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This is a list of mammals of Great Britain.  The Great Britain mammal fauna is impoverished compared with that of continental Europe. This is because there was only a short time between the last ice age and the flooding of the land bridge between Britain and the rest of Europe. The list only has land species which crossed before the creation of the English Channel, and those later brought in by humans. Native (indigenous) species have three possible definitions: This list includes mammals from the small islands around Great Britain and the Channel Islands. There are no endemic mammal species in Great Britain, although four distinct subspecies of rodents have arisen on small islands. Rodentia. Rodents make up the largest order of mammals, with over 40 percent of mammalian species. They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continuously and must be kept short by gnawing. Most rodents are small, though the coypu (once introduced to Great Britain, but subsequently eradicated) can weigh up to 9 kg (15.5 lb). Family: Castoridae (beavers) Family: Cricetidae (voles) Family: Muridae (rats, mice and relatives) Family: Gliridae (dormice) Family: Sciuridae (squirrels) Lagomorpha. The lagomorphs comprise two families, Leporidae (hares and rabbits), and Ochotonidae (pikas). Though they can resemble rodents, and were classified as a superfamily in that order until the early 20th century, they have since been considered a separate order. They differ from rodents in a number of physical characteristics, such as having four incisors in the upper jaw rather than two. Family: Leporidae (hares and rabbits) Hedgehogs. Superorder: Laurasiatheria Order: Erinaceomorpha The order Erinaceomorpha contains a single family, Erinaceidae, which comprise the hedgehogs and gymnures. The hedgehogs are easily recognised by their spines while gymnures look more like large rats. Shrews and moles. Superorder
Derek MacDonald Cooper (25 May 1925 – 18 April 2014) was a British journalist. He wrote about food, wine and whisky. He worked with "The Listener", "The Observer", "Home &amp; Garden" and "Saga Magazine". He created the idea of BBC Radio 4’s weekly program "The Food Programme". He was born in London, England. Cooper died from Parkinson's disease in London, aged 88.
Luciano do Valle Queirós, (4 July 1947 – 19 April 2014) better known as Luciano do Valle was a Brazilian sports commentator, television presenter, journalist and entrepreneur. He worked on several broadcasters on television—Rede Globo from 1971 to 1982, Rede Record from 1982 to 1983 and 2003 to 2006, and Rede Bandeirantes from 1983 to 2003 and 2006, to his death. He was born in Campinas, São Paulo. Luciano do Valle died on the afternoon of 19 April, 2014 in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, aged 66.
The Volta River is a river which is mostly in Ghana. It drains into the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean. It has three main tributaries the Black Volta, White Volta and Red Volta. Water drains into the Volta from most of Ghana, most of Burkina Faso, and parts of Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, and Togo. In 1964, the Akosombo Dam was built. This created a reservoir along the river known as Lake Volta.
Neville Kenneth Wran (11 October 1926 – 20 April 2014) was an Australian politician and lawyer. He served as the Premier of New South Wales from 1976 until 1986. He was National President of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1980 to 1986. He also served as chairman of both the Lionel Murphy Foundation and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) from 1986 to 1991. Wran was born in Paddington, New South Wales. He was educated in Balmain. He was married twice and had five children. Wran died from dementia on 20 April 2014 in Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales. He was 87.
