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Raymond (Ray) Davis, Jr. (October 14, 1914 – May 31, 2006) was an American chemist and physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002. He was awarded the prize for the detection of cosmic neutrinos, looking at the solar neutrino problem in the Homestake Experiment. He was 88 years old when awarded the prize. Davis, Jr. died in Blue Point, New York from Alzheimer's disease, aged 91.
Riccardo Giacconi (October 6, 1931 – December 9, 2018) was an Italian-American astrophysicist and educator. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002. He was awarded the prize because he laid the foundations of X-ray astronomy. He was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University. Giacconi died on December 9, 2018 in San Diego, California, aged 87.
USS "Indianapolis" (CA-35) was a heavy cruiser of the United States Navy. She was named for the city of Indianapolis, Indiana. On 30 July 1945, after delivering parts for the first atomic bomb to the United States air base at Tinian, the ship was torpedoed by the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine "I-58". It sank in 12 minutes. Of 1,196 crewmen aboard, approximately 300 went down with the ship. The remaining 900 faced exposure, dehydration, saltwater poisoning, and shark attacks while floating with few lifeboats and almost no food or water. The Navy learned of the sinking when survivors were spotted four days later by the crew of a PV-1 Ventura on routine patrol. Only 317 survived.
USS "Chicago" (SSN-721) is a submarine, the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city of Chicago, Illinois.  The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 13 August 1981 and her keel was laid down on 5 January 1983. She was launched on 13 October 1984.
The Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) is an American that plays in the NCAA Division I. In football, the OVC is part of Division I FCS, the lower of two levels of Division I football. The member universities and colleges are in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee. The OVC has its offices in the Nashville suburb of Brentwood, Tennessee. History. The OVC grew out of talks between officials at three Kentucky schools—Eastern Kentucky, Murray State, and Western Kentucky—in 1941. America's entry into World War II later that year put these talks on hold for several years. Later, in 1948, the three original schools joined with two other Kentucky schools, plus one in Indiana, to form the conference. It was one of the first conferences with a presence in the South to accept black athletes at historically white-only schools, with Morehead State being the first OVC member to do so in 1958. The OVC was long notable as being the only conference made up of traditionally white schools to have a historically black university (Tennessee State) as a member. That changed when Hampton and North Carolina A&amp;T left the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference for the Big South Conference, respectively in 2018 and 2021. (Both moved together to the Colonial Athletic Association in 2022.) The OVC has had major membership changes in recent years. In 2021, it lost founding member Eastern Kentucky, plus Jacksonville State, to the ASUN Conference. A year later, three more members left, with Austin Peay moving to the ASUN, and founding member Murray State and Belmont joining the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC). However, since the MVC does not play football, Murray State played the 2022 football season in the OVC before moving the football team to the Missouri Valley Football Conference in 2023. (The MVFC is separate from, but closely related to, the MVC.) Murray State remained a member in rifle after it otherwise left the OVC. The OVC responded by adding three new members in 2022 and one in 2023. The University of Arkansas at Little Rock, athletically known
The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour is the number one tier professional tennis tour for a women's tennis competition. The 2014 WTA Tour calendar consists of the four Grand Slam tournaments (organised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), and fifty regular tournaments, the Fed Cup (organised by the ITF), and the year-end championships (the WTA Tournament of Champions and the WTA Tour Championships). Also included in the 2014 calendar is the Hopman Cup, which does not distribute ranking points, and is organised by the ITF. The season begins on 30 December 2013 and will end on 9 November 2014. The tournaments are played on a squared flat surface, called a tennis court. The measurements of a tennis court are described and monitored by the ITF and the court is long, wide. Its width is for singles matches and for doubles matches. Tennis is played on a variety of court types and each type has its own aspects that control how the sport is played. There are four main types of courts based on what's used to build the court surface, clay, hard, grass and carpet courts with the ITF rating five different speed ratings from slow to fast.
Cornetfish are a small family of elongated fishes in the order Syngnathiformes. This family has only one genus, Fistularia, with four species. They live all over the world in tropical and subtropical marine environments. Cornetfish are thin and rather long. They may be as long as 6.6 feet. They usually live around coastal waters or coral reefs.
