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Roger de Flor departed with 39 galleys and transports carrying around 1,500 knights and 4,000 Almogavars, special foot soldiers employed mainly serving the kingdom's interests in the Mediterranean Sea, especially from Catalonia, Valencia and Aragon.
Roger de Flor arrived in Constantinople with the help of king Frederick III of Sicily in 1303, and married the niece of Andronicus, daughter of the Tsar of Bulgaria, and was named Megas Doux ('Great Dux', i.e. head of the fleet).
Roger de Flor campaigned with his Company in Anatolia, defeating the Turks but also engaging in widespread violence and looting of the Byzantine inhabitants.
By this point, the Catalans, were considered by the Byzantines to be little better than brigands and freebooters.
End of Roger de Flor
This put him at odds with the Byzantine Emperor, and the indiscipline of the Almogavars marked the end of Roger de Flor.
On 30 April 1305, he was slain along with 300 cavalry and 1,000 infantry by the Alans, another group of foreign mercenaries at the service of the Emperor.
The Company proceeded to devastate the Balkanic regions of Thrace and Macedonia for the next two years, including an attack on Thessalonica by land and sea, and raids against the monasteries on Mount Athos.
The struggle ended with the departure of both the Infante and Ferran, and with Bernat de Rocafort becoming leader of the Company.
Bernat de Rocafort offered the Company's services to Charles of Valois to strengthen his claim to the Byzantine Empire and whom the Count of Barcelona had expelled from Sicily before founding the Company in a dynastic war for the Crown of Aragon.
In 1309, Charles of Valois' deputy Thibault de Chepoy ended the leadership of Rocafort, arresting him and sending him to Naples where he died of hunger the same year.
End of the Company
The Catalan rule was to last until 1388–1390, when they were defeated by the Navarrese Company under Pedro de San Superano, Juan de Urtubia, and allied with the Florentines under Nerio I Acciaioli of Corinth.
His descendants controlled them until 1456 when they were conquered by the Ottoman Empire.
By that time, like many military enterprises, the Great Company had faded out of history.
Chronicle of muntaner
The early history of the Catalan Company was chronicled by Ramon Muntaner, a former member of the company, in his Crònica.
Catalan Company (1302-1388 AD) , by David Kuijt and Chris Brantley
History (14th century).
He went to the Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands in 1988.
He has been archbishop of this church since 2000.
www.utrechter-union.org
1952  births
It is part of the Southern Alps Mountain Range and is flanked by the Hooker Glacier to the southwest and the Tasman Glacier to the east.
The mountain has three peaks: The south peak being the lowest at 3,593m/11,788 ft.,
The middle peak at 3,717m/12,195 ft.
and the North peak being the highest at 3,724m/12,218 ft.
This is the height of the north peak after the landslide of December 1991 which took 30 meters off the top and also turned the summit into a knife-edge ridge.
It was first climbed by Tom Fyre, George Graham and Jack Clarke.
Mount Cook is a favourite destination for climbers and was used by Sir Edmund Hillary as training for his historic climb of Mount Everest.
"London Bridge" is the debut single recorded by American singer and rapper Fergie for her debut studio album, The Dutchess (2006).
It was written by Fergie, Mike Hartnett, Sean Garrett, and producer Polow da Don.
"London Bridge" (Single Version) — 3:28
"London Bridge" (album version) — 4:01
"London Bridge" (instrumental) — 3:25
"London Bridge" (instrumental) — 3:27
"London Bridge" (a cappella) — 3:18
"London Bridge" (video version) — 3:31
The arrondissement of Valence is an arrondissement of France.
Its capital is the city of Valence.
When the Drôme department was created on 17 February 1800, the arrondissement of Valence was part of that original department.
The arrondissement of Valence is the most northern of the arrondissements of the department; it is the smallest arrondissement of the department, with an area of , but the one with more people living in it, with 314,233 inhabitants and a population density of  inhabitants/km².
The arrondissement of Valence is bordered to the north and east by the Isère department, to the south by the arrondissement of Die and to the west by the Ardèche department.
