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Wilson Dam is a dam that has a floor made of rock and soil. It is tall and long.
Gerry Fairhead
Arthur Gerald "Gerry" Fairhead (March 23, 1923 – July 5, 2019) was a Canadian sailor. He placed eighth in the Star class at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Fairhead died on July 5, 2019 at the age of 96.
Godfried Toussaint
Godfried Theodore Patrick Toussaint (1944 – July 2019) was a Canadian computer scientist. He was a Professor of Computer Science, and the Head of the Computer Science Program at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). He did research on many aspects of computational geometry and discrete geometry.
He was a co-founder of the Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, and the annual Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry.
Zebulon Pike
Zebulon Montgomery Pike (January 5, 1779 – April 27, 1813) was an American brigadier general and explorer. Pikes Peak in Colorado is named after him. As a U.S. Army officer, President Thomas Jefferson asked him to lead two journeys through the new Louisiana Purchase territory. The first was in 1805-06 to explore the upper northern parts of the Mississippi River. The second journey was in 1806-07 to explore the Southwest to the edges of the northern Spanish-colonial settlements of New Mexico and Texas. Pike's journeys happened at the same time as other journeys that happened while Thomas Jefferson was president. This include the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806) and the Thomas Freeman and Peter Custis expedition up the Red River (1806).
Pike's second journey crossed the Rocky Mountains into what is now southern Colorado. He was captured by the Spanish colonial authorities near Santa Fe. They sent Pike and his men to Chihuahua (present-day Mexico), to be questioned. Later in 1807, Pike and some of his men were led by the Spanish through Texas, and they were released near American territory in Louisiana.
In 1810, Pike wrote a book about his journeys. The book was so popular that it was translated into Dutch, French, and German languages, for publication in Europe. He later became a brigadier general in the American Army. He served during the War of 1812, until he was killed during the Battle of York, in April 1813.
Pike was born during the Revolutionary War, on January 5, 1779, near Lamberton, now called Lamington in Bedminster, New Jersey, in Somerset County, New Jersey. His mother was Isabella (Brown), and his father was Zebulon Pike. He would become similar to his father, who had started his own career in the military service of the United States in 1775, at the outset of the American Revolutionary War.
Zebulon Pike, Jr. married Clarissa Harlow Brown in 1801. They had one child who lived to become an adult, Clarissa Brown Pike. She later married President William Henry Harrison's son, John Cleves Symmes Harrison. They had four other children who died before becoming adults.
Pike was promoted to brigadier general in March 1813. Along with General Jacob Brown, Pike left Sackets Harbor, on the New York shore of Lake Ontario. This would be his last military campaign. On this campaign, Pike led soldiers in the successful attack on York (now Toronto), on April 27, 1813. Pike was killed, along with other American soldiers, by flying rocks and other debris. This was when the withdrawing British blew up its ammunition supply as Pike's troops got close to Fort York. His body was brought by ship back to Sackets Harbor. His body were buried at the military cemetery.
Pike's 20th century reputation focused on his exploration. His name appeared often on natural features, such as dams, islands, lakes, and parks.
In 1901, General William Jackson Palmer built a marble statue of Zebulon Pike. It was placed near the main entrance of the Antlers Hotel.  Pike was later honored in 1926 with a bronze medallion portrait placed in the pavilion at Tahama Spring in Monument Valley Park, Colorado Springs.
A building at Fort Knox is named in his honor.
Miriam Butterworth
Miriam Butterworth (April 14, 1918 – July 9, 2019) was an American educator, activist, and politician. She was a Democrat. In the 1940s, she supported equalize representation in the Connecticut General Assembly.
She was involved in the international peace movement and worked for peace to end the Vietnam War and later as a monitor for voting in Nicaragua. After teaching at independent schools, Butterworth was chair of the Public Utilities Control Authority. She was president of Hartford College for Women and was on the Town Council of West Hartford.
Butterworth died from heart disease on July 9, 2019 in Bloomfield, Connecticut, aged 101.
Toy &amp; Wing
Toy and Wing were an Asian-American tap dance. The group were Dorothy Toy (real name Shigeko Takahashi, May 28, 1917 – July 10, 2019) and Paul Wing (real name Paul Wing Jew, October 14, 1912 – April 27, 1997). They were known as the "Chinese Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers".
They were active in the 1930s and 1940s. They were the first Asian-Americans to enter the American tap dance scene.
Dorothy Toy was born on May 28, 1917 in San Francisco. She died on July 10, 2019 in Oakland, California at the age of 102.
Inger Berggren
Inger Berggren (23 February 1934 – 19 July 2019) was a Swedish singer. Her biggest hits were "Sol och vår" and "Elisabeth serenad", both in 1962. She participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1962. She was the mother of the actress Gunilla Röör. Berggren was born in Stockholm.
Berggren died on 19 July 2019 in Stockholm at the age of 85.
Chaser (dog)
Chaser (April 28, 2004 – July 23, 2019) was a Border Collie with the largest tested memory of any non-human animal. Chaser worked with Professor John W. Pilley, at his home in Spartanburg, South Carolina, from eight weeks old, until Pilley's death in June 2018. She was trained in a formal research project. Chaser could identify and retrieve 1,022 toys by name.
On July 23, 2019, Chaser died from natural causes, at the age of 15 years, in her home in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Redding Municipal Airport
Redding Municipal Airport (IATA:RDD IACO:KRDD FAA:RDD) is a public airport that lies 11 kilometers southeast of Redding, California. The airport was first used by the United States Army Air Force in 1942, but the military use for the airport was ended 1949.
