the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
Von Brunn was a white supremacist and Holocaust denier who had been arrested and convicted for entering a federal building with various weapons in 1981 while trying to place the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, who he considered to be treasonous, under citizen's arrest.
"In Memoriam: Stephen Tyrone Johns" , by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Voices on Antisemitism interview with Scott Simon , by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
"James Von Brunn: An ADL Backgrounder Beliefs and Activities" , by the Anti-Defamation League
Statement by Erik von Brunn, by ABC News
Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke (15 January 1955 – 23 April 2017) was a Nigerian politician.
He was a two time senator who represented the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State from 2007 to 2011 and was elected again under the banner of the All Progressives Congress in 2015.
He became a member of the Nigerian Senate in 2007.
Imre Földi (8 May 1938 – 23 April 2017) was a Hungarian weightlifter.
Competing at a record of five Olympic Games, he won a gold medal in 1972 and silver medals in 1964 and 1968.
During his career he set 21 world records, and after his retirement he coached his daughter to become a European champion.
Földi earned numerous awards for his results and achievements, most notably he was named Weightlifter of the Century by the International Weightlifting Federation and was elected for Sportsperson of the Nation in Hungary.
Vivek Hallegere Murthy (born July 10, 1977) is an American physician and a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
Murthy is the 21st and current Surgeon General of the United States since 2021 during the Joe Biden presidency.
Before, he served as the 19th Surgeon General from 2014 through 2017 during the Barack Obama presidency.
Murthy, founder of nonprofit Doctors for Obama, replaced Boris Lushniak, who had been acting Surgeon General since 2013.
Murthy was the first Surgeon General of Indian descent and was the youngest active duty flag officer in federal uniformed service.
On April 21, 2017, Murthy was relieved of his duties but will continue to serve as a member of the Commissioned Corps.
Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams was named acting Surgeon General.
On November 9, 2020, then President-elect of the United States Joe Biden announced that Murthy would co-chair his COVID-19 Advisory Board, alongside former U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner David A. Kessler and Yale public health professor Marcella Nunez-Smith.
On December 3, Politico reported that Murthy would return to the role of Surgeon General in the Biden administration.
His nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 23, 2021 with a 57-43 vote.
Sylvia Trent-Adams (born circa 1965) is a rear admiral in the USPHS.
She was the acting Surgeon General of the United States from April 21, 2017 through September 5, 2017.
As surgeon general, she directs the operations of the USPHS Commissioned Corps and communicates scientific information to advance the health of the nation.
Previously, she was the deputy surgeon general.
She has served as the chief nurse officer of the USPHS, since November 2013.
Mason was the United States Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH) from 1989 to 1993 and the Acting Surgeon General of the United States from 1989 to 1990.
As the ASH he was also a former four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
Mason served in the church as a bishop, stake president, and regional representative.
In 1974, while serving as Church Commissioner for Health Services, Mason wrote a pamphlet for the church titled, "Attitudes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Toward Certain Medical Problems", which expresses the church's views on abortion, birth control, and homosexuality.
"Elder James O. Mason of the Seventy", Ensign, May 1994
Elders was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the first African American appointed as Surgeon General of the United States.
Elders is best known for her frank discussion of her views on controversial issues such as drug legalization and distributing contraception in schools.
She was forced to resign in December 1994 amidst controversy as a result of her views.
She is currently a professor emerita of pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Santa Ana is a department in El Salvador.
The capital is Santa Ana, one of the largest cities in El Salvador.
The department was created in 1855 during the presidency of José María San Martín.
The main rivers are the Lempa and the Guajoyo rivers.
The most important lakes in the department are Lake Güija on the border with Guatemala, and Lake Coatepeque which is in the southern part of the department.
Jerry Adriani (Jair Alves de Sousa; 29 January 1947 – 23 April 2017) was a Brazilian singer, musician and actor.
He began his career in television while working with Rede Tupi in São Paulo.
His early works were as a vocalist for the group Os Rebeldes.
Jean Périmony (2 March 1931 – 9 April 2017) was a French comedian, actor, educator, theater director, and costume designer.
He was born in Dole, Jura.
He was known for working with assistant director Robert Manuel and then with Henri Rollan.
He created the Cie du Villiers (1969) and the Festival Molière at the Théâtre Trévise in Paris (1977).
Périmony opened his drama school in September 1960 and taught at the Conservatory of Orléans from 1983 through 1986.
He was served in the House of the Legion of Honor from 1984 through 2000 and the INA from 1984 to 1990.
He was also Secretary General of the Catholic Union of Theater and Music from 1990 to 1996.
Périmony was married to literary agent Marie-Cécile Renauld until his death in 2017.
Festival de Cannes - Jean Périmony, professeur
/ Cours Jean Périmony
Jesse "Jess" Kersey (January 12, 1941 – April 22, 2017) was an American basketball referee.
He was born in Newport News, Virginia.
He worked for the American Basketball Association and the National Basketball Association.
Kersey joined the NBA in 1973.
During his 30 year career, he officiated 1,911 regular season games, 189 playoff games and 18 NBA Finals games.
František Rajtoral (12 March 1986 – 23 April 2017) was a Czech football player.
He last played for Turkish club Gaziantepspor.
He was best known for his stint at Viktoria Plzeň.
He was a member of the Czech Republic national football team.
