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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Ezhevsky (; 3 November 1915 – 15 January 2017) was a Soviet Russian statesman and politician.
He served as the minister of tractor and agricultural machinery (engineering) of the USSR from 1980 to 1988.
He was given for Order of Lenin awards.
He was born in Tulun, Irkutsk Governorate of Siberia.
Ezhevsky turned 100 in 2015.
He died on 15 January 2017 at the age of 101.
Franz Jarnach (14 October 1943 – 16 January 2017) was a German actor and musician.
He was also known by his stage name Mr. Piggi.
He was best for his role as Schildkröte in the improv comedy series Dittsche.
He appeared in the series at least 188 times between 2004 and 2014.
He was a pianist for the 1960s British beat group Lee Curtis and the All-Stars.
He appeared on the music program Beat-Club with the group twice.
He was also a member of the rock band The Rattles during the early 1990s.
Jarnach was born in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia.
His father, Philipp Jarnach (1892–1982), was a composer.
Jarnach died from a heart attack on 16 January 2017 in Hamburg.
Zdeněk Svěrák (born 28th March 1936 in Prague) is best known as a Czech actor and writer.
He is also a noted playwright and songwriter.
He is the holder of 3 Magnesia Litera awards and 3 Czech Leo awards.
He studied at the Pedagogic University and was a teacher.
After 4 years as a teacher, he started to work in Czechoslovak radio.
There he met musician Jaroslav Uhlíř and since then he collaborated with him.
Zdeněk Svěrák and Ladislav Smoljak are creators of czech most famous entertaining genious person Jára Cimrman.
They have made 13 theatre plays about him and his life.
As actor he appears in czech classic movies as: Na samotě u lesa, Marečku, podejte mi pero!,
Trhák, Tři veteráni, Obecná škola or Vratné Láhve.
He founded the Theater of Jara Cimrman in 1966.
Zdeněk's son, Jan Svěrák (*1965), is czech film director and one of 4 Czechoslovakian/Czech men who won Oscar.
In 1997, the Father and son team won an Oscar for their movie Kolja.
Zdeněk Svěrák starred in the movie.
In 2014 he was awarded the President's Prize for lifetime achievements ad the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Zdenek Sverák Biography at IMDb
Vicki Lee Lansky (née Rogosin; January 6, 1942 – January 15, 2017) was an American author and publisher.
She wrote parenting books and other advice books.
She wrote over forty books, first with Feed Me I’m Yours.
Other books she wrote include Divorce Book for Parents, 101 Ways To Tell Your Sweetheart "I Love You" and five "101 Ways" books.
Her books sold over six million copies.
Lansky was born in Louisville, Kentucky and grew up in Westchester, New York.
She had two children with her first husband, Bruce.
In 2008, she married Stephen M. Schaefer.
Lansky died from cirrhosis on January 15, 2017 in Plymouth, Minnesota.
She was 75.
The Cuvier's dwarf caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus), also called a musky caiman and dwarf caiman, is a genus of Caiman native to northern and central South America.
They are the smallest living crocodilians in South America.
They live in freshwater lakes.
It was first described by the French zoologist, Georges Cuvier, in 1807.
They grow up to  long for males and  long for females.
Cuvier's dwarf caiman weigh between  and .
They live up to 40 years.
Cuvier's dwarf caiman was first described by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier in
It is one of only two species in the genus Paleosuchus.
The Cuvier's dwarf caiman has an average length of 1.4 m (4.6 ft) for males.
The average length for females is 1.2 m (3.9 ft).
An adult weighs around 6 to 7 kg (13 to 15 lb).
It has strong body armor, which provides protection against predators.
Young dwarf caimans mainly
feed on invertebrates.
It also eats small fish and frogs.
Adults eat larger fish,
amphibians, and invertebrates, such as large molluscs.
It is listed Least concern.
Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus) feeding video; YouTube
Věra Čáslavská (3 May 1942 – 30 August 2016) was a Czechoslovakian artistic gymnast and Czech sportswoman.
She was very attractive, cheerful and popular with the general public.
Věra Čáslavská won 22 international titles between 1959 and 1968, including seven Olympic gold medals, four World titles and eleven European championship.
Čáslavská and Soviet Larisa Latynina, they are only two female gymnasts, who win the all-around gold medal at two consecutive Olympics.
In years 1964 - 1968 she wasn’t never lose out in big competition in multicontest.
She was born in Prague.
She did ballet and figure skating when she was small.
In 2015 she met Eva Bosáková and with her they started to do gymnastics.
Shortly after the 1968 Olympics, Čáslavská was married with runner Josef Odložil.
He was a silver medalist at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo.
They had ceremony at the Mexico City Cathedral.
In 1969 was born her daughter Radka and in 1974 son Martin.
In next ten years she was alone and she don’t associate with anyone.
Čáslavská lived in a nursing home.
She was treated with depression in mental home in Bohnice and added addiction on pharmaceuticals.
Fortunately in 2007 she came back with great enthusiasm and she began helping Czech athletes.
But in summer 2015 she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which next year has worsened.
In her final days she was taken to a hospital in Prague on 30 August, where she died at the age of 74.
Her funeral took place in the narrow family circle on 8 September in 2016 and her remains were cremated at the crematorium Šumperk.
A Brachistochrone curve is the fastest path for a ball to roll between two points that are at different heights.
A ball can roll along the curve faster than a straight line between the points.
The curve will always be the quickest route regardless of how strong gravity is or how heavy the object is.
However, it might not be the quickest if there is friction.
The straight line, the catenary, the brachistochrone, the circle, and Fermat Unified approach to some geodesics (from 2014)
General Heliodor Píka (July 3, 1897 Štítina – June 21, 1949 Plzeň ) was a Czechoslovakian army officer.
