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Bartholomew Hamilton Chilton (May 1, 1960 – April 27, 2019) was an American civil servant. He was Commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) from 2007 to 2014. He notably had long hair and wore cowboy boots. He was once called "the modern-day Eliot Ness" for wanting the CFTC to charge fraud. At the time of his death, he was a host of RT's "Boom Bust". He was born in Wilmington, Delaware and grew up in Ogden Dunes, Indiana.
Chilton died of pancreatic cancer on April 27, 2019, at the age of 58.
Sylvia Bretschneider
Sylvia Bretschneider (14 November 1960 – 28 April 2019) was a German politician. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). She became a member of the Landtag ("regional parliament") of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in 1994. She became speaker of the state's assembly in 2002. She died in office in 2019. She was born in Waren (Müritz), Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. She was married and had three children.
Bretschneider died of cancer in Neubrandenburg on 28 April 2019. She was 58.
Ogden Dunes, Indiana
Ogden Dunes is a town in Portage Township, Porter County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 1,110.
Forestdale, Massachusetts
Forestdale is a village and census-designated place (CDP) within the town of Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2010 census, the village had a population of 4,099.
Sandwich, Massachusetts
Sandwich is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 20,675. The village and census-designated place (CDP) of Forestdale is in the town.
José Rizo Castellón
José Rizo Castellón (27 September 1944 – 23 April 2019) was a Nicaraguan politician and lawyer. He was a member of the Constitutionalist Liberal Party (PLC). From 2002 to 2005, he served as Vice President of Nicaragua under President Enrique Bolaños. He was born in Jinotega.
Rizo Castellón died of a terminal illness on 23 April 2019 in Valparaíso, Chile. He was 74.
Niederried
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Mika McKinnon
Mika McKinnon is a Canadian field geophysicist, disaster researcher, and science communicator. She is a co-investigator of the SETI Institute's Project ESPRESSO. She was a science adviser for the science fiction television series "Stargate Atlantis" and "Stargate Universe".
McKinnon earned her Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2005. She studied in the College of Creative Studies. There, she re-started the Society of Physics Students group and led a student study group on science in fiction.
She earned her Master of Science in geophysics at the University of British Columbia in 2010. Her graduate work was about measuring and managing risk of landslides. She used statistical models to map landslides physical characteristics to better predict how far landslides run and reduce the number of people hurt and the amount of damage.
McKinnon was looking for work after graduation during a hiring freeze by the Canadian government. She learned that women in her field were being hired because they could be paid less than men. So, she spoke out more for women and minorities in science.
McKinnon does research in disaster management, preparedness, and communication. She works with scientific research, advocacy, and policy. She uses her knowledge of both science and communication to teach science to disaster managers. She rewrote the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) science curriculum for emergency managers. She is working on several projects with Natural Resources Canada.
McKinnon is a co-investigator of Project ESPRESSO. She uses her expertise in terrestrial landslides and hazard mapping to help the project reach its goal of describing extraterrestrial target surfaces (asteroids, comets, and moons) and reducing risks for robots and humans in space exploration. The project is a group of seven partner institutions. It started when NASA called for Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute groups in 2016. ESPRESSO is one of thirteen projects that were chosen after that call.
McKinnon began doing science communication as a Master's student at UBC. The producers of the television show "Stargate: Atlantis" wanted a physicist who could help with accurate scientific explanations for the show's science fiction plots. McKinnon answered. After graduation, she worked in science communication including popular science writing and continued helping on the television shows Stargate: Atlantis and "Stargate: Universe". Recently, McKinnon has worked on "Doomsday: 10 Ways the World Will End", "No Tomorrow", "Madam Secretary", and . McKInnon says that her interest in communication started with the media's incorrect reporting of a major landslide in the Pacific Northwest.
She was an editor for Gawker Media. She wrote about popular science topics for io9 and later became a science writer for Gizmodo. She writes about topics including space exploration, dinosaur discovery, the meeting of science and art, and disaster preparedness. Her writing is in "Wired UK", "Smithsonian" magazine, "Ars Technica", and "Astronomy".
She volunteers for the National Academy of Sciences Science & Entertainment Exchange. There, she uses her knowledge to help the entertainment industry show science more accurately in the media.
Gennadi Yakovlev
Gennadi Pavlovich Yakovlev (Генна́дий Па́влович Я́ковлев, born June 7, 1938 in Sestroretsk.) is a Russian botanist, former rector of the St. Petersburg Academy of Chemical Pharmaceuticals, former head of the department of pharmacognosy, now a professor of the department of pharmacognosy, part-time leading scientist of the Botanical Institute. V.L. Komarov, taxonomist of higher plants. G.P. Yakovlev is one of the leading experts in the systematics of legumes, as well as a specialist in the field of pharmacognosy.
He took part in projects to study the flora of Cuba, Vietnam, Mongolia, Central Asia, the European part of the USSR, etc.
1967 Заметки по систематике и географии рода Sophora L. и близких родов. // Труды Ленинградского химико-фармацевтического института. Т. 21. — С. 42-62
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María de los Ángeles Moreno
María de los Ángeles Moreno Uriegas (15 January 1945 – 27 April 2019) was a Mexican politician. She was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). She also served as Mexico's first female party president. She served as Secretary of Fisheries in the cabinet of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari from December 1988 to May 1991. She also served in the Chamber of Deputies and later in the Senate. She was born in Mexico City.