He won the Czech Cup with FC Viktoria Plzeň in 2010.
Further trophies he won with the club include the Gambrinus Liga twice and the Czech Supercup.
Rajtoral committed suicide by hanging himself his apartment in Gaziantep, Turkey on 23 April 2017.
Guardian Football
František Rajtoral at Mackolik
The Popular Republican Union (French: Union Populaire Républicaine, UPR) is a French political party.
It was formed in 2007 by François Asselineau.
The party is nationalistic, and is very critical of the European Union.
They are against federalism and the Americanisation of France.
Asselineau qualified to run in the 2017 French presidential election on 23 April 2017.
He received almost 1% of the national vote, with 332,588 votes.
GERB (which stands for Граждани за Европейско Развитие на България, "Grazhdani za Evropeysko Razvitie na Bŭlgaria," meaning Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria.
The word герб/gerb also means "coat of arms" in Bulgarian) is a political party in Bulgaria.
The party leader is Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.
The party supports Bulgaria's membership in the European Union.
They are also called a liberal conservative and populist party.
The party has been an important force in Bulgarian politics since it's creation in 2006.
Their best performance was in the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election, where they received around 40% of the national vote and won 117 out of 240 seats.
Their most recent performance was in the 2017 Bulgarian parliamentary election, where they received 33% of the national vote and won 95 out of 240 seats.
GERB's page on the European People's Party website
Volya (Bulgarian: Воля meaning "Will"; previously known as Dnes and the Liberal Alliance) is a political party in Bulgaria.
It was founded on 15 July 2007 by businessman Veselin Mareshki.
The name Volya was adapted on 28 November 2016.
The party is seen as having a pro-Russian stance, and is also Eurosceptic (meaning they are critical of the European Union).
It is also nationalistic and populist.
Official website (Bulgarian)
Giannino "Gio" Castiglioni (4 August 1884 – 27 August 1971) was an Italian architect, urbanist, painter and sculptor.
His style was representational.
Castiglioni was born in Milan and studied at the Accademia di Brera.
He finished his studies there in 1906.
From the early 1900s he primarily lived and worked in Lierna, a town on Lake Como.
In 1951, he designed the master plan, the square, and several individual buildings in Lierna.
In his early career, Castiglione worked mainly as a painter.
His later works were sculptures.
Giannino Castiglioni Museum
Portal - Scenes from the life of S. Ambrogio from the Milan cathedral, Opera Giannino Castiglioni, affixed in 1950 Milan Cathedral
This list includes Pictish kings since 312, kings have ruled the Picts since around 800 BC but the monarchs listed here are the kings and queens who have ruled the whole of Pictland or claimed to have ruled the whole of Pictland.
Kings of Pictland since 312
Vipoig 312-342
Canutulachama 342-345
Vuradech 345-347
Gartnait 347-387
Talorg 387-412
Drest I 412-452
Talorc 452-456
Nechtan I 456-480
Drest II 480-510
Galan 510-522
Drest III & Drest IV 522-530 & 522-531
Gartnait II 531-537
Cailtram 537-538
Talorc II 538-549
Drest V 549-550
Galam 550-555
Bridei I 555-584
Gartnait III 584-595
Nechtan II 595-616
Cinioch 616-631
Gartnait IV 631-635
Bridei II 635-641
Talorc III 641-653
Talorgan 653-657
Gartnait V 657-663
Drest VI 663-672
Bridei III 672-693
Taran 693-697
Bridei IV 697-706
Nechtan III 706-724 (ferst ren)
Drest VII 724-726 (deposed bi Alpín)
Alpín 726-728
Nechtan III 728-729 (seecond ren)
Onuist 729-761 & Talorcan 736-750
Bridei V 761-763
Ciniod 763-775
Alpín II 775-778
Talorc IV 778-782
Drest VIII 782-783
Talorc V 783-785
Conall 785-789
Caustantin 789-830
Óengus 820-834
Drest IX 834-837 & Talorc VI 834-837
Éogan 837-839
Uurad 839-842
Bridei VI 842-843
Ciniod II 843
Bridei VII 843-845
Drest X 845-848
Kings of Pictland & Alba/Scotland
Cináed mac Ailpín (843-858)
Domnall mac Ailpín (858-862)
Causantín mac Cináeda (862-877)
Disputed (kings of Pictland)
Áed mac Cináeda (877-878)
Giric mac Dúngail (878-889)
Domnall mac Causantín (889-900)
Disputed (kings of Pictish Alba)
Caisantín mac Áeda (900-943), abdicated.
Died 952
Caradoc was a knight of the Round Table.
He was raised as the son of Caradoc the Elder, the king of Nates.
His mother had an affair with a sorcerer named Eliavres who was his real father.
During a beheading game, he chopped off his opponents head.
The corpse replaced the head and explained that he was Caradoc’s biological father.
Humiliated, he took his father and locked him in a tower.
While attempting to escape, the wizard made a serpent wrap itself around his son's arm.
A witch persuaded Eliaures, who was a magician, to make the snake attach itself to Caradoc's arm, sucking his blood.
His friend Cador saved his life by putting his sister Guimer in a vat of milk and Caradoc in a vat of sour wine.
This got the snake to cross from one vat to the other, giving Cador the chance to kill it with his sword.
The attack caused Caradoc’s arm to “shrivel away”, and he became known as Breifbras (little-arm).
