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The Naked and the Dead is a novel written by an American author named Norman Mailer. It was published in 1948. The novel was based on Mailer's experience as a cook while he was stationed in the Philippines. It is about the experiences about one platoon during World War II as they fight in the South Pacific.

It became very popular. It was turned into a film in 1958.

Plot 
The story takes place on the fictional island of Anopopei in the South Pacific and is about American soldiers trying to drive off the Japanese so that they can advance into the Philippines.
Staff Sergeant Sam Croft, Woodrow Wilson, and Roy Gallagher are playing cards the night before a scheduled attack. They are members of a recon platoon fighting on Anopopei. The next morning, as the platoon takes boats to the island, they are nervous. Sgt. William Brown and Cpl. Stanley talk about women and the other men in their squad. The assault begins, and as the platoon waits for their turn to come to the island, they nervously joke among themselves. Once the squad reaches the beach, they dig foxholes. Stanley picks a fight with Oscar Ridges and Red Valsen, but ultimately Red knows the time is not right for a fight, and he backs down. Croft leaves to find his commanding officer. Once they’ve begun to settle in on the beach, the Japanese attack. The squad splits up. Cpl. Toglio, Hennessey, and Ridges have completed their foxholes, so they stay on the beach. Brown, Gallagher, Wilson, Red, Stanley, and Sgt. Julio Martinez run after Croft. As the beach is shelled, Hennessey panics and soils himself
. He runs down the beach to try to clean his pants, but he is killed.
Part 2- Argil and Mold
Croft pleads with higher officers to give him more men to replace those lost. He ultimately earns an extra replacement man, bringing the squad up to fourteen. Roth and Goldstein, two of the new men in the platoon, become friends because they are both Jewish.

Part 3- Plant and Phantom

Part 4- Wake

Characters 
Hennessey is a newer member of the platoon. He is very cautious as to not get killed. When they arrive at the beach of Anopopei, he defecates in his pants out of fear. He has a mental breakdown and runs down the beach in hopes of getting new pants. He is killed soon after by shrapnel from an exploding mortar shell.

Writing

"Fug" 
The publisher would not let the word "fuck" be in the novel, so Mailer used the word "fug" to replace it.

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1948 books
Oliviu Gherman (26 April 1930 – 11 August 2020) was a Romanian physicist, politician, university professor and diplomat. He was a member of the Romanian Senate between 1990 through 2004. He was the Senate President between 1992 to 1996. Between 2001 to 2004, he was the Romanian Ambassador to France.

Gherman died on 11 August 2020 at the age of 90.

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Elaine Devry (born Thelma Elaine Mahnken; January 10, 1930) is an American actress.

Her first movie was The Atomic Kid, in which she and her husband Mickey Rooney co-starred. Devry made three guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the title role of defendant Janice Wainwright in the 1962 episode "The Case of the Shapely Shadow." 

She also appeared in many other popular television series, including Death Valley Days, Bonanza, 77 Sunset Strip, Burke's Law, Family Affair, I Dream of Jeannie, Marcus Welby, M.D., Dragnet, and Tales of Wells Fargo.

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Martha Vickers (May 28, 1925 – November 2, 1971) was an American model and actress.

She played minor roles in many movies during the early 1940s. She played the drug-addicted younger sister of Lauren Bacall's character in The Big Sleep (1946). She also starred in a musical, The Time, the Place and the Girl (also 1946). She also starred in Love and Learn and That Way with Women (both 1947).

Vickers died of esophageal cancer at a hospital in Los Angeles on November 2, 1971 at the age of 46.

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Lorenzo Lamas (born January 20, 1958) is an American actor. He is best known for his role of Lance Cumson in the soap opera Falcon Crest (1981–1990).

Lamas is also known for his roles as Reno Raines in the crime drama series Renegade (1992–1997), and Hector Ramirez in the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful (2004–2006).

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Fernando Álvaro Lamas y de Santos (January 9, 1916October 8, 1982) was an Argentine-American actor and director. He was known for playing the "Latin Lover" in many movies during the 1940s and 1950s.

In 1951, Lamas starred as Paul Sarnac in the musical, Rich, Young and Pretty with Jane Powell. He also starred in The Law and the Lady (1952) which was very unpopular.

He also starred alongside Elizabeth Taylor in The Girl Who Had Everything (1952).

He is the father of actor Lorenzo Lamas. He was married to Arlene Dahl between 1954 to 1960. He was also married to Esther Williams between 1969 until his death.

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This is an article about the history of Female Go players.

Social background
Female Go players are viewed to be a minority. This is due to these reasons: 
 There are many male players but only few female players.
 In Japan, there are only three female 8-dan players. And there are no female 9-dan. In addition, there are no female winners at games without gender rules. Asami Ueno was the first female player who managed to be a finalist.
 In China, there was no female 9-dan before Rui Naiwei.
 Most players and winners at World championships are male.
 Not all female players are fairly paid. Joanne Missingham is known for her protests to this issue.
 At most Go organizations, directors are only male.
These are caused by many reasons. One factor is they retire earlier due to marriage, pregnancy and maternity.
Comparison with female shogi players
In Japan, Go players are always compared with shogi players. This is because newspapers like Asahi Shinbun treat them equal. But there is a big difference among female players. Female Go players usually belong to the same organization with others. But this does not happen for shogi. Female shogi players belong to the Ladies Professional Shogi Association (LPSA). The others belong to the Japan Shogi Association (JSA). Some LPSA players like Kana Satomi have tried to enter JSA. But currently, no one has entered.

