the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
According to this poll, 83 percent of the Afghan population does not consider the Taliban to be militants.
Poverty, unemployment and government corruption are seen as the main causes of war in their country.
When  the U.S.-backed Afghan forces ousted the Taliban in late 2001, the level of violence increased.
Nearly half of those surveyed said corruption and bad government were the main reasons for the ongoing war.
Twelve percent said the Taliban insurgency was to blame.
After the Taliban, the reason most people gave for the continued fighting was foreign interference, with twenty-five percent of respondents saying other countries were to blame.
2006 escalation
Afghan President Hamid Karzai publicly condemned the methods used by the western powers.
In June 2006 he said:
Insurgents were also criticized for their conduct.
According to Human Rights Watch, bombing and other attacks on Afghan civilians by the Taliban (and to a lesser extent Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin), are reported to have "sharply escalated in 2006" with "at least 669 Afghan civilians were killed in at least 350 armed attacks, most of which appear to have been intentionally launched at civilians or civilian objects."
131 of insurgent attacks were suicide attacks which killed 212 civilians (732 wounded), 46 Afghan army and police members (101 wounded), and 12 foreign soldiers (63 wounded).
Fruitarianism is a diet where people mostly eat fruits, and possibly nuts and seeds, without animal products.
Fruitarianism is a strict of dietary veganism.
Fruitarians can become a fruitarian for different reasons, including ethical, religious, environmental, cultural, economic, and health reasons.
There are many types of the diet.
Some people whose diet consists of 75% or more fruit consider themselves fruitarians.
Some fruitarians will eat only what comes naturally from a plant: foods that can be harvested without killing or harming the plant.
These foods consist primarily of culinary fruits, nuts, and seeds.
Some do not eat grains, believing it is unnatural to.
Some fruitarians feel that humans shouldn't to eat seeds as they contain future plants,or nuts and seeds, or any foods besides juicy fruits.
Others believe they should eat only plants that spread seeds when the plant is eaten.
Others eat seeds and some cooked foods.
Some fruitarians use  beans, peas, or other legumes.
Other fruitarians' diets include raw fruits, dried fruits, nuts, honey and olive oil, or fruits, nuts, beans and chocolate.
SO different  fruitarians do different things.
Some fruitarians who hold Judeo-Christian beliefs hold that fruitarianism was the original diet of humankind in the form of Adam and Eve, based on the Book of Genesis.
They believe that a return to an Eden-like paradise will require simple living a health and diet.
For others, the appeal of a fruitarian diet comes from the challenge that the restrictive nature of this diet provides.
Pteropods are free-swimming pelagic sea snails and sea slugs.
They are marine opisthobranch gastropods.
Are they a natural group?
The monophyly of Pteropoda is the subject of debate.
At present, by molecular studies, the group is monophyletic.
Pteropoda has  two clades Thecosomata, the sea butterflies, and Gymnosomata, the sea angels.
The Thecosomata have a shell, while the Gymnosomata  ("naked body") do not.
The two clades may or may not be sister taxa.
If not, their similarity  may reflect adaptation to their particular lifestyle.
Thecosomata:  "sea butterflies"
Gymnosomata:  "sea angels"
Micro black holes are very small black holes.
Because they are small, they may shrink and disappear due to Hawking radiation.
They may exist in nature as primordial black holes.
If a micro black hole decays, it would create particles that we could see.
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is looking for gamma rays that might come from micro black holes in outer space.
Man-made black holes
If two particles with enough energy collide, they may create a black hole.
Some scientists think the LHC can create one.
If the LHC did create a micro black hole, it would disappear immediately, and would not be dangerous.
Cosmic rays hitting the Earth's atmosphere may already create these.
If dangerous micro black holes are created by cosmic rays, then the Earth would already be damaged.
Because the Earth is not damaged by black holes, scientists think they are not dangerous.
This thought is like the Anthropic principle.
A plasma lamp is a type of gas discharge lamp that is filled with different gases.
It uses dielectric barrier discharge, which is also known as plasma discharge.
Nikola Tesla invented it to study the properties of plasma, in 1892.
He obtained a patent in 1894.
Tesla called the lamp Inert Gas Discharge Tube.
A hacker koan is a funny short story about computer science.
Hackers like the artificial intelligence (AI) group at MIT made the term.
A book called the Jargon File has many koans called AI Koans.
Most koans are not the same as kōans in Zen Buddhism, but both kinds of koans are short, mysterious, and have a hidden meaning.
Uncarved block
Like Zen koans, this might have a real and correct answer.
In the story, the room is not really empty when Minsky shuts his eyes, and the neural network might still have assumed something when it is randomly set up.
The assumptions are random instead of from a human, but they still exist.
This story may be from a real story from Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (chapter 6):
A story like this is in The Tao of Programming.
Tom Knight might have written this.
He helped make the Lisp machine at MIT:
Emacs and Bolio
This koan is sometimes called an "ice cream koan".
The word "koan" sounds like "cone" in the phrase "ice cream cone", so the name is a pun.
There is another "ice cream koan" in The Dharma Bums.
This koan talks about AI lab tools from before the GNU project:
(The store is named after two homeless men.)
Books of koans
Eric S. Raymond put the first AI Koans in a book called Hacker's Jargon Dictionary.
He says that Danny Hillis created them when he was a student at MIT.
The Codeless Code is a different book about software engineers at big businesses instead of unix hackers.
The stories in it are like traditional Zen koans.