In 2000, she became President of the Senate.
Moreno died in Mexico City on 27 April 2019, at the age of 74.
Larry &quot;Flash&quot; Jenkins
Larry "Flash" Jenkins (May 10, 1955 – April 25, 2019) was an American actor, movie director, producer and screenwriter. He appeared in movies such as "Fletch" (1985) and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (1986). He also starred in television series such as "The White Shadow", "Bay City Blues" and "Finder of Lost Loves". He was born in Long Island, New York.
Jenkins died on April 25, 2019 of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California. He was 63.
Jessie Lawrence Ferguson
Jessie Lawrence Ferguson (June 8, 1942 – April 26, 2019) was an American screen actor. He was best known for roles in movies such as "All Night Long" (1981), "Prince of Darkness" (1987), "Darkman" (1990) and "Boyz n the Hood" (1993). He was born in the Bronx, New York.
Ferguson died on April 26, 2019 in Palmdale, California. He was 76.
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is an immune-mediated inflammatory disorder of the peripheral nervous system. The disorder is sometimes called chronic relapsing polyneuropathy (CRP) or chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (because it involves the nerve roots).
CIDP is closely related to Guillain–Barré syndrome and it is thought to be the chronic counterpart of that acute disease. Its symptoms are also similar to progressive inflammatory neuropathy.
Several variants have been reported. Specially important are:
Mayda Insula
Mayda Insula is an island in the Kraken Mare. It is a body of liquid composed mostly of methane, on Saturn's largest moon Titan. Mayda Insula is the first island (insula) to be named on a planet or moon other than Earth.
Mayda Insula was discovered by the "Cassini–Huygens" mission to Saturn. Its name was approved by the International Astronomical Union Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature on April 11, 2008. It became the first named island anywhere other than earth. However, there is a possibility that Mayda Insula is actually peninsular. A peninsular is a piece of land that is connected to the mainland by another strip of land. All of the island on Titan have been named after legendary islands. "Mayda Insula" was named after a legendary island Mayda which was thought to exist in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Its name was approved the same day as the names of Kraken Mare and Ligeia Mare.
Mayda Insula was mentioned in Michael Carroll's novel "On the Shores of Titan's Farthest Sea: A Scientific Novel". The 39th chapter of the book is titled "The Hunchback of Mayda Insula".
Wayson Choy
Wayson Choy (; April 20, 1939 – April 28, 2019) was a Canadian novelist. Choy wrote the award-winning book "The Jade Peony" (1995). The novel's sequel, "All That Matters", was published in 2004. His memoir "Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood" (1999), won the 2000 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. In 2005, Choy was made a member of the Order of Canada.
Choy was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He had a Chinese background. He spent his childhood in the city's Chinatown. Choy attended "Gladstone Secondary School" in East Vancouver. He attended the University of B.C.. Choy was openly gay.
Choy died on April 28, 2019, at the age of 80.
Josef Šural
Josef Šural (30 May 1990 – 29 April 2019) was a Czech footballer. He played as a forward.
Šural was born in Hustopeče. He played for Czech sides Brno, Slovan Liberec and Sparta Praha. At the time of his death, he was playing for Turkish club Alanyaspor since early 2019. He played for the Czech Republic from 2013 until his death in 2019. He played for his country 20 times, scoring once. He also played for the Czech Republic at the UEFA Euro 2016.
On 29 April 2019, Šural team's minibus overturned near the Turkish coastal town of Alanya. Šural was taken to hospital where he died. Seven other players were injured.
Les Murray (poet)
Leslie Allan Murray (17 October 1938 – 29 April 2019) was an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career lasted over 40 years, and he published nearly 30 collections of poetry. He served as the literary editor of conservative magazine "Quadrant" for more than twenty years. He was called Australia's most likely chance of winning the Nobel Prize in Literature during his career. He was born in Nabiac, New South Wales.
Murray died on 29 April 2019 in Taree, New South Wales. He was 80.
Deaths in May 2019
The following is a list of deaths that should be noted in May 2019. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.
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Karol Modzelewski
Karol Cyryl Modzelewski (23 November 1937 – 28 April 2019) was a Polish writer, historian and politician.He was also a professor at the University of Wrocław and the University of Warsaw. He was jailed for taking part in the 1968 Polish political crisis. He served as a member of the Senate from 1989 to 1991. In 2016, he was awarded the Legion of Honour. He was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. His adoptive father was the communist politician Zygmunt Modzelewski (1900–1953).
Modzelewski died in Warsaw on 28 April 2019. He was 81.
Adenocalymma
Adenocalymma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae. Creepers, common in South America.
Previously, the spelling variant "Adenocalymna" was also used; In 2005, at the XVII International Botanical Congress in Vienna, it was confirmed that the spelling of Adenocalymma should be considered correct.
This genus comprises 82 species.
