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Lynika Strozier (August 28, 1984 – June 7, 2020) was an American researcher and scientist. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Her career began when she started to work at Chicago's Field Museum, as a student intern. She was known for being able to work with DNA from particularly small and difficult biological samples.

She spent most of her scientific career at the Field Museum. In 2019 she started working as an adjunct professor at Malcolm X College. 

Strozier died on June 7, 2020 in Chicago from COVID-19, aged 35.

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Floyd Lee, also known as Theodore Williams (August 20, 1933 – June 7, 2020), was an American blues musician. He was best known for his  performances of blues music in and around New York's subway stations for almost 30 years. Although best known for his passionate street performing in New York, in Lee's later years he recorded four albums in the 2000s on the Amogla Records label. 

Lee died on June 7, 2020 at a hospital in Columbus, Ohio of heart failure at the age of 86.

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Lamar is an unincorporated community in Benton County, Mississippi, United States.

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John Eldon Zook  (September 24, 1947 – June 6, 2020) was an American professional football player. He was born in Garden City, Kansas. He was a defensive end for 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Atlanta Falcons. Zook played college football for the University of Kansas.

Zook died on June 6, 2020 in Wichita, Kansas at the age of 72.

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Gerard Milton Earnhart (April 1, 1918 – June 6, 2020) was an American politician and broadcast journalist. He was a Democratic member of the Arkansas House of Representatives and Arkansas Senate from the years of 1959 to 1980. He was born in Pine Lawn, Missouri.

Earnhart died on June 6, 2020 in Fort Smith, Arkansas at the age of 102.

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Pine Lawn is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 3,275 at the 2010 census.

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Vilhelm Botyov Kraus () (22 April 1949 – 5 June 2020) was a Bulgarian politician. He was Minister of Transport in the Kostov Government between 1997 and 1999. He was born in Sofia.

In the 1990s, he served as vice-mayor of Sofia.

Kraus died on 5 June 2020 in Sofia, aged 71.

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Politicians from Sofia
Ivan Yordanov Kostov () (born 23 December 1949) is a Bulgarian politician. He was the 47th Prime Minister of Bulgaria in office from May 1997 to July 2001. He was leader of the Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) between December 1994 and July 2001.

Other websites
 Speeches, Interviews and Photos
 Otgovori.eu: Ivan Kostov's answers to a large variety of questions

1949 births
Living people
Politicians from Sofia
Prime Ministers of Bulgaria
Gilbert Ronald Larrieu (May 23, 1937 – June 1, 2020), known as Ron Larrieu, was an American long-distance runner. He competed in the men's 10,000 metres at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He was born in San Francisco. He was a two time national champion in cross country, in 1965 and 1966.

Larrieu died on June 1, 2020 at the age of 83.

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Other websites
 
 

1937 births
2020 deaths
American long-distance runners
Sportspeople from San Francisco
Arthur "Art" Miller Jr. (July 11, 1946 – June 25, 2020) was a Democratic politician. He was a member of the Michigan Senate from 1975 through 2002 representing a portion of Macomb County. From April 1985 through 1996, he was the Democratic leader in the chamber. Miller Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan.

Miller Jr. died on June 25, 2020 in Royal Oak, Michigan from lung cancer at the age of 73.

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Deaths from lung cancer
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Politicians from Detroit
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Macomb County is a county located in the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Michigan and is part of northern Metro Detroit. As of the 2020 census, the population was 881,217. It is the third-most populous county in the state. The county seat is Mt. Clemens.

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Mount Clemens is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 16,314 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Macomb County.

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The Detroit metropolitan area, often referred to as Metro Detroit, is a major metropolitan area in the U.S. State of Michigan, consisting of the city of Detroit and its surrounding area.

The area covers parts of the counties of Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne.

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Metropolitan areas of the United States
The Kingdom of Kotte (Sinhala: කෝට්ටේ රාජධානිය Kottay Rajadhaniya), centered on Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte , was a kingdom that flourished in  Sri Lanka during the 15th century.

History 
Parakramabahu VI first became the king of Raigama in 1412, then in 1415 he made Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte his capital. The King upgraded the existing citadel and built a new royal palace. Parakramabahu VI waited until ties between the Vijayanagara Empire and Jaffna Kingdom were severed. First he captured the Vanni and made its leaders loyal to him. Sapumal Kumaraya was the commander of the Kotte army at the time. Tamil served as one of the court languages of the Kotte kingdom at this time.

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Former countries in South Asia
Former monarchies of Asia
History of Sri Lanka
Medicaid in the United States is a federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with limited income and resources. Medicaid also offers benefits not normally covered by Medicare, including nursing home care and personal care services.

Medicaid is the largest source of funding for medical and health-related services for people with low income in the United States, providing free health insurance to 74 million low-income and disabled people (23% of Americans) as of 2017.
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010, states had the option to expand Medicaid coverage to nearly all low-income people under the age of 65. Eligibility for children was extended to at least 133% of the federal poverty level, and states now have the option to cover adults with income levels at or below 133% of the federal poverty level. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded coverage so that more Americans have access to health insurance—which includes mental health treatment coverage. Under the ACA, both mental and behavioral health disorders are covered similarly to physical health disorders. This includes the treatment of substance use disorders.