The airport is now used for both general and commercial flights with United Express, a small branch of United Airlines, having flights to San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Michael Roth
Michael Roth (18 June 1936 – 23 July 2019) was a German engineer. He was professor of automation, specializing in microprocessor technology, computer science and sociology as well as philosophy of science. He was one of the founders of computer engineering in Germany.
Insular area
Insular area is the name for one of the territories of the United States which are not a state of the union. People that live in these areas usually have no right to vote in US elections. Sometimes, they take part in preliminary elections.
There are three areas in the Pacific Ocean:
The following areas are in the Carribean:
The term is also used for many uninhabited islands, which the US claims as its territory. Most of these are in the Pacific:
Only a few are in the Carribean:
Container garden
A container garden or pot garden is a garden that is in containers instead of in the ground.
A container in gardening may be of various sizes. It may or may not be easily portable. and is used for showing live flowers or plants. It may take the form of a pot, flower box, tub, pot, basket, tin, barrel or hanging basket.
Pots, made of terracotta or sometimes plastic, and window boxes have been the most common containers. Terracotta containers are usual for long-term use in back yards. The reason is that they are porous, and water evaporates through the pores. This keeps the contents aerated. Plastic pots are usually for short-term use, and often sold complete with flowers and earth. Window boxes are shallow and open, and may be used for above-ground windows.
Small pots are commonly called flowerpots.
Green roof
A green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or totally covered with plants. It may also include layers such as a root barrier and drainage and irrigation systems. Container gardens on roofs, where plants are in pots, are not generally true green roofs. Although, this is debated. Rooftop ponds are another kind of green roof which are used to treat greywater. Vegetation, soil, drainage layer, roof barrier and irrigation system make up a green roof.
There are reasons why a building may have a green roof. The reasons include absorbing rainwater, providing insulation, creating a habitat for wildlife, increasing benevolence and decreasing stress of the people around the roof, and helping to lower urban air temperatures and go against the heat island effect. Green roofs are able to be added on old buildings as well as new buildings. They can be put on small garages or larger industrial, commercial and municipal buildings. They effectively use the natural abilities of plants to filter water and treat air in urban and suburban areas.
There are two types of green roof:
Anders P. Ravn
Professor Anders Peter Ravn (29 October 1947 – 1 August 2019) was a Danish computer scientist.
Between 1969–73, Anders Ravn was a teaching assistant in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen (DIKU). From 1972–76, he was a systems programmer on minicomputers at the early Danish computer company A/S Regnecentralen.
He returned to academia and rose from assistant professor (1976–80) to associate professor (1980–84) at DIKU.
Ravn died on 1 August 2019 in Copenhagen at the age of 71.
David Berman (musician)
David Cloud Berman (born David Craig Berman; January 4, 1967 – August 7, 2019) was an American poet, cartoonist and singer-songwriter. He was best known for his work with indie-rock band the Silver Jews.
In January 2009, Berman announced his retirement from music in hopes of finding a meaningful way of undoing the damage that his estranged father Richard (drug lobbyist) had done to society.
Berman had written and recorded with the Silver Jews, he has also released two books: "Actual Air" (1999) and "The Portable February" (2009). In early 2019, Berman returned to music under the new band name Purple Mountains, releasing an eponymous debut album in July 2019.
Berman lived in Chicago, Illinois. He was found dead at his Brooklyn apartment on August 7, 2019 at the age of 52. The cause of death was suicide by hanging.
Jorma Kinnunen
Jorma Vilho Paavali Kinnunen (15 December 1941 – 25 July 2019) was a Finnish athlete. He competed mainly in the javelin throw. He was born in Pihtipudas. He competed for Finland in the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City where he won the silver medal.
Kinnunen died after a long illness on 25 July 2019, aged 77.
Gergely Kulcsár
Gergely Kulcsár (10 March 1934 – 12 August 2020) a Hungarian javelin thrower. He competed at the 1960, 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won two bronze medals, in 1960 and 1968, and a silver medal in 1964.
He was the Olympic flag bearer for Hungary in 1964, 1968 and 1972.
Patton Brothers
The Patton Brothers, comprising Jimmy Elliott (20 August 1931 – 25 July 2019) and Brian Elliott (born 4 September 1934), were an English comedy double act and the two older brothers of Barry and Paul Elliott, the Chuckle Brothers. They began their career as a double act in 1954.
Both Jimmy and Brian made appearances in the children's television series "ChuckleVision," alongside their younger brothers Paul and Barry. Jimmy is known as "No Slacking" due to the catchphrase.
For three months, all four brothers appeared together on the game show "3-2-1" with Ted Rogers on 17 April 1982 (Season 4, Episode 13), and also on "New Faces". Afterwards, Jimmy and Brian returned to being the Patton Brothers.
On 25 July 2019, Jimmy died of cancer at the age of 87.
Arnie Brown
Stewart Arnold Brown (January 28, 1942 – July 26, 2019) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, New York Islanders, and Atlanta Flames.
After one season in the World Hockey Association (WHA), Brown retired in 1975.
Brown died on July 26, 2019 in North Kawartha, Ontario at the age of 77.
Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino
Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino ( 18 October 1936 – 26 July 2019) was a Cuban prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Havana from 1981 to 2016. He was appointed to the College of Cardinals in 1994, the second Cuban to hold that job.
During negotiations to renew diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba, Cardinal Ortega, without public announcement, visited the White House and hand-delivered a letter from Pope Francis to President Barack Obama.