There are 12 cantons in the arrondissement of Valence: they are:
The arrondissement of Valence has 105 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):
Albon (26002)
Alixan (26004)
Ambonil (26007)
Andancette (26009)
Anneyron (26010)
Arthémonay (26014)
Barbières (26023)
Barcelonne (26024)
Bathernay (26028)
La Baume-Cornillane (26032)
La Baume-d'Hostun (26034)
Beaumont-lès-Valence (26037)
Beaumont-Monteux (26038)
Beauregard-Baret (26039)
Beausemblant (26041)
Beauvallon (26042)
Bésayes (26049)
Bourg-de-Péage (26057)
Bourg-lès-Valence (26058)
Bren (26061)
Chabeuil (26064)
Le Chalon (26068)
Chanos-Curson (26071)
Chantemerle-les-Blés (26072)
Charmes-sur-l'Herbasse (26077)
Charpey (26079)
Châteaudouble (26081)
Châteauneuf-de-Galaure (26083)
Châteauneuf-sur-Isère (26084)
Châtillon-Saint-Jean (26087)
Chatuzange-le-Goubet (26088)
Chavannes (26092)
Claveyson (26094)
Clérieux (26096)
Combovin (26100)
Crépol (26107)
Crozes-Hermitage (26110)
Épinouze (26118)
Érôme (26119)
Étoile-sur-Rhône (26124)
Eymeux (26129)
Fay-le-Clos (26133)
Génissieux (26139)
Gervans (26380)
Geyssans (26140)
Le Grand-Serre (26143)
Granges-les-Beaumont (26379)
Hauterives (26148)
Hostun (26149)
Jaillans (26381)
Lapeyrouse-Mornay (26155)
Larnage (26156)
Laveyron (26160)
Lens-Lestang (26162)
Malissard (26170)
Manthes (26172)
Marches (26173)
Margès (26174)
Marsaz (26177)
Mercurol-Veaunes (26179)
Miribel (26184)
Montchenu (26194)
Montéléger (26196)
Montélier (26197)
Montmeyran (26206)
Montmiral (26207)
Montrigaud (26210)
Montvendre (26212)
Moras-en-Valloire (26213)
La Motte-de-Galaure (26216)
Mours-Saint-Eusèbe (26218)
Mureils (26219)
Ourches (26224)
Parnans (26225)
Peyrins (26231)
Peyrus (26232)
Ponsas (26247)
Pont-de-l'Isère (26250)
Portes-lès-Valence (26252)
Ratières (26259)
La Roche-de-Glun (26271)
Rochefort-Samson (26273)
Romans-sur-Isère (26281)
Saint-Avit (26293)
Saint-Bardoux (26294)
Saint-Barthélemy-de-Vals (26295)
Saint-Bonnet-de-Valclérieux (26297)
Saint-Christophe-et-le-Laris (26298)
Saint-Donat-sur-l'Herbasse (26301)
Saint-Laurent-d'Onay (26310)
Saint-Marcel-lès-Valence (26313)
Saint-Martin-d'Août (26314)
Saint-Michel-sur-Savasse (26319)
Saint-Paul-lès-Romans (26323)
Saint-Rambert-d'Albon (26325)
Saint-Sorlin-en-Valloire (26330)
Saint-Uze (26332)
Saint-Vallier (26333)
Saint-Vincent-la-Commanderie (26382)
Serves-sur-Rhône (26341)
Tain-l'Hermitage (26347)
Tersanne (26349)
Triors (26355)
Upie (26358)
Valence (26362)
The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group D was one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification.
The group was made up of six teams: Austria, Georgia, Republic of Ireland, Moldova, Serbia, and Wales.
Serbia won the group and qualified for the world cup, while the Republic of Ireland finished 2nd and moved on to the second round.
Aleksandar Mitrović
Dušan Tadić
Louis Schaub
Valeri Qazaishvili
Daryl Murphy
Mijat Gaćinović
Filip Kostić
Guido Burgstaller
Jano Ananidze
Valerian Gvilia
Nika Kacharava
Giorgi Merebashvili
Igor Bugaiov
Alexandru Gațcan
Radu Gînsari
Luka Milivojević
Aleksandar Prijović
Ben Woodburn
Kevin Wimmer (against Wales)
Standings – Qualifying round: Group D, UEFA.com
The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group E is one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification.
The group is made up of six teams: Armenia, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Poland and Romania.
Poland won the group and qualified for the world cup, while Denmark finished 2nd and moved on to the second round.
Ruslan Koryan
Andreas Cornelius
Sergei Khizhnichenko
Bauyrzhan Turysbek
Stefan Mugoša
Adrian Popa
Artak Grigoryan
Hovhannes Hambardzumyan
Varazdat Haroyan
Aras Özbiliz
Peter Ankersen
Gafurzhan Suyumbayev
Damir Kojašević
Marko Simić
Marko Vešović
Nikola Vukčević
Łukasz Piszczek
Rafał Wolski
Alexandru Chipciu
Ciprian Deac
Răzvan Marin
Nicolae Stanciu
Hrayr Mkoyan (against Poland)
Filip Stojković (against Poland)
Kamil Glik (against Denmark)
Standings – Qualifying round: Group E, UEFA.com
The group was made up of six teams: Croatia, Finland, Iceland, Kosovo, Turkey, and Ukraine.
Iceland won the group and qualified for the world cup, while Croatia finished 2nd and moved on to the second round.
Cenk Tosun
Alfreð Finnbogason
Teemu Pukki
Kári Árnason
Jóhann Berg Guðmundsson
Volkan Şen
Matej Mitrović
Domagoj Vida
Robin Lod
Alexander Ring
Pyry Soiri
Hörður Björgvin Magnússon
Björn Bergmann Sigurðarson
Atdhe Nuhiu
Amir Rrahmani
Cengiz Ünder
Artem Besyedin
Ruslan Rotan
Leart Paqarada (against Ukraine)
Ömer Toprak (against Iceland)
Standings – Qualifying round: Group I, UEFA.com
David M. Consunji (October 18, 1921 – September 4, 2017) was a Filipino businessman and politician.
He was the chairman of a publicly listed holding firm, DMCI Holdings, Incorporated.
He was a former secretary of the Department of Public Works, Transportation and Communications from 1970 to 1975, during the Marcos administration.
Consuji's death was announced on September 4, 2017.
His cause of death was not given.
Filipino businesspeople
Sultan Ahmed (6 June 1953 – 4 September 2017) was an Indian politician.
He served as the Union Minister of State for Tourism in the Council of Ministers of the Republic of India.
He was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from Uluberia (Lok Sabha constituency) on a Trinamool Congress ticket.
He had previously been a 2-time Congress MLA for Entally ( in1987–91 and once again in 1996–2001).
Mountaga Diallo (1942 – 4 September 2017) was a Senegalese diplomat and former army general.
He was the Ambassador of Senegal to Russia from presenting his credentials to Russian President Vladimir Putin on 17 February 2005 until his death in 2017.
He previously served as the Force Commander of MONUC from 2000 to 2004.
He was born in Kolda, Senegal.
Ambassadors to Russia
Grier was born in Cuthbert, Georgia.
He was named after President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Grier was raised in Roselle, New Jersey.
He studied at Pennsylvania State University.
Football years
Grier was a notable college football player for Pennsylvania State University who earned a place in the National Collegiate Athletic Association 100th anniversary list of 100 most influential student athletes.
