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Her family ruled Transylvania as an independent region within the Hungarian kingdom.
She was well-educated, beautiful and wealthy.
She was also virtually untouchable as a member of the Bathory family.
She may have been a vicious female serial killer.
It is impossible to know what  part of her story is fact and what part is fiction.
Her gruesome legend has become a part of folklore.
She is the central character in a number of books, plays and movies.
As the "blood countess", she has often been compared to another fictional character, Count Dracula.
Some scholars now argue that Báthory was not a murderer but instead may have been the victim of a political betrayal.
According to her legend, she was supposed to have tortured and killed over 650 servant girls.
It also claimed she bathed in human blood.
That, after hearing of all the deaths and tortures going on in her castle, the countess and her servants were put on trial.
Her servants were said to have been executed.
Báthory herself was walled up in a room in her own castle.
There were only slits for air and food.
She was found dead three and a half years later.
After her death, the story of the evil countess began.
In movie
In 2008 a movie was made about her called Bathory starring Anna Friel.
The movie suggested she did not spend her time bathing in blood.
It was a rumor spread by those who were after her wealth.
Countess Dracula - Elizabeth Bathory (part 1); YouTube
Countess Dracula - Elizabeth Bathory (part 2); YouTube
Charles Y.J.Gh.
Michel (born December 21, 1975 in Namur) is a Belgian lawyer and politician of the Mouvement réformateur.
From October 11, 2014 through October 27, 2019, he was the Prime Minister of Belgium.
Michel Jr. studied at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the University of Amsterdam.
He successively worked as a lawyer in Brussels.
Biography at De Standaard
Mouvement réformateur (Belgium) politicians
People from Namur
Prince Louis of Orléans, "Prince of Condé" (Louis Philippe Marie Léopold; 1845 – 24 May 1866 was a French prince given the title of Prince of Condé at birth.
He died in Australia in 1866 at age 20.
He was born on 15 November, 1845 at the Château de Saint Cloud outside Paris.
He was the eldest son of Henri d'Orleans, Duke of Aumale and his wife Princess Carolina Augusta of the Two Sicilies.
Through his father Louis was he was a grandson of Louis Philippe I. As a result of this Louis was a "Prince of Orléans" at birth.
He was later given the courtesy title of Prince of Condé.
Following the French Revolution of 1848, he and his parents fled to England.
He was educated at the "Royal High School" in Edinburgh.
He was also the first member of a royal house to visit the Australian continent.
This is where he died after catching a cold.
He was eventually buried at the Royal Chapel of Dreux in France.
15 November 1845 – 24 May 1866 His Royal Highness The Prince of Condé Prince of Orléans.
Dana Air Flight 992 was a scheduled passenger flight from Abuja to Lagos, Nigeria.
The aircraft was a McDonnell Douglas MD-83.
On July 3, 2012, both engines stopped working.
The aircraft crashed into a neighborhood in Lagos.
All 153 people on-board the flight died.
Ten people on the ground also died.
Bocas del Toro (meaning "Mouths of the Bull") is a province of Panama.
The province is in the northwestern part of the country, bordering Costa Rica.
The provincial capital is the city of Bocas del Toro on Colón Island.
During colonial times, Bocas del Toro was part of the Veraguas province.
When the country was part of Colombia, the government made the district of Bocas del Toro in 1834.
In 1850, Bocas del Toro became part of Chiriquí but later was made part of the Colón province.
On 16 November 1903, Bocas del Toro was separated from the Colón province and became one province.
In 1941, it was divided in two districts, Bocas del Toro and Crimamola.
In 1970, the district of Bocas del Toro became the district of Changuinola, the Bastimentos district was eliminated and three new districts were created.
The limits of the districts were changed in 1997 when the Ngäbe-Buglé comarca was created.
The Bocas del Toro province borders the Caribbean Sea to the north, Limón Province of Costa Rica to the west, Chiriquí Province to the south, and Ngäbe-Buglé Comarca to the east.
The Sixaola river forms part of the border with Costa Rica.
Bocas del Toro province has an area of .
The province includes the Bocas del Toro Archipelago, a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea; the main islands of the archipelago are:
Colón, , where is the city of Bocas del Toro, the provincial capital;
Popa,
Bastimentos,
Cayo Agua,
Solarte,
Carenero,
The national parks in the province are "Isla Bastimentos National Marine Park" (), which contains most of Bastimentos islands and some smaller nearby islands, and "La Amistad International Park" (), which spans the Costa Rica–Panama border.
Bocas del Toro contains most of the Panamanian section of the park, which covers .
The Costa Rican section of the park covers .
The people of the province are known as Bocatoreños (women:Bocatoreñas).
The Bocas del Toro province had a population, in 2010, of 125,461, for a population density of  inhabitants/km2.
The Bocas del Toro province is divided in four districts, which are divided into 30 corregimientos.
The new district of Almirante was created on 8 June 2015 with territory of the Changuinola district.
The main economic activity in the mainland of the province is farming, with plantain as the main commercial crop.
In the islands, the main activities are fishing and tourism.
Marta Becket (August 9, 1924 – January 30, 2017) was an dancer, choreographer and painter.
She performed for more than 40 years at her own theater, the Amargosa Opera House in Death Valley Junction, California.
The 2000 documentary movie about Becket's life, Amargosa won a 2003 Emmy Award for cinematographer Curt Apduhan, in addition to the movie's numerous festival awards and nominations.
James Si-Cheng Chao (; born December 29, 1927) is a Chinese-American businessman and philanthropist.
His daughter, Elaine, is the 18th and current United States Secretary of Transportation.
He is the founder of the Foremost Group, a New York-based shipping, trading, and finance enterprise.
