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David Gest

David Alan Gest (May 11, 1953 – April 12, 2016) was an American entertainer, comedian, producer and television personality. Gest produced the highest-rated musical television special in history, Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration: The Solo Years in 2001. 

Gest appeared on the 2006 series of the British reality television show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! He became the first American to have three prime-time series in the UK. Gest appeared in Celebrity Big Brother in the UK in 2016 but due to illness had to leave after 13 days. 

He was married to actress Liza Minnelli from 2002 until they divorced in 2007.

On April 12, 2016, Gest was found dead in his room at the Four Seasons Hotel in East London's Canary Wharf district, at the age of 62. His death was described by police as involving no suspicious circumstances. It was soon reported Gest died of a stroke.

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Pedro de Felipe

Pedro Eugenio de Felipe Cortés (18 July 1944 – 12 April 2016) was a Spanish footballer who played as a central defender. He was born in Madrid. de Felipe arrived at Real Madrid in 1964 at the age of 20. He won the 1965–66 European Cup while playing in seven complete matches. de Felipe gained one cap for Spain, playing the full 90 minutes in a 0–0 friendly with Turkey on 17 October 1973, in Istanbul.

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Gianroberto Casaleggio

Gianroberto Casaleggio (; 14 August 1954 – 12 April 2016) was an Italian entrepreneur and political activist. He was co-founder and chairman of Casaleggio Associati srl and editor of Beppe Grillo's blog. He was also co-founder, with Beppe Grillo, of the Five Star Movement, of which he was sometimes called "guru". Casaleggio promoted the Web in Italy as a medium for political communication.

Casaleggio died on 12 April 2016 at the age of 61, after a long-illness.

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Paul Carey

Paul Carey (March 15, 1928 – April 12, 2016) was an American broadcaster and sportscaster. He broadcast professionally in six different decades. He is a member of the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame. He was known for broadcasting the Detroit Tigers games and for producing the Detroit Tigers Radio Network from 1964 to 1971.

Carey died on April 12, 2016 in Rochester, Michigan from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), at the age of 88.

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Liang Sili

Liang Sili (; 24 August 1924 – 14 April 2016) was a Chinese rocket and missile system control scientist, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

He was the youngest son of Chinese scholar and reformist Liang Qichao. His elder brothers, Liang Sicheng and Liang Siyong, were also academicians.

Works
He was appointed at the Institute of Telecommunications Technology (Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications) and later Institute of Electronic Science (Communication Department of PLA). In 1956, Liang transferred to the Fifth Institute of Ministry of Defense. He became the deputy director of Research Office of Missile Control System, working under Qian Xuesen. He acted an important role on the design of Dongfeng 2A missile, Dongfeng 5 missile, Long March 2 rocket and Long March 3 rocket.

Liang was elected an academician of the International Academy of Astronautics in 1987, and academician of CAS in 1993. He became the vice-president of the International Astronautical Federation in 1994.

Death
Liang died on 14 April 2016 at the age of 91 in Beijing.

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Ilija Ivezić

Ilija Ivezić (20 July 1926 – 14 April 2016) was a Croatian movie actor. He was born in Ričice, Gračac, Croatia.

In a career that spanned more than fifty years, Ivezić worked with directors Fadil Hadžić, Krsto Papić, Vatroslav Mimica, Veljko Bulajić, and Antun Vrdoljak, among many others. He was known for his roles in Last of the Renegades (1964), Die Rechnung - eiskalt serviert (1966), Acting Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja (1974), The Golden Years (1993) and in Marshal Tito's Spirit (1999)

Ivezić died on 14 April 2016 in Zagreb, Croatia, aged 89.

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Manouchehr Sotoudeh

Manouchehr Sotoudeh (, 19 July 1913 – 13 April 2016) was an Iranian geographer and scholar of Persian literature. He wrote 60 books and nearly 300 articles. He is the first Iranian who published the first dialectal dictionary. He was also a professor of University of Tehran.

Sotoudeh died in Chalus, Iran from respiratory failure on 13 April 2016, aged 102.

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Mariano Mores

Mariano Martínez, better known as Mariano Mores (18 February 1918 – 13 April 2016), was a famous Argentine tango composer, pianist and conductor. He was born in Buenos Aires. 

Together with Enrique Santos Discépolo, he authored such classics as Uno (1943), Sin palabras (1946) and Cafetín de Buenos Aires (1948). Mores and José María Contursi wrote En esta tarde gris (1941), Tu piel de jazmín (1941), Grisel (1942) and Cristal (1944). He co-wrote La calesita (1953) and El patio de la morocha (1951) with Cátulo Castillo, Una lágrima tuya (1949) with Homero Manzi and, Cuartito Azul (1939) with Mario Battistella.

Mores died on 13 April 2016 in Buenos Aires at the age of 98.

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Leonie Kramer

Dame Leonie Judith Kramer (1 October 1924 – 20 April 2016) was an Australian academic, educator and professor. She is known to be the first female professor of English in Australia, first woman to chair the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the first female chancellor of the University of Sydney. She was made the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and the Companion of the Order of Australia.

