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Annie Jump Cannon was an American astronomer. She was born on December 11, 1863 in Dover, Delaware and died on April 13, 1941 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Life. With an old astronomy book, Cannon's mother taught her the constellations and other things about stars when she was little. She encouraged her to learn mathematics, chemistry and biology at Wellesley College. They loved the stars. After graduation she took up photography, and many of her pictures of Europe were published. She caught Scarlet fever which made her deaf. She became an instructor at Wellesley and learned spectroscopy. Cannon was a great astronomer and gave us new information about the stars. Jobs and studies. Cannon had graduate studies in math, physics, and astronomy. She also received many awards such as the Henry Draper Gold Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, the Ellen Richards Award, and she was the first woman to ever receive the honorary doctorate of science at Oxford University. She also became part of the Harvard Astronomy staff. She discovered 300 variable stars, five novae stars, and a binary star while on the staff. Cannon observed and then classified about 400,000 stars. She invented the Harvard system which is still the usual method of stellar classification according to color and temperature.  Hardships. Cannon had many hardships. Cannon was a women scientist in a world of men. She had to advocate for herself. She was one of the first women in astronomy at her time. Cannon also faced the hardship of being deaf. Cannon didn’t have access to hearing aids. People had decided not to vote for her for awards despite her discoveries because she was deaf. Now many people admire her and wish to follow in her footsteps. Cannon struggled in a world of stereotypes and first times but she managed to succeed.
Scaphocephaly is a medical disorder which can occur when two parts of the skull fuse together. It describes a long narrow head that looks like an overturned boat. It is a type of cephalic disorder.  Scaphocephaly is the most common type of skull synostosis, or joining of two bones. It accounts for around 50% of cases of skull synostosis. It can be corrected by surgery if the child is young enough. Scaphocephaly can be categorised into multiple types depending on position or suture closure, such as bathrocephaly, clinocephaly, dolichocephaly, leptocephaly, and sphenocephaly.
Betty Jane "Kathleen" Crowley (December 26, 1929 – April 23, 2017) was an American actress. She was born in Green Bank, New Jersey. She starred in a number of TV shows and movies throughout the 1950s and 1960s, ending her career in 1970. She was known for her multiple small roles in the TV series "Maverick". Crowley died on April 23, 2017 at her home in Green Bank, New Jersey, aged 87.
Benjamin R. Barber (August 2, 1939 – April 24, 2017) was an American political theorist and author. He was best known for his 1995 bestseller, "Jihad vs. McWorld", and for 2013's "If Mayors Ruled the World". Barber died on April 24, 2017 in New York City after a four-month battle with pancreatic cancer, aged 77.
Kenneth Robert "Ken" Sears (August 17, 1933 – April 23, 2017) was an American professional basketball player. He holds the title of being the first basketball player to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine, appearing on the December 20, 1954 issue. Sears played eight seasons (1955–1961, 1962–1964) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the New York Knicks and San Francisco Warriors. He averaged 13.9 points per game and 7.8 rebounds per game in his NBA career, appearing as an NBA All-Star in 1958 and 1959. Sears spent the 1961–62 basketball season in the short-lived American Basketball League. Sears died on April 23, 2017, at his home in Watsonville, California, aged 83.
Dr. Fredrick Lawrence Munyua Waiyaki (12 December 1926 – 25 April 2017) was a Kenyan politician. He was a minister for Agriculture, Minister of Foreign Affairs and a former member of parliament for the Kasarani Constituency. He was born in Nairobi, Kenya. In 1963, he was appointed Parliamentary secretary  In the 1960s. he was offered a job by the Kenyan government to work as a medical doctor a position he served for less than a year since he retired and decided against to set up his own clinic in Kenya. At the same time, he started becoming active in politics since he served as the District chairman for Kenya African National Union (KANU) for the period of 1960-1968. In 1962 he challenged Tom Mboya for the Nairobi East parliament seat but he lost by 2668 votes to 31407. He entered into parliament for the first time in May 1963 as a member of parliament for North Eastern Nairobi (now Kasarani) and he also became the permanent secretary for the ministry of health and housing. Waiyaki died on 25 April 2017 at a hospital in Nairobi from pneumonia, aged 90.
