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The Volta River is a river which is mostly in Ghana. It drains into the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean. It has three main tributaries the Black Volta, White Volta and Red Volta.
Neville Wran
Neville Kenneth Wran (11 October 1926 – 20 April 2014) was an Australian politician and lawyer. He served as the Premier of New South Wales from 1976 until 1986. He was National President of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1980 to 1986. He also served as chairman of both the Lionel Murphy Foundation and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) from 1986 to 1991.
Wran was born in Paddington, New South Wales. He was educated in Balmain. He was married twice and had five children.
Wran died from dementia on 20 April 2014 in Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales. He was 87.
Lauri Törni
Lauri Allan Törni (28 May 1919 – 18 October 1965), later known as Larry Thorne, was a Finnish Army captain. He led an infantry company in the Finnish Winter and Continuation Wars. After the wars, he moved to the United States. He then joined the American Army. He is known as the soldier who fought under three flags: Finnish, German (when he fought the Soviets in World War II), and American (where he was known as Larry Thorne) when he served in U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Berets) in the Vietnam War.
Lauri Allan Törni was born in Viipuri, Viipuri Province, Karelia, Finland. His father was a ship captain named Jalmari (Ilmari) Törni. His mother was Rosa (née Kosonen) Törni. He had two sisters: Salme Lesley (b. 1920) and Kaija Iris (b. 1922). When he was a boy, he was athletic. An early friend was future Olympic Boxing Gold Medalist Sten Suvio. He attended business school and served with the Finland Civil Guard. Then he entered military service and joined the 4th Independent Jaeger Infantry Battalion stationed at Kiviniemi.
During the Winter War, he fought battles at Lake Ladoga. His courage was noticed by his commanders. At the end of the war, he received officer training. Then he was commissioned a Vänrikki (2nd lieutenant) in the reserves. After the Winter War, in June 1941, Törni went to Vienna, Austria. In Vienna, he received 7 weeks of training with the Waffen SS. Then he returned to Finland in July. Because he was a Finnish officer, he was recognized as a German Untersturmfuhrer.
Törni is famous because of his courage in the Continuation War (1941–44) between the Soviet Union and Finland. In 1943 he was the leader of "Detachment Törni". His infantry unit went behind enemy lines to attack the Russians. One of Törni's men was future President of Finland, Mauno Koivisto. The two served together during the Battle of Ilomantsi. This was the last Finnish-Soviet battle of the Continuation War.
Törni's unit caused many casualties on the Russian units. The Soviet Army placed a reward of 3 million Finnish Marks, equivalent to 650,000 USD, to anyone who captured Törni. Because of his courage, Törni was decorated with the Mannerheim Cross on 9 July 1944.
Törni was not happy when Finland made peace with the Soviets. The peace agreement required Finland to take up arms against Germany in the Lapland War. He left the Finnish Army. In 1945, he was recruited by a pro-German resistance movement in Finland. He traveled to Germany for saboteur training. He wanted to organize resistance in case Finland was occupied by the Soviet Union. He surrendered to British troops in Germany at the end of World War II. Then he returned to Finland in June 1945.
After he returned to Finland, he was arrested by ValPo, the Finnish national security agency. There was a trial for treason in 1946 because he had joined the German army. After the trial he received a 6 year sentence in January 1947. He went to prison in Turku, but he escaped in June. He was recaptured and went to a different prison. In December 1948, Finnish President Juho Paasikivi gave him a pardon.
In 1949 Törni, traveled with his wartime executive officer Holger Pitkänen to Sweden. They entered Sweden from Tornio to Haparanda (Haaparanta). From Haparanda they traveled by railroad to Stockholm. Törni stayed with the Baroness von Essen, who helped many Finnish officers following the war. Pitkänen was arrested and returned to Finland. Törni met and fell in love with a Swedish Finn, Marja Kops. They were engaged to be married. Looking for a new job before the marriage, Törni traveled to Caracas, Venezuela. Törni met one of his Winter War commanders, Finnish colonel Matti Aarnio, who lived in Venezuela. From Caracas, Törni hired on to a Swedish cargo ship, the "MS Skagen". The "Skagen" sailed to the United States in 1950. While in the Gulf of Mexico, near Mobile, Alabama, Törni jumped overboard and swam to shore. Now he was a political refugee. He traveled to New York City where he was helped by the Finnish-American community in the Sunset Park, Brooklyn "Finntown." There he worked as a carpenter and cleaner. In 1953, Törni received residence permit through an Act of Congress. The law firm of William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan (the former head of the OSS, America's wartime covert military organization) helped pass the law.
Törni joined the U.S. Army in 1954. The Lodge-Philbin Act was a special law that allowed non-citizens to join the army. He adopted the name Larry Thorne. While in the US Army, his friends were Finnish-American officers known as "Marttinen's Men." They helped Private Thorne join the Special Forces. While in the Special Forces, Thorne taught skiing, survival, mountaineering, and guerrilla tactics. In turn he attended airborne school. He advanced in rank and received a commission as a 2nd lieutenant in 1957. He was promoted to captain in 1960. From 1958 to 1962 he served in the 10th Special Forces Group in West Germany at Bad Tölz. While there he was second in command of a search and rescue mission in the Zagros mountains of Iran. The mission was very difficult and Thorne was praised because of its success.
