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In April 1978, Richmond was arrested in Washington for soliciting sex from a 16-year-old boy. In 1982 Richmond was convicted on federal corruption charges, which included possession of marijuana and payment of an illegal gratuity to a Brooklyn Navy Yard employee. As part of a plea bargain he was forced to resign from office.
Richmond was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied at Boston University.
With a personal fortune estimated at $32 million, Richmond was one of the wealthiest members of Congress.
Richmond died on December 28, 2019 at a nursing home in Manhattan from pneumonia, aged 96.
Richard Ottinger
Richard Ottinger (born January 27, 1929) is an American politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1965 through January 3, 1971. After leaving office, he served as a legal educator.
After retiring from Congress, Ottinger became a professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law, founding an environmental law program there, and served as the law school dean from 1994 to 1999. He currently serves as Dean Emeritus.
Ottinger was born in New York City. He studied at Harvard University, at Cornell University and at Georgetown University. He is married to June Ottinger. They have four children.
Ogden R. Reid
Ogden Rogers Reid (June 24, 1925 – March 2, 2019) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from January 3, 1963 through January 3, 1975. Before, he served as the United States Ambassador to Israel from July 2, 1959 through January 19, 1961 during the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidency.
Reid was born in New York City, New York. He graduated from Deerfield Academy and Yale University.
Reid was elected to Congress as a Republican in 1962. Reid was on the liberal fringe of the GOP and faced repeated challenges in primaries. On March 22, 1972, he switched parties and joined the Democratic Party. Reid said that he could not support Richard Nixon for re-election and the Republican Party had "moved to the right" and was "not showing the compassion and sensitivity to meet the problems of the average American." He turned back a Republican challenge later on in 1972.
Reid declined to seek re-election in 1974 and he ran for Governor of New York briefly, dropping out of the race before the election.
Reid died on March 2, 2019, at his home in Waccabuc, New York, at the age of 93.
Harris W. Fawell
Harris William Fawell (born March 25, 1929) is an American politician. He was a Republican member of the Illinois Senate from 1963 to 1977, and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1968 and 1988.
In 1976 Fawell ran unsuccessfully for the Illinois Supreme Court. In 1984, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Illinois' 13th district where he served until his retirement in 1999.
In 2008, Fawell endorsed his home state's junior United States Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States, against his party's nominee, Arizona senator John McCain.
Samuel L. Kountz
Doctor Samuel Lee Kountz, Jr. (October 30, 1930-December 23, 1981) was an American kidney transplant surgeon from Lexa, Arkansas. He was known for his work in the field of kidney transplants, and in research, discoveries, and inventions in Renal Science. In 1961, He performed the first successful Kidney transplant between humans who were not identical twins. He was also a member of a team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, who developed a device that can preserve kidneys for up to 50 hours from the time they are taken from a person's body. It is now used in hospitals and research labs around the world.
Samuel Lee Kountz first became interested in medicine at the age of eight, when he went with an injured friend to a local hospital for emergency treatment. He says he was so moved by the way the doctors' helped his friend, that he decided from that moment to become a doctor. During his senior year of high school, Kountz had met Senator J. William Fulbright, who had once been president of the University of Arkansas. The senator was so impressed by Kountz's energy and enthusiasm, that he urged him to consider the medical school at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. Kountz applied but was turned down. He spent the next two years finishing up his graduate work in chemistry at the university's Fayetteville campus. He did so well that he was awarded a full medical scholarship, and in 1954 became the first black student to be admitted to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.Kountz completed a master's degree in chemistry in 1956; two years later he received his M.D. He spent the next year as an intern with the Stanford Service of San Francisco General Hospital. In 1959, he began his surgical training at the Stanford University School of Medicine. It was at Stanford that he studied in organ transplants, and decided to make transplant surgery his life's work. In 1976 Kountz performed a kidney transplant on live television, The Today Show and inspired some 20,000 viewers to offer their kidneys to patients who needed them. In 1972 Kountz had been appointed Professor of Surgery and Chairman of the Department at the State University of New York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. He also served as Surgeon-in-Chief of Kings County Hospital. The University of Arkansas awarded him the honorary Juris Doctor in 1973. Doctor Kountz also developed the largest kidney transplant research and training program in the country at the University of California, San Francisco.
Doctor Kountz contracted a brain disease while on a speaking tour in South Africa that left him bedridden and unable to talk or care for himself. His illness was never diagnosed, and he died on December 23, 1981, at the age of 51. At the time of his death, he had personally performed some 500 kidney transplants, the most performed by any physician in the world at that time.
Naftali Bennett, Hebrew: נפתלי בנט , (born March 25, 1972 in Haifa) is an Israeli politician of HaYamin HeHadash ("New Right") and the Yamina alliance. He has been the 13th Prime Minister of Israel since 2021. Previously he belonged to HaBayit HaYehudi ("The Jewish Home"). He has been active in national politics since 2012 and has been Prime Minister since June 13, 2021, succeeding Benjamin Netanyahu.