He is also well known as representative of Czechoslovakian anti-Nazi resistance and a victim of communism.
Heliodor Píka was born on July 3,1897 in Štítina near Opava.
His father was Ignác Píka, who was a wheelwright.
In 1915 he graduated from the Gymnasium in Opava.
Originally, he wanted to study Pharmacy.
In 1916 he was sent to the Galician front.
On July 28, 1916, he was captured by Russian units in Berestechko.
Later he joined Czechoslovakian legion.
Czechoslovak Army
In 1917 he was sent to the Western front in France.
In Le Havre he went through intensive military training.
He fought there until 1919.
In 1920 he graduated from École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr.
He became a teacher at the Military academy in Hranice.
In the 1930s, Píka acted as a military attaché to Romania and Turkey.
In 1941 he cooperated with Czechoslovakian units in USSR.
They were supported by Czechoslovakian government in exile.
He also attended the ceremonial signing of the Czechoslovak-Soviet treaty.
In 1943 he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general.
After the war, he was promoted to major general and served as Deputy Chief of Staff.
At the time of the February coup, General Píka was ill.
In March 1948, he had to stay at the military hospital in Prague.
While he was recovering, General Reicin ordered him to be arrested and interrogated.
He was falsely accused of spying and of High treason.
In January 26 to 28, 1948 he was tried and sentenced to death.
The execution took place in the prison in Plzeň on June 21, 1948.
Thanks to Milan Píka, who was Píkas son, his case was reviewed.
A military court proved that there is no single piece of evidence, which would convict him.
On December 13, 1968 he was cleared of all charges and fully rehabilitated.
Dermot Anthony Gallagher (1944 – 15 January 2017) was an Irish civil servant.
He served as the Secretary General of the Department of Foreign Affairs.
He left office as Secretary-General on 24 January 2009 and was replaced by David Cooney, former Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
He was known for serving as Ireland's ambassador to the United States and for helping establishing peace with Northern Ireland.
Gallagher was born in Carrick-on-Shannon, Leitrim.
He studied and taught at the University College Dublin.
His diplomatic career began in 1969.
During his diplomat career, Gallagher worked in London, New York City at the United Nations Headquarters, in Brussels and in San Francisco, California.
He was made "deputy chief of the cabinet" at the European Commission.
In 1971, he married his wife, Maeve Farrell.
He was appointed Ambassador to the United States in 1991 where he developed a wide range of friendships and contacts.
One of these was Bill Clinton, then governor of Arkansas.
During his time as ambassador, he helped secure a U.S. visa for Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams.
After his posting in Washington D.C., he returned home in 1997 with the title of Second Secretary General.
Along with Bertie Ahern, Gallagher wanted to establish peace with Northern Ireland.
Gallagher died on 15 January 2017 in Dublin, aged 72.
On his death, President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, said: "Mr Gallagher dedicated a lifetime to public service, serving with distinction as ambassador to the United States and making a significant contribution to the peace process in Northern Ireland.
Han Peixin () (October 1921 – January 15, 2017) was a People's Republic of China politician.
He was born in Xiangshui County, Jiangsu.
He was Communist Party of China Committee Secretary and governor of his home province of Jiangsu.
He first served as governor for a year from 1982 through 1983 and later secretary from 1983 through 1989.
He was a delegate to the 5th National People's Congress (1978–1983), 6th National People's Congress (1983–1988) and 7th National People's Congress (1988–1993).
Jiří Navrátil (10 September 1923 – 16 January 2017) was a Czech scout leader and anti-communist activist.
He served as the President of Junák, the Czech Scout and Guide association.
Navrátil was born in Germany.
In 1937.
he became a Scout in Prague.
Prison years
He was arrested and held several months by the Gestapo during World War II.
In 1949, he tried to oppose the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia with other Scouts.
He was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and was released in 1960.
During the Prague Spring in 1968, Navrátil was one of the refounders of Junák, the Czech Scout movement.
The movement was suppressed again in 1970.
Following the Velvet Revolution in 1989, he became one of the main Leaders of the third restoration of Junák.
In 2002, Navrátil was awarded the 292nd Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting.
Eugene Andrew "Gene" Cernan (; March 14, 1934 – January 16, 2017), (CAPT, USN, Ret.),
was an American naval officer and Naval Aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, fighter pilot, and NASA astronaut.
Cernan was born in Chicago, Illinois.
He was raised in Bellwood, Illinois and in Maywood, Illinois.
He studied at Purdue University and at the Naval Postgraduate School.
On Apollo 17, Cernan became the eleventh person to walk on the Moon and the most recent man to walk on the Moon since he was the last to re-enter the Lunar Module Challenger after the mission's third and final mission.
Cernan was also a backup crew member for the Gemini 12, Apollo 7 and Apollo 14 space missions.
Last Man on the Moon
Gene Cernan flies the Windows-based "Eagle Lander 3D" Simulator
Eugene Cernan at the Internet Movie Database
Spacefacts biography of Eugene Cernan
Cernan at Encyclopedia of Science
Cernan at Spaceacts
Cernan at International Space Hall of Fame
Jan Jánský (30 March 1873 in Prague,Czech Republic - 8 September 1921 in Černošice) was a neurologist and psychiatrist.
He was the the first to divide human blood into the four types (A, B, AB, 0) of the AB0 blood group system.
His discovery saved millions of lives.
He studied medicine at Charles University in Prague.
From 1899 he worked in a psychiatric clinic.
He became a professor at Charles University and a doctor of medicine.
World war I
He served as a doctor for 2 years on the front lines.
After suffering a heart attack in 1916, he was dismissed from the army.
