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Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He wrote the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

Eggers is also the founder of McSweeney's, a co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia and the human rights nonprofit Voice of Witness, and the founder of ScholarMatch.

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Amnon Rubinstein (, born 5 September 1931) is an Israeli legal scholar, politician, and columnist. He was a member of the Knesset between 1977 and 2002. He was born in Tel Aviv. Rubinstein was a member and leader of the Shinui party. He was a member of the Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin cabinets.

Rubinstein was Minister of Communications from 1984 to 1987. He was Minister of Science, Technology and Space in 1992. From 1992 to 1993, he was Minister of National Infrastructures, Energy and Resources. From 1993 to 1996, he was Minister of Education, Culture and Sport.

In 2006, Rubinstein won the Israel Prize, for law.

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Nina Wiener Avidar (born 1933) is an Egyptian-born Israeli activist. She was born in Alexandria, Egypt. In 1977, she founded the ISAF - International Fund for Education.

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The Jerusalem Post is a broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem. It was founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post. In 1950, it changed its name to The Jerusalem Post. The newspaper is published in English and also printed a French edition.

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Slash-and-burn is a technique that has been used for thousands of years. Usually at the start of the dry season, a plot of land is  cleared of its vegetation. Very often, this is done manually, for example using machetes. This can take a long time, clearing a hectare can take up to 120 hours of work. If the land is to be used for crops that last more than two years, the roots need to be cleared as well. Usually this is not done for annual plants. The plants cleared are left to dry, often for weeks. When they are dry enough, they are burnt. The ash that is created makes the soil fertile. Weeds, and other pests have also been eliminated, so the field can be used for agriculture. After three to five years, the extra fertility is gone, and the farmer  usually moves to another field (or again uses slash-and-burn).
Problems 
While the technique is very simple, it also has problems: Often, fires created get out of control, and more land is burned than necessary. That way, a territory the size of Belgium burned down in a fire, created in 1989, in the state of Roraima in Brazil. In general, there are few large fires in the rainforest. the climate is very wet, and rivers block the fires.  In southeast Asia, between May and October, many people have health problems because of the clouds of smoke. During that time, slash-and-burn operations happen in Indonesia. These fires are responsible for the clouds. 

Millions of people use slash-and-burn agriculture, often as a way  of subsistence farming. For this reason, the practice cannot be outlawed. Some steps can be taken ot lessen the impact on the ecosystem:
Improving soils, for example with charcoal. see also terra preta.
 Adding fast-growing tree species to the primary forest. These trees grow faster than the primary forest. 
 Instead of burning it, the biomass can be cut into small pieces, and left to rot. 
 Using the forest on multiple layers: In the lower layers, for example bananas, in the upper layers: coconuts; alternative: wheat, and citrus fruit or palm trees.

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Spongiforma squarepantsii is a species of fungus. It is in the Boletaceae family and the Spongiforma genus. It was first seen in Malaysia in 2011. It makes orange fruit bodies that have the odor of a fruit. The fruit bodies can grow to 10 cm wide and 7 cm tall. If water is taken out, it will go back to its first shape. Its spores are in the shape of an almond. The spores can be 10 to 12.5 μm in width and 6 to 7 µm in depth. The name of the fungus came from the fictional character SpongeBob SquarePants. S. squarepantsii is one of the two species in Spongiforma. The other is S. thailandica.

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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey or SDSS is a major multi-spectral imaging and spectroscopic redshift survey using a 2.5-m wide-angle optical telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, United States. The project was named after the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which made much of the funding.

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2001 QR322 is a minor planet and the first Neptune trojan discovered on 21 August 2001, by the Deep Ecliptic Survey at the Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chile. It orbits ahead of Neptune at its L4 Lagrangian point.

Other Neptune trojans have been discovered since. A study by American astronomers Scott Sheppard and Chad Trujillo from the Carnegie Institution suggests that Neptune could possibly have twenty times more trojans than Jupiter.

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A total lunar eclipse took place on 26 May 2021. It was the first total lunar eclipse since the January 2019 lunar eclipse. It was visible in areas of southeast Asia, all of Australia, all of Oceania, most of Alaska and Canada, all of the lower 48 states, all of Hawaii, and most of South America. Totality lasted for 14 minutes making it one of the shortest eclipses of the 21st century.

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An annular solar eclipse occurred on June 10, 2021. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, covering the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like a ring. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.

This eclipse is notable for the fact that the path of annularity passed over the North Pole, the only such eclipse in the 21st century.

