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Jon Orman. Jon Orman studied modern languages (French and Dutch) at University College London. This was followed by postgraduate studies in linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2007 with a thesis entitled Language Policy and Nation-Building in Post-Apartheid South Africa which was subsequently published as a ...
- JonBenét Is Found Dead in Her Parents' Basement
- Lou Smit Begins Investigating JonBenét's Murder
- Lou Smit Dies, But The Search Continues
JonBenét’s parents initially thought she had been kidnapped during the night. In a 911 call just before 6 a.m., her mother Patsy Ramsey was inconsolable as she told the dispatcher that her daughter was missing and that she’d found a ransom note at the bottom of her stairs. The three-page long note said in part that if JonBenét’s parents called the ...
Despite their denials, police continued to suspect the parents in JonBenét’s murder. Boulder County District Attorney Alex Hunter, however, wasn't convinced of their guilt and wanted to explore other theories. Three months after JonBenét’s death, he brought Smit into the fold. He quickly began reviewing the evidence and finding potential leads that...
After 13 years, Smit still believed that an unidentified intruder was responsible for JonBenet’s murder. But he was running out of time. He was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2010. But even as dozens of people visited him each day to pay their respects at the hospital, and later in hospice, he never stopped talking about JonBenét’s case, according ...
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Charles Carter and Richard Wolfenden, both of the University of North Carolina, have uncovered new evidence of abiogenesis, the process by which life arises from non-living chemical matter.
Dr. John Snow in the mid-1850s. In the summer of 1831, when Snow was eighteen and in his fourth year as an apprentice, an epidemic of cholera struck London. The disease, which had already killed hundreds of thousands of people on the European continent, spread north to Newcastle in October.
May 21, 2010 · The genome constructed a live polio virus that infected and killed mice. Dr. Venter’s work on the bacterium is similar in principle, except that the polio virus genome is only 7,500 units in ...
Jan 31, 2018 · Consider this: Evidence points to a microbial Eve as our first ancestor — a tough, underwater organism withstanding extremes that became every other creature to ever live, says Marcelo Gleiser.
t. e. Edward Joseph Snowden (Russian: Эдвард Джозеф Сноуден, born June 21, 1983) is an American former NSA intelligence contractor and whistleblower [4] who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs. He became a naturalized Russian citizen in 2022.