As a professional player, Grier was a member of the New York Giants and the original Fearsome Foursome of the Los Angeles Rams.
Bodyguard for Robert F. Kennedy
After Grier's professional sports career, he worked as a bodyguard for Robert Kennedy during the 1968 presidential campaign and was guarding the senator's wife, Ethel Kennedy, during the Robert F. Kennedy assassination.
Although unable to prevent that killing, Grier took control of the gun and subdued the shooter, Sirhan Sirhan.
Grier appeared in movies and television shows such as Desperate Mission (1969), Carter's Army (1970), Skyjacked (1972), The Thing with Two Heads (1972), The Treasure of Jamaica Reef (1975), The Glove (1979), Roots: The Next Generations (1979) and The Seekers (1979).
2018 California gubernatorial campaign
On January 5, 2017, Grier announced his intention to run for Governor of California as a Republican in the 2018 gubernatorial election.
He ended his candidacy in July 2017.
Grier was married to Bernice Lewis until they divorced.
Then he married Margie Grier in 1972.
They divorced in 1978, but remarried in 1980.
Margie Grier died in 2001.
In 2013, he married teacher Cydnee Seyler.
Grier has three children (one daughter from an early relationship, one adopted daughter from Bernice and one son with Margie).
Rosey Grier filmography
Rosey Grier football statistics
Needlepoint for Men by Rosey Grier (1973)
[ Roosevelt Grier biography at All Music Guide]
New Mexico voted for the winning Presidential candidate from 1912 until 1976.
This gave the state a bellwether reputation.
The 2017 German federal election was held in Germany on 24 September 2017.
The Christian Democratic Union won 33% of the vote, but both them and the Social Democratic Party lost many seats.
The Alternative for Germany and Free Democratic Party both entered parliament and made great gains.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU): led by Angela Merkel.
The party is liberal conservative and pro-European Union.
Together with the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU), a conservative party.
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD): led by Martin Schulz.
The party supports social democracy and is pro-European Union.
The Left: led by Sahra Wagenknecht and Dietmar Bartsch.
The Left is a democratic socialist party.
Alliance '90/The Greens: led by Katrin Göring-Eckardt and Cem Özdemir.
The party supports green politics and is pro-European Union.
Free Democratic Party (FDP): led by Christian Lindner.
The party supports classical liberalism and economic liberalism.
The FDP is also pro-European Union.
Alternative for Germany (AfD): led by Alice Weidel and Alexander Gauland.
The party is nationalistic and is against the European Union.
Pirate Party Germany: led by Patrick Schiffer.
The party supports Pirate politics and is socially liberal.
National Democratic Party of Germany (NDP): led by Frank Franz.
The NDP is a neo-Nazi party.
Free Voters: not a registered political party.
The association attracts many conservative voters in the south.
Voter turnout
Election leaders
File folder, a type of folder that holds paper
Folder (computing), a computer folder that holds information.
Willy Borsus (born 4 April 1962 in Ciney) is a Belgian politician of the Mouvement réformateur.
He is the current Minister-President of Wallonia.
www.rtbf.be
The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group F was one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification.
The group was made up of six teams: England, Slovakia, Scotland, Slovenia, Lithuania, and Malta.
England won the group and qualified for the world cup.
Leigh Griffiths
Robert Snodgrass
Vykintas Slivka
Roman Bezjak
Benjamin Verbič
Dele Alli
Ryan Bertrand
Andrei Agius
Jean Paul Farrugia
Stuart Armstrong
Ján Greguš
Stanislav Lobotka
Martin Škrtel
Rene Krhin
Rok Kronaveter
Martin Škrtel (against Scotland)
Miha Mevlja (against Slovakia)
Standings – Qualifying round: Group F, UEFA.com
Pampa is a city of Texas in the United States.
17,994 people lived there in the 2010 census.
It is the county seat of Gray County.
Hurricane Irma was a Category 5 hurricane in 2017, the 9th named storm, 4th hurricane, 2nd major hurricane, and a 1st Category 5 hurricane of the hyperactive 2017 Atlantic hurricane season.
Irma is also the 4th consecutive hurricane of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season—after Franklin, Gert, and Harvey.
The storm threatened the Leeward Islands, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
Irma was also forecast to threaten the East Coast of the United States, but later forecast to hit Southwest Florida.
Irma was the first major hurricane to develop in the eastern Atlantic since Hurricane Julia in 2010.
The storm developed on August 30, 2017 near the Cape Verde islands.
On September 5, 2017, the storm became a Category 5 hurricane.
It had maximum sustained winds of 180 miles per hour since Hurricane Wilma in twelve years earlier.
As it hit landfall, Irma went down to a Category 2 hurricane.
Irma was the easternmost Category 5 hurricane on record in the Atlantic Ocean.
Due to significant amount of damage and loss of life from the storm especially in Florida, the name Irma was retired in April 2018 by the World Meteorological Organization, and it was replaced with Idalia for the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season.
Heidwiller is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.
Findlay is a city in Ohio in the United States.
It is 64 km south of Toledo.
In 2010, 41,202 people lived there.
Hancock County is a county in Ohio in the United States.
In 2010, 74,782 people lived there.
The county seat is Findlay.
Rogéria (Astolfo Barroso Pinto; 25 June 1943 – 4 September 2017) was a Brazilian actress and drag queen.
She was born in Cantagalo, Brazil.
She was known for her performances as a drag queen on TV Rio.
She was known for her movie roles in A Maldição do Sanpaku, Ambitious Women, and in Mulheres no Poder.
A bus terminus is a place where a bus or coach starts or ends its scheduled route.
Terminuses can be located at bus stations, interchanges, bus garages or bus stops.