Sasha "The Basha, Pitbull" Lakovic (Serbian: Саша Лаковић / "Saša Laković"; September 7, 1971 – April 25, 2017) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played for 17 different professional teams during his career, but mostly known for playing with the New Jersey Devils. Lakovic also played for four roller hockey teams in the mid-1990s. Lakovic attempted to start a career in acting, landing a small role as Russian ice hockey player Boris Mikhailov in the 2004 Walt Disney movie "Miracle". Lakovic was diagnosed with brain cancer in October 2016. He died from the disease on April 25, 2017 in Vancouver, aged 45.
Brokpa is a tribe in a remote area of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan. This tribe is described by many great historians, including Strabo, Herodotus and others. History. Historically these people are known as Minaro people. They lived from the 1st century BC in Deosai region. In the 19th century BC they migrated to the rest of Ladakh region.
iOS 11 is the eleventh major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc., coming after iOS 10. It was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 5, 2017, and released on September 19, 2017. Some of iOS 11's changes: the lock screen and Notification Center are combined, allowing all notifications to be displayed directly on the lock screen. The various pages of the Control Center are unified, gaining custom settings and the ability to 3D Touch icons for more options. The App Store receives a big visual change to focus on editorial content and daily highlights. A "Files" file manager app allows direct access to files stored locally and in cloud services. Siri can now translate between languages and use a privacy-minded "on-device learning" technique to better understand a user's interests and offer suggestions. The camera has new settings for better portrait-mode photos and will use new encoding technologies to reduce file sizes on newer devices. A previous point release also added support for person-to-person Apple Pay payments. The operating system also introduces the ability to record the screen, limited forms of drag-and-drop functionality, and support for augmented reality. Certain new features will appear only on iPad, including an always-accessible application dock, cross-app drag-and-drop, and a new user interface to show multiple apps at once. iOS 11 received mixed reviews. People significantly praised the application dock and new multitasking interface on the iPad, crediting them for renewing the user experience. Further praise was directed at the redesigned Control Center offering customizable toggles, though it was criticized for lack of third-party app support, lack of Wi-Fi network selection ability and for difficult usage on small screen sizes, along with its instability. People also noted the new augmented reality development tools, but said their impact would depend on third-party apps and how fast developers embraced them. Praise was also directed at the App Store's redesign and the new file-management tools. Shortly after release, it was discovered that disabling Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections through the Control Center does not disable the respective chips in the device in order to remain functional for background connectivity, a design decision sparking criticism for "misleading" users and reducing
Grimisuat is a municipality of the district Sion in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Villages. Grimisuat, Champlan, Les Fermes, les Places, Coméraz and Saint-Raphaël.
Salins is a former municipality of the district of Sion in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.  On 1 January 2013, the former municipality of Salins merged into the municipality of Sion.
Savièse is a municipality in the Sion in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Villages. Chandolin, Drône, Granois, La Muraz, Mayens-de-la-Zour, Ormône, Roumaz and Saint-Germain.
Balad () is a political party in Israel. It is a Hebrew acronym of "Brit Le'umit Demokratit" (). Balad () is also an Arabic word. It means "country" or "nation". Balad's full Arabic name is at-Tajammuʿ al-Waṭanī ad-Dīmuqrāṭī ().Its ideology is social democratic, Arab nationalist, pan-Arabic, secular, and anti-Zionist. Balad was founded in 1995. The party's political leader is Sami Abu Shehadeh. As of 2022, Balad has no seats in the Knesset.
Jona Lewie (born John Lewis, 14 March 1947 in Southampton, England) is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for his 1980 UK hits "You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties" and "Stop the Cavalry". Career. In 1969, as a singer/songwriter, he made compositions and recordings for the compilation album "I Asked For Water She Gave Me ... Gasoline" on the Liberty/UA label. Other compositions in 1969 were for the album "These Blues is Meant to Be Barrel Housed" on the Yazoo/Blue Goose label in New York, still as a solo artist known as John Lewis.