Every character is made-up, and most are masters and monks in a place like the Far East.
The stories talk about things like making software.
The name comes from a book called The Gateless Gate.
Jargon File Koans compiled by Eric S. Raymond
The Unix Koans of Master Foo compiled by Eric S. Raymond
Arin Joseph Hanson (born January 6, 1987), also called Egoraptor, is an American Internet celebrity, animator, cartoonist, comedian, voice actor, songwriter, and rapper.
He is known for his popular Internet animations, for the popular YouTube Let's Play show Game Grumps, and for the video game parody band Starbomb.
Hanson has worked on many things other than Game Grumps:
Internet animation series
The Awesome Series - makes fun of video games like Pokémon, Metal Gear, Ninja Gaiden, and Final Fantasy
Sequelitis - an animated comedy video game review series comparing two different games in a series in a funny way.
Shows and animations
Cyanide & Happiness
Detective Grimoire.
Hanson often works with Starbomb band members from Ninja Sex Party, Dan Avidan and Brian Wecht.
He sings guest vocals for their music and appears in their videos.
The Ñuble Province () was one of the provinces of the Chilean region of Bío Bío (VIII).
The provincial capital was the city of Chillán.
The province was created in 1974, as the historical province of Ñuble was supressed by the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
In 2018 the province was converted in the Ñuble Region.
The Ñuble province is in the northern part of the Bío Bío region with an area of .
The capital, Chillán, is at about  from Santiago, the national capital.
As a province, Ñuble was a second-level administrative division, consisting of 21 communes (comunas).
The city of Chillán served as the provincial capital.
The province was administered by a governor.
Province of Ñuble website
La Défense () is an area in the Paris Metropolitan Area of Île-de-France, located in the Hauts-de-Seine French department, just west of Paris.
It is the largest business district in Europe and is home to 19 skyscrapers and more than 50 other buildings made of glass and steel.
The area is 1.6 km2 (560 hectares) big.
About 25,000 people live in La Défense, and another 180,000 people work there.
Over 8 million tourists visit La Défense every year.
To get there, one can start at the Louvre or Arc de Triomphe and head west along the Axe historique (Historical Axis) along the Champs-Élysées and Avenue de la Grande Armée.
La Défense is at the other end of the axis and has a monument called Grande Arche.
It can also be reached by Paris Métro Line 1, RER Line A, tram T2 run by the RATP, and by SNCF trains, which all stop at an underground railway station called Gare de La Défense.
Matthias was the apostle who replaced Judas Iscariot.
This was stated in the Acts of the Apostles.
Unlike the other apostles, his appointment was not made personally by Jesus.
After the betrayal of Judas, the disciples of Jesus needed to choose a new apostle.
To do this they nominated 2 men - Joseph Barsabbas and Matthias.
80s deaths
Oedipina maritima (commonly known as the maritime worm salamander) is a species of worm salamander that lives on the island of Escudo de Veraguas.
It has no natural predators, as only a few animals live on the island, but it is endangered due to deforestation.
It was first published in 1911.
There are two versions of Boys' Life.
The first version is made for the youngest members of Cub Scouting.
These are the 6-to-10-year-old Cub Scouts and first-year Webelos Scouts (a rank in Cub Scouts).
The second version is made for 11-to-18-year-old boys, which includes second-year Webelos through 18-year-old Boy Scouts, Varsity Scouts and Venturers.
The publisher picks which version to send by looking at if the subscriber is in Cub Scouts or Boy Scouts.
In June 2007, Boys' Life earned four Distinguished Achievement Awards from the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP).
One of those awards is　Periodical　of the Year.
The magazine's mascot is Pedro the Mailburro, who answers readers' letters.
Boys' Life has a comic strip about Pedro.
Boys Life (band), a band from Kansas City, Missouri, from 1993 to 1997
Boy's Life (Japanese magazine), a magazine written in Japanese that was made from 1963 to 1969 in Japan by Shogakukan
Boy's Life (novel), 1991 novel by American writer Robert McCammon
Boys Life (movie), a group of three short films made in 1995
Osotimehun was appointed on 19 November 2010 as the new Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, for a four-year term.
He was reappointed to this position on 21 August 2014.
He assumed the position on 1 January 2011 and became the organisation's fourth Executive Director.
He held the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Before, he was Nigeria's Minister of Health.
He left this office in March 2010 when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved his cabinet.
Roger LaVerne Smith (December 18, 1932 – June 4, 2017) was an American television and movie actor, singer and screenwriter.
He starred in the television detective series 77 Sunset Strip and in the comedy series Mister Roberts.
Smith, who went on to manage the career of Ann-Margret, his wife of 50 years.
Smith was born in South Gate, California.
In an interview with the The New York Post, Ann-Margret said that he had Parkinson's disease.
Smith died of complications from Parkinson's disease at the Sherman Oaks Hospital in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles on June 4, 2017 at the age of 84.
In 1936, he introduced the tea processing machines from Japan, facilitating the automation of the domestic tea industry.
From 1942 to 1944, he resumed teaching at Fukien Christian University.
He was targeted at the start of the Anti-Rightist Movement and subsequently was exiled to Chong'an until 1962.
The Cultural Revolution followed, and Zhang was exiled to Shouning.
Despite his exile, Zhang continued scientific research.
He was rehabilitated in 1980.
In mathematics, a fixed-point theorem is a theorem that a mathematical function has a fixed point.
At that fixed point, the function's input and output are equal.
