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William Krehm (November 23, 1913 – April 19, 2019) was a Canadian author, journalist, political activist and real estate developer. He was born in Toronto. He was a known Trotskyist activist in the 1930s. He went to Spain where he was part of the Spanish Civil War. In the 1980s he co-founded the Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER) in the 1980s and continued as the group's principal leader until his death. He died on April 19, 2019 at the age of 105.
Ira Neimark (December 12, 1921 – April 18, 2019) was an American author, lecturer, and retail executive. He was Chairman and CEO of Bergdorf Goodman from 1975 to 1992. His reintroduction of French couture to New York with Yves Saint Laurent, Hubert de Givenchy, and Christian Dior created a period of growth for Bergdorf Goodman, which went from $18 million in sales in 1975 to $250 million in sales by 1992. Neimark died on April 18, 2019, at his home in Harrison, New York at the age of 97.
James Vincent Schall, S.J. (January 20, 1928 – April 17, 2019) was an American Jesuit Roman Catholic priest, teacher, writer, and philosopher. He was born in Pocahontas, Iowa. Schall was Professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. He retired from teaching in December 2012.  Of his many publications his book "Another Sort of Learning" ("a reflection on different aspects of lifelong learning") is his best known work. In 2010, Schall was diagnosed with jaw and bone cancer. He died on April 17, 2019 in Los Gatos, California at age 91.
Barbara Marx Hubbard (born Barbara Marx; December 22, 1929 – April 10, 2019) was an American futurist, author and public speaker. She was known for creating "The Synergy Engine" and the "birthing" of humanity. She was born in New York City. She was the Co-founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. She was the subject of a biography by author Neale Donald Walsch, "The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Future of "YOU."" Deepak Chopra called her, "the voice for conscious evolution." In 1984, she was nominated for Vice President of the United States for the Democratic Party. She lost the bid to Geraldine Ferraro. On April 3, 2019, Hubbard was hospitalized for a knee infection. She died a week later on April 10 at a hospital in Loveland, Colorado, aged 89.
Herman Braun-Vega (7 July 1933 – 2 April 2019) was a Peruvian painter and artist. His art were often political or cultural. In 1978 he began to paint portraits, especially of his painters friends who invited to participate in the gestation of his canvases: Vladimir Veličković (in 1978), Gilles Aillaud (in 1979), Erró (in 1978-1982), Wifredo Lam (in 1979), Jean Dewasne (in 1982), William S. Hayter (in 1983) and Gérard Fromanger (in 1984). He also painted numerous writers: Jorge Semprún, Alain Jouffroy, Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Alfredo Bryce Echenique and Jean-Michel Ribes. Braun-Vega died in his sleep in Paris on 2 April 2019, aged 85.
Jean-Jacques Honorat (April 1, 1931 – July 26, 2023) was a Haitian politician. He was named Prime Minister of Haiti after René Préval was removed following President Jean-Bertrand Aristide removal by a coup in October 1991. He resigned from the office eight months later on June 19, 1992. Honorat died in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on July 26, 2023, at the age of 92.
Claude Jarman Jr. (September 27, 1934 – January 12, 2025) was an American actor. A child actor, he was known for his roles in "Rio Grande" starring alongside John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara and in "High Barbaree". He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1946. His final movie role was in Disney's "The Great Locomotive Chase" (1956). Jarman died at his home in Kentfield, California, on January 12, 2025, at the age of 90.
Neale Francis Daniher (born 15 February 1961) is a former Australian rules footballer. He played for Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) from 1979 to 1990. He later coached Melbourne Football Club between 1998 and 2007. He also had coaching roles with Essendon, Fremantle and West Coast. His brothers, Terry, Anthony and Chris, also played for Essendon. He was born in West Wyalong, New South Wales. Daniher was told he had motor neurone disease in 2013. He is now a campaigner for medical research of the disease.
David Winters (born David Weizer; 5 April 1939 – 23 April 2019) was a British-American choreographer, actor, movie director and producer. He became well known for his roles in the 1950s Broadway musicals "West Side Story" and "Gypsy". He also appeared in the "West Side Story" movie. He also worked with Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret as a choreographer in some movies they starred in. He was born in London to a Jewish family. Winters died on 23 April 2019, at the age of 80.