Ortega was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2018. He died on 26 July 2019 in El Cobre, Cuba at the age of 82.
Kevin Roster
Kevin "Racks" Gene Roster Jr. (March 9, 1983 – July 26, 2019) was an American poker player and activist. He had terminal cancer who moved to California where he fought to protect the state's right-to-die legislation. He supports medical aid in dying.
Roster died via medical aid in dying in Rancho Cordova, California on July 26, 2019 at the age of 36.
Carlos Cruz-Diez
Carlos Cruz-Diez (17 August 1923 – 27 July 2019) was a Venezuelan artist. He was thought to be one of the greatest artist of the 20th century. He was best known for his kinetic and op art.
His teaching and art career was based between both Paris and Caracas. His work was represented in museums and public art sites internationally, such as Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Tate Modern, London; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Centre Pompidou, París; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Colonia, and others.
Cruz-Diez died on 27 July 2019 in Paris at the age of 95.
Biljana Plavšić
Biljana Plavšić (; born 7 July 1930) is a Serbian politician. She President of Republika Srpska who was indicted in 2001 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes committed during the Bosnian War.
She plea-bargained with the ICTY and was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2003.
She was released on 27 October 2009 after serving two-thirds of her sentence. Plavšić is, together with Radovan Karadžić, the highest ranking Bosnian Serb politician to be sentenced.
Humphrey Mijnals
Humphrey Mijnals (21 December 1930 – 27 July 2019) was a Surinamese-Dutch footballer. He played international football for both the Netherlands and Suriname.
He also played 45 times in the Suriname national football team. In 1999, he was elected Surinamese footballer of the century. On 24 August 2008, Mijnals also received Sports Medal of the city of Utrecht.
Mijnals died on 27 July 2019 in Utrecht at the age of 88.
Mike Roarke
Michael Thomas Roarke (November 8, 1930 – July 27, 2019) was an American catcher and coach in Major League Baseball. He threw and batted right-handed. He stood tall and weighed . Roarke played for the Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Cardinals and the San Diego Padres.
Roarke died on July 27, 2019 in West Warwick, Rhode Island at the age of 88.
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West Warwick, Rhode Island
West Warwick is a town in Kent County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 29,191 at the 2010 census.
John Robert Schrieffer
John Robert Schrieffer (; May 31, 1931 – July 27, 2019) was an American physicist. With John Bardeen and Leon Cooper, he was a recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was known for developing the BCS theory. It was the first successful quantum theory of superconductivity.
In 2005, Schrieffer fell asleep while driving and received a sentence of two years in prison for vehicular manslaughter which killed one, and injured seven other people.
Schrieffer died on July 27, 2019 in Tallahassee, Florida at the age of 88.
Leon Cooper
Leon N Cooper (born February 28, 1930) is an American physicist. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer in 1972. He helped developed the BCS theory of superconductivity.
He is also the namesake of the Cooper pair and co-developer of the BCM theory of synaptic plasticity.
Eduardo Gómez Manzano (27 July 1951 – 28 July 2019) was a Spanish actor and comedian. He was born in Madrid, Spain. He was know for his roles in "Aquí no hay quien viva", "La que se avecina" and "Butterfly's Tongue".
Gómez died from laryngeal cancer in Madrid on 28 July 2019 at the age of 68.
Vladimir Kara-Murza Sr.
Vladimir Alexeyevich Kara-Murza (; 24 October 1959 – 28 July 2019) was a Russian journalist and television host. He was born in Moscow.
Kara-Murza died on 28 July 2019 in Moscow at the age of 59.
In 1992, with the onset of President Boris Yeltsin's democratic reforms, he joined the weekly "Itogi" programme on Channel One of Russian TV—first as editor, then as correspondent.
In 1993, along with his colleagues, joined the newly created NTV, Russia's first independent television channel founded by Vladimir Gusinsky. In April 1995, Kara-Murza became the anchor of NTV's news programme "Today at Midnight".
He was the father of opposition politician Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza.
Loek van Mil
Ludovicus Jacobus Maria "Loek" van Mil (; 15 September 1984 – 28 July 2019) was a Dutch professional baseball pitcher. At , he was one of the tallest players in the history of professional baseball.
He played for Curaçao Neptunus of the Honkbal Hoofdklasse and for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
On the Netherlands national baseball team he was the team's closer in the 2013 World Baseball Classic and the 2015 Premier 12 and appeared in the 2007 Baseball World Cup.
van Mil died on 28 July 2019 from problems caused by a hiking injury at the age of 34.
Jaipal Reddy
Sudini Jaipal Reddy (16 January 1942 – 28 July 2019) was an Indian politician. He was the member of the Lok Sabha of India for five terms.
He represented the Chevella constituency of Telangana and was a member of the Indian National Congress.
He was a Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting in the I. K. Gujral cabinet in 1998. In 1999 he returned to Indian National Congress after 21 years. In 2004 he was re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha from Miryalaguda Lok Sabha Constituency and then he was a Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting and Union Minister for Urban Development in the United Progressive Alliance-1.
In 2009 he was re-elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from the Chevella constituency and was a Union Minister for Urban Development and Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas.
He was the Union Minister for the Ministry of Earth Sciences and the Ministry of Science and Technology from 29 October 2012 to 18 May 2014.
Reddy died on 28 July 2019 at a hospital in Hyderabad of pneumonia at the age of 77.
