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Nancy Evelyn Guptill (April 28, 1941August 24, 2020) was a Canadian politician. She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1987 to 2000. She was a member of the provincial Liberal Party.

She represented the electoral districts of 5th Prince from 1987 to 1996 and St. Eleanors-Summerside from 1996 to 2000.  She was elected speaker in 1993.  

Guptill died on August 24, 2020, in Summerside, Prince Edward Island from a long-illness, aged 79.

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2020 deaths
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People from Prince Edward Island
Persian Inscriptions on Indian Monuments is a book written by Dr. Ali-Asghar Hekmat. It was published in 1956, 1958 and 2013. New print has the Persian texts of more than 200 stone inscriptions found on historical places in India, many of which are now listed as national heritage or UNESCO world heritage sites.

Third edition
After being lost for over 50 years, a third edition of the book has been printed by Dr. Mohammad Ajam with 200 pictures. the book is important for students of  Persian language and teachers.

Book contents
Book contents 

In India, Persian inscriptions are usually found on buildings such as mosques , tombs,forts, palaces, gateways, water tanks, wells, gardens and bridges. Certain movable objects such as seals, signets, vases and eating pot. Most pre-Mughal Indian quranic and Persian inscriptions in India date from the last decade of the 12th century AD, when Muhammad Ghori (Guri) conquered Delhi and established his ruling there. However, a small number of inscriptions have been found in Haryana, Gujarat and Kerala which bear earlier dates. the persian language was official language of courts in India for 600 years .
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Palaces, citadels
The book explain Persian Inscriptions on many palaces and fort in India including:
 Red castle or The Red Fort is a historic fort in the city of Delhi that served as the main residence of the Mughal Emperors. Emperor Shah Jahan commissioned construction of the Red Fort on 12 May 1638, when he decided to shift his capital from Agra to Delhi. Originally red and white, Shah Jahan's favourite colours, its design is credited to architect Ustad Ahmad Lahori, who also constructed the Taj Mahal. It was constructed between May 1639 and April 1648.it was conquered by Nader shah of Persia.
in the Rashtrapati Bhavan and the buildings in this complex there are many persian inscriptions especialy in the hall of Ashoka (former Persika). is the official residence of the President of India in New Delhi, Rashtrapati Bhavan may refer to only the 340-room main building that has the president's official residence, including reception halls, guest rooms and offices, also called the mansion; it may also refer to the entire 130-hectare (320 acre) Presidential Estate that additionally includes huge presidential gardens (Mughal Gardens), large open spaces, residences of bodyguards and staff, stables, other offices and utilities within its perimeter walls. In terms of area, it is the largest residence of any head of state in the world.
Mausoleums 
The book describes 47 Mausoleum and tombs in India inscribed with Persian Inscriptions.
 Mausoleum of Akbar or Akbar's tomb is the tomb of the Mughal emperor Akbar. This tomb is an important heritage . It was built in 1605–1613 by his son Jahangir and is located in 119 acres of grounds in Sikandra, in Agra, the best marble stone inscribed with Persian Inscriptions and poem.
Persian inscription in the mosques
The book had described Persian inscription in the 14 mosques in India including:
 The Jama Masjid, Delhi of Delhi, is one of the largest mosques in India. It was built by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan between 1650 and 1656 The mosque was completed in 1656 AD with three great gates and two 40 metres high minarets constructed with strips of red sandstone and white marble. The courtyard can accommodate more than 25000 people. There are three domes on the terrace which are surrounded by the two minarets. The architectural plan of Badshahi Masjid, built by Shah Jahan's son Aurangzeb at Lahore, is similar to the Jama Masjid, Delhi.
. Shah Jahan also built the Taj Mahal, at Agra and the Red Fort in Old Delhi, which stands opposite the Jama Masjid.it remained the royal mosque of the emperors until the end of the Mughal period.

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Gallery
some Pictures of the Indian important places which have Persian inscriptions and have been explained in the book: more pictures in flicker 3d pan white

Related pages
 Red Fort
 Taj Mahal

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History of India
The Juan Fernández fur seal (Arctocephalus philippii) is a type of fur seal. It is the second smallest type of fur seal. They are only found on the Juan Fernández Islands and the Desventuradas Islands.

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Pinnipeds
Mammals of South America
The New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) is a type of fur seal mostly found around southern Australia and New Zealand. They are also called the Australasian fur seal, South Australian fur seal, Antipodean fur seal, or long-nosed fur seal.

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Pinnipeds
Mammals of Australia
Mammals of Oceania
Darragh Ennis (born 1980) is an Irish  entomologist, neuroscientist, quizzer, and television personality. He is one of the six Chasers on the ITV game show The Chase. He is nicknamed The Menace and alternatively The Dublin Dynamo. He was a contestant on the show in 2017. In April 2020, Ennis became the first ever contestant in the UK to become a new Chaser. His Chaser debut aired on 19 November 2020.

