The trial of Conrad Murray (People of the State of California v. Conrad Robert Murray) was the American criminal trial of Michael Jackson's personal physician, Conrad Murray. Murray was charged with the involuntary manslaughter of the pop star for giving him an overdose of propofol. The trial started on September 27, 2011 at Los Angeles County Superior Court. In November 2011, the jury found Murray guilty. Murray was sentenced to four years in jail. In October 2013 Murray was released two years early. This was of California prison overcrowding, plus good behavior. After Murray was released from jail he was on "60 Minutes". He said that Jackson killed himself.
3rd century BC
The 3rd century BC started the first day of 300 BC and ended the last day of 201 BC.
Dave Lee Travis
Dave Lee Travis (born 25 May 1945), also known as DLT, is a British radio and television presenter. He was born in Buxton, Derbyshire. He started being a presenter for BBC Radio 1 in 1967. From 1981 to 2001, Travis presented "A Jolly Good Show".
Travis married his wife Marianne in 1971. He said he has cheated on her "once or twice".
Travis was arrested on 15 November 2012 as part of Operation Yewtree, an investigation into sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile and other people. Travis is currently on trial for 14 counts of indecent assault and one count of sexual assault. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Travis told police that if he had known Savile was a pedophile he would have reported him. Travis was cleared of all but two charges on 13 February 2014. He was retried on those two charges and another charge. On 23 September 2014, he was convicted of one count of indecent assault.
Hebron
Hebron is a Palestinian city south of Jerusalem. It is in the Judaean Mountains, 930 meters (3,050 ft) above sea level. It is the largest city in the West Bank, and the second largest in the Palestinian territories after Gaza. There are about 215,000 people living in Hebron (2016).
Hebron is divided into two parts: H1, controlled by the Palestinian National Authority, and H2, about 20% of the city, controlled by Israel.
The city is famous as the traditional burial site of the Biblical Patriarchs and Matriarchs. This makes it a very important city in Judaism. It is also very important to Muslims because of its connections with Abraham.
Hebron is important to the economy of the area due to the sale of marble from quarries. It is known for its grapes, figs, limestone, pottery workshops and glassblowing factories. It is also the location of the major dairy-product maker, "al-Junaidi". The old city of Hebron has narrow, winding streets, flat-roofed stone houses, and old bazaars. The city is home to Hebron University and the Palestine Polytechnic University. It has no cinemas or places of entertainment.
Guy Ourisson
Guy Henry Ourisson (March 26, 1926 – November 4, 2006) was a French chemist. He was vice president and later president of the Academy of Sciences.
In 1952 he got a PhD from Harvard University. In 1954, he got a doctorate in physics from the Sorbonne under the direction of G. Dupont. At the University of Strasbourg, he was appointed as a lecturer in 1955, professor in 1958. He became a retired professor in 1995.
He died, aged 80, in Strasbourg.
Abraham Cressy Morrison
Abraham Cressy Morrison (1888-1951) was an American chemist. He was President of the New York Academy of Sciences.
He was known to his close friends as "Cressy". His wife was the former Marguerite Snow of New York. He loved to fish and entertain at their summer home on Deer Isle, south of Bangor, Maine.
Morrison published a book called "Man in a Chemical World: The Service of Chemical Industry" (New York: Scribner's Sons, 1937). It is a work on science for the general reader. He is better known for his book "Man Does Not Stand Alone", which was published in 1944. His largest work was "The Baking Powder Controversy" (New York: American Baking Powder Association, 1904–07). This is a work in two volumes on the history of the baking powder industry in the U.S.
Hybrid plasmid
A hybrid plasmid is a plasmid that contains an inserted piece of foreign DNA.
Zeatin
Zeatin is a plant hormone taken from adenine. It is most commonly found in coconut milk and young corn seeds.
Zeatin and multiple other hormones in its family are known to make plants grow faster. The hormone is used to start seed growth in young plants. It is also used in many anti-aging formulae.
Megan Charpentier
Megan Charpentier (born May 26, 2001) is an American and Canadian actress. She was born in California. She grew up in Canada.
She appears as young Valerie in the 2011 movie "Red Riding Hood".
Megan plays a girl named Chrystal, who can hear a cat talk in the movie "Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever". The movie was first shown on Lifetime television on November 29, 2014.
Mama (movie)
Mama is a 2013 Spanish supernatural horror movie directed by Andy Muschietti. It is about two young girls abandoned in a forest cabin. The two girls, Victoria and Lilly, have different personality traits from one another. The story begins during the 2008 financial crisis and continues to 2013.
The movie got good reviews from critics. It became successful in the box office.
Russell Johnson
Russell David Johnson (November 10, 1924 – January 16, 2014) was an American television and movie actor. He was best known as "The Professor" on the CBS television sitcom "Gilligan's Island".
Johnson died at his home in Bainbridge Island, Washington on January 16, 2014. He died from kidney failure. He was 89 years old.
Dave Madden
David Joseph "Dave" Madden (December 17, 1931 - January 16, 2014) was a Canadian-American actor. He was known for his role as Reuben Kincaid on "The Partridge Family".
Madden died on January 16, 2014 in Jacksonville, Florida. He died from complications of myelodysplastic syndrome. He was aged 82.
Roger Lloyd-Pack
Roger Lloyd-Pack (8 February 1944 – 15 January 2014) was an English actor. He was best known for his roles as Trigger in the television shows "Only Fools and Horses", "The Vicar of Dibley" and "The Old Guys", and his role in the movie "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire".
Lloyd-Pack died from pancreatic cancer on 15 January 2014. He died at his home in Kentish Town. He was aged 69.
William Baumol
William Jack Baumol (February 26, 1922 – May 4, 2017) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at New York University. He was also a retired professor at Princeton University. Baumol has written many books about labor market and other issues that affect the economy.
Baumol died on May 4, 2017 in New York City at the age of 95.
Tor Åge Bringsværd
Tor Åge Bringsværd (born 16 November 1939 in Skien) is an Norwegian author, playwright, editor and translator. He is perhaps best known for his speculative fiction. Together with Jon Bing, he is also considered the first Norwegian author to write science fiction books. He and Bing have been partners for a long time.
Nils Christie
Nils Christie (February 24, 1928 – May 27, 2015) was a Norwegian sociologist and criminologist. He was a professor of criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo since 1966. Among his books is "Pinens begrensning" from 1981. This has been translated into eleven languages.
Fredrik Barth
Thomas Fredrik Weybye Barth (22 December 1928 – 24 January 2016) was a Norwegian social anthropologist. He published several ethnographic books with a clear formalistic view. He was born in Leipzig.
He was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University. He had previously been a professor at the University of Oslo, the University of Bergen, Emory University and Harvard University. He started the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen.
Barth died in Oslo, Norway on 24 January 2016 at the age of 87.
Clifford Geertz