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Edward George "Ed" Gibson (born November 8, 1936) is a former NASA astronaut, pilot, engineer, and physicist. Gibson was selected as part of NASA Astronaut Group 4, the first group of scientist-astronauts. He was on the support crew of Apollo 12, the second Moon landing mission. He worked on the development of the Skylab space station.  In 1973–74, Gibson made his only flight into space as science pilot aboard Skylab 4, the third and final crewed flight to Skylab. He, along with Commander Gerald Carr and Pilot William Pogue, spent just over 84 days in space. Gibson resigned from NASA in December 1974, but returned in 1977 to preside over the selection of scientist-astronaut candidates. Gibson retired from NASA for the last time in October, 1982.
José Asensio Lamiel (29 January 1924 – 26 August 2020) was an Aragonese painter and sculptor. He was born in Calanda, Spain.  He studied at the San Carlos Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Valencia. In the 1960s he moved to Colombia and worked there for six years. He also worked in the United States, before returning to Spain. In 1989 he was awarded the Cruz de San Jorge by the provincial government of Teruel. Lamiel died on 26 August 2020 in Alcalá de Henares, Spain at the age of 96.
The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) is the organization within the government of the Philippines that sends satellites and other objects into outer space. Beginning. PhilSA was made by "Republic Act No. 11363" that became a law in August 8, 2019. The Philippines did some space projects before PhilSA became an official organization. Philippines’ Advanced Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI) put the first Filipino-made object into orbit, DIWATA-1, in 2016. The second was Agila 2 in 2018. Site. The buildings and other things for PhilSA are scheduled to be finished in 2022. In 2020, it operates in the Clark Special Economic Zone in Pampanga and Tarlac, which used to be an American air base.
Winifred Mitchinson is a New Zealand born model and actress. She is best known for winning Playboy Playmate of the Year in 1988 for Australian Playboy Magazine. She modelled for Australian Playboy Magazine under the name of Desiree Brown. She married Scott Mitchinson in 1990, who she met on the Red Carpet of the premiere for Crocodile Dundee 2. They have one child named Alexander Mitchinson also known as Mc Medicinal, an actor &amp; rap artist. Scott worked as First Assistant Film Editor on Crocodile Dundee 2, which was directed by John Cornell. Scott also was First Assistant editor to Leon Gast, director for When We Were Kings, feature length academy award winning documentary about B B King &amp; Muhummad Ali at the 3 day soul festival in Africa in 1974.
Ørnulf Tofte (12 February 1922 – 26 August 2020) was a Norwegian police officer. He was an important person in the Norwegian intelligence service during the Cold War. He was born in Oslo. He was Assistant Chief of Police and Head of counter-intelligence in the Police Surveillance Agency. Tofte found several illegal Soviet spies and personally arrested Asbjørn Sunde, Gunvor Galtung Haavik and Arne Treholt.  Tofte died on 26 August 2020 in Bærum, Norway at the age of 98.
Ronald Timothy Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry, (28 May 1932 – 25 August 2020) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament between 1974 to 1997.  He was Minister of State for Immigration between 1987 to 1989 in the Thatcher cabinet and as Minister for the Arts between 1990 to 1992 in the Major cabinet.  He was a member of the House of Lords between 1997 to 2016. Renton died on 25 August 2020, aged 88.
Helmuth Schmidt was an American con-man, swindler, and suspected serial killer. From 1913 to 1917 he was suspected in the swindling of at least three women and was connected in deaths of at least two other women[1 missing 1 dead]. After his death, following the search of his properties, he was connected to the disappearences of three more women, with additional located jewelry and watches indicating other possible victims in New York and Missouri. Arrest and suicide. Upon his arrest, Helmuth confessed that he had burned Steinbach's body, but alleged that she had killed herself with poison following his refusal to instantly marry her and a subsequent quarrel on March 11. Fearing that his wife and daughter would return soon from the cinema, Schmidt dragged the body to the cellar, lifted it through a window and then buried it under his porch. Three months after the incident, he claimed that he dug up the body, cut it up with a cleaver and then burned the pieces in the furnace. She was his last known victim. He committed suicide in his jail cell in 1918.
Laurent Akran Mandjo (5 November 1940 – 25 August 2020) was an Ivorian Roman Catholic bishop. He was Bishop of Yopougon from 1982 to 2015. He was born in Songon, French West Africa. Mandjo died on 25 August 2020 in Abidjan at the age of 79.