Later in life he married Guignier.
Due to Caradoc’s mother’s infidelity, he was very paranoid and made his wife go through a chastity test while they were both in Camelot.
She passed the test and the two were given the city of Cirencester as a reward.
Cecilia Alvear (November 5, 1939 – April 21, 2017) was an Ecuadorian-American journalist in television news.
She was the former President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
She was known as a Field Producer with NBC Network News in Burbank, California.
In 1995 and 1996, Alvear was Editor at Large of Si, a short-lived magazine depicting the Latino experience in the U.S.
Chris Bearde (18 June 1936 – 23 April 2017) was an Australian comedy writer, producer and director.
He was best known for his work as a writer on the 1960s hit Laugh-In and for co-writing and producing TV specials for Elvis Presley, Bob Hope, Sonny Bono, Cher, Bill Cosby, Steve Martin, Jim Carrey, Andy Williams, Michael Jackson, The Osmonds, Dinah Shore, Diana Ross, and Lucille Ball.
He also created the format for the original The Gong Show.
He also created That's My Mama and Sherman Oaks.
Interview with Chris Bearde
Hubert Lederer Dreyfus (; October 15, 1929 – April 22, 2017) was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
His main interests included phenomenology, existentialism and the philosophy of both psychology and literature.
Dreyfus was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and is a recipient of the Harbison Prize for Outstanding Teaching at UC Berkeley.
Erasmus University awarded Dreyfus an honorary doctorate "for his brilliant and highly influential work in the field of artificial intelligence, and for his equally outstanding contributions to the analysis and interpretation of twentieth century continental philosophy".
Professor Bert Dreyfus at the Berkeley Philosophy Department Web page
Professor Bert Dreyfus's UC Berkeley Home Page
Webcast: Man, God, and Society in Western Literature
Webcast: Existentialism in Literature and Film
Webcast: Heidegger
Copy of Article "The iPod Lecture Circuit" by Michelle Quinn in LA Times, November 2007
Conversations with History, an interview, November 2005
Comprehensive interview
Conversations about media, culture and technology.
Interview between Andrew Keen and Hubert Dreyfus February 16, 2006  on AfterTV
William "Gatz" Hjortsberg (February 23, 1941 – April 22, 2017) was an American novelist and screenwriter.
He was known for writing the screenplay of the movie Legend.
His novel Falling Angel was the basis for the movie Angel Heart (1987).
William Hjortsberg official website
Photograph of the author
Sir John Sparrow David Thompson  (November 10, 1845 – December 12, 1894) was the 4th Prime Minister of Canada.
He served from November 24, 1892 until his death from a heart attack on December 12, 1894.
Chriet Titulaer (May 9, 1943 – April 23, 2017) was a Dutch astronomer, former television presenter and popular science and technology writer.
He lived in Houten, Utrecht province.
He was born in Hout-Blerick, Venlo, Limburg province.
In 1983 Titulaer began his own television production company Chriet Titulaer Producties BV and did much work for Teleac and the TROS.
He presented popular science programmes such as Wondere Wereld (Miraculous World) and television courses such as Moderne Sterrenkunde (Modern Astronomy) and Nederland en het Weer (The Netherlands and the Weather).
Interview by Koen van Santvoord for the magazine Carp
Lord Williams was the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon.
He was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in August 2008.
Williams previously served as UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on the Situation in the Middle East, before his appointment as the UK Special Representative for the Middle East and Special Projects.
Prior to that, he was the Director for the Asia and the Pacific Division in the Department of Political Affairs.
Specific heat (s) is a particular type of heat capacity.
Specific heat is the thermodynamic property, which states the amount of heat required for a single unit of mass of a substance to be raised by one degree of temperature.
Varying ranges of specific heat values are seen for substances depending on the extent to which they absorb heat.
The term heat capacity can be misleading since heat q is the term given to the addition or removal of energy, across a barrier to a substance or system, as a result of increasing or decreasing the temperature respectively.
Temperature changes are really changes in energy.
Therefore, specific heat and other forms of heat capacity are more accurately measures of the capacity of a substance to absorb energy as the temperature of the substance increases.
Units are very important for expressing any thermodynamic property; the same is true for specific heat.
Energy in the form of heat is expressed in Joules (J) or kilojoules (kJ) which are the most common units associated with energy.
One unit of mass is measured in grams or kilograms with regard to specific heat.
Per one gram is the standard form used in tables of specific heat values, but references using one kilogram are sometimes seen.
One degree of temperature is measured on either the Celsius or Kelvin scale, but usually Celsius.
The most commonly associated units then for specific heat are J/(g•°C).
Factors that determine specific heat
Temperature and pressure
Two factors that change the specific heat of a material are pressure and temperature.
Specific heat is defined at a standard, constant pressure (usually atmospheric pressure) for materials and is generally reported at 25 °C (298.15 K).
A standard temperature is used because specific heat has temperature dependence and can change at different temperature values.
Specific heat is referred to as an intensive property (en:Intensive and extensive properties intensive property.)
As long as the temperature and pressure are at the standard referenced values and no phase change occurs, the value for the specific heat of any material remains constant regardless of the mass of the material present .
Energetic degrees of freedom
A large factor in the magnitude of the specific heat of a material lies at the molecular level in the energetic :en:Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry) degrees of freedomavailable to the material in the phase (solid, liquid or gas) in which it is found.
