the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
This is not to be confused with the Territory of Curaçao national football team, which existed until 1954 when Curaçao merged into the Netherlands Antilles national football team.
The Curaçao national football team is seen as the official successor of the Netherlands Antilles national team.
Federashon Futbol Korsou; Official website
Curaçao  at the FIFA website.
A rebus is a picture, letter, number, or symbol that is used to represent a different word that has a similar pronunciation.
In English, if a person was writing the sentence "I see you tonight" in a text message, the person might write "⊙ L C U 2nite", in which the symbol "⊙", which is a picture of an eye, represents the word "I" because it sounds the same, "L" stands for the contracted "will" as in "I'll", the letter "C" represents the word "see", the letter "U" represents the word "you", the number "2" represents the word "to", and the word "nite" is represents the word "night".
Raymond Sackler (February 16, 1920 – July 17, 2017) was an American physician, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.
Sackler and his brothers Arthur and Mortimer.
They worked together and independently, careers as psychiatric researchers and practitioners, business leaders, and philanthropists.
Sackler was known for being closely associated with the now global reach of Purdue Pharma, LLP in the United States, Canada and Mundipharma, Ltd. in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Sackler and his wife Beverly established the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Medical Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine (UK).
Sackler was born in Brooklyn, New York.
He married Beverly Sackler in 1944.
Sackler died on July 17, 2017 of pneumonia at his home in Stamford, Connecticut at the age of 97.
Bagale Thapa or Bagalya Thapa () is a prominent Kshatriya clan within Khas Thapa.
Bagale Thapa belong to Atreya Gotra and Suryavansha (solar) dynasty in Hinduism.
They trace their ancestry to legendary Khas King Kalu Thapa since Saka Era 1111 or Vikram Samvat 1246.
Bagale Thapa were powerful family while living at Jumla as per Gorkha Rajbanshawali,  the Royal Genealogy of Gorkha Kingdom.
Bada Kaji Amar Singh Thapa belonged to this clan.
Prime Minister Bhimsen Thapa, the grandson of Kaji Birbhadra Thapa, also belonged to this clan.
His niece Lalit Tripura Sundari and nephew Mathabarsingh Thapa went on to become Queen and Prime Minister of Nepal respectively.
War commander Ujir Singh Thapa, General Ranabir Singh Thapa and Colonel Bakhtawar Singh Thapa also belonged to this clan being family members of PM Bhimsen Thapa.
With Full Force is a German heavy metal and punk music festival held every year since 1994.
In 2013, the festival attracted 30,000 attendees.
In 2017, the festival took place at the Ferropolis near Gräfenhainichen.
This is the first time since 1998 that the festival will not be held in Löbnitz.
Many popular artists have performed here.
These include Slayer, Iron Maiden, Rammstein, Marilyn Manson, Motörhead, Machine Head, Amon Amarth, Arkona, In Flames, Slipknot, etc.
With Full Force 2012 on ChooseFest
Incumbent President Rafael Correa of the PAIS Alliance was not eligible for re-election, having served two terms.
In the first round of the presidential elections, PAIS Alliance candidate Lenín Moreno received 39% of the vote.
Although he was more than 10% ahead of his nearest rival, Guillermo Lasso of the Creating Opportunities party, Moreno was just short of the 40% threshold required to avoid a run-off.
As a result, a second round was held on 2 April.
In the second round Moreno was elected president with 51.16% of the vote.
Politics of Ecuador
Elections in South America
Rathenau was of Jewish descent.
He was a member of the social liberal German Democratic Party (Deutsche Demokratische Partei, shortened DDP).
He was a victim of a political assassination.
He was murdered by an ultranationalist and antisemitic organization called Organisation Consul.
Walther Rathenau, Harry Kessler, New York 1969
Walther Rathenau Gesellschaft e. V.
The next massacre of sick prisoners took place in January 1943.
The War Crimes Commission found out, that 50 people were executed on 23 January.
Norwegian guards were present at the massacre, and the German crews carried out the executions.
Parelius, Nils. [
article in the periodical,] Samtiden: tidsskrift for politikk, litteratur og samfunnsspørsmål.
1960, no.
Massacres in Norway
The Beisfjord massacre () was a massacre on 18 July 1942 in Beisfjord, Norway of 288 political prisoners who were killed at the concentration camp in Beisfjord: ["Beisfjord camp number 1"] Lager I Beisfjord
The massacre was ordered a few days earlier by the Reichskommissar for Norway Josef Terboven.
The Attorney General's Office (AGO) provides legal advice and support to the Attorney General and the Solicitor General (the Law Officers) who give legal advice to the British Government.
The AGO helps the Law Officers perform other duties in the public interest, such as looking at sentences which may be too low.
Non-ministerial departments
Crown Prosecution Service
Government Legal Department
The Immaculate Conception is the Catholic doctrine which says that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was conceived in the womb of her mother, Saint Anne, without original sin.
The Catholic Church teaches this because they believe that Jesus, as God, had to be conceived in a mother whose soul was without any kind of sin, since God does not like sin.
The Immaculate Conception became official Catholic teaching in 1854, announced by Pope Pius IX.
Four years later, people claimed that Mary appeared to a girl named Bernadette in Lourdes, France, and that Mary told Bernadette: "I am the Immaculate Conception."
The Immaculate Conception does not mean the conception of Jesus in the womb of his mother Mary.
This is correctly called the Incarnation.