Tommy Joe Coffey (November 18, 1936 – August 25, 2020) was an American-born Canadian Football League (CFL) player. He was a wide receiver and place kicker for the Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts. He was born in Texas. His career lasted from 1959 to 1973. Coffey died on August 25, 2020 at the age of 83.
"Erik" Anders Allardt (9 August 1925 – 25 August 2020) was a Finnish sociologist. Allardt was professor of sociology at the University of Helsinki between 1955 and 1991, and as chancellor of Åbo Akademi University between 1992 and 1994. He was born in Helsinki. He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1988. Allardt died on 25 August 2020 in Helsinki at the age of 95.
Wolfgang Uhlmann (29 March 1935 – 24 August 2020) was a German chess grandmaster. He was East Germany's most successful professional chess player.  He won the German Democratic Republic (GDR) national championship 11 times from 1954 to 1986. He was the GDR's most outstanding player at the Chess Olympiads of 1956–1990, where he made 11 appearances. At the 1964 event in Tel Aviv, he scored a combined 15 points out of 18, earning him the individual board one gold medal.  An individual bronze medal, for a combined score of 13 points out of 18, followed in 1966 at Havana. Uhlmann died on 24 August 2020 from a fall, aged 85.
Mark Sertich (July 18, 1921 – August 24, 2020) was an American ice hockey player. Sertich died on 24 August 2020 in Duluth, Minnesota at the age of 99. Biography. Mark was born on July 18, 1921 in Duluth, Minnesota. His parents were from Yugoslavia, Croatians by nationality. He was first introduced to hockey at the age of 10. Initially, he competed without skates, later winning them as a consolation prize for second place in one of the competitions.Later, in an interview, he recalled: “In the beginning, I played hockey without skates, in those days it was considered good luck if your parents could buy you at least a stick.”After graduating from school, Sertich got a job. His father died, and so he had to provide for his family. In 1942, he was drafted into the US Armed Forces, participated in the battles of World War II and was one of those who liberated the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. After the war, Mark quickly adapted to civilian life - he returned to work as an office manager, and in his spare time began to develop hockey in his native Duluth. He organized the construction of an outdoor hockey rink - he beat officials for money to buy building materials, prepared all the necessary documents. The new ice rink became a center of attraction for local kids, Sertich created a children's hockey team and coached it for many years, and also led the Duluth Amateur Hockey Association permanently.
Magdalen "Mamie" Redman (July 2, 1930 – August 22, 2020) was an American baseball catcher and utility infielder. She played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw right-handed. Redman was born in Waupun, Wisconsin. She played for Kenosha Comets from 1948 to 1949 and for Grand Rapids Chicks between 1950 to 1954. Redman died in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin on August 22, 2020 at the age of 90.
Waupun is a city in Dodge and Fond du Lac counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 11,344 at the 2020 census.
Oconomowoc ( ") is a city in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 18,203 at the 2020 census.
Miron Naumovich Sher (Russian: Мирон Наумович Шер; June 29, 1952 – August 21, 2020) was an influential Ukrainian-born American chess grandmaster. In 1981, at age 29, Sher became a chess coach for the Russian national team, a role he held until 1985. Sher became an international master in 1988 and a grandmaster in 1992. In 1991, when the Soviet Union dissolved, Sher became a Russian citizen. Sher died August 21, 2020, in New York City at the age of 68. Other websites. &lt;br&gt;
Arunachalam Chettiar Lakshmanan, B.A., B.L., (22 March 1942 – 27 August 2020) was an Indian politician and lawyer. He was a Judge of the Supreme Court of India between 2002 and 2007. He was Chairman of the Law Commission of India between 2006 and 2009. Lakshmanan died on August 27, 2020 in Devakottai, Tamil Nadu from cardiac arrest, aged 78.
Hohi Ngapera Te Moana Keri Kaa (1942 – 26 August 2020) was a New Zealand writer, educator and activist for te reo Māori.  During her time in Wellington, Kaa was involved with the Haeata Women's Collective (a group of Māori women artists), the "Herstory" diary project, and the Waiata Koa collective. Her children's book "Taka Ki Ro Wai", written in the Waiapu dialect of te reo, won the inaugural Māori language category in the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and honored in the National Design Awards for creative director Martin Page's work. Kaa died on 26 August 2020, aged 78.