Energetic degrees of freedom are of four types: translation, rotation, vibration and electronic.
A minimum amount of energy is needed to reach each degree of freedom.
Therefore, the amount of energy that can be stored in a substance depends on the type and number of the energetic degrees of freedom that contribute to the substance at a given temperature.
Liquids generally have more low energy modes and more energetic degrees of freedom than solids and most gases.
This broader range of possibilities within the degrees of freedom typically generates larger specific heats for liquid substances than for solids or gases.
This trend can be seen in the :en:Heat capacity#Table of specific heat capacities Table of specific heat capacitiesand by comparing liquid water to solid water (ice), copper, tin, oxygen, and graphite.
Specific heat is used to calculate the amount of heat absorbed when energy is added to a material or substance through an increase in temperature over a defined range.
Calculation of the amount of heat or energy added to a material is a relatively easy process as long as the initial and the final temperatures of the material are recorded, the mass of the material is reported and the specific heat is known.
The specific heat, the mass of the material and the temperature scale must all be in the same units in order to accurately perform the calculation for heat.
The equation for calculating heat (q) is as follows:
In the equation, s is the specific heat in (J/g•°C).
m is the mass of the substance in grams.
ΔT refers to the change in temperature (°C) observed in the substance.
The convention is to subtract the initial temperature of the material from the final temperature after heating so ΔT is TFinal-TInitial in the equation.
Substituting all the values into the equation and multiplying through cancels the units of mass and temperature leaving the appropriate units of Joules for heat.
Calculations such as this are useful in :en:Calorimetry calorimetry
Agustín Iván Edmundo Edwards Eastman (24 November 1927 – 24 April 2017) was a Chilean newspaper publisher.
He was one of the richest people in Chile.
He inherited his family's newspaper company El Mercurio SAP, which publishes Chile's leading national dailies El Mercurio and La Segunda.
Eastman has been described as a media baron, and was known for his right-wing views.
Throughout his time as publisher, he has used El Mercurio SAP's newspapers to influence public opinion in Chile, and he supported the 1973 coup d'état to oust socialist President Salvador Allende.
Líos de familia: La oscura historia detrás del edificio de el Mercurio
Eskifjörður (also called Eskifjördur) is a town and port in eastern Iceland.
In 2011, the town had a population of 1,043 people.
The town has a large fishing industry.
Visit Eskifjordur tourist guide
Visit Eskifjordur Facebook Fan page for tourist information around Eskifjordur
Facebook Fan page about everything in Eskifjörður
Eskifjörður page on Fjarðabyggð municipal website
Images of Eskifjörður on Flickr
The Spokan or Spokane people are a Native American tribe.
They live in the eastern part of present-day Washington state and parts of northern Idaho in the United States of America.
The current Spokane Indian Reservation is in northeastern Washington, centered at Wellpinit (Sčecuwe).
The reservation is almost entirely in Stevens County.
However, it also includes two small bits of land (totaling about ) in Lincoln County.
This includes part of the Spokane River.
In total, the reservation is about .
The city of Spokane, Washington (Sʎˈetkʷ) is named after the tribe.
It grew along the Spokane River, within the historic ancestral land of the tribe, but not in the reservation.
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Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.
Spokane Reservation, Washington  United States Census Bureau
Spokane Tribe of Indians, official site
History and Culture, presented in the Website of the Wellpinit School District
Spokane Tribe of Indians Language Program
The Spokan Indians, by John Alan Ross, published 2011, , the definitive ethnography
Spokane Salish Blog
Dante Parini (Milan, 21 November 1890 – Milan, 11 April 1969) was an Italian painter and sculptor.
Parini studied at Accademia di Brera under the guidance of masters such as Enrico Butti along with Giannino Castiglioni with whom she shared ideas and projects becoming her friend.
Parini left for the front of World War II where he was decorated for heroic acts.
It is its fountain-monument made in 1924 in Piazza Gran Paradiso in Milano in memory of the fallen of Niguarda.
Amongst others are the monuments to the fallen of Tarquinia, a work inspired by profound sentiment and suffering humanity, and the monument to the soldiers fallen into Induno Olona war.
Some of his works are in the Monumental Cemetery of Milan, in Sanctuary of San Felice (Parabiago), and in the cemetery of Sarzana.
He made a marble bas-relief in the church of Santa Maria at the Maggiore Hospital at Ca 'Granda in Milan with a subject "The healings of Christ".
Several of his works are preserved at the Ospedale di Niguarda, known as "the City of art".
In 1882 Dante Parini took part in the second competition for the execution of the sculptures of Vittoriano "Altar of the Homeland" in Rome, but his project was not chosen.
Dante Parini also devoted himself to painting.
During his long life he participated in several international exhibitions.
