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Christine Margaret Blasey Ford (; born November 1966) is an American professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Ford has worked as a professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine Collaborative Clinical Psychology Program. She was born in Washington, D.C.. In September 2018, Ford accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in 1982. She testified about her allegations during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination later that month.
Anita Faye Hill (born July 30, 1956) is an American attorney and academic. She was born near Morris, Oklahoma. She is a university professor of social policy, law, and women's studies at Brandeis University.  Hill became known in 1991 when she accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, her supervisor at the United States Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, of sexual harassment.
Brandeis University is an American private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts, 9 miles (14 km) west of Boston. It was founded in 1948 sponsored by the Jewish community. Brandeis was established on the site of the former Middlesex University. The university is named after Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish Justice of the U.S Supreme Court. In 2015, it had a total enrollment of 5,532 students on its suburban campus spanning over . It is a member of Association of American Universities since 1985.
Graciano Rocchigiani (29 December 1963 – 1 October 2018) was a German professional boxer. He was born in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia. He competed from 1983 to 2003.  Rocchigiani was a two-weight world champion, having held the IBF super-middleweight title from 1988 to 1989, and the WBC light-heavyweight title in 1998. He held the European light-heavyweight title from 1991 to 1992. Rocchigiani was killed on 1 October 2018 in Belpasso, Italy when he was run over by a car while taking a walk. He was 54 years old.
Hermenegildo Sábat (23 June 1933 – 2 October 2018) was an Uruguayan-born Argentine caricaturist and journalist. He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He became a naturalized Argentine citizen in 1980. Montevideo's leading news journal, "El País", first published a drawing of his when he was 15 years old. The company hired him where Sábat became an editor at the daily, as well as contributing work as a staff correspondent, photographer and illustrator. He kept working after Argentina's return to democracy, in 1983. He was a known critic of President Raúl Alfonsín where he would illustrate him as a clumsy ballerina falling over the nation's economy. He also criticized President Carlos Menem and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner comparing her to a mafia figure with tape over her mouth with a black eye. Sábat died on 2 October 2018, during his sleep from a heart attack, in Buenos Aires, aged 85.
Glenn Fabry (born 24 March 1961) is a British comics artist. He is known for his detailed, realistic work in both ink and painted colour. He is known for his works "Sláine" and "Preacher". Fabry's career began in 1985, drawing for "2000 AD". He also worked on the newspaper strip "Scatha" in 1987. His painted work followed in "Crisis", "Revolver" and "Deadline".  In 1991 he took over painting the covers of "Hellblazer", then written by Garth Ennis. Fabry painted the covers for his Vertigo series "Preacher", and drawing stories in "The Authority" and "Thor". In October 2018, Fabry announced that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. However, two months later it was revealed he was misdiagnosed and he actually had tuberculosis.
Michael Grätzel (born 11 May 1944) is a German chemist.  Grätzel is a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where he directs the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces. He worked on energy and electron transfer reactions. He co-invented the Grätzel cell in 1988 and created the use of nanomaterials in lithium ion batteries.
Krzysztof "Kris" Matyjaszewski (; born April 8, 1950) is a Polish-American chemist. He is a Professor of the Natural Sciences at the Carnegie Mellon University. Matyjaszewski is best known for the discovery of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP). In 2011 he was a co-winner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
Omar M. Yaghi (Arabic: عمر مونّس ياغي, born February 9, 1965) is a Jordanian-American chemist. He was born in Amman, Jordan. He is a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Yaghi is known for creating reticular chemistry, which is a new field of chemistry. It focuses on the stitching of molecular building blocks together by strong bonds to make open frameworks. His most well known work is in the design and production of new classes of compounds known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2017, he won the Albert Einstein World Award of Science. In 2018, Yaghi won the Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
David James Thouless (; 21 September 1934 – 6 April 2019) was a British physicist. He is a winner of the Wolf Prize and the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics along with F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter. In 2016, Thouless was reported to be suffering from dementia. He died on 6 April 2019 in Cambridge, at the age of 84.