The James S.C. Chao Scholarship is named after him.
Active philanthropists, Chao and his wife, Ruth Mulan Chu, established the Mulan Foundation in 1984 to provide scholarships to help students in the U.S. and China access higher education.
Chao has served for more than a decade as Chairman of both the Chiao-Tung University Alumni Association in America and the Chiao-Tung University Alumni Foundation of America from 1988 to 1999.
Chao married Ruth Mulan Chu in 1951.
Chu died in 2007 from lymphoma.
They immigrated to the United States in 1961.
Chao Family Foundations
Foremost Foundation
Harvard Gazette
John Kenneth Wetton (12 June 1949 – 31 January 2017) was a British singer-songwriter and bass guitarist.
He was born in Willington, Derbyshire.
He rose to fame with bands Mogul Thrash, Family, King Crimson, Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry, Uriah Heep, and Wishbone Ash.
He was known for playing the bass guitar.
Wetton died in his sleep at his home in Bournemouth, Dorset on 31 January 2017 from colon cancer.
He was survived by his wife, Lisa and son, Dylan.
Official Asia Reunion Website
Philip Michael Bilden (born 1964) is an American business leader.
He is a private equity pioneer in Asia.
Bilden is also a national security and cybersecurity advocate, and philanthropist.
Bilden was nominated to serve as the 76th Secretary of the Navy by President Donald Trump on January 25, 2017.
He withdrew his nomination on February 26, 2017.
James Brien "Jim" Comey, Jr. (born December 14, 1960) is an American lawyer.
He was the 7th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from September 4, 2013 until May 9, 2017 when he was fired by President Donald Trump.
Comey was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from January 2002 to December 2003, and later, the United States Deputy Attorney General, from December 2003 to August 2005.
As Deputy Attorney General, Comey was the second-highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), and ran its day-to-day operations.
Comey was born in Yonkers, New York.
He grew up in Allendale, New Jersey.
He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1982, majoring in chemistry and religion and later from the University of Chicago with a Juris Doctor.
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (2013–2017)
Investigation on Hillary Clinton and 2016 election
Comey was responsible for overseeing the FBI's investigation of the Hillary Clinton email controversy.
His role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, particularly with regard to his public communications, was highly controversial.
His decisions have been regarded by many analysts, including Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight, to have likely cost Clinton the election.
Dismissal
Comey was fired by President Donald Trump on May 9, 2017 reportedly days after Comey asked increased funding from the Justice Department for the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.
The Justice Department called the New York Times report that Comey asked for more funding "totally false".
In a statement by the White House, they released a statement saying that "removing Comey will help bring the Russia investigation to end" quickly and rapidly, and that it would be ended soon.
Comey and his wife Patrice Failor are the parents of five children.
He was raised in a Roman Catholic household.
Department of Justice Farewell Address
James B. Comey – White House Biography
James B. Comey Professional Biography, United States Department of Justice
Transcript of James Comey's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, May 15, 2007
"Intelligence Under the Law", a speech delivered by James Comey to the National Security Agency on Law Day, May 20, 2005
Profile on Columbia Law School
E. Ahamed (29 April 1938 – 1 February 2017) was an Indian politician.
He served as Minister of State for External Affairs in the Manmohan Singh government from 2004 through 2014.
He represented the Malappuram Lok Sabha constituency of Kerala and is the National President of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) from 2009 until his death in 2017.
He was born in Malappuram, Kerala.
Members of Fourteenth Lok Sabha - Parliament of India website
Filostrato is a poem by 14th-century Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio.
It tells about Troilo's love for Criseyda.
The historical importance comes from two reasons.
One reason is that it is one of the first long poems written in ottava rima.
The second is that it was a source for Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.
Ottava rima is a strophe built of eight lines and rhymed abababcc.
Alcun di Giove sogliono il favore
ne’ lor principii pietosi invocare,
altri d’Apollo chiamano il valore;
io di Parnaso le Muse pregare
solea ne’ miei bisogni, ma Amore
novellamente m’ha fatto mutare
il mio costume antico e usitato,
po’ fui di te, madonna, innamorato.
Boccaccio's poem was based on Roman de Troie by Benôit de Sainte Maure, Historia troiana by Guido delle Colonne, a similar story by Binduccio dello Scelto and Historia Troiae by Filippo Ceppi.
Giovanni Boccaccio, Il Filostrato, Parigi 1798.
Filostrato di Giovanni Boccaccio at Italian Wikisource.
Concha Ibáñez Escobar, also, Conxa Ibáñez (born 1926) is a Catalan painter and writer.
She is known as a landscape artist.
She has painted scenes in Catalonia, Castile, Andalusia, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Venice, Greece, Maghreb, Cuba, New York City.
Etel Adnan (24 February 1925 – 14 November 2021) was a Lebanese-American Feminist writer, poet, essayist, and visual artist.
In 2003, Adnan was named "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today" by the academic journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.
Besides her literary works, Adnan worked on visual works in a variety of media, such as oil paintings, movies and tapestries, which have been exhibited at galleries across the world.
She lived in Paris and Sausalito, California.
Adnan openly identifies as lesbian.
She was openly a lesbian.
Adnan died in Paris on 14 November 2021, at the age of 96.
Website of Etel Adnan
Translated excerpt from Sitt Marie Rose
Culturebase (in German)
Anne Mullin Burnham, Reflections in Women's Eyes, 1994, Saudi Aramco World
She was known for informing on at least 53 people from the Danish resistance movement during the Second World War.
It resulted in the early communist resistance groups being dismantled and many of their members being sent to concentration camps.
Bartram informed on her brother, husband and close friends.
Bartram was given the death penalty after the war but was later pardoned and the sentence was changed to life in prison.