Carlo E. Accetti, Il Libro italiano: rassegna bibliografica generale, Librerie Ulpiano, 1942
Carlo E. Accetti, Biografia Dante Parini, Tipografia sociale, Monza, 1942
Arduino Anselmi, Milano storica: nelle sue vie, nei suoi monumenti, Hoepli (casa editrice), 1933
Giacomo C. Bascapè, La Raccolte d'arte dell'Ospedale Maggiore di Milano dal XV al XX secolo, Silvana Editoriale, 1956
Alfonso Panzetta, Nuovo dizionario degli scultori italiani dell'Ottocento e del primo Novecento: da Antonio Canova ad Arturo Martini (Dante Parini), Volume 2, AdArte, 2003
Vincenzo Vicario, Gli scultori italiani dal Neoclassicismo al Liberty: L-Z (Dante Parini), Volume 2, Pomerio, 1994
Schede oggetti ed opere d'arte di Parini Dante, Ministero dei Beni Culturali, Istituto Centrale per il catalogo e la documentazione
Bianca Maria Visconti di Parini Dante, Lombardia Beni Culturali
Monumento sepolcrale - Monumento Famiglia Pini-Defendini di Parini Dante, Lombardia Beni Culturali
Ritratto di Bianca Maria Visconti di Parini Dante, Lombardia Beni Culturali
Studio di ramo con foglie dal vero di Dante Parini, Società Operaia di Mutuo Soccorso di Viggiù, Lombardia Beni Culturali
Raccolta d'arte Museo del Policlinico di Milano
Annie Jump Cannon was an American astronomer.
She was born on December 11, 1863 in Dover, Delaware and died on April 13, 1941 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Cannon and her mom looked at the stars when she was little.
This is what got Cannon interested in stars.
She loved the stars.
Cannon was born in the US and lived there most of her life.
She lived 78 years.
Cannon observed and then classified about 400,000 stars.
She also came up with the Harvard system.
The Harvard system surveyed stars according to the color of light emission and temperature.
Cannon was a great astronomer and gave us new information about the stars.
Jobs and studies
Cannon had graduate studies in math, physics, and astronomy.
She also received many awards such as the Henry Draper Gold Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, the Ellen Richards Award, and she was the first woman to ever receive the honorary doctorate of science at Oxford University.
She also became part of the Harvard Astronomy staff.
She discovered 300 variable stars, 5 novae stars, and 1 binary star while on the staff.
Cannon had many hardships.
Cannon was a women scientist in a world of men.
She had to advocate for herself.
She was one of the first women in astronomy at her time.
Cannon also faced the hardship of being deaf.
Cannon didn’t have access to hearing aids.
People had decided not to vote for her for awards despite her hard work and effort because she was deaf.
Now many people admire her and wish to follow in her footsteps.
Cannon struggled in a world of stereotypes and first times but she managed to succeed.
Cannon was a highly renowned astronomer in her time with many awards.
Scientists from Delaware
Scaphocephaly is a medical disorder.
It describes a long narrow head that looks like an overturned boat.
It is a type of cephalic disorder.
Scaphocephaly is one type of skull synostosis, or joining of two bones.
It can be corrected by surgery if the child is young enough.
Errol Leonard Norstedt (June 17, 1948 – January 17, 2002), better known by his stage name Eddie Meduza, was a Swedish musician working mainly in the rockabilly genre.
His songs were about women, cars and alcohol, often associated with obscene lyrics.
He went as far as to aim his views at the Swedish Government which garnered controversy over the years.
Meduza died at the age of 53 after suffering a heart attack caused by alcohol poisoning.
He is remembered for his explicit work but many of his songs were ironic-made and contained clever social commentary.
Meduza is survived by wife and (now adult) children.
Official Web page
Björn Svante Afzelius (January 27, 1947 – February 16, 1999), was a Swedish musician and guitarist who's songs were about socialism, love and joy.
He released his debut album in 1974 and his last album weeks before his death.
He had throat pain after he had played acoustic trio.
In autumn 1997, doctors identified lung cancer.
He died of the disease one and a half year later at the age of 52.
Betty Jane "Kathleen" Crowley (December 26, 1929 – April 23, 2017) was an American actress.
She was born in Green Bank, New Jersey.
She starred in a number of TV shows and movies throughout the 1950s and 1960s, ending her career in 1970.
She was known for her multiple small roles in the TV series Maverick.
Benjamin R. Barber (August 2, 1939 – April 24, 2017) was an American political theorist and author.
He was best known for his 1995 bestseller, Jihad vs. McWorld, and for 2013's If Mayors Ruled the World.
CivWorld
The Interdependence Movement
A Conversation on American Political Culture with Benjamin Barber
Barber discusses his book Consumed: How markets corrupt.... Audio on Media Matters April 15, 2007 UIUC.EDU
Benjamin Barber's blog on the Huffington Post
Benjamin Barber on Twitter
Interview with Benjamin R. Barber by JK Fowler for The Mantle March 19, 2011
Kenneth Robert "Ken" Sears (August 17, 1933 – April 23, 2017) was an American professional basketball player.
He holds the title of being the first basketball player to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine, appearing on the December 20, 1954 issue.
Sears played eight seasons (1955–1961, 1962–1964) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the New York Knicks and San Francisco Warriors.
He averaged 13.9 points per game and 7.8 rebounds per game in his NBA career, appearing as an NBA All-Star in 1958 and 1959.
Sears spent the 1961–62 basketball season in the short-lived American Basketball League.
Sears died on April 23, 2017, at his home in Watsonville, California, aged 83.
Dr. Fredrick Lawrence Munyua Waiyaki (12 December 1926 – 25 April 2017) was a Kenyan politician.
He  was a minister for Agriculture, Minister of Foreign Affairs and a former member of parliament for the Kasarani Constituency.
He was born in Nairobi, Kenya.
