Raymond (Ray) Davis, Jr. (October 14, 1914 – May 31, 2006) was an American chemist and physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002. He was awarded the prize for the detection of cosmic neutrinos, looking at the solar neutrino problem in the Homestake Experiment. He was 88 years old when awarded the prize.
Davis, Jr. died in Blue Point, New York from Alzheimer's disease, aged 91.
Riccardo Giacconi
Riccardo Giacconi (October 6, 1931 – December 9, 2018) was an Italian-American astrophysicist and educator. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002. He was awarded the prize because he laid the foundations of X-ray astronomy. He was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University.
Giacconi died on December 9, 2018 in San Diego, California, aged 87.
USS Indianapolis (CA-35)
USS "Indianapolis" (CA-35) was a heavy cruiser of the United States Navy. She was named for the city of Indianapolis, Indiana.
On 30 July 1945, after delivering parts for the first atomic bomb to the United States air base at Tinian, the ship was torpedoed by the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine "I-58". It sank in 12 minutes. Of 1,196 crewmen aboard, approximately 300 went down with the ship.
The remaining 900 faced exposure, dehydration, saltwater poisoning, and shark attacks while floating with few lifeboats and almost no food or water. The Navy learned of the sinking when survivors were spotted four days later by the crew of a PV-1 Ventura on routine patrol. Only 317 survived.
USS Chicago (SSN-721)
USS "Chicago" (SSN-721) is a submarine, the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city of Chicago, Illinois.
The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 13 August 1981 and her keel was laid down on 5 January 1983. She was launched on 13 October 1984.
Cleveland, Mississippi
Cleveland is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi. The population was 12,334 as of the 2010 census.
Ohio Valley Conference
The Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) is an American college sports conference that plays in the NCAA Division I. In football, the OVC is part of Division I FCS, the lower of two levels of Division I football. The member universities and colleges are in Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee. The OVC has its offices in the Nashville suburb of Brentwood, Tennessee.
The OVC grew out of talks between officials at three Kentucky schools—Eastern Kentucky, Murray State, and Western Kentucky—in 1941. America's entry into World War II later that year put these talks on hold for several years. Later, in 1948, the three original schools joined with two other Kentucky schools, plus one in Indiana, to form the conference.
It was one of the first conferences with a presence in the South to accept black athletes at historically white-only schools, with Morehead State being the first OVC member to do so in 1958. Today, the OVC is notable as being the only conference made up of traditionally white schools to have a historically black university (HBCU) as a member, namely Tennessee State. That school is also the only HBCU with a Division I sports program that plays in a conference that is not made up entirely of such schools.
The OVC's current membership of 12 is the largest in its history.
The OVC has 12 full members. Nine of these schools play football in the OVC; one plays football in another conference; and two do not play football at all. All members are public schools except for the league's newest member, Belmont.
The OVC has one "associate" member—i.e., a school that plays a sport in the OVC that its main conference does not sponsor.
Nine schools have been full members, but are no longer in the league.
The OVC had one associate member in the past, but that school left when it folded its only OVC sports team.
2014 WTA Tour
The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour is the number one tier professional tennis tour for a women's tennis competition. The 2014 WTA Tour calendar consists of the four Grand Slam tournaments (organised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), and fifty regular tournaments, the Fed Cup (organised by the ITF), and the year-end championships (the WTA Tournament of Champions and the WTA Tour Championships). Also included in the 2014 calendar is the Hopman Cup, which does not distribute ranking points, and is organised by the ITF. The season begins on 30 December 2013 and will end on 9 November 2014.
The tournaments are played on a squared flat surface, called a tennis court. The measurements of a tennis court are described and monitored by the ITF and the court is long, wide. Its width is for singles matches and for doubles matches. Tennis is played on a variety of court types and each type has its own aspects that control how the sport is played. There are four main types of courts based on what's used to build the court surface, clay, hard, grass and carpet courts with the ITF rating five different speed ratings from slow to fast.
Cornetfish
Cornetfish are a small family of elongated fishes in the order Syngnathiformes. This family has only one genus, Fistularia, with four species. They live all over the world in tropical and subtropical marine environments.
Cornetfish are thin and rather long. They may be as long as 6.6 feet.
They usually live around coastal waters or coral reefs.
Opah
Opah (or moonfish, kingfish, sunfish) are large, colorful fish. They are in a small family called Lampridae. The family has only one genus: Lampris. The genus has only two living species. One species lives in tropical or temperate waters in most oceans. The other species lives in the Southern Ocean. The opah is the only know fish that is completely warm-blooded.
Opah are not often caught by recreational fishermen.
Opah flesh has a light pink-to-orange color. The flesh turns white when cooked.
D. T. Suzuki
D.T. Suzuki (鈴木 大拙 貞太郎 Suzuki Daisetsu Teitarō, 18 October 1870 – 12 July 1966) was a Japanese philosopher and writer.
His books and essays were on Buddhism, Zen and Shin. They spread interest in Eastern philosophy to the West. Suzuki was also a prolific translator of Chinese, Japanese, and Sanskrit literature. He taught at Western universities, and spent many years as a professor at Otani University.
These essays were enormously influential when they came out, making Zen known in the West for the very first time:
Shortly after, a second series followed:
After WWII, a new interpretation:
Miscellaneous:
Crevalle jack
The crevalle jack ("Caranx hippos"), also known as the common jack, black-tailed trevally, couvalli jack, black cavalli, jack crevale, or yellow cavalli, is a species of large ocean fish. It lives all across the North Atlantic Ocean, from Canada to Uruguay. It also lives in waters off Europe and parts of Africa.
The crevalle jack usually eats small fish.
Trainspotting
Trainspotting may be:
Dodge Ram
The Ram Pickup (previously Dodge Ram) is a full-size pickup truck made by Chrysler. They used to be made by Dodge.
The name "Ram" was first used in 1981 on the redesigned Dodge trucks. These trucks are named for a ram hood ornament.
Dodge D Series
The D Series were pickup trucks made by the Dodge division of Chrysler. These were made from 1961 to 1980. From 1981 on, these trucks were renamed Dodge Ram.
The same basic designs were kept through 1993. The 1994 Ram had a completely different design.
Nairo Quintana
Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas, ODB, (born 4 February 1990) is a Colombian professional cyclist. He rides for Team Movistar. He is a specialist climber. In 2014 he won the Giro d'Italia. In 2013 he won the polka dot jersey at the Tour de France.
In 2012, he moved to Europe to join the Spanish Movistar Team. He won the Vuelta a Murcia and also won the Critérium du Dauphiné, the Route du Sud and the Giro dell'Emilia. At the Vuelta a Espana, he helped his teammate Alejandro Valverde finish in second place overall.