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Loch Lomond is a freshwater Scottish loch. It is the largest inland stretch of water in Great Britain by surface area. The loch contains many islands, including Inchmurrin, the largest fresh-water island in the British Isles. Loch Lomond is a popular leisure destination and is featured in the song "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond". Loch Lomond lies on the Highland Boundary Fault, the boundary between the Lowlands of Central Scotland and the Highlands. It is 24 miles (39 kilometres) long and between 0.75 mile (1.21 km) and 5 miles (8 km) wide. It has an average depth of about 121 feet (37 metres), and a maximum depth of about 620 feet (190 metres). Its surface area is 27 square miles (71 km2), and it has a volume of 0.62 cubic miles (2.6 km3).  Of all lochs and lakes in Great Britain, it is the largest by surface area, and the second largest (after Loch Ness) by water volume. Within the United Kingdom, it is surpassed only by Lough Neagh and Lower Lough Erne in Northern Ireland. In the British Isles as a whole there are several larger loughs in the Republic of Ireland.
Rashad Hanif Harden (October 9, 1979 – April 26, 2014), better known by his stage name DJ Rashad, was an American electronic musician, record producer and DJ. He started his career in the early 1990s. He was best known for his work in the footwork genre. He worked with Hyperdub Records and artists such as DJ Spinn. He was born in Hammond, Indiana and was raised in Calumet City, Illinois. Harden died on April 26, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois. He was 35. An autopsy confirmed that his death was drug-related, with heroin, cocaine and alprazolam (Xanax) being found in Harden's system.
Raymond Louis "Ray" Heenan (November 1, 1943 – September 17, 2017) was an American retired manager, professional wrestler and color commentator. Heenan is best known for his time in American Wrestling Association (AWA), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). He was known as Bobby "The Brain" Heenan. Heenan was known for having great skill in drawing heat towards both himself and the wrestlers that he had managed. He was also known for his time as a color commentator along with his co-commentator Gorilla Monsoon. Heenan was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Blackjack Lanza in 2004. During his speech, he paid tribute to his close friend and broadcast partner Gorilla Monsoon. He tearfully said "I wish Monsoon were here." Heenan also inducted "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff in 2005, Nick Bockwinkel in 2007 and The Blackjacks (Blackjack Mulligan and Blackjack Lanza) in 2006. In January 2002, He announced that he was battling throat cancer. Since then, he has recovered largely but he lost a lot of weight going from 231 pounds (105 kg) to 190 pounds (86 kg) or even less. His voice also changed to a soft, high-pitched tone, different from his strong, rugged tone during his color commentator days. In December 2007, he had reconstructive surgery on his jaw, when the first surgery was not successful. He was placed in a medically induced coma and was slowly brought out. In February 2009, he was released from the hospital and was relearning how to speak clearly. In October 2013, Jim Ross said in an interview that Heenan is "hanging in there." but is still having trouble speaking as a result of tongue cancer treatments. Heenan died of complications from throat and tongue cancer on September 17, 2017 at his home in Largo, Florida at the age of 73.
Stefanie Zweig (19 September 1932 – 25 April 2014) was a German writer. She was best known for her autobiographical novel, "Nirgendwo in Afrika" ("Nowhere in Africa", 1998), based on her early life in Kenya. The novel was made into a movie and won an Academy Award in 2002 for Best Foreign Language Film. Zweig was born in Leobschütz, Upper Silesia (now Poland). Her family was Jewish and fled Nazi Germany to Kenya. Zweig died after a short illness on 25 April 2014 in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. She was 81.
Hans Asperger (18 February 1906 – 21 October 1980) was an Austrian doctor of children. Asperger syndrome (AS) was named after him. Today, Asperger syndrome is seen as a form of Autism. Asperger was born in Vienna and died there. Asperger studied medicine at the University of Vienna under Franz Hamburger. Because he wrote in German, his work was not widely known. It was only in the 1980s that it was translated. One of his students translated it in honor of Asperger. Hans Asperger worked in Austria when it was occupied by Nazi Germany. Some people say that he was complicit in the forced euthanasia of disabled children by the Nazis.
