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Melvin Gene Tucker II [1] (born January 4, 1972) is an American football coach and former player. He was the head football coach at Michigan State University from 2020 to 2023. Tucker was the interim head coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL) for the final five games of the 2011 season .
Science writer Martin Gardner described this as one of the "most elementary of statistical fallacies" and noted that "people in Wisconsin tend to be long-lived and since cancer is a disease of middle and elderly years, it is a more frequent cause of death in Wisconsin than in many other states." [4] Page managed the Biochemical Research ...
The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2024.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Melvin Horace Purvis II (October 24, 1903 – February 29, 1960) was an FBI agent instrumental in capturing bank robbers John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd in 1934. All of this would later overshadow his military career which saw him directly involved with General George Patton , Hermann Göring , and the Nuremberg Trials .
Richard Pryde Boggs (May 15, 1933 – March 6, 2003) was a Californian neurologist who was sentenced to life in prison in 1990 for his part in a scheme that involved murdering a man and giving the victim another man's identity in order to collect on a $1.5 million life insurance policy.
Melvin Collins (1910 – November 6, 1948) was an American mass murderer who committed a mass shooting from the window of a boarding room in Chester, Pennsylvania, on November 6, 1948, killing seven and injuring four [a] before he committed suicide.
Gygax was born in Chicago, the son of Almina Emelie "Posey" Burdick [3]: 15 and Swiss immigrant and former Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist Ernst Gygax. [4] [5] He was named Ernest after his father, but was commonly known as Gary, the middle name given to him by his mother after the actor Gary Cooper.
A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians is an 1827 science fiction novel by George Tucker published under the pseudonym "Joseph Atterley", the story's fictional main character who travels to the Moon using a material with anti-gravitational properties.