John Arthur Cunliffe (16 June 1933 – 20 September 2018) was an English children's book author and television presenter. He was born in Colne, Lancashire. He was known for creating the characters of Postman Pat and Rosie and Jim.
Cunliffe died on 20 September 2018, aged 85.
Ken Barrie
Leslie Hulme (9 January 1933 – 29 July 2016), known professionally as Ken Barrie, was an English voice actor and singer. He was best known for narrating, and singing the theme tune of the BBC television programmes "Postman Pat" and "Charlie Chalk". He was also responsible for providing the voices of several of the series' characters.
Barrie died at his home in Denham, Buckinghamshire on 29 July 2016 from liver cancer at the age of 83.
Shirley Fry Irvin
Shirley June Fry Irvin ("née" Fry; born June 30, 1927) is a former world No. 1 American tennis player. She was born in Akron, Ohio.
Irvin is one of ten to have won each Grand Slam singles tournament at least once during her career. She is also one of seven women to have won all four Grand Slam doubles tournaments.
Irvin was ranked in the world top 10 in 1946 and 1948 and from 1950 through 1955 (no rankings issued from 1940 through 1945), and #1 in 1956. The United States Lawn Tennis Association ranked her in the U.S. top 10 from 1944 through 1955 and #1 in 1956. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1970.
Borealopelta
Borealopelta was a large armoured dinosaur. It was found in Alberta, Canada and is a nodosaurid ankylosaur.
The osteoderms in its armour were in their life positions, with remains of their keratin sheaths and overlying skin. It may be the most complete ankylosaur ever found. Melanin found in its epidermis remains suggests it was camouflaged.
The report gives its estimated length as 5.5 metres and its estimated weight as about ~1,300 kg.
List of Indian scientists
This is a list of noted scientists from India.
Dionigi Tettamanzi
Dionigi Tettamanzi (14 March 1934 – 5 August 2017) was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was named a cardinal in 1998. He was Archbishop of Genoa from 1995 to 2002 and Archbishop of Milan from 2002 to 2011. He was born in Renate, Italy.
Tettamanzi was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2013 papal conclave that selected Pope Francis.
Tettamanzi died at his home in Triuggio, Italy on 5 August 2017 at the age of 83.
Marcelino Perelló Valls
Marcelino Perelló Valls (1944 – 5 August 2017) was a Mexican activist and politician. He was born in Mexico City. He was a known figure of the Mexican Student Movement of 1968, and the representative of the School of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to the National Strike Council (CNH). Perelló has been a member of the Mexican Communist Party (PCM) from 1965 until his death in 2017.
Perelló Valls died in Mexico City on 5 August 2017 at the age of 73.
Ty Hardin
Orton or Orison Whipple Hungerford Jr., known as Ty Hardin (January 1, 1930 – August 3, 2017) was a former American actor. He was born in New York City. Hardin was best known as the star of the 1958 to 1962 ABC/Warner Brothers western television series "Bronco".
Hardin died in Dallas, Texas on August 3, 2017 at the age of 87.
Irina Berezhna
Irina Berezhna, Russian: Irina Berezhnaya (13 August 1980 – 5 August 2017) was a Ukrainian politician. She was born in Luhansk, Ukraine. She member of Party of Regions (since October 2007), a former People's Deputy of Ukraine, member of the fraction of the Party of Regions.
Berezhna died in a car accident on the Adriatic coast on 5 August 2017 at the age of 36.
Filisur
Filisur () is a former municipality of the district Albula in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
The village sits on a hillside with a view to the west where the two rivers Albula/Alvra from the Albula Pass and Landwasser from Davos meet.
On 1 January 2018 the former municipalities of Bergün/Bravuogn and Filisur merged into the new municipality of Bergün Filisur.
Vinzel
Vinzel is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Frœningen
Frœningen is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.
Fulleren
Fulleren is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Galfingue
Galfingue is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Martin Shkreli
Martin Shkreli (, born March 17, 1983) is an American businessman, former hedge fund manager and convicted fraudster. He is the co-founder of the hedge funds Elea Capital, MSMB Capital Management, MSMB Healthcare, co-founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of the biotechnology firm Retrophin, and founder and former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals.
In September 2015, Shkreli received widespread criticism when Turing got the manufacturing license for the antiparasitic drug Daraprim and raised its price by a factor of 56 (from $13.50 to $750 per pill), leading him to be referred to as "the most hated man in America" and "pharma bro".
In December 2015, Shkreli was arrested by the FBI after being indicted on federal charges of securities fraud. He subsequently as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals and was replaced by the company's board chairman, Ron Tilles. Shkreli was convicted of two counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiring to commit securities fraud in August 2017.
Luis Fonsi
Luis Alfonso Rodríguez López-Cepero (born April 15, 1978), known by his stage name Luis Fonsi, is a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter and actor. He is best known for the hit song "Despacito" (2017). In January 2017, "Despacito" featuring Daddy Yankee was promoted and released.
In 2011, Fonsi released the album "Tierra Firme", and went on tour to promote it throughout Latin America.
On July 9, 2011, "Billboard" named Fonsi "Leader of Latin Music's New Generation".
On July 4, 2017, the music video has reached two billion views on YouTube, with the song becoming number one in nearly every Latin "Billboard" chart, and the most viewed video in the world. In August 2017, "Despacito" became the number one most viewed video on YouTube, with three billion views and counting.
As of 2018 he has broken six Guinness World Records and sold more than 11 million records with "Despacito".
After five years since "8", on 1 February 2019 his 10th studio album "Vida" was released. The track list contains "Despacito (Remix) ", "Échame la Culpa" and "Sola". The album topped the Billboard Top Latin Albums and Spanish album chart, and entered at number 18 of the Billboard 200.
In June 2018, Fonsi released the single "Calypso", with Stefflon Don. The song peaked at number 11 on the Hot Latin chart. On 2 November 2018, he collaborated on the track "Baby" by Clean Bandit from their second studio album. The song peaked at number 13 of Billboard Hot Dance/Electronic Songs and at number 15 of UK Singles Chart.
On 13 January 2019, the singer joined with Wisin, Alejandra Guzmán and Carlos Vives as coaches of the first Spanish season of La Voz by Telemundo.
Yèvre
The Yèvre is a river in central France. It is a right tributary of the Cher river. It flows through the Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region.
The Yèvre is long. Its drainage basin covers and 80.11% of the watershed is farming land.
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is at Savigny-en-Septaine (22 years), at of altitude.
Average monthly discharge (m/s) at Savigny-en-Septaine
The Yèvre starts in the Gron municipality, Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire region, at about to the east of the city of Bourges. It starts at an altitude of about above sea level and it is called here as "Ruisseau de Gron".