Early life and science career 
Ennis grew up in Dublin, Ireland and studied at Maynooth University, graduating with a BSc in biology in 2002, and a PhD in ecology in 2008. After completing his doctorate, he worked as a biomedical scientist at ICON plc for a year before undertaking postdoctoral research at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada from 2010 until 2012. Since 2013, he has worked as a lab manager and research technician at the University of Oxford, where he specialises in researching the brains of insects.
Television 
In 2017, Ennis was a member of a winning team on The Chase. He earned £9,000 in his Cash Builder round and defeated chaser Paul Sinha to take that money into the Final Chase. The other three contestants also advanced, but each of them took negative low offers from Sinha so that the final prize total was £6,300. Outraged viewers set up a GoFundMe campaign to compensate Ennis for his share of the money lost through his teammates' decisions. Ennis requested for all money to be donated to charity.

In April 2020, Ennis was announced as the sixth chaser on The Chase, alongside Mark Labbett, Shaun Wallace, Anne Hegerty, Paul Sinha and Jenny Ryan. His Chaser-debut episode was aired on 19 November 2020. His debut brought in 4.9 million viewers, making it the most watched episode of The Chase ever.

Personal life 
Ennis is married to his "university sweetheart", and they live together in Oxford with their two children. Ennis supports Dublin GAA and Liverpool FC. Ennis can speak German and Irish.
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Other websites 
 Ennis on Instagram

1980 births
Living people
Irish television personalities
Irish scientists
Entomologists
Neuroscientists
Denys Anatoliyovych Shmyhal (; born 15 October 1975) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician.

On 4 March 2020, he became the Prime Minister of Ukraine.

Biography 
Denys was born on 15 October 1975 in Lviv. In 1997, he graduated from the Lviv Polytechnic (engineering and economics).

1997-2005 he works as accountant in private sector. From June 2006 to August 2008, he was Director for the investment company Comfort-Invest.

In 2008-2009, Shmyhal was General Director at Rosaninvest LLC.

Shmyhal worked in multiple leading political roles in Ukraine's Lviv Oblast from 2009 until December 2013.

In 2009-2013 served as the head of the Department of Economics and the head of the Department of Economic Development, Investment, Trade and Industryat the Lviv Oblast Administration.

In 2015-2017 he was a Vice President of Lviv company Lvivkholod.

In 2018-2019, Shmyhal was a Director of the Burshtyn TES.

From August 2019 till February 2020 he was the Governor of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
On 4 February 2020, he became the Minister of Regional Development of Ukraine.

In March 2020, Denys Shmyhal became the Prime Minister of Ukraine.

Personal life 
Shmyhal is married to Kateryna. The couple has two daughters.

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Prime Ministers of Ukraine
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Sir Neil James Douglas (28 May 1949 – 23 August 2020) was a Scottish medical doctor. He was president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) from 2004 to 2010 and chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) from 2009 to 2012.

Douglas died on 23 August 2020 in Edinburgh, aged 71.

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Scottish medical doctors
Sir Narendra Babubhai Patel, Baron Patel,  (born 11 May 1938) is a British obstetrician and cross bench peer. From 2006 to 2017, he was the Chancellor of University of Dundee. He was born in Lindi, Tanganyika Territory.

Patel became a Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1969, and a Fellow in 1988. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1999.

Patel received a knighthood in the 1997 Queen's Birthday Honours, and was created a life peer on 1 March 1999, as Baron Patel, of Dunkeld in Perth and Kinross.

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Dirk Frederik Mudge (16 January 1928 – 26 August 2020) was a Namibian politician. He was the chairman of the 1975–1977 Turnhalle Constitutional Conference. He also co-founded the Republican Party (RP) of Namibia as well as the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA). Mudge was a member of the Constituent Assembly and 1st National Assembly until he retired in 1993. Mudge is the founder of Namibia's Afrikaans daily Die Republikein and its publisher Namibia Media Holdings. 

Mudge died in Windhoek, Namibia from COVID-19 on 26 August 2020, aged 92.

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Namibian politicians
The National Assembly is the lower chamber of Namibia's bicameral Parliament. Since 2014, it has a total of 104 members. 

96 members are directly elected through a system of closed list proportional representation and serve five-year terms. Eight additional members are appointed by the President.

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Parliament is the law-making body of Namibia's legislature. It is made up of two chambers:
The National Assembly (Lower chamber) starts and approves laws. It is made up of 104 members, 96 of which are elected by parliamentary election. The other eight are appointed by the president.
The National Council (Upper chamber) advises the National Assembly on any required changes to laws that result from law-making in the National Assembly. The National Council is made up of 42 representatives of the Regional Councils; every Regional Council in the fourteen regions of Namibia elects three representatives.

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The National Council is the upper chamber of Namibia's bicameral Parliament. It reviews bills passed by the lower chamber and makes recommendations for legislation of regional concern to the lower chamber.

The 42 National Council members are chosen by regional councils, which are indirectly elected for a term of five years. Each of the 14 regional councils chooses three of its members to serve on the National Council.