Promotion of female players

Europe
In Europe, there were no notable female players before Svetlana Shikshina and Diana Koszegi. In order to increase female players, the European Go Federation is holding the European Womens Go Championship (EWGC) since 1996 and the European Pair Go Championship (EPGC) since 1997.
Japan
Kansai Ki-in has eased the age rules to female players. At Nihon Ki-in, there is a special exam for female players. Most female professionals (except Xie Yimin and Keiko Kato etc.) have got their pro status by this way. In 2019, Nihon Ki-in has started a female player test system to give more support to them. Nihon Ki-in is also sponsoring female amateur games.

Female Student Honinbo

This is a tournament operated with the All Japan Student Go Federation. Some winners have got pro status, or became top amateur players. Only players who cleared regional games can attend.

All Japan Female Amateur Go Championship

The All Japan Female Amateur Go Championship is the highest match for female amateur Go players. Some winners have became a pro. The next table shows the notable winners.

Kaori Chinen, Yukari Yoshihara and Rina Fujisawa also joined this game.

Notes

Go players

Gender
Rahat Indori, born Rahat Qureshi (1 January 1950 – 11 August 2020) was an Indian Bollywood lyricist and Urdu poet. He was also a former professor of Urdu language and a painter. He was a language professor at Devi Ahilya University, Indore. As a movie score composer, his best known works were Khuddar, Mission Kashmir and Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities. Indori was born in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

Indori died on 11 August 2020 at a hospital in Indore from COVID-19, aged 70. He was tested positive for the infection the night before.

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Mohammad Javad Zarif (; ; born c. 7 January 1960) is an Iranian politician. He has been foreign minister of Iran since 2013. He helped end the economic sanctions against Iran from many countries on 16 January 2016.

On 25 February 2019, Zarif resigned from his post as foreign minister. His resignation was rejected by President Hassan Rouhani.

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The A16, also called L'Européenne (The European) in French, is an autoroute (motorway) in France. It goes between Paris and the border with Belgium near Ghyvelde. It goes through Amiens, Calais and Dunkirk. It is part of the European route E40. The autoroute is about  long in total.

Exits and junctions

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Isabelle Fuhrman (born February 25, 1997) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Esther in the 2009 horror movie Orphan and Clove in the 2012 dystopian adventure movie The Hunger Games.

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Shakuntala Devi (4 November 1929 – 21 April 2013) was an Indian writer and mental calculator. She was popularly known as the "Human Computer". Devi wanted to make mathematics easier for students. 

Her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records. However, the certificate for the record was given posthumously on 30 July 2020, despite Devi achieving her world record on 18 June 1980. In 2019, a movie was made in memory of her. The name of the movie was Shakuntala Devi.Unlike Marcus Zhong, Shakuntla had an IQ of 160.

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Child prodigies
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Writers from Karnataka
Vidya Balan (pronounced ; born 1 January 1979) is an Indian actress. 

She was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2014.

Vidya is known for her roles in Paa (2009), the black comedy Ishqiya (2010), the thrillers No One Killed Jessica and Kahaani (2012), and the biopic The Dirty Picture (2011).

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Cheraw ( ,  ) is a largest city on the Pee Dee River in Chesterfield County South Carolina, United States. The population was 12,651 at the 2010 census. It has been nicknamed "The Prettiest City in Dixie".

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The Jodrell Bank Observatory a radio telescope in Cheshire. It picks up radio waves from outer space. Jodrell Bank is mainly used for investigating radio waves from the planets and stars.

It was the idea of its first director, Bernard Lovell, to use radio signals to investigate cosmic rays. Lovell, Professor of Astronomy at Manchester University, had worked on radar in World War II. The observatory was set up in 1945.  

It has been used to research meteoroids, quasars, pulsars, masers and gravitational lenses. It was heavily involved in tracking space probes.

The main telescope at the observatory is the Lovell Telescope. It has diameter of , and is the third largest steerable radio telescope in the world. There are three other active telescopes at the observatory.
The Jodrell Bank Observatory is the base of the Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN), a "National Facility" run by the University of Manchester. What this means is that radio telescopes can work together to form a long baseline to better collect data from an important phenomenon. There are three other active telescopes at the observatory; the Mark II, and  and 7 m diameter radio telescopes. 

The telescope discovered radio noise from the Great Nebula in Andromeda—the first definite detection of an extragalactic radio source—and the remains of Tycho's Supernova in the radio frequency. At that time, Tycho's Supervova had not been discovered by regular light telescopes.

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The New Town is in the central area in Edinburgh, Scotland. Together with the Old Town, it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995.  

It was built in stages between 1767 and around 1850. It kept much of its original neoclassical and Georgian period architecture. It is most famous for Princes Street. It faces the Edinburgh Castle and the Old Town.

