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Richard Dean Parsons (April 4, 1948 – December 26, 2024) was an American business executive, notably the chairman of Citigroup and the chairman and CEO of Time Warner.He had also been the interim CEO of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the interim chairman of the board for CBS.
Birth certificate of Jeanne Calment. Calment was born on 21 February 1875 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence. [1] Some of her close family members also had an above-average lifespan as her older brother, François (1865–1962), lived to the age of 97, her father, Nicolas (1837–1931), who was a shipbuilder, 93, and her mother, Marguerite Gilles (1838–1924), who was from a family of ...
The oldest known living person is Inah Canabarro Lucas of Brazil, aged 116 years, 217 days. [5] The oldest known living man is João Marinho Neto of Brazil, aged 112 years, 98 days. [ 6 ] The 100 oldest women have, on average, lived several years longer than the 100 oldest men.
At age 16, Shortz began regularly contributing crossword puzzles to Dell publications. [6] He eventually graduated from Indiana University in 1974, [7] and is the only person known to hold a college degree in enigmatology, [8] the study of puzzles. Shortz wrote his thesis about the history of American word puzzles. [9]
Indian politician, leader of the All India Kisan Sabha or peasants front of the Communist Party of India (CPIM) (1967–1976) [8] [9] Randi Anda: 1898–1999: 100: Norwegian politician, deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway [10] Doris Margaret Anderson: 1922–2022: 100: Canadian senator [11] Gerald Smedley Andrews: 1903–2005: 102
London — The world's oldest man, John Tinniswood, has died at the age of 112 at the care home where he lived in Southport, northwest England, Guinness World Records said Tuesday, quoting his ...
Tête-à-tête chair, also known as a courting bench, a type of settee consisting of two connected chairs which allow two people to sit facing one another; Thinking Man's Chair, designed by Jasper Morrison for Cappellini; Throne, a ceremonial chair for a monarch or similar dignitary of high rank; Toilet chair, a disability aid attached to a ...
The puzzle follows a number of conventions, both for tradition's sake and to aid solvers in completing the crossword: Nearly all the Times crossword grids have rotational symmetry: they can be rotated 180 degrees and remain identical. Rarely, puzzles with only vertical or horizontal symmetry can be found; yet rarer are asymmetrical puzzles ...