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She is known as one of the faster characters in the game, but also one with low health.
In the game, she is able to teleport and time travel, with her abilities "Blink" and "Recall".
She is an "Offense" hero commonly used to flank or distract the enemy team.
Her Ultimate Ability, "Pulse Bomb" is commonly used to eliminate high priority targets in a small area, it can also stick to enemies and eliminate others nearby, Tracer herself can also be damaged by this if she is too close.
In the real world, she is one of the more well known characters from Overwatch.
This is because she is seen on the cover of the video game and Blizzard has made animated videos featuring her.
Tracer was first seen in 2014 at Blizzard Entertainment's "BlizzCon 2014" event.
The main designer on Overwatch, Scott Mercer, said that Blizzard's canceled project, Titan, had a character with Tracer's abilities.
Jeff Kaplan was the main hero designer for  Overwatch; he had a big part in Tracer's design.
While the game was still being designed and tested, or its "beta" period, Tracer's health was lowered.
Her personality was designed as heroic and happy.
Overwatch game designer Michael Chu said, "the thing about Tracer is that she has a personality which is out of the norm for most people.
She is incredibly optimistic, she is incredibly bubbly - it's part of her hero persona.
We love her, I think she is very much one of the main characters of the game [...] [to] really carry the torch of what the game is all about: heroism."
She is British and the British actress Cara Theobold voices her in the game.
While the game was still being designed, victory poses were added to the characters.
Tracer's "Over the Shoulder" victory pose caused a controversy, because some players thought that the pose's focus on her physical features did not line up with her personality traits.
Some players disagreed with this, finding nothing wrong with it, but Jeff Kaplan, the director of Overwatch apologized for the pose.
Blizzard then changed the victory pose to better fit Tracer's personality, and while some players were happy with the change, as well as with Blizzard listening to the game's community, other players thought that the game's makers were giving up their creative control to offended players.
Fictional lesbians
Noordoostpolder is a municipality of Flevoland, the Netherlands, and a former municipality of Overijssel.
In 2016 about 47,000 people were living in Noordoostpolder.
Noordoostpolder website
Dronten website
Zeewolde website
The Kosi river is a river in Asia.
It is called the "Sorrow of Bihar" because of the damage caused when it floods.
Rivers of Bihar
Rivers of Nepal
Jallikattu is a traditional event in Tamil Nadu.
It is an ancient Tamil event where participants try to embrace a bull, when the bull try to knock them off.
It displays the bravery of a person who embraces the bull.
The person who wins the event was awarded with money in the ancient Tamil period
The earliest history of Jallikattu was from about 2500 years ago.
It is held on the day of third day of Pongal festival and second day of Thai month of the Tamil calendar which is known as Maatu Pongal.
The Supreme Court ordered a ban on this event on 7th of May,2014 because of animal welfare issues.
And the Tamil nadu youngsters protested against the Supreme Court's decision at the Marina beach .Despite being banned more than 2 million people participate in this annual event.
The ongoing protests forced the government of India to issue a  special ordinance for jallikattu and hence the ban was lifted by the Union Government on 8th of Januar,2018.
Organisations like PETA protested against this order and the people of Tamil Nadu asked for the banishment of this organisation from the state.
Events in India
A scallion is a vegetable.
Scallions are also called spring onions, green onions, and salad onions.
Achtkarspelen is a municipality of Friesland, the Netherlands.
In 2016 the municipality had about 28,000 people.
Municipalities of Friesland
Ameland is an island and municipality of the province of Friesland, the Netherlands.
In 2016 the municipality had about 3,600 people.
The municipality covers an area of 269 km², the island an area of 59 km².
The Hochfrottspitze is a mountain near Oberstdorf, Germany.
It is the highest German mountain in the Allgäu Alps at  high.
The border with Austria is on its ridge.
With the Trettachspitze and Mädelegabel, the Hochfrottspitze forms a well known trio of peaks on the main ridge of the Allgäu Alps.
It was first climbed in 1869 by Hermann von Barth.
The route to the top is difficult to climb.
The mountain is made of dolomite.
Municipalities of Groningen (province)
Kapelle, Zeelandic: Kapelle or Kapel'n,  is a village and municipality on the former island of Zuid-Beveland, Province of Zeeland, the Netherlands.
In 2017 the municipality had about 13,000 people.<br/ >
Jan Peter Balkenende (born 1956), former Prime Minister
Blattodea is an order of insects made up of the cockroaches and termites.
Milton Metz (c. 1921 – January 12, 2017) was an American radio and television personality in Louisville, Kentucky.
He occasionally did commercial work for local radio and television stations until he was unable to due to his health in the last year of his life.
Metz was inducted into the University of Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame in 1989.
He was also named as a Gold Circle Honoree in 2009 by the Ohio Valley Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
People from Louisville, Kentucky
Paleoconservatism (sometimes called paleocon) is a conservative idea that stresses tradition, limited government and civil society, along with religious, national and Western identity.
The idea is mainly found in the United States.
Paul Gottfried created the term in the 1980s.
It was used to refer to conservative traditional Catholics and agrarian Southerners who turned against Communism during the Cold War.
Leading paleoconservatives
Donald Trump – 45th President of the United States, Political researcher Bruce Wilson said about Trump, "[He] advances core paleoconservative positions laid out in "The Next Conservatism" — rebuilding infrastructure, protective tariffs, securing borders and stopping illegal immigration, neutralizing designated internal enemies and isolationism."
Pat Buchanan – Journalist
Robert Novak – Journalist
Virgil Goode – Politician
Nick Fuentes – Presenter
Breaking All the Rules (BATR)
Conservative Heritage Times
James Kalb's Conservatism FAQ
Vsevolod Serafimovich Murakhovsky (; 20 October 1926 – 12 January 2017) was a Ukrainian-Russian politician.