Planes: Fire & Rescue (also known as Planes 2: Fire & Rescue or simply Planes 2) is an American movie that was released on July 18, 2014.
It is a sequel to the 2013 movie Planes, a spin-off of Pixar's Cars franchise.
The movie was produced by DisneyToon Studios.
Geoje is a city in South Gyeongsang province, just off the coast of the port city of Busan, South Korea.
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (former Daewoo Shipyard) in Okpo and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) in Gohyeon are both located on Geoje Island.
The city also offers a wide range of tourist sights.
The city is made up of a number of islands, of which by far the largest is Geoje Island.
There are multiple
Wilfried (Wilfried Scheutz; 24 June 1950 – 16 July 2017) was an Austrian singer-songwriter and actor.
He was born in Bad Goisern am Hallstättersee, Austria.
He was known for representing Austria in the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest with his song "Lisa Mona Lisa".
He was also an actor with his best known role was in Hilde, das Dienstmädchen (1986).
The Renault Magnum is a truck that was built by Renault Véhicules Industriels and then Renault Trucks from 1990 to 2013.
The Magnum was available as a semi and rigid truck.
Galeras (Urcunina among the 16th-century native people) is an Andean stratovolcano in the Colombian department of Nariño, near the departmental capital Pasto.
Its peak rises  above sea level.
It has erupted many times since the Spanish conquest.
Its first historical eruption was recorded on December 7, 1580.
A 1993 eruption killed nine people, including six scientists who had gone down into the volcano's crater to take samples of gases and measure gravity in an attempt to be able to predict future eruptions.
Galeras has been an active volcano for at least a million years.
Its dominant product is andesite, an igneous rock .
Two major caldera-forming eruptions have occurred: the first was about 560,000 years ago in an eruption which expelled about  of material.
The second was some time between 40,000 and 150,000 years ago, in a smaller but still sizable eruption of  of material.
Since that second eruption, part of the caldera wall has collapsed, possibly due to instabilities caused by hydrothermal (high-temperature water) activity, and later eruptions have built up a smaller cone inside the now horseshoe-shaped caldera.
In light of its violent eruptive history and proximity to the 450,000 people of Pasto, Galeras was designated a "Decade Volcano" in 1991.
This identified it as a target for detailed study as part of the United Nations' "International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction".
Eruptive history
Galeras is considered the most active volcano in Colombia, followed by Nevado del Ruiz.
Its earliest activity during the Holocene has been dated at 7050 BC ± 1000 years through radiocarbon dating.
Other eruptions similar to this event include those in 3150 BC ± 200 years, 2580 BC ± 500 years, 1160 BC ± 300 years, 490 BC ± 100 years, and in 890 AD ± 200 years.
Typically these eruptions consist of a central vent explosion, conducive to an explosive eruption causing pyroclastic flows and/or lahars.
Eruptions in more recent times, which have been recorded consist of those in 1535, December 1580, July 1616, 1641, 1670, 1754, November 1796, June 1823, October 1828, 1834, October 1865, July 1889, 1891, December 1923, October 1924, October 1932, February 1936, July 1947, January 1950, 1974, February 1989, January 1990, January 1993, March 2000, June 2002, July 2004, November 2005, and October 2007.
Reported incidents with no official proof occurred in 1836, 1930, 1933, and 1973.
1993 eruption
A Decade Volcano conference in the city of Pasto, in 1993, ended in disaster when several of the scientists present mounted an impromptu (unscheduled) expedition on 14 January to the crater of Galeras.
An eruption occurred unexpectedly while they were at the summit (highest point), resulting in the deaths of six scientists and three tourists.
Elements in the media made the event controversial.
They suggested that the expedition leader, geologist Stanley Williams, who survived along with four others, had ignored safety procedures.
A prediction had been made three days before the eruption, based on B-Type activity seen on a seismograph.
Seismic B-types had been used successfully to predict eruptions on other volcanoes.
However, the prediction was based simply on the one seismographic printout viewed in the light of previous history of Galeras, without any additional scientific measurements showing any serious activity within the volcano.
21st-century activity
Activity at a low level has continued at Galeras.
Small explosions occasionally cause ash to fall on nearby villages and towns.
The volcano has continued to be well-studied, and predictions of eruptions at the volcano have improved.
One phenomenon, which seems to be a reliable precursor to eruptive activity, is a low-frequency seismic event known as a "tornillo event".
These have occurred before about eighty percent (80%) of the explosions at Galeras, and the number of tornillo events recorded before an eruption is also correlated with the size of the eruption that followed.
More than 100 minor tremors were felt during a major eruption in April 2002, although no damage or injury was reported.
An eruption in November 2005 forced an evacuation of the dangerous area surrounding the volcano, and about 9,400 people from nearby villages (most of them farmers) were ordered to leave.
The city of Pasto, about  from the volcano, was blanketed by a layer of ash after the volcanic explosion, forcing the residents to put on goggles and face masks.
Numerous minor tremors and ash emissions since March 2006 culminated on 12 July 2006 in three explosive eruptions, producing an ash and gas column reaching an altitude of .
Rock falls and pyroclastic flows were reported from towns as distant as Consacá,  west of the main crater.
The Colombian government has repeatedly ordered evacuations to temporary shelters, of more than 8500 people residing in the highest risk areas surrounding the volcano, with hopes of eventual assistance toward permanent relocation.
On January 17, 2008, the volcano erupted around 20:06 (local) (01:06 UTC).
