• Plastic palm trees in the desert.
• Anti-Drowning System
• Fire detection
• Studies on tides
• Electric vehicles without batteries
• Safety in trains
• Hydro Taco
• Piracy protection
• Technological canvas for sports fields
• Tunnel for trains in desert areas
• Explosives power station
• Transmission of brain waves
• Floating water without salt
• Breast Cancer Screening Capsule
• Underwater highways
Hurricane Jose (2017)
Hurricane Jose was a 2017 Atlantic tropical cyclone. The storm threatened the Mid-Atlantic States of Maryland, Delaware, New York and New Jersey, and the New England states of Connecticut, Rhode Island and southeast Massachusetts.
Jose had earlier threatened the Leeward Islands, the same areas hit by Hurricane Irma.
Jose's winds went as high as 155 miles per hour before threatening the Leeward Islands.
Tropical cyclone notices were issued from the Maryland/Delaware border to eastern Massachusetts on September 17, 2017.
Sevendust
Sevendust is an American heavy metal band formed in 1994.
Marine reserve
A marine reserve is a type of marine protected area. The protection is for seas, oceans, estuaries or large lakes. Laws protect the plants and animals in a reserve. The area is kept safe for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research.
In a marine reserve people are not allowed to take plants or animals, except for research. This includes fishing. People are still allowed to swim or scuba dive.
The Ningaloo Reef in Australia is an example of a marine reserve. This reef includes six of the seven types of sea turtles in the world. Another example is Hol Chan Marine Reserve in Belize. Hol Chan includes coral reefs and a mangrove forest.
Stanislav Petrov
Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (; 9 September 1939 – 19 May 2017) was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces.
On September 26, 1983, just three weeks after the Soviet military had shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, Petrov was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system when the system reported that a missile had been launched from the United States, followed by up to five more. Petrov judged the reports to be a false alarm, and his decision is credited with having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies that could have resulted in large-scale nuclear war.
Investigation later confirmed that the Soviet satellite warning system had indeed malfunctioned.
Central Link
Central Link is a train line in Seattle, Washington. It runs 20 miles from the city's airport to Downtown Seattle and the University of Washington. The train started running in 2009.
Mike Hicks
Mike Hicks (August 1937 – 7 September 2017) was a British former politician, former executive member of printers’ union SOGAT, and former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Britain from 1988 through 1998. He was also a members of the Labour Party. He was born in Wapping, London, England.
Hicks died on 7 September 2017 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England of a heart attack at the age of 80.
José Florencio Guzmán
José Florencio Guzmán Correa (22 June 1929 – 16 September 2017) was a Chilean politician. He was born in Santiago de Chile. He was Minister of Defense from 1 August 1998 until 22 June 1999.
Guzmán died on 16 September 2017 in Santiago at the age of 88.
The Secret Life of Pets
The Secret Life of Pets is a 2016 American movie distributed by Universal Studios and Illumination Entertainment. The movie is all about pets. Louis C.K. plays Max. Eric Stonestreet plays Duke. Kevin Hart plays Snowball. Jenny Slate plays Gidget. Ellie Kemper plays Katie.
Nicolaas Jouwe
Nicolaas Jouwe (24 November 1923 – 16 September 2017) was a Papuan leader. He was elected Vice President of the New Guinea Council that governed the Dutch colony of Netherlands New Guinea.
As the president of the New Guinea Council, Jouwe was the highest ranking Papuan politician in the colony. After the colony was ceded to the United Nations Temporary Executive Authority in October 1962 and later to Indonesia six months later, Jouwe left New Guinea for the Netherlands, where he settled in the town of Delft. He vowed never to return to his native land if it were still occupied by Indonesia, but nevertheless resettled to West Papua in 2010 to die there.
Jouwe died in West Papua on 16 September 2017 at age 93.
Mary Fairfax
Mary Fairfax (formerly Symonds, born Marie Wein; 15 August 1922 – 17 September 2017) was a Polish-born Australian philanthropist.
As the third wife of Sir Warwick Fairfax she became known as Lady Fairfax upon his knighthood in 1967. She inherited most of his vast fortune upon his death in 1987, becoming one of Australia's richest women.
Fairfax's personal wealth in 2012 was estimated by the "BRW" at A$418 million.
Lucy Ozarin
Lucy Ozarin (8 August 1914 – 17 September 2017) was an American psychiatrist. She was born in Brooklyn, New York. She served in the United States Navy. She was one of the first women psychiatrists commissioned in the Navy, and she was one of seven women Navy psychiatrists who served during World War II.
During her late nineties, Ozarin wrote over fifty brief biographies of psychiatrists on Wikipedia.
Ozarin died in Bethesda, Maryland on 17 September 2017 of respiratory failure at the age of 103.
René Drucker Colín
René Raúl Drucker Colín (15 May 1937 – 17 September 2017) was a Mexican scientist, investigator and journalist. He was born in Mexico City, Mexico. He worked in the fields of physiology and neuroscience. From 1985 through 1990, he was the Director of Neuroscience at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He served as President of the Mexican Academy of Sciences from 2000 through 2002.
Drucker Colín died on 17 September 2017 in Mexico City at the age of 80.
Jean Plaskie
Jean Plaskie (24 August 1941 – 18 September 2017) was a Belgian former football player. He was born in Brussels, Belgium.
He played for R.S.C. Anderlecht and the Belgium. He played in the match Belgium-Netherlands in 1964 with 10 fellows from the Anderlecht team after the substitution of goalkeeper Delhasse by Jean Trappeniers.
Plaskie died on 18 September 2017 in Brussels at the age of 76.
William F. Goodling
William Franklin "Bill" Goodling (December 5, 1927 – September 17, 2017) was an American Republican politician. He was born in Loganville, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 19th congressional district from 1975 through 2001.
At the time of his death, he was the Chairman of the Board of the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy.
Goodling died from complications of a cerebral aneurysm on September 17, 2017 in York, Pennsylvania at the age of 89.
Richard V. Allen
Richard Vincent Allen (born January 1, 1936) was the United States National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1982, having been Reagan's chief foreign policy advisor from 1977. He has been a fellow of the Hoover Institution since 1983. He was a member of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee.
John Poindexter
John Marlan Poindexter (born August 12, 1936) is a retired United States naval officer and Department of Defense official. He was Deputy National Security Advisor and National Security Advisor for the Reagan administration. He was convicted in April 1990 of multiple felonies as a result of his actions in the Iran–Contra affair, but his convictions were reversed on appeal in 1991.
Robert McFarlane
Robert Carl "Bud" McFarlane (born July 12, 1937) is an American Marine Corps officer. He served as National Security Advisor to President of the United States Ronald Reagan from 1983 through 1985.
McFarlane was involved in, and pleaded guilty to charges for actions related to, the Iran-Contra affair, but received a pardon from President George H. W. Bush.
Saliva (band)