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He is a high-ranking member of the Genovese crime family, who briefly served as acting boss for the imprisoned Boss Vincent "Chin" Gigante.
Cirillo represented the Genoveses in their dealings with the other Mafia families of New York City after Gigante was jailed, though Gigante remained in overall charge of the family.
In this way, Cirillo served as "acting boss", and was seen by US authorities as the most powerful member of the Genovese family.
However, in 1998 Cirillo stepped down as acting boss because of a heart attack.
Roger Pinto Molina (23 April 1960 – 16 August 2017) was a Bolivian right-wing politician.
Pinto was born in Santa Rosa, Beni.
He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1997, from the single-member constituency 67 in Pando (covering areas in the provinces Nicolás Suárez, Manuripi and General Federico Román) as a Nationalist Democratic Action (ADN) candidate.
In 2005, Pinto was elected to the Senate as a Podemos candidate from Pando.
He served as the head of the Podemos faction in the Senate.
He was reelected to the Senate in 2009, as a candidate of Plan Progress for Bolivia – National Convergence.
Pinto was accused of involvement in the September 11, 2008 massacre in Porvenir.
Until his death, he sought refuge in the Brazilian Embassy in La Paz.
He was granted asylum in Brazil but was not given safe conduct by Evo Morales Government to leave Bolivia.
Nedzi was born in Hamtramck, Michigan.
He studied at the University of Detroit and at the University of Michigan.
U.S. Representative
Nedzi was elected as a Democrat from Michigan's 1st congressional district to the 87th United States Congress in a special election in 1961 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative Thaddeus M. Machrowicz.
He was re-elected in the 1962 election and two years later he was elected from the 14th district and every two years after that until he declined to seek re-election in the 1980 election.
In all, he served from November 7, 1961 to January 3, 1981.
Nedzi chaired the House Select Committee on Intelligence, known as the Nedzi Committee, from February 1975 until he controversially resigned in June; the successor was the Pike Committee.
In addition, Nedzi chaired the Joint Committee on the Library from 1973 to 1979 and the Committee on House Administration from 1979 to 1981.
Weston "Wes" Edward Vivian (October 25, 1924 – December 4, 2020) was a Canadian-born American politician and retired engineer.
He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Michigan's 2nd congressional district from January 3, 1965 through January 3, 1967.
Vivian was born in Newfoundland, Canada.
He studied at Union College, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Vivian died on December 4, 2020 in Ann Arbor at the age of 96.
Philip Edward Ruppe (born September 29, 1926) is an American politician.
He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1979 before running, unsuccessfully for the United States Senate in 1982.
He is a Korean War veteran, having served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy.
After leaving the U.S. House, Ruppe became active in business before running for election, without success, to the 103rd Congress.
Dale Edward Kildee (September 16, 1929 – October 13, 2021) was an American politician.
He was a U.S. Representative from Michigan, serving from 1977 until 2013.
In July 2011, Kildee announced he would retire after his current term was up in 2012.
In November, 2011, Patrick Kildee, a second cousin of the congressman, accused Kildee of sexually abusing him more than 50 years ago when he was 12 years old.
In response Kildee called the allegation untrue.
Kildee died on October 13, 2021 in Flint, Michigan at the age of 92.
Official U.S. House webpage
Sir Colin Earl Meads (3 June 1936 – 20 August 2017) was a New Zealand rugby union player, coach and manager.
He was born in Cambridge, New Zealand.
He played 55 test matches (133 total games), most frequently in the lock forward position, for New Zealand's national team, the All Blacks, from 1957 until 1971.
Meads was widely considered one of the greatest players in history.
Nicknamed 'Pinetree', he was an icon within New Zealand rugby, and was named the country's Player of the Century at the NZRFU Awards in 1999.
NZ Rugby Museum profile
Player listing from Planet Rugby
Sirkka Selja (20 March 1920 – 17 August 2017) was a Finnish poet and writer.
She was born in Koski Hl, nowadays Hollola, Finland.
Her real name was Sirkka-Liisa Tulonen.
Her first book was published in 1942 titled Still I Live.
In addition to poems, his production includes a play and two listening works.
Selja was awarded with the State Literature Prize of Finland in 1958, the Pro Finlandia in 1970, the Aleksis Kivi Prize in  1987 and the P. Mustapää Prize in 2007.
The Five Star Movement (M5S; Italian: Movimento 5 Stelle) is an Italian political party.
The leader is Luigi Di Maio.
The party was formed by Beppe Grillo and Gianroberto Casaleggio in October 2009.
Beppe Grillo served as leader of the party from 2009 to 2017.
In September 2017, Luigi Di Maio became leader of the party.
After the 2018 elections, the Five Star Movement became the largest party in the Italian Parliament.
Also, the party formed a coalition with the right-wing Lega Nord.
From 2014, the party has was a member of the Eurosceptic Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) group in the European Parliament.
However, in 2017 party members of the Five Star Movement voted to leave the EFDD.
Around 300 were built in the first five years of being built.
Most Aleros were used for rural routes.
Natividad Macho Álvarez (13 December 1928 – 20 August 2017) was a Spanish movie and stage actress better known by the stage name Nati Mistral.
Mistral was known for her movie roles in The Captain's Ship (1947), Gold and Ivory (1947), Currito of the Cross (1949), Service at Sea (1951), Cabaret (1953), Lovers of Toledo (1953), My Street (1960), and in Mis tres amores (1971).
She won the National Theater Prize in 1997.
The Bou Regreg () is a river in western Morocco.
It flows into the Atlantic Ocean between the cities of Rabat and Salé.
The mouth of this river is called Wadi Sala.
The river is 240 kilometres long, with a tidal estuary going approximately 24 kilometres upriver.
