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John Dudley Ball Jr. (July 8, 1911 – October 15, 1988) [1] was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. Tibbs was introduced in the 1965 novel In the Heat of the Night , which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and was made into an ...
At Lake Nyos, northwestern Cameroon, a limnic eruption of unknown cause released about 100,000–300,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2) from the lake's bed. The gas cloud initially rose at nearly 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph; 28 m/s) and then, being heavier than air, descended onto nearby villages, suffocating people and livestock within 25 ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Date of death Cause of death Season in production Effect on production Robert Ripley: Presenter and participant Ripley's Believe It or Not! 13 1949-05-27 Heart attack: 1 Died three days after live broadcast of the 13th episode. Ripley's friends and associates filled in as presenters for the remainder of the first season.
John Ball (assemblyman) (1756–1838), American soldier and politician; John Thomas Ball (1815–1898), Irish barrister and politician, MP for Dublin University 1868–1875; John Ball (naturalist) (1818–1889), Irish naturalist and politician, MP for County Carlow 1857–1880; John Ball (pioneer) (1794–1884), American pioneer and state ...
John Ball (November 12, 1794 – February 5, 1884) was a settler, educator, lawyer and member of the Michigan State Legislature. Early life.
John Thomas Ball (born May 10, 1990) is an American Christian musician and guitarist, who plays alternative rock, folk rock, indie folk and indie rock music. He has released three extended plays , Found Among the Broken (2010), John Ball (2013), and By Declaration & the Death (2016).
The second half of the book, "Death Depicted", focuses on what Fishman identifies as the exception to the typical rules on not depicting death. She brings up several cases where the families of the victims sought visibility through photos of the dead, including the lynching of Emmett Till and a gang rape and murder in Utter Pradesh. She says ...