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Government of the United States
Healthcare in the United States
Sri Satyatma Tirtha, is an Indian Hindu philosopher, guru and scholar. He is the Swamiji of the Sri Uttaradi Matha, a Matha belonging to the Dvaita school of philosophy, founded by Sri Madhvacharya. Sri Satyatma Tirtha is the 42nd in the lineage of the Uttaradi Matha, starting from Madhvacharya. Satyatma Tirtha was born in Mumbai, India. He is the founder of Vishwa Madhwa Maha Parishat.

Social responsibility
Shri Satyatma Tirtha, through Uttaradi Math, encouraged water harvesting and management expert, the waterman of India and  Ramon Magsaysay Award winner Rajendra Singh to give lecture on water conservation and other topics. Through Uttaradi Math and jointly with Vishwa Madhva Maha Parishat, he is instrumental in helping needy students every year to the tune of Rs.5.00 lakhs (About US$10,000).
Flood relief
He has supplied relief materials to flood victims of Bellary, Bijapur, Raichur and Bagalkot districts during 2009 floods and also took measures to construct 100 low cost houses to those who lost houses in the flood. He has also adopted a rural village in Raichur, Karnataka for integrated development of the village. He is reportedly trying to redefine the role of religious 'math' in modern day society, so that present day 'math' should try to get rid of evils of modern society.
Spiritual discourses
His spiritual discourses (pravachana) attract large gatherings, mainly from followers of Madhvacharya and he specialises in talks on Vedic subjects. He has given spiritual discourses at several places like Bangalore, Gulbarga, Malkheda, Udupi, Rajahmundry, Hyderabad (India), Pune, Raichur, Dharwad and Chennai. He has also conducted personality development programmes and has written several books on topics like personality development, religion and philosophy. Satyatma Tirtha, as the present head of Uttaradi Matha, has also encouraged other authors to write books on religious experiences.

References

Bibliography

Other websites 
 Official website of Uttaradi Math
 Dheemahi (English)

Living people
Hindu gurus
1973 births
Hindu saints
Eventually, the Kingdom of Kandy sought help from the Dutch East India Company, with whom they initially entered into agreement. After the collapse of the Iberian economy in 1627, the Dutch–Portuguese War saw the Dutch conquest of most of Portugal's Asian colonies - Ceylon included, between 1638 and 1658. Nevertheless, elements of Portuguese culture from this colonial period remain in Sri Lanka.

History

Arrival and establishment of the Portuguese (1505-1543) 

The first contact between Sri Lanka and the Portuguese was established by Dom Lourenço de Almeida in 1505–6. It was largely accidental and it wasn't until 12 years later that the Portuguese sought to establish a fortified trading settlement.

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History of Sri Lanka
Portuguese Empire
Former colonies in Asia
Medicare is a national health insurance program in the United States. It began in 1965 under the Social Security Administration (SSA) by Lyndon B. Johnson and now administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). It gives health care insurance for Americans aged 65 and older, people with End-Stage Renal Disease and also for some younger people with disability. Medicare consists of three parts:

Medicare Part A (Hospital Insurance): Covers inpatient hospital care, skilled nursing facility care, hospice, and some home health care.

Medicare Part B (Medical Insurance): Covers doctor office visits and services, outpatient care, medical supplies, and preventative care and services.

Medicare Part D (prescription drug coverage): Covers the cost of prescription drugs, flu shots, and vaccines.
Medicare Advantage 
Medicare Advantage is part of the Medicare program offered to older people and disabled adults who qualify. Also referred to as Part C plans, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are provided by private insurance companies instead of the federal government. They include the same Part A hospital and Part B medical coverage that Original Medicare provides but not hospice care. Most MA plans also include Part D prescription drug coverage. Anyone who joins an MA plan still has Medicare.

The average monthly premium for a Medicare Advantage plan in 2021 is expected to drop 11% to about $21 from an average of $23.63 in 2020. Private companies receive a fixed amount each month for Medicare Advantage plan care. In turn, these companies can charge out-of-pocket costs to policyholders and are able to establish their own rules for service such as the need for referrals or provider networks for both non-urgent care and emergency services.
Regional preferred provider organizations (PPOs) were established to provide rural beneficiaries greater access to Medicare Advantage plans and cover entire statewide or multi-state regions. Regional PPOs accounted for 5% of all Medicare Advantage enrollees in 2020. About 24 million people, or 36% of those receiving Medicare benefits, were enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan in 2020. That number is expected to climb to more than 26 million in 2021.

Medicare for Alcoholism 
Medicare Parts A and B include coverage for addiction treatment, including alcohol rehab. According to Medicare Interactive, a website that provides information on Medicare plans, Medicare Part A can help pay for hospitalization for substance abuse treatment, while Part B can help cover treatment for partial hospitalization or outpatient addiction treatment services.
In addition, Medicare Part D provides coverage for medications used in treating alcohol addiction, such as naltrexone, as long as these drugs are considered medically necessary for the policyholder.