While the eclipse is visible primarily in northern Canada, in Greenland and in north of Russian Far East, in the northeastern United States and Canada, the sun was partially eclipsed at sunrise, which will be between 5 and 6 A.M. (EDT)

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An election happened on November 3, 2020 to elect a Senator from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The three people in the election were Jim Inhofe (Republican Party), Abby Broyles (Democratic Party), and Robert Murphy (Libertarian Party). Jim Inhofe won the election and went back to the Senate for the fourth time.

There were two primary elections. They election was on June 30, 2020. One was for the Republican Party and one for the Democratic Party. Four people were in the Republican primary election and the Democrat primary election. Jim Inhofe won the Republican Party primary and Abby Broyles won the Democratic Party primary.

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Savannah Clark Guthrie (born December 27, 1971) is an American broadcast journalist and lawyer. She is a main co-anchor of the NBC News morning show Today. She began this position in July 2012.

Guthrie joined NBC News in September 2007 as a legal analyst and correspondent. Between 2008–2011, she was the White House correspondent. In 2010 and 2011, as co-anchor of the MSNBC program The Daily Rundown, Guthrie became the co-host of Today's third hour with Natalie Morales and Al Roker. She stopped being the third-hour and chief legal analyst in 2012. Also in 2012 she replaced Ann Curry as the co-anchor of Today.

Guthrie was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She was raised in the United States.

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The Ape is a 1940 American horror movie directed by William Nigh and starring Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gene O'Donnell, Dorothy Vaughan, Gertrude W. Hoffmann. It was distributed by Monogram Pictures. It was based on the 1924 play by Adam Hull Shirk.

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Today is a 1930 American drama movie directed by William Nigh and is the second version of the 1913 play of the same name by George Broadhurst. It stars Conrad Nagel, Catherine Dale Owen, Sarah Padden, John M. Sullivan, Judith Vosselli and was distributed by Majestic Pictures.

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Faxian (337 – c. 422) was a Chinese Buddhist monk. He is also translator. He traveled by foot from China to India, visiting sacred Buddhist sites in Central , South and Southeast Asia between 399–412 to acquire Buddhist texts. He described his journey his travelogue, A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms (Foguo Ji 佛國記).

Other transliterations of his name include Fa-Hien and Fa-hsien.

Biography
In 399, Faxian set out with nine others to locate sacred Buddhist texts. He visited India in the early fifth century. He is said to have walked all the way from  China across the icy desert and rugged mountain passes. He entered India from the northwest and reached Pataliputra. He took back with him Buddhist texts and images sacred to Buddhism. He saw the ruins of the city when he reached Pataliputra.
Faxian's visit to India occurred during the reign of Chandragupta II. He is also renowned for his pilgrimage to Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautama Buddha (modern Nepal). However, he mentioned nothing about Guptas. Faxian claimed that demons and dragons were the original inhabitants of Sri Lanka.

After two years stay on Ceylon, Faxian was coming back to China. Suddenly a violent storm drove his ship onto an island, probably Java. After five months there, Faxian took another ship for southern China. But, again, it was blown off course and he ended up landing at Mount Lao in what is now Shandong in northern China,  east of the city of Qingdao.

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Marianne Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, translator, critic and editor. Her poetry had formal innovation, irony and wit.

Moore's first professionally published poems appeared in The Egoist, a periodical, and Poetry, a magazine in spring 1915.

Moore's first book, Poems, was published without her permission in 1921 by British novelist Bryher.

Moore's second book, Observations, was given the Dial Award in 1924. During these years, she worked as a librarian part-time. Then from 1925–1929 she edited The Dial magazine, a literary journal.

Moore was awarded the Helen Haire Levinson Prize by the Poetry magazine in 1933.

Moore's Collected Poems won the National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize and Pulizer Prize in 1951.

Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri. She had a number of strokes in her last years. She died at age 84 in New York City.

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TPV Technology Limited is a Chinese electronics company. It is headquartered in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong and incorporated in Bermuda. It designs and produces CRT and TFT LCD monitors and LCD TVs. TPV owns brands like AOC, Envision, and Philips for some products. It is also an original design manufacturer for other companies.

It is the world’s largest manufacturer of computer monitors with a 33% market share.

