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Maury Laws (December 6, 1923 – March 28, 2019) was an American television and movie composer from Burlington, North Carolina. Biography. In his teens, Laws performed in local country, jazz and dance bands as a singer and guitarist in his home state of North Carolina. His career was put on hold during World War II, in which he served in the Army. In 1964, he was hired as music director for the television production company Videocraft International (now known as Rankin/Bass), a post which he held for roughly 20 years. In this capacity, he conducted and scored music for a number of animated features, including "The Hobbit", "Jack Frost", "The Flight of Dragons", "The Daydreamer", "The Wacky World of Mother Goose", "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town", and "Frosty the Snowman". His most widely known work may be an adaptation of Johnny Marks' score for the well-known Christmas special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", first aired in 1964. Laws also did composing work on a 1967 Rankin/Bass theatrical feature, the Halloween-themed "Mad Monster Party?". Maury Laws died in Appleton, Wisconsin on March 28, 2019.
Anthony Samuel Selby (26 February 1938 – 5 September 2021) was an English actor. He was born in Lambeth, London, England. His career began in 1956. He played Sabalom Glitz in "Doctor Who" between 1986 until 1987. He played Salter in the 1968 movie "Witchfinder General". He was also in "Mulberry", "Get Some In!" and "EastEnders". Selby died on 5 September 2021 in London at the age of 83.
Jan Hecker (15 February 1967 – 5 September 2021) was a German lawyer and politician. Hecker was an advisor to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. He was a judge at the Federal Administrative Court and an adjunct professor at the European University Viadrina. In late August 2021, Hecker became the Ambassador to the People's Republic of China. Hecker was born in Kiel, West Germany. Hecker died on 5 September 2021 in Beijing, China at the age of 54.
The 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix is a Grand Prix that took place at Bahrain, Sakhir 1 week after the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix. The race was won by Sergio Pérez of Racing Point, who took his first Formula One victory and Racing Point's only win as a constructor. Esteban Ocon finished second for the Renault team to claim his first podium in Formula One, while Pérez's teammate Lance Stroll finished third, giving Racing Point their only double podium finish as a constructor. Pérez became the first Mexican Formula One driver to win a race since Pedro Rodríguez won the 1970 Belgian Grand Prix. Racing Point became the first British constructor to win a race since Lotus F1 at the 2013 Australian Grand Prix. Recovering from a first-lap spin, Pérez won having inherited the lead on lap 64 of the race after longtime race leader George Russell fell foul of a pitstop error when Mercedes brought in both of their drivers under the Safety Car which was deployed on lap 62 after Jack Aitken who was substituting for him at Williams for this weekend spun and slammed into the wall on the main straight on the previous lap lap 61 which broke his front wing off and left debris on the circuit which initially forced the Virtual Safety Car (VSC) to be deployed so that the marshals could remove the debris safely, but on the following lap after the VSC had been deployed for roughly a minute, because a convenient gap in the on-circuit traffic could not be found in order to allow the marshals to come out onto the circuit to in order to remove the debris safely the Virtual Safety Car was then upgraded to a full Safety Car in order to create a convenient gap in the on-circuit traffic to allow the marshals to remove the debris safely before he then suffered a late puncture. With his win Perez also became the 1st ever Formula 1 driver to win a world championship grand prix after running in last place at the end of the opening lap of a world championship grand prix. Also as the race lasted for 87 laps the event had the highest lap count of a world championship grand prix since the Australian Grand Prix in 1995
Trove is an Australian online library database aggregator and service which includes full text documents, digital images, bibliographic and holdings data of items which are not available digitally, and a free faceted-search engine as a discovery tool. The database includes archives, images, newspapers, official documents, archived websites, manuscripts and other types of data. Hosted by the National Library of Australia in partnership with content providers, including members of the National and State Libraries Australia, it is one of the most well-respected and accessed GLAM services in Australia, with over 70,000 daily users. In the wake of government funding cuts since 2015, the National Library and other organisations have been struggling to keep up with ensuring that content on Trove is kept flowing through and up to date. Other websites. Official Website
Bal Ganesh is a 2007 computer-animated musical feature film, directed by . The film is about the adventures and hijinks of Lord Ganesh, the Hindu elephant-headed god, when he was a kid.