In 1962 Thorne is shown as a lieutenant with the 10th Special Forces Group in a United States Army "The Big Picture" episode.
In November 1963 Thorne joined Special Forces unit A-734 in Vietnam. He fought in the Mekong Delta and received medals for bravery.
In 1965, Thorne transferred to Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV–SOG). This was a classified U.S. special operations unit. The unit focused on unconventional warfare in Vietnam. On 18 October 1965, Thorne was supervising a secret mission on a helicopter. The helicopter crashed in a mountainous area of Vietnam, 25 miles (40 km) from Da Nang. A rescue team went to the crash site. They could not find it because of the mountains and trees.
Shortly after his disappearance, Thorne was promoted to the rank of major.
Thorne's body was found in 1999. Also, the bodies of the helicopter crew were found. The bodies were formally identified in 2003. On 26 June 2003, he was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, section 60, tombstone 8136. The remains of the Vietnam casualties were buried with him.
In the 1990s, Törni's name became more and more well-known as a martial war hero. Several books were written about him. He was named 52nd in the "Suuret Suomalaiset" listing of famous Finns. In the 2006 "" ("Finnish Soldier") magazine listing, he was named most courageous of the Mannerheim Cross recipients.
In Finland, the survivors, friends, and families of Detachment Törni formed the Lauri Törni Tradition Guild. The Infantry Museum (Jalkaväkimuseo) in Mikkeli, Finland, has an exhibit dedicated to Törni, as does the Military Museum of Finland in Helsinki. Törni is considered as the primary hero by both Finnish Parachute Rangers and Coastal Rangers, the two elite Finnish army formations.
At Fort Carson, Colorado, headquarters building for Special Forces is named the Larry Thorne Headquarters Building. The Special Forces 10th Group presents the Larry Thorne Award to the best Operational Detachment-Alpha in the command each year. The Special Forces Association Chapter 33 in Cleveland, Tennessee is named after him. In 2010 he was named as the first Honorary Member of the United States Army Special Forces Regiment.
In the book "The Green Berets" by Robin Moore, the "Sven Kornie" (or Captain Steve Kornie) main character in the first chapter was based on Thorne.
In a 2013 book "Tuntematon Lauri Törni" ["Unknown Lauri Törni"], Juha Pohjonen and Oula Silvennoinen say that Törni's conviction for treason was correct. They say the SS training that Törni received at the end of World War II was to support a National Socialist coup in Finland. Törni Heritage Guild members Markku Moberg and Pasi Niittymäki disagree. They say Törni faced pressure from war and alcohol, but did not support Germany. Finnish historian Jussi Niinistö says Törni's training was motivated by patriotism.
Eilmer of Malmesbury
Eilmer of Malmesbury was an English monk, born around 980. He is known for having attempted one of the first human flights in history.
The reason Eilmer made his flight was that he needed to think of a way out whenever the Vikings would attack the abbey. He went up a church tower with his gliding equipment that he had made from willow or ash. He made a downward flight of some 200 meters or so - from at least 18 meters high.
Lorestan Province
Lorestan Province is a province of western Iran. It is the home land of the Lurs people and of the Luri language. Lorestan is in the Zagros Mountains, in the western part of Iran.
Some of the important cities are Khorramabad, Borujerd, and Aligoodarz.
Division of Moore
The Division of Moore is an Australian electoral division in the state of Western Australia. It was set up in 1949 and named after George Fletcher Moore, the first Advocate-General of Western Australia.
The division was at first a rural area north and east of Perth, the state capital, along the Indian Ocean coast. It is now an urban area and includes the suburbs of Clarkson, Duncraig, Hillarys, Heathridge, Mullaloo, Ocean Reef and Padbury.
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an attempt in 1961 (during the Cold War) to remove Fidel Castro from power in Cuba. The CIA trained Cuban exiles and these exiles launched an attack in a bay called the Bay of Pigs.
The invasion was a failure and most of the attackers were captured or killed. There were several conflicts that led to this; including a lack of promised air support and a change in where the landing was to be launched. This was one of many unsuccessful attempts by the CIA to rid Cuba of Castro. One interesting fact is that the plan was originally put in motion by Eisenhower, but the attack was ordered by John F. Kennedy who only found out about the plan after his election.
Thomas Eagleton
Thomas Francis Eagleton (September 4, 1929 – March 4, 2007) was an American politician.
Eagleton was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied at Harvard Law School and at Amherst College.
He served as a United States senator from Missouri. He served as senator from 1968 to 1987. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Eagleton was a running mate for George McGovern during the 1972 United States presidential campaign. However, Eagleton soon withdrew from the ticker after Robert Boyd reported that Eagleton suffered from psychiatric problems and undergone three shock treatments.
Eagleton then ran for President of the United States in 1984, but lost the primary to Walter Mondale.
Eagleton died in St. Louis, Missouri from heart and respiratory failure, aged 77.
Rubin Carter
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014) was an American middleweight boxer and criminal. He is best known for being wrongfully convicted for a triple murder for which he was in jail for 19 years.
Carter was an African American who was born in Clifton, New Jersey. He was sent to a juvenile reformatory after stabbing a man and being convicted of assault in the late 1940s. He escaped in 1954 and joined the Army. He was discharged for unfitness. He was sent to prison for escaping from the reformatory. He mugged several people, for which he was convicted and imprisoned.