In 1956 she was released and moved to Halland in Sweden where she lived under her married name.
Bartram's was announced on 31 January 2017.
She had died at her home in Halland, aged 92.
Grethe Bartram – biography in Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon
Storstikkeren – Chapter 10 in Erik Haaests book, Udyr – eller hvad from 1977 in an updated e-version from 2006.
Myter, Mordet i Højbjerg, Marie Lock-Hansen, Forlaget Din Bog
Neil McGill Gorsuch (born August 29, 1967) is an American judge and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since taking office on April 10, 2017.
Before, he served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from  August 8, 2006 through April 9, 2017.
On January 31, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Gorsuch to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to fill the seat left vacant after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
On April 3, the Senate Judiciary committee approved his nomination with a 11-9 vote.
On April 7, 2017, the Senate confirmed Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court with a bipartisan 54–45 affirmative vote with three Democratic Senators joining all of the Republican Senators.
He was sworn in on April 10, 2017.
Gorsuch was born in Denver, Colorado.
His mother, Anne Gorsuch Burford, served as head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency during the Ronald Reagan administration from 1981 through 1983.
Gorsuch graduated from the Georgetown Preparatory School and received a B.A. from Columbia University (where he was the founder and first chief editor of alternative newspaper The Fed and won a Truman Scholarship).
He earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School and Doctorate of Legal Philosophy from Oxford University.
Before joining the Tenth Circuit, Gorsuch had been a Deputy Associate Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice since 2005.
From 1995–2005, Gorsuch was in private practice with the law firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel.
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (2006–2017)
Gorsuch was nominated by President George W. Bush on May 10, 2006 to replace Judge David M. Ebel, who took Senior status in 2006.
Gorsuch was confirmed by voice vote by the U.S. Senate on July 20, 2006.
Gorsuch was Bush's fifth appointment to the Tenth Circuit.
He resigned on April 9, 2017 to serve in the Supreme Court.
Associate Justice to the United States Supreme Court (2017–present)
On January 31, 2017, President Trump announced his nomination of Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
Trump formally transmitted the nomination to the Senate on February 1, 2017.
Hearings and vote
On April 6, 2017, Democrats filibustered (prevented cloture) the confirmation vote of Gorsuch, after which the Senate Republicans invoked the "nuclear option" and removed the option of a filibuster for Supreme Court nominees.
Swearing in
The Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts administered the first oath of office in a private ceremony at 9:00 a.m. at the Supreme Court.
At 11:00 a.m., Justice Anthony Kennedy administered the second oath of office in a public ceremony at the White House.
Gorsuch and his wife, Louise, have two daughters, Emma (born 1999) and Belinda (born 2001).
They live in Boulder, Colorado.
"A Reply to Raymond Tallis on the Legalization of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia" Neil Gorsuch, September 17, 2007
"The Legalization of Assisted Suicide and the Law of Unintended Consequences" Neil Gorsuch, 2004
"The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia" Neil Gorsuch, 2009
"2016 Sumner Carnary Memorial Lecture: Of Lions and Bears, Judges and Legislators, and the Legacy of Justice Scalia"  Neil Gorsuch, 2016
National Review article on litigation written by Gorsuch
"Easy confirmation ahead for Gorsuch?"
Denver Post, June 21, 2006
"Gorsuch wins Senate confirmation," Denver Post, July 20, 2006
Frank Joseph Pellegrino (May 19, 1944 – January 31, 2017) was an American actor, restaurateur and writer.
He was best known for his roles in Goodfellas, Law & Order and The Sopranos.
He was the co-owner of the restaurant Rao's in New York City.
He also wrote cookbooks.
Pellegrino was born in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.
His son, Frank "Frankie" Pellegrino Jr., was also a restaurateur.
Pellegrino died from lung cancer on January 31, 2017 in Manhattan.
David Burhani (17 November 1990 – 30 January 2017) was a Tanzanian footballer.
He played as a goalkeeper for Prisons, Mbeya City, Maji Maji and Kagera Sugar of the Tanzanian Premier League.
David Burhani at Footballdatabase
A side chain in organic chemistry is a chemical group.
It is attached to the molecule's "main chain" or backbone.
A side chain is also known as a pendant chain.
John Norman Mather (June 9, 1942 – January 28, 2017) was an American mathematician.
He was known for his work on singularity theory and Hamiltonian mechanics.
He worked at Princeton University.
He studied at Princeton and Harvard University.
Bharati Mukherjee (July 27, 1940 – January 28, 2017) was an American writer.
She was a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
She was known for her books about the experiences of being an immigrant.
She was well known for her book Jasmine (1989).
Mukherjee was born in Calcutta, West Bengal, India.
She later studied in the U.S. and Canada.
She was married to writer Clark Blaise.
Mukherjee died from problems caused by rheumatoid arthritis and takotsubo cardiomyopathy on January 28, 2017 in Manhattan.
Elias "Eli" Zelkha (May 4, 1950 – January 8, 2017) was an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and professor.
He was the inventor of ambient intelligence, an idea from computer science to create an environment of machines that meaningfully interact with people.
He studied at Colgate University and Stanford University.
Zelkha was born in Tehran, Iran and he was of Jewish faith.
He was married to Alice and had three children.
Tabor or tabret () refers to a portable snare drum played with one hand.
The word "tabor" is simply an English variant of a Latin word meaning "drum" It has been used in the military as a marching instrument.
It has also been used in parades.
Queenstown () is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island.
It has a population of 13 200 (2015).
The town is built around an inlet called Queenstown Bay on Lake Wakatipu.
It has spectacular views of nearby mountains.
These include The Remarkables, Cecil Peak, Walter Peak, Ben Lomond and Queenstown Hill.