In 1963, he was appointed Parliamentary secretary
In the 1960s.
he was offered a job by the Kenyan government to work as a medical doctor a position he served for less than a year since he retired and decided against to set up his own clinic in Kenya.
At the same time, he started becoming active in politics since he served as the District chairman for Kenya African National Union (KANU) for the period of 1960-1968.
In 1962 he challenged Tom Mboya for the Nairobi East parliament seat but he lost by 2668 votes to 31407.
He entered into parliament for the first time in May 1963 as a member of parliament for North Eastern Nairobi (now Kasarani) and he also became the permanent secretary for the ministry of health and housing.
Munyua Waiyaki — Munzinger Biographie
Sasha "The Basha, Pitbull" Lakovic (Serbian: Саша Лаковић / Saša Laković; September 7, 1971 – April 25, 2017) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player.
He played for 17 different professional teams during his career, but mostly known for playing with the New Jersey Devils.
Lakovic also played for four roller hockey teams in the mid-1990s.
Lakovic attempted to start a career in acting, landing a small role as Russian ice hockey player Boris Mikhailov in the 2004 Walt Disney movie Miracle.
Lakovic was diagnosed with brain cancer in October 2016.
He died from the disease on April 25, 2017 in Vancouver, aged 45.
Historically these people are known as Minaro people.
They lived from the 1st century BC in Deosai region.
In the 19th century BC they migrated to the rest of Ladakh region.
iOS 11 is the eleventh major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc., coming after iOS 10.
It was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 5, 2017, and released on September 19, 2017.
Some of iOS 11's changes: the lock screen and Notification Center are combined, allowing all notifications to be displayed directly on the lock screen.
The various pages of the Control Center are unified, gaining custom settings and the ability to 3D Touch icons for more options.
The App Store receives a big visual change to focus on editorial content and daily highlights.
A "Files" file manager app allows direct access to files stored locally and in cloud services.
Siri can now translate between languages and use a privacy-minded "on-device learning" technique to better understand a user's interests and offer suggestions.
The camera has new settings for better portrait-mode photos and will use new encoding technologies to reduce file sizes on newer devices.
In a future release, Messages will be used with iCloud to better synchronize messages across iOS and macOS devices.
A previous point release also added support for person-to-person Apple Pay payments.
The operating system also introduces the ability to record the screen, limited forms of drag-and-drop functionality, and support for augmented reality.
Certain new features will appear only on iPad, including an always-accessible application dock, cross-app drag-and-drop, and a new user interface to show multiple apps at once.
iOS 11 received mixed reviews.
People significantly praised the application dock and new multitasking interface on the iPad, crediting them for renewing the user experience.
Further praise was directed at the redesigned Control Center offering customizable toggles, though it was criticized for lack of third-party app support, lack of Wi-Fi network selection ability and for difficult usage on small screen sizes, along with its instability.
People also noted the new augmented reality development tools, but said their impact would depend on third-party apps and how fast developers embraced them.
Praise was also directed at the App Store's redesign and the new file-management tools.
Shortly after release, it was discovered that disabling Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections through the Control Center does not disable the respective chips in the device in order to remain functional for background connectivity, a design decision sparking criticism for "misleading" users and reducing security due to potential vulnerabilities in inactive open connections.
The iOS 11.2 update added warning messages and a new toggle color to explain the new functions.
iOS 11 has also received continuous criticism from reviewers and end-users for its perceived stability and performance issues, particularly on older devices; Apple has issued numerous software updates to address such issues.
Two months after release, 52% of iOS devices were running iOS 11, a slower adoption rate than previous iOS versions.
The number increased to 81% of devices by May 2018.
Official website of Savièse
Balad, Hebrew: בל״ד , a Hebrew acronym of Brit Le'umit Demokratit, Hebrew: ברית לאומית דמוקרטית ,<br/ >
the Arab version: at-Tajamuʿ al-Waṭanī ad-Dīmūqraṭī, Arab: التجمع الوطني الديمقراطي ,<br/ >
(the Arab version is shortened to Tajammua, Arabic: بلد , meaning Country / Nation),<br/ >
both meaning National Democratic Assembly, is an Israeli political party.
Political leader is Sami Abu Shehadeh.
Number of seats in the 24th Knesset: 1 (-2).<br/ >
Balad is cooperating with Hadash and Ta'al as HaReshima HaMeshutefet (Hebrew) or al-Qa'imah al-Mushtarakah (Arab) (both meaning The Joint List).
Jona Lewie (born John Lewis, 14 March 1947 in Southampton, England) is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
He is best known for his 1980 UK hits "You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties" and "Stop the Cavalry".
In 1969, as a singer/songwriter, he made compositions and recordings for the compilation album I Asked For Water She Gave Me ... Gasoline on the Liberty/UA label.
Other compositions in 1969 were for the album These Blues is Meant to Be Barrel Housed on the Yazoo/Blue Goose label in New York, still as a solo artist known as John Lewis.
Alias Jona Lewie (1975)
On the Other Hand There's a Fist (1978)
Gatecrasher (compilation of singles for Sonet, 1980)
Heart Skips Beat (1982)
Optimistic (1993)
Ukephoric: The London Ukulele Festival 2009 (2010)
The Top 10 Christmas Songs of The Last Decade
Bestiff.co.uk
Reference to his song being No 2 on Australian Charts in 1981
Baltschieder is a municipality of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Official website of Baltschieder
Embd is a municipality of the district Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
It is at an elevation of  on a terrace above St. Niklaus in the Mattertal, north of the Mischabel range (and Dom).