Bluestar's Prophecy is a teen fantasy novel in the "Warriors" series by Erin Hunter. This is the second "Warriors" "Super Edition" (a standalone story that is longer than most "Warriors" books). The main character is a cat named Bluestar. The book tells her life story, from her birth to the day she becomes leader of a group of cats called ThunderClan. It was published by HarperCollins and released on 28 July 2009. Plot. Bluestar is called Bluekit, Bluepaw, and Bluefur during different parts of her life. "Bluestar's Prophecy" follows the life of Bluestar, the leader of ThunderClan. The book starts with a prologue that recounts Bluestar's death in "A Dangerous Path". The book then goes back to Bluestar's childhood, during which Goosefeather, the Clan's medicine cat, receives a prophecy about Bluepaw being a fire that will blaze through the forest, but who will be destroyed by water. A few moons later, Bluepaw's mother, Moonflower, is killed in a battle. Bluestar's childhood is defined by her relationship with her sister, Snowfur, which is damaged when Snowfur falls in love with Thistleclaw, whom Bluefur finds arrogant and untrustworthy. Snowfur is later killed when she is hit by a car, leaving a heartbroken Bluefur to care for Snowfur's son, Whitekit. Bluefur later meets a RiverClan warrior named Oakheart, and although they do not like each other at first, they eventually fall in love. They decide to spend one night together, but agree that for the good of their Clans, they will never meet again afterwards. One moon later, Bluefur is horrified to find out that she is expecting kittens. Thrushpelt, a ThunderClan warrior with feelings for Bluefur, offers to help her take care of her kits. Bluefur accepts his offer, allowing the rest of ThunderClan to believe that Thrushpelt is the father of her kits. Sunstar, ThunderClan's leader, tells Blue
Edward Laurence Grace (13 March 1931 – 22 August 2020) was a Welsh-born Australian politician. He represented the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in the House of Representatives from 1984 to 1998, representing the seat of Fowler. Grace was born in Swansea, Wales. Grace died on 22 August 2020 in New South Wales, aged 89.
Yellowfang's Secret is a teen fantasy novel written by Cherith Baldry under the pen name Erin Hunter. It is the fifth "Super Edition" in the "Warriors" novel series. "Yellowfang's Secret" was first released in hardcover on 9 October 2012. It focuses on a cat named Yellowfang, who lives with forest cats who call themselves Clans. "Yellowfang's Secret" follows Yellowfang, the ThunderClan medicine cat (healer), during her early life in ShadowClan. Yellowfang trains as a warrior apprentice (a cat who hunts and fights), but realizes that she would do better as a medicine cat. The story in the book takes place at the same time as the other Super Editions "Bluestar's Prophecy" and "Crookedstar's Promise". It is written for readers 8-12 years old. Plot. Yellowfang is called Yellowkit when she is born. She is born in ShadowClan. Her parents are Brightflower and Brackenfoot. Her siblings are Nutkit and Rowankit. Yellowfang has a special power: she feels other cats' pain as if it were hers. When she is small, both she and Nutkit have pain in their stomach one day, even though Nutkit is the only one who is really sick. When Yellowkit is older, she is renamed Yellowpaw. A cat named Deerleap teaches her how to be a warrior, where she will hunt and fight for her Clan. She becomes close with a cat called Raggedpelt. The other cats do not like Raggedpelt because the think his father might have been a house cat (Clan cats do not like house cats because they think they are lazy). Yellowpaw tries to help Raggedpelt find out who his father was. But when they find out his father really was a house cat, things become worse for Raggedpelt. Hal, Raggedpelt's father, rejects Raggedpelt, and then Raggedpelt kills Hal. Another female cat, Foxheart, also likes Raggedpelt, but Raggedpelt likes Yellowpaw. Yellowpaw
Tamara Tunie (born March 14, 1959) is an American actress, director, and producer. She is best known for her roles as attorney Jessica Griffin on the CBS soap opera "As the World Turns" (1987-1995, 2000–2007, 2009), and as medical examiner Melinda Warner in the NBC police drama "" (2000-2019).
Alma G. Stallworth (November 15, 1932 – August 25, 2020) was an American Democratic politician and businesswoman. She was in the Michigan House of Representatives from 1971 to 1974, 1983 to 1996 and from 2003 to 2004. She also founded the Black Caucus Foundation of Michigan in 1985. Stallworth was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. Stallworth died on August 25, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan at the age of 87.
Kanuites is an extinct genus of viverrid carnivore. It lived in Africa, during the Miocene epoch. The viverrids are a group of civet cats, and the group is rather cat-like in its form and life-style. Description. "Kanuites" was about long, and looked very similar to modern genets. It was probably an omnivore and may have had retractable claws, like a feline. It may have lived in trees for part of its life.
The University of Wrocław is a public university in Wrocław, Poland. It was started in 1702 by Leopold I (Holy Roman Emperor), and has nearly 25,000 students. History. The first attempt to found a university in Wroclaw was in 1505. The initiator was Vladislav II. Due to wars, lack of money, the university was not opened. In 1702, the Society of Jesus founded a university called Leopoldina. It had the only faculty of philosophy and сatholic theology.  In 1811, as a result of a reform, the universities in Breslau and Frankfurt an der Oder were merged. The university was called Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University. Here students studied at 5 faculties — Catholic theology, Protestant theology, law, philosophy and medicine. The University of Breslau became the first German university to have both Catholic and Protestant faculties.  After the end of World War II, the German university in the city was closed and then transformed into a Polish state university, which was officially opened on June 9, 1946.  In 1952 — 1989 the university was named after the President of Poland Bolesław Bierut.  In 2001, there were celebrations in Wroclaw dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the foundation of the University.  General information. The University of Wroclaw is a higher education institution in the Republic of Poland.  There are 10 departments that provide 44 areas of study, classes are mostly Polish, with only some in English. The University of Wrocław provides Bachelor, Master, and Doctoral level programmes.  Teaching at the university is conducted at the following faculties:
The knife-footed tree frog, olive water-holding frog or desert collared frog ("Ranoidea cultripes") is a frog from Australia. It lives in the Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia. The adult male frog is 4.1 cm long and the adult female frog is 4.3 cm long. Their front feet are not webbed and their back feet have only a little webbing. This frog digs in the ground to make a burrow, where it hides. This frog is gray-brown or olive-brown in color with a thin stripe in the middle of its back down its spine. This frog lives on flood plains near small streams. It comes aboveground after rain. Scientists do not know what its tadpoles are like.
Clyde Hill is a city located in King County, Washington. It is part of the Eastside region, located to the east of Seattle. The population was 3,126 at the 2020 census.
Dahl's aquatic frog, the northern waterfrog, Dahl's olive tree frog, Dahl's tree frog, floodplain frog, northern lagoon frog or aquatic frog ("Ranoidea dahlii") is a tree frog from Australia and New Guinea. Most of them live in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. There are a few more in Queensland and New Guinea. This frog lives near bodies of water that either take months to dry up or do not dry up at all. During the day, it sits next to the water. When the weather is dry, it finds a crack in the ground to hide in. Scientists do not know what the eggs or tadpoles are like.
The United States Half dollar is the largest US coin currently produced and in circulation measuring at 1.2 inches in diameter and 0.08 inches in thickness. It is worth half of a dollar, or 50 cents. It is worth the equivalent of 50 pennies, 10 nickels, 5 dimes, or 2 quarters. The US president shown on the half dollar is John F. Kennedy Half dollars are 2 times the weight of a US quarter dollar. Half dollars were first minted in 1964 and are still being minted, however they are hard to find at most banks since not many people use half dollar coins anymore.
Free culture is a concept and a movement that tries to help people share art very freely. It says copyright laws are too strict and tries to create a less limiting system. The word "free" In "free culture" means "freedom", not price. The beginning of the movement is connected to Lawrence Lessig who has written a book named Free Culture and started Creative Commons, an organization that supports things like free culture and education. The movement is similar to free software movement but focuses on all art works, e.g. images or songs. Some free cultural works are for example the movie Big Buck Bunny or files at Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia is also part of free culture because it uses a free license for its articles. The rules. Works, for example movies, that respect free culture are called "free cultural works" or simply "free works". These works have to allow anyone to: The artist who creates something can make it free by adding a free license to it. Most famous free licenses are Creative Commons (CC) licenses. However, not all Creative Commons licenses are free (some for example prohibit commercial use or changing the work). The free CC licenses are CC0, CC-BY and CC-BY-SA.
