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Hector Renato Iturrate Azócar (20 March 1922 – 7 June 2021) was a Chilean cyclist. He competed in the individual and team road race at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Iturrate was married to track athlete Eliana Gaete. He was born in Los Ángeles, Chile.
Iturrate died on 7 June 2021 in Santiago de Chile, aged 99.
Mahjong Station Mazin
Mahjong Station Mazin (Japanese: 麻雀ステーション マジン, Hepburn: Mazin) is a Board game, developed by Chat Noir and published by SunSoft, which was released in Japan in 1994.
Mahjong is a game for four players that originated in China. It was called, meaning sparrow in ancient China, which is still the name most commonly used in some southern Chinese dialects such as Cantonese and Minnan, as well as in Japanese. However, most Mandarin-speaking Chinese now call the game má jiàng.
Mahjong involves skill, strategy, and calculation, as well as a certain degree of luck (depending on the variation played, luck can be anything from a minor to a dominant factor in winning). In Asia, mahjong is also popularly played as a gambling game. In the game, each player is dealt either thirteen or sixteen tiles in a hand, depending on the variation being played. On their turn, players draw a tile and discard one, with the goal of making four or five melds (also depending on the variation) and one pair, or "head". Winning comes "on the draw" by drawing a new or discarded tile that completes the hand. Thus, a winning hand actually contains fourteen (or seventeen) tiles.
Eliana Gaete
Eliana Gaete Lazo (born April 14, 1932) is a retired Chilean track and field athlete. Gaeta was born in Antofagasta, Chile. She earned gold medals in women's 80m hurdles at the 1951 and 1955 Pan American Games. She was married to Olympic cyclist Renato Iturrate.
Richard R. Ernst
Richard Robert Ernst (14 August 1933 – 4 June 2021) was a Swiss physical chemist. He was born in Winterthur, Switzerland. Ernst won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his works on the creation of Fourier transform Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy while at Varian Associates in Palo Alto, California.
Ernst was married to Magdalena until his death. Together, they had three children.
Ernst died on 4 June 2021 in Winterthur at the age of 87.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (; 24 October 1932 – 18 May 2007) was a French physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1991.
In 1971, he became professor at the Collège de France, and participated in STRASACOL (a joint action of Strasbourg, Saclay and "Collège de France") on polymer physics.
His works focused on granular materials and the memory of the brain.
F. Sherwood Rowland
Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland (June 28, 1927 – March 10, 2012) was an American Nobel Prize-winning chemist. He was a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His research was on atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics.
His best-known work was the discovery that chlorofluorocarbons role in ozone depletion.
He won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Mario Molina and Paul J. Crutzen. Rowland worked as a professor at the University of California, Irvine.
Rowland died on March 10, 2012 in Newport Beach, California from problems caused by Parkinson's disease, aged 84.
Tilly Hirst
Tilly Titihuia Rangimatau Hirst (née Vercoe; 17 September 1941 – 4 June 2021) was a New Zealand netball player. She was a member of the New Zealand team. She won the 1967 World Netball Championships. She played for the national team from 1967 until 1971.
Hirst died on 4 June 2021 in Rotorua, New Zealand at aged 79.
Rotorua
Rotorua ) is a city on the southern area of Lake Rotorua. It is in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand's North Island.
Choukousoku Shogi
Choukousoku Shogi is a Board game, developed and published by Success, which was released in Japan in 2001.
Shogi software with fast and powerful playing routines. Five difficulty levels for the computer opponent. The game has a "countdown function", a "board editing function", and a "game record and saving function". Various handicaps can be set, and the board can be displayed in 3D or 2D.
Warner Oland
Warner Oland (3 October 1879 – 6 August 1938) was a Swedish-American movie actor.
He is best remembered for playing several Chinese and Chinese-American characters: Dr. Fu Manchu; Henry Chang in "Shanghai Express" and most notably Honolulu Police detective Lieutenant Charlie Chan.
His career included time on Broadway and numerous film appearances, including 16 Charlie Chan films.
Vivek Verma
Vivek Verma is an Indian singer-songwriter, record producer, and musician of Indian origin who is known for his work predominantly in Bollywood and independent music.