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Other websites 

 Edinburgh World Heritage/ New Town

Edinburgh
World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom
Tycho's Supernova  also called SN 1572 or B Cassiopeiae (B Cas) – was a supernova of Type Ia in the constellation Cassiopeia. It is one of eight supernovae visible to the naked eye in historical records. It appeared in early November 1572 and was independently discovered by many people. It is called Tycho's because Tycho Brahe published a book the next year about what he and other astronomers saw.

The remains of the supernova was first detected by radio telescopes. It was often known as 3C 10, which is a radio-source designation, but now people call it Tycho's supernova remnant. It can be seen by light telescope.

Supernovae
Astronomical objects
1572
Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City is a former UNESCO World Heritage Site in Liverpool, England. The six sites included the Pier Head, Albert Dock,  William Brown Street,  and other famous landmarks in the city. They are considered the 'supreme example of a commercial port at a time of Britain's greatest global influence'.

The sites were nominated to UNESCO in January 2003. By March 2004, ICOMOS recommended the Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City as a World Heritage Site. It was accepted under cultural bases: ii, iii and iv. 

In 2012, the proposed construction of Liverpool Waters project caused the sites to be included in the List of World Heritage in Danger. In July 2017, UNESCO warned it might lose its status because of the development plans. 

English Heritage argued against the Liverpool Waters development. It thought some of Liverpool's most significant historic buildings would be “severely compromised”.

In July 2021, UNESCO announced that the site had been stripped of its World Heritage status.
References

Bibliography

Other websites 

 Liverpool World Heritage Website

Buildings and structures in Liverpool
The Theaceae is a family of plants in the order Ericales. They contain the genus Camellia, used to make tea. They have around 7 to 40 genera.

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Plant families
SUPINFO International University, formerly called "École Supérieure d'Informatique", is a renowned graduate engineering school in France. It is in a campus of IONIS Education Group. It has been created in 1965. The school is recognized by the French State since 1972.

It offers a 5-year course in IT.

References

Further reading 

 Official website

Technical colleges and universities in Paris
1965 establishments in Europe
1960s establishments in France
The Sabang tree frog (Nyctimystes sanguinolenta)  is a tree frog from New Guinea.  Scientists have seen it in the Baliem Valley and other places not high above sea level in Indonesia.

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The Old Town () is oldest part of Edinburgh. It preserved much of its medieval street plan and buildings. Together with New Town, it forms a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Royal Mile 
The main street in the Old Town is called the "Royal Mile". It runs on a downwards path from Edinburgh Castle to Holyrood Palace and the ruined Holyrood Abbey. 

The streets are not officially called The Royal Mile in terms of legal addresses. The actual street names (running west to east) are Castlehill, Lawnmarket, High Street, Canongate and Abbey Strand. 

Notable buildings in the Old Town include St. Giles' Cathedral, the General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland, the National Museum of Scotland, the Old College of the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish Parliament Building. The area is known to have underground vaults and hidden passages that are relics of old phases of construction.

Sections 
In addition to the Royal Mile, the Old Town may be divided into various areas from west to east:
West Port, the old route to the west
 Grassmarket, the area to the south-west
 Edinburgh Castle
 The Cowgate, the lower southern section of the town 
 Canongate, the whole eastern district
 Holyrood, it includes Holyrood Palace and Holyrood Abbey
 Croft-An-Righ, a group of buildings north-east of Holyrood

Major events 
In 1824, a major fire known as Great Fire of Edinburgh, destroyed most of the buildings on the south side of the High Street. During the Edinburgh International Festival, the High Street and Hunter Square become gathering points. Performers in the Fringe advertise their shows, often through street performances.
On 7 December 2002, the Cowgate fire destroyed a small but dense group of old buildings on the Cowgate and South Bridge. It destroyed the famous comedy club, The Gilded Balloon. Other areas affected were the Informatics Department of the University of Edinburgh. The vast artificial intelligence library was also damaged. The site was redeveloped 2013-2014. There now stands a single new building which largely used as a hotel.

References

Other websites 

 Kincaid map showing the Old Town in 1784

 UNESCO World Heritage Site Inscription
 Edinburgh Old Town Association

World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom
Edinburgh
Lantz is a village in Navarre, Spain. It still maintains its old tradition of rural carnival.

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Municipalities in Navarre
The Balsaminaceae is a family of two genera and around 850 to 1,000 species, mostly in the genus Impatiens. The two genera in this family are Impatiens and Hydrocera.

References 

Ericales
Plant families
Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin (; born 4 February 1964) is a Russian politician. He is the 10th Chairman of the State Duma since 5 October 2016.

Career 
Volodin was Vladimir Putin's aide. He was the Secretary-General of the United Russia party. He was also a deputy in the State Duma from 1999-2001. 

From 2010 until 2012, he was Deputy Prime Minister of Russia. He was also a first deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia. He also helped in Putin's third term.

References 

1964 births
Russian politicians
Living people
Saratov Oblast
NGC 4754 is a barred lenticular galaxy in the Virgo constellation. It was discovered on on March 15, 1784 by astronomer William Herschel.

References 

Lenticular galaxies
(born June 24, 1969 in Hokkaido) is a Japanese Professional shogi player ranked 6-dan since 2002. She was one of the rivals of Ichiyo Shimizu.

