On April 19, 1900 (Primrose Day) she married Norman Leslie, who had been the Earl of Rothes for nearly 7 years making her the day they were married the countess of Rothes. She moved to Leslie in 1904 and lived with Norman for the rest of his life there.
On April 14, 1912 aboard the RMS Titanic Leslie survived the sinking and disaster which continued to April 15, she didn't die until 1956 (44 years after the disaster)
After the death of Norman in 1927 she married Claud Macfie, who died after Nöel and was her last husband. She also lost the title of countess when she married him and when Norman died.
Leslie died on September 12, 1956 in the same country she was born in, England. She was buried in Sussex, England and is now very famous among historians and others for her heroic tales during the titanic disaster and her rule as Countess of Rothes.
Beppo Mauhart
Josef "Beppo" Mauhart (14 September 1933 – 7 May 2017) was an Austrian football executive and journalist. He was born in Enns, Austria. He was appointed to the supervisory board of "Austria Tabak" in 1972 and became deputy chairman there in 1976. In 1977, Austria Tabak became a sponsor of the FK Austria Wien football club. The club changed its name to "Austria Memphis" – a cigarette brand.
From 1988 to 1995, Mauhart was CEO of "Austria Tabak".
From 1984 to 2002, Mauhart was president of the Austrian Football Association. He had the longest tenure in the history of the association.
Mauhart died on 7 May 2017 in Munich, Germany from complications of a stroke at the age of 83.
Prime Minister of Finland
The Prime Minister (, translated as Head Minister, Swedish: "statsminister", literally translated as Minister of State) is the Head of Government of Finland. The Prime Minister is appointed by the President, who is the Head of State.
The current Prime Minister is Sanna Marin of the Social Democratic Party since 10 December 2019.
President of Finland
The President of the Republic of Finland (, ) is the nation's head of state. The president is elected directly by the people of Finland for a term of six years. Since 1991, no president may be elected for more than two consecutive terms. The president must be a native-born Finnish citizen. The office was created by the Constitution Act of 1919.
The current office-holder is Sauli Niinistö since 1 March 2012.
Officially the head of state is known as the President of the Republic of Finland (; ) or, more often, the President of the Republic (', ').
Cécile DeWitt-Morette
Cécile Andrée Paule DeWitt-Morette (21 December 1922 – 8 May 2017) was a French mathematician and physicist. She founded a summer school at Les Houches in the French Alps.
For her publications, she was awarded the American Society of the French Legion of Honour 2007 Medal for Distinguished Achievement. Attendees at the summer school included over twenty students who would go on to be Nobel Prize winners, including Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Georges Charpak, and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, who identify the school for helping in their success.
In 1951, she married American physicist Bryce DeWitt. He died in 2004. They had four children.
Bryce DeWitt
Bryce Seligman DeWitt (January 8, 1923 – September 23, 2004) was an American theoretical physicist. He studied gravity and field theories. He was awarded the Dirac Prize in 1987, the American Physical Society's Einstein Prize in 2005, and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DeWitt created the Wheeler–DeWitt equation for the wavefunction of the Universe with John Archibald Wheeler and advanced the formulation of the Hugh Everett's many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Tellervo Koivisto
Taimi Tellervo Koivisto, née "Kankaanranta" (born 2 January 1929) is a Finnish politician. She is the former First Lady of Finland from 1982 to 1994. Koivisto is the widow of the 9th President of Finland Mauno Koivisto and a former member of the Finnish parliament, representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland.
On her 1999 autobiography Koivisto talked openly of her depression and school bullying.
Clelio Darida
Clelio Darida (3 May 1927 – 11 May 2017) was an Italian politician. He was mayor of Rome and minister of the Italian Republic. In 1974 he formed a city council including only DC member, with indirect support by the councillors of the Italian Communist Party. In 1976 he resigned as mayor to participate in the 1976 general elections. He was elected in the Chamber of Deputies, being confirmed until 1992, when he was not elected.
Antonio Candido
Antonio Candido de Mello e Souza (July 24, 1918 – May 12, 2017) was a Brazilian writer, professor, sociologist and literary critic. As a critic of Brazilian literature, he was thought as having been one of the foremost scholars on the subject by Brazilian universities. He was the co-winner of the Prêmio Jabuti for essays in 1965 and was awarded the Prêmio Machado de Assis in 1993, the Camões Prize in 1998 and the Alfonso Reyes International Prize in 2005. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Candido was professor-emeritus at the University of São Paulo and São Paulo State University and doctor "honoris causa" by the University of Campinas.
Candido died on May 12, 2017 at the Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil from complications of a hiatus hernia, aged 98.
Yale Lary
Robert Yale Lary, Sr. (November 24, 1930 – May 12, 2017) was an American businessman, politician, and American football player.
He joined the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1979 and was also selected for the NFL 1950s All-Decade Team. He is also part of the Texas A&M Athletic Hall of Fame, the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, and the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame.
Lary played 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), all with the Detroit Lions, from 1952 to 1953 and from 1956 to 1964, missing the 1954 and 1955 seasons due to military service.
Even before retiring from the NFL, Lary served in the Texas House of Representatives, as a Democrat, from 1959 to 1963.
Lary died in the early morning hours of May 12, 2017 in Fort Worth, Texas at the age of 86.
Leslie House
Leslie House is a historical structure in the town of Leslie in Scotland. It was built between 1667-1674 for John Leslie, the 7th Earl of Rothes and the second of that name, he died in 1681 after having the house for 7 years, it was used by the Earl of Rothes' after his death until 1919 when Norman Leslie and Nöel Leslie sold it to Sir Robert Spencer Nairn. It was lived in by nobody from 1952 to the 2000s when it was made in to an old folks home. It burnt down in 2009 after being bought by the Fife council.
Sneakernet
Sneakernet in informatics is an informal and ironical word for tranport of electronical information over physical memory devices (such as USB flash drive) instead of computer networks.
The word is a word play, as a net(work) with reference to wearing of sneakers, which is a type of shoes.
Dürnten
Dürnten is a municipality of the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Egg, Switzerland
Egg is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Hinteregg, Egg, Esslingen, Rällikon, Inner-Vollikon, Usser-Vollikon, Niederesslingen, Rohr, Schaubigen, Eichholz, Neuhaus and Guldenen
Esslingen, Switzerland
Esslingen is a village in the municipality of Egg in the canton of Zürich. It is Pfannenstiel region, approx. southeast of Zürich. In the local dialect it is called "Esslinge".
The population is 1752 (). A mounment commemorating World War I is located a Forch, a village and hill which also a popular recreation area for the people of Zürich.
Eglisau
Eglisau is a small town in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
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Elgg
Elgg is a municipality of the district Winterthur in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.