After that he was in charge of the department of Neurology and Forensic Psychiatry at the Central Military Hospital in Prague.
He suffered from angina pectoris.
Jánský died of Coronary artery disease.
Jánský was a promoter of blood donations.
Donators of Czech Republic or Slovakia receive a medal.
In 1953 he was the subject of a movie directed by Martin Frič.
Emil Zátopek (19 September 1922 - 22 November 2000) was a Czechoslovak runner from town Kopřivnice.
He is mostly known for winning 3 gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympic games in Helsinki.
He won in 5,000 metres, 10,000 metres runs and in marathon.
He never ran a marathon before.
But he decided at the last minute to start with others.
He set former record with time 2:23:03,2.
Zátopek was born in Kopřivnice.
He finished Industrial high school in Zlin.
He studied at the Military Academy in Prague.
His wife was Dana, also an olympic athlete.
They were married in 1948.
In Helsinki she competed in jevelin.
She won a gold medal at the same day as Zátopek.
His olympic rivals (friends) called him "Czech Locomotive".
In 1997 he was called the best Czech athlete of 20th century.
Then in 1999, he was declared the best Olympian in Czech history.
Altogether he won six Olympic medals, five European Championship and he broke the records for 18 times.
His life credo was: "Are you running out of breath?
Go faster!"
His Career began at an elementary school in Zlin.
There he ran at school events with good results.
He accepted an invitation to train with Zlin´s athletes.
He mostly trained by himself with his own running system.
He ran  sections with multiple repetitions.
In 1943 he tried his first 5,000 metres run and the year after that he set his first record at 2,000 metres track.
His most successful event were Summer Olympic games in 1952 where he won 3 gold medals.
After that he went through an operation for a hernia.
Zátopek´s athlete career ended in 1958 then he worked as a minister (Christianity).
Captain John Watts Young (September 24, 1930 – January 5, 2018) was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer.
He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as Commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972.
Young was on the first orbital Space Shuttle mission, STS-1, in April 1981.
He was the only person to have piloted, and been commander of, four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo Command/Service Module, the Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle.
Young was born in San Francisco, California.
He studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
In 1956, Young married Barbara White.
Young died of complications from pneumonia in Houston, Texas on January 5, 2018 at the age of 87.
Young's official NASA biography
Leonard Cyril Deighton (; born 18 February 1929), known as Len Deighton, is a British author.
He is thought to be one of the top three spy novelists of his time (along with Ian Fleming and John le Carré).
He is a well known military historian, cookery writer, and graphic artist.
His first book, The IPCRESS File, was an instant bestseller.
The Sunday Times called him "the poet of the spy story".
Deighton was born in the London inner-city of Marylebone.
He studied at St Marylebone Grammar School, at Saint Martin's School of Art and at the Royal College of Art.
He is married to Ysabele Deighton.
Sergei Mikhailovich Makarov (; born 19 June 1958 in Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union) is a Russian former ice hockey right wing.
He was a two-time Olympic gold medalist.
He was voted one of six players to the International Ice Hockey Federation's (IIHF) Centennial All-Star Team.
This was in a poll conducted by a group of 56 experts from 16 countries.
Aswat (Arabic: أصوات) is a Palestinian group for lesbian rights.
Rauda Morcos is the co-founder.
Aswat means "voices" in the Arabic language.
The group started in 2001.
The first group for LGBT Palestinians was the international Jerusalem Open House.
Palestinians started to meet there in 2001.
After the Oslo Accords in 1993, many Palestinian groups were part of Israeli groups.
But later, in the 2000s, many groups decided to be independent.
In 2002, "Aswat: Palestinian Gay Women" started as an independent project with Kayan, a Palestinian feminist group in Haifa.
In March 2007, the group had its first conference in Haifa.
The meeting had 350 people.
The Islamic Movement protested outside the meeting with 30 people.
The group publishes Arabic literature about homosexuality.
They published five newsletters in Arabic about gays and lesbians, and they published an Arabic glossary of terms of sexual orientation.
They also published a book called "Home and Exile in Queer Experience".
Home and Exile in Queer Experience (in Arabic), ( الداخل والمنفى في تجربة اللوطي ) 2006.
My right to live as I choose, ("حقي أن أعيش،أن اختار أن أكون") 2007.
Pause Girls, ( "وقفة بنات" ) 2009.
Activist voices, ( "أصوات ناشطة" ) 2012.
About Homosexuality, ( "عن المثليّة" ) 2013.
Kaliningrad Time (UZ1) is a time zone in western Russia that applies to the city of Kaliningrad.
It is 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+2) since October 2014.
Originally, under president Dmitry Medvedev's law in 2011, Kaliningrad Time was UTC+3 hours, the same time as the Further-eastern European Time and Eastern European Summer Time in the summer.
Russia does not currently observe daylight saving time (DST).
Hans Jack Berliner (January 27, 1929 – January 13, 2017) was a German-born American computer scientist and chess player.
He was born in Berlin and of Jewish descent.
He was Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, was a former World Correspondence Chess Champion, from 1965–68.
He directed the construction of the chess computer HiTech, and was also a published chess writer.
Oral History of Hans Berliner
David B. Poythress (October 24, 1943 – January 15, 2017) was an American politician and military commander.
He was born in Bibb County, Georgia.
He has served terms as Secretary of State and Commissioner of Labor of the state of Georgia.
Poythress also served as the Adjutant General of the Georgia National Guard from 1999 until 2007, initially appointed by Governor Roy Barnes and reappointed by Governor Sonny Perdue.
He retired as a Lieutenant General.
M. M. Ruhul Amin (23 December 1942 – 17 January 2017) was a Bangladeshi politician and judge.
He served as the Chief Justice of Bangladesh from 1 June 2008 to 22 December 2009.