Kramer died in Sydney, Australia on 20 April 2016 from complications of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 91.

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Biographical entry at Australian Women's Archives Project
University of Sydney "Chancellors" Gallery

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Marina South Pier MRT station

Marina South Pier MRT station (NS28) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station along the North South Line, in Straits View planning area, Singapore. It is the southern terminal station of the North South Line. The station is located near the Marina South Pier and the Marina Bay Cruise Centre Singapore.

Related pages
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Braddell MRT station

Braddell MRT station (NS18) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station located on the North South Line in Toa Payoh, Singapore. It was the first underground station on the MRT network with side platforms due to space constraints.

Former Codes
Formerly the code was: N9

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Boris Hybner

Boris Hybner (August 5, 1941 — April 2, 2016) was a Czech actor and mime artist. In 2010, Hybner won the Thalia Award. He was known for his movies Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983), Dissolved and Effused (1985), Cosy Dens (1999), I'm All Good (2008), Toys in the Attic (2009) and in Marguerite (2015).

Hybner died on April 2, 2016 in Prague at the age of 74 from an illness.

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Nguyen Anh 9

Nguyen Anh 9 (born Nguyen Dinh Anh, January 1, 1940 – April 14, 2016) was a Vietnamese songwriter and pianist.

Early life
He was born in Ninh Thuan Province, Vietnam on January 1, 1940. He was raised in Nha Trang and in Saigon. Nguyen Dinh Anh studied at Taberd until 1954 and went to Da Lat.

Career
Nguyen Anh 9 started his songwriting career in a very accidental way when touring Japan with Khanh Ly. Nguyen Anh 9 played the guitar he was holding right away and sang: "Không! Không! Tôi không còn, tôi không còn yêu em nữa..." ("No! No! I'm no longer, I'm no longer in love with you..."). When coming back to Vietnam, Khanh Ly suggested he write this song. At her suggestion, he finished writing his first song in a short time.

The song "Không" (No) was first recorded by Khanh Ly on vinyl with the disc title Tình ca quê hương (Native land love songs). "Không" became one of the signature songs of Elvis Phuong's singing career, as well as some other Nguyen Anh 9's songs such as "Ai đưa em về" (Who takes you home), "Chia phôi" (Parting), "Một lời cuối cho em" (One last word for you),... many performed by Elvis Phuong on the stage of Queen Bee discothèque in Saigon in early 1970s.

In 1982, Nguyen Anh 9 returned to the music industry. He continued to take part in the concerts and piano shows in many places. Nguyen Anh 9 was also invited to write the soundtracks for some movies such as Mảnh tình nghiệt ngã (Ill-fated love affair), Mênh mông tình buồn (Immensely sad love).

Death
He died of pneumonia and heart failure in Ho Chi Minh City, aged 76.

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Gareth Thomas

Gareth Daniel Thomas (12 February 1945 – 13 April 2016) was a Welsh actor. He was best known for his role as Roj Blake in the BBC science fiction television series Blake's 7, but appeared in many other movies and television programmes, including Shem in the ITV sci-fi series Star Maidens and Adam Brake in the fantasy series Children of the Stones.

Thomas died of heart failure in Surrey, Greater London on 13 April 2016, aged 71.

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Other websites
 
 Hermit.org: Biography and role listing
 Obituary - BBC

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Ahmed Brahim

Ahmed Brahim (, ʾAḥmad Ibrāhīm; 14 June 1946 – 14 April 2016) was a Tunisian politician. He was the First Secretary of Ettajdid Movement and the leader of the Democratic Modernist Pole until April 2012, when his party merged into the Social Democratic Path of which he became the president. He was the Ettajdid Movement's candidate for President of Tunisia in the 2009 presidential election. He was a professor of French at the University of Tunis; his area of study was comparative linguistics.

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Ray Thornton

Raymond Hoyt "Ray" Thornton, Jr. (July 16, 1928 – April 13, 2016) was an American politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was a member of the U.S. Representative for Arkansas' 4th congressional district from 1973 to 1979 and the 2nd district from 1991 to 1997.

He studied among others at Yale University.

Thornton died in Little Rock, Arkansas on April 13, 2016, aged 87.

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Chanhassen, Minnesota

Chanhassen is a city in Carver and Hennepin counties in the state of Minnesota. It is southwest of Minneapolis. The population was 22,952 at the 2010 census.

Background
As of the census of 2010, there were 22,952 people, 8,352 households, and 6,257 families living in the city.

Chanhassen is home to several attractions that are well-recognized throughout the state and even nationally.
 Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
 Paisley Park Studios, recording studio and former home of Prince
 Chanhassen Dinner Theatres
 Eckankar Spiritual Campus

Chanhassen is located in Minnesota's 3rd congressional district, represented by Erik Paulsen, a Republican.
President George W. Bush was the first sitting United States president to visit Chanhassen.

Companies with headquarters in Chanhassen include:
 AmericInn
 Life Time Fitness
 Snap Fitness
 Supervalu has its western satellite of the corporate headquarters in Chanhassen.