Lauri Allan Törni (28 May 1919 – 18 October 1965), later known as Larry Thorne, was a Finnish Army captain. He led an infantry company in the Finnish Winter and Continuation Wars. After the wars, he moved to the United States. He then joined the American Army. He is known as the soldier who fought under three flags: Finnish, German (when he fought the Soviets in World War II), and American (where he was known as Larry Thorne) when he served in U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Berets) in the Vietnam War. Early life and military service. Lauri Allan Törni was born in Viipuri, Viipuri Province, Karelia, Finland. His father was a ship captain named Jalmari (Ilmari) Törni. His mother was Rosa (née Kosonen) Törni. He had two sisters: Salme Lesley (b. 1920) and Kaija Iris (b. 1922). When he was a boy, he was athletic. An early friend was future Olympic Boxing Gold Medalist Sten Suvio. He attended business school and served with the Finland Civil Guard. Then he entered military service and joined the 4th Independent Jaeger Infantry Battalion stationed at Kiviniemi. Career. World War II. During the Winter War, he fought battles at Lake Ladoga. His courage was noticed by his commanders. At the end of the war, he received officer training. Then he was commissioned a Vänrikki (2nd lieutenant) in the reserves. After the Winter War, in June 1941, Törni went to Vienna, Austria. In Vienna, he received 7 weeks of training with the Waffen SS. Then he returned to Finland in July. Because he was a Finnish officer, he was recognized as a German Untersturmfuhrer. Törni is famous because of his courage in the Continuation War (1941–44) between the Soviet Union and Finland. In 1943 he was the leader of "Detachment Törni". His infantry unit went behind enemy lines to attack
Eilmer of Malmesbury was an English monk, born around 980. He is known for having attempted one of the first human flights in history. The reason Eilmer made his flight was that he needed to think of a way out whenever the Vikings would attack the abbey. He went up a church tower with his gliding equipment that he had made from willow or ash. He made a downward flight of some 200 meters or so - from at least 18 meters high.
Lorestan Province is a province of western Iran. It is the home land of the Lurs people and of the Luri language. Lorestan is in the Zagros Mountains, in the western part of Iran. Lorestan is located close to the border with Iraq. Situated in a picturesque valley surrounded by mountains, Lorestan is about 100 kilometers (about 62 miles) east of the border with Iraq. Some of the important cities are Khorramabad, Borujerd, and Aligudarz.
During the Bay of Pigs Invasion (April 17, 1961), the United States government and 1,400 Cuban exiles tried to invade Cuba and remove Fidel Castro from power. The invasion happened at the Bay of Pigs on Cuba's southern coast. The invasion went wrong almost from the start, and it was defeated in two days. It was one of many attempts the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) made to remove Castro from power. They were never successful. Purpose. The invasion happened during the Cold War, which was partly a conflict between capitalist and communist countries. Castro was a communist, and his government allied with the Soviet Union. The United States, a capitalist country, opposed the Soviet Union and its allies. The CIA wanted to remove Castro so that a non-communist government could take over. Meanwhile, the Cuban exiles wanted to overthrow Castro so they could return to Cuba. United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower initially planned the invasion. In 1961 John F. Kennedy replaced Eisenhower and found out about the plan. He launched the attack just three months after he was inaugurated as President.  Failure. The invasion failed quickly for many reasons. Under the original plan (developed during the Eisenhower administration), U.S. air and naval forces needed to support the exiles during the invasion. However, as the invasion began to fail, Kennedy decided not to give any more air support. The invasion's landing site was also changed.  The original plan also assumed that Cuban people, and parts of the Cuban military, would rise up and help to defeat Castro. However, Cuban people did not support the invasion as much as the CIA had expected. Also, Cuba knew ahead of time that the invasion was coming. Intelligence sources, including the Soviet Union, found out about the planned invasion and warned Cuba. For this reason, the Cuban Army was ready. The invaders did not get far into Cuba. Over 100 were killed, and almost 1,200 surrendered. They were kept in jail for 20 months while the United States negotiated with Castro. Castro eventually released them in exchange for USD $53 million worth of baby food and medicine.
Thomas Francis Eagleton (September 4, 1929 – March 4, 2007) was an American politician.  Eagleton was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied at Harvard Law School and at Amherst College. He served as a United States senator from Missouri. He served as senator from 1968 to 1987. He was a member of the Democratic Party. Eagleton was a running mate for George McGovern during the 1972 United States presidential campaign. However, Eagleton soon withdrew from the ticker after Robert Boyd reported that Eagleton suffered from psychiatric problems and undergone three shock treatments. Eagleton then ran for President of the United States in 1984, but lost the primary to Walter Mondale. In 2007, Eagleton died in St. Louis, Missouri from heart and respiratory failure, aged 77.