Bennett has been a member of Knesset since 2013. He was Minister of the Economy and Minister of Religious Services in the third Netanyahu government, from 2013 to 2015. Since 2013 he has been Minister of Diaspora Affairs and since 2015 also Minister of Education, both in the fourth Netanyahu government.
As the Education minister he wants more content about Judaism in Israeli schools. This affects the secular public school system as well as religious public schools. Furthermore he is absolutely against the establishment of an independant Palestinian state.
He performed his military service in an IDF special forces combat unit in which he saw action in several operations. (He is a reservist with the rank of major). Afterwards he studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before entering into politics he worked in software, which has made him very wealthy. He was the CEO of software companies Cyota and Soluto.
After the 2021 Israel-Palestine crisis, Bennett announced that he has agreed to a deal with Yair Lapid to forge a coalition government that would remove Benjamin Netanyahu from his Prime Minister position. This is after the 2021 March election.
Naftali is an observer of Modern Orthodox Judaism. Until his election into the Knesset he was also a citizen of the United States due to his parents being US citizens who emigrated to Israel.
Crisfield, Maryland
Crisfield is a town in Somerset County, Maryland. It is on the Tangier Sound, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. According to the 2010 US census, 2,726 people lived there. Crisfield is the southernmost incorporated city in Maryland.
Arnold Clark
Sir John Arnold Clark (27 November 1927 – 10 April 2017) was a Scottish billionaire businessman. He was the chairman and chief executive of Arnold Clark Group. In April 2015, the company celebrated its 60th year in business. He was born in Glasgow. His estimated fortune in 2016 was £1.025 billion.
In the 2004 New Year Honours, Clark was knighted, for services to the motor industry, and for his community work in Scotland.
Clark died on 10 April 2017 from natural causes in his home in Glasgow at the age of 89.
Cell (Dragon Ball)
Cell (Japanese: セル, "Seru") is a fictional character and second major villain in "Dragon Ball Z".
He first appears in chapter #361 "The Mysterious Monster, Finally Appears!!" (謎の怪物、ついに出現!! "Nazo no Kaibutsu, Tsui ni Shutsugen!!) "first published in "Weekly Shōnen Jump" on March 2, 1992. Cell is an evil artificial life form, created using cells from several of the main characters in the series, that travels back in time so he can become the perfect warrior. In order to do this, he must absorb Androids #17 and #18.
In his "Imperfect" form, Cell walks fully upright on two legs (unlike his "larval" form). His facial features have not yet fully complete and he still retains an orifice-like mouth rather than normal human-like features seen in later forms. The two sections of his head go off in a V-shape. Cell has orange color parts near his abdominal area, the back of his head, and even near the area where gentials would be found. He has two wings which are both green with black spots.He has three fingers in the manga, but five fingers and three toes (just as similar as Frieza and King Cold) in the anime. He has a tail like Frieza and King Cold, but also has a stinger on the end of it. He has black sections as well near his abdominal area, in the middle between the two sections on his head, and even the black part of the opposite side of his tail. He even has visible veins in both of his arms, legs, and even some in the joints in his upper body. His eyes are pink (blue in the manga colored pages) with thin reptilian slits.
In his "Semi-Perfect" form, Cell's wings disappear, and he becomes much more humanoid, he also becomes quite a bit more muscular. While the nose is not yet fully formed, he now has an actual mouth. The two sections of his head now go straight into the air. In this form, he is taller. His tail is longer and slightly thicker than before, and comes from his back, as well as becoming orange and black. His voice is deeper than his first form. The back of his head and the black section on his forehead are now formed together as a ball in between the two sections on his head. His lips are now the color pink, and the black sections above his lips look like a mustache (but it's part of his skin). He now has light blue eyes in this form (a result of absorbing Android 17). He even has boot-like feet in this form and metal-like plates all around both of his ankles. He has the same shape of ears as Frieza's, except that his have an orange line that goes down to the chin and to both sides of the ears. His wings retreat completely into his back. In his self-destruction form, Semi-Perfect Cell bloats himself, his belly greatly expanding in size. He also claimed that his bloated appearance was unstable, and that a single touch may set him off when dissuading Gohan from trying to stop him.
In his "Perfect" form, Cell becomes much more humanoid and more intelligent, complete with both a fully-formed nose and mouth. His tail is retracted and now used to create Cell Jr's. He is also smaller than in his previous form. His wings have grown back and now are shaded black. His body is colored light-green with black spots and has black plates located on his shoulders and chest, and the plates on his ankles as well as the previously orange section near his groin are now shaded black. His skin is now pale all in his face, neck and hands, he now has purple lines in both sides of his cheeks, similar to Frieza in his first three forms, and the orange line across his ears and chin is now changed into a yellow color. His eyes are now pink, and his blue veins are now purple.
McKinney, Texas
McKinney is a city in Collin County, Texas. It is the county seat of Collin County. It is 37 mi north of Dallas.
McKinney has a total area of 62.9 square miles.
Kay Ivey
Kay Ellen Ivey (born October 15, 1944) is an American politician. She is the 54th and current Governor of Alabama. She is a member of the Republican Party.