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Chanhassen Villager Newspaper

Cities in Minnesota
William M. Gray

William "Bill" Mason Gray (October 9, 1929 – April 16, 2016) was Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University (CSU), and the head of the Tropical Meteorology Project at CSU's Department of Atmospheric Sciences. He was widely regarded as a pioneer in the science of forecasting hurricanes and one of the world's leading experts on tropical storms. After retiring as a faculty member at CSU in 2005, Gray remained actively involved in both climate change and tropical cyclone research until his death.

Gray died in Fort Collins, Colorado on April 16, 2016, aged 86.

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Newton MRT station

Newton MRT station (NS21/DT11) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station in Singapore. It is an interchange station between the North South MRT Line and Downtown MRT Line. The station was formerly known as Newton Circus. It is one of the stations that is not connected from North South line to Downtown line. The station transit area is public.

History

The station was opened on 12 December 1987 and the original station code is N4. Downtown Line station was opened on 27 December 2015, reducing the need to take bus services 171 and 700/700A.

On 5 October 2017, a Platform screen door on the North South Line platform did not work. The door, which is fitted with sensors to detect when the train doors opens, did not open when the train doors opened. SMRT staffs directed passengers to the nearest working door. A similar case happened at the Downtown Line platform at Botanic Gardens station.

On 7 to 8 October, this station was the temporary terminating point for trains travelling from Marina South Pier. This was due to the Bishan tunnel flooding which caused train services to be suspended between Ang Mo Kio and Newton. Normal train services resumed at around 2pm on 8 October.

As part of Exercise Station Guard 2018, a security exercise, X-ray machines and metal detectors are used in this station. It is also used as part of a trial in November 2018.

Exits
A: Balmoral Plaza, Goldbell Towers, Scotts Rd / Bukit Timah Rd, Sheraton Towers Singapore, Alliance Francaise De Singapour, Prudential@Scotts
B: Cairnhill Community Club, Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (NEA, PUB, Newton Food Centre, Scotts Rd / Cairnhill Rd), Anglo-Chinese School (Junior)
C: Alliance Francaise De Singapour, Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road), Anglo-Chinese School (Primary), Balmoral Plaza, Barker Road Methodist Church, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

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Canberra MRT station

Canberra MRT station (NS12) is an elevated Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the North South Line, located along Canberra Link in Sembawang, Singapore. 

The station was announced on 27 June 2014. Construction began on 26 March 2016 and station opened on 3 November 2019. It will let people in the area take 10 minutes less to travel to the city centre or Jurong East. 

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Bayfront MRT station

Bayfront MRT Station (CE1/DT16) is a MRT Station in Singapore. It is an interchange station between the Circle and Downtown lines. It serves mainly the Marina Bay Sands hotel and casino, an underground walkway also provides visitors with a convenient passage to Gardens by the Bay.

Bayfront was the fifth and newest station that has a cross-platform interchange, after City Hall, Raffles Place, Jurong East and Tanah Merah.

History
This station was opened on 14 January 2012 and commuters can view the glimpse of the Downtown Line until the line opens on 22 December 2013.

Services and connections
At the platform level, there are several platforms for the Bayfront MRT Station:
Platform A, located at B2 is for trains heading towards Marina Bay (Circle Line)
Platform B, located at B3 is for trains heading towards Bukit Panjang via Promenade (Downtown Line)
Platform C, located at B3 is for trains heading towards Stadium via Promenade (Circle Line)
Platform D, located at B2 is for trains heading towards Chinatown and Expo via Downtown (Downtown Line)
In addition, bus services 97, 106, 133, 502, 518 also stops at two of the key stops at Bayfront Avenue, which is next to Marina Bay Sands and Bayfront MRT Station respectively.

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Peter Sellers (broadcaster)

Peter Heayne Joseph Sellers (1921/1922 – 22 April 2016) was a New Zealand sports broadcaster. He was born in the Wellington. He studied at Rongotai College. Sellers began working for the New Zealand Broadcasting Service in Wellington in 1952. He moved to Dunedin in 1958. He became one of the country's leading sports broadcasters, retiring in 1987. He was best known as a radio broadcaster, Sellers also presented a television sports show from the early 1960s until 1975.

Sellers died in Dunedin on 22 April 2016, aged 94.

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Kit West

Kit West (1936 – 16 April 2016) was a British special effects artist. He was known for his work in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Return of the Jedi. In his career, West has been nominated three times but won an Academy Awards for his work in special affects. He was born in London.

Awards
1983-Return of the Jedi-for Best Special Effects-Won, shared with Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren and Ken Ralston.
1981 Academy Awards-Raiders of the Lost Ark, award shared with Richard Edlund, Joe Johnston and Bruce Nicholson. Won the Oscar.
1985 Academy Awards-Young Sherlock Holmes, nomination shared with David W. Allen, John Ellis and Dennis Muren. Lost to Cocoon.
1996 Academy Awards-Dragonheart, nomination shared with Scott Squires, James Straus and Phil Tippett. Lost to Independence Day.

Death
West died on 17 April 2016 in London, aged 79.