Carter began a boxing career in 1961, shortly after being released from prison. He married Mae Thelma Basket in 1963.
In 1966, in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey, a bartender and two customers were shot dead. In 1967, Carter and John Artis were convicted of the murders and given three life sentences. In 1976, their convictions were quashed and they were reconvicted at a second trial. In 1981, Artis was paroled. In 1985, Carter's murder convictions were again quashed and he was released.
Carter's wife divorced him. he moved to Toronto, Ontario and married Lisa Peters. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2011. He died of the disease on April 20, 2014 in Toronto, aged 76. He is survived by his daughter and son from his first marriage.
Carter is the subject of Hurricane, a song by Bob Dylan, and "The Hurricane", a movie.
Clifton, New Jersey
Clifton is a city in Passaic County, New Jersey. In 2010, 84,139 people lived there.
Beaufort, South Carolina
Beaufort is a city in Beaufort County, South Carolina. In 2010, 12,261 people lived there.
Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician. He is the current Prime Minister of India serving since 2014. He was the 14th Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat. Modi was elected Prime Minister of India in May 2014. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
He was born into a Hindu Gujarati family in Vadnagar. As a child, Narendra Modi used to help his Father, who ran a tea stall at Vadnagar railway station. Later, he and his brother ran a tea stall of their own at a bus terminus.
In 1978 Modi received a B.A. degree in political science from School of Open Learning at University of Delhi, graduating with a third class. Five years later, in 1983, he received a Master of Arts degree in political science from Gujarat University, as an external distance learning student.
Modi was appointed Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2001. Modi was elected to the legislative assembly soon after. His administration oversaw the 2002 Gujarat riots, and he was criticized on how he handled it. His policies as chief minister, saw economic growth. His administration has been criticised for failing to fix health, poverty and education indices in the state. However, has also been praised for the development of infrastructure and transportation in the state.
Modi led the BJP in the 2014 general election which gave the party a majority in the Indian lower house of parliament, the Lok Sabha, the first time for any single party since 1984. He soon became Prime Minister of India.
PM Modi's administration has tried to raise foreign investment in the Indian economy and cut spending on healthcare and social welfare programmes. Moreover, The Modi government has also amendments to existing environmental and labour laws.
Following his party's victory in the 2019 general election, introduced the Citizenship Amendment Act, which resulted in widespread protests across the country.
PM Modi has been a controversial politician over his Hindu nationalist beliefs and his role during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
As a Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has had high approval ratings. In early 2017, a survey from Pew Research Center showed Modi to be the most popular figure in Indian politics.
In 1968, he married Jashodaben. However, the couple has been separated. Narendra has a close relationship with his mother, Hiraben. He is a vegetarian.
Henry Wilcoxon
Henry Wilcoxon (8 September 1905 – 6 March 1984) was an Dominican-English silent movie actor. He was born in Roseau, Dominica. He was known for his role as Bishop Pickering in "Caddyshack". He is also known for appearing as a leading man in Cecil B. DeMille's movies.
Wilcoxon died in Los Angeles, California from cancer and heart failure, aged 78.
Richard Jeni
Richard John Colangelo (April 14, 1957 – March 10, 2007), better known as Richard Jeni, was an American stand-up comedian and actor. He was known for his role in "The Mask" and in "Platypus Man". He was born in Brooklyn, New York City.
Jeni committed suicide by shooting himself at his Los Angeles, California after suffering from depression for two months. He was 49 years old.
Benson, Arizona
Benson is a city in Cochise County, Arizona.
Benson, New York
Benson is a town in Hamilton County, New York.
Douglas Kenney
Douglas C. "Doug" Kenney (December 10, 1946 – August 27, 1980) was an American writer and actor. He was born in Palm Beach, Florida. He was one of the co-founders of "National Lampoon" magazine, along with Henry Beard and Robert Hoffman. Kenney collaborated with Beard at the Harvard Lampoon, which they wrote for while they went to the namesake college. They both co-wrote the satirical novel "Bored of the Rings". Afterwards, they went to make a nationwide version of the magazine christened, "The National Lampoon". The magazine spun off into a radio show, a TV special, albums and films—which he also wrote for.
He co-wrote the "National Lampoon's Animal House", which he also had an extended cameo in as "The Stork". After the success of Animal House, he produced and wrote "Caddyshack"--which he also had a nameless cameo in. He had a bit part in the 1977 film "Between the Line".
Kenney died after falling from a thirty-foot cliff in Kauai, Hawaii. He was 33 years old. Kenney's death was ruled as "accidental".
Mimi Kok
Maria Christina "Mimi" Kok (25 January 1934 – 19 April 2014) was a Dutch actress. She was best known for her work with entertainer Wim T. Schippers. She appeared in the movies "Paranoia" (1967), "Red Sien" (1975) and "Han de Wit" (1990). She was born in Amsterdam, North Holland.
Kok died from a lung disease on 19 April 2014 in Amsterdam. She was 80.
Win Tin
Win Tin (, ; 12 March 1930 – 21 April 2014) was a Burmese politician and political prisoner. He was arrested in July 1989 because of his senior position in the National League for Democracy (NLD). For his writings, he spent 19 years in prison. He was born Kyopinkauk, Pegu Division, British Burma.
Tin died from renal failure on 21 April 2014 in Yangon, aged 84.