He studied at the University of Dhaka.
He was born in Lakshmipur District.
Amin died after an illness on 17 January 2017 in Bukit Merah, Singapore.
The Great Comet of 1811 (C/1811 F1) was a comet visible to the naked eye for about 260 days.
This was a record until the appearance of Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997.
In October 1811, at its brightest, it displayed an apparent magnitude of 0, with an easily visible tail.
Dion was an Ancient Greek city in Pieria, Greece.
It is now a village.
Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams (shortened to CD&V) is a Flemish political party in Belgium.
It belongs to the political ideology of the Christian democrats.
Politics of Belgium
Colo (December 22, 1956 – January 17, 2017) was an American Western gorilla.
She was known as the first gorilla to be born in captivity anywhere in the world and as the oldest known gorilla in the world.
Colo was born at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium near Powell, Ohio.
Colo's name came from the place of her birth, Columbus, Ohio.
Tomatoes were her favorite food.
Colo's family tree on Flickr
Harambe was a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden.
On May 28, 2016, a three-year-old boy climbed into a gorilla enclosure at the zoo and was grabbed and dragged by Harambe, a 17-year-old Western lowland gorilla.
Fearing for the boy's life, a zoo worker shot and killed Harambe.
It was recorded on video and was shown on news services around the world.
There was a lot of argument about the decision to kill Harambe.
A number of primatologists and conservationists said that the zoo had no other choice under the circumstances, and that they did the right thing.
The boy's mother also became the target of harassment on the internet and social media.
On June 6, 2016, the Ohio prosecutor said that the mother would not face any charges of wrongdoing.
The zoo was being investigated by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), which sets the standards for zoos, and the USDA.
Experts Jack Hanna and Jane  Goodall defended the zoo's actions in killing Harambe.
American Pharoah (born 2011; foaled February 2, 2012) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse.
He won the American Triple Crown and the Breeders' Cup Classic in 2015.
In winning all four races, he became the first horse to win the "Grand Slam" of American horse racing.
He won the 2015 Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year and 2015 Champion three-year-old.
He was bred and owned throughout his racing career by Ahmed Zayat of Zayat Stables, trained by Bob Baffert, and ridden in most of his races by Victor Espinoza.
He now stands  at stud at Ashford Stud in Kentucky.
"Rockabye" is a house and pop song from the electronic dance group Clean Bandit.
The song also has Jamaican singer Sean Paul and British singer Anne-Marie.
The song is about how hard it is to be a single mother.
The song refers to the nursery rhyme "Rock-a-bye Baby."
On 28 October 2016, the song entered the UK Singles Chart at #7.
The following week, it went to #3.
In its third week, it reached #1.
In the United Kingdom, the song became their second #1, after "Rather Be" in 2014.
The song also topped charts in Australia, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Finland, and New Zealand.
In the United States, "Rockabye" began at #100 on Billboard Hot 100 during the week of 24 December.
It was Clean Bandit's first entry on the chart since "Rather Be" with Jess Glynne.
The song reached number nine on the US Hot 100, becoming their second US top-ten hit after "Rather Be".
The Scottish Government is the national, devolved government of Scotland.
It has power over many aspects of government in Scotland, from providing health care, to justice, through to education.
Donald John "Don" Trump Jr. (born December 31, 1977) is an American businessman and former reality TV personality.
He is the oldest child of real estate developer and President of the United States, Donald Trump, and his first wife, Czech model Ivana Trump.
He works alongside his brother Eric as a trustee of The Trump Organization.
A longtime company Executive VP, in his trustee role he and his brother ran the company during his father's presidency.
He wrote two books: Triggered in 2019 and Liberal Privilege in 2020.
Eric Frederick Trump (born January 6, 1984) is an American businessman, former reality TV personality and philanthropist.
He is the third child and second son of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and Ivana Trump.
Alongside his older brother Don Jr., he serves as a trustee of The Trump Organization.
Trump and his brother took over the company during their father's presidency.
Trump is a frequent poster to Instagram.
As of 2016, she had more than 460,000 followers.
She worked as an intern at Vogue and modeled for a 2016 Andrew Warren fashion show during New York Fashion Week.
Frederick Christ "Fred" Trump (October 11, 1905 – June 25, 1999) was an American real estate developer and philanthropist.
He is the father of Donald Trump, a businessman who was elected President of the United States in November 2016.
He also had a daughter Maryanne, who became an attorney and was appointed as a judge to the United States Court of Appeals.
Trump was born in The Bronx, New York.
He married Mary Anne MacLeod in 1936.
Their marriage would last until Trump's death in 1999.
Trump died in New Hyde Park, New York from pneumonia complicated by Alzheimer's disease, aged 93.
Maryanne Trump Barry (formerly Desmond; born April 5, 1937) is an American attorney and a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit after being appointed by President Bill Clinton.
She served as judge from 1999 until her retirement in 2011.
Barry was born in New York City.
She studied at Mount Holyoke College and at Columbia University.
She later went to Hofstra University to earn her J.D.. From 1960 until their divorce in 1980, she was married to David Desmond.
In 1982, she married John Barry.
John died in 2000.
Barry had one son, David.
William A. Hilliard (May 28, 1927 – January 16, 2017) was an American journalist.
He was editor of The Oregonian, the major daily newspaper in Portland, Oregon, from 1987 to 1994 and was that newspaper's first African-American editor.
He was also president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1993–94.
Hilliard was born in Chicago, Illinois.
He studied at Benson Polytechnic High School, at Portland State University, at University of Oregon and at Pacific University.
Hilliard worked at The Oregonian from 1952 to 1994, starting as a copy boy, and then rising to clerk, sports reporter, religion and general assignment reporter, and in 1965 assistant city editor.