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Government of Namibia
The South American fur seal (Arctocephalus australis) is a type of fur seal. It breeds on the coasts of Peru, Chile, the Falkland Islands, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.

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Pinnipeds
Mammals of South America
Rand Beers (born November 30, 1942) is an American government official. He was Deputy Homeland Security Advisor to the President of the United States during the Barack Obama administration. 

He also was acting United States Secretary of Homeland Security following the resignation of Secretary Janet Napolitano on September 6, 2013, until Jeh Johnson replaced her on December 23, 2013.

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The hidden-ear frog or earless water-holding frog (Ranoidea cryptotis) is a frog from Australia. It lives in the Kimberly region in the Ord and Fitzroy Valleys.  It lives in Western Australia and small parts of Queensland and the Northern Territory.

The adult male frog is 3.4 to 4.6 cm long.  The adult female frog is 3.6 to 4.8 cm long.  This frog has a round body and a small head.  It does not have any webbing on its front feet.  This frog can be gray or brown.  Adult frogs can have a mottled pattern.  It has five stripes running across its body from the sides.  They can be bright orange in color.

This frog waits for wet weather before it lays eggs.  It lays its eggs in pools of water.  The water can be very hot, 40°C.  It can be white and full of clay.  The tadpoles can be 4.6 cm long.  They have five rows of teeth, two on the top and three on the bottom.  The tadpoles take about one month to become frogs.

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Pelodryadidae
Aunjanue L. Ellis (; born February 21, 1969) is an American actress.

Ellis is best known for her roles in movies Men of Honor (2000), The Caveman's Valentine (2001), Undercover Brother (2002), Ray (2004),  The Express: The Ernie Davis Story (2008), The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) and The Help (2011).

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Living people
American movie actors
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American voice actors
Actors from San Francisco
The COVID-19 pandemic in Namibia is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ().

Early cases
The Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr. Kalumbi Shangula, announced on 14 March 2020 that the virus had reached Namibia. A Romanian couple constituted the two first cases and recovered after 79 days after their initial diagnosis.

On 17 March 2020, President Hage Geingob declared a state of emergency which caused the closure of all borders, suspension of gatherings and economic related resolutions. 

No infections were reported from 6 April 2020 to 20 May 2020, however there was a notable increase in cases after this period - possibly due to local transmission.
Timeline
 March 2020: 11 confirmed cases, nine of which still active at the end of the month. No COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 April 2020: 5 new cases bringing the total number to 16. Half of them were active at the end of the month. No COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 May 2020: 8 new cases bringing the total number to 24. Ten of them were active at the end of the month. No COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 June 2020: 181 new cases bringing the total number to 205, of which 181 were active at the end of the month. No COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 July 2020: 1,924 new cases bringing the total number to 2,129, of which 1,953 were active at the end of the month. Ten COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 August 2020: 5,421 new cases bringing the total number to 7,550, of which 4,148 were active at the end of the month. 65 new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 September 2020: 3,590 new cases bringing the total number to 11,140, of which 2,130 were active at the end of the month. 46 new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
October 2020: 1,848 new cases bringing the total number to 12,988, of which 1,766 were active at the end of the month. Twelve new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 November 2020: 1,357 new cases bringing the total number to 14,345, of which 694 were active at the end of the month. 18 new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 December 2020: 9,596 new cases raising the total number to 23,941 of which 3,660 were active at the end of the month. 54 new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 January 2021: 10,003 new cases raising the total number to 33,944 of which 1,214 were active at the end of the month. 147 new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 February 2021: 4,901 new cases taking the total number to 38,845 of which 2,160 were active at the end of the month. 72 new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 March 2021: 5,294 new cases taking the total number to 44,139 of which 1,768 were active at the end of the month. 99 new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
April 2021: 4,515 new cases taking the total number to 48,654 of which 1,688 were active at the end of the month. 119 new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 May 2021: 6,895 new cases taking the total number to 55,549 of which 4,044 were active at the end of the month. 187 new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 June 2021: 34,368 new cases taking the total number to 89,917 of which 21,066 were active at the end of the month. 691 new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 July 2021: 29,368 new cases taking the total number to 119,285 of which 20,628 were active at the end of the month. 1,523 new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 August 2021: 5,761 new cases taking the total number to 125,046 of which 2,319 were active at the end of the month. 332 new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 September 2021: 2,543 new cases taking the total number to 127,589 of which 1,112 were active at the end of the month. 136 new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
October 2021: 1,349 new cases taking the total number to 128,938 of which 746 were active at the end of the month. 43 new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 November 2021: 305 new cases taking the total number to 129,243 of which 163 were active at the end of the month. 19 new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 December 2021: 18,731 new cases raising the total number to 147,974 of which 13,301 were active at the end of the month. 60 new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 January 2022: 7,925 new cases raising the total number to 155,899 of which 6,156 were active at the end of the month. 334 new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 February 2022: 1,311 new cases bringing the total number to 157,210 of which 509 were active at the end of the month. 40 new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 March 2022: 436 new cases bringing the total number to 157,646 of which 558 were active at the end of the month. Twelve new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
April 2022: 1,165 new cases bringing the total number to 158,811 of which 1,124 were active at the end of the month. Six new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 May 2022: 6,986 new cases bringing the total number to 165,797 of which 2,997 were active at the end of the month. 13 new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 June 2022: 3,406 new cases raising the total number to 169,203 of which 393 were active at the end of the month. 26 new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 July 2022: 50 new cases raising the total number to 169,253 of which 375 were active at the end of the month. Eight new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 October 2022: 726 new cases bringing the total number to 169,929. 15 new COVID-19 deaths were reported.
 December 2022: 366 new cases bringing the total number to 170,295. Two new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 January 2023: 578 new cases bringing the total number to 170,873. Eight new COVID-19 deaths were reported.
February 2023: 283 new cases bringing the total number to 171,156. No new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 March 2023: 66 new cases bringing the total number to 171,222. No new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
 April 2023: 117 new cases bringing the total number to 171,339. One new COVID-19 death was recorded.
 May 2023: 379 new cases bringing the total number to 171,718. Two new COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
Cases total
As of August 2020, Namibia was within the top 20 number of countries with the most COVID-19 cases reported in Africa. 