LPSA service
Nakai was selected to be the first representative director of The Ladies Professional Shogi-player's Association of Japan (LPSA) after it was established in 2007. She served in that position until 2010.

Major titles
She has obtained 19 major titles in her career. This is a 3rd place record in Japanese shogi history.

Awards and honors
Nakai received a number of Japan Shogi Association Annual Shogi Awards and other awards in recognition of her accomplishments in shogi and contributions made to Japanese society.

Annual shogi awards
13th-14th, 16th, 20th and 27th Annual Awards: Women's Professional Award
29th-30th Annual Awards (April 2001 - March 2003): Women's Professional of the Year 
31st-32nd Annual Awards (April 2003 - March 2005): Women's Professional Award
38th and 40th Annual Awards: Women's Professional Most Games Played
Other awards
1986, February: Wakkanai, Hokkaido Meritorious Citizen Award

Gallery

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The Church of St Martin is an old Church of England church in Canterbury, England. It is best known as having the longest continuous history as a parish church in the English-speaking world. It is often known as "The first church founded in England". Although there were already Roman and Celtic churches had existed for centuries. Together with the Canterbury Cathedral and St Augustine's Abbey, they are part of a World Heritage Site.

Since 1668 the church has been part of the benefice of St Martin and St Paul Canterbury. Both St Martin's and nearby St Paul's churches are used for weekly services. The current rector of the parish is the Reverend Mark Richard Griffin.
Early history 
St Martin's was the private chapel of Queen Bertha of Kent (died in or after 601). Queen Bertha was a Christian Frankish princess who arrived in England with her chaplain, Bishop Liudhard. Her pagan husband, King Æthelberht of Kent, let her to continue to practise her religion by renovating (ca. AD 580) an existing church. As Bede named it, this church was dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours. It is the city located near where Bertha grew up.

Upon Augustine's arrival, he used St Martin's as his mission headquarters. King Æthelberht was baptised here. When Canterbury Cathedral and St Augustine's Abbey were established, St Martin's lost its initial prestige. However, it still remains of historical importance.

Architecture
Architecture 

Local finds prove that Christianity did exist in this area of the city at the time. The church contains many reused Roman bricks or spolia. It also has complete sections of walls of Roman tiles. At the core of the church the brick remains of a Roman tomb were integrated into the structure. Several sections of walls are clearly very early. It is possible that a blocked square-headed doorway in the chancel was the entrance to Bertha's church. Meanwhile, other sections of wall come from the period after the Gregorian mission in the 7th or 8th centuries. The apse that was originally at the east end has been removed. The tower came much later, in Perpendicular style. The church is a Grade I listed building.

Graves 
Many notable local families and well-known graves were buried in its churchyard. These people include: 

 Thomas Sidney Cooper
 Mary Tourtel
 Rupert Bear
Music 
The church has a continuing musical tradition from the monks of St Augustine to the present day. The choral director for the parish is Dom del Nevo.

The tower has three bells set for swing-chiming using levers.

References

Notes 

 F. Haverfield, "Early British Christianity" The English Historical Review Vol. 11, No. 43. (Jul., 1896)
 Service, Alastair, The Buildings of Britain, A Guide and Gazetteer, Anglo-Saxon and Norman, 1982, Barrie & Jenkins (London),

Other websites 

 Canterbury Buildings
 Website of St Martin's Church
 Triadic UNESCO World Heritage property, "Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church"

Canterbury
Anglican churches in England
World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom
7th-century buildings and structures
Euronews (styled euronews) is a European television news network The network began broadcasting on 1 January 1993 and covers world news from a European perspective. It is a provider of livestreamed news, which can be viewed in most of the world via its website, on YouTube, and on various mobile devices and digital media players. The service is also aimed at the overseas market, similar to TV Brasil Internacional, ABC Australia, TVP Polonia, Fox Business Network, Bloomberg Television, CNBC, CNN International, CNN, ESPNews, DD India, BBC News, MSNBC, Al Jazeera English, France 24, Phoenix InfoNews Channel,  RTP Internacional, TVE Internacional, Rai Italia, CCTV-4, CGTN, DW, TV5Monde, NHK World, Arirang, KBS World, RT, BBC Parliament, CBC News Network, Fox News Channel, Canal del Congreso, CPAC, C-SPAN, BBC One, CBC Television, PBS and RTR-Planeta.
History
In 1992, following the Persian Gulf War, during which rival cable and satellite international television news channel CNN's position as the preeminent source of 24-hour news programming was cemented, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) proposed a channel to present information from a counterpart European perspective. The inaugural Euronews broadcast was on 1 January 1993 from Écully, Lyon. In 1996, an additional broadcast studio was set up in London.

In late 1997, the British news broadcaster ITN purchased a 49% share of Euronews for £5.1 million from Alcatel-Lucent. ITN supplied the content of the channel along with the remaining shareholders.

In 1999, the broadcast switched from solely analogue to mainly digital transmission. The same year, a Portuguese audio track was added.

In 2001, the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) acquired a 1.8% stake in SOCEMIE. A Russian-language service was launched later in the year.
In April 2003, ITN sold its stake in Euronews as part of its drive to streamline operations and focus on news-gathering rather than channel management.

