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Inge Lehmann (13 May 1888 – 21 February 1993) was a Danish seismologist and geophysicist. In 1925, Lehmann was the assistant of seismologist Niels Erik Nørlund. In 1928 she was made head of the Geodætisk Institut's seismological department. in 1936, she co-founded the Danish Geophysical Society. She used maths to analyze the way energy released by earthquakes travels through the Earth. She discovered that at its center, the Earth is solid . In fact, it has a solid inner core and a liquid outer core.  Lehmann is remarkable in that she is one of the longest-lived scientists in history, living to 104 years of age. Her father, Alfred Georg Ludvik Lehmann, was a psychologist and her mother, Ida Sophie Torsleff, was a housewife. Both parents came from prominent families. Inge was a very shy girl who did not enjoy being in the spot . She continued to be shy throughout her long life . She went to a private coeducational school called Faellesskolen which translates as shared school. The school was new: it had been founded when Inge was 5 years old by Hanna Adler, a wealthy woman.. Hanna Adler's new school was unusual in that boys and girls were treated equally, poring over the same topic and taking part in the same sports and activities. The children were not disciplined as rigorously as in other schools . Inge Lehmann enjoyed her time at the Fællesskolen, but she was sometimes bored because she did not feel challenged enough by the schoolwork. In 1906, at age 18, she passed the entrance examination for Copenhagen University with a first rank mark. She studied mathematics, chemistry and physics at the University of Copenhagen in 1907. She finally graduated in 1920.
Rosetta Code is a wiki-based website that features ways to solve various programming problems in many different programming languages. Website. Rosetta Code was created in 2007 by Michael Mol. The site's content is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2, though some components may have two licenses under less strict terms. Rosetta Code's collection of code examples shows how the functionality the user desires is achieved differently in various ways, and how "the same" task can be done in different programming languages. , Rosetta Code has: * 971 programming problems * 225 additional draft programming tasks * 723 programming languages * 66,679 programming language examples Data and structure. The Rosetta Code site is organized as a browsable cross-section of programming problems and programming languages. A programming problem's page displays solutions contributed by visitors in various programming languages, allowing someone who views the solution to compare the solution to the programming problem. Each programming language has its own page, which contains a list of programming problems that have solutions in that programming language. For example, a task that has a solution in the C programming language will appear in the listing for the C programming language, and if the same task has a solution in the Ruby programming language, the task will also appear in the listing for the Ruby programming language. Languages. Some programming languages that are listed on Rosetta Code are: A list of all programming languages that have solutions to programming problems on Rosetta Code is available. Tasks. Some tasks that are listed on Rosetta Code are:
A Munchkin cat is a type of cat breed that is a medium sized cat weighing 4 to 9 lbs. A Munchkin cat is best known for its short legs and outgoing personality. Cost. A munchkin cat can range from a wide range of prices depending on factors like gender or the cats color, whether they are a purebred seller or a private seller. Female cats can be more money because they can have kittens. Baby cats tend to cost more and the adult cats cost less. The prices for these cats can be $500 (U.S) to $1200 (U.S) .  Personality. A Munchkin cat are loving and friendly. These cats want to be around humans. They love hugs and love to be pet. Munchkin cats get along with other cats Munchkins get along with dogs. These cats make great indoor cats and can hunt mice. Munchkin cats live 12 to 14 years and come in all types of colors and patterns. Munchkin cat eyes come in any color.  Care. The care for a munchkin cat is important. Care for these cats includes brushing their fur once a week and to have water and food for the cat. These cats need a mix of wet food because it has vitamins and dry food for a healthy diet. Munchkins also need a lot of exercise. Having fake mice and a lot of different toys is good.
