the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
Jalal Zolfonun
Mahmoud Zoufonoun
Houshang Shokat هوشنگ شوکت
Modern/traditional
Zohreh Jooya
Mohammad Nouri
Ramin Rahimi
Shanbehzadeh Ensemble
Chaartaar
Western classical / Persian symphonic
Bijan Mortazavi
Shahrdad Rohani
Sadegh Nojouki
Nima A Rowshan
Kazem Alemi
Samin Baghtcheban
Farhad Fakhreddini
Hormoz Farhat
Fereidoun Farzaneh
Cyrus Forough
Morteza Hannaneh
Aminollah Hossein
Mehdi Hosseini
Hooman Khalatbari
Parviz Mahmoud
Lotfi Mansouri
Alireza Mashayekhi
Nader Mashayekhi
Kayvan Mirhadi
Reza Najfar
Soheil Nasseri
Houshang Ostovar
Ahmad Pejman
Ali Rahbari
Behzad Ranjbaran
Heshmat Sandjari
Loris Tjeknavorian (Loris Cheknavarian)
Reza Vali
Arshia Samsaminia
Vigen Derderian
Ebi (Ebrahim Hamedi)
Hassan Sattar
Shahram Shabpareh
Emad Ram
Shadmehr Aghili
Andy & Kouros
Dariush Eghbali
Fereidoun Farrokhzad
Aref Arefkia
Maziar
Habib
Faramarz Aslani
Farhad Mehrad
Googoosh (Faegheh Atashin)
Sami Beigi
Homeyra
Hayedeh
Mahasti
Afshin Moghadam
Sirvan Khosravi
Omid Hajili
Mohsen Yeganeh
Farman Fathalian
Arian
Alireza Assar
Mohsen Chavoshi
Farzad Farzin
Roya Arab
Benyamin Bahadori
Leila Forouhar
Siavash Ghomeyshi
Afshin (Afshin Jafari)
Mahvash
Mansour
Siavash Ghomayshi
Reza Sadeghi
Ehsan Khajeh Amiri
Mohsen Namjoo
Ali Lohrasbi
Shahkar Binesh Pazhooh
Pyruz
Sami Yusuf
Susan Roshan
Shakila
Hassan Shamaizadeh
Javad Yasari
Farzane Zamen
Mehdi Yarrahi
25band
Hangi Tavakoli
Mina Assadi
Laleh
Molana
Shahyar Ghanbari
Maryam Heydarzadeh
Leila Kasra
Rock/Metal
Kourosh Yaghmaei
Azhirock
Kamil Yaghmaei
Martik Kanian
Take It Easy Hospital
Arashk
Arsames
Barad
Kavus Torabi
Salim Ghazi Saeedi
The Yellow Dogs Band
Shahin Najafi
Antikarisma
Ali Azimi
Ashkan Kooshanejad
Leila Arab
DJ Aligator
Steve Naghavi
Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia
Rap/Hip Hop
Hichkas
Zedbazi
Erfan
Leito
Alireza JJ
Amir Tataloo
Sogand
Salome MC
Hamid Sefat
Ardeshir Farah
Rana Farhan
Cymin Samawatie
Shahin and Sepehr
Ziba Shirazi
A   in the sport of Sumo is the highest rank any wrestler (Rikishi) can attain.
The word means "Horizontal Rope" and it comes from one of the symbols that Yokozuna wear; a thick rope (綱 tsuna) which is worn around the waist.
It is a sign of their rank.
This rope can be very heavy, weighing around .
It is not worn for fights, but only for the wrestler's entrance ceremony into the ring at the start of a tournament.
The rope is similar to that which is used in Shinto religion for purification and to mark off sacred areas of the temple.
Yokozuna are stars in Sumo.
They are in many ways, the public face of Sumo and their behaviour is watched very closely.
Clarke James Carlisle (born 14 October 1979) is an English former footballer.
He played as a defender between 1997 and 2013.
He played for many teams including Blackpool, Queens Park Rangers, Leeds United, Watford and Burnley.
Carlisle was born in Preston.
He is of Dominican ancestry.
Clarke Carlisle career stats at Soccerbase
Ernesto Sabato - he got the award, Legion of Honour; physicist; he died in 2011
Al Rosen, Jewish-American baseball player
Beatrice Rosen, American-French actress
Daphne Rosen, Jewish-American pornographic actress
Elsa-Marianne von Rosen, Swedish ballet dancer, choreographer and actress
Magnus Rosén, Swedish bassist
Michael Rosen, Jewish-English children's novelist and poet
Sam Rosen, Jewish-American sportscaster
Yisrael Rosen, Israeli rabbi and journalist
Rosen Plevneliev, former President of Bulgaria
Niels Henrik Abel (5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829) was a Norwegian mathematician.
The Abel Prize (Abel-prisen) is named after him.
La Punt-Chamues-ch is a municipality of the district of Maloja in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Dompierre is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud.
It is found in the district of Broye-Vully.
On 15 September 2017, at around 8:20 am BST (07:20 UTC), an explosion occurred on a District line train at Parsons Green tube station, in London, England.
Twenty-nine people were injured and later treated in hospital.
The main injuries were burn injuries.
The incident is being treated by the Metropolitan Police as a terrorist attack.
It was one of several attacks to occur on British soil in 2017 which are being treated as terrorism.
The bomber had placed the device in a white plastic bucket inside a shopping bag, according to images and videos posted on social media just after the attack.
Wires were visible hanging out, as well as a black towel.
Reports also indicate the device had a timer attached.
Explosions in London
Marcel Paul Herriot (18 May 1934 – 14 September 2017) was a Roman Catholic bishop.