Ruth de Souza
Ruth de Souza (May 12, 1921 – July 28, 2019) was a Brazilian actress. She was born in Rio de Janeiro. de Souza was known for her roles in "The Landowner's Daughter", "Macumba Love" and in "A Glass of Rage".
de Souza died of pneumonia on July 28, 2019 in Copacabana, Brazil at the age of 98.
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro
Copacabana () is a "bairro" (neighbourhood) located in the South Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is known for its 4 km (2.5 miles) balneario beach, which is one of the most famous in the world.
Egil Danielsen
Egil Danielsen (9 November 1933 – 29 July 2019) was a Norwegian javelin thrower. He was born in Hamar, Norway. He competed at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics. He won the gold medal in 1956. Danielsen set a new world record at 85.71 m and won the gold medal. He could never reproduce that throw. For his Olympic victory and world record Danielsen was selected Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year in 1956.
He retired after the 1960 Olympics and focused on his family and work at the Hamar Fire Brigade. In the 2000s he was a minor political candidate for the Norwegian Pensioner Party.
Enrique Lafourcade
Enrique Eduardo Lafourcade Valdenegro (14 October 1927 – 29 July 2019) was a Chilean writer, critic and journalist. He was born in Santiago de Chile. Lafourcade published at least 24 novels (over 30 by some accounts) and over a dozen anthologies and collections of short stories and essays. His novel "Palomita Blanca" (1971) sold over a million copies, making it one of the all-time best sellers in Chile. He worked for the newspaper agency "El Mercurio".
Lafourcade died on 29 July 2019 in Santiago at the age of 91.
Vasil Metodiev
Vasil Metodiev (; (6 January 1935 – 29 July 2019) was a Bulgarian football midfielder. He played for Bulgaria in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Lokomotiv Sofia.
He was a coach of Levski Sofia, where he won three Bulgarian championships, two Bulgarian Cup titles, two Cup of the Soviet Army titles, including one treble.
In 1984, as coach of Levski, he eliminated German champions VfB Stuttgart for the European Cup.
Metodiev died on 29 July 2019 in Sofia at the age of 84.
Mona-Liisa Nousiainen
Mona-Liisa Nousiainen (née Malvalehto; 20 July 1983 – 29 July 2019) was a Finnish cross-country skier. He competed in the World Cup between 2002 and 2018. Nousiainen was born in Rovaniemi, Finland. In 1999, she won the Finnish Championship in accordion playing. She studied at the Sibelius Academy.
She announced her retirement from cross-country skiing after not being selected for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Nousiainen died on 29 July 2019 of cancer at the age of 36.
Tuvya Ruebner
Tuvya Ruebner, also Rübner (; 30 January 1924 – 29 July 2019) was an Israeli poet, editor, translator and photographer. He was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. He became a member of kibbutz Merhavia. For many years he was a schoolteacher and later lectured on literature at Haifa University.
Zdeněk Srstka
Zdeněk Srstka (26 September 1935 – 29 July 2019) was a Czech actor, stuntman and weightlifter. He starred in the movie "Poslední propadne peklu" under director Ludvík Ráža in 1982. He was born in Prague. He competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1960 Summer Olympics with the result of ninth place.
Srstka died on 29 July 2019 in Prague at the age of 83.
Marcian Bleahu
Marcian David (Matty) Bleahu (14 March 1924, Brașov – 30 July 2019, Bucharest) was a Romanian geologist, speleologist, geographer, alpinist, explorer, writer and politician. He was well known for his scientific works to the development of the theories of global tectonics. He was a member of the Romanian Senate from 1990 to 2000.
Bleahu died in Bucharest on 30 July 2019 at the age of 95.
Nick Buoniconti
Nicholas Anthony Buoniconti (December 15, 1940 – July 30, 2019) was an American professional football player. He was a middle linebacker in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He played for the Boston Patriots and Miami Dolphins. He won two Super Bowls with the Dolphins. Buoniconti was added into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2001.
Buoniconti died on July 30, 2019, in Bridgehampton, New York, at the age of 78.
Deep Impact (horse)
Deep Impact (Japanese : ディープインパクト, March 25, 2002 – July 30, 2019) was a champion Japanese racehorse that won seven Japanese Domestic Grade 1 races, including all races of Japanese Triple Crown (Satsuki Sho, Tokyo Yushun and Kikuka Sho).
On 30 July 2019, Deep Impact was euthanised after suffering a cervical fracture, aged 17.
W. Roy McCutcheon
William Roy McCutcheon (July 31, 1929 – July 30, 2019) was a Canadian educator. He was the second president of Seneca College from 1984 through 1992. McCutcheon announced his retirement in 1991.
McCutcheon died on July 30, 2019, on the eve of his 90th birthday.
Werner Konrad Graf von (count of) Moltke (24 May 1936 – 29/30 July 2019) was a German decathlete. He won a European title in 1966 and finished second in 1962. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics, but failed to finish. He was born in Mühlhausen, Germany.
Von Moltke died on 29 or 30 July 2019 in Nieder-Olm, Germany at the age of 83.
Michael Patrick Smith, (born 19 January 1942), known by the professional stage name of Michael Crawford, is an English actor, comedian and singer. He is known for his role as the title role in "The Phantom of the Opera".
Since 1987, he has been the leader of the Sick Children's Trust as well and acted as a public face for the British social cause organization.
Martín Arzola Ortega
Martín Arzola Ortega (; – 31 July 2019), commonly referred to by his alias "El 53", was a Mexican convicted drug lord. He was a high-ranking leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), a criminal group based in Jalisco.