Penny Arcade Expo
PAX (originally named Penny Arcade Expo) is a series of gaming festivals. It is held in Seattle, Washington (PAX Prime, PAX Dev), Boston, Massachusetts (PAX East), San Antonio, Texas (PAX South), and Melbourne, Victoria (PAX Australia). The festival was created by "Penny Arcade" authors Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik in 2004. They created it because they wanted to attend a show that would give equal attention to console gamers, computer gamers, and tabletop gamers. Since its creation, the event has grown to become very popular; it is widely considered one of the most important events to the video gaming community.
Data science is the study of the extraction of knowledge from data. It uses various techniques from many fields, including signal processing, mathematics, probability, machine learning, computer programming, statistics, data engineering, pattern matching, and data visualization, with the goal of extracting useful knowledge from the data. With computer systems able to handle more data, big data is an important aspect of data science.
A person that does data science is called a data scientist. Data scientists solve complicated data problems using mathematics, statistics and computer science, although very good skill in these subjects are not required. However, a data scientist is most likely to be an expert in only one or two of these disciplines, meaning that cross disciplinary teams can be a key component of data science.
Good data scientists are able to apply their skills to achieve many kinds of purposes. Their skills and competencies vary widely.
Benedikt Sarnov
Benedikt Mikhailovich Sarnov (; 4 January 1927 – 20 April 2014) was a Russian literary critic, historian of Soviet literature, and writer. He graduated from Gorky Institute of World Literature in 1951. He became a member of Union of Soviet Writers in 1960. He was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union.
Sarnov died on 20 April 2014 in Moscow, aged 87.
Walter Munk
Walter Heinrich Munk (October 19, 1917 – February 8, 2019) was an Austrian-born American physical oceanographer. He was professor of geophysics emeritus and held the Secretary of the Navy/Chief of Naval Operations Oceanography Chair at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He has won awards such as Alexander Agassiz Medal (1977), National Medal of Science (1985), William Bowie Medal (1989), Vetlesen Prize (1993), Kyoto Prize (1999) and Crafoord Prize (2010).
Munk was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary to a Jewish family. He was sent to a boys' preparatory school in upper New York state in 1932.
Munk turned 100 in October 2017. He died on February 8, 2019, at La Jolla, California. He was 101.
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Alexander Lenkov
Alexander Sergeyevich Lenkov (17 May 1943 – 21 April 2014) was a Russian actor. He was best known for winning the People's Artist of Russia in 1997. He was born Rasskazovo, Tambov Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
Lenkov died from a long illness on 21 April 2014 in Moscow, aged 70.
Henry Maksoud
Henry Maksoud (8 March 1929 – 17 April 2014) was a Brazilian businessman. He got the title of "Master of Science in Fluid Mechanics" from the University of Iowa in the United States. He was the owner of the five-star hotel Maksoud Plaza in São Paulo. He was also the owner of the magazine "Visão". He was Chairman of the Engineering Institute of São Paulo from 1967 to 1968.
Maksoud was born in Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul.
Maksoud died after having a cardiac arrest on 17 April 2014 in São Paulo. He was 85.
Wendell Young
Wendell Edward Young (born August 1, 1963) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. He is currently the general manager of the Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League.
Young played for the Vancouver Canucks, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins and Tampa Bay Lightning in the National Hockey League. Young is the only hockey player to have won a Memorial Cup (in 1982 with the Kitchener Rangers), a Calder Cup (with the 1988 Hershey Bears), a Turner Cup (with the 1998 and 2000 Chicago Wolves), and a Stanley Cup (with the 1991 and 1992 Penguins). He also has 2 Robertson Cups with the Kitchener Rangers as Ontario Hockey League Champions in 1981 and 1982.
Katwijk
Katwijk is a town in the Netherlands. It is near the coast of the North Sea. It is about 16 kilometers north from The Hague. There are 62,825 people living in Katwijk.
The town is very popular with tourists, especially those from Germany. Some of the most popular tourist attractions of Katwijk are the beach, several museums and galleries of fine art, a railway museum, and some museums of local and regional history. Near Katwijk are the headquarters of the European space organisation ESA with its space travel museum Space Expo (on the town's borders), Duinrell in Wassenaar and Keukenhof in Lisse.
Katwijk is known for its wide-spread graffiti culture. Several legal graffiti places can be found in the town. Graffiti-related activities are often organised, for example covering the local lighthouse with graffiti.
On 1 January 2006, Rijnsburg and Valkenburg were merged into the municipality of Katwijk.
Chris Austin Hadfield, OOnt CD, (born August 29, 1959) is a Canadian retired astronaut. He was the first Canadian to walk in space. He has flown on two space shuttle missions and has also served as commander of the International Space Station which made him the first Canadian to serve as commander of the International Space Station when he lead Expedition 35 after launch on 19 December 2012. He was previously a Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot.
Forbes described Hadfield as "perhaps the most social media savvy astronaut ever to leave Earth" with an audience all over the internet including over 1,000,000 Twitter followers, over 600,000 Facebook fans, one of the top Reddit AmA threads of all time and a popular Tumblr blog.
Hadfield wrote a memoir titled "An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth" and published it in 2013. The book became a New York Times bestseller and was the bestselling book in Canada on a Canadian subject.