Official website of the municipality of Grächen
Lalden (Walliser German: Lalu) is a municipality in Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Francis Lazarro "Frank" Rizzo, Sr. (
October 23, 1920 – July 16, 1991) was an American politician.
He was the Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1972 through 1980.
He was also the police commissioner as well.
When he was mayor, Rizzo was a Democrat, but when he left office, Rizzo became a Republican in 1986.
Rizzo was commissioner from 1968 to 1971 and eventually became mayor in 1972.
While he was mayor his relationships with the black community was very violent and devastating.
Others would say he was racially motivated only because he would liked to target activities in black neighborhoods.
Biographical sketch of Rizzo's controversial methods
The Night of Terror refers to November 14, 1917 when several women were arrested for protesting in front of the White House for women's rights.
This event is most known for the brutal torture of women in the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia.
The 300 plus activists involved were fighting against President Woodrow Wilson for the right to vote.
Thirty-three women were thrown in jail and these women were the ones who experienced the night of terror.
Lucy Burns, one of the founders of the National Woman's Party was chained to her cell with her arms in the air.
The women declared a hunger strike and in response, they were force-fed by being held down on a chair and having a long tube shoved down their throats.
The jailers attached a funnel to the tube, and poured in mushed up raw eggs and milk for protein until they threw up.
During the Night of Terror, Burns was beaten for calling out to other inmates, and her arms handcuffed above her head in her cell.
Police officers hurled Dora Lewis into her cell, smashing her head against an iron bar.
Her cellmate Alice Cosu thought she was dead, and suffered a heart attack.
One woman was stabbed between the eyes with the broken staff of her banner at the Workhouse.
Sarah Parker Remond (June 6, 1815 – December 13, 1894) was an African-American educator, abolitionist, and member of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Late in life she became a physician in Italy.
Remond was born in Salem, Massachusetts.
She was born  June 6, 1826, and she died in 1894.
She went to an all black elementary school.
she was not a slave but her father was, who then became an American citizen.
Her family moved to Newport, Rhode Island and she went to a private school.
She made her first speech in 1842.
She made her first speech when she was 16 years old against slavery.
The Philadelphia Race Riots of 1964 was one of the first race riots during the Civil Rights Era.
The riot started on August 28, 1964 when a conflict erupted between an African-American woman and a police officer when the woman's car broke down in a busy section of the city.
Rumors quickly spread about the police allegedly beating up a pregnant black woman.
Riots broke out mostly in Northern Philadelphia.
Even though no one was killed, over 300 people were hurt, 25 stores were destroyed, and hundreds were arrested.
Race Riot
Sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a member of the White Rose Resistance group.
Along with Hans scholl, Alexander Schmorell, Willi Graf, Christoph Probst, and Kurt Huber, Sophie helped write leaflets that opposed Hitler and Nazi Germany.
On February 18,1943, Sophie and her brother went to the Munich University to pass out leaflets.
They were spotted by a custodian, who alerted the Gestapo.
They were put on trial on February 22.
They were sentence to death.
Before her death, her roomate, Else Gebel, recalls the last thing that Sophie said to her: “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone wiling to give himself up individually for a righteous cause?
Such a fine, sunny, day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of lives are awakened and stirred into action.”.
She was murdered the same day of the trial, February 22, 1943.
The Geschwister-Scholl-Institut
Court documents and testimonies (Center for White Rose Studies
Sophie Scholl's childhood years in Ludwigsburg
The Line, a comic that compares and contrasts Sophie Scholl and Traudl Junge
Weiße Rose Stiftung e.V. (German)
Air India Flight 855 was a flight from Bombay to Dubai.
On January 1, 1978 the Boeing 747 crashed into the Arabian Sea due to pilot error.
All 213 people on-board died.
108 is a natural number that comes before 109 and after 107.
It is the emergency number In India.
A sphygmomanometer ((, ; also called a blood pressure meter, blood pressure monitor, or blood pressure gauge) is a device used to measure blood pressure in humans.
It was first invented by an Austrian physician in 1881.
They now come in different shapes and sizes.
They can be found in many places.
The sphygmomanometer works by wrapping a tube of fabric (called a "cuff") around the arm or other body part.
The cuff is filled up with air.
That stops the flow of blood in the arm.
The air is then released slowly until the blood flows again.
The whole process, from start to finish, only takes about a minute.
Many sphygmomanometers are inflated by squeezing a bulb.
A gauge shows how much the cuff is inflated.
The gauge can be mechanical or hydraulic (filled with mercury).
It is important that the cuff is not inflated too much, so whoever is using the device has to use a stethoscope.
Some sphygmomanometers, especially those that people use at home, are automatic.
They inflate using an electric pump.
They show the blood pressure on a screen.
They are meant to be very easy to use.
Official website of Randa
Saas-Almagell is a municipality of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Official website of Saas-Almagell
The Bell TH-57 Sea Ranger is a US helicopter.
It is a military variant of the famous civilian Bell 206 used for training by the United States Marine Corps and the United States Navy.
Training aircraft.
