Dr. Dean Brooks (left) and Jack Nicholson from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s
Nest”

Dr. Dean Kent Brooks, former superintendent of the Oregon psychiatric hospital
where the Oscar-winning 1975 picture “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was 
filmed, and who had a small, well-received on-screen role as the fictional hospital’s superintendent ("Dr. John Spivey) died on Thursday at his home in Salem, Ore.,
according to his daughter Dennie Brooks. He was born in Colony, Kan. in 1916.

(ABC) Rome-An Italian professor believes he has found the world’s oldest and most complete Torah scroll safely tucked away in the archives of University of Bologna,
the oldest university in the Western world.

The ancient scroll of Judaism’s most important text is almost 120 feet long and made
of sheep skin.

The manuscript had been stored in the university’s library at least since the 18th century, but had been incorrectly dated and had remained unnoticed.

On Tuesday the university released a statement announcing that Mauro Perani, who
has been professor of Hebrew at the university since 1977, came upon the scroll while compiling the library catalogue and has since been able to date it somewhere between 
the 12th and 13th centuries.

University of Bologna, one of the largest in Italy.

Amelia Earhart

(Fox News) – A grainy sonar image (above) captured off an uninhabited tropical
island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati might represent the remains
of the Electra, the two-engine aircraft legendary aviator Amelia Earhart was piloting
when she vanished on July 2, 1937 in a record attempt to fly around the world at the equator.

Released by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), which
has long been investigating Earhart’s last, fateful flight, the images show an "anomaly" resting at the depth of about 600 feet in the waters off Nikumaroro island, some
350 miles southeast of Earhart’s target destination, Howland Island.

Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed L-10E Electra NR16020

   
   Joyce Diane Brothers (October 20, 1927 – May 13, 2013)

(AP) – Popular psychologist, columnist, and television and film personality
Dr. Joyce Brothers has died.

Longtime publicist Sanford Brokaw says Brothers died Monday in New
York City.

Her celebrity took off after she entered a television quiz show called "The
$64,000 Question." She became the only woman to ever win the show’s
top prize.

Dr. Joyce Brothers on “The $64,000 Question”.

 

              Dave Gold (June 5, 1932 – April 22, 2013)

Los Angeles (Fox News) – Dave Gold, founder of the 99 Cents Only
Stores, might have loved a good bargain. But he died filthy rich.

Gold, who popularized the 99-cent store concept with a string of
more than 300 shops that eventually extended from California to
Texas, reportedly died on Monday, April 22 of an apparent heart
attack. He was 80 years old. 

when Gold opened his first 99 Cents Only Store in Los Angeles in
1982, the concept was reserved for expired or broken products.
“A retail graveyard,” is how The Times referred to such shops
before Gold popularized the concept.