Maher was born in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland on December 29, 1933. Maher was openly gay. He was a naturalized US citizen. Maher died on July 17, 1998 in Los Angeles, California from a brain tumor. He was 64 years old when he died.
Toby Jones
Toby Edward Heslewood Jones (born 7 September 1966) is an English actor. Jones is known for his roles as Arnim Zola in "", Dobby in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", as Claudius Templesmith in "The Hunger Games", Irving Paul Lazar in "Frost/Nixon", and as Percy Alleline in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". He stared as Gunnar in "". He stared as Owl in the 2018 Disney movie "Christopher Robin".
Jones was born in Hammersmith, London, England on 7 September 1966 to Freddie Jones and Jennifer Heselwood.
Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Feinstein, born "Dianne Emiel Goldman", (born June 22, 1933) is the senior United States Senator from California. She is a member of the U.S. Democratic Party and has been in Senate since November 4, 1992. She was also the 38th Mayor in San Francisco from 1978 to 1988.
She is the first woman to have presided over a U.S. presidential inauguration.
She was born in San Francisco, California. Feinstein is of Polish-German-Russian-Jewish descent.
John Lithgow
John Arthur Lithgow (born October 19, 1945) is an American movie, stage, voice, television actor, poet, author, and musician. He began acting in 1972. He was in the movies "The World According to Garp", "Footloose", "Terms of Endearment", "Shrek", "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", and in "The Campaign". Lithgow was nominated for an Academy Award for each movie.
He played Arthur Mitchell on Showtime's "Dexter" and won Golden Globe and Emmy Awards for his acting. He played the protagonist Dick Solomon in sitcom "3rd Rock from the Sun".
Lithgow was born on October 19, 1945 in Rochester, New York and studied at Harvard University. Lithgow was married to Jean Tayton from 1966 until they divorced in 1980. Lithgow has been married to Mary Yeager since 1981. Lithgow has three children, Ian, Phoebe, and Nathan Lithgow.
Paul Gleason
Paul Xavier Gleason (May 4, 1939 – May 27, 2006) was an American movie, television, voice, and stage actor who is known for his role as Dwayne T. Robinson in the 1988 action movie "Die Hard".
Gleason was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on May 4, 1939 and raised in Uleta, Florida. Gleason was married to Candy Moore from 1971 until they divorced in 1978. Later, he was married to Susan Kehl from 1995 until his death in 2006. Gleason died on May 27, 2006 from lung cancer in a hospital in Burbank, California. He was 67 years old.
Reginald VelJohnson
Reginald VelJohnson, Jr. (born August 16, 1952) is an American writer and actor who is known for his role as Sgt. Al Powell in "Die Hard" and "Die Hard 2". VelJohnson was born in Queens, New York on August 16, 1952 and studied at New York University.
David S. Goyer
David Samuel Goyer (born December 22, 1965) is an American screenwriter, movie director, and a book and comics writer. Goyer is known for his work on "Batman Begins", "The Dark Knight", and "The Dark Knight Rises". He also worked on the movie "Man of Steel". Goyer was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Jet (lignite)
Jet is a geological material considered to be a minor gemstone. It is originally a wood product called lignite, squeezed and heated by geological processes. The older definition of mineral did not apply to organic material. Therefore, jet was not called a mineral, but instead a "mineraloid". However, this view is changing, as so many crystalline materials have organic origin.
The English noun "jet" comes from the French word for the same material: "jaiet". Jet is either black or dark brown, but may contain pyrite inclusions, which are of brassy colour and metallic lustre. The adjective "jet-black", meaning as dark a black as possible, comes from this material.
Sylvia Sidney
Sophia Kosow (August 8, 1910 – July 1, 1999) was an American movie, television, voice, and stage actress who is known for her role in the crime-drama movies. She is also known for playing Florence Norris in "Mars Attacks!" and as Juno in "Beetlejuice". Sidney won a Golden Globe Award and a Saturn Award.
Sidney was born in The Bronx, New York on August 8, 1910 to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. Sidney was married to writer Bennett Cerf from 1935 until they divorced in 1936. She married actor-director Luther Adler in 1938. The couple had a son named Jacob (1939–1987), and divorced in 1946. She was married to Carlton Alsop from 1947 until they divorced in 1951.
Sidney died on July 1, 1999 in New York City from throat cancer. She was 88 years old.
Glenn Shadix
William Glenn Shadix (April 15, 1952 – Septmber 7, 2010) was an American movie, television, and voice actor who is known for his role as Otho in "Beetlejuice" and as the Mayor of Halloween Town in "The Nightmare Before Christmas". Shadix was born on April 15, 1952 in Bessemer, Alabama and studied at Birmingham-Southern College. Shadix was openly gay. Shadix died on September 7, 2010 from a blunt trauma in his Birmingham, Alabama home after he accidentally fell. He was 58 years old.
Leslie Cochran
Albert Leslie Cochran (June 24, 1951 – March 8, 2012) was an American activist and homeless man. Cochran is known for his activism on the city of Austin, Texas. He might have created the motto "Keep Austin Weird".
Cochran was born in Miami, Florida on June 24, 1951. He was married from 1985 through 1986.
On October 1, 2009, police officers found him unconscious outdoors. He was taken to the University Medical Center Brackenridge in critical condition. He claimed he was attacked by a group of people after commenting about the dangers of drug abuse.
Cochran died on the morning of March 8, 2012 from a head trauma in Austin, Texas, aged 60.
Great Oxygenation Event
The Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) was the introduction of free oxygen into our atmosphere. It was caused by cyanobacteria doing photosynthesis. It took a very long time, from about three billion years ago to about one billion years ago.
Photosynthesis was producing oxygen both before and after the GOE. The difference was that before the GOE, organic matter and dissolved iron chemically captured any free oxygen. Earth has much iron, and iron has higher solubility than its oxides, so the oceans had much dissolved iron. It became iron oxide and made huge deposits as banded iron rock from the Archaean and Proterozoic eras. When not enough iron remained to capture more oxygen, free oxygen accumulated in the atmosphere. This was the GOE.
Oxygen was toxic to most of the Earth's anaerobic inhabitants at the time. As cyanobacteria produced oxygen, and built their stromatolites, they changed the environment for other protists. Since the other protists had no way to deal with oxygen, most would have become extinct. Another consequence was the effect of free oxygen on atmospheric methane, a greenhouse gas. The reaction removed the methane and caused the Huronian glaciation, possibly the longest snowball Earth episode ever. Free oxygen has been an important part of the atmosphere ever since.
The evidence is that free oxygen was first produced by photosynthetic organisms (prokaryotic, later eukaryotic) which emitted oxygen as a waste product. These organisms lived long before the GOE, perhaps 3500 million years ago (mya). The oxygen they produced would have quickly been removed from the atmosphere by the 'mass rusting' which led to the deposition of banded-iron formations. Oxygen only began to persist in the atmosphere in small quantities shortly (~50 million years) before the start of the GOE. Without a draw-down, oxygen would accumulate very rapidly. At today's rates of photosynthesis (which are much greater than those in the land-plant-free Precambrian), modern atmospheric O levels could be produced in around 2,000 years.
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