Lohman Lucia G. and Charlotte Taylor 2014
A new generic classification of Bignoniaceae Ann Miss Bot Gardens 99(3):
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Menachem Mendel Taub
Menachem Mendel Taub (‎; 1923 – 28 April 2019) was an Israeli Hasidic rebbe and Holocaust survivor. He brought the Kaliv dynasty with him to Israel. He founded Kiryas Kaliv in Rishon LeZion, before it was moved to Bnei Brak, a city near the Yarkon Park, and finally Jerusalem. He was known for his efforts in remembering Jewish victims of the Holocaust. He wrote the book, "Shema Yisrael: Testimonies of devotion, courage, and self-sacrifice, 1939–1945", a collection of more than 500 first-person accounts of Holocaust survivors.
Taub was born in Marghita is a city in Bihor County, Crișana region, Romania. During World War II, Taub was a prisoner at many concentration camps. While at Auschwitz, he was reportedly experimented on by Josef Mengele. Because of these experiments, Taub could not have children or grow facial hair. He was later taken to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. After the war, he moved to United States with his wife. The couple later moved to Israel in 1962.
Taub died in Jerusalem on 28 April 2019, at the age of 96.
Pecora
Pecora is a family of ruminants. All pecorans, except the families Hydrotopes and Moschus have horns or antlers. "Pecora" comes from Latin meaning "horned lifestock". Some pecorans have horns, but the family Cervidae has antlers.
Karl Kroeber
Karl Kroeber (November 24, 1926 – November 8, 2009) was an American literary scholar. He wrote about the English Romantics and American Indian literature. He was the son of Theodora and Alfred L. Kroeber. They were both anthropologists.
He was professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He wrote about literary criticism and its relationship to ecology, traditional literature, and art history.
Kroeber's sister was the science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin. His children were Paul Kroeber, a linguist; Arthur Kroeber, a journalist and expert on the Chinese economy; and Katharine Kroeber Wiley, a writer.
Kroeber died of cancer on November 8, 2009. He was 82 years old.
TheOdd1sOut
Robert James Rallison (born May 14, 1996), known online as TheOdd1sOut, is an American artist, animator, author, and YouTuber. As of February 2021, his YouTube channel has over 16.4 million subscribers. His second channel (TheOdd2sOut) has over 2.72 million subscribers as of February 2021. He was born in Arizona.
Rallison uploaded the first strip of his webcomic "TheOdd1sOut" on June 14, 2012, on Tumblr and later on iFunny.
His videos about working at Subway, where he calls the food chain as "Sooubway",
Rallison wrote a book titled "The Odd 1s Out: How to Be Cool and Other Things I Definitely Learned from Growing Up", which was released on July 31, 2018.
Alaska's Flag
"Alaska's Flag" is the state song of Alaska.
Unique among state songs, its lyrics explain the symbolism of the Alaskan flag. The lyrics are:
Eight stars of gold on a field of blue<br>
Alaska's flag. May it mean to you<br>
The blue of the sea, the evening sky,<br>
The mountain lakes, and the flow'rs nearby;<br>
The gold of the early sourdough's dreams,<br>
The precious gold of the hills and streams;<br>
The brilliant stars in the northern sky,<br>
The "Bear," the "Dipper," and, shining high,<br>
The great North Star with its steady light,<br>
O'er land and sea a beacon bright.<br>
Alaska's flag to Alaskans dear,<br>
The simple flag of a last frontier.<br>
20 July Plot
On 20 July 1944, Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. The name Operation Valkyrie—originally referring to part of the conspiracy—has become related to the plot. The idea behind the assassination was to seize political control of Germany and its armed forces from the Nazi Party (including the SS) and to make peace with the Western Allies as soon as possible.
The plot was a plan by several groups in the German resistance to overthrow the Nazi German government. Claus von Stauffenberg planted a bomb close to Adolf Hitler since he was presented with him in the conference meeting. The bomb failed to kill Hitler since one of the participants unwittingly moved the bomb away from Hitler. The table absorbed much of the blast as a result. The failure of the assassination attempt and the intended military that was to follow led the Gestapo to arrest more than 7,000 people, of whom they executed 4,980.
Eric Kent
Daniel Eric Kent (30 June 1919 – 26 April 2019) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Labor Party. He served as a member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1970 to 1976 for Gippsland Province. He served another term in the Council for 1979 to 1985 for Chelsea Province. He was born in Areegra, Victoria.
Kent died on 26 April 2019, at the age of 99.
Wolf's Lair
Wolf's Lair (German: "Wolfsschanze"; Polish: "Wilczy Szaniec") was Adolf Hitler's first Eastern Front military headquarters in World War II. The complex became one of several Führer Headquarters in parts of Eastern Europe. Organisation Todt built it for the start of Operation "Barbarossa" – the invasion of the Soviet Union – in 1941.
Bruce Bickford (animator)
Bruce Bickford (February 11, 1947 – April 28, 2019) was an American animator. He worked notably in clay animation. He is best known for his work with musician and filmmaker Frank Zappa. He worked on animating the Zappa videos "Baby Snakes" (1979), "The Dub Room Special" (1982) and "The Amazing Mr. Bickford" (1987). He was born in Seattle, Washington.
Bickford died after health problems on April 28, 2019, at the age of 72.
Sinethemba Jantjie
Sinethemba Jantjie (15 February 1989 – 1 April 2019) was a South African professional footballer. He played as a winger.
Jantjie was from Whittlesea, Eastern Cape. He first played for Mbombela United between 2015 and 2016. He soon signed for PSL club Free State Stars. In his three seasons with the Free State Stars, he scored eight goals in 63 league appearances. At the time of his death, he was set to play for PSL side Bidvest Wits from the 2019–20 season onward.
