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Apr 24, 2024 · Armand Baeyens, 85, Belgian racing cyclist. [1] Jack Boles, 88, British Colonial Service officer. [2] Sidney Bryan Berry, 87, American military officer, United States Military Academy at West Point chief, heart failure. [3] Texas Johnny Brown, 85, American blues musician and songwriter. [4] Victor Engström, 24, Swedish bandy player, liver cancer.
3 days ago · Balaenoptera sibbaldii Sars , 1875. The blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal and a baleen whale. Reaching a maximum confirmed length of 29.9 meters (98 ft) and weighing up to 199 tonnes (196 long tons; 219 short tons), it is the largest animal known ever to have existed. [3] [a] The blue whale's long and slender body can be of ...
Apr 22, 2024 · Kathryn Wahl is the Vice President of Marketing for Stream’s Investment Management (IM) platform, which currently manages three opportunistic comingled discretionary funds and separate account mandates totaling over $1 Billion of equity. Kathryn leads IM Marketing for Stream’s discretionary funds, development portfolio, and IM Platform as a ...
2 days ago · The death of Aeschylus, killed by a turtle dropped onto his head by a falcon, illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini. This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.
5 days ago · Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, [1] [2] is the state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment for a crime, usually following an authorised, rule-governed process to conclude that the person is responsible for violating norms that warrant said punishment. [3]
3 days ago · Archimedes was born c. 287 BC in the seaport city of Syracuse, Sicily, at that time a self-governing colony in Magna Graecia. The date of birth is based on a statement by the Byzantine Greek scholar John Tzetzes that Archimedes lived for 75 years before his death in 212 BC. [8] In the Sand-Reckoner, Archimedes gives his father's name as Phidias ...
2 days ago · t. e. On 10 November 1982, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, the third General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and the fifth leader of the Soviet Union, died at the age of 75 after suffering heart failure following years of serious ailments. His death was officially acknowledged on 11 November simultaneously by Soviet radio ...