Charles Shane Robinson (born July 2, 1964) is an American professional wrestling referee. He is currently working with the WWE where he has been working 2001. Robinson started out as a photographer for Pro Wrestling Federation (PWF) in 1995. World Championship Wrestling. On September 15, 1997, He refereed a tryout dark match between Chris Taylor and Kendall Windham before WCW Monday Nitro at Independence Arena in Charlotte, NC. A week later, he was signed by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). His first appearance for WCW was at the WCW TV tapings at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. He turned heel, refereed Four Horsemen matches and aligned himself with Ric Flair. During his heel run, he favored the Horsemen in matches he refereed which annoyed Randy Savage. Savage, who was suspended by Flair (then-WCW President), proposed a match between Robinson and Savage's girlfriend Gorgeous George where if George defeated Robinson, Savage would be reinstated. The match took place on May 9, 1999 at "Slamboree 1999". Robinson (dubbed "Little Naitch") copied Flair's signature strut, "wooo!" catchphrase and even wore a robe similar to Flair's. Robinson would lose the match after George hit him with a diving elbow drop. World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment/WWE. When the World Wrestling Federation bought WCW in March 2001, they hired Robinson. Robinson was a part of The Alliance. The first match that he refereed in the WWF was on July 2, 2001. Even though he was a part of the Alliance, he was mainly a fair and impartial referee. On the July 1, 2004 episode of "SmackDown!", he was forced to wrestle Luther Reigns by then-General Manager Kurt Angle. The match was quickly stopped by Charlie Haas however. On April 18, 2014, while he was traveling with the WWE in Saudi Arabia, he suffered a freak accident after he nearly lost his thumb when he deeply cut it while helping to set up the wrestling ring. He received 6 stitches from a nearby WWE medic.
Lake Macquarie or Awaba, is the largest coastal salt water lake in Australia. It covers an area of . It is on the coast of New South Wales, north of Sydney. The city of lake Macquarie is on the shores of the lake. Lake Macquarie is connected to the sea by a short channel. History. Aborigines of the Awabakal nation lived in the area for thousands of years. The name "Awaba", means "a plain surface". The first European to visit the lake was Captain William Reid in 1800. Reid had been sent from Sydney to get a load of coal from Newcastle Harbour. Reid took a wrong turn and found himself in a lake rather than a river, with no coal to be seen anywhere. The name "Reid's Mistake" was used until 1826, when it was renamed in honour of Governor Lachlan Macquarie. Geography and environment. The lake is an irregular shape. The land between the lake and the sea is only a few kilometres wide along most of its length. There are several small, sandy, low-level islands in the lake. Pulbah Island, located south of Swansea is a large island with rocky cliffs. It covers an area of . Pulbah is an Aboriginal name meaning "island". Pulbah Island is also a sacred site for the Awabakal people. Lake Macquarie is connected to the sea by Swansea Channel and Lakes Entrance. Swansea Channel is about wide and long. The bridges over the channel can lift to allow yachts and other boats in and out of the lake. Important Bird Area. The eucalypt forests on the southern edge of the lake have been listed by BirdLife International as a 121 km2 Important Bird Area (IBA). They support significant numbers of endangered Swift Parrots and Regent Honeyeaters. Masked Owls and Ospreys often nest in the area. Environmental management. In 1983 the State Pollution Control Commission studied the poor water quality of Lake Macquarie. It found increased amounts of sediment and increased levels of nutrients were causing problems. Further studies in 1995 found that creeks flowing into the lake were causing
The Blue Lake is in Mount Gambier, South Australia. It may be a dormant volcanic crater. It is one of four crater lakes on Mount Gambier. Over the past 30 to 40 years the water table has dropped. The Blue Lake changes colour, from grey to bright blue. Different dates have been given for its last eruption, of 28,000 years ago, 4342 years ago, and, recently, a little before 6000 years ago. If the youngest date is correct, this could be the most recent volcanic eruption on the Australian mainland. Blue Lake has an average depth of 72 metres, but in places reaches 77 metres deep. The crater rim measures 1,200 metres (3,937 feet) by 824 metres (2,703 feet). The lake itself measures 1,087 metres (3,566 feet) by 657 metres (2,155 feet). The bottom of the lake is 30 metres (100 feet) below the level of the main street of the nearby town. The Blue Lake supplies the town with drinking water. Major diving exploration of the lake first took place in 1985. Cave diver Peter Horne studied the temperature and visibility of the water. He discovered a fresh water sponge species and other invertebrates.  He also discovered "The stromatolite field", hollow rock formations on the north-eastern edge at a depth of 40 m. In 2008 another dive brought up core samples from the calcite-silt covered lake bed, and measured the water temperature on the lake bed at 14 degrees Celsius (57 °F).