Ivey served as the 38th Alabama State Treasurer from 2003 to 2011. She then became the 30th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama, serving from January 2011 until Robert J. Bentley's resignation on April 10, 2017 in the aftermath of a sex scandal. She beat Walter Maddox in the 2018 Alabama gubernatorial election to complete her full term. Ivey is the first woman to be Alabama's governor since Lurleen Wallace, who succeeded her husband George Wallace in 1967.
Ivey was born an only child to Boadman Nettles Ivey and Barbara Ivey. The family had been in Alabama for many generations, as her ancestor Ann Johnson Nettles Riley was one of several slave owning Nettles in the state.
In September 2019, Ivey was diagnosed with early-stage lung cancer. She was cancer-free in January 2020.
Pat Saiki
Patricia Fukuda "Pat" Saiki (born May 28, 1930) is an American politician and former school teacher. She is from Hilo in the State of Hawai'i.
Saiki served as a Republican in United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1991 and then as Administrator of the Small Business Administration under President of the United States George H. W. Bush.
In 1990, she ran and lost the Hawaii United States Senate race to Daniel Akaka. In 2008, she chaired the 2008 presidential campaign of Rudy Giuliani.
Saiki was born in Hilo, Hawaii to Japanese parents. She studied at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. She married Stanley Mitsuo Saiki. They had five children.
Larry Sharpe (wrestler)
Larry Weil (June 26, 1950 – April 10, 2017) was an American retired professional wrestler, manager and trainer. He was better known under his ring name, "Pretty Boy" Larry Sharpe. Sharpe was perhaps most well known for creating the Monster Factory professional wrestling school.
Sharpe was born and grew up in Paulsboro, New Jersey. He was the original trainer of Kevin Von Erich, and many other well-known wrestlers. He himself was trained by Mr.Fuji, Gorilla Monsoon and by Nikolai Volkoff.
Sharpe died of liver disease on April 10, 2017 in Woodbury, New Jersey at the age of 66.
James Paul Johnson
James Paul "Jim" Johnson (born June 2, 1930) is an American politician and lawyer. He served as a Republican in the United States House of Representatives representing Colorado's 4th congressional district from January 3, 1971 through January 3, 1981.
Johnson was born in Yankton, South Dakota. He earned his B.A. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1952 and later earned an LL.B. from the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado in 1959.
Johnson served in the United States Marine Corps as a jet pilot in Korea from 1952 to 1956. He was named deputy district attorney for the Eighth Judicial District of Colorado from 1959 to 1966. He was the Municipal Judge for Ault, Colorado from 1962 to 1965, and assistant district attorney from 1964 to 1966.
James H. Weaver
James Howard "Jim" Weaver (August 8, 1927 – October 6, 2020) was an American politician and environmentalist. He served as the Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Oregon serving from January 3, 1975 through January 3, 1987.
Weaver was born in Brookings, South Dakota. He enlisted in the United States Navy at the age of seventeen and served in World War II on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. Weaver moved to Oregon from Iowa, in 1947 to attend the University of Oregon.
Weaver died on October 6, 2020 in Eugene, Oregon at the age of 93.
Mike McCormack
Claude George Michael "Mike" McCormack (December 14, 1921 – November 7, 2020) was an American politician. He served as U.S. Representative from the State of Washington's Fourth Congressional District from 1971 to 1981. He was a Democrat.
McCormack was born in Baltimore, Ohio. He studied at the University of Toledo and at Washington State University.
In 1980, at age 59, in the midst of the "Reagan landslide", McCormack unsuccessfully sought a sixth term against Sid Morrison.
McCormack died in Medford, Oregon on November 7, 2020 at the age of 98.
Doris Johnson
Doris J. Johnson (born June 23, 1923) is an American former politician. She was born in the state of Washington.
Johnson served in the Washington House of Representatives as a Democrat from the 16th District, as well as the 8th District.
A school counselor, Johnson studied at Western Washington State College and earned a master's degree in education. She was raised in Bellingham, Washington. She married Harold Johnson and had a daughter. She lives in Kennewick, Washington.
Dan Gurney
Daniel Sexton Gurney (April 13, 1931 – January 14, 2018) was an American racing driver, race car constructor, and team owner who reached racing's highest levels starting in 1958.
Gurney was born in Port Jefferson, New York, but moved to California as a teenager.
Gurney won races in the Formula One, Indy Car, NASCAR, Can-Am, and Trans-Am Series. Gurney is the first of three drivers to have won races in Sports Cars (1958), Formula One (1962), NASCAR (1963), and Indy Car (1967) (the other two being Mario Andretti and Juan Pablo Montoya).
In 1967, after winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans together with A.J. Foyt, he spontaneously sprayed champagne while celebrating on the podium. Apart from starting this tradition, he also was the first to put a simple right-angle extension on the upper trailing edge of the rear wing. This device, called a Gurney flap, increases downforce and, if well designed, imposes only a relatively small increase in aerodynamic drag.
At the 1968 German Grand Prix he became the first driver ever to use a full face helmet in Grand Prix racing.
Gurney died from complications of pneumonia in Newport Beach, California on January 14, 2018, at the age of 86. He was survived by his wife Evi and their four sons, Justin, Alex, Dan Jr. and Jimmy.