On 1 April 2019, Jantjie died in a car crash in Bethlehem, Free State. He was 30.
Joe Sanberg
Joseph N. Sanberg (born July 12, 1979) is an American entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder of CalEITC4Me, a statewide outreach program in California that helps low-income families claim the state and federal earned income tax credits. He is co-founder of Aspiration, Inc., an online banking and investing firm.
Media outlets said people have been calling on Sanberg to run for president in 2020 on an anti-poverty platform. In early April 2019, Sanberg began traveling to Ohio to test the possibility of a presidential run.
Daniel Horlaville
Daniel Horlaville (22 September 1945 – 28 April 2019) was a French footballer. He played as a midfielder.
Horlaville was born in Oissel. At club level, he played for US Quevilly, Paris Saint-Germain, Paris, Rouen and CA Oissel. He also played one game for France against Romania in 1969. He is the only amateur footballer to date to play for the national team since World War II.
Horlaville was the father of professional footballer Christophe Horlaville (born 1969). He died on 28 April 2019, at the age of 73.
Zubair Torwali
Zubair Torwali is a famous Pakistani linguist, scholar, author and columnist for Swat Pakistan.
He did a lot of research and study on the languages and cultures of North Pakistan. He was an expert on the culture of Swat and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He has received the Public Peace Prize in 2016 for his work for the languages of Northern Pakistan.
Mia Mottley
Mia Amor Mottley, QC, MP (born 1 October 1965) is a Barbadian politician and attorney who is the current and 8th Prime Minister of Barbados since 25 May 2018 and the leader of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP). She served her first term as leader of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) form 7 February 2008 to 18 October 2010 and she served her second term as leader of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) from 26 February 2013 to 25 May 2018. Mottley is the eight person to hold the position and role of Prime Minister of Barbados and the first women to hold either positions and roles of Prime Minister of Barbados and leader of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP).
Gersemi
Gersemi is the daughter of Freyja and Óðr in Norse mythology. Gersemi is Hnoss's sister.
Ellen Tauscher
Ellen O'Kane Tauscher (November 15, 1951 – April 29, 2019) was an American politician. She was a member of the Democratic Party. She was the U.S. Representative for California's 10th congressional district. She became a congresswoman in 1997 replacing William P. Baker. She resigned in 2009 to work for the State Department. Tauscher was replaced by John Garamendi in the House.
She served as the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs from June 2009 until February 2012. She later served as Special Envoy for Strategic Stability and Missile Defense at the State Department until August 31, 2012.
Tauscher was born in Newark, New Jersey. She studied at Seton Hall University. Tauscher had one daughter. She was married to William Tauscher until their divorce in 1999. She was later married to Jim Cieslak from 2009 to 2011.
Tauscher survived esophageal cancer in 2010. She died of pneumonia on April 29, 2019 in Stanford, California, at the age of 67.
Anémone
Anne Bourguignon (9 August 1950 – 30 April 2019) was a French actress. She started using her stage name Anémone, after appearing as the title character in her first movie, Philippe Garrel's "Anémone" (1968). Her best known movie roles were in "Santa Claus Is a Stinker" (1982) and "The Grand Highway" (1987). She was nominated for five César Awards. In 1988, for her role as Marcelle in "The Grand Highway", she won the César Award for Best Actress. She was born in Paris.
Anémone died of lung cancer on 30 April 2019 in Poitiers, Vienne. She was 68.
Matoug Adam
Matoug Adam (‎; 1926 – 2 April 2019) was a Libyan politician, civil servant, and poet. He served as his country's Minister of Tourism from January 1968 to June 1969. He then served as Interior Minister from June 1969 to 31 August 1969. He was the last Interior Minister of the Kingdom of Libya, as the royal government was overthrown by Muammar Gaddafi on 1 September 1969. After the coup d'état, Adam was jailed for two years by the Gaddafi government.
Adam died on 2 April 2019, at the age of 93.
Andrew County, Missouri
Andrew County is a county in the northwestern U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 17,291. Its county seat is Savannah. The county was created on January 29, 1841 and named for Andrew Jackson Davis, a lawyer and prominent citizen of St. Louis.
Converse County, Wyoming
Converse County is a county in the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of the 2010 census, 13,833 people lived there. Its county seat is Douglas. It was created in 1888.
Fred McLafferty
Fred Warren McLafferty is an American chemist known for his work in mass spectrometry. He is best known for the McLafferty rearrangement reaction that was observed with mass spectrometry. With Roland Gohlke, he pioneered the technique of gas chromatography–mass spectrometry. He is also known for electron capture dissociation, a method of fragmenting gas phase ions.
Daniele da Volterra
Daniele Ricciarelli (c. 1509 – 4 April 1566), better known as Daniele da Volterra, was a Mannerist Italian painter and sculptor. He is remembered for his association with the work of Michelangelo . Many of Daniele's most important works were based on designs made for that purpose by Michelangelo. After his death, and following orders of Pope Pius V, Daniele covered the genitals of The Last Judgment with clothing, which earned him the nickname of Il Braghettone
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Emma Haruka Iwao
Emma Haruka Iwao is a Japanese computer scientist at Google. In 2019 Haruka Iwao calculated the world's most accurate value of pi (π). Her calculation reached 31.4 trillion digits. This was much longer than the past record of 22 trillion digits.
