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Marion Zimmer Bradley was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and science fantasy. She was born in Albany, New York on June 3, 1930. Her parents were Leslie Raymond Zimmer, a carpenter and Evelyn Zimmer, a historian. They were not a financially secure family. They had financial problems because they lived during the Great Depression of the 1930s. As a child, Bradley liked reading. She wrote science fiction and fantasy stories which were published in her school. Her goal was still to become an opera singer. Over time her works and participation in speculative fiction brought her recognition as a writer. Bradley is most famous for her novel "The Mists of Avalon" and her "Darkover" novels.
Q is the name of a fictional character from "Star Trek". It is also the name of his race. Q appears in ', ', ', and ' and in related media. John de Lancie plays the Q character. He is an extra-dimensional being. The human characters do not know how he came to exist. He has power over time, space, the laws of physics, and reality itself. He is capable of changing reality and even the past when he wants to. Q only sometimes uses contractions in his speech. Star Trek uses the name "Q" for the names of all the individuals from the Q species. All male and female Q characters refer to each other as "Q." They also call their whole race "Q" and call their home "the Q Continuum" – an alternate dimension accessible to only the Q and people they choose to bring there. The true nature of the realm is said to be beyond the comprehension of "lesser beings" such as humans. When humans go there, they see it in ways they can understand; e.g., a run-down gas station in the "middle of nowhere." Beginning with the pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint" of "", Q became a recurring character. Most of his scenes are both dramatic and funny. He enjoys annoying Jean-Luc Picard, the serious human captain of the Enterprise D. He serves as a major antihero throughout "The Next Generation". He is an important part of both the first and last episodes of the show. Q is first presented as a cosmic force judging humanity to see if it is becoming a threat to the universe. However, as the series continues, his role morphs more into one of a teacher to Picard and the human race generally, although he often does this in ways that seem destructive or disruptive or meant for his own fun. Other times, notably during "Deja Q" and "Voyager", Q appears to the crew seeking assistance. For example, one time all the other Q turned Q human as a punishment. Gene Roddenberry chose the letter "Q" in honor of his friend Janet Quarton.
Fred J. Hasley (December 5, 1884 – April 4, 1939) was an American typesetter from Milwaukee. He served one term as a Socialist member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Early life. Hasley was born in Milwaukee on December 5, 1884. He was educated in the Milwaukee Public Schools and he graduated in 1900. He went into the printer's trade. He became a member of the Typographical Union Local 23 in 1904. Hasley was elected to the Assembly in 1920.
Fruit preserves is the name of specially prepared fruit, where sugar, and sometimes acid, is used to make the fruit last longer. They are often used as a spread. Sugar is used to preserve sweet fruits, but vinegar is used for savoury items. Fruit preserves have been used for a long time, since before refrigeration, to make food last longer. Common examples of fruit preserves are jams, jellies, and marmalade. How to make preserves. There are many ways to make fruit preserves. Normally, chopped fruit is boiled with sugar and water. After the mixture gets hot enough, it will become firm after it cools down. The preserves are poured into glass jars when they are still hot. After they cool down, a vacuum forms in the jar. This keeps the food fresh for a long time.
The Bokermann's leaf frog ("Phrynomedusa bokermanni") is a frog that lives in Brazil. Scientists only found one of these frogs. They found it in 1978.
Lars Vilks (20 June 1946 – 3 October 2021) was a Swedish artist. He was best known for his mock drawings of the prophet Mohammed. Vilks was born in Helsingborg, Sweden. Vilks died in a car accident on 3 October 2021 in Markaryd, Sweden at the age of 75.
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson was an American late-night talk show. It was hosted by Craig Ferguson. It was on CBS. The show was on the air from 2005-2014.  On 8 September 2014, James Corden was announced as new host, replacing Ferguson. The show started on 23 March 2015, titled "The Late Late Show with James Corden".