Related pages
Social Security
Medicaid

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Government of the United States

Healthcare in the United States
Dutch Ceylon was an entity that existed from 1640 to 1796. It is called     in Sinhala. In the early 17th century, Sri Lanka (which was called Ceylon at the time), was divided between the Portuguese, and several local kingdoms. The kingdoms were fighting against each other very often. Although the Portuguese were not winning the war, their rule was rather burdensome to the people of the areas they controlled. At some point, the king of Kandy asked the Dutch for help. The Dutch East India Company ran the country. Even though they managed to control large areas near the coast, they did not control the mountain areas and the Kandxan kingdom in the center of the island.  The Dutch interest in Ceylon was to have a stronghold against the Iberians (Spanish and Portuguese) at the time.

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History of Sri Lanka
Dutch Empire
Former colonies in Asia
James Calvin Cunningham III (born August 6, 1973) is an American politician, lawyer, and veteran. He was the North Carolina State Senator from the 23rd district from 2001 to 2003. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

He had an unsuccessful primary campaign for the United States Senate in the 2010 election. In 2020, Cunningham became the Democratic nominee in the 2020 Senate election.

In October 2020, it was revealed that Cunningham had an affair early in the year and sent sexual text messages to his mistress. This was controversial and affected his polling lead against U.S. Senator Thom Tillis weeks before the election. Cunningham lost the election to Tillis on November 10.

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1973 births
Living people
Lawyers from North Carolina
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Ceylon (Sinhala: බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය ලංකාව, Brithānya Laṃkāva; Tamil: பிரித்தானிய இலங்கை, Birithaniya Ilangai) was the British Crown colony of present-day Sri Lanka between 1815 and 1948. Initially the area it covered did not include the Kingdom of Kandy, which was a protectorate, but from 1817 to 1948 the British possessions included the whole island of Ceylon, now the nation of Sri Lanka.

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History of Sri Lanka
Former British colonies
Former colonies in Asia
Among Us is an  American science-fiction social deduction game made by Innersloth LLC. The game was inspired by the party game Mafia and the science fiction horror movie The Thing. It was released for iOS and Android on June 15, 2018, for PC on Steam on November 16, 2018. It was also released on itch.io on August 17, 2018. Among Us follows a crew being killed one at a time by one or more Impostors. The game got very popular in late 2020 because many Twitch streamers and YouTubers have played it.

In December 2021, Innersloth announced that there would be a virtual reality version of the game, called Among Us VR.

Gameplay 
In Among Us, players play as one of four to fifteen players, and can either be a "Crewmate" or an "Impostor". Each game has a minimum of one Impostor, and a maximum of three Impostors in it. The number of Impostors can be changed at the start of the game.
Crewmates are given a list of tasks to complete at the start of the game. They can win if everyone does their tasks, or if they vote out all the Impostors.

Impostors can win by killing all the Crewmates, or killing enough Crewmates so that there are more Impostors than Crewmates. They do not have tasks, but instead can pretend to do tasks. Impostors can pretend to complete these tasks to make it seem like they are not Impostors. Impostors can travel around the map using vents, and "sabotage" parts of the map (such as causing a reactor meltdown on The Skeld) to distract or kill other Crewmates.
Every player has a chance to call an emergency meeting or, when they see a fallen body, to report it to everyone else. During a report meeting, players can talk about who they think is the Impostor. This is the only time when players can talk to each other and vote. If a player gets the most votes, they are voted out, meaning they are kicked out from the game. Among Us does not let players use voice chat. Players can only talk by typing messages, so because of this, many players use services like Discord for voice chat.

When a player is killed by the Impostor, or if they are voted out, they become a ghost. Ghosts can not do things with other players, and they can not talk or vote during meetings. However, they can still do tasks, and see the rest of the game. Ghost Impostors can also sabotage to help their teammates. If both the Crewmates and the ghosts complete their tasks, the Crewmates will win. If the Impostor kills everyone or if the Crewmates run out of time on certain sabotages, the impostor wins.
Maps

The Skeld 
'The Skeld is the very first map in Among Us. It was released with the game, and is the most popular map. It used to be the only free map in the game. It is set in a simple spaceship.

 Mira HQ 
'''Mira HQ is the second map in the game. Unlike The Skeld, the map was released as paid content. It is set in a floor in a floating building that is the headquarters of the company MIRA. It was announced on August 3, 2019, and it was released on August 8, 2019. This map has new features such as new tasks, a decontamination system and a door log.

 Polus 'Polus' is set in a base in a planet named Polus. This map, like Mira HQ, was also released as paid content. This map does not have vents for the Impostor, but holes that connect the different buildings. This map is big and open unlike the other maps. It also has a new camera system. Most tasks/features in this map are only in this map.
The Airship 'The Airship''' is the fourth map in the game. It was announced at The Game Awards on December 10, 2020. It is based on The Henry Stickmin Collection, another game Innersloth worked on. It was released on 31 March 2021 for free.