Sandy Gandhi (born Sandra Aranha; 28 January 1958 – 1 February 2017) was an Australian comedian and columnist.
She was based in Byron Bay, New South Wales.
She called herself "Australia's Most Easterly Indian".
She was best known for her stand-up comedy based on an Indian character she acted as.
She was also an entertainment editor for The Echo.
She appeared on Australia's Got Talent.
Gandhi was born in New Delhi, India.
She grew up in Bangalore and Melbourne.
Roger "Deke" Leonard (18 December 1944 – 31 January 2017) was a British rock guitarist.
He began his career in the 1960s.
He was best known a member of the bands Man and Iceberg.
He was born in Llanelli, south Wales.
Rhondda or Rhondda Valley is a former coal mining community in Wales.
The area is actually two valleys: the larger Rhondda Fawr valley (mawr large) and the smaller Rhondda Fach valley (bach small).
The singular term 'Rhondda Valley' and the plural 'Rhondda Valleys' are both commonly used.
Rhondda Fawr
The larger of the two valleys, the Rhondda Fawr, extends from Porth and rises through the valley until it reaches Blaenrhondda, near Treherbert.
The villages that make up the Rhondda Fawr are:
Blaencwm a district of Treherbert.
Blaenrhondda a district of Treherbert.
Cwm Clydach a community.
Cwmparc a district of Treorchy.
Cymmer a district of Porth.
Dinas Rhondda a district of Penygraig.
Edmondstown a district of Penygraig.
Gelli a district of Ystrad
Glynfach a district of Cymmer
Llwynypia a community.
Pentre a community.
Penygraig a community
Porth a community that sees itself as the unofficial capital of the Rhondda, mainly due to its geographic location.
Ton Pentre a district of Pentre.
Tonypandy a community.
Trealaw a community.
Trebanog a district of Cymmer
Trehafod the most southernmost and smallest of the Rhondda Valley communities.
Treherbert a community.
Treorchy the largest community in either of the valleys.
Tynewydd a district of Treherbert
Williamstown a district of Penygraig.
Ynyswen a district of Treorchy.
Ystrad a community.
Rhondda Fach
The Rhondda Fach is the smaller of the two valleys.
Villages include Wattstown, Ynyshir, Pontygwaith, Ferndale, Tylorstown and Maerdy.
The settlements that make up the Rhondda Fach are as follows:
Blaenllechau a district of Ferndale.
Ferndale a community.
Maerdy a community.
Penrhys a district of Tylorstown.
Pontygwaith a district of Tylorstown.
Tylorstown a community.
Stanleytown a district of Tylorstown.
Wattstown a district of Ynyshir.
Ynyshir a community.
Porth is a village in the Rhondda Valleys, Wales.
Porth is at the joint of the Rhondda Fawr and Rhondda Fach, Porth sees itself as the capital of the Rhondda.
On 11 April 1877 the Tynewydd Colliery was the scene of a mine disaster that led to a mine rescue operation following which four first-class and twenty-one second-class Albert Medals for Lifesaving were awarded.
A build-up of water in old Cymmer Colliery resulted in flooding of the Tynewydd mine.
Only fourteen of 100 miners employed at the mine were working underground at the time of the accident.
Four of the trapped miners were rescued after eighteen hours.
There are schools in Porth.
Porth Infants for 3-6 yrs old.
Porth Juniors for 6-11 yrs old.
Porth County Community School for 11-18 yrs old (opened in 1973).Michael Sheen (the Welsh actor) visited PCCS in May 2009.
Cymmer is a village in the Rhondda Valley Wales.
Cymmer is in the lower Rhondda Valley about half way between Treorchy and Pontypridd.
Before coal mining, not many people lived in Cymmer.
Cymmer was one of the first villages within the Rhondda Valley.
The Lewis colliery had many examples of the pithead gear in South Wales Rhondda Heritage Park now has the only pithead gear in the Rhondda.
In 1847 George Insole opened his first mine in Cymmer.
In 1855 he opened a second pit in Cymmer near the old pit.
The Cymmer Mining Explosion 1856
Tuesday 15th July 1856 at the Old Pit in Cymmer, there was an explosion which was Britain’s largest mining accident at that time.
One hundred and sixty men and boys lowered down the shaft to begin their shift when the explosion took place.
114 people were killed.
The explosion was caused by miners carrying open flames which lit pockets of gas.
Important Buildings in Cymmer
Cymmer chapel The earliest independent Chapel in the Rhondda appointed its first Minister in 1752.
Little is known of its earlier history although it is known to have been made in 1740.
St John Church is in a prominent position on the hillside above the earlier settlement of Cymmer centred round the Cymmer Chapel.
Cymmer is on the A4119 road half a mile from its junction with the A4058 road.
Ynyshir is a village in Rhondda, Wales which neighbours Porth.
Its name means "Long Meadow" or "Long Island".
Before the 18th century only a few farms were found in Ynyshir.
In 1845 the first deep coal mine was made in the village, it was the first coal mine to be opened in the Rhondda Fach valley.
Ynyshir was part of the British coal empire.
Ynyshir village began along the west side of the Rhondda Fach river on the land owned by Ynyshir farm, later followed by the building of houses east of the river on land owned by Maendy and Penrhiw farms.
By 1900 much of the village which you can see today was in place.
Important Buildings
In 1882, the first boys school was made.
Then, a girls and infants school was made in 1903.
In 2009 the new modern £5.5 million Ynyshir Community Primary School located on Llanwonno Road was opened; this was to replace the previous Ynyshir Junior School and later in 2010 also replaced the old Ynyshir Infants School off Gynor Place.
The first head teacher of the school was Miss Morgan and the present head teacher is Miss Phillips.
