Ralston was the head football coach at Utah State University (1959–1962), Stanford University (1963–1971), and San Jose State University (1993–1996). He also coached the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL) from 1972 to 1976 and the Oakland Invaders of the United States Football League (USFL) in 1983.
Ralston was added into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1992.
Ralston died on September 14, 2019 in Sunnyvale, California at the age of 92.
Norway, Michigan
Norway is a city in Dickinson County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,845 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Iron Mountain, MI–WI Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Neil Hartigan
Neil F. Hartigan (born May 4, 1938) is an American Democrat. He was Illinois Attorney General, the 40th Lieutenant Governor, and a justice of the Illinois Appellate Court.
Hartigan also was the Democratic nominee for Governor in 1990 but lost the race to Republican Jim Edgar.
Tijjani Muhammad-Bande
Tijjani Muhammad-Bande (OFR) (born December 7, 1957) is a Nigerian political scientist, administrator and career diplomat. He was the President of the United Nations General Assembly from 2019 to 2020.
He was the permanent representative of Nigeria to the United Nations and was the Vice-President of the General Assembly during its 71st session in September 2016.
On June 4, 2019 he was elected the President of the 74th session of the Assembly to replace María Fernanda Espinosa in September 2019.
Philippe Pétain
Philippe Pétain (1856-1951) was a French General who served as leader of Vichy France between 1940 and 1944.
During World War I Pétain was the hero of the Battle of Verdun and led the French Army until the end of the war in 1918.
In 1940 during the Battle of France the French government asked him to govern the country. He surrendered to the Germans. From 1940 to the end of 1942, Vichy France was a puppet state of Nazi Germany. Pétain became a puppet of Nazi Germany as they fully occupied and disarmed Vichy France.
After the war, Pétain was tried and convicted for treason. He was originally sentenced to death, but due to his age and World War I service his sentence was commuted to life in prison. He died in 1951.
Marginal sea
A marginal sea is a part of an ocean that is between the coastal zone and open ocean. Such a sea is partly enclosed by land and not as deep as the open ocean. There are many named marginal seas. However, there is some disagreement on what makes a sea a marginal sea or not.
Lynx (web browser)
Lynx is a customizable text-based web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals. , it is the oldest web browser still in general use and active development, having started in 1992.
Lynx was a product of the Distributed Computing Group within Academic Computing Services of the University of Kansas. It was first created in 1992 by a team of students and staff at the university (Lou Montulli, Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac) as a hypertext browser. It was used only to distribute campus information as part of a "Campus-Wide Information Server". It was also used for browsing the Gopher space.
Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
This was the fourth Anglo-Dutch War between the Anglos and Dutchs. It occurred immediately after the Third and before the Fifth Anglo-Dutch Wars. Anglos and Dutchs did not like the number 4 so they moved on to the Fifth War in the year in 1784. Anglos the mass slaughter of Dutchs but mistakenly killed the bush Maori and Turks. The result of the war led to the birth of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is a UK government department. It is responsible for the overall leadership and strategic direction of local government.
Penny Whetton
Penelope Whetton (5 January 1958 – 11 September 2019) was an Australian climatologist. She was an expert in regional climate change effects due to global warming and in the impacts of those changes. Her primary scientific focus was Australia.
In 1989, she joined the Atmospheric Research division of CSIRO (later becoming CMAR CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research). She was one of the of the of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Whetton was born in Melbourne. She was married to Senator Janet Rice. In 2003, she had sexual reassignment surgery. Whetton died on 11 September 2019 in Sisters Beach, Tasmania at the age of 61.
Luigi Colani
Luigi Colani (born Lutz Colani; 2 August 1928 – 16 September 2019) was a German industrial designer. He was born in Berlin. His long career began in the 1950s when he designed cars for companies including Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Volkswagen, and BMW.
Colani died in Karlsruhe on 16 September 2019 at the age of 91.
Steve Dalachinsky
Steven Donald Dalachinsky (September 29, 1946 – Septemeber 16, 2019) was an American poet. He was from New York City.
He was a 2014 recipient of a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, received the Franz Kafka Prize, Acker Award, PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award and was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize.
Dalachinsky died of a stroke on September 16, 2019 at a hospital in Long Island, New York at the age of 72.
H. S. Dillon
Harbrinderjit Singh Dillon (23 April 1945 – 16 September 2019) was an Indonesian Sikh and political/human rights activist. He was Assistant to the Minister of Agriculture and Commissioner of the National Commission on Human Rights. He was an outspoken critic of corruption in Indonesia.
Dillon died on 16 September 2019 at a hospital in Jakarta at the age of 74.
Sakahoko Nobushige
Sakahoko Nobushige (born as Yoshiaki Fukuzono; 18 June 1961 – 16 September 2019) was a Japanese sumo wrestler. His highest rank was "sekiwake." He later became the head coach of Izutsu stable. He was the elder brother of Terao Tsunefumi. Nobushige was born in Kagoshima, Japan. Sakahoko made his professional debut in January 1978.
Sakahoko died of pancreatic cancer on 16 September 2019 at the age of 58.
Khem Singh Gill
Khem Singh Gill (1 September 1930 – 17 September 2019) was an Indian academic, geneticist and plant breeder. He was a former Vice-Chancellor of the Punjab Agricultural University from 1990 through 1993.
Amrit Sanskar
Amrit Sanchar ("nectar ceremony"; also called Amrit sanskar, Amrit Parchar, or Khande di Pahul), is the name given in the Sikh tradition to the Baptism ceremony which is also known as the initiation ceremony into the Khalsa "brotherhood". The word Pahul or Puhul is a derivative from a substantive, "pahu" — meaning an agent which brightens, accelerates or sharpens the potentialities of a given object. In Sikhism, the baptised Sikh is also called an Amritdhari, literally meaning "Amrit Taker" or one who has ‘Taken on Amrit’.
This practice has been in existence since the times of Guru Nanak Dev (1469 - 1539). During that time-period, this ceremony was known as Charan Amrit or Charan Phul or the Pag Pahul, the words "Charan" and "Pag" both signifying the foot of the teacher. During that time-period, the neophytes poured water over Guru's toe to be initiated into the fold. When the Guru was not present, the "masands" or the local "sangat" leaders officiated. The water was poured on Guru's toe and then the devotees would drink it and seek blessings of the Guru. The Guru would guide the Sikhs about the Sikh teachings and instruct them to adopt them as a way of life.