A total of 166 health care workers tested positive for the virus, increasing the pressure on the health system given that a shortage of health care workers existed even before the pandemic.

Quarantine
On 31 July, the Health Minister announced a small end in quarantine protocols that would account for faster recovery rates. Patients with a positive COVID-19 result will automatically be regarded as recovered 10 days after their infection, given that they do not display symptoms anymore.

Vaccination campaign
Vaccinations started on 19 March 2021, initially with 100,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine donated by China and 24,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine purchased through COVAX.

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21st century in Namibia
Namibia
A run out is a way of getting a batter out in cricket. It involves hitting a wicket with the ball when no batsman is in the ground of that wicket; the batsman who is out is the one who is nearest to that ground, or if both batsmen are in a ground, the batsman who reached that ground second. Run outs can happen when batters are trying to score runs by running between the two grounds.

Mankading 
When a bowler is readying himself to bowl, the ball becomes live; if the nonstriker leaves the ground at the bowler's end before the bowler has thrown the ball, then the bowler can hit the wicket in this ground with the ball to "mankad" the nonstriker.

Stumping 
A stumping is a special type of run out in which the wicketkeeper (the fielder with gloves behind the striking batter) hits the wicket in the ground at the striker's end with the ball when the striker is out of that ground.
Stumpings are not allowed on no-balls; a striker who is not trying to run can only be run out on a no-ball if the wicketkeeper has another fielder help him.

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Cricket
In cricket, a batter can be out bowled if the bowler delivers the ball to the batter and it hits the wicket behind the batter before touching anyone other than the batter. When the wicket is hit, one of its 5 sticks must fall to the ground for the batter to be out. A batter can't be bowled if the ball was not delivered legally.

A batter can also be out leg before wicket (LBW) if they use their body to prevent the ball from hitting the wicket.

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Cricket
The South American sea lion (Otaria flavescens), is a type of sea lion. It is also called the Southern Sea lion and the Patagonian sea lion. The South American fur sea lion is found on the Ecuadorian, Peruvian, Chilean, Falkland Islands, Argentinean, Uruguayan, and Southern Brazilian coasts. It is the only member of the genus Otaria.

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Pinnipeds
Mammals of South America
A pseudorandom number generator is a way that computers generate numbers. There is no known way for a computer to generate numbers which are truly random. A computer algorithm can generate numbers which look random.

An analogy is a jar of (numbered) marbles. Humans can reach into the jar and grab "random" marbles. However, to understand pseudo random numbers, we must understand that this process is not random. We decided to reach into the bag based off of our brain giving us a signal to reach in this way, and the marbles themselves being arranged in a certain way.

Pseudo-random number generators are computer routines which tell the computer how to produce a number which looks random.

The initial position of the marbles is called the "seed." The seed is used to create the randomness. To come up with the seed some programs use time of day, while others convert background noise into a number.
When you need to get the next random number ("marble") the generator calculates it with some algorithm. It is based on the previous generated number, in turn, depending on the initial "seed." The algorithm is strict, it will always produce the same sequence of random numbers ("marbles") given the same initial "seed".

Algorithms
Theoretical computer science
The subantarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus tropicalis), is a type of fur seal. It found in the southern parts of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans.

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Pinnipeds
Mammals of South America
The House of Bruce began as the lords of Annandale. The most well known member was King Robert the Bruce. He beat the English army at the Battle of Bannockburn and became king. He died in 1329. He was succeeded by King David II, his son. He was deposed by Edward Balliol.

David II died at Edinburgh Castle at age 46. With him the House of Bruce ended.