101955 Bennu (provisional designation ) is a carbonaceous asteroid in the Apollo group discovered by the LINEAR Project on 11 September 1999. Bennu has a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting Earth between the year 2175 and 2199. It is named after the Bennu, the ancient Egyptian mythological bird associated with the Sun, creation, and rebirth. Bennu has an average diameter of . Bennu was the target of the OSIRIS-REx mission which returned samples to Earth in 2023 for further study. Bennu is the second-highest on the cumulative rating on the Palermo technical impact hazard scale. It is believed that Bennu broke off from another asteroid in the asteroid belt, but the gravitational pull of Saturn dislodged it into the range of Earth. Bennu orbits the Sun every 1.2 years. It comes within 0.002 astronomical units of the earth every 6 years. Some believe that if Bennu enters a specific hole between the earth and the moon its orbit could change in a way that would make it likely to hit Earth.
Kenneth Allen Taylor (1954 – December 2, 2019) was an American philosopher and radio personality. He was known for being the co-host (with John Perry) of the radio program "Philosophy Talk". Taylor was born in Sandusky, Ohio. Taylor died on December 2, 2019 of a heart attack in Stanford, California at the age of 65.
Sandusky is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Erie County.  According to 2020 census, the city had a population of 25,095. In 2011, Sandusky was ranked No. 1 by "Forbes" as the "Best Place to Live Cheaply" in the United States.
John Richard Perry (born January 16, 1943) is an American philosopher and radio personality. He is a Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Stanford University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of California, Riverside.  He is known primarily for his work on situation semantics (together with Jon Barwise), reflexivity, indexicality, personal identity, and self-knowledge. Along with Kenneth Allen Taylor, he hosted "Philosophy Talk". Perry was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. He studied at Cornell University. He was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize in 1999. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
George Joseph Laurer (September 23, 1925 – December 5, 2019) was an American engineer. He developed the Universal Product Code, commonly known as the barcode, in 1973. As an engineer at IBM, he was asked to develop the pattern used for the Universal Product Code.  Laurer died at his home in Wendell, North Carolina on December 5, 2019 at the age of 94.
Piet Huyg (19 March 1951 – 6 December 2019) was a Dutch footballer. He played as a defender. He played 349 games with HFC Haarlem, mostly in the Dutch Eerste Divisie. Huyg died on 6 December 2019 at the age of 68 of Alzheimer's disease.
Irena Laskowska (15 March 1925 – 6 December 2019) was a Polish actress. She appeared in more than 40 movies and television shows between 1948 and 2003. Laskowska was known for her roles in "The Last Day of Summer" (1958), "Milczące ślady" (1961), "Salto" (1965), "Hunting Flies" (1969), "Everything for Sale" (1969) and in "Pornografia" (2003). Laskowska was born in Kraków. He died on 6 December 2019 in Warsaw at the age of 94.
was a Japanese teacher. He taught Shotokan karate. He was the Chief instructor and President of the Shotokan Karate-Do International Federation, an organisation he founded after he left the Japan Karate Association (JKA). Kanazawa was ranked 10th "dan" in karate.
Zvonimir "Zvonko" Vujin (23 July 1943 - 8 December 2019) was a Serbian amateur boxer. He competed in the 1968 and 1972 Olympics for Yugoslavia and won bronze medals on both occasions. In 1967 he won a silver medal at the European championships and a gold at the Mediterranean Games. He was born in Zrenjanin. He died on 8 December 2019 in Zrenjanin, Serbia at the age of 76.
The Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, was a viral challenge in which people would dump a bucket of ice water over a person's head, either by another person or by themselves. This was done to promote awareness of the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as motor neuron disease and in the US as Lou Gehrig's disease) and encourage donations to research.  It went viral on social media during July–August 2014.  The challenge made the most money for charity of any social media trend in history. Each time someone did the ice bucket challenge they then challenged a friend to do it. If the friend did not do the challenge within 24 hours, they were supposed to donate $100 USD towards ALS. However, most people gave money even if they did complete the challenge. The number of views the videos got meant that almost 28 million people gave money, with the average donation being around $5. People raised more than $115 million for ALS. Over 100 research projects were started around the world with the money and 22 new drugs were developed. Before the challenge, the ALS association received $6 million a year to spend on research but after the challenge their revenue has grown to 19 million a year.
