On November 22, 2016, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama for her work leading the development of on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Moon missions.
Daniel Chavarria
Daniel Chavarria (23 November 1933 – 6 April 2018) was a Uruguayan revolutionary and writer.
Chavarria’s books are strongly critical of the violence in Fascism. Chavarria’s life and writings clearly show his communist and revolutionary background. He is a well known supporter of the Cuban Revolution.
In 2010, Chavarria won the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national prize for literature and more important award of its type in Cuba.
Chavarria died on 6 April 2018 in Havana of kidney failure at the age of 84.
A Quiet Place (movie)
A Quiet Place is a 2018 American horror thriller science fiction movie directed by John Krasinski, who also stars alongside Emily Blunt. The screenplay was written by Krasinski, Bryan Woods, and Scott Beck. It was produced by Michael Bay. It is based on a story by Woods and Beck. It is about a family of four in a small New York state town who must live life in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
"A Quiet Place" premiered at South by Southwest on March 9, 2018 and was released in the United States on April 6, 2018, by Paramount Pictures. It received very well reviews from critics, who called it a "smart, wickedly frightening good time."
Beagle 2
The Beagle 2 was a British Mars lander that was carried to Mars by the European Space Agency's 2003 "Mars Express" mission. It was an astrobiology mission that was designed to look for past life on the shallow surface of Mars.
The Beagle 2 was conceived by a group of British academics. It was led by Professor Colin Pillinger of the Open University.
The spacecraft successfully arrived in orbit round Mars on 19 December 2003. It was going to land on the surface of Mars on 25 December. There was no contact at the expected time of landing. ESA declared that the mission was lost in February 2004, after several attempts to contact the spacecraft were unsuccessful.
"Beagle 2" fate remained a mystery until January 2015. Then it was found on the surface of Mars by a series of images from NASA's "Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter" HiRISE camera. The images suggest that two of the spacecraft's four solar panels failed to deploy, blocking the spacecraft's communications antenna.
The "Beagle 2" was named after , the ship used by Charles Darwin.
Freestyle Script
Freestyle Script is a cursive font designed by Martin Wait in 1981. Bold version of Freestyle Script was designed in 1986. Publishers of Freestyle Script are Adobe, ITC and Letraset. It has the few versions: Regular, Bold, SH Reg Alt, and SB Reg Alt.
Gill Sans
Gill Sans is a sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill. It was offered by the British branch of Monotype from 1928 onwards.
Gill Sans is based on Edward Johnston's 1916 "Underground Alphabet", the corporate font of London Underground. As a young artist Gill had assisted Johnston in its early development stages.
In the 1920s, Gill had become a prominent stonemason, artist and creator of lettering. He had begun to working on typeface designs. Gill was commissioned to develop his alphabet into a full metal type family by his friend Stanley Morison. Morison was a Monotype executive and a historian of printing. Morison hoped the new font would compete against a wave of German sans-serif families such as Futura.
Gill Sans was released in 1928 by Monotype. Gill's aim was to blend the influences of Johnston, classic serif typefaces and Roman inscriptions suchas on Trajan's Column. This, he hoped, would create a design that looked both cleanly modern and classical at the same time.
Offa bank robbery attack
Offa bank Robbery attack was a robbery which led to the death of 33 people.
The robbery was carried out in four commercial banks on April 4, 2018 at Offa local government area of Kwara State, Nigeria. According to the Commissioner of Police, Kwara State Command, 9 police officers were killed in the attack and the robbery lasted for one hour. The armed robbers used dynamite in the attack.
The leader of the robbery gang is Ayoade Akinnibosun. He is the chairman of Liberation Youth Movement, Kwara State. He studied Guidance and Counselling at Ekiti State University. According to Vanguard Newspaper, he confessed that he works for Bukola Saraki, the president of the Senate of Nigeria and Ahmed Abdulfatai, the governor of Kwara State.
Kwara State
Kwara State is one of the 36 states of Nigeria. It's located in north-central part of Nigeria and the state capital is Ilorin.
Ilorin
Ilorin is the capital of Kwara State, Nigeria.
Black Mirror
Black Mirror is a British science fiction television series. It was created by Charlie Brooker, who also writes the episodes. The series mostly explores dystopian futures that could happen because of new technology, with a dark and satirical tone. The show is an anthology series, which means it has new stories and characters every episode.
Robert J. LaFortune
Robert James LaFortune (born January 24, 1927) is an American Republican politician and engineer. LaFortune was mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma from 1970 to 1978. He also helped initiate the start of the Indian Nations Council of Governments (INCOG).
LaFortune left private business to serve three terms as Tulsa's commissioner of streets and public property from 1964 to 1970.
Ángel Peralta Pineda
Ángel Peralta Pineda, known as Centauro de las Marismas (18 March 1926 – 7 April 2018), was a Spanish rejoneador and actor.
In 1954 he filmed alongside the rejoneador Bernardino Landete in scenes from the movie "La Princesa de Éboli" ("That Lady") by Terence Young and "Cabriola" in 1960, by Mel Ferrer.
He continued acting in the 1980s, fighting a few more years of seventy corridas.
He was awarded with the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts in 2013 by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.
Peralta died of a respiratory failure on his farm in La Puebla del Río in Seville, Spain at the age of 92.
Rajgarh district
Rajgarh District is a district in Madhya Pradesh of India. It is 140kms away from Bhopal. It is an undeveloped district.
Rate (mathematics)
Rate is a ratio between two related quantities in mathematics. The most common type of rate is "per unit time". Speed, flux and heart rates are some examples of this type of rate.
Bohemian Forest
The Bohemian Forest is a mountain range in Central Europe. It extends from the Czech Republic to Austria and Germany.
Michael Goolaerts
Michael Goolaerts (24 July 1994 – 8 April 2018) was a Belgian cyclist. He rode for Vérandas Willems–Crelan. He was born in Lier.
Goolaerts signed his first professional contract with Lotto–Soudal as a stagiaire, starting on 1 August 2016, before signing with UCI Professional Continental team Vérandas Willems–Crelan for the 2017 season. He made his debut in the Étoile de Bessèges,
During the 2018 Paris–Roubaix, Goolaerts suffered cardiac arrest and was flown to a hospital in Lille, where he died hours later at the age of 23.
Juraj Herz
Juraj Herz (4 September 1934 – 8 April 2018) was a Slovak movie director, actor, and screenwriter. He has directed for both movies and television.
He was known for his 1971 movie "Petrolejové lampy" and for his 1976 movie "Den pro mou lásku".
Herz died on 8 April 2018 of respiratory failure in Prague at the age of 83.
Chuck McCann
Charles John Thomas McCann (September 2, 1934 – April 8, 2018) was an American actor and television personality. He was known for his roles in "Far Out Space Nuts", "DuckTales", and "".
McCann died in Los Angeles, California of congestive heart failure on April 8, 2018 at the age of 83.
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