Jacaranda mimosifolia is a sub-tropical tree native to Asia that has been widely planted elsewhere because of its beautiful and long-lasting blue flowers. It is also known as jacaranda, blue jacaranda, black poui, or as the fern tree. Older sources call it Jacaranda acutifolia, but it is nowadays more usually classified as Jacaranda mimosifolia. In scientific usage, the name "jacaranda" refers to the genus Jacaranda, which has many other members, but in horticultural and everyday usage, it nearly always means the blue jacaranda.
Kashmir stag
The Kashmir stag ("Cervus canadensis hanglu"), also called hangul, is a subspecies of elk native to India. It is found in dense riverine forests in the high valleys and mountains of the Kashmir Valley and northern Chamba District in Himachal Pradesh. In Kashmir, it's found in the Dachigam National Park where it receives protection but elsewhere it is more at risk.
Abu Dawud
Abu Dawud, was a Persian scholar of hadith. He was born in Sistan, eastern Iran (then Persia) and died in 889 in Basra. He collected Sunan Abu Dawud, one of the Kutub al-Sittah (six major hadith collections). Imam Abu Dawud was a follower of Hanbali while some consider him Shafi. He wrote some 21 books in total. His major works include:
Cornbread Harris
James Samuel "Cornbread" Harris, Jr. (born April 23, 1927) is an American musician. He is a singer and pianist who performs in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was a performer on Minnesota's first rock 'n' roll record, and is the father of record producer James Samuel "Jimmy Jam" Harris III.
When his father, James Samuel Harris Sr. was shot while gambling and his mother died of grieving, Harris was orphaned at age 3. He lived with foster families until he was 11 or 12 when he and his sister went to live with his grandparents in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He has been married four times. One of his daughters died. He is the father of Jimmy Jam (James Harris III) who produced records for Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey and Usher.
Country music was an early influence, and Hank Williams and Gene Autry are among his early favorites.
Harris helped invent Augie Garcia's "Hi Yo Silver," a 1955 song that was Minnesota's first rock 'n' roll recording. He performed on the record, which he called a one-hit wonder (although Garcia is remembered as the godfather of Minnesota rock 'n' roll).
Harris was in the U.S. military and later worked for about 25 years for American Hoist & Derrick.
His repertoire includes blues and jazz and in his eighties, Harris still plays Minneapolis nightclubs including the Loring Pasta Bar in Dinkytown, Clubhouse Jäger in the North Loop and Palmer's and the Nomad World Pub on the West Bank.
Harris is a mentor to Cadillac Kolstad and "City Pages" calls them the "must-see dueling-piano act in town".
Public works administration
Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, it aimed at long-range recovery by spending over $4 billion on some 34,000 projects that included public buildings, highways, and parkways (i.e. the Grand Coulee Dam of the Columbia River).
Lin Hu (air force general)
Lin Hu (; 26 December 1927 – 3 March 2018) was a Chinese aviator, fighter pilot and lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF).
Lin joined the Eighth Route Army to fight in the Second Sino-Japanese War before he turned 11.
After the Second World War, he was trained as a fighter pilot and fought in the Korean War and the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis. He served as deputy commander of the PLA Air Force from 1985 to 1994 and attained the rank of lieutenant general in 1988.
Lin died on 3 March 2018 in Beijing at the age of 90.
John Hall Buchanan Jr.
John Hall Buchanan Jr. (March 19, 1928 – March 5, 2018) was an American politician. He was a member of the Republican Party. He was born in Paris, Tennessee. He served in the United States House of Representatives from Alabama's 6th congressional district from 1965 through 1981.
Buchanan Jr. died of complications from dementia in Bethesda, Maryland on March 5, 2018 at the age of 89.
Paul Magriel
Paul David Magriel Jr. "(pronounced Ma-grill)" (July 1, 1946 – March 5, 2018) was an American professional backgammon player, poker player, and author. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He participated in the World Poker Tour placing second place and in the World Series of Poker placing eighth.
Magriel was a mathematics professor at the Newark College of Engineering (now New Jersey Institute of Technology) between 1969 and 1973.
Magriel died in Las Vegas, Nevada on March 5, 2018 of a suspected heart attack at the age of 71.
Jam Saqi
Jam Saqi (Sindhi: ڄام ساقي) (October 31, 1944 – March 5, 2018) was an Pakistani left-wing politician. He was general secretary of the Communist Party of Pakistan. Saqi was in jail for more than 15 years because of his political activities.
Saqi died in Hyderabad of kidney failure on March 5, 2018 at the age of 73.
Hayden White
Hayden White (July 12, 1928 – March 5, 2018) was an American historian in the tradition of literary criticism. He was most famous for his work "" (1973/2014). He ended his career as University Professor Emeritus at the history of consciousness department of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Paul Bùi Văn Đọc
Archbishop Paul Bùi Văn Đọc (11 November 1944 – 6 March 2018) was a Vietnamese prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City from 2014 to 2018 and the President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam from 2013 to 2016.
He died of a stroke in Rome on 6 March 2018 at the age of 73.
Peter Nicholls (writer)
Peter Nicholls (8 March 1939 – 6 March 2018) was an Australian literary scholar and critic. He was the creator and a co-editor of "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction" with John Clute.
Sony Entertainment Television (India)
Sony Entertainment Television India is an Indian Hindi Language television channel from India. It was based general Entertainment. The was broadcast show's like, Aadalat,C.I.D,Bhoot Aaya,Maharana Pratap,Kya Hua Tera Vaada , Behyad,The Kapil Sharma Show,Hasil and Prithvi Vallabh - Itihaas Bhi,Rahasya Bhi.
The channel was launched on 8 November 1995, the Indian television channel was owned by Sony Pictures Networks
Primary progressive aphasia
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a type of neurological syndrome and rare type of dementia in which language capabilities slowly and progressively become impaired. As with other types of aphasia, the symptoms that accompany PPA depend on what parts of the left hemisphere are significantly damaged.
Neurological disorder
A neurological disorder is any disorder of the nervous system. Structural, biochemical or electrical abnormalities in the brain, spinal cord or other nerves can result in a range of symptoms.
Examples of symptoms include paralysis, muscle weakness, poor coordination, loss of sensation, seizures, confusion, pain and altered levels of consciousness.
Woody Durham
Woody Lombardi Durham (August 8, 1941 – March 7, 2018) was an American play-by-play radio announcer. He announced for the North Carolina Tar Heels football and men’s basketball programs from 1971 to 2011. He was born in Mebane, North Carolina.
Durham died on March 7, 2018 from complications from primary progressive aphasia in Chapel Hill, North Carolina at the age of 76.
Helmut Maucher
Helmut Oswald Maucher (9 December 1927 – 5 March 2018) was a German businessman. He served as the CEO of Nestlé from June 1990 to June 1997. He was born in Eisenharz (Allgäu), Germany.
Maucher died in Berlin on 5 March 2018 at the age of 90.
Mebane, North Carolina
Mebane is a city located mostly in Alamance County, North Carolina, United States, and partly in Orange County, North Carolina. The town was named for Alexander Mebane, an American Revolutionary War general and member of the U.S. Congress.