Royal dynasties
14th century in Scotland
The African civet (Civettictis civetta) is a large type of civet in the family Viverridae. It is native to Sub-Saharan Africa  . It is a Least Concern species. In some countries, it is threatened by hunting, and wild  African civets are kept for producing civetone to make some types of perfume.

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Viverrids
Mammals of Africa
Bete-ombro, also known as tacobol, bets, or pau na lata, is a Brazilian form of street cricket. There are two teams of two players, one which has the bat, and the other having the ball, and there are two wickets.

Rules 
A player from one team throws the ball from one wicket to the other, while a player from the other team holding a bat stands at the other wicket. The batter can hit the ball and then run between the wickets to score runs, while his partner does the same but crossing him. If the ball is thrown at a wicket before a player from the batting team gets to it, then the teams swap.

Related pages 
 Plaquita

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Cricket
Sport in Brazil
La plaquita or la placa is a form of street cricket played in the Dominican Republic. It involves two teams of two players, and two wickets (which can be license plates, known as "placas" in Spanish). Players from one team run between the wickets to score runs, but can't score anymore if the wicket is hit with the ball when that team's players are too far away from the wicket.

Related pages 
 Bete-ombro

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Cricket
Run can mean:
Running
Run (baseball), a point scored in baseball
Run (cricket), a point scored in cricket
Run (Sash! song), a 2002 song
Run (2014 movie)
Run (island), an island in Indonesia
Bank run, when many people take their money from a bank
A political campaign
Bottom is a British television sitcom created by Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall. It was first broadcast on BBC2 between 1992 and 1995. The show stars Edmondson and Mayall as two poor, perverted flatmates in Hammersmith, London. The show uses violent slapstick comedy.

Two stage shows between 1993 and 2003; and one movie, Guest House Paradiso (1999), were also made about Bottom. In 2004, Bottom was voted number 45 in a poll for Britain's Best Sitcom.

Episodes

Series 1 (1991)

Series 2 (1992)

Series 3 (1995)

'*' = Episodes featuring only the two main characters
'+' = Episodes where no part of the episode is set in the flat

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1990s British sitcoms
BBC television sitcoms
1991 British television series debuts
1995 British television series endings
English-language television programs
Alexander Taraikovsky (, ) (26 March 1986 – 10 August 2020) was a participant in protests against the false numbers of the 2020 Belarusian presidential election. He was shot dead point-blank (from a very close range) by special forces officers on August 10, 2020, in Minsk. The government-run media tried to present it as something that happened through his own carelessness (failure to take the care that a cautious person usually takes).

He was shot by the police on the evening of August 10, 2020, near Pushkinskaya metro station in Minsk (after that it was said by the chief of GUBOPiK (a special police unit in Belarus) Nikolai Karpenkov). On February 2, 2021, TUT.BY got the results of the audio test of the record made by BYPOL. Talks on the killing of Alexander Taraikovsky and more are on the record. The expert test made it clear that the Nikolai Karpenkov's voice is on the record and there are no signs of changes made to it.
He was buried at Western cemetery in Minsk on August 15, 2020. The death of Taraikovsky caused more protests.

On December 21, 2020, the representative of the public initiative "Belarusian People's Tribunal" Igor Makar published the materials of the preliminary investigation. They claim that Aleksandr Taraikovsky was deliberately and cynically killed by an employee of the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit "Almaz" Korovin Nikita Yuryevich(born in 1993), with the complicity of other unidentified employees of this spesial forces unit.

Reaction 

On September 17, 2020, European Parliament spoke on the situation in Belarus. It printed a decision, supported by a very big number of people in the parliament, calling for an "independent and effective investigation" into the death of Alexander Taraikovsky related to the protests.
On November 19, 2020, Jim Gilmore, United States Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, spoke on a three-month end of the investigation into the death of Alexander Taraikovsky. He said that it is another sign of “the impunity with which Belarusian security forces pursue their violent crackdown on peaceful protesters.”

On November 26, 2020, European Parliament spoke on the situation in Belarus.  It printed a decision, supported by a very big number of people in the parliament, calling for a "prompt, thorough, impartial and independent investigation into the death of Alexander Taraikovsky."

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1986 births
2020 deaths
Belarusian activists
Deaths by firearm
People from Minsk
Victims during protests in Belarus in 2020
Gerald Paul "Jerry" Carr (August 22, 1932 – August 26, 2020) (Col, USMC, Ret.) was an American mechanical and aeronautical engineer, United States Marine Corps officer, naval aviator, and NASA astronaut. 

He was Commander of Skylab 4, the third and final crewed visit to the Skylab Orbital Workshop, from  November 16, 1973, to February 8, 1974.

Carr was born in Denver, Colorado. He studied at the University of Southern California and at Princeton University. 

Carr died in Albany, New York on August 26, 2020, four days after his 88th birthday.

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1932 births
2020 deaths
Engineers from Colorado
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American mechanical engineers
Edward George "Ed" Gibson (born November 8, 1936) is a former NASA astronaut, pilot, engineer, and physicist.