Borophagus ("gluttonous eater") is an extinct genus of the Canidae family, endemic to North America. The species were similar in appearance to modern-day hyenas, and weighed between and . There are eight known species that lived from around 12 million years ago to about 2 million years ago.
Probability space is a mathematical model used to describe scientific experiments. A probability space consists of three parts: An "outcome" is the result of a single execution of the model. Since individual outcomes might be of little practical use, more complex "events" are used to characterize groups of outcomes. The collection of all such events is a "σ-algebra", sometimes written as formula_3. Finally, there is a need to specify each event's likelihood of happening. This is done using the "probability measure" function, "P". Once the probability space is established, one usually assumes that “nature” makes its move and selects a single outcome, "ω", from the sample space Ω. All the events in formula_3 that contain the selected outcome "ω" (recall that each event is a subset of Ω) are said to “have occurred”. The selection performed by nature is done in such a way that if the experiment were to be repeated an infinite number of times, then the relative frequencies of occurrence of each of the events would coincide with the probabilities described by the function "P". The prominent Soviet mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov introduced the notion of probability space, together with other axioms of probability, in the 1930s.
The Gambler is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.  It is about the bad side of gambling and has to do with Dostoyevsky's own experiences from his travels to Wiesbaden, Baden-Baden and other casinos. At the time when he wrote The Gambler he had serious financial problems. The Gambler was also turned into an opera by Sergei Prokofiev. Background. The Gambler was made public in 1867 short time after Crime and Punishment. In the summer 1865 Dostoyevsky had promised to his publisher Stellovsky to create a novel until 1. November. Otherwise the publisher would get the publishing rights for other works of Dostoyevsky without having to pay. Dostoyevsky accepted this. So Dostoyevsky dictated the novel in only 26 days to his typist and later wife Anna. Stellovsky left St. Petersburg on 31. October to make the delivery impossible. But Anna had the idea to deliver the novel to a notary (a kind of a lawyer) and like that they were able to deliver the novel until the promised date.
The Amazing Spiez! is a French/Canadian animated television series. It is produced by the French company Marathon Media and the Canadian company Image Entertainment Corporation. It was first broadcast on March 15, 2009 on Disney Channel Asia. It aired on TF1 in France and Teletoon in Canada. The series had 52 episodes (2 seasons). It aired its last episode on May 25, 2012. Its spinoff is "Totally Spies". Plot. 4 kids are secretly undercover as spiez! for WOOHP taking down Baddies headed by Jerry Lewis the Head/Founder of WOOHP a secret spy organization. Episodes. "The Amazing Spiez!" had 52 episodes. Each episode was 26 minutes long. The series had 52 episodes divided in 2 seasons. The series first episode premiered on March 15 2009 and the last episode premiered on May 25, 2012. Broadcast. The series came on Disney Channel Asia, TF1, Teletoon, Cartoon Network USA, NHK Japan, Canal J and other networks
Arvind Kejriwal (born 16 August 1968) is an Indian politician. He is the current and 7th Chief Minister of Delhi. He is the national convener of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). He started the Aam Aadmi Party in 2012. Kejriwal won the TIME 100 Readers' Poll in 2014.For the 2019 general elections the Aam Aadmi Party shared seats with the Indian National Congress. Early life. Kejriwal was born in Bhiwani, Haryana on 16th August 1968. He was educated at Campus School in Hisar. He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, majoring in mechanical engineering. Political career. Aam Aadmi Party. In November 2012, Kejriwal launched AAP. Chief Minister of Delhi (first term). AAP contested Delhi legislative assembly elections in 2013. Kejriwal defeated incumbent Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit of the Indian National Congress (INC). Kejriwal was sworn in as the second-youngest chief minister of Delhi on 28 December 2013. On 14 February 2014 he resigned as Chief Minister. 2014 Loksabha Elections. Kejriwal contested in 2014 Indian general elections. He lost against the BJP prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi. Chief Minister of Delhi (second term). Aam Aadmi Party won 67 of the 70 constituencies in the 2015 Delhi Assembly elections. Arvind Kejriwal took oath on 14 February 2015 as Delhi's chief minister for a second time.
