Francis E. Stanley and Freelan O. Stanley had invented a steam car. In 1899 they purchased a bicycle factory in Watertown, Massachusetts and began building their cars. John B. Walker, the owner of Cosmopolitan magazine, offered to buy half the company. The Stanley brothers said no. When Walker came back a few weeks later he offered to buy the whole car company. The brothers thought about it and set the price at $250,000 USD. The set the price high enough they thought nobody would pay it. But Walker did and the two Stanley brothers stayed on to run the factory. Walker's partner was Amzi L. Barber. They called the new company Locomobile.
Within a few months Walker and Barber had a disagreement and split the company. Walker took his half and formed a new company in Tarrytown, New York. He called his car 'the Mobile'; a Stanley Steamer with his logo on it. With poor sales Walker closed his company in 1902. Barber kept the Locomobile name and sold 5,200 cars by 1902. The Locomobile steam cars were a little difficult to operate and sometimes had fires. They could only go about 20 miles before needing water. They needed to be warmed up for about 30 minutes before they could be driven. By 1904 only about 200 cars were sold. Locomobile sold the patents and the design for their steam car back to the Stanley brothers. By 1904 Locomobile had switched to making gasoline cars.
At about the same time Locomobile switched over to making gasoline powered cars, Barber left the business. His son-in-law, J.J. Albright, took over as company president. Inventor Andrew Riker became the lead designer and was responsible for the new gasoline engines.
The 1904 5-passenger touring car used an Inline-four engine that was water-cooled engine that produced about 16 horsepower. At the time it cost $4,500. In 1905 Locomobile entered cars in Auto racing. It was in 1908 they won the Vanderbilt Cup. A car that won a race gained an excellent reputation. They advertised the Locomobile as “Easily the Best Built Car in America.” They continued to improve their car. In 1922 Locomobile was acquired by the Durant Motor Company. But their cars continued to be made under the name Locomobile. They continued to build their reputation for making high performance luxury cars. In 1929 the company fell victim to the Great Depression and closed its doors.
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Kira Zvorykina
Kira Alekseyevna Zvorykina (September 29, 1919 – September 6, 2014) was a former Soviet-born Belarusian chess player who spent many years living in Belarus. Zvorykina was born in Nikolaev, Ukraine. She was a three-time winner of the Women's Soviet Championship.
Zvorykina died in Minsk, Belarus from natural causes, aged 94.
Jim Dobbin
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Dobbin died in 7 September 2014 while on a Council of Europe visit to Poland.
Wilfred De'ath
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On 11 November 2012, De'ath was arrested as part of Operation Yewtree in an alleged connection with the Jimmy Savile–BBC sex scandal;
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De'ath died on 19 February 2020 at the age of 82.
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Unlike animal cells, every plant cell is surrounded by a polysaccharide cell wall. Neighbouring plant cells are therefore separated by a pair of cell walls. Although cell walls are permeable to small soluble molecules, plasmodesmata allow direct, regulated, intercellular transport of substances between cells.
Similar structures connect animal cells. Stromules form between plastids in plant cells.
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Szcześniak attended Bryn Mawr College as a foreign student after the Second World War. She earned a degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 1969, Szcześniak was a Founding Editor of the "Journal of Texture Studies." She served for 10 years in that role.
In 2002, she received the plaque of Honorary President of the International Federation of Surveyors on behalf of her father, Wladysław Surmacki. Her father was to be President in 1942 but did not survive the war.
Szcześniak lived in the United States.
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The truck was first manufactured for 1987. It was last made for 2012.
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The song received positive reviews by most critics. "Don't Cha" got very high on records charts worldwide. It hit #2 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. It sold three million copies in the United States and six million worldwide.
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He started his career as a monitor at the Catholic University of Leuven. He also worked as a teacher at the Royal Athenaea in Antwerp, Brussels and Koekelberg. Finally he became a professor at the "Saint Ignatius Faculty" in Antwerp.
Bergh died at the age of 100 on 29 September 2020.
Wolfhart Pannenberg
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Pannenberg died in Berlin, Germany, aged 85.
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