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Watertown is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Jefferson County. It is about  south of the Thousand Islands. The Black River flows through the middle of the city. It is about five miles east of where it meets with Lake Ontario. The city of Watertown is surrounded by the town of Watertown to the north, east, and west. The Public Square is in the middle of the city of Watertown. Watertown is 13 miles southwest of a U.S Army base, Fort Drum. As of the 2020 census, 24,685 people lived in Watertown. Thompson Park is a park in the city. The Watertown City School District is the school district in the city.
The area was surveyed for the first time by Benjamin Wright in 1796. Watertown had its first residents in 1798. The first people to live in Watertown chose Watertown because of the water power that the Black River gave. Watertown legally became a settlement on March 14, 1800. The city became the county seat of Jefferson County in 1805. Watertown was incorporated as a village in 1816, and became a city in 1869.

In the 21st century, Watertown is a big part of upstate New York. Watertown has a lot of business with visitors from Canada, because the city is only  away from the border of Canada. Watertown, South Dakota was named after the city.

History

Name 
Watertown was named because of the Black River, which flows through the city. It is not known who chose the name of Watertown, but most people think that the early settlers had an agreement. The name was chosen so that mills would be built. By 1850, Watertown and places next to Watertown had a lot of mills in them.

1700s and 1800s
1700s and 1800s 

Alexander Macomb purchased the land of Jefferson, Lewis, St. Lawrence, and Oswego county in 1791. Alexander Macomb sent surveyors to sell the land to settlers who passed by. The area was surveyed for the first time by Benjamin Wright in 1796. After returning, Benjamin Wright said:
The first people to live in Watertown, Hart Massey, Henry Coffeen, and Zachariah Butterfield, built cabins on the area that is now the public square in 1798 while migrating from New England after the Revolutionary War. When the settlers first surveyed Watertown, the land in the area was rocky and uncleared. The western end of the Public Square was about  higher than the western end. The middle of the square had a depression that was said to be big enough for a big skating rink. The settlers chose to live in Watertown because of the water power that the Black River gave. The area of Watertown was taken from the nearby town of Mexico on March 14, 1800. On March 1, 1801, Hart Massey moved his wife and three children into the cabins. In 1805, settlers cleared out the center of the town to create the public square. Many buildings were built next to the public square in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the public square was made a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places on September 7, 1984
. The city became the county seat of Jefferson County in March 1805 when part of Oneida County became Jefferson County. When Watertown became the county seat, it was one of the smallest places in the county. Watertown was incorporated as a village in 1816, and became a city in 1869.
The Great Fire 
On May 13, 1849, a fire destroyed most of public square and three surrounding streets, and a lot of the square had to be rebuilt. The fire killed one person, and destroyed almost all of the businesses in the city. The fire destroyed three banks, a post office, three printing offices, two hotels, and thirty shops. It costed $250,000, about $7,529,000 today, to fix the damage. While rebuilding in 1853, the city made two parks in the middle of the square, with a fountain in the middle.

20th century 
Little Trees were invented in Watertown in 1951, and the headquarters of Little Trees is also in Watertown. In the 1960s through the 1990s, New York destroyed many historic buildings, like the Woodruff Hotel and the old courthouse. In the 1980s, unemployment in the area went up by 20%.
In the 21st century, the city is an important part of a large area. In 2006, the city spent $7.4 million dollars to restore multiple buildings and also fixing roads and walkways. The city completed the project in 2008, but more fixes are planned. In early 2019, Watertown was said to be the "Least Politically Prejudiced Place in America" by Amanda Ripley.

Geography 

Watertown is in upstate New York. The city of Watertown is about  south of the Thousand Islands,  northwest of Albany, and  northwest of New York City. The area of Watertown was taken from the nearby town of Mexico on March 14, 1800. The town of Watertown is a lot bigger than the city. The town of Watertown is  large, and the city is  large.

People 
The North Country has a lot of  Amish people because there is a lot of cheap rural area.
2000 Census 
In 2000, there were 26,705 people living in the city of Watertown. 89.13% of the people were White, 4.95% of the people were Black or African American, 3.59% of the people were Hispanic or Latino, 0.54% of the people were Native American, 1.16% of the people were Asian, 0.11% of the people were Pacific Islander, 1.67% of the people were from other races, and 2.45% from two or more races. 11,036 households, and 6,500 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 12,450 housing units at an average density of .

2010 Census 
In 2010, there were 27,023 people living in the city. 86.25% of the people were White, 6.04% of the people were African American, 5.59% of the people were Hispanic or Latino, 0.58% of the people were Native American, 1.83% of the people were Asian, 0.18% of the people were Pacific Islander, 1.33% of the people were from other races, and 3.79% from two or more races.
2020 Census 
In 2020, there were 24,685 people living in the city of Watertown. There were 10,867 houses with 43.3% of the houses having people living in them. The population density was 2,996.0 people per square mile (4821.5/km2). 83.8% of the people were White, 8.5% were Black or African American, 1.0% were Native American, 1.5% were Asian, 7.8% were Hispanic or Latino, 0.1% were Pacific Islander, and 4.4% were two or more races.