Reception 
The game received mainly positive reviews but some criticized the game because 'after a while, you just see the same old maps', while on Steam the game received 'very positive' reviews.

Among Us got a lot more popular in the summer of 2020, because a lot of Twitch streamers started streaming themselves playing it. At some point making it the most viewed category on Twitch. There were so many new players causing servers to go down, even though they were designed for having multiple players. Developers decided to redesign servers as a result.
The game became popular because of YouTube creators making videos on it. Many other Twitch streamers and YouTubers who began playing the game included xQc, Pokimane, xChocoBars, Bretman Rock, Ninja, MrBeast, Disguised Toast, Sykkuno, Valkyrae, Corpse Husband, Fuslie, Jacksepticeye and PewDiePie.

Popularity 
The game got popular in some countries like South Korea and Brazil before getting popular worldwide. According to ForteBass, Twitch streamer Sodapoppin first popularized the game worldwide on Twitch in July of 2020.

Continued popularity 
The game's popularity continued into the following months. The COVID-19 pandemic also raised its popularity. The game popularized the slang word "sus" (a shorter way of saying suspicious).
The game also had many internet memes that were inspired by the game. Some others words such as Sussy, Sussy Baka (baka meaning fool), "When the imposter is sus", and "Amogus" became popular memes. Memes about random or otherwise strange things such as trash cans, fire alarms, and backpacks looking like the Impostor, usually in red also became popular.

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Koryakskaya Sopka or Korkatsky is a volcano on the Kamtchatka peninsula in the Russian Far East. This volcano is  high. The peak of the volcano has a modern crater,  to  in diameter. The volcano is located only  from the territory's capital, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and contributes to the panoramic views from the city.

History 
In 1996, this volcano was listed as a Decade Volcano, one of 16 volcanoes around the world that the UN International Association of Vulcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior found deserving of special study because of their history of activity and proximity to modern-day settlements.

In December 2008, Koryakskaya Sopka emitted a column of steam and gas that could easily be seen in photographs taken from space. Its most recent eruption was recorded in 2009.

Volcanoes of Russia
Mountains of Russia
Siberia
Zhang Yuqian (born 2 May 2000) is a Chinese volleyball player. She played for the Chinese national team. She played at the 2015 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship, 2016 Asian Women's U19 Volleyball Championship, and 2017 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship.

She played for Shanghai women's volleyball team.

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1998 births
Living people
Chinese volleyball players
Dervish State was members of a Dhulbahante anti-colonial state founded in Dareema Caddo from 1896 to 1920 called Darawiish; geographically synonymous with Khatumo and a successor state to the Dhulbahante garaadship. It may also refer to:

Other 
 Sufi dervish, a Tarika for asceticism
 Whirling dervishes, a whirling ritual by followers of Rumi
 Dervish Blues, 1975 album by Johnny Winter
 The Dervish and Death, a 1974 movie with Usnija Redžepova as protagonist
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a type of respiratory failure caused by a massive widespread inflammation in the lungs. Symptoms include shortness of breath, rapid breathing, and bluish skin color. For those who survive, a short life span is common as a result.

Causes may include sepsis, pancreatitis, trauma, pneumonia, and aspiration.

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Breathing problems
Owosso is the largest city in Shiawassee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 15,194 at the 2010 census.  The city is mostly surrounded by Owosso Township on the east.  The city was named after Chief Wosso, an Ojibwe leader of the Shiawassee area.

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Cities in Michigan
Shiawassee  is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 68,094. The county seat is Corunna, and the largest city in the county is Owosso.

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1837 establishments in Michigan
Michigan counties
Corunna ( CORE-UN-NUH) is a city and county seat of Shiawassee County in the U.S. state of Michigan.  The population was 3,497 at the 2010 census.  The city is surrounded by Caledonia Charter Township and is slight east of the city of Owosso.

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County seats in Michigan
Caledonia Charter Township is a charter township of Shiawassee County in the U.S. state of Michigan.  The population was 4,475 at the 2010 census.

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Townships in Michigan
Caledonia Township is a civil township of Alcona County, Michigan, United States. The population was 1,161 at the 2010 census.

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Townships in Michigan
The Charter Township of Caledonia is a charter township of Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan.  The population was 12,332 at the 2010 census.

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Townships in Michigan
Bennington Township is a civil township of Shiawassee County in the U.S. state of Michigan.  As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,168.  Bennington Township is the center of population of the state of Michigan.

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Townships in Michigan
Owosso Township, formally named Owosso Charter Township, is a charter township of Shiawassee County in the U.S. state of Michigan.  The population was 4,821 at the 2010 census.  The township borders the city of Owosso.

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Felipe Franco Munhoz (born 4 March 1990 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian writer and translator.

He graduated from Federal University of Paraná. He  participated in important literary events, such as the Macau Literary Festival and Printemps Littéraire Brésilien.

