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Marie is the co-founder of the non-profit organization Children's Miracle Network.
It was started in 1983 and the money raised promotes children's hospitals in North America.
Marie is married to Stephen Craig and lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.
She also owns a home in Ogden, Utah and one in Los Angeles, California.
She has 8 children.
His work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in East Africa.
He also played a major role in creating organizations for future research in Africa and for protecting wildlife there.
He started a tradition of palaeoanthropological inquiry in Kenya.
His own family carried on the 'family firm'.
Several of them became well-known anthropologists and fossil hunters.
In biology he asserted Charles Darwin's theory of evolution unswervingly, and set about to prove Darwin's hypothesis that man arose in Africa.
He was also a devout Christian.chapter 3
Palaeoanthropologist par excellence
Vindication at Olduvai
Louis and Mary spent all the time they could at Olduvai Gorge, starting in 1951.
So far they had discovered only stone tools.
A more extensive excavation came in 1952.
They found what Louis termed an Oldowan "slaughter-house", an ancient bog where animals had been trapped and butchered.
Louis was so carried away that he worked without his hat and his hair was bleached white from the sun.
They stopped in 1953.
In 1955 they excavated again with Jean Brown.
She related that he preferred to be called Louis, was absent-minded, once had everyone looking for spectacles that were around his neck, wore pants with the buttons off and shoes with holes in them, charged about everywhere and once collapsed unconscious.
He was completely happy.chapter 12
In 1959 they decided to excavate Bed I. While Louis was sick in camp, Mary discovered the fossilized skull OH 5, which Mary called "Our Man", and became "Dear Boy" and "Zinj."
The question was whether it was a previous genus discovered by Robert Broom, Paranthropus, which Broom had taken not to be in the human line, or a different one, in it.
Louis opted for Zinj, a decision opposed by Wilfrid Le Gros Clark, but one which attracted the attention of Melville Bell Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Society.
That contact resulted in an article in National Geographic, and a hefty grant to continue work at Olduvai.
Zinj was far older than anyone had imagined.
Scientists swarmed to Africa.
Louis had proved Darwin right.chapter 13
The Leakey circus
In 1960, unable to leave the museum except on weekends, Louis appointed Mary director of excavation at Olduvai.
She brought in a staff of Kamba tribesmen, instead of Kikuyu, who, she felt, took advantage of Louis.
The first, Muteva Musomba, had kept her children's ponies.
He recruited Kamoya Kimeu among others.
Mary set up Camp 5 under Jonathan's direction.
He was 19.
From then on she had her own staff and associates.
Mary picked and sieved at the site from early morning dressed in old clothes, chain smoking cigarettes, always surrounded by her Dalmatian.
She and Louis communicated by radio.
On weekends he drove non-stop at high speed the 357 miles between Olduvai and Nairobi.
The teen-age boys, Richard and Philip, were on site during holidays and vacations.
Their home in Nairobi was a circus, figuratively speaking, when they were there.
Dinner guests were frequent.
Important guests stayed for weeks if they could stand it.
They shared the quarters and the dinner table with the Dalmatians, hyraxes, a monkey, a civet cat, an African eagle owl, tropical fish, snakes, such as vipers, and a python.
The extended families of twenty African staff lived in cinderblock huts in the yard.
Mary had switched to cigars and the ashes often fell into the food.
Both Louis and Mary cooked.
Louis never stopped talking; his stories were endless.
He literally ran through the day, making long lists of things to be done, which he never completed.
He drove recklessly through the streets of Nairobi, often reading and writing as he drove.chapter 5
There was another side to the Leakey family.
Louis was a notorious womanizer.
He was faithful neither to Frida nor to Mary.
Mary tolerated this behavior well until his relationship with Rosalie Osborn, 1954/55, threatened to break up her marriage.chapter 17
The two fought constantly, upsetting the boys.
After Richard nearly died in a fall from a horse, Louis broke with Rosalie for the sake of the boys.
Floruit
Jonathan achieved some brief fame before he quit palaeoanthropology altogether.
He started his own site, "Jonny's site" in the Leakey lingo, FLK-NN.
There he discovered two skull fragments without the Australopithecine sagittal crest, which Mary connected with Broom's and Robinson's Telanthropus.
The problem was its contemporaneity with Zinj.
Mailed photographs, Le Gros Clark retorted casually "Shades of Piltdown".
Louis cabled him immediately and had some strong words at this suggestion of his incompetence.
Clark apologized.chapter 14
In 1960 Louis, his son Philip and Ray Pickering discovered a fossil he termed "Chellean Man", as it was in context with Oldowan tools, the first such find.
After reconstruction Louis and Mary called it "Pinhead."
It was subsequently included with Homo erectus and was in fact contemporaneous with Paranthropus, which on that account cannot have been in the human line.
For many years Louis believed erectus was the user of the tools and Australopithecus was not.
In 1961 Louis got a salary as well as a grant from National Geographic and turned over the acting directorship of Coryndon to a subordinate.
He created the Centre for Prehistory and Paleontology on the same grounds, moved his collections to it, and appointed himself director.
This was his new operations center.
He opened another excavation at Fort Ternan on Lake Victoria.
Shortly after, Heselon discovered Kenyapithecus wickeri, the species name from the owner of the property, which Louis promptly celebrated with George Gaylord Simpson, who happened to be present, aboard the Miocene Lady with Leakey Safari Specials, a drink made of condensed milk and cognac.
