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George Alfred Winterling (September 1, 1931 – June 21, 2023) was an American television meteorologist and the creator of the "heat index". [ citation needed ] Chief meteorologist for television station WJXT in Jacksonville, Florida for almost fifty years, [ 1 ] Winterling helped develop modern forecasting.
WJXT (channel 4) is an independent television station in Jacksonville, Florida, United States.It is owned by Graham Media Group alongside CW affiliate WCWJ (channel 17). The two stations share studios at 4 Broadcast Place on the south bank of the St. Johns River in Jacksonville; WJXT's transmitter is located on Anders Boulevard in the city's Killarney Shores section.
Tom Wills, cricketer and founder of Australian rules football, one of six settlers who survived the massacre Horatio Wills' gravestone, ca. 1950. The Cullin-la-ringo massacre, also known as the Wills tragedy, was a massacre of white colonists by Indigenous Australians that occurred on 17 October 1861, north of modern-day Springsure in Central Queensland, Australia.
Wills' middle name comes from his childhood role model William Wentworth, the statesman, explorer and "fighter for the rights of the Australian born". [3]Wills was born on 19 August 1835 on the Molonglo Plain near modern-day Canberra, in the British penal colony (now the Australian state) of New South Wales, as the elder child of Horatio and Elizabeth (née McGuire) Wills. [4]
George Winterling, 91, American television meteorologist . [ 478 ] Robin F. Wynne , 70, American jurist, associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court (since 2014).
WAVE-TV was founded and owned by George W. Norton Jr., a lawyer and financier who had also put WAVE radio (970 AM, now WGTK) on the air in 1933. Over the years, the Nortons acquired three other television stations and two other radio stations.
A number of notable players have been born in New South Wales or played the majority of their junior careers in New South Wales; many of these players have been from the traditional Australian rules football areas of Broken Hill or the Riverina. Australian football pioneers Tom Wills and H. C. A. Harrison were born in New South Wales in the 1830s.
The biggest hit for "Right or Wrong" came on April 28, 1984, when George Strait recorded the old Bob Wills song for his best-selling album of the same name (See Right or Wrong). [4] The single from that album (MCA 52337) reached #1, staying on the charts for 12 weeks.