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Blake James Wheeler (born August 31, 1986) is an American professional ice hockey right winger. He is currently an unrestricted free agent. He has also played for the Boston Bruins, Atlanta Thrashers, Winnipeg Jets, and New York Rangers in the National Hockey League (NHL). He also played for EHC München in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). Career. Before playing in the NHL, Wheeler played 1 season with the Green Bay Gamblers of the United States Hockey League (USHL). He also played 3 years of college ice hockey at the University of Minnesota. During his time with University of Minnesota, he was named the WCHA Most Valuable Player in Tournament in 2007. Wheeler was drafted with the 5th overall pick by the Phoenix Coyotes in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft. Wheeler and the Coyotes could not agree on a contract and he signed an entry-level contract with the Boston Bruins on July 1, 2008. On October 9, he scored played in his first NHL games and also scored his first NHL goal against Peter Budaj of the Colorado Avalanche. On February 18, 2011, he was traded along with Mark Stuart to the Atlanta Thrashers in exchange for Boris Valabik and Rich Peverley. On July 18, 2011, he signed a two-year, $5.1 million deal with the Jets when the Thrashers relocated to Winnipeg. On October 28, 2012, Wheeler signed a contract to play for EHC München in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL) while the NHL was in a lockout. He would return after it ended and become the third-highest paid Jets player after he signed a six years, $33.6 million contract with the team on July 26, 2013. On September 4, 2018, Wheeler signed a five-year; $41.25 million extension to stay with the Jets. On July 1, 2023, the Jets would buy out the rest of Wheeler's contract. He would leave the team as the Jet's all-time leader in both points and assists and was the last player that
Álvaro "Al" Montoya (born February 13, 1985) is an American former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played parts of ten seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Phoenix Coyotes, New York Islanders, Winnipeg Jets, Florida Panthers, Montreal Canadiens, and Edmonton Oilers. He is the first Cuban American to play in the NHL. Career. Before playing in the NHL, Montoya played 15 games with the Texas Tornado and 24 games with the USA Hockey National Team Development Program of the North American Hockey League (NAHL), 3 years of college ice hockey at the University of Michigan and 2 games with the Charlotte Checkers of the ECHL. Montoya was drafted with the 6th overall pick by the New York Rangers in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft. On February 26, 2008, the Rangers sent Montoya along with Marcel Hossa to the Phoenix Coyotes for Fredrik Sjöström, David LeNeveu, and Josh Gratton. His first game in the NHL was with the Coyotes on April 1, 2009 and he was able to record a 3-0 shutout victory over the Colorado Avalanche. The Coyotes traded him to the New York Islanders for a sixth round draft pick on February 9, 2011. Montoya signed a one-year contract extension with the Islanders on March 29. On July 4, 2012, he was signed to a one-year, $601,000 deal by the Winnipeg Jets after he was released from the Islanders. On June 28, 2014, Montoya was signed as a free agent by the Florida Panthers to a two-year, $1,050,000 contract. On July 1, 2016, Montoya signed a one-year; $950,000 contract with the Montreal Canadiens. On January 2, 2017, he would sign a two-year contract to stay in Montreal. On January 4, 2018, the Canadiens traded Montoya to the Edmonton Oilers in exchange for a fourth-round pick in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft. In 2019, Montoya retired from playing professional ice hockey. On September 9, 2021, Montoya accepted a job to become a director of community outreach for the Dallas Stars.
Kumba Ialá, also spelled Yalá (15 March 1953 – 4 April 2014) was a Bissau-Guinean politician. He was the President of Guinea-Bissau from 17 February 2000 until 14 September 2003. He was also the President of the Social Renewal Party (PRS). In 2008, he became a Muslim and took the name Mohamed Ialá Embaló. He was born in Bula, Portuguese Guinea. Ialá died from cardiopulmonary arrest on 4 April 2014 in Bissau. He was 61 years old.
Metropolitan Jovan Pavlović (, ; 22 October 1936 – 3 April 2014) was a Croatian religious leader. He was the Metropolitan of Metropolitanate of Zagreb and Ljubljana of Serbian Orthodox Church. He was born in Medinci, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Pavlović died on 3 April 2014 at the Sisters of Charity Hospital in Zagreb, Croatia. He was 78 years old.