Brody Dalle (born Bree Joanna Alice Robinson on January 1, 1979) is an Australian singer and guitarist from Melbourne. She started The Distillers in 1998. Her first solo album was released on April 28, 2014. Personal life. Dalle was married to Tim Armstrong from 1997 until they divorced in 2003. She married Josh Homme in 2007. She lives with him in California.
Manuel Ortega Pérez de Monforte (9 July 1921 – 14 April 2014) was a Spanish painter, muralist, sculptor, designer, portrait painter, and engraver. He was born in Madrid. Ortega created more than 200 murals and created stained glass in many cathedrals, seminaries,palaces, hotels and developments from Spain. He won the international competition for the windows of the Cathedral of Almudena in Madrid in 1998. Ortega died in Madrid from natural causes, aged 92.
Albert Manent i Segimon (23 September 1930 – 14 April 2014) was a Spanish writer and cultural activist. He was mostly involved in the field of Catalan. Manent was the son of the writer Marià Manent. He graduated the subject of law and in Catalan philology. He was born in Premia de Dalt, Spain. Manent died in Madrid from an illness, aged 83.
The New World Order (also known as just nWo) is a professional wrestling stable that is best known for competing in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/E). The stable was created on July 7, 1996 and broke up on July 15, 2002. nWo had a gimmick of a group of unsanctioned wrestlers trying to "take over" WCW. The nWo angle was based on Universal Wrestling Federation's invasion of New Japan Pro Wrestling. A well known moment happened at "Bash at the Beach" when Hulk Hogan unexpectedly turned heel for the first time in nearly fifteen years. The nWo angle is one of the most popular and successful angles in modern-day professional wrestling.
Alistair MacLeod, (July 20, 1936 – April 20, 2014) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic. He was known for his novels in "No Great Mischief", "The Lost Salt Gift of Blood", and "As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories". He was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada. MacLeod was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan and died in Windsor, Ontario from a stroke, aged 77.
William "Sandy" Pullar Jardine (31 December 1948 – 24 April 2014) was a Scottish professional footballer. Jardine played for Rangers, Hearts and represented Scotland. Jardine died from liver cancer, aged 65.
Andrée Marcelle Henriette Parisy (4 December 1935 – 27 April 2014), better known by her stage names Andréa Parisy and sometimes Andrée Parizy, was a French actress. She is best known for her roles in movies such as "Babes a GoGo" (1956), "The Little Bather" (1968) and "Mayerling" (1968). She was born in Levallois-Perret. Parisy died on 27 April 2014, aged 78.
Steve Zabriskie is a former sportscaster. He was best known for calling Major League Baseball, football, and college basketball. Biography. Zabriskie was the play-by-play voice for the New York Mets from 1983 through 1989. He also called games for the California Angels and did part time games for the Boston Red Sox as well as calling baseball games for USA, ABC Sports, and ESPN as well as calling college football for ABC, college basketball on ESPN and CBS, and NFL games for CBS. Personal life. Zabriskie used to live in Orlando, Florida. He currently lives in California. His wife of more than thirty years died of cancer.
Lake McKenzie (Boorangoora) is a perched lake on Fraser Island in Queensland, Australia. The lake is located in the Great Sandy National Park. Fraser Island is the world's largest sand island and is also a World Heritage site. Half of the world's perched lakes are found on the island. The lake is 6.2 km southeast of Kingfisher Resort. It is 1,200 metres long and up to 930 metres wide. It covers an area of about 150 hectares. The sand around the lake is pure, white silica. The water in the lake is also so pure it is unsuitable for many species. Facilities for visitors around the lake include camping areas, picnic areas, toilets and barbecues. History. In March 1944 a military training camp was set up at the lake. It was closed late the same year. The lake served as the final Roadblock location and the finish line of the TV series "The Amazing Race Australia 2".
