5 November 1944) was a French surgeon. He won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on joining blood vessels and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs.
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1873 births
1944 deaths
French Nobel Prize winners
French physicians
People from Lyon
Surgeons
Coat of Arms of Singapore

The Coat of arms of Singapore is the symbol representing Singapore.
Singapore
Mandingo (movie)

Mandingo is a 1975 movie based on the book Mandingo by Kyle Onstott and upon the play based thereon by Jack Kirkland. The movie was directed by Richard Fleischer. The movie tells the story of a plantation family and their slaves. The movie was a box office hit, but critical reviews were mixed.
Main cast
Warren Maxwell, a plantation owner - James Mason
Hammond Maxwell, his son - Perry King
Blanche, Hammond's wife - Susan George
Mede, Hammond's slave - Ken Norton
Ellen, Hammond's slave - Brenda Sykes
Story
The movie is set on Falconhurst, a run-down plantation owned by widower Warren Maxwell and his son Hammond. Hammond's Mandingo slave Ganymede, or Mede is trained to fight other slaves. Hammond neglects his wife Blanche whom he rejects on their wedding night after discovering she was not a virgin. Hammond instead rapes his slave Ellen while Blanche forces Mede to lay with her. These various, conflicting infidelities all eventually come together causing the movie to end tragically with the deaths of most of the main characters.
Response
Upon its release in 1975, critical response was mixed although box office was strong. Roger Ebert despised the film and gave it a "zero star" rating. Richard Schickel of TIME found the film boring and cliche-ridden. Movie critic Robin Wood was enthusiastic about the movie, calling it "the greatest film about race ever made in Hollywood". In Leonard Maltin's annual publication Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide the movie is ranked as a "BOMB" and dismissed with the word "Stinko!"
Some prominent critics hail the film, including the New York Times columnist Dave Kehr, who called it "a thinly veiled Holocaust film that spares none of its protagonists," further describing it as "Fleischer's last great crime film, in which the role of the faceless killer is played by an entire social system." Director Quentin Tarantino has cited Mandingo as one of only two instances "in the last twenty years [that] a major studio made a full-on, gigantic, big-budget exploitation movie", comparing it to Showgirls.
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Other websites
Trailer at Trailers From Hell
American drama movies
1975 drama movies
1970s historical movies
English-language movies
Movies about slavery
Movies about racism
Movies based on books
Movies based on plays
Exploitation movies
Movies set in the 1840s
Movies set in New Orleans
Paramount Pictures movies
Movies directed by Richard Fleischer
Movies composed by Maurice Jarre
Saif Ali Khan

Saif Ali Khan is a well-known actor in India. He was born on 16 August 1970. He was born to Sharmila Tagore, great-grandniece of Rabindranath Tagore.
References
1970 births
Living people
Indian actors
Jimmy Connors

James Scott "Jimmy" Connors (born September 2, 1952, in East St. Louis, Illinois, also known as "Jimbo") is an American retired tennis player. He was the World No. 1 tennis player. He won the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. He was coached by Pancho Segura.
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1952 births
American tennis players
Australian Open champions
Living people
People from East St. Louis, Illinois
Sportspeople from Illinois
US Open (tennis) champions
Wimbledon champions
World No. 1 tennis players
Flag of Azad Kashmir

The State flag of Azad Jammu and Kashmir traditionally displays the Pakistani national colours, white and dark Green, with a Crescent and star to represent the Muslim-majority all of which shows its Islamic heritage and strong ties with the Federation of Pakistan. It also has a saffron square to represent the Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh and other minorities of the disputed region, the colours are clearly influenced by the Mughal Empire. The four white stripes symbolizes the main rivers of the Kashmir region; Indus (National River of Pakistan), Jhelum, Chenab and Ravi. It also represents the five geographic divisions of the Disputed territory, namely, Baltistan, Gilgit, Jammu, the Kashmir Valley and Ladakh.
Related pages
Flag of Pakistan (Federal)
AJK emblem
List of Pakistani flags
References
Azad Kashmir
Azad Kashmir
Azad Kashmir
Les Adrets-de-l'Estérel