Greenwashing or green-washing is when people or businesses say their products are good for the environment when they are not. Greenwashing has become more common. Some scholars say people are less likely to trust advertising that talks about the environment than they used to be. Companies have used greenwashing about air pollution and other environmental concerns. Big companies and corporations learned how to make money from the fact that customers cared about the environment. They had marketing teams advertise their products and services as environmentally beneficial. However, many of these products and services were bad for the environment.
Hindu deities are the gods and goddesses in Hinduism. The terms for deity within the diverse traditions of Hinduism vary, and include Deva, Devi, Ishvara, Ishvari, Bhagavān and Bhagavati. Being gods and/or deities, they very much intertwine with Greek gods, goddesses, and mythology. Some Hindu deities include: Shiva, (Siva) is one of the most important gods and is considered a member of the holy trinity (trimurti) of Hinduism with Brahma and Vishnu. A complex character, he may represent goodness, benevolence and serve as the Protector. Vishnu, is the god of Preservation, the great maintainer who appears in various incarnations (avatara) to provide salvation for humanity. Some of his best-known avatars, who are tremendously popular and beloved throughout Hindu India, are the gods Krishna and Rama. Ganesha, also spelled Ganesh, also called Ganapati, elephant-headed Hindu god of beginnings, who is traditionally worshipped before any major enterprise and is the patron of intellectuals, bankers, scribes, and authors. Krishna is a major deity in Hinduism. He is worshipped as the eighth avatar of Vishnu and also as the supreme God in his own right. He is the god of protection, compassion, tenderness, and love and is one of the most popular and widely revered among Indian divinities. Durga, is a major deity in Hinduism. She is worshipped as a principal aspect of the mother goddess Devi and is one of the most popular and widely revered among Indian divinities. She is associated with protection, strength, motherhood, destruction and wars. Lakshmi, is the consort of the god Vishnu. She is one of the most popular goddesses of Hindu mythology and is known as the goddess of wealth and purity. Brahma, is the first god in the Hindu triumvirate, or trimurti. The triumvirate consists of three gods who are responsible for the creation, upkeep and destruction of the world. The other two gods are Vishnu and Shiva. Vishnu is
When talking about spaceflight, a flyby is when a spacecraft passes close to another object, and takes some measurements, or pictures. Sometimes, the spacecraft uses the other object to gain speed or to change direction, in an operation called gravity assist. Spacecraft that are specially designed for this task are known as flyby spacecraft. Important parameters of a flyby are the time and the distance of the closest approach. Flyby maneuvers can be done with a planet, a natural satellite or a non-planetary object such as a small Solar System body. Planetary flybys have occurred with Mars or Earth amongst others. Kuiper belt. The "New Horizons" spacecraft did a fly by the Kuiper belt object 486958 Arrokoth on New Year's Day 2019, after its successful flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto in 2015. On the night of December 31, 2018 to the morning of January 1, 2019 New Horizons performed the most distant flyby to date, of the Kuiper belt object Arrokoth. New Horizons previously did a flyby of Pluto in July 2015, and that was at about 32.9 AU (astronomical units) from the Sun, while the New Year's Day 2019 flyby of the Kuiper object Arrokoth was at 43.6 AU. "Cassini". "Cassini-Huygens" (launched 1997) orbited Saturn from 2004-2017. It performed flybys of many of Saturn's moons including Titan. "Cassini-Huygen"s had its first flyby of Titan in October 2004. Cassini conducted many flybys at various distances of the moons of Saturn. It achieved 126 flybys of Titan, and its final close flyby was on April 22, 2017 before its retirement. An animation of the "Cassini" spacecraft trajectory around Saturn over 10 years, during which it passed closely by many moons of Saturn, is at right. Comets. International Cometary Explorer (ISEE-3) passed through the plasma tail of comet Giacobini
Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of the natural history, classification, species characteristics, conservation biology, and distribution information on many species of animals.  The website includes many photographs, hundreds of sound clips, and a virtual museum. This is a project that started at the University of Michigan.