List of fixed-point theorems
Atiyah–Bott fixed-point theorem
Banach fixed-point theorem
Borel fixed-point theorem
Browder fixed-point theorem
Brouwer fixed-point theorem
Caristi fixed-point theorem
Diagonal lemma, also called the fixed-point lemma, for making logical sentences that describe themselves.
Fixed-point lemma for normal functions
Fixed-point property
Injective metric space
Kakutani fixed-point theorem
Kleene fixpoint theorem
Knaster–Tarski theorem
Lefschetz fixed-point theorem
Nielsen fixed-point theorem
Poincaré–Birkhoff theorem proves that a function has two fixed points
Ryll-Nardzewski fixed-point theorem
Schauder fixed-point theorem
Topological degree theory
Tychonoff fixed-point theorem
In linguistics, inversion is when the words in a sentence are in a different order than normal.
The most common kind of inversion in English is subject–auxiliary inversion, which happens when an auxiliary verb (like do) changes places with its subject.
It usually happens in questions like Are you coming?.
In this example, the subject you is switched with the verb are.
In many other languages, like languages with a freer word order than English, inversion can also happen with more verbs (not just auxiliaries) and other kinds of words.
Helen Dunmore FRSL  (12 December 1952 – 5 June 2017) was a British poet, novelist and children's writer.
She was born in Yorkshire, Northern England.
She was known for her novel Zennor in Darkness (1993).
In 2017, Dunmore published her last book, Birdcage Walk, before writing an article about mortality for the Guardian after she was diagnosed with cancer.
She died on 5 June 2017 at her Bristol, South West England, aged 64.
HarperCollins Canada site
Northern England, also known as the North of England, North Country or simply the North, is the northern part of England.
People have different ideas about which parts of England are in Northern England, but it usually includes the counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, County Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire, as well as parts of Lincolnshire.
There are big cities in Northern England, but there are also large mountains and lakes.
The biggest Northern cities are Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Sheffield.
Northern England has a long history: it was where many battles between England and Scotland were fought, and it was the place where the Industrial Revolution began.
Nowadays, most of the industry is gone and Northern England is poorer than Southern England.
However, Northern England still has its own culture and way of speaking, and many Northerners are proud of the region.
The area roughly spans from the River Trent to the Scottish border in the north.
However, people disagree about where the southern border is.
Some people say Northern England starts near Birmingham, while some people say it only starts at the River Tees.
The government says that Northern England is made up of three statistical regions: the North East, North West and Yorkshire and the Humber.
These have a combined population of around 14.9 million as of the 2011 Census and an area of 37,331 km2 (14,414 sq mi).
, formerly , was a Japanese Buddhist nun, writer and activist.<ref name="aeon">Harding, Christopher. [
http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/christopher-harding-psychoanalysis-buddhism  Couched In Kindness: "Jakucho Setouchi: a revered nun and famous novelist "]  Aeon Magazine.
.</ref> Setouchi was known for her biographical novels written as first-person narratives.
She is known for her 1998 translation of The Tale of Genji.
She was awarded the Women's Literary Prize in 1963 for Natsu no Owari.
Setouchi died of heart failure in Kyoto, Japan, on 9 November 2021, at the age of 99.
1962 Women's Literature Prize for Natsu no Owari 1992 Tanizaki Prize for Hana ni Toe 2001 Noma Prize in literature for Basho 2006 Order of Culture of Japan
Joshidaisei Chu Airin (1957) Qu Ailing the Coed—received the Shinchosha Coterie Magazine Award
Miren (1963) Lingering Affections Kiji (1963) Pheasant translated by Robert Huey in
Beauty in Disarray translated by Sanford Goldstein and Kazuji Ninomiya
Natsu no owari (1963?)
The End of Summer translated by Janine Beichman .
A collection of linked stories detailing her own adulterous affair.
Hana ni toe (1992?)
Ask the Blossoms, a novelized biography of the classical poet-priest Saigyo.
Basho (2001) Places''
J'Lit | Authors : Jakucho Setouchi | Books from Japan
Cheick Ismaël Tioté (; 21 June 1986 – 5 June 2017) was an Ivorian footballer.
He played in Europe for Dutch team FC Twente and English club Newcastle United before moving to China to represent Beijing Enterprises.
He won the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations with the Ivory Coast national team.
Kicker Profile
Anna Jókai (Hungarian: Jókai Anna) (24 November 1932 – 5 June 2017) was a Hungarian author, poet and teacher.
She began her writing career in 1974 and, during the 1980s, she participated in the Hungarian liberation movement.
Between 1990 and 1992, she was the chairperson of the Hungarian Writers' Union.
Kötél nélkül, 1969
A labda, 1971/1994
Napok,1972/2001
Mindhalálig, 1974
A feladat , 1977/1996
Szegény Sudár Anna, 1989/1999
Ne féljetek , 1998
Bölcsek és Pásztorok, 2006
Hungarian novelists
Hungarian poets
Nnedi Okorafor (full name: Nnedimma Nkemdili Okorafor; also known as Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu; born April 8, 1974) is a Nigerian-American writer.
She writes fantasy  and science fiction.
Okrafor was born in the United States.
Her parents are members of the  Igbo group from Nigeria.
She has visited Nigeria many times since she was very young.
While she studied Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, Ill., Okorafor was a good tennis player and did very well studying science.
Later, she found out she had scoliosis.
This condition and surgery to fix it ended Okorafor's student athletic career.
It made it difficult for her to walk.