Grächen is a municipality of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It is at an elevation of on a terrace above St. Niklaus in the Mattertal, north of the Mischabel range (and Dom).
Francis Lazarro "Frank" Rizzo, Sr. (October 23, 1920 – July 16, 1991) was an American politician. He was the Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1972 through 1980. He was also the police commissioner as well. When he was mayor, Rizzo was a Democrat, but when he left office, Rizzo became a Republican in 1986. Biography. Rizzo was born in Philadelphia. His father, Rafael, worked as a police officer. He grew up in a row house neighborhood in South Philadelphia. In his senior year of high school, he left Southern High School. He later obtained a high school equivalency diploma and took government courses at the Fels Institute of Government. After enlisting in the United States Navy, Rizzo served on the USS Houston cruiser for 19 months. However, he was medically discharged due to diabetes insipidus. Upon returning to Philadelphia, Rizzo found employment at Midvale Steel, where he contributed to the production of naval guns in preparation for World War II. Rizzo's father was actually a big part of his life he helped him become what he was because his father was a police officer.  Rizzo was commissioner from 1968 to 1971 and eventually became mayor in 1972. While he was mayor his relationships with the black community was very violent and devastating. Others would say he was racially motivated only because he would liked to target activities in black neighborhoods.  Rizzo died of a heart attack on July 16, 1991 in Philadelphia, aged 70.
Sarah Parker Remond (June 6, 1815 – December 13, 1894) was an African-American educator, abolitionist, and member of the American Anti-Slavery Society. She made her first speech against slavery when she was only sixteen years old. Late in life she became a physician in Italy. Life. Remond was born in Salem, Massachusetts. She was born June 6, 1826, and she died in 1894. She went to an all black elementary school. she was not a slave but her father was, who then became an American citizen. Her family moved to Newport, Rhode Island and she went to a private school. She made her first speech in 1842. She made her first speech when she was 16 years old against slavery.
Sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a member of the White Rose Resistance group. Along with Hans scholl, Alexander Schmorell, Willi Graf, Christoph Probst, and Kurt Huber, Sophie helped write leaflets that opposed Hitler and Nazi Germany.  On February 18,1943, Sophie and her brother went to the Munich University to pass out leaflets. They were spotted by a custodian, who alerted the Gestapo. They were put on trial on February 22. They were sentenced to death. Before her death, her roommate, Else Gebel, recalls the last thing that Sophie said to her: “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone wiling to give himself up individually for a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny, day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of lives are awakened and stirred into action.”. She was killed the same day of the trial, February 22, 1943.
Air India Flight 855 was a flight from Bombay to Dubai. On January 1, 1978 the Boeing 747 crashed into the Arabian Sea due to pilot error, killing all 213 people on board.
A sphygmomanometer ((, ; also called a blood pressure meter, blood pressure monitor, or blood pressure gauge) is a device used to measure blood pressure in humans. It was first invented by an Austrian physician in 1881. They now come in different shapes and sizes. They can be found in many places. The sphygmomanometer works by wrapping a tube of fabric (called a "cuff") around the arm or other body part. The cuff is filled up with air. That stops the flow of blood in the arm. The air is then released slowly until the blood flows again. The whole process, from start to finish, only takes about a minute. Many sphygmomanometers are inflated by squeezing a bulb. A gauge shows how much the cuff is inflated. The gauge can be mechanical or hydraulic (filled with mercury). It is important that the cuff is not inflated too much, so whoever is using the device has to use a stethoscope.  Some sphygmomanometers, especially those that people use at home, are automatic. They inflate using an electric pump. They show the blood pressure on a screen. They are meant to be very easy to use.
Randa is a municipality of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. The municipality is between the Weisshorn and Dom in the Matter Valley.