Vivek Started his career as a composer for a Sufi Album where he made singers like Hariharan (singer) and Aaman Trikha sing for it, Later Verma joined Himesh Reshammiya as a guitarist and music producer where he worked for movies like Prem Ratan Dhan Payo etc.
Verma's style of combining Indian classical music with electronic music and fusing it with traditional arrangement has been often associated with different indie artists from India. He Learned Hindustani classical music from Ganesh Prasad Mishra under Benares gharana.
Sylvain Ducange
Sylvain Ducange (5 April 1963 – 8 June 2021) was a Haitian Roman Catholic prelate. He was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He was the Auxiliary Bishop of Port-au-Prince from 2016 until his death.
Ducange died on 8 June 2021 in Mirebalais, Haiti from problems caused by COVID-19, aged 58.
Neoaves
Neoaves is a clade. It includes all modern birds (Neornithes or Aves) except Paleognathae (ratites and kin) and Galloanserae (ducks, chickens and kin).
The implication of this is that the two exceptions may have originated from dinobird lines other than the great mass of birds. That is not proven, but it is suggested by this taxonomy.
Libuše Šafránková
Libuše Šafránková (7 June 1953 – 9 June 2021) was a Czech actress. Her husband was actor Josef Abrhám. She was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia. Her first movie role was as Popelka in the 1973 fantasy drama "Tři oříšky pro Popelku". She also starred in "Kolya" and "The Salt Prince".
Šafránková died on 9 June 2021 in Prague from lung cancer, aged 68.
Josef Abrhám
Josef Abrhám (born 14 December 1939) is a Czech movie and theatre actor. He was born in Zlín, Czechslovakia. He is known for his stage performances with the The Drama Club in Prague.
Abrhám was married to actress Libuše Šafránková until her death in 2021.
Jim Cooper
James Hayes Shofner Cooper (born June 19, 1954) is an American politician. He has been a member of the U.S. Representative for since 2003. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He represented from 1983 to 1995.
In 1994, Cooper ran for the United States Senate, but lost the election to Republican attorney and actor Fred Thompson.
Dumitru Ivanov
Dumitru Ivanov (1 January 1946 – 4 June 2021) was a Moldovan politician. He was member of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova from 2005 until 2009. He was born Chișinău, Moldova. Ivanov was a member of the Electoral Bloc Democratic Moldova.
Ivanov died on 4 June 2021 in Chișinău at the age of 75.
Vadim Cojocaru
Vadim Cojocaru (May 19, 1961 – June 7, 2021) was a Moldovan politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party and Alliance for European Integration. From 2009 until his death, he was a member of the Moldovan Parliament.
Cojocaru died on June 7, 2021 in Chișinău, Moldova at the age of 60.
Buddhika Kurukularatne
Daluwatte Hewa Buddhika Kurukularatne (19 June 1943 – 9 June 2021) was a Sri Lankan journalist, author, lawyer, and politician. He represented the Galle District for the United National Party in the Parliament of Sri Lanka from 1989 until 1994.
Kurukularatne died on 9 June 2021 in Colombo, Sri Lanka at the age of 77.
Douglas S. Cramer
Douglas Schoolfield Cramer (August 22, 1931 – June 7, 2021) was an American television producer. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky. Cramer worked for Paramount Television and Spelling Television. Cramer was known for producing "", "The Brady Bunch", and "Dynasty".
Cramer died of heart and kidney failure on June 7, 2021 on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts at the age of 89.
Conservative wave
The conservative wave (Spanish: "ola conservadora" Portuguese: "onda conservadora") or blue tide is a conservative political happening that started in the mid-2010s in Latin America. It was a reaction to the pink tide.
After 10 years of left-wing government, the influence of the left began to decrease. In Argentina the conservative Mauricio Macri took the place of the Peronist Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in 2015. In Brazil there was Dilma Rousseff, who was impeached with Michel Temer taking her job in 2016. In Peru the conservative economist (person who studies economics) Pedro Pablo Kuczynski took the job of the President before him, Ollanta Humala. In Chile, the conservative Sebastián Piñera took the job of socialist Michelle Bachelet in 2018. In 2018 Jair Bolsonaro was elected President of Brazil, and in 2021, the conservative banker Guillermo Lasso was elected President of Ecuador.
These events in Latin America are similar to other happenings around the world, such as the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States in 2016. The increase of evangelicals in Latin America may have helped start up the conservative wave.