Gayle Rubin
Gayle S. Rubin (born 1949) is an American cultural anthropologist. She is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Rubin grew up Jewish in the Southern United States. In 1978, she moved to San Francisco. On June 13 of that year Rubin started the first known lesbian SM group, Samois. In May 1983, the group broke up.
In 1994, Rubin completed her PhD in anthropology at the University of Michigan. She has been an associate professor of anthropology, women's studies and comparative literature since 2004.
Petah Tikva
Petah Tikva, is a city in western Israel. Hebrew: פתח תקווה , Arab: بتاح تكفا , meaning opening.
"of hope", other spellings: "Petah Tiqwa" (official) and "Petach Tikvah" (unofficial), is a city in the Central District of Israel. It is 11 km east from Tel Aviv and belongs to the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area. About 231,000 people were living there in 2015 and by that it is the fifth-largest city of the country. About 70,000 of them are Orthodox Jews.
European Orthodox Jews established the settlement in 1878 and named it Petah Tikva after a prophecy of Hosea. Because of this, it is the oldest agricultural settlement erected by Zionist Jews in the 19th century and therefore nicknamed "Em HaMoshavot", meaning "mother of the moshavot". The new settlement was attacked by raiders in 1886, a few guards volunteered to keep it safe from raiders, in total the settlement had six guards, the last and most famous out of them is , his original house stand til this day intact. It obtained city status in 1937.
The city is low-lying. The Yarkon River flows north of Petah Tikva.
Petah Tikva comes second in industrial activities. Many (Israeli divisions of) high-tech and communications companies are headquartered here. The city used to be surrounded by a lot of citrus plantations but due to urban expansion this is no longer the case.
The city hosts about 300 synagogues, the same amount of educational institutions, and six hospitals, among them the Rabin Medical Center.
Several highways are close by, like Highway 4 in the west, Trans-Samaria Highway in the north, and Trans-Israel Highway in the east.
Yarkon Cemetery is situated in Petah Tikva and is the most important cemetery of the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area.
Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series, based on George R. R. Martin's book series "A Song of Ice and Fire". The first episode was shown on April 17, 2011 on Home Box Office. There are eight seasons in total as of 2019. The first season was nominated for thirteen Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series and won two of them. The series focuses on various kings and queens in two continents called Westeros and Essos. Many of the successors to the throne fight for power. The series is praised for human sexuality and story line.
The plot revolves around two continents namely, Westeros (the western continent) and Essos (the eastern continent). Noble families of Westeros fight amongst themselves to gain the Iron Throne. And, meanwhile an old enemy which has been dormant for ages is rising again.
2012–13 Chicago Blackhawks season
The 2012–13 Chicago Blackhawks season was the team's 87th season in the National Hockey League (NHL). The season was shortened to a 48 games instead of the usual 82 games because of the 2012–13 NHL lockout. The team won the Western Conference championship. They defeated the Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 in the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals to win their 5th Stanley Cup in franchise history. Patrick Kane won the Conn Smythe Trophy for being the Most Valuable Player of the playoffs.
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C. Delores Tucker
Cynthia Delores Tucker was an African-American politician. She was known for her civil rights activism and for being against gangsta rap music. She died when she was 78 on October 12, 2005.
In 1971, Tucker became the first black female United States Secretary of State. In 1990 she started the African-American Women for Reproductive Freedom with 15 other African American women and men. In 1996 Tucker was chosen by "People" magazine as one of "25 of the Most Intriguing People in the World" .
Tucker started "Vital Issues: The Journal of African American Speeches".
William Usery Jr.
Willie Julian Usery, Jr. (December 21, 1923 – December 10, 2016) was an American labor union activist and U.S. government politician. He served as United States Secretary of Labor in the Ford administration from 1976 until 1977.
Usery, Jr., died on December 10, 2016 in Eatonton, Georgia from heart failure, aged 92.
Herb Gray
The Right Honourable Herbert Eser "Herb" Gray (May 25, 1931 – April 21, 2014) was a Canadian politician and lawyer. He was a cabinet minister and served under three prime ministers. He was the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada from 1997 until 2002, when Jean Chrétien was Prime Minister. He was also Canada's first Jewish federal cabinet minister.
Gray was born in Windsor, Ontario. He was married to Sharon Sholzberg and had two children.
Gray died on April 21, 2014 at a hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, aged 82.
Janet Gray Hayes
Janet Gray Hayes (née Frazee; July 12, 1926 – April 21, 2014) was an American politician. She was the Mayor of San Jose, California from 1975 until 1983. She was both the first woman to be elected as the Mayor of San Jose, and the first woman elected mayor of any major city in the United States. She was born in Rushville, Indiana.
Hayes died from a stroke on April 21, 2014 in Saratoga, California. She was 87.
Saratoga, California
Saratoga is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. As of 2010, 29,926 people lived in Saratoga.
Miss Elizabeth
Elizabeth Ann Hulette (November 19, 1960 – May 1, 2003) was an American professional wrestling manager. She is best known for her time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s as well as her time in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in mid-1990s. She is better known under her ring name Miss Elizabeth.
She was known for managing "Macho Man" Randy Savage who she was also married to from December 1984 to 1992. Later on, she began dating Lex Luger. They were planning on getting married. On April 19, 2003, she was involved in a domestic dispute with Luger where he allegedly hit her in the garage of their townhouse in Marietta, Georgia. The Cobb County police found her with two bruised eyes, a bump on her head, and a cut lip.
