The smooth snake feeds on smaller animals, especially other reptiles. It subdues larger prey by constriction, although unlike true constrictors it does not actually kill by this method. It reproduces by laying eggs, which are buried in sand in a warm place.
Villa Castelli helicopter crash
The Villa Castelli helicopter crash occurred on 9 March 2015 when two helicopters collided near Villa Castelli in north-west Argentina. All 10 people on board the two aircraft were killed.
Florence Arthaud, Camille Muffat and Alexis Vastine were passengers.
Lynn Borden
Lynn Borden (March 24, 1937 – March 3, 2015) was an American actress. She was best known for her role as "Barbara Baxter" in the final season of the Shirley Booth sitcom "Hazel", which aired on CBS from 1965 to 1966 though the program began in 1961 on NBC.
Borden was born in Detroit. She died of an illness in Encino, Los Angeles.
Ernest Braun
Ernest Braun (9 March 1925 – 3 March 2015) was a British-Austrian scholar. He worked in technology policy and technology assessment.
Gimme Shelter
"Gimme Shelter" is a song by English rock band The Rolling Stones. It is the first song featured on their 1969 album "Let It Bleed". Merry Clayton provided vocals for the song along with Mick Jagger. The song was released in 5 December 1969.
During a 1995 interview with "Rolling Stone", Jagger said:
"Well, it's a very rough, very violent era. The Vietnam War. Violence on the screens, pillage and burning. And Vietnam was not war as we knew it in the conventional sense. The thing about Vietnam was that it wasn't like World War II, and it wasn't like Korea, and it wasn't like the Gulf War. It was a real nasty war, and people didn't like it. People objected, and people didn't want to fight it..." As for the song itself, he concluded, "That's a kind of end-of-the-world song, really. It's apocalypse; the whole record's like that."
In 2004, the song was ranked #38 on "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list by "Rolling Stone". It has also been ranked at #12 on "The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s" list by Pitchfork Media.
Dyan Cannon
Dyan Cannon (born Samille Diane Friesen; January 4, 1937) is an American movie and television actress, director, screenwriter, editor, and producer. She was known for her role as Alice in "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice".
Ninan Koshy
Ninan Koshy (; 1 February 1934 – 4 March 2015) was an Indian political thinker, foreign affairs expert, Christian theologian and social analyst. He was born in 1934 in Thiruvalla. He was a former director of the WCC's Commission of the Churches on International Affairs.
Koshy died in Thiruvananthapuram on 4 March 2015, aged 81.
Vlada Divljan
Vladimir "Vlada" Divljan (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Дивљан; 10 May 1958 – 4 March 2015), was a Serbian singer and songwriter. He was known as the frontman for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Idoli. He died from appendix cancer.
James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead
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A La Carte Communications
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Born to Be Wild
"Born to Be Wild" is the third single off Canadian-American rock group Steppenwolf's self-titled first studio album. The song was released in June 1968.
On the "Billboard" charts, the song was able to peak at #2 on the Hot 100.
In 2004, the song was ranked #130 on the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list by "Rolling Stone". It has also been ranked at #53 on the 100 Hard Rock Songs list by VH1. The song was first featured in the 1969 movie "Easy Rider" and has since been featured in many movies, trailers, TV shows and commercials. It was ranked #29 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of the top songs in American cinema.
Edward Egan
Edward Michael Egan (April 2, 1932 – March 5, 2015) was an American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Bridgeport from 1988 to 2000, and as Archbishop of New York from 2000 to 2009. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001.
Blase J. Cupich
Blase Joseph Cupich (born March 19, 1949 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He is serving as the ninth Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
He was the surprise choice of Pope Francis to succeed Cardinal Francis George as Archbishop of Chicago on September 20, 2014. Cupich had served as the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Spokane since 2010.
Jim McCann (musician)
James "Jim" McCann (26 October 1944 – 5 March 2015) was an Irish entertainer and folk musician. Although a solo artist for most of his career, McCann was a member of the folk group the Dubliners from 1974 until 1979.
McCann's death was announced by his family on 5 March 2015. He had been battling throat cancer.
Abe Pollin
Abraham Pollin (December 3, 1923 – November 24, 2009) was the owner of a number of professional sports teams including the Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League (NHL), the Washington Mystics in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), and the Washington Wizards in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Fred Craddock
Fred Brenning Craddock, Jr. (April 30, 1928 – March 6, 2015) was an American priest. He was the Bandy Distinguished Professor of Preaching and New Testament Emeritus in the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. He was an ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) from rural Tennessee. He was the director of the Craddock Center, a non-profit service group which operates in rural Appalachia.
Windell Middlebrooks
Windell D. Middlebrooks (January 8, 1979 – March 9, 2015) was an American movie and television actor. He was known for his roles in "Body of Proof" and "The Suite Life on Deck".
Ram Sundar Das
Ram Sundar Das (; 9 January 1921 – 6 March 2015) was an Indian politician and a former Chief Minister of Bihar state. He was a leader of the Janata Dal (United) political party. He was the Chief Minister of Bihar from 21 April 1979 to 17 February 1980. In 1991, he was elected to the 10th Lok Sabha from Hajipur constituency in Bihar.
Vasilios Magginas
Vasilios Magginas (; 22 October 1949 – 6 March 2015) was a Greek politician. He was member of the Greek Parliament for the New Democracy for the Aetolia-Acarnania constituency and government minister.
Edmond Malinvaud
Edmond Malinvaud (25 April 1923 – 7 March 2015) was a French economist. He was the first president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
Gerardo Sofovich
Gerardo Andrés Sofovich (March 18, 1937 – March 8, 2015) was an Argentine businessman, dramaturge, TV host, actor, comedian, scriptwriter, and film director.
He was the producer "Polémica en el bar" and "La noche del Domingo", two of the most popular Argentine television programs of the 1970s and '80s. Sofovich also hosted "A la manera de Sofovich" and "Sin Límite SMS", broadcast on Canal 9.
Neutral oxide
Neutral oxides are oxides which are neither acidic nor basic. In other words, oxides which neither react with acids or with bases are called neutral. Neutral oxides are often misunderstood as amphoteric oxides, which can act as both acidic and as basic oxides.
1) Nitrous oxide (NO)
2) Nitric oxide (NO)
3) Carbon monoxide (CO)
4) Water (HO)
5) Manganese(IV) oxide (MnO)
There are 5 neutral oxides discovered till date.
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