Topsham is a town in Sagadahoc County, Maine, United States. Its population was 9,560 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area. Topsham is where the Topsham Fair happens every year. History. The Pejepscot Abenaki Indians, a sub-tribe of the Anasagunticooks (now Androscoggins), used to own the land that is now Topsham. They called the this area "Sawacook." The Pejepscot Abenaki controlled the Androscoggin River. They lived and fished at Pejepscot Falls. But a plague, probably smallpox brought by Europeans, killed most of the tribe's population in 1615-1616. On June 16, 1632, the Plymouth Council gave some land that had once belonged to the Abenaki to Thomas Purchase and George Way. The land was later given to Richard Wharton, and then in 1714 it was given to the Pejepscot Company. The first sawmill there was built in 1716 on the Cathance River. In 1717 the area got its current name, Topsham. It is named after the town of Topsham in Devon, England. On January 31, 1764, Topsham was incorporated as a town by the Massachusetts General Court. Shipbuilding and lumber mills were important early businesses in Topsham. Pejepscot Falls provided the power to support industry. Lumber mills were very active between 1750 and 1770. Factories later produced things like lumber, watches, doors and pottery. Topsham and Brunswick were connected with the Underground Railroad during the years of slavery. There were safe houses and underground tunnels to hide escaped slaves in both towns.  The Brunswick and Topsham Water District was incorporated in 1903. Geography. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and is water. The Androscoggin River, the
Margo MacDonald (19 April 1943 – 4 April 2014) was a Scottish politician and television and radio presenter. She was a member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Member of Parliament (MP) and Deputy Leader. She was later an Independent Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Lothian region. She was also a schoolteacher and assisted suicide campaigner. MacDonald was born in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire. She was married to Peter MacDonald from 1965 until their divorce. They had two daughters, Petra and Zoe. She was later married to politician Jim Sillars until her death. MacDonald died from Parkinson's disease on 4 April 2014 at her home in Edinburgh. She was 70.
The Nematophytes are a paraphyletic group of land organisms, probably including some plants as well as algae. They are known only from the fossil record, from the Silurian period until the early Devonian Rhynie chert.  The lack of a clear definition of the nematophytes has led to it being used as a wastebasket taxon. All manner of tubes and cell-patterned cuticles from the Silurian are called "nematophytic".
Edwin Frederick Kagin, (November 26, 1940 – March 27, 2014) was an American lawyer. He was a founder of Camp Quest which was the first secular summer camp in the United States for the children of secularists, atheists, agnostics, brights, skeptics, naturalists, and freethinkers. He was also the National Legal Director of American Atheists from 2006 until his death in 2014. He was born in Greenville, South Carolina. Kagin's wife died in 2010. He died from heart disease on March 27, 2014 in Union, Kentucky. He was 73 years old. He was cremated. He was outlived by his four adult children.
Paul Salamunovich, (June 7, 1927 – April 3, 2014) was an American choral conductor and educator. He was the Music Director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale from 1991 to 2001. He also served as Director of Music at St. Charles Borromeo Church in North Hollywood, Los Angeles in California from 1949 to 2009. He was born in Redondo Beach, California to Croatian parents. Salamunovich died from the West Nile virus on April 3, 2014 at a hospital in Sherman Oaks, California. He was 86 years old. He was outlived by his wife and their four sons.
AlunaGeorge are Aluna Francis and George Reid, two electronic musicians from London. History. In 2009 Francis and Reid met when Reid remixed Francis' band My Toys Like Me's song "Sweetheart". AlunaGeorge's first album "Body Music" was released by Island Records.
¡Uno! is the ninth studio album by American punk rock band, Green Day. "¡Uno!" was released on September 21, 2012. It is the first album in the ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ¡Tré! trilogy. The album featured the singles "Oh Love", "Kill the DJ", and "Let Yourself Go". Lead singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong said in February 2012 that the band was in the studio, recording music for the album. He said in a statement, "We are at the most prolific and creative time in our lives... This is the best music we've ever written, and the songs just keep coming. Instead of making one album, we are making a three album trilogy. Every song has the power and energy that represents Green Day on all emotional levels. We just can't help ourselves ... We are going epic as fuck!"