He was born in Moussey, Vosges, France.
Herriot was ordained to the priesthood in 1960.
He served bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Verdun, France, from 1987 to 1999.
He then served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Soissons from 1999 to 2008.
Fiche  French official website
Fiche from catholic-hierarchy.org
Dwijen Sharma (May 29, 1929 – September 15, 2017) was a Bangladeshi naturalist and science writer.
He was awarded Bangla Academy Award in 1987 and Ekushey Padak in 2015 by the Government of Bangladesh for his work in language and literature.
In 1962 he left Barisal to join the faculty of Notre Dame College, Dhaka and worked until 1974.
Then, he moved to Moscow to work for Progress Publishers as a translator.
Peter Stephen Paul Brook, CH, CBE (born 21 March 1925) is an English theatre and movie director.
He has been based in France since the early 1970s.
He has won multiple Tony and Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Praemium Imperiale, and the Prix Italia.
Official Peter Brook website - Site officiel
Dan David Prize laureate 2005
Peter Brook at Internet Off-Broadway Database
Peter Brook profile by Experimental Theatre Organization
Review of Brook's Mahabharata in Caravan Magazine
Master's Degree in Urban Scenography in Barcelona
Ata Kandó (born Etelka Görög; 17 September 1913 – 14 September 2017) was a Hungarian-Dutch photographer of Jewish descent.
She was born in Budapest, Hungary.
Beginning her photography practice in the 1930s with children's photography, Kandó later worked as a fashion photographer, photographed refugees and travelled to the Amazon to photograph landscapes and indigenous people.
In the 1930s she stayed two times in Paris.
During the war she lived in Hungary, but after the war she returned to Paris.
She moved to the Netherlands in 1954.
In 1959, she won a silver medal in Munich for fashion photography and then in 1991, received the Pro Cultura Hungarica Medal.
This was followed in 1998 with the Imre Nagy Prize and that same year, she and her husband received the Righteous Among the Nations, awarded by Israel for saving Jews during the Holocaust.
Bruce Herbert Glover (born November 2, 1932) is an American character actor.
He is best known for his role of the assassin Mr. Wint in the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever.
Giuseppina Projetto-Frau (30 May 1902 – 6 July 2018) was an Italian supercentenarian.
She was the oldest living person in Italy since the death of Marie Josephine Gaudette on 13 July 2017.
Projetto was the oldest living person born in Italy since the death of Emma Morano on 15 April 2017, as Gaudette was born in the United States.
Projetto was born in La Maddalena.
In 1946, she married Giuseppe Frau, a widower with three children.
Projetto lived in Tuscany with her daughter-in-law and grandchildren.
Projetto died on 6 July 2018 at the age of 116.
Marie-Josephine Clarice Gaudette (25 March 1902 – 13 July 2017) was an American-born Italian supercentenarian.
She was the oldest living person in Italy from the death of Emma Morano, who was the oldest living person in the world and the oldest Italian person ever on 15 April 2017 until her own death three months later.
A nun known as Mother Cecilia, she lived in the Italian convent from 1958 until her death and was considered "the world's oldest nun".
She lived in Canada and France before settling in Italy.
Gaudette died on 13 July 2017, aged 115 years, 110 days.
Rhys Dean Hoskins (born March 17, 1993) is an American professional baseball first baseman and left fielder for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB).
He made his MLB debut in 2017.
Before playing for the Phillies, he played college baseball for the Sacramento State Hornets.
The Independence Day Award is the highest state award given by the government of Bangladesh.
It is also termed Independence Award, Swadhinata Padak, and Swadhinata Puroskar.
The award was introduced in 1977 and since then it has been given to Bangladeshi citizens or organizations in recognition of substantial contribution to one of many fields, including the War of Liberation, the Language Movement, education, literature, journalism, public service, science and technology, medical science, social science, song, games and sports, fine arts, rural development, and other areas.
Each awardee receives a gold medal, a certificate of honour, and a sum of cash.
The amount of the cash reward was originally taka 20 thousand, but later in 2004, it was increased to taka one lac (.10 million in Bangladeshi currency).
List of awardees , Cabinet Division, Bangladesh Government
Bangladeshi awards
Laax () is a municipality in the district of Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Official Tourism website
Luven is a former municipality of the district of Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
It is part of the new municipality of Ilanz/Glion.
Ruschein is a former municipality in the district of Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Schluein is a municipality of the district Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Official website of Schluein
Department of Amazonas  (, ) is a department in the southern Colombia.
The capital is Leticia.
The name comes from the Amazon River that drains much in the department and the rainforest that covers a large part of the department.
The Department of Antioquia is one of the 32 departments of Colombia.
It is located in the central northwestern part of Colombia with a narrow section that borders the Caribbean Sea.
The capital is Medellín.
Sucre is a department in the Caribbean Region of Colombia.
The capital is Sincelejo.
Basil Gogos (March 12, 1929 – September 13, 2017) was an Egyptian-born American illustrator.
He was born in Alexandria, Egypt.
He was best known for his  portraits of movie monsters which appeared on the covers of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine in the 1960s and 1970s.
Gogos At VANGUARD
Official website of Savognin
Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh, DFC (15 April 1919 – 16 September 2017) was an Indian Air Force Officer.
He served as Chief of the Air Staff from 1964 to 1969.
He was born in Lyallpur, Punjab, British India ().
After retiring from the IAF, he served as a diplomat, politician and advisor to the Indian government.
In 2002, he became the first and only officer of the Indian Air Force to be promoted to five-star rank as Marshal of the Indian Air Force, equal to the army rank of Field Marshal.