Ynyshir has bus links.
The nearest city is Cardiff.
Ynyshir has no train stations.
The closest train station is Porth.
Ynyshir's main A road is the A4223 that was built in 2005.
Klootschieten ("Ball shooting" in English) is a sport played in the Netherlands and Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany.
In the game, players try to throw a ball (called a kloot) as far as they can.
One version is played on frozen fields during the winter.
A heavier ball is used when played on streets.
A third version is played while standing still.
The game is often played by teams of from three to five players.
Two teams play at a time.
Each team acts as the other's jury.
Klootschieten in Ootmarsum; YouTube
German Americans is a ethnic group of American citizens of German ancestry.
According to the United States Census Bureau, in 2013 there were 46 million Americans who claimed some German ancestry.
In parts of the Northern United States they outnumber any other ethnic groups.
In Wisconsin, for example, 41% of the population is German-American.
They are the largest ethnic group in the United States.
There are also Germans Americans of Danube Swabians Background
Étienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba (14 December 1932 – 1 February 2017) was a Congolese politician.
He was the leader of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS).
He served as the Prime Minister of Zaire three times: in 1991, 1992–1993 and 1997.
He was born in Kabeya Kamwanga, Belgian Congo.
Paul-Eerik Rummo (born 1942) is an Estonian politician and poet.
His father, Paul-Eerik Rummo, was a writer.
He studied philology at Tallin University.
He worked as literary critic for some theatres.
He was a secretary of Estonian Writers Society from 1987 to 1989.
In 1994 he joined Estonian Reform Party.
He became a member of parliament.
The he was a minister of culture in cabinet of Mart Laar.
He published many books of poetry, for example Ankruhiivaja (Anchor Heaver, 1962).
Paul-Eerik Rummo reading poetry.
Paul-Eerik Rummo's poems.
Dan Spiegle (December 12, 1920  – January 28, 2017) was an American comic book and cartoon artist.
He was born in Cosmopolis, Washington.
He was best known for comics based on movie and television characters from a group of companies including Dell Comics, DC Comics and Marvel Comics.
He was known for illustrating the Jonah Hex and Scooby-Doo comic books.
Gabriel Perrodin (August 17, 1937 – January 28, 2017), known as Guitar Gable, was an American Louisiana blues, swamp blues and swamp pop singer-songwriter and musician.
He was best known for recording the original version of "This Should Go On Forever", and his part in the vibrant swamp blues and pop scene in Louisiana in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Aleksander Jackowski (19 January 1920 – 1 January 2017) was a Polish cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, and art critic.
He worked at the University of Warsaw until his death in 2017.
Jackowski was born in Warsaw, Poland.
During World War II, Jackowski was sent by the Soviet government to serve with the General Berling Army in Serbia.
He returned to Warsaw in 1945 after the war ended.
He graduated from a university in Warsaw.
Until 1948, he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the director of the Minister’s Cabinet managing the Press and Information Department.
In 1948, he became the deputy editor in chief of the weekly “Odrodzenie” (Renascence).
From the end of 1949, he was the Deputy Director and Head of the Department of Folk and Naïve Art at the Art Institute in the Polish Academy of Sciences.
On August 2, 2005, Air France Flight 358 was an Airbus A340 that skidded of the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport, due to the pilots deploying the thrust reversers too slowly.
Despite 12 people substantiating injuries, all 309 people on board the plane survived.
Robert Thomas "Bobby" Freeman (June 13, 1940 – January 28, 2017) was an African-American soul and R&B singer-songwriter and record producer.
He was best known for his two Top Ten hits, the first in 1958 on Josie Records called "Do You Want to Dance" and the second in 1964 for Autumn Records, "C'mon and Swim".
Freeman was born in Alameda County, California.
He studied at Mission High School.
He began his career in 1956 when he was 16 years old.
Bobby was well known and liked as a local figure in Richmond California in the early 60's.
Freeman died in San Francisco, California on January 28, 2017, aged 76.
Marcel Prud'homme (November 30, 1934 – January 25, 2017) was a Canadian politician.
He was a member of the Senate of Canada for La Salle, Quebec from 1993 until his resignation in 2009.
Before, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of Canada from 1963 through 1993 for Saint-Denis.
He served as a Liberal in the MP from 1963 through 1993 and as an Independent from 1993 until his death in 2017.
Official Senate biography
Desmond Herbert Carrington (23 May 1926 – 1 February 2017) was a British actor and broadcaster.
He was best known for his weekly evening show, The Music Goes Round, on BBC Radio 2.
His show went out on Sundays for 23 years from 1981 to 2004, when it moved to Tuesdays – then to Fridays.
He retired in his final broadcast on 28 October 2016.
He was known for playing Dr. Chris Anderson in the British soap opera Emergency – Ward 10.
Sir Kenneth Duncan "Ken" Morrison CBE (20 October 1931 – 1 February 2017) was an English businessman.
He was the Life President and former chairman of Morrisons (Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC), the fourth largest supermarket group in the United Kingdom since 1956.
Leeds University
Abdulkadir Kure (26 February 1956 – 8 January 2017) was a Nigerian politician.
He served as Governor of Niger State from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007.
Kure was born in Lapai, Niger State.
He was married to Zainab Abdulkadir Kure.
José Antonio Alonso Suárez (28 March 1960 – 2 February 2017) was a Spanish politician and judge.
He was a member of the Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).
He was the Minister of the Interior from 2004 to 2006 and the Minister of Defence from 2006 to 2008.
He was born in León, León.
Alonso died from lung cancer on 2 February 2017 in Madrid.
Albano Bortoletto Cavallin (25 April 1930 – 1 February 2017) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop.
He was born in Lapa, Paraná.