Southern Illinois, also called Little Egypt, refers to the southern third of Illinois. There is controversy over where the southern region of the state officially begins. Lots of people say Southern Illinois starts from Springfield and southward. A number of others Carbondale north to Springfield don't lay claim to that region of Illinois as being that of Southern Illinois, though. Illinois is in the Midwestern United States. But Southern Illinois has been called far more typical for the Upland South, similar to nearby Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee, rather than the Midwest. Locals (Illinois' people) from certain small towns have been part of a movement to completely expel/remove Chicago from the state so a commonwealth can be set up with similar politics to Missouri, Kentucky and Indiana. These small Illinois towns include Athens, Mount Vernon, Urbana and Effingham. The movement is called New Illinois. Under the movement, Southern and Downstate Illinois would be entirely separated from Chicago. The large city would become the 51st state in the United States. There are lots of cities or towns with a large number of people in Southern Illinois. These include, dependent on references and views of the population of the area and those outside: Springfield, Alton, O'Fallon, Collinsville, Carbondale, Cairo and Mount Vernon. The region also involves St. Louis and Cape Girardeau (both in Missouri), Memphis and Nashville (both in Tennessee), and Evansville, Indiana. Southern Illinois was covered by the Shawnee National Forest. The area also contains hilly landscape. The Southern Illinois area has almost 1.2 million people. Most of them live near/in rural settings that are in farm areas. Others, however, live in/near Carbondale–Marion, the Illinois region of the St. Louis metro area, in the Urbana–Champaign region and in/near the Springfield area. Metro East. The area of Southern Illinois with the most of all people is the Illinois side of Greater St. Louis. Noted areas are Cahokia Mounds, the American Bottom and East St. Louis. The last mentioned area has had a very rough history involving industrialization, labor, immigration and the struggle for
Claudio Detto (born 28 August 1950 in Milan) is an Italian painter of contemporary art. Biography. Born in Milan on August 28, 1950, led towards free drawing from an early age, he grew up as a self-taught painter, made his debut in the mid-70s with pictorial tributes dedicated to the great masters of the 20th century, such as Giorgio Morandi, Amedeo Modigliani and Giorgio De Chirico. In the 90's, he also paints and collects works by important italian artists. He comes to informal art after experimenting with different, more figurative painting styles and after freeing himself from any stylistic scheme or cage, he changes the link with a defined image, he moves on to informal painting. It expresses an apparently instinctive painting, in continuous research.
Schneider Electric is a multinational company based in France. It works in energy and automation industries in more than 100 countries. The company was founded in 1836 as "Schneider &amp; Cie". It has been renamed as Schneider Electric in May 1999. In 2021, it was called the most sustainable company in the world by Corporate Knights.
Frederick "Fred" Harold Hale (December 1, 1890 – November 19, 2004) was an American supercentenarian, beekeeper and railway post officer, and at the time of his death the oldest living man. Biography. Both of his parents lived to age 91 and his youngest son, Fred Hale Sr, to age 97. He married Flora Mooers, who died in 1979, in 1910, and had two daughters, Muriel (1910–1970) and Carrie (1913–1992) and three sons, Robert (1916–1918) who died in the Spanish flu, Norman (born 1920) and Fred (born 1921). At the time of his death, Hale also had nine grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and eleven great-great-grandchildren. At age 95, Hale surfed for the first time in his life in Hawaii during a stop there on the journey back from Japan where he visited his grandson. At age 100, he traveled to Europe along with his son Norman and his daughter-in-law, to visit Norman's location of military service during World War II. At age 108, Hale was recognized by Guinness World Records as the oldest person ever with a driving license, and he believed "bee pollen and honey every day, along with the occasional nip of whiskey" as the secret to a long life. He became the oldest living American man and the third oldest living man in the world (behind Japaneseman Yukichi Chuganji and Joan Riudavets) on February 24, 2003 when 113-year-old John McMorran died of heart failure and over a year later, on March 5, 2004, after 114-year-old Spaniard Joan Riudavets' death, also the oldest man in the world as well as the last living man born before the tenth and last decade of the 19th century (1891–1900). Hale died of pneumonia on November 19, 2004, just twelve days before his 114th birthday and before his son Norman (who died at age 84 on December 30, 2004).