Its average discharge is 23 m3/s and can reach 1500 m3/s during floods.
The source of the river is the Middle Atlas mountains at an altitude of 1627 meters on the level of Jbel Mtourzgane (Province of Khemisset) and of Grou (Province of Khénifra).
The Phoenicians and the Carthaginians, who founded several colonies in Morocco, inhabited the banks of the Bou Regreg approximately two kilometers from its mouth at the ancient site of Chellah.
This archaeological site contains the ruins of a Roman town known as Sala Colonia and referred to as Sala by Ptolemy.
Chellah was a significant ancient port city with remains including the Decumanus Maximus, or principal roadway, as well as a forum, a monumental fountain, a triumphal arch, and other Roman ruins.
Vicente Sota Barros (28 April 1924 – 16 August 2017) was a Chilean politician.
He was born in Talca, Chile.
He was a member of the Christian Democratic Party until switching as a member of the Party for Democracy from 1987 until his death in 2017.
Sota served as Deputy President of the Chamber of Deputies from 1965 through 1969 and again from 1990 through 1998.
He served as President of the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 through 1995.
Biography of Vicente Sota at the National Congressional Library of Chile
Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile
This is a list of paintings by Edvard Munch.
Munch was a Norwegian symbolist painter and printmaker.
He is best known for The Scream.
This list is from Gerd Woll's catalogue raisonné from 2008.
Princess Lalla Salma born Salma Bennani; (, Amazigh: ⵍⴰⵍⵍⴰ ⵙⵍⵎⴰ;10 May 1978, Fes) is the princess consort of Morocco.
She is the wife of King Mohammed VI and the first wife of a Moroccan ruler to have been publicly acknowledged and given a royal title.
Moroccan royalty
Princes and  princesses
This is the list of rulers of Morocco, since the establishment of the first Moroccan state in 789.
The common and formal titles of these rulers has varied, depending on the time period.
Since 1957, the title King has been used.
Idrisid dynasty
Idriss I (789–791)
Idriss II (791–828)
Muhammad ibn Idris (828–836)
Ali ibn Idris (836–848)
Yahya ibn Muhammad (848–864)
Yahya ibn Yahya (864–874)
Ali ibn Umar (874–883)
Yahya ibn Al-Qassim (883–904)
Yahya ibn Idris ibn Umar (904–917)
Hassan I al-Hajam (925–927)
Al Qasim Gannum (937–948)
Abu l-Aish Ahmad (948–954)
Al-Hasan ben Kannun (954–974)
In 974, the Sultan Al-Hasan ben Kannun was defeated by Cordobese Umayyads.
A period of Umayyad overlordship followed then.
Abu Bakr ibn Umar (c. 1060–1072)
Yusuf ibn Tashfin (1072–1106)
Ali ibn Yusuf (1106–1142)
Tashfin ibn Ali (1142–1146)
'Abdul-Mu'min (1145–1163)
Abu Yaqub Yusuf I (1163–1184)
Aby Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur (1184–1199)
Muhammad an-Nasir (1199–1213)
Abu Yaqub Yusuf II (1213–1224)
Abdul-Wahid I (1224)
Abdallah al-Adil (1224–1227)
Yahya (1227–1235)
Idris I (1227–1232)
Abdul-Wahid II (1232–1242)
Ali (1242–1248)
Umar (1248–1266) - based in Marrakech, with local power only
Idris II (1266–1269) - in Marrakech, with local power only
Marinid dynasty
Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-Haqq (1244–1258)
Umar (1258–1259)
Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd Al-Haqq (1259–1286)
Abu Yaqub Yusuf an-Nasr (1286–1306)
Abu Thabit Amir (1307–1308)
Abu al-Rabi Sulayman (1308–1310)
Abu Sa'id Uthman II (1310–1331)
Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman (1331–1348)
Abu Inan Faris (1348–1358)
Muhammad II.
as Said (1359)
Abu Salim Ali II. (
1359–1361)
Abu Umar Taschufin (1361)
Abu Zayyan Muhammad III. (
1362–1366)
Abu l-Fariz Abdul Aziz I. (1366–1372)
Abu l-Abbas Ahmad (1372–1384)
Musa ibn Faris (1384–1386)
Al-Wathiq (1386–1387)
Abu l-Abbas Ahmad (1387–1393)
Abu Faris Abdul Aziz II. (
1393–1396)
Abdullah (1396–1399)
Abu Said Uthman III. (
1399–1420)
Abdalhaqq II (1420–1465)
Idrisid interlude
Muhammad ibn Ali Idrisi-Joutey (1465–1471)
Wattasid dynasty
Abu Zakariya Muhammad al-Saih al-Mahdi (1472–1505)
Abu Abdallah Muhammad I (1505–1524)
Abul Abbas Ahmad (1524–1545)
Nasir ad-Din al-Qasri (1545–1547)
Abul Abbas Ahmad (second time, 1547–1549)
Ali Abu Hassun (Jan.–Sep.
1554)
Saadi dynasty
Mohammed ash-Sheikh (1549–1554, 1554–1557)
Abdallah al-Ghalib	(1557–1574)
Abu Abdallah Mohammed II (1574–1576)
Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I (1576–1578)
Ahmad al-Mansur (1578–1603)
Abou Fares Abdallah (r. 1603–1608)
Zidan el Nasir (pretender since 1603, r. 1608–1628)
Mohammed esh Sheikh el Mamun (r. 1603–1613)
Abdallah II (r. 1613–1623)
Abd al-Malik ibn Abdallah (r. 1623–1627)
Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik II (r. 1627–1631)
Al Walid ibn Zidan (r. 1631–1636)
Mohammed esh Sheikh es Seghir (r. 1636–1655)
Ahmad el Abbas (r. 1655–1659)
Dila'i interlude
Muhammad al-Hajj ad-Dila'i (r. 1659–1663)
Alaouite dynasty
The Alawi Dynasty Royal Ark
The current coat of arms of Morocco (formally, the royal coat of arms) was introduced 14 August 1957.
It was developed by the graphic artists Gauthier and Hainaut and shows a green pentagram, specifically a two-dimensional Penrose pentacle on a red background before the Atlas Mountains and a rising sun.
The royal crown is on top.
Two lions function as the holders of the shield.
On the ribbon underneath, the Arabic inscription is written: () (If you glorify God, He will glorify you) (Quran, Verse 7, Sura 47).
Prince Moulay Hassan (born 8 May 2003) is the heir apparent to  the Moroccan throne.
He is the oldest child of King Mohammed VI of Morocco and his wife Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco.
He has a younger sister, Princess Lalla Khadija.
He is named after his grandfather Hassan II; who ascends the throne, he is expected to reign as Hassan III.
: Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of the Republic (31 May 2014).
Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco (born 28 February 2007) is the second child of Mohammed VI of Morocco and his wife, Princess Lalla Salma.
Lalla Khadija's elder brother is Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco.
In honour of her birth, the king granted a royal pardon to thousands of prison inmates.
Khadija visited Tunisia with her mother Lalla Salma in June 2009.
Lalla () (literally, "lady") is a (Moroccan) Amazigh title of respect.
The title is a prefix to her given name or personal name, and is used by females usually of noble or royal background.
It may also be used to address older women out of respect.
Any woman believed to be descended from Muhammad has the title of Lalla.
Likewise, any man who is believed to be descended from Muhammad has the title of Sidi or Moulay (Moulay being a higher honorific).
On 15 September 1984, she married Fuad Filali (born 1957), the son of former Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Abdellatif Filali.
They had two children: a daughter and a son:
Sharifa Lalla Soukaïna Filali (born 30 April 1986 in Rabat).
On 11 October 2013 married Mohammed El Mehdi Regragui.
On 27 September 2015, she gave birth to twins.
Moulay Idris Filali (born 11 July 1988 in Rabat).
Holder of numerous prestigious official functions, Princess Meryem has focused much of her activities on the social and cultural realm.
Princess Meryem is the President of the Moroccan association in support of UNICEF, President of the Hassan II Foundation for the Moroccans residing abroad, President of the Moroccan National Observatory of the Childs Rights and President of the Hassan II Foundation for the social works of the former soldiers and ex-combatants.
In July 2001, she was nominated UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador with focus her Ambassadorship on UNESCO projects for women and children.
Also Member of the Honorary Committee of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children.
Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of the Throne.
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (United Kingdom, 27/10/1980).
Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry (Portuguese Republic, 25/08/1994).
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic (Kingdom of Spain, 16 September 2000).
Grand Cordon of the Order of Merit (Lebanese Republic, 17/07/2001).
Tarfaya is a province in the Moroccan economic region of Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, which includes the southwestern part of the territory of Morocco as of before 1975, and the northern part of the disputed territory of Western Sahara.
Its population in 2004 was 10420.
Its main town is Tarfaya.
Before 2009, these communes were part of the  Laâyoune Province.
(eh) The two communes of Daoura and El Hagounia are located for their largest part in Western Sahara.
Khenifiss National Park () is a national park in the southwest of Morocco, located near Akhfennir on the Atlantic coast in the region of Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra.
The area of the park is .
The national park was created to protect desert, wetlands, and coastal dunes.
The park was first created as a natural reserve in 1960, and in 1980, it was classified as a wetland of international importance.
In 1983, the natural reserve was transformed into a Permanent Biological Reserve, and on September 26, 2006, the national park was created.
The park is located at the coast of Atlantic Ocean, north of the border with Western Sahara, between the towns of Tan-Tan (north) and Tarfaya (south).
The National Route 1, which runs along the Atlantic coast of Morocco, passes through the park.
The park includes a coastal portion, the Khenfiss lagoon, the biggest lagoon at the Moroccan coast, and the inland portion, located on desert plateaus.
The lagoon is also an important bird nesting ground.
Ruddy shelduck, marbled duck, and Audouin's gull inhabit the lagoon permanently, and a big number of species migrate here in winter.
Every year, about 20,000 birds stay in the lagoon area in the winter season.
The inland part includes sabkhas and is typical for Sahara landscapes.
It also includes sand dunes and limestone plateaus.
World Heritage Status
Akhfennir is a small town in Tarfaya Province, in the Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra region of Morocco.
The area is noted for Khenifiss National Park and Tarfaya-Akhfenir Wind Farm.
Settlements in Africa
The core area is inside Norway's part of Sapmi (or Lapland). (
Lapland is a part of 4 countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.)
The Sami languages in Norway, are Northern Sami (en), Lule Sami language (en), and Southern Sami language (en).
The government's definition
"[P]eople who want to vote for", or want to be a member of "the Sami Parliament (en), they must register as Sami.
The definitions of Sami" that started to be used by "Sami organizations, including the Nordic Sami Council, in the 1950s, became part of Norwegian law in 1987.
A Sami is defined as a person who: 1) has Sami as his/her first language, or whose father or mother , or one of whose grandparents, has Sami as their first language, or 2) considers himself/herself a Sami and lives in entire accordance with the rules of the Sami society, and who is recognized by the representative Sami body as a Sami, or 3) has a father or mother who satisfies the above-mentioned conditions for being a Sami".
One account (or description) from 896 , was told to Alfred the Great, by Ohthere of Hålogaland (en) - a Norwegian chieftain, that had some connection to the English king's court.
[Old] Norse literature, such as the Icelandic sagas tells about the Sami; "Olav Tryggvason's Saga says "that the king killed a big man who was "troll-wise" and "there followed him a great number of Finns whenever he had need of them". ("
Regarding getting the Sami to change their religion to Christianity: In the 18th century Thomas von Westen, a pietist, led missionary work (among the Sami), that has been called a  concerted (or special) effort. "
About a century later, Niels Vibe Stockfleth worked among the Sami and translated [the Bible's] New Testament into" [one of the Sami languages].
intensity.
[Norway's] authorities [or government] made "a language directive (or rule) in 1880, which" was "made more forceful in 1898.
Furthermore, the "government had a major objective for the school[s]: Not a single Sami word was to be heard on the school grounds" [or in school buildings].
[Possibly the first] Sami association (in Norway) was started during the New Year's weekend in 1911: Buolbmag Same Særvve, in Polmak municipality.
In reindeer farming, "the Sami travel with their flocks [of reindeer] according to an established cycle"; the cycle makes sure "that the" [reindeer] can eat properly during the various [or different] seasons of the year.
The Lapps lived nearby in homes made of logs or sod.
This way, a Lapp could be warm and comfortable in even the coldest weather.
The Lapps were careful not to waste anything they got from the reindeer.
The blood was frozen and then used for soup and pancakes.
Sami crafts
These beliefs are connected to the land, animalism, and the supernatural.
Sami shamanism is a polytheistic religion.
It believes there are many gods.
Some Sami people have changed their beliefs to Christianity.
They join either the Russian Orthodox Church or the Lutheran.
Don McKenzie (curler), Canadian curler, see 1988 Hexagon World Men's Curling Championship
Don McKenzie (footballer, born 1927), Scottish footballer (Grimsby Town)
Don McKenzie (footballer, born 1939), Australian rules footballer with Essendon
Don McKenzie (footballer, born 1942), Australian rules footballer and coach of Footscray
Don McKenzie (sports medicine), Canadian founder of Abreast In A Boat
Don McKenzie (swimmer) (born 1947), American Olympic swimmer
Donald Gordon McKenzie (1887–1963), member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
Donnie McKenzie (born 1960), British Olympic fencer
Donald MacKenzie (rower) (1879–?),
Canadian rower who won a medal at the 1904 Summer Olympics
Donald Angus MacKenzie, (born 1950) professor of sociology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Donald MacKenzie (Ontario politician), provincial politician from Middlesex East, 1883-1886
Donald Mackenzie, Lord Mackenzie (1818–1875), Scottish judge, styled Lord Mackenzie
Donald Mackenzie (explorer) (1753–1851), Scottish-Canadian explorer and governor of the Red River Settlement
Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1873–1936), Scottish journalist and writer on mythology
Donald Mackenzie-Kennedy, Governor of Nyasaland (1939–1942)
The Strength of Donald McKenzie, 1916 American silent short film
Bajram Rexhepi (3 June 1954 – 21 August 2017) was a Kosovar politician.
He was the former Interior Minister of the Republic of Kosovo and was member of the Kosovo Assembly.
He was a member of the second largest political party in Kosovo, the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK).
Prime Ministers of Kosovo
Mohammed Refaat El-Saeed ( Muhammad Rifaʻatu s-Saʻīd, 11 October 1932 ­– 17 August 2017) was an Egyptian politician, scholar and writer.
He served as the general secretary of the National Progressive Unionist Party (Tagammu).
El-Saeed held two doctorates in history, and was a part-time lecturer at the American University in Cairo.
El-Saeed was a frequent contributor to al-Ahali, the Tagammu party organ.
Abdur Razzak (23 January 1942 – 21 August 2017) was a Bangladeshi actor and movie director.
He was known as Nayak Raj, a title given by Ahmed Zaman Chowdhury, editor of Chitrali.
He was given the Independence Day Award in 2015 by the Government of Bangladesh.
He received National Film Awards (Bangladesh) for Best Actor for five times and received Lifetime Achievement Awards in 2013.
His first big break in cinema came with his role in Zahir Raihan's Behula (1966).
He went on to make more than 300 appearances in Bengali and Urdu movies.
He also directed around sixteen movies.
The Beginning of Super Star – Nayakraaj Razzak The Legendary Actor
Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE (; 18 August 1925 – 19 August 2017) was an English writer and anthologies editor.
He was best known for science fiction novels and short stories.
His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss, except for occasional pseudonyms during the mid-1960s.
Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss was a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society.
He was (with Harry Harrison) co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.
Aldiss was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2000, and inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2004.
He received two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and one John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
He wrote the short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" (1969), the basis for the Stanley Kubrick-developed Steven Spielberg movie A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
Aldiss was associated with the British New Wave of science fiction.
Brian Aldiss  at British Council: Literature
Guardian newspaper profile
Brian Aldiss's online fiction  at Free Speculative Fiction Online
'Metropolis' limited edition fine art print by Brian Aldiss
"Supertoys Last All Summer Long" story by Brian Aldiss (Jan 1997)
Brian Aldiss Collection at the University of South Florida
English short story writers
Helmut Piirimäe (September 8, 1930 — 21 August 2017) was an Estonian historian.
He was born Põltsamaa, Estonia.
He was professor emeritus of University of Tartu, and an honorary doctor of University of Uppsala.
Piirimäe researched Estonian history under the Swedish Empire in the 17th century, but also the Enlightenment in the 18th century, especially the French Revolution.
Piirimäe was married to art historian Krista Piirimäe.
Helmut Piirimäe's publications (in Estonian)
Estonian historians
Paavo Olavi Lonkila (Paavo Lång; 11 January 1923 – 23 September 2017) was a Finnish cross-country skier.
He was born in Kiuruvesi, Finland.
Lonkila won a gold medal in the 4×10 km relay at the 1952 Olympics and finished third in the individual 18 km race, 11 seconds behind his teammate Tapio Mäkelä.
Earlier his 4×10 km relay team placed second at the 1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, where he finished fifth over 18 km.
He won the 18 km event at the 1951 Holmenkollen ski festival.
Lonkila was a farmer by occupation.
Paavo Lonkila, a Famous Kiuruvesi sportsman
Christopher George Kennedy (born July 4, 1963) is an American businessman.
He is Chair of Joseph P. Kennedy Enterprises, Inc. He is a son of former U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a member of the Kennedy family.
Kennedy served as Chair of the Board of Trustees for the University of Illinois from 2009 to 2015.
Until April 2012, he was also president of Merchandise Mart Properties, a commercial property management firm based in Chicago.
Jay Robert "J. B." Pritzker (born January 19, 1965) is an American venture capitalist, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and private business owner based in Chicago.
He is the 43rd and current Governor of Illinois since 2019.
Pritzker was managing partner and co-founder of the Pritzker Group, a private investment firm that operates middle-market service and industrial companies and invests in digital technology companies.
He is a member of the Pritzker family, and has an estimated net worth of $3.4 billion.
This makes Pritzker the richest officeholder in the country.
He ran as the Democratic Party candidate for Governor of Illinois in the 2018 election against Governor Bruce Rauner.
His running mate was state legislator Juliana Stratton.
Pritzker beat Rauner in the election in a landslide victory of 52% to 39%.
His tenure as governor has been known for his response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Illinois.
The 2018 Illinois gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Governor of Illinois.
The Democratic and Republican primary elections took place on March 20, 2018 and the Libertarian Party state convention was held on March 4th.
In March 2018, the primary results concluded with J. B. Pritzker winning the Democratic nomination with Rauner winning the Republican nomination.
Meanwhile, Kash Jackson won the Libertarian Party nomination during a state convention in Bloomington, IL.
Jeanne Ives, State Representative
Running mate: Richard Morthland, former State Representative
Bruce Rauner, incumbent Governor
Running mate: Evelyn Sanguinetti, incumbent Lieutenant Governor
Primary results
Daniel Biss, State Senator
Running mate: Litesa Wallace, State Representative.
Wallace replaced Ramirez-Rosa on September 8, 2017.
Former running mate: Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, Chicago Alderman.
Biss removed Ramirez-Rosa from the ticket on September 6, 2017.
Bob Daiber, Madison County Regional Superintendent of Schools
Running mate: Jonathan W. Todd, social worker
Tio Hardiman, former director of CeaseFire and candidate for Governor in 2014
Running mate: Patricia Avery, President and CEO of the Champaign County chapter of the NAACP.
Chris Kennedy, former Chairman of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees and member of the Kennedy family
Running mate: Ra Joy, executive director of CHANGE Illinois, a government reform coalition.
Alex Paterakis, civil engineer and business owner.
J. B. Pritzker, venture capitalist and philanthropist
Running mate: Juliana Stratton, State Representative
Scott Drury, State Representative, withdrew on September 19, 2017.
He is running for Illinois Attorney General.
Former running mate: Alex Hirsch, political operative
Ameya Pawar, Chicago Alderman, withdrew on October 12, 2017
Former running mate: Tyrone Coleman, mayor of Cairo, Illinois
Kash Jackson, Navy Veteran and activist
Jon Stewart, retired professional wrestler, Republican candidate for the State House in 1998 and Republican candidate for IL-05 in 2009
with Jeanne Ives and J. B. Pritzker
with Bruce Rauner and Chris Kennedy
with Bruce Rauner and Daniel Biss
with Bruce Rauner and generic Democrat
with Jeanne Ives and Chris Kennedy
with Bruce Rauner and Dick Durbin
2018 elections in the United States
2018 in Illinois
Daniel Kálmán Biss (born August 27, 1977) is an American mathematician and politician.
Biss is the Mayor of Evanston, Illinois since 2021.
He was a member of the Illinois Senate from the 9th district, serving from January 2013 to January 2019.
The district includes Chicago's northern suburbs, including Evanston, Glencoe, Glenview, Golf, Morton Grove, Golf, Northbrook, Northfield, Skokie, Wilmette, and Winnetka.
Biss announced his candidacy for Mayor of Evanston, Illinois in the 2021 election in November 2020.
He won the election in a landslide victory in February 2021.
Scott Drury (born 1972) is an American politician.
He is the Illinois state representative for the 58th district and a Democratic candidate for governor.
The 58th district includes all or parts of Bannockburn, Deerfield, Glencoe, Highwood, Highland Park, Lake Bluff Lake Forest, Lincolnshire, Northbrook and North Chicago.
Ameya Pawar (born April 22, 1980) is an American politician.
He is the alderman for the 47th Ward of the City of Chicago.
He was first elected in the 2011 municipal elections, and was elected to a second term on February 24, 2015.
Pawar's 2015 re-election was secured with over 82% of the vote, the largest margin in the election cycle.
Kent Liston Lee (July 28, 1923 – August 11, 2017) was a Vice Admiral of the United States Navy.
The 36-year veteran of the Navy saw combat in World War II and commanded the aircraft carrier  during the Vietnam War.
He was best known for his work in driving the development and procurement of the F/A-18 Hornet.
Perch Zeytuntsyan (, July 18, 1938 – August 21, 2017) was an Egyptian-born Armenian playwright and screenwriter.
He served as Minister of Culture of Armenia from 1990 to 1991.
In 1975, Zeytuntsyan became the executive secretary of the Writer’s Union of Armenia, a position he held until 1981.
He went on to become the Minister of Culture in the first post-Soviet administration of the Republic of Armenia.
Vicente Iturat Gil (22 August 1928 – 18 August 2017) was a Spanish cyclist.
He won the Points classification in the 1957 Vuelta a España.
He was born in Alcalà de Xivert, Spain.
The Chicago City Council is the legislative branch of the government of the City of Chicago in Illinois.
It is made up of 50 aldermen elected from 50 wards to serve four-year terms.
The Chicago City Council is set into session regularly (usually monthly) to consider ordinances, orders, and resolutions whose subject matter includes traffic code changes, utilities, taxes, and many other issues.
Both positions are popularly elected offices.
The Chicago City Council Chambers are located in Chicago City Hall.
Also located in the building are the downtown offices of the individual aldermen and staff.
List of aldermen
Susana Mendoza (born May 13, 1972) is an American politician and the current Comptroller of Illinois.
She formerly served as Chicago City Clerk and as a Illinois State Representative, representing the 1st District of Illinois – which included the Chicago communities of Brighton Park, Little Village, Gage Park and Back of the Yards.
On November 2, 2018 a video leaked from Mendoza’s campaign showing her plans to run for Mayor of Chicago in 2019 even though she successfully ran for re-election as Comptroller in 2018.
Eight days after winning her re-election on November 14, Mendoza launched her mayoral campaign.
She lost in the first round of the election.
Office of the Chicago City Clerk
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The City Clerk of Chicago is in charge of record-keeping for the city of Chicago and its elections.
When the Chicago City Council is in session, the City Clerk serves as council secretary.
This position is a citywide elected office.
The current city clerk is Anna M. Valencia since 2017.
Office of the City Clerk
Toni Preckwinkle (née Reed; March 17, 1947) is an American politician.
She is the current Cook County Board President and a former alderman in the Chicago City Council representing Chicago's 4th ward in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
She was elected on November 2, 2010, as President of the Cook County Board, the Executive Branch of Cook County government.
Preckwinkle first sought office in 1983 and was defeated twice before securing election in 1991 and being re-elected as alderman four times.
On September 20, 2018, Preckwinkle announced her candidacy for Mayor of Chicago in the 2019 election to replace Rahm Emanuel.
She advanced to the runoff election on April 2.
She was defeated by Lightfoot by nearly 50%.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle
Full coverage at the Chicago Tribune
Premier Guitar is a music magazine.
The magazine started in 2007. .
Premier Guitar website
Alsterdal was born year 1960 in Malmö.
Her father was the journalist and author Alvar Alsterdal (1926-1991) from Alster in Värmland, Sweden.
Alsterdal’s mother Elsa Bolin (1928-2009) was from Tornedalen, the northernmost part of Sweden bordering Finland.
Alsterdal grew up in Umeå in northern Sweden and in Jakobsberg, a suburb in Stockholm that she has depicted in her novel, ‘Let me take your hand’.
During her first years of her career after graduating from high school she worked as a psychiatric nurse at Beckomberga hospital, a mental institution that recurs in the novel ‘Do not turn around’.
In the years 1984-1985 Alsterdal studied journalism at Kalix Folkhögskola in the north of Sweden.
There she met Liza Marklund with whom she would come to work closely with, author to author.
Alsterdal lived in the town Luleå in Norrbotten for many years as an adult, where she among other things worked as a journalist for radio and TV, and started off her career as a playwright.
Nowadays she lives in Stockholm.
She has three daughters with her previous husband Nikolaj Alsterdal (née Andersen), the oldest born in 1999 and twins born in 2002.
Tove Alsterdal worked as a freelance journalist when she started writing drama for the fringe theatre Teater Scratch in Luleå in the beginning of the 1990s.
Later she wrote manuscripts for county theatres, opera, radio, TV and movies.
In the spring of 2000, Alsterdal bought Alfred Nobel’s former laboratory in Vinterviken, Stockholm and ran her own cabaret theatre with her ex-husband.
Alsterdal made her debut as a novelist with the thriller ‘Women on the beach’.
The idea of the novel was at first meant to be a movie manuscript but the possible producers found it would be too expensive as the story is set in seven countries.
The story centres itself around people who drown when fleeing over the Mediterranean Sea and people who are taken advantage of as slave labour in Europe.
The novel was praised by critics and has been published in nineteen languages.
All of Alsterdal’s thrillers are standalone novels.
She has been compared to the likes of Dennis Lehane and Dan Brown, and has been called “the John Le Carré of Sweden”.
In 2012 her second novel, ‘Grave of silence’, was published.
It is set in Tornedalen, in the north of Sweden, and is about the Swedes who emigrated to the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
Alsterdals relative Nils Bucht was one of the people who disappeared under Stalin’s terror.
The novel was nominated as the best crime novel of the year in Sweden, the Netherlands and France.
Alsterdals third novel, ‘Let me take your hand’, was awarded the prize for the best crime novel by the Swedish Crime Writer’s Academy in 2014.
The novel is set in the Stockholm suburb that the author grew up in, Jakobsberg, and in Argentina where a Swedish woman disappears during the military dictatorship in the 1970s. “
An elaborate and linguistically nuanced weave of mystery and contemporary history” read the motivation for the award.
In ‘Do not turn around’, published in 2016, Alsterdal returns to the mental hospital where she worked when she was younger.
The novel depicts the collision between the place’s dark past and the new residence idyll that is growing in the area.
The only witness to a murder is a Romani beggar.
“Not many authors would succeed in tying together a normal townhouse life with a society in free fall, combine big politics with murder mysteries with a gripping depiction of feeling alone within one’s family.
But Tove Alsterdal does just that”, wrote best selling author and critic Malin Persson Giolito in the magazine ‘Amelia’.