On May 1, 2003, Luger called 9-1-1 because Hulette was not breathing. After Hulette did not respond to mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, the paramedics rushed to their townhouse but they pronounced her dead. It was later announced by a medical examiner that Hulette had died from "acute toxicity" which was brought on by a mix of painkillers and vodka.
Mimivirus
Mimivirus is an extra-large virus. It was discovered in 1992.
APMV was found accidentally inside the amoeba "Acanthamoeba polyphaga". The virus was seen in a gram stain and mistakenly thought to be a gram-positive bacterium.
It is either a viral genus with a single species, Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APMV), or it is a group of phylogenetically-related large viruses (MimiN).
In speech, APMV is usually referred to as "mimivirus". Until October 2011, when an even larger virus "Megavirus chilensis" was described, it was the largest (capsid diameter) of all known viruses.
Mimivirus has a large and complex genome compared with most other viruses. Mimivirus, short for "mimicking microbe", is so called for its large size and Gram-staining properties.
CocoRosie
CocoRosie is an American folk band. The members are sisters Bianca "Coco" and Sierra "Rosie" Casady. They have released five studio albums. These are "La maison de mon rêve", "Noah's Ark", "The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn", "Grey Oceans", and "Tales of a GrassWidow". CocoRosie have also composed two film scores.
Sierra Casady was born in Iowa. Bianca was born in Hawaii. The girls lived with their mother when they were children. They moved to new towns almost every year. Sierra left home when she was around 14. She is a classically trained soprano.
Assem Allam
Assem Allam () is an Egyptian businessman based in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
He is the owner of Allam Marine, a company that makes generators. He is also the owner of the Championship football team, Hull City.
In 2006, he was named the UK Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young.
Dune 2000 is a real-time strategy game released by Westwood Studios. It based on Frank Herbert's Dune. It uses a similar game engine to "".
Like in "Dune II", the three main playable housess are House Atreides, House Harkonnen and House Ordos.
Megavirus
Megavirus is a virus with a single identified species, "Megavirus chilensis" (MGVC). It is phylogenetically related to or Mimivirus (APMV).
MGVC is usually referred to as just “Megavirus”. Until the discovery of pandoraviruses in 2013 it had the largest capsid diameter of all known viruses, and the largest and most complex genome among all known viruses.
Pandoravirus
Pandoravirus is a genus of very large viruses. They have the largest genomes of any viral genus. Like the other large viruses "Mimivirus", "Pithovirus" and "Megavirus", "Pandoravirus" infects amoebas. Its genome, with 1.9 to 2.5 megabases of DNA, is twice as large as that of "Megavirus". It differs greatly from the other large viruses in appearance and in genome structure.
Although the capsid of "Pithovirus" is 50% larger in size, "Pandoravirus" has the largest genome of all viruses (2.5 million base pairs).
About 93% of Pandoravirus genes are not known from any other microbes. This led some scientists to suggest the virus belongs to a "fourth domain", aside from Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukaryotes. Viruses as a whole are not considered to be within these three domains, but they have been proposed as one in the past by some biologists.
Calf roping
Calf roping is a sport where a person chases a calf on horseback. The person ropes the calf, then jumps off their horse and ties the calf's one front foot and two hind feet with a "piggin' rope". Then they must give the calf some slack and the rope must stay tied for 6 seconds.
Calf roping started with cowboys. They had to rope and tie down calves to brand them and doctor them.
Ryan Hunter-Reay
Pithovirus
Pithovirus is a genus of giant virus which infects amoebae. It is a double-stranded DNA virus, and is a member of the clade of large DNA viruses. It was first described in 2014 after a viable specimen was found in a 30,000-year-old ice core harvested from permafrost in Siberia, Russia.
It is 50% larger in size than the previous largest known viruses, but "Pandoravirus" has the largest viral genome, containing 1.9 to 2.5 megabases of DNA.
"Pithovirus" has a thick, oval wall with an opening at one end. Internally, its structure resembles a honeycomb.
The genome of "Pithovirus" has 467 different genes, more than a typical virus but far less than "Pandoravirus". Its genome is much less densely packed than any other known virus. Two-thirds of its proteins are unlike those of other viruses. Despite the physical similarity with "Pandoravirus", the "Pithovirus" genome sequence shows that it is barely related to that virus. It more closely resembles members of some other virus families. These families all contain large icosahedral viruses with DNA genomes. The "Pithovirus" genome has 36% GC-content, similar to the "Megaviridae", in contrast to greater than 61% for pandoraviruses.
The "Pithovirus"' genome is one circular, double stranded DNA (dsDNA) chromosome of about 610,000 base pairs (bp.) Its DNA translate into 467 different proteins. The genome encodes all the proteins needed to produce mRNA; these proteins are present in the purified virions.
"Pithovirus" does its entire replication cycle in its host's cytoplasm, not the more typical method of taking over the host's nucleus.
"Pithovirus sibericum" was discovered in a 30,000-year-old sample of Siberian permafrost. The virus was discovered buried below the surface of a late Pleistocene sediment. It was found when riverbank samples collected in 2000 were exposed to amoebae. The amoebas started dying and were found to contain giant viruses. The authors said they got the idea to probe permafrost samples for new viruses after reading about an experiment that revived a similar aged seed two years earlier.