Les Adrets-de-l'Esterel is a commune of 2,766 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
Communes in Var
Andrea Rothfuss

Andrea Rothfuss (born 20 October 1989 in Freudenstadt) is a skier from Germany. She has a disability: she was born without a left hand. She skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships. She was the first skier to finish in the standing women's downhill race and the slalom race. She was the second skier to finish in the Super Combined. She was the third skier to finish in the Super G race and the Giant Slalom Race.
References
Other websites
Official website
Living people
1989 births
German skiers
Sportspeople from Baden-Wurttemberg
Steinwiesen

Steinwiesen is a market town and municipality in Kronach in Bavaria, Germany about 100 km slightly east of due north of Nuremberg, and about 10 km northeast of Kronach.
Notable people
Josef Muller, German Resistance member and founder of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria
References
Kronach (district)
Brendlorenzen

Brendlorenzen is a suburb of the town of Bad Neustadt an der Saale in Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany. The village is extending along a single main street for more than two kilometers. Its length is due to the growing together of originally two separate villages called Brend and Lorenzen.
References
This Simple English article is a translation of the unsourced German article.
Rhon-Grabfeld
Villages in Bavaria
A Dead Man Among the Living

A Dead Man Among the Living (Czech: Mrtvy mezi zivymi) is a 1947 Czech thriller movie directed by Borivoj Zeman and was based on the 1931 novel To levende og en dod by Sigurd Christiansen. It stars Karel Hoger, Eduard Dubsky, Vjaceslav Irmanov, Zdenka Prochazkova, Zdenka Baldova, Milivoj Uzelac, Rudolf Deyl.
Other websites
1947 movies
1940s thriller movies
Czech movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by Borivoj Zeman
School Days (Chuck Berry song)

"School Days" (also known as "School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell)") is a rock and roll song by Chuck Berry. It was taken from his debut studio album After School Session. It went to number 5 in the United States, number 1 on the R&B chart and number 24 in the United Kingdom. The song lyrics were featured in the 1987 movie Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll.
References
1957 songs
Chuck Berry songs
Jan & Dean songs
AC/DC songs
The Beach Boys songs
Eddie Cochran songs
Vin Diesel

Vin Diesel (born Mark Sinclair Vincent; July 18, 1967) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He is known for his roles in the movies The Fast and the Furious series, The Chronicles of Riddick trilogy, the voice of Groot in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and in XXX.
Diesel was born in Alameda County, California. He studied at Hunter College. He is partners with Paloma Jimenez. His father is African-American and his mother is of English, German, Irish and Scottish descent.
References
Other websites
1967 births
Living people
Actors from Alameda County, California
Actors from New York City
African American actors
American movie actors
American Roman Catholics
American television actors
American video game actors
American voice actors
Movie directors from New York City
Movie producers from New York City
Screenwriters from New York City
Raymond Domenech

Raymond Domenech (born 24 January 1952) is a French football player and manager. He played for France national team.
Club career statistics
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|1970/71||rowspan="8"|Olympique Lyonnais||rowspan="8"|Division 1||37||2
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|1971/72||32||1
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|1972/73||38||0
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|1973/74||27||0
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|1974/75||35||3
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|1975/76||36||0
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|1976/77||34||1
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|1977/78||7||0
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|1977/78||rowspan="4"|Strasbourg||rowspan="4"|Division 1||30||1
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|1978/79||37||2
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|1979/80||38||1
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|1980/81||23||0
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|1981/82||Paris Saint-Germain||Division 1||19||1
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|1982/83||rowspan="2"|Girondins Bordeaux||rowspan="2"|Division 1||18||2
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|1983/84||22||1
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|1984/85||rowspan="2"|Mulhouse||rowspan="2"|Division 2||12||0
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|1985/86||1||0
446||15
446||15
|}
International career statistics
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|1973||1||0
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|1974||0||0
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|1975||2||0
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|1976||3||0
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|1977||0||0
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|1978||0||0
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|1979||2||0
|-
!Total||8||0
|}
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1952 births
French footballers
French football managers
Living people
Sportspeople from Lyon
Dinant-Philippeville (Walloon Parliament constituency)

Dinant-Philippeville is a constituency of Wallonia.
Members
Election results
References
Constituencies of the Parliament of Wallonia
Music! Music! Music!