8.7% of the people were under 5 years old. 23.6% of the people were under 18 years old; 53.8% of the people were between 18 and 64 years old. 13.9% were 65 or older. 50.2% of the people were men, and 49.8% of the people were women. 20.9% of the people had a Bachelor's degree or higher.
Economy 
In 2020, the average price of a house was $133,400, and the average income for a household being $40,253. 21.6% of the people who lived in Watertown were in poverty. Much of Watertown's economy is from visitors from Canada, because it is only around  away from the border of Canada. In the 1980s, unemployment in Watertown grew 20%, and property values started to drop very fast. When Fort Drum started, Watertown started to make consumer products instead of industrial products.

Factories 
Factory Square is  of abandoned factories above the black river that used hydropower. The factories were built in the 1880s and 1890s, which made the population and economy boom. In the year 1900, 3,760 people were hired to work in the factories. There was a district with a lot of saloons next to Factory Square. The district had a lot of fraud from factory workers going to the saloons after work. The Watertown Daily Times sometimes wrote about factory workers being scammed by "tin-horn gamblers and short-card men".
Government 

The city's government was made after Watertown became a village in 1816. The fire department was also made. In 1852, the borders of the village grew. The police departments in the city are the Watertown Police Department and the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.

Buildings and Transport 
The tallest building in Watertown is the Dulles State Office Building. The city of Watertown and the town of Watertown both use Watertown International Airport.

Historic buildings 
Some buildings on the National Register of Historic Places are the Paddock Mansion (added on December 11, 1979), the Watertown Masonic Temple (added on January 23, 1980), and the Emerson Place (added on April 18, 2003). There are 58 buildings inside the  Public Square (added on September 7, 1984).

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Jack Miller (June 6, 1916 – August 29, 1994) was a Republican United States Senator from Iowa. He went through two terms, 1961–73. Next, he was the United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. 

Miller was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1955. He was elected to the Iowa Senate in 1957. He was first elected to the United States Senate in 1960.

Miller voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He then voted for the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Miller was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died in Florida, age 78.

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Elton John is the self-titled second studio album by English singer-songwriter Elton John, released on 10 April 1970 by DJM Records and by Uni Records as John's debut album in the United States; many people there assumed it was his first album, as Empty Sky was not released in that country until 1975.

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Hey Duggee is a British animated educational preschool television series aimed at two to five year olds. Created by Grant Orchard, it is produced by Studio AKA, in association with BBC Studios (formerly BBC Worldwide). The show is narrated by Alexander Armstrong. The show is with Vip commercials.

The programme is based around The Squirrel Club, an activity club for children. The children take part in all kinds of activities, have adventures and earn badges for their accomplishments. Each episode shows the squirrels complete an activity or adventure relating to a badge, that the squirrels earn at the end of the episodes. There is no set formula for every episode, with many episodes referencing or parodying pop culture.
Hey Duggee has three series. It was first shown in December 2014. BBC and Studio AKA produced a second series in early 2016, with the first episode airing in the United Kingdom on 26 September 2016. A third series was commissioned in October 2017, with the first episode due to be broadcast in Autumn 2018, but was pushed back to 4 March 2019. It aired until September 2021 with a Christmas episode shown in December 2020. The third series received increased acclaim and popularity amongst children and adults alike during the 2020 pandemic lockdowns. It has been renewed for a fourth series.

In the United States, the series airs on Nick Jr. on 11 July 2016.

Production 
The programme is animated using the computer program Flash, with a minimalist style using filled shapes with no outlines, and only effects that Flash is capable of, and only the Duggee character regularly uses gradients. For example, if there is a frog character, then it usually bears the appearance of a plain green triangle.
The production team consists of around 16 in-house animators, with six to eight scriptwriters.

Characters
Characters

Main 
 Narrator (born  or , voiced by Alexander Armstrong) – the narrator of the show.
 Duggee (born , woofs done by Sander Jones) – a friendly big brown male dog and the leader of the squirrel club.
 Betty (born , voiced by Jasmine Bartholomew series 1-series 3 episode 32; Arabella Duffy series 3 episode 33-present) – a talkative and intelligent purple octopus.
 Norrie (born , voiced by Poppie Boyes series 1–2; Bella Green series 3–present) – a sweet-natured and curious brown mouse.
 Roly (born , voiced by Leo Templer series 1; Dexter Varrall series 2–present) – an enthusiastic, loud and hyperactive grey hippo.
 Tag (born , voiced by Alfie Sanderson series 1–2; Ollie Chequer series 3–present) – a gentle, clumsy blue rhino.
 Happy (born , voiced by Duke Davis series 1-series 3 episode 32; Forest Davis series 3 episode 33-present) – a tall, easy-going green crocodile, with a love of water and splashing in puddles.