She started writing as a hobby while she recovered from surgery.
Her novels and stories show both her West African life and her American life.
In 2001 Okorafor graduated of the Clarion Writers Workshop in Lansing, Michigan.
She earned a PhD in English from the University of Illinois, Chicago.
She is an associate professor of creative writing and literature at the University at Buffalo (SUNY).
She lives in both Buffalo and Olympia Fields, Illinois with her family.
Writing and awards
Okorafor received a 2001 Hurston-Wright literary award for her story "Amphibious Green."
She then published two books for young adults, The Shadow Speaker (Hyperion/Disney Book Group) and Zahrah the Windseeker (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
Zahrah won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.
The Shadow Speaker was a winner of the Carl Brandon Parallax Award, a Booksense Pick for Winter 2007/2008, a Tiptree Honor Book, Okorafor's children's book Long Juju Man was the 2007–08 winner of the Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa.
Okorafor's first novel for adults, Who Fears Death (DAW/Penguin Books), won the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, was a 2011 Tiptree Honor Book and was nominated for the 2010 Nebula Award.
Okorafor's short stories have been published in books and magazines, including Dark Matter: Reading The Bones, Strange Horizons, Moondance magazine, and Writers of the Future Volume XVIII.
A collection of her stories, called Kabu Kabu, was published by Prime Books in 2013.
It includes the story Kabu Kabu that she wrote with Alan Dean Foster.
Whoopi Goldberg wrote the foreword to the book.
Zahrah the Windseeker (2005, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; paperback 2008, Graphia/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Shadow Speaker (2007, Hyperion/Disney)
Long Juju Man (2009, Macmillan Africa)
Iridessa and the Secret of the Never Mine (2012, Disney Books)
Akata Witch (2011, Viking/Penguin) (Published as What Sunny Saw in the Flames in Nigeria and the UK by Cassava Republic Press)
Akata Witch 2: Akata Warrior (2017, upcoming)
The Man (to be published in Nigeria)
Who Fears Death (2010, DAW/Penguin)
"Hello, Moto" (2011, A Tor.
Com Original short story)
"Moom!"
short story in "AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers" (2012, Storytime)
Kabu Kabu (2013, Prime Books)
Lagoon (2014, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.) (2015, Saga Press/Simon & Schuster)
The Book of Phoenix (2015, DAW/Penguin/PRH) (prequel of Who Fears Death)
Binti (2015, Tor.com)
Binti 2: Home (2017, Tor.com)
Brave New Souls: Black Sci-Fi & Fantasy Writers of the 21st Century (2013) – Herself
Nnedi Okorafor Home Page
Mikki Kendall, Profile: "A Nigerian Sorceress Makes Her Way", Publishers Weekly, April 12, 2010
Donna Freitas, "Weapons of Mass Creation", New York Times review of The Shadow Speaker, July 13, 2008
Nebula Awards Guest Blog: Is Africa Ready for Science Fiction by Nnedi Okorafor
Review of Zahrah the Windseeker by Gary K. Wolfe
"Stephen King's Super-Duper Magical Negroes" by Okorafor-Mbachu
"From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7" (short story), Clarkesworld Magazine, May 2009
Stories by Okorafor at AfricanWriter.com
"If It Scares You, Write It: A Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor" (interview), Clarkesworld Magazine, December 2009
2010 Audio Interview on the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (14 June 1736-23 August 1806) was a French physicist, known for his research on the properties of electricity.
He also did research on the friction of fluids.
Today, the SI unit for electric charge, the coulomb is named after him.
He is one of the 72 people to have his name written on the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Letter is a way of communicating with others.
In the ancient period kings and the main officials used letters to inform or welcome the other regions king.
It even helped the people to communicate easily.
They are sometimes tied to the legs of a well trained pigeon or an eagle or any kind of a bird.
The are even used in some movies like "THE MUMMY","BAHUBALI"and much more.
But now not many people use because of the improved technology.
Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station (ドーム前千代崎駅, どーむまえちよざきえき) is a railway station of Osaka Municipal Subway in Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan.
There is Dome-mae Station(ドーム前駅, どーむまええき) which Hanshin Electric Railway possess near Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station.
Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line
Taisho (N11) Dome-mae Chiyozaki (N12) - Nishi-Nagahori (N13)
Hanshin Electric Railway
Hanshin Namba Line
Rapid Express, Semi-Express, Suburban Semi-Express, Local
Kujo (HS44) Dome-mae (HS33) - Sakuragawa (HS42)
Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station （Station guide） - Osaka Municipal Subway
Dome-mae Station (Station guide) - Hanshin Electric Railway
Kyocera Dome Osaka（Official site） - Osaka City Dome
Meilen is a city in the Swiss canton of Zurich.
It is the capital in the district of Meilen.
Mettmenstetten (Swiss German: Mättmischtette or Mättmi) is a municipality of the district of Affoltern in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
The Reuss is a river in Switzerland.
The drainage basin is .
It is the fourth largest river in Switzerland (after the Rhine, Aare and Rhône).
The upper Reuss forms the main valley of the canton of Uri.
The course of the lower Reuss runs from Lake Lucerne to where it connects with the Aare at Brugg.
Lake Thun () is a  Alpine lake in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland named by the city of Thun.
It is on the northern shore.
The 2,500 km² catchment area often causes local flooding after heavy rainfalls.
This occurs because the river Aare, which drains Lake Thun, can only hold some of the extra runoff.