Opahs (moonfish, kingfish, or sunfish) are large, colorful fish. They are in a small family, the Lampridae. The family has only two living species in one genus, Lampris. The opah is the only known fish that is completely warm-blooded. One species lives in tropical or temperate waters in most oceans. The other species lives in the Southern Ocean. Opahs are not often caught by recreational fishermen. Opah flesh has a light pink-to-orange color. The flesh turns white when cooked.
D.T. Suzuki (鈴木 大拙 貞太郎 Suzuki Daisetsu Teitarō, 18 October 1870 – 12 July 1966) was a Japanese philosopher and writer. His books and essays were on Buddhism, Zen and Shin. They spread interest in Eastern philosophy to the West. Suzuki was also a prolific translator of Chinese, Japanese, and Sanskrit literature. He taught at Western universities, and spent many years as a professor at Otani University. Bibliography. These essays were enormously influential when they came out, making Zen known in the West for the very first time: Shortly after, a second series followed: After WWII, a new interpretation: Miscellaneous:
The crevalle jack ("Caranx hippos"), also known as the common jack, black-tailed trevally, couvalli jack, black cavalli, jack crevale, or yellow cavalli, is a species of large ocean fish. It lives all across the North Atlantic Ocean, from Canada to Uruguay. It also lives in waters off Europe and parts of Africa. The crevalle jack usually eats small fish.
The Ram Pickup (previously Dodge Ram) is a full-size pickup truck made by Chrysler. They used to be made by Dodge. The name "Ram" was first used in 1981 on the redesigned Dodge trucks. These trucks are named for a ram hood ornament.
The D Series were pickup trucks made by the Dodge division of Chrysler. These were made from 1961 to 1980. From 1981 on, these trucks were renamed Dodge Ram. The same basic designs were kept through 1993. The 1994 Ram had a completely different design.
Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas, ODB, (born 4 February 1990) is a Colombian professional cyclist. He rides for Team Movistar. He is a specialist climber. In 2014 he won the Giro d'Italia. In 2013 he won the polka dot jersey at the Tour de France. Career. In 2012, he moved to Europe to join the Spanish Movistar Team. He won the Vuelta a Murcia and also won the Critérium du Dauphiné, the Route du Sud and the Giro dell'Emilia. At the Vuelta a Espana, he helped his teammate Alejandro Valverde finish in second place overall. In 2013, Quintana won the Tour of the Basque Country and the Vuelta a Burgos. At the 2013 Tour de France, Quintana attacked on the mountain stages and finished second overall. He also won the Young Riders Jersey and the Polka dot jersey competition for the best climber.  2014 season. He won the Tour de San Luis and came second overall at Tirreno-Adriatico. Because of the high mountains included in the 2014 Giro d'Italia, Quintana decided to try to win the Giro instead of racing in the Tour de France. He didn't begin the Giro very well, but rode strongly in the final week and won the race. As well as winning overall, Quintana won the white jersey for best young rider. 1st Overall Tour de l'Avenir 1st Stages 6 &amp; 7 1st Mountains classification, Volta a Catalunya 1st Overall Vuelta a Murcia 1st Stage 1 1st Overall Route du Sud 1st Stage 3 1st Giro dell'Emilia 1st Stage 6 Critérium du Dauphiné 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España 1st Young rider classification, Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid 1st Overall Tour of the Basque Country 1st Points classification 1st Stage
Ismail Yasin (also credited as "Sa'eed Saleh Ibrahim"; ) (July 31, 1938 – August 1 2014) was an Egyptian comedian and actor. Saleh was known for his roles in "Nos arnab", "Salam Ya Sahby", "Al-Suqout Fi Bir Sabe", and in "Ameer Al-Zalaam". Saleh was born in Monufia, Egypt. He earned his bachelor of arts degree from Cairo University in 1960. Saleh died in Cairo, Egypt in bronchopneumonia, aged 76.
Walter Edward Hart Massey (August 19, 1928 - August 4, 2014) was a Canadian actor. He was best known for voicing Principal Herbert Haney on the animated series "Arthur" and The Doctor in the English version of "The Mysterious Cities of Gold".  He also played Dr. Donald Stewart on the 90's version of "Lassie". He had numerous roles on stage, movies, and television for more than five decades. He was related to actor Raymond Massey. Massey died in Montreal, Quebec from an unknown illness, aged 85.