He worked under Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes (alias "El Mencho"), the alleged top leader of the CJNG. Arzola Ortega began his criminal career in 1998 as a cargo truck thief and eventually joined the Milenio Cartel, the predecessor group of the CJNG.
After several of his bosses were arrested and/or killed, he founded the CJNG with other defectors in the 2010s.
Arzonla Ortega died on 31 July 2019 in Zapopan, Jalisco after being shot dead at a mall, aged 42.
María Auxiliadora Delgado
María Auxiliadora Delgado San Martín (11 March 1937 – 31 July 2019) was an Uruguayan civil servant and health activist. She was the wife of President Tabaré Vázquez. She was First Lady of Uruguay from 2005 to 2010 and again from 1 March 2015 until her death on 31 July 2019.
Auxiliadora met her husband, Tabaré Vázquez, when he was just 16 years old, and she was 19 years old. She worked for the Caja de Jubilaciones y Pensiones (Pension Fund) for 32 years before her retirement.
Auxiliadora Delgado died of a heart attack on 31 July 2019 in Montevideo at the age of 82.
Raffaele Pisu
Raffaele Pisu (24 May 1925 – 31 July 2019) was an Italian actor and comedian. In 2005, Pisu won the Nastro d'Argento for best supporting actor for his role in Paolo Sorrentino's "The Consequences of Love".
Jean-Luc Thérier
Jean-Luc Thérier (7 October 1945 – 31 July 2019) was a French rally driver. He was the highest scoring driver in the inaugural World Rally Championship in 1973. He was the only one to win three events. He was born in Hodeng-au-Bosc, France.
Thérier died from a long-illness on 31 July 2019 in Neufchâtel-en-Bray, France at the age of 73.
Butch Walker
Bradley Glenn "Butch Walker" (born November 14, 1969) is an American singer, songwriter, musician.
Walker worked as a guitarist and performer in several rock bands in the 80s.
Along with Jayce Fincher and Mitch McLee, Wlaker formed a new band called Floyd's Funk Reviva, Their final concert was on 2001.
Walker began a solo career, releasing the albums "Left of Self-Centered" in 2002, he played a series of live shows with just acoustic guitar and vocals.
Black mustard
Black mustard ("Brassica nigra") is an annual plant grown for its seeds, which is commonly used as a spice.It is native to the Mediterranean, and has been cultivated for a very long time. With this cultivation it was also introduced to other regions of the world.
Karl Glusman
Karl Lewis Glusman (born January 3, 1988) is an American actor.
Glusman was born in New York City and raised in Portland, Oregon. His parents are of Ashkenazi Jewish, English, German, Irish, Luxembourgian and Swedish descent.
Since 2016, Glusman has been in a relationship with actress Zoë Kravitz. Kravitz said she had become engaged in February 2018. They were married June 29, 2019. They were married at Kravitz's father, Lenny Kravitz's home in Paris, France.
Tim, Timmy or Timothy Ryan may refer to:
Shrek (character)
Shrek is the main character of the movie "Shrek". He was first seen in the 1990 children’s book of the same name. He is often seen as grumpy.
He appears in all "Shrek" movies. He is voiced by Mike Myers.
Donkey (character)
Donkey (not known by any other name) is the second main character seen in the movie "Shrek". He is seen as the overly-happy and annoying sidekick of Shrek.
He appears in all the "Shrek" movies. He is voiced by Eddie Murphy.
Mariam V. Agababjan
Mariam Vladislavovna Aghababjan (born 1964) is an Armenian botanist, plant taxonomist, employee of the Institute of Botany of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. She described many species of the genus "Rhaponticoides", which was isolated from the genus Centaurea.
In 1992, under the leadership of Armen Takhtajan, she defended her thesis on the topic “Typical subgenus Centaurea” . She described for science 48 species of plants.
This author is usually abbreviated «M.V.Agab.» when citing a botanical name.
Centaurea tamanianae M. V. Agab. in Biol. Zurn. Armenii 42: 186. 1989
Aghababjan M.V., Oganesian M.E. 2000 Allium sect. Acanthoprason (Alliaceae) in southern Transcaucasia: a survey, with the description of two new species. Willdenowia. — 30. — P. 93—104
Greuter W., Gerhard W., Aghababjan M. & Hellwig F. H. 2001 (1509) Proposal to Conserve the Name Centaurea (Compositae) with a Conserved Type Taxon. — 50, no. 4. — P. 1201—1205. —
Greuter W., Aghababjan M., Wagenitz G. . Vaillant on Compositae—systematic concepts and nomenclatural impact. Taxon. — 2005. — 54, no. 1. — P. 149—174
Rhaponticoides africana M V Agab. (syn.Centaurea africana)
R ruthenica (Lam.)M V Agab. et Greuter
Centaurea tamanianae M. V. Agab.
R. taliewii
Hasmukhbhai Parekh
Hasmukh Thakordas Parekh (10 March 1911 – 1994) was an Indian financial entrepreneur, writer, and philanthropist. He played a role in the development of Industrial Credit & Investment Corporation of India, now ICICI Bank, founded the Housing Development Finance Corporation, and in 1992 was awarded the Padma Bhushan for his contribution to the finance industry in India. The London School of Economics also conferred on him an honorary fellowship.
Hasmukh Thakordas Parekh was born in Surat, Gujarat. He worked as a lecturer at St. Xavier's College, Bombay (now known as Mumbai), for three years, and later began his financial career with the stockbroking firm Harkisandass Lukhmidass. He joined ICICI as Deputy general manager in 1956, became chairman and managing director in 1972. He retired in 1976 and was Chairman of ICICI's Board until 1978.