Reinhard Bonnke (April 19, 1940 – December 7, 2019) was a German-American Pentecostal evangelist. He was known for his gospel missions throughout Africa. Bonnke was an evangelist and missionary in Africa, starting in 1967. Bonnke's autobiography, "Living a Life of Fire", is a collection of stories of his life. Bonnke died on December 7, 2019 in Orlando, Florida at the age of 79. The cause of death was femur surgery-related problems.
Chalmers William "Bump" Elliott (January 30, 1925 – December 7, 2019) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Bloomington, Illinois. He played halfback at Purdue University (1943–1944) and the University of Michigan (1946–1947). Elliott spent ten years as an assistant football coach at Oregon State, Iowa, and Michigan. He was appointed as Michigan's head football coach in 1959 and held that position until 1968. From 1970 to 1991, he was the athletic director at the University of Iowa. In 1989, Elliott was added into the College Football Hall of Fame. Elliott died on December 7, 2019 in Iowa City, Iowa at the age of 94.
Giuseppe Frigo (30 March 1935 – 7 December 2019) was an Italian judge. He was a judge on the Constitutional Court of Italy from 23 October 2008 to 7 November 2016. He retired on 7 November 2016, citing health reasons. He was born in Brescia, Italy. Frigo died in Brescia on 7 December 2019 at the age of 84.
Herbert Joos (21 March 1940 – 7 December 2019) was a German jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and graphic designer. He made recordings solo and in groups. He worked with the Vienna Art Orchestra. In 2017, he received the Jazzpreis Baden-Württemberg for his life's work. He played at festivals and in the of the SWF at a flugelhorn workshop with Kenny Wheeler, Ian Carr, Harry Beckett and Ack van Rooyen and made a name for himself with his solo recording, "The Philosophy of the Flugelhorn" in 1973. Joos died on 7 December 2019, after surgery in a Baden-Baden hospital at the age of 79.
Ali Mufuruki (1959 – December 7, 2019) was a Tanzanian businessman, author, founder and board member of several organisations. He was the founder of Infotech Investment Group. He was the board chairman of Vodacom Tanzania and Wananchi Group Holdings. He was the co-author of the book "Tanzania's Industrialisation Journey, 2016–2056". He died on 7 December 2019 at the Morningside Hospital in Johannesburg.
Paweł Aleksander Pawlikowski (; born 15 September 1957) is a Polish filmmaker. His best known movies are "Last Resort" and "My Summer of Love". His movie "Ida" won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. At the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, Pawlikowski won the Best Director prize for his 2018 movie "Cold War", a movie which also earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film.
Ronald Saunders (6 November 1932 – 7 December 2019) was an English football player and manager. He played for Everton, Gillingham, Portsmouth, Watford and Charlton Athletic. He managed seven clubs in 20 years, and he was the only manager to have taken charge of Aston Villa, Birmingham City and West Bromwich Albion. He died on 7 December 2019, aged 87.
The volcanic island Whakaari, also called White Island, explosively erupted in New Zealand's northeastern Bay of Plenty region on 9 December 2019 at 2:11 pm NZDT. There were 47 people on or near the island at the time. The amount of people killed is currently 22, including 2 people that went missing and are believed to be dead. 25 people were injured, many critically. Events. White Island is a popular tourist attraction. In the days leading up to the eruption, the volcano on White Island became more unstable, causing an earthquake at one point. Although the volcano's alert level increased, tours of White Island continued. When the volcano erupted, it sent rock, volcanic ash, and super-hot gas into the air. This hot gas burned the people on the island, causing deaths and injuries. The type of eruption was a phreatic eruption, where water heated by magma turns into steam and causes an explosion. After the eruption. WorkSafe New Zealand, New Zealand's primary workplace safety organization, launched an investigation into the disaster alongside New Zealand police. WorkSafe New Zealand later charged 3 people (the owners of White Island) and 10 organizations. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that "the scale of this tragedy is devastating".