"Music! Music! Music!" is a popular song. The best known version was by Teresa Brewer, recorded in 1949. The song became became #1 and a million seller in 1950. Some radio stations would not play the song because of the lyric "I'd do anything for you/Anything you want me to". That lyric was often thought to be indecent.
One version of the song was done by Petula Clark, also around 1950.
Brewer made several versions of the song. The one for the Coral label had a stronger beat and orchestra arrangement.
Pop songs
1950 songs
Teresa Brewer songs
Bill Haley songs
Peggy Lee songs
Bing Crosby songs
Ray Charles songs
Gerard Mortier

Gerard Alfons August, Baron Mortier (25 November 1943 - 8 March 2014) was a Belgian opera director and administrator. He was the general director of La Monnaie/De Munt (1981-91) and of the Salzburg Festival of Salzburg, Austria (1990-2001). He was born in Ghent and was Flemish.
Mortier died from pancreatic cancer on 8 March 2014 in Brussels. He was 70 years old.
References
Other websites
1943 births
2014 deaths
Cancer deaths in Belgium
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
People from Ghent
Marshall County, South Dakota

Marshall County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, 4,306 people lived there. Its county seat is Britton.
References
1883 establishments in Dakota Territory
South Dakota counties
Arzo

Arzo was a municipality of the district Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 5 April 2009, the former municipalities of Arzo, Capolago, Genestrerio, Mendrisio, Rancate and Tremona merged into the municipality of Mendrisio.
References
Other websites
Former municipalities of Ticino
Electoral district of Williamstown

Willamstown is an electoral district of Victoria. It was created in 1856. It is in the Western Metropolitan Region.
Williamstown is in Melbourne. It is one of only three Victorian state electorates to have been contested at every election, the other two being Brighton and Richmond.
Election results
References
Williamstown
Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (Sometimes called Anastasia: The Story of Anna) is a 1986 Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning TV movie, starring Amy Irving, Olivia de Havilland, Omar Sharif and Christian Bale. The movie was loosely based on the story of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and the novel The Riddle of Anna Anderson by Peter Kurth. It was Christian Bale's first movie and was originally broadcast in two parts.
Plot
The movie is about Anna Anderson, who believes that she is Anastasia, daughter of Nicholas II of Russia. Anna first tells her story in the 1920s when she is at a Berlin psychiatric hospital. Her story of escape from the Bolsheviks who killed the rest of her family in 1918 seems so vivid that many Russians believe her. She slowly gains more trust, but the Romanov family does not believe her. The movie never reveals if Anna really is Anastasia.
Awards
References
Other websites
Television movies
1980s historical movies
1986 movies
Movies about amnesia
Movies about royalty
Movies based on books
Movies set in Russia
Movies set in Germany
Movies set in Berlin
Movies set in palaces
Movies set in the 1910s
Movies set in the 1920s
1980s English-language movies
Emmy Award winners
Golden Globe Award winning movies
Ataollah Khosravani

Ataollah Khosravani (1919-date of death unknown) was an Iranian politician. He served as the secretary-general of Iran Novin Party and held several cabinet posts in the 1960s.
References
Other websites
1919 births
Year of death missing
Politicians from Tehran
PATH system

Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) is a 13.8-mile rapid transit system in USA.
Rapid transit systems in the United States
Trains
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood is a 1988 American supernatural slasher movie directed by John Carl Buechler. It stars Lar Park Lincoln, Kevin Blair, and Susan Blu. It is the seventh installment in the Friday the 13th movie series.
The movie has Jason Voorhees being awoken after a psychokinetic teenage girl unleashes Jason from his grave in Crystal Lake, where she and her friends are staying.
Other websites
Film page at the Camp Crystal Lake web site
Film page at Fridaythe13thfilms.com
1988 movies
Friday the 13th movies
Henry III of England

