Andreas Günter Lubitz (18 December 1987 – 24 March 2015) was a German pilot for the international airline Lufthansa. Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin, French and German authorities, as well as executives of Lufthansa, have issued statements that they believe that Lubitz intentionally crashed the Airbus A320 of Germanwings Flight 9525 (GWI18G & D-AIPX) into the French Alps, killing himself along with 149 others in a suicide on 24 March 2015.
Ivo Garrani
Ivo Garrani (6 February 1924 – 25 March 2015) was an Italian actor. Garrani is possibly best known for his role as Prince Vajda in Mario Bava's "Black Sunday" (1960).
Dick Bond (politician)
Richard M. (Dick) Bond (April 23, 1921 – March 25, 2015) was an American politician in the state of Washington. He served the 6th district from 1975 to 1987.
Ron Suart
Ronald "Ron" Suart (18 November 1920 – 25 March 2015) was an English football player and manager.
Suart was a full-back at Blackpool, playing alongside fellow defenders George Farrow and Harry Johnston in a team which also included Stanley Matthews and Stan Mortensen. Blackpool reached the 1948 FA Cup Final, but Suart missed it through injury. He transferred to Blackburn Rovers in 1949, before retiring in 1955.
Suart died in March 2015, aged 94.
Luís Miguel Rocha
Luís Miguel Rocha (February 1976 – 26 March 2015) was a Portuguese author, television writer and producer. Rocha wrote and produced television in London. Rocha's second novel, "The Last Pope", was published in 2006. The novel examines the conspiracy theories about the death of Pope John Paul I.
T. Sailo
Ṭhenphunga Sailo (January 1, 1922 – March 27, 2015) was the second Chief Minister of Mizoram, a state in northeast India. He served as a member of the Mizoram People's Conference, across two stints between 1978 to 1984. Prior to that he served as an officer in the British India Army and then the Indian Army, retiring as a brigadier.
Rod Hundley
Rodney Clark "Hot Rod" Hundley (October 26, 1934 – March 27, 2015) was an American professional basketball player and television broadcaster. He played for the Los Angeles Lakers from 1957 to 1963. He later became known as a broadcaster for the Utah Jazz. Hundley was born in Charleston, West Virginia.
Hundley died of Alzheimer's disease at his home in Phoenix, Arizona, aged 80.
O Death
O Death — also known as O, Death, Oh Death, and Conversations with Death — is a traditional American folk song.
Country blues banjo player Moran Lee "Dock" Boggs (1898-1971) recorded the song in the late 1920s. A recording from the 1938 National Folk Festival held in Washington, D.C. is on file with the Library of Congress. Various folk music artists included "Oh, Death" on a variety of musical collections throughout the 1970s and '80s.
Man of Constant Sorrow
"Man of Constant Sorrow" (also known as "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow") is a traditional American folk song first recorded by Dick Burnett, a partially blind fiddler from Kentucky. The song was originally recorded by Burnett as "Farewell Song" printed in a Richard Burnett songbook, about 1913.
An early version was recorded by Emry Arthur in 1928 (Vocalion Vo 5208). It became popular again when it was played in the 2000 movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou?".
Amaro Silva
Amaro Silva (c. 1957 – March 27, 2015) was a Canadian politician. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He served on the Winnipeg City Council from 1992 to 1998.
Silva died on March 27, 2015 following a "serious illness", aged 57.
Josef Sommer
Josef Sommer (born June 26, 1934) is a German-American stage and movie actor. He was born in Greifswald, Germany, and raised in North Carolina. He appeared as 38th President Gerald Ford opposite Gena Rowlands in the made-for-TV movie "The Betty Ford Story" (1987). He is known for his role as Dr. Eaton in the 1998 movie "Patch Adams".
George Washington University Hospital
The George Washington University Hospital is the hub of a major medical center in Washington, D.C. in the United States. It is affiliated with the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. The current building was opened on August 23, 2002. Since 1997, The George Washington University Hospital has been jointly owned and operated by a parnership between a subsidiary of Universal Health Services and The George Washington University.
In 1981 after being shot, Ronald Reagan was taken to the hospital.
Jack Higgins
Jack Higgins (born 27 July 1929) is a British writer. He is one of the best-selling authors of popular thrillers and espionage novels. His breakthrough novel "The Eagle Has Landed" (1975). He is also known for his books; "A Prayer for the Dying" (1987), "The Eagle Has Flown" (1991), "Thunder Point" (1993), "Angel of Death" (1995), "Flight of Eagles" (1998), and "Day of Reckoning" (2000).
Sleep deprivation
Sleep deprivation is the condition of not having enough sleep. The condition affects the brain and its cognitive function. The condition can be either chronic or acute. Paradoxically, sleep deprivation can be used to treat certain disorders, such as clinical depression. Sleep deprivation has also been used as a form of torture.
Generally, sleep deprivation may result in:
False memory
Both perception ("experiencing") and remembering are processes which involve the brain. For this reason, errors do sometimes occur. Errors in perception are commonly called illusions. Emil Kraepelin used the term "Erinnerungsverfälschung" (memory falsification) to speak about false memories.
Perceptions need stimuli to be created. A perception without a stimulus is called hallucination. Much like the difference between illusion and hallucination, Kraepelin wanted to distinguish between a false memory and memories of something that did not really happen, which he called "Erinnerkungsfälschung". Unfortunately, both German terms translate to the same English term.
A false memory is a condition where a person remembers something that did not occur or where the memory does not closely match the occurrence.
Using suggestion and hypnosis, it is possible to make people believe they experienced something, when they did not. Such phenomena also occur spontaneously, for example in a stressful situation, or when someone is not sleeping enough.
To prove the existence of false memories, an experiment was conducted: People were given small stories of supposed relatives who told how these people were lost in a shopping mall, at age five or six, and how they had to be "rescued" by an adult. The experiment was done with 24 people. Afterwards, six people said that they remembered the event, even though it had never happened.
False memories can sometimes be shared by multiple people. This is sometimes called the Mandela effect. Examples include memories of the Berenstain Bears' name being spelled "Berenstein", and of the existence of a 1990s movie entitled "Shazaam" starring comedian Sinbad as a genie.
The effect is named after South African anti-Apartheid leader Nelson Mandela after people believed he died in prison in the 1980s (he actually died in 2013, after having served as President of South Africa from 1994-99), which she claimed was shared by "perhaps thousands" of other people.
Sometimes, people are accused of a crime, and often part of the evidence consists of facts other people remember. It is a problem to convict someone of a crime, based only on such evidence. In the case of sexual abuse or of child abuse these memories will usually be bad ones, and the brain will have changed them, as a measure of protection. Before a conviction is done, the court needs to make sure that the conviction does not happen based on the recollection of only one person, as recovering the "facts" behind the memories can be difficult.
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