Tove Alsterdal has been author Liza Marklund’s editor since ‘Sprängaren’ (The Bomber, 1998).
She met Marklund at the school of journalism in 1984.
Marklund has also been the first reader of all of Alsterdal’s novels.
Together, they have written the manuscript for the movie based on the New York Times No 1 bestselling novel ‘Postcard Killers’ by Liza Marklund and James Patterson.
The movie is expected to go into production in 2017 (George Films), directed by Janusz Kaminski, a cinematographer and academy award winner for ‘Schindler’s List’ and ‘Saving private Ryan’.
•1998 – På Spaning (with Boel Forssell), Teater Scratch, Luleå
•1998 – Sagan om vintern, libretto, (composer: Fredrik Högberg) chamber musical for children, Norrbottensmusiken
•1998 - Tilde och Tiden, radio series, Sveriges Radio
•1999 – Nånstans under stjärnorna, Teater Scratch, Luleå
2000 - Dotter, Länsteatern i Örebro
2000 – Snälla Py, Sveriges Radios julkalender
2002 – Broder okänd, Lovteatern, Sveriges radio
2004-2006 – Ensamma hemma, miniseries for Fieteri (a children’s program in Meänkieli and Swedish), Sveriges Television
2004 –Vems är du?,
Norrbottensteater]
2005 – Om du var jag (TV-series, the short movie Elina)
2006 - Dollar (i samarbete med Liza Marklund), Pan Vision
2006 - Packa, packa!.
Luleå: Norrbottensteatern.
Libris 11941011, Teater Scratch
2009 – So Different (original Swedish title: Så Olika), a full-length movie in collaboration with Helena Bergström, Sweetwater AB
2012 – Woman of Cain, (Kains Kvinna) libretto (composer: Fredrik Högberg), iOpera
2016 –Det ropar under golvet, concert with Norrbotten Big Band and composer Torbjörn Ömalm
2017 - Postcard Killings, manuscript for the full-length movie based on the book Postcard Killers by Liza Marklund and James Patterson, with Liza Marklund and Andrew Stern, George Films.
The Forgotten Dead (Kvinnorna på stranden/Women on the beach).
Stockholm: Lind & Co. 2009.
Libris 11566434.
Grave of Silence.
Stockholm: Lind & Co. 2012.
Libris 12281715.
Let me take your hand.
Stockholm: Lind & Co. 2014.
Libris 16260069.
Do not turn around.
Stockholm: Lind & Co. 2016
2014 - Svenska deckarakademien - Best Swedish criminal novel
2017 - Prix Balais D´or , best chriminal novel edited in France
Stanisław Tym born 17 July 1937) is a Polish movie director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor.
Tym has directed one movie Ryś in 2007.
He is best known for his role Ryszard Ochódzki in cult polish movie Teddy Bear and two sequels: Controlled Conversations and Ryś.
The Mercedes-Benz O 309 was the bus version of the Düsseldorfer Transporter, It was built by Mercedes-Benz from 1967 to 1986.
Mercedes-Benz T2 - The van version of the Mercedes-Benz O309
The Willamette River is a major tributary of the Columbia River, accounting for 12 to 15 percent of the Columbia's flow.
The Willamette's main stem is  long, lying entirely in northwestern Oregon in the United States.
Flowing northward between the Oregon Coast Range and the Cascade Range, the river and its tributaries form the Willamette Valley, a basin that contains two-thirds of Oregon's population, including the state capital, Salem, and the state's largest city, Portland, which surrounds the Willamette's mouth at the Columbia.
Originally created by plate tectonics about 35 million years ago and subsequently altered by volcanism and erosion, the river's drainage basin was significantly modified by the Missoula Floods at the end of the most recent ice age.
Humans began living in the watershed over 10,000 years ago.
There were once many tribal villages along the lower river and in the area around its mouth on the Columbia.
Indigenous peoples lived throughout the upper reaches of the basin as well.
Tony deBrum (February 26, 1945 – August 22, 2017) was a Marshallese politician and government minister.
From 2012 and 2014, he was the Minister in Assistance to the President of Marshall Islands.
He was an activist relating to climate change, and has been part of many conferences and demonstrations, including the People’s Climate March in New York City in September 2014.
In mid December 2015, he took part in the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
He succeeded to form a new coalition between developed countries and developing countries called "High Ambition Coalition".
Marshallese people
Iroij Litokwa Tomeing (14 October 1939 – 12 October 2020) was a Marshallese politician.
He was the President of the Marshall Islands from January 2008 until October 2009.
President Tomeing's address to the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 25, 2008
Emlain Kabua (born February 1928) is a Marshallese artist and political figure.
She is the former First Lady of the Marshall Islands and the widow of former Marshallese President Amata Kabua.
Kabua served as the first First Lady of the Marshall Islands from 1979 until 1996.
The flag of the Marshall Islands, an island nation in the Pacific, was adopted upon the start of self-government, May 1, 1979.
The flag was designed by Emlain Kabua, who was the first First Lady of the republic.
Amata Kabua (November 17, 1928 – 20 December 1996) was a Marshallese politician.
He was the first President of the Marshall Islands from 1979 to 1996.
Margot Hielscher (29 September 1919 – 20 August 2017) was a German singer and actress.
She appeared in over fifty movies between and 1939 and 1994.
Hielscher was born in Berlin.
In 1957, she was chosen to represent Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 1957 with the song "Telefon, Telefon" (Telephone, Telephone).
The song finished fourth out of ten, with eight points.
Hielscher was chosen again to represent Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 1958 with the song "Für Zwei Groschen Musik" (Music For Two Pennies).
The song finished seventh out of ten, with 5 points.