In 1971 (after his retirement) Singh was appointed as the Indian Ambassador to Switzerland.
He concurrently served as the Ambassador to the Vatican.
He was also appointed as the High Commissioner to Kenya in 1974.
Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Singh - Indian Air Force Official Website
Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Singh
Book on Arjan Singh: Marshal of The Indian Air Force (Hardcover)
Book review on Arjan Singh: Marshal of The Indian Air Force
Article on Marshal of The Indian Air Force Arjan Singh
Photograph of Arjan Singh today
Lieutenant Governors of Delhi
Henflingen is a former commune.
Portage County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio.
In 2010, 161,419 people lived there.
The county seat is Ravenna.
Albert Speer (; 29 July 1934 – 15 September 2017) was a German architect and urban planner.
He was the son of  Albert Speer  (1905–81) who was Adolf Hitler's chief architect.
In 1984 he founded the company Büro Albert Speer & Partner in Frankfurt am Main.
He was responsible for the design of Expo 2000 in Hanover, design of the Shanghai International Automobile City, and the central axis in Beijing created while serving as lead designer for the 2008 Olympics.
AS&P – Albert Speer und Partner GmbH – Profile
Keely Smith (born Dorothy Jacqueline Keely, March 9, 1932 — December 16, 2017) was a Grammy Award-winning American jazz and popular music singer.
She performed and recorded many times in the 1950s with then-husband Louis Prima, and throughout the 1960s as a solo-artist.
With her former husband Prima, their songs included Johnny Mercer's and Harold Arlen's "That Ol' Black Magic", which was a Top 20 hit in the US in 1958.
At the 1st Annual Grammy Awards in 1959, Smith and Prima won the first Grammy for Best Performance by a Vocal Group for "That Ol' Black Magic".
NPR: "Keely Smith: A Swingin' Icon of Early Vegas"
Interview by KUOW-FM's Amanda Wilde
Stefan Kendal Gordy (September 3, 1975, Los Angeles, California) is better known for his scene, Redfoo's art was an American Singer, songwriter, rapper, DJ, record producer, dancer, and the son of an American record executive, the founder of Monotow Records, Berry Gordy.
In 2006, he created the band LMFAO with its worldwide success in 2011 with the album Sorry Party Rocking before they were removed in 2012.
In 2016, he released his album Party Rock Maison.
Nabeel Qureshi (April 13, 1983 – September 16, 2017) was an American Christian apologist writer and speaker, converted from Islam to Christianity.
Qureshi was a speaker with Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) and the author of three books, Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity (Zondervan, February 2014), Answering Jihad: A Better Way Forward (Zondervan, March 2016), and No God But One—Allah or Jesus (Zondervan, August 2016).
Peter Lassally (born 1933) is a German-born American executive television producer and Holocaust survivor.
He is a former Carson Productions executive.
He was the executive producer of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Late Night with David Letterman,  the Late Show with David Letterman and the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
Jaspillite, or jaspilite, is a chemical rock formed similar to chert.
It is usually iron rich.
It also has the name jasper taconite.
Jaspillite is typically a layered mixture of hematite and quartz.
It is common in the banded iron formation rocks of Proterozoic and Archaean age in the Canadian shield of North America.
Mindat.org data
Bautista Goyel Álvarez Domínguez (1933 – 16 September 2017) was a Spanish nationalist politician and historian.
He was born in San Amaro, Spain.
He served as the President of the Galician People's Union from 1964 through 1977.
María Cristina Arango Vega (15 October 1928 – 15 September 2017) was the widow of the 23rd President of Colombia, Misael Pastrana Borrero.
She served as First Lady of Colombia from 1970 to 1974.
She was also the mother of the 30th President Andrés Pastrana Arango.
She was born in Bogota.
First Ladies of Colombia
During his four years in office, Pastrana was cautiously progressive.
He attempted to boost national savings as a way of moving away from dependency on foreign investment and credit, and he extended pensions rights for many people.
Ted Christopher (June 5, 1958 – September 16, 2017), sometimes called "Teddy" Christopher, was an American racing driver.
He was born in Plainville, Connecticut.
Christopher also raced in NASCAR's Nextel Cup, Busch, and Craftsman Truck Series.
He is best known for competing in NASCAR's Whelen Modified Tour, where he has over 40 victories and a championship in 2008.
He is also well known for his success on the 1.058 mile New Hampshire Motor Speedway where Christopher has won five Camping World East Series events and 5 Whelen Modified Tour events.
Driver statistics at Racing-Reference.com
Mitchell Flint (June 27, 1923 – September 16, 2017) was an American lawyer and a veteran aviator.
He was a U.S. Navy Fighter pilot during World War II, and later served as an American Volunteer pilot in Israel's first fighter squadron during its War of Independence.
He was born in Kansas City, Missouri.
Carl Duering (born 29 May 1923) is a German-born British actor.
He is best known role is as Dr. Brodsky in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 movie A Clockwork Orange.
As an actor, he is best known for his performances in villainous roles, such as Lt.
Col Podovsky in Rambo: First Blood Part II, General Orlov in the James Bond movie Octopussy, Victor Maitland in Beverly Hills Cop and Adolf Hitler in the TV mini-series War and Remembrance.
He also played Det.
Tom in the 1971 movie A Clockwork Orange.
Marcelo Luiz Rezende Fernandes (November 12, 1951 – September 16, 2017) was a Brazilian journalist and television presenter.
He began his career as a sports journalist in Rio de Janeiro in the coverage of several major games in the 1970s.