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Zena Latto

Zena Latto (October 25, 1925 – April 5, 2016) was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist.  During the 1940s and 1950s, she played with the big band the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. She bought a baritone saxophone to stay with that group and continued to perform with the Sweethearts until 1955. Latto performed with her own band the Modern Moods from 1955 to 1957.

Latto died in Jacksonville, Florida on April 5, 2016, aged 90.

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E. M. Nathanson

Erwin "Mick" Nathanson (February 17, 1928 – April 5, 2016) was an American author. He was known as the author of the 1965 novel The Dirty Dozen. His book was made into a movie with the same name. He was born in The Bronx, New York.

Nathanson died at his home in Laguna Niguel, California from heart failure on April 5, 2016, aged 88.

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Eunos MRT station

Eunos MRT Station (EW7) is an MRT Station in Singapore. It is along the East West MRT Line. The station is located in Geylang East which is sometimes called Eunos.

Eunos MRT Station opened on 4 November 1989. The station features a Malay style roof.  This style roof can also be found at Chinese Garden (EW25) and Lakeside (EW26).

Timeline
4 November 1989: Station opened
2010: Platform Screen doors installed

Following stations
Previous: Kembangan (EW6)Next: Paya Lebar (EW8)

Former codes
Formerly the code was: E6 (1989 - 2001)

Relating pages
East West MRT Line

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One-north MRT station

one-north MRT Station (CC23) is an MRT Station in Singapore. It is a Station on the Circle MRT Line. 

The station was opened on 8 October 2011 and is the only one on the entire MRT whose name does not start with a capital letter. It is located opposite Dover and serves the Industrial estate and schools nearby.

Naming
The name one north was selected to reflect the geographical location of Singapore, at one degree north.

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Shawkan

Mahmoud Abou Zeid (Arabic محمود أبو زيد) or Shawkan (Arabic شوكان) is an Egyptian photojournalist. His photographs were published in many countries.  He has been in prison without a trial since 2013, after he took photographs of a protest in Egypt.

Work 

Many Egyptian news organizations used Shawkan's photos.  Shawkan's photos were in many international newspapers and magazines, including Time magazine, The Sun, Bild (a German newspaper) and Die Zeit.  In 2010, Shawkan went to work for Demotix, a photo agency in London. During the Arab Spring, Shawkan took photos of the Tahir Square protests in Cairo.

In 2013, Shawkan took photos of protests against the Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi in Cairo.  Police arrested him.   Two other photographers were arrested at the same time: Louis Jammes, a French photographer and Mike Giglio, a US reporter. Jammes and Giglio are free but Shawkan is still in prison.

In March 2015, Shawkan wrote a letter about his torture in prison.  Shawkan's trial was scheduled for April 23, 2016.  Shawkan went to court, but the court did not free him.  The trial was changed to May 5.

Art exhibits 

In September 2016, Shawkan's photos were exhibited in New York at Bronx Documentary Center.   His work was also shown at Photoville in New York.

The Shawkan Photo Awards 

In 2015 a photojournalism prize, The Shawkan Photo Awards, was named for Shawkan.  The first winner was Islam Osama, who took a photo of the death of activist Shaimaa Sabbagh.

Campaign for freedom 

Shawkan was arrested on August 14, 2013 during protests against the government. More than 1000 people were killed and many protesters were arrested.  Two other journalists were arrested at the same time, one from France and one from the United States. The foreign journalists were freed quickly, but Shawkan was charged with weapons possession, illegal assembly, murder and attempted murder. One of the other journalists, Mike Giglio, said Shawkan only had a camera.

Many organizations want freedom for Shawkan. The Committee to Protect Journalists made a statement. 
Amnesty International said he should be free.  Orla Guerin from the BBC, Patrick Kingsley from the Guardian, and Peter Greste from Al-Jazeera, who was also in prison in Egypt, wrote to the Egyptian president.

Awards 
 2016 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award
  from the  (organization that takes care of journalists)

References

Other websites 
 #FreeShawkan on Twitter
 Photos by imprisoned Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zeid

Egyptian people
Photojournalists
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Milltown, New Jersey

Milltown is a borough in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.

History
The Lenape (Native American people) had settlements along the Lawrence Brook. It would soon be called Lawrence Brook Mill. The 1903 classic western film The Great Train Robbery was shot in Milltown.

In March 2010, the Milltown City Council voted against changing the name of Petain Avenue. They said it would be difficult for the residents if the name changed. Petain Avenue is named for Philippe Pétain, a French World War I general who became the leader of the Vichy France government during World War II.

Geography
Milltown borough has a total area of  of land and  of water. The borough borders North Brunswick Township to the west and East Brunswick Township to the east.

Demographics

2010 Census
As of July 1, 2015, the borough's population was 7,004.

Government

Local government
The government of Milltown consists of a Mayor and a Borough Council. The council has six members. A Mayor is elected directly by the voters to a four-year term of office. In the 2009 election for governor, Republican Chris Christie received 56.2% of the vote (1,684 ballots cast), ahead of Democrat Jon Corzine with 33% (982 votes). Independent Chris Daggett received 261 votes (.09%). In this election 49% of registered voters came out to cast their votes.