Later the experts confirmed partial damage in the national and local TV towers.
Then, on February 14, 2009, the volcano erupted around 19:10 (local) (00:10 UTC).
Some 8,000 residents were evacuated, and there were no immediate reports of injuries or serious property damage.
As in 2005, the city of Pasto was blanketed by a layer of ash after the volcanic explosion (due to the direction of the wind).
The local authorities ordered two water treatment plants near Galeras to shut down.
On March 13, 2009, Galeras erupted twice: at around 15:55 and 17:00 (local time).
Ash fell on Pasto and some other towns near the volcano.
The city and towns' evacuation was ordered, but reportedly ignored.
The volcano erupted on January 3, 2010, forcing the evacuation of 8,000 people.
This was the tenth such eruption of the volcano in the previous year, and the first of 2010.
Colombian authorities also stated that it could remain volatile in the weeks to come.
Galeras erupted again on August 25, 2010, with an ash plume visible in the air.
The eruption, which was described as non-explosive, caused authorities to raise an alert for neighbouring towns.
GOES imagery of the 03 January 2010 eruption (CIMSS Satellite Blog)
Galeras volcano website
Watch Galeras in realtime
VolcanoWorld information
BBC on the November 2005 eruption
Colombia: Galeras volcano situation map
Shigeaki Hinohara (日野原 重明) (Shigeaki Hibara; October 4, 1911 – July 18, 2017) was a Japanese physician.
He was known for working at St. Luke's International Hospital where he served as honorary director.
He was also Sophia University's grief Care Institute director emeritus.
He was honorary chairman of the Foundation Sasakawa Memorial Health Cooperation.
Hinohara became an honorary member of the Japanese Cardiovascular Society and received the Second Prize and the Order of Culture.
He was honored by Kyoto Imperial University, Thomas Jefferson University and by McMaster University by receiving an honorary doctorate.
About Shigeaki Hinohara  United States Ambassador to Japan
Biography: Shigeaki Hinohara
Ottawa County (standard abbreviation: OT) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas.
As of the 2010 census, 6,091 people lived there.
The largest city and county seat is Minneapolis.
On February 27, 1860, Ottawa County was founded.
It was named for the Odawa tribe.
Of that  is land and  (0.08%) is water.
The Solomon River is the longest river in the county, entering from Cloud County to the northwest and exiting to Saline County to the southeast.
The Saline River traverses the southwestern part of the county, going from Lincoln County to Saline County.
The largest lake is Ottawa State Fishing Lake, a  reservoir to the east of Minneapolis.
Cloud County (north)
Dickinson County (southeast)
Saline County (south)
Lincoln County (west)
Mitchell County (northwest)
North Ottawa County USD 239
Twin Valley USD 240
Southern Cloud USD 334
Ada (a census-designated place)
Sumnerville
The city of Minneapolis is considered governmentally independent and is excluded from the census figures for the townships.
Ottawa County - Directory of Public Officials
Ottawa County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
1860 establishments in Kansas Territory
Harvey Atkin (December 18, 1942 – July 17, 2017) was a Canadian actor and voice actor.
He has worked in feature movies and television.
He has also done voice-overs, and has voiced animations.
He was known for his role as Judge Alan Ridenour in a recurring role on the television drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a role he also played in Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order.
He appeared in 95 episodes of Cagney & Lacey as Sergeant Ronald Coleman.
Gustavo Alessandri Valdés (30 April 1929 – 18 July 2017) was a Chilean politician and lawyer.
He served as Mayor of Central Commune of Santiago de Chile from 1987 through 1989.
He served as MP from 1961 through 1965, again from 1969 through 1971, and once more from 1998 to 2002.
He was a member of the National Renewal Party from 1987 until his death in 2017.
Biography of Gustavo Alessandri Valdés
Les Wolff (April 11, 1941 – July 11, 2017) was an American football player and professional wrestler.
He was known by his ring name "Beautiful" Buddy Wolfe, who competed in North American regional promotions including the American Wrestling Association, National Wrestling Alliance and the World Wide Wrestling Federation during the 1970s and 80s.
He was trained by Verne Gagne.
Wolfe found his greatest success as the tag team partner of Don Jardine wrestling as the second incarnation of The Spoilers in the Tri-State territory.
He was one of several men to team with Jardine as Spoiler #2, twice winning the NWA United States Tag Team Championship during the early 1970s.
Wolff later formed a tag team with "Luscious" Larry Heinimi who together were considered one of the top "heel" tag teams in the Midwest United States during the mid-1970s.
Ben's Cat (April 17, 2006 – July 18, 2017) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.
He was born in Maryland.
He won multiple stakes races, including six victories in the Mister Diz Stakes and five in the Jim McKay Turf Sprint.
He was a four-time Maryland-bred horse of the year.
Ben's Cat suffered a serious case of colic, requiring surgery on July 6, 2017 for an epiploic foramen entrapment.
He suffered from severe surgical complications and was euthanized on July 18, 2017 in a farm in Maryland.
He was 11 years old.
Ontario is a city of California in the United States.
It is 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
Dimmit County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.
In 2010, 9,996 people lived there.
The county seat is Carrizo Springs.
Theridiidae, also known as the tangle-web spiders, cobweb spiders and comb-footed spiders, is a large family of araneomorph spiders first described by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1833.
Ellis County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.
In 2010, 149,610 people lived there.
El Paso County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.
In 2010, 800,647 people lived there.
