Mayda Insula was mentioned in Michael Carroll's novel "On the Shores of Titan's Farthest Sea: A Scientific Novel". The 39th chapter of the book is titled "The Hunchback of Mayda Insula".
Wayson Choy
Wayson Choy (; April 20, 1939 – April 28, 2019) was a Canadian novelist. Choy wrote the award-winning book "The Jade Peony" (1995). The novel's sequel, "All That Matters", was published in 2004. His memoir "Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood" (1999), won the 2000 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. In 2005, Choy was made a member of the Order of Canada.
Choy was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He had a Chinese background. He spent his childhood in the city's Chinatown. Choy attended "Gladstone Secondary School" in East Vancouver. He attended the University of B.C.. Choy was openly gay.
Choy died on April 28, 2019, at the age of 80.
Josef Šural
Josef Šural (30 May 1990 – 29 April 2019) was a Czech footballer. He played as a forward.
Šural was born in Hustopeče. He played for Czech sides Brno, Slovan Liberec and Sparta Praha. At the time of his death, he was playing for Turkish club Alanyaspor since early 2019. He played for the Czech Republic from 2013 until his death in 2019. He played for his country 20 times, scoring once. He also played for the Czech Republic at the UEFA Euro 2016.
On 29 April 2019, Šural team's minibus overturned near the Turkish coastal town of Alanya. Šural was taken to hospital where he died. Seven other players were injured.
Les Murray (poet)
Leslie Allan Murray (17 October 1938 – 29 April 2019) was an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career lasted over 40 years, and he published nearly 30 collections of poetry. He served as the literary editor of conservative magazine "Quadrant" for more than twenty years. He was called Australia's most likely chance of winning the Nobel Prize in Literature during his career. He was born in Nabiac, New South Wales.
Murray died on 29 April 2019 in Taree, New South Wales. He was 80.
Deaths in May 2019
The following is a list of deaths that should be noted in May 2019. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.
Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, where they came from, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and a source.
Avalon
Avalon may mean:
Karol Modzelewski
Karol Cyryl Modzelewski (23 November 1937 – 28 April 2019) was a Polish writer, historian and politician.He was also a professor at the University of Wrocław and the University of Warsaw. He was jailed for taking part in the 1968 Polish political crisis. He served as a member of the Senate from 1989 to 1991. In 2016, he was awarded the Legion of Honour. He was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. His adoptive father was the communist politician Zygmunt Modzelewski (1900–1953).
Modzelewski died in Warsaw on 28 April 2019. He was 81.
Adenocalymma
Adenocalymma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae. Creepers, common in South America.
Previously, the spelling variant "Adenocalymna" was also used; In 2005, at the XVII International Botanical Congress in Vienna, it was confirmed that the spelling of Adenocalymma should be considered correct.
This genus comprises 82 species.
Lohman Lucia G. and Charlotte Taylor 2014
A new generic classification of Bignoniaceae Ann Miss Bot Gardens 99(3):
Saburtalo Pantheon
The Saburtalo Pantheon () is a cemetery in Tbilisi, Georgia, where some of the most prominent writers, artists, scholars, scientists and political activists of Georgia are buried. It was opened in 1970s. It closed but opened in 2002 again. The pantheon is located in the Saburtalo District.
Python License
The Python License was an open-source, GPL-compatible license created and used for the Python programming language and runtime. It is no longer used.
Menachem Mendel Taub
Menachem Mendel Taub (‎; 1923 – 28 April 2019) was an Israeli Hasidic rebbe and Holocaust survivor. He brought the Kaliv dynasty with him to Israel. He founded Kiryas Kaliv in Rishon LeZion, before it was moved to Bnei Brak, a city near the Yarkon Park, and finally Jerusalem. He was known for his efforts in remembering Jewish victims of the Holocaust. He wrote the book, "Shema Yisrael: Testimonies of devotion, courage, and self-sacrifice, 1939–1945", a collection of more than 500 first-person accounts of Holocaust survivors.
Taub was born in Marghita is a city in Bihor County, Crișana region, Romania. During World War II, Taub was a prisoner at many concentration camps. While at Auschwitz, he was reportedly experimented on by Josef Mengele. Because of these experiments, Taub could not have children or grow facial hair. He was later taken to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. After the war, he moved to United States with his wife. The couple later moved to Israel in 1962.
Taub died in Jerusalem on 28 April 2019, at the age of 96.
Pecora
Pecora is a family of ruminants. All pecorans, except the families Hydrotopes and Moschus have horns or antlers. "Pecora" comes from Latin meaning "horned lifestock". Some pecorans have horns, but the family Cervidae has antlers.
Karl Kroeber
Karl Kroeber (November 24, 1926 – November 8, 2009) was an American literary scholar. He wrote about the English Romantics and American Indian literature. He was the son of Theodora and Alfred L. Kroeber. They were both anthropologists.
He was professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He wrote about literary criticism and its relationship to ecology, traditional literature, and art history.
Kroeber's sister was the science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin. His children were Paul Kroeber, a linguist; Arthur Kroeber, a journalist and expert on the Chinese economy; and Katharine Kroeber Wiley, a writer.
Kroeber died of cancer on November 8, 2009. He was 82 years old.
TheOdd1sOut
Robert James Rallison (born May 14, 1996), known online as TheOdd1sOut, is an American artist, animator, author, and YouTuber. As of February 2021, his YouTube channel has over 16.4 million subscribers. His second channel (TheOdd2sOut) has over 2.72 million subscribers as of February 2021. He was born in Arizona.
Rallison uploaded the first strip of his webcomic "TheOdd1sOut" on June 14, 2012, on Tumblr and later on iFunny.
His videos about working at Subway, where he calls the food chain as "Sooubway",
Rallison wrote a book titled "The Odd 1s Out: How to Be Cool and Other Things I Definitely Learned from Growing Up", which was released on July 31, 2018.
Alaska's Flag
"Alaska's Flag" is the state song of Alaska.
Unique among state songs, its lyrics explain the symbolism of the Alaskan flag. The lyrics are:
Eight stars of gold on a field of blue<br>
Alaska's flag. May it mean to you<br>
The blue of the sea, the evening sky,<br>
The mountain lakes, and the flow'rs nearby;<br>
The gold of the early sourdough's dreams,<br>
The precious gold of the hills and streams;<br>
The brilliant stars in the northern sky,<br>
The "Bear," the "Dipper," and, shining high,<br>
The great North Star with its steady light,<br>
O'er land and sea a beacon bright.<br>
Alaska's flag to Alaskans dear,<br>
The simple flag of a last frontier.<br>
20 July Plot