Works 
Mentiras (São Paulo: Nós, 2016) 
Identidades (São Paulo: Nós, 2018)
Lanternas ao nirvana (Record, 2022)
O Cavaleiro de Bronze e outros poemas, Puchkin - translation (Kalinka, 2022)

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Living people
Writers from São Paulo
The Lower Peninsula of Michigan – also known as Lower Michigan – is the southern and less elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan, the other being the Upper Peninsula. It is surrounded by water on all sides except its southern border, which it shares with Indiana and Ohio.

Although the Upper Peninsula is commonly referred to as "the U.P.", it is uncommon for the Lower Peninsula to be called "the L.P."

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Geography of Michigan
Peninsulas of the United States
Wheaton is a city in Traverse County, Minnesota, United States.  The population was 1,424 at the 2010 census.  It is the county seat.

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County seats in Minnesota
Shelby Charter Township, officially the Charter Township of Shelby, is a charter township and census-designated place located in Macomb County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a suburb of Detroit. As of the 2000 census, the township had a total population of 65,159. Shelby Charter Township is one of the fastest growing communities in Metro Detroit.

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Townships in Michigan
Chelsea is a city in Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 4,944 at the 2010 census.

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Cities in Michigan
Rochester is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. About 12,711 lived here since 2010.  It is a northern suburb of Metro Detroit. It is located about  north of the city of Detroit.

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Cities in Michigan
Léonor Serraille  (born in Lyon) is a French director and screenwriter.

She won a César Award for Best First Feature Film, Caméra d'Or , and Lumières Award for Best First Film .

Filmgraphy 
 Body, 2016
 Montparnasse Bienvenue (Jeune Femme) 2017

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French screenwriters
Living people
French movie directors
Actors from Lyon
Writers from Lyon
French television actors
Romain Lopez, (born in 1989 in Moissac) is a French politician. He holds a master's degree in political science and another in history.

He joined the Front National at the end of 2013.

Romain Lopez, as a member of the Rassemblement National was elected mayor of Moissac on June 28, 2020.

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1989 births
Politicians from Occitanie
People from Tarn-et-Garonne
Colette Maze (born 16 June 1914 in Paris) is a French pianist. She plays classical music.

Life 
Maze studied at the École Normale de Musique de Paris with Alfred Cortot and Nadia Boulanger.

She was a piano teacher. 

In 2017, Maze released her fourth album dedicated to Claude Debussy. It also has works by Federico Mompou, Astor Piazzolla, and Alberto Ginastera.

Discography

References 

French pianists
1914 births
Living people
Musicians from Paris
Danielle Brisebois (born August 12, 1994) is a Canadian volleyball player. She is part of the Canadian women's national volleyball team. She competed at the 2015 FIVB World Grand Prix, 2016 FIVB World Grand Prix, and 2017 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix.

She played for University of British Columbia's women's volleyball team, Nyíregyházathe, and Schwarz-Weiss Erfurt.

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1994 births
Living people
Canadian volleyball players
University of British Columbia alumni
The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was a part of the Soviet Union comprised in Central Asia. Its borders encompassed much of the modern day territories of Uzbekistan.

Republics of the Soviet Union
History of Uzbekistan
States and territories established in the 20th century
States and territories disestablished in the 1990s
1920s establishments in the Soviet Union
1924 establishments
1991 disestablishments in the Soviet Union
Jessica Niles (born 14 July 1993) is a Canadian volleyball player. She is part of the Canadian women's national volleyball team. She competed at the 2015 FIVB World Grand Prix, 2016 FIVB World Grand Prix, 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, and 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup.

She played for the University of Alberta's women's volleyball team and ATSC Kelag Wildcats.

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1993 births
Living people
Canadian volleyball players
Stephanie McCrummen is an American journalist. She won a George Polk Award and Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting.

She graduated from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Columbia University.

She worked for The Washington Post.

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Living people
American journalists
Pulitzer Prize winners
George Polk Award winners
The AS also referred to as "Val" is a special assault rifle designed (created) by the Soviets. It has a built-in suppresor. The development began in the first half of the late 1980s in the Central Research Institute of Precision Engineering, in the city of Klimovsk part of the Moscow region. The lead designer of the rifle is Pyotr Serdyukov.

TsNIITochMash (Central Institute for Precision Machine Building) developed it in 1987. Since 1987, the Soviet Army and the KGB used it in their arsenal. Russian Spetsnaz special forces and some divisions of the Russian Army also use it.

The AS is expensive and there are not many available. It is not used often according to many Russian Spetsnaz operators. It is used during special operations by either sabotage or reconnaissance units deployed behind enemy lines.
The AS and VSS are very effective. Some Russian army and special forces units, and Moscow’s intelligence and security forces still use it. Forces used the rifles during the last years of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. They were also important in the Chechen wars and the conflict in Georgia.

Most recently, Russia used the weapon during military operations in Crimea and Syria.