Sarah Catharine Paulson (born December 17, 1974) is an American actress. She was born in Tampa, Florida. She has won one Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award. Paulson played Maggie Corner in the "Family Values" episode of Law &amp; Order. She played Anne Gillette in the episode "Shadow" of the same series. She played several characters in different seasons of "American Horror Story". She played Dr. Caron in the movie "Serenity". She also starred in "The Post". Since early 2015, she has been in a relationship with actress Holland Taylor.
Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Pica Serrano (March 21, 1933 — April 26, 2014) was a Spanish actor. Early life. Pica was born in Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Spain. Career. He appeared in over 60 movies since his career began in 1966. He worked with Sophia Loren and Christopher Plummer. He is known for his roles in "Delusions of Grandeur" (1971), "Travels with My Aunt" (1972) and "The Killer with a Thousand Eyes" (1974). Death. Pica died at a hospital in El Puerto de Santa María, Spain from an illness, aged 81.
Ryan Tandy (20 September 1981 – 28 April 2014) was an Australian professional rugby league player who played as both a prop and second row from 2003 until 2011. During his career, he played for the St. George Illawarra Dragons, South Sydney Rabbitohs, Wests Tigers, Melbourne Storm and the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the National Rugby League (NRL). He also played for Hull Kingston Rovers in the European Super League. He represented Ireland from 2006 until 2008. He was banned from playing professional rugby league due to a match fixing scandal. He was born in Wollongong, New South Wales. Tandy was found dead of an apparent drug overdose on 28 April 2014 at his parents' home in Saratoga, New South Wales. He was 32.
Ground sloths are a group of extinct large sloths in the mammalian superorder Xenarthra. The much smaller living sloths are called "tree sloths".  The last surviving ground sloths lived in the Caribbean Antilles. "Megalocnus" may have survived until about the third century BC in Cuba. By then ground sloths had been extinct on the mainland of North and South America for 10,000 years or more. They survived on Caribbean islands because humans got to the islands much later. Some island sloth populations lived 5,000-6,000 years later than their continental mainland relatives. This fits the pattern of Holocene extinction of large vertebrates due to human dispersal. In other words, they were probably hunted or otherwise so affected by humans that they were unable to survive. Most ground sloth evolution took place during the mid to late Tertiary of South America while the continent was isolated. At their earliest appearance in the fossil record, the ground sloths were already quite distinct. The presence of islands between the American continents in the Miocene allowed some to get into North America.  Ground sloths were a hardy group: their numbers and dispersals into remote areas are evidence of this. Remains have been found in parts of Alaska. Sloths, and xenarthrans as a whole, were one of the more successful South American groups during the Great American Biotic Interchange. In general, during the interchange, many more taxa moved from North America into South America than in the other direction. However,at least five genera of ground sloths have been identified in North American fossils. These are examples of successful migration to the north.
Paramylodon is an extinct genus of ground sloth. It was endemic to North America in the Pliocene, and to the end of the Pleistocene epoch. It lived from around ~4.9 million years ago (mya) to 11,000 years ago. "Paramylodon" was about 3 m (9.8 ft) in height and weighted as much as 1089 kg. It is known from deposits in the United States, Mexico and as far south as Guatemala. There is just one recognized species, "P. harlani", (Owen) 1840, which is commonly referred to as Harlan's ground sloth in honor of the American paleontologist who first discovered and described a lower jaw in 1835.  Like the South American "Mylodon", "Paramylodon" had dermal ossicles: small bones embedded in the skin. This made it harder for predators if they attacked from behind. Its skull and teeth suggest it was, like the other members of its group, a browser on leaves and small branches. It ate standing on its hind legs and using its huge hands to pull the vegetation into its mouth. Skeletons found in the La Brea tar pits were more or less complete.