Rezende worked at Rede Globo for 23 years as a reporter, where he was hired to present the Linha Direta police program until December 2000.
The last program he worked in was called Cidade Alerta (Alert City) and was presented on RecordTV.
Caballero Blanco was born on 30 September 1913 in Bogotá.
She married Alfonso López Michelsen on 23 October 1938.
They had three children: Alfonso, Juan Manuel, and Felipe.
Caballero Blanco turned 100 in September 2013.
She died on 13 August 2019 in Bogotá at the age of 105.
Alfonso López Michelsen (30 June 1913 – 11 July 2007) was the 24th President of Colombia from 1974 to 1978.
López was the son of former two time president of Colombia, Alfonso López Pumarejo.
He was born and raised in Bogotá.
In 1974, López was selected by the Liberal Party in as their candidate for president after defeating former president Carlos Lleras Restrepo in the party presidential primaries.
He won the general election by a large margin against the Conservative Party candidate Álvaro Gómez Hurtado and the ANAPO candidate, María Eugenia Rojas.
In his inaugural speech on August 7, 1974, López was mostly remembered for calling the border disputed area in the Gulf of Venezuela by its native name "Gulf of Coquibacoa" given by the wayuus.
On September 14, 1977 in Bogotá a bloody riot started in all sections of the city, the riot was called The National Civic Strike.
The two days riot left a death toll of 80 people, and 2000 people injured.
Upon the end of his term in 1978, he again became the leader of Liberal Party.
He ran for president again in 1982, but was defeated by the Conservative Party candidate, Belisario Betancur.
MOIR: the six lies of President Lopez
EL TIEMPO: Alfonso López Michelsen 1913-2007
The office of president was established upon the ratification of the Constitution of 1819, by the Congress of Angostura, convened in December 1819, when Colombia was "la Gran Colombia".
The first president, General Simón Bolívar, took office in 1819.
His position, initially self-proclaimed, was ratified by Congress.
Presidencia de la Republica de Colombia
Georgetown University - Requisites to be President of Colombia
She is the President of Fundación Solidaridad por Colombia, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the condition of impoverished Colombian families through educational and nutritional programs for children, the disabled and the poor.
Balcázar Monzón is a member of the Colombian Liberal Party.
He served as Member of both the Senate and the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, presiding over both chambers of Congress.
He also served in the administrations of President Guillermo León Valencia as the 48th Governor of Valle del Cauca, and as the 16th Minister of Agriculture, and in the administration of President Julio César Turbay Ayala as the 18th Ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom, and Non-Resident Ambassador to Algeria.
Émile Idée (born 19 July 1920) is a former French professional road bicycle racer.
He was born in Nouvion-le-Comte, France.
Idée is a five-time winner of the Critérium International, a record shared with Raymond Poulidor and Jens Voigt.
He finished in second place in the 1948 Paris–Roubaix.
Official Tour de France results for Emile Idée
Christopher W. Wallace (born October 12, 1947) is an American television anchor and political commentator.
He is the host of the Fox Broadcasting Company/Fox News Channel program Fox News Sunday.
Wallace has been with Fox News since 2003.
As a previous moderator of Meet the Press on NBC, Wallace is the only person to date to have served as host/moderator of more than one of the major Sunday morning political talk shows.
Milton French-Stewart (born February 20, 1964), known professionally as French Stewart, is an American actor and comedian.
He is best known for his role as Harry Solomon on the 1990s sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun and for his role as Chef Rudy on the sitcom Mom.
Xiaolongbao (小笼包) are small steamed buns, originally from the Jiangnian region in China, especially connected to Shanghai and Wuxi.
Traditionally they are filled with pork, but this can be mixed with other things, like crab meat and roe (eggs).
Modern versions of these buns are often contain other meats, seafood or vegetarian fillings.
The buns are wrapped in a dough, which sometimes gets bigger by rising (called a leavened dough), or they're wrapped in a dough which doesn't do this (called an unleavened dough).
The buns are then steamed over boiling water to cook them.
It is possible to buy deep frozen Xiaolongbao worldwide, normally in special shops or supermarkets which sell ingredients for Chinese cooking.
Herrlisheim-près-Colmar is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.
Huron County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio.
In 2010, 59,626 people lived there.
The county seat is Norwalk.
1815 establishments in Ohio
Sandusky County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio.
In 2010, 60,944 people lived there.
The county seat is Fremont.
Helen Bates "Penny" Chenery Tweedy (January 27, 1922 – September 16, 2017) was an American sportswoman.
She was born in New Rochelle, New York.
Chenery bred and raced Secretariat, the 1973 winner of the Triple Crown.
In addition to breeding Secretariat, Chenery bred Saratoga Dew, who became the first New York-bred horse to ever win an Eclipse Award when the filly was voted the 1992 American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly.
John Tilley (1571 - 1621) was a Mayflower passenger and one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact.
He died during his first winter in America.
Secretariat (March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who, in 1973, became the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.
He was born in Caroline County, Virginia.
His record-breaking win in the Belmont Stakes, where he left the field 31 lengths behind him, is widely known as one of the greatest races of all time.
He was breaded and owned by Penny Chenery.
During his racing career, he won five Eclipse Awards, including Horse of the Year honors at ages two and three.
He was elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1974.
The official Secretariat website
Sports Illustrated Top 100 Moments in Sports – short video on Secretariat's Triple Crown (#13 on list)
Classic Photos of Secretariat from Sports Illustrated
ESPN Sports Century – # 35 – Secretariat
Kentucky Derby.com – Secretariat – 1973
ESPN Classic – ESPN Classic story on 1973 Belmont – November 19, 2003
Eugenio Bersellini (10 June 1936 – 17 September 2017) was an Italian football player and manager.