Hey Duggee City Park episodes

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The Great Purge or the Great Terror (), was a purge in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938. 

It was a large-scale "repression" of the more wealthy peasants (kulaks). Ethnic minorities were murdered. Even members of the Communist Party, government officials, and the Red Army leadership were killed. 

Everyone was watched by the police. Everyone was suspected.                        People were imprisoned without a fair trial. Executions were common. Historians think the total number of deaths due to Stalinist repression in 1937–38 was between 950,000 to 1.2 million.

The "Kulak Operation" and the targeting of national minorities made up the Great Terror. Together these two actions caused nine-tenths of the death sentences and three-fourths of Gulag prison camp sentences.
In the Western world, Robert Conquest's 1968 book The Great Terror popularized the phrase. Conquest's title was a reminder of the French Revolution time known as the Reign of Terror (French: la Terreur, "the Terror"; from June to July 1794: la Grande Terreur, 'the Great Terror').

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Numerology is the belief in a mystical divine connection between a number and certain incidents or events. It is also the study of the numerical value of the letters in words, names, and ideas. It is usually related to the paranormal, astrology, and divinatory arts.

Despite the long history of numerological ideas, the word "numerology" is not found in English before about 1907.

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Bambang Suryadi, also known by his nickname Basur (1 October 1968 — 4 January 2021) was an Indonesian politician. He was a member of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle. Suryadi was a member of the People's Representative Council from 2019 until his death in 2021. Suryadi was born in Blitar, East Java.

Suryadi died on 4 January 2021 at a Jakarta hospital due to COVID-19, aged 52.

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Christina Crosby (September 2, 1953 – January 5, 2021) was an American scholar and writer. She was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.

Her works were about 19th-century British literature and disability studies. She was the author of The Ends of History: Victorians and "The Woman's Question" and A Body, Undone, a memoir about her life after she was paralyzed in a cycling accident in 2003. 

She spent her career at Wesleyan University, where she was a professor of English and of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies. Crosby, a feminist, was also openly a lesbian.

Crosby died on January 5, 2021 at her home in Middletown, Connecticut from pancreatic cancer, aged 67.

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The term dyke is a slang term. It is used as a noun for lesbians. It is also used as an adjective for things related to lesbianism. It began as a homophobic and misogynistic term on par with the word faggot, Dyke means a masculine or manly girl or woman.

The origin of the term dyke is obscure. Many theories have come out. Most theories tell that dyke comes off the word bulldyke, which has a similar meaning.

From the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, dike had been American slang for the well-dressed man. Diked out and out on the dike meant a young man was in his best clothes.

The word dyke was used in the 1950s as a derogatory term for lesbians by straight people. But it was also used by lesbians of higher social status to mean crude and rough-bar lesbians.
Facebook controversy 
Facebook censored use of the word dyke as "abusive content" in June 2017 on its website. The decision triggered a Change.org protest petition created by the Listening 2 Lesbians collective. It was signed by 7,247 supporters.

Dyke Marches have become popular gay pride events in the United States and Canada. They also happen in Europe, including London and Berlin, as well as across Mexico.

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Gerald Hiken (May 27, 1927 – January 6, 2021) was an American actor. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Hiken was nominated for a Tony Award in 1980 for his role in Strider. He was in The Candidate (1972), Reds (1981), and Fat Man and Little Boy (1989).

Hiken died on January 6, 2021 in San Francisco, California at the age of 93.

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Jerry Douglas (November 15, 1935 – January 9, 2021) was an American pornographic director and screenwriter. He was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He was known for directing many gay porno movies. He directed the play The Deep Throat Sex Scandal in 2010 and the 1999 gay porno Dream Team. He also wrote the screenplay for Score (1974).

Douglas died on January 9, 2021 in New York City, aged 85.

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Joël Batteux (16 December 1943 – 10 January 2021) was a French politician. He was born in Vitré, France. He was a member of the Socialist Party and the Citizen and Republican Movement. From 1983 to 2014, Batteux was Mayor of Saint-Nazaire. 