Dale Edward Wolf (September 6, 1924 – March 20, 2021) was an American businessman and politician. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware. He was veteran of World War II. Wolf was a member of the Republican Party. For three weeks, he was the 70th Governor of Delaware. Wolf died on March 20, 2021 in Wilmington, Delaware at the age of 96.
Vinod Khanna (6 October 1946 – 27 April 2017) was an Indian actor. He was also an active politician and was the sitting MP from Gurdaspur constituency (between 1998-2009 and 2014-2017). Career. Khanna played lead roles in many movies and is best remembered for his performance in "Mere Apne, Mera Gaon Mera Desh, Gaddaar, Jail Yatra, Imtihaan, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, Inkaar, Kuchhe Dhaage, Amar Akbar Anthony, Rajput, Qurbani, Kudrat, Dayavan, Kaarnama," and Jurm". After making his debut in 1968, Khanna first acted in small roles or negative roles. His angry young man role in the movie "Mere Apne", his negative role as the main villain in the superhit movie "Mera Gaon Mera Desh" and his role in the crtically acclaimed movie "Achanak" based on the events of the popular case " K. M. Nanavati v. State of Maharashtra", as the military officer turned fugitive. Khanna was popularly known as one of the most handsome lead actors ever in Bollywood. Political career. In 1997, Khanna joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and was elected from Gurdaspur constituency in Punjab in the next year's Lok Sabha election. In 2014 general election he was again elected for 16th Loksabha from same constituency. Death. Khanna died on 27 April 2017 at a hospital in Mumbai from bladder cancer at the age of 70.
William George Morgan (23 January 1870 – 27 December 1942) was an American educator and businessman. He was the inventor of volleyball, originally called "Mintonette". He was born in Lockport, New York. He met James Naismith, inventor of basketball, while Morgan was studying at Springfield College, Massachusetts in 1892. Like Naismith, Morgan went for a career in Physical Education at the YMCA. He was inspired by Naismith and basketball, in 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Morgan invented "Mintonette" a less hard team sport than a basketball which was more suitable for older members of the YMCA but one that still needed athletic skill. Morgan died in Lockport, New York from pneumonia on 27 December 1942, aged 72.
The Black Panther Party or the BPP (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a revolutionary black power and Marxist-Leninist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982, with international chapters operating in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s, and in Algeria from 1969 until 1972. It was founded in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Founding members were Newton, Seale, Bobby Hutton, and Elbert Howard. It started in Oakland, California.
Sylvia Rae Rivera (July 2, 1951 – February 19, 2002) was an American gay, transgender and civil rights activist and drag queen.  Rivera was a founding member of both the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance. With her close friend Marsha P. Johnson, Rivera co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), a group dedicated to helping homeless young drag queens and trans women of color. Life. Rivera was born on July 2, 1951 as Ray Rivera. As a child she found a growing interest in makeup. By grade 4 she was wearing makeup to school. Lacking the support she needed from her family, by age 10, her grandmother disapproved and put her out on the street. Rivera became a child sex worker in Times Square. Later on in her life, Rivera took an interest in human rights, specifically race and gender/sexual orientation. She created the organization STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) with her best friend, Marsha P. Johnson.  But not too long after, Johnson was found dead, floating in the Hudson River. Rivera was devastated, and she even attempted suicide once. In the end, she died of liver cancer in 2002.
Clara McBride Hale (April 1, 1905 – December 18, 1992), also known as Mother Hale, was an American humanitarian. She founded the Hale House Center, a home for unwanted children and children who were born addicted to drugs. Personal life. Hale was born April 1, 1905 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. She moved to Philadelphia her father died when she was a toddler. Her mother could not pay for her and her siblings, her mother took in lodgers to pay for her family. Clara Hale's mother died when she was sixteen.  She met Thomas Hale in high school and when they graduated they went to New York together and started a floor waxing company. Thomas and Clara Hale had two children named Lorraine and a son Nathan. Clara Hale adopted a boy named Kenneth the time Thomas Hale was going through cancer and died at the age of twenty seven.  When a drug addicted mom was at her door step she asked if Hale would take her drug addicted baby. Hale took in the baby and the Hale house began. Hale died on December 18, 1992 in New York City from stroke-related complications at the age of 87.