Vladimir Viktorovich Orlov (, 31 August 1936 – 5 August 2014) was a Russian novelist, notable for his fantasy novel "Danilov, the violist". In 1990s and the 2000s, Orlov was teaching at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. Orlov was born in Moscow, Russia. Orlov died in Moscow from a heart attack, aged 77.
was a Japanese biologist. He was Director of the Laboratory for Organogenesis and Neurogenesis at the research institute RIKEN. Sasai was best known for developing new methods to grow stem cells into organ-like structures. In 2012, Sasai became the first stem cell researcher to grow an optic cup from human cells. On August 5, 2014, he was found dead hanging at the RIKEN institute in Kobe, Hyōgo. It is believed that he committed suicide.
Jesse Leonard Steinfeld (6 January 1927 – 5 August 2014) was an American physician and public health official. He was appointed the eleventh Surgeon General of the United States from 1969 to 1973. Steinfeld died on 5 August 2014 from complications from a stroke in Pomona, California, aged 87.
Major General Harold Joseph "Harry" Greene (February 11, 1959August 5, 2014) was an American military man. He was a member of the United States Army. Greene was killed after being shot by an Afghan soldier while making a routine visit to a training facility. When he died, he became the highest ranking American casualty of the War in Afghanistan. He was also the highest ranking member of the milary to die because of hostile forces since the attack on the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Green is the highest ranking US military person to die in combat in another country Rear Admiral Rembrandt C. Robinson was killed during the Vietnam War in May 1972.
Leo Abraham Figueroa McAllen Texas police department Marilyn Burns (May 7, 1949 – August 5, 2014) was an American actress.  Burns was born in Erie, Pennsylvania and raised in Houston, Texas.  She was best known for her roles in Tobe Hooper's horror cult movies "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974) and in "Eaten Alive" (1977). She is also known for playing Linda Kasabian in the three-time Emmy-nominated miniseries "Helter Skelter" (1976). Burns was found dead by family members at her Houston home, aged 65. A cause of death was not given at the time, but her death was confirmed to be from a heart attack.
Bernard Lewis, FBA (May 31, 1916 – May 19, 2018) was a British-American historian. He worked in the oriental studies. He was also known as a public intellectual and political commentator. Lewis died on May 19, 2018, at the age of 101, in Voorhees Township, New Jersey twelve days before his 102nd birthday.
Ian Bruce Turpie (6 November 1943 – 11 March 2012) was an Australian actor and television and presenter. He was best known for hosting the Australia version of the long-running game show "The New Price Is Right". Turpie died in Narraweena, New South Wales, Australia from throat cancer, aged 68.
Bernard Hepton (born Francis Bernard Heptonstall, 19 October 1925 – 27 July 2018) was a British actor of stage, movie and television. Hepton is known for his roles in "Colditz", "Secret Army", "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "Get Carter", and in "I, Claudius". Hepton died on 27 July 2018 at the age of 92.
Theodore Van Kirk (February 27, 1921 – July 28, 2014) was an American military personal. He was the navigator of the United States Army Air Forces.  He was best known as the navigator of the "Enola Gay" when they dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Van Kirk was the last surviving member of the "Enola Gay" crew. Van Kirk died on July 28, 2014 in Stone Mountain, Georgia from natural causes, aged 93.
Henry Enrique "Erik" Estrada (born March 16, 1949) is an American actor and reserve police officer. He is best known for his co-starring lead role in the 1977–1983 American police television series "CHiPs". Estrada was a contestant in the second season of "The Surreal Life".
The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a terrorist bomb attack on the Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia on July 27 during the 1996 Summer Olympics. The blast claimed 1 life and injured 111 people, while another person died of a heart attack.  It was the first of four bombings committed by Eric Robert Rudolph. Security guard Richard Jewell discovered the bomb before detonation and cleared most of the spectators out of the park.  Rudolph, a carpenter and handyman, had detonated three pipe bombs inside an ALICE Pack. He was against abortion, and he wanted to force the cancellation of the Olympics. After the bombings, Jewell was implicated as a suspect by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The news media focused aggressively on him as the presumed culprit. However, in October 1996, Jewell was cleared of all charges. Following three more bombings in 1997, Rudolph was identified by the FBI as the suspect.  In 2003, Rudolph was arrested and tried before being convicted two years later. Rudolph was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for his crimes.