Although the virus is harmless to humans, its viability after being frozen for millennia raised concerns that global climate change and tundra drilling operations could lead to potentially dangerous viruses being unearthed. Other scientists deny that this poses a real threat.
Thanksgiving (United States)
Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated once a year on the fourth Thursday of November.
English people often declared a "Thanksgiving" when something good happened. The London Company had a "day of Thanksgiving" at Berkeley Hundred, Virginia in 1619 to celebrate their new colony.
In 1620 the "Mayflower" brought the Pilgrims to Massachusetts. They made their new home in what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, 380 km northeast of what is now New York.
Half of the Pilgrims died during their first winter in North America. They were cold and did not have enough food. The following year, though, the Native Americans, who were from the Wampanoag tribe, helped them grow crops. At harvest time in the autumn of 1621 they were very thankful that they had a good crop of food to eat during the coming winter. They thanked God and the Native Americans for teaching them how to grow the local foods.
They invited three of the Wampanoags who had helped them to their feast. They were Squanto, Samoset, and Chief Massasoit. The Wampanoags brought their families. This was over 90 people. There were so many people that the Pilgrims did not have enough food to make the meal, so the Wampanoags brought along their own food for the feast.
The Wampanoags brought turkey, duck, fish, deer, berries, squash, and cornbread. They also brought vegetables that they had farmed and shown the Pilgrims how to care for.
In the United States, the Thanksgiving holiday is a four-day holiday over a weekend, starting on Thanksgiving Thursday and ending on Sunday. Families and friends usually eat a special meal together (usually with a turkey as the main dish). This meal also usually includes mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, several casseroles, and stuffing. The food eaten today for Thanksgiving is very different from the food that was eaten at the First Thanksgiving in 1621.
Old St Paul's Cathedral
Sam &amp; Cat
Sam & Cat is an American television show that started on June 8, 2013 on Nickelodeon. It is a crossover/spin-off of the shows "Victorious" and "iCarly". The girls meet and move in together as babysitters.
The show was announced on November 29, 2012. It began production in January 2013. On March 13, 2014 news came for a second season. Other news says there has been no choice.
On July 13, 2014, the series was cancelled due to problems with the starrings (McCurdy and Grande).
Sam Puckett has been driving around on her motorcycle. She sees a girl thrown into a garbage truck. Sam saves Cat and they become friends. They move to Cat's house because Nona moved away. They become babysitters to get money. Their friends include Goomer and Dice.
On August 3, 2012 the show was announced. On November 29, 2012 it got picked up to start in 2013 Production began in January 2013. On July 11, 2013 twenty more episodes were added. Filming began on September 14, 2013. The show first was to start on March 23, 2013. It was moved to the fall and then to June 2013. It finally started on June 8, 2013.
The first episode was watched by 4.2 million people. The most watched episode is "#TheKillerTunaJump: #Freddie #Jade #Robbie" with 4.8 million people watching. The least watched episode is "#SecretSafe" 2.0 million people. In December 2013 Common Sense Media rated it two stars and said it makes people laugh "at the expense of any realistic content."
List of Sam &amp; Cat episodes
This is a list of episodes from the American sitcom Sam & Cat, shown on Nickelodeon. It is a crossover / spin-off of the shows "Victorious" and "iCarly". Sam Puckett and Cat Valentine meet in Los Angeles. Sam moves in with Cat and they become best friends as well as babysitters. It started on June 8, 2013.
Lamorak
Sir Lamorak is a legendary character in the King Arthur stories. He is one of the Knights of the Round Table. His father is King Pellinore. His brothers are Percival, Tor, and Aglovale. His cousin is Sir Pinel le Savage.
Lamorak was known for his strength and fiery temper, and fought off thirty knights on at least two occasions. Thomas Malory refers to him as Arthur's third best knight, only lower than Lancelot and Tristan.
Flag Tower of Hanoi
The Flag Tower of Hanoi () is a tower in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is one of the symbols of the city. It is part of the Hanoi Citadel, a World Heritage Site. The tower is tall, not counting the flag.
The tower was built in 1812. Unlike many other structures in Hanoi, it was not destroyed during the French administration (1896-1897). It was used as a military post. It is now in the Vietnam Military History Museum.
The building has three tiers (levels). The tower is pyramid-shaped. A spiral staircase inside leads to the top. There are 42 windows. Of the windows, 36 are shaped like flowers and 6 are shaped like fans. The National Flag of Vietnam is on top of the tower.
The words "" (English: "To welcome dawn's sunlight") are on the eastern door. The words "" ("To reflect light") are on the western door. The words "" ("Directed to the sunlight") are on the southern door.
National Dinosaur Museum
The National Dinosaur Museum is a museum in Gold Creek Village, near Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. It has the southern hemisphere's largest permanent display of prehistoric items. The museum's exhibition shows the evolution of life, especially dinosaurs.
The museum is one of the most popular places to visit in the Australian Capital Territory. Each year, 100,000 people visit it.
The museum was established in 1993. Since then it has been steadily improved and updated. The earth science dinosaur-oriented displays are kept up to date with most recent discoveries in geology. Some of the museum's directors are local and international scientists and geologists. Major upgrades have were done in April and May 2012. Those included twelve new animatronic dinosaurs and many life size models both inside and outside the museum.
The museum has guided tours for school groups of all ages by appointment. It hosts birthday parties, "dance with dinosaurs" events for young children, private parties, corporate functions and dinosaur sleepovers during school holiday periods.