He was born in Luhansk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR.
Murakhovsky served as first deputy premier during the Gorbachev Era from 1985 through 1989.
John Robert Maurice Jacobs OBE (14 March 1925 – 13 January 2017) was an English professional golfer, coach, entrepreneur, writer and administrator.
He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2000.
He was born in Yorkshire.
He founded the PGA European Tour in 1972.
Profile on the World Golf Hall of Fame's official site
Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (7 March 1930 – 13 January 2017), commonly known as Lord Snowdon, was an English photographer and filmmaker.
He was married to Princess Margaret, younger daughter of King George VI and younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II.
Gilberto Agustoni (26 July 1922 – 13 January 2017) was a Swiss Roman Catholic prelate.
He served as the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura from 1994 to 1998.
He was later a Cardinal-Priest of the Roman Catholic Church.
He was born in Schaffhausen.
Eraclio Catalin Rodríguez Cereijo (15 May 1925 – 13 January 2017), better known as Horacio Guarany, was an Argentine singer, musician and writer.
He was called one of the most important Argentine folklore singers.
He won a Platinum Konex Award in 1985.
He began his career in the 1940s.
He released around 57 solo albums.
He was signed with the record labels Philips and EMI.
He was born in Las Garzas, Santa Fe Province.
Guarany died from a cardiac arrest on 13 January 2017 in Luján, Buenos Aires Province.
Yanni (later John) Alexis Mardas (; 2 May 1942 – 13 January 2017) was better known as Magic Alex, was a Greek electrical engineer and businessman.
His nickname, "Magic Alex", was given to him by The Beatles when he worked with the group between 1965 and 1969, including being head of Apple Electronics.
He was born in Athens, Greece.
Lennon's artwork put on sale by Mardas
Chris Hunt interview with Cynthia Lennon
Life of The Beatles
The Nationalist Movement Party (sometimes called Nationalist Action Party; Turkish: Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi, MHP) is a political party in Turkey.
The MHP was founded on 9 February 1969 by Alparslan Türkeş.
Their most successful performance in an election was in 1999, where they received 5,606,634 votes and won 129 out of 550 seats in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
In the last election, they received 5,599,600 votes and won 40 out of 550 seats.
The Nationalist Movement Party has been called a neo-fascist party, and has been linked to some violent militias.
They are cultural nationalists, and moved from supporting secularism to having a pro-Islamic stance.
They are Eurosceptics, meaning they are against the European Union.
Their slogan is: Ülkenin Geleceğine Oy Ver (meaning "Vote for the country's future").
Official Site of Ulku Ocaklari (Turan idealists)
Nationalist Movement Party Multimedya
The National Alliance (officially called the National Alliance "All For Latvia!"
or "For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK"; Latvian: Nacionālā apvienība „Visu Latvijai!”
or „Tēvzemei un Brīvībai/LNNK”; NA) is a political party in Latvia.
The current party was founded on 23 July 2011.
The party is a merger of All For Latvia!
and For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK.
Their support has been rising since their creation, and in the last parliament election they received 151,567 votes and won 17 out of 100 seats in the Saeima.
In the 2014 European election, they received 63,229 votes and won 1 out of 8 seats.
The party is based on nationalism and conservatism.
They are Eurosceptic, meaning that they are against the European Union.
The party also wants the government to have a stricter anti-Russia stance.
Bonaire is an island of the Caribbean Netherlands and the former Netherlands Antilles.
It lies off the coast of Venezuela, near the islands of Aruba and Curaçao, which are also parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Bonaire lies at .
It has a land area of 288  km².
In 2014 about 18,000 people were living there.
Epsom Downs railway station is a station in the borough of Reigate and Banstead.
It opened in 1865.
The only operator for this station is Southern.
There is only one platform for this station and it is used for trains towards London Victoria via Norbury.
There is no Sunday service for this station.
2 tph to London Victoria via Norbury
Surjit Singh Barnala (21 October 1925 – 14 January 2017) was an Indian politician.
He was Chief Minister of Punjab from 29 September 1985 to 11 June 1987.
He was also the Governor of Tamil Nadu from 3 November 2004 to 31 August 2011, as well as Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
He was a member of the Shiromani Akali Dal party.
Barnala was born in Ateli, Punjab (Haryana) to a Sikh family.
He married to Surjit Kaur Barnala.
Barnala died after a long illness on 14 January 2017 in Chandigarh, Punjab.
Lieutenant governors of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Lieutenant Governors of Puducherry
Governors of Andhra Pradesh
Governors of Tamil Nadu
Governors of Uttarakhand
Prayagraj ( formerly called as Allahabad), is a city in Uttar Pradesh state of India.
It is located where Ganges and Yamuna rivers join.
This city is a holy city for Hindus.
It is best known for Kumbh fair.
This fair occurs every 12th year in Prayagraj.
Previously Prayagraj known as Allahabad.
The name has changed in Yogi Government Uttar Pradesh in 2018.
The Mädelegabel is a mountain on the border of Austria and Germany.
It is near Oberstdorf in the Allgäu Alps.
It is one of the most-famous and most-climbed high mountains in the German Alps.
Mädelegabel is  high and made of Dolomite.
It is the fourth tallest mountain in the Allgäu Alps, with a 400m tall rock face.
With the Trettachspitze and the Hochfrottspitze, the Mädelegabel makes up the well known trio of peaks on the main ridge of the Allgäu Alps.
Originally Mädelegabel was the name for all three mountains of the trio.
Only later were they given different names.