Education
The Milltown Public Schools serves students in public school for Kindergarten through eighth grade. For ninth through twelfth grades, public school students attend Spotswood High School in Spotswood.

Transportation

Roads and highways
, the borough had a total of  of roadways.

Public transportation
New Jersey Transit provides local bus service on weekdays along the 811 route and Coach USA Suburban Transit provides NYC rush-hour commuter service on the 400 route.

The Raritan River Railroad used to run through Milltown. The track and freight station still remain.

Notable people
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Milltown include:
 J. Edward Crabiel (1916-1992), politician who served in the New Jersey Senate and as New Jersey Secretary of State, until forced to resign.
 David Kikoski (born 1961), jazz pianist.
 Danny Pintauro (born 1976), actor who got started as a child actor on the television soap opera As the World Turns, and in the movie Cujo, and came to prominence on the television series Who's the Boss?.
 Peter Plantec (born 1943), writer, digital artist and software designer.
 David Schwendeman (1924–2012), last full-time chief taxidermist of the American Museum of Natural History from 1959 to 1988; lifelong resident of Milltown.

References

Other websites
 Borough of Milltown website
 Milltown Public Schools
 School Data for the Milltown Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics

Middlesex County, New Jersey
Boroughs in New Jersey
John Ericson

John Ericson (sometimes spelled Erickson; September 25, 1926 – May 3, 2020) was a German-American movie and television actor. He was known for his roles in Pretty Boy Floyd (1960), Under Ten Flags (1960), Slave Queen of Babylon (1963), 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964), Operation Atlantis (1965), The Money Jungle (1968), The Bamboo Saucer (1968), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), Crash! (1977), and The Far Side of Jericho (2006).

Ericson died of pneumonia in Santa Fe, New Mexico on May 3, 2020 at the age of 93.

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Ben Roy Mottelson

Ben Roy Mottelson (born July 9, 1926) is an American-born Danish nuclear physicist.  He won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the non-spherical geometry of atomic nuclei.

Early life
Mottelson was born in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Lyons Township High School in LaGrange, Illinois. He received a Bachelor's degree from Purdue University in 1947, and a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from Harvard University in 1950.

Career
In 1950–51, James Rainwater (1917 – 1986) and Aage Bohr (1922 – 2009) had developed models of the atomic nucleus. It began learn the behaviour of the individual nucleons.  Mottelson worked with Aage Bohr to share the theoretical models with experimental data.

In three papers which were published in 1952–53, Bohr and Mottelson demonstrated close agreement between theory and experiment, for example showing that the energy levels of certain nuclei could be described by a rotation spectrum.  This work stimulated new theoretical and experimental studies.

Nobel Prize (1975)
Rainwater, Bohr and Mottelson were jointly awarded the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection".

Later career
Bohr and Mottelson continued to work together, publishing a two-volume monograph, Nuclear Structure. The first volume, Single-Particle Motion, appeared in 1969, and the second volume, Nuclear Deformations, in 1975.

Professor Mottelson is a member of the Board of Sponsors of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

He is a foreign fellow of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. In 1969, he won the Atoms for Peace Award.

Personal life
Mottelson has dual citizenship. He has both Danish and American citizenship. He lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Mottelson was married to Nancy Jane Reno from 1948 until her death in 1975. They had two sons and one daughter. Mottelson then married Britta Marger Siegumfeldt in 1983.

References

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 Nobel prize press release
 Autobiography from the Nobel foundation website
 Ben Roy Mottelson 

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American academics
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Thamirabarani River

The Thamirabarani River is a river in India. It starts flowing from the peak Agastyarkoodam in the Western Ghats hills in Papanasam of Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu.

This river had the name of Porunai in ancient Tamil country. The name of Thamirabarani is assumed from the high content of Copper in this river. This copper content also makes the water of this river, sweet or tasty.

The Thamirabarani river runs through the districts of Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi. The length of this river is . This river and its tributaries brings water to these districts. Therefore, the water is used for irrigation purposes.

The tributaries of Thamirabarani river are Gadananathi River, Manimuthar River, Pachaiyar River etc. List of dams are constructed surrounding the river.

Rivers of Tamil Nadu
Isan language

Isan is the name for a number of closely related dialects which are spoken in the Northeast of Thailand and neighbouring countries. Isan is mostly used for informal  communication. Isan consists of a number of dialects, there is no official language. People who speak one dialect usually understand the others. When Isan is written down, the Thai alphabet is used most of the time. Very rarely, the Lao alphabet, which is also used to write the Laotian language is used. About 20 million people speak the Isan language as their first language. About a third of the population of Thailand, and 80% of the speakers of Laotian understand it.

Languages of Asia
Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Pierre-Joseph Redouté (10 July 1759 in Saint-Hubert – 19 June 1840 in Paris) was a painter and botanist from the Southern Netherlands. He is known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers. He was nicknamed "the Raphael of flowers" and has been called the greatest botanical illustrator of all time. Many of the species he painted had never been illustrated before.

He was an official court artist of Queen Marie Antoinette, and he continued painting through the French Revolution and Reign of Terror.