2014 Mount Everest avalanche
On 18 April 2014, an avalanche on Mount Everest killed 16 people and injured 9 people. The avalanche was caused by a serac which fell from the slopes of Mount Everest above the icefall.
2014 Oso mudslide
Oso, Washington
Oso is a census-designated place in Snohomish County, Washington.
Darrington, Washington
Darrington is a town in Snohomish County, Washington.
Snohomish County, Washington
Snohomish County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington. As of 2010, its population was 713,335. The county seat is Everett.
What would Reagan do?
What would Reagan do? (sometimes abbreviated WWRD) is a phrase that has become popular among conservatives and Republicans in the United States. It is based on ""What would Jesus do?"".
It is used as the belief in what former United States President Ronald Reagan would do in modern day problems. Reagan was a model conservative leader whose philosophy and policies provide guidance and a good example for modern politicians.
Oswaldo Vigas
Oswaldo Vigas (4 August 1926 – 22 April 2014) was a Venezuelan painter and muralist. His work was in the form of Cubism. He was best known for winning the National Prize of Plastic Arts of Venezuela in 1952. He was born in Valencia, Carabobo.
Vigas died on 22 April 2014 in Caracas, aged 87.
Capsid
A capsid is the protein shell of a virus. It is made of several protein subunits. The observable 3-dimensional subunits are called 'capsomeres'. The capsid encloses the nucleic acid of the virus.
Capsids are broadly classified according to their structure. Some viruses, such as bacteriophages, have developed more complicated structures. The icosahedral shape, which has 20 equilateral triangular faces, approximates a sphere, while the helical shape is cylindrical. The capsid faces may consist of one or more proteins. For example, the foot-and-mouth disease virus capsid has faces consisting of three proteins called VP1–3.
Most viruses (e.g. influenza and many animal viruses) have viral envelopes covering their protein capsids. This means the capsid is coated with a lipid membrane.
The envelope is got by the capsid from an intracellular membrane in the virus' host; such as the inner nuclear membrane, the golgi membrane, or the cell's outer membrane.
The envelope may help viruses avoid the host immune system. Glycoproteins on the surface of the envelope bind to receptor sites on the host's membrane. The viral envelope then fuses with the host's membrane This allows the capsid and viral genome to enter and infect the host.
Deon Jackson
Deon Jackson (January 26, 1946 – April 19, 2014) was an American soul singer, songwriter and educator. His best known songs were "Love Makes the World Go Round" (1966), "Love Takes a Long Time Growing" (1966) and "Ooh Baby" (1967). He was born Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Jackson died on April 19, 2014 at the age of 68.
A carillon is a musical instrument consisting of bells. Carillons are usually in bell towers, and are made up of at least 23 bells. (If there are less than 23 bells, the instrument is called a chime.) A church in Michigan, called Kirk in the Hills, has 77 bells, the most of any carillon.
The bells in a carillon are usually made to ring using a keyboard. It is similar to the one in a piano or organ, but is made up of wooden batons that are hit with closed fists instead of pressing them with fingers (see the picture on the left). Each baton is linked to a bell with a different pitch and makes it ring out. The bell with the lowest pitch is called the "bourdon", and many carillons have pedal keyboards for the largest bells. The instrument is very heavy, and the world's heaviest carillon, which is in a New York City church, weights 91 tonnes.
Not all carillons use a keyboard. Some of them are automated, meaning they play music without a human. They can be controlled using a clockwork mechanism, similar to the one in Big Ben, so that the music plays at certain times every day. Two examples of this kind of carillon are the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin and the Munttoren in Amsterdam. More recent carillons, such as the one in the Peace Tower in Ottawa, are computer-controlled.
Netherlands Carillon
Thameslink
The Lick Observatory is an astronomical observatory. It is owned and operated by the University of California. It is on Mount Hamilton, in the Diablo Range just east of San Jose, California, USA. The observatory is managed by the University of California Observatories. Its headquarters is on the campus of University of California, Santa Cruz.
The following astronomical objects were discovered at Lick Observatory:
Seattle Art Museum
Jun Kasai
Alfonso Márquez de la Plata
Alfonso Márquez de la Plata Yrarrázaval (19 July 1933 – 22 April 2014) was a Chilean politician, businessman and writer. He was Minister of Agriculture from 1977 until 1980. He was later the Ministry General Secretariat of Government from 1983 to 1984. He was born in Santiago.
Márquez died from pneumonia on 22 April 2014 in Santiago. He was 80.
Arlene McQuade
Arlene McQuade (May 29, 1936 – April 21, 2014) was an American actress. She started acting in 1950. She was best known for playing Rosalie in "The Goldbergs". She was born in New York City, New York.
McQuade died from Parkinson's disease on April 21, 2014 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was 77.
Spring wheat
Spring wheat is a type of wheat. It grows in the spring. It is harvested in late summer or early autumn. In colder regions (higher latitudes), seeds can only be sown after winter is over.
Bobbie Rosenfeld
Fanny “Bobbie” Rosenfeld (December 28, 1904 — November 14, 1969) was a Canadian athlete in the 1920s. She competed in basketball, hockey, softball, speed skating, tennis, and track and field. During her career, she won two Olympic medals in track and field. She was also the Canadian record holder for the standing broad jump, running broad jump, and discus.