The lake is fed by water from Lake Brienz to the southeast, which is 6 metres higher than Lake Thun.
It is also fed by various streams in the Oberland, including the Kander.
Lake Thun Tourism Portal
Gerzensee is a lake in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland.
Bigge is a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
It flows into the Lenne in Finnentrop.
Weil am Rhein (Alemannic German: Wiil am Rhii) is an German town of the district Lörrach in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
It is close to where the Swiss, French and German borders meet.
Ballersdorf is a French commune.
In English, an Auxiliary verb is a verb that changes or helps another verb.
Auxiliary means "extra" or "different".
Auxiliary verbs like do can be used to make a question.
These verbs are usually used with other verbs.
a. Do you want tea? –
do is an auxiliary verb that changes the main verb want to make a question – see do-support.
b. He has given his all. –
has is an auxiliary used to say the perfect form of give.
c. He cogido tu lápiz. –
he is an auxiliary accompanying the main verb coger, used here to make a compound verb, the perfect present of the verb coger.
(I) have grabbed your pencil = 'I have taken your pencil.'
d. Das wurde mehrmals gesagt. –
wurde 'became' is an auxiliary used to make the passive voice in German.
That became many times said = 'That was said many times.'
e. Sie ist nach Hause gegangen. –
ist 'is' is an auxiliary used with movement verbs to make the perfect tense in German.
She is to home gone = 'She went home/She has gone home.'
f. J'ai vu le soleil. –
ai 'have' is an auxiliary verb used to make the perfect tense/aspect in French.
I have seen the sun = 'I have seen the sun/I saw the sun.'
f. Nous sommes hébergés par un ami. –
sommes 'are' is an auxiliary verb used to make the passive voice in French.
We are hosted by a friend.
These auxiliaries help make a question, show tense, or make passive voice.
Auxiliaries like these usually appear with a normal verb that carries the main meaning of that part of the sentence.
Alkmaar is a city in North Holland in the Netherlands.
In 2019, 108,582 people lived there.
Neerach is a municipality in the district Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Gelderner Fleuth is a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
It flows into the Niers near Geldern.
Sarti played in the position of goalkeeper.
Throughout his successful career, he played for several Italian clubs, although he is mostly remembered for his success with Fiorentina, and as the goalkeeper of the "Grande Inter" side of the 1960s that conquered both Italy and Europe.
Adnan Khashoggi (, ; 25 July 1935 – 6 June 2017) was a Saudi Arabian international businessman and uncle of Princess Diana's lover Dodi Al-Fayed.
He was best known for arms dealing.
He is estimated to have had a peak net worth of around US$4 billion in the early 1980s.
Khashoggi died on 6 June 2017 at St. Thomas' Hospital in London.
Barbara Alexandra "Sandra" Reemer (17 October 1950 – 6 June 2017) was a Dutch Indo singer and TV presenter of Dutch, Chinese and Javanese origian.
She was born in Bandung, Java, Indonesia.
She has represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest on three separate occasions, tying with Corry Brokken for most appearances representing the country.
Vincent Paul Garbutt (20 November 1947 – 6 June 2017) was an English folk singer and songwriter.
A significant part of his repertoire consisted of protest songs covering topics such as "the Troubles" in Northern Ireland (Troubles of Erin), unemployment, and social issues.
The Valley of Tees (1972)
The Young Tin Whistle Pest (live) (1974)
King Gooden (1976)
Eston California (1977)
Tossin' a Wobbler (1978)
Little Innocents (1983)
Shy Tot Pommy (1985) [live - Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia]
When The Tide Turns  (1989)
The By-Pass Syndrome  (1991)
Bandalised (1994)
Plugged! (
1995)  [live - Red Lion Folk Club, Birmingham, UK.]
When the Tide Turns Again  (1998) [reissue of 1989 album with one additional track]
Word Of Mouth (1999)
The Vin Garbutt Songbook Vol 1 (2003)
Persona ... Grata (2005)
Teesside Troubadour documentary & live DVD (2011)
Synthetic Hues (2014)
The official Vin Garbutt website
Vin Garbutt's Myspace Page
Márta Antal-Rudas (14 February 1937 – 6 June 2017) was a Hungarian javelin thrower.
She competed at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics and finished in ninth, second and fourth place.
She was born in Debrecen, Hungary.
Anupam Sen (born August 5, 1940) is a Bangladeshi academic and social scientist.
Currently, he is serving as Vice-chancellor of Premier University, Chittagong.
Published books and research
The Social Background of the Bangladesh Movement, Quest(Bombay),September–October,1971.
The Bureaucracy and Socio-Economic Development in Bangladesh,Bangladesh Journal of Sociology,August 1983.
Social Change in South Asia, Presidential Address,Third National Conference and International Seminar on Social Change in South Asia,Dhaka: Bangladesh Sociology Association,March 18–20, 1987.
Modes of Production and Social Formation in India, 2nd article of the book entitled, "Class,State and Development in India" Edited by Berch Berberoglu(Professor,University of Nevada, U.S.A) New Delhi /London - Sage Publications,1992.
The State, Industrialization and Class Formations in India,London : Routledge and Kegan-Paul, 1982.
Bangladesh :Rashtra O Samaj, Dhaka :Abosar,1999
Bangladesh O Bangali, Dhaka :Abosar,2002
Biloshita Sabdaguchcha (An Anthology of Translated Verses of Eminent Poets from East & West),Dhaka :Abosar,2002
The Political Economy of Bangladesh (work in progress).