In 2008, Batteux was made a member of the Order of the British Empire.

Batteux died on 10 January 2021 from surgery-related problems in Paris at the age of 77.

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Wálter Taibo Martínez (7 March 1931 – 10 January 2021) was a Uruguayan football goalkeeper. He played for national team from 1955 to 1966, making thirty appearances. He played with them in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. He also played for C.A. Peñarol and Huracán.

Taibo died on 10 January 2021, aged 89.

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Ferenc "Frank" Arok  (; 20 January 1932 – 12 January 2021) was a Yugoslavian-Australian  association football player and coach. He played for FK Jedinstvo Ub from 1950 to 1960. From 1983 to 1989, he managed  Australia. He also managed St George many times.

Arok died on 12 January 2021, aged 88.

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Massoud "Poussy" Achkar (1956 – 11 January 2021) was a Lebanese independent politician. He was a close advisor to President Bashir Gemayel. 

Achkar was the co-founder the Lebanese Forces party. He was known as "Poussy". He was in charge of military operations in Achrafieh between 1975 and 1986, the 2009 Lebanese general election and the 2018 parliamentary elections. 

Achkar died on 11 January 2021 in Beirut from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Lebanon, aged 64.

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Elias Hanna Rahbani (; 1938 – 4 January 2021) was a Lebanese musician, composer, songwriter, orchestra conductor and reality television personality. He composed more than 2500 songs. He wrote the soundtrack for more than 25 movies. He composed songs for many artists including Fairuz and Sabah. Rahbani was born in Antelias, Lebanon. His career began in 1962. He was a reality show judge on SuperStar and Star Academy.

Rahbani died on 4 January 2021 at a Beirut hospital from COVID-19, aged 82.

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Vassilis Alexakis () (25 December 1943 – 11 January 2021) was a Greek-French writer and self-translator. He translated many novels in Greek to French. Alexakis was born in Athens, Greece. 

In 1974 he published his first book Le Sandwich, written in French. The first book directly written in Greek was Talgo, published in 1981. He self-translated Talgo into French. 

In 2006, Les mots étrangers was translated by Alyson Waters and published under the title Foreign Words; this was the first of his novels to be translated into English. 

In 1995, he received the prestigious Prix Médicis for La langue maternelle. In 2007, he received the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française.

Alexakis died on 11 January 2021, aged 77.

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Other websites
 Unofficial website of Vassilis Alexakis : "Paris-Athènes" (in French)

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Howard Lewis Johnson (August 7, 1941 – January 11, 2021) was an American jazz musician. He was known for his work on tuba and baritone saxophone. He also played the bass clarinet, trumpet, and other reed instruments. He was born in Montgomery, Alabama.

Johnson was known for his sideman work, mainly with George Gruntz, Hank Crawford, and Gil Evans. During the 1970s, he was the live band conductor of the Saturday Night Live Band.

Johnson died on January 11, 2021 at his home in New York City, aged 79.

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Kurt Willy Oddekalv (27 July 1957 – 11 January 2021) was a Norwegian environmentalist. He was born in Senja, Norway.

Oddekalv was removed from the Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature in 1993 over his controversial views. He created his own environmental organization Green Warriors of Norway of which he was the leader until his death.

Oddekalv revealed in 2015 that he believed in chemtrails, which was criticized by many environmentalists.

Oddekalv died on 11 January 2021 after falling through ice and drowned at a lake near Bergen, Norway at the age of 63.

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Prentice Earl Sanders, also known as Earl Sanders (October 12, 1937 – January 11, 2021) was an American police officer and member of the San Francisco Police Department from 1964 through 2003. He was born in Nacogdoches, Texas.

Sanders became the first African American chief of that department in 2002. He resigned a year later over his handling of Fajitagate, a fight between off-duty cops and civilians over a bag of fajitas.

Sanders died on January 11, 2021 at the age of 83.

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A fajita (; ) in Tex-Mex is any grilled meat that is usually served as a taco on a flour or corn tortilla. 

Popular meats used include steak, chicken and other cuts of beef, as well as vegetables instead of meat. 

In restaurants, the meat is usually cooked with onions and bell peppers. Popular condiments include shredded lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, salsa, pico de gallo, shredded cheese, beans, and diced tomatoes.

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Salsa is a variety of sauces used as condiments for tacos and other Mexican and Mexican-American foods, and as dips for tortilla chips. They may be raw or cooked.

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A tortilla chip is a snack made from corn tortillas, which are cut into triangles and then fried—or baked. Corn tortillas are made of corn, vegetable oil, salt and water. It is a well known Mexican food.

