Benjamin Franklin Heintzleman (December 3, 1888 – June 24, 1965) was an American forester and politician. He was Governor of Alaska Territory, a position he held from 1953 till 1957. Heintzleman's resignation became effective on January 4, 1957, when Territorial Secretary became Acting Governor.
Fayetteville, Pennsylvania
Fayetteville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,128 at the 2010 census, up from 2,774 at the 2000 census.
Ruth A. M. Schmidt
Ruth Anna Marie Schmidt (April 22, 1916 – March 29, 2014) was an American geologist and paleontologist. She created a United States Geological Survey (USGS) field office in Alaska and the first Department of Geology at the Anchorage Community College.
Chris Birch (politician)
Christopher Jim Birch (August 28, 1950 – August 7, 2019) was an American politician. He was a member of the Alaska Senate for District M in 2019 and the Alaska House of Representatives for the 26th District from 2017 to 2019. Birch was a member of the Republican Party.
Birch died from an aortic dissection on August 7, 2019 in Anchorage, Alaska at the age of 68.
Taylor Wilson
Taylor Ramon Wilson (born May 7, 1994) is an American nuclear physics enthusiast and science activist. In 2008, at the age of 14, he produced nuclear fusion using a fusor and at the time was the youngest person ever to do so.
Raye Montague
Raye Jean Montague (née Jordan; January 21, 1935 – October 10, 2018) was an American naval engineer. She was known for creating the first computer-generated rough draft of a U.S. naval ship. She was the first female program manager of ships in the United States Navy.
Ruth Haas
Ruth Haas is an American mathematician and professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She was the Achilles Professor of Mathematics at Smith College. She won the M. Gweneth Humphreys Award from the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) in 2015 for her mentorship of women in mathematics. In 2017 she was elected President of the AWM.
Rene Sylva
Rene Sylva (January 1929 – December 28, 2008) was an American botanist. He was born in Paia, Hawaii. He was among the only native Hawaiian fishermen to speak in favor of a ban on fishing green sea turtles.
After giving up a career in turtle fishing, he became involved in the conservation of native Hawaiian ecosystems. He was important for the surveying remote regions of the Hawaiian Islands for native plants.
Anita Borg
Anita Borg (January 17, 1949 – April 6, 2003) was an American computer scientist. She founded the Institute for Women and Technology and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
Lonnie Hammargren
Lonnie Lee Hammargren (born December 25, 1937) is an American politician and a retired neurosurgeon. He was elected a member of the non-partisan Board of Regents for the Nevada System of Higher Education. He was the 31st Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. State of Nevada from 1995 to 1999 as a member of the Republican Party.
Harris, Minnesota
Harris is a city in Chisago County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,132 at the 2010 census.
Center City, Minnesota
Center City is a city in Chisago County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 628 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Chisago County.
Louis R. Douglass
Louis Rea "Doug" Douglass (March 2, 1888 – January 13, 1979) was an American civil engineer. He spent more than 20 years with the United States Bureau of Reclamation and was in charge of Hoover Dam and the surrounding park land for four years.
Paia, Hawaii
Paia is a census-designated place (CDP) in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. As of the 2010 census, the CDP had a population of 2,668.
Charles Kimbrough
Charles Kimbrough (born May 23, 1936) is an American actor. He is known for having played the straight-faced anchorman Jim Dial on "Murphy Brown".
Gerda Kieninger
Gerda Kieninger (21 February 1951 – 22 January 2020) was a German politician. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She was born in Cologne. Kieninger was a member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1995 to 2017.
Kieninger died in Cologne on 22 January 2020 at the age of 68.
Manfred Clynes
Manfred Edward Clynes (August 14, 1925 – January 19, 2020) was an Austrian-born Australian-American scientist, inventor, and musician. He was best known for his innovations and discoveries in the interpretation of music. He would study biological systems and neurophysiology.
Clynes died on January 19, 2020 in West Nyack, New York at the age of 94.
West Nyack, New York
West Nyack is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Clarkstown, Rockland County, New York, United States. It is about north of New York City. The population was 3,439 at the 2010 census.
Clarkstown, New York
Clarkstown is a town in Rockland County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a total population of 84,187.
Jack Kehoe
Jack Kehoe (November 21, 1934 – January 14, 2020) was an American actor. He was born in California. His best known roles were in "Serpico" (1973), "The Pope of Greenwich Village" (1984) and Brian De Palma's "The Untouchables" (1987), as well as the cult favorites "Car Wash" (1976) and "Midnight Run" (1988), the popular western "Young Guns II" (1990), and "On the Nickel" (1980).
Kehoe died on January 14, 2020 from stroke-related problems in Los Angeles at the age of 85.
Liu Zhongyi
Liu Zhongyi (; October 1930 – 5 January 2020) was a Chinese politician. He was Minister of Agriculture from 1990 to 1993 and Vice Minister of the National Development and Reform Commission from 1985 to 1990. He was born in Wuhan, Hubei. Liu was a member of the Communist Party of China.
Liu died on 5 January 2020 in Beijing at the age of 89.
John Klyberg
Charles John Klyberg (29 July 1931 – 17 January 2020) was a British Roman Catholic priest and former Anglican bishop. From 1985 to 1996, he was the Bishop of Fulham in the Church of England. He studied at Lincoln Theological College, a Church of England theological college.
In 1994, the gay rights campaign group OutRage! named Klyberg as one of ten closeted homosexual bishops in the Church of England.
In 1996, after retiring from Anglican ministry, Klyberg was received into the Roman Catholic Church. He later became a priest. He was made a Prelate of Honour by Pope John Paul II.
Klyberg died on 17 January 2020 in London at the age of 88.
SHA-1
SHA-1 is a mathematical algorithm to hash a certain string, which creates a one-way change from the source string to the result. It is commonly used for security and data loss, but there may be other cases. Computer programs exist to crack SHA-1 hashes by hashing random strings and storing the result. An example SHA-1 hash is "664add438097fbd4307f814de8e62a10f8905588" (the string "Wikipedia" hashed using SHA-1).
Cobble (geology)
A cobble (sometimes a cobblestone) is a clast of rock defined on the Udden–Wentworth scale as having a particle size of 64–256 millimeters (2.5–10.1 in), larger than a pebble and smaller than a boulder. Other scales define a cobble's size in slightly different terms. A rock made predominantly of cobbles is termed a conglomerate. Cobblestone is a building material based on cobbles.
Alfred Körner
Alfred Körner (14 February 1926 – 23 January 2020) was an Austrian footballer. He played as a striker. He was the younger brother of fellow international Robert Körner.
Körner was born in Vienna. He had a successful career with Rapid Wien between the mid-1940s and 1959. He won seven league titles with the club. He also played for the Austria national team from 1946 to 1958. He played in the 1954 FIFA World Cup, where Austria finished third, and the 1958 FIFA World Cup. He earned 47 caps for his country, scoring 14 goals.
Körner died on 23 January 2020 in Vienna. He was 93.
Toshiko Akiyoshi