On 6 February 2006, Ukrainian public broadcaster Natsionalna Telekompanya Ukraïny (NTU) purchased a one percent interest in SOCEMIE.

In 2007, Euronews won the European Commission's tender for an Arabic-language news channel, with a service agreement being signed on 6 December. The Arabic service would eventually be launched in July 2008.

On 27 May 2008, Spanish public broadcaster RTVE decided to leave Euronews, citing legal requirements to maintain low debt levels through careful spending as a factor influencing its decision to leave, as well as to promote its international channel TVE Internacional.
In February 2009, the Turkish public broadcaster TRT became a shareholder in the channel and joined its supervisory board. TRT purchased 15.70% of the channel's shares and became the fourth main partner after France Télévisions (23.93%), RAI (21.54%), and VGTRK (16.94%). Subsequently, Turkish was added as the ninth language service in January 2010. Later that year in October, the channel started broadcasting in Persian, then began broadcasting in 16:9 widescreen format in early 2011, and launched a Ukrainian service in August. A Polish service was launched in mid-2011 amid Poland's accession to the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, although only some selected evening broadcasts were translated. It was shortly after discontinued in January 2012.
In February 2015, the channel's executive board approved a bid by Media Globe Networks, owned by Egyptian telecom magnate Naguib Sawiris, to acquire a 53% controlling stake in the media outlet. The deal raised questions over Euronews's future editorial posture and independence.

On 13 March 2015, it was announced that Inter Media Group, owned by pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash, had taken over the Ukrainian service. In response, the Ukrainian government decided to revoke its broadcasting license for its suspected bias and dropped its funding. Firtash later abandoned the project, resulting in the department shutting down and leaving 17 journalists redundant. The Russian service, which was financed by Moscow, refused to provide jobs to the journalists, in violation of French labour legislation. The management explained that not hiring any Ukrainian journalists was a specific instruction from VGTRK.
In October 2015, Euronews moved to a new global headquarters complex in La Confluence, Lyon, designed by Paris-based architecture firm Jakob + MacFarlane and covering a floor area of 10,000 m2 (21⁄2 acres).
The decision to move was announced prior to the majority takeover by Media Globe Networks.
In May 2017, Euronews went from having one TV channel with 13 audio tracks, to 10 separate TV channels and 12 websites. This is part of a ’glocal’ idea. Now, certain language editions can offer their own selections of local and global news. By doing this, the Arabic and Persian services stopped TV broadcasting, and they are now only on social media and the Euronews website. The Ukrainian service was closed because the Ukrainian government was not giving it money.

In 2018, the English Euronews channel started its first news shows with live presenters. Then, other Euronews language editions did the same and started their own presented evening news shows too.
On 20 April 2020, it was reported that NBCUniversal had sold its stake in Euronews to Media Globe Networks, eventually having an overall majority share of 88%. NBCUniversal's parent company Comcast had recently acquired pan-European satellite service Sky Group, and was prioritizing a collaboration between NBC News and Sky News on a new international news channel. The proposed service was scrapped in August during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, with the project no longer considered commercially viable.

In December 2021, reports surfaced that British-based BBC would buy an 88% controlling stake in Euronews.

Troubles 
Euronews was banned (stopped to be broadcast) in Belarus by its government's decision since April 12, 2021.
See also
Canal del Congreso
BBC News
CBC News
PBS NewsHour
France 24
La Chaîne Info
Radio France Internationale
La Chaîne parlementaire
BBC News Channel
BBC Parliament
CGTN
C-SPAN
CPAC
Fox News Channel
CBC News Network
Radio Philippines Network
People's Television Network
Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation
Philippine Broadcasting Service
ABC News
CBS News

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Censorship in Belarus
Fips Asmussen (born Rainer Pries; 30 April 1938 – 9 August 2020) was a German comedian and entertainer. He was known for his quick delivery of puns and bad jokes. Asmussen was born in Hamburg. His later comedy performances became known for unfunny and mostly politically incorrect. 

Asmussen died on 9 August 2020 in Querfurt, Saxony-Anhalt at the age of 82.

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2020 deaths
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People from Hamburg
Rose of Washington Square is a 1939 American musical drama movie directed by Gregory Ratoff and stars Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Al Jolson, Moroni Olsen, Winifred Harris, Joyce Compton, William Frawley, Ralph Dunn, Louis Prima. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.

Other websites

 

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1930s American musical movies
1930s American drama movies
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Movies directed by Gregory Ratoff
Vinka Dragica Lucas  (née Ravlich / Ravlić; 1 January 1932 – 10 August 2020) was a Croatian-born New Zealand fashion and bridalwear designer and business owner. She was co-founder of New Zealand Bride magazine. In 1959 Lucas and her husband David Lucas bought a fashion and dressmaking business in Hamilton. In 1963, the couple published a booklet of bridal designs, which later grew into the magazine New Zealand Bride.

In 2009, Lucas suffered a stroke.

In the 2019 New Year Honours, Lucas was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

She died in Auckland on 10 August 2020, aged 88.

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Trinidad "Trini" López III (May 13, 1937August 11, 2020) was an American singer, guitarist, and actor.