Leo Baxendale (27 October 1930 – 23 April 2017) was an English cartoonist and publisher. Baxendale wrote and drew several comics. Among his most famous creations are the "Beano" strips "Little Plum", "Minnie the Minx", "The Bash Street Kids", and "The Three Bears". Baxendale died on 23 April, 2017 of cancer in Lancashire, England at the age of 86.
Pere Tàpias (19 May 1946 – 22 April 2017) () was a Spanish radio presenter and food writer in Catalonia, Spain. He was the host of a Catalunya Ràdio program, "Tàpies Variades". He was the 2005–2006 Ambassor of Xató. He was born in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain. Tàpias died on 22 April 2017 from liver disease in Sant Pere de Ribes, Spain at the age of 70.
Peter James George, CM, O.Ont (September 12, 1941 – April 27, 2017) was a Canadian economist and university academic. He was born in Toronto, Ontario. On June 30, 2010, he retired after serving three five year terms as President and Vice-Chancellor of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He became President and Vice-Chancellor in 1995. He was the longest serving President of McMaster University. George died of cancer at his home in Hamilton, Ontario on April 27, 2017 at the age of 75.
McMaster University (commonly referred to as McMaster or Mac) is a public research university located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, Hamilton. It opened in Toronto in 1890. It was named after famous Canadian Senator William McMaster (1811–1887) who donated C$900,000 to create the university. It moved to a larger ground space in Hamilton in 1930. McMaster was controlled by the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec until it became a privately chartered, publicly funded non-denominational institution in 1957.  The university is co-educational, and has over 25,000 undergraduate and over 4,000 post-graduate students. The university ranked 4th among Canadian universities and 94th in the world according to the 2015-2016 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
Sir Peter Reginald Frederick Hall CBE (22 November 1930 – 11 September 2017) was a British director, playwright and actor.  Career. In 1955 he introduced London audiences to the work of Samuel Beckett with the UK premiere of "Waiting for Godot". Hall founded the Royal Shakespeare Company (1960–68) and went on to build an international reputation in theatre, opera, movie and television. He was Director of the National Theatre (1973–88) and Artistic Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera (1984-1990).  He formed The Peter Hall Company (1998-2011) and became founding director of The Rose Theatre, Kingston in 2003. Throughout his career, he has been a vociferous champion of public funding for the arts. Death. On the morning of 11 September 2017, Hall died at University College Hospital in London from pneumonia complicated by dementia, aged 86.
Morelia amethistina (also known as the amethystine python, scrub python or sanca permata) is a form of non-venomous python. It can be found in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Australia. Some specimens of Morelia amethistina have been measured at up to 8.5 metres (27.9 feet) long, but normally they are only up to 5 metres long. The diet of the Amethystine python is mostly birds, bats, rats, possums, and other small mammals. Some big Australian and Papuan varieties eat wallabies and cuscus.
Saas-Balen is a municipality of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It is at the foot of the Mischabelhörner and Dom.
Pregassona is a quarter of the city of Lugano, Switzerland. Until 2004, it was a municipality on its own. Then it was added to Lugano. The name Pregassona comes from a contraction of the local dialect for "near the Cassone"; the Cassone is a small river that flows through the village.
The United Arab List, commonly known by its Hebrew acronym Ra'am (), is an Israeli Arab political party.  Its ideology is Arab nationalist and Islamist. Political leader is Mansour Abbas. Ra'am was founded in 1996 as an alliance of Mada (Arab Democratic Party) and the southern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel. Its supporters are Islamic and nationalist Israeli Arabs, especially the Bedouins among them. Number of seats in the 24th Knesset: 4 (/).Ra'am was cooperating with Balad, Hadash and Ta'al as part of the Joint List. Together they had 15 seats in the 23rd Knesset. In 2021 it formally joined a coalition of parties in the Bennett-Lapid Government.