List of Martin Gardner Mathematical Games columns
Martin Gardner wrote 288 consecutive "Mathematical Games" columns for the magazine "Scientific American". The first one was in January 1957. The last one was in December 1980. After 1980 other people wrote some of the columns. Gardner created 9 more columns during that time. The last "Mathematical Games" column appeared in June 1986. The list below shows all the 297 columns that Gardner wrote.
Sometimes "Scientific American" put pictures about the columns on the front cover of the magazine. There were twelve such covers. The list shows the word [cover] when there is a such a picture. Click on the word [cover] to see the picture.
Gardner wrote 5 other articles for "Scientific American". He wrote an article about flexagons in December 1956. It was really the first article about mathematical games; but it was not called that. The series of "Mathematical Games" columns began the following month. These five articles are listed below.
Irish English
Irish English is the dialect of the English language spoken in Ireland.
Pavel Morozenko
Pavel Semenovich Morozenko (; ; born July 5, 1939 – died July 14, 1991) was a Soviet movie and theatre actor.
In 1960, Morozenko graduated from the "National University of theatre, cinema and television of Karpenko-Kary", and in the same year, he made his movie debut in "Roman and Francesca", a movie directed by Vladimir Denisenko. In 1973, he was awarded the title of "Honored artist of the Ukrainian SSR".
Morozenko died on July 14, 1991. He was aged 52.
Peter Hansen
Peter Franklin Hansen (December 5, 1921 – April 9, 2017) was an American actor. He was best known for his role as lawyer Lee Baldwin on the soap opera "General Hospital" playing the role from 1965 to 1976, 1977 to 1986, briefly in 1990, and again from 1992 to 2004.
Hansen won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1979.
In 1997, he began playing the character on the sister show "Port Charles" until his retirement in 2004.
Hansen died on April 9, 2017 at his home in Santa Clarita, California from natural causes at the age of 95.
Linda Hopkins
Linda Hopkins (December 14, 1924 – April 10, 2017) was an African-American stage actress and blues and gospel singer. She has recorded classic, traditional, and urban blues, and performed R&B and soul, jazz, and show tunes since the 1950s.
During the 1970s, Hopkins performed in the Broadway musical, "Purlie", and with Sammy Davis, Jr. for nine months. In addition, she performed at President Jimmy Carter's 1977 inaugural ball.
Hopkins starred in "Me and Bessie", a one-woman show paying homage to blues singer Bessie Smith.
Hopkins died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on April 10, 2017 at the age of 92.
Harry Huskey
Harry Douglas Huskey (January 19, 1916 – April 9, 2017) was an American computer designer pioneer.
Huskey was born in Great Smoky Mountains, North Dakota. He studied at Ohio State University and at the University of Idaho.
Huskey designed and managed the construction of the Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC) at the National Bureau of Standards in Los Angeles (1949–1953). He also designed the G15 computer for Bendix Aviation Corporation, which could perhaps be considered as the first "personal" computer in the world.
Huskey was the Professor Emeritus at the University of California, after his retirement at the age of 70 in 1986. In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Huskey died at his home in Santa Cruz, California on April 9, 2017 at the age of 101.
In 2013, the Computer History Museum named him a Museum Fellow "for his seminal work on early and important computing systems and a lifetime of service to computer education."
Charles Francis "Chuck" Feeney (born April 23, 1931) is an Irish-American businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder of The Atlantic Philanthropies, one of the largest private foundations in the world.
Feeney made his fortune as a co-founder of the Duty Free Shoppers Group, which pioneered the idea of duty-free shopping. Feeney gave away his fortune in secret for many years, until a business dispute resulted in his identity being revealed in 1997. Over the course of his life, Feeney has given away more than $8 billion.
Feeney is known for his frugality, living in a rented apartment, not owning a car or a house, and flying economy-class.
Terschelling
Terschelling is an island and municipality of the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. In 2016 the municipality had about 4,800 people. The municipality covers an area of 674 km², the island an area of 86 km².
Terschelling makes part of the West Frisian Islands (Dutch: "Waddeneilanden").
It lies west of the island of Ameland and northeast of the island of Vlieland.
Vlieland
Vlieland is an island and municipality of the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. In 2016 the municipality had about 1,100 people. The municipality covers an area of 316 km², the island an area of 36 km².
Vlieland makes part of the West Frisian Islands (Dutch: "Waddeneilanden").
It lies southwest of the island of Terschelling and northeast of the island of Texel.
Schiermonnikoog is an island and municipality of the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. In 2016 the municipality had about 900 people. The municipality covers an area of 199 km², the island an area of 44 km².
Schiermonnikoog makes part of the West Frisian Islands (Dutch: "Waddeneilanden").
It lies west of the small island of Rottumerplaat and east of the island of Ameland.
Texel
Texel is an island and municipality of the province of North Holland, the Netherlands. In 2016 the municipality had about 13,600 people. The municipality covers an area of 463 km², the island an area of 161 km².
Texel makes part of the West Frisian Islands (Dutch: "Waddeneilanden").