In 1962 Louis was visiting Olduvai when Ndibo Mbuika discovered the first tooth of Homo habilis at MNK.
Louis and Mary thought it was female and named her Cinderella, or Cindy.
Phillip Tobias identified Jonny's Child with it and Raymond Dart came up with the name Homo habilis at Louis' request, which Tobias translated as 'handyman'.chapter 16 It was seen as intermediary between gracile Australopithecus and Homo.chapter 16
Leakey's Angels
One of Louis's greatest legacies was fostering field research of primates in their natural habitats.
He understood this helped to unravel the mysteries of human evolution.
He chose three female researchers: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas.
They were dubbed 'Leakey's Angels'.
Each went on to become an important scholar in the field of primatology.
Prominent organizations
Louis founded the Tigoni Primate research Center with Cynthia Booth on her farm north of Nairobi.
Later it was the National Primate Research Center, currently the Institute of Primate Research, now in Nairobi.
As the Tigoni center, it funded Leakey's Angels.
Louis created the Centre for Prehistory and Paleontology on the same grounds as Coryndon Museum, appointing himself director.
Louis assisted with the founding of The Leakey Foundation, to ensure the legacy of his life's work in the study of human origins.
The Leakey Foundation exists today as the number one funder of human origins research in the United States.
Adam's Ancestors: the evolution of Man and his culture (1934).
Ran to four editions, very popular.
White African: an early autobiography (1936)
The Miocene Hominoidea of East Africa, with Wilfred Le Gros Clark. (
1951)
Olduvai Gorge: a report on the evolution of the hand-axe culture in Beds I–IV (1951)
Olduvai Gorge: a preliminary report on the geology and fauna, 1951–61 (1965)
Olduvai Gorge, 1965–1967 (1970)
By the evidence: Memoirs, 1932–1951
Prominent family members
Louis Leakey was married to Mary Leakey, who made the noteworthy discovery of fossil footprints at Laetoli.
Found preserved in volcanic ash in Tanzania, they are the earliest record of bipedal gait.
He is also the father of paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey and the botanist Colin Leakey.
Louis' cousin, Nigel Gray Leakey, was a recipient of the Victoria Cross during World War II.
Kenyan scientists
British archaeologists
Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond (born December 9, 1957) is an American musician, actor, singer, and teen idol.
He is also a talk show and game show host.
Donny was part of the group The Osmonds before he went solo later on.
Determine the number of hydrogens that should be present if it was completely single bonded.
In other words use the formula 2n+2 (with n = the number of carbons present.
Subtract the total from above from the number of hydrogens actually present.
Take that number and divide it by two.
This number is your DOU.
Each degree either equals one ring structure or pi bond.
A double bond would have one DOU.
A triple bond would have a DOU of two (triple bond is one sigma bond with two pi bonds).
Non-hydrocarbons
Silicon counts as a carbon
Boron, nitrogen and phosphorus each count as a "half a carbon"
Halogens (Group 7) count as a hydrogen
Oxygen, sulfur and selenium (Group 6) can be ignored
The Olduvai Gorge is a steep-sided ravine in the Great Rift Valley that stretches through East Africa.
It is in the eastern Serengeti Plains in northern Tanzania.
The Gorge is about  long.
It is 45 km from the Laetoli archaeological site.
The gorge is a highly important prehistoric site for the study of human evolution.
It was once a lake, and got covered by layers of volcanic ash.
This site was occupied by Homo habilis about 1.9 million years ago, Paranthropus boisei 1.8 million years ago, and Homo erectus 1.2 million years ago.
Homo sapiens occupied the site 17,000 years ago.
The name is a misspelling of Oldupai Gorge, which was adopted as the official name in 2005.
Oldupai is the Maasai word for the wild sisal plant Sansevieria ehrenbergii, which grows in the gorge.
About 500,000 years ago seismic activity diverted a nearby stream which began to cut down into the sediments, revealing seven main layers in the walls of the gorge.
The geology of Olduvai Gorge and the surrounding region was studied in detail by Richard L. Hay, who worked at the site between 1961 and 2002.
The stratigraphy is extremely deep and layers of volcanic ash and stones allow radiometric dating of the embedded artifacts, mostly through potassium–argon dating and argon–argon dating.
The base of the Olduvai sediments dates to slightly older than 2 million years,
Olduvai Gorge is one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world and has been instrumental in furthering understanding of early human evolution.
Chasing a fancy butterfly in the green wilds of Tanganyika 50 years ago, a German entomologist named (Wilhelm) Kattwinkel tumbled off a rocky ledge and nearly killed himself.
When he regained his senses, he found himself in an anthropologist's dream world: an erosion-created rift with layer after layer of fossils, bones and ancient artifacts.
The find was named Olduvai Gorge, and Kattwinkel's heirs ever since have been scrambling up and down its sun-baked sides in search of clues to man's earliest awakening. (
Time, Friday 10 March 1961)
Excavation work there was pioneered by Louis and Mary Leakey beginning in 1931.
It is still going on.
The earliest archaeological deposit, known as Bed I, has produced evidence of campsites and living floors along with stone tools made of flakes from local basalt and quartz.
Since this is the site where these kinds of tools were first discovered, these tools are called Oldowan.
It is now thought that the Oldowan toolmaking tradition started about 2.6 million years ago.
Bones from this layer are not of modern humans but earlier hominid forms of Paranthropus boisei and the first discovered specimens of Homo habilis.