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014) was an American middleweight boxer. He is best known for being wrongfully convicted for a triple murder for which he was in jail for 19 years. Carter was an African American who was born in Clifton, New Jersey. He was sent to a juvenile reformatory after stabbing a man and being convicted of assault in the late 1940s. He escaped in 1954 and joined the Army. He was discharged for unfitness. He was sent to prison for escaping from the reformatory. He mugged several people, for which he was convicted and imprisoned. Carter began a boxing career in 1961, shortly after being released from prison. He married Mae Thelma Basket in 1963. In 1966, in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey, a bartender and two customers were shot dead. In 1967, Carter and John Artis were convicted of the murders and given three life sentences. In 1976, their convictions were quashed and they were reconvicted at a second trial. In 1981, Artis was paroled. In 1985, Carter's murder convictions were again quashed and he was released. Carter's wife divorced him. he moved to Toronto, Ontario and married Lisa Peters. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2011. He died of the disease on April 20, 2014 in Toronto, aged 76. He is survived by his daughter and son from his first marriage. Carter is the subject of Hurricane, a song by Bob Dylan, and "The Hurricane", a movie.
Narendra Damodardas Modi (, romanised: Narendr Daamodaradaas Modee; born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician who is the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. He was previously the Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014. He was elected prime minister in May 2014. He is a member of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party. He is the first Indian prime minister to be born after the country's independence from the British Empire in 1947. Early life. Narendra Modi was born into a Gujarati family in Vadnagar. As a child, he used to help his father, who ran a tea stall at Vadnagar railway station. Later, he and his brother ran a tea stall of their own at a bus terminus. In 1978, Modi received a B.A. degree in political science from School of Open Learning at the University of Delhi, graduating with a third class. Five years later, in 1983, he received a Master of Arts degree in political science from Gujarat University, as an external distance learning student. 2019 Polls. Modi led the BJP in the 2014 Indian general election which gave the party a majority in the Indian lower house of parliament, the Lok Sabha, the first time for any single party since 1984. He soon became Prime Minister of India. PM Modi's administration has tried to raise foreign investment in the Indian economy and cut spending on healthcare and social welfare programmes. The Modi government has made amendments to existing environmental and labour laws. Following his party's victory in the 2019 Indian general election, introduced the Citizenship Amendment Act, which resulted in widespread protests across the country. Modi was appointed Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2001. Modi was elected to the legislative assembly soon after. His administration oversaw the 2002 Gujarat riots, and he was criticized for how he handled them initially,which was his starting career as a chief minister .There have been multiple investigations into the Gujarat riots, including a Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT), which cleared Modi of any wrongdoing
Henry Wilcoxon (8 September 1905 – 6 March 1984) was an Dominican-English silent movie actor. He was born in Roseau, Dominica. He was known for his role as Bishop Pickering in "Caddyshack". He is also known for appearing as a leading man in Cecil B. DeMille's movies. Wilcoxon died in Los Angeles, California from cancer and heart failure, aged 78.
Richard John Colangelo (April 14, 1957 – March 10, 2007), better known as Richard Jeni, was an American stand-up comedian and actor. He was known for his role in "The Mask" and in "Platypus Man". He was born in Brooklyn, New York City. Jeni committed suicide by shooting himself at his Los Angeles, California after suffering from depression for two months. He was 49 years old.
Douglas C. "Doug" Kenney (December 10, 1946 – August 27, 1980) was an American writer and actor. He was born in Palm Beach, Florida. He was one of the co-founders of "National Lampoon" magazine, along with Henry Beard and Robert Hoffman. Kenney collaborated with Beard at the Harvard Lampoon, which they wrote for while they went to the namesake college. They both co-wrote the satirical novel "Bored of the Rings". Afterwards, they went to make a nationwide version of the magazine christened, "The National Lampoon". The magazine spun off into a radio show, a TV special, albums and films—which he also wrote for. He co-wrote the "National Lampoon's Animal House", which he also had an extended cameo in as "The Stork". After the success of Animal House, he produced and wrote "Caddyshack"--which he also had a nameless cameo in. He had a bit part in the 1977 film "Between the Line". Kenney died after falling from a thirty-foot cliff in Kauai, Hawaii. He was 33 years old. Kenney's death was ruled as "accidental".