The Swan Princess
The Swan Princess is a 1994 American animated musical movie. The movie has the voice talents of Jack Palance, John Cleese, Steven Wright and Sandy Duncan.
In the United States, "The Swan Princess" was distributed under New Line Cinema. Outside the United States, the distributor was Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International.
"The Swan Princess" was released on November 18, 1994. The critics' reviews for the movie were mixed. It only took in $9.8 million over a $21 million budget. That meant the movie had a substandard box office intake. However, the movie later became popular with video releases.
The theme song "Far Longer than Forever" was sung by Regina Belle and Jeffrey Osborne. It was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1995 for the Best Original Song.
Roger Ebert from the "Chicago Sun-Times" gave "The Swan Princess" three out of four stars.. Gene Siskel, Ebert's fellow movie critic, gave the movie a substandard review. He labeled the songs in the movie weak. Under Rotten Tomatoes, "The Swan Princess" has a 50% approval rating.
Paleognathae
The Palaeognathae, or paleognaths (from Ancient Greek "palaió-" "old" + "gnáthos" "jaw") is one of two living clades of birds: the other is the Neognathae. Together, the two clades make up the clade Neornithes.
Palaeognathae includes five living branches of flightless birds (plus two extinct clades), called ratites, and one flying lineage, the Neotropic tinamous.
There are three extinct groups that are undisputed members of Palaeognathae: the Lithornithiformes, the Dinornithiformes (moas) and the Aepyornithiformes (elephant birds). There are other extinct birds which have been allied with the Palaeognathae by at least one author, but their affinities are not yet agreed.
Mesites
Mesites are small birds which only occur on Madagascar. They are flighless, or near-flightless. There are three species, in two genera. The IUCN has classified them as near-threatened. The IUCN estimates that there are only about 145.000 birds left. They resemble doves in appearance.
The mesites are forest and scrubland birds that feed on insects and seeds. The brown and white-breasted mesites forage on the ground, gleaning insects from the leaves and under them, as well as low vegetation. The subdesert mesite uses its long bill to probe in the soil. Other birds, such as drongos and flycatchers, will follow mesites to catch any insects they flush and miss. Mesites are vocal birds, with calls similar to passerine song, used for territorial defence. Two or three white eggs are laid in a stick-nest located in a bush or low branch. The "Mesitornis" species are monogamous while "Monias benschi" is polygamous and unlike the other two shows significant sexual dichromatism.
There are two genera, "Mesitornis" (2 species) and "Monias" (subdesert mesite).
Historically, mesites phylogenetics relations were not very clear and have been allied with the Gruiformes, Turniciformes and Columbiformes.
Recent phylogenomic studies support Pterocliformes (sandgrouse) as the sister group of mesites while some more recent studies place this clade with another clade constituted of Columbiformes and Cuculiformes (cuckoos).
Suliformes
Suliformes is an order of aquatic birds. In the order, there are adaptations of the feet, which make them good at swimming: there's a thin layer of skin between the toes.
The order contains the following families:
Eurypygiformes
Eurypygiformes is an order formed by the kagus, comprising two species in the family Rhynochetidae endemic to New Caledonia, and the sunbittern ("Eurypyga helias") from the tropical regions of the Americas. Its closest relatives appear to be the tropicbirds of the tropical Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans.
Dendropsophus manonegra
Dendropsophus manonegra is a frog that lives in Colombia. Scientists have seen it between 400 and 1200 meters above sea level.
Citadel of Namur
The Citadel of Namur (French: "Citadelle de Namur") is a citadel in the city of Namur in Belgium.
The citadel is located where the Meuse and Sambre rivers come together. It is one of the biggest citadels in Europe and dates from the Roman Empire. It has been rebuilt multiple times and reaches a height of 190 meters.
Divine Intervention (movie)
Divine Intervention () is a 2002 Palestinian Moroccan French German black comedy movie directed by Elia Suleiman (who also stars) and also starring Menashe Noy, Manal Khader, Denis Sandler Sapoznikov.
Cariamiformes
Cariamiformes is a group of birds. Therre's one existing family, the Seriemas. It contains two genera, with one species each. The Seriemas occur in the open landscapes of South America. They are runnng birds who can still fly. Both are species are carnivores.
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