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Thomas Patten Stafford (September 17, 1930 – March 18, 2024) was an American former Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. Stafford was an officer in the United States Air Force. He flew F-86 Sabres before becoming a test pilot.  He was became an astronaut in 1962, and flew aboard Gemini 6A and Gemini 9A.  In 1969, Stafford was the Commander of Apollo 10, the second crewed mission to orbit the Moon. Apollo 10 was also the first to fly a Lunar Module in lunar orbit. It flew very close to the Moon, going down to an altitude of nine miles. In 1975, Stafford was the commander of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project flight, the first joint U.S.-Soviet space mission. Stafford died from liver cancer at a care home in Satellite Beach, Florida on March 18, 2024, at the age of 93.
The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program (15, 16, and 17) during 1971 and 1972. They are popularly known as "Moon buggies", a play on the words "dune buggy". These three LRVs remain on the Moon.
The Loud House is an animated television series created by Kyle Marshall for Nickelodeon. The series premiered on April 1, 2016. Series overview. &lt;onlyinclude&gt;&lt;/onlyinclude&gt; Episodes. Season 1 (2016). Every episode and segment of this season was directed by Chris Savino, with him co-directing with Kyle Marshall in the episode "The Price of Admission"/"One Flu Over the Loud House" (#125). Season 2 (2016–17). All episodes and segments of this season were produced by Karen Malach, and most were directed by Chris Savino, with him co-directing with Kyle Marshall on the episodes "The Old and the Restless" (#202B), "Vantastic Voyage" (#205B), and "Patching Things Up" (#206A). The only episodes in this season Chris didn't direct were "Frog Wild" (#208B), "Pulp Friction" (#211A), "Room with a Feud" (#214B), "Garage Banned" (#217B), "Change of Heart" (#218A), "Friend or Faux?" (#220B), "Mall of Duty" (#222B), "The Crying Dame" (#225A), and "Snow Way Out" (#226A), all were directed by Kyle Marshall.
Stuart Allen "Stu" Roosa (August 16, 1933 – December 12, 1994), (Col., USAF), was an American aeronautical engineer, United States Air Force pilot, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 14 mission. He was the third mission to land astronauts (Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell) on the Moon.  While Shepard and Mitchell spent two days on the lunar surface, Roosa made experiments from orbit in the Command Module "Kitty Hawk".  He was one of 24 men to travel to the Moon, which he orbited 34 times. Roosa died of pancreatitis in Falls Church, Virginia on December 12, 1994 at the age of 61. References.
Proviso Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 151,209. It was organized in 1850 and originally named "Taylor".
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a 'substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science. Isaac Newton was one of the earliest fellows of the Royal Society, elected in 1672 Fellowship of the Society, the oldest known scientific academy in continuous existence, is a significant honor. It has been awarded to many eminent scientists throughout history, including Isaac Newton (1672), Charles Darwin (1839), Michael Faraday (1824), Ernest Rutherford (1903), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1918), Albert Einstein (1921), Winston Churchill (1941), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1944), Dorothy Hodgkin (1947), Alan Turing (1951) and Francis Crick (1959). More recently, fellowship has been awarded to Stephen Hawking (1974), Tim Hunt (1991), Elizabeth Blackburn (1992), Tim Berners-Lee (2001), Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2003), Atta-ur Rahman (2006), Andre Geim (2007), James Dyson (2015), Ajay Kumar Sood (2015), Subhash Khot (2017), Elon Musk (2018), and around 8,000 others in total, including over 280 Nobel Laureates since 1900. As of October 2018, there are approximately 1689 living Fellows, Foreign and Honorary Members, of which over 60 are Nobel Laureates. Fellowship of the Royal Society has been described by "The Guardian" newspaper as “the equivalent of a lifetime achievement Oscar” with several institutions celebrating their announcement each year.
A boil is a type of infection. It can cause a skin infection. Most boils can hurt a little bit when touched. Boils can be treated by putting a hot washcloth on it and will pop after a couple of days.