Domodossola is an Italian city in Piedmont.
In 2014, 18,247 people lived there.
Neftenbach is a municipality in Winterthur in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Football player Manuel Akanji was born here.
Official website of Neftenbach
Guimarães is a city in Portugal, in the district of Braga.
It has 158,124 people.
Kannonkoski is a municipality in Central Finland.
It had about 1,452 people living there in 2016.
The municipalities next to it are Karstula, Kivijärvi, Saarijärvi, Viitasaari and Äänekoski.
The official Kannonkoski page
Niederglatt is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Niederhasli is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Niederweningen is a municipality of the district of Dielsdorf in the Swiss canton of Zurich.
Official website of the municipality of Niederweningen
Dornbirn is the largest city in Vorarlberg, Austria.
About 48,000 people are living there (2006).
Nürensdorf is a municipality in Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Balschwiller is a French commune.
Baltzenheim is a French commune.
On 7 June 2017, two attacks were simultaneously carried out against the Iranian parliament and the Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, leaving 12 people dead and 42 wounded.
ISIL claimed responsibility for both attacks.
The attacks were the first terrorist attacks in Tehran in more than a decade, and the first major attack in the country since the 2010 Zahedan bombings.
2017 disasters in Asia
2017 mass shootings
2010s in Iran
2010s mass shootings in Asia
Murder-suicides in Asia
2017 attacks
Christopher Asher Wray (born December 17, 1966) is an American lawyer.
He is the 8th and current Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation since August 2, 2017.
From 2003 to 2005, he served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division under the George W. Bush administration.
He was previously a litigation partner with the law firm King & Spalding.
Wray was born in New York City.
He was raised in Andover, Massachusetts.
In 2003, President George W. Bush nominated Wray as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division of the Justice Department.
Wray was unanimously confirmed by the Senate.
Wray was Assistant Attorney General from 2003 to 2005, working under Deputy Attorney General James Comey.
While heading the Criminal Division, Wray oversaw prominent fraud investigations, including Enron.
Director of the FBI (since 2017)
On June 7, 2017, President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Wray to be Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
On July 20, 2017, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to confirm Wray to be the next director of the FBI.
Wray was officially confirmed by the Senate with bipartisan support on August 1, 2017; the vote was 92–5.
He was sworn in by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a private ceremony on August 2.
In the aftermath of the Douglas High School shooting in Parkland on February 14, 2018, it was found out that the FBI ignored a tip that shooter Nikolas Cruz had a desire to "kill people".
Florida Governor Rick Scott called for Wray to resign, with the earliest tip received by the FBI dating back to September 2017 in which a YouTube user with the same name commented, "I'm going to be a professional school shooter."
Wray married Helen Garrison Howell in 1989.
He is registered as a Republican.
Department of Justice biography page
Early Years & Career
Vincent was born in Johannesburg, South Africa.
He was banned from the South African Tour for many years as a result of apartheid rules.
Tshabalala played in the European Tour, and won the 1976 French Open.
Tshabalala also did good in the European Seniors Tour and won two events in the South African Tour after the country lifted its racial restrictions.
Andrew "Andy" Cunningham (13 May 1950 – 5 June 2017), was an English actor, puppeteer and writer.
He was born in Barnet, London.
He was best known as the creator and main writer of the children's BBC television series, Bodger & Badger, in which he acted as Simon Bodger and his pet, Badger.
He was also the uncredited puppeteer of Ephant Mon, Jabba the Hutt's Head of Security in Return of the Jedi (1983).
He was in a long-term relationship with co-star Jane Bassett who played Mousey in Bodger & Badger.
Marilyn Hall (née Plottel; born May 17, 1927 – June 5, 2017) was a Canadian-born American television and theatre producer, as well as a television writer.
She also wrote songs, a cookbook and book reviews.
She supported many charities, including Jewish causes in the United States and Israel.
She was an associate producer of Jelly's Last Jam and Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.
On television, she produced the PBS version of The Ginger Tree as well as the 1984 movie Nadia.
Mary Edwards Walker (November 26, 1832 – February 21, 1919) was an American abolitionist, prohibitionist, prisoner of war and surgeon.
As of 2017, she is the only woman ever to receive the Medal of Honor.
She was born on November 26, 1832.
Growing up, she lived in Oswego, New York with her parents, Alvah Walker and Vesta Whitcomb Walker.
Her parents taught her to always be driven and stand up for what she believed in.
Her parents supported abolitionist groups and women’s rights movements.
They believed everyone deserved to be treated equally and with respect no matter their race or gender.
She used what she learned from her parents to help her accomplish her goals in life.
Her education was very important to her and her parents.
She studied to become a surgeon at Syracuse Medical College and graduated in 1855 with a medical degree.
After college she met Albert Miller, also a physician, and they got married in 1856 but she kept her last name as Walker.
After marriage, together they started a medical practice, but not many people wanted to go to a woman doctor as they did not trust she could do as good of a job as a man physician.
The practice struggled and so did the young couples marriage.
Thirteen years later Mary Walker and Albert Miller divorced and their practice failed.
Although her marriage failed, she came back more confident than ever as the Civil War began.
At the break of the Civil War and with high confidence, Walker tried to enlist in the Union Army.
She was denied because of her gender but did not take no for an answer.
Trying again, she enlisted as a surgeon in the war and was transferred to the 52nd Ohio Infantry.
Later she was appointed assistant surgeon.