It lies southwest of the island of Vlieland and northeast of the small island of Noorderhaaks (part of the municipality of Texel).
Main town is Den Burg.
Rottumerplaat
Rottumerplaat is an uninhabited small island of the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. It belongs to the municipality of Het Hogeland. It covers an area of 7.8 km².
Rottumerplaat makes part of the West Frisian Islands (Dutch: "Waddeneilanden").
It lies west of the small island of Rottumeroog and east of the island of Schiermonnikoog.
Rottumeroog
Rottumeroog is an uninhabited small island of the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. It belongs to the municipality of Het Hogeland. It covers an area of 2.5 km².
Rottumeroog makes part of the West Frisian Islands (Dutch: "Waddeneilanden"). It is the most eastern island.
It lies west of the German island of Borkum and east of the small island of Rottumerplaat.
Medgar Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist from Decatur Mississippi. He is best known for his work to overturn racial segregation in the United States in the 1950s and early 1960s. He was a World War II veteran. He became a field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). After the 1954 ruling of the United States Supreme Court in "Brown v. Board of Education" that segregated public schools were unconstitutional, Evers worked to get African Americans admitted to the all-white University of Mississippi. He also worked for other changes in the nation's then-segregated society, such as voting rights and registration, economic opportunity, and access to public facilities for African Americans.
Evers was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the “White Citizens' Council, a group formed in 1954 to resist integration of schools and civil rights activity in America. His murder and the resulting trials led to many civil rights protests. An all-white jury failed to convict De La Beckwith in his first two trials. He was finally convicted, however, 30 years later in a new state trial in 1994 that was based on new evidence. Evers’ wife Myrlie Evers, later became a noted activist in her own right, serving as national chair of the NAACP. His brother Charles Evers became the first African-American mayor elected in the state of Mississippi in 1969 in Fayette, Mississippi.
Evers was the third of the five children born to Jesse (Wright) and James Evers. The family included his father Jesse's two children from a previous marriage. The Evers family owned a small farm, and his father also worked at a sawmill. Evers walked twelve miles to attend segregated schools, and earned his high school diploma. Evers served in the United States Army during World War II from 1943 to 1945. He fought in the Battle of Normandy in June 1944. After the end of the war, Evers was honorably discharged as a sergeant.
In 1948, Evers enrolled at Alcorn College, now Alcorn State University majoring in business administration. He also competed on the debate, football, and track teams, sang in the choir, and was junior class president. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1952. He married classmate Myrlie Beasley in 1951 while they were still in college. Together they had three children: Darrell Kenyatta, Reena Denise, and James Van Dyke Evers.The couple moved to Mound Bayou, Mississippi, a town that was founded by African Americans. There Evers became a salesman for T. R. M. Howard's Magnolia Mutual Life Insurance Company. In 1954, Evers applied to the segregated University of Mississippi Law School as a test case for the NAACP, but his application was rejected because of his race. In late 1954, Evers was named the NAACP's first field secretary for Mississippi. In this position, he helped organize boycotts and set up new local chapters of the NAACP. He was involved with James Meredith's efforts to enroll in the University of Mississippi in the early 1960s. Evers also helped Dr. Gilbert Mason, Sr., organize the Biloxi, Mississippi wade-ins, protests against segregation of public beaches on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Evers' civil rights work and leadership made him a target of white supremacists. His public investigations into the 1955 lynching of teenager Emmett Till had made him a prominent black leader. On May 28, 1963, a Molotov cocktail was thrown into the carport of his home.
On June 12, 1963, Evers pulled into his driveway after returning from a meeting with NAACP lawyers. As he was getting out of his car he was shot in the back and the bullet passed through his heart. He was taken to a hospital in Jackson, Mississippi where he was first refused entry because of his race. After his family explained who he was, the hospital went on and admitted him. He died in the hospital about 50 minutes later.As a veteran, Evers was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.
Saint-Jean, Switzerland
Saint-Jean is a village and former municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Switzerland.
On 1 January 2009 the former municipalities of Saint-Jean, Ayer, Chandolin, Grimentz, Saint-Luc and Vissoie merged into the new municipality of Anniviers.
Noorderhaaks
Noorderhaaks or "Razende Bol" is an uninhabited small island of the province of North Holland, the Netherlands. It belongs to the municipality of Texel. It covers an area of 4 km².
Noorderhaaks makes part of the West Frisian Islands (Dutch: "Waddeneilanden"). It is the most western island.
It lies southwest of the island of Texel.
Saint-Léonard, Switzerland
Saint-Léonard is a municipality of the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. The Saint-Léonard underground lake situated there is a tourist attraction.
Saint-Luc, Switzerland
Saint-Luc is a village and former municipality of the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2009 the former municipalities of Saint-Luc, Ayer, Chandolin, Grimentz, Saint-Jean and Vissoie merged into the new municipality of Anniviers.
West Frisian Islands
The West Frisian Islands (Dutch: "Waddeneilanden", West Frisian: "Waadeilannen") make part of the Frisian Islands. They lie in the North Sea and are situated in the northern part of the Netherlands.
