Kotoński died in Warsaw, Poland at the age of 89.
Ron Mulock
Ronald Joseph "Ron" Mulock (11 January 1930 – 5 September 2014) was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. He served as the 10th Deputy Premier of New South Wales serving from 10 February 1984 through 25 March 1988.
Mulock died in Sydney, Australia on 5 September 2014 at the age of 84.
Eoin Young
Eoin Young (1939 – 5 September 2014) was a New Zealand-born motoring journalist. He was an Autocar columnist for some 30 years starting in 1967. In 2003, he authored "Forza Amon!", a biography of Chris Amon. He wrote columns and articles for many publications including "Cars for the Connoisseur" (UK), "Victory Lane" (USA), "NZ Classic Car" (New Zealand) and "Am Klassiek" (the Netherlands). He also wrote for the web-based motor sport magazine pitpass.com.
He returned to New Zealand and became ill in July 2014. He died on 5 September 2014, aged 75.
Justin Verlander
Justin Brooks Verlander (born February 20, 1983) is an American professional baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Houston Astros.
Arboriculture
Arboriculture is the care and study of individual trees and shrubs. An arborist is a person who works in arboriculture. An arborist is sometimes called a "tree surgeon".
Roy Leonard
LeRoy Stewart Leonard (January 19, 1931 – September 4, 2014), known as Roy Leonard, was an American radio and television personality. He was best known for hosting WGN's midday radio show from Chicago for 31 years and for his appearances on WGN-TV's news and Christmas specials. He also hosted Family Classics after Frazier Thomas died.
Leonard died on September 4, 2014 at a hospital in Evanston, Illinois from complications from a esophageal infection, aged 83.
Redwood Falls, Minnesota
Redwood Falls is a city in Redwood County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The population was 5,254 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat.
Donatas Banionis
Donatas Banionis (April 28, 1924 – September 4, 2014) was a Lithuanian and Soviet actor. He was best known in the West for his lead role of Tarkovsky's "Solaris" as Kris Kelvin. He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania. Once, President of Russia, Vladimir Putin said that Banionis was the reason why he joined the KGB.
Banionis died on September 4, 2014 from a stroke. He was 90 years old. President Putin expressed his condolences to his family.
James Turrell
James Turrell (born May 6, 1943) is an American artist. He uses light and space to create his artwork.
James Turrell was born in Pasadena, California. His father was Archibald Milton Turrell. He was an aeronautical engineer and teacher. His mother was Margaret Hodges Turrell. She studied medicine and worked in the Peace Corps. Both of his parents were Quakers.
Turrell got a pilot's license when he was 16 years old. He carried supplies by plane to mines that were far away. He also made maps by flying over areas. He earned a BA degree from Pomona College in perceptual psychology in 1965. He studied the Ganzfeld effect and mathematics, geology and astronomy there. Turrell entered the graduate Studio Art program at the University of California, Irvine in 1966. Then he began making work using light projections. In 1966 he was arrested for teaching young men how to avoid getting drafted in the Vietnam War. He spent about a year in jail and left UC Irvine. In 1973, he earned an MA degree in art from Claremont Graduate University. In 2004, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Haverford College.
Turrell has received many awards in the arts including The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1984 and the National Medal of Arts in 2013.
J. LaMoine Jenson
Joseph LaMoine Jenson (June 27, 1935 – September 2, 2014) was an American religious leader. He was the leader of the Apostolic United Brethren (AUB), a Mormon fundamentalist polygamist group, from 2005 until his death. Jensen was born in Millville, Utah.
Jenson died of colon cancer in Eagle Mountain, Utah, aged 79.
Hopeton Lewis
Hopeton Lewis (30 October 1947 – 4 September 2014) was a Jamaican singer. Lewis started performing at a young age. He formed a singing group called, "The Regals".
By the mid-1960s, he began recording and had one of the earliest hits with "Take It Easy" in late 1966. He had several more Jamaican hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the first 'herb' song ever recorded in Jamaica, "Cool Collie". He worked for Duke Reid as an arranger and backing vocalist, and won the Festival Song Contest in 1970 with "Boom Shaka Lacka".
Lewis died on 4 September 2014 at his home in Brooklyn, New York from kidney failure, aged 66.
Shawn Wayans
Shawn Mathis Wayans (born January 19, 1971) is an American actor, DJ, producer, writer and comedian. He starred in "In Living Color" and "The Wayans Bros.". He is the brother of Keenen Ivory, Damon, Sr., Marlon, Kim, and Nadia Wayans.
Mary Reilly
Mary Reilly is a 1996 American horror movie. It is about a lonely servant in the home of a doctor. Julia Roberts plays the title character. Glenn Close plays Mrs Farraday. John Malkovich plays Jekyll and Hyde.
This movie was released on February 23, 1996. The reviews were poor. The movie did poorly at the box office.
Steam car
A steam car is an automobile (car) powered by a steam engine. The first automobile, a three-wheeled vehicle, was powered by a steam engine.
The steam carriage was invented in 1769 by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, a French engineer. It was a large three wheeled vehicle that used coal to make steam in a boiler. The boiler was mounted in front which made the vehicle unstable.
In the United States, about the time of the American Civil War, a number of inventors were working on steam-powered cars. In England about 1868 J. H. Knight had created a very successful design of steam car. In 1883 in France, Jules-Albert de Dion and Georges Bouton began building steam cars. In 1886 Ransom E. Olds was producing a steam car in the US. In 1899 the Stanley brothers, Francis and Freelan began making the famous Stanley Steamers.
Steam engines in cars have a great amount of torque. With all this torque they can accelerate very quickly. Because the torque is available over a broad range of speeds, a transmission wasn't needed. They could also carry heavy loads with ease. The speed of a steam car is controlled by the throttle alone and the engine never stalls. Steam cars had fewer moving parts than gasoline powered cars. Also steam cars are very quiet.
A major disadvantage is that a steam car has to "fire up" its boiler (has to get up to operating temperature). This can take as much as 20 minutes before the car can move. In the winter there was the added problem of water freezing. The open-cycle steam engine in cars and steam locomotives could not go far without adding water. The water turned to steam, which was lost when it exited the engine. Steam condensers were added to these cars later. This converted the steam back to water. It was too late; by then steam cars had lost out to cars with internal combustion engines.
You Again
You Again is a 2010 American comedy movie. This movie is about a high school senior who has acne. She later becomes a successful public relations executive. Kristen Bell plays Marni. Sigourney Weaver plays Ramona. Jamie Lee Curtis plays Gail. Cloris Leachman plays Helen.
The movie was released on September 24, 2010. Reviews were very negative. The movie was a moderate success.
Karel Černý (art director)
Karel Černý (7 April 1922 – 5 September 2014) was a Czech art director and production designer. He is known for being the production designer of the movie "Amadeus". He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the "Amadeus".
Černý died in Tábor, Czech Republic, aged 92.
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