This was a very big accomplishment for a woman at this time.
During one of her trips to the Confederacy to tend to the sick and wounded, she was captured.
During 1864 Walker was imprisoned for four months in Richmond, Virginia.
After four months Walker, along with other surgeons in the Union, were released in a trade for 17 Confederate doctors.
Even after her capture, Walker still continued to cross the line between the Confederates and Union to tend to the sick and wounded even after her experience of being imprisoned with the Confederates.
Until the war ended, Walker remained with the 52nd Ohio Infantry, tending to the sick and wounded.
Mary Edward Walker’s persistence and determination paid off as she served the sick and wounded on the battlefield, refusing to be pulled down because of her gender.
Once the war had ended, Walker went back home to Oswego, New York.
She was honored for her work.
On November 11, 1865, she received the Congressional Medal of Honor.
She was the first and only woman to ever receive this honor.
Soon after she got her medal, it was revoked by Congress because she was not involved in combat.
Walker did not let this get her down.
Every single day, until she died, she wore her medal and refused to give it back.
Since she almost never wore women’s clothing, she was arrested several times for wearing men’s clothing but never was put in jail.
Walker believed that the Constitution gave women a right to vote and wear what they wanted.
She died on February 21, 1919, three months before the 19th amendment was passed giving women the right to vote.
After her death, she was remembered for her intelligence, bravery, and determination.
In 1977, President Jimmy Carter restored Mary Edwards Walker’s medal.
She was smart, kind, and helped change the face of women’s rights to get it to the place it is today.
At the time she was doing something that people believed was impossible; a woman becoming a doctor who served on a battlefield.
She was different, and proved that it’s ok to take risks and to be bold in your beliefs.
In 2012, a large statue of her was made in her hometown.
A cargo ship, The SS Mary Walker was named after her in World War II.
Multiple medical campuses were named after her and the post office put her on a stamp to honor her.
Horace G. Burrell JP OM (8 February 1950 – 6 June 2017), also known as Captain Burrell, was the president of the Jamaica Football Federation, and a Vice-President of CONCACAF.
He was also the founder of the Jamaican restaurant chain The Captain's Bakery and Grill and Captain's Aviation Services which he founded in 1995 and 2008 respectively.
He died on 6 June 2017 after ailing for some time.
Latifur Rahman (1 March 1936 – 6 June 2017) was a Bangladeshi politician and lawyer.
He served as the 10th Chief Justice of Bangladesh from January 2000 through February 2001.
In 2001, he was appointed to briefly serve as Prime Minister, a position he would hold from 15 July 2001 until 10 October 2001.
Rokas Žilinskas (20 July 1972 – 6 June 2017) was a Lithuanian journalist and politician.
He was elected to the Seimas in 2008 and was a member of the Lithuanian Parliament until his death.
He was the first openly gay member of the parliament.
Arthur Bunting (July/September 1936 – 7 June 2017) was an English professional rugby league footballer.
He played in the 1950s, and 1960s, and coached in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, playing at club level for Hull Kingston Rovers, as a Scrum-half/Halfback, i.e. number 7, and coaching at club level for Hull Kingston Rovers, and Hull F.C.. He was born in Hemsworth, West Yorkshire.
Search for "Bunting" at rugbyleagueproject.org
Workington and Hull KR triumph in the regions
Trento Longaretti (27 September 1916 – 7 June 2017) was an Italian painter.
He studied at the Brera Academy in the 1930s, where he was taught by renowned artists including painters Aldo Carpi and Pompeo Borra, and sculptors Francesco Messina and Marino Marini.
His oil paintings have been described as dense and oily like those of Paul Cézanne, and his style having similarities to the fantasy settings of Marc Chagall and "pictorial culture" of Egon Schiele.
His still life paintings have been described as "delicate and almost religious".
Trento Longaretti, a book about the artist published by Galleria Lorenzelli (Bergamo)
Montbard is a commune and subprefecture of the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.
It is also the capital of the arrondissement of Montbard and of the canton of Montbard.
The commune of Montbard has an area of , and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .
The commune of Montbard is surrounded by the communes:
The inhabitants of Montbard are known, in French, as  Montbardois (women: Montbardoises).
With a population of 5,350, Montbard has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.
Montbard is a subprefecture of the Côte-d'Or department since 1926.
It is also the capital of the arrondissement of Montbard and the administrative centre () of the canton of Montbard formed by 57 communes, with 18,764 inhabitants (2014).
Couvin, Belgium
Ubstadt-Weiher, Germany
Gattinara, Italy
Mairie de Montbard - Official site
Departmental Council of Côte d'Or
Office de tourisme du Montbardois
Shahmukhi is a set of letters used to write the Punjabi language by Punjabi speakers in Pakistan.
It is written from right to left.
The Shahmukhi script is based on the Perso-Arabic script which is used to write Urdu.
Shahmukhi cannot be called an alphabet; it is really an abjad.
An abjad is a script that has letters to represent consonants but not vowels.
Of course, Shahmukhi, and other scripts relating to it, are impure abjads.
This means that there are ways to represent vowels in the writing but they are used in a very bare method.
There are 38 letters in the Shahmukhi abjad.
This may seem like a lot to learn, but the letters are really not too difficult to remember.
The Land of Stories is a series of children's books written by American author, actor and singer Chris Colfer.
The first book, The Wishing Spell, was released on July 17, 2012.
The sixth and final book was published in July 2017.
Colfer said the books are a "modern day fairy tale".