Ripon [ɹɪpɘn] is a city in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 7,863 at the 2020 census. Ripon is often called the "Birthplace of the Republican Party" because this is where the political party was founded.
Ralph Theodore Joseph Branca (January 6, 1926 – November 23, 2016) was an American baseball player. He was a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. From 1944 through 1956, Branca played for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1944–53, 1956), Detroit Tigers (1953–54), and New York Yankees (1954). Branca died on the morning of November 23, 2016 at a nursing home in Rye Brook, New York, aged 90.
Maxwell Trowbridge "Max" Gail, Jr. (born April 5, 1943) is an American actor. He has starred in stage, television, and movie roles. He most known for his role as Detective Stan "Wojo" Wojciehowicz on the television sitcom "Barney Miller". Gail was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was raised in Grosse Ile, Michigan. Gail studied at Williams College and at University Liggett School. Gail's first wife, Willie Bier, died of cancer in 1986. They have a daughter, India. He married his second wife, Nan in 1989. They have two children, Maxwell and Grace. Gail has a twin sister, actress Mary Gail. Gail recently starred in the 2013 biopic movie "42".
Anton Drexler (13 June 1884 – 24 February 1942) was a German nationalist and socialist political leader of the 1920s.  He was instrumental in the formation of the pan-German and anti-Semitic German Workers' Party ("Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" - DAP), the antecedent of the Nazi Party ("Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" - NSDAP).  In 1919 Drexler invited Adolf Hitler to join the party and served as his mentor during his early days in politics. Together with Gottfried Feder they developed the NSDAP 25 points manifesto when the Nazi Party was founded in 1920. In 1921 Hitler took control and in 1923 Drexler left the party. He sometime spoke for the Nazis in the following decade, but retired from active politics.  Drexler died in Munich in February 1942 after a lengthy illness due to alcoholism.
Pran Kumar Sharma (15 August 1938 – 5 August 2014), better known as Pran, was an Indian cartoonist. He was best known as the creator of "Chacha Chaudhary" (1971). He also created other characters like Shrimatiji, Pinki, Billoo, Raman, and Channie Chachi.  Sharma died on August 5, 2014 at the age of 75 in Gurgaon, India from colon cancer.
Carlos Santana (born July 20, 1947) is a Mexican-American musician. He first became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana. They played a fusion of rock and Latin American music.  Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades. He had many critical acclaim in the late 1990s. In 2003 "Rolling Stone" magazine listed Santana at number 20 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. He has won 10 Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy Awards. Santana married Deborah King in 1973, with whom he had three children. Santana founded a not-for-profit organization, the Milagro ("Miracle") Foundation, which provides financial aid for educational, medical, and other needs.
Kristin Dawn Chenoweth (; born July 24,1968) is an American singer and actress.  Chenoweth has been on Broadway in "Scapin" (Hyacinth), "Steel Pier" (Precious McGuire), "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" (Sally Brown), "Epic Proportions" (Louise Goldman), "Wicked" (Glinda Upland), "The Apple Tree" (Eve/Princess Barbara/Ella/Passionella), "Promises, Promises" (Fran Kubelik), and "On the 20th Century" (Lily Garland). She won a Tony Award for "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" and was nominated for "Wicked" and "On the 20th Century." Off-Broadway Chenoweth was in "The Box Office of the Damned" (Kristy), "Dames at Sea" (Ruby), "The Fantasticks" (Luisa), "A New Brain" (Nancy D/Waitress), and "Love, Loss, and What I Wore" (Woman). She also played Christine Daae on the German tour of "Phantom". At Encores! she appeared in "Strike Up the Band", "Stairway to Paradise", "Music in the Air", "The Apple Tree", and "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever". On TV Chenoweth played Lily St. Regis in the movie "Annie", Kristin Yancey on the show "Kristin", Marian Paroo in the movie "The Music Man", Annabeth Schott on "The West Wing", Cunegonde in the filmed musical "Candide" which was put on "Great Performances", Ms. Noodle on "Sesame Street", Olive Snook on "Pushing Daisies", E.J. Baxter in the movie "Twelve Men of Christmas", Miracle Grohe on "Sit Down, Shut Up", Skippy Pylon in the movie "Legally Mad", April Rhodes on "Glee", Carlene Cockburn on "GCB", and Maleficent
Elizabeth Sellars (6 May 1921 – 30 December 2019) was a British actress. She was known for her roles in "The Barefoot Contessa" (1954), "The Day They Robbed the Bank of England" (1960), and "The Chalk Garden" (1964). She retired in 1990. Sellars was born in Glasgow, Scotland. She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Sellars was married to Francis Austin Henley from 1960, until his death in 2009. Sellars died in Claviers (Var), France on 30 December 2019, at the age of 98.