Bell aircraft
Dale Edward Wolf (September 6, 1924 – March 20, 2021) was an American businessman and politician.
He was veteran of World War II.
Wolf was a member of the Republican Party.
For three weeks, he was the 70th Governor of Delaware.
Biography by Russell Pickett
Delaware's Governor's
Emerald BioAgriculture Company
Stand Up for what is Right and Just
Vinod Khanna (6 October 1946 – 27 April 2017) was an Indian actor.
He was also an active politician and was the sitting MP from Gurdaspur constituency (between 1998-2009 and 2014-2017).
Khanna played lead roles in many movies and is best remembered for his performance in Mere Apne, Mera Gaon Mera Desh, Gaddaar,  Jail Yatra, Imtihaan, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, Inkaar, Kuchhe Dhaage, Amar Akbar Anthony, Rajput, Qurbani, Kudrat, Dayavan, Kaarnama,Suryaa: An Awakening and Jurm.
After making his debut in 1968, Khanna first acted in small roles or negative roles.
His angry young man role in the movie Mere Apne, his negative role as the main villain in the superhit movie Mera Gaon Mera Desh and his role in the crtically acclaimed movie Achanak based on the events of the popular case  K. M. Nanavati v. State of Maharashtra'', as the military officer turned fugitive.
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William George Morgan (23 January 1870 – 27 December 1942) was an American educator and businessman.
He was the inventor of volleyball, originally called "Mintonette".
He was born in Lockport, New York.
He met James Naismith, inventor of basketball, while Morgan was studying at Springfield College, Massachusetts in 1892.
Like Naismith, Morgan went for a career in Physical Education at the YMCA.
He was inspired by Naismith and basketball, in 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Morgan invented "Mintonette" a less hard team sport than a basketball which was more suitable for older members of the YMCA but one that still needed athletic skill.
People from Holyoke, Massachusetts
It was founded in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
Founding members were Newton, Seale, Bobby Hutton, and Elbert Howard.
Rivera was a founding member of both the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance.
With her close friend Marsha P. Johnson, Rivera co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), a group dedicated to helping homeless young drag queens and trans women of color.
Rivera was born on July 2nd, 1951 as Ray Rivera.
As a child she found a growing interest in makeup.
By grade 4 she was wearing makeup to school.
Lacking the support she needed from her family, by age 10, her grandmother disapproved and put her out on the street.
Rivera became a child sex worker in Times Square.
Later on in her life, Rivera took an interest in human rights, specifically race and gender/sexual orientation.
She created the organization STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) with her best friend, Marsha P. Johnson.
But not too long after, Johnson was found dead, floating in the Hudson River.
Rivera was devastated, and she even attempted suicide once.
In the end, she died of liver cancer in 2002.
Clara McBride Hale (April 1, 1905 – December 18, 1992), also known as Mother Hale, was an American humanitarian.
She founded the Hale House Center, a home for unwanted children and children who were born addicted to drugs.
Hale was born April 1, 1905 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
She moved to Philadelphia her father died when she was a toddler.
Her mother could not pay for her and her siblings, her mother took in lodgers to pay for her family.
Clara Hale's mother died when she was sixteen.
She met Thomas Hale in high school and when they graduated they went to New York together and started a floor waxing company.
Thomas and Clara Hale had two children named Lorraine and a son Nathan.
Clara Hale adopted a boy named Kenneth the time Thomas Hale was going through cancer and died at the age of twenty seven.
When a drug addicted mom was at her door step she asked if Hale would take her drug addicted baby.
Hale took in the baby and the Hale house began.
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And Not Afraid to Dare: The Stories of Ten African-American Women.
New York: Scholastic Press.
Italia, B. (1993).
Clara Hale: A Mother to Those Who Needed One.
Minnesota: Abdo & Daughters.
Lanker, B. (1989).
I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America.
Pinkney A., & Woock, R.R. (1970).
Poverty and Politics in Harlem.
New Haven, Conn.: College & University Press.
Schoener, A. (1968).
Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America 1900- 1968.
African American Registry
Hale House Center
Leo Baxendale (27 October 1930 – 23 April 2017) was an English cartoonist and publisher.
Baxendale wrote and drew several comics.
Among his most famous creations are the Beano strips Little Plum, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids, and The Three Bears.
Reaper Books – Baxendale's own publishing company
Leo Baxendale at Lambiek.net
Video clip of Leo Baxendale talking as part of the BBC's Comics Britannia series (2007) (RealPlayer)
Pere Tàpias (19 May 1946 – 22 April 2017) () was a Spanish radio presenter and food writer in Catalonia, Spain.
He was the host of a Catalunya Ràdio program, Tàpies Variades.
He was the 2005–2006 Ambassor of Xató.
He was born in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain.
Peter James George, CM, O.Ont (September 12, 1941 – April 27, 2017) was a Canadian economist and university academic.
On June 30, 2010, he retired after serving three five year terms as President and Vice-Chancellor of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
He became President and Vice-Chancellor in 1995.
He was the longest serving President of McMaster University.
McMaster University (commonly referred to as McMaster or Mac)  is a public research university located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
The main campus is located on  of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, Hamilton.
It opened in Toronto in 1890.
It was named after famous Canadian Senator William McMaster (1811–1887) who donated C$900,000 to create the university.
It was relocated to a larger ground space in Hamilton in 1930.