Gibson was selected as part of NASA Astronaut Group 4, the first group of scientist-astronauts. He was on the support crew of Apollo 12, the second Moon landing mission. He worked on the development of the Skylab space station. 

In 1973–74, Gibson made his only flight into space as science pilot aboard Skylab 4, the third and final crewed flight to Skylab. He, along with Commander Gerald Carr and Pilot William Pogue, spent just over 84 days in space.

Gibson resigned from NASA in December 1974, but returned in 1977 to preside over the selection of scientist-astronaut candidates. Gibson retired from NASA for the last time in October, 1982.

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1936 births
Living people
American astronauts
American aviators
American physicists
California Institute of Technology faculty
Engineers from New York (state)
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Educators from New York (state)
José Asensio Lamiel (29 January 1924 – 26 August 2020) was an Aragonese painter and sculptor. He was born in Calanda, Spain. 

He studied at the San Carlos Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Valencia.

In the 1960s he moved to Colombia and worked there for six years. He also worked in the United States, before returning to Spain. In 1989 he was awarded the Cruz de San Jorge by the provincial government of Teruel.

Lamiel died on 26 August 2020 in Alcalá de Henares, Spain at the age of 96.

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1924 births
2020 deaths
Spanish painters
Spanish sculptors
The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) is the organization within the government of the Philippines that sends satellites and other objects into outer space.

Beginning
PhilSA was made by Republic Act No. 11363 that became a law in August 8, 2019.

The Philippines did some space projects before PhilSA became an official organization. Philippines’ Advanced Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI) put the first Filipino-made object into orbit, DIWATA-1, in 2016. The second was Agila 2 in 2018.

Site

The buildings and other things for PhilSA are scheduled to be finished in 2022. In 2020, it operates in the Clark Special Economic Zone in Pampanga and Tarlac, which used to be an American air base.

References

Other websites

Government agencies of the Philippines
Space agencies
Winifred Mitchinson is a New Zealand born Model/Actress. She is best known for winning Playboy Playmate of the Year in 1988 for Australian Playboy Magazine. She modelled for Australian Playboy Magazine under the name of Desiree Brown. She married Scott Mitchinson in 1990, who she met on the Red Carpet of the premiere for Crocodile Dundee 2. They have one child named Alexander Mitchinson also known as Mc Medicinal, an actor & rapp artist. Scott worked as First Assistant Film Editor on Crocodile Dundee 2, which was directed by John Cornell. Scott also was First Assistant editor to Leon Gast, director for When We Were Kings, feature length academy award winning documentary about B B King & Muhummad Ali at the 3 day soul festival in Africa in 1974.

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Europa Europa (, lit. "Hitler Youth Salomon") is a 1990 German French Polish World War II drama movie directed by Agineszka Holland and based on the 1989 autobiographical novel by Solomon Perel. It stars Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Hanns Zischler, Piotr Kozlowski, André Wilms and was distributed by Orion Pictures. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1992.

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Ørnulf Tofte (12 February 1922 – 26 August 2020) was a Norwegian police officer. He was an important person in the Norwegian intelligence service during the Cold War. He was born in Oslo.

He was Assistant Chief of Police and Head of counter-intelligence in the Police Surveillance Agency. Tofte found  several illegal Soviet spies and personally arrested Asbjørn Sunde, Gunvor Galtung Haavik and Arne Treholt. 

Tofte died on 26 August 2020 in Bærum, Norway at the age of 98.

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Ronald Timothy Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry,  (28 May 1932 – 25 August 2020) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament between 1974 to 1997. 

He was Minister of State for Immigration between 1987 to 1989 in the Thatcher cabinet and as Minister for the Arts between 1990 to 1992 in the Major cabinet. 

He was a member of the House of Lords between 1997 to 2016.

Renton died on 25 August 2020, aged 88.