For fifty years, Redouté was the drawing teacher to French queens and princesses. He dedicated Choix des plus belles fleurs to two of his students, Louise and Marie d’Orléans. Later, Marie d’Orléans became the first queen of the Belgians.

Principal works 
 Geraniologia, ed. Petri-Francisci Didot (1787–88)
 Traité des arbres et arbustes que l'on cultive en France, par Duhamel. Nouvelle édition, avec des figures, d'après les dessins de P. J. Redouté, 7 vols. (1800–1819)
 Les Liliacées, 8 vols. (1802–1816); Taschen America (2000) ; SCD, University of Strasbourg. (1802-1816) On line. 
 Les Roses, 3 vols. (1817–1824); French & European Pubns (1954) ; Pierre-Joseph Redoute, Sandra Raphael (Narrator), Ian Jackson (Translator), CD-ROM Octavo (2002) ; NYPL On Line. or Rare Book Room (1817–1824 from Library of Congress) or Rare Book Room (1817 from The Warnock Library).  Taschen has also published this as part of its 25th Anniversary series.
 
Choix des plus belles fleurs et de quelques branches des plus beaux fruits. Dédié à LL. AA. RR. les princesses Louise et Marie d'Orléans (1827)   
Catalogue de 486 liliacées et de 168 roses peintes par P.-J. Redouté (1829)
Alphabet Flore (1835)

Posthumously published, in 1989:
 Champignons du Luxembourg. Planches inédites de Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840). Manuscrit de Louis Marchand (1807–1843). Ministère d'Etat. Government commission for the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Independence of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg; Musée national d'histoire naturelle; Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois, 1989.

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1759 births
1840 deaths
Belgian biologists
Belgian painters
Botanists
People from Luxembourg (Belgium)
Sherman's March to the Sea

Sherman's March to the Sea is the name given to the military Savannah Campaign in the American Civil War.  This was a march of troops through Georgia that lasted from November 15 to December 21, 1864. It was led by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army.

The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, on November 15.  It ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21. His army burned military targets along with stores, other businesses, and the homes of the people who lived in their path. This ruined the Confederacy's economy and its means of travelling.

Sherman's plan of action of fighting deep inside enemy territory without any extra supplies changed American war strategy.

References 

American Civil War battles
1864 in Georgia (U.S. state)
Nina Arkhipova

Nina Nikolayevna Arkhipova (Нина Николаевна Архипова; 1 May 1921 – 24 April 2016) was a Soviet-born Russian movie and stage actress. She was a People's Artist of the RSFSR (1988). She was known for her roles in Bountiful Summer, Prosnis i poy, Burnt by the Summer. She was born in Omsk, USSR.

Arkhipova died in Moscow, Russia from complications of pneumonia on 24 April 2016, aged 94.

Recognition and Awards 
 Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1967)
 People's Artist of the RSFSR (1988)
 Order of Friendship (1996))
   Medal In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow

References

Other websites
 

1921 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Russian movie actors
Soviet movie actors
Russian stage actors
The Sweet Escape

The Sweet Escape is the second studio album by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani, released on December 1, 2006 by Interscope Records.

Track listing

Notes
  signifies an additional producer
  signifies a co-producer
  signifies an additional vocal producer
 "Wind It Up" contains interpolations from the composition "The Lonely Goatherd", written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.

Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Sweet Escape.

 Gwen Stefani – lead vocals
 Akon – keyboards, production, programming, vocals 
 Andrew Alekel – recording 
 Angel Aponte – additional recording 
 Trinka Baggetta – A&R coordination
 Matt Beck – guitar 
 Yvan Bing – assistant engineering 
 Stephen Bradley – baritone, trumpet 
 Julian Chan – recording 
 Jolie Clemens – art direction, layout
 Andrew Coleman – recording 
 Greg Collins – bass ; recording ; guitar ; additional vocal production ; additional vocals recording 
 Cindy Cooper – art and packaging coordination, photography
 Pete Davis – additional keyboards, additional mix programming 
 Loren Dawson – keyboards 
 Alex Dromgoole – assistant engineering ; guitar ; bass 
 Bojan Dugic – recording 
 David Emery – assistant engineering ; guitar 
 Ron Fair – orchestra production 
 Jason Finkel – assistant engineering 
 Nicole Frantz – art and packaging coordination, photography
 Brian "Big Bass" Gardner – mastering
 Sean Garrett – backing vocals, co-production 
 Brian Garten – recording 
 Simon Gogerly – recording 
 Mark "Exit" Goodchild – recording 
 Scheila Gonzalez – clarinet, flute, saxophone 
 Martin Gore – guitar 
 Jill Greenberg – fine art concept, photography
 Keith Gretlein – recording 
 Hart Gunther – assistant engineering 
 Richard Hawley – guitar 
 Nellee Hooper – production 
 Jimmy Iovine – A&R direction
 Neil Kanal – programming, recording ; keyboards 
 Tony Kanal – keyboards, production, programming 
 Ryan Kennedy – assistant engineering 
 Anthony LoGerfo – percussion 
 Aidan Love – programming 
 Tony Love – guitar 
 Gabrial McNair – keyboards ; baritone, trombone 
 Jonathan Merritt – recording 
 Kevin Mills – recording ; assistant engineering 
 Colin Mitchell – recording 
 Dror Mohar – assistant engineering 
 Angelo Moore – saxophone 
 The Neptunes – production 
 Ewan Pearson – programming 
 Pharrell – vocals 
 Glenn Pittman – assistant engineering 
 Mark Ralph – guitar 
 Tim Rice-Oxley – keyboards, piano 
 Kingston James McGregor Rossdale – baby sounds 
 Ian Rossiter – assistant engineering 
 Mark "Spike" Stent – mixing ; additional production 
 Swizz Beatz – production 
 Talent Bootcamp Kids – additional vocals 
 Phil Tan – mixing 
 Steve Tolle – assistant engineering 
 Rich Travali – mixing 
 Giorgio Tuinfort – co-production, keyboards, programming 
 Mark Williams – A&R direction