The spiny-knee leaf frog ("Phrynomedusa fimbriata") is an extinct frog that lived in Brazil. Scientists have only seen it in one place: Paranapiacaba. It was last seen in the early 20th century. People saw it about 1000 meters above sea level. Scientists believe that these frogs are dead because they have not seen any since the 1950s. They think the frog probably lived in trees and laid its eggs in streams, but they are not sure. Scientists think this frog died because of a few things: air pollution from factories in Cubatão and a fungus called "Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis". This is because the fungus can kill the frog "Phrynomedusa dryade".
A decametre (International spelling) (American spelling dekameter or decameter) is a unit of length equal to ten metres. Its symbol is the dam. A decametre is not used very often. It is sometimes used to measure heights in meteorology, while a "cubic decametre" is sometimes used for describing the volumes of rivers and lakes.
Elpistostegalia, also known as Panderichthyida, is a type of prehistoric fish which lived about 385 to 374 million years ago.  Why they evolved. A rise in the world's oxygen content caused predatory fish to evolve, and this fish was the most successful. What they evolved from. Below is a description of their evolutionary family tree.
An office chair is a chair and furniture that is used in office buildings and homes. The office chair has 6 legs and can move around. an office chair can also be called a desk chair. You are able to change the height of the chair. Office chair design. They are made with leather, fabric, plastic, and/or more. They can come in colors like black, white, brown, blue, red, and more. Some office chairs offer head support. Ones that do not are called task chairs. They become not comfortable after a few hours. Expensive, or executive chairs can be sat in for many hours at a time. They also offer head support.
The Pandora Papers are 11.9 million leaked documents that were published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) beginning on 3 October 2021. The leak showed financial deals of world leaders. Many leaders and billionaires were exposed over the offshore accounts in Panama, Switzerland and the UAE. This leak was bigger than the Panama Papers in 2016, which had 11.5 million confidential documents. The size of the data, is 2.9 terabytes.
Ardem Patapoutian (; born 1967) is an Armenian-American molecular biologist and neuroscientist. He is known for his works about PIEZO1, PIEZO2, and TRPM8 receptors. He is a professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California.  Patapoutian won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2021 with David Julius.
David Julius (born November 4, 1955) is an American physiologist. He is known for his work on molecular mechanisms of pain sensation and heat. He is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Julius won the 2010 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine and the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. He also won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Ardem Patapoutian.
Earle Leonard Wells (27 October 1933 – 1 October 2021) was a New Zealand Olympic gold medalist. He competed in yachting. Wells won the Flying Dutchman class at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Wells was born in Auckland. He died on 1 October 2021, at the age of 87.
Ioannis Palaiokrassas (; 27 March 1934 – 2 October 2021) was a Greek politician. He was a Minister for Finance and a European Commissioner from 1993 until 1994. Palaiokrassas died on 2 October 2021 at the age of 85.
Kitab al-Futūh () is an important hadith and akhbari collection, compiled by Sayf ibn Umar. It is al-Tabari's main source for the Ridda wars and the early Muslim conquests. It also contains important information on the structure of early Muslim armies and government. Currently, a facsimile edition of the fragments preserved in the Al-Imam University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Etymology. The Arabic word "Kitab" (), literally means 'book' or 'revelation'. It is derived from the Semitic root K-T-B () which is related to writing. The Arabic definite article "al-" usually means 'of' or 'the'. Futuh () is the plural noun of the Arabic word "Fatah (") which means 'conquest'. History. Sayf ibn Umar, the compiler of the book, was from Kufa and lived in Baghdad. He traveled throughout Iraq during the rule of the Abbasid Caliphate. Contents. The book primarily discuss the early Muslim conquests and wars. It also features information about the assassination of the third caliph Uthman. Abdullah ibn Saba and his followers are mentioned in the book as well. The work also contains a brief account, on the authority of Ibn Abbas, of the way in which Paul corrupted Christian doctrines by persuading three of his followers, Yaqūb, Nasṭūr and Malkūn, of the divinity of Īsā (Jesus). Reliability. Sayf ibn Umar is considered reliable. W. F. Tucker and Ella Landau-Tasseron note that although Sayf may have been an unscrupulous hadith collector, this should not detract from his general reliability as a transmitter of historical information (akhbārī). Tucker adds that accusations of bias could equally be leveled at other akhbārīs contemporary to Sayf, including the Shi'a historian Abu Mikhnaf. Fuat Sezgin, Albrecht Noth, and Martin Hinds have also challenged Wellhausen's views and placed Sayf on an equal footing with other traditionalists.