His first album included a version of "If I Had a Hammer", which earned a Golden Disc for him. His other hits included "Lemon Tree", "I'm Comin' Home, Cindy" and "Sally Was a Good Old Girl". 

He designed two guitars for the Gibson Guitar Corporation.

He starred as Pedro Jimenez in the 1967 war movie The Dirty Dozen.

Lopez never married and had no children.

Lopez died on August 11, 2020 at a hospital in Palm Springs, California from COVID-19, aged 83.

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Juan Pastor Marco (24 November 1951 – 11 August 2020) was a Spanish politician. He was born in Orba, Alicante. He was a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). In 1977, he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies representing Valencia Province.

He then was Secretary General of the PSOE in the Valencian Community from 1978 to 1979. He retired in 1982.

Pastor Marco died on 11 August 2020, aged 68.

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1951 births
2020 deaths
Spanish politicians
The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 war movie starring Lee Marvin and featuring an ensemble supporting cast including Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, George Kennedy, Robert Ryan, Telly Savalas, Robert Webber and Donald Sutherland with Trini Lopez. It was directed by Robert Aldrich. 

The screenplay is based on the 1965 bestseller by E. M. Nathanson.

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1967 war movies
American war movies
Movies directed by Robert Aldrich
Robert Bushnell Ryan (November 11, 1909July 11, 1973) was an American actor and activist. He was known for playing tough cops and ruthless villains. He worked in theater and movies. Ryan was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his rolein Crossfire (1947)''.

Ryan died of lung cancer in New York City on July 11, 1973 at the age of 63.

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1909 births
1973 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American radio actors
American political activists
Actors from Chicago
Robert Laman Webber (October 14, 1924 – May 19, 1989) was an American actor. He was known for his role as Juror No. 12 in the classic 1957 movie  12 Angry Men. He also starred as General Denton in the 1967 war movie The Dirty Dozen.

Webber died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at the age of 64 in Malibu, California on May 19, 1989.

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1924 births
1989 deaths
Deaths from motor neurone disease
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
Actors from Santa Ana, California
A2 motorway (Albania), a road connecting Vlore with Fier
 A002 road (Argentina), a road connecting Avenida General Paz and Ministro Pistarini International Airport
 A2 road (Australia) may refer to :
 The shield allocations of either the Barkly Highway, Landsborough Highway, or Warrego Highway, Queensland
 The Bass Highway, a highway connecting the Midland Highway, Launceston, Tasmania and the Arthur River Road
 A2 motorway (Austria), a road connecting Vienna and the A23 to Arnoldstein and the Italian Autostrada A23
 A2 motorway (Belgium), a road connecting Leuven and the Dutch border near Sittard
 A2 highway (Botswana), a road connecting Francistown and Kasane
 A2 motorway (Bulgaria), a road under construction connecting Sofia and Varna
 A2 motorway (Croatia), a road connecting Zagreb and Slovenia
 A2 motorway (Cuba), a ring road serving Havana
 A2 motorway (Cyprus), a road connecting Nicosia and Larnaca
 A2 motorway (France), a road connecting Combles and the border with Belgium
A2 motorway (Germany), a road connecting the Ruhr Area and Berlin
A2 motorway (Greece), longest motorway in Greece
 A2 motorway (Italy), a road connecting Fisciano with Villa San Giovanni
 A2 motorway (Italy): Former name of the highway connecting Rome and Naples. Since 1988, after the construction of a connection to the A1 (Milan-Rome) bypassing Rome's ring road, the code A1 refers to the whole motorway between Milan and Naples.
 A2 road (Jamaica), a road connecting Spanish Town and Savanna-la-Mar
 A2 road (Jersey), a dual carriage way in Jersey, Channel Islands
 A2 highway (Kazakhstan), a road in Kazakhstan
 A2 road (Kenya), a road connecting Nairobi and Moyale 
 A2 road (Latvia), a road connecting Riga and the Estonian border
 A2 highway (Lithuania), a road connecting Vilnius and Panevėžys
 A2 road (Malaysia) may refer to :
 A2 road (Perak), a road connecting Taiping and Kamunting
 A2 road (Sabah), a road connecting Lawas, Sarawak and Kota Kinabalu
 A2 motorway (Morocco), a road connecting Rabat and Fes
A2 motorway (Netherlands), a road connecting Amsterdam and the Belgian border near Maastricht
 A2 highway (Nigeria), a road connecting Port Harcourt and Kano to the Niger Republic
 A2 road (People's Republic of China) may refer to :
 A2 expressway (Shanghai), the former name of the S2 expressway in Shanghai
 A2 autostrada (Poland), a road connecting the border with Germany and the border with Belarus, running through Warsaw
 A2 motorway (Portugal), a road connecting Lisbon and the Algarve
 A2 motorway (Romania), a road connecting Bucharest and Constanţa
 A2 motorway (Serbia), a road connecting Belgrade and Čačak
 A2 motorway (Slovenia), a road connecting the Austrian border and Obrežje at the Croatian border
 A2 road (Spain) may refer to :
 A-2 motorway (Spain), a road connecting Madrid and Barcelona
 A2 motorway (Extremadura), a road connecting Miajadas and Don Benito-Villanueva de la Serena
 A 2 road (Sri Lanka), a road connecting Colombo and Wellawaya
A2 motorway (Switzerland), a road connecting Basel and Chiasso
 A2 highway (Thailand), AH2 road of the Asian Highway Network
 A2 road (United Kingdom) may refer to :
 A2 road (England), a road connecting London and Dover
 A2 road (Isle of Man), a road connecting Douglas and Ramsey
 A2 road (Northern Ireland), a road connecting Newry, County Down and Muff, County Donegal
 A2 road (United States of America) may refer to :
 Interstate A-2, a road in Alaska
 County Route A2 (California), a road connecting California State Route 299 and California State Route 139
 A-2 (Michigan county highway), a road running along the shoreline of Lake Michigan in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan
 A2 road (Zimbabwe), a road connecting Harare and Kaombe, Mozambique
The A2 is an important road in South East England. It goes between London and Dover. In Dover, it connects to the port to France. The road follows tracks used by the Celts and the Romans over a thousand years ago. It once linked to the three main Roman ports: Rutupiae (now Richborough), Dubris (now Dover) and Portus Lemanis (in modern Lympne). It was given the name "A2" in the 1920s. Now, the road is about  long.