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

2006 albums
Gwen Stefani albums
Pop albums
Hip hop albums
R&B albums
Inge King

Inge King AM (26 November 1915 – 24 April 2016) was a German-born Australian sculptor. She received many public commissions. Her work is held in public and private collections. Her best known work is Forward Surge (1974) at the Melbourne Arts Centre. She became a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in January 1984.

References

Other websites
Inge King at the Women's Art Register 
Article in Art Forum
Capturing the spirit of the times
Article in The Age
Exhibition, Commissions and Awards list at Australia Galleries 
The sculpture of Inge King, including her 2009 exhibition "Sculpture: Maquettes and Recent Work"
Sculpture: 'MoonBird' at the Lodge, Canberra 
Inge King and Grahame King Website

1915 births
2016 deaths
Australian artists

German centenarians
German sculptors
People from Berlin
Ron Brace

Ronald "Ron" Jeffery Brace III (December 18, 1986 – April 23, 2016) was an American football nose tackle. He was drafted by the New England Patriots in the second round of the 2009 NFL Draft as a defensive end. He played college football at Boston College. He played for the Patriots from 2009 through 2012.

Brace died suddenly from an apparent heart attack on April 23, 2016 in Springfield, Massachusetts at the age of 29.

References

Other websites
New England Patriots bio 
Boston College Eagles bio 

1986 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
New England Patriots players
Sportspeople from Massachusetts
People from Springfield, Massachusetts
Harry Perkowski

Harry Walter Perkowski (September 6, 1922 – April 20, 2016) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played between 1947 and 1955 for the Cincinnati Reds & Redlegs (1947, 1949–54) and Chicago Cubs (1955). He was listed at , , he batted and threw left-handed.

Perkowski died in Beckley, West Virginia on April 20, 2016, aged 93.

Other websites
Baseball in Wartime
Baseball Library 

Baseball Todds Dugout 
Retrosheet
July 19, 1954 – Game box score
Obituary

1922 births
2016 deaths
Chicago Cubs players
Sportspeople from Virginia
Emile Ford

Emile Ford (born Michael Emile Telford Miller, 16 October 1937 – 11 April 2016) was a Saint Lucian musician and singer. He was born in Castries.  He was popular in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the leader of Emile Ford & the Checkmates. They had a number one hit in late 1959 with "What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?".  He also did pioneering work as a sound engineer.

Ford died in London on 11 April 2016, aged 78.

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1937 births
2016 deaths
Saint Lucian people
Pop singers
Pop musicians
Guitarists
Darrell Hogan

Darrell Trayler Hogan (July 2, 1926 – April 6, 2016) was an American football player. He played from 1949 through 1953 with the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League.

Hogan was born in San Antonio, Texas. He first studied at Baylor University before moving to Trinity University. Hogan was raised in Hot Wells, Texas. He coached high school football and track and field in Texas after his playing days. He was inducted into the Trinity University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2003. 

Hogan died on April 6, 2016 from heart failure in Bandera, Texas, aged 89.

References

Other websites
Just Sports Stats

1926 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Texas
Pittsburgh Steelers players
Sportspeople from San Antonio, Texas
Royston Nash

Royston Hulbert Nash (July 23, 1933 – April 4, 2016) was an English conductor. He was best known as a music director of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and, later, as the conductor of the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra.

Nash was born in Southampton, England. 

His career as a conductor began with the Royal Marines from 1957 to 1970.  He then joined D'Oyly Carte, becoming Music Director from 1971 to 1979.  There, he led the company during its centenary year in 1975 and issued a number of recordings, including the company's only recordings of Utopia, Limited, The Grand Duke, and The Zoo, as well as recordings of some rarely heard Sullivan music.  

He then moved to the United States, where he became musical director of the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra, the Nashua Symphony Orchestra, and other ensembles, until his retirement in 2007. He also founded and conducted Symphony by the Sea.

Nash died at the McCarthy Care Center in East Sandwich, Massachusetts on April 4, 2016, aged 82.