He was born in Borgo Val di Taro, Kingdom of Italy.
He was known for playing with Brescia Calcio, Monza and Lecce.
He managed Como, Internazionale and Torino.
Robert George Holland (19 October 1946 – 17 September 2017) was an Australian cricketer.
He was born in Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia.
Holland, who spent the majority of his cricketing life in Newcastle, was a late bloomer, and his Test debut aged 38 made him the oldest Australian debutant in more than half a century.
Holland was part of the team that won the Sheffield Shield in 1982–83, 1984–85 and 1985–86.
Holland finished his first class career with a season with Wellington in New Zealand’s domestic league.
In April 2017, Hollan was diagnosed with brain cancer.
He later died from the disease on 17 September 2017 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia at the age of 70.
Cricinfo article on Bob Holland
Petr Šabach (August 23, 1951 – September 16, 2017) was a Czech novelist.
He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
He studied at Charles University.
Šabach was known for his novels Jak potopit Austrálii (1986), Hovno hoří (1994), Zvláštní problém Františka S. (1996), Putování mořského koně (1998), Babičky (1998), Opilé banány (2001), Čtyři muži na vodě (2003), Ramon (2004), Občanský průkaz (2006), Tři vánoční povídky (2007) and Škoda lásky (2009).
Dance is known for his roles as Tywin Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones, Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Sardo Numspa in The Golden Child (1986), Jonathan Clemens in Alien 3 (1992), Benedict in Last Action Hero (1993), the Master Vampire in Dracula Untold (2014), Lord Havelock Vetinari in Terry Pratchett's Going Postal (2010), Legantir in Justin and the Knights of Valour (2013) and Alastair Denniston in The Imitation Game (2014).
Dance was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on 17 June 2006.
Joan Ganz Cooney (born Joan Ganz; November 30, 1929) is an American television producer.
She is one of the founders of Sesame Workshop (originally Children's Television Workshop or CTW), the organization famous for the creation of the children's television show Sesame Street, which was also co-created by her.
Joan Ganz Cooney at wowOwow
Joan Ganz Cooney   Video produced by Makers: Women Who Make America
Aleksandar Vučić (, born 5 March 1970) is a Serbian politician.
He has been the President of Serbia since 31 May 2017.
He is also the chairman of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).
Before he became president, Vučić served as Prime Minister of Serbia from 2014 until 2017.
Vučić served as Minister of Information from 1998 to 2000 and later as Minister of Defence from 2012 to 2013, as well as First Deputy Prime Minister from 2012 to 2014.
In April 2017, Vučić was elected President of Serbia with 55% of the vote in the first round, thus avoiding a second round.
He became president from 31 May 2017, taking over from Tomislav Nikolić.
His was sworn in on 23 June 2017.
The United States Solicitor General is the person appointed to represent the federal government of the United States before the Supreme Court of the United States.
The current Solicitor General, Elizabeth Prelogar on October 28, 2021.
The Solicitor General determines the legal position that the United States will take in the Supreme Court.
In addition to supervising and conducting cases in which the government is a party, the office of the Solicitor General also files amicus curiae briefs in cases in which the federal government has a significant interest in the legal issue.
The office of the Solicitor General argues on behalf of the government in virtually every case in which the United States is a party, and also argues in most of the cases in which the government has filed an amicus brief.
Noel John Francisco (born August 21, 1969) is an American attorney and the 47th Solicitor General of the United States from September 19, 2017 to July 3, 2020.
He served as Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States.
Francisco was nominated to be Solicitor General of the United States in the Donald Trump administration in March 2017.
He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate by a vote of 50-47 on September 19, 2017.
He took office the same day.
Profile  at the United States Department of Justice website (updated February 3, 2017)
Charles Fried (born April 15, 1935) is a Czech-born American jurist and lawyer of Jewish descent.
He served as United States Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1989.
He is a professor at Harvard Law School and has been a visiting professor at Columbia Law School.
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations with special protection.
They are protected because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural importance.
Areas are usually protected by law.
The law can be local, from the country of the protected area, or even internationally.
Protected areas are important for biodiversity.
They often provide an area safe from hunting or changes to the environment.
This provides a safe habitat for threatened and endangered species.
They are also important to protect naturally formed areas, like the Grand Canyon, from damage by humans.
There are many types of protected areas.
One type is a marine protected area.
A marine protected area is for seas, oceans, estuaries or large lakes.
Northeast Greenland National Park is an example of a protected area.
The park protects a large variety of animals, such as musk oxen, walrus, and King Eider.
Another example of a protected area is the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.
This area is protected because it is an important archaeological site.
Veronica Estelle "Bonnie" Angelo (January 29, 1924 – September 17, 2017) was an American journalist and author.
She was known for being the author of First Mothers.
During her more than twenty-five years with Time, yet served as a Washington correspondent from 1967–1978, she has reported on the White House and has covered newsmakers and events across America and the world.
Bonnie Angelo | 1998 Lifetime Achievement Award
Nutley is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 28,370.
What is now Nutley was originally incorporated as Franklin Township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 18, 1874, from portions of Belleville Township.
Nutley was incorporated as a Town on March 5, 1902, replacing Franklin Township.
New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Nutley as its 38th best place to live in its 2008 rankings of the "Best Places To Live" in New Jersey.
Micah Sierra "Katt" Williams (born September 2, 1971) is an American stand-up comedian, rapper, singer and actor.
He acted as Money Mike in Friday After Next (2002).
He also played Bobby Shaw in My Wife and Kids.
