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Death of Corazon Aquino

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Former Philippine President Corazon Aquino passed away from cardiopulmonary arrest at the Makati Medical Center. Aquino was diagnosed with colon cancer in March 2008. ReactionGovernment reactionPresident Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo who was on a state visit in Washington, D.C. when sh...

Death of Marvin Schur

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Marvin Schur (c. 1916 - c. January 17, 2009) was an elderly resident of Bay City, Michigan and World War II veteran. who died from hypothermia in his home. Background On January 13, 2009, Bay City Electric Light and Power, Bay City's wholly owned municipal power company installed...

Death of Nelson Mandela

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Nelson Mandela died on 5 December 2013 at the age of 95, at his home in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa surrounded by his family after a prolonged lung infection. His death was announced by President Jacob Zuma. Reactions from governments, international organizations, and no...

Death of Osama bin Laden conspiracy theories

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The death of Osama bin Laden has given rise to various conspiracy theories, hoaxes, and rumors. These include the notion that bin Laden has been dead for years, or is still alive. Doubts about bin Laden's death have been fueled by the US military's disposal of the body at sea, a ...

Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer on September 18, 2020, at age 87. Her death caused an immediate reaction from the public; a vigil at the Supreme Court plaza in Washington, D....

Death Pact International

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Death Pact International is a musical concept project created by "power electronics" and "death industrial" project The Grey Wolves during the 1980s. The essential concept behind Death Pact International (DPI) is that anyone can produce music, perform live, or utilise any other m...

Deather

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The idiom "Deather" was born in the summer of 2009 and was fomented by Vice Presidential challenger Sara Palin. Mrs. Palin first injected the concept of Deather into the public consciousness on August 9th 2009 when she claimed the Democratic party's healthcare reform plan would i...

Debangshu Bhattacharya

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Debangshu Bhattacharya 'Dev' (born 1996) is an Indian politician and social media content creator. He has been the head of Trinamool Congress's Information Technology (IT Cell) wing since 2022. Birth and education Bhattacharya was born in 1996 in Howrah, West Bengal. He attended ...

Debbie Medina

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Debbie Medina (born 1963) is an American political activist, organizer, and politician. She is an organizing director with Southside United HDFC (also known as Los Sures), a non-profit advocacy group for affordable housing, community organizing, and social services. Personal life...

Deborah B. Harwell

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Deborah B. HarwellDeborah is a resident of Myrtle Beach, SC. She is the founder of the Myrtle Beach Herald, Myrtle Beach Business Journal, a vacation publication, a television personality, a radio personality and a celebrity about the Myrtle Beach area. She participates in fundra...

Deborah C. Peel

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Dr. Deborah C. Peel is an American physician and national speaker on health privacy. She became active in privacy rights at the federal level in 1993 when she interpreted the Clinton Healthcare Initiative as requiring every doctor-patient encounter to be entered in a federal heal...

Deborah Regal

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In 2008, Deborah Regal was appointed as an Independent Member of the Metropolitan Police Authority, then chaired by London Mayor Boris Johnson. She resigned in March 2010. In November 2008, Deborah was named by the Attorney General as a Pro Bono hero for her legal charity service...

Deborah Thomas

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Deborah Thomas (born 9 November 1977), is a British politician and currently the Conservative Party Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the constituency of Twickenham. Personal life Deborah was born in Kew to a Jewish, Indian mother from Kerala and a Welsh father. Deborah att...

Debra Bartoshevich

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Debra Bartoshevich is a 41-year-old emergency room nurse from Wisconsin featured in an August 2008 national television ad produced by the John McCain presidential campaign. In the ad, Bartoshevich declares herself "a proud Hillary Clinton Democrat" who will vote for John McCain, ...

Debra Goldman

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Debra Goldman (born May 17, 1963) is an American businesswoman and political figure from Wake County, North Carolina. From 2009 to 2013, she served on the Wake County Board of Education, which oversees the Wake County Public School System. She was the Republican nominee for North...

Debra Haaland

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Debra Haaland is a Democratic party activist and politician who was most recently the Chair of the Democratic Party of New Mexico. She is currently running for the New Mexico 1st Congressional District House seat that was vacated by incumbent Michelle Lujan Grisham to run for gov...

Debra Medina

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Debra Medina (born June 1, 1962) is a Republican politician in the U.S. state of Texas. She is allied with the Ron Paul and Tea Party movements. Medina ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts in the primary election held on March ...

Decade of Darkness

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The Decade of Darkness of Canada's was a roughly 10-year period in which the Liberal Party of Canada, under Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Finance Minister Paul Martin undertook massive and deep cuts to .EtymologyThe term was coined by Rick Hillier, former Canadian Forces Chief...

Decentralisation in Kerala: Problems and Prospects

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Ever growing failures of centralized governance and the increasing concerns on good governance prompted the policy makers to pay increasing attention on decentralization and deeper democratic governance the world over for the past few decades resulting in more concerns on local g...

Decompression curve

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Decompression is the act of making many stops during an ascent from depth to allow the dissolved gases, from the breathing gas, to leave the tissues of the body. If a graph of depth/time is plotted, the result is what is known as the decompression curve - it is the profile the di...

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