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Known or suspected victims 
His wife Anita Darsch. She "disappeared" from their Home at Lakewood Township, New Jersey in 1913. Helmuth claimed that she had returned to Berlin.
Servant Margaret "Greta" Darsch, with whom he had a love affair, also vanished in 1913; Schmidt explained to his daughter that she had married and travelled to Denmark.
After the discovery of Pallatinus' remains, Schmidt's widow Adele Ulrich noted that Schmidt had allowed her to take a small peek into the cellar, where she later alleged the authorities would most likely find the bodies of Anita Schmidt and Greta Darsch.
His wife Adele Ulrich from New York, whom he meet through a matrimonial advertisement, buying a house using her money. He later abandoned Ulrich and left Lakewood in 1914, after collecting $1,500 by fraudulently selling his home. 
 Mrs. John Switt of New York - claimed that Schmidt had married her under the name John Switt in 1914.
Mrs. Emil Brown of New York - a stenographer for the Hupfel Brewing Company, married Schmidt in 1915 at Lakewood; he later claimed she deserted him and took money.
 Irma Pallatinus - housekeeper; accompanied him from Lakewood to Detroit in 1915, disappeared soon after. After his death her strangled body was found buried under his garage in Lakewood. After the inquest on her death, Schmidt's daughter remarked that Schmidt told her that Irma disappeared after taking $700 of his money.
 Mrs. Helmuth Schmidt of Chicago - she married him in 1916, after which he robbed her of $2,000 and then deserted her; when she was later shown a picture of him, she identified Schmidt as her husband.
Servant Augusta Steinbach, who, after corresponding for a few months set out to marry the mysterious man, bringing with her around $500 and some jewelry. In February 1917, she told her long-time friend and fellow servant Agnes Domanie about her intentions to marry the man in Detroit, departing to the city in March. A few days after she left, she wrote to Ms. Domanie, describing enthusiastically her husband-to-be, as well as asking her friend to send three trunks of clothes stored in a nearby warehouse. Domanie complied with the request, but three months later, her package was returned by the company, with them explaining that they couldn't locate the woman. Following this, Ms. Domanie wrote to the authorities in Detroit. Three months after her request, she was visited by Sheriff O. H. P. Green who spoke with her, but failed to locate Steinbach. He soon committed suicide, burning all papers related to the case. Despite this, Ms. Domanie continued to insist on the police listening to her
. Eventually, Glen Gillespie, the District Attorney of Oakland County, came to visit her. After carefully examining the case, he located the elusive man from the ads: Helmuth Schmidt.
Arrest and suicide 
Upon his arrest, Helmuth confessed that he had burned Steinbach's body, but alleged that she had killed herself with poison following his refusal to instantly marry her and a subsequent quarrel on March 11. Fearing that his wife and daughter would return soon from the cinema, Schmidt dragged the body to the cellar, lifted it through a window and then buried it under his porch. Three months after the incident, he claimed that he dug up the body, cut it up with a cleaver and then burned the pieces in the furnace. She was his last known victim. He committed suicide in his jail cell in 1918.

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Laurent Akran Mandjo (5 November 1940 – 25 August 2020) was an Ivorian Roman Catholic bishop. He was Bishop of Yopougon from 1982 to 2015. He was born in Songon, French West Africa.

Mandjo died on 25 August 2020 in Abidjan at the age of 79.

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Take the Money and Run is a 1969 American comedy movie directed by Woody Allen (who also stars) and also starring Janet Margolin, Marcel Hillaire, Lonny Chapman, Jan Merlin, James K Anderson, Mark Gordon, Mike O'Dowd. It was distributed by Cinerama Releasing Corporation.

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Tommy Joe Coffey (November 18, 1936 – August 25, 2020) was an American-born Canadian Football League (CFL) player. He was a wide receiver and place kicker for the Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts. He was born in Texas. His career lasted from 1959 to 1973.

Coffey died on August 25, 2020 at the age of 83.

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Erik Anders Allardt (9 August 1925 – 25 August 2020) was a Finnish sociologist. Allardt was professor of sociology at the University of Helsinki between 1955 and 1991, and as chancellor of Åbo Akademi University between 1992 and 1994. He was born in Helsinki.

Allardt died on 25 August 2020 in Helsinki at the age of 95.

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Wolfgang Uhlmann (29 March 1935 – 24 August 2020) was a German chess grandmaster. He was East Germany's most successful professional chess player. 

He won the German Democratic Republic (GDR) national championship 11 times from 1954 to 1986. He was the GDR's most outstanding player at the Chess Olympiads of 1956–1990, where he made 11 appearances.

At the 1964 event in Tel Aviv, he scored a combined 15 points out of 18, earning him the individual board one gold medal. 

An individual bronze medal, for a combined score of 13 points out of 18, followed in 1966 at Havana.

Uhlmann died on 24 August 2020 from a fall, aged 85.

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Mark Sertich (July 18, 1921 – August 24, 2020) was an American ice hockey player. Sertich died on 24 August 2020 in Duluth, Minnesota at the age of 99.

Biography 
Mark was born on July 18, 1921 in Duluth, Minnesota. His parents were from Yugoslavia, Croatians by nationality. He was first introduced to hockey at the age of 10.

Initially, he competed without skates, later winning them as a consolation prize for second place in one of the competitions.Later, in an interview, he recalled: “In the beginning, I played hockey without skates, in those days it was considered good luck if your parents could buy you at least a stick.”After graduating from school, Sertich got a job.

His father died, and so he had to provide for his family.

In 1942, he was drafted into the US Armed Forces, participated in the battles of World War II and was one of those who liberated the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.
After the war, Mark quickly adapted to civilian life - he returned to work as an office manager, and in his spare time began to develop hockey in his native Duluth.

He organized the construction of an outdoor hockey rink - he beat officials for money to buy building materials, prepared all the necessary documents.

The new ice rink became a center of attraction for local kids, Sertich created a children's hockey team and coached it for many years, and also led the Duluth Amateur Hockey Association permanently.

