Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American experimental psychologist. He has written six popular psychology books. He is a Harvard College professor.
Pinker was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1954, to a middle-class English-speaking Jewish family.
When he was 13 he became an atheist. Pinker was given the American Humanist Association's Humanist of the Year award on May 13, 2006.
General Butt Naked
Joshua Milton Blahyi (born September 30, 1971), better known as General Butt Naked, is an Evangelical Christian preacher.
Blahyi is a member of the Sarpo tribe in Liberia. Blahyi has said that when he was 11 years old he became a tribal priest.
In 2011 a documentary film called "The Redemption of General Butt Naked" was released. Matt Stone and Trey Parker based the character "Butt Fucking Naked" in their musical The Book of Mormon on General Butt Naked.
John Shirley-Quirk
John Shirley-Quirk (28 August 1931 – 7 April 2014) was an English bass-baritone. He was a member of the English Opera Group from 1964 to 1976. He was known for performing and recording the operatic and vocal works of Benjamin Britten. He was born in Liverpool, Lancashire (now Merseyside).
Shirley-Quirk died on 7 April 2014 in Bath, Somerset. He was 82 years old.
Josep Maria Subirachs
Josep Maria Subirachs i Sitjar (; 11 March 1927 – 7 April 2014) was a Spanish sculptor and painter of the late 20th century. His best known work is probably the Passion Façade of the basilica of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona.
Subirachs was born in Barcelona. He died there from Parkinson's disease on 7 April 2014. He was 87 years old.
Duchy of Savoy
The Duchy of Savoy was a monarchy in northern Italy and southwest France. It was ruled by the Savoy family. They took their name from the territory. From 1416 to 1562, the capital of the state was Chambéry. From 1562 to 1713 after which the capital was Turin. The heir to the throne was usually given the title of Prince of Piedmont.
The main residence of the family was the Royal Palace of Turin.
It was originally a county but raised to a Duchy in 1416. It greatly increased in size due to the Kingdom of Sardinia being added to the Savoy family possessions. Parts of the Duchy of Milan had also been added before. The small duchy was a neighbour to the Duchy of Parma as well as the larger wealthier Grand Duchy of Tuscany both of which would later form close relationships with eachother often through marriages between princes and princesses.
In 1860, under the terms of the Treaty of Turin, the Duchy of Savoy was annexed by France. The last Duke of Savoy, Victor Emmanuel II, became King of Italy and the country was united into modern Italy.
Emmanuel III Delly
Mar Emmanuel III Delly (26 October 1927 – 8 April 2014) was an Iraqi Catholic leader. He was the Patriarch Emeritus of Babylon of the Chaldeans and former Primate of the Chaldean Catholic Church. His name in Arabic is . In Syriac it is . He was born in Tel Keppe.
Delly died on 8 April 2014 at a hospital in San Diego, California in the United States. He was 86 years old.
Edvard Grimstad
Edvard Grimstad (29 March 1933 – 3 April 2014) was a Norwegian politician. He was a member of the Centre Party. He served as an MP from 1989 until 1997. He was born in Råde, Østfold.
Grimstad died from natural causes on 3 April 2014 in Oslo. He was 91 years old.
Gyula Szabó
Gyula Szabó (15 July 1930 – 4 April 2014) was a Hungarian actor. He won two Mari Jászai Prizes. He appeared in forty movies between 1953 and 2002. He is best known for appearing in movies such as "Ifjú szívvel" (1953), "Kiskrajcár" (1953), "Hintónjáró szerelem" (1955), "Egy pikoló világos" (1955), "Kölyök" (1959), "Két emelet boldogság" (1960), "A tizedes meg a többiek" (1965), "Hahó, Öcsi!" (1971), "Defekt" (1977), and "A Hídember" (2002). He was born in Kunszentmárton, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County.
Szabó died on 4 April 2014 at the age of 83.
Saigō Takamori
Republic of Ezo
Republic of Ezo, was a short-lived state in 1869 in the area that is now Hokkaido, Japan. It was established by former Tokugawa shogunate retainers. It was against the new imperial government. It was later defeated by Imperial forces.
Oddworld Inhabitants
Oddworld Inhabitants is a video game and film company founded in 1994 by Lorne Lanning and Sherry McKenna. The company is known for creating the Oddworld Quintology series released from 1997 to 2005. The series includes: , Oddworld Abe's Exoddus, and as well as two Gameboy and one Gameboy Advance games that were short versions of Abe's Oddysee, Abe's Exoddus, and Munch's Oddysee. They were titled: Oddworld Adventures, Oddworld Adventures II, and Munch's Oddysee.
In 2005, Oddworld Inhabitants temporarily redirected their focus into the film industry, and eventually released a science fiction thriller called Citizen Siege.
They then released games under Just Add Water (Developments) UK LTD where they only sell digital products as of 2008 when the original PC games went up on Steam. They also made available the original PS1 games on the Playstation Network store in 2010 for the PS3 and PSP. The classics were made available for PS Vita in August 2012.
They started work by porting the original Xbox version of Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath to PC. They then made an HD version and had several improvements made to it and it was released in 2011 for the PC and PS3. In 2012 Oddworld announced that Abe's Oddysee was getting a complete remake game from the ground up and its title which was chosen by fans is called Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty. They also released Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee HD for PS3 in December 2012.
In 2013, it was announced that New 'n' Tasty will be coming in Spring 2014 and at the Game Developers Conference in California.
The developers originally stated that the "Oddworld" series would consist of five games referred to as the Quintology. Only two of those five games have been produced, while two additional games from the same universe were developed as expansion titles outside of the Quintology. Production on the Quintology's final three games was halted when the company decided to redirect its efforts toward film production. Those plans, too, were shelved.
In 2009, a partnership was created with developers Just Add Water to continue developing the abandoned video games with Oddworld Inhabitants Inc. becoming the publisher of the titles. To raise the money to fund the rest of the Quintology, Just Add Water began by porting the studio's first two titles to new consoles and producing high definition remasters of "Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee" and "Stranger's Wrath".
A high definition rebuild of "Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee" subtitled "New 'n' Tasty!" was next. Stewart Gilray has confirmed that all five Quintology games are titled Oddworld: X's Oddysee where X is the name of the protagonist.
Rapetosaurus
Rapetosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur. It lived in what is now Madagascar from 70 to 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period. Only one species, "Rapetosaurus krausei", has been found. Like other sauropods, "Rapetosaurus" was a quadrupedal herbivore.
The discovery of "Rapetosaurus" was the first time a titanosaur had been recovered with an almost perfectly intact skeleton, complete with skull. It has helped to clarify some difficult issues in this large group of sauropod dinosaurs. It provides a baseline for the reconstruction of other titanosaurs that are known only from partial remains.
By the early part of the Upper Cretaceous all sauropods, except the titanosaurs, were extinct. The titanosaurs were the dominant herbivores of the Upper Cretaceous on the southern continents which made up Gondwana. Their reign was cut short by the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.