Hugh Conaghan (6 May 1926 – March 2020) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was elected to Dáil Éireann as Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) for the Donegal constituency at the 1977 general election. He was a losing candidate at the Donegal North-East by-election on 10 June 1976. He was elected at the 1981 general election for the Donegal North-East constituency and was re-elected for this constituency until he lost his seat at the 1989 general election. He was a losing candidate at the 1992 general election. Conaghan died in March 2020, aged 93.
João Teixeira de Faria (born June 24, 1942), known also as João de Deus (John of God), is a Brazilian medium , "psychic surgeon" and convicted sex offender. His business is set in Abadiânia, Brazil, where he runs the Casa de Dom Inácio de Loyola, a "spiritual healing center".  He has had media coverage on CNN, ABC News and "The Oprah Winfrey Show". James Randi and Joe Nickell had criticized him for his healing procedures as "nothing more than carnival tricks" and there is no evidence that the benefits of patients are placebo effects.  In 2018, after over 600 people accused him of sexual abuse, he turned himself in to police. In December 2019 he was sentenced to 19 years and four months for the rapes of four different women. On January 20, 2020, Faria was sentenced to another 40 years in prison for rape against 5 women. The sentences add up to 63 years and 4 months. In September 2023, Faria was sentenced to an additional 118 years, six months and 15 days in prison by the Goiás state criminal court as a result of 17 cases involving "rape, rape via fraud and rape of a vulnerable individual." In 2015, Faria was diagnosed with stomach cancer and began chemotherapy treatment.
Dubravka Jurlina Alibegović (born 5 November 1963) is a Croatian economist and politician. She was an independent in the cabinet of Tihomir Orešković. She was the Minister of Public Administration from January to October 2016. Alibegović was born in Zagreb. She graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb. She was the director of the Institute of Economics, Zagreb from 2013 to 2016.
Joe Nickell (December 1, 1944 – March 6, 2025) was an American skeptic and investigator of the paranormal.  He helped find out that the diary of Jack the Ripper was a hoax. In 2002 he was one of a number of experts asked by scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to see if the manuscript of Hannah Crafts' "The Bondwoman's Narrative" (1853–1860), possibly the first novel by an African-American woman, was real.  He earned a B.A. degree in 1967 from the University of Kentucky. To avoid the wide draft for the Vietnam War, the following year in 1968, at the age of 24, he moved to Canada. There he began his careers as a magician, card dealer, and private investigator. After President Jimmy Carter granted unconditional pardons to draft dodgers in 1977, Nickell returned to the United States. Nickell is senior research fellow for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) and writes regularly for their journal, the "Skeptical Inquirer".  He is also an associate dean of the Center for Inquiry Institute. He is the author or editor of over 30 books. In late 2003, Nickell reconnected with his college girlfriend Diana G. Harris. He learned he had a daughter by her, named Cherette, and two grandsons. Harris had married before but divorced. She and Nickell married April 1, 2006. Harris had since assisted Nickell in his investigative work. Diana Harris had told Cherette that Cherette's biological father was Diana's first husband, but the daughter questioned her lack of resemblance to him. On Cherette's wedding day, one of the guests mentioned that her parents weren't married when she was conceived. Later, based on intuition, Cherette challenged her mother directly about her father and sensed equivocation. After more conversations and a DNA test, Cherette learned that Nickell was her biological father. Nickell used his daughter's claim that she had made an intuitive search for him as the basis for an article on the unconscious collection and processing of data. In it he concluded: "C
Joe Harry Lycett (born 5 July 1988) is a British comedian. He has appeared on television shows including "Live at the Apollo", "Taskmaster", "Never Mind the Buzzcocks", "8 Out of 10 Cats" and "QI". He is the announcer on Saturday BBC One show "Epic Win", and as the presenter on BBC Two's "The Great British Sewing Bee". He has his own show on Channel 4 titled, "Joe Lycett's Got Your Back". He is openly bisexual. On 1 March 2020, he announced that he had changed his legal name to Hugo Boss in protest against the company of the same name.