Bortoletto Cavallin became a priest in 1953.
He served as the Bishop of Guarapuava from 1986 to 1992.
He later served as the Archbishop of Londrina from 1992 until his retirement in 2006.
He died from surgical problems on 1 February 2017 in Londrina, Paraná.
Stig Rudolf Grybe (18 July 1928 – 1 February 2017) was a Swedish actor and comedian.
He was best known for his voice work and dubbing.
He also appeared in original Swedish productions.
He appeared in 22 Swedish movies between 1947 and 2011.
Pete's Dragon (1977)
The Smurfs (1981)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1982)
DuckTales (1987)
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)
A Goofy Movie (1995)
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996)
Kalle Stropp, Grodan Boll och deras vänner (1956)
Dunderklumpen! (
Maria (1975)
Charlie Strapp and Froggy Ball Flying High (1991)
The Dog Hotel (2000)
Ramón Martínez Pérez (6 February 1929 – 6 January 2017), also known as Romaní, was a Spanish footballer.
He played as a midfielder for Sevilla and Granada of La Liga.
He also played for CD Málaga and made two appearances for the national team in 1952.
Ramón Martínez Pérez at Footballdatabase
Ahmed Aboutaleb, Arabic: أحمد أبو طالب , (born August 29, 1961 in Beni Sidel) is a Dutch politician of Moroccan descent.
He is a member of the Labour Party (PvdA) and the current mayor of Rotterdam.
Aboutaleb migrated to the Netherlands in 1976.
He studied telecommunication and worked as a journalist and a civil servant.
He was also director of Forum, an organisation aimed at multicultural issues.
Website of Rotterdam
Dutch Muslims
David Copperfield is a novel by Charles Dickens.
Like his other novels, it first came out as a series in a magazine under the title The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery.
The story is told in the first person.
Some of the greatest Dickens characters appear in the novel, such as the evil clerk Uriah Heep.
Other villains in David's life are his brutal stepfather, Edward Murdstone, and Mr. Creakle, the headmaster of the boarding school that Murdstone sends him to.
The evil characters are balanced by the good characters, such as Peggotty – the faithful servant of the Copperfield family and a lifelong companion to David.
Others include David's aunt Betsy Trotwood and her friend Mr. Dick.
Agnes Wickfield is a close friend of David since childhood, and later becomes David's second wife and mother of their children.
Mr. Micawber is a gentle and friendly man who goes to debtors' prison, but in the end makes a success as a sheep farmer in Australia.
He is based on Dickens's own father.
The Dadou is a river in southwestern France, right tributary of the Agout river.
It flows through the Tarn department, in the Occitanie region.
The Dadou river has a length of  and a drainage basin with an area of .
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is  at Montdragon in the Tarn department.
Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Montdragon (49 years)
The source of the Dadou is on the Monts de Lacaune, in the southern Massif Central, in the commune of Saint-Salvi-de-Carcavès, Tarn department, at an altitude of about .
The Agout flows, in general, to the west through the Tarn department and 26 communes.
Some of the communes are Montdragon, Graulhet, Briatexte, Lacaze, Rayssac, Saint-Julien-du-Puy, Vénès, Saint-Genest-de-Contest, Le Masnau-Massuguiès, Saint-Salvi-de-Carcavès, Laboutarie, Lombers, Réalmont, Saint-Lieux-Lafenasse, Saint-Antonin-de-Lacalm, Le Travet, Teillet, Arifat, Mont-Roc, Paulinet, Giroussens, Saint-Jean-de-Rives, Ambres, Saint-Gauzens, Puybegon, Montredon-Labessonnié.
Finally, it flows, as a right tributary into the Agout river at Ambres, near Saint-Jean-de-Rives, in the Tarn department, at  of altitude.
Dadounet (15 km)
Bardes (15 km)
Rieu de l’Aze (15 km)
Bezan (12 km)
Ambias (12 km)
Oulas (24 km)
Lézert (17 km)
Assou (37 km)
Agros (19 km)
Banque Hydro - Station O4774010 - Le Dadou à Montdragon (Synthèse)
Oran (Arabic: وهران‎‎  - Wahrān, Berber: ⵡⴰⵀⵔⴻⵏ - Wahren) is a city in western Algeria, situated at the coast.
In 2010, about 853,000 people were living there.
Oran is the second biggest city in Algeria after Algiers.
It is well-known because of its business activities and culture.
Arabic and French Wikipedias.
903 establishments
The Boston accent is a local accent of Eastern New England English.
It is spoken specifically in the city of Boston, its suburbs, and much of eastern Massachusetts.
Eastern New England English also traditionally includes New Hampshire and Maine.
The accent originated with the Puritans who came to the area from East Anglia in the 17th century.
It was also influenced by 19th and 20th century immigrants from Ireland.
This resulted in the distinct r-dropping (locally called "wicked natural") dialect found in modern costal Massachusetts.
Non-rhoticity
The traditional Boston accent is non-rhotic, particularly in the early 1900s.
Recent studies have shown that younger speakers use more of a rhotic accent than older speakers from the Boston region.
The Boston accent is pronounced with a “broad A”.
The letter "r" is dropped only in certain words like 'car' and 'hard'.
For example, a person might “pahk the cah in Hahvahd yahd.”
blinkers turn signals on a car (also U.K., Australia and New Zealand).
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation has displayed signs reminding motorists to "Use Yah Blinkah", a phonetic representation of the phrase as spoken with a Boston accent.
bubbler (or water bubbler) drinking fountain, pronounced "bubblah".