Design 
The AS has an effective range of about 300 m. It uses heavy subsonic 9×39mm SP-6 (high-performance armor-piercing) ammunition (which weigh down the bullet). It also uses the SP-5 ball cartridge used by the VSS Vintorez suppressed sniper rifle. It can also use the same 10- or 20-round magazines of the VSS and the 30-round magazine of the SR-3M. Controls are similar to all AK-type rifles. It has a charging handle on the right side, a tangent rear sight, a magazine release button behind the magazine well, and a safety lever above the trigger guard. The fire selector is located within the trigger guard, behind the trigger.
The rifle has two modes of fire: semi-automatic and fully automatic fire. It has a cyclic rate of fire of 900 rounds per minute (RPM). According to its users, the AS is reliable, accurate, and well liked.

The rifle has an AK-type side mount for various optical sights. For example, it has the 4x PSO-1 scope and night sights such as the 1PN51 calibrated for use with the 9×39mm cartridge. The standard open sights are graduated up to 400 m in 25 m increments.

The AS shares 70% of its components with its sister-gun, the VSS Vintorez. The differences are a skeletonized steel stock which folds to the left for storage and transportation (the gun can operate with stock folded, but it cannot have a scope while the stock is folded).

The reliability of the rifle is said to be equivalent to the AKM. This includes functioning in difficult conditions such as dust, dirt, sand, rain, and at a temperature range from -50 °C to +50 °C.

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Assault rifles
Soviet Union
Qian Jingwen (born  11 May 1998) is a Chinese volleyball player. She played for the Chinese national team. She played at the 2015 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship, 2016 Asian Women's U19 Volleyball Championship, 2017 Montreux Volley Masters, and 2017 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix.

She played for Shandong women's volleyball team.

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1998 births
Chinese volleyball players
Living people
Paige Tapp (born 21 June 1995) is an American volleyball player.

She played at the 2017 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, 2017 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix, and 2018 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup.

She played for the University of Minnesota's women's volleyball team. Allianz Stuttgart, and Lardini Filottrano.

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1995 births
American volleyball players
Living people
Amanda Benson (born March 9, 1995) is an American volleyball player.

She played at the 2017 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, 2017 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix, 2018 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, and 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League.

She played for the University of Oregon's women's volleyball and Dresdner SC 1898.

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1995 births
American volleyball players
Living people
Jacobus Vrijmoet (1744 or 1756 – 1831) was a Dutch painter.

He studied at the Stadstekenacademie in Amsterdam.

His work is in the Noordbrabants Museum, Petit Palais, and Regional Archive Tilburg.

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1831 deaths
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Philipp Winkler (born 1986) is a German writer. He won the 2016 Aspekte-Literaturpreis.

He studied at University of Hildesheim. In 2015, he was a fellow of the Graz "Workshop for Young Literature".

Works 

 Hool, Berlin : Aufbau, 2016  ISBN 9783351036454

Works in English 
 Hooligan, Arcade Publishing, 2018. ISBN 9781628728675

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1986 births
Living people
Writers from Lower Saxony
The mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis), also named the mosquito fish, western mosquitofish, western gambusia, or live-bearing tooth carp, is a fish in the Poeciliidae family.  It is from the southern and midwestern United States and east coast of Mexico. Human beings brought it to many other places, for example Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Australia. It has caused problems as an invasive species. Some scientists say that the western mosquitofish has had the largest effect on the environment of any fish in the family Poeciliidae.

Size

The adult male western mosquitofish grows to 4 cm and the female to 7 cm. It has a round tail fin. It eats algae, insects, and other invertebrates. It can eat more than its own body weight every day. It can live in water that is twice as salty as seawater. It can live in water as hot as 43°C. The western mosquitofish usually has 60 eggs at a time, but it can have as many as 300 at a time. The eggs stay inside the female's body until they hatch.

Invasive species
Invasive species

In the early 20th century, human beings caught western mosquitofish and took them to other places. They did this because they thought the western mosquitofish would eat mosquitoes and their young. This did not work. Sometimes there were more mosquitoes than before: The western mosquitofish killed other fish that were eating mosquitoes. It did this by either eating the other fish, killing them without eating them, or eating so much of the food that the other fish died. The western mosquitofish sometimes killed fish that were better at killing mosquitoes than it was. It also ate some of the insects that had been eating the mosquitoes and mosquito young. It also ate zooplankton, which left more food for the mosquito young to eat themselves.
The western mosquitofish can kill larger fish by biting their fins and eating their eggs and babies. It kills and eats smaller fish. It kills frogs by eating their eggs and tadpoles. After people put western mosquitofish in a body of water, there may be an algal bloom because the western mosquitofish kills all the fish that usually eat algae. The western mosquitofish is one reason why many other species are endangered. Some of the important ones are the Gila topminnow (Poeciliopsis occidentalis), and the damselfly in Hawaii.

Name

The western mosquitofish G. affinis and eastern mosquitofish G. holbrooki used to both be called G. affinis because people thought they were the same species. They are not. According to the IUCN Global Invasive Species Database, most records in Australia that say "G. affinis" really mean G. holbrooki.

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Cyprinodontiformes
Animals of North America
Barilium is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of Iguanodon (I. dawsoni) by Richard Lydekker in 1888, the specific epithet honouring the discoverer Charles Dawson.