William Dufris (February 1, 1958 – March 24, 2020) was an American voice actor and Audiobook narrator. He was born in Houlton, Maine. He was known for English dubbing many foreign language cartoons and animes. His best known work include dubbing Kataoka in "" (1989) and its (1993), as Elvis and Dougan in "Rocky and the Dodos" and as Bob the Builder in the animated children's program. Dufris died on March 24, 2020 of cancer at the age of 62.
Houlton is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, on the Canada–US border, located at . As of the 2020 census, the town's population was 6,055. Houlton is the county seat of Aroostook County, and as such its nickname is the "Shire Town".
Aroostook County () ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Maine along the Canada–U.S. border. As of the 2020 census, the population was 67,105. Its seat is Houlton.
Douglas Craig Emhoff (born October 13, 1964) is an American lawyer who served as the second gentleman of the United States from 2021 to 2025 as the husband of Kamala Harris, the 49th U.S. vice president. As the first husband of a vice president, Emhoff is the first second gentleman in U.S. history. He is also the first Jewish spouse of a U.S. vice president. Biography. Early life. Douglas Craig Emhoff was born on October 13, 1964, in New York City to Jewish parents. From 1969 to 1981, he grew up in Matawan and Old Bridge Township, New Jersey. When he was 17, he moved with his family to Southern California. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication studies from California State University, Northridge, in 1987 and a Juris Doctor from the USC Gould School of Law in 1990. Legal career. Emhoff is an entertainment lawyer. He opened his own firm with Ben Whitwell in 2000 in California. His clients included Walmart and Merck, and he became managing director of Venable's West Coast offices. 2020 presidential election. Emhoff joined DLA Piper as a partner in 2017, working at its Washington, D.C., and California offices. Following the announcement that his wife would be Joe Biden's running mate in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Emhoff took a leave of absence from the firm. After the Biden–Harris ticket won, the campaign announced Emhoff would leave DLA Piper before inauguration day. In August 2020, Kamala Harris was announced as Biden's running mate in the presidential election, making Emhoff the third man in U.S. history to be a spouse of the vice presidential candidate of a major party. Second gentleman of the United States (2021–2025). Emhoff became the second gentleman of the United States when his wife was sworn-in as the 49th U.S. vice president on January 20, 2021. He became the first second gentleman of the United States in U.S. history. He is also the
Uncut Gems is a 2019 American thriller movie directed by Josh and Benny Safdie, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ronald Bronstein. The movie stars Adam Sandler as Howard Ratner, a Jewish jeweler and gambling addict in New York City, who must get an expensive gem he purchased to pay off his debts. The movie also stars Kevin Garnett, Idina Menzel, Lakeith Stanfield, Julia Fox, and Eric Bogosian. "Uncut Gems" had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2019. It had a wide release on December 25, by A24. The movie strong good reviews, with its screenplay, direction, editing and Sandler's performance. It was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten movies of 2019.
Alfred Gomolka (21 July 1942 – 24 March 2020) was a German politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern from 1994 to 2008. He was a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union of Germany, part of the European People's Party. He was the first Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern from 1990 to 1992 and was the President of the Bundesrat from 1 November 1991 to 19 March 1992. Gomolka died on 24 March 2020 from a fall in Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, aged 77.
"Blinding Lights" is a song by Canadian recording artist The Weeknd, taken from his seventh studio album, "After Hours". The song was released on November 29, 2019, two days after the album’s lead single, “Heartless”. “Blinding Lights” was written and produced by The Weeknd, Max Martin, and Oscar Holter. DaHeala and Belly also contributed to writing the song. The song has topped charts in thirteen countries. It became his fifth number-one single on the US "Billboard" Hot 100. On November 23, 2021, "Billboard" announced that it had overtaken "The Twist" by Chubby Checker as the best-performing song in "Billboard" history.
James Patrick Otis (March 16, 1948 – March 3, 2020) was an American actor. He was born in Stamford, Connecticut. Otis began his career in the 1970s. His first movie role was in "Dragonfly". On television, he was known for his role in "Profiler". In 1999, Otis appeared in three episodes of "". In 2006, Otis appeared in the true story movie "The Black Dahlia". Otis also appeared in "The Prestige". Otis died in Stamford on March 3, 2020 at the age of 71.