As a child, Iwao became interested in pi. She was inspired by Japanese mathematicians, including Yasumasa Kanada. She studied computer science at the University of Tsukuba. Daisuke Takahashi taught her there. She won the Dean's Award for Excellence in 2008, before starting graduate studies in computing. Her master's dissertation was about high performance computer systems. After graduating, Iwao worked as a software engineer for Panasonic, GREE and Red Hat.
Iwao joined Google as a Cloud Developer Advocate in 2015. She worked for Google in Tokyo and then moved to Seattle in 2019. Iwao does training in how to use the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). She also helps application developers. She works to make cloud computing easier for everyone to use. She makes online demos and teaching materials.
In March 2019 Iwao calculated the value of pi to 31.4 trillion digits, using 170 Terabytes (TB) of data. The calculation used a multithreaded program called y-cruncher. It ran on more than 25 machines for 121 days.
Diane Larsen-Freeman
Diane Larsen-Freeman (born 1946) is an American linguist. She is now a Professor Emerita in Education and in Linguistics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She works in Applied linguistics. She studies in second language acquisition, English as a second or foreign language, language teaching methods, teacher education, and English grammar. Her work on the complex/dynamic systems approach to second language development is very important and well-known.
Larsen-Freeman began her career as a Peace Corps volunteer. She taught English in Sabah, Malaysia from 1967 to 1969. She says this experience started her interest in language acquisition. She went on to graduate studies at the University of Michigan, earning her PhD in linguistics in 1975.
Larsen-Freeman worked at the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles and then the SIT Graduate Institute. In 2002, she returned to the University of Michigan to direct the English Language Institute. She was also Professor in the School of Education and the Department of Linguistics. She retired from the University of Michigan in 2012. She has emerita positions at the English Language Institute and in Education and Linguistics at the University of Michigan, and at the SIT Graduate Institute. She is still active in her field, and teaches courses on the structure of English and second language development as a visiting senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.
Larsen-Freeman mostly researches second language acquisition. She also studies English grammar. She thinks grammar is not only a set of structural patterns, but also important for making meaning and for changing language to meet a communicative context. She thinks that complexity theory is a new and useful way to understand language, its acquisition, and its use. She sees all three as complex changing processes that do not move neatly in a straight line. She applied this idea to teaching grammar, or “grammaring” as she calls it. The dynamic approach to second language development includes the idea that students each have their own path to learning, and that teaching is fundamentally a process of managing learning.
Larsen-Freeman was also the editor of the journal "Language Learning" for five years.
In 1997, she wrote a leading article applying complex/dynamic systems theory to study second language acquisition. A book of papers in her honor, "Complexity Theory and Language Development", was published in 2017.
Thermomicrobia
The Thermomicrobia is a group of thermophilic green non-sulfur bacteria.
The group is based on the type species "Thermomicrobium roseum" and on "Sphaerobacter thermophilus". They are aerobic and chemoorganotrophic (a term which means their metabolism is rather like most fungi).
Sunny Garcia
Sunny Garcia (born Vincent Sennen Garcia; January 14, 1970) is a professional surfer.
His top surfing achievement was becoming the ASP WCT World Champion in 2000 but Garcia also holds the record for most WQS event wins, 22, and holds six Triple Crown of Surfing titles. He initially retired in 2005 but is now competing again.
On April 30, 2019, Garcia, who has depression, was hospitalized in intensive care unit at a Portland, Oregon hospital under critical condition after trying to kill himself.
B. Subhashan Reddy
B. Subhashan Reddy (2 March 1943 – 1 May 2019) was an Indian judge. He served as Chief Justice of Madras High Court from 2001 to 2004. After this, he served as Chief Justice of Kerala High Court from 2004 to 2005. He became the first chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Andhra Pradesh in August 2005. He was born in Amberpet, Hyderabad.
Reddy died on 1 May 2019 in Gachibowli, Hyderabad, at the age of 76.
S. P. Y. Reddy
S. Pedda Yerikal Reddy (4 June 1950 – 30 April 2019) was an Indian politician. He was a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) before becoming a Telugu Desam Party (TDP) member in 2014. In 2019, he joined Jana Sena Party. He served as a member of the Lok Sabha for the Nandyal constituency from 2004 until his death. He was born in Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh.
Reddy died of a lung infection on 30 April 2019 in Hyderabad. He was 68.
Alejandro Planchart
Alejandro Enrique Planchart (29 July 1935 – 28 April 2019) was a Venezuelan-American musicologist, conductor and composer. He was thought to be one of the leading experts on the music of Guillaume Du Fay. He was also an expert on music of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. He taught at Yale University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was born in Caracas.
Planchart died on 28 April 2019 in Santa Barbara, California. He was 83.
Roy Hattersley
Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley, PC, FRSL (born 28 December 1932) is a British Labour politician, author and journalist. He was born in Sheffield, England. He was MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook for 33 years from 1964 to 1997. He was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992 during the Neil Kinnock leadership.
Hattersley retired from the House of Lords on 19 May 2017.
Yves-François Blanchet
Yves-François Blanchet (born April 16, 1965) is a Canadian politician. He is the leader of the Bloc Québécois since January 2019. He is the Member of parliament for the Quebec riding of Beloeil—Chambly. From 2008 to 2014, he was a member of the Quebec National Assembly.