On its southeastern slopes is the Schwarzmilzferner, a small glacier.
It was first climbed in 1818, by a survey team.
Udo Konstantin Ulfkotte (20 January 1960 – 13 January 2017) was a German journalist and political scientist.
He was an assistant editor for the main daily Frankfurt newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).
Between 1986 and 1998, Ulfkotte lived in the Middle East mostly, inlcuding Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Jordan.
He was became a Muslim while living in Afghanistan.
He later held conservative and anti-Muslim views and was against immigration.
He was born in Lippstadt, North Rhine-Westphalia (then in West Germany).
Jupiter Ghosh is a cricketer from Bangladesh.
He was born on 22nd July 1989 in Bagerhat, Khulna.
Jupiter Ghosh is a Bangladeshi first-class and List A cricketer.
He is a right-handed batsman and right-arm bowler.
Ghosh is an all-rounder and plays as a right-handed batsman.
He is currently playing for Khulna Division.
Mexicana Flight 940, was flying from Mexico City to Los Angeles the plane was operated by a Boeing 727 with 159 passengers and 8 crew members on-board.
On March 31, 1986  the plane suffered an in-flight fire and crashed near Michoacán, all 167 people on-board were killed, in Mexico's worst air-disaster.
Mark Fisher (11 July 1968 – 13 January 2017) was a British writer, cultural theorist and blogger.
He was also known by his blogging name k-punk from 2003.
He was known for his writing on radical politics, popular culture and music.
He wrote books, including Capitalist Realism (2009).
He also wrote as a journalist for The Wire, The Guardian, Fact, New Statesman and Sight & Sound.
He was based at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Fisher died on 13 January 2017 at the age of 48.
His wife, Zöe Fisher, said he had taken his own life.
Gil Cuerva is a Filipino-Spanish actor and model.
Cuerva appeared in his debut television remake of the hit South Korean romantic comedy series, My Love from the Star in 2017.
He played one of the leading characters.
The show aired on GMA Network.
In 2017, he was nominated as the Best New Male TV Personality by 31st PMPC Star Awards for Television.
Main hosts
Ogie Alcasid (1995–1996; 2016–present)
Martin Nievera (1995–present)
Dayanara Torres (1995–1998; 2017-present)
Gary Valenciano (1995–present)
Amy Perez-Castillo (1997–2003; 2016–present)
Zsa Zsa Padilla (1998–present)
Vina Morales (1998–present)
Jolina Magdangal (1995–2002; 2014–present)
Toni Gonzaga (2005–present)
Mariel Rodriguez (2005–2010; 2016–present)
Piolo Pascual (1996–1998; 2001–present)
Sarah Geronimo (2004–present)
Luis Manzano (2003–present)
Jaya (1998–2000; 2016–present)
Billy Crawford (2008–present)
Bamboo (2011–present)
Edu Manzano (2001–2005; 2016–2017)
Pops Fernandez (1995–2003; 2016–2017)
The Urbeleskarspitze is a mountain in the Allgäu Alps.
It is in the state of Tyrol, Austria.
It is the fifth tallest mountain in the Allgäu Alps.
It is also the second tallest mountain of the Hornbach chain.
It is located next to the Bretterspitze in the Hornbach chain.
It is made of dolomite, and has a bell-shaped summit.
The first recorded climb was in 1869, by Hermann von Barth, but many think locals climbed it first.
There are no easy routes to the top.
There are only two useable routes, both of which are quite difficult.
The Dabwali fire accident was a fire in a building in Haryana, India on 23 December 1995.
At least 400 people were killed.
Chopper is a 2000 Australian black comedy crime drama movie.
It was written and directed by Andrew Dominik and based on the autobiographical books by Mark "Chopper" Read.
It stars Eric Bana as the title character and co-stars Vince Colosimo, Simon Lyndon, Kate Beahan and David Field.
It has a cult following.
Interstate 275 (I-275) is an Interstate in the U.S. state of Michigan that acts as a western bypass of the Detroit metropolitan area.
The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) maintains the highway.
The freeway runs through the western suburbs near Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport.
The southern end is the interchange with I-75 near Newport.
MDOT considers the Interstate to run to  I-96, I-696 and M-5 on the Farmington Hills–Novi city line, running together with I-96 for about .
This gives a total length of about .
According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the length is  because they consider I-275 to end at the junction with I-96 and M-14.
The Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway is an international railway that connects Ethiopia's capital of Addis Ababa with Djibouti.
It is linked to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean.
Smith & Wesson M&P (Military and Police) is a series of handguns named after the famous 20th century Smith & Wesson service revolvers.
They are designed mainly for military, police and personal defense use.
They are offered in calibers including: .22 LR, .380 ACP, 9×19mm Parabellum, .357 Magnum and .45 ACP.
In 1852, gunsmiths Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson formed the partnership Smith & Wesson.
After having financial troubles, in 1854 they sold the company to a shirt manufacturer named Oliver Winchester.
In 1866, Winchester renamed the company Winchester Repeating Arms Company.
That same year Smith and Wesson formed the second company called Smith & Wesson, which is still in operation.
In 1899, the company produced their now-famous Military & Police pistol.
It was a double-action which set a standard for modern revolvers.
It also introduced what has become a very popular caliber, the .38 S&W Special.
In 2005, the company introduced Smith & Wesson M&P model pistol.
It was the first polymer handgun for S&W. It is available in 9mm and .40 S&W, and as of February 2016, in .45 ACP.
It is recoil-operated and uses the Browning-type locking system.
In 2008 the name M&P expanded to became a series of handguns.
It includes polymer pistols, (alloy) revolvers and AR-type rifles.
The color, with a few exceptions, is usually black.