David Greetham (October 21, 1941 – March 24, 2020) was an English-American literary critic. He was known as the founder of the Society for Textual Scholarship. He was the Society's President from 1999 to 2001. He worked at the Graduate Center at City University New York. Greetham was born in Cheshire, England. Greetham died on March 24, 2020 from a long-illness at the age of 78.
Peter Green (born Peter Allen Greenbaum; 29 October 1946 – 25 July 2020) was a British blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is one of the founders of Fleetwood Mac. He was added to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Green's writing credits include Fleetwood Mac songs such as "Albatross", "Black Magic Woman", "Oh Well", "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)" and "Man of the World". "Rolling Stone" ranked Green at number 58 in its list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Green was born in Bethnal Green, London. His family were Jewish. Green was married to Jane Samuels from 1978 to 1979. The couple had one daughter. Green lived on Canvey Island in Essex. On 25 July 2020, Green died in his sleep at the age of 73.
John Griffith Davies (17 May 1929 – 24 March 2020) was an Australian-American breaststroke swimmer and politician. Davies won a gold medal in the 200-metre breaststroke at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and set a world record in the 200 yard breaststroke (short course) and tied the world record in the 200 m breaststroke (long course).  After retiring from competition swimming, he became a lawyer in California. He was appointed a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California by President Ronald Reagan in 1986.r He presided over the trial of the Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with assaulting Rodney King. He retired from the court in 1998. Davies was born in Willoughby, New South Wales, Australia. He studied at the University of Michigan and at the University of California at Los Angeles. He moved to the United States in 1955. Davies was added into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1984, and the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1992. He received an Australian Sports Medal in 2000. Davies died of cancer in Pasadena, California on 24 March 2020, aged 90.
Lucien Sève (9 December 1926 – 23 March 2020) was a French philosopher, communist and political activist. He was born in Chambéry, France. He was an active member of the French Communist Party from 1950 through 2010. He was elected as a member of the Central Committee in 1961, and stayed elected until 1994. His 1969 work "Marxisme et théorie de la personnalité" ("Marxism and theory of personality") has been translated into 25 different languages.  Sève died on 23 March 2020 of COVID-19 in Clamart, France, aged 93.
Ann Dustin Wilson (born June 20, 1950) is an American musician. She rose to fame as the lead singer and songwriter for the rock band Heart. Her younger sister, Nancy Wilson, is Heart's guitarist. As a member of Heart, Wilson was added to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013. Wilson was born in San Diego, California. Her family later settled in Bellevue, Washington. She has two children. She married Dean Wetter in 2015.
Nancy Lamoureaux Wilson (born March 16, 1954) is an American musician and singer. She is best known as a guitarist and backing vocalist for the rock band Heart. Her older sister, Ann Wilson, is Heart's lead singer. As a member of Heart, Wilson was added to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013. Wilson was born in San Francisco, California. Her family moved to Federal Way, WA then later settled in Bellevue, Washington. She has two children with her first husband Cameron Crowe. She is now married to Geoff Bywater.
A self-help book is written in a way that its reader can relate to himself/herself and solve his/her problems as guided by the author of the book. A self-help book is written to counsel its readers on solving their personal issue or problems in life. The phrase "Self-Help" comes from an 1859 best-seller by Samuel Smiles. "Self-improvement" is a modern version of the term self-help.