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A dip or dipping sauce is a common condiment for many types of food.  Dips are used to add flavor to a food, such as pita bread, dumplings, crackers, cut-up raw vegetables, fruits, seafood, cubed pieces of meat and cheese, potato chips, tortilla chips, falafel, and sometimes even whole sandwiches.

Dips have many forms and are eaten all over the world. People have been using sauces for dipping for thousands of years.

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Tex-Mex cuisine (from Texan and Mexican) is an American regional cuisine that comes from the food creations of the Tejano people of Texas. 

It has spread from border states such as Texas and others in the Southwestern United States to the rest of the country as well as Canada. 

Tex-Mex is most popular in Texas.

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Tejanos (; singular: Tejano/a; Spanish for "Texan") are the Hispanic residents of the U.S. state of Texas.

Many Tejanos are related to Spanish-speaking settlers of Tejas, Coahuila, and other northern Mexican states.

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Stacy Title (February 21, 1964 – January 11, 2021) was an American movie director, screenwriter and producer. She was known for directing and writing the horror/black comedy movies Let the Devil Wear Black (1999), The Last Supper (1995) and The Bye Bye Man (2017). Title was raised in New York state.

In December 2017, Title was diagnosed with ALS. She died from problems caused by the disease on January 11, 2021 at the age of 56.

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Scott Joseph Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American engineer, retired astronaut, and naval aviator. Kelly flew and was in charge of the International Space Station (ISS) on Expeditions 26, 45, and 46.

Kelly retired from NASA in 2016. 

His identical twin brother, Mark Kelly, is also a retired astronaut, and the junior Senator from Arizona.

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The Marina Bay Sands  (abbreviation: MBS) is a resort and casino hotel in Marina Bay within the Downtown Core district of Singapore. It was opened in 2010. It has been called the world's most expensive standalone casino property at S$8 billion (US$6.88 billion), including the land cost. It is owned by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation.

About 
The resort includes a 2,561-room hotel, a  convention centre, the  The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands mall, a museum, a large theatre, "celebrity chef" restaurants, two floating crystal pavilions, art-science exhibits, and the world's largest atrium casino with 500 tables and 1,600 slot machines. There is also a skyway. It has a 150 meters long infinity pool, gardens and jogging path.

Future Plans 
In April 2022, Marina Bay Sands planned to open a fourth tower by 2026.

The fourth tower is set to contain 1000 hotel rooms and a concert venue with seating for 15,000 people.

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The National Assembly of Malawi is the only legislative body of the nation. It is located on Capital Hill, Lilongwe along Presidential Way. The National Assembly alone has legislative supremacy and is the ultimate power over all other political bodies in Malawi. 

At its head is the Speaker of the House who is elected by his or her peers. Since June 19, 2019 the Speaker is Catherine Gotani Hara.

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Sidik Mia (1965 – 12 January 2021) was a Malawian businessman and politician. He was a member of the Democratic Progressive Party. From 2004 to 2014, he was a member of the National Assembly. From 2009 to 2010, he was Minister of Defence and from 2020 until his death, Mia was Minister of Transport and Public Works.

In the 2019 general election, Mia was the running mate of Lazarus Chakwera.

Mia died on 12 January 2021 from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Malawi, aged 56.

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The COVID-19 pandemic in Malawi is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The virus was confirmed to have reached Malawi on 2 April 2020. It has spread to all the districts of the country.

President Peter Mutharika confirmed the country's first three cases of coronavirus disease 2019 on 2 April. The three cases include a Malawian of Asian origin who travelled back from India, her relative and their housemaid.

On 7 April, the first death from the infection was reported.

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Malawi
Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud (1937 – January 2021) () was a Saudi royal and businessman. He was a member of the House of Saud. He was the owner of Juddmonte Farms and Mawarid Holding. His father was Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud. In 1990, Prince Khalid's wealth was estimated by Fortune magazine at $1.0 billion. He was the son-in-law of Ibn Saud.

Al Saud died in January 2021.

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"The Man with Two Brians" is the 5th episode of the 7th season of Family Guy. It was first shown on the Fox network on November 9, 2008. The episode is about the Griffin family getting a new dog. The episode was written by John Viener. Dominic Bianchi is the director of the episode. Johnny Knoxville, Will Sasso, and Camille Guaty are guest stars for the episode.