"Holding Out for a Hero" is a song recorded by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler for the soundtrack to the 1984 movie "Footloose", and later included on her 1986 album "Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire".  It was written by Jim Steinman and Dean Pitchford. The song only just reached the Top 100 in the UK Singles Chart, but made it to number 2 the following year, and re-entered the charts again at number 69 in 1991. The song reached No. 1 on the Irish Singles Chart on 28 September 1985. It reached the top 40 in the United States and Canada. The song later become popular after Jennifer Saunders recorded the song for the 2004 movie "Shrek 2".
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" is a song recorded by Bonnie Tyler. It was written and produced by Jim Steinman, and released on Tyler's fifth studio album, "Faster Than the Speed of Night" (1983). The song was released as a single by Columbia Records on 11 February 1983 in the United Kingdom and on 31 May 1983 in the United States. Worldwide, the single has created 6 million copies and was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over 1 million copies after its release. In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nation's third favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV. That leading up to the solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, the song's streams went up 827% globally. The song again reached No. 1 on the iTunes Top Songs chart in the US during the solar eclipse of April 8, 2024. In early 2021, the Marsh family, a couple with four children in Faversham, Kent, produced a parody version titled "Totally Fixed Where We Are." The lyrics express the feelings of people in the U.K. under a third lockdown during the 2020/2021 Covid-19 pandemic. The video was uploaded to YouTube on February 2, 2021, and in less than a week got over 1.4 million views.
UKF is a Label Started in 2007 Offering a wide variety of Genre's in Techno. Sub-Genre's such as Drum &amp; Bass &amp; Dubstep made it a success. most notable artists can be people such as Bare Noize, Macky Gee &amp; Fox Stevenson. UKF TOP TRACKS
"It's a Heartache" is a song recorded by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler for her second studio album, "Natural Force" (1978). The song was recorded in the same year by Juice Newton as a standalone single. Tyler's version received positive reviews from music critics. The song reached number three in the United States and number four in the United Kingdom. Tyler's version is one of the best-selling singles of all time.
James Richard Steinman (November 1, 1947 – April 19, 2021) was an American composer, singer, lyricist, record producer, and playwright. Steinman died on April 19, 2021 at a hospital in Connecticut from a "sudden medical emergency", aged 73.
The Mayor of the City of Moscow is head of the executive branch of the political system in Moscow, the Government of Moscow. The mayor's office is in charge of all city services, public property, police and fire protection, most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within Moscow. The budget overseen by the mayor's office is the largest municipal budget in the Russian Federation.
Sergei Semyonovich Sobyanin (; born 21 June 1958) is a Russian politician. He has been the 3rd and current Mayor of Moscow since 21 October 2010. He has been widely criticized for banning gay pride parades in Moscow.
William Joseph McDonough (April 21, 1934 – January 22, 2018) was an American economist. He was a vice chairman and special advisor to the chairman at Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. Inc.. He was the 8th President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1993 through 2003. McDonough was born in Chicago. McDonough died on January 22, 2018 of heart failure at his home in Waccabuc, New York at the age of 83.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (informally the Chicago Fed) is one of twelve regional Reserve Banks that, along with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., make up the nation's central bank. The Chicago Reserve Bank serves the Seventh Federal Reserve District, which encompasses the northern portions of Illinois and Indiana, southern Wisconsin, the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, and the state of Iowa. Charles L. Evans is the president of the Chicago Fed. He took office on September 1, 2007 as the ninth president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Michael H. Moskow (born January 7, 1938) is an American economist. He is the vice chairman and distinguished fellow on the global economy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. From 1994 to 2007, he was President and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Gun-Marie Fredriksson, known as Marie Fredriksson (; 30 May 1958 – 9 December 2019) was a Swedish pop rock singer-songwriter, pianist and painter. She was born in Össjö, Sweden. Fredriksson was known for forming pop rock duo Roxette in 1986 alongside Per Gessle. They are known for their six top two hits on the "Billboard" Hot 100: "The Look", "Listen to Your Heart", "Dangerous", "It Must Have Been Love", "Joyride" and "Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)". She had a solo career for a short time which included her single "Sparvöga" and two albums "Den ständiga resan" (1992) and "I en tid som vår" (1996) from 1989 through 1997. In 2002, Fredriksson was diagnosed with a brain tumour. She died from problems caused by the disease on 9 December 2019 in Danderyd Municipality, Sweden at the age of 61.