An ocean planet (or ocean world, water world, aquaplanet or panthalassic planet) is a type of terrestrial planet that contains a high amount of water. This may be a planet with ocean covering all of its surface (except maybe at the polar regions, where ice caps may exist), or a planet with a ocean bellow its surface (called a subsurface ocean).  Ocean planets are also the name of planets that have other types of liquids on them such as liquid ammonia, ethane, or even lava. Habitation. A ocean planet covered in water may have conditions to support life. This has been questioned though, since some studies suggest that water worlds may not be friendly to life, since elements like phosphorus (a key part to DNA) may be hard to access, since it any be hidden in rocks at the bottom of the planet's oceans. Other problems here may be certain parts of the water cycle not working on an ocean planet, or the low amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. With that being said, there are still possibilities for life on water planets. Possible ocean worlds. There are a few planets that could be ocean planets. All of these are extrasolar planets.  Several of the moons in the solar system may have oceans bellow their surfaces, which would make them ocean moons. One such example is Europa, one of Jupiter's moons.
A crop top (or a belly shirt, tummy top, or half shirt) is a kind of shirt. Crop tops do not cover all of the middle section of the wearer's body. A person wearing a crop top will have part of their belly and back showing. There are many kinds of crop tops, and most styles show the wearer's belly button. Other styles can show the wearer's waist, or the bottom of their ribs. Crop tops are popular in the Western world. They are common in areas with a warm climate. Crop tops were popular in the 1990s when movie actresses and female pop music singers wore them. They are popular again in the 2010s. Crop tops are seen as trendy and attractive. A crop top does not keep the wearer's middle section warm because they do not cover all of it. So, crop tops are more comfortable for hot weather and exercising. Other types. There is a way to make a temporary crop top with a normal shirt. The wearer can lift their shirt to show as much of their belly as they want, and then make it stay like that by tying the lifted end of the shirt into a knot. This is a common and flexible alternative to a regular crop top. Low-rise pants or mini skirts are sometimes worn with a crop top. This shows more skin beneath the wearer's belly button.
Jean-Pierre Marielle (12 April 1932 – 24 April 2019) was a French actor. He was known for his roles in the movies "Without Apparent Motive" (1971), "Cookies" (1975), "Coup de Torchon" (1981), "A Few Days with Me" (1988), "Tous les Matins du Monde" (1991), "Max et Jérémie" (1992), "Les Milles" (1995), "Little Lili" (2003) and "The Da Vinci Code" (2006). He was nominated for six César Awards. He was born in Paris. Marielle died after a long illness on 24 April 2019 in the Paris commune of Saint-Cloud. He was 87.
Carl John Neumann (September 11, 1951 – April 23, 2019), nicknamed "Johnny Reb", was an American professional basketball player and coach. He played in the shooting guard and small forward positions. He stood at 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) and weighed 200 lb (91 kg) in his playing career. He played for Memphis Pros / Tams, Utah Stars, Virginia Squires, Indiana Pacers, Kentucky Colonels, Buffalo Braves, Los Angeles Lakers and Pallacanestro Cantù. He later coached in Belgium, Greece, Cyprus, Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, China, Japan and in the U.S. minor league. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Neumann died of cancer on April 23, 2019 in Oxford, Mississippi. He was 68.
Peter John Cartwright (3 May 1940 – 17 April 2019) was a New Zealand lawyer. He was the husband of Dame Silvia Cartwright ("née" Poulter). He was the viceregal consort of New Zealand between 2001 and 2006, when his wife was serving as the 18th Governor-General of New Zealand. He was the chairman of the Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal, the Indecent Publications Tribunal and the Broadcasting Standards Authority. He was born in Dunedin. He went to a boarding school in Christchurch. Cartwright died in Auckland on 17 April 2019. He was 78.