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Fauna is a collective term for animal life.

Fauna may also refer to:
Fauna (deity), an ancient Roman goddess
Fauna, Bloemfontein, a suburb of the South African city of Bloemfontein
Fauna (album), a 2008 album by Oh Land
Fauna (movie), a 2020 Mexican/Canadian drama movie
Fauna, a fictional character from Disney's Sleeping Beauty, see Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather
Fauna, a 2009 Spiel des Jahres-nominated board game
Fauna, a female character in Sweet Thursday, a novel by John Steinbeck
Florian-Ayala Fauna, American artist, musician, and music producer
Magdalen "Mamie" Redman (July 2, 1930 – August 22, 2020) was an American baseball catcher and utility infielder. She played from  through  in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw right-handed.

Redman was born in Waupun, Wisconsin. She played for Kenosha Comets from 1948 to 1949 and for Grand Rapids Chicks between 1950 to 1954.

Redman died in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin on August 22, 2020 at the age of 90.

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Waupun is a city in Dodge and Fond du Lac counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 11,340 at the 2010 census.

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Oconomowoc ( '') is a city in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 15,712 at the 2010 census.

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Nemertodermatida is a class of Acoelomorpha, comprising 18 species of millimetre-sized turbellariform, mostly interstitial worms.

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Miron Naumovich Sher (Russian: Мирон Наумович Шер; June 29, 1952 – August 21, 2020) was an influential Ukrainian-born American chess grandmaster. In 1981, at age 29, Sher became a chess coach for the Russian national team, a role he held until 1985.

Sher became an international master in 1988 and a grandmaster in 1992.

In 1991, when the Soviet Union dissolved, Sher became a Russian citizen. 

Sher died August 21, 2020, in New York City at the age of 68.

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 Miron Sher profile at FIDE
 Chess games of Miron Sher at Chessgames.com
 Miron N. Sher Tournament database at www.365chess.com

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Arunachalam Chettiar Lakshmanan, B.A., B.L., (22 March 1942 – 27 August 2020) was an Indian politician and lawyer. He was a Judge of the Supreme Court of India between 2002 and 2007. He was Chairman of the Law Commission of India between 2006 and 2009.

Lakshmanan died on August 27, 2020 in Devakottai, Tamil Nadu from cardiac arrest, aged 78.

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Hohi Ngapera Te Moana Keri Kaa  (1942 – 26 August 2020) was a New Zealand writer, educator and activist for te reo Māori. 

During her time in Wellington, Kaa was involved with the Haeata Women's Collective (a group of Māori women artists), the Herstory diary project, and the Waiata Koa collective.

Her children's book Taka Ki Ro Wai, written in the Waiapu dialect of te reo, won the inaugural Māori language category in the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and honored in the National Design Awards for creative director Martin Page's work.

Kaa died on 26 August 2020, aged 78.

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Bluestar's Prophecy is a teen fantasy novel in the Warriors series by Erin Hunter. This is the second Warriors "Super Edition" (a standalone story that is longer than most Warriors books). The main character is a cat named Bluestar. The book tells her life story, from her birth to the day she becomes leader of a group of cats called ThunderClan. It was published by HarperCollins and released on 28 July 2009.

Plot

Bluestar is called Bluekit, Bluepaw, and Bluefur during different parts of her life.

Bluestar's Prophecy follows the life of Bluestar, the leader of ThunderClan. The book starts with a prologue that recounts Bluestar's death in A Dangerous Path. The book then goes back to Bluestar's childhood, during which Goosefeather, the Clan's medicine cat, receives a prophecy about Bluepaw being a fire that will blaze through the forest, but who will be destroyed by water. A few moons later, Bluepaw's mother, Moonflower, is killed in a battle.
Bluestar's childhood is defined by her relationship with her sister, Snowfur, which is damaged when Snowfur falls in love with Thistleclaw, whom Bluefur finds arrogant and untrustworthy. Snowfur is later killed when she is hit by a car, leaving a heartbroken Bluefur to care for Snowfur's son, Whitekit.

Bluefur later meets a RiverClan warrior named Oakheart, and although they do not like each other at first, they eventually fall in love. They decide to spend one night together, but agree that for the good of their Clans, they will never meet again afterwards. One moon later, Bluefur is horrified to find out that she is expecting kittens. Thrushpelt, a ThunderClan warrior with feelings for Bluefur, offers to help her take care of her kits. Bluefur accepts his offer, allowing the rest of ThunderClan to believe that Thrushpelt is the father of her kits.
Without her kits, Bluefur is made deputy. After Sunstar dies, she becomes leader, taking on the name Bluestar. After successfully leading ThunderClan for several seasons, she receives a prophecy from the ThunderClan medicine cat (healer), Spottedleaf: “Fire alone can save our Clan.” Later, while walking by a human town, she catches sight of a bright ginger house cat named Rusty. Recognizing him as the cat from Spottedleaf's prophecy, she names him Firepaw and takes him into ThunderClan.

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