Story 

Peter, Cleveland, Quagmire, and Joe watch the television show Jackass. They want to record themselves doing dangerous stunts. Peter tries to fly over a lake. He hits a tree and falls in the lake. Brian tries to get Peter out of the lake, but he hurts his back. Joe swims to Peter and Brian and saves them both. Lois is not happy and tells Peter that Brian is getting old. Peter is sad because of this, so he gets another dog. He names it New Brian. New Brian is very happy to be with the family. Brian feels that the family does not want him, so he leaves the house.
Stewie does not like New Brian. Stewie wants the first Brian to come back. Brian does not want to until New Brian is not there. Stewie goes to New Brian and tells him that he does not like him. New Brian says that he raped Rupert (Stewie's teddy bear). Stewie kills New Brian, puts him in a trash can, and writes a suicide note that looks like New Brian wrote it. The first Brian comes back to the family. Stewie is traumatized and washes Rupert in a shower.

Production 

The episode was written by John Viener. Dominic Bianchi is the director of the episode. The design of New Brian is from a drawing made by Seth MacFarlane (the creator of Family Guy). New Brian was first going to be a Golden Retriever. He was made gray so that he would not be the same color of the kitchen.

The episode was first put on DVD on June 16, 2009. Johnny Knoxville, Will Sasso, and Camille Guaty are guest stars for the episode. Viener is the voice actor for New Brian.

Reception
Reception 

Ahsan Haque of IGN thought that the episode has some "unfunny (not funny) ideas" but that it "succeeds for the most part". He said that there was a better balance of humor and story. Genevieve Koski of The A.V. Club did not like how the episode started with Jackass, but he thought that the rest of the story is "far superior". Robin Pierson from The TV Critic did not like how the jokes were put together. He said that the episode has "no point to it."

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Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley (born Mamie Elizabeth Carthan; November 23, 1921 – January 6, 2003) was an American educator and activist. She took part in the Civil Rights Movement. She was the mother of Emmett Till, who was killed at the age of 14 years old after allegedly offending a white woman. She insisted a open casket for her son for people to see what they had done to him.

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Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3, 1984) is an  American former  businesswoman and convicted fraudster. She was the founder and CEO of Theranos, a now-defunct health technology company.

In 2015, Forbes had named Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in America.

After revelations of potential fraud in Theranos' claims, in 2016 Forbes revised its estimate of Holmes' net worth to zero. Fortune named her one of the "World's Most Disappointing Leaders".

Trial 

The case of U.S. v. Holmes, et al., began on August 31, 2021. A trial was held in a lower court in the federal court system.

A former manager of Theranos gave testimony (in court) on September 17. She said "that she made Holmes [...] aware of serious failings of" blood-testing machines from Theranos; claims made by the former manager "were  backed up [...] by emails [showed to jurors or] displayed for jurors", media said.
Conviction
Holmes was convicted of four counts of fraud and conspiracy in January 2022. She has to report to prison on May 30, 2023; She has appealed her case; The lower court gave her a prison  sentence of 11 years 3 months.  

She is home on bail. She can get a maximum sentence of twenty years in prison, and a fine of $250,000.

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Jury finds Elizabeth Holmes guilty of fraud and conspiracy at blood-testing startup Theranos . January 4, 2021

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The 1988–90 North American drought was a weather problem that lasted two years. The drought began in 1988 in the Midwestern United States, High Plains and the Northeastern United States. A number of high pressure areas set themselves up over several parts of these areas, restricting thunderstorms from developing.

During the spring of 1988, Milwaukee, Wisconsin had 55 days straight without any precipitation. In the summer, two record-setting heat waves developed, similar to 1934, 1936 and 1983–85. The constant heat waves led to as many as 17,000 deaths in the United States. 

During the summer of 1988, the drought led to a number of wildfires in western North America. That included the Yellowstone fires of 1988.
At its peak, the drought covered 45% of the United States in 1988 alone. That's less area than the Dust Bowl, which covered 70% of the United States. But the Drought of 1988 caused $60 billion in damage. That not only is the most expensive drought in the history of the United States, it was the costliest natural disaster before Hurricane Katrina seventeen years later.

The drought destroyed crops nationwide. Lawns went brown. A number of cities ordered water restrictions. 

More than four inches of helpful rain came to the Midwest through Hurricane Gilbert. The storm crossed Texas and Oklahoma as a tropical depression. It spread rain as far as the Great Lakes. Other locations, however, were at -6 or lower on the Palmer Drought Severity Index by early autumn 1988.

Dry conditions continued into 1989 and 1990, affecting Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota,Illinois, Colorado, Kansas and Missouri.

The 1988–90 drought caused damage comparable to Hurricane Andrew in August 1992 and Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.
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