In 2007, he played Lord Have Mercy in Norbit.
Antonio Ibáñez de Alba (born  Chiclana de la Frontera, 1956) is a Spanish engineer, researcher and scientist.
He is known mainly for his project of Artificial Palm Trees in Libya for the creation of microclimates in the deser at the Great Man-Made River.
The Libyan government invested in this project nearly one billion dollars for the installation of 50,000 palm trees..
His investigations are quoted in  scientific publications as well as in the media.
Main investigations
Hurricane Jose was a 2017 Atlantic tropical cyclone.
The storm threatened the Mid-Atlantic States of Maryland, Delaware, New York and New Jersey, and the New England states of Connecticut, Rhode Island and southeast Massachusetts.
2017 in weather
A marine reserve is a type of marine protected area.
The protection is for seas, oceans, estuaries or large lakes.
Laws protect the plants and animals in a reserve.
The area is kept safe for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research.
In a marine reserve people are not allowed to take plants or animals, except for research.
This includes fishing.
People are still allowed to swim or scuba dive.
The Ningaloo Reef in Australia is an example of a marine reserve.
This reef includes six of the seven types of sea turtles in the world.
Another example is Hol Chan Marine Reserve in Belize.
Hol Chan includes coral reefs and a mangrove forest.
On September 26, 1983, just three weeks after the Soviet military had shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, Petrov was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system when the system reported that a missile had been launched from the United States, followed by up to five more.
Petrov judged the reports to be a false alarm, and his decision is credited with having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies that could have resulted in large-scale nuclear war.
Central Link is a train line in Seattle, Washington.
It runs 20 miles from the city's airport to Downtown Seattle and the University of Washington.
The train started running in 2009.
Mike Hicks (August 1937 – 7 September 2017) was a British former politician, former executive member of printers’ union SOGAT, and former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Britain from 1988 through 1998.
He was also a members of the Labour Party.
He was born in Wapping, London, England.
José Florencio Guzmán Correa (22 June 1929 – 16 September 2017) was a Chilean politician.
He was Minister of Defense from 1 August 1998 until 22 June 1999.
The Secret Life of Pets is a 2016 American movie distributed by Universal Studios and Illumination Entertainment.
The movie is all about pets.
Louis C.K. plays Max.
Eric Stonestreet plays Duke.
Kevin Hart plays Snowball.
Jenny Slate plays Gidget.
Ellie Kemper plays Katie.
Nicolaas Jouwe (24 November 1923 – 16 September 2017) was a Papuan leader.
He was elected Vice President of the New Guinea Council that governed the Dutch colony of Netherlands New Guinea.
As the president of the New Guinea Council, Jouwe was the highest ranking Papuan politician in the colony.
After the colony was ceded to the United Nations Temporary Executive Authority in October 1962 and later to Indonesia six months later, Jouwe left New Guinea for the Netherlands, where he settled in the town of Delft.
He vowed never to return to his native land if it were still occupied by Indonesia, but nevertheless resettled to West Papua in 2010 to die there.
As the third wife of Sir Warwick Fairfax she became known as Lady Fairfax upon his knighthood in 1967.
She inherited most of his vast fortune upon his death in 1987, becoming one of Australia's richest women.
Fairfax's personal wealth in 2012 was estimated by the BRW at A$418 million.
Lucy Ozarin (August 8, 1914 – September 17, 2017) was an American psychiatrist.
She served in the United States Navy.
She was one of the first women psychiatrists commissioned in the Navy, and she was one of seven women Navy psychiatrists who served during World War II.
Ozarin died in Bethesda, Maryland on September 17, 2017 of respiratory failure at the age of 103.
René Raúl Drucker Colín (15 May 1937 – 17 September 2017) was a Mexican scientist, investigator and journalist.
He worked in the fields of physiology and neuroscience.
From 1985 through 1990, he was the Director of Neuroscience at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
He served as President of the Mexican Academy of Sciences from 2000 through 2002.
Jean Plaskie (24 August 1941 – 18 September 2017) was a Belgian former football player.
He played for R.S.C. Anderlecht and the Belgium.
He played in the match Belgium-Netherlands in 1964 with 10 fellows from the Anderlecht team after the substitution of goalkeeper Delhasse by Jean Trappeniers.
William Franklin "Bill" Goodling (December 5, 1927 – September 17, 2017) was an American Republican politician.
He was born in Loganville, Pennsylvania.
He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 19th congressional district from 1975 through 2001.
The Goodling Institute
Bill Goodling's Congressional Votes at the Washington Post
official U.S. House website (archived)
Richard Vincent Allen (born January 1, 1936) was the United States National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1982, having been Reagan's chief foreign policy advisor from 1977.
He has been a fellow of the Hoover Institution since 1983.
He was a  member of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee.
Allen, Richard V. (1966).
Peace and Peaceful Coexistence.
Chicago: American Bar Association, 1966.
Allen, Richard V. (1967).
Communism and Democracy: Theory and Action.
Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1967.
Allen, Richard V. (1969).
Yearbook On International Communist Affairs 1968.
Hoover Institution Press. .
John Marlan Poindexter (born August 12, 1936) is a retired United States naval officer and Department of Defense official.
He was convicted in April 1990 of multiple felonies as a result of his actions in the Iran–Contra affair, but his convictions were reversed on appeal in 1991.
Robert Carl "Bud" McFarlane (born July 12, 1937) is an American Marine Corps officer.
He served as National Security Advisor to President of the United States Ronald Reagan from 1983 through 1985.