¡Dos! is the tenth studio album by American punk rock band, Green Day. "¡Dos!" was released on November 9, 2012. It is the second album in the ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ¡Tré! trilogy. The album featured the single "Stray Heart". The songs "Stop When the Red Lights Flash", "Amy" and "Nightlife" were featured on the episode "Unspoken" of '. Their song "Stop When the Red Lights Flash" is also featured on the soundtrack of the 2012 racing video game, '.
Cloisonné, a French word meaning "enclosed", is a metal-working technique. It is an ancient technique for decorating metalwork objects. The resulting objects can also be called "cloisonné".  The decoration is formed by first adding compartments or cells to the metal object. This is done by soldering or sticking silver or gold wires or thin strips placed on edge. These are visible in the finished piece, separating the different compartments. Coloured enamel is the usual filling for the cells. Cloisonné enamel objects are worked on with enamel powder made into a paste, which then is fired in a kiln. In older times inlays of cut gemstones were often used.  The technique was in ancient times mostly used for jewellery and small fittings for clothes, weapons or similar small objects. They were decorated with geometric or schematic designs, with thick cloison walls. In the Byzantine Empire a technique with thinner wires were developed. This let pictorial images to be made. It was mostly used for religious images and jewellery, and by then always using enamel. By the 14th century this enamel technique had spread to China, where it was soon used for much larger vessels such as bowls and vases. The technique is common in China to the present day. Cloisonné enamel objects using Chinese-derived styles were produced in the West from the 18th century. The earliest surviving cloisonné pieces are rings in graves from 12th century BC Cyprus, using very thin wire.
Tommy Lynn Sells (June 28, 1964 – April 3, 2014) was an American serial killer. Sells is believed to have committed at least 22 murders. Sells and his twin sister were born in Kingsport, Tennessee. She died of meningitis at 18 months old. He was raised in Holcomb, Missouri by his aunt.  Sells was a homeless heavy drinker and drug addict who travelled across the United States. Prior to being prosecuted for murder, he had served prison sentences for theft and malicious wounding. He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, personality disorders, addictions and psychosis.  Sells' killing spree lasted from 1980 until 1999. He was caught on January 2, 2000. Sells was convicted of murder. He was executed on April 3, 2014 with lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, aged 49.
¡Tré! is the eleventh studio album by American punk rock band, Green Day. "¡Tré!" was released on December 7, 2012. It is the third and last album in the "¡Uno!", "¡Dos!", "¡Tré!" trilogy. The album featured the single "X-Kid". The album debuted at #13 on the "US Billboard 200" chart and the first-week sales were 58,000 copies in the United States.
"All Star" is a 1999 American rock song from Smash Mouth. It was released on May 4, 1999. It was the second single off their album "Astro Lounge". "All Star" hit #2 on the "Billboard" Modern Tracks Chart and #4 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. The song got positive reviews from the critics. It lasts three minutes and twenty one seconds. In other media. The song has been used in the 1999 movies Mystery Men and Inspector Gadget. Shrek. The song was most notably used in the beginning of the first Shrek movie where Shrek relaxes at his swamp with the song playing.
José Wilker de Almeida (20 August 1947 – 5 April 2014) was a Brazilian actor and director. His acting and directing roles include: "Xica da Silva" (1976), "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands" (1976), "Professor Kranz tedesco di Germania" (1978), "Bye Bye Brazil" (1979), "The Man in the Black Cape" (1986), "Besame Mucho" (1986), "Subway to the Stars" (1987), "Medicine Man" (1992), "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (2005), "The Greatest Love of All" (2006), "Casa da Mãe Joana" (2008), and "Casa da Mãe Joana 2" (2013). He was born in Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará. Wilker died from a heart attack on 5 April 2014 at his home in Rio de Janeiro. He was 66 years old.
Vincent Andrew Schiavelli (November 11, 1948 – December 26, 2005) was an American character actor in movies and on television.  Schiavelli was born in Brooklyn, New York City into a Sicilian-American family. Schiavelli is known for appearing in Miloš Forman movies. Movies he starred include "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Amadeus", "The People vs. Larry Flynt", and "Valmont". Schiavelli died on December 26, 2005 from lung cancer in Polizzi Generosa, Sicily, Italy, aged 57.
Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, and wilderness writer. He is known for his books "The Snow Leopard" and "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse". Matthiessen died on April 5, 2014 from leukemia in Sagaponack, New York, aged 86.
