Culver is a town in Marshall County, Indiana, United States.
Culver was originally called Union Town, and under the latter name was laid out in 1844. It was later renamed for Henry Harrison Culver, head of the Culver Academies.
FamilyMart
FamilyMart can also be found in other countries, like, China, Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand.
Sharqia Governorate
Sharqia Governorate is a governorate in Egypt. The capital city is Zagazig.
The following cities are in Sharqia Governorate:
Some notable people who were born, or lived, in Sharqia are:
Red Sea Governorate
Red Sea Governorate is a governorate in Egypt. The capital and largest city is Hurghada. It is between the Nile and the Red Sea in the southeast of the country.
Sohag Governorate
Sohag Governorate is a governorate of Egypt. Since 1960, its capital has been the city of Sohag. Prior to that, the capital was the city of Girga and the name of the governorate was Girga Governorate.
South Sinai Governorate
South Sinai Governorate is a governorate in Egypt. The capital city is El Tor. It has the fewest people of any governorate in Egypt. It is on the southern half of the Sinai Peninsula.
Saint Catherine's Monastery, an Eastern Orthodox Church monastery and UNESCO World Heritage site, is in the central part of the governorate. Raithu Monastery is in El Tor. Other important sites in the governorate are Wadi Mukattab and Wadi Feiran.
Suez Governorate
Suez Governorate is a governorate in Egypt. The capital city is also named Suez. The governorate is north of the Gulf of Suez.
Carl Dobkins Jr.
Carl Edward Dobkins Jr. (January 13, 1941 – April 8, 2020) was an American singer. He is best known for his rockabilly hit, "My Heart Is an Open Book", released in 1958. The single reached No. 3 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 in 1959. The record also won a gold disc as it sold over one million copies. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dobkins died on April 8, 2020, at the age of 79.
Ahuachapán Department
Ahuachapán is a department of El Salvador. The capital is also named Ahuachapán.
Madeleine Fischer
Madeleine Fischer (12 November 1935 – 8 April 2020) was a Swiss actress. She worked most notably in Italy. Her movie credits include "Le Amiche" (1955), "The Bachelor" (1955), "I pappagalli" (1955), "Lazzarella" (1957) and "The Day the Sky Exploded" (1958). She was born in Romanshorn.
Fischer died on 8 April 2020 in Gubbio, Umbria, Italy. She was 84.
Sonsonate Department
Sonsonate is a department in El Salvador. The capital city is also named Sonsonate.
Harry Wouters van den Oudenweijer
H. J. M. "Harry" Wouters van den Oudenweijer (5 July 1933 – 7 April 2020) was a Dutch equestrian show jumper. At the 1977 European Show Jumping Championships in Rome, he won the European title as part of the Dutch national team. He retired from competing in the sport in 1988. He later had a coaching career. He was born in Elst, Gelderland.
Wouters van den Oudenweijer died on 7 April 2020 at the age of 86.
La Libertad Department, El Salvador
La Libertad is a department in El Salvador. The capital city is Santa Tecla.
Spaghetti-tree hoax
The spaghetti-tree hoax was a hoax news report made by the BBC on April Fools' Day in 1957. The hoax showed a family in Ticino, Switzerland picking spaghetti from a "spaghetti tree".
About eight million people watched the hoax on April Fools' Day in 1957. At the time, spaghetti was rare in the United Kingdom. It was also sometimes considered a delicacy there. The next day, hundreds of people called the BBC to see if spaghetti trees were real and how to grow them. The BBC told callers to put some spaghetti in a can of tomato sauce and "hope for the best".
The BBC showed the hoax on a television programme called "Panorama". A reporter named Charles de Jaeger made the hoax. He remembered how his teachers said his classmates would think spaghetti grew on trees. He got a budget of £100 to make the hoax. The hoax was reported by a trusted reporter named Richard Dimbleby. In 2010, CNN said it is the biggest hoax ever made by a trusted news organisation. It is also one of the first hoaxes on television.