The site of FLK North has the oldest known evidence of Elephant consumption, attributed to Homo ergaster around 1.8 million years ago.
A nearly complete skeleton of the extinct Elephas recki was found in the lowest of its six occupation levels along with stone tools such as choppers and flakes.
Large numbers of bone fragments of smaller animals found with it clearly identify FLK North as an early butchering site.
Above this, in Bed II, pebble tools begin to be replaced by more sophisticated handaxes of the Acheulean industry and made by H. ergaster.
This layer has not yet been successfully dated, but likely falls between 1.75 and 1.2 million years.
During a period of major faulting and volcanism roughly 600,000 to 400,000 years ago, the Masek Beds were made.
These beds contained tools from an industry made by modern humans, followed by the Ndutu Beds (400,000 to 32,000 years ago), and the Naisiusiu Beds (22,000 to 15,000 years ago).
Also, on the rim of the Gorge, is the Olduvai Gorge Museum.
This Museum presents exhibitions about the Gorge's history.
Vermicelli (English pronunciation: /ˌvɜrmɨˈtʃɛli/, Italian: [vermiˈtʃɛlli], meaning "little worms") is a type of pasta.
It is round in section and somewhat thinner than spaghetti.
Richard Leakey (19 December 1944 – 2 January 2022) was a Kenyan politician,  paleoanthropologist and conservationist.
He was second of the three sons of the anthropologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey.
In 2007, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
A high school dropout, Leakey discovered his love of paleontology when he led an expedition to a fossil site he had discovered while flying.
Frustrated by the lack of recognition he received for his accomplishments (due to his lack of qualifications), Leakey left for England to catch up on his education.
However, after six months, Leakey returned home to continue his safaris.
He never completed his degree.
In 1965 he married Margaret Cropper.
Their daughter Anna was born in 1969, the same year that Richard and Margaret divorced.
He then married his colleague Meave Epps in 1970.
They had two daughters, Louise (born 1972) and Samira (1974).
Leakey was diagnosed with a terminal kidney disease in 1969.
Ten years later he became seriously ill, but received a kidney transplant from his brother Philip and recovered to full health.
In 1993, a small propeller-driven plane piloted by Richard Leakey crashed, crushing his lower legs.
Both legs were later amputated.
Sabotage was suspected but never proved.
In a few months Richard Leakey was walking again on artificial limbs.
Leakey said in his autobiography that he was an atheist.
Teenage entrepreneur
Richard chose to support himself.
He borrowed 500 pounds from his parents for a Land Rover, and went into the trapping and skeleton supply business with Kamoya Kimeu.
Richard was already a skilled horseman, outdoorsman, Land Rover mechanic, archaeologist and expedition leader.
He learned to identify bones.
All these skills pointed to a path he did not yet wish to take, simply because his father was on it.
The bone business turned into a safari business in 1961.
In 1962 he got a private airplane pilot licence and took tours to Olduvai.
It was from a casual aerial survey that he noted the potential of Lake Natron's shores for paleontology.
He went looking for fossils in a Land Rover, but could find none, until his parents assigned Glynn Isaac to go with him.
Louis was so impressed with their finds that he gave them National Geographic money for a month's expedition.chapter 18 They explored in the vicinity of Peninj near the lake, where Richard was in charge of the administrative details.
Bored, he returned to Nairobi temporarily, but at that moment, Kamoya Kimeu discovered a fossil of Australopithecus boisei.
A second expedition left Richard feeling that he was being excluded from the most significant part of the operation, the scientific analysis.
Expeditions led by Richard Leakey
During the Omo expedition of 1967, Richard visited Nairobi and on the return flight the pilot flew over Lake Rudolph (now Lake Turkana) to avoid a thunderstorm.
The map led Richard to expect volcanic rock below him but he saw sediments.
Visiting the region by helicopter, he saw tools and fossils everywhere.
In his mind, he was already planning a new enterprise.
In 1969 the discovery of a cranium of Paranthropus boisei caused great excitement.
A Homo habilis skull and a Homo erectus skull, discovered in 1972 and 1975, respectively, were among the most significant finds of Leakey's earlier expeditions.
In 1978 an intact cranium of Homo erectus was discovered.
Leakey and Donald Johanson were at the time considered to be the most famous palaeoanthoropologists, and scientifically their views on human evolution were differing, a scientific rivalry that gained public attention.
This culminated at the Cronkite's Universe talk show hosted by Walter Cronkite in New York in 1981, where Leakey and Johanson held a fierce debate on live TV show.
West Turkana
Turkana Boy — discovered by Kamoya Kimeu, a member of the Leakeys' team in 1984 — was the nearly complete skeleton of a Homo ergaster (though some, including Leakey, call it erectus) who died 1.6 million years ago at about age 9-12.
Leakey and Roger Lewin describe the experience of this find and their interpretation of it, in their book Origins reconsidered (1992).
Shortly after the discovery of Turkana Boy, Leakey and his team made the discovery of a skull (known as 'Black Skull') of a new species, Australopithecus aethiopicus (or Paranthropus aethiopicus).
The department was replaced by Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) in 1990, and Leakey became its first chairman.
With characteristically bold steps Leakey created special, well-armed anti-poaching units that were authorized to shoot poachers on sight.
The poaching menace was dramatically reduced.
Impressed by Leakey's transformation of the KWS, the World Bank approved grants worth $140 million.
Richard Leakey, President Arap Moi and the WMCD made the international news headlines when a stockpile of 12 tons of ivory was burned in 1989 in Nairobi National Park.
Richard Leakey wrote about his experiences at the KWS in his book Wildlife Wars: my battle to save Kenya's elephants (2001).
"If KANU and Mr. Moi will do something about the deterioration of public life, corruption and mismanagement, I'd be happy to fight alongside them.
If they won't, I want somebody else to do it," announced Richard Leakey.
The Safina party was routinely harassed and even its application to become an official political party was not approved until 1997.
In 1999, Moi appointed Richard Leakey as Cabinet Secretary and overall head of the civil service.
Moi's hand was forced: the international donor institutions insisted as a pre-condition for the resumption of donor funds.
Leakey's second stint in the civil service lasted until 2001 when he was forced to resign again.
Later activities
Leakey joined the Department of Anthropology faculty at Stony Brook University, New York in 2002.
He is currently a Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook, where he is Chair of the Turkana Basin Institute.
In 2004, Richard Leakey founded and chaired WildlifeDirect, a Kenya-based charitable organization.
The charity was established to provide support to conservationists in Africa directly on the ground via the use of blogs.
This enables individuals anywhere to play a direct and interactive role in the survival of some of the world’s most precious species.
The organization played a significant role in the saving of Congo's mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park in January 2007 after a rebel uprising threatened to eliminate the highly vulnerable population.
Leakey died on 2 January 2022 at his home near Nairobi at the age of 77.
Arizona State University is a public university in Tempe, Arizona.
The university has about 70,440 students.
It was founded in 1885.
The current president of the university is Michael M. Crow.
The sports teams of the university are called the Sun Devils.
ASU has 20 varsity teams, almost all of which compete in the Pacific-12 Conference.
Arizona State University's Official website
Arizona State Sun Devils' Official athletics website
Vanderbilt University is a private university in Nashville, Tennessee, named after Cornelius Vanderbilt.
The university has about 12,714 students.
It was founded in 1873.
The current chairman of the university, whose official title is "Chancellor", is Daniel Diermeier.
The athletics teams of the university are called the Commodores.
They have 16 varsity teams, almost all of which compete in the Southeastern Conference (SEC).
Two Vanderbilt women's teams in sports that the SEC does not sponsor are housed elsewhere.
The bowling team plays in the Southland Bowling League, a single-sport conference affiliated with the Southland Conference.
The lacrosse team plays in the American Athletic Conference.
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Colleges and universities in Nashville, Tennessee
Louise Leakey (born 21 March 1972) is a Kenyan paleontologist.
She does research and field work on human fossils in East Africa.
Louise first became actively involved in fossil discoveries in 1977, at the age of six, when she became the youngest person to find hominid fossils.
In 1993, she replaced her father Richard Leakey as field expedition leader for Turkana paleontological expeditions, in one of the most arid and hostile environments on Earth.
Today, together with her mother, Meave Leakey, she leads the Koobi Fora research project.
This has produced some of the most notable hominid fossil discoveries of the past two decades, the most recent being Kenyanthropus platyops.
Louise Leakey was born in Kenya in 1972, the same year as her grandfather Louis Leakey died.
She  married Emmanuel de Merode, a Belgian primatologist in 2003.
They have two daughters: Seiya, born in 2004, and Alexia born in 2006.
TED Talks: Louise Leakey digs for humanity's origins at TED in 2008
Female scientists
Furikake  is a type of condiment that has a mixture of dried and ground fish, sesame seeds, chopped seaweed, sugar, salt, and monosodium glutamate.
It is popular in Japan and is usually put on rice.
Furikake has around 6 calories.
My Darkest Days is a Canadian rock band from Norwood, Ontario.
My Darkest Days has five members in the band; the current band members are Matt Walst, Sal Costa, Brendan McMillan, Doug Oliver and Reid Henry.
The band was formed in 2006 by lead singer Matt Walst.
They released their self-titled debut album "My Darkest Days" on September 21, 2010.
They are currently signed to 604 Records.
They released their second studio album "Sick and Twisted Affair" on March 26, 2012.
Matt Walst – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Sal Costa – lead guitar, vocals
Brendan McMillan – bass guitar
Doug Oliver – drums, percussion
Reid Henry – keyboards
Paulo Neta – lead guitar
Chris MacMillan - lead guitar
My Darkest Days (2010)
Sick and Twisted Affair (2012)
Porn Star Dancing (2010) (featuring Zakk Wylde & Chad Kroeger)
Move Your Body (2011)
Every Lie (2011)
Casual Sex (2012)
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Betty Marion White (January 17, 1922 – December 31, 2021) was an American actress, comedian, presenter, singer, author, and television personality.
She acted as Sue Ann Nivens in The Mary Tyler Moore Show and as Rose Nylund in the television sitcom The Golden Girls.
She also starred as Elka Ostrovsky, in the TV Land comedy Hot in Cleveland.
White won seven Emmy Awards during her career.
In 1983, she became the first woman to win a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host.
White also holds the record for longest span between Emmy nominations for performances—her first was in 1951 and her most recent was in 2012, a span of 61 years—and became the oldest nominee as of 2013, aged 91.
The actress is also the oldest winner of a competitive Grammy Award, which she won in 2012.
She was host for the NBC entry Just Men!.
In 2011 White began hosting a new program, Betty White's Off Their Rockers.
In the program senior citizens play practical jokes on the younger generation.
A special Betty White's 90th Birthday Party was on NBC a day before the star's birthday on January 16, 2012.
The show had appearances of many stars with whom White has worked over the years.
White was born in Oak Park, Illinois.
She was of Greek, English, Welsh and Danish ancestry.
She was an only child of Horace White, a lighting company executive, and her mother was a homemaker.
White's family moved to Los Angeles, California during the Great Depression.
She attended Horace Mann School Beverly Hills and Beverly Hills High School.
She hosted the February 10, 2014 episode of Raw.
In 1945, White married Dick Barker, a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot.
In 1947, she married Lane Allen, a Hollywood agent.
On June 14, 1963, White married television host and personality Allen Ludden.
They met on his game show Password when she was a celebrity guest in 1961.
Allen Ludden died from stomach cancer on June 9, 1981, in Los Angeles.
They had no children together, though she is stepmother to his three children from his first marriage.
White did not remarry after Ludden's death.
White was a practicing member of the Unity Church.
She was also a registered Democrat.
She endorsed President Barack Obama in 2012 saying she "likes how he represents us".
White died at her home in Los Angeles, California on December 31, 2021, at the age of 99.
She died 17 days before her 100th birthday.
The cause of death was problems caused by a stroke she had six days before her death.
White was added to the Television Hall of Fame in 1995.
She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6747 Hollywood Boulevard alongside the star of her late husband Allen Ludden.
In 2010, the Screen Actors Guild honored White with the Life Achievement Award.
In 2010 she was chosen as the Associated Press's Entertainer of the Year.
The game is set in the future America in the year 2027 and is about the nuclear-armed Korean People's Army (of North Korea) who invade the USA.
The game's main character can either fight the Koreans in the main game or the Americans in the multiplayer game.
There has been controversy over the game's release in Japan where they censored the game by removing all the references to North Korea which included pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il because they thought that to "use their real names would have been 'malicious' {evil} to an 'existing person' and an 'existing country.'".
The game has also been banned from all types of sales in South Korea.
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Robert Remus (born March 27, 1948, in Parris Island, South Carolina) better known by his ring name, Sgt.
Slaughter, is a retired American professional wrestler that is best known for wrestling for WWF/E under the ring name Sgt.
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Pretty Woman is a 1990 American romantic comedy movie set in Los Angeles.
It stars Julia Roberts as a street prostitute and Richard Gere as a rich businessman.
It became one of the highest-grossing movies of 1990.
Roberts won a Golden Globe Award for her performance.
Darko Miličić (born June 20, 1985 in Novi Sad, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is an Serbian basketball player that currently plays for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the NBA.
He was drafted by the Detroit Pistons with the 2nd overall pick in the 1st round of the 2003 NBA Draft.
He also played for the Detroit Pistons from 2003 to 2006, Orlando Magic from 2006 to 2007, Memphis Grizzlies from 2007 to 2009 and the New York Knicks from 2009 to 2010.
He was traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves along with cash considerations for Brian Cardinal from the Knicks.
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Walters was the news anchor at NBC's Today.
For 25 years Walters also hosted the ABC show 20/20.
She co-hosted the morning television show The View from 1997 to 2014.
Walters has received 3 Daytime Emmy Awards.
She has received Lifetime Achievement Awards for News and Documentary and daytime programs.
She was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1989.
On June 15, 2007, Walters received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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UDFy-38135539 (also known as HUDF.YD3) is a galaxy in the Fornax constellation.
At present it is the farthest confirmed object ever seen.
UDFy-38135539 is 13.1 billion light years from the Earth.
ionizing hydrogen in the surrounding environment.
This is called the ionization epoch.
UDFy-38135539 (HUDF.YD3) is probably the first galaxy seen in the reionization epoch.
Caltech astronomer Brant Robertson, commenting on the study, stated that the "galaxy happens to reside at a very special time in cosmic history when the properties of gas in the universe were changing rapidly, and therefore this galaxy and others like it may teach us a lot about the early history of the universe".
Michele Trenti, an astronomer who was not involved in the study but provided commentary published with the report, says that the discovery of the distant galaxy is
"a fundamental leap forward in observational cosmology".
Mira Sorvino (born September 28, 1967) is an American actress.
She received an Academy Award for "Best Supporting Actress" for her role in the 1995 movie Mighty Aphrodite.
She starred in many other Hollywood movies.
More recently she has been starring in low budget or independent movies.
Sorvino and actor Christopher Backus were married June 11, 2004.
Their daughters are Mattea Angel (born 2004) and Lucia (born 2012).
Their sons are Johnny Christopher King (born 2006) and Holden Paul Terry Backus (born 2009).
Dynasty was an American primetime soap opera which aired on ABC beginning in January 1981 and ending in May 1989.
Starring in the series were John Forsythe, Heather Locklear, Linda Evans, Pamela Sue Martin and Joan Collins.
This show was focused on the rich Carrington family from Denver, Colorado.
Between 1985 and 1987 a spin-off show The Colbys was being made.
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1989 American television series endings
Eric "Hank" Gathers (February 11, 1967–March 4, 1990) was an American basketball player that played for Loyola Marymount University where he was a breakout star.
Gathers originally played at the University of Southern California before transferring to Loyola Marymount University with his teammate Bo Kimble.
He died on March 4, 1990, after he collapsed on the court after making an alley-oop dunk.