Service pistol
Smith & Wesson
Smith & Wesson Model 10
Smith & Wesson M&P M2.0: Making A Great Pistol Even Better—Hands-On Review; YouTube
Smith & Wesson M&P series
Supergirl is an American superhero action-adventure drama television series that originally premiered on October 26, 2015 on CBS.
It is based on the DC Comics character Supergirl and stars Melissa Benoist.
Supergirl is the cousin of Superman and along with him is one of the last surviving Kryptonians.
The series premiered on October 26, 2015 on CBS, and on May 12, 2016 it was renewed for a second season that premiered on October 10, 2016 by The CW.
On January 8, 2017, The CW renewed the series for a third season.
Kara Zor-El was sent to Earth from her planet Kyrpton that was about to explode at age of 13 years old by her parents Alura and Zor-El.
Alura gave her instructions to protect her baby cousin Kal-El (Superman) who had been sent previously to Earth as well, and told her that due to the Earth yellow's sun, she will obtain extraordinary powers.
Kara's spacecraft was hit by a wave of the Krypton explosion and was taken off course to the Phantom Zone, a region in space where time doesn't pass.
She stayed there for 24 years, and when the spacecraft escaped for the Phantom Zone and arrived at Earth, she still looked like a 13-year-old girl.
Her cousin, Kal-El, had grown up and became Superman.
Superman took Kara to be adopted by his friends, the Danvers family.
The series begins eleven years old later when the now 24-year-old Kara is learning to use her powers after previously hiding them, while at the same working as a normal person.
Melissa Benoist as Kara Zor-El /Kara Danvers /Supergirl
Mehcad Brooks as James Olsen / The Guardian
Chyler Leigh as Alex Danvers
Jeremy Jordan as Winn Schott
David Harewood as J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter
Chris Wodd as Mon-El
Calista Flockhart as Cat Grant
Floriana Lima as Maggie Sawyer
The Steinschartenkopf is a  high mountain in the Allgäu Alps.
It is north of the Hohes Licht, in Tyrol, Austria.
It is the sixth tallest mountain in the Allgäu Alps.
The popular Heilbronn Way (Heilbronner Weg) runs over the summit.
It is the highest point on the Heilbronn Way.
Dieter Seibert: Allgäuer Alpen Alpin, Alpine Club Guide.
Munich, Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, 2004.
Alpine Club map 1:25,000 series, Sheet 2/1, Allgäuer- Lechtaler Alpen, West
Trailrun: Heilbronner Weg am 25.09.2016; YouTube
The Aswan High Dam is a dam on the river Nile, near Aswan, Egypt.
It was built from 1960 to 1971, and created Lake Nasser.
Richard "Dick" Gautier (October 30, 1931 – January 13, 2017) was an American actor, comedian, singer and caricaturist.
He was best as Hymie the Robot in the television series Get Smart, Robin Hood in the short-lived comedy series When Things Were Rotten.
He also played Stanley Beamish in the short-lived sitcom series Mister Terrific (1967).
He had many voice roles in the 1986 animated Transformers series.
Gautier was born in Los Angeles, California.
He married actress Barbara Stuart in 1967.
They later divorced and Gautier married Tess Hightower.
Gautier died after a long illness on January 13, 2017 in Arcadia, California.
Anil Adhikari (; 30 May 1987 – 14 January 2017) was a Nepalese rapper.
He was better known by his stage name Yama Buddha.
He was a Nepalese hip hop artist, also known as "NepHop".
He was known for his songs "Mero Juttama", "Saathi, Aaudaichu Ma", "Footpath mero ghar" and "Yo prasanga", all in Nepali.
He began his career in 2007.
He was a presenter of the rap battle show Raw Barz.
He was born in the Eastern Development Region.
He lived in the United Kingdom with his wife.
Inner peace (or peace of mind) happens when a person is able to make their mind calm despite stressful things that may be happening around them.
The Marchspitze is a mountain in the Allgäu Alps.
It is made of Dolomite and is part of the Hornbach chain.
The mountain is  high.
It is in Tyrol, Austria, 1.5 kilometres east of the Großer Krottenkopf.
It is a hard climb and therefore not many people visit it.
Thaddäus Steiner: Allgäuer Bergnamen, Lindenberg, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, 2007,
Marchspitze Tour Report
The Bretterspitze is a mountain in Tyrol, Austria.
It is part of the Hornbach chain in the Allgäu Alps.
It is next to the Gliegerkarspitze to the west and the Urbeleskarspitze to the northeast.
The summit of the Bretterspitze is made of dolomite.
Other reading / maps
Dieter Seibert: Alpine Club Guide, Allgäuer Alpen und Ammergauer Alpen alpin, 16th edn.,
2004, Bergverlag Rudolf Rother,
Alpine Club map 2/2 Allgäuer-Lechtaler Alpen – Ost 1:25,000 7th edn.,
The Bockkarkopf is a mountain in the Allgäu Alps on the main ridge.
It is the ninth highest peak in the Allgäu Alps.
Bockkarkopf forms a border between Bavarian border with Tyrol.
It is found between the Wilder Mann mountain to the southwest and the Hochfrottspitze mountain to the northeast.
The popular Heilbronn Way (Heilbronner Weg) runs over the triangular peak.
Dieter Seibert: Allgäuer Alpen Alpin, Alpenvereinsführer.
München, Bergverlag Rudolf Rother 2004.
Alpenvereinskarte 1:25.000, Blatt 2/1, Allgäuer- Lechtaler Alpen, West
The Lieutenant Governor of Iowa is a assistant governor.
If the governor quits or dies, then the lieutenant governor will become governor of the state.
