Balkavi Bairagi (10 February 1931 – 13 May 2018) was an Indian poet and politician. He was born in Manasa, Madhya Pradesh. He was a member of the Indian National Congress party. He was the Member of Parliament of Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh from 1998 to 2004. He died on 13 May 2018.
Bairagi died at his Manasa home on 13 May 2018 of a heart attack at the age of 87.
Ted Dabney
Samuel Frederick "Ted" Dabney (May 15, 1937 – May 26, 2018) was an American electronic engineer. He was born in San Francisco, California. Dabney was the co-founder of Atari, Inc. alongside Nolan Bushnell, and one of the creators of the first successful arcade game, "Pong".
Dabney had been diagnosed with esophageal cancer in late 2017 and was only given months to live. He died on May 26, 2018 of the disease in Los Angeles at the age of 81.
Clearfield, Utah
Clearfield is a city in Davis County, Utah, United States. The population was 30,112 at the 2010 census. The city grew drastically during the 1940s, with the formation of Hill Air Force Base.
Larry Leach
Lawrence Raymond Leach (June 18, 1936 – May 8, 2018) was a Canadian ice hockey centre. He played three seasons for the Boston Bruins. He played from 1953 to 1973. Leach was born in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan.
Leach died on May 8, 2018 in Victoria, British Columbia at the age of 81.
Sheldon Adelson
Sheldon Gary Adelson (pronounced ; August 4, 1933 – January 11, 2021) was an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He was the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which owns the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.
Adelson also owned the The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and the Sands Expo and Convention Center. He also owned the Israeli daily newspaper "Israel Hayom" and the American daily newspaper "Las Vegas Review-Journal".
He was a member of the Republican Party, and made the largest single donation ever to an incoming president's inauguration when he gave the Donald Trump inaugural committee five million dollars.
In 2001, Adelson was diagnosed with peripheral neuropathy. In February 2019, he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Adelson died at his home in Malibu, California from the disease on January 11, 2021, at age 87.
James Patterson
James Brendan Patterson (born March 22, 1947) is an American author and philanthropist.
His works are the "Alex Cross", "Michael Bennett", "Women's Murder Club", "Maximum Ride", "Daniel X", "NYPD Red", "Witch and Wizard", and "Private" series, as well as many stand-alone thrillers, non-fiction and romance novels.
His books have sold more than 300 million copies and he was the first person to sell 1 million e-books. In 2016, Patterson topped "Forbes" list of highest-paid authors for the third consecutive year, with an income of $95 million.
His total income over a decade is about $700 million, making him the richest author in the world.
Heavy water
Heavy water (deuterium oxide, ', ') is a form of water based on deuterium.
It has a larger than normal amount of the hydrogen isotope called deuterium ( or D, also known as "heavy hydrogen"). Ordinary water has the common hydrogen-1 isotope ( or H, also called "protium"). This makes up most of the hydrogen in normal water. The presence of deuterium gives the chemical different nuclear properties, and the increase of mass gives it different physical and chemical properties compared to normal "light water". Heavy water is used as a neutron moderator in some nuclear reactors, such as CANDU reactors. It is a more efficient neutron moderator than regular water, allowing the use of unenriched uranium as fuel. Pure heavy water is not radioactive, because deuterium is a stable isotope, but heavy water that has been through a nuclear reactor is slightly radioactive.
The chemistry of heavy water is different enough that people, and most living things, cannot survive with heavy water in place of ordinary water. Small amounts are not toxic to people. It is common for people to drink several grams of heavy water for metabolic experiments without causing illness.
Mahomet, Illinois
Mahomet is a town in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 7,258 at the 2010 census. Mahomet is about ten miles northwest of the city of Champaign. Interstate 74 and Illinois Route 47 meet in the town. Mahomet has two ZIP codes: 61840 and 61875.
Before the first European settlers came, the area around the Sangamon River that became Mahomet was inhabited by Kickapoo and Pottawattami Indians.
In 1836, Daniel T. Porter laid out a village plan. That is where Mahomet is now.
Mahomet was first called Middletown. This was presumably because it is half-way point between Bloomington and Danville. But there was another Middletown in Illinois. Therefore, in the mid-19th century, the name was changed.
Population in 2014: 7,955
Males: 3,742 (47.0%)
Females: 4,213 (53.0%)
Median resident age: 38.3 years
Harry Kane
Harry Edward Kane (born 28 July 1993) is an English professional footballer. He plays as a striker for Tottenham Hotspur and the English national team.
Harry Jamal Kane was born in Leytonstone, London. His father's name is Patrick Kane and mother's name is Kim Kane, both of whom are Irish. He has one elder brother, Charlie. When the family moved to Chingford, Harry attended Larkswood Primary Academy there until 2004, after which he started to study in Chingford Foundation School, in which David Beckham also studied. Kane described his childhood as:
Kane also said: "Most of my family were Spurs fans and I grew up 15 minutes from the ground, so I was always going to be a Spurs fan". He said that when he was a child he wanted to be like Teddy Sheringham, he thought of him as a "great finisher" and a role model because he scores a lot of goals.
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God's Plan (song)
"God's Plan" is a song recorded by Canadian musician Drake. It was the first single from his EP, "Scary Hours" (2018) and from his album, "Scorpion" (2018). The song entered at the top of the "Billboard" Hot 100 in the United States. It stayed there for 11 weeks and became his fourth number-one hit. He later broke a record when his song "Nice for What" also entered at the top, making Drake the only artist to replace their number-one entry with another number-one entry.
The song finished as the number-one song of 2018 in the United States. It is only the third song that entered at number one and topped the year-end charts in the US, after "Candle in the Wind 1997/Something About the Way You Look Tonight" by Elton John and "Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran.
The music video began with the titles, "The budget for this video was $996,631.90. We gave it all away. Don't tell the label…"
The money was given to various people, including some fans. As of May 2018, the video has received over 581 million YouTube views.
Pathetic fallacy
Pathetic fallacy means when you compare your human emotions to things happening in nature - such as a plague. An example is "a plague on both your houses" by Mercutio.
The term is not used in mediaeval logic. It is a literary term, invented by the British art critic John Ruskin in his book, "Modern Painters" (1843–60).
Professor Farnsworth
Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, or simply Professor, is a fictional character in the American television series "Futurama" voiced by Billy West and created by Matt Groening.
Farnsworth is the mad scientist of the Planet Express delivery service. He is the great (×30) nephew of Philip J. Fry. He sometimes acts between intelligence and amoral senility due to his greatly advanced age. He shows intelligence of any field of science necessary for the series' plots, and is thought to be one of the most brilliant inventors on Earth.
However, he falls asleep constantly, and he is implied to have routinely sent his former crews on suicide missions.