He was reported as saying "I don't want to lay down!"
before he stopped breathing and was declared dead on arrival at the hospital.
He also collapsed at the free-throw line during an LMU home game on December 9, 1989 before.
It was reported that he suffered from a heart-muscle disorder called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy during his autopsy.
His life was featured in a 1992 TV movie, Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story and in an ESPN film called Guru of Go for their 30 for 30 sries.
Information on Gather's death
The game came under negative criticism by Fox News for it's use of profanity, crude behavior and sexual innuendo.
Electronic Arts responded to this saying, "As you know, Bulletstorm is a work of entertainment fiction... The game and its marketing adhere to all guidelines set forth by the ESRB; both designed for people 17+...Much like Tarantino's Kill Bill or Rodriguez's Sin City, this game is an expression of creative entertainment for adults."
The Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 is a set of laws created in 1972 by the Government of India.
Before 1972, India had only five national parks.
The Act protects wild animals, birds and plants in all of India, except the State of Jammu and Kashmir, which has its own wildlife act.
It has six sections that give different degrees of protection.
Schedule I  and part II of Schedule II  provide complete protection.
Offences under these are given the highest penalty.
Species listed in Schedule III  and Schedule IV  are also protected, but the penalties are much lower.
Schedule V  includes the animals that can be hunted.
The plants in Schedule VI  are prohibited from harvesting and planting.
The Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972
1970s in law
It borders on Lake Tanganyika, and is just south of the border with Burundi.
The regional capital of western Tanganyika, Kigoma, is 10 miles (20 km) south of Gombe.
Established in 1968, Gombe is the smallest national park in Tanzania, with only  of forest running along the hills of the northern shore of Lake Tanganyika.
The Park is most famous as the place where Jane Goodall did her research on the chimpanzee groups.
The Kasakela chimpanzee community, featured in several books and documentaries, lives in Gombe Stream National Park.
Goodall discovered that the apes eat smaller monkeys regularly.
They do this by cooperative hunting, gradually cutting off the monkey's escape routes.
The extent of this predation is notable:
"Goodall's Gombe data have also led researchers to take a closer look at the role that hunting plays in chimp feeding habits.
All told, chimps may kill and eat a third of the Gombe’s colobus population each year".
Other wildlife
Besides chimpanzees, primates living in Gombe Stream include beachcomber olive baboons, Red Colobus monkeys and vervet monkeys.
The park is also home to over 200 bird species and bushpigs.
There are also 11 species of snakes, and occasional hippopotamus and leopards.
Rue McClanahan (February 21, 1934 – June 3, 2010) was an American actress.
She acted in several television sitcoms, most notably The Golden Girls.
She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in 1987.
She also starred in Mama's Family.
McClanahan died of a stroke.
McClanahan was born Eddi-Rue McClanahan.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Tulsa.
She began acting on off-Broadway in New York City in 1957.
Her Broadway début was in 1969.
She was in the musical, Jimmy Shine.
Dustin Hoffman was in the title role.
Her autobiography, My First Five Husbands ... and the Ones Who Got Away, was released in 2007.
Nominations and awards
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for: The Golden Girls (1986)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for: The Golden Girls (1987) (Won)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for: The Golden Girls (1988)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for: The Golden Girls (1989)
Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series – Comedy/Musical for: The Golden Girls (1986)
Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series – Comedy/Musical for: The Golden Girls (1987)
Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series – Comedy/Musical for: The Golden Girls (1988)
Best Actress for Who's Happy Now (1969) (won)
Female Star of the Year for: The Golden Girls (1986) (won)
Pop Culture Award for: The Golden Girls (2008) (won)
Quintessential Non-Traditional Family for: The Golden Girls (2003) (won)
Another World (cast member from 1970 to 1971)
Where the Heart Is (1971–1972)
Hogan's Goat (1971; TV movie)
All in the Family (TV Series) (1972; 1 episode: "The Bunkers and the Swingers")
The Rimers of Eldritch (1974; TV movie)
Maude (1972–1978)
Apple Pie (1978)
Lou Grant (1980; Guns)
Gimme a Break (TV Series) (1981–1987; 2 episodes)
Newhart (TV Series) (1982; The Way We Thought We Were)
Alice (TV Series) (1984) 1 episode, played a nursery school teacher, "Mother Goose" aka "Betty Muffet".
Mama's Family (TV Series) as Aunt Fran (1983–1985).
Murder, She Wrote (1985; 1 episode: "Murder Takes the Bus")
The Golden Girls (1985–1992)
The Little Match Girl (1987; TV Movie)
Take My Daughters, Please (1988; TV Movie)
The Man in the Brown Suit (1989; TV movie)
The Wickedest Witch (1989; TV movie)
Children of the Bride (1990; TV movie)
Baby of the Bride (1991; TV movie)
The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story (TV movie; 1991)
Dame Edna's Hollywood (May 9, 1992) 1 episode, herself.