Geoffrey Emerick (5 December 1945 – 2 October 2018) was an English recording studio audio engineer. He worked with the Beatles on their albums "Revolver", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "The Beatles" and "Abbey Road". Emerick won four Grammy Awards for his work. Emerick was born in London. Emerick died on 2 October 2018 in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack, aged 72.
Rupert Neve (31 July 1926 – 12 February 2021) was a British electronics engineer and entrepreneur. He was known as a pioneering designer of professional audio recording equipment. He was born in Newton Abbot, England. In 1997 he was the third person to receive a Technical Grammy Award. Neve was known for his work on microphone preamplifiers, equalizers, compressors and early large format mixing consoles. Neve died on 12 February 2021 in Wimberley, Texas from pneumonia and heart failure. He was aged 94.
Sir Gregory Paul Winter (born 14 April 1951) is a British biochemist. He is best known for his work on the therapeutic use of monoclonal antibodies. He invented techniques to both humanise (1986) and, later, to fully humanise using phage display, antibodies for therapeutic uses. Winter won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with George P. Smith and Frances Arnold.
George Pieczenik Smith (born March 10, 1941) is an American chemist. He is the Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is best known for phage displays. It is when a specific protein's genetic code is artificially inserted into a bacterophage's coat protein gene. In 2018, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Greg Winter and Frances Arnold.
Frances Hamilton Arnold (born July 25, 1956) is an American chemist and engineer. She is known for her methods of directed evolution to create useful biological systems, including enzymes, metabolic pathways, genetic regulatory circuits, and organisms.  She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology. In 2018, Arnold was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside George P. Smith and Greg Winter.
Allegheny County () is a county in the southwest of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of 2020 the population was 1,250,578. The county seat is Pittsburgh. Allegheny was Pennsylvania's first to bear a Native American name, being named after the Allegheny River.
Philadelphia County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of 2020, Philadelphia County had a population of 1,603,797 residents. The county is the second smallest county in Pennsylvania by land area, but the largest in population. Philadelphia County is one of the three original counties, along with Chester and Bucks counties, created by William Penn during November 1682.
German Unity Day is the national day of Germany, celebrated on 3 October as a public holiday. It commemorates the anniversary of German reunification in 1990. An alternative was the day the Berlin Wall came down: 9 November 1989. This was the day of the German Republic in 1918, and the defeat of Hitler's first coup in 1923.  However, 9 November was also the anniversary of the first large-scale Nazi-led pogroms against Jews in 1938 ("Kristallnacht"), so the day was thought inappropriate as a national holiday.
On 28 September 2018, an earthquake struck the Minahasa Peninsula, Indonesia, with its epicentre located in the mountainous Donggala Regency, Central Sulawesi. The quake was located away from the provincial capital Palu and was felt as far away as Samarinda on East Kalimantan and also in Tawau, Malaysia.  Many foreshocks followed, the largest of which was a magnitude 6.1 tremor that occurred earlier that day. In the aftermath, a tsunami struck Palu, sweeping shore-lying houses and buildings on its way. The combined effects of the earthquake and tsunami led to the deaths of at least 4,340 people and injured 10,679 people. This is the deadliest earthquake in Indonesia since 2006. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said the ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management (ACDM) must play a key role. They should coordinate and extend assistance to Indonesia. This support is crucial after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Sulawesi.
The Theory of Everything is a 2014 British biographical romantic drama movie directed by James Marsh. It is about the life of the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. The movie was based on Jane Hawking's memoir "Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen". The movie's score was composed by Jóhann Jóhannsson. The movie stars Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox, Emily Watson, Simon McBurney, Christian McKay, Harry Lloyd, and David Thewlis. The movie was released on 7 September 2014 at the Toronto International Film Festival and released in the United Kingdom on 1 January 2015 to strong positive reviews.
The mangelwurzel (from ) is also called 'mangel wurzel', 'mangold wurzel', 'mangold', 'mangel beet', 'field beet', and 'fodder beet'. It is a cultivated root vegetable. It is a variety of "Beta vulgaris", the same species that contains the red beet (beetroot) and sugar beet varieties. The cultivar group is called the Crassa Group. Their large white, yellow or orange-yellow swollen roots were developed in the 18th century as a fodder crop for feeding livestock.
Yuma County is a county in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, 203,881 people lived there. The county seat is Yuma. The county borders three states: Sonora, Mexico, to the south, and two other states to the west, across the Colorado River: California of the United States and the Mexican state of Baja California.
Harry Gregson-Williams (born 13 December 1961) is an English composer, orchestrator, conductor and record producer. He has regularly written for video games, television and movies, such as "Metal Gear" Solid series, ', ', "The Martian", and the "Shrek" franchise. He is the brother of composer Rupert Gregson-Williams.
CITV is a British programming block and, until 2023, a television channel. It was broadcast by Sky Digital, Virgin Media, and Freesat. It was launched on 17 December 1981 as Watch It! until 3 January 1983 as Children's ITV. It became available on Freeview in May 2006. It was also released on Sky in May and NTL on 6 June. Both the analogue and the Sky versions were released on Virgin Media's Virtual Menu on 19 May 2007. The analogue version was removed from the platform in 2011 and only the Sky version remained available on the platform's Virtual Menu. Today, it is a programming block on ITV2, replacing teleshopping. At 9:00 PM on 1 September 2023, the CITV channel stopped broadcasting (playing TV shows). Programming. Some of the programmes shown on CITV were "Horrid Henry", "", "Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids", "Thunderbirds Are Go", and "Sooty". A number of other programmes are sourced from different broadcasters internationally.
Men &amp; Motors was a men's lifestyle television channel in the UK that was owned by ITV. It broadcast between the years 1996 and 2010. It was originally part of the Granada Sky Broadcasting joint venture.
Benjamin Jerome Cayetano (born November 14, 1939) is an American politician and author. He was the 5th Governor of the State of Hawaii from 1994 to 2002. He is the first Filipino American to serve as a state governor in the United States. He is a Democrat.
The Double Cluster, is NGC 884 and NGC 869, a group of two open star clusters in the Perseus constellation. It has many blue and red stars. Both are visible with the naked eye. NGC 869 and NGC 884 lie at a distance of 7,500 light years. That is relatively close-by (the Milky Way galaxy has a diameter of roughly 100,000 light years.) Stars. RS Persei and T Persei. These are two red supergiant stars in the star cluster. They are 770 and 510 times larger than the Sun respectively. SU Persei and AV Persei. These are also red supergiant stars. They both are 780 and 770 times larger than the Sun respectively. S Persei. A red hypergiant 1,212 times larger than the Sun.
CW Leonis is a red giant star that is mostly made out of carbon. It is over 500 times larger than the Sun and is located in the Leo constellation.
Pi1 Gruis is a red giant star. It bubbles violently on its surface.
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry. The term refers to a group that includes diverse populations. They have ancestral origins in South Asia, East Asia. This includes people who indicate as "Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Other Asian". Asian Americans with no other ancestry comprise 5.4% of the U.S. population. Asian Americans are by capita the richest and highest earning ethnic group in America, due to their high educational attainment and strong family values. Definition. The U.S. Census Bureau defines Asian as "A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam." Population. During the 2010 United States Census, the largest ethnic groups were Chinese American, Filipino Americans, Indian Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Korean Americans, and Japanese Americans. The total population is 17,941,286.
Denis Mukengere Mukwege (; born 1 March 1955) is a Congolese gynecologist. He founded and works in Panzi Hospital in Bukavu. He works in the treatment of women who have been gang-raped by rebel forces. He has treated thousands of women who were victims of gang wartime rape since the Second Congo War.  In 2018, he and Nadia Murad were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict."