In 1971, he became city editor, and in 1982 was named executive editor.
Hilliard served as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) in 1993–94.
He remained editor of The Oregonian until retiring in 1994, although during the last year of his tenure with the paper he gave his designated successor, executive editor Sandra M. Rowe, effective control of the editor's duties and focused his attention on ASNE duties.
Hilliard biography at Blackpast
Hilliard in Jet, June 18, 1953
Hilliard in Jet, April 19, 1993
Oscar López Rivera (born January 6, 1943) is a Puerto Rican nationalist.
He was one of the leaders of the FALN.
In 1981, López Rivera was convicted and sentenced to 55 years in federal prison for conspiracy, use of force to commit robbery, interstate transportation of firearms, and conspiracy to transport explosives with intent to destroy government property.
In 1988 he was sentenced to an additional 15 years in prison for conspiring to escape from the Leavenworth federal prison.
The imprisonment of López Rivera was opposed or supported by individuals and groups representing political, religious, and other constituencies.
Some called him a terrorist, but others said he was a political prisoner.
Several U.S. Congressmen supported Oscar López Rivera's release from prison such as Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
Commutation
On January 17, 2017, President Barack Obama lowered López Rivera's sentence and was released from prison on May 17, 2017.
At the time, he was the longest-incarcerated member of the FALN.
Book Review: Puerto Rican Independentista Oscar López Rivera’s 32 Years of Resistance to Torture.
Written by Hans Bennett.
- Contains the partial, list of prominent figures who were "jailed" for López Rivera.
Christopher Columbus "Chris" Kraft Jr. (February 28, 1924 – July 22, 2019) was an American NASA engineer and manager.
He was important in the creation of the agency's Mission Control operation.
Kraft Jr. was born in Phoebus, Virginia.
He studied at the Virginia Tech and graduated in 1944.
Kraft was hired by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the organization before the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
He worked for over ten years in aeronautical research before being asked in 1958 to join the Space Task Group, a small team entrusted with the responsibility of putting America's first man in space.
He was given the job to the flight operations division, Kraft became NASA's first flight director.
In 1950, Kraft married Betty Anne Turnbull.
Kraft died on July 22, 2019 in Houston, Texas, aged 95, two days after the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moonwalks.
Chris Kraft at the National Aviation Hall of Fame*
National Aviation Hall of Fame
Peter Vernon Jones  (28 January 1933 – 16 January 2017) was an Australian politician.
He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1974 to 1986 from the seat of Narrogin.
He was the Deputy Leader of the National Country Party in Western Australia.
He was later a member of the Liberal Party.
Jones was born in Launceston, Tasmania.
He married Margaret Antonia Maslin in 1960.
Jones died on 16 January 2017 in Perth, Western Australia.
Ronald Carlile Buxton (20 August 1923 – 10 January 2017) was a British politician and civil engineer.
He served as a Member of Parliament for Leyton from 1965 to 1966.
Buxton was born in Norfolk.
He married Phyllida in 1959.
Nigel John Spearing (8 October 1930 – 8 January 2017) was a British politician.
He served as a Member of Parliament for South Newham from 1974 to 1997.
Before this, he served as a Member of Parliament for Acton from 1970 to 1974.
He was born in Hammersmith, London.
Spearing died from Alzheimer's disease on 8 January 2017.
Leslie "Les" Lazarowitz (October 2, 1941 – January 6, 2017) was an American sound engineer.
He was active between 1971 and 1999.
He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the Best Sound category.
He was best known for movies including Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), Tootsie (1982), Carlito's Way (1993) and Groundhog Day (1993).
Lazarowitz died from cancer on January 6, 2017 in Florida.
Claude Lebey (born Claude Jolly; 20 November 1923 – 10 January 2017) was a French food critic and writer.
He was known for writing the food book Guide Lebey.
He also wrote for the news magazines Paris Match and L'Express.
He co-presented a show on TF1 between 1974 and 1981.
Steve Wright ( – January 16, 2017) was an American bass guitarist.
He played with The Greg Kihn Band.
He was from El Cerrito, California.
Sergei Amanovich Khummedov (, born 12 February 1957), better known by the pen name Sergei Aman (), is a Russian writer and journalist.
Sergei Aman was born in former Soviet Union in Turkmenia.
He graduated the Moscow State University in 1985.
In 1995 Sergei Aman became a journalist of the daily "Moskovskij Komsomolets".
Also he worked in "Vechernyaya Moskva", "Stupeni", "The New Medical Gazette", magazine "Auto M".
The most famous book of Sergei Aman  is "Journalists" (novel).
He published this novel in 2013.
Also he wrote the love story Nights after in the book “On the Edge of Magellanic Clouds”.
In 2018 Sergei Aman  published the novel "Everything Will Be Okay, We're All Going to Die!"
Sergei Aman lives in Moscow.
His hobby is sport fishing from a boat.
Official website of Sergei Aman
Sergei Aman in Facebook
Brenda C. Barnes ( – January 17, 2017) was an American businesswoman.
She served as the chief executive officer of Sara Lee from 2005 to 2010.
She was also the first female CEO of PepsiCo from 1996 to 1997.
Barnes died from a stroke on January 17, 2017 in Naperville of Chicago, Illinois.
She was 63.
Her three children outlived her.
Yaron Ben-Dov (11 January 1970 – 6 January 2017) was an Israeli footballer.
He played for Ironi Rishon LeZion, Maccabi Netanya and Hapoel Tel Aviv.
He was born in Netanya.
Srirangam is an island in the Kaveri River.
It is a part of the city of Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu, India.
It is a famous place because it is one of the 108 Divya Desams, or holy places, according to Hinduism.