The current Lieutenant Governor is Republican Adam Gregg since January 18, 2019.
Living former lieutenant governors of Iowa
, there are seven former lieutenant governors of Iowa who are currently living at this time, the oldest lieutenant governor of Iowa being Roger Jepsen (served 1969–1973, born 1928).
The most recent death of a former lieutenant governor of Iowa was that of Jo Ann Zimmerman (served 1987–1991, born 1936), on October 23, 2019.
Rudolf Slánský (31 July 1901 – 3 December 1952) was a Czechoslovak Communist politician.
He was a longtime member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
Later he was the General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee (1945-1951).
Slánský was one of the main organizers of the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état.
During World War II he was a member of Czechoslovak exile resistance in the foreign centre in Moscow.
Slánský was executed on December 3, 1952 at Prague’s Pankrac Prison.
Slánský was born  on July 31, 1901 in Nezvěstice near Pilsen, Bohemia.
His father was a Jewish merchant.
He studied at a public academy in Plzeň.
Slánský joined the Czechoslovak Communist Party in 1921, three years after it was formed.
In 1924 he was the editor of the Communist Party newspaper, Rude Pravo.
He rose in the ranks of the Party becoming a member of the Central Committee.
He was in hiding from 1929 to 1935 because the Party was illegal in Czechoslovakia at the time.
He became a member of the National Assembly and a close associate of Klement Gottwald.
When the Munich Agreement was signed in 1938, Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland was taken over by Nazi Germany.
When the German army marched into the Sudetenland on October 1, 1938, Slánský fled.
He went to the Soviet Union and stayed there during most of World War II.
He returned to Czechoslovakia in 1944 and took part in the Slovak National Uprising.
After the war, he was involved in politics.
The Communist Party in Czechoslovakia agreed to accept many of Joseph Stalin's trained Czechs.
Slánský was made the Secretary-General of the Party in Czechoslovakia.
By 1948, it was clear that Gottwald was following the Stalinist style of politics.
Slánský himself had been in charge of purges of several of his associates.
When Gottwald thought he might be next, he had Slánský and 13 others arrested.
The charges against Slánský included treason, spying and sabotage.
Slánský finally confessed after being tortured.
Then he had to memorize a speech for the show trial.
All of the 14 had confessed.
Slánský was one of the 11 who was given a death sentence.
Twice Slánský attempted suicide while he was waiting for his execution.
Finally, on December 3, 1952, he was hanged at Pankrac Prison.
After Stalin died in 1953, there were fewer purges.
In April 1963, Slánský and his fellow victims were cleared of the charges against them.
In May, 1968, Slánský and the others were formally exonerated.
Aero Caribbean Flight 883 was a passenger flight from Port-au-Prince to Havana with a stopover at Santiago de Cuba.
On November 4, 2010, the ATR-72-212 crashed near Sancti Spíritus due to icing.
All 68 people on-board were killed in Cuba's 3rd deadliest air-disaster.
Herbert Mies (23 February 1929 – 14 January 2017) was a German politician.
He joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1945.
He was the chairman of the party from 1973 to 1989.
He was a winner of the 1985–86 Lenin Peace Prize.
He was born in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg.
Ferdinand Peroutka (6 February 1895 – 20 April 1978) was a Czech journalist and writer.
He is considered to be one of the most important journalists in Czech history.
From 1919 to 1924 he worked as editor of magazine Tribuna (Tribune), then from 1924 to 1939 he was editor-in-chief of revue Přítomnost (Presence).
His activity was supported by T. G. Masaryk, who also contributed to his magazines.
Peroutka was also wrote about politics in Lidové noviny, where he wrote against Nazis and communists, whose idelogies he saw as dangerous.
For this he was frequently attacked by members of those parties.
He also openly criticiced Adolf Hitler, for his lies and false promises.
After German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939, Peroutka was forced to write propaganda for the Nazis.
He didn't listen and in April 1939 issue of Přítomnost he wrote an article Dynamický život (Dynamic life) about the 50th birthday of Adolf Hitler.
In this article he acknowledged Hitler's power, but refused that Czechs should listen to him.
For this he was sent to concentration camp, but was released after few days.
Although, a few months later in September 1939 he was jailed again, along with other potential enemies of Nazi regime.
After the war Peroutka became editor-in-chief of Svobodné noviny and Dnešek, that replaced his previous magazines.
In those years he was repeatedly accused  by communists of sympathizing with Nazis.
Their proof were articles Dynamický život and Hitler po lidské strance (Hitler with a human face), that he didn't actually write.
Peroutka refused those claims.
Many years later in 2015, Czech president Miloš Zeman claimed that Peroutka was fascinated by Nazism and wrote an article called Hitler je gentleman (Hitler is gentleman).
Although this was never proved Zeman refused to apologize and Ovčáček is still searching for that article
After Soviets assumed control over Czech government in 1948 Peroutka went to exile.
First he went to England and later to United States.
He worked for Radio Free Europe in Munich and was one of the members of The Council of Free Czechoslovakia.
Peroutka became one of the most important anti-communist personalities and his works were banned behind Iron Curtain.
Reading and spreading his work was illegal and Communist government pretented he never existed.
Because of this Czechs growing up after normalization had practically no way to find out who he was.
Peroutka died in 1978 in New York.
After Velvet revolution he was buried on Vyšehrad in 1991.
Richard Divall  (9 September 1945 – 15 January 2017) was an Australian conductor and musicologist.
He spent nine years as a music producer at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
From 1972, on the invitation of Dame Joan Hammond, he became the music director of the Victoria State Opera in Melbourne, Victoria.
He stayed with the opera for 25 years.