Nadia Murad Basee (; born 1993) is a German-based Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist. She was kidnapped and held by the Islamic State for three months.  In 2018, she and Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "their efforts to end use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict." She is the first Iraqi to win the Nobel Prize. Murad is the founder of Nadia's Initiative, an organization who work to "helping women and children victimized by genocide, mass atrocities, and human trafficking to heal and rebuild their lives and communities".
Uriyadi 2 is a Tamil-language social thriller movie. It was directed by Vijay Kumar. It is a sequel to the 2016 political thriller movie "Uriyadi". "Uriyadi 2" was produced by actor Suriya’s 2D Entertainment. Production. After the release of "Uriyadi" in 2016, there was widespread anticipation about Vijay Kumar's next. Two years later, it was announced that "Uriyadi 2" will be directed by Vijay Kumar with Suriya producing it. The movie's principal photography started on 20 September 2018 in Tenkasi. The first look motion poster was released by Suriya on the same day. Vijay Kumar is also the co-producer of "Uriyadi 2", through his production house, Souvenir Productions. Most of the shooting is to take place in Tenkasi and Courtallam. A new technical crew is introduced in this sequel, where Praveen Kumar N., Linu M., and Ezhumalai Adikesavan are assigned as the cinematographer, editor and art director respectively. Vicky is assigned as the stunt director, continuing his association with the director from his previous movie. Govind Vasantha, who composed for "Asuravadham" and "Solo", is the music director, working with the director for the first time. Soundtrack. The movie's soundtrack was composed by Govind Vasantha, replacing Masala Coffee as the composer of the previous movie. The audio rights are handled by Sony Music India.
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as CMNH) is a natural history museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Reputation. It has an international reputation for research and is ranked among the top five natural history museums in the United States. The museum gained prominence in 1899 when its scientists unearthed the fossils of "Diplodocus". Today its dinosaur collection has the world's largest collection of Jurassic dinosaurs. Its "Dinosaurs in Their Time" exhibition is the third largest collection of mounted, displayed dinosaurs in the United States (behind the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History). Notable specimens include one of the world's only fossils of a juvenile "Apatosaurus", the world's first specimen of a "Tyrannosaurus rex", and a recently identified species of oviraptorosaur named "Anzu wyliei".
Andalusite is an aluminium nesosilicate mineral with the chemical formula Al2SiO5. At higher temperatures and pressures, andalusite may convert to sillimanite. Andalusite is an index mineral: it gives clues to the depth and pressures the host rock went through in the past.
Amphibole is a group of inosilicate minerals. They form prism or needlelike crystals. Many of them are asbestos. They are double chain tetrahedra, linked at the vertices. Usually they contain ions of iron and/or magnesium in their structures. Amphiboles can be green, black, colorless, white, yellow, blue, or brown.
Dashain is a festival of Nepal. It is celebrated by the Hindus in Nepal. It is also celebrated by Nepali-Indian people who live in Sikkim, Assam and Darjeeling district of India. Lhotshampa people in Bhutan and Burmese Gurkhas in Myanmar also celebrate this festival. It is the longest festival in Bikram Sambat and Nepal Sambat yearly calendar. The festival is 15 days long and the first, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth and the fifteenth days are the most important days. It is regarded as the biggest and most important festival in Nepal. It falls in the month of September or October (Ashwin or Kartik in Bikram Sambat calendar). It starts from bright lunar fortnight of Ashwin and ends on Purnima (full moon day). This festival is the symbol of victory of good over evil.