Terminuses can start and end at the same place, or may be in different locations for starting and finishing a route.
Train terminus
Victor Aleksandrovich Krasin (also spelled Viktor Krasin, , 4 August 1929 – 3 September 2017) was a Russian human rights activist, economist, a former Soviet dissident and a political prisoner.
At the time of his death Krasin was a US citizen.
He was the founder of Initiative Group for the Defense of Human Rights in the USSR.
He was born in Kiev, Ukraine.
Mary MacKillop (born 15 January 1842, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, died 18 August 1909, Sydney, Australia) was the first saint and nun in Australian history.
She was a member of the Religious Sisters of Joseph.
She is properly known in the Catholic Church as Saint Mary of the Cross Mary MacKillop.
A hybrid drive is a data storage device that combines the features of an HDD and an SSD into one unit.
It contains a large HDD and a smaller SSD cache that lets it quickly find and store computer files that are frequently accessed.
A hybrid drive can offer almost the same performance as an SSD and it can contain more capacity, However a SSD will usually be faster.
Nissanka was a platoon commander and had the rank of second lieutenant.
He served in the Sri Lankan Army from 1990 till his death in 1993.
He was killed in action during the Sri Lankan Civil War.
Fujairah is an emirate on the east coast of the United Arab Emirates.
The emirate lies along the Gulf of Oman.
Fujairah is known for its beaches and the Hajar Mountains, which run through much of the emirate.
In the south, the city of Fujairah is home to the massive Sheikh Zayed Mosque, known for its towering white minarets.
Overlooking the city is the Fujairah Fort, a reconstructed 17th-century fortress featuring round and square towers.
Monika Samtani is an American broadcast journalist.
She is best known for directing a documentary movie Suma's Story: It's Her Turn (2015).
Samtani attended George Washington University and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Radio and Television Communications.
She was a fill-in disc jockey on Essex Radio/Breeze AM in 1989.
She joined as a morning traffic anchor on WUSA9 in 1997.
She appeared in the film An American Affair (2008).
Samtani founded LAUNCH Network from 2011 to 2013, a networking organization for women entrepreneurs.
In 2014, she started her company Ms. Media, with a focus on helping businesses and non-profits market themselves, including Sahara Deepika Foundation for Education  In 2016, Samtani became a TEDx talker.
Maryland’s Achievement in Public Information Awards, 2002
Internet & Video Association (TIVA) D.C. Peer Awards, 2010
Featured on the cover of Washington FAMILY Magazine
Beibeilong is an extinct genus of oviraptor-like dinosaur.
The genus contains a single species B. sinensis, named in 2017 by Pu and colleagues based on a nest with an embryo (nicknamed "Baby Louie") and eggs.
It was similar to  Gigantoraptor, and may have been of similar size as an adult.
Allosauroids were a clade of theropod dinosaurs.
The oldest-known allosauroid, Shidaisaurus, appeared in the early Middle Jurassic (probably Bajocian stage) of China.
The last known surviving members of the group died out around 93 million years ago in Asia (Shaochilong) and South America (Mapusaurus), though the megaraptorans, including the late-surviving Orkoraptor.
Allosauroids had long, narrow skulls, large orbits, three-fingered hands, and usually had "horns"  on their heads.
The most famous and best understood allosauroid is the Allosaurus.
Roxas Boulevard is one of the distinguished roads in Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
It is a boulevard, or a wide road, that runs along the shores of Manila Bay.
It is famous for its sunsets and stretch (or line) of coconut trees.
It is now a trademark of tourism.
It is also famous for its yacht club, hotels, restaurants, commercial buildings, and parks.
The old name of the road is Cavite Boulevard.
It was then changed to Dewey Boulevard after the American Admiral George Dewey.
Dewey's men defeated the Spanish navy in the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898.
The name was changed to "Heiwa Boulevard" in 1941 during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.
It was changed again to Roxas Boulevard in the 1960s after Manuel Roxas, the former president of the Philippines.
Europelta is an extinct genus of nodosaurid dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous (early Albian stage) of northeastern Spain.
It contains a single species, Europelta carbonensis.
It is the most complete ankylosaur known from Europe.
Thomas Horn, Jr.  (November 21, 1860 – November 20, 1903) was an American Old West scout, who carried out various lines of work, including hired gunman, detective, cowboy, and soldier.
He is believed to have committed 17 killings throughout the West as a hired gunman.
In 1902 Horn was convicted of the murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell near Iron Mountain, Wyoming, for which crime he was hanged.
Kiyoshi Ogawa ( Ogawa Kiyoshi, October 23, 1922 – May 11, 1945) was a Japanese naval aviator ensign () of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
As a kamikaze pilot, Ensign Ogawa's final action took place on May 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa.
USS Bunker Hill (CV/CVA/CVS-17, AVT-9) was one of 24 Essex Aircraft Carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy.
The ship was named for the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolutionary War and was commissioned in May 1943.
While covering the invasion of Okinawa, Bunker Hill was struck by two kamikazes in quick succession, setting the vessel on fire.
Casualties exceeded 600, including 346 confirmed dead and an additional 43 missing,
Sinosaurus (meaning "Chinese lizard") was a tetanuran theropod dinosaur which lived during the Early Jurassic Period.
Its fossils were found in China.
It was a bipedal carnivore.
It was approximately 5.6 meters long.
The Sino-Vietnamese War was a war fought between China and Vietnam from February 17, 1979 to March 16, 1979.
It is also known as the Third Indochina War, was a brief border war fought between the People's Republic of China and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in early 1979.
John Patrick White (February 27, 1937 – September 3, 2017) was an American politician and military personnel.
He served as United States Deputy Secretary of Defense from June 22, 1995 through July 15, 1997.
He was a First Lieutenant at the United States Marine Corps.
