Charles Jordan Urstadt (October 27, 1928 – March 3, 2020) was an American real estate executive and investor. He was New York State housing commissioner and the first chairman of the Battery Park City Authority. He was a key figure in the construction of Battery Park City. He was also the reason why rent control was removed from New York City. Urstadt was born in Manhattan.
Urstadt died on March 3, 2020 at his home in Bronxville, New York of stroke-related problems, aged 91.
Bronxville, New York
Bronxville is a village in Westchester County, New York, located about north of midtown Manhattan. It is part of the town of Eastchester. As of the 2010 U.S. census, Bronxville had a population of 6,323.
Eastchester (town), New York
Eastchester is a town in southern Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 32,363 at the 2010 census, and 32,964 as of 2018's census estimates.
Marc Van Montagu
Marc Baron Van Montagu (born 10 November 1933) is a Belgian molecular biologist. He was full professor and director of the Laboratory of Genetics at the faculty of Sciences at Ghent University (Belgium) and scientific director of the Genetics Department of the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB).
He founded the biotech company Plant Genetic Systems Inc. (Belgium) in 1982, of which he was Scientific Director and member of the board of Directors. Van Montagu was also involved in founding the biotech company CropDesign, of which he was a Board member from 1998 to 2004.
He is president of the Public Research and Regulation Initiative (PRRI).
Mary-Dell Chilton
Mary-Dell Chilton (born February 2, 1939) is an American biologist, businesswoman, and inventor. She is one of the founders of modern plant biotechnology. Chilton was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. She taught and performed research at Washington University.
Chilton is author of more than 100 scientific publications. She is a Distinguished Science Fellow at Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. She began her corporate career in 1983 with CIBA-Geigy Corporation (a legacy company of Syngenta).
In June 2013, she was named a winner of the 2013 World Food Prize. In 2015, Chilton was elected to the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Marzia Kjellberg
Marzia Kjellberg ( Bisognin; born 21 October 1992) is an Italian Internet personality, fashion designer, and businesswoman. She is known for her videos on her now-inactive YouTube channel.
In 2019, she married YouTuber Felix Kjellberg.
Merion Station, Pennsylvania
Merion Station (also known as Merion) is an unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, United States, bordering Philadelphia to the city's west. It is one of the communities that make up the Philadelphia Main Line, and is part of the city of Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County.
Merion Station is known for its grand mansions and for the wealth of its residents.
Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania
Lower Merion Township is a township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and part of the Philadelphia Main Line. As of the 2016 U.S. Census, the township had a total population of 58,288. Lower Merion has the 5th highest per-capita income and the 12th highest median household income in the country with a population of 50,000 or more.
Max Keith
Max Keith was a German businessman who invented Fanta during World War II in Germany.
When he was 30 years old, he worked at a German subsidiary of Coca-Cola in 1933. Sales of Coca-Cola in Germany rose from 100,000 cases in 1933 to over 4 million cases in 1939. Because of the Allied blockade, Coca-Cola GmbH was unable to get Coca-Cola syrup during World War II. The supply of regular Coca-Cola ran out in 1942. To keep the plant in operation, Keith developed a fruit flavored drink made from apple fiber, left over from cider pressings, and whey, a byproduct from cheese manufacture, creating Fanta.
Fanta sold three million cases in 1943, sustaining the firm's business in Germany. In 1945, at the last stages of the war, Keith was ordered by a German general to rename the subsidiary, but he refused. The general was killed in an air raid before any action was taken against Keith.
Johnny Yune
Johnny Yune (October 22, 1936 – March 8, 2020) was a Korean-American actor, singer, and comedian. He played the lead in the 1980s movies "They Call Me Bruce?" and "They Still Call Me Bruce".
Yune became well known in the United States for his comedy performance on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson". Yune stated that because actor Charlton Heston did not arrive on time, he was given over twenty minutes on the show to make a good impression. Carson liked Yune and had him on the show over 30 times.
Yune performed at the 1988 Summer Olympics at Seoul, along with Bob Hope and Brooke Shields. From 1989 to 1990, he hosted "The Johnny Yune Show" ("자니윤쇼"), the first Americanized talk show in Korea.
Yune died in California from a cerebral hemorrhage on March 8, 2020 at the age of 84.
Intracerebral hemorrhage
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as cerebral bleed, is a type of intracranial bleed that happens within the brain tissue or ventricles.
Symptoms can include headache, one-sided weakness, vomiting, seizures, decreased level of consciousness, and neck stiffness. Often symptoms get worse over time. Fever is also common. In many cases bleeding is present in both the brain tissue and the ventricles.
Causes include brain trauma, aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, and brain tumors.
Mediodactylus aspratilis
Mediodactylus aspratilis is a lizard species. It is in the family of Gekkonidae. It is also known as Iranian gecko or Iranian keel-scaled gecko, It is endemic to southwestern Iran.
Michael Cullen (politician)
Sir Michael John Cullen (born 5 February 1945) is a British-born New Zealand Labour politician and historian. He held key job positions during the Helen Clark cabinet such as Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2002 to 2008.
Cullen was born in London. His family emigrated to New Zealand in 1955 where he was raised in Christchurch. He studied at the University of Canterbury and University of Edinburgh.
From 1971 to 1981 he was a lecturer at the University of Otago, with a term as a visiting fellow at the Australian National University from 1975 to 1976.
In 1981, he was elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
He was Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2002 to 2008 during the Helen Clark cabinet. He was also Minister of Finance from 1999 to 2008 and Attorney-General in 2005 and again from 2006 to 2008.
He was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1996 until November 2008, when he resigned following a defeat in the general election.
He resigned from Parliament in April 2009, to become the deputy chairman of New Zealand Post from 1 November 2009 and chairman from 1 November 2010. He left the position in 2016.
Cullen identifies as a social democrat.
In 1967, he married Rowena Joy Knight. They divorced in 1989. That same year, he married then-MP Anne Fraser.
Cullen became a naturalized New Zealand citizen in 1975. In 2012, Cullen was appointed Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
In March 2020, Cullen was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer which had spread to his liver.
Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand
The Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand () is the second-most senior minister in the Government of New Zealand, although this seniority does not necessarily translate into power. The office was created as a ministerial portfolio in 1954. The officeholder usually deputises for the prime minister at official functions.
The current Deputy Prime Minister is Grant Robertson since 2020
As of , there are nine living former New Zealand Deputy Prime Ministers, as seen below. The most recent Deputy Prime Minister to die was Jim Anderton (served 1999–2002), on 7 January 2018, aged 79.
Paula Bennett