This rare plant from Gabon attracts bees. Its name comes from David Attenborough, a BBC journalist and author of many naturalist documentaries.
Roy Apps
Roy Apps is (born 1951) is a British screenwriter, dramatist and children’s author. He has had 78 books published.
In 2001 Apps was awarded a BAFTA for outstanding contributions to children’s film and television. For ten years he wrote for the award-winning CBBC series "Byker Grove".
Bradley Walsh
Bradley John Walsh (born 4 June 1960) is an English actor, comedian, singer, and television presenter.
People know him for his roles as Danny Baldwin in "Coronation Street", DS Ronnie Brooks in "", and Graham O'Brien in "Doctor Who". Walsh also hosts the ITV game shows "The Chase" and "Cash Trapped".
Walsh is a former professional footballer for Brentford.
Law &amp; Order: UK
Law & Order: UK was a British television police drama made for ITV. It was adapted from the American series "Law & Order".
The series starred Bradley Walsh, Freema Agyeman, Jamie Bamber and Ben Daniels.
"Law & Order: UK" ran from 2009 to 2014.
Jamie Bamber
Jamie St John Bamber Griffith (born 3 April 1973) is an English actor. He was born in Hammersmith, London.
People know him for his roles as Lee Adama in "Battlestar Galactica", and Detective Sergeant Matt Devlin in "".
Bamber is married to actress Kerry Norton. The couple have three daughters: Isla and identical twins Darcy and Ava.
January 0
January 0 does not exist in any calendars. It sometimes refers to December 31.
January 0 also refers to the day before January 1 in an annual ephemeris. It keeps the date in the year for which the ephemeris was published. It avoids any reference to the previous year, even though it is the same day as December 31 of the previous year.
In Microsoft Excel, the epoch of the 1900 date format is January 0, 1900.
Sanford Rosenthal
Sandford Rosenthal
Sanford Morris Rosenthal (May 5, 1897 – May 1, 1989) was born in Albany, Georgia.
He received a medical degree at Vanderbilt University in 1920, and completed a residency and internship at Boston City Hospital (1921-1922).
However, his interests shifted to medical research when he became a Fellow of the National Research Council in a pharmacology lab at Johns Hopkins University (1922-1925).
He worked in the Department of Pharmacology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada from 1925–1927.
Finally, in 1928, he joined the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Rosenthal was Chief of the Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases (NIAMD) for 13 years before retiring in 1961.
He attained the rank of Medical Director in the USPHS Commissioned Officer Corps.
After retiring, Dr. Rosenthal continued to do research at the NIAMD for almost 20 years.
He was an author on over 110 papers between 1922 and 1975.
Dr. Rosenthal's first published paper provided a method for testing the health of the liver.
He showed that the rate at which the liver metabolizes an ingested dye can be used to quantify how well this organ functions.
His continued work on liver function tests resulted in the use of bromsulphthalein, which remains in use.
Dr. Rosenthal discovered that sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate was an antidote for mercury poisoning.
This antidote was widely used, and Dr. Rosenthal's discovery is considered one of the major achievements in the history of medical research at the NIH.
Based on his observation that sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate also has antibacterial activity, Dr. Rosenthal began work on another group of sulfur-containing compounds -– the sulfa drugs.
His decade-long work on sulfa drugs led to his discovery of a treatment for pneumococcal pneumonia with sulfanilamide.
In the early 1940s, Dr. Rosenthal worked on improving the ability of victims of severe burns to survive.
Death commonly resulted from shock due to fluid (plasma) loss from the burned skin. He discovered that the replacement of the salts that are in the secreted plasma is the key to a successful and simplified treatment.
During the 1950s and early 1960s, Dr. Rosenthal and colleagues undertook a long-term study to test the efficacy of drinking a saline solution (containing table salt and baking soda) to replace the lost salts (the "Peru Project").
His research group demonstrated that this therapy was an effective alternative to the traditional treatment using intravenous injections of whole blood or plasma.
The simplified burn therapy remains widely used.
Dr. Rosenthal and his collaborators were pioneers in the area of histamine biochemistry and physiology.
They developed a widely used method for quantifying histamine, worked on the pharmacology of histamines, and determined the biosynthetic pathway for spermidine.
Dr. Rosenthal also collaborated in research on the role of polyamines in the function of viral DNA.
Dr. Rosenthal was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1979.
He was also a member of American Medical Association, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Society of American Bacteriologists, and Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine.
In 1962, he received the Public Health Service Meritorious Service Medal from the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
In 1973, he received the Harvey Stuart Allen Distinguished Service Award from the American Burn Association.
In 1980, he received the Award for Experimental Therapeutics from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics in recognition of his pioneering work on the treatment of shock due to burns.
Iran Air Flight 291
Iran Air Flight 291 was a flight that crash landed on January 21, 1980. The flight, carried on a , was making a flight from to in Iran. At 19:11 local time, the plane crashed into the , north of , during its approach to Tehran-Mehrabad runway 29 in foggy and snowy weather conditions. All 8 crew members and 120 passengers died in the incident, and the plane was destroyed. At the time, Iran Air Flight 291 was the deadliest aircraft disaster in Iranian history.
Investigators concluded that the probable cause of the crash was believed to be an inoperable and ground . The head of Iran's Civil Aviation Authority and five other officials were charged with manslaughter as a result of the crash of Flight 291.
Cyrus Flint Stimson, Jr.
Cyrus Flint Stimson, Jr. (/ˈstɪmsən/ 1901 - 1968) was an American artist. He is best known for his modernist watercolors. He was active and lived in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Stimson was on the faculty of the Smith College Art Department (1935 – unknown).
Wadati–Benioff zone
A Wadati–Benioff zone is an area within the Earth's crust where earthquakes frequently occur. The frequency of earthquakes in these areas is due to the convergence and subduction of tectonic plates.
According to the theory of plate tectonics lithospheric plates move towards each other along convergent plate boundaries. When two plates collide, one is often submerged below the other. They are referred as "downgoing" and "overriding" plates respectively.
When a downgoing plate (usually composed of oceanic lithosphere) submerges beneath an overriding plate shallow earthquakes occur at the plate boundary and deeper earthquakes occur in the downgoing plate as it sinks into the Earth. The deep earthquakes caused by the downgoing plate form the Wadati–Benioff zone. The deepest recorded earthquakes come from Wadati–Benioff zones and can extend to depths as much as 650 km (400 mi) deep.
In 1935 Kiyoo Wadati published research on earthquakes with deep foci and how they are apt to take place near the edges of continents. Further analysis of earthquake foci and location was conducted by Hugo Benioff in 1945 where he developed a way to identify the boundary at which an earthquake was generated. The dipping zone of seismic activity that they helped discover was named in their honor.
Dick Dolman