His teachers included Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Reginald Goodall and Wolfgang Wagner.
He was also a professor in Melbourne, London and Malta.
Divall died after a long illness 15 January 2017 in Melbourne.
The Biberkopf is a mountain in the Alps.
It is on the border between Germany and Austria.
The Biberkopf is on the main ridge of the Allgäu Alps.
It forms a border between Bavaria, Germany and Tyrol, Austria.
It is about 15.5 km southwest of Oberstdorf and about 2.5 km east of the Schrofen Pass.
The Biberkopf is sometimes called the most southerly point in Bavaria and Germany.
However, its summit is 110 metres further north than the Haldenwanger Eck, which is 4,088 metres to the west.
Dieter Seibert, Alpenvereinsführer Allgäuer Alpen und Ammergauer Alpen, Munich 2004,
Alpenvereinskarte 1:25,000, Sheet3/2, Lechtaler Alpen, Arlberggebiet (The Biberkopf is right on the northern edge of the map, the Rappensee Hut is off the map)
Bayerisches Landervermessungsamt, 1:50.000, Sonderdruck Allgäuer Alpen, Blatt UK L8
The Hornbach chain () is a string of mountains, about 15 kilometres long.
They are part of the Allgäu Alps in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
The Hornbach chain leaves the main ridge of the Allgäu Alps at the Öfnerspitze.
It arcs from the north to the east.
In the west another branch goes south, which is where the Großer Krottenkopf (2,656 m) is found.
The mountain is the highest in the whole Allgäu Alps.
On the main ridge of the Hornbach chain, the highest peaks are the Marchspitze (2,609 m), the Bretterspitze (2,608 m) and the Urbeleskarspitze (2,632 m).
They are all in the ten most important summits of the Allgäu Alps.
Dieter Seibert: Alpenvereinsführer Allgäuer Alpen und Ammergauer Alpen.
Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, Munich, 2004.
Alpenvereinskarte 2/1 Allgäuer-Lechtaler Alpen – West (2004 edition)
Alpenvereinskarte 2/2 Allgäuer-Lechtaler Alpen – Ost (2006 edition)
Carlos Fernández Gondín (1 July 1938 – 7 January 2017) was a Cuban politician.
He was born in Santiago de Cuba.
He served as the Minister of the Interior of Cuba from 2015 until his death in 2017 during the Raul Castro presidency.
In 2015, he suffered a stroke.
He died in Havana from complications of a chronic condition on 7 January 2017, aged 78.
Ryszard Parulski (9 March 1938 – 10 January 2017) was a Polish fencer.
He won a silver medal in the team foil event at the 1964 Summer Olympics and a bronze in the same event at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
James Oswald Fairfax (27 March 1933 – 11 January 2017) was an Australian company director and philanthropist.
He was a member of the Fairfax family, an Australian family in the newspaper publisher industry.
He became a director of John Fairfax & Sons Ltd in 1957 and took over from his father in 1977.
He resigned in 1987 and sold his shares to his half brother Warwick Fairfax, during 'young Warwick's' ultimately disastrous takeover bid.
Fairfax was born in Sydney.
He studied at Cranbrook School, Geelong Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford.
Fairfax published a memoir in 1991.
He died on 11 January 2017 in Sydney at the age of 83.
Ian James Ferguson-Lees (8 January 1929 – 11 January 2017) was a British ornithologist.
He became known as a member of the British Birds Rarities Committee who was responsible, with John Nelder and Max Nicholson, for publicly debunking the Hastings Rarities.
Ferguson-Lees was born in Italy.
He died on 11 January 2017 in England at the age of 88.
Jan Antoni Szczepański (20 November 1939 – 15 January 2017) was a Polish boxer.
He won the gold medal in the lightweight division (– 60 kg) at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.
In the final he defeated Hungary's László Orbán on points (5:0).
Eddie Lee Long (May 12, 1953 – January 15, 2017) was an American pastor.
He was the senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, from 1987 until his death in 2017.
When Long started as pastor for New Birth Church, there were 300 church members, which grew to 25,000.
During this time, Long was found not guilty in Senate investigations concerning whether he personally profited from his church's tax-exempt status.
Also, civil lawsuits were filed against him alleging sexual abuse of multiple underage male members of his parish.
Long has denied wrongdoing through his attorneys and privately settled the lawsuits out of court for undisclosed amounts.
New Birth Missionary Baptist Church
Frank Isaac Spellman (September 17, 1922 – January 12, 2017) was an American weightlifter.
He set several Olympic records and earned a gold medal in 1948.
Spellman has been elected to the United States Weightlifting Hall of Fame, the Helms Athletic Foundation Hall of Fame and the Porterville Quarterback Hall of Fame.
He was born in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
Xavier University ( ) is a co-educational Jesuit, Catholic university located in Norwood, an enclave of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
It was established in 1831.
The school is the sixth-oldest Catholic and fourth-oldest Jesuit university in the nation.
Xavier has an undergraduate enrollment of 4,485 students and graduate enrollment of 2,165.
Xavier is primarily an undergraduate, liberal arts institution.
Xavier Athletics website
Greg Trooper (January 13, 1956 – January 15, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter.
His songs have been recorded by many artists, including Steve Earle, Billy Bragg and Vince Gill.
Trooper was born in Neptune Township, New Jersey, and raised in nearby Little Silver.
He studied at the University of Kansas.
Trooper moved to New York City for the 1980s and part of the 1990s, where he formed The Greg Trooper Band along with Larry Campbell on guitar, Greg Shirley on bass and Walter Thompson on drums.
During this time he recorded his first two records: We Won't Dance and the critically acclaimed Everywhere produced by Stewart Lerman.