They consist of the following:
1. Five big islands:
2. Five small and uninhabited islands:
3. Various sandbars:
The majority of the islands and sandbars lie in the province of Friesland.
Exceptions are:
Venthône
Venthône is a municipality of the district Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
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Piave
The Piave () is a river in northern Italy. It begins in the Alps and flows southeast for more of into the Adriatic Sea near the city of Venice. It is the longest river of the Veneto region.
The Piave river has a length of , and a drainage basin with an area of approximately . It is the fifth river of Italy for length among those which flow directly into the sea.
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is at Nervesa della Battaglia in the Treviso province.
The Piave river starts on the Eastern Alps (the Carnic Alps), on the southern slopes of the Monte Peralba, in the comune of Sappada, province of Belluno, at an elevation of about , near the border with the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region.
The river flows only through the Belluno, Treviso and Venice provinces in the Veneto region and flows into the Adriatic Sea to the northwest of Venice, next to the port of "Cortellazzo", between the "comuni" of Eraclea and Jesolo. To the left of the mouth, there is a lagoon called "Laguna del Mort" formed by an old branch of the river.
After flowing, from northeast to southwest, through the Belluno province, the Piave flows through the following "comuni":
Province of Treviso:
Metropolitan City of Venice:
The main tributaries of the Piave river are:
There was an important battle in 1809 along the river during the Napoleonic Wars where the Franco-Italian army fought against Austrian troops.
In 1918, during World War I, it was the place of the "Battle of the Piave River", the last major Austro-Hungarian attack during the Italian Campaign, which failed. The Battle of the Piave was the decisive battle of World War I on the Italian Front.
Battle of Thebes
Thebes had been under Macedonian occupation since the battle of Chaeronea, which had resulted in the defeat and deposition of Thebes as the pre-eminent city-state of Southern Greece. The Thebans had reluctantly accepted this, as well as their compulsory membership in the League of Corinth, which had been previously imposed by Phillip II of Macedon, Alexander's father.
The expedition against Persia had been long in the works, and Alexander did not make it a secret that he planned to avenge the attacks on Greece by Persia a century and a half before, despite that at the time his kingdom had been a Persian vassal state. It was as a result of this planned expedition that King Darius III started to distribute money to the Greek city-states with the hope that they would rise against their new Hegemon. In addition to this, he had sent his most able general Memnon of Rhodes against the Macedonian troops that were already stationed in Ionia at this time.
In addition to this, news of Alexander had not reached the southern Greek city states for some time. He had been busy with the siege of Pelium and a rumour had reached them that he had died during the course of this siege. Demosthenes - a prominent Athenian politician - produced a man who claimed to have been present at the siege and claimed that Alexander was dead. Alexander had, indeed, been injured during this siege, so it was not a totally implausible claim to make.
Upon learning of the alleged death of Alexander, Theban exiles in Athens raced off to their native city in Boeotia and sought to incite a revolt from Macedonian rule there. The Cadmaea, the citadel that was situated upon a hill in Thebes, was occupied by a Macedonian garrison, and it was this place that the Thebans sought to attack. To this effect, they killed two Macedonian officers who had been roaming the city, and declared their independence from Macedonia.
Collin County, Texas
Collin County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 782,341 people lived there. The county seat is McKinney.
The county and the county seat are named after Collin McKinney.
The county has a total area of 886 square miles.
These school districts are in Collin County:
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John Chittick
John Chittick (February 27, 1948 – April 5, 2017) was an American HIV/AIDS expert. He was known for his series of Global AIDS Walks to fight the spread of HIV by educating youth. He worked in over 85 countries providing outreach to young people at the grassroots level.
He was a former lecturer on AIDS at Harvard School of Public Health. He spoke about adolescent HIV/AIDS nationally and internationally at conferences. He was the executive director and founder of TeenAIDS-PeerCorps, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit youth AIDS advocacy organization with its headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia. He was known to youth as "Dr. John."
Chittick died on April 5, 2017 in Portsmouth, Virginia at the age of 69.
Mária Pozsonec
Mária Pozsonec (16 January 1940 – 4 April 2017) was a Hungarian-born Slovenian politician. From 1990 and 2008, she served as representative of the Hungarian national community in the National Assembly of Slovenia.
Pozsonnec was born to Hungarian parents in the village of Dolga vas near Lendava. She studied in Subotica (Serbia), and studied pedagogy at the University of Maribor, in Slovenia. She worked as an elementary school teacher in Prekmurje.
During the 1980s, she emerged as an activist of the Hungarian minority in Slovenia.
In the first free elections in Slovenia in April 1990, she was elected to the National Assembly as the representative of the Hungarian national community. She was re-elected four times, in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004. In 2008, she was defeated by László Göncz.
She served as vice-mayor of Lendava from November 2006 till November 2011.
Pozsonec died on 4 April 2017 at the age of 77.
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Grayson County, Texas
Grayson County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 120,877 people lived there. The county seat is Sherman.
Denton County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 662,614 people lived there. The county seat is Denton.
The county was made in 1846. It was named after John B. Denton.
The county has a total area of 953 square miles.