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Nava Ebrahimi (born 1978 in Tehran) is a German writer living in Austria. She won a 2017 Austrian Book Prize.

Life 
She studied journalism and economics in Cologne. She worked as a journalist for the Financial Times Deutschland and the Cologne City Revue. She was a consultant for the Federal Agency for Foreign Trade. In 2007 she was a finalist in the Open Mike literary award. In 2013 she was in the Bavarian Academy of Writing.

For her first novel Sixteen Words, she won the €10,000 debut prize of the 2017 Austrian Book Award. In 2020 she published her second novel, Das Paradies meines Nachbarn, about Ali Najjar.

In 2018 she was invited to the New Literature Festival in New York City .

Works 

 Sechzehn Wörter, Roman, btb-Verlag, München 2017,  ISBN 978-3-442-75679-7
 Das Paradies meines Nachbarn, Roman, btb-Verlag, München 2019, ISBN 978-3-442-75869-2
Anthologies in English
Radka Denemarková; Margarethe Makovec; Anton Lederer; Nava Ebrahimi; Olga Flor; Guerrilla der Aufklärung/ Guerilla of Enlightenment,  Wien Verlag für moderne Kunst 2020. ISBN 9783903320949

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1978 births
Writers from Cologne
Austrian writers
Meral Kureyshi (born 26 March 1983 in Prizren) is a Swiss writer.

Life 
Meral Kureyshi was born in Prizren, Yugoslavia in 1983. Her family came from the Turkish-speaking minority in Kosovo. She has lived in Bern since 1992. She studied at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel.

In 2015, her first novel, Elephants in the Garden, was published. She was shortlisted for the Swiss Book Prize. She won the 2016 Literature Prize of the Canton of Bern. She read at the 2020 Bachmann Prize, at the invitation of Martin Wiederstein.

Works 

 Elefanten im Garten. Roman. Limmat Verlag, Zürich 2015,  ISBN 978-3-85791-784-4 
 Fünf Jahreszeiten Limmat Verlag, 2019. ISBN 9783857918575

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1983 births
Living people
Writers from Bern
Kosovan people
Hannah Tapp (born 21 June 1995) is an American volleyball player.

She played at the 2017 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix, 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup, and 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League. she also competed at the fivb World Cup 2019 in Japan

She played for the University of Minnesota's women's volleyball team and Volley Bergamo.

References 

1995 births
Living people
American volleyball players
Sarah Wilhite Parsons (born 30 July 1995) is an American volleyball player.

She played at the 2017 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix, 2018 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League, 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, and 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League.

She played for the University of Minnesota's women's volleyball team, MTV Stuttgart 1843, and Futura Volley Busto Arsizio.

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1995 births
Living people
American volleyball players
Kristen Hahn Tupac (born 21 June 1995) is an American volleyball player and coach.

She played at the 2017 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix, 

She played for Iowa State University's women's volleyball team, TS Volley Düdingen, NawaRo Straubing, and Sm’Aesch Pfeffingen.

References

Other websites 
 https://www.imperiumrecruiting.com/about.html 

1995 births
Living people
American volleyball players
Karolina Ciaszkiewicz-Lach (born 7 September 1979) is a Polish volleyball player.

She played at the 2001 Women's European Volleyball Championship, 2004 FIVB World Grand Prix, and 2008 FIVB World Grand Prix. 

She played for Stal Bielsko-Biala and Aluprof.

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1979 births
Living people
Polish volleyball players
The pale frog, pallid rocket frog, pale rocket frog or peach-sided rocket frog (Litoria pallida) is a frog from Australia. It lives in Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory.

The adult frog can grow to 4.0 cm long from nose to rear end.  It is light gray in colour with some stripes.  It has yellow colour on its legs.  Its front feet have a little webbing and its hind feet have more webbing.

It lives in forests and grasslands and in caves and rocky places.

It lays eggs 50–350 eggs at a time in temporary bodies of water.  The tadpoles take 8 to 10 weeks to become frogs but sometimes they become frogs in as little as 5 weeks.

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Pelodryadidae
The Lamborghini Urus is an SUV made by Lamborghini. It is powered by a twin-turbo V8 engine. It was built in 2017 and released in February 2018 for the 2018 model year.

Concept car

The Lamborghini Urus concept was revealed to the public at the 2012 Beijing Auto Show on April 23, 2012. It was later shown at Pebble Beach in 2012. The concept was powered by a 5.2 L V10 engine that was shared with the Gallardo. The engine had a theoretical power output of . The power was put through an all-wheel drive power system.

The production version of the Urus was revealed in 2017. However, it looked different than the concept. It was also powered by a twin-turbo V8 instead of a V10.