James William Thomas "Jimmy" Hill OBE (22 July 1928 – 19 December 2015) was an English football personality.  His career has taken in every role in football, including player, union leader, coach, manager, director, chairman, television executive, presenter, analyst and match official. Early life. Hill was born in Balham, London. His father was a World War I veteran. He studied at Henry Thornton Grammar School. Career. Hill started playing in 1949 with Brentford, making 87 appearances before moving to Fulham in March 1952. He played nearly 300 games, scoring 52 goals. In 1957, he became chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) In November 1961, after retiring as a player aged 33, Hill became manager of Coventry City. His time at Coventry was marked by great changes to the club, nicknamed "The Sky Blue Revolution". After winning the Division Three championship in 1963–64, and the Division Two title in 1966–67, Hill quit the club shortly before the start of the 1967–68 season.  After leaving Coventry in 1967, Hill moved into broadcasting, acting as technical adviser for the BBC. In 1999, Hill moved from the BBC to Sky Sports, where he featured on "Jimmy Hill's Sunday Supplement". It was a weekly discussion show between Hill and three football journalists talking over a Sunday breakfast. In 2007, he was replaced from the show because of his ill health. Personal life. Hill married three times, having three children by his first wife, Gloria, and two by his second, Heather. In September 2013 it was revealed that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2008. Hill died from the disease on 19 December 2015 in Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex at the age of 87.
Scott Kalvert (August 15, 1964 – March 5, 2014) was an American director, producer and writer. His best known movies are "The Basketball Diaries" (1995), "Deuces Wild" (2002) and "A Very School Gyrls Holla-Day" (2010). He was also a music video director for artists such as Cyndi Lauper, Snoop Doggy Dogg, DJ Jazzy Jeff &amp; The Fresh Prince, Bobby Brown, Taylor Dayne, Deep Blue Something, Billy Ocean, Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, LL Cool J, Samantha Fox, Eric B. &amp; Rakim and Salt 'n' Pepa. He was born in New York City, New York. Kalvert was found dead on March 5, 2014 at his home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California from an apparent suicide. He was 49 years old.
Miloš Mikeln (23 May 1930 – 2 April 2014) was a Slovenian journalist, playwright, theatre director and writer. He was president of Slovene PEN and was the "pobudnik" of the "Writers for Peace Committee", founded in 1984. He was also a member of the Slovene Writers' Association. His best known works were "Veliki voz" (1992), "Poročnik z Vipote" (2002) and "Mesto ob reki" (2008). Mikeln was born in Celje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia). He studied at the University of Ljubljana. Mikeln died from natural causes on 2 April 2014 in Ljubljana. She was 83 years old.
José Aguilar Pulsar (24 November 1958 – 4 April 2014) was a Cuban boxer. He won the light-welterweight bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. Aguilar from a stroke on 4 April 2014 in Guantánamo, Guantánamo Province. He was 55 years old.
Régine Deforges (15 August 1935 – 3 April 2014) was a French writer, editor, director and playwright. Her best known works for "Le Cahier volé" (1978), "La Bicyclette bleue" (1981), "101, avenue Henri-Martin" (1983), "Le Diable en rit encore" (1985) and "Noir tango" (1991). She was born in Montmorillon, Vienne. Deforges died from a heart attack on 3 April 2014 in Paris. She was 78 years old.
Philip "Fyvush" Finkel (October 9, 1922 – August 14, 2016) was an American actor, singer and comedian. He is best known for his role as lawyer Douglas Wambaugh on the television series "Picket Fences" and as Harvey Lipschultz, a crotchety U.S. history teacher, on the television series "Boston Public". He earned an Emmy Award for the first role in 1994. Finkel was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn of New York City, New York. He was married to playwright Gertrude Lieberman from 1947 until her death in 2008. They had two sons together, Ian and Elliot. Finkel died of a heart attack in Manhattan, New York on August 14, 2016, aged 93.