Harvard Faculty Profile
Holger Czukay (, Holger Schüring; 24 March 1938 – 5 September 2017) was a German musician.
He was born in the Free City of Danzig .
He was probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can.
Czukay was also known for having created early important examples of ambient music, for having explored "world music" well before the term was coined, and for having been a pioneer of sampling.
A Holger Czukay interview (2004)
An interview with Czukay
Dignose Records
Gauri Lankesh ( Gauri Laṅkēś, 29 January 1962 – 5 September 2017) was an Indian journalist-turned-activist from Bangalore, Karnataka.
She worked as an editor in Lankesh Patrike, a Kannada weekly started by her father P. Lankesh, and ran her own weekly called Gauri Lankesh Patrike.
Lankesh was known for advocating freedom of the press.
She had written about the wrongdoings of the Indian National Congress leader, D. K. Shivakumar, a close associate of the former Chief Minister of Karnataka, S. M. Krishna.
Lankesh was shot to death by unknown assailants outside her home in Rajarajeshwari Nagar on September 5, 2017 at the age of 55.
At the time of her death, Gauri was known for being a critic of right-wing Hindu extremism.
Carlo Caffarra (1 June 1938 – 6 September 2017) was an Italian cardinal and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bologna.
He was created Cardinal in the consistory of 24 March 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI.
He was born in Busseto, Italy.
Carlo Caffarra at the Catholic Pages
unofficial collection of Cardinal Caffarra's speeches
Walter Brandmüller PhD (born 5 January 1929) is a cardinal of the Catholic Church and president Emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences.
As required by canon law for cardinals, he was appointed a bishop.
On 22 July 1990, he received the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from president Richard von Weizsäcker.
He served as President of the International Commission for Contemporary Church History from 1998 until 2006.
He is a canon of the chapter of the Saint Peter's Basilica since 1997.
Brandmüller, along with three other cardinals, has issued a request to Pope Francis, entitled "Seeking Clarity: A Plea to Untie the Knots in Amoris Laetitia", seeking clarification on various points of doctrine in the Pope's apostolic exhortation, Amoris laetitia.
Nicolae Lupescu (17 December 1940 – 6 September 2017) was a Romanian football defender and manager.
Lupescu earned 21 caps and scored 2 goals for the Romanian national team.
He represented his country at the 1970 FIFA World Cup.
Mike Neville, MBE (17 October 1936 – 6 September 2017) was a British broadcaster.
He was a best known as a veteran anchorman on regional TV news in North East England.
In a 43 year career with the BBC and ITV franchisee Tyne Tees Television.
He became an iconic figure in the region and was remembered for his solid representational style.
He was born in Willington Quay, Northumberland, England.
Unofficial biography of Mike Neville
Mongoloid was a word for a person from East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Arctic, the Americas, the Pacific Islands or Finland.
The group of these persons was called Mongoloid race.
These races were called Mongoloid, Caucasoid, and Negroid.
German anthropologists invented the name Mongolian race in the 18th century.
Later, the name changed to Mongoloid.
This means "looking like a Mongol".
The word "mongoloid" was once also used to mean a person with Down syndrome.
This was an offensive term used because people said it was like "Mongolian idiocy" or "Mongolian imbecility".
Down syndrome has nothing to do with the Mongoloid race: it is a genetic condition found in all types of humans.
Australoid race was a word for the aboriginal people of Australia, Melanesia, and parts of Southeast Asia.
In former times, many people divided human beings into four races.
These races were called Australoid, Mongoloid, Caucasoid, and Negroid.
Modern genetic research has shown that the idea of four races was wrong.
Griffe is a word that was used in slave societies in the Americas to describe some mixed-race people.
It meant someone who was  3/4 black and 1/4 white.
Quadroon is a word that was used in slave societies in the Americas to describe some mixed-race people.
It meant someone who had three white grandparents and one black grandparent.
Octoroon is a word that was used in slave societies in the Americas to describe some mixed-race people.
It meant someone who was 7/8 white and 1/8 black.
The first prose (in a Sami language) came in 1910: ["a story about the life of the Sami ]" Muitalus samiid birra.
It was written by a wolf hunter, Johan Turi.
The financing of the book, was by a Swedish captain of industry, Hjalmar Lundbohm(en).
The first novel (in a Sami language) came in 1912: ["dawn"] Beaivi-álgu - by Anders Larsen.
Literature by ethnicity
"Despacito" (; English: "Slowly") is a song by Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi featuring Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee from Fonsi's upcoming studio album.
On January 12, 2017, Universal Music Latin released "Despacito" and its music video, which shows both artists performing the song in La Perla neighborhood of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico and the local bar La Factoría.
The song's music video is the first video to reach over three billion views on YouTube.
The song was written by Luis Fonsi, Erika Ender and Daddy Yankee, and was produced by Andrés Torres and Mauricio Rengifo.
By being certified Diamond in the US only a year after its release, it reached this level faster than any other song since Elton John's double A-side single "Candle in the Wind 1997/Something About the Way You Look Tonight".
This certification means the song has shipped and streamed over 10 million equivalent copies in the US.
Justin Bieber remix
On April 17, 2017 a remix version featuring vocals by Canadian singer Justin Bieber was released, who sang in Spanish for the first time in his career.
The remix was released as a single by Universal Music Latin, Republic Records, Def Jam Recordings, RBMG and School Boy Records.
The song maintained the original rhythms and Luis Fonsi translated some lines to English, singing a verse in Spanglish, while Daddy Yankee's verses were kept from the original version.
It was the first collaboration between Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee with Bieber.
The remix's official audio video garnered 20 million views on YouTube on its first 24 hours, making it the highest debut for a music-related video in 2017 as of April.