This term is also used in Wisconsin and Australia.
frappe a beverage mixed with milk and ice cream, a.k.a.
milkshake (in most other places), or if in Rhode Island (and especially if coffee flavored), called a "cabinet"
Hoodsie A small cup of ice cream, the kind that comes with a flat wooden spoon (from HP Hood, the dairy that sells them.)
Also (very offensive slang), a teenage girl.
Elsewhere occasionally known as a dixie cup.
jimmies Chocolate ice cream sprinkles Also common in the Philadelphia area.
packie liquor store (from "package store")
pissah means something akin to "great" either realistically or sarcastically.
Also spelled 'pissa'.
This is from the word "pisser" with a Boston accent, but used as an adjective.
Occasionally  combined with "wicked" to yield "wicked pissah".
rotary traffic circle.
These full-speed circular intersections are common in Greater Boston.
wicked  Generally means "very" or "super" and is used as an adverb. "
That hockey game was wicked awesome!"
It can also be used to infer tones and moods, for example, "Ugh, that guy is wicked slow."
spa A convenience store that has tonic on tap and (usually) sells sandwiches.
tonic soft drink; known elsewhere as soda
whiffle a crew cut or male haircut done with electric clippers.
Perfect Boston Accent; YouTube
The city flag of Portland, Oregon, consists of a green field on which is placed a white four-pointed star from which radiate blue stripes, each bordered by L-shaped yellow lines.
Narrow white lines separate the blue and yellow elements from each other and from the green background.
Officially the flag has a height of 3 feet and a length of 5 feet.
City ordinance 176874, adopted September 4, 2002, designates the design and what it means.
Green stands for "the forests and our green City"; yellow for "agriculture and commerce"; blue for "our rivers".
Portland straddles the Willamette River near its joining with the Columbia River.
City Ordinance 186794, adopted September 3, 2014, updated the proportions and the Pantone color specifications: White, PMS 279 (Blue); PMS 349 (Green); and PMS 1235 (Yellow).
The flag was designed in 1969 by a longtime Portland resident, noted graphic designer R. Douglas Lynch (1913–2009).
The version of the flag adopted at that time included, over Lynch's objections, a dark blue canton containing the city seal in yellow and white; in 2002 Lynch and fellow members of the Portland Flag Association persuaded the city council to simplify the design to better reflect his original intent.
The novel is set in a small rural village from Gipuzkoa, Basque Country where the ETA established their totalitarian regime.
This situation affects two families that were friends in the past, but not in the present.
Patria at Planeta de Libros
(eus) Arinas, Txema (Berria 10/11/2016), 'Eppur si muove' Retrieved 25/08/2018.
(eus) Zaldua, Iban (Oharrak & Hondarrak Posted 2017/03/08 "“Patria” gelditzeko etorri da (+ Berehalako plan estrategiko baterako proposamena)".
Retrieved 25/08/2018.
(es) Zaldua, Iban (https://vientosur.info/ 22 march 2017), "La literatura, ¿sirve para algo?
Una crítica de Patria, de Fernando Aramburu".
Retrieved 25 august 2018.
2016 books
Princess Françoise of Monaco (Marie Françoise Thérése; 20 July 1728 – 20 June 1743) was a member of the House of Grimaldi and a daughter of the-then reigning Princess Louise Hippolyte of Monaco.
She was known as "Mademoiselle d'Estouteville".
Brief life
Given the names Marie Marie Françoise Thérése, she was the youngest daughter of the-then reigning Princess Louise Hippolyte of Monaco and her consort Prince Jacques I of Monaco.
She known as "Mademoiselle d'Estouteville" taken from one of her father's dukedoms.
She never married and died as a result of smallpox in Paris.
Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva (née Casa; 7 April 1950 – 3 February 2017) was the second wife of President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
She served as the First Lady of Brazil from 2003 to 2010.
She was born in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo.
She had four children, three of which were fathered by Lula.
First Ladies of Brazil
Predrag Matvejević (7 October 1932 – 2 February 2017) was a Bosnian Croatian writer and political activist.
His book, Mediterranean Breviary: A Cultural Landscape (1987), was a bestseller in many European countries.
It was also translated into more than 20 languages.
He was born in Mostar.
Jeffrey "Jeff" Sauer (March 10, 1943 – February 2, 2017) was an American ice hockey player and coach.
He was the head coach at the Colorado College from 1971 to 1982 and the University of Wisconsin from 1982 to 2002.
He was born in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin.
Cornelius "Cor" van der Hoeven (12 May 1921 – 1 February 2017) was a Dutch footballer.
He played as a midfielder for DWS and Ajax.
He also made three appearances with the national team.
Imljani (Имљани), is a village in Central Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Skender Vakuf Municipality.
It consists of a few hamlets spreading on the Undervlašić's plateau, above the canyons of Ilomska and Ugar rivers.
Actually, it covers the sub-plateau in the area of the angle between Korićanske stijene and Ugarske stijene ("Rocks of Ugar").
Ethnic composition, 1991 census
Skender Vakuf
Ugar
Korićanske stijene
{{Infobox royalty|princess
| name   =Marie Gabrielle Éléonore
| image     = Marie-Éléonore Gabrielle de Bourbon-Condé.jpg
| title     = Abbess of Saint-Antoine-des-Champs
| caption = Marie Gabrielle Éléonore de Bourbon as an abbess by an unknown artist.
| birth_place = Palace of Versailles, France
| death_place = Villejuif, Paris
| full name=Marie Anne Éléonore Gabrielle de Bourbon
| father         =Louis, Duke of Bourbon, Prince of Condé
| mother = Louise Françoise de Bourbon
| issue = None| spouse = Never married| religion = Roman Catholicism
| signature =1732 signature of Marie Gabrielle Éléonore de Bourbon (cropped).png
Marie Anne Éléonore de Bourbon (Marie Anne Éléonore Gabrielle; 22 December 1690 – 30 August 1760) was a granddaughter of King Louis XIV and was a nun at the Abbey of Saint-Antoine-des-Champs.