The county seat is El Paso.
Erath County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.
In 2010, 33,001 people lived there.
The county seat is Stephanville.
Falls County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.
In 2010, 18,576 people lived there.
"Praying" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Kesha, for her third studio album, Rainbow.
The song was written by Kesha along with Andrew Joslyn, Ben Abraham, and Ryan Lewis, known for his work with rapper Macklemore.
The song is different from her other songs.
Instead of having the dance-pop and electropop styles that Kesha is known for, "Praying" is a ballad.
The lyrics talk about an abuser, and the main character states, "I hope you're somewhere praying."
Some critics have said that the song is directed towards Dr. Luke, Kesha's former producer and former owner of Kemosabe Records.
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Benjamin Flores Jr, (born July 23, 2002 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American actor.
He is best known for his lead role as Louie Preston in The Haunted Hathaways, and also as Triple G in the Nickelodeon show Game Shakers''.
Benjamin Flores Jr. at the Interrnet Movie Database
Tommy Wiseau () is an actor and filmmaker.
He produced and directed The Room (2003).
It has been described by many critics as "one of the worst movies ever made".
Wiseau also directed the 2004 documentary Homeless in America and the 2015 sitcom The Neighbors.
Summit County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio.
In 2010, 541,781 people lived there.
Cudrefin is a municipality in Switzerland.
It is in Vaud canton.
On 1 January 2002, Champmartin is a part of the municipality of Cudrefin.
Official Website of the municipality of Cudrefin
Hamilton is a city in Ohio in the United States.
Middletown is a city in Ohio in the United States.
It is in Butler and Warren counties.
Lebanon is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio.
Warren County is a county of Ohio in the United States.
In 2010, 212,693 people lived there.
The county seat of Lebanon.
Salt is a municipality in the comarca of the Gironès and autonomous community of Catalonia in Spain.
It is on the right bank of the Ter next to Girona, with which it was merged from 1974 to 1984.
The A-7 autopista and N-141 road pass through the municipality.
With over 40 film and TV credits to his name and 1000 stage performances under his belt, Matthew Willson is an award-winning actor, director, producer and financier of both film and theatre.
ACTRA member and Vice President of The Hamilton Theatre Company Matthew cut his teeth as a kid in numerous TV commercials before moving into film and television - including recognizable roles in: The Handmaid's Tale, American Hangman, Arrival, Jack Reacher, Reign, The Strain, Rookie Blue, Murdoch Mysteries, Queer as Folk, The Ranch and dozens of successful indie films.
A dedicated humanitarian who has made meaningful connections to several philanthropic organizations, Matthew is involved both financially and physically with Sick Kids, Child Hunger Brantford and the National Theatre School Drama Festival (of which he is the only individual financier to support this national organization supporting children in the arts).
Beyond that, Matthew supports his local community through various theatre and arts programs and initiatives.
An entrepreneur at heart, Matthew launched Willson Entertainment Productions in 2010 which has produced a number of films that include Bully, On the Line, Skinning the Cat, Whole Lotto Love, Politics, Hotel Room, Alone, Schrodinger's Cat, Project Zero, and Sport documentaries on: TSN, Sports Net, ESPN.
Matthew splits his time between Toronto and his hometown of Paris, Ontario.
where he currently resides with his wife Jacqueline and two sons, Thatcher and Beckett.
Willson was raised in Paris, Ontario.
Willson had learned techniques of acting.
Later he founded Willson Entertainment Productions.
In 2010, Matthew starred in a feature-length movie Skinning the Cat.
Matthew also appeared in "The Negotiation" in 2015.
In 2016, he played a role in Arrival along with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner.
Matthew also appeared in Canadian Comedy Awards and several TV movies.
The Ter is a Spanish river.
It runs through the comarques of Ripollès, Osona, Selva, Gironès, and Baix Empordà.
It ends at the Mediterranean Sea at l'Estartit.
Lake Sarnen () is a lake in the canton of Obwalden in Switzerland.
It is on the Sarner Aa.
It flows out of the Lake Lungern, through the Lake Sarnen, and into Lake Lucerne.
The municipalities of Sarnen and Sachseln are located on the shores of the lake, and the Brünig railway line follows the eastern shore.
It is a tributary of the Rhône.
It is at the confluence of the Drance de Bagnes and Drance d'Entremont.
Passugg
Sagens
Brunstatt-Didenheim is a commune of the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
It was incorporated on 1 January 2016 by the combination of the former communes of Brunstatt and Didenheim.
Innerbraz is a municipality of the district of Bludenz in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg.
Dürbheim is a municipality in the district Tuttlingen in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
The municipality of Dürbheim has the village Dürbheim and the hamlet Risiberg.
Abaokoro is a settlement in Kiribati.
It is about nine nautical miles from Tarawa.
It is in the Tarawa Atoll.
I have an airmail envelope with a void centre datestamp PO Abaokoro / Kiribati, the envelope marked in manuscript O.K.G.S. assumed to be 'on Kiribati Government Service', addressed to the Home Affairs & Rural Development, Bairiki, with an unclear backstamp.
I have been involved in philately for over sixty years and have not seen this before.
C S H
Dublin is a city in Ohio in the United States.
It is in Franklin, Delaware, and Union counties.
The police force for Norway, commonly called politiet, and sometimes called Norwegian police, is formally called Norwegian Police Service (in Norwegian: Politi- og lensmannsetaten).