References

Other websites
  
 Photo of Nash in Massachusetts in 2011 at the CCSO's 50th Anniversary
 Royston Nash credits at Allmusic

1933 births
2016 deaths
Conductors
People from Southampton
Papa Wemba

Jules Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba, or commonly known as Papa Wemba (June 14, 1949 – April 24, 2016) was a Congolese rumba (later known as soukous) singer and musician. He was one of Africa's most popular musicians, and known in world music. He was born in Lubefu, Sankuru District, Belgian Congo. He worked with Zaiko Langa Langa and Viva la Musica.

Wemba, who suffered from epilepsy, died after suffering a seizure on stage in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire on April 24, 2016 at the age of 66.

References

Other websites
 Papa Wemba Official Web Site 
 
 Biography of Papa Wemba, Soukous Radio

1949 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from epilepsy
People from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Singers
Musicians
Smelting

Smelting is the general term for getting a metal from its natural ore. Gold is an exception because it is usually found as a pure metal. Other metals, like iron, copper, zinc, and silver, need to be got from their ore.

The process of smelting always involves heating the ore, and may also use a reducing agent like coke or charcoal. Most ores are oxides, sulfides or carbonates. This process removes the nonmetal part, leaving behind the metal. Ores are not pure, so a flux is added to carry away the impurities. Limestone is the usual flux for this purpose. It removes the impurities as slag.

Beyond this, each metal has its own special methods. Producing iron from its ore is done in a blast furnace. Producing zinc or aluminium from their ores requires (in addition to heat) electrolysis.

Iron is smelted from iron ore in large reactors called blast furnaces. A blast furnace is a tall vertical structure which is fed with coke, iron ore and limestone. When hot air is blown in the blast furnace, the coke will burn and reduce the oxygen off the ore, producing bare iron and carbon dioxide. The limestone will bind off any remaining bedrock. The iron melts in the hot temperature and is tapped off in liquid phase at the bottom. It is then worked into steel. The limestone and bedrock form a compound called slag. It can be used for making bricks, concrete or road topping. Earlier methods include Bloomery.

Aluminum is smelted in electric ovens called electric arc furnaces. The aluminum ore is poured on the bottom of the furnace and electric current is led through the ore. The temperature rises so high that the oxygen separates, leaving metallic aluminum.

Copper is poured on naked flame which burns off sulfur and other impurities, leaving raw copper. Electrolysis uses electric current to separate the copper in big pools, which contain water solution called electrolyte. An electric current is led in the pool, and all copper will gather on the electrode called cathode. 

Metallurgy and especially smelting is a key to the early civilizations. The earliest evidence of copper smelting dates from between 5500 BC and 5000 BC. The sites are in Pločnik and Belovode, Serbia.

References 

Ores
Manufacturing
River Wandle

The River Wandle is a river in south-east England. The river runs through southwest London. 

Rain falls on the North Downs, filters through the chalk and emerges on the spring line. The river is first visible at Wandle Park in Croydon. It passes through the London Boroughs of Croydon, Sutton, Merton, and Wandsworth to join the River Thames at Wandsworth. The River Wandle is between 9 and 11 miles long.

History of the River Wandle 
The river has been used since Roman times. It was heavily industrialised in the 17th and 18th centuries and was one of the most polluted rivers in England.  

In Victorian times the Wandle was one of hardest working rivers in the world. The river was used to power 68 water wheels, of which only a few survive, such as at Merton Abbey Mills.

On 17 September 2007, a chemical was accidentally flushed into the Wandle from Thames Water's Beddington sewage works. The chemical was being used to clean, but instead of being put back through the treatment works, it was accidentally put into the river. This resulted in over 2,000 fish of various species being killed. The company failed to tell the Environment Agency of the incident, as the site manager thought it wasn't important. 

Dry fly fishing was first started for catching trout from the river. Cleanups of the Wandle have improved the water quality, leading to a return of the river's once famous brown trout. This improvement in water quality has also seen other fish thrive. There are stocks of chub, roach and perch all flourishing once again with the most popular angling spots situated on the river at Colliers Wood. 

Also found in the River Wandle are water voles, otters, the common toad, and grey heron. Water voles usually live along rivers. Otters are one of the top river predators, feeding mainly on fish.

The river is managed with artificial channels, runoff ditches and a few underground stretches.

References 

Rivers of England
International Downtown Association

International Downtown Association (IDA) is an international organization dedicated to Downtowns and city centers around the world. The organization is located in Washington D.C., United States and was established in 2011. IDA is a world leader and champion for vital and livable urban centers. Through its network of diverse practitioners, its rich body of knowledge, and its unique capacity to nurture community-building partnerships, IDA provides tools, intelligence and strategies for creating healthy and dynamic centers that anchor the well-being of towns, cities and regions of the world.

Other websites 
  International Downtown Association

Urban planning organizations
1954 establishments in the United States
Washington, D.C.
International organizations
Organizations based in the United States
Michael Bond

Thomas Michael Bond, OBE (13 January 1926 – 27 June 2017) was an English author. He was best known for his Paddington Bear series of books. Bond was awarded a OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2015.

Bond died on 27 June 2017 at his London home from a short-illness at the age of 91.

References

Other websites
 Michael Bond Biography
 Paddington Bear – The Official Website
 The Herbs

1926 births
2017 deaths
Disease-related deaths in London
English children's writers
People from Berkshire