ARKive was a data system to help conserve the world's threatened species. It used "the power of wildlife imagery",  The archive has films, photographs and audio recordings of the world's species in a centralised digital archive. Its priority was the 17,000 species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species at that time. The project was an initiative of Wildscreen, a UK-registered educational charity, based in Bristol.  The website closed on 15 February 2019. It kept its collection of images and videos stored in its archive.
The Barcode of Life Data System (commonly known as BOLD or BOLDSystems) is a web platform specifically devoted to DNA barcoding. It is a database and analysis system developed at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics in Canada.
Xenosaga Freaks (Japanese: ゼノサーガ フリークス) is a Japanese Adventure and Puzzle game, developed by Monolith Soft, and published by Namco. It released on PlayStation 2 (PS2) on April 28, 2004 only in Japan, Gameplay. The title contains two original Xenosaga themed games: "Ze of Komi." Encyclopedia of "Xenosaga and Xenosaga Episode II" trial version of the game. Description. (an adventure game with 7 playable characters), Pittan (a puzzle game based on the Namco ""),
Fossilworks is a database for fossils (palaeontology). Its website which allows users to search and download information from its database. The content has been put together by paleontologists around the world. The website was created in 1998 by John Alroy and is housed at Macquarie University, in New South Wales, Australia. As of September 2021 the database houses:
The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG) is a database of life.  It includes published scientific names for all domains of life from 1758 in zoology (1753 in plants, flowers, and trees) up to the present. It has a consistent order. The database holds over 1.7 million species names (1.3 million listed as "accepted"). Database location and hosting. The database was created by Australian biologist and data manager Tony Rees in 2006. For his work on this and other projects, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility awarded him the 2014 Ebbe Nielsen Prize. IRMNG identifiers have also been associated with numerous Wikipedia taxon pages, based on content harvested from IRMNG and stored in Wikidata.
Matej Marin (2 July 1980 – 5 September 2021) was a Slovenian professional racing cyclist. He rode professionally between 2003 and 2015 for the Perutnina Ptuj and Felbermayr–Simplon Wels teams. He rode at the 2013 UCI Road World Championships. Marin died on 5 September 2021, at the age of 41.
Daniel P. Swecker (February 28, 1947 – September 1, 2021) was an American politician. He was a member of the Washington State Senate from the 20th district from 1995 to 2013. He was a Republican. Swecker was born in Bozeman, Montana. Swecker died on September 1, 2021 from pneumonia caused by COVID-19 in Rochester, Washington at the age of 74.
Léonard Groguhet (1939 – 4 September 2021) was an Ivorian actor and humorist.  He was born in Daloa in 1939. Groguhet studied at the Centre National d'Art Dramatique. He appeared on the Ivorian television series "Ma Famille" between 2002 until 2007. In 1961, Léonard joined the in Paris. He studied there for three years. His last university was the Université Internationale du Théâtre. He stuied there from 1966 to 1968. In 1969, he started to work for Radiodiffusion Television Ivoirienne. Léonard became a director of the programs such as "Le Stop dans le vent", "Télé-week-end", and "Comment ça va ?".  Groguhet died on 4 September 2021.
Jörg Schlaich (17 October 1934 – 4 September 2021) was a German structural engineer. He was a co-founder of the structural engineering and consulting firm Schlaich Bergermann Partner. He was known for designing the Olympic Stadium, Munich, Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion and Solar updraft tower. Schlaich died on 4 September 2021 at the age of 86.