The Golden Palace (1992–1993)
Mother of the Bride (1993; TV movie)
Nunsense 1993 TV Special
Boy Meets World (1993; 1 episode)
Touched by an Angel (1994; 1 episode)
Nunsense 2 The Sequel 1994 TV Special
Columbo (1998; 1 episode: "Ashes to Ashes")
Nunsense 3 The Jamboree 1998 TV Special cameo as Sister Mary Regina
A Saintly Switch (1999; TV movie)
Safe Harbor (1999; 10 episodes)
Blue's Clues (1999; 1 episode)
Ladies Man (2000; 2 episodes)
Touched by an Angel (2001; 2 episodes)
Wonderfalls (2004: 1 episode)
Hope & Faith (2005; 1 episode)
King of the Hill (2007; 1 episode)
Sordid Lives: The Series (2008; 12 episodes)
Law & Order (2009; 1 episode)
Celebrity Ghost Stories (October 17, 2009 episode)
Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (December 2, 2009 episode)
The Rotten Apple (1961)
Angel's Flight (1965)
Walk the Angry Beach (1968)
Hollywood After Dark (1968)
The Unholy Choice (1968)
The People Next Door (1970)
Some of My Best Friends Are... (1971)
They Might Be Giants (1971)
The Skin of Our Teeth (1983)
Message from Nam (1993)
A Christmas to Remember (1995)
Dear God (1996)
Innocent Victims (TV movie) (1996)
Annabelle's Wish (1997)
Starship Troopers (1997)
The Fighting Temptations (2003)
Back to You and Me (2005)
Generation Gap (2008)
Lead poisoning is a condition where there is too much lead in the body.
Lead interferes with many processes and is toxic to many organs and tissues.
Treatment of the condition is usually focused on removing the source of lead.
Some animals also die from lead poisoning.
Mostly, children are at risk for this condition.
Symptoms of Lead Poisoning include coughing,fatigue, and severe dehydration.
If you believe your child has Lead Poisoning take them to a doctor immediately.
Bulldozers are crawling machines which have blades.
These machines are used for pushing large amounts of dirt or rubble during demolition or construction.
They have claw-like devices in the rear to loosen materials which are densely compacted.
Bulldozers are structurally different from excavators, but in many respects their functions are similar.
If we talk about universal types of construction equipment, then bulldozers are used when a large amount of work is expected.
According to the method of movement, the bulldozers are divided into wheeled and tracked.
This construction equipment is used for levelling the soil layer, digging trenches, as well as for transporting bulk cargo.
The bulldozer is an economical and efficient construction assistant.
Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia (St. Petersburg 14 January 1850 (4 January O.S.) – Paris, 14 November 1908) was the sixth child and the fourth son of Alexander II of Russia and his first wife Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse).
Destined to a naval career, Alexei Alexandrovich started his military training at the age of 7.
By the age of 20 he had been appointed lieutenant of the Russian Imperial Navy and had visited all European military ports of Russia.
In 1871 he was sent as a goodwill ambassador to the United States and Japan.
In 1883 he was appointed general admiral.
He made a big contribution to re-equipping the Russian navy with new ships and in modernizing the naval ports.
He was blamed for the Russian loss to the Japanese in the Battle of Tsushima.
In 1905, he was relieved of his command.
He died in Paris in 1908.
During 1871 the Grand Duke led a squadron of the Russian Navy on a return visit to the United States.
Whilst in New York a dinner in his honour was given at Delmonico's, and the dish Lobster Duke Alexis named for him in his honor by Charles Ranhofer.
The Provisional Irish Republican Army was an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that wanted to unite Ireland, by using armed force to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom, mainly during The Troubles era.
It split from the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1969.
Its violent activities formally ended in 1997.
During that time, about 10,000 people were members.
In 2002, there were about 1,000 people left; 300 of them were still in active service.
In July 2005 it destroyed all its weapons and bombs.
Its opponents were the British Army, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, and loyalist paramilitary groups like the Ulster Volunteers.
The PIRA aimed to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and create a socialist republic within a united Ireland.
It tried to do this through armed attacks and explosions and by using political persuasion.
The Provisional Irish Republican Army is also referred to as the IRA, the PIRA, the Provos, or by its supporters as the Army or the 'RA.
The PIRA usually refers to its members as volunteers.
The IRA is a listed in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000.
It is also listed as an unlawful organisation in the Republic of Ireland.
The United States does not list the IRA as a "foreign terrorist organization", but includes them in the category of "other selected terrorist groups also deemed of relevance in the global war on terrorism.".
Overview of strategies
The IRA's first strategy was to use force to destroy the Northern Ireland administration and to hurt or kill enough British soldiers and police officers that the British government would leave.
The IRA recruited volunteers.
They got more volunteers after the 1972  Bloody Sunday attack, in which the British military fired on protesters.
The IRA then attacked against British military and economic targets.
They were supported by arms and funding from Libya and from some groups in the United States.
The IRA agreed to a ceasefire in February 1975, which lasted nearly a year.
Then the IRA decided it could not meet its goals with the ceasefire.
As a result, the IRA launched a new strategy known as "the Long War".
This started a war of attrition against the British.
As well, they did more political activity through the political party Sinn Féin.
The 1981 Irish hunger strike in helped the IRA to gain support and win elections.
This led to the Armalite and ballot box strategy which aimed at doing more political activity.
The unsuccessful attempt to do more military attacks led republican leaders to look for a political solution.
Sinn Féin got more distanced from the IRA.
Following negotiations with the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and with British civil servants, the IRA called a ceasefire in 1994.
They expected that Sinn Féin would be included in political talks for solving the disputes.
When the British government demanded the disarmament of the IRA before it allowed Sinn Féin into talks, the IRA called off its ceasefire in February 1996.
After the ceasefire was reinstated in July 1997, Sinn Féin was admitted into all-party talks.
This produced the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.
The IRA's armed campaign, primarily in Northern Ireland but also in England and mainland Europe, caused the deaths of approximately 1,800 people.