The police has 15,483 employees (as of 2016).
If one also counts the employees of PST, an intelligence agency, the number of employees is over 16,000.
Eteimbes is a commune.
Honningsvåg is a city in the Norwegian county Finnmark.
It has 2375 inhabitants (as of 2008).
"Tik Tok" (styled "TiK ToK") is the debut solo single by American singer-songwriter Kesha.
It is from her debut studio album, Animal.
The song topped charts worldwide, including countries like the UK, Canada, Australia, and the US, where it was the best-performing song of 2010.
It is Kesha's second single after the number-one single "Right Round" by rapper Flo Rida; her vocals are not credited on this song.
Jean-Denis Bredin (17 May 1929 – 1 September 2021) was a French attorney.
He was known for being the founding partner of the firm Bredin Prat.
He was elected on 15 June 1989.
Bredin died on 1 September 2021 in Paris, aged 92.
Broglie-Revel was elected to the Académie française in 2001.
He replaced Alain Peyrefitte.
He is a Knight Commander of the Légion d'honneur.
He is a distant relative of the ducs de Broglie.
Les Immortels: Gabriel de BROGLIE
Unstad is a village in Norway's municipality of Vestvågøy.
The village is on the isle of Vestvågøya.
[might be the largest waves that have been surfed in Norway]
Used two weeks to take the 'impossible' picture of Northern Lights
Marc Fumaroli (10 June 1932 in Marseille – 24 June 2020 in Paris), is a French historian and essayist.
Fumaroli was elected to the Académie française on 2 March 1995 and became its Director.
He is also a member of the Académie des Inscriptions, the sister academy.
Following his appointment to a chair in Seventeenth Century Studies at the University of Paris-IV, La Sorbonne (1980), he was elected to a Chair in Rhetoric and Society in Europe (16th and 17th century) at the Collège de France.
He held it from 1986 to 2002, until mandatory retirement, and is now an emeritus professor.
Fumaroli is known for the revival of Rhetoric as field of study of European culture, in a sharp move away from both structuralism and post-modernism.
His pioneering work remains L'Age De l'Eloquence (1980).
This massive work redrew the map of rhetorical scholarship across Europe.
Fumaroli was also a member of the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought.
Fumaroli is a recipient of the prestigious Balzan Prize, the "Nobel" of the humanities (in 2001).
He is a foreign member of the British Academy and of the American Philosophical Society.
Radio interview by Maxence Caron with Marc Fumaroli of the Académie française
Marc Fumaroli  International Balzan Prize Foundation
Jean Bruno Wladimir François de Paule Le Fèvre d'Ormesson (16 June 1925 – 5 December 2017) was a French novelist.
His work mostly was made up of partially or totally autobiographic novels.
On 18 October 1973, he was elected a member of the Académie française, taking seat 12, following the death of Jules Romains.
On the death of Claude Lévi-Strauss on 30 October 2009, he became the Dean of the Académie, its longest-serving member until his death in 2017.
List of novels  by Jean d'Ormesson on the Académie française web site.
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (born Hélène Zourabichvili; 6 July 1929 in Paris) is a French historian.
She is the permanent secretary of the Académie française.
She is a well known historian in specializing in Russian history.
She was a recipient of Lomonosov Gold Medal in 2008.
Carrère d'Encausse is a graduate of the elite Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).
She was elected to seat 14 of the Académie française in 1990, and her academician's sword was made by the sculptor Goudji.
She became permanent secretary on 21 October 1999.
In her book L'Empire éclaté published in 1978 she predicted the fall of the Soviet Union.
Michel Serres (1 September 1930 – 1 June 2019) was a French philosopher and author.
In 1990, Serres was elected to the Académie française, in recognition of his position as one of France's most prominent intellectuals.
He serves as a Professor of French at Stanford University.
Online Collaboration regarding Serres work
art, writing: michel serres (1995) Interview with Serres by Hari Kunzru including a brief exchange on the relationship of Serres work to Deleuze.
Steven Connor's website, with links to his writing on Serres
Radio Interview by Robert P. Harrison
Serres speaking about wikipedia very enthusiastically
Michel Serres, one of France's 'immortels,' tells the 'grand récit' at Stanford  by Cynthia Haven, Stanford Report, May 27, 2009.
issuu.com
René de Obaldia (22 October 1918 – 27 January 2022) was a French playwright and poet.
He was elected to the Académie française on 24 June 1999.
He began his career in 1960.
His first major play, "Génousie," was presented at the Théâtre national populaire.
This was followed by Le Satyre de la Villette, with André Barsacq at the Théâtre de l'Atelier, a comedy which ranked him with his literary forebears Jacques Audiberti, Ionesco, Beckett.
He has been, for more than fifty years, one of the most-produced French playwrights on the planet, as well as the most internationally renowned (having been translated into 28 languages).
De Obaldia died in Paris on 27 January 2022, at the age of 103.
Ethyl iodide (also called iodoethane) is a colorless and flammable chemical compound.
It has the chemical formula C2H5I. It is prepared by heating ethanol with iodine and phosphorus.
In mathematics, a harshad number (also known as a Niven number) is an integer that is divisible by the sum of its digits in a given base.
A harshad number in base n is called an n-harshad number.
Pierre Max Rosenberg  (born 13 April 1936 in Paris) is a French art historian, curator, and professor.
Rosenberg is the honorary president a director of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, and since 1995, he has held the 23rd seat of the Académie française.