Henry III (1 October 1207 -- 16 November 1272) also known as Henry of Winchester and nicknamed the Pious, the Wise and later the Saint was the King of England from 1216 until his death in 1272. He was considered one of England's best kings. His long and mostly successful 56-year reign was the longest in medival English history.
Throughout his reign, England would experience peace, stability, and prosperity. Henry was extremely helpful, pious, and religious. He helped the poor people in England. He upgraded Westminster Abbey and re-isssued the Magna Carta. However in 1258, Henry became unpopular as the barons forced him to give up some of his power to them. In 1263, a baron whi was Henry's brother-in-law as he married one of Henry's sisters, Simeon de Montfort, defeated, imprisoned him and became the disputed ruler of the country. However, with the help of his son, Crown Prince Edward, Henry managed to escape captivity and killed de Montfort. Henry regained his powers from the barons. This made Henry popular again. However, in 1264, the barons rebelled against him starting the Second Barons' War. However, Heney defeated the barons in 1267.
Henry continued to be helpful, pious, and religious by continuing to help the poor people. He continues continued to rebuild Westminster Abbey and continue to improve life and health care in England. The people of England would once again experience peace, stability, and prosperity. In early 1272, Henry's health started to decline and on November of the same year, he died at the age of 65 and was buried at Westminster Abbey. Because Henry was a religious person, he was canonized two months after his death on 26 February 1273 by Pope Gregory X. Many historians view Henry as a weak but great king.
1207 births
1272 deaths
House of Plantagenet
Kings and Queens of England
Dukes and Duchesses of Aquitaine
13th century in England
Julianna Margulies

Julianna Margulies (born June 8, 1966) is an Emmy and Golden Globe award winning actress. She has received more Screen Actors Guild Awards than any other actress or actor. She played Carol in the long-running series ER and Alicia in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife. She also performed in sitcoms and theatrical movies. She was raised in New York.
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1966 births
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Ape, Latvia

Ape is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1928.
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David Dacko

David Dacko (; 24 March 1930 - 20 November 2003) was a Central African politician who served as the 1st President of the Central African Republic from 14 August 1960 to 1 January 1966, and 3rd President from 21 September 1979 to 1 September 1981.
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2003 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Presidents of the Central Africa Republic
Prime Ministers of the Central African Republic
Breilly

Breilly is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
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Communes in Somme
Red herring

A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from an issue.
There are two ways in which it is used. One, it may be used as logical fallacy during an argument so that someone arguing does not have to answer a difficult question. For example, if a journalist asks a politician if the politician used any taxpayer money for his or her personal use, the politician may instead talk about the importance of increasing the pay of government officials without ever answering the question.
Two, it can be used as a literary device that tricks readers or audiences into thinking that something is true when it really is not. It is common in stories like detective mystery books. For example, a character may own or hold a weapon similar to the weapon used to kill a character, but then it turns out that character was not the killer. The weapon was only a red herring.
It has long been thought that the phrase came from kippers (a strong-smelling smoked fish) to train dogs to follow a scent, or to distract them from the correct route when hunting. However, most researchers today believe that the term was probably invented in 1807 by English polemicist William Cobbett. He may have have been talking about a time which he had used a kipper to distract dogs from chasing a hare, and that hunters never actually used kippers to train dogs. The phrase was later borrowed to give a formal name for the logical fallacy and literary device.
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Ad hominem
Divide and conquer
Hate speech
Identity politics
Pork barrel
Psychological warfare
Smear campaign
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Birmingham pub bombings

The Birmingham pub bombings were carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on 21 November 1974. Two bombs exploded in pubs in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, killing 21 people.
The first bomb exploded in the Mulberry Bush, killing ten people.
The second bomb exploded in the Tavern in the Town, killing eleven people.
A third bomb was planted in the doorway of a branch of Barclays bank. It was found by a policeman and did not explode.
The Birmingham bombings were 20th century England's most deadly terrorist attack.
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1970s crimes in Europe
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Attacks on buildings and structures in the 1970s
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Mass murder in the 1970s
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Unionville, Missouri

Unionville is a city in Putnam County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,865 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Putnam County.
Geography and climate
Unionville is located at (40.476421, -93.006005).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.
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Cities in Missouri
County seats in Missouri
Hayward, Minnesota