He was first elected to the National Assembly in the 2008 Quebec general election. He represented the riding of Drummond.
Maxime Bernier
People's Party of Canada
The People's Party of Canada (PPC; ) is a federal political party in Canada. The party was created by Maxime Bernier, on September 14, 2018, shortly after his resignation from the Conservative party.
The party is conservative, libertarian, populist, classical liberal, and right-wing.
Bernier was the party's only Member of Parliament, having represented the riding of Beauce from 2006 to the 2019 federal election.
Blanca Rodríguez
Blanca María Rodríguez de Pérez (January 1, 1926 – August 5, 2020) was a Venezuelan socialite. She was the First Lady of Venezuela from 1974 to 1979 and again from 1989 to 1993. She was the wife of Carlos Andrés Pérez. She was born in Rubio, Venezuela.
Rodríguez died of respiratory failure caused by a pulmonary embolism in Caracas on August 5, 2020 at the age of 94.
2019 UNCC shooting
The 2019 UNCC shooting was a mass shooting. It happened at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the United States at around 5:40 PM EDT on April 30, 2019.
The shooting, which occurred on the last day of classes for the spring semester. It sent six people to the hospital, two of whom were dead upon arrival, and three others were in critical condition.
The shooting occurred inside a classroom in the Woodford A. Kennedy Building while students were giving a final presentation. The suspect, Trystan Terrell, was taken into police custody.
Louis Rosenblum
Louis (Lou) Rosenblum (15 November 1923 – 4 April 2019) was an American research scientist and activist. His works were about the movement for freedom of Jews of the Soviet Union. He was a founder of the first organization to support the freedom of Soviet Jews. He was a research scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lewis Research Center.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York. Rosenblum died on 4 April 2019 at his home in Wellesley, Massachusetts at the age of 95.
Frederick Hemke
Fred Hemke, DMA "(né" Frederick Leroy Hemke, Jr.; July 11, 1935 – April 17, 2019) was an American classical saxophonist and educator. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was among the leading American composers and helped raise the recognition of classical saxophone. For a half century, from 1962 to 2012, Hemke was a full-time faculty music educator at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music. Hemke retired from Northwestern University in 2012.
Hemke died on April 17, 2019 in Evanston, Illinois at the age of 83.
Martin Kilson
Martin Luther Kilson Jr. (February 14, 1931 – April 24, 2019) was an American political scientist. He was the first black academic to be appointed a full professor at Harvard University, where he was later the Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government from 1988 until his retirement in 1999.
Kilson died on April 24, 2019 in Lexington, Massachusetts at the age of 88.
Nils John Nilsson
Nils John Nilsson (February 6, 1933 – April 23, 2019) was an American computer scientist. He was one of the founding researchers in the ideas of artificial intelligence. He was born in Saginaw, Michigan. He was the first Kumagai Professor of Engineering in computer science at Stanford University from 1991 until his retirement. His best known work was Shakey the robot.
Nilsson died on April 23, 2019, at his home in Medford, Oregon, at the age of 86.
Shakey the robot
Shakey the Robot was the first general purpose mobile AI robot.
The project combined research in robotics, computer vision, and natural language processing. Because of this, it was the first project that melded logical reasoning and physical action. Shakey was developed at the Artificial Intelligence Center of Stanford Research Institute (now called SRI International) by Nils John Nilsson from 1966 to 1972.
Petar Omčikus
Petar Omčikus (; ); October 6, 1926 – April 26, 2019) was a Serbian painter. He was a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He worked in Paris, France. He was born in Sušak, Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
Omčikus died in Belgrade, Serbia on April 26, 2019 at the age of 92.
Jo Sullivan Loesser
Elizabeth Josephine "Jo" Sullivan (August 28, 1927 – April 28, 2019) was an American actress and singer. She became a musical theatre star with her best known role in the original production of "The Most Happy Fella". She was nominated for a Tony Award in 1957. Loesser in Mounds, Illinois.
Loesser died on April 28, 2019 at her home in New York City of heart failure at the age of 91.
Elizabeth Santos Leal de Carvalho (May 5, 1946 – April 30, 2019), known professionally as Beth Carvalho, was a Brazilian samba singer, guitarist, cavaquinist and composer. She was born in Rio de Janeiro. Her works mainly focused on the indigenous people of Brazil.
Carvalho died of problems caused by a staph infection on April 30, 2019 in Rio at the age of 72.
Luis Maldonado Venegas
Luis Maldonado Venegas (November 19, 1956 – April 30, 2019) was a Mexican politician and lawyer. He was born in Mexico City. Maldonado was a member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution. He was a federal deputy representing Mexico City and the fourth electoral region in the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress from 2015 to 2018. Maldonado also was the national president of the Convergencia political party.
Maldonado died in Mexico City on April 30, 2019 from problems caused by surgery at the age of 62.
English Landing Park
English Landing Park is along the Missouri River in Parkville, Missouri, United States. There is a set of train tracks that runs along the park. It has a jogging/biking trail, several shelters for picnics, a soccer field, a baseball diamond, volleyball courts, two playgrounds and a nine-hole Frisbee golf course.