At 66, when he had already received many honors and was stepping down from ICICI, he started a new financial institution, the Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC).
A misconception is a belief which is perhaps understandable, but wrong.
For example, many people believe that Frankenstein is the name of the monster in the story Frankenstein, but Frankenstein is really the man who created the monster.
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) is an initiative by the Government of India. It plans affordable housing for the urban poor. The target is to build 20 million affordable houses by 31 March 2022.
The total number of funded houses approved so far is 39,25,240 in urban areas. Five million rural houses will be built by March 2018 and 10 million rural houses by March 2019.
Islam in Bulgaria
Islam is the second largest religion in Bulgaria, behind Christianity. Many sources believed that Islam is the religion of 13% of the Bulgarian population. The vast majority of Bulgarian Muslims are Turkish, while almost Bulgarians are Muslims after Turkish.
Bulgaria is the main leader of the European Union by percentage of Muslims.
Valle de la Luna (Chile)
Valle de la Luna (Valley of Moon) is known for its moonlike landscape . It is located at Los Flamencos Reserve park, North Chile's Atacama Desert.
Fabrizio Saccomanni
Fabrizio Saccomanni (November 22, 1942 – August 8, 2019) was an Italian economist and politician. He was the deputy governor of the Bank of Italy. He was the Minister of Economy and Finances between April 2013 and February 2014. From April 13, 2018 until his death, Saccomanni was the chairman of UniCredit. He was born in Rome.
Saccomanni died of a heart attack in San Teodoro, Italy on August 8, 2019 at the age of 76.
Maimun Zubair
Sheikh Kyai Hajji Maimun Zubair (Jawi: ; October 28, 1928 – August 6, 2019) was an Indonesian cleric. He was the murshid of Idrisiyya Shadhili in Sarang, Rembang Regency, Central Java. In 1967, Maimun created the Pondok Pesantren Al-Anwar in his home village, Karangmangu.
Zubair was a member of the Regional People's Representative Council (DPRD) of Rembang Regency from 1971 to 1978. He became a member of the People's Consultative Assembly of the Republic of Indonesia (MPR RI) from the Central Java envoy in 1987 and served until 1999.
Zubair was born in Rembang Regency, Central Java. He died on August 6, 2019 in Mecca, Saudi Arabia while performing a religious ceremony, aged 90.
Fabio Zerpa
Fabio Pedro Alles Zerpa (4 December 1928 – 7 August 2019) was a Uruguayan actor, journalist, parapsychologist and UFO researcher. He lived in Argentina from 1951 until his death. He was born in Rosario, Uruguay. Zerpa started to give his first conferences at the beginning of the 1960s.
In 1966, he created the radio program "Más allá de la cuarta dimensión" (Beyond the Fourth Dimension). From 2001 he was the director of the on-line magazine "El Quinto Hombre" (The Fifth Man). In December 2005 Zerpa was appointed cultural ambassador of the city of Colonia, Uruguay.
Zerpa died on 7 August 2019 in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the age of 90.
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Jean-Pierre Mocky (6 July 1929 – 8 August 2019) pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, was a French movie director, actor, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Nice, France. His 1987 movie "Le Miraculé" was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. He also directed "Les Dragueurs" and starred in the movie "The Abandoned".
Mocky died at his home in Paris of kidney failure on 8 August 2019 at the age of 90.
Manfred Max-Neef
Artur Manfred Max Neef (; 26 October 1932 – 8 August 2019) was a Chilean economist and politician. Max-Neef was born in Valparaíso, Chile. He was a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley in the early 1960s. He was known for his fundamental human needs and human scale development.
In 1983, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "revitalising small and medium-sized communities through 'Barefoot Economics'." He ran for President in the 1993 election ending up in fourth place with 5.55% of the vote.
Max-Neef died on 8 August 2019 in Valdivia, Chile at the age of 86.
Stanisław Konturek
Stanisław Jan Konturek (8 October 1931 – 8 August 2019) was a Polish physiologist and gastroenterologist. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Learning from 1986 until his death in 2019. He was a professor at the Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum. He was born in Zakliczyn, Poland.
Konturek died on 8 August 2019 in Kraków, Poland at the age of 87.
Dany Carrel
Yvonne Suzanne Chazelles de Chaxel, better known as Dany Carrel, (born 20 September 1932) is a French actress. She was born in Tourane, Annam, French Indochina. She retired from acting in 1989.
Carrel's best known roles were in "Dortoir des grandes" (1953), "Women's Club" (1956), "People of No Importance" (1956), "Porte des Lilas" (1957), "Girls for the Summer" (1958), "The Goose of Sedan" (1959), "Mill of the Stone Women" (1960), "The Hands of Orlac" (1960), "Une souris chez les hommes" (1964), "A Trap for Cinderella" (1965), "La prisonnière" (1968), "Clérambard" (1969), "Trois milliards sans ascenseur" (1972) and "Schools Falling Apart" (1981).
Ingeborg Schöner
Ingeborg Schöner (born 2 July 1935) is a German actress. She was born in Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany. Her career began in 1945. Her best known roles were in "It Happened in Rome" (1957), "The First Day of Spring" (1956) and "King in Shadow" (1957).