Freddie James Prinze, Jr. (; born March 8, 1976), is an American actor, filmmaker and television producer and director. Prinze, Jr. was born in Los Angeles, California. His father is of German and Puerto Rican descent and His mother is of Austrian, English, German, Irish, Scottish and Swiss descent. He was raised Roman Catholic. He is known for his roles in "Scream" (1996), "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (1997) and its sequel, "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" (1998), as well as "She's All That" (1999), "Summer Catch" (2001), "Scooby-Doo" (2002), "" (2004), and "Delgo" (2008). Prinze has also had acting roles in television shows, including "Friends" (2002), "Freddie" (2005–06) and "24" (2010). Prinze is married to actress Sarah Michelle Gellar. They have two children. Prinze, Jr. now works for WWE as a producer and director. Career. Television and film. Prinze was cast in a guest role on the ABC TV series Family Matters in 1995. He then appeared in a few programs and made-for-TV movies, before making his motion picture debut in To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday in 1996. In subsequent years, Prinze experienced success with appearances in youth-oriented movies. Scream (1996), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and its sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), made him well known among teenage audiences. In his first leading role, the romantic comedy She's All That (1999), he was very successful at the box office. The film grossed $63 million in the United States. Subsequently, he had leading roles in Wing Commander (1999), Down to You (2000), Boys and Girls (2000), Head over Heels (2001) and Summer Catch (2001), most of which were generally disliked by critics
Stockbridge is a town in Berkshire County in western Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,018 at the 2020 census. Stockbridge is the home of "Alice's Restaurant". It became well known in a song by Arlo Guthrie, on an album he made in 1967. The words to the song say the town of Stockbridge has "three stop signs, two police officers and one police car".
Ariana Grande-Butera(), born June 26, 1993) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She is known as a pop icon and an influential person in popular music, known for her four-octave vocal range and her signature use of the whistle register. Grande's various awards include two Grammy Awards, one BRIT Award, two Billboard Music Awards, three American Music Awards, nine MTV Video Music Awards, and 36 Guinness World Records. Rolling Stone named her one of the greatest vocalists of all time. Grande started her career at age 15 by being in the Broadway theatre musical "13" (2008). She rose to fame for her role as Cat Valentine in the Nickelodeon series Victorious (2010–2013) and its spin-off series Sam &amp; Cat (2013–2014). She signed with Republic Records in 2011. Grande's debut studio album, Yours Truly (2013), incorporated retro-pop and R&amp;B elements and yielded the successful single "The Way". My Everything (2014), her second album, experimented with EDM and put her to world-wide fame with the singles "Problem", "Break Free", and "Bang Bang (Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj song)". Grande went into pop and R&amp;B with her third album Dangerous Woman (2016). Personal struggles influenced Grande's trap-infused fourth and fifth albums, Sweetener (album) (2018) and Thank U, Next (2019). The former won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album, while the latter broke several streaming records and was nominated for Album of the Year. Thank U, Next garnered two Billboard Hot 100 number-one songs with its title track and "7 Rings", and made Grande the first solo artist to simultaneously occupy the top three positions on the chart. She broke the record for the most number-one debuts in Hot 100 history with the title track of her trap-influenced sixth album, Positions (album) (2020), and the collaborations "Stuck With U" with Justin Bieber and "Rain on Me (Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande song)" , the latter of
Victoria Dawn Justice (born February 19, 1993) is an American actress and singer. She appeared as one of the main stars of "Zoey 101 as Lola". She soon landed the main lead of Tori in another Nickelodeon series "Victorious". She also appeared in the movies "Unknown" and in "The Garden". In October 2013, she obtained the lead role on MTV's "Eye Candy" playing Lindy Sampson.