Official Web Site of the Partnership for a Secure America
Official Web Site of the Committee on the Present Danger
Institute of World Politics
Saliva is an American rock band from Memphis.
They were signed to Island Records.
The band was formed in 1996 and released their first album in 1997.
Nanyang is a way of writing two common Chinese place names.
Written as 南洋 (Southern Ocean)
Nanyang (region), a Chinese term for the Southeast Asian lands surrounding the South China Sea
Nanyang, Singapore, a residential precinct
Written as 南陽/南阳 (Southern Sun)
Nanyang, Henan, a prefecture-level city
Nanyang Lake, one of the Nansi Lakes in Southwestern Shandong
Towns in China
Nanyang, Shanghang County, Fujian
Nanyang, Shouning County, Fujian
Nanyang, Tanchang County, in Tanchang County, Gansu
Nanyang, Nanning, in Qingxiu District, Nanning, Guangxi
Nanyang, Xingshan County, in Xingshan County, Hubei
Nanyang, Leiyang, in Leiyang City, Hunan
Nanyang, Dafeng, in Dafeng City, Jiangsu
Nanyang, Qidong, in Qidong City, Jiangsu
Nanyang, Fufeng County, in Fufeng County, Shaanxi
Nanyang, Weishan County, in Weishan County, Shandong
Nanyang, Hangzhou, in Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Sikorsky S-92 is an American civil helicopter.
When it's used by militaries it's called H-92 Superhawk.
CH-148 Cyclone is a special variant built for Canadian services.
Grumman F11F Tiger is an American fighter jet.
It was used by the US Navy, in particular by the Blue Angels.
After September 1962 it was called F-11 Tiger.
F11F
Ásynja (plural: asynjur) refers to Norse mythology.
Female gods in Norse mythology are called Ásynja.
The male gods are called Æsir; there are 14 Æsir, and there are also 14 asynjur.
Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Zi, known for authoring Sun Tzu Suan Ching or "Sun Tzu's Calculation Classic", which contains the Chinese remainder theorem
Wu Wenjun, the Wu class and the Wu formula are named after him.
Vasiliy Mihaylovich Peskov, got the Lenin Prize; was on UNEP's list, Global 500 Roll of Honour; died
Marina Rikhvanova, got the Goldman Environmental Prize
Edward Osborne Wilson
The Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle is a statue carved out of ivory, the tusks of elephants.
The statue was made in about 1270 in France, and was made for the cathedral (or church) named the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, France.
It is 41 centimetres tall, and is a sculpture of the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus.
Morphallaxis is the when some living things regenerate or regrow tissue after the original tissue dies.
The word comes from the Greek allazein, which means to exchange.
Most tissue in Morphallaxis grows from material already present material.
Not much new tissue is created .
Hésingue is a commune.
Hettenschlag is a commune.
Hindlingen is a commune.
Hirsingue is a commune.
Ba-Bi
Bl-Bu
Hermann von Ihering (1850–1930), German naturalist
Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775–1813), German entomologist
Jan Ingenhousz (1730–1799), Dutch-born British botanist
Tom Iredale (1880–1972), English conchologist and ornithologist
Paul Erdmann Isert (1756–1789), German botanist
Ma-Mi
Mo-Mu
Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810–1892), French naturalist
Jean René Constant Quoy (1790–1869), French zoologist
Sa-So
Sp-Sy
Jakob von Uexküll (1864–1944), Estonian biologist, founder of biosemiotics
John Xantus de Vesey (1825–1894), American zoologist
William Yarrell (1784–1856), English naturalist
Floyd Zaiger (born 1926), fruit geneticist
Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743–1815), German zoologist
Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839–1904), German palaeontologist
Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797–1848), German botanist
Margarete Zuelzer (1877–1944), German biologist and zoologist
Hirtzbach is a commune.
Hirtzfelden is a commune.
Hochstatt is a commune.
Hohrod is a commune.
Holtzwihr is a former commune.
On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Porte-du-Ried.
Anglards-de-Saint-Flour is a commune.
It is in the Cantal department.
Albepierre-Bredons is a commune.
The 2017 Puebla earthquake  struck at 13:14 CDT (18:14 UTC) on 19 September 2017 with a magnitude estimated to be 7.1 on the seismic scale approximately  south of Puebla.
It has caused damage in the Mexican state of Puebla and the Greater Mexico City area, including the collapse of over twenty buildings.
The quake occurred on the 32nd anniversary of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, which killed about 10,000 people.
The 1985 quake was commemorated on its anniversary with a national earthquake drill at 11 a.m. local time, two hours before the earthquake struck.
2017 earthquake
A false alarm is an alert that is caused in error.
False alarms can happen because of a problem with a technical system (like a faulty fire alarm), or they happen because someone alerted the emergency services in error.
Many countries have laws that make causing a false alarm with bad intent (such as making hoax calls to the Police or Fire department) illegal.
If there is no bad intent, in general there is also no punishment.
List of Ekushey Padak winners in Arts
Education and research
Many electronic paper technologies keep the same text and images indefinitely without electricity.
Flexible electronic paper uses plastic for the display.
Horbourg-Wihr is a commune.
It is near Colmar.
Aspach-Michelbach is a commune of the Haut-Rhin department in France.
It was made on 1 January 2016 from the communes of Aspach-le-Haut and Michelbach.
Michelbach is a former commune.
Houssen is a commune.
Gerd Friedrich Bollmann (28 September 1947 – 17 September 2017) was a German politician.
He was born in Wanne-Eickel, Herne.
In the German Bundestag he was one of the top voted SPD members in Germany's national parliament, where he represant the Herne-Area.
Website from Gerd Friedrich Bollmann
Hunawihr is a commune.