Hayward is a city in Freeborn County, Minnesota, United States.
Cities in Minnesota
Shawnee County, Kansas

Shawnee County (county code SN) is a county in northeast Kansas, in the central United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 177,934 making it the third-most populous county in Kansas.
Its most populous city, Topeka, is the state capital and county seat. The county was one of the original 33 counties created by the first territorial legislature in 1855.
It was named for the Shawnee tribe of Native Americans.
History
On August 25, 1855, Shawnee County was created.
References
Further reading
Atlas and Plat Book of Shawnee County, Kansas; Kenyon Co; 107 pages; 1921.
Plat Book, Directory, Survey of Shawnee County, Kansas; Kansas Farmer; 45 pages; 1913.
Standard Atlas of Shawnee County, Kansas; Geo. A. Ogle & Co; 82 pages; 1898.
Atlas of Shawnee County, Kansas; F.W. Beers; 41 pages; 1873.
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County
Shawnee County - Directory of Public Officials
Maps
Shawnee County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
Kansas Highway Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
Kansas Railroad Maps: Current, 1996, 1915, KDOT and Kansas Historical Society
1855 establishments in Kansas Territory
Kansas counties
Communes of the Doubs department

The following is a list of the 594 communes of the Doubs departement in France.
(CAB) Communaute d'agglomeration du Grand Besancon, created in 2001.
(CAM) Communaute d'agglomeration du Pays de Montbeliard, created in 2000.
Doubs
Masao Sugiuchi

was a 9-dan professional Go player. He reached to 800 career wins, and he was the oldest professional player in Japan from 2004 to 2017.
Family
His wife is Kazuko Sugiuchi, a professional player who won several female titles. His sisters in law (Sachiko Honda and Teruko Kusunoki) are also professional players.
References
Notable results
Other websites
Masao Sugiuchi's page at Nihon Ki-in website
1920 births
2017 deaths
Japanese Go players
Gerpinnes

Gerpinnes is a municipality in the Belgian province of Hainaut.
In 2007, 12064 people lived there.
It is at 50deg 20 North, 04deg 31 East.
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Municipalities of Hainaut
What About Love

"What About Love" is a 1985 single by American hard rock group by Heart and was taken from their 1985 self-titled album. It was a major comeback for the group and went to the top 10 in Canada and the United States.
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1985 songs
1980s ballads
Rock ballads
Heart (band) songs
Kelly Clarkson songs
Syringa vulgaris

Common Lilac (Syringa vulgaris) is a species of plant in the family Oleaceae.
It is native to the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe where it grows on rocky hills.
It has been introduced to North America.
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Other websites
Syringa vulgaris at USDA PLANTS Database
Oleaceae
hi:niilk
Thomas Barlow (Kentucky)

Thomas Jefferson "Tom" Barlow III (August 7, 1940 - January 31, 2017) was an American politician. Born in Washington, D.C., he was a Democrat. He represented Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 1995.
Barlow died on January 31, 2017 in Paducah, Kentucky, at the age of 76.
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1940 births
2017 deaths
Politicians from Washington, D.C.
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Nana Shineflug

Elizabeth "Nana" Shineflug (1935 - 15 January 2015) was an American dancer and choreographer. She started and led the Chicago Moving Company, a modern-dance troupe. Her style was not traditional: "Shineflug nurtured our God-given right to weirdness...," according to critic Laura Molzahn.
Shineflug's maiden name was Elizabeth Strohmeier. She grew up in Evanston, Illinois.
Career
Shineflug graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in mathematics. Later, she was awarded an M.A. (1986) and Graduate Certificate in Laban Movement Analysis from Columbia College, Chicago.
In 1972, she started the Chicago Moving Company. She taught at Columbia College Chicago in the Interdisciplinary Arts Graduate Program and the Theater Department. Shineflug also taught modern dance, Qi Gong, and Psychocalesthenics through the Chicago Moving Company. She also performed and taught in other countries.
Nana Shineflug died of cancer in her Glenview, Illinois home on 15 January 2015. She was seventy-nine years old.
Awards
Four Choreographic Fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts
The Katherine Dunham Award for Excellence and Dedication to the Arts
Chicago Dance Coalition/Ruth Page Lifetime Service to the Field Award
Three Illinois Arts Council Choreographic Fellowships
Chicago Dance Award for Outstanding Contribution
Ruth Page Award, Honorable Mention for the Dance Legacy Project
Boulevard Arts Center's Presidents Award
Two Illinois Alliance for Arts Education Service Recognition Awards
Prestigious National Endowment for Arts Arts-Plus Partnership
Columbia College Chicago Lifetime Achievement Award
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1935 births
2015 deaths
American choreographers
American dancers
Cancer deaths in Illinois
People from Evanston, Illinois
T in the Park