MHPArena () is a stadium located in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany and home to German Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart. Before 1993 it was called Neckarstadion , named after the nearby river Neckar and between 1993 and July 2008 it was called Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion . From the 2008–09 season, the stadium was renamed the Mercedes-Benz Arena. On 1 July 2023, it was renamed the "MHPArena".
Albert Giger (7 October 1946 – 4 September 2021) was a Swiss cross country skier. He competed in the early 1970s. He won a bronze medal at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. He was as well a 5-times winner of the Engadin Skimarathon. Giger died on 4 September 2021 at the age of 74.
Marcel Garrouste (22 April 1921 – 5 September 2021) was a French politician. He was a member of the Socialist Party (PS). He was a member of the National Assembly from 1978 to 1986 and again from 1988 to 1993. He was also Mayor of Penne-d'Agenais from 1971 to 1983. Garroust was born in Trémons, France. Garroust turned 100 in April 2021 and died five months later on 5 September 2021.
Claude Joseph Azéma (5 July 1943 – 6 September 2021) was a French Roman Catholic bishop. He was born in Vailhauquès, France. He became a priest in 1969. He was the Bishop of Montpellier from 2003 until 2018.  Azéma died on 6 September 2021 in Montpellier at the age of 78.
In the Line of Fire is a 1993 American political action thriller movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen. It stars Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich and Rene Russo. The movie is about a crazy former CIA agent who tries to assassinate the President of the United States and the Secret Service agent who tracks him. The movie also stars Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole, John Mahoney, and Fred Dalton Thompson. "In the Line of Fire" was co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment. The movie earned three nominations at the 66th Academy Awards.
Carlos Manuel Vila Nova (born 27 July 1959) is a São Toméan politician. Vila Nova is the President of São Tomé and Príncipe. He was Minister of Public Works and Natural Resources from 2010 until 2012 and Minister of Infrastructure, Natural Resources and the Environment from 2014 until 2018. He was the Independent Democratic Action candidate for the 2021 presidential election. On 6 September, he was elected president of São Tomé and Príncipe.
Jack D. Rule Jr. (born November 13, 1938) is an American professional golfer. He played on the PGA Tour in the 1960s. Rule was born in Mason City, Iowa. He beat Jack Nicklaus in the 1956 U.S. Junior Amateur semi-finals. Rule won twice on the PGA Tour, the 1963 St. Paul Open Invitational and the 1965 Oklahoma City Open Invitational.
Joseph Anthony Pepitone (October 9, 1940 – March 13, 2023) was a Major League Baseball first baseman and outfielder. His playing career lasted from 1962 until 1973. He was known for playing for the New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Houston Astros and the Atlanta Braves. Pepitone died at his daughter's home in Kansas City, Missouri on March 13, 2023, at the age of 82.
Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a syndrome (a set of signs and symptoms) caused by low blood flow in the coronary arteries such that part of the heart muscle. The most common symptom is chest pain. ACS causes troponin levels to rise.
Keshav Desiraju (11 May 1955 – 5 September 2021) was an Indian public servant and mental health activist. He was the union health secretary of India. He was known for his works to mental health and community healthcare. He helped write the mental healthcare act of 2017. Desiraju worked for the Indian Administrative Service. He was born in Mumbai, India. Desiraju died on 5 September 2021 in Chennai, India from acute coronary syndrome at the age of 66.
Emil William Henry (March 4, 1929 – January 31, 2022) was an American politician and businessman. He was chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from June 2, 1963 to May 1, 1966 during the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson presidencies. Henry is a member of the Democratic Party. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Henry died on January 31, 2022 in Memphis, almost one month before his 93rd birthday.