He also met songwriter/publisher Earl Shuman, who secured Trooper's first publishing deal with CBS Songs.
Trooper's records caught the attention of Steve Earle, who recorded Trooper's "Little Sister."
In the early 1990s, Trooper met E Street Band bassist Garry Tallent who, like Trooper, would move to Nashville.
Tallent produced Trooper's 1996 album Noises in the Hallway and released it on his D'Ville Record Group label.
Popular Demons followed in 1998, on Koch Records and produced by Buddy Miller.
After the release of that album, Trooper signed with Nashville indie Eminent Records, which released Straight Down Rain in 2001.
Dutch website
No Depression  Issue #33, May–June 2001 | "Greg Trooper: a New Jersey yankee in King Acuff's court" by Jim Musser
No Depression Issue #44 March–April 2003 | Greg Trooper: Between A House And A Hard Place (McConigel's Mucky Duck) CD review by Barry Mazor
Greg Trooper interview with Melissa Block, NPR "All Things Considered" April 5, 2005
USA Today April 11, 2005 CD review by Brian Mansfield
Super Mario Run is a side-scrolling auto-running video game developed and published by Nintendo for iOS and Android devices.
It was released first for iOS on December 15, 2016.
It was released for Android in March 22, 2017.
Super Mario Run has three game modes.
It has core game where the player controls Mario or other characters and automatically run across the screen while jumping to collect coins and other awards.
It has a Toad Rally where players compete against ghosts of other players.
It also has a Mushroom Kingdom area for players to expand using coins and other collectibles from the other game modes.
David Modell (born David Orrick McDearmon, Jr.; August 16, 1960 – January 13, 2017) was an American business executive and sports team owner.
He was born in Willoughby, Ohio.
He served as president and COO of the National Football League's Baltimore Ravens.
Modell served as chairman for 3ality Digital, Inc..
Willoughby is a city in Lake County, Ohio, United States and is a suburb of Cleveland.
The population was 22,268 at the 2010 census.
Willoughby Area Welcome Center
Willoughby branch of the Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library
Harwood Heights is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
The population was 8,612 at the 2010 census.
She is the second woman to serve as mayor in Harwood Heights, the first being Margaret Fuller.
Mohammed bin Faisal (1937 – 14 January 2017) was a Saudi businessman and a member of House of Saud.
He was a son of King Faisal.
He was one of the pioneers in the establishment of Islamic banking.
He was born in Taif, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed bin Faisal was the chairman of the board of trustees of the King Faisal Foundation.
He was also a member of Effat University's board of founders and of trustees.
Saudi Arabian businesspeople
During his criminal career, Scarfo was described by some as psychotic, cruel and vicious.
From many accounts of his former criminal associates who testified against him, he would want to murder someone if he was shown the slightest bit of disrespect or even if he was stared at.
John Matthew Wightman (October 2, 1938 – January 5, 2017) was an American politician from the state of Nebraska.
He served two terms, from 2007 to 2015, in the Nebraska Legislature, representing a district in the central part of the state.
Wightman was a member of the Republican Party.
He was also mayor of Lexington, Nebraska.
Claude M. Steiner (6 January 1935 – 9 January 2016) was a French-born American psychotherapist and writer.
He wrote about transactional analysis (TA).
His writings have focused especially on life scripts, alcoholism, emotional literacy, and interpersonal power plays.
In the 1970s and '80s, Steiner was a founder and practitioner of Radical Psychiatry, a new approach to psychotherapy based in a social theory (of alienation) rather than a medical one (of individual pathology).
Influenced by progressive movements of the time, work in this modality continues into the present and is gaining recent recognition worldwide.
Kevin Starr (September 3, 1940 – January 14, 2017) was an American historian.
Starr was best known for his multi-volume series on the history of California, collectively called "Americans and the California Dream".
Steve Dillon (22 March 1962 – 22 October 2016) was a British comic book artist.
He was best known for his work with writer Garth Ennis on Hellblazer, Preacher and The Punisher.
He began his career in the 1970s.
He was born in London and grew up in Luton, Bedfordshire.
Dillon died of problems caused by appendicitis on 22 October 2016 in Manhattan, New York, United States.
The Chainsmokers are an American pop and electronic dance music duo.
They are made up with Drew Taggart and Alex Pall.
The duo released their first studio album, Bouquet, in October 2015.
Their song, "Roses", reached the Top 10 on Billboard Hot 100.
In 2016, "Closer", with vocals from Halsey, became their first #1 single on the Hot 100 chart.
Sick Boy (2018)
World War Joy (2019)
The Krottenspitze is a mountain in the Allgäu Alps.
It is one of the few rocky summits of the main ridge that is visible from Oberstdorf.
There are no marked routes to the Krottenspitze.
It was first climbed in 1854 for survey work.
It is made of Dolomite.
Das schöne Allgäu.
Die Zeitschrift für Brauchtum, Kultur, Heimatpflege, Freizeit und Umwelt, September 1970
Thaddäus Steiner: Allgäuer Bergnamen, Lindenberg, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, 2007,
Thaddäus Steiner: Die Flurnamen der Gemeinde Oberstdorf im Allgäu, Munich, Selbstverlag des Verbandes für Flurnamenforschung in Bayern, 1972
Zettler/Groth: Alpenvereinsführer Allgäuer Alpen.
Munich, Bergverlag Rudolf Rother 1984.
Richard John "Rick" Parfitt, OBE (12 October 1948 – 24 December 2016) was an English musician, singer-songwriter and guitarist.
He was born in Woking, Surrey.
Parfitt was best known as a singer, songwriter and rhythm guitarist for rock band Status Quo.