The song became Bieber's fifth chart-topper on the US Billboard Hot 100, after "What Do You Mean?", "
Sorry", "Love Yourself", and "I'm the One".
In the US, UK, and Canada, it replaced "I'm the One" at the top spot. "
Despacito" became Bieber's sixth British and seventh Canadian chart-topper.
Justin Bieber songs
Soriatitan ("Soria titan") is a genus of sauropod from the Early Cretaceous of Spain.
It is known from one species, S.golmayensis.
The Sword of Reinheimen is a sword that was found in Norway in 2017 - in the county of Oppland.
The age of the sword:  Some archeologists think it is from 800 A.D. to early 10th century.
Studying the sword
On 4 September 2017, "archeologists from Lillehammer" looked closely at the sword.
The sword is expected to come to Museum of Cultural History, Oslo (en) [later in 2017].
Possible reasons for why the sword came to rest
The area where the sword was found, is a place used for hunting reindeer.
Reindeer hunters often sneak up on reindeers, and sometimes the hunters leave things somewhere outside (while trying to sneak towards reindeer), and sometimes those things can not be easily found, especially when there is snow on the ground.
Breaking News: A Viking Sword Found at High Altitude
The precise style of British sovereigns has varied over the years.
style is officially proclaimed in two languages:
in English:
in Latin:
Heimersdorf is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.
Heimsbrunn is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.
Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896December 26, 1977) was an American movie director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era.
The classic Hollywood era was the time between 1917 and 1960 when American films first started to be created.
During the classical Hollywood era, directors learned how to make films tell stories in ways that are still used today.
Hawks made many different kinds of films.
He made funny films, dramas, gangster films, science fiction, film noir, and westerns.
He made many popular movies.
Some of them are Scarface (1932),  Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948), The Thing from Another World (1951), and Rio Bravo (1959).
Hawks often included strong women who talked a lot in his films.
This kind of woman was in so many of Hawks's films that people now call that type of woman a "Hawksian woman."
In 1942, other movie people in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated Hawks for the Academy Award for Best Director for his work making Sergeant York.
In 1975 the Academy gave Hawks an Honorary Academy Award Hawks's work has influenced some of the most popular movie directors such as Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, John Carpenter, and Quentin Tarantino.
Howard Winchester Hawks was born in Goshen, Indiana, the first child of Frank W. Hawks (1865–1950), who made his money making paper, and his wife, Helen (née Howard; 1872–1952), the daughter of a businessman with money.
Hawks's family on his father's side were American pioneers and his old family member John Hawks had come from England to Massachusetts in 1630.
The family lived in Goshen and by the 1890s was one of the richest families in the Midwest, because the Goshen Milling Company made a lot of money.
The dad of Hawks's mom, C. W. Howard (1845–1916), lived in Neenah, Wisconsin in 1862 at age 17.
In 15 years he had made his money in the town's paper mill and other business moves.
Frank Hawks and Helen Howard met in the early 1890s and married in 1895.
Howard Hawks was the oldest of five kids and his birth was followed by Kenneth Neil Hawks (August 12, 1899 – January 2, 1930), William Bellinger Hawks (January 29, 1901 – January 10, 1969), Grace Louise Hawks (October 17, 1903 – December 23, 1927) and Helen Bernice Hawks (1906 – May 4, 1911).
In 1898, the family moved to Neenah, Wisconsin where Frank Hawks started working for his father-in-law's Howard Paper Company.
Between 1906 and 1909, the Hawks family started to live in Pasadena, California because of the cold Wisconsin winters.
This helped Helen Hawks's ill health.
Little by little they started to live in Wisconsin only in the summers.
They then moved to Pasadena for good in 1910.
The family lived in a house down the street from Throop Polytechnic Institute (later known as the California Institute of Technology).
The Hawks children started going to the school's Polytechnic Elementary School in 1907.
Hawks did okay in school.
He did not do well in sports, but by 1910 he made up coaster racing, an early kind of soapbox racing.
In 1911, Hawks's younger sister Helen died suddenly of food poisoning.
From 1910 to 1912, Hawks went to Pasadena High School.
But in 1912, the Hawks family moved to Glendora, California.
Frank Hawks had orange trees there.
Hawks ended his junior year of high school at Citrus Union High School in Glendora.
When there he flew planes for performers.
He was then sent to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire from 1913 to 1914.
His family's money may have been a part his being let into the high-end private school.
He was only seventeen, but he was let in as a student the same level of a sophomore.
While in New England, Hawks went to the movie houses in Boston.
In 1914, Hawks went back to Glendora and graduated from Pasadena High School that year.
That same year, Hawks was let into Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
He studied mechanical engineering and was a part of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
School friend Ray S. Ashbury remembered Hawks spending more of his time playing craps and drinking alcohol than studying.
Hawks also loved reading popular American and English books in school.
While working in the movie industry in his 1916 summer vacation, Hawks made an attempt to change schools to Stanford University.
He was not let in.
He went to Cornell that September.
He left in April 1917 to join the Army when the United States joined World War I. Like a lot of students who joined the armed services in the war, he got a degree in absentia in 1918.
Before Hawks went to war, he went back to Hollywood and by the end of April 1917 was working on a Cecil B. DeMille movie.
Early film career
In 1916, Hawks met Victor Fleming, a Hollywood filmmaker who had fixed cars and flown planes.
Fleming started in the movie industry when a friend, Marshall Neilan, told movie director Allan Dwan that Fleming could fix his car. (
Fleming left an impression on Dwan by quickly fixing his car and a broken camera.)
By 1916, Fleming was a cinematographer.
Hawks met Fleming when he started racing and working on a Mercer race car—bought for him by his grandfather, C.W. Howard—during his 1916 summer vacation in California.