The Hell Creek Formation is a series of rocks where fossil dinosaurs are found. The strata are mostly Upper Cretaceous and some lower Paleocene rocks in North America.  The name comes from Hell Creek, near Jordan, Montana. The formation includes portions of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.  It is a series of fresh and brackish-water clays, mudstones, and sandstones deposited during the end of the Cretaceous period and the beginning of the Palaeogene. It was laid down in river channels and deltas, and occasional peaty swamp deposits. along the low-lying eastern margin of the Western Interior Seaway.  The climate was mild, and the presence of crocodilians suggests a sub-tropical climate, with no prolonged annual cold. The famous iridium-enriched Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary, which separates the Cretaceous from the Cenozoic, is a distinct thin bedding. It is above and occasionally within the formation, near its boundary with the overlying Fort Union Formation. The world's largest collection of Hell Creek fossils is housed and exhibited at the Museum of the Rockies, in Bozeman, Montana. The specimens displayed are the result of the museum's Hell Creek Project. This is a joint effort between the museum, Montana State University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of North Dakota and the University of North Carolina. The project began in 1998. The fossils discovered include all types of late Cretceous dinosaurs, fish, amphibia, and other reptiles such as turtles, crocodylomorphs, and squamata (snakes &amp; lizards). Mammals are plentiful in the Hell Creek Formation. They include multituberculates, metatherians, and eutherians.
Rolf Victor Harris (30 March 1930 – 10 May 2023) was an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, composer, painter, actor, former television personality and former swimmer. He was in prison for sexually assaulting girls. Early and personal life. Harris was born on 30 March 1930 in Bassendean, Perth, Western Australia, to Agnes Margaret (née Robbins) and Cromwell ("Crom") Harris, who had both emigrated from Cardiff, Wales. He grew up in Wembley, Western Australia. He was named after Rolf Boldrewood, the pseudonym of an Australian writer whom his mother admired. After his later fame, Harris was often referred to as "the boy from Bassendean" within Australia. As a child he owned a dog called Buster Fleabags, about whom he later wrote a book (for the UK Quick Reads Initiative). Harris attended Bassendean State School and Perth Modern School in Subiaco, later gaining a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Australia and a Diploma of Education from Claremont Teachers' College (now Edith Cowan University). While he was just 16, and still a student at Perth Modern School, his self-portrait in oils was one of the 80 works (out of 200 submitted) accepted to be hung in the Art Gallery of New South Wales as an entry in the 1947 Archibald Prize. He painted a portrait of the then Lieutenant Governor of Western Australia, Sir James Mitchell, for the 1948 Archibald Prize. He won the 1949 Claude Hotchin prize for oil colours with his landscape "On a May Morning, Guildford". As an adolescent and young adult Harris was a champion swimmer. In 1946, he was the Australian Junior Backstroke Champion. He was also the Western Australian state champion over a variety of distances and strokes during the period from 1948 to 1952. Career. Harris began his television career on the BBC in 1953. He was best known for his art television shows such as "Rolfin bed", "Rolf's Cartoon Club" and "Animal Hospital". In 2005,
Balham is an area in the London Borough of Wandsworth. Its postcode is SW12. It was home to adele when she was a child/teenager, she went to the local secondary school called chestnut grove. People who have lived in balham have often sent their children to schools such as telferscot primary school, henry cavendish (balhham site) and trinity saint mary's. Although, locals apparently agree that telferscot primary school has caused the least uproar and is overall the best pastorally and educationally so far.
Robert Francis "Bobcat" Goldthwait (born May 26, 1964) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and director. He is known for his energetic stage personality and his gruff, high-pitched voice. Some movies that he has directed are "Sleeping Dogs Lie" (2006), "World's Greatest Dad" (2009) and "God Bless America" (2011). His voice acting credits include "Hercules" (1997) and "Leroy &amp; Stitch" (2006). He has also had guest appearances on television shows like "MADtv", "Bob's Burgers", "Regular Show", "Adventure Time", "Fish Hooks", "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch", "Married... with Children" and "The Simpsons". Goldthwait was born in Syracuse, New York.
Thomas Arquis Howard (July 14, 1983 – November 18, 2013) was an American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the second round of the 2006 NFL Draft and played for them until 2010. He later played for the Cincinnati Bengals (2011–12) and Atlanta Falcons (2013). He played college football for the University of Texas at El Paso. He was born and raised in Lubbock, Texas. Howard was one of two people killed in a high speed car accident on November 18, 2013 in Oakland, California. He was 30 years old.
The City of St Albans is a borough in Hertfordshire in the East of England. About 145,000 people live there, including 60,000 in St  Albans and 30,000 in Harpenden.