Putnam County is the least extensive county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it had a population of 6,006. The county seat is Hennepin. The county was founded in 1825 and named after Israel Putnam, who was a general in the American Revolution.
Randolph County, Illinois
Randolph County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 33,476 people lived there. The county seat is Chester.
Roger W. H. Sargent
Roger William Herbert Sargent PhD, DSc(Eng), D.hc(INPL, Nancy), ACGI, Hon FCGI, FIChemE FIMA FREng FSA (14 October 1926 – 11 September 2018) was a British chemical engineer. He was the Courtaulds Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London and "the father" of the discipline of Process Systems Engineering. He was born in Bedford, Bedfordshire.
Sargent died on 11 September 2018 in London at the age of 91.
Branko Grünbaum
Branko Grünbaum (2 October 1929 – 14 September 2018) was a Yugoslavian-born American mathematician and a professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. He wrote over 200 papers, mostly in discrete geometry, an area in which he was known for many classification theorems. He has written on the theory of abstract polyhedra.
Grünbaum died in Seattle on 14 September 2018 at the age of 88
Richard M. Pollack
Richard M. Pollack (January 25, 1935 – September 18, 2018) was an American geometer. He spent most of his career at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He was Professor Emeritus at the university till his death. In 1986 he and Jacob E. Goodman were the founding co-editors-in-chief of the journal "Discrete & Computational Geometry" (Springer-Verlag). He was born in New York City.
Pollack died on September 18, 2018 in New York City at the age of 83.
Jon Burge
Jon Graham Burge (December 20, 1947 – September 19, 2018) was an American police officer and convicted felon. He was born in South Deering, Chicago, Illinois. He worked for the Chicago Police Department as a detective and commander. He became well known for torturing more than 200 criminal suspects between 1972 and 1991 in order to force confessions.
In 2010 he was convicted of obstruction of justice and perjury in relation to investigations of torture by police, and he served prison time.
Burge died at age 70 on September 19, 2018 in Apollo Beach, Florida from prostate cancer.
Kondapalli Koteswaramma
Kondapalli Koteswaramma (August 5, 1918 – September 19, 2018) was an Indian communist leader, feminist, revolutionary, and writer. He was born in Pamarru, Andhra Pradesh. Her best known works were "Amma Cheppina Aidu Geyalu" (1972), "Ashru Sameekshanam" (1991), "Sanghamitra Kathalu" (1991). Her autobiography "Nirjana Vaaradhi" (2012) was published by the Hyderabad Book Trust. It was translated to English as "The Sharp Knife of Memory".
Koteswaramma died on September 19, 2018 from a stroke, aged 100.
Arthur Mitchell (dancer)
Arthur Mitchell (March 27, 1934 – September 19, 2018) was an African-American dancer and choreographer. He created a training school and the first African-American classical ballet company, Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH).
Mitchell was recognized as a MacArthur Fellow. He was added into the National Museum of Dance's Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame, and received the United States National Medal of Arts.
Mitchell died on September 19, 2018 in Manhattan from heart failure at the age of 84.
Don Bachardy
Donald Jess Bachardy (born May 18, 1934) is an American portrait artist. Bachardy was the partner of Christopher Isherwood for over 30 years. He is known for writing "".
His works reside in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum of Art in San Francisco, the University of Texas, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California, the University of California, Los Angeles, the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, Princeton University, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Portrait Gallery, London.
One of Bachardy's best known works is the official gubernatorial portrait of Jerry Brown that hangs in the California State Capitol Museum.
Shepard Smith
Shepard "Shep" Smith (born David Shepard Smith Jr.; January 14, 1964) is an American television news anchor. He formerly worked on the Fox News Channel.
Smith is the former host of Fox News' evening newscast, "The Fox Report with Shepard Smith", and "Studio B". In October 2013, "Shepard Smith Reporting" replaced "Studio B".
Smith is openly gay, coming out in 2017.
On October 11th, 2019, Shepard Smith announced he stepped down from Fox News after 23 years; it was also Shepard Smith Reporting's final airing.
Holly Springs, Mississippi
Holly Springs is a city in and county seat of Marshall County, Mississippi, United States at the border with southern Tennessee. It is near the Mississippi Delta. The population was 7,957 at the 2000 census. A slight decrease in population was calculated in the 2010 census.
Mississippi Delta
The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and small portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) which lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers.
The region has been called "The Most Southern Place on Earth", because of its racial, cultural, and economic history.
It is 200 miles long and 87 miles across about 4,415,000 acres, or, some 7,000 square miles of alluvial floodplain. It was developed as one of the richest cotton-growing areas in the nation before the American Civil War (1861–1865). The region was popular for cotton farmers and black slaves.
Yazoo River
The Yazoo River is a river in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is thought by some to mark the southern boundary of what is called the Mississippi Delta, which was cultivated for cotton plantations before the American Civil War. It has continued to be devoted to large-scale agriculture.
The river is 188 miles (303 km) long and is formed by the confluence of the Tallahatchie and the Yalobusha rivers.
Tallahatchie River
The Tallahatchie River is a river in Mississippi. It flows from Tippah County, through Tallahatchie County, to Leflore County, where it joins the Yalobusha River to form the Yazoo River. The river is navigable for about 100 miles.
Minter City, Mississippi
Minter City is an unincorporated community located in Leflore County and in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. It is part of the Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area, and is within the Mississippi Delta.
Yalobusha River
The Yalobusha River is a river, long, in north-central Mississippi in the United States. It is a principal tributary of the Yazoo River, which is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
The name "Yalobusha" comes from the Choctaw word "yalooboshi", meaning "little tadpole", from "yalooba", "tadpole", and "-ushi", "diminutive".
Kenilworth, Illinois
Kenilworth is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is north of downtown Chicago. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 2,513. It is the newest of the nine suburban North Shore communities bordering Lake Michigan.
North Shore (Chicago)
The North Shore is made up of many rich suburbs north of Chicago, Illinois. It borders the shores of Lake Michigan. These communities fall within suburban Cook County and Lake County.
Evanston, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Glencoe, Highland Park, Lake Forest, and Lake Bluff are thought to be the main members of the North Shore, as all are affluent communities that border the lake just north of Chicago.
Glencoe, Illinois
Glencoe () is a village in northeastern Cook County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, the total population was 8,723. Glencoe is located on Chicago's North Shore.
Lake Bluff, Illinois