The area of English Landing Park was bought in 1838. The Power Plant Restaurant, which sits right next to the railroad tracks at the entrance to the park, was built in the mid-19th century as a coal-fired twin-boiler power plant that fed the entire city. The park later became a civil war port for the slave trade.
Parkville was not a Civil War battlefield, but there was still mass genocide as numerous slaves tried desperately to escape across the river into Free Kansas. These slaves were buried in three large unmarked cemeteries. After the Civil War, the port was abandoned and the area slowly changed from a bustling city to what is Parkville.
The park includes the historic Bridge, built 1898 which spanned Linn Branch Creek.
During the Great Flood of 1993, the park and most of Downtown Parkville were submerged under more than 15 feet of water.
On May 4, 2003, English Landing Park narrowly missed an EF1 tornado that came across the river and cut damage paralleling the railroad tracks before crossing 9 Highway.
In May 2007, the Missouri River flooded the entire park with less than 3 feet of water. The river receded approximately a week later. Also in 2007, the Power Plant Restaurant's neglected smokestack had to be torn down, eradicating an icon of the city's past.
On March 17, 2019, The river flooded up over English Landing Park all the way to the train tracks before retreating a few days later. No buildings were damaged but playground equipment and structures at the dog park were damaged and lost. Also, a bridge that goes over the Linn branch creek collapsed.
Eldon Bargewell
Major General Eldon A. Bargewell (August 13, 1947 – April 29, 2019) was an American army general. He was Commander of Delta Force from 1996 to 1998. Bargewell was born in Hoquiam, Washington. He served in the Vietnam War, Gulf War, Operation Just Cause, Operation Acid Gambit and in War in Afghanistan.
Bargewell was killed after his lawnmower crushed him on April 29, 2019 at his home in Eufaula, Alabama at the age of 71.
Hoquiam, Washington
Hoquiam ( ) is a city in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States. The population was 8,726 at the 2010 Census. Its name comes from a Native-American word meaning "hungry for wood".
Dinko Dermendzhiev
Dinko Tsvetkov Dermendzhiev (; 2 June 1941 – 1 May 2019) was a Bulgarian football player and manager.
Dermendzhiev played his all of his club career for Botev Plovdiv. He played as a forward between 1959 and 1978. He also played for Bulgaria from 1962 to 1977. He played for his country 58 times, scoring 19 goals. He was in the squad for Bulgaria at three FIFA World Cups (1962, 1966 and 1970).
Dermendzhiev later became a football manager. He was in charge of Botev Plovdiv, Levski Sofia, Lokomotiv Plovdiv, as well as many other teams. He last managed in 2001.
Dermendzhiev died of problems caused by a stroke on 1 May 2019. He was 77.
Watford City, North Dakota
Watford City is a city in North Dakota, United States. As of the 2017 census, 6,523 people lived there. It is the county seat of McKenzie County.
Caroline Bittencourt
Caroline Bittencourt (13 December 1981 – 28 April 2019) was a Brazilian model and television presenter. In 1997, she started her modelling career at the age of 15. She lived in Italy for a time and worked for fashion houses such as Valentino and Roberto Cavalli. She later worked on television for RedeTV!, as a reporter for the "Top Report" program, and on RecordTV's "Hoje em Dia". She was born in São Paulo.
On 28 April 2019, Bittencourt died by drowning during a boat trip off the coast of Ilhabela, São Paulo state. She was 37.
Luciano Comaschi
Luciano Comaschi (3 July 1931 – 30 April 2019) was an Italian football and manager. He played as a full back. He played for Brescia and Napoli. He also played for Italy at youth international level. He was born in Montichiari.
Comaschi died in Rome on 30 April 2019, at the age of 87.
Scotts Corner, California
Scotts Corner is a unincorporated community in Alameda County, California. It is 79 meters above sea level. It is on Interstate route 680, about 1.65 kilometers southeast of Sunol.
Taylor Hawkins
Oliver Taylor Hawkins (born February 17, 1972) is an American musician, best known as the drummer of the rock band Foo Fighters.
Prior to joining the band in 1997, he was the touring drummer for Alanis Morissette as well as the drummer in a progressive experimental band called Sylvia. In 2004, Hawkins formed his own side project, Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, in which he plays drums and sings. He was voted "Best Rock Drummer" in 2005 by the UK drumming magazine "Rhythm".
Cultural Materialism
Cultural Materialism is a way to understand why and how societies change. It grew in popularity by Marvin Harris in 1968 through his book The Rise of Anthropological Theory. It brings together many different ideas such as Marxism, cultural evolution, and cultural ecology.
In order to understand societies as a cultural materialist, you need to first divide up societies into three parts: infrastructure, structure, and superstructure.
Infrastructure provides the footing for the following parts, providing basic needs for the society.
Structure, is the well being of a society’s political, social, economic organizations.
Superstructure is the way ideas are used within symbols in a society.
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Japanese Canadians
Japanese Canadians are Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry.
Sweet but Psycho
"Sweet but Psycho" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Ava Max. It was released on August 17, 2018. Max wrote the song with Madison Love, William Lobban Bean, Andreas Andersen Haukeland, and its producer, Cirkut (known for his work with artists like Katy Perry).
The song has been successful worldwide, reaching number one in the UK, Switzerland, Norway, Finland, and Germany and the top ten in the US.
