The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) (also Women's Army Service Pilots or Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots) was a civilian women pilots' organization.
Their members were United States federal civil service employees.
Members of WASP became trained pilots who tested aircraft, ferried aircraft and trained other pilots. Their purpose was to free male pilots for combat roles during World War II. The WASP and its members had no military standing.
Charles Burrell (musician)
Charles "Charlie" Burrell (born October 4, 1920) is an American classical and jazz bass player. He is known for being the first African-American to be a member of a major American symphony (the Denver Symphony, now known as the Colorado Symphony). For this, he is often known as "the Jackie Robinson of Classical Music". He was born in Toledo, Ohio.
Kenneth McAlpine
Kenneth McAlpine, OBE DL (born 21 September 1920) is a British racing driver. He was born in Cobham, Surrey.
He participated in 7 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 19 July 1952. He scored no championship points.
During the development of the Connaught Racing Team based at Send in Surrey, McAlpine became a considerable financial backer and enjoyed several team owner triumphs including Tony Brooks's memorable F1 victory at Syracuse, Italy in 1955.
Ted Knap
Ted Knap (born May 26, 1920) was an American journalist. Knap is best known for having been included on Nixon's enemies list despite his belief that "I thought Nixon, except for Watergate, was a good president". He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
In 1973, Knap began the weekly "White House Watch" column. He retired in 1985.
He was added into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in 2007, the American Political Science Association (twice), the Marquette University By-Line Award, Sigma Delta Chi fraternity, and Indianapolis Press Club reporting awards.
Dante Exum
Dante Exum (born 13 July 1995) is an Australian professional basketball player. He plays the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played for the Utah Jazz from 2014 to 2019. He was traded to the Cavaliers in 2019.
Exum was born in Melbourne, Victoria, to American parents. His father, Cecil, played college basketball at the University of North Carolina. Exum is a supporter of Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League.
Fossil water
Fossil water or palaeowater is an ancient body of water that has been kept in an undisturbed place. Usually it is groundwater in an aquifer. It may stay underground for millions of years. Other types of fossil water can include lakes under ice, such as Antarctica's Lake Vostok. The term may be used to describe ancient water on other planets.
UNESCO defines "fossil groundwater" as
"water that infiltrated usually millennia ago and often under climatic conditions different from the present, and that has been stored underground since that time".
Estimating the time since water infiltrated is done using isotopes. Some aquifers are hundreds of meters deep and underlie vast areas of land. Research techniques in the field are developing quickly and the scientific knowledge base is growing. For many aquifers, research is lacking or disputed as to the age of the water and the behaviour of the water inside the aquifer.
Yandex
Yandex N.V. (; ) is a Russian web browser built to become the next Google back in 2006. The website has gone through many changes like being just a searching browser, an entire email and becoming into a multi-service website. The company was originally founded in 2000 by Arkady Volozh but as stated before, the website didn't start until 2006. Currently headquartered in Moscow, Russia.
Yandex runs Yandex Money, a money transfer program similar to PayPal.
Yandex runs Yandex Translate, a machine translation program. It uses computer software to translate text or speech from Russian into either English or Ukrainian or back. Yandex Translate started in 2011. The team that built it read thousands of documents and their translations and built a dictionary for Yandex Translate.
In 2020, the Mozilla Firefox web browser added a tool to that could translate webpages. That tool can use only Google Translate and Yandex Translate.
Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System
The Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System is said to be the world's largest known fossil water aquifer system. It is underground the Eastern end of the Sahara Desert. It spans the boundaries of four countries in north-eastern Africa north-western Sudan, north-eastern Chad, south-eastern Libya, and most of Egypt.
The Great Man-made River Project (GMMR) in Libya makes use of the system. It takes water from this aquifer, about 2.4 km of fresh water for drinking and agriculture each year. This system is mainly used to supply water to the Kufra oasis.
Walter Ormeño
José Francisco Walter Ormeño Arango (3 December 1926 – 4 January 2020) was a Peruvian footballer. He played as a goalkeeper.
Ormeño was born in Lima. He played at club level for Universitario de Deportes, Huracán de Medellín, Mariscal Sucre, Boca Juniors, Rosario Central, Alianza Lima, América and Atlante. Ormeño also played for the Peruvian national team between 1949 and 1957. He played for his country at the 1949 South American Championship.
After retiring as a player, Ormeño worked for a number of clubs in Mexico. He died on 4 January 2020 in Mexico City. He was 93.
Dennis Brown
Dennis Emmanuel Brown CD (1 February 1957 – 1 July 1999) was a Jamaican reggae singer who was called as The Crown Prince of Reggae by Bob Marley.
Dennis Brown (disambiguation)
Dennis Brown (1957–1999) was a Jamaican reggae singer.
Dennis Brown may also refer to:
Nute Gunray
Nute Gunray is a fictional character in the Star Wars Universe. Gunray was a neimoidian politician who served as the Viceroy of the Trade Federation during their invasion of Naboo and later served as a prominent Separatist leader during the conflict known as the Clone Wars. Gunray appears in , and of the Star Wars Prequels Trilogy as well as in other media such as the Animated Television series.
The Invasion of Naboo was an event that took place 32 years before the events of . The Invasion began as a blockade around the planet, with Nute Gunray taking charge of the fleet, this blockade was set up in order to protest the taxation of trade routes by the new republic, however the real intention of the blockade was to stage a droid invasion of the planet so that Senator Palpatine (who was secretly controlling Nute Gunray as Darth Sidious) could gain sympathy in the Galactic Senate. After the Blockade was set up, the trade federation began sending Battle Droids down to the planets surface. This event was seen throughout .
The Republic sent Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi to negotiate with the Viceroy, Gunray assumed they had arrived to force a negotiation so, after consulting Darth Sidious, ordered their death. Droideka's were sent but the two Jedi were able to escape to the planet below were they witnesses the invasion first hand. Nute Gunray would later descend to the planet below of Naboo in an attempt to force the planet's queen Padmé Amidala into a deal, he would eventually be stopped.
Nute Gunray argues that everything he does is legal and he also states that he would not do anything without the approval of the senate, when saying this he is talking about the trade blockade, not the invasion. If proof could be shown to the senate that the trade federation had began an invasion of the planet, the republic would intervene, but the senate could not be convinced. Gunray and the trade federation had a presence in the senate and were even accused of taking part in bureaucracy.