Aston Donald McEachin (October 10, 1961 – November 28, 2022) was an American politician and lawyer. He was the U.S. Representative from Virginia's 4th congressional district from 2017 to 2022. McEachin was a Democrat. He was in the Virginia House of Delegates (1996–2002; 2006–2008). McEachin ran for Congress for the open seat of Virginia's 4th congressional district vacated by Republican Randy Forbes in 2016 and won the general election with 57.3% of the votes. In 2001, he was the Democratic Party's nominee for Attorney General of Virginia, but he lost the election to Jerry Kilgore.
Børge Rosenbaum (3 January 1909 – 23 December 2000), known professionally as Victor Borge ( ), was a Danish-American comedian, conductor, and pianist. He was known for his radio and television works in the United States and Europe. Borge was known as "The Clown Prince of Denmark". His best known work was in "Comedy in Music", which became the longest running one-man show in the history of theater with 849 performances, a feat which placed it in the "Guinness Book of World Records". He was born in Copenhagen. In 1999, he received the Kennedy Center Honors. Borge died on 23 December 2000 in his sleep in Greenwich, Connecticut following a concert, aged 91.
Cecil Belvedire Souders (January 3, 1921 – August 30, 2021) was an American football player. He played professional in the National Football League (NFL) for the Detroit Lions. He was born in Bucyrus, Ohio. Souders played college football at Ohio State University. He was drafted in the 25th round of the 1945 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins.  Souders died on August 30, 2021 in Hilliard, Ohio at the age of 100.
Henry Benton Sayler (January 16, 1921 – May 26, 2021) was an American politician. He was born in Savannah, Georgia. Sayler was in the Florida State Senate from 1967 to 1971 and 1973 to 1978, as a member of the Republican Party (20th district and 21st district). Sayler turned 100 in January 2021 and died four months later on May 26, 2021 in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest academic honor society in the United States. It is respected by many people. due to its long history and academic selectivity. The purpose of Phi Beta Kappa is to improve study and research in the liberal arts and sciences. The society wants to have outstanding students of arts and sciences at American colleges and universities as members. It started at the College of William and Mary on December 5, 1776 as the first Greek-letter fraternity at a college and was one of the earliest collegiate fraternal societies. Phi Beta Kappa () stands for ("), which means "Love of wisdom is the guide of life".
Lieutenant Colonel (Retd.) Jaswant Singh Marwah (born 21 January 1921) is an Indian soldier, journalist and author. He was a former Special Duty Officer in the Archaeological Survey of India, and was in the Indian Army's Electrical Mechanical Engineering branch from 1943 to 1973.  He is also a veteran of the Second World War. He was awarded the Nehru Award in 1981 and 1984, by the Vice President of India and the President of India. In 1987 he was awarded the Journalism Award by the Indian Ministry of Communications.
The Gandalf Awards honor excellent writing in fantasy literature. The World Science Fiction Society gave the awards each year from 1974 to 1981. They were named for Gandalf the wizard from the Middle-earth stories by J. R. R. Tolkien. The award was started and sponsored by Lin Carter and the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA). People at the World Science Fiction Conventions voted to choose the winners. They used the same rules as the older Hugo Awards. The awards were given in two categories: one, for life achievement, and two, for a book published the year before. Gandalf Grand Master Award. The Gandalf Grand Master Award for life achievement in fantasy writing was awarded every year from 1974 to 1981. The first winner was J. R. R. Tolkien who had died recently in 1973. The next four Grand Masters were all members of the SAGA: Fritz Leiber, L. Sprague de Camp, Andre Norton, and Poul Anderson. The last three were Ursula K. Le Guin, Ray Bradbury, and C. L. Moore.  There was no voting in 1981. Gandalf Award for Book-Length Fantasy. The Gandalf Award for Book-Length Fantasy was awarded only in 1978 and 1979. Again the first winner was Tolkien. The winning book was "The Silmarillion" with Christopher Tolkien as editor. The second was "The White Dragon" by Anne McCaffrey. Fantasy fiction often wins the older Hugo Award for Best Novel, so Worldcon organizers thought the Gandalf Award may be a duplicate and this was not awarded again.
Robert L. "Bob" Cardenas (March 10, 1920 – March 10, 2022) was a Mexican-American brigadier general of the United States Air Force. He was born in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, but raised in San Diego, California. He served in World War II and the Vietnam War. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan appointed him California coordinator for Southwest Border Economic Action Group. In 1985, he was appointed to Chairman of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Advisory Group by California Governor George Deukmejian. In 2015, he was added into the National Aviation Hall of Fame. Cardenas died on his 102nd birthday on March 10, 2022 in San Diego, California.
William Alvin "Tex" Moncrief Jr. (March 27, 1920 – December 29, 2021) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He worked in the oil and gas sector. He was President of Moncrief Oil, and was a billionaire member of the 2006 Forbes 400, with an estimated net worth of US$1 billion. Moncrief died on December 29, 2021 in Fort Worth, Texas at the age of 101.
The Avengers is a 1998 American action and spy movie. It comes from the British television series of the same name. Plot. John Steed, the agent of the Ministry, completes a training course. Dr. Emma Peel gets a phone call telling her to go to a gentlemen's club. She meets Steed for the first time there. The two head off to the Ministry to meet Mother. Mother tells them the Prospero project-a try to change the weather-was sabotaged by Emma Peel. Dr. Peel says she's innocent. She is then sent to work with Steed to find the real suspect. Steed and Emma follow a lead to the Wonderland Weather. It's a business that creates heat or other weather with a special machine. Steed and Emma find two dead men in teddy bear suits. Members of a secret organization led by Sir August de Wynter wear teddy bear suits to disguise their identities. However, one of them looks like another Emma Peel. Steed arrives in time to save the real Emma Peel. Steed and Emma go off and visit de Wynter at his mansion. But then, they are attacked by mechanical bees. Alice, a Ministry agent, helps Steed and Emma flee. However, de Wynter catches Emma as she tries to escape though finds herself trapped. It is later revealed that the other Emma Peel is a clone. Father and the Peel clone catch the real Emma Peel. They're angrily met by Mother. Mother is then incapacitated. Father and Peel's clone take the real Emma to a hot air balloon. Father and Peel's clone die when the balloon crashes and explodes. Invisible Jones learns de Wynter is using the Prospero instruments on a secret island. Steed and Emma arrive at the island to stop him. Critical response. "The Avengers" was hated by many movie critics. The Rotten Tomatoes gave this movie a 5% rating, meaning "rotten". The Metacritic rated the movie at 12/100. That rating meant "overwhelming dislike". The movie won two awards: one Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Remake or Sequel, and a Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Worst Resurrection of a TV show.
Edward "Eddie" Griffin (born July 15, 1968) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Eddie Sherman on the sitcom "Malcolm &amp; Eddie". He later played in "The Mod Squad" (1999). Also in 1999, he played Miles Waise in the movie "Foolish". Griffin is also a musician. He had several albums. Griffin was born in Kansas City, Missouri.
Ronald Isley (born May 21, 1941) is an American recording artist, songwriter and record producer. He is the founding member and lead singer of the R&amp;B group the Isley Brothers. Isley received a Legend Award at the Soul Train Music Award. Isley was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Treaty of Amiens (French: "paix d'Amiens") temporarily ended hostilities between France and the United Kingdom during the French Revolutionary Wars. It was signed in the city of Amiens on 25 March 1802 (4 Germinal X in the French Republican Calendar) by Joseph Bonaparte and Marquess Cornwallis as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace". The consequent peace lasted for only one year (18 May 1803) and was the only period of general peace in Europe between 1793 and 1814. Under the treaty, Britain recognised the French Republic. Together with the Treaty of Lunéville (1801), the Treaty of Amiens marked the end of the Second Coalition, which had waged war against Revolutionary France since 1798.
In mathematics, Skewes’s number (10101034 or "S") is a theorized number in which once it is surpassed, the rarity of prime numbers decreases (that is, the occurrence rate of prime numbers increases). The massive number is also used with tetration.