The dead included around 1,100 members of the British security forces, and about 640 civilians.
The IRA itself lost 275–300 members, of an estimated 10,000 total over the 30-year period.
On 28 July 2005, the IRA Army Council announced an end to its armed campaign.
The IRA stated that it would use only political and democratic processes.
Soon after, the IRA destroyed its guns and bombs.
Two small groups split from the Provisional IRA, the Continuity IRA in 1986, and the Real IRA in 1997.
Both reject the Good Friday Agreement and continue to engage in paramilitary activity.
Toa Payoh is a place in Singapore.
It is found in the central area of the Singapore island and is well known for having the first bus interchange with air conditioner in it.
The whole district covers a total of 845 ha in land area.
There are a few notable places in Toa Payoh.
They are listed below:
Toa Payoh stadium
The Toa Payoh Town Park is a garden-landscaped park.
It was known as Toa Payoh Town Garden before a temporary bus interchange had to be built at the location of the garden.
Toa Payoh Free Online Community Forums (ToaPayoh.
NET)
Baldwin is known as the Father of American Civil Engineering.
His five sons, Cyrus Baldwin (1773-1854), Benjamin Franklin Baldwin (1777-1821), Loammi Baldwin, Jr. (1780-1834), James Fowle Baldwin (1782-1862), and George Rumford Baldwin (1798-1888) were also well-known engineers.
He surveyed and built the Middlesex Canal, but today he is perhaps best remembered for the Baldwin apple which he discovered when surveying the Middlesex Canal, and then developed at his farm
Military Career in the American Revolution
In 1774 Baldwin enlisted in a regiment, and commanded the Woburn militia at the Battle of Lexington and Concord as a major.
At the beginning of the war he enlisted in the 26th Continental Regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel Gerrish.
Here he rapidly advanced to be lieutenant-colonel, and on Colonel Gerrish's retirement in August 1775, he was placed in command of the regiment, and was soon commissioned colonel.
Until the end of 1775, Baldwin and his men stayed near Boston, but in April 1776, he was ordered with his command to New York City.
On the night of December 25, 1776, in the face of a violent and extremely cold storm of snow and hail, General Washington and his army crossed the Delaware to the New Jersey side, and fought the Battle of Trenton.
Baldwin and his regiment participated in both the crossing and the fight.
In 1777, Baldwin resigned from the army because of ill health.
Baldwin was elected to various public offices between 1780 and 1796.
He was appointed high sheriff of Middlesex County in 1780, and was the first to hold office after the adoption of the state constitution.
From 1778-1784, he represented Woburn in the Massachusetts General Court (the state legislature).
In 1794, he was a candidate for election to the United States House of Representatives, and obtained all the votes cast in Woburn but one.
Engineering career
Baldwin began work with his older sons on the Middlesex Canal in 1794 and after nine years, the canal began service in 1803.
He later worked on Boston's fortifications.
His son Cyrus continued his father's work on the Middlesex Canal as an agent for the canal company.
His son Benjamin worked on the Boston Mill Dam for before an early death at age 43.
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (born 21 October 1990) is a French chess Grandmaster and the 2009 World Junior Chess Champion.
MVL, as he is sometimes called, is at present their strongest player.
Grandmaster norms
He completed his final grandmaster norm in 2005, at 14 years, 4 months.
He got his norms in these tournaments:
Paris Championship 2004: finished 3rd with 6½ points from nine rounds and a rating performance of 2703
NAO GM Tournament 2004: won the tournament with 6/9 and got a performance of 2605
GM Tournament of Évry: from 21 to 27 February 2005, finished second with 7½ and a performance of 2712
Eva Mendes (born March 5, 1974) is an American actress.
She has been in movies including The Other Guys and Training Day.
She was born in Miami, Florida and grew up in Los Angeles, California.
Currently married to Evan Davies.
Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998)
A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
Mortal Kombat: Conquest (1998)
My Brother the Pig (1999)
The Disciples (2000)
Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
Training Day (2001)
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
Out of Time (2003)
Stuck on You (2003)
Hitch (2005)
The Wendell Baker Story (2005)
Guilty Hearts (2005)
Trust the Man (2006)
Ghost Rider (2007)
Knocked Up (2007)
We Own the Night (2007)
Cleaner (2007)
The Women (2008)
The Spirit (2008)
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
The Other Guys (2010)
Last Night (2010)
Fast Five (2011)
Holy Motors (2012)
Girl in Progress (2012)
The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)
Clear History (2013)
Lost River (2014)
Fast 8 (2017)
The estrildid finches are small passerine birds of the Old World tropics and Australasia.
They can be classified as the family Estrildidae (weaver-finch), or as a sub-group within the family Passeridae, which also includes the true sparrows.
They live in flocks and often colonial seed-eaters with short, thick, but pointed bills.
They are all similar in structure and habits, but vary widely in plumage colours and pattern.
All the estrildids build large domed nests and lay 5–10 white eggs.
Some of the fire-finches and pytilias are hosts to the brood-parasitic indigobirds and whydahs respectively.
Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. (born August 14, 1959 in Lansing, Michigan) is an American retired NBA basketball player.
He won the NBA Championship in 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987 and 1988 all with the Los Angeles Lakers.
He played college basketball at Michigan State University where he developed a rivalry and friendship with Boston Celtics star Larry Bird when he faced him in the 1979 NCAA finals and three NBA championship games.