Tulio Renán Fuentealba Moena (19 April 1917 – 1 October 2021) was a Chilean politician and lawyer. He was born in Talcahuano, Chile. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies between 1957 until 1965. He was also President of Christian Democratic Party between 1961 until 1965 and again from 1972 until 1973. Fuentealba Moena was a Senator from 1965 until 1973. Fuentealba Moena died on 1 October 2021 in Santiago de Chile at the age of 104. He was hospitalized the month before for heart failure.
Alba Nora Gúnera Osorio (1942 – 1 October 2021) was a Honduran politician. She was the wife of General Juan Alberto Melgar, the Honduran military Head of State from 1975 to 1978. She was elected mayor of Tegucigalpa in 1990 and left office in 1994. She ran for presidency for the National Party in 1997 elections. From 2007 until 2014, she was a member of the National Congress of Honduras. Gúnera de Melgar died on 1 October 2021 in Tegucigalpa at the age of 78.
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro (20 June 1930 – 2 December 1987) was a Honduran military officer. He was the head of state of Honduras from 22 April 1975 to 7 August 1978. He was removed from power by others in the military. Melgar Castro died in San Pedro Sula, Honduras on 2 December 1987 from a heart attack, aged 57.
The National Congress () is the legislative branch of the government of Honduras. The Honduran Congress is a unicameral legislature. Its members are 128 deputies, who are elected to serve four-year terms. Congress meets in a purpose-built legislative palace "(Palacio Legislativo)" in the centre of Tegucigalpa.
Frederick Hill (17 January 1940 – 1 October 2021) was an English footballer who played at both professional and international levels as an inside forward. He played for Halifax Town, Manchester City and Peterborough United, making over 500 appearances in the Football League.  Hill played for the England national team in 1962.
Sergey Danilin (1 January 1960 – 4 October 2021) was a Soviet luger. He competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. He was in four Winter Olympics. He won the silver medal in the men's singles event at Sarajevo in 1984. Danilin died on 4 October 2021 at the age of 61.
Oğuzhan Asiltürk (25 May 1935 – 1 October 2021) was a Turkish politician. He was Minister of Industry and Technology and Minister of the Interior from 1974 until 1978. He was the Chairman of the Consultative Board of the Felicity Party from 2011 until his death in 2021. On 13 September 2021, Asiltürk was hospitalized in Ankara, Turkey with COVID-19. He died of a heart attack on 1 October 2021 at the age of 86.
Paul Linger (20 December 1974 – 1 October 2021) was an English professional footballer. He played in the Football League as a midfielder for Charlton Athletic, Leyton Orient and Brighton &amp; Hove Albion. On 1 October 2021, Linger died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 46.
Andreas Neocleous Evripidi (; 3 July 1939 – 1 October 2021) was a Cypriot lawyer and politician. He was member of the House of Representatives of Cyprus from 1970 until 1976 as a member of the Eniaion Party. He was the founder and managing partner of Andreas Neocleous &amp; Co LLC. In 1974, he took part in the coup d'état and was made agricultural minister. Neocleous died on 1 October 2021, from COVID-19 in Nicosia at the age of 82.
Andrea K. Schroeder (June 2, 1964 – October 1, 2021) was an American politician. She was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021. Schroeder was born in Detroit, Michigan. Schroeder died on October 1, 2021 from stomach cancer in Independence Township, Michigan at the age of 57.
Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu (31 December 1954 – 2 October 2021) was a Bangladeshi politician. He is a member of Jatiya Party. He was a Jatiya Sangsad member. He was the Cabinet Minister for Energy in the 1980s. He became an advisor to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in November 2013. On 7 September 2021, Bablu was hospitalized with COVID-19. He died from the infection in Dhaka on 2 October 2021, aged 66.
Dana Bumgardner (May 16, 1954 – October 2, 2021) was an American businessman and politician. He was a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly from 2013 until his death.  Bumgardner died from liver cancer at his home in Gastonia, North Carolina on October 2, 2021, at age 67.