Hundsbach is a commune.
Fostoria is a city in Ohio in the United States.
It is in Hancock, Seneca, and Wood counties.
It is 64 km south of Toledo and 140 km north of Columbus.
Hurricane Maria was a hurricane of notable status that began in the Atlantic Ocean.
It was part of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season.
The most intense tropical cyclone worldwide in 2017.
Maria was the 13th named storm and 8th hurricane of the season.
Originated from easterly waves off the west coast of Africa.
Maria became a tropical storm east of the Lesser Antilles on September 16 and quickly intensified to Category 5 before making landfall in Dominica on September 18.
The World Meteorological Organization retired the Maria name in April 2018, replacing it with Margot for the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, due to the large number of deaths and destruction in Puerto Rico.
On September 12, originated from a tropical wave that left the west coast of Africa.
It then began to develop and become more organized moving westward.
On September 16, it became a tropical depression and was 580 miles (930 km) east of Barbados.
The storm quickly became more tropical.
It became a tropical storm the same day in 84 °F (29 °C) waters, in favorable conditions of the 80 °F (26.5 °C) that tropical storms usually require.
6 hours later since becoming a tropical storm, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) named it Tropical Storm Maria.
On September 17, Maria turned to move west-northwest and quickly becomes a Category 1 hurricane.
In just 12 hours, it became a Category 5 hurricane with maximum winds of 160 mph (260 km/h) on September 18.
On the evening of September 19, Maria landed in Dominica and other islands in the Lesser Antilles.
Continues to move west-northwestward and into the northeastern Caribbean Sea.
Maria weakened slightly to a Category 4 hurricane due to land interaction with Dominica, but soon re-strengthened to a Category 5 hurricane, reaching peak intensity with winds of 175 mph (280 km/h).
Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 20, and the eye of the wind increased significantly before making landfall on the island, resulting in a slightly weakened Category 4 hurricane with maximum winds of 155 mph (250 km/h)
On September 22, Hurricane Maria began to weaken because as wind shear began to erode it.
Continues to move north-northwest and the northeast of the Turks and Caicos Islands with maximum winds of 126 mph (203 km/h).
On September 25, Maria continues to weaken as it moves along the southeast coast of the United States.
On September 27, Maria weakened to Category 1 with maximum winds of 75 mph (120 km/h), its center moved onto the coast of North Carolina, a few miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, weakened to a tropical storm the following day.
Finally, Maria moved rapidly east-northwestward as an extratropical cyclone on September 30, then dissipated in the North Atlantic Ocean 3 days later.
On the morning of September 16, the National Hurricane Center issued its first warning that the system would become Tropical Storm Maria.
Following the warnings, the government of France, Saint Lucia, and Barbados prepared for the storm.
October 2017 events
Reinach (Swiss German: Rynach) is a municipality of the district Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.
Muttenz (Swiss German: Muttez) is a municipality in Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.
Die Dorfkirche St. Arbogast in Muttenz
Lantsch/Lenz (, ) is a municipality in the district of Albula in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
81,592 people lived there in 31 December 2016.
It includes only the city of Lucerne.
Erie County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio.
In 2010, 77,079 people lived there.
The county seat is Sandusky.
Washington County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio.
In 2010, 61,778 people lived there.
The county seat is Marietta.
Butler County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio.
In 2010, 368,130 people lived there.
Wood County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio.
In 2010, 125,488 people lived there.
Hereford is a city of Texas in the United States.
15,370 people lived there in the 2010 census.
It is the county seat of Deaf Smith.
Franklin is a city in Ohio.
In 2010, 11,771 people lived there.
The Great Miami River flows through Franklin.
San Carlos is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States.
It is about halfway between San Francisco and San Jose.
28,406 people lived there in the 2010 census.
Gahanna is a city in Franklin County, Ohio, United States.
33,248 people lived there in the 2010 census.
Galion is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio.
It is in Crawford, Morrow, and Richland counties.
The population was 10,512 at the 2010 census.
Galion is the second-largest city in Crawford County, after Bucyrus.
Marietta is a city in Ohio in the United States.
14,085 people lived there in the 2010 census.
Lillian Ross (Lillian Rosovsky; June 8, 1918 – September 20, 2017) was an American journalist and author.
Ross was a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1945 until she retired in 2001.
She was known for her interviews with author J. D. Salinger.
"Nothing for Lillian Ross in William Shawn's will", observer.com
"'William Shawn - stud or saint?':
the memories of Lillian Ross and Ved Mehta"
Profile, nytimes.com
Profile, nymag.com
J.D. Salinger infosite
"Lillian Ross does Katharine Hepburn", slate.com
"'Here But Not Here: A Love Story' by Lillian Ross", old.post-gazette.com
James Henry Weldon Morwood (25 November 1943 – 10 September 2017) was an English Classicist, and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford University.
Morwood’s status as a teacher of Classics was recognised in the 1990s when he was appointed President of the London Association of Classical Teachers for 1995-6,  and subsequently President of the Joint Association of Classical Teachers (JACT) for 1999-2001.
Morwood had a long association with JACT and with its Greek Summer School, which was launched in London in 1967
Richard David Shepherd CBE FRSA FGRA (25 April 1931 – 19 September 2017) was a British artist.
He was known as one of the world's most outspoken conservationists.
Shepherd was most famous for his paintings of steam locomotives (he owned a number of them) and wildlife, although he also often painted aircraft, portraits (notably The Queen Mother) and landscapes.
His work has been extremely popular since the 1960s in limited edition print reproduction and poster form, as well as other media such as Wedgwood limited edition plates.