These school districts are in Denton County:
Wise County, Texas
Wise County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 59,127 people lived there. The county seat is Decatur.
The county was created in 1856.
The county has a total area of 923 square miles.
Jack County, Texas
Jack County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 9,044 people lived there. The county seat is Jacksboro.
The county was founded in 1857.
The county has a total area of 920 square miles.
Young County, Texas
Young County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 18,550 people lived there. The county seat is Graham.
The county has a total area of 931 square miles.
Throckmorton County, Texas
Throckmorton County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 1,641 people lived there. The county seat is Throckmorton.
The county was created in 1858. It is named after William Throckmorton.
The county has a total area of 915 square miles.
Haskell County, Texas
Haskell County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 5,899 people lived there. The county seat is Haskell.
Arturo García Bustos
Arturo García Bustos (August 8, 1926 – April 7, 2017) was a Mexican painter and print maker. He was known as one of “Los Fridos” which were students who studied under Frida Kahlo at her home in Coyoacán. He was born in Mexico City.
While he was better known for his graphic work, he also did a number of murals. In 1947 he assisted Frida Kahlo with a mural at the Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez House in Coyoacán. Most of his career was spent teaching and giving lectures, seminars and conferences. He taught engraving at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Guatemala City and founded the Taller de Grabado at the Casa del Lago in Chapultepec.
Bustos died on April 7, 2017 in Coyoacán, Mexico City, aged 90. He was married to artist Rina Lazo.
J. Geils
John Warren "J." Geils Jr. (February 20, 1946 – April 11, 2017) was an American guitarist. He was a member of the rock group The J. Geils Band.
Geils was born in New York City and grew up in Far Hills, New Jersey. In 1964, he went to Northeastern University and was a trumpeter in the marching band. When he was drawn to folk musicians in Boston, he left Northeastern for Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he studied mechanical engineering.
The J. Geils Band was influenced by soul music and rhythm and blues, but it moved toward pop and rock by the time the album "Love Stinks" (EMI, 1980) came out. Their next album, "Freeze Frame", produced the song "Centerfold", which sat at number one for six weeks. Tension and conflict arose among band members, and Peter Wolf left to pursue a solo career. The band broke up in 1985.
Geils was found dead at age 71 in his Groton, Massachusetts on April 11, 2017.
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Stonewall County, Texas
Stonewall County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 1,490 people lived there. The county seat is Aspermont.
Kent County, Texas
Kent County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 808 people lived there. The county seat is Jayton.
The county has a total area of 903 square miles.
Garza County, Texas
Garza County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 6,461 people lived there. The county seat is Post.
Lynn County, Texas
Lynn County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 5,915 people lived there. The county seat is Tahoka.
The county was created in 1876.
The county has a total area of 893 square miles.
Dorothy Mengering
Dorothy Marie Mengering (July 18, 1921 – April 11, 2017) was an American television personality. She was the mother of late-night talk show host David Letterman. She made many telephone and live guest appearances on his shows: "Late Night" and "Late Show".
Following several years of appearing through telephone, Mengering (usually known as "Dave's Mom" or "Dave's Mom Dorothy", with no mention of her surname) became a recurring on-camera guest on Letterman's subsequent "Late Show", initially by covering the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway.
In 2015, Mengering suffered a stroke, but recovered months later. Mengering died on April 11, 2017 at her home in Carmel, Indiana at the age of 95. She died one day before Letterman's 70th birthday.
Douglas H. Ginsburg
Douglas Howard Ginsburg (born May 25, 1946) is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was appointed to this court at age forty in October 1986 by President Ronald Reagan, and served as its chief judge from July 2001 until February 2008.
Ginsburg was nominated by Reagan to fill a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy left by Lewis F. Powell, Jr. in October 1987, but soon withdrew from consideration after his earlier marijuana use created a controversy.
Potter Stewart
Potter Stewart (January 23, 1915December 7, 1985) was an American judge. He was the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1958 through 1981. During his tenure, he made, among other areas, major contributions to criminal justice reform, civil rights, access to the courts, and views of the Fourth Amendment.
Stewart died of a stroke at his Hanover, New Hampshire home on December 7, 1985, aged 70.
Akhilesh Das
Dr Akhilesh Das Gupta (31 March 1961 – 12 April 2017) was an Indian politician, sports executive, educator and philanthropist. He was born in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Das was the President of Badminton Association of India, Vice President of Badminton Asia Confederation, Member - Executive Council of Badminton World Federation and Vice President of Indian Olympic Association. Das served as a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1996 through 2014 and mayor of Lucknow from 1993 through 1995.
Das died on 12 April 2017 from a heart attack at a hospital in Lucknow, India, aged 56.
Amy Ridenour
Amy Moritz Ridenour (November 9, 1959 – March 31, 2017) was an American political activist. She served as president of the National Center for Public Policy Research, a Washington, D.C. conservative think tank. Ridenour held this post since the organization's founding in 1982 until her death in 2017. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Ridenour died of complications from breast cancer in Burnie, Maryland, aged 57.
Noord-Beveland
Noord-Beveland, Zeelandic: "Noôrd-Beveland" or "Noord-Beveland", is a (former) island and municipality of the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. In 2016 the municipality had about 7,400 people. The municipality covers an area of 122 km², the island an area of 86 km².