Maria Christina "Mimi" Kok (25 January 1934 – 19 April 2014) was a Dutch actress. She was best known for her work with entertainer Wim T. Schippers. She appeared in the movies "Paranoia" (1967), "Red Sien" (1975) and "Han de Wit" (1990). She was born in Amsterdam, North Holland. Kok died from a lung disease on 19 April 2014 in Amsterdam. She was 80.
Win Tin (, ; 12 March 1930 – 21 April 2014) was a Burmese politician and political prisoner. He was arrested in July 1989 because of his senior position in the National League for Democracy (NLD). For his writings, he spent 19 years in prison. He was born Kyopinkauk, Pegu Division, British Burma. Tin died from renal failure on 21 April 2014 in Yangon, aged 84.
PAX (originally named Penny Arcade Expo) is a series of gaming festivals. It is held in Seattle, Washington (PAX Prime, PAX Dev), Boston, Massachusetts (PAX East), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (PAX Unplugged), and Melbourne, Victoria (PAX Aus). The festival was created by "Penny Arcade" authors Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik in 2004. They created it because they wanted to attend a show that would give equal attention to console gamers, computer gamers, and tabletop gamers. Since its creation, the event has grown to become very popular; it is widely considered one of the most important events to the video gaming community.
Data science is the study of the extraction of knowledge from data. It uses techniques from many fields, including signal processing, mathematics, probability, machine learning, computer programming, statistics, data engineering, pattern matching, and data visualization, with the goal of extracting useful knowledge from the data. With computer systems able to handle more data, big data is an important aspect of data science. A person that does data science is called a data scientist. Data scientists solve complicated data problems using mathematics, statistics and computer science. However, a data scientist is most likely to be an expert in only one or two of these disciplines, meaning that cross disciplinary teams can be a key component of data science. Good data scientists are able to apply their skills to achieve many kinds of purposes. Their skills and competencies vary widely.
Benedikt Mikhailovich Sarnov (; 4 January 1927 – 20 April 2014) was a Russian literary critic, historian of Soviet literature, and writer. He graduated from Gorky Institute of World Literature in 1951. He became a member of Union of Soviet Writers in 1960. He was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. Sarnov died on 20 April 2014 in Moscow, aged 87.
Walter Heinrich Munk (October 19, 1917 – February 8, 2019) was an Austrian-born American physical oceanographer. He was professor of geophysics emeritus and held the Secretary of the Navy/Chief of Naval Operations Oceanography Chair at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He has won awards such as Alexander Agassiz Medal (1977), National Medal of Science (1985), William Bowie Medal (1989), Vetlesen Prize (1993), Kyoto Prize (1999) and Crafoord Prize (2010). Munk was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary to a Jewish family. He was sent to a boys' preparatory school in upper New York state in 1932. Munk turned 100 in October 2017. He died on February 8, 2019, at La Jolla, California. He was 101.
Alexander Sergeyevich Lenkov (17 May 1943 – 21 April 2014) was a Russian actor. He was best known for winning the People's Artist of Russia in 1997. He was born Rasskazovo, Tambov Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Lenkov died from a long illness on 21 April 2014 in Moscow, aged 70.
Henry Maksoud (8 March 1929 – 17 April 2014) was a Brazilian businessman. He got the title of "Master of Science in Fluid Mechanics" from the University of Iowa in the United States. He was the owner of the five-star hotel Maksoud Plaza in São Paulo. He was also the owner of the magazine "Visão". He was Chairman of the Engineering Institute of São Paulo from 1967 to 1968. Maksoud was born in Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul. Maksoud died after having a cardiac arrest on 17 April 2014 in São Paulo. He was 85.
Wendell Edward Young (born August 1, 1963) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. He is currently the general manager of the Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League. Playing career. Young played for the Vancouver Canucks, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins and Tampa Bay Lightning in the National Hockey League. Young is the only hockey player to have won a Memorial Cup (in 1982 with the Kitchener Rangers), a Calder Cup (with the 1988 Hershey Bears), a Turner Cup (with the 1998 and 2000 Chicago Wolves), and a Stanley Cup (with the 1991 and 1992 Penguins). He also has 2 Robertson Cups with the Kitchener Rangers as Ontario Hockey League Champions in 1981 and 1982.