Status Quo official website
Obituary: Rick Parfitt From BBC News
Marbella is a city and municipality in southern Spain, belonging to the province of Málaga in the autonomous community of Andalusia.
It is part of the Costa del Sol and is the headquarters of the Association of Municipalities of the region; it is also the head of the judicial district that bears its name.
Marbella is near the Mediterranean Sea, between Málaga and the Strait of Gibraltar, in the foothills of the Sierra Blanca.
The municipality covers an area of  crossed by highways on the coast, which are its main entrances.
In 2012 the population of the city was 140,473 inhabitants, making it the second most populous city in the province of Málaga and the eighth in Andalusia.
It is one of the most important tourist cities of the Costa del Sol and throughout most of the year is an international tourist attraction, due mainly to its climate and tourist infrastructure.
Historical value
The city also has a significant archaeological heritage, several museums and performance spaces,  and a cultural calendar  with events ranging from reggae concerts  to opera performances.
Marbella is protected on its northern side by the coastal mountains of the Cordillera Penibética and so enjoys a climate with an average annual temperature above .
The highest peaks of the mountains are occasionally covered with snow, which usually melts in a day or two.
Average rainfall is 628 l/m², while hours of sunshine average 2,900 annually.
Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer.
He is known for his movie scores.
He has composed the scores for over 80 movies, mostly known for the scores for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movie trilogies.
Shore has also composed a few concert works including one opera, The Fly, based on the plot of David Cronenberg's 1986 movie premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on July 2, 2008, a short piece Fanfare for the Wanamaker Organ and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and a short overture for the Swiss 21st Century Symphony Orchestra.
The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States happened on Friday, January 20, 2017, on the West Front of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
The inauguration marked the beginning of the four-year term of Donald Trump as President and of Mike Pence as Vice President.
The presidential oath of office was administered to Trump by Chief Justice John Roberts and the vice presidential oath of office was administered to Pence by Associate Justice Clarence Thomas.
The main theme in the inauguration speech of President Trump was his focus on the interests of the United States ("America first!", "
Make America Great Again").
Spectators were far fewer than at the inaugurations of his predecessor Barack Obama, although this was contested by President Trump and his spokesman.
Most voters in Washington D.C. had voted for Hillary Clinton, Trump's main opponent in the United States presidential election, 2016.
Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, along with their respective wives, the First Ladies (including Hillary Clinton), had all confirmed their attendance at Trump's inauguration, and were all present.
George H. W. Bush, age 92, did not attend the inauguration due to health reasons.
Many groups applied for demonstration permits for Donald J. Trump's inauguration, including Bikers for Trump, and the Women's March on Washington, scheduled for the day after inauguration day.
Most of the demonstrators were against the new president, and a few were rioters.
Military District of Washington - 58th Presidential Inauguration
@TrumpInaugural - Official Twitter account of the 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC)
2017 in the United States
Trump, Donald
is a Japanese silent movie actress.
She acted in several movies of Naruse Mikio and Ozu Yasujiro.
She quit movie-acting in 1935.
She was known for her roles in Chocolate Girl (1930), Apart From You (1933), Dragnet Girl (1933) and in Rappa to Musume (1933).
Amin Nasir ( – 16 January 2017) was a Singaporean football player and manager.
He played as a defender for sides including Sembawang Rangers and Woodlands Wellington.
Amin managed the S.League side Hougang United from 2013 to 2014.
He also represented the Singapore national football team and was awarded a bronze medal at the 1993 Southeast Asian Games.
His brother, Nazri, captained the Singapore national team from 1997 to 2003.
Amin was first diagnosed with colon cancer in 2012.
He died on 16 January 2017 at the age of 48 in Yishun, Singapore.
Barry Cassin (1924 – 14 January 2017) was an Irish television, stage and screen actor.
On stage, he is best known for his role in the production of Twelve Angry Men.
On screen and on television, Cassin played mostly secondary roles such as in the recent movie Byzantium.
Cassin's daughter, Anne, is a well-known journalist and news presenter for Raidió Teilifís Éireann.
Royal Rumble (2014) was a wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) made by WWE.
It happened on January 26, 2014.
It was performed at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
It was the twenty-seventh time a Royal Rumble was held and the first to be held in Pittsburgh.
Five matches were performed at the event.
The most important match was the Royal Rumble match.
Batista won it by last eliminating Roman Reigns and Roman eliminate 12 men which broke Kane's record for most eliminations in one match from 2001.
Alexander Rusev also wrestled in WWE for the first time in the Royal Rumble match.
On the pre-show, the New Age Outlaws (Road Dogg and Billy Gunn) beat Cody Rhodes and Goldust (champions) in Tag team match for the WWE Tag Team Championship
Daniel Bryan beat Bray Wyatt
Brock Lesnar (with Paul Heyman) beat Big Show
Randy Orton (champion) beat John Cena for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship
Batista won the Royal Rumble for a WWE World Heavyweight Championship match at WrestleMania XXX by last eliminating Roman Reigns
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was a Japanese actor.
He began acting in 1952.
He appeared in Samurai Rebellion (1967), Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko (1979) and Beyond Outrage (2010).
He was known in the United States for appearing in Black Rain (1986), starring Andy García, Michael Douglas and Ken Takakura.
He was born in Kure, Hiroshima.
Kōyama died from pneumonia on 3 January 2017 in Kyoto Prefecture.
Franca Sozzani (20 January 1950 – 22 December 2016) was an Italian journalist.
She was the editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia from 1988 until her death in 2016.
She was born in Mantua.
Her son, Francesco Carrozzini (born 1982), is a director and photographer.
Sozzani died after a long illness on 22 December 2016 in Milan.
She was 66.