He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge in 1987.
Académie française profile
TG Norba 24 is an Italian television channel.
It is a 24-hour channel that only shows news.
The channel is owned by Gruppo Norba.
The channel's format shows rolling news bulletins.
These are updated every 15 minutes.
It broadcasts live from 5am to midnight.
Buon Pomeriggio
TG Norba 24 Mattina
TG Norba 24 Flash
TG Norba 24 Pomeriggio
TG Norba 24 Sera
TG Norba 24 Lis
TG Norba 24 Prima
TG Norba 24 Sport
TG Norba 24 Rassegna Stampa
Meteo Telenorba
Il Meteo
Doctor TG24
Il Fatto with Enzo Magistà
Il Tempo della fede
Pillole I Colori della Nostra Terra
Il Graffio'''
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Dominique Fernandez (born on 25 August 1929) is a French writer of novels, essays and travel books.
Much of his writing explores homosexual experience and creativity.
In 1982 he won the Prix Goncourt for his novel about Pier Paolo Pasolini.
He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine.
In 2007, he was elected a  member of the Académie française.
Pierre Nora (born  17 November 1931) is a French historian.
He was elected to the Académie française on 7 June 2001.
He is known for his work on French identity and memory.
His name is associated with the study of new history.
He is the brother of the late Simon Nora, former French officer.
From 1965 to 1977 he was first assistant and then lecturer at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Paris Institute of Political Science).
Since 1977 he has been the director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (School of higher studies in social sciences).
Biographical note of the l'Académie française
Catalogue of the Collection Archives of Gallimard Julliard  (founded by Pierre Nora in 1964)
Conference of Pierre Nora in Blois on 15 October 2005
Building a Collective Consciousness on a National Scale: Jewish Historian Pierre Nora Defined What’s Quintessentially French by Benjamin Ivry from The Jewish Daily Forward, issue of 17 June 2011.
François Cheng (, born 30 August 1929) is a Chinese-born French academician, writer, poet and calligrapher.
He is the author of essays, novels, collections of poetry and books on art written in the French language, and the translator of some of the great French poets into Chinese.
Born in Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
He became a French citizen in 1973.
He was elected to the Académie française in 2002, and was the first person of Asian origin to be a member of the Academy.
He was the winner of the 1998 Prix Femina for Le Dit de Tianyi ("The Tale of Tianyi") (pub.
Albin Michel, Paris, 1998).
Biography on the Académie française website
Yves Pouliquen (born 17 February 1931) is a French physician.
His work has been dedicated to the pathology of the cornea.
In 1992, he was made a member of the Académie nationale de médecine.
In 1994 he was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca and on 29 November 2001 he was elected to the Académie française.
Yves Pouliquen lutte contre la cécité en Afrique – Le Figaro
Publications  by Odile Jacob
Gallo's early career was in journalism.
At the time he was a Communist (until 1956).
In 1974, he joined the Socialist Party.
On April 26, 2007, he became a candidate to become a member of the Académie française.
He was elected to the Académie française on 31 May 2007.
André Lafargue (2 July 1917 – 18 July 2017) was a French journalist and theatre critic.
He turned 100 in July 2017, two weeks before his death.
Lafargue began writing for Paris-Matin, later known as Ce matin, le pays, in 1947.
A year later, he joined the Parisien libéré, later known as Le Parisien, in 1948.
In the 1970s, he was the founding contributor of the theatre reviews in the newspaper.
Andrew Paulson (November 13, 1958 – July 18, 2017) was an American entrepreneur.
He was the son of noted American professor Ronald Paulson.
His business career was mainly established in Russia.
Shortly after the Russian financial crisis of August 1998, Paulson, together with Anton Kudryashov and Ilya Tsentsiper, founded Afisha, an entertainment and listings magazine that became the cultural touchstone of Moscow and St. Petersburg.
In 2006, Paulson with Alexander Mamut founded SUP Media, which became Russia’s largest online media company, consisting of LiveJournal.
Paulson has taught and held many administrative positions at several universities in the United States, including the University of Illinois from 1959 to 1963 and Rice University from 1963 to 1967.
He was the Chairman of the Johns Hopkins University English Department from 1967 to 1975.
From 1975 to 1984 he was a professor at Yale University and served as the Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department from 1976 to 1983 and the Director of the British Studies Program from 1976 to 1984.
Paulson was born in Bottineau, North Dakota.
His son, Andrew, was a businessman made in Russia.
He has been a member of the editorial board of the academic journal ELH: English Literary History and was senior editor from 1985 to 2004; he served on the editorial boards of the journals Studies in English Literature; PMLA; Eighteenth-Century Studies; and the Johns Hopkins University Press.
María Amuchástegui (16 January 1953 – 19 July 2017) was an Argentine television fitness instructor, ballerina, and singer.
She became well known in Argentina in the 1980s.
Her best known morning fitness shows were Buen día Salud and Buen Día, María, both were made in the 1980s.
She was also a singer.
Her best known work was the 2006 song "Camino de espejos".
Miguel Blesa de la Parra (8 August 1947 – 19 July 2017) was a Spanish banker.
He was the chairman of the Spanish bank Caja Madrid from 1996 to 2010.
He was born in Linares, Jaén, Spain.
In February 2017, Blesa received a six-year jail term in connection with the misuse of company credit cards.
Cards were misused by a number of people, including Blesa himself, during the many years he was chairman of Caja Madrid.