The MOS Technology 6502 is an 8-bit microprocessor developed by MOS Technology in 1975. When It was introduced it was highly praised for its cost and is still being produced to this day as the 65C02 by the Western Design Center (WDC). Many popular home video games consoles and computers such as the Atari 2600, Atari XL, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System and other systems have used the 6502 and variants of it as its main processor.
The BBC Micro or the Beeb was an 8-bit home computer from 1981. Acorn Computers developed and built the BBC Micro. Over 1.5 million units were sold during its lifespan. For many children in the UK, the BBC Micro was their first exposure to computers because many were in schools. An estimated 80% of schools in the UK had a BBC Micro computer. Nine models of the BBC Micro were produced, and the Model B was the most common, the BBC Master series with an upgraded 128KB of RAM and other refinements and various other models such as RAM upgraded Model B's and a version for North America that outputted an NTSC video signal.
Olfactores is a group, called a clade, in taxonomy. Taxonomy is the way scientists put living things in groups to show how they are related to each other. Olfactores is part of the phylum Chordata, animals with notochords. These are rods of tissue that form inside the developing embryo. In many organisms, the notochord helps the spine or nervous system grow, but some animals have only a notochord and no spinal bones. Olfactores contains Vetulicolia, Tunicata (Urochordata) and Vertebrata (also named Craniata). Most animals in Chordata are also in Olfactores. Only the animals in Cephalochordata are in Chordata but not Olfactores. Scientists started to think taxonomy needed a special name for this group of living things in 2006. They studied large numbers of data and saw a pattern that said the organisms in Olfactores had a relationship with each other that they did not have with cephalochordates. The name "olfactores" comes from Latin word "olfactus" for "sense of smell." Scientists named this clade "Olfactores" because the animals in it grow a pharynx as part of their respiratory system and use it to breathe. Cephalochordates, for example the lancelet, do not have respiratory systems and they do not have any organs whose job is only to smell things.
Jack "Jackie" Dryburgh (14 January 1939 – 21 August 2020) was a British ice hockey player and coach and administrator.  He played for many clubs in Scotland and England during the 1950s and 1960s as well as coaching in Aviemore and Solihull. He was a member of the British Ice Hockey Association. She was added into the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 1991.
Thomas "Red" Imrie (15 July 1937 – 24 August 2020) was a British ice hockey defender. He played in the United Kingdom during the 1950s and 1960s. He also played for the Great Britain national team between 1961 and 1966. Imrie was honored into the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 1987. Imrie died on 24 August 2020 at the age of 83.
Douglas Kerr MacDiarmid (14 November 1922 – August 26, 2020) was a New Zealand painter. He was known for his diversity and use of colour, and involved with key movements in twentieth-century art. He was born in Taihape, New Zealand.  MacDiarmid painted the portraits of Rita Angus and Theo Schoon among others. In 2016, two of his paintings sold through Art+Object for a record price (for the artist) of more than $27,000 each as part of the Tim and Sherrah Francis Collection, the highest grossing art auction in New Zealand history.
Joseph Clemens Ruby (March 30, 1933 – August 26, 2020) was an American animator, television editor, writer, and producer. He was the co-founder with Ken Spears of television animation production company Ruby-Spears Productions. He was born in Los Angeles. He helped create "Scooby-Doo", "Dynomutt, Dog Wonder", and "Jabberjaw". Ruby died of natural causes on August 26, 2020 in Los Angeles, aged 87.
David John Bryant (27 October 1931 – 27 August 2020) was a British bowls player. A three-time World (outdoors) singles bowls champion (in 1966, 1980 and 1988) and was also a three-time World indoors singles champion (in 1979, 1980 and 1981) and a four time Commonwealth Games singles gold medalist. He was born in Clevedon, North Somerset, England. He was thought to be the greatest bowler of all time, winning 19 World and Commonwealth gold medals in total. Bryant died on 27 August 2020, aged 88.
László Kamuti (13 January 1940 – 27 August 2020) was a Hungarian fencer. He competed at four Olympic Games in 1960, 1964, 1968 and 1972. He was born in Budapest. Kamuti died on 27 August 2020 in Budapest, aged 80.