It is about the adventures of twins, Alex and Conner Bailey.
They fall from the real world into a world full of fairy tales they have only ever read about before and discover there is more to this world than meets the eye.
The Big Bad Wolf Pack
Queen Snow White
Queen Cinderella
The Aussie Eastern Quoll Ark Conservation Project
Ammon is an ancient country in the Middle East.
It was in northwestern Jordan and east of the Kingdom of Israel.
In the Bible it is often called the Kingdom of Ammon.
According to the Biblical Book of Genesis Ammon is a grandson of Lot, the nephew of Abraham (the other grandson is Moab; the Kingdom of Moab was south of Ammon).
Christian James “C/J.” McCollum (born September 19, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers.
He was drafted 10th in the 2013 NBA draft.
In his third year, he won the NBA Most Improved Player award.
He played college basketball for the Lehigh Mountain Hawks.
In 2017, he scored 27 points in the first half against the #1 seeded Golden State Warriors.
That year he also had the highest free-throw percentage in the league.
Neil Oshley is the General Manager for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association.
Allen Lester Crabbe III (born April 9, 1992) is an American professional basketball player.
He plays for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
He played college basketball for the California Golden Bears.
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are artificial neural networks that work together to give better answers.
One neural network is the tricky network, and the other one is the useful network.
The tricky network will try to give an input to the useful network that will cause the useful network to give a bad answer.
The useful network will then learn not to give a bad answer, and the tricky network will try to trick the useful network again.
As this continues, the useful network will get better and not become tricked as often, and the useful network will be able to be used to make good predictions.
Bromley is located south-east of Charing Cross.
It is the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Bromley, and is considered to be a major metropolitan centre in the London Plan.
Oberembrach is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Oberengstringen is a municipality in the district of Dietikon in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Paignton Zoo is a zoo located in Devon, England.
West part of zoo
North part of zoo
East part of zoo
South part of zoo
Culen ruled as king of Scotland following the death of Dubh in 967, he reigned from 967-971 although was recognized as early as 966 as king.
He was born in the 10th century and died in 971.
He was the son of Indulf and an unknown mother.
He also possibly ruled as king of Strathclyde during his reign.
He died in 971 and was succeeded by Kenneth II and Amlaib.
He is buried in an unknown location.
971 deaths
Jan Høiland (6 February 1939 – 7 June 2017) was a Norwegian singer.
He was born in Stavanger, Norway.
He was known for his version of the song "Tio tusen röda rosor" by Thore Skogman.
It was the biggest hit for Høiland.
Accompanied by Finn Våland on piano, he made his debut at Cafe Inger in Stavanger in 1957, followed by his record debut "Det vil komme av seg selv"/"Dormi-dormi-dormi" (1958), on Columbia.
These were Norwegian 78 records.
mic.no Jan Høiland profile
Ragnhild Queseth Haarstad (4 April 1939 – 6 June 2017) was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.
She was born in Grue, Norway.
She was Minister of Local Government and Regional Development (Norway) from 1997 through 1999.
The Brenne is a river in eastern France.
It is a right tributary of the Armançon river and flows through the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is  at Montbard in the Côte-d'Or department.
The Brenne starts in the commune of Sombernon, at an elevation of about , at about  to the west of Dijon.
It flows to the northwest and joins the Armançon river between the communes Buffon and Montbard at an elevation of about  above sea level.
The Brenne flows through 1 region (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) and 1 department (Côte-d'Or).
The river flows through the communes:
Sombernon
Aubigny-lès-Sombernon
Grosbois-en-Montagne
Vitteaux
Pouillenay
Venarey-les-Laumes
There are only 2 important tributaries, and both join the Brenne on the right side: the Oze and the Ozerain rivers.
Banque Hydro - Station H2442340 - La Brenne à Montbard
Jill Singer (1957 – 8 June 2017) was an Australian journalist, columnist and television presenter.
She was born in Korumburra, Victoria.
Singer began her career in journalism as an ABC radio trainee in 1984.
She eventually became a senior reporter for The 7.30 Report on ABC and later presented the Victorian edition of Today Tonight on the Seven Network.
She also presented for The 7.30 Report, The Arts Show, 2-shot and People Dimensions (ABC TV).
Singer was the executive producer of ABC TV's national morning news and current affairs program First Edition.
She wrote a weekly column for Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper between 1997 and 2012, and lectured in television journalism at RMIT University in Melbourne.
She made regular appearances on The Conversation Hour (ABC 774) and on Sky News Australia's Melbourne Report.
Profile on The Australian Women's Register
Brief ABC Art Show biography
Crikey on Today Tonight
Marcelo Alejandro Horacio Guinle (September 28, 1947 – June 8, 2017) was an Argentine Justicialist Party politician.
He served as a Senator for Chubut Province from 2001 through 2015.
He was born in Santa Fe, Argentina.
From 2003 through 2006, he served as Provisional President of the Argentine Senate.
Before serving in the senate, Guinle served as Mayor of Comodoro Rivadavia from 1995 through 1999.
Senate profile
The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is a national warning system in the United States put into place on January 1, 1997 (approved by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in November 1994), It pops up on your tv, radio, or phone for example if a tornado comes it will be on the news, radio, or phone and when it is over the national weather service will say you can come out.
The most serious alert that can be given out over the EAS is an Emergency Action Notification.
When an EAN is issued, a voice will say the following whilst watching TV or listening to the radio; "We interrupt our programming.
This is a national emergency."