BC Transit is a transit company run by the British Columbian government that gives bus services to many towns and areas in the province. Before 1979, the power company, BC Hydro, ran the buses. In 1979, the province made the transit company into a separate agency called the Urban Transit Authority which became BC Transit in 1983. BC Transit transit plans the routes and schedules but doesn't run the buses in most of the province. In 1999, a new company called TransLink was made to run the buses, metro, and trains in Vancouver. BC Transit might give more areas to TransLink one day. History. A company called the BC Electric Railway was made in 1897 to replace the Consolidated Railway Company, which had run the streetcars in Victoria, Vancouver and New Westminster. Slowly the streetcars and interurban trains were changed to electric trolley and gas-powered buses. The province made BC Hydro in 1962 to take over when the old company ran out of money. In 1979, the government made the Urban Transit Authority, to plan and make rules for public transit; and the Metro Transit Operating Company, a separate crown corporation that actually ran the buses. The new structure was meant to provide local governments with more decision-making power and funding of their local systems. BC Transit was in 1982. In 1999, Vancouver's transit system started to be controlled by a difference company, TransLink. In 2018, BC Transit started running its first intercity buses in Northern British Columbia after Greyhound Canada stopped running buses in the province. In 2019, drivers got safety doors to stop people from hurting them. During the COVID outbreak in March 2020, BC Transit made buses free everywhere in the province and let people get on in the back door. This lasted until June 1, 2020. Transit systems. The Victoria Regional Transit System, in the capital, is the only system where the buses are run by BC Transit. Outside Victoria, the bus schedules and routes are made by BC Transit but the buses are driven by other companies. In four places (Nanaimo, Nelson, Powell River, and the Sunshine Coast) the
"Arthur's Big Hit" is the first episode in season 4 of Arthur. It first aired on October 4, 1999. In this episode, Arthur punches D.W. Eventually, the scene where Arthur punched D.W. becomes a very popular meme. Plot. It starts off with Arthur showing flashbacks when he got very mad at D.W. Next, Arthur is trying to build his toy airplane and tells D.W. to not touch or mess with it. He is walking around in the living room until he hears his airplane fall to the ground.  Later, D.W. says his airplane can’t fly at all. Then, Arthur goes outside with D.W. only to find out his plane broke. Later, Arthur furiously says to D.W. "I told you NOT TO TOUCH IT!" and angrily punches her in the arm. A few seconds after she falls to the ground, D.W. cries and goes to Jane Read. She says to Arthur: "Arthur Timothy Read, come here!". Arthur then says, "Uh-oh. Middle name." After that, his mother carries Arthur and tells him, “Apologize to your sister!" but Arthur says no. In the living room, his dad tells Arthur: "Arthur, this means no TV for a week." Arthur tells his parents it is not fair. Later at school, Arthur tells all his friends. Eventually, the tough customers tell Binky to punch Arthur in the arm the next time he sees him.  Binky does not want to, so he comes up with a plan not to look at Arthur ever again. However, while walking with his friends, Binky sees Arthur outside the Sugar Bowl, and they tell him to punch Arthur. Then, Binky gives into the peer pressure, punches Arthur in the arm, and runs home. Later, he apologizes to D.W. and their relationship goes back to normal.
An unclaimed person is someone who is dead and none of their family members have seen the dead body or if the dead person have no family members who are alive. In most states, almost 40,000 unclaimed bodies have been found and put in a morgue.
Joseph Bernard André Geoffrion (February 14, 1931 – March 11, 2006) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. His nickname was Boom Boom. Geoffrion was considered an innovator of the slapshot. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1972. He played for the Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers in the National Hockey League. In 2017 Geoffrion was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.
Edman Ayvazyan (, 10 August 1931 – 25 March 2020) was an Iranian-Armenian painter. He was born in Tehran. Career. Ayvazyan focused on Daredevils of Sassoun, the works of Hovhannes Tumanyan, and created many portraits, landscapes, seascapes. His works can be found in many churches and museums including Lazar galley, House-Museum of Aram Khachaturian. Death. Ayvazyan died on 25 March 2020 in London, England, aged 88.
Robert Alan Levinson (March 10, 1948 – date of death unknown) was an American former Drug Enforcement Administration and Federal Bureau of Investigation agent. Levinson disappeared mysteriously on March 9, 2007 in Kish Island, Iran while on a mission for the CIA. Levinson's family received $2.5 million annuity from the CIA in order to stop a lawsuit revealing details of his work in Iran. He may have been held captive by the government of Iran.  On November 26, 2013, Levinson, if he was still alive, became the longest-held American in history, passing Terry A. Anderson. According to his family, he suffered from type 1 diabetes, gout, and hypertension.  His passport has never shown up in any other country.  On March 25, 2020, Levinson's family announced his death, and although the date is unknown, it has been determined that he likely died while in Iranian custody.