Australian Canadians
Portuguese Canadians
Portuguese Canadians are Canadian citizens of Portuguese ancestry.
Black Canadians is a designation used for people of full or partial Sub-Saharan African, who are citizens or permanent residents in Canada.
Gliese 832c
Gliese 832c is a extrasolar planet that goes around the red dwarf Gliese 832. It is found about 16 light years from Earth in the Grus constellation. It has 5.2 times the mass of Earth, and has a radius of 1.5 times Earth's radius. The planet is thought to be on the hot edge habitable zone: the part of the habitable zone closest to the star.
Gliese 832c is thought to lie in the habitable zone, which is the zone around a star where water can be liquid. However, it may not be hospitable to life as we know it. While it gets about as much sunlight as Earth does, the planet is probably tidally locked, This means that one side of the planet is always facing the star. This would mean that the day side of the planet is extremely hot, while the dark side is cold. Between the day and night zones, life might be able to exist.
Jamaican Canadians
American Canadians
American Canadians are Canadian citizens of American descent, or Canadians who identify to some extend with American society.
Howie Hawkins 2020 presidential campaign
The 2020 presidential campaign of Howie Hawkins, both the co-founder of the Green Party and its three time gubernatorial candidate of New York, was informally launched on April 3, 2019. Hawkins announced the formation of an exploratory committee to seek the Green Party nomination for the presidency of the United States in the 2020 presidential election.
On May 28, 2019, Hawkins officially announced his campaign's launch. In June 2020, he became the presumptive nominee for the Green Party nomination.
Dario Hunter 2020 presidential campaign
On January 21, 2019, rabbi and member of the Youngstown, Ohio Board of Education, Dario Hunter announced the formation of an exploratory committee to run for the Green Party nomination in the 2020 United States presidential election.
On February 18, 2019, Hunter officially announced he would be running for president. Hunter is currently the only Green elected officeholder in the State of Ohio and the only candidate in the Green Party presidential primary to hold elected office.
In June 2020, he lost the nomination to Howie Hawkins.
Adam Kokesh 2020 presidential campaign
The 2020 presidential campaign of Adam Kokesh was announced on July 18, 2013, making Kokesh the first Libertarian to enter in the race for the 2020 United States presidential election.
The Fall 2017 "Taxation Is Theft" national tour was a preparation period where Kokesh championed his voluntaryist platform of "Nobody for President!"
On January 16, 2018 Kokesh officially filed the papers for his presidential campaign. Later the same day, he was pulled over by Texas police twice, and was arrested the second time. Kokesh was released on January 25.
John McAfee 2020 presidential campaign
The 2020 presidential campaign of John McAfee, anti-virus software pioneer and cryptocurrency investor, was formally launched on June 3, 2018.
McAfee announced on June 3, 2018 via Twitter that he would run for President of the United States again in 2020, either with the Libertarian Party or under a party of his own creation. McAfee insisted that he did not want to be president, and that his primary goal in running for office was to raise awareness of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
On January 3, 2019, McAfee revealed on Twitter that he had not paid federal income taxes for eight years, claiming that the income tax was illegal. On January 22, McAfee announced via Twitter that he would be continuing his campaign "in exile", following reports that he, his wife, and four of his campaign staff were being indicted for tax-related felonies by the IRS.
McAfee said that he was in "international waters", and had tweeted that he was on his way to Venezuela.
Arvi Parbo
Sir Arvi Hillar Parbo (10 February 1926 – 1 May 2019) was an Estonian-born Australian business executive. He was the chairman of three of Australia's largest companies at the same time. Parbo was born in Tallinn, Estonia.
Parbo joined Western Mining Corporation in 1956 and over the next 12 years held the positions of Underground Surveyor, Underground Manager, Technical Assistant to the Managing Director, and Deputy General Superintendent. He was appointed General Manager in 1968 and became a Director in 1970. In 1974, Parbo was appointed Chairman and Managing Director of Western Mining Corporation.
Parbo died in Melbourne on 1 May 2019, aged 93.
Steve Bullock 2020 presidential campaign
The 2020 presidential campaign of Steve Bullock, the Governor of Montana, began on May 14, 2019.
In 2017, Steve Bullock formed the Big Sky Values PAC to help him travel. On May 1, 2019 it was reported that he would announce his decision on a possible run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination in the week of May 13 and that he had had already hired an Iowa communications staff. On May 14, 2019, Bullock announced his candidacy.
He ended his campaign on December 2, 2019.
Dunaden
Dunaden (2006 – 30 April 2019) was a Thoroughbred racehorse. He was trained in France. In his 46 races, he won 10 and was placed in the top three 19 times. He won the 2011 Melbourne Cup, ridden by French jockey Christophe Lemaire and trained by Mikel Delzangles.
Other major wins by Dunaden include Prix de Barbeville (2011), Geelong Cup (2011), Hong Kong Vase (2011) and Caulfield Cup (2012).
Dunaden was retired in 2015. On 30 April 2019, he died after a paddock accident at Overbury Stud in England.
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Qaem Shahr
Qaem Shahr (; also known as Qā’em Shahr) is a city in Iran. It is the capital of Qaem Shahr County in the Mazandaran Province. The city had a population of 204,953 people in 2016.
Before the Iranian revolution, the city was known as Shāhi (or Ŝâhi).
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