Graham Douglas Caie is an emeritus Scottish scholar, who is vice president of ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities. In 2015, Graham Caie was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to Education and Research in Britain and Europe.
Graham Caie was born and raised in Aberdeen, Scotland and attended the Aberdeen Grammar School. He completed his MA (hons) in English at the Aberdeen University in 1968, then obtained the degrees of MA (research) and PhD at McMaster University, Canada.
In 1972, Graham was appointed lecturer at the University of Copenhagen, where he co-founded the Centre for Medieval Studies at Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen. In 1990, he was appointed to the Chair of English Language at Glasgow University. In 2004, he was elected as a Vice President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He retired from the University of Glasgow, in 2012. In 2014, he became a member of the British Council’s Advisory Committee for Scotland.
Henry Bean
Henry Bean (born 1945) is an American screenwriter, film director, film producer, novelist, and actor.Trump–Ukraine scandal
The Trump–Ukraine scandal was a political scandal in the United States.
In October 2019, a whistleblower anonymously complained that U.S. President Donald Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and other high-ranking in his war-related service Trump administration members had made phonecalls with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, asking him to have the Ukrainian government investigate Joe Biden, who was a candidate in the 2020 Democratic primaries at the time; as well as his son Hunter Biden, in exchange for keeping U.S. military aid to Ukraine. The complaint raised concerns that Trump was asking for other countries to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.
The controversy led to an impeachment inquiry against Trump. Because of the scandal, Trump was formally impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives on December 18, 2019. However, the Senate voted to clear Trump of charges.
Ed Beck
Edward Paul Beck (June 28, 1936 – October 16, 2019) was an American college basketball player. He was best known as the starting center and team captain of the "Fiddlin' Five," the University of Kentucky's 1958 NCAA championship team.
Beck finished his college career with 459 points scored (5.6 per game) and 783 rebounds (10.0 per game) in 78 total games.
Beck died on October 16, 2019 in Phoenix, Arizona at the age of 83.
Ding Shisun
Ding Shisun (; September 5, 1927 – October 12, 2019) was a Chinese mathematician, academic administrator, and politician. He was President of Peking University during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. He was forced to resign afterwards. He later was Chairman of the China Democratic League from 1996 to 2005 and Vice Chairperson of the National People's Congress. He was born in Shanghai. He attended Utopia University in Shanghai from 1944 to 1947.
Ding died on October 12, 2019 in Beijing, aged 92.
Emilio Nicolas Sr.
Emilio Nicolas Sr. (27 October 1930 – 12 October 2019) was a Mexican-American businessman. He worked with helping to create one of the earliest Spanish-language television stations in the United States. Nicolas created KWEX-TV in San Antonio, which became the cornerstone of the network that would later become Univision.
Nicolas Sr. died at his San Antonio, Texas home on 12 October 2019 from problems caused by progressive supranuclear palsy, aged 88.
Hevrin Khalaf
Hevrin Khalaf (; 15 November 1984 – 12 October 2019) was a Kurdish-Syrian politician and civil engineer. She was Secretary General of the Future Syria Party. he was known for her diplomatic skills. Khalaf worked towards increasing tolerance and unity among Christians, Arabs, and Kurds.
Khalaf was killed by the Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sharqiya fighters near the M4 Motorway in Northern Syria during the Turkish military operation against SDF forces in Rojava on 12 October 2019. According to "The Washington Post", the killing "almost certainly constitute(d) a war crime, under international law".
Anna Quayle
Anne Veronica Maria Quayle (6 October 1932 – 16 August 2019), known professionally as Anna Quayle, was an English actress. In 1963, she won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in the original production of "Stop the World – I Want to Get Off".
Her movie roles include "A Hard Day's Night" (1964), "Smashing Time" (1967), "Casino Royale" (1967), and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1968).
Quayle was diagnosed in 2012 with Lewy body dementia. She died on 16 August 2019 at the age of 86.
C. S. Holling
Crawford Stanley (Buzz) Holling, (December 6, 1930 – August 16, 2019) was an American-born Canadian ecologist. He was an Emeritus Eminent Scholar and Professor in Ecological Sciences at the University of Florida. Holling was one of the co-founders of ecological economics. Holling was born in Theresa, New York. In 2008, he won the Volvo Environment Prize.
Holling died on August 16, 2019 in Nanaimo, British Columbia at the age of 88.
Theresa, New York
Theresa is a town in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The population was 2,905 at the 2010 census. The town is named after Theresa La Ray, the daughter of an original landowner.
Ecological economics
Ecological economics (also called eco-economics, ecolonomy or bioeconomics of Georgescu-Roegen) is both a transdisciplinary and an interdisciplinary field of academic research about the coevolution of human economies and natural ecosystems.
By treating the economy as a system of Earth's larger ecosystem, and by the preservation of natural capital, the field of ecological economics is different from environmental economics.
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (born Nicolae Georgescu, 4 February 1906 – 30 October 1994) was a Romanian American mathematician, statistician and economist. He was best known today for his 1971 magnum opus "The Entropy Law and the Economic Process". He was a key figure in the creation of ecological economics.
Several economists have hailed Georgescu-Roegen as a man who lived well ahead of his time, and some historians of economic thought have proclaimed the ingenuity of his work.
Meir Shamgar
Meir Shamgar () (August 13, 1925 – October 18, 2019) was an Israeli general and judge. He was a member of the Irgun. He was the chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court from 1983 to 1995. Shamgar was born in Danzig.
Shamgar died on October 18, 2019 at the age of 94.
Aharon Barak
Aharon Barak (, born Erik Brick; 16 September 1936) is an Israeli jurist. He is the Professor of Law at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. Barak was President of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1995 to 2006. Before, he was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel (1978–95), as the Attorney General of Israel (1975–78), and as the Dean of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1974–75).
Chris Messina
Christopher Messina (born August 11, 1974) is an American actor and movie director. He is known for his roles in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona", "Argo", "Julie & Julia", "Ruby Sparks", "Celeste and Jesse Forever", "You've Got Mail" and "Birds of Prey". He starred in the movie "The Giant Mechanical Man".
On television, he appeared in roles as Chris Sanchez in "Damages", Reese Lansing in "The Newsroom" and as Danny Castellano in "The Mindy Project".
Northport, New York
Northport is a historic village in the Town of Huntington on Long Island, New York. Northport is known for its Victorian era village center, still bearing trolley rails. As of 2010, the village has a population of around 7,401.
Shea Whigham
Franklin Shea Whigham Jr. (born January 5, 1969) is an American actor. He played Elias "Eli" Thompson in the HBO drama series "Boardwalk Empire", and also had notable supporting roles in "", "Death Note", "Take Shelter", the first season of "True Detective", the third season of the anthology television series "Fargo", and "Joker".
Bill Camp