Srirangam is border by the Kaveri River and its tributary Kollidam River.
Srirangam can be considered the largest functioning Hindu temple in the world, as it covers an area of about 631000 m2 with a perimeter of 4km (10,710 ft).
There are many other famous temples near Srirangam.
They include Rockfort Temple, Samayapuram Mariamman Temple, and Vayalur Murugan Temple.
Ion Besoiu (11 March 1931 – 18 January 2017) was a Romanian actor.
He played the lead role in the television series Toate pînzele sus.
He appeared in movies when Romania was under a Communist one-party state rule.
Those movies include Thirst (1961), Michael the Brave (1970), The Actor and the Savages (1975), Mihail, câine de circ (1979), The Last Assault (1985).
His later roles included Loverboy (2011) and Bucharest Non Stop (2015).
He was born in Sibiu.
Gustav Frištenský (18 May 1879 – 6 April 1957) was a Czech strongman and Greco-Roman wrestler.
He competed in the first half of the 20th century.
During his career, he competed in almost 10,000 fights.
His first fight was when he was just 19 years old and the last one was when he was 72.
Frištenský was a legend among Czech strongmen.
Gustav Frištenský was born in Kamhajek (now part of the village of Křečhoř).
He had 3 brothers and 2 sisters.
When he was child, he was small so nobody thought he could become famous sportsman.
As teenager he started to lift weights and wrestle.
He was learning to be a blacksmith but after suffering serious burns on his hand by a horseshoe, he left his craft.
Frištenský went to Brno and he became a butcher in the butchery of Moritz Soffer.
He trained in the gymnasium of the Hellas sports club.
Soon, he left his job in butchery and started to focus on wrestling.
In 1900, Frištenský participated in an international competition in Prague.
There he won in weightlifting, wrestling and the discus throw.
In 1901 he became the Moravia champion in wrestling and discus throw.
In 1902, he became the Austria-Hungary champion.
The following year he was the European champion.
But Frištenský was still an amateur.
After these achievements, he became a professional.
He worked for the Kludský circus.
Frištenský traveled around the world including the United States.
Finally, he returned to his homeland.
Frištenský married Miroslava Ellederová in Litovel.
In 1917, he stayed in Litovel permanently.
He and his wife built a house next to the Morava River.
Frištenský traveled to the US again and wrestled in New York in front of an audience of 30,000.
In 1921, Frištenský became the Czechoslovakia champion.
In 1929, he became a professional European champion.
During World War II, Frištenský joined the resistance movement.
Soon, afterwards he became a prisoner of war and his wife had to bribe a Nazi prison commander to free him.
After the war, in 1945, Frištenský left the Sport world and lived in Litovel.
In 1947, he became a widower.
In 1956, Frištenský received a title "Merited Master of Sports".
He died on 6 April 1957.
Gustav Fristensky, Part I; YouTube
Strength athletes
Dzemijetul Hajrije is the oldest Muslim organization in the United States.
It is a benevolent society started in 1906 to help Muslim immigrants from Bosnia.
In the late 1800s, many young men came from Bosnia to Chicago to work in construction.
They built roads, buildings, and tunnels for the Chicago commuter train system.
Many Bosnians worked on the tunnels for Arif Dilich’s Paschen Construction Company, a large company in Chicago.
The Dzemijetul Hajrije was like a family to the many young single men.
It had religious services and special activities for Eid and other holidays.
It helped pay for medical expenses and funerals.
Many Muslims also lived in Gary, Indiana and worked in the steel mills.
Another group of Bosnian Muslims went to work in the copper mines in Butte, Montana.
Dzemijetul Hajrije started chapters in Gary, Indiana in 1913, Wilpen, Pennyslvania in 1915, and Butte, Montana in 1916.
They did not have a mosque, but they met in coffeehouses.
In 1956 the last Bosnian coffeehouse closed.
After World War II more Bosnians immigrated to Chicago.
Many were well-educated, but they had to take jobs as taxi cab drivers, factory workers, and janitors.
In the early 1950s, they asked Sheik Kamil Avdich, a religious scholar, to be their first imam.
They started the Muslim Religious and Cultural Home.
In 1957, they opened a mosque on Halsted Street.
In 1968, they changed their name to the Bosnian American Cultural Association.
In the 1970s they bought land in Northbrook for a larger mosque, the Islamic Cultural Center of Greater Chicago.
Nagham Nawzat Hasan (Arabic: نغم نوزات حسن ) or Nagham Nawzat is a doctor from Iraq.
In 2015 she received the International Women of Courage Award.
Nagham Nawzat Hasan is a Kurdish Yazidi gynecologist.
She works with Yazidi girls who were kidnapped by the Islamic State (ISIS).
After the city of Sinjar fell in 2014, ISIL killed many Yezidi men and enslaved many Yezidi women.
Hasan rescued many Yezidi girls.
She gave psychological and medical help.
She visits Yezidi people in refugee camps to encourage girls to visit her clinic.
She started a program against sexual abuse called "I am Yezidi – I am against harassment."
Solidar Human Rights Silver Rose award, 2016.
International Women of Courage Award, 2016.
Sinjar is a city in the north of Iraq.
It is in Shingal District, Nineveh Province, near Mount Shingal.
Many Yezidi people live in this city.
In 2014, it was the site of the Sinjar massacre.
Takobeya labour (, Romanization of Japanese: tako-beya rōdō) was a Japanese form of work.
It was a harsh system started in Hokkaido during the Meiji period.
It replaced Penal labour in Hokkaido.
The workers slept in accommodation huts at construction sites.
The concentration huts were called "Takobeya".
Takobeya workers engaged in takobeya labour without enough meals.
