Hale was born April 1, 1905 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. She moved to Philadelphia her father died when she was a toddler. Her mother could not pay for her and her siblings, her mother took in lodgers to pay for her family. Clara Hale's mother died when she was sixteen.
She met Thomas Hale in high school and when they graduated they went to New York together and started a floor waxing company. Thomas and Clara Hale had two children named Lorraine and a son Nathan. Clara Hale adopted a boy named Kenneth the time Thomas Hale was going through cancer and died at the age of twenty seven.
When a drug addicted mom was at her door step she asked if Hale would take her drug addicted baby. Hale took in the baby and the Hale house began.
Hale died on December 18, 1992 in New York City from stroke-related complications at the age of 87.
Leo Baxendale
Leo Baxendale (27 October 1930 – 23 April 2017) was an English cartoonist and publisher. Baxendale wrote and drew several comics. Among his most famous creations are the "Beano" strips "Little Plum", "Minnie the Minx", "The Bash Street Kids", and "The Three Bears".
Baxendale died on 23 April, 2017 of cancer in Lancashire, England at the age of 86.
Pere Tàpias
Pere Tàpias (19 May 1946 – 22 April 2017) () was a Spanish radio presenter and food writer in Catalonia, Spain. He was the host of a Catalunya Ràdio program, "Tàpies Variades". He was the 2005–2006 Ambassor of Xató. He was born in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain.
Tàpias died on 22 April 2017 from liver disease in Sant Pere de Ribes, Spain at the age of 70.
Peter George (professor)
Peter James George, CM, O.Ont (September 12, 1941 – April 27, 2017) was a Canadian economist and university academic. He was born in Toronto, Ontario. On June 30, 2010, he retired after serving three five year terms as President and Vice-Chancellor of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He became President and Vice-Chancellor in 1995. He was the longest serving President of McMaster University.
George died of cancer at his home in Hamilton, Ontario on April 27, 2017 at the age of 75.
McMaster University
McMaster University (commonly referred to as McMaster or Mac) is a public research university located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, Hamilton.
It opened in Toronto in 1890. It was named after famous Canadian Senator William McMaster (1811–1887) who donated C$900,000 to create the university. It was relocated to a larger ground space in Hamilton in 1930. McMaster was controlled by the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec until it became a privately chartered, publicly funded non-denominational institution in 1957.
The university is co-educational, and has over 25,000 undergraduate and over 4,000 post-graduate students.
The university ranked 4th among Canadian universities and 94th in the world according to the 2015-2016 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
Peter Hall (director)
Sir Peter Reginald Frederick Hall CBE (22 November 1930 – 11 September 2017) was a British director, playwright and actor.
In 1955 he introduced London audiences to the work of Samuel Beckett with the UK premiere of "Waiting for Godot". Hall founded the Royal Shakespeare Company (1960–68) and went on to build an international reputation in theatre, opera, movie and television. He was Director of the National Theatre (1973–88) and Artistic Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera (1984-1990).
He formed The Peter Hall Company (1998-2011) and became founding director of The Rose Theatre, Kingston in 2003. Throughout his career, he has been a vociferous champion of public funding for the arts.
On the morning of 11 September 2017, Hall died at University College Hospital in London from pneumonia complicated by dementia, aged 86.
Morelia amethistina
Morelia amethistina (also known as the amethystine python, scrub python or sanca permata) is a form of non-venomous python. It can be found in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Australia.
Some specimens of Morelia amethistina have been measured at up to 8.5 metres (27.9 feet) long, but normally they are only up to 5 metres long.
The diet of the Amethystine python is mostly birds, bats, rats, possums, and other small mammals. Some big Australian and Papuan varieties eat wallabies and cuscus.
Saas Balen
Saas-Balen is a municipality of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
It is at the foot of the Mischabelhörner and Dom.
Boshin War
The , sometimes known as the Japanese Revolution, was a civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and those seeking the Meiji Restoration of political power to the Imperial Court.
Pambio-Noranco
Pambio-Noranco is a quarter of the city of Lugano, Switzerland. Until 2004 it was a municipality on its own. Then it was added to Lugano.
Pregassona
Pregassona is a quarter of the city of Lugano, Switzerland. Until 2004, it was a municipality on its own. Then it was added to Lugano.
The name Pregassona comes from a contraction of the local dialect for "near the Cassone"; the Cassone is a small river that flows through the village.
Ra'am
Ra'am, Hebrew: רע"מ , a Hebrew acronym of "HaReshima HaAravit HaMe'uhedet", Hebrew: הרשימה הערבית המאוחדת ,
the Arab version: "al-Qā'ima al-'Arabiyya al-Muwaḥḥada", Arab: القائمة العربية الموحدة ,
both meaning "The United Arab List", is an Israeli political party.
Its ideology is Arab nationalist and Islamist.
Political leader is Mansour Abbas.
Ra'am was founded in 1996 as an alliance of Mada (Arab Democratic Party) and the southern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel.
Its supporters are Islamic and nationalist Israeli Arabs, especially the Bedouins among them.
Number of seats in the 23rd Knesset: 4 (+1).
Ra'am is cooperating with Balad, Hadash and Ta'al as HaReshima HaMeshutefet (Hebrew) or al-Qa'imah al-Mushtarakah (Arab) (both meaning "The Joint List"). Together they have 15 seats.
Ta'al
Ta'al, Hebrew: תע"ל‎ , a Hebrew acronym of "Tnu'a Aravit LeHithadshut", Hebrew: תנועה ערבית להתחדשות ,
the Arab version: "?", Arab: الحركة العربية للتغيير ,
both meaning "Arab Movement for Renewal", is an Israeli political party.
Its ideology is right-wing centrist, Arab nationalist, secular and anti-Zionist.
Political leader is Ahmad Tibi.
Ta'al was founded in the 1990s by Ahmad Tibi.
Number of seats in the 23rd Knesset: 3 (+1).
Ta'al is cooperating with Balad, Hadash and Ra'am as HaReshima HaMeshutefet (Hebrew) or al-Qa'imah al-Mushtarakah (Arab) (both meaning "The Joint List"). Together they have 15 seats.
Casimir effect
The Casimir effect (predicted by Hendrik Casimir in 1948) is the attraction of two metal plates in a vacuum. This effect occurs because of a side effect of the quantum uncertainty principle, where 'virtual' particles cause the plates to be slightly pushed towards each other.
The quantum uncertainty principle says that particles, fields, etc. have two values, and that the more accurately you measure one, the less accurately you can measure the other. Since 'empty' space (which is a field) would be completely empty, then we would know both the field's magnitude (which is zero) and its rate of change (also zero). Therefore, there must be tiny fluctuations in 'empty' space, so that the uncertainty principle isn't violated. These take the form of virtual particles, which we wouldn't be able to detect directly. However, we can see the effects they have on real particles. Some of these particles are virtual photons, which can also be considered as waves. Now, between the reflective metal plates, there is a certain distance. Certain virtual photons, specifically ones where the distance divided by the wavelength is a whole number, are the only ones that can fit in here; if it isn't a whole number, eventually the peaks and troughs of the waves will coincide, and cancel it out.