Jacob Franklin Butcher (1936 – July 19, 2017) was an American banker and politician.
He built a financial empire in East Tennessee.
He was the Democratic Party nominee for governor of Tennessee in 1978.
He was known for his promotion of the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee.
He lost his business and his personal fortune after he was found to have engaged in massive fraud.
Jacob Franklin "Jake" Butcher, Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 2009
Sonny West (Delbert West, Jr.; July 5, 1937 – May 24, 2017) was an American actor and stunt performer.
West was known for being a friend and bodyguard of the late singer Elvis Presley with his cousin Red West for sixteen years.
He was part of the Elvis entourage at the Elvis Memphis home Graceland, which became known as 'The Memphis Mafia'.
2005 Sonny West clip on what Elvis was like when he wasn't performing
Oropharyngeal cancer is a disease in which malignant cells form in the tissue of oropharynx.
The oropharynx is the middle part of the throat that includes the base of the tongue, the tonsils, the soft palate, and the walls of the pharynx.
Blaoui Houari (23 January 1926 – 19 July 2017) was an Algerian singer-songwriter, composer and conductor.
During his career, he recorded over 900 songs and released over 100 albums.
Houari was born in Oran, Western Algeria, then French Algeria.
Houari began his career as a singer-songwriter in the 1940.
During the Algerian War, Houari was arrested by the French army and detained in Sig for his pro-Algerian songs.
When Algeria became an independent nation in 1962, he became the head of Oran's public radio and television stations.
In 1970, he conducted the Algerian National Orchestra at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan.
Algerian singer-songwriters
Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu, (born 1 July 1949) is an Indian politician.
He is the 13th and current Vice President of India since 11 August 2017.
On 5 August 2017, Naidu was elected Vice President of India with 67.89% of the votes.
Naidu served as the Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Urban Development and Information and Broadcasting in the Narendra Modi cabinet.
A well known leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, he has also served as its national president from 2002 to 2004.
Earlier, he was the Union Cabinet Minister for Rural Development in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.
Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov (Алексе́й Архи́пович Лео́нов) (30 May 1934 – 11 October 2019) was a Soviet/Russian cosmonaut, Air Force Major general, writer and artist.
On 18 March 1965, he became the first human to conduct extravehicular activity (EVA), exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for a 12-minute spacewalk.
He was born in Listvyanka, West Siberian Krai, Soviet Union.
Leonov died on 11 October 2019 from diabetes-related problems.
He was the last survivor of the cosmonauts in the Voskhod programme.
A video of his spacewalk
The Voskhod 2 mission revisited
Science fiction art by Leonov and Sokolov.
Extensive gallery, with annotation.
"I could see Armstrong bouncing on the moon" – Alexey Leonov
Alexeï Léonov, the Spacewalker, Vladimir Kozlov's film, France-Russia, 2011
A driverless car (also called autonomous car or self-driving car, i.e. self-operating) is a vehicle that can perform certain tasks on its own, without the help of a human driver. .
The car uses sensors to analyze its environment, and doesn't need a human's help for certain tasks These tasks commoly include parking the car, driving while keeping the same lane on a highway or driving at a predefined speed.
In public places, certain buses have been  programmed to travel a given route.
As of 2021, self-driving cars have been used in controlled envirnoments more and more.
An example of this might be buses that transfer passengers between airport terminals.
Ethical issues
Even though it is technically possible to build cars that do certain things on their own, the question whether it should be done is different.
Ethical questions include:
Is a machine able to judge a situation correctly? -
Can it make a difference between a stroller with a child, and a stroller with a doll?
Is it acceptable to judge a situation by the expected death toll? (
this has been formalized as the trolley problem)
If it is acceptable to judge such a situation by the expected death toll, what are meaningful criteria? -
should the age of those killed be taken into account?
Even though these vehicles can already do a lot on their own, the laws of most countries still require that a driver is present.
In many cases, self-driving buses also need a special permit from the government.
If a motor vehicle produces an accident, there always is the question of who is responsible, to determine what damages need to be paid.
This also applies to self-driving cars: A self-driving car is like a robot: Software is used for the driving.
This software relies on a number of sensors to take decisions.
Determining what went wrong in the case of an accident can be very difficult.
This includes the question of who is legally responsible.
Guru Amar Das (5 May 1479 – 1 September 1574) was the third of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism.
He became Sikh Guru on 26 March 1552 at age 73.
The Pak Beng Dam is a project to build a hydroelectric power plant and a dam on the Mekong river - inside Laos.
Construction is scheduled to start in 2022, says website NS Energy.
As of November 2020, Laos is doing evaluations on potential (or possible) impact on the environment; at the same time Laos has [temporarily delayed, or] suspended the project [or other work on the project], media said in January 2021.
Laos "has already begun preparatory work for the 912-megawatt Pak Beng dam in the northern province of Oudomxay, according to an article in Seattle Times in 2016.
Lawsuit in Thailand
In 2021, a court of appeal in Thailand rejected an appeal for petition against the dam.
Previously, people living in eight Thai provinces along the Mekong River have been suing [since June 2017] state agencies [in Thailand] because they say that there wasn't enough public participation in planning for the Pak Beng hydropower dam, which is being built by Laos.
Dunderland was a Nazi concentration camp in Norway during World War Two.
It was located in Dunderlandsdalen (a valley) in Rana.
The prison camp had had 481 prisoners in May 1945; The purpose of the camp was for the prisoners to do forced labor on the Nordland Line.
Perambalur district is an administrative district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.
The district occupies an area of 1,752 km² and had a population of 565,223 with a sex-ratio of 1,003 females for every 1,000 males in 2011.
Perambalur district is a centrally located inland district of Tamil Nadu.
It was trifurcated(thrice-divided) from Tiruchirappalli district and was formed on 1 November 1995.
The district is bounded by Cuddalore district in the north, Tiruchirappalli district in the south, Ariyalur in the east and Namakkal and Tiruchirappalli districts in the west.
According to 2011 census, Perambalur district had a population of 565,223 with a sex-ratio of 1,003 females for every 1,000 males, much above the national average of 929.
A total of 59,567 were under the age of six, constituting 31,135 males and 28,432 females.
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes accounted for 31.01% and .46% of the population respectively.
The average literacy of the district was 66.49%, compared to the national average of 72.99%.
The district had a total of 149,243 households.
There were a total of 299,726 workers, comprising 107,542 cultivators, 91,135 main agricultural labourers, 4,365 in house hold industries, 52,055 other workers, 44,629 marginal workers, 9,762 marginal cultivators, 27,143 marginal agricultural labourers, 978 marginal workers in household industries and 6,746 other marginal workers.
Perambalur is a municipality town in the state of Tamil Nadu .
It is the administrative headquarters of Perambalur district and Perambalur Taluk (Sub-District).
Perambalur is the central town of Tamil Nadu.
Perambalur district is bounded on the North by Cuddalore and Salem, South by Trichy, East by Ariyalur, West by Trichy and Salem.
As of 2011 census, the town had a population of 49,648.
There are a set of 11th century Buddhists images around the villages of Perambalur called Perambalur Buddhas.
According to 2011 census, Perambalur had a population of 49,648 with a sex-ratio of 1,013 females for every 1,000 males, much above the national average of 929.
A total of 5,190 were under the age of six, constituting 2,678 males and 2,512 females.
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes accounted for 29.43% and .29% of the population respectively.
The average literacy of the town was 80.77%, compared to the national average of 72.99%.
The town had a total of 12732 households.
There were a total of 18,430 workers, comprising 998 cultivators, 1,746 main agricultural labourers, 364 in house hold industries, 13,762 other workers, 1,560 marginal workers, 49 marginal cultivators, 390 marginal agricultural labourers, 78 marginal workers in household industries and 1,043 other marginal workers.
As per the religious census of 2011, Perambalur had 86.94% Hindus, 9.29% Muslims, 3.6% Christians, 0.01% Sikhs, 0.01% Buddhists, 0.0% Jains, 0.12% following other religions and 0.03% following no religion or did not indicate any religious preference.
Perambalur taluk is a taluk of Perambalur district in Tamil Nadu, India.
Its headquarters is the town of Perambalur.
Perambalur taluk comprises the town of Perambalur and 27 revenue villages.
According to the 2011 census, the taluk of Perambalur had a population of 161,993 with 81,313 males and 80,680 females.
There were 992 women for every 1000 men.
The taluk had a literacy rate of 73.87.
Child population in the age group below 6 was 7,704 males and 7,054 females.
The Ariyalur District is an administrative district in the state of Tamil Nadu in India.
The district headquarters is  at Ariyalur.
The district area is 1,949.31 km² and population was 752,481 at the 2011 census.
Ariyalur is noted for its cement industries and has huge reserves of lignite.
Gangaikonda Cholapuram built by the King Rajendra Cholan of Chola Empire, an UNESCO World Heritage site is in the district.
This district is also known for its rich prehistoric fossils.
Many fossils of gigantic Molluscs, Jawed fishes were discovered here.
According to the 2011 census Ariyalur district has a population of 752,481, roughly equal to the nation of Guyana or the U.S. state of Alaska.
This gives it a ranking of 491st in India (out of a total of 640).
The district has a population density of 387 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,000/sq mi).
Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 8.19%.As of 2011 it is the third least populous district of Tamil Nadu (out of 32), after Perambalur and Nilgiris.
The district became famous in 2008, when theft of 8 idols were discovered from a 9th-century Chola Brahadeeswarar Temple at gangai konda cholapuram was discovered by Archaeological Survey of India(ASI) Government of India officials.
One of these idols, the Sripuranthan Natarajan Idol found its way to the National Gallery of Australia.
Two of the stolen statues were later returned and are now displayed in the Government Museum at Kumbakonam.
Ariyalur is a town and district headquarters of Ariyalur district in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu and rich lime stone and surrounded with five cement factory and two suger factory.
It is the smallest district headquarters in Tamil Nadu.
The town is a part of the fertile Cauvery Delta and the major profession in the town is agriculture.
Ariyalur is administered by a municipality established in 1994.
As of 2011, the municipality covered an area of 7.62 km2 (2.94 sq mi) and had a population of 28,902.
Ariyalur comes under the Ariyalur assembly constituency which elects a member to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly once every five years and it is a part of the Chidambaram constituency which elects its Member of Parliament (MP) once in five years.
According to 2011 census, Ariyalur had a population of 28,902 with a sex-ratio of 1,014 females for every 1,000 males, much above the national average of 929.
A total of 2,977 were under the age of six, constituting 1,538 males and 1,439 females.
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes accounted for 11.26% and .03% of the population respectively.
The average literacy of the town was 76.04%, compared to the national average of 72.99%.
The town had a total of : 7319 households.