In 1989, she starred in the TV series Rivalen der Rennbahn.
The California gubernatorial election, 1970 was held on November 3, 1970.
The incumbent, Republican Ronald Reagan, won re-election over Democrat and Speaker of the Assembly Jesse "Big Daddy" Unruh.
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Jesse Marvin Unruh (September 30, 1922 – August 4, 1987), also known as Big Daddy Unruh, was an American Democratic politician.
He was California State Treasurer.
Unruh unsuccessfully ran for Governor of California against Ronald Reagan int the 1970 gubernatorial election.
In 1973, Unruh ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Los Angeles.
Unruh died of prostate cancer at his home in Marina Del Rey, California on August 4, 1987.
The California gubernatorial election, 1966 was held on November 8, 1966.
The election was a race between incumbent Governor Pat Brown, the Democratic candidate, and actor Ronald Reagan, the Republican candidate.
After his re-election victory over former Vice President Richard Nixon in 1962, Brown was strongly considered for Lyndon Johnson's 1964 ticket, a spot that eventually went to Hubert Humphrey.
However, Brown's popularity began to sag amidst the civil disorders of the Watts riots and the early anti-Vietnam War demonstrations at U.C. Berkeley.
The Republicans seized upon Brown's sudden unpopularity by nominating a well known and charismatic political outsider – actor Ronald Reagan.
With Richard Nixon working tirelessly behind the scenes and Reagan trumpeting his law and order campaign message, Reagan received almost 2/3 of the primary vote over George Christopher, the moderate Republican former mayor of San Francisco.
Autumn and Cardboard: The 1966 California Gubernatorial Election
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Madhukar Hiralal Kania (M. H. Kania) (born 18 November 1927) is an Indian politician.
He was the 23rd Chief Justice of India, serving from 13 December 1991 until his retirement on 17 November 1992.
His uncle was Harilal J. Kania, the first Chief Justice of India.
He began his legal career in 1964, and was appointed as a Judge of Bombay High Court in November-1971.
In June 1986 he was appointed as Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court.
Brief biography at http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/
Furna is a municipality of the district Davos in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah (born 25 October 1929) is an Indian politician.
He was the 25th Chief Justice of India.
He served as Chief Justice from 1993 to 1994.
Justice Dipak Misra (born 3 October 1953) was the Judge of the Supreme Court and the Chief Justice of India.
He took over as the 45th Chief Justice of India (CJI), succeeding the 44th CJI, Justice J. S. Khehar.
He was a judge of the Supreme Court of India and a former Chief Justice of the Patna and Delhi High Courts.
He's the nephew of Justice Ranganath Misra, who was the 21st CJI during 1990-91.
Rishang Keishing (25 October 1920 – 22 August 2017) was an Indian politician.
He was a senior politician of the Indian National Congress party was a Member of the Parliament of India representing Manipur in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.
Keishing served as Chief Minister of Manipur from 1980 to 1988 and from 1994 to 1997.
He was from Bungpa village, Ukhrul District, Manipur.
Spremo found work with The Globe and Mail, and finished his career with the Toronto Star.
The Toronto Star later called him "a legend in the business".
Some of his photographs appeared in both Canadian and American magazines.
He was known for his collages depicting life in Toronto.
Spremo won many regional and international awards for his work, including being the first Canadian ever to win a World Press Photo award.
He was named a member of the Order of Canada in 1997.
Matthew Kia Yen-wen,  (Chinese language: 賈彥文; January 17, 1925 – August 22, 2017) was a Chinese Bishop of Hualien and Chiayi, and served as Archbishop of Taipei.
From 2015 until his death in 2017, he was the Archbishop Emeritus of Taipei.
He was born in Yuenshi Hsien.
Kia was ordained on July 15, 1951 in Tainan, Taiwan.
He was appointed the first Bishop of Chiayi on May 21, 1970 and installed on July 16, 1970.
He was appointed Bishop of Hualien on December 14, 1974.
He became the Archbishop of Taipei on November 18, 1978.
He resigned on February 11, 1989.
Gordon Maclean Williams (20 June 1934 – 20 August 2017) was a Scottish author.
He was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire.
He wrote for television and was the author of more than 20 novels, including From Scenes Like These (1969), shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1969, Walk Don't Walk (1972) and Big Morning Blues (1974).
Other novels include The Camp (1966), The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1967) and The Upper Pleasure Garden (1970).
In 1971, his novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm was controversially filmed as Straw Dogs.
D. J. Taylor, "Gordon who?" (
interview), The Guardian, 22 October 2003.
Gordon M. Williams (1934–2017), Scottish author
Gordon Williams (footballer) (born 1929), English footballer
Gordon E. Williams (born 1935), U.S. Air Force officer
Gordon Williams (born 22 February 1929) is an English former footballer.
He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
Williams played as a centre forward in the Football League for Sheffield United and Darlington.
He made five league appearances for each club and scored once, for Darlington, on 4 November 1950 in a 3–2 home win against Scunthorpe United in the Third Division North.
Gordon E. Williams (born 1935) is a retired United States Air Force officer.
He was a command pilot with more than 4,000 flying hours, he flew numerous Air Force and Navy aircraft.
Upon his retirement on 1 August 1988, he was the director for plans and policy, J-5, Headquarters United States European Command, Stuttgart-Vaihingen, West Germany.
Thomas Edward Meehan (August 14, 1929 – August 21, 2017) was an American writer.
He was best known for Annie, The Producers, and Hairspray.
Meehan wrote books for musicals Young Frankenstein and Cry-Baby.
Meehan also co-wrote the book for Elf: The Musical and Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin.
Meehan was born in Ossining, New York, but grew up in Suffern, New York.
He graduated from Hamilton College.