The Magic School Bus is an animated children's television series, based on the book series of the same name by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. The series has received critical acclaim for its use of celebrity talent and combining entertainment with an educational series. "Broadcasting &amp; Cable" said the show was "among the highest-rated PBS shows for school-age children." A reboot titled "The Magic School Bus Rides Again" began on Netflix on September 29, 2017. Plot. A teacher named "Ms. Frizzle" embarks on exciting adventures with her pet chameleon called Liz Ard and her class known as the Frizzlers on her eponymous vintage Spanish steam-diesel hybrid school minibus referred as the Magic School Bus. As they journey on their secret field trips, they discover locations, creatures, time periods and more things to learn about the wonders of science along the way. Production and broadcast. A Scholastic Enterprises, Nelvana, &amp; Ellipse Programme Co-Production, Presented by South Carolina ETV. They made "The Magic School Bus" books into an animated television series. It began on September 10, 1994. Many parents and teachers wanted Scholastic Enterprises, Nelvana, &amp; Ellipse Programme to help kids and minorities learn more about science in a fun way. Advertisements. Each episode of the series ran for 30 minutes. There was a "Producer Says" part at the end of each episode when "The Magic School Bus" had no advertisements. There were no advertisements on international television, VHS, and DVD. The "Producer Says" part was taken out when "The Magic School Bus" had advertisements. This way, there was enough time for advertisements. Sometimes the episode faded to black at the start of the advertisements. When there are no advertisements, the episode faded to black and then faded back in. Writers. Peter Lurye wrote the song played at the beginning of the show. It was called "Ride on the Magic School Bus". Famous rock 'n' roll singer Little Richard sang it. Brian Muehl and Jocelyn Stevenson helped write the show. They also worked on "Fraggle Rock
Pa Sulay Njie (born 2 August 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a Striker for the Gambian national team and for Banbury.
Patrick Lewis Wai-Kuan Chan (born December 31, 1990) is a Canadian former competitive figure skater. He is a 2018 Olympic gold medalist in the team event, 2014 Olympic silver medalist in the men's and team events, a three-time World champion (2011, 2012, 2013), a two-time Grand Prix Final champion (2010 and 2011), a three-time Four Continents champion (2009, 2012, 2016), and a ten-time Canadian national champion (2008–2014, 2016–2018). On April 27, 2011, Chan set a new world record of 93.02 points for the short program. On April 28, 2011, Chan then set a new world record for his free skating, receiving an overall score of 280.98. In recognition, Chan was named the recipient of the Lou Marsh Award as Canada's top athlete. Personal life. Patrick Lewis Wai-Kuan Chan was born December 31, 1990, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is the only child of Lewis Chan, a lawyer, and Karen, both immigrants from Hong Kong. His Chinese name is Chan Wai-Kuan. At the age of five, Chan showed talent in downhill skiing, but focused on other sports after his family moved to Toronto. He has an enduring interest in many sports, including taekwondo, tennis, golf and mountain climbing. Skating career. Early career. Patrick Chan started skating in 1996. He originally wanted to learn to skate in order to play hockey, but soon became interested in figure skating. His coach, Osborne Colson, made him spend 30 minutes a day on basic stroking, edge work, cross-cutting and balance drills. Chan said, "I tell people I owe the flow in my knees and the flow I generate from my edges to Mr. Colson. He knew he had to pull everything apart and start from the ground up on the basics of skating." 2007–2008 season. Chan divided his training time between World Arena Ice Hall in Colorado Springs, Colorado,
Franco Sar (21 December 1933 – 1 October 2018) was an Italian decathlete. He was born in Arborea, Italy. He held the national title from 1960–65. He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics and placed sixth and thirteenth. Sar died of a heart attack on 1 October 2018 at the age of 84.
Anna Elisabeth de Bruijn (1 January 1920 – 3 October 2018), better known by the stage name of Elisabeth Andersen, was a Dutch theatre actress. She was born in The Hague. She was a three-time winner of the Theo d'Or. Andersen was known for her work with . Andersen died in Haarlem on 3 October 2018 at age 98.
Gamma Crucis, also known as Gacrux, is the closest M-type red giant star to the Sun. It is only visible in the southern hemisphere. It has a diameter 120 times larger than the Sun and lies in the Crux constellation. Sources. GACRUX by Jim Kaler