Schöner also starred in "The Captain and His Hero" (1955), "Souvenir d'Italie" (1957), "Venice, the Moon and You" (1958), "Adorable and a Liar" (1958), "The Cow and I" (1959), "Big Request Concert" (1960), "Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West" (1964), "Legacy of the Incas" (1965), "The Long Day of Inspector Blomfield" (1968), "Mark of the Devil" (1970), "Mr. Superinvisible" (1970), "Die Supernasen" (1983) and "Guten Tag, Ramon" (2013).
Giuliano Montaldo
Giuliano Montaldo (born 22 February 1930) is an Italian movie director, screenwriter and actor. He was born in Genoa, Italy. He starred in the movies "Achtung! Banditi!" (1951) and "Gli Sbandati" (1955). In 1960, he directed his first movie called "Tiro al piccione".
His best known works as a director include: "Una bella grinta", "Grand Slam", "Gott mit uns" (1969), "Sacco and Vanzetti" (1971), "Giordano Bruno" (1973), "Tempo di uccidere" (1989–1991), and "Marco Polo".
In 1971 he was a member of the jury at the 7th Moscow International Film Festival.
Giulio Paradisi
Francesco Maselli
Francesco Maselli or Citto Maselli (born 9 December 1930) is an Italian movie director and screenwriter. He has directed 38 movies since 1949. His 1990 movie "Il segreto" was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. His other best known works include directing the movie "Gli sbandati" (1955) and for his acting role in "The Name of the Rose" (1986). Maselli was born in Rome.
George Gilder
Stu Rosen
Stuart M. Rosen (June 26, 1939 – August 4, 2019) was an American voice director and actor. He was born in Joliet, Illinois. He was best known for directing "MASK", "Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling", the first episodes of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "The Legend of Prince Valiant", "Super Secret Secret Squirrel", "2 Stupid Dogs", and "Biker Mice from Mars". An actor, he was best known for as the voice of the storyteller in "".
Rosen died on August 4, 2019 in Los Alamitos, California, at the age of 80, from cancer.
Sag Harbor, New York
Sag Harbor is an incorporated village in Suffolk County, New York, United States. It is located near Long Island. The population was 2,169 at the 2010 census.
Prime Minister of Malawi
Zita of Bourbon-Parma
Zita of Bourbon-Parma ("Zita Maria delle Grazie Adelgonda Micaela Raffaela Gabriella Giuseppina Antonia Luisa Agnese"; 9 May 1892 – 14 March 1989) was the last Empress of Austria. She was the wife of Charles I of Austria She was born a princess of the Duchy of Parma.
Leo Ortolani
Leonardo Ortolani (born 14 January 1967), better known as Leo, is an Italian comics author. He is known as the creator of the popular comic strip series" Rat-Man" and "Venerdì 12".
Cathedral Quarter, Belfast
The Cathedral Quarter is an area in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is around St Anne's Cathedral.
Johnson County Community College
Johnson County Community College (JCCC) is a public community college in Overland Park in Johnson County, Kansas.
In 1963, Johnson County Commissioners, recognizing the emerging community college movement and wanting to help the quickly growing population of Johnson County, Kansas, created a committee to determine if it's possible to create a community college in Johnson County.
The college was officially created due to a successful county election in March 1967. The campus was made possible in 1969 after Johnson County voters approved $12.9 million to be used to buy 200 acres of land in Overland Park. Construction started in 1970. Classes were moved to the new campus in the fall 1972.
JCCC has many undergraduate credit courses that are similar to the first two years of most college curricula. Class sizes are usually 25 to 30 students.
The college has 926 faculty and staff. Another 1,451 people work as adjunct faculty or part-time staff. Most faculty members have master's degrees. Many of them have or are earning doctorates. Faculty and staff have won many awards for excellence.
De Soto, Kansas
De Soto is a city in Johnson and Leavenworth counties in the U.S. state of Kansas. It is part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Most of the city, , is in Johnson County. In 2010, 5,720 people lived there.
De Soto was platted in spring 1857. It was named after sixteenth-century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.
De Soto is in northwestern Johnson County and southern Leavenworth County at (38.9791709, -94.9685783). It is along Kansas River. The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . Of that, are land and , or 1.15%, are water.
The 2010 census says that there were 5,720 people, 2,007 households, and 1,523 families living in De Soto.
Two local companies, Great American Bank and Custom Foods, Inc., and one national company, Goodcents Deli Fresh Subs, are headquartered in De Soto. Huhtamaki Americas, Inc. and Engineered Air, two international companies, chose De Soto for their North American headquarters. Merck Animal Health, one of the world's biggest manufacturers of animal health supplies, chose De Soto for one of its U.S. manufacturing facilities.
as of January 2017, the largest employers in the city are:
The De Soto government is made of a mayor and five council members. It has a president that is chosen by the council.
City Council President
City Council
The city of De Soto is served by the De Soto school district.
Other local education institutions near De Soto include:
The Johnson County Library System maintains the De Soto Downtown Library.
"The De Soto Explorer" was started in 1998, and it was De Soto's main news source for 14 years. It closed in 2012. In the fall of 2015, "Discovering De Soto" magazine released its first preview edition. In 2017, the De Soto City Council funded issues of "Discovering De Soto". This was done in order to distribute the magazine by mail and around local businesses. In 2018, the De Soto City Council funded issues of "Discovering De Soto" for the year.
"The Kansas City Star" and the "Lawrence Journal-World" both cover and deliver to De Soto.
All Kansas City stations broadcast in De Soto.
All Topeka and Kansas City stations broadcast in De Soto.
Several highways go to De Soto:
In 1857, the Atchison, Topeka, Santa Fe Railway built a railroad through northern parts of town. It was built parallel to the river. De Soto's train depot was built along a siding around 1860.