Jerrier A. Haddad
Jerrier A. "Jerry" Haddad (July 17, 1922 – March 31, 2017) was an American computer engineer. He was a fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He was born in New York City.
Haddad died on March 31, 2017, aged 94.
Schouwen-Duiveland
Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeelandic: "Schouwen-Duveland", is an island and municipality of the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. In 2016 the municipality had about 34,000 people. The municipality covers an area of 488 km², the island an area of 230 km².
Bagrat de Bagration y de Baviera
Prince "Don" Bagrat de Bagration y de Baviera, also Prince Bagrat Bagrationi-Mukhraneli" and "Prince Bagrat Bagration-Moukhransky (12 January 1949 – 20 March 2017) was a member of the Bagration dynasty which once ruled the Kingdom of Georgia in the Caucasus and a relative of the royal family of Spain.
Goeree-Overflakkee
Goeree-Overflakkee is an island and municipality of the province of South Holland, the Netherlands. In 2016 the municipality had about 48,000 people. The municipality covers an area of 422 km², the island an area of 262 km².
It was created on 1 January 2013, Goeree-Overflakkee has also been a municipality. It is made from the former municipalities of Goedereede, Dirksland, Middelharnis, and Oostflakkee.
Tholen (island)
Tholen is a (former) island of the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. In 2007 it had about 22,000 people. It covers an area of 125 km². It belongs to the municipality of Tholen.
Tholen, Zeelandic: "Tole", is a small city and municipality of the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. In 2016 the municipality had about 25,000 people.
The municipality of Tholen consists of the (former) island of Tholen and the (former) island of Sint Philipsland.
It borders the province of North Brabant.
Sint Philipsland (island)
Sint Philipsland is a (former) island of the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. In 2008 it had about 2,700 people. It covers an area of 23 km². It belongs to the municipality of Tholen.
Walcheren
Walcheren is a (former) island of the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. In 2016 it had about 114,00 people. It covers an area of 216 km². It comprises the municipalities of Middelburg, Veere and Vlissingen.
Zuid-Beveland
Zuid-Beveland used to be an island of the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. About 95,00 people were living there in 2016. It covers an area of 344 km². There are four municipalities of Borsele, Goes, Kapelle and Reimerswaal.
Tiengemeten
Tiengemeten is an island of the province of South Holland, the Netherlands. It lies in the Haringvliet and belongs to the municipality of Hoeksche Waard.
About ten people are living on the island. It covers an area of 10.5 km².
Beers, North Brabant
Beers is a village in the province of North Brabant, the Netherlands. It is part of the municipality of Cuijk and is in the very northeastern part of the province, close to the Meuse River.
As of 2016, about 1,700 people were living in Beers.
Till 1994 Beers was also a municipality.
Marion Jones
Marian Jones (Born 12 Oct 1975) is a widely known woman athlete. Her contribution for women across the ages was that she was the first women to win five track and field medals at a single Olympics. Many say that Marion Jones changed the world. What Jones did to affect future generations was prove that women can do anything, to prove that women don't have to fall under a stereotype because of the gender someone is assigned in birth. Many suspected Marion Jones accomplished so much because she was on steroids. Jones denied the allegations. In 2007, Jones admitted that she used steroids. The International Olympic Committee took away her five medals and sentenced her to six months in prison. People described Jones as a liar, and she was, but she admitted to her lies.
Clothes iron
A clothes iron (also flatiron or smoothing iron) has a handle and a flat triangle shaped surface. Electricity makes the flat surface hot. A hot iron is rubbed on clothes to make them flat and smooth. This is called ironing. The handle does not get hot because that is where it is held. They are named clothes irons because they used to be made out of the metal iron.
Cloth is made from lots of small strings. When people wear clothes or move other things made from cloth, the little strings might bend and make lumps. Because the iron is heavy and hot when it is turned on, the little strings stretch and go flat when the iron is put on top. Different kinds of cloth need to be ironed in different ways. If the iron is too hot then the cloth might get broken or burn. If the iron is too cold then the strings might stay lumpy and not go flat. Sometimes people use water with an iron, which makes steam. This can make it easier to iron clothes because the small strings get soft. Some cloth does not need to be ironed because the strings always stays flat.
No one can agree why people iron clothes. Some people think wearing clothes that have been ironed shows they are not lazy. Other people think that not ironing clothes can make them look nicer.
Bab Christensen
Barbra Karine "Bab" Christensen (8 January 1928 – 10 April 2017) was a Norwegian actress.
Christensen was born in Kristiania, Norway. She made her stage debut in 1947 at the National Theatre, and was employed at Den Nationale Scene from 1949, the National Theatre from 1952, Trøndelag Teater from 1963, Fjernsynsteatret from and Det Norske Teatret from 1970.
Christensen appeared in a small number of movies, but her best known work was in "Stevnemøte med glemte år" (1957).
She was married to Lasse Kolstad from 1957 until his death in 2012.
Christensen died on 10 April 2017 in Oslo, aged 89.
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