Wet'n'Wild Hawaii is a Hawaiian-themed waterpark. It is located in Kapolei, on the island of Oahu. Wet'n'Wild is currently the only water park in the state of Hawaii. It is owned by the global Wet 'n Wild brand, and is one of their seven operating parks. Around the time WhiteWater World began construction in 1995, it was reported Rides. In order to cater to park attendees, Wet'n'Wild develops new rides and takes some out of service. One of the more recent rides includes the Tornado, while rides such as the Cliffhanger went out of service. A list of rides include:
Microsoft Visual C++ is a coding environment made by Microsoft, mainly used for coding in C and C++. The software provides helpful tools for programmers, such as a debugging tool to help find bugs in written code. The program is available in both trial and free versions. Some programs require the Visual C++ library package to be installed on the computer in order to run in the first place. The previous version of Visual C++ was called "Microsoft C/C++", originally used to compile code written in C. The first version of Microsoft Visual C++ was officially released in February of 1993. The product was first created as an environment for C programming, however it only supported the original C library rather than the C99 revision. In 2013, Visual C++ included support for various C99 features, however it was not until 2015 that Visual C++ included full support of the C99 standard library. The C11 revision that replaced the C99 revision is still not supported in recent versions of Visual C++, however the company has plans to add them in future versions.
An overhead projector (OHP) is a device that allows you to display images from either a computer/laptop or images created in real time. Overhead projectors were often used in classrooms to showcase some type of presentation on paper for a group of students to view. In more recent times, overhead projectors are being used and designed to project things on technological devices. This machine has a plastic frame that is placed on top of the projector, and a fan that cools the machine, so that it won't overheat if it is used for long periods of time. Recently, overhead projectors in classrooms and conference rooms are being replaced by things like document cameras and interactive whiteboards, since they let the presenter project video directly from a computer file.  The device has sometimes been called a "Belshazzar", after Belshazzar's feast. History. Before this device was made, there were machines similar to it, called magic lanterns. French scientist Edmund Becquerel developed the first known overhead projection machine in 1853. It was used by Jules Duboscq in 1866. During World War II, overhead projectors started to be used in U.S. military training. After that, they were used at schools. Overhead projectors began to be widely used in schools and businesses in the late 1950s and early 1960s. As the need for overhead projectors grew, a company named Bruhl Industries was founded in 1953, which created more overhead projectors than anyone else.
An external combustion engine (EC engine) is an engine which converts heated fluid into kinetic energy. The heated fluid, called working fluid, can be air, hot water, or pressurized water which is heated in a boiler. The fluid used to power the engine is cooled and reused in a closed cycle and the fluid is dumped in an open cycle.  Idea. Any combustion engine follows the basic idea of converting fossil fuels into motion. Internal combustion engines do this by converting the energy created by an explosion of the fossil fuels, into motion. External combustion engines, on the other hand, use the energy from burning fossil fuels to expand a gas or liquid and use the expansion to create motion. The addition of this intermediate step is what differentiates an internal vs. external combustion engine. External combustion engines came first, and tend to be more inefficient. Famous examples of external combustion engines are steam engines Types. There are two types of external combustion: single phase and dual phase. In a single phase engine, the fossil fuels are burned to heat up a gas, which then expands and creates motion. In this case, there is no phase change. With dual phase, you need one additional mechanism known as a phase transition. This process transforms the phase of liquid to gas. This converts temperature to usable work. Some common examples that use dual-phase engines are steam engines and engines that use Organic Rankine Cycle.
A novelty song is a type of song that is meant to be funny, usually because of silly lyrics or lyrics that don't make a lot of sense. A song is considered a novelty song when it uses strange lyrics, strange music, out-of-the-ordinary subject matter, or any combination of the above. However, not all comedic songs are novelty songs. Novelty songs are often parodies, mocking or poking fun at a popular topic or fad.
The silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus), also called the pygmy anteater, is the smallest species of anteater. It is found in southern Mexico and Central/South America. The silky anteater is active at night and lives alone in trees. One of its most noticeable features are the two large claws on each of its front paws, which it uses to cling to branches and defend itself. It can use its tail to grasp things. It has soft yellow to grey fur.  Like other anteaters, it is an insectivore (eats mainly insects) and like to eat ants.