Gérard Mannoni
Gérard Mannoni (1 January 1928 – 1 April 2020) was a French sculptor. He was born in Bastia. He studied at the École des Métiers d'Art, the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, the Académie Julian, and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.
He worked in the workshops of Marcel Gimond, Hubert Yencesse, and Ossip Zadkine. Mannoni made his first group exhibition at the Galerie Breteau in a group with André Bloc, Robert Jacobsen, Marino Di Teana, Claude Parent, and others.
Mannoni died on 1 April 2020 in Viry-Châtillon at the age of 92 of COVID-19.
Chalatenango Department
Chalatenango is a department of El Salvador, in the northwest of the country. The capital city is also named Chalatenango. Chalatenango was made a department on February 14, 1855.
The highest point in the country, El Pital with an elevation of 2730.06 m, is in Chalatenango Department.
Jacques Blamont
Jacques Emile Blamont (13 October 1926 – 13 April 2020) was a French astrophysicist and author. He was the founder scientific and technical director of National Centre for Space Studies (CNES-Centre national d'études spatiales). Blamont was known to have worked to the development of Veronique, the first rocket launched by France in 1957. He was born in Paris.
He was an elected fellow of the French Academy of Technologies and a professor emeritus of the Pierre and Marie Curie University (University of Paris VI).
Blamont was honored as Commander of the Legion of Honour and Padma Shri.
Blamont died on 13 April 2020 in Châtillon, Hauts-de-Seine, aged 93.
Kerstin Meyer
Kerstin Margareta Meyer (3 April 1928 – 14 April 2020) was a Swedish mezzo-soprano. He had an international career on the opera stage and concert platform. Meyer was born in Stockholm. She worked for Hamburg State Opera.
Meyer appeared in the title role of Bizet's "Carmen" in the Wieland Wagner/Sawallisch production (1959) and creating the roles of Mrs. Claiborne in Gunther Schuller's "The Visitation" (1966), Alice Arden in Alexander Goehr's "Arden Must Die" (1967), and Gertrude in Humphrey Searle's "Hamlet" (1968).
She was the rector of Operahögskolan i Stockholm from 1984 to 1994.
Meyer died on 14 April 2020 in Stockholm, aged 92.
Pip and Jane Baker
Philip (1928 – 14 April 2020) and Jane Baker (died 8 September 2014), professionally known as Pip and Jane Baker, were an English husband-and-wife team of television writers. They were known mainly for their works to the BBC science-fiction series "Doctor Who". The Bakers worked on four serials for the programme in the 1980s: "The Mark of the Rani" (1985), "The Trial of a Time Lord" (1986), Parts 9–12 and 14 (also known as "Terror of the Vervoids" and "The Ultimate Foe"); and "Time and the Rani" (1987).
Jane Baker died on 8 September 2014. Pip Baker died on 14 April 2020.
Hugh Rossi
Sir Hugh Alexis Louis Rossi, KCSG, KHS, FKC (21 June 1927 – April 2020) was a British Conservative politician. He was Minister for Disabled People from 1981 to 1983 during the cabinet of Margaret Thatcher.
He was a councillor on Hornsey Borough Council, serving from 1956 to 1965. Rossi was Member of Parliament (MP) for Hornsey from 1966 to 1983, and (after boundary changes) for Hornsey and Wood Green, 1983 to 1992.
Rossi died in April 2020 at the age of 92.
Ron Wylie
Ronald Maurice Wylie (6 August 1933 – 14 April 2020) was a Scottish football player, coach and manager. He played as a right half or inside forward for Notts County, Aston Villa and Birmingham City. He was manager of West Bromwich Albion between 1982 and 1984. Wylie was born in Glasgow.
Wylie died on 14 April 2020 of a long-illness, aged 86.
Betty Gilpin
Elizabeth Folan Gilpin (born July 21, 1986) is an American actress. She was born in New York City. Gilpin is best known for playing Debbie "Liberty Belle" Eagan in the Netflix comedy series "GLOW" (2017–present).