Johnson served in the Washington House of Representatives as a Democrat from the 16th District, as well as the 8th District.
A school counselor, Johnson studied at Western Washington State College and earned a master's degree in education. She was raised in Bellingham, Washington. She married Harold Johnson and had a daughter. She lives in Kennewick, Washington.
Dan Gurney
Daniel Sexton Gurney (April 13, 1931 – January 14, 2018) was an American racing driver, race car constructor, and team owner who reached racing's highest levels starting in 1958.
Gurney was born in Port Jefferson, New York, but moved to California as a teenager.
Gurney won races in the Formula One, Indy Car, NASCAR, Can-Am, and Trans-Am Series. Gurney is the first of three drivers to have won races in Sports Cars (1958), Formula One (1962), NASCAR (1963), and Indy Car (1967) (the other two being Mario Andretti and Juan Pablo Montoya).
In 1967, after winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans together with A.J. Foyt, he spontaneously sprayed champagne while celebrating on the podium. Apart from starting this tradition, he also was the first to put a simple right-angle extension on the upper trailing edge of the rear wing. This device, called a Gurney flap, increases downforce and, if well designed, imposes only a relatively small increase in aerodynamic drag.
At the 1968 German Grand Prix he became the first driver ever to use a full face helmet in Grand Prix racing.
Gurney died from complications of pneumonia in Newport Beach, California on January 14, 2018, at the age of 86. He was survived by his wife Evi and their four sons, Justin, Alex, Dan Jr. and Jimmy.
List of Martin Gardner Mathematical Games columns
Martin Gardner wrote 288 consecutive "Mathematical Games" columns for the magazine "Scientific American". The first one was in January 1957. The last one was in December 1980. After 1980 other people wrote some of the columns. Gardner created 9 more columns during that time. The last "Mathematical Games" column appeared in June 1986. The list below shows all the 297 columns that Gardner wrote.
Sometimes "Scientific American" put pictures about the columns on the front cover of the magazine. There were twelve such covers. The list shows the word [cover] when there is a such a picture. Click on the word [cover] to see the picture.
Gardner wrote 5 other articles for "Scientific American". He wrote an article about flexagons in December 1956. It was really the first article about mathematical games; but it was not called that. The series of "Mathematical Games" columns began the following month. These five articles are listed below.
Irish English
Irish English is the dialect of the English language spoken in Ireland.
Pavel Morozenko
Pavel Semenovich Morozenko (; ; born July 5, 1939 – died July 14, 1991) was a Soviet movie and theatre actor.
In 1960, Morozenko graduated from the "National University of theatre, cinema and television of Karpenko-Kary", and in the same year, he made his movie debut in "Roman and Francesca", a movie directed by Vladimir Denisenko. In 1973, he was awarded the title of "Honored artist of the Ukrainian SSR".
Morozenko died on July 14, 1991. He was aged 52.
Peter Hansen
Peter Franklin Hansen (December 5, 1921 – April 9, 2017) was an American actor. He was best known for his role as lawyer Lee Baldwin on the soap opera "General Hospital" playing the role from 1965 to 1976, 1977 to 1986, briefly in 1990, and again from 1992 to 2004.
Hansen won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1979.
In 1997, he began playing the character on the sister show "Port Charles" until his retirement in 2004.
Hansen died on April 9, 2017 at his home in Santa Clarita, California from natural causes at the age of 95.
Linda Hopkins
Linda Hopkins (December 14, 1924 – April 10, 2017) was an African-American stage actress and blues and gospel singer. She has recorded classic, traditional, and urban blues, and performed R&B and soul, jazz, and show tunes since the 1950s.
During the 1970s, Hopkins performed in the Broadway musical, "Purlie", and with Sammy Davis, Jr. for nine months. In addition, she performed at President Jimmy Carter's 1977 inaugural ball.
Hopkins starred in "Me and Bessie", a one-woman show paying homage to blues singer Bessie Smith.
Hopkins died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on April 10, 2017 at the age of 92.
Harry Huskey
Harry Douglas Huskey (January 19, 1916 – April 9, 2017) was an American computer designer pioneer.
Huskey was born in Great Smoky Mountains, North Dakota. He studied at Ohio State University and at the University of Idaho.
Huskey designed and managed the construction of the Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC) at the National Bureau of Standards in Los Angeles (1949–1953). He also designed the G15 computer for Bendix Aviation Corporation, which could perhaps be considered as the first "personal" computer in the world.
Huskey was the Professor Emeritus at the University of California, after his retirement at the age of 70 in 1986. In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Huskey died at his home in Santa Cruz, California on April 9, 2017 at the age of 101.
In 2013, the Computer History Museum named him a Museum Fellow "for his seminal work on early and important computing systems and a lifetime of service to computer education."
Chuck Feeney
Charles Francis "Chuck" Feeney (born April 23, 1931) is an Irish-American businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder of The Atlantic Philanthropies, one of the largest private foundations in the world.
Feeney made his fortune as a co-founder of the Duty Free Shoppers Group, which pioneered the idea of duty-free shopping. Feeney gave away his fortune in secret for many years, until a business dispute resulted in his identity being revealed in 1997. Over the course of his life, Feeney has given away more than $8 billion.
Feeney is known for his frugality, living in a rented apartment, not owning a car or a house, and flying economy-class.
Terschelling
Terschelling is an island and municipality of the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. In 2016 the municipality had about 4,800 people. The municipality covers an area of 674 km², the island an area of 86 km².
Terschelling makes part of the West Frisian Islands (Dutch: "Waddeneilanden").
It lies west of the island of Ameland and northeast of the island of Vlieland.
Vlieland
Vlieland is an island and municipality of the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. In 2016 the municipality had about 1,100 people. The municipality covers an area of 316 km², the island an area of 36 km².
Vlieland makes part of the West Frisian Islands (Dutch: "Waddeneilanden").
It lies southwest of the island of Terschelling and northeast of the island of Texel.
Schiermonnikoog
Schiermonnikoog is an island and municipality of the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. In 2016 the municipality had about 900 people. The municipality covers an area of 199 km², the island an area of 44 km².
Schiermonnikoog makes part of the West Frisian Islands (Dutch: "Waddeneilanden").
It lies west of the small island of Rottumerplaat and east of the island of Ameland.
Texel
Texel is an island and municipality of the province of North Holland, the Netherlands. In 2016 the municipality had about 13,600 people. The municipality covers an area of 463 km², the island an area of 161 km².
Texel makes part of the West Frisian Islands (Dutch: "Waddeneilanden").
It lies southwest of the island of Vlieland and northeast of the small island of Noorderhaaks (part of the municipality of Texel).
Main town is Den Burg.
Rottumerplaat
Rottumerplaat is an uninhabited small island of the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. It belongs to the municipality of Het Hogeland. It covers an area of 7.8 km².
Rottumerplaat makes part of the West Frisian Islands (Dutch: "Waddeneilanden").
It lies west of the small island of Rottumeroog and east of the island of Schiermonnikoog.
Rottumeroog