Mummy Nanny also known as Momie au pair, is a French-German-American animated comedy television series. It was produced by EM.TV &amp; Merchandising AG and Super RTL. The series was distributed in the United States by MGM Television. It was broadcast from July 11, 2002 until October 12, 2003.
Michel Fernex (2 April 1929 – 2 October 2021) was a Swiss medical doctor. He worked at the Medical Faculty University of Basel. He was a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Fernex died on 2 October 2021 in Basel at the age of 92.
Agostino Gambino (6 July 1933 – 2 October 2021) was an Italian jurist and politician. He was Minister of Communications from 1995 until 1996. He was the President of the Associazione Internazionale di Diritto delle Assicurazioni. Gambino died in Rome on 2 October 2021 at the age of 88.
Major General Matthew John Holmes, (29 June 1967 – 2 October 2021) was a British senior Royal Marines officer. He was Commandant General Royal Marines from 2019 to 2021. Holmes died on 2 October 2021, aged 54. His death is being investigated as a suicide.
Colin George Pratt (10 October 1938 – 2 October 2021) was a British motorcycle speedway rider. He was a promoter of the Coventry Bees who competed in the British Elite League. He qualified for the final of the Speedway World Championship in 1967. It was as a Hackney rider that he won the London Riders' Championship in 1967 and again in 1968.
Bill Russo (June 19, 1947 – October 2, 2021) was an American football coach. He was the head football at Wagner College from 1978 to 1980 and at Lafayette College from 1981 to 1999. In 1988, 1992 and 1994 Russo coached the Lafayette Leopards. He was born in New York City. Russo died on October 2, 2021 in Asheville, North Carolina at the age of 74.
Mohammad Umer (19 April 1960 – 2 October 2021), also known as Umer Shareef, was a Pakistani actor, comedian, director, producer, and television personality. He was known for hosting "The Shareef Show Mubarak Ho". Shareef died of pneumonia caused by cancer on 2 October 2021 at a hospital in Nuremberg, Germany at the age of 61.
Frances Haugen is an American electrical engineer, data scientist, product manager, and whistleblower. In 2021, she disclosed [or showed] tens of thousands of Facebook's internal documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and "Wall Street Journal". She also filed (or made) a whistleblower complaint to the SEC; In the complaint she has said that Facebook has misled (or gave wrong information to) investors [to give priority, or] "to prioritize growth over safety"; She says that was done by ignoring research showing that it (or Facebook) amplifies "angry, polarizing, [and] divisive content", and that can put public safety at risk. She gave testimony in front of one of the committees of the United States Senate, on October 5. Later in October, Facebook's Oversight Board said that it will [meet or] speak with Haugen about her knowledge of the business (of Facebook) and its practices. She was born and raised in Iowa City, Iowa.
John Wes Townley (December 31, 1989 – October 2, 2021) was an American professional stock car racing driver. He last competed part-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. He also raced part-time in the Xfinity Series. Townley was born in Watkinsville, Georgia. Townley was shot and killed on October 2, 2021 after he was assaulted in Athens, Georgia at the age of 31.
William Todd Akin (July 5, 1947 – October 3, 2021) was an American politician and businessman. He was the U.S. Representative for from 2001 to 2013. He was a member of the Republican Party. In 1988, he was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives. He left office in 2000, when he was elected to the United States House of Representatives. Akin was the Republican nominee for the United States Senate running against Democratic U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill in the 2012 election. He lost the election because he said that women who are victims of what he called "legitimate rape" rarely get pregnant. Akin eventually apologized for the remark. In 2014, he defended his comments and regretted apologizing for them.  In April 2001, Akin had surgery for early-stage prostate cancer. He died from cancer on October 3, 2021 in Wildwood, Missouri at the age of 74.
Josep Maria Forn i Costa (; April 4, 1928 – October 3, 2021) was a Spanish actor and movie director. He was born in Barcelona. He was a critic of the Francisco Franco dictatorship. In 1975, he became the founder and president of Institut de Cinema Català. He won the Creu de Sant Jordi Award by the Catalan Government in 2001. Forn died on October 3, 2021 in Barcelona at the age of 93.