Katwijk is a municipality in the Netherlands. It is near the coast of the North Sea. It is about 16 kilometers north from The Hague. There are 62,825 people living in Katwijk.  The municipality is very popular with tourists, especially those from Germany. Some of the most popular tourist attractions of Katwijk are the beach, several museums and galleries of fine art, a railway museum, and some museums of local and regional history. Near Katwijk are the headquarters of the European space organisation ESA with its space travel museum Space Expo (on the town's borders), Duinrell in Wassenaar and Keukenhof in Lisse. Katwijk is known for its wide-spread graffiti culture. Several legal graffiti places can be found in the town. Graffiti-related activities are often organised, for example covering the local lighthouse with graffiti. On 1 January 2006, Rijnsburg and Valkenburg were merged into the municipality of Katwijk.
Chris Austin Hadfield, OOnt CD, (born August 29, 1959) is a Canadian retired astronaut. He was the fst Canadian to walk in space. He has flown on two space shuttle missions and has also served as commander of the International Space Station which made him the first Canadian to serve as commander of the International Space Station when he lead Expedition 35 after launch on 19 December 2012. He was previously a Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot.  Forbes described Hadfield as "perhaps the most social media savvy astronaut ever to leave Earth" with an audience all over the internet including over 2,000,000 Twitter followers, over 600,000 Facebook fans, one of the top Reddit AmA threads of all time and a popular Tumblr blog. Hadfield wrote a memoir titled "An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth" and published it in 2013. The book became a New York Times bestseller and was the bestselling book in Canada on a Canadian subject.
Gayle S. Rubin (born January 1 1949) is an American cultural anthropologist. She is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Rubin grew up Jewish in the Southern United States. In 1978, she moved to San Francisco. On June 13 of that year Rubin started the first known lesbian SM group, Samois. In May 1983, the group broke up. In 1994, Rubin completed her PhD in anthropology at the University of Michigan. She has been an associate professor of anthropology, women's studies and comparative literature since 2004.
Petah Tikva (, , meaning "opening of hope"; other spellings: "Petah Tiqwa" (official) and "Petach Tikvah" (unofficial)) is a city in western Israel. is a city in the Central District of Israel. It is east from Tel Aviv and belongs to the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area. About 231,000 people were living there in 2015, making it the fifth-largest city of the country. About 70,000 of them are Orthodox Jews. European Orthodox Jews established the settlement in 1878 and named it Petah Tikva after a prophecy of Hosea. Because of this, it is the oldest agricultural settlement erected by Zionist Jews in the 19th century and therefore nicknamed "Em HaMoshavot", meaning "mother of the moshavot". The new settlement was attacked by raiders in 1886, a few guards volunteered to keep it safe from raiders, in total the settlement had six guards, the last and most famous out of them is , his original house stand til this day intact. It obtained city status in 1937. The city is low-lying. The Yarkon River flows north of Petah Tikva. Petah Tikva comes second in a list of cities in Israel industrial activities. Many high-tech and communications companies have their headquarters here. The city used to be surrounded by a lot of citrus plantations but due to urban expansion this is no longer the case. The city has about 300 synagogues, the same number of educational institutions, and six hospitals, among them the Rabin Medical Center. Several highways are close by, like Highway 4 in the west, Trans-Samaria Highway in the north, and Trans-Israel Highway in the east. Yarkon Cemetery is in Petah Tikva and is the most important cemetery of the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area.
Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series, based on George R. R. Martin's book series "A Song of Ice and Fire". The first episode was shown on April 17, 2011 on Home Box Office. There are eight seasons in total as of 2019. The first season was nominated for thirteen Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series and won two of them. The series focuses on various kings and queens in two continents called Westeros and Essos. Many of the successors to the throne fight for power. The series is praised for human sexuality and story line. Plot. The plot revolves around two continents namely, Westeros (the western continent) and Essos (the eastern continent). Noble families of Westeros fight amongst themselves to gain the Iron Throne. And, meanwhile an old enemy which has been dormant for ages is rising again. fernsehserien Tv