T in the Park is an annual music festival in Kinross, Scotland, run by Tennents.
Music festivals in Scotland
V509 Cassiopeiae

V509 Cassiopeiae is a yellow hypergiant in the Cassiopeia constellation. It is 900 times bigger than the Sun.
Hypergiants
Michael Grabner

Michael Rene Grabner (born October 5, 1987 in Villach, Austria) is an Austrian professional ice hockey player who is with the New York Islanders, a team in the National Hockey League (NHL). Grabner plays right wing for the Islanders, a team he first joined in 2010 after being with the Vancouver Canucks, who selected him in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. Before that, Grabner played for EC VSV, a team from Austria who play in the Austrian Hockey League, and the Manitoba Moose, who play in the American Hockey League. As well as those teams, Grabner played for the Spokane Chiefs, a junior team with the Western Hockey League. He is a fast skater who has a quick shot. His first game with the Canucks was on October 14, 2009, and scored his first goal with them on October 21. He was traded to the Florida Panthers, along with Steve Bernier and a first round draft pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, on June 25, 2010 for Keith Ballard and Victor Oreskovich. When the Panthers tried to send Grabner to their AHL team, the Islanders claimed his rights.
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American Hockey League players
Arizona Coyotes players
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New Jersey Devils players
New York Islanders players
New York Rangers players
People from Villach
Spokane Chiefs players
Toronto Maple Leafs players
Vancouver Canucks players
SNCF

The Societe nationale des chemins de fer francais (French pronunciation: [sosjete nasjonal de S(@)me d(@) feR fRase]; abbreviated as SNCF [es_en se ef]; French for "French National Railway Company") is France's national state-owned railway company. Founded in 1938, it operates the country's national rail traffic along with Monaco, including the TGV, on France's high-speed rail network. Its functions include operation of railway services for passengers and freight (through its subsidiaries SNCF Voyageurs and Rail Logistics Europe), as well as maintenance and signalling of rail infrastructure (SNCF Reseau). The railway network consists of about 35,000 km (22,000 mi) of route, of which 2,600 km (1,600 mi) are high-speed lines and 14,500 km (9,000 mi) electrified. About 14,000 trains are operated daily.
In 2010 the SNCF was ranked 22nd in France and 214th globally on the Fortune Global 500 list. It is the main business of the SNCF Group, which in 2020 had EUR30 billion of sales in 120 countries. The SNCF Group employs more than 275,000 employees in France and around the world. Since July 2013, the SNCF Group headquarters are located in a Parisian suburb at 2 Place aux Etoiles in Saint-Denis. The president of SNCF Group has been Jean-Pierre Farandou since 2019.
Companies of France
1938 establishments in Europe
Thomas Struth

Thomas Struth (born 11 October 1954) is a German photographer.
A leading member of the Dusseldorf School of Photography, he is famous for his black and white photographs of city streets, his series of Museum Photographs, and family portraits. He now lives and works in Berlin and New York.
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1954 births
German photographers
Living people
Federal Emergency Management Agency

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security. The purpose of FEMA (begun by Presidential Order on March 30, 1979)
is to coordinate the response to a disaster which has occurred in the United States and which overwhelms the resources of local and state authorities. The governor of the state in which the disaster occurred must declare a state of emergency and formally request from the President that FEMA and the federal government respond to the disaster. The only exception is when an emergency or disaster occurs on federal property or to a federal asset, for example, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in the 1995 bombing, or the Space Shuttle Columbia in the 2003 return-flight disaster.
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Other websites
DHS organization
FEMA Field Operations Guide Including descriptions of markings on evacuated and searched buildings
FEMA website
A History of FEMA
Natural disasters in the United States
United States government agencies
Vengeance (2003)

