Gin Dan Wong (September 17, 1922 – September 1, 2017) was a Chinese-born American architect.
During his career, he was the chief of the Architectural Guild for the School of Architecture and Fine Arts at University of Southern California, the founder and chairman of Gin Wong Associates, and the president of William L. Pereira Associates. He was known as the designer of numerous buildings and centers in Southern California and the Pacific Rim: LAX Theme Building; the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) Headquarters Building in Downtown Los Angeles; the Columbia Broadcasting System Television City; the Crean Tower and Mary Hood Chapel on the Crystal Cathedral campus; the Jack Colker's 76 Station in Beverly Hills; Hyatt Regency International Airport in Inchon, Korea; and the Pan Pacific Tower in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Wong died of complications from Alzheimer's disease on September 1, 2017 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 94.
Jim McDaniels
James Ronald McDaniels (April 2, 1948 – September 6, 2017) was an American professional basketball player. He was born in Scottsville, Kentucky. McDaniels was drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics in the second round of the 1971 NBA draft and by the Utah Stars in the ABA Draft, but he began his professional career with the Carolina Cougars of the American Basketball Association.
McDaniels died in Bowling Green, Kentucky on September 6, 2017 from a long-illness at the age of 69.
Noel Picard
Joseph Jean-Noel Yves Picard (December 25, 1938 – September 6, 2017) was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman. He was the brother of former National Hockey League (NHL) player Roger Picard with whom he briefly played in St Louis, Missouri for one season. He was born in Montreal, Quebec. He played for the Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues and the Atlanta Flames.
Picard died in Montreal, Quebec on September 6, 2017 at the age of 78.
Kim Ki-duk (director, born 1934)
Kim Ki-duk (29 September 1934 – 7 September 2017) was a South Korean movie director and professor. He was best known outside of Korea for his 1967 giant monster movie "". Kim directed 66 movies in total from his directorial debut in 1961 until his retirement from the movie industry in 1977.
Along with Kim Soo-yong and Lee Man-hee, Kim was one of the leading young directors of the Korean cinematic wave of the 1960s. The most distinctive and successful genre of this period was the melodrama (청춘영화 - "cheongchun yeonghwa"). He was not related to Kim Ki-duk, the South Korean director of "3-Iron".
Kim died on 7 September 2017 at the age of 83 from lung cancer in Seoul, South Korea.
Kim Ki-duk
Kim Ki-duk ( ; December 20, 1960 – December 11, 2020) was a South Korean movie director and screenwriter. His movies have received many awards in the festival awards, making him one of the most important contemporary Asian movie directors.
He won the Golden Lion at 69th Venice International Film Festival for "Pietà", Silver Lion for Best Director at 61st Venice International Film Festival for "3-Iron", Silver Bear for Best Director at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival for "Samaria" and Un Certain Regard prize at 2011 Cannes Film Festival for "Arirang".
His best known movie was "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring" (2003). Two of his movies were official submissions for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film as South Korean entries.
Kim wrote scripts to many of his former assistant directors including Juhn Jai-hong ("Beautiful" and "Poongsan") and Jang Hoon ("Rough Cut").
On December 11, 2020, Kim died in Riga, Latvia from problems caused by COVID-19, just nine days before his 60th birthday.
Jeremiah Goodman
Jeremiah Goodman (October 22, 1922 – September 7, 2017) was an American illustrator. He was born in Buffalo, New York.
Goodman signed his work with his first name only. Goodman used his unique painting style to create the essence of a building's interior.
His painting interprets the plans of both architects and interior designers. He paints original portraits of spaces for both commercial and private clients. For almost twenty years he created the covers for "Interior Design" magazine, and also books on interiors and for murals.
Goodman died on September 7, 2017 of complications from pneumonia in New York City at the age of 94.
Tomás Villanueva
Tomás Félix Villanueva Rodríguez (25 February 1953 – 7 September 2017) was a Spanish politician. He was born in Valladolid, Spain. He served as a politician for the region of Castile and León. He served as the region's Vice President from 2001 through 2003.
Villanueva died of a heart attack on 7 September 2017 in Valladolid, Spain at the age of 64.
Gene Michael
Eugene Richard "Gene" Michael (June 2, 1938 – September 7, 2017), nicknamed "Stick", was an American shortstop, coach, scout, manager and executive in Major League Baseball. He was born in Kent, Ohio.
Michael played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, and Detroit Tigers from 1966 to 1975. After his playing career, Michael managed the Yankees and Chicago Cubs, and served as the Yankees' general manager. Michael built the Yankees team that became a dynasty in the late 1990s.
Michael died of a heart attack on September 7, 2017, in Oldsmar, Florida at the age of 79.
2017 Chiapas earthquake
The 2017 Chiapas earthquake was a strong earthquake that hit Mexico and Guatemala on September 7, 2017. The quake scored a magnitude of 8.4 M on the magnitude (or strength) scale. At least sixty people died.
Christchurch earthquake (disambiguation)
Christchurch earthquake may refer to a number of earthquakes that affected Christchurch, New Zealand.
Aérospatiale SA-341 Gazelle
The Aérospatiale SA-341 Gazelle is a French helicopter designed and built by Aérospatiale. It was also built under licence in UK by Westland as Westland Gazelle for Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. Some were built and used by Yugoslavia as SOKO SA-341 Partizan.
It was used for anti-tank, reconnaissance and training.
Many are also used for private helicopter.
Training helicopter
A training helicopter is a light helicopter used specially for training. Some are civilian but most are military.
Prasanth Manghat
Prasanth Manghat is the CEO and executive director of NMC Health and a member at Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. He is on the board of directors at NMC Health. Mr. Manghat was honored with the "CFO of the Year" award in 2012 by ICAEW.
Garshom Business Excellence Award 2017
Balaji Loganathan
Balaji Loganathan (born 1982) is an Indian wildlife photographer. He is also a Columnist, wildlife photography enthusiast.
Balaji was born to Loganathan and Santhakumari in Chennai. He is graduated in commerce from The University of Madras. He started photography as a hobby using a basic CANON DSLR camera. Balaji is self-taught and has learned photography through experimenting.
Balaji started photography as a hobby, later he made it as a career of professional wildlife photographer. He then began shooting wildlife and has several images published on Magazines including National Geographic, Sanctuary Asia, Saevus. Balaji was the third winner of the Sanctuary Asia wildlife photographer of the year 2014, hosted by Sanctuary Asia for his best photography named Large-billed Bullies.
Agathaumas
Agathaumas ("great wonder") is a dubious genus of a large ceratopsid dinosaur that lived in Wyoming during the Late Cretaceous (65 million years ago). The name comes from Greek, "αγαν" - 'much' and "θαυμα" - 'wonder'. It was seen as the largest land animal known at the time of its discovery and might be a synonym of "Triceratops". It was related to "Ceratops".
Bajocian
In the geologic timescale, the Bajocian is an age or stage in the Middle Jurassic. It lasted from approximately 170.3 Ma to around 168.3 Ma (million years ago). The Bajocian age succeeds the Aalenian age and precedes the Bathonian age.
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