Notable people who were born in and/or have lived in De Soto include:
Ottawa University
Ottawa University (OU) is a private Baptist liberal arts university in Ottawa, Kansas. It has other campuses in other places throughout the Unites States. It was created in 1865. It is grouped with the American Baptist Churches USA. Ottawa has about 700 students on its main campus in Ottawa, 500 on its campus in Surprise, and about 4,000 students across all of its campuses and online.
The original campus is in Ottawa, Kansas. It is referred to as OUKS.
A second campus opened in August 2017 in Surprise, Arizona. It is referred to OUAZ.
OU has adult campuses in Overland Park, Kansas; Phoenix, Surprise and Queen Creek, Arizona; Brookfield, Wisconsin; and Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Ottawa University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. Its education programs in Kansas are accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education and the Kansas State Department of Education.
Wichita State University (WSU) is a public research university in Wichita, Kansas, United States. It is governed by the Kansas Board of Regents.
Wichita State University offers more than 60 undergraduate degree programs in more than 200 areas of study in six colleges. The Graduate School offers 44 master's degrees in more than 100 areas and a specialist in education degree. It offers doctoral degrees in applied mathematics; audiology; chemistry; communicative disorders and sciences; nursing practice; physical therapy; psychology (programs in human factors, community and APA-accredited clinical psychology); educational administration; aerospace, industrial and mechanical engineering; and electrical engineering and computer science.
Wichita State University also has classes at four other campuses. WSU West is in Maize. This campus has 80–100 university classes each academic semester. WSU South began started Wichita State University courses at a new facility in Derby in January 2008. The WSU Downtown Center has the university's Center for Community Support & Research and the Department of Physical Therapy. A quarter-mile northeast of campus, the Advanced Education in General Dentistry buildinghass classrooms and a dental clinic. It was built in 2011. It is next to the university's Eugene M. Hughes Metropolitan Complex, where many of WSU noncredit courses are taught.
Wichita State University started in 1886 as a private Congregational preparatory school. It was created by Rev. Joseph Homer Parker.
On July 1, 1964, the school officially entered the state system of higher education as Wichita State University (WSU).
Washburn University
Washburn University (WU) is a co-educational, public university in Topeka, Kansas, United States. It has undergraduate and graduate programs. It also has professional programs in law and business. Washburn has 550 faculty members. There are more than 6,100 undergraduate students and nearly 800 graduate students. The university's assets include a $158 million endowment.
Washburn University was created in February 1865 as Lincoln College by a charter issued by the State of Kansas and the General Association of Congregational Ministers and Churches of Kansas. It was built on land given by abolitionist John Ritchie. The school was renamed Washburn College in 1868 after Ichabod Washburn gave $25,000 to the school. Washburn was a church deacon, abolitionist and industrialist who lived in Worcester, Massachusetts.
During World War II, Washburn Municipal University was one of 131 colleges and universities in the United States that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program. It was a program which offered students a path to a Navy commission.
On June 8, 1966, much of the campus was destroyed by a tornado. All of the trees were gone too.
The Washburn School of Law was created in 1903. It was one of the first in the country to have a legal clinic where students are able to actively practice the law. The Washburn Law Library has over 380,000 volumes. It is the biggest in Kansas. Notable graduates include Bob Dole, Roy Wilford Riegle, Dennis Moore, Kim Phillips, Bill Kurtis and Fred Phelps.
"The name of Washburn shall never fall,
Midst the great and small, she's the best of all;
For her fair name,
Then, we'll win the game,
And add another victor's crown
So then, we'll smash, crash against the line
"As in Auld Lang Syne,"
Crush them down,
So Cheer now, yes, cheer, cheer, cheer
Just for Washburn and her team!"
Opportunity zone
An opportunity zone is a geographic area in the United States where investments are exempt from Captial Gains tax. The concept of opprtunity zone was introduced in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 by the Trump administration. They are similar to Enterprise zones, a concept introduced in the 1980s in the United Kingdom.
In the United Kingdom enterprise zones were meant to make it easier for people living living there to start a business and to provide tax incentives to encourage locals to invest in them.
In the United States empowerment zones were introduced in 1993 to allow local governments to compete for grants and tax incentives. The 2017 law allows state governors to designate up to 25% of low-income census tracts in their state as opportunity zones. There are 8,700 opportunity zones in the United States. They cover 35 million Americans. Investors in those zones can defer capital gains tax until 2026. This helps investors lower their tax burden.
Fort Hays State University
Fort Hays State University (FHSU) is a public university in Hays, Kansas. It is the third-biggest of the six state universities governed by the Kansas Board of Regents. They have about 15,100 students (4,648 on campus, 6,882 online, 3,570 Chinese program).
During the Great Flood of 1951, a tributary of the Kansas River flooded nearly all of campus. It forced a midnight evacuation.
Student Media at Fort Hays is housed under the banner Tiger Media Network. It includes radio and TV, coming from their website.
Delaware River (Kansas)
Tornado outbreak sequence of June 1966
The Tornado outbreak sequence of June 1966 was a series of tornado outbreaks which happened between June 2 and June 12.
The worst tornado of this event happened on the early evening of Wednesday, June 8, 1966. This was when Topeka, Kansas was hit by an F5 rated tornado. It started in the southwest Topeka, and it moved northeast. It went through several neighborhoods and over a local landmark named Burnett's Mound. 57 tornadoes were confirmed during the 11-day span, which left 18 people dead and 543 injured.