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Roads in England
The Hunters () is a 1996 Swedish thriller movie directed by Kjell Sundvall and starring Rolf Lassgård, Lennart Jähkel, Jarmo Mäkinen, Tomas Norström, Göran Forsmark, and Rolf Degerlund. The sequel was followed in 2011.

Other websites
 
 

1996 thriller movies
1990s Swedish movies
Swedish thriller movies
Movies directed by Kjell Sundvall
HUMINT (an abbreviation of Human Intelligence) is intelligence information got from personal contacts. It is a term used in the spy community of the NATO countries.

Sources
Sources may be neutral, friendly, or hostile. They may or may not know they are giving information. Examples of HUMINT sources are:
Advisors or foreign internal defence personnel working with the host nation forces or populations;
Diplomatic reporting by accredited diplomats (e.g. military attachés);
Espionage: secret reporting, using agents, couriers, cutouts;
Military attachés: getting information is their job;
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs);
Prisoners of war (POWs) or other detainees;
Refugees;
Routine patrolling (by military police,  etc);
Talking to travellers  (e.g. the CIA Domestic Contact Service).

References 

Intelligence agencies
Human communication
About Us () is a 2016 Costa Rican American drama movie directed by Hernán Jiménez (who also stars) and starring Noelia Castaño, Marina Glezer.

Other websites
 

2016 drama movies
Costa Rican movies
American drama movies
Shyamala Gopalan (December 7, 1938 – February 11, 2009) was an India-born Tamil American civil rights activist and cancer researcher. She is the mother of Kamala Harris. Gopalan conducted research in the Cancer Research Lab in UC Berkeley's Department of Zoology. Her research led to advancements in the knowledge of breast cancer hormones. Her work changed the progress on the research of the hormone-responsiveness of breast tissue.

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1938 births
2009 deaths
American activists
Kamala Harris
Elephant Island is an ice-covered, mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica. It is at the edge of the South Shetland Islands, in the Southern Ocean. It has an area of 558 km², and its highest elevation is 973 metres.

Placename 
Elephant Island's name refers to both its elephant head-like appearance and the sightings of elephant seals by Captain George Powell in 1821, one of the early sightings. 

Uninhabited islands
Geography of Antarctica
Nyctimystes traunae  is a tree frog from Papua New Guinea.  It lives on mountains in the middle of the island.  Scientists have seen it about 800 meters above sea level.

First paper

References

Frogs of Oceania
Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster (born Katherine de Roet, c. 1350 – 10 May 1403), was the third wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, a son of King Edward III of England. She was the daughter of Paon de Roet, a knight.

1350s births
1400s deaths
English nobility
Sonic X-treme was a platform game developed by Sega Technical Institute. It was being developed from 1994 until Sega cancelled it in 1997. It was meant to be the first 3D Sonic the Hedgehog game. It was also meant to be the first new Sonic game for the Sega Saturn.

Background 
When Nintendo released Super Mario 64, it was a popular 3D platformer, so Sega wanted to compete with Nintendo with their own 3D Sonic game.

Development 
Sonic X-treme was developed for the Sega 32x, but then development moved to the Sega Saturn.

Story 
The story of the game was that Robotnik was trying to steal six magic rings from Tiara Boobowski and her father, so Sonic wants to stop him.

Cancelation 
Sonic X-treme was canceled in 1997 because of development issues and crunch time. To make up for this, SEGA put Sonic 3D Blast on the SEGA Saturn instead.

Sonic the Hedgehog games
Lorna Beal (née Larter; 28 November 1923 – 10 August 2020) was an Australian cricketer. She played seven Test matches for the Australian women's cricket team between 1948 and 1951.

Beal was born in Hawthorn, Victoria. She died in 2020 at the age of 96.