They were oppressed as labor camps.
Some also died from overwork.
In Japanese, "Tako" often means octopus.
But Takobeya (Tako room) doesn’t necessarily mean octopus room.
About Takobeya's "Tako", the original meanings is not clear.
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. “
Letters to the Dead: Addressing the Legacies of Violence in Japan’s Borderlands.”
Paper presented at Vanderbilt University Seminar on Perspectives on Historical Violence.
Latifa Ibn Ziaten (Arabic: لطيفة بن زياتن) is an activist from France.
She started the Imad Association for Youth and Peace for interfaith understanding.
In 2016, she received an International Women of Courage Award.
Latifa ibn Ziaten was born in Morocco.
When she was a teenager, she moved to France.
In 2012, Latifa's son, Imad, died in a terrorist attack.
Imad was a French soldier.
Latifa went to the neighborhood of her son's killer in Toulouse.
She talked to the boys in the neighborhood.
The boys told her the killer was a hero of Islam.
When she told them her son was killed, they apologized.
Then Latifa decided to start an organization to help the young people.
She tells young people to learn about Islam from their parents, not from the internet.
Latifa receives threats and has a bodyguard.
Conflict Prevention Prize from the Jacques Chirac Foundation, 2015
Prix de la Tolérance from the Friends of Marcel Rudloff, 2016.
Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (3 March 1919 – 18 January 2017), better known as Peter Abrahams, was a South African-born Jamaican novelist, journalist and political commentator.
He was best known for his novels Mine Boy (1946), A Wreath for Udomo (1956), A Night of Their Own (1965), This Island Now (1966) and The View from Coyaba (1985).
He also wrote the memoir, Tell Freedom (1954).
Abrahams was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg.
His father was from Ethiopia and his mother was mixed race.
He moved to Jamaica in 1956.
Abrahams was found dead on 18 January 2017 in Rock Hall, Saint Andrew Parish.
Yosl Bergner (‎; 13 October 1920 – 18 January 2017) was an Israeli painter.
He was best known for his art which had people with long pale faces, pointed chins and huge dark, soulful eyes.
This was said to show joy and sadness of being Jewish.
He was awarded the Israel Prize in 1980.
Bergner was born in Vienna, Austria.
He grew up in Warsaw, Poland.
He lived in Melbourne, Australia from 1937 until 1948, when he moved to Israel.
Charles Wesley "Bobo" Shaw (September 15, 1947 – January 16, 2017) was an American jazz drummer.
He worked in the free jazz genre.
He was best known as a member of the Human Arts Ensemble and Black Artists Group.
He was born in Pope, Mississippi.
Shaw died on January 16, 2017 in St. Louis, Missouri.
[ Charles "Bobo" Shaw] at Allmusic
Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint (11 June 1939 – 18 January 2017) was an English female cricketer, businesswoman and philanthropist.
She was born in Wolverhampton, England.
Flint was best known for being captain of England from 1966 to 1978, and was unbeaten in six Test series, while in total she played for the English women's cricket team from 1960 to 1982.
She was captain when England won the inaugural Women's Cricket World Cup, held in England in 1973.
She was also the first women cricketer ever to hit a six in a test match.
Kingston is a parish in Jamaica.
It is in the county of Surrey.
The parish capital is Kingston.
Parishes of Jamaica
Saint Andrew is a parish in Jamaica.
The parish capital is Half Way Tree.
Portland is a parish in Jamaica.
The parish capital is Port Antonio.
Saint Thomas is a parish in Jamaica.
The parish capital is Morant Bay.
Clarendon is a parish in Jamaica.
It is in the county of Middlesex.
The parish capital is May Pen.
Manchester is a parish in Jamaica.
The parish capital is Mandeville.
Saint Ann is a parish in Jamaica.
The parish capital is Saint Ann's Bay.
Saint Catherine is a parish in Jamaica.
The parish capital is Spanish Town.
Saint Mary is a parish in Jamaica.
The parish capital is Port Maria.
Saint Elizabeth is a parish in Jamaica.
It is in the county of Cornwall.
The parish capital is Black River.
Saint James is a parish in Jamaica.
The parish capital is Montego Bay.
Hanover is a parish in Jamaica.
The parish capital is Lucea.
Trelawny is a parish in Jamaica.
The parish capital is Falmouth.
Westmoreland is a parish in Jamaica.
The parish capital is Savanna-la-Mar.
Willow Shields (born June 1, 2000) is an American actress.
She is best known for her role as Primrose Everdeen in all four of the The Hunger Games movies (2012–2015).
She was also a dancer on Dancing with the Stars in 2015.
At the age of 14, she was the youngest to ever compete on the show.
Shields was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
She has a twin sister and an older brother, both of whom are actors.
New Medical Gazette (NMG) was established in 1992 in Moscow by a group of journalists (Anatoly Baranov, Andrei Gusev and others; some of them had medical education and practical experience in health care).
The Russian newspaper NMG registered with the Ministry of press and information of the Russian Federation in December 18, 1992.
The first number of NMG was released on May 18, 1993.
Since 1993 Andrei Gusev (, born 27 October 1952 in Moscow) serves as NMG’s editor-in-chief.
NMG came out in format  A3 and A4.
Since 1999 NMG has  web-based publications.
Famous journalists and writers work in NMG’ editorial staff:  Sergei Aman, Anatoly Baranov, Andrei Gusev, Sergei Sokurov, etc.
However, the newspaper authors write not only on medical topics.
NMG has  literary pages created in conjunction with public fund "Union of writers of Moscow”.
The newspaper's official page in Facebook
Official website of NMG’s editor-in-chief Andrei Gusev
Andrei Gusev was born in former Soviet Union, in Moscow.