Vengeance (2003) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), which took place on July 27, 2003 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado.
Results
References
Other websites
Official 2003 Vengeance site
2003 in professional wrestling
Sports in Denver
WWE Vengeance
21st century in Colorado
2003 in the United States
July 2003 events
Hideaki Kitajima

is a former Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.
Biography
Kitajima was born in Narashino on May 23, 1978. After graduating from Funabashi Municipal High School, he joined J1 League club Kashiwa Reysol in 1997. In 1999, he played many matches and the club won J.League Cup. The club also won the 3rd place in 1999 and 2000 J1 League. However his opportunity to play decreased, he moved to Shimizu S-Pulse in 2003. He returned to Kashiwa in 2006. In 2011, the club won the champions 2011 J1 League. He moved to J2 League club Roasso Kumamoto in June 2012. He retired end of 2013 season.
In October 2000, Kitajima was selected the Japan national team for 2000 Asian Cup. At this competition, on October 17, he debuted and scored a goal against Uzbekistan. He played 2 games and Japan won the champions. He played 3 games and scored 1 goal for Japan in 2000.
Statistics
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|1997||rowspan="6"|Kashiwa Reysol||rowspan="6"|J1 League||6||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||6||0
|-
|1998||9||2||0||0||3||0||colspan="2"|-||12||2
|-
|1999||17||7||4||2||6||2||colspan="2"|-||27||11
|-
|2000||30||18||2||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||34||18
|-
|2001||28||7||1||0||4||1||colspan="2"|-||33||8
|-
|2002||18||2||1||1||6||0||colspan="2"|-||25||3
|-
|2003||rowspan="3"|Shimizu S-Pulse||rowspan="3"|J1 League||18||2||2||0||2||0||2||1||24||3
|-
|2004||27||5||0||0||7||0||colspan="2"|-||34||5
|-
|2005||3||0||2||0||1||1||colspan="2"|-||6||1
|-
|2006||rowspan="7"|Kashiwa Reysol||J2 League||24||7||0||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||24||7
|-
|2007||rowspan="3"|J1 League||12||1||1||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||13||1
|-
|2008||12||1||1||0||3||0||colspan="2"|-||16||1
|-
|2009||22||4||2||0||5||2||colspan="2"|-||29||6
|-
|2010||J2 League||17||4||2||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||19||4
|-
|2011||rowspan="2"|J1 League||23||9||3||1||2||1||colspan="2"|-||28||11
|-
|2012||5||1||0||0||0||0||2||0||7||1
|-
|2012||rowspan="2"|Roasso Kumamoto||rowspan="2"|J2 League||8||3||2||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||10||3
|-
|2013||24||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||24||0
303||73||23||4||41||7||4||1||371||85
303||73||23||4||41||7||4||1||371||85
|}
|-
|2000||3||1
|-
!Total||3||1
|}
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1978 births
Living people
Footballers from Chiba Prefecture
Japan international footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
Kashiwa Reysol players
Shimizu S-Pulse players
Roasso Kumamoto players
2000 AFC Asian Cup players
AFC Asian Cup-winning players
Jeremy Hardy

Jeremy James Hardy (17 July 1961 - 1 February 2019) was a English comedian and actor. He performed on both television and radio. Hardy was best known for his appearances on radio panel shows such as the News Quiz and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
Hardy was a socialist. He supported the Labour Party. He performed at Labour Party rallies. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called him a "dear, lifelong friend".
Hardy died of cancer on 1 February 2019, at the age of 57.
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Other websites
Jeremy Hardy at the British Film Institute
1961 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from cancer
English movie actors
English television actors
English comedians
English activists
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English television personalities
Actors from Hampshire
Smyrna, Tennessee

Smyrna is a town of Rutherford County in the state of Tennessee in the United States. About 26,600 people were living in Smyrna as of 2000.
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Other websites
Official Smyrna site
Towns in Tennessee