The "Hanuba Hanubi Paan Thaaba" (English: Old Man and Old Woman planting Taro) or "Hanubi Hentak! Hanuba Hentak!" is a Meitei folktale originated from Ancient Kangleipak (Antique Manipur). Story. Once there was a childless old couple, who used to treat a group of monkeys, from the nearby forest, kindly like their own children. One day, the old couple was planting taro plants ("paan" or "paal" in Meitei) in their kitchen garden. Seeing that, the monkeys told the two that it was actually not the right way to plant taros. They told the two that the best peeled off tubers of the taros should initially be boiled in a pot until softened and after getting cooled, these should be planted by wrapping in the banana leaves tightly. The old couple believed the monkeys and they did so as suggested. In the midnight, the monkeys relished all the cooked taros from the garden. And in place of all those delicious taros, they uprooted some inedible giant wild taros from somewhere and planted them in the garden.  In the next morning, the old couple were surprised at the sudden growth of the taros they had planted the previous day. The two immediately prepared a dish of the recently full grown taros and ate them. But as soon as they gulped some, both felt a tingling sensation in their throat. Unable to bear the allergy, both asked to give "hentak" (a traditional edible paste made from fish meat and some vegetables) to each other. It was only after they had the hentak that their allergy was cured. Realising that the monkeys had tricked them, the two devised a plan for revenge. And according to the plan, the old man ("hanuba" in Meitei) pretended to be dead, and the old woman ("hanubi" in Meitei) cried out loudly to make the monkeys hear her cry. Then, the monkeys came there and asked the old woman what had happened. She told them that the old man died after eating the taros. She
Eugene N. Borza (3 March 1935 – 5 September 2021) was an American historian and academic. He was the professor emeritus of ancient history at Pennsylvania State University, where he taught from 1964 until 1995. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He was president of the Association of Ancient Historians for six years, from 1984 to 1989. Borza died on 5 September 2021 in State College, Pennsylvania at the age of 86.
Enrique González Pedrero (7 April 1930 – 6 September 2021) was a Mexican politician, diplomat and writer. He was a member of both Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) parties. He was a Senator from 1970 until 1976. He was Governor of Tabasco from 1982 until 1987. From 1997 until 2000, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies. From 1989 until 1991, Gonzalez Pedrero was the Ambassador to Spain during the Carlos Salinas de Gortari presidency. He was a campaign advisor for future president Andrés Manuel López Obrador's first presidential campaign in 2006. He was born in Villahermosa, Mexico. González Pedrero died on 6 September 2021 in Villahermosa, aged 91.
Phyllomedusa bahiana is a frog that lives in Bahia and Brazil. Scientists have seen it up in the mountains, between 280 and 1000 meters above sea level. People have seen this frog in forests near bodies of water that do not dry up. The female frog lays eggs on leaves over the water. When the eggs hatch, the tadpoles fall into the water. Scientists say this frog is not in danger of dying out because it lives in a large place. Some of the places it lives are protected parks.
Josif Runjanin was a Croatia-born Austrian soldier and composer. He was born on December 8, 1821 in Vinkovci. He died on February 2, 1878 in Novi Sad. He is known for composing the Croatian national anthem. There are many schools in Serbia that are named after him. One of them is the elementary Music School of Josip Runjanin in Vinkovci.
Established in 1952, the Asiatic Society had been known as Asiatic Society of Pakistan, and since 1972 renamed as Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. In establishing the Society, the leading role was played by Ahmad Hasan Dani, the great archaeologist and Indologist of world repute. Other scholars involved in the foundation of the Society were Muhammad Shahidullah, ABM Habibullah, Abdul Halim, and many others. The founding scholars of the Society intended to make the organisation a centre of learning specialising on Asian studies. The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh is a non political and non profit research organization registered under both Society Act of 1864 and NGO Bureau, Government of Bangladesh. A premier learned organisation in the country, the Society is managed by a 17-member council elected by members. The tenure is for two years. While the day-to-day affairs are managed by the General Secretary and Secretary, the policy matters are being discussed and adopted by the Council. There are several standing subject committees to help the Council implementing its policies. The Council meets mandatorily at least once a month. The office bearers and members of the Council work on honourary basis.