References

Other websites
Lorna Beal at CricketArchive

1923 births
2020 deaths
Australian cricketers
Sportspeople from Melbourne
Sportswomen
Virtute et armis is a Latin phrase meaning "By valor and arms". It is the state motto of Mississippi. It may have come from the motto of Lord Gray De Wilton, "virtute non armis fido" ("I trust in virtue, not in arms").

References 

Mississippi
Latin state mottos of the United States
The Tetum language (Tetum or Tetun) is a language spoken in East Timor. It has a lot of influence from Portuguese.

East Timor
Languages of Indonesia
Austronesian languages
Christopher Knights is an English voice actor, film editor, and cinematographer. He is best known for providing the voice of Private the Penguin in Madagascar. He also worked on several DreamWorks movies such as Shrek, Shrek 2, Shrek the Third and Shrek 4-D. 

He started his filming career at Amblimation studios. He worked on We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story and Balto. He started his editing and acting career at DreamWorks. He worked on the Shrek series as an associate editor. He was also voice of the Three Blind Mice and Thelonious, Lord Farquaad's Henchman.

Filmography

Film Roles
 Flushed Away - Fat Barry, Market Trader
 Madagascar - Private
 Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted - Private
 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - Private
 Megamind - Prison Guard
 Shrek - Blind Mouse, Thelonious
 Shrek 2 - Blind Mouse
 Shrek the Third - Blind Mice, Evil Trees, Guards, Heckler
 Shrek Forever After - Three Blind Mice

Video Game Roles
 Madagascar: The Video Game - Construction Worker, Pedestrian, Private

References
References

Other websites 

 

American voice actors
Thomas McGrath (born August 7, 1964) is an American voice actor, animator, screenwriter, and movie director.

Filmography

Animated Roles
 The Penguins of Madagascar - Skipper

Movie roles
 Flushed Away - Action Figure, Artist
 Madagascar - Fossa, Panicky Man on Subway, Skipper
 Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted - First Policeman, Skipper
 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - Lemur #1, Skipper
 Megamind - Lord Scott, Prison Guard
 Shrek the Third - Gary

Video game roles
 Madagascar: Escape 2 - The Video Game - Skipper

Staff work
 Madagascar - Director, Writer
 Megamind - Director
American animators
American voice actors
American screenwriters
American movie directors
Don't Forget the Lyrics! is a sing-along game show that aired from 2007 to 2011.

2007 television series debuts
Fox television series
First run syndicated television programs
Television game shows
English-language television programs
The Innu (or Montagnais) are an Indigenous people group who live in Quebec and Newfoundland.

They lived as hunter-gatherers. Then the Canadian government moved them away from their homeland and forced them to practice Western lifestyles.

Lands 
The Innu call the territory they live in Nitassinan ("Our Land").

History 

The Canadian government forced the Innu to live in permanent communities instead of letting them practice their nomadic lifestyle. They also forced them to go to schools run by churches. In those schools, the Innu were not allowed to practice their religion or speak their language. Because of all the wrong things done to the Innu, they have a lot of social problems. On one hand, they lost a lot of knowledge about their traditional ways. On the other hand, the schools did not prepare them well enough to live in Western society and they still faced racism because they were Indigenous.

Ethnic groups in Canada
Quebec
Newfoundland
Native Americans
First Nations
The Unit is an American television series that aired on CBS from March 7, 2006, to May 10, 2009.

2000s American drama television series
2006 American television series debuts
2009 American television series endings
English-language television programs
The Twilight Zone is the revivals of Rod Serling's original 1959–64 television series. It aired the final episode on May 21, 2003.

2002 American television series debuts
2003 American television series endings
English-language television programs
The Tour of Gymnastics Superstars was a nationwide concert tour of gymnasts from the United States.

Gymnastics
Thérèse Raquin is a book by the French author Émile Zola.

Plot 
An orphan girl named Thérèse Raquin is sent to live with her aunt, Madame Raquin, and her cousin Camille, who is very "sick" with hypochondriasis. When Thérèse is 21, she marries Camille. The three of them then move to Paris.

Laurent, a childhood friend of Camille and an untalented artist, meets Thérèse. The two of them have an affair and plan to kill Camille so they can be with each other. They do this by pushing him off a boat into the Seine River. Everyone believes that Camille's drowning is an accident. Thérèse and Laurent then marry each other. However, they are haunted by their actions. Laurent becomes a talented artist but his paintings remind him of Camille.

Madame Raquin finds out that Thérèse and Laurent killed Camille when they argue with each other. However, she is paralyzed after a stroke and so cannot tell others.
Thérèse and Laurent hate each other. They plan to kill each other. Then they realize each other's plans and kill themselves with poison in front of Madame Raquin.

Characters 
 Thérèse Raquin – the wife of Camille and the orphaned daughter of Madame Raquin's brother and an unknown African woman.
 Camille Raquin – Thérèse's husband and cousin.
 Madame Raquin – Camille's mother and Thérèse's aunt. She works as a shopkeeper.
 Laurent LeClaire – a childhood friend and coworker of Camille who seduces Thérèse.
 Michaud – the police commissioner and friend of Madame Raquin
 Olivier – Michaud's son who works at the police
 Suzanne – Olivier's wife
 Grivet – an employee of the Orléans Railroad Company, where Camille works
 François – the Raquins' cat

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French novels