Matthew Julius "Mat" Taylor (born January 1971), better known by his stage name Techmoan, is a YouTuber and blogger who has been active since May 2009, featuring reviews of consumer electronics (or consumer tech) and "RetroTech" documentaries. He lives in Wigan, Greater Manchester.  The Daily Telegraph and Gizmodo has quoted his statements. MarketWatch listed the YouTube Channel 6th in its "binge-watching" top ten using ratings on Reddit. Websites such as AVclub, Gizmodo, Hackaday, El Español and Popular Mechanics reference his videos. Career. In 2006, Taylor started a YouTube channel called "Vectrexuk", with videos of similar items of technology, such as installing a home cinema and controlled toasters, to prove people will watch anything on YouTube. The channel "Techmoan" was started on May 31, 2009. The first video uploaded on Techmoan was a tour of a 2009 Piaggio MP3, which was filmed at 480p and had a very basic sound quality. In 2015, he started another channel, called "Youtube Pedant", to host videos not about technology. In 2016, in a video covering the DVHS format, he uncovered 1080p video footage of New York City from 1993. This footage was uploaded separately to his "Youtube Pedant" channel where, as of December 2019, it has received 3.8 million views, and it has also been widely shared on websites such as Reddit and The Verge. As of June 2019, the main channel has over 870,000 subscribers and over 180 million views. Some videos on the main channel have had over 3 million views. Later documentary videos. Techmoan has made documentary videos that are about forgotten magnetic tape recording formats, such as the OMNI Entertainment System, which uses 8-track tape storage, and the HiPac, a successor of the PlayTape and related uses of it. Other videos show some of the smallest and largest analog recording tape cartridges ever made, such as the Picocassette for dictation machines
Dan Arne Tillberg (born 9 April 1953 in Ystad) is a Swedish artist and producer. He is the son of Arne Tillberg and Ettie Tillberg. Career. Dan Tillberg started his career in 1973 as a singer, guitarist and percussionist in the progg-influenced duo Änglabarn, along with Sven Ingmar Olsson. In 1977, he started his own recording studio in Malmö, Bellatrix, and a record label of the same name in 1978. In 1979, his first LP, Gatstenar, came out, which had Swedish-language cover versions of Rolling Stones songs on it. In 1981, this was followed by the LP "Mors och fars kärlek", which made him successful. The next year, his next LP, Kärlek minus noll, came out, which featured Swedish-language cover versions of Bob Dylan songs. In 1983, his next LP, "Genom tårar", was released, followed by "Erogena zoner" in 1985, which might have become his biggest success. In Melodifestivalen 1985, he came in second place with "Ta min hand", and also took part in Melodifestivalen 1986 with " "ABCD"". In 1987, his LP "Raka vägen till paradiset" was released, which was his last LP released before a long break. In 1986, Tillberg starred in an episode of the TV series "Skånska mord", with Ernst-Hugo Järegård in the lead role. After that, he became less popular, and he went on to run an advertising company, which became bankrupt in 2001. Then he began to devote himself to music again and released some CD singles. These were followed in 2005 by Akten tar gestalt, an album that came out on two CDs and has a collection of his old songs on it, released on Mixed Media Records, a record label he started with Rickard Mattsson, also in 2005. The record label, which borrowed
Barrie Colin Keeffe (31 October 1945 – 10 December 2019) was an English dramatist and screenwriter. He was best known for his screenplay for the 1980 film "The Long Good Friday". In 2010, his screenplay for "Sus" was one of his last works. Keeffe died on 10 December 2019 in London after a short-illness, aged 74.