His father Evgeny Gusev and mother Rosalind Maltseva were engineers.
His father was born in Ukraine, his mother in Moscow.
Andrei Gusev graduated the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1975.
He worked as a medical physicist more than ten years.
Also he received a medical education.
He is the author of 10 inventions, 23 published scientific works.
In 1990 Andrei Gusev became a correspondent of the daily "Moskovskij Komsomolets".
Later he worked as the special correspondent of the All-Russia "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" and an  editor-in-chief deputy of the youth newspaper "Stupeni".
The first book of Andrei Gusev is "Presentation" (1993).
Then he published "Mister Novelist" (1994), "With Chronos’ Permit" (1995), "The Russian Story" (1996)  and also the story collection "On the Edge of Magellanic Clouds" (1998).
He published his novels "The Painter & Eros" and "Role Plays" in 2003 and  "The World According to Novikoff" in 2006.
In his prose in 2010s Andrei Gusev developed the themes of BDSM subculture in Russia.
Themes include female domination, bondage, erotic spanking and BDSM  fiction.
Andrei Gusev lives in Moscow.
He was married twice and divorced twice.
The first wife  –  Nina Guseva (nee Odnoletko), worked as a nurse; the second wife  –  Ivetta Sarkisyan, philologist by education.
"PRESENTATION" (Презентация), motley stories, Moscow, 1993.
"MISTER NOVELIST" (Господин сочинитель), stories and short stories, Moscow, 1994.
"WITH CHRONOS’ PERMIT" (С мандатом Хроноса), stories, film-novel, Moscow, 1995.
"THE RUSSIAN STORY" (Российская история), novel, Moscow, 1996.
"ON THE EDGE OF MAGELLANIC CLOUDS" (На краю Магеллановых облаков), collection of the stories and short stories, Moscow, 1998, publishing house "Probel", .
"THE PAINTER & EROS" (ХУДОЖНИК и ЭРОС в формате супер), novel, Moscow, 2003, publishing house "West-Consulting", .
"ROLE PLAYS" (ROLE PLAYS в зрелом возрасте), stories, Moscow, 2003, publishing house "West-Consulting".
"THE WORLD ACCORDING TO NOVIKOFF" (Мир по Новикову), novel, Moscow, 2006, publishing house "West-Consulting", .
Сто лет со дня рождения –  a story by Andrei Gusev in Wikisource
Пудель цвета любви –   a short story by Andrei Gusev in Wikisource
"Оставьте свой реквием после сигнала!" –
a short story by Andrei Gusev in Wikisource
The Russian Writer Loves Role Plays –  a novel by Andrei Gusev
Love Story in the Style of Femdom –  a novel by Andrei Gusev
Our Wild Sex in Malindi  –  a novel by Andrei Gusev
Once in Malindi  – a novel by Andrei Gusev
Official website of Andrei Gusev
Editor-in-Chief of "New Medical Gazette" Andrei E. Gusev (from Moscow)
Official page  of Andrei Gusev in Facebook
William "Bill" Margold (October 2, 1943 – January 18, 2017) was an American pornographic actor and director.
He was born in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.
He began his career in 1972.
He continued to perform until 2007.
He had more than 250 credits to his name as an actor and director.
He was added to the AVN Hall of Fame.
William Margold at the Internet Adult Film Database
Rodney Bennett (24 March 1935 – 3 January 2017) was a British television director.
He directed ten Doctor Who episodes, including the stories, The Ark in Space, The Sontaran Experiment, (both 1975) and The Masque of Mandragora (1976).
Hisham Al-Otaibi (1946 – 4 January 2017) was a Kuwaiti politician.
He served as the Minister of Finance and Industry from 1998 to 1999.
He got a Bachelor of Science in engineering from the University of Oklahoma.
Robert John "Johnny" Little (7 July 1930 – 18 January 2017) was a Scottish footballer.
He played for Queen's Park, Rangers, Morton and the Scotland national team.
Little was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
He moved to Scotland at a young age and grew up in Millport of Great Cumbrae.
Yaacov Zilberman (born May 26, 1954 in the Soviet Union) is an Israeli and former Soviet chess player.
He became a grandmaster in 1998.
Zilberman participated in the 30th Chess Olympiad at Manila in 1992.<br/ >
Yaacov Zilberman, Chessgames.com
École nationale supérieure d'informatique pour l'industrie et l'entreprise (National School of Computer Science for Industry and Business)  is a renowned graduate engineering school in France.
It is in a campus of the University of Paris-Saclay (Northern France, associate member).
Ingénieur ENSIIE (ENSIIE Graduate engineer Masters level program)
Students from a dozen of nationalities participate to the different curricula at ENSIIE.
Statistics and Genome
Computer and communication
Biology and complex systems
Analysis and probability
Image sciences
Biotechnology and genetics
Edward "Eddie" Filgate (16 September 1915 – 19 January 2017) was an Irish politician.
He was a member of Fianna Fáil.
He served as Teachta Dála (TD) from 1977 to 1982 for the Louth constituency.
He was born in County Louth.
Filgate turned 100 in 2015.
He died on 19 January 2017 at the age of 101.
Robert James Timlin (July 26, 1932 – January 17, 2017) was an American federal judge.
He served as a Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California from 2005 to his death in 2017.
Before this, he served as a judge for the court from 1994 to 2005.
Timlin was born in Buffalo, New York.
He was married to Caroline.
Timlin died on January 17, 2017 in Santa Barbara, California.
Daniel Vischer (16 January 1950 – 17 January 2017) was a Swiss politician for the Green Party.
He was a member of the National Council from 2003 to 2015.
Vischer was born in Basel.
He was the son of jurist Frank Vischer (1923–2015).