They say he met Fleming when the two men raced on a dirt track and caused an accident.
Fleming gave Hawks's his first job in the movie industry, as a prop boy on the Douglas Fairbanks movie In Again, Out Again (on which Fleming worked as the cinematographer) for Famous Players-Lasky.
Hawks said, a new place to be filmed needed to be made quickly when the studio's set designer could not be there, so Hawks offered to do the job.
Fairbanks was happy.
He then worked making things used in the movie and general helper on an unknown movie put together by Cecil B. DeMille. (
Hawks never said what film in interviews and DeMille made five movies about in that time).
During his career, he was the chief of the Architectural Guild for the School of Architecture and Fine Arts at University of Southern California, the founder and chairman of Gin Wong Associates, and the president of William L. Pereira Associates.
He was known as the designer of numerous buildings and centers in Southern California and the Pacific Rim: LAX Theme Building; the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) Headquarters Building in Downtown Los Angeles; the Columbia Broadcasting System Television City; the Crean Tower and Mary Hood Chapel on the Crystal Cathedral campus; the Jack Colker's 76 Station in Beverly Hills; Hyatt Regency International Airport in Inchon, Korea; and the Pan Pacific Tower in Honolulu, Hawaii.
James Ronald McDaniels (April 2, 1948 – September 6, 2017) was an American professional basketball player.
He was born in Scottsville, Kentucky.
McDaniels was drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics in the second round of the 1971 NBA draft and by the Utah Stars in the ABA Draft, but he began his professional career with the Carolina Cougars of the American Basketball Association.
Joseph Jean-Noel Yves Picard (December 25, 1938 – September 6, 2017) was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman.
He was the brother of former National Hockey League (NHL) player Roger Picard with whom he briefly played in St Louis, Missouri for one season.
He played for the Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues and the Atlanta Flames.
Kim Ki-duk (29 September 1934 – 7 September 2017) was a South Korean movie director and professor.
He was best known outside of Korea for his 1967 giant monster movie Yongary.
Kim directed 66 movies in total from his directorial debut in 1961 until his retirement from the movie industry in 1977.
Along with Kim Soo-yong and Lee Man-hee, Kim was one of the leading young directors of the Korean cinematic wave of the 1960s.
The most distinctive and successful genre of this period was the melodrama (청춘영화 - cheongchun yeonghwa).
He was not related to Kim Ki-duk, the South Korean director of 3-Iron.
Kim Ki-duk ( ; December 20, 1960 – December 11, 2020) was a South Korean movie director and screenwriter.
His movies have received many awards in the festival awards, making him one of the most important contemporary Asian movie directors.
He won the Golden Lion at 69th Venice International Film Festival for Pietà, Silver Lion for Best Director at 61st Venice International Film Festival for 3-Iron, Silver Bear for Best Director at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival for Samaria and Un Certain Regard prize at 2011 Cannes Film Festival for Arirang.
His best known movie was Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003).
Two of his movies were official submissions for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film as South Korean entries.
Kim wrote scripts to many of his former assistant directors including Juhn Jai-hong (Beautiful and Poongsan) and Jang Hoon (Rough Cut).
Silver Bear (Best Director) for Samaritan Girl, Berlin International Film Festival (2004)
Silver Lion (Best Director) for 3-Iron, Venice Film Festival (2004)
Un Certain Regard Prize for Arirang, Cannes Film Festival (2011)
"Award for Future Movies", Küstendorf Film and Music Festival (2012)
Golden Lion for Pietà, Venice Film Festival (2012)
The Venice Days Best Film Award, Venice Film Festival (2014)
Kim Ki-Duk: the past, the persistent problems and the near future About Kim Ki-Duk's 2006 controversial declarations
Review of Kim Ki-duk's Time
Working Biography
South Korean screenwriters
Jeremiah Goodman (October 22, 1922 – September 7, 2017) was an American illustrator.
Goodman signed his work with his first name only.
Goodman used his unique painting style to create the essence of a building's interior.
His painting interprets the plans of both architects and interior designers.
He paints original portraits of spaces for both commercial and private clients.
For almost twenty years he created the covers for Interior Design magazine, and also books on interiors and for murals.
The official website of Jeremiah Goodman
The official website of Dean Rhys-Morgan, independent curator of works by Jeremiah Goodman
Tomás Félix Villanueva Rodríguez (25 February 1953 – 7 September 2017) was a Spanish politician.
He was born in Valladolid, Spain.
He served as a politician for the region of Castile and León.
He served as the region's Vice President from 2001 through 2003.
Eugene Richard "Gene" Michael (June 2, 1938 – September 7, 2017), nicknamed "Stick", was an American shortstop, coach, scout, manager and executive in Major League Baseball.
He was born in Kent, Ohio.
Michael played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, and Detroit Tigers from 1966 to 1975.
After his playing career, Michael managed the Yankees and Chicago Cubs, and served as the Yankees' general manager.
Michael built the Yankees team that became a dynasty in the late 1990s.
The 2017 Chiapas earthquake was a strong earthquake that hit Mexico and Guatemala on September 7, 2017.
The quake scored a magnitude of 8.4 Mw on the magnitude (or strength) scale.
At least sixty people died.
Christchurch earthquake may refer to a number of earthquakes that affected Christchurch, New Zealand.
Christchurch earthquakes
1869 Christchurch earthquake on 5 June 1869
2010 Canterbury earthquake on 4 September 2010
2011 Christchurch earthquake on 22 February 2011
June 2011 Christchurch earthquake on 13 June 2011
February 2016 Christchurch earthquake on 14 February 2016
Earthquakes elsewhere causing damage in Christchurch
1855 Wairarapa earthquake on 23 January 1855
1888 North Canterbury earthquake on 1 September 1888
1901 Cheviot earthquake on 16 November 1901
2016 Kaikoura earthquake on 14 November 2016
The Aérospatiale SA-341 Gazelle is a French helicopter designed and built by Aérospatiale.