Powertrain

The Lamborghini Urus does not use Lamborghini’s V10 or V12 engines. Instead, the Urus is powered by a  4.0 L twin-turbo V8, which is a modified version of Audi's 4.0 L V8. The engine is built at a Volkswagen plant in Hungary. It is then shipped to Lamborghini's assembly plant.
Performance
The Urus’s engine has a maximum power output of  at 6,000 rpm.  The Urus has a front-engine, all-wheel-drive layout, and a top speed of  making it one of the world's fastest production SUVs. The Urus can accelerate from 0–100 km/h (62 mph) in 3.6 seconds and 0–200 km/h (124 mph) in 12.8 seconds. 

The Urus, like all modern Lamborghinis, has several different driving modes. Each mode has a specific purpose. The modes are: Strada (street), Sport, Corsa (track), Terra (dirt), Sabbia (sand), and Neve (snow). The Urus has a seating capacity of either four or five people.

Related pages
Lamborghini LM002

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2020s automobiles
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Sport utility vehicles
Lamborghini LM002 is a 4x4 that was made by Lamborghini from 1986 to 1993. This was unusual for Lamborghini, since the company was known for making sports cars. The LM002 was not the first off-road vehicle to be made by Lamborghini.  Two prototype vehicles, the Cheetah and the LM001, were made before the LM002. However, they were not successful. The LM002 is part of a series of vehicles known as the Lamborghini Militaria.

Related pages
Lamborghini Cheetah
Lamborghini LM001

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The Croods is a 2013 American computer-animated Sci- Fi adventure comedy movie produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox and select theaters in Indiana.  The movie was written and directed by Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders, and Nicholas Cage and stars the voices of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Keener, Clark Duke,  Cloris Leachman, and Randy Thom with Dwayne Johnson making an appearance in the voices of background characters in which was later revealed to Buzzfeed that "I felt it was necessary to give a certain lively feeling to the background of this otherworldly movie" (Johnson, Dwayne).

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Al Wakrah () is a city in Qatar. Al Wakrah's eastern edge is the shore of the Persian Gulf and Qatar's capital city Doha is situated north of the city. It is governed by Sheikh Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani.  It was originally a small fishing and pearling village. Over the years, it evolved into a small city with a population of more than 80,000 and is currently considered to be the second-largest city in Qatar.

It has undergone extensive development and growth since the 21st century began while also being slowly merged by rapidly expanding Doha from the north. Notable milestones in the city's modern history include the May 2019 inauguration of Al Janoub Stadium, a stadium that will be used for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, the opening of Al Wakrah Heritage Village in 2016, the Al Wakrah Main Road Project which is set to be completed in 2020, and the city's integration into the Doha Metro's Red Line.
Situated off the Persian Gulf to the east, Al Wakrah is approximately 15 km (9.3 mi) south of the capital city Doha, 72 km (45 mi) south of Al Khor, 21 km (13 mi) north of Mesaieed, 36 km (22 mi) southeast of Umm Salal Mohammed, and 100 km (62 mi) southeast of Dukhan.

The city has two public beaches and a mall named Ezdan Mall, which was completed in late 2016.

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Cities in Asia
Geography of Qatar
The Doha Metro is a rapid transit system in Doha, Qatar's capital city. It became operational on 8 May 2019. It has three lines with an overall length of about 76 km and 37 stations.

The Doha Metro will have around 100 stations for the entire network when the project is finished.

Stations

Red Line 

 Lusail
 Qatar University
 Katara
 Al Qassar
 West Bay
 DECC
 Corniche
 Al Bidda
 Mushayrib
 Ad Dawhah Al Jadidah
 Umm Ghuwailina
 Old Airport
 Hamad International Airport
 Free Zone
 Ras Bu Fontas
 Al-Wakrah

Green Line 

 Al Riffa
 Education City
 Qatar National Library
 Al Shaqab
 Al Rayyan
 Al Messila
 Hamad Hospital
 Al Bidda
 Al Mansoura

Gold Line 

 Ras Abu Aboud
 Qatar National Museum
 Al Souq
 Al Sadd
 Al Sudan
 Al Waab
 Sports City (Aspire Zone)
 Al Aziziya

2019 establishments in Asia
Rapid transit systems
Transport in Asia
Doha
Sky Raiders (also known as Assault on the Forbidden Fortress) is a 1976 American Greek action adventure movie directed by Douglas Hickox and starring James Coburn, Susannah York, Robert Culp, Charles Aznavour, Harry Andrews, Zouzou, John Beck. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.

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1970s American adventure movies
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Movies set in Greece
Movies about abduction
Movies about terrorism
Mike Harrington is an American computer programmer. He is the co-founder of the video game development and digital distribution company Valve. Previously a game programmer at Dynamix and a designer on the Windows NT operating system at Microsoft, Harrington founded Valve in 1996 with Gabe Newell, another former Microsoft employee. He and Newell privately funded the development of Half-Life, which he also helped program.

On January 15, 2000, after the success of Half-Life, Harrington dissolved his partnership with Newell and left Valve to spend time with his wife. "At Microsoft you always wonder, 'Is it me being successful or is it Microsoft?' But with Half-Life I knew Gabe and I had built that product and company from scratch." According to Newell, Harrington did not want to risk another project after the success of Half-Life.