Baptised with the names "Marie Anne Gabrielle Éléonore", she signed as Marie Gabrielle Éléonore (see right).
Born at the Palace of Versailles the oldest daughter of Louis, Duke of Bourbon, Prince of Condé, Monsieur le duc and his wife Louise Françoise de Bourbon As the result of her father, she had the rank of a Princess of the blood, which entitled her to the style of Her/Your Serene Highness.
A younger sister of hers was The Princess of Conti.
In her youth she was known by both Mademoiselle de Condé and Mademoiselle de Bourbon, being the oldest princess of the Condé branch of the House of Bourbon, and a brother of hers acted as Prime Minister of France during the reign of Louis XV
On 6 May 1706 at the age of 16, she was made a nun at the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud in Anjou.
She was later made the Abbess of Saint-Antoine-des-Champs in 1723 and was known as Madame de Bourbon.
Saint-Antoine-des-Champs had been an abbey since the 13th century.
As the result of being a nun, Marie Gabrielle Éléonore never married and had no children as a result.
She died in the Parisian suburb of Villejuif and was buried at the Abbey of Saint-Antoine-des-Champs.
22 December 1690 – 6 May 1706 Her Serene Highness Mademoiselle de Bourbon.<ref>As well as Mademoiselle de Condé</ref>
1723 – 30 August 1760 Her Serene Highness Madame de Bourbon.
Debra Baptist-Estrada is a port commander from Belize.
Estrada was Port Commander of Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport, the only international airport in Belize.
For 20 years, she worked in the immigration department.
In 2015 she helped U.S. officials to find a smuggling organization.
The organization was smuggling drugs and people to the United States and Europe.
Then she was transferred to the northern border of Belize.
She worked as an immigration officer at the Santa Elena Border in Corozal.
Belizean people
Sara Hossain is a lawyer from Bangladesh.
Hossain received a bachelor's degree from Oxford University in 1988, and a Barrister-at-Law degree from Middle Temple in 1989.
She joined the Supreme Court of Bangladesh in 1992, working in the areas of constitutional law, public interest, and family law.
Hossain helped write the laws on violence against women.
She also worked on court cases against  fatwas by village courts, forced veiling of women, and non-medical test for virginity in sexual assault cases.
Bangladeshi lawyers
Flash Airlines Flight 604, a Boeing 737-300, was a flight from Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, to Paris, France, via Cairo.
On January 3, 2004 the plane crashed into the Red Sea just moments after take-off at Sharm El Sheikh International Airport.
All 135 passengers and 13 crew members on-board the plane died.
The cause the crash remains disputed and suggested to be spatial disorientation from the Captain.
The crash remains Egypt's deadliest air-disaster, until the bombing of Kogalymavia Flight 9268, with 224 deaths.
The crash is also the worst crash of a Boeing 737-300.
Fatemeh Ekhtesari (Farsi: فاطمه اختصاری )(born 1984 or 1985) is a poet from Iran.
She is known for poems about Iranian women.
Fatemeh Ekhtesari was arrested with Mehdi Mousavi in 2013.
They were put in solitary confinement and interrogated.
In January 2015, they were released on bail.
Ekhtesari received a prison sentence of 11½ years and 99 lashes.
Ekhtesari's writing was approved by the Ministry of Islamic Guidance.
However, Ekhtesari said she shook hands with male participants at a poetry event in Sweden.
This is illegal in Iran.
Ekhtesari made the statement during interrogation, but during the trial, she denied the charges.
More than 100 poets signed a letter asking for a pardon.
In 2016, Ekhtesari and Musavi escaped from Iran.
Asim Basu (; 30 November 1935 – 1 February 2017) was an Indian theatre artist and director, painter and playwright.
He was known for his set design work in Ollywood movies and designing Oriya book covers and movie posters.
He was awarded at the 2012 Parampara Awards.
He was born in Balasore district, Odisha.
Louis Patrick "Lou" Rowan (2 May 1925 – 3 February 2017) was an Australian Test cricket match umpire.
He umpired a total of 25 Test matches between 1963 and 1971.
He also umpired the first One Day International match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 5 January 1971.
He was also a police detective in Queensland.
He was born in Murwillumbah, New South Wales.
Lou Rowan at ESPNcricinfo
Hassan Joharchi (‎; 28 July 1968 – 3 February 2017) was an Iranian actor.
He began his career in the 1980s.
He was known for roles in  Oo yek freshteh bood (2005), Shoghe parvaz (2012) and Ensanha (2012).
Joharchi died from a cardiac arrest due to liver disease on 3 February 2017 in Tehran.
Elliot Sperling (January 4, 1951 – January 29, 2017) was an American historian and academic.
He was one of the world's leading historians of Tibet and Tibetan-Chinese relations.
He was also a well known human rights activist.
He spent almost thirty years at Indiana University's Department of Central Eurasian Studies.
Kneževo is situated between the rivers Ugar, Vrbas and Vrbanja and surrounded by the mountain masiff of Čemernica, Ranča in the west, Vlašić in the south and Ježica in the north-east.
The municipality has an official altitude of , but really ranges from .
Kneževo is  southeast of Banja Luka by the M56 motorway.
In Imljani and Javorani, Roman basilica have been found, as well as the Roman road from Servitium (Banja Luka) to Levsaba (Travnik) in the vicinity were also found.
Tombstones of the Stećak type date back to the 14th and 15th centuries, when the area was part of the Kingdom of Bosnia.
In 1463 the town became part of the Ottoman Empire and Islam was to become the dominant religion of the region.