It was also built under licence in UK by Westland as Westland Gazelle for Royal Navy and Royal Air Force.
Some were built and used by Yugoslavia as SOKO SA-341 Partizan.
A training helicopter is a light helicopter used specially for training.
Some are civilian but most are military.
Agathaumas ("great wonder") is a dubious genus of a large ceratopsid dinosaur that lived in Wyoming during the Late Cretaceous  (65 million years ago).
The name comes from Greek, αγαν - 'much' and θαυμα - 'wonder'.
It was seen as the largest land animal known at the time of its discovery and might be a synonym of Triceratops.
It was related to Ceratops.
In the geologic timescale, the Bajocian is an age or stage in the Middle Jurassic.
It lasted from approximately 170.3 Ma to around 168.3 Ma (million years ago).
The Bajocian age succeeds the Aalenian age and precedes the Bathonian age.
Jews believe in only one god, because they believe that that one god was not only the creator of the world, but also that they can have an individual and personal relationship with him.
The name of that god is God, meaning “The Name” or “My Master”.
The religion started in Mesopotamia, later on moving to Canaan, and near the Middle East.
It developed gradually around 1800 BCE.
During this time, God talked to Abraham, and told him to go to Canaan with his followers.
Once they arrived, they became sheep herders.
But one day, famine caused them to flee to Egypt, where they eventually became slaves.
After all that happened, God talked to another spiritual leader in Judaism to help Abraham and his followers get back to Canaan, which he eventually did.
The religion spread widely after that.
The spread is called the Jewish Diaspora.
The Jews spread to other countries and took their religion with them.
The Jews have to follow specific rules from their bible.
One of them is the 10 commandments.
They also have to live near their Synagogue because they don't believe in taking transportation on Shabbat.
The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group A was one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification.
The group was made up of six teams: Netherlands, France, Sweden, Bulgaria, Belarus, and Luxembourg.
Aurélien Joachim
Georgi Kostadinov
Quincy Promes
Davy Pröpper
Andreas Granqvist
Mikael Lustig
Pavel Savitski
Ivaylo Chochev
Spas Delev
Kévin Gameiro
Thomas Lemar
Vincent Janssen
Alexei Rios
Anton Saroka
Mikhail Sivakow
Maksim Valadzko
Stanislav Manolev
Marcelinho
Aleksandar Tonev
Florian Bohnert
Maxime Chanot
Daniel da Mota
Olivier Thill
Davy Klaassen
Oscar Hiljemark
Isaac Kiese Thelin
Christoffer Nyman
Standings – Qualifying round: Group A, UEFA.com
Innerferrera () is a village and former municipality of the district Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2008 the former municipalities of Innerferrera and Ausserferrera merged into the new municipality of Ferrera.
Jenaz () is a municipality of the district of Prättigau/Davos in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Jenins () is a municipality in the district of Landquart in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Villars-Sainte-Croix is a municipality in the district of Ouest lausannois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Die () is a small city and commune in southeastern France in the Drôme department, of which it is a sub-prefecture.
Die is in the eastern part of the Drôme department.
The Drôme river, a tributary of the Rhône river, flows through the commune.
The commune of Die is surrounded by 8 communes: Chamaloc, Romeyer, Laval-d'Aix, Molières-Glandaz, Aix-en-Diois, Barsac, Ponet-et-Saint-Auban, Marignac-en-Diois.
The inhabitants of Die are known, in French, as Diois (women: Dioises).
With a population of 4,516, Die has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.
Die is a sub-prefecture in the Drôme department since 1800.
It is the capital of the Die arrondissement and is also the administrative centre () of the canton of Le Diois formed by 63 communes, with 13,617 inhabitants (2014).
Wirksworth, United Kingdom
Frankenau, Germany
Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary
Ville de Die - Official site
Office de Tourisme du Pays Diois
Türkân Akyol (September 12, 1928 – September 7, 2017) was a Turkish   politician, physician and  academic.
She was the first Turkish female government minister, and the first female university rector in Turkey.
She served as Minister of State from 1992 through 1995.
http://www.guide2womenleaders.com/First-female-ministers.htm
Don Williams (May 27, 1939 – September 8, 2017) was an American country singer, songwriter, and 2010 inductee to the Country Music Hall of Fame.
He began his solo career in 1971, singing popular ballads and amassing 17 number one country hits.
Jerry Eugene Pournelle (; August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American science fiction writer, essayist, and journalist.
He contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte.
Pournelle served as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1973.
Jerry Pournelle  at 1999 NASFiC website where he was GoH
Jerry Pournelle Interview at AMCtv.com
Les McDonald, CM (30 April 1933 – 4 September 2017) was a Canadian athlete and administrator.
He was the founding President of the International Triathlon Union (ITU) from 1989-2008, and was made an Honorary President for the organization until his death in 2017.
McDonald is largely credited with getting the sport of triathlon into the Olympic Games, with the inaugural race taking place at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad in Sydney, Australia, in 2000.
He is a member of the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame (2007), the BC Sports Hall of Fame (2009), and the ITU Hall of Fame (2014).
He was awarded the Olympic Order in 2010, in Vancouver, by the International Olympic Committee.
This results in muscular weakness. "
Myopathy" simply means muscle disease (Greek myo- "muscle" + patheia < -pathy "suffering").
This meaning implies that the primary defect is within the muscle, as opposed to the nerves ("neuropathies" or "neurogenic" disorders) or elsewhere (e.g., the brain).
Some conditions, such as myositis, can be considered both neuromuscular and musculoskeletal.