Norman Lim Kwong (born Lim Kwong Yew; ; October 24, 1929 – September 3, 2016) was a Canadian football player, politician and businessman. He played in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for the Calgary Stampeders (1948–1950) and Edmonton Eskimos (1951–1960). He won the Grey Cup four times during his career (1948, 1954, 1955 and 1956). He served as the 16th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta from January 2005 to May 2010. He was also part owner of the Calgary Flames for a time.
Kwong was born in Calgary, Alberta. He was the son of Chinese immigrants from Taishan, Guangdong. He was the first Canadian professional gridiron football player of Chinese heritage. Kwong died in Calgary on September 3, 2016, at the age of 86.
John W. Drummond
John Willie Drummond (September 29, 1919 – September 3, 2016) was an American politician. He was a Democrat. He served as a member of the South Carolina Senate from 1966 to 2008. He represented the state 10th district during his time in office. He was also a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1965 to 1966. He was born in Greenwood, South Carolina.
Drummond died in Ninety Six, South Carolina, on September 3, 2016. He was 96.
Greenwood, South Carolina
Greenwood is a city in and the county seat of Greenwood County, South Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 23,222.
Ninety Six, South Carolina
Ninety Six is a town in Greenwood County, South Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 1,998.
Salena Rocky Malone
Salena Rocky Malone (died on May 2017), she was an Australian activist for human rights, and an active member of the LGBT community in Australia. She was one of the founders of IngiLez Leadership Support Group (ILSG), and the manager of Open Doors Youth Service.
She worked as an Aboriginals Liaison Officer and LGBTI Liaison Officer with the Queensland Police Service.Also, she was part of the PFLAG, Dykes on Bikes, the LGBTI Health Alliance.
She received an award for Best Community Service at Brisbane's Queen's Ball Awards for her accomplishments in Open Doors Youth Service, because of her work with at-risk LGBTI youth.
Rocky died on a motorcycle accident in Rockhampton on May 22 2017.
Mark Meadows (North Carolina politician)
Mark Randall Meadows (born July 28, 1959) is an American politician. He was President Donald Trump's White House chief of staff from March 31, 2020 to January 20, 2021. Meadows was the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 11th congressional district from 2013 to 2020. He is a member of the Republican Party. He chaired the Freedom Caucus from 2017 to 2019.
Jim Jordan (American politician)
James Daniel Jordan (born February 17, 1964) is an American politician. He has been the U.S. representative for since 2007. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Jordan was the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee from 2019 to 2020. In February 2020, he left that committee to become the ranking member of the United States House Committee on the Judiciary.
In college, he was a wrestler.
H. Joel Deckard
Huey Joel Deckard (March 7, 1942 – September 6, 2016) was an American politician. For most of his political career, he was a Republican. He notably served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for from 1979 to 1983. He was also a member of the Indiana House of Representatives from 1966 to 1974. He was the Reform Party's nominee for U.S. Senator in 2000
Deckard was born in Vandalia, Illinois. He died due to an apparent heart attack in McKinney, Texas. He was 74.
Reimar Lüst
Reimar Lüst (25 March 1923 – 31 March 2020) was a German astrophysicist. He was the president of the German Max Planck Society from 1972 to 1984 and the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA) from 1984 until 1990. Lüst was a professor at New York, MIT and Caltech before he became the director general of the ESA.
Howell Township, New Jersey
Howell Township is a township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 census, the township had a population of 51,075.
Chester, Vermont
Chester is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 3,154.
Isaac Robinson (politician)
William Isaac Robinson (August 21, 1975 – March 29, 2020) was an American lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives as a Democrat from 2019 until his death in 2020. He replaced his mother, Rose Mary Robinson in the state house.
On March 29, 2020, Robinson was taken to a Detroit hospital due to breathing problems. He died later that day from a suspected case of COVID-19. He was 44 years old.
Nydia Velázquez
Nydia Margarita Velázquez Serrano (born March 28, 1953) is a Puerto Rican-American politician. She has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993. Velázquez, a Democrat from New York was the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus until January 3, 2011.
Velázquez is the first Puerto Rican woman to serve in the United States Congress.
In March 2020, Velázquez was diagnosed with a possible case of COVID-19 during the coronavirus pandemic.
Montpellier Business School
Montpellier Business School is an European higher studies establishment. The school is in Montpellier, France. It is one of the oldest business school in the world established in 1897.
MBS is specialist in the fields of economics, social sciences and management.
Spider silk
Most spiders can produce a natural fibre which they use for different purposes. This fibre is called spider silk. Depending on the type of spider, spider silk is uses for purposes of catching prey (either by weaving a net, or by throwing a sticky thread at prey), to get away from predators, and to protect the eggs and the young in a cocoon. Spider silk is very resistant, and has a high tensile strength, it does not tear easily.
Unlike the silk from silkworms, spider silk cannot be produced in large quantities.
Adam Schlesinger
Adam Lyons Schlesinger (October 31, 1967 – April 1, 2020) was an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and guitarist. He won three Emmys, a Grammy, and the ASCAP Pop Music Award. He was nominated for an Oscar, Tony Award and Golden Globe for best original song in 1997.
His best known work was writing and co-producing the title song to "That Thing You Do!". He composed "Master Of The Seas" for "" performed by Jennifer Lopez, Peter Dinklage and others. He wrote and produced three songs for "Music and Lyrics". He also wrote "Stacy's Mom".
He was a founding member of the bands Fountains of Wayne, Ivy, and Tinted Windows. He is a key songwriter and producer for Brooklyn-based synth-pop duo Fever High.
Schlesinger grew up in Manhattan and Montclair, New Jersey. He studied at Williams College.
On March 31, 2020, Schlesinger was diagnosed with COVID-19 and hospitalized under critical condition. He died from the infection the following day in Poughkeepsie, New York at the age of 52.
Peter Singer
Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He is also laureate professor of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. In the area of applied ethics, he talks about ethical issues from a secular, utilitarian perspective.
Singer is well-known for his book "Animal Liberation" (1975). The book argues in favour of veganism. His essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" argues in favour of donating to help the global poor. He has twice served as chair of the philosophy department at Monash University. In 1996, he ran as a Greens candidate for the Australian Senate. In 2004, he was named as the Australian Humanist of the Year by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies.