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The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is a learned society and charity that supports the study of astronomy, solar-system science, geophysics and closely related branches of science. 

Its headquarters are in Burlington House, on Piccadilly in London. The society has over 4,000 members ("Fellows"), most of them professional researchers or postgraduate students. Around a quarter of Fellows live outside the UK.

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A scepter is an ornamented wooden staff carried by rulers. A sceptre is used on ceremonial occasions as a symbol of sovereignty.
Royalty and nobility
Juana Amanda Seux Ramírez (3 January 1948 – 2 September 2020), better known as Wanda Seux, was a Paraguayan-born vedette, dancer, and actress. Her career began in 1973. Her best known roles were in La vida difícil de una mujer fácil (1979), Spicy Chile (1983) and Paradas Contínuas (2009). 

Seux died on 2 September 2020 in Mexico City from problems caused by multiple strokes and breast cancer at the age of 72.

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Alfred Kasha (January 22 1937 – September 14, 2020) was an American songwriter. He was best known for "The Morning After" from The Poseidon Adventure. He was born in New York City. He also wrote the Aretha Franklin single "Operation Heartbreak".

Kasha died on September 14, 2020 in Los Angeles, aged 83.

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Tam Ping-man (14 November 1933 – 5 September 2020) was a Hong Kong actor and singer. He was known as the "dubbing king". In addition, he was the first horse racing commentator in Hong Kong. He was born in British Hong Kong. Tam was known for his roles as Uncle Fortune in Exiled (2006), Big Boss in Wild City (2015) and in House of Wolves (2016).

Tam died on 5 September 2020 in Hong King at the age of 86.

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Lennart Forsberg (28 March 1928 – 6 September 2020) was a Swedish footballer. He played as a left winger. Forsberg debuted in 1945 with GIF Sundsvall. He also played for Djurgården.

Forsberg died on 6 September 2020 at the age of 92.

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Manohar Singh Gill (born 14 June 1936) is an Indian politician. He is a member of the Indian National Congress party. He was the Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports. He represents Punjab in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.

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Kutztown is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States,  southwest of Allentown and  northeast of Reading. As of the 2010 census, the borough had a population of 5,012.

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The Glacier Bay water shrew (Sorex alaskanus) is a type of mammal in the family Soricidae. It only lives in Alaska in the United States. It can swim underwater. The water shrew can run on the surface of the water. It eats the nymphs of invertebrates that live in the water. It also eats invertebrates that live on land.

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Sorex
Mammals of North America
In September 2020, a large amount of rainfall in Sudan caused a massive flood across at least 16 Sudanese states with the Blue Nile reaching water levels not seen for a century. 

It is the most severe floods recorded in the region. A state of emergency was declared, and teams have worked to prevent damage to threatened archaeological sites. 

The flood affected more than 500,000 people, destroyed more than 100,000 homes, and killed over 100 people.

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The Comeback Trail is an upcoming crime comedy movie written and directed by George Gallo. It is a remake of the 1982 movie of the same name by Harry Hurwitz. It stars Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, Morgan Freeman, Zach Braff, Emile Hirsch and Eddie Griffin.

The movie is scheduled to be released on November 13, 2020, by Cloudburst Entertainment.

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2020s crime movies
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American crime movies
2020s English-language movies
Arena da Amazônia (Amazon Arena) is a football stadium in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, located on the former site of the Vivaldão stadium. 

The stadium has an all-seater capacity of 44,300 and was constructed from 2010 to 2014 as part of Brazil's hosting of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. 

It hosted matches of the football tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics. During the World Cup, the arena had a limited maximum-capacity of 40,549.

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The cinereous shrew (Sorex cinereus) is a type of shrew. It is found in Alaska, Canada, and the northern United States. It is also called the masked shrew or the common shrew.

Description
It is grey-brown in colour. It light grey belly and a pointed snout. It has a long tail. Its body is about 9 cm in length including a 4 cm long tail. It weighs about 5 g. They can live up to two years.

Distribution
It lives in most of northern and southern North America to the Rocky Mountains in the west, and to the Appalachians in the east. This species was introduced into Newfoundland in the late 1950s. It can be found in many types of habitats like arid grasslands, places with lots of water, woodlands, and tundra. It mostly lives in humid places and with lots of plants to hide in.

Feeding
Cinereus shrews eat insects, worms, snails, small rodents, salamanders, and seeds. They can only live for a few hours without food because of their high metabolism.
Predators
Predators include larger shrews, hawks, owls, shrikes, snakes, herons, foxes, leopard frogs, bluebirds, brown trouts, and weasels.

Behavior
The cinereus shrew can be diurnal or nocturnal depending on the weather. It digs tunnels but also uses tunnels made by other small mammals. It uses dry grass to make nests in these tunnels. It does not like other shrews to come into its territory.

Reproduction
Cinereus shrews breed from May to September. Females give birth to 6 to 7 young ones. The young ones are born hairless and do not have claws. They become sexually mature at two months. But they wait until their first spring to breed.

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Sorex
Mammals of North America
Ranoidea macki is a frog from Indonesia.  It lives in Papua Province.  Scientists have only seen it in the headwaters of the Wapoga River.

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Mandy Zollner (born 17 April 1985) is a German water polo player.

She was part of the Germany women's national water polo team at the 2008 Women's European Water Polo Championship squads, 2010 Women's European Water Polo Championship, 2012 Women's European Water Polo Championship, and 2009 World Aquatics Championships.

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Tatjana Steinhauer (born 28 January 1990) is a German water polo player.

She was part of the Germany women's national water polo team at the 2010 Women's European Water Polo Championship, and 2012 Women's European Water Polo Championship.

At the club level, she played for  Hannoverscher SV, and SV Blau-Weiß Bochum.

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The American pygmy shrew (Sorex hoyi) is a type of shrew. It found in Northern Alaska, Canada, and the northern and southern United States.

It is found in northern coniferous and deciduous forests of North America. It is believed to be the second-smallest mammal in the world. Because of its fast metabolism, it is always eating.

Description
The American pygmy shrew is the smallest mammal native to North America. Its is about 5 cm (2 in) long. It weighs about 2.0 to 4.5 g (0.07 to 0.16 oz). Its fur is reddish or grayish brown during the summer. It is white-gray during the winter. It molts about two times a year. It has a narrow head with a pointed nose, and whiskers. The eyes are small.

Distribution
They are found from Northern Alaska, to the Rocky Mountains. They are also found from the Great Lakes region, to the Appalachians, to the eastern side of Canada. Even though the American pygmy shrew prefers wet habitats, it has been seen in places with both wet and dry soil.
Feeding
It mainly eats insects and insect larvae, and worms. To stay alive, the American pygmy shrew has to eat every 15 to 30 minutes, day and night.

Predators
Predators of the American pygmy shrew include hawks, brook trout, owls, snakes, and domestic cats.

Reproduction
Little is known about the reproduction of American pygmy shrews. They appear to mate all year round. The gestation period is estimated to be 18 days. Females give birth to three to eight young ones. They usually leave the family at the age of 25 days. The maximum lifespan of an American pygmy shrew is believed to be about 16–17 months.

Behavior
Pygmy shrews dig through soil to look for food. They can use tunnel made by other animals to help them look for food. They do not sleep or rest for a long time. They have great senses of smell and hearing to help them find their food.

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Sorex
Mammals of North America
Anja Seyfert (born 9 April 1990) is a German female water polo player.

She was part of the Germany women's national water polo team at the 2010 Women's European Water Polo Championship, 2012 Women's European Water Polo Championship, 2016 Women's European Water Polo Championship, 2012 Women's Water Polo World League, and 2016 Women's Water Polo Olympic Qualification Tournament.

She studied medicine.

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 Serbia Water Polo European Championships - Jan 2016 shutterstock

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The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Liechtenstein in early March 2020. With total population of 38,749 (as of 31 December 2019), in 29 March infection rate is 1 case per 472 people.

On 3 March 2020, the first case was reported in the country with a young man who had contact with an infected person in Switzerland.

On 4 April 2020, one person died from the virus in Liechtenstein.

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Liechtenstein
Kaspar Villiger (pronounced Caspar Feeleeger; born 5 February 1941) is a Swiss businessman and politician. He was a member of the Swiss Federal Council (1989–2003). In 1995 and again in 2002, he was President of the Swiss Confederation. Villiger was born in Lucerne. He was a member of the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland.

In 2004, he became member of the board of directors of Nestlé and Swiss Re.

On 15 April 2009, he was elected chairman of the Board of Swiss banking giant UBS, holding this post until 3 May 2012.

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Klaus Martin Schwab (born 30 March 1938) is a German engineer and economist. He is best known as the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum. He was born in Ravensburg, Germany.

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Lana J. Marks (born November 18, 1953) is a South African-born American handbag designer. She founded the fashion brand Lana Marks.

She was also the United States Ambassador to South Africa for the Donald Trump administration. She became the ambassador on January 28, 2020 and left office a year later on January 20, 2021.

In September 2020, it was reported that Iran was planning an assassination plot against Marks because of the U.S. involvement in the death of Qasem Soleimani.

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Konstantina Kouteli (born 10 April 1981) is a Greek female water polo player.

She was part of the Greek women's national water polo team at the 2006 Women's European Water Polo Championship, 2006 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup, and 2009 World Aquatics Championships.

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Other websites 
 https://www.zimbio.com/photos/Konstantina+Kouteli
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/digilab/4513387083/

1981 births
Living people
German water polo players
Elizabeth Jean Carroll (born December 12, 1943) is an American journalist and columnist. She is known for her "Ask E. Jean" column which appeared in Elle magazine from 1993 through 2019.

In June 2019, Carroll accused Les Moonves and Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s. Both Moonves and Trump denied the allegations. Carroll later sued Trump for defamation and battery. On May 9, 2023, she was given $5 million by a jury, which found Trump guilty for defamation and sexual abuse against her.

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American columnists
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Sexual abuse victims
Bobbie Phillips (born January 29, 1968) is an American actress and animal rights activist. Phillips was born in Charleston, South Carolina. She is known for her rols as Cam in Chameleon (1998) and as Julie Costello in the television legal drama Murder One.

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Clive Russell (born 7 December 1945) is a Scottish actor. He is known for his roles as Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline in Ripper Street, Angus O'Connor in Happiness and Brynden Tully in the HBO series Game of Thrones.

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Actors from Yorkshire
The North Riding of Yorkshire is one of the three historic subdivisions (ridings) of the English county of Yorkshire, alongside the East and West ridings.

Other websites
Map of the North Riding of Yorkshire on Wikishire
Information on the North Riding of Yorkshire on I'm From Yorkshire

Yorkshire
The Pribilof Island shrew (Sorex pribilofensis) is a type of shrew. It is only found on the Pribilof Islands of Alaska.

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Sorex
Mammals of North America
The Saint Lawrence Island shrew (Sorex jacksoni) is a type of shrew. It is only found on Saint Lawrence Island.

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Sorex
Mammals of North America
Lamu or Lamu Town is a small town  on Lamu Island in Kenya. Situated  by road northeast of Mombasa.

Lamu Town on Lamu Island is Kenya's oldest continually inhabited town and was one of the original Swahili settlements along coastal East Africa. It is believed to have been established in 1370. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Notable landmarks
The town was founded in the 14th century and it contains many fine examples of Swahili architecture. The old city is inscribed on the World Heritage List as "the oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa".

The town contains the Lamu Fort on the seafront. The fort was completed by the early 1820s.

Transport

In 2011, proposals were being advanced to build a deep-water port which would have much greater capacity in terms of depth of water. China has begun to transform Lamu into the largest port in East Africa.
Since the island has no cars, transportation and other heavy work is done with the help of donkeys. There are some 3000 donkeys on the island.

In popular culture
The song "Lamu" by Christian singer Michael W. Smith is inspired by the island. The song is about running away from life's problems.

Lamu is the setting of Anthony Doerr's short story "The Shell Collector" from his collection of stories by the same name.

Part of the events in the novel “Our Wild Sex in Malindi” (by Andrei Gusev) takes place in Lamu.

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The genus Sorex includes many of the common shrews of Eurasia and North America. It contains at least 142 known species and subspecies. They are in the tribe Soricini of the subfamily Soricinae.

Species
The many species in the genus Sorex include:
 Saint Lawrence Island shrew
 American pygmy shrew
 Cinereus shrew
 Glacier Bay water shrew
 Pribilof Island shrew
 Montane shrew
 American water shrew

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Peter Gerard Scully (born 13 January 1963) is an Australian man who is imprisoned in the Philippines because he raped young children.

Life 
Peter Scully was born on 13 January 1963 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He said that he was raped by a priest as a child. He lived in the Narre Warren suburb of Melbourne, Victoria with his wife and two children. In 2011, he fled to the City of Manila, Philippines. There, he raped and tortured 75 children. He filmed it and sold the video named "Daisy's Destruction" for up to $10,000 on his website "No limits fun" ("NLF" for short) on the Darknet. He also filmed himself killing a girl named Cindy. On 20 February 2015, Scully was arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) for 100 years.

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The montane shrew (Sorex monticolus) is a type of shrew in the genus Sorex. It is also called the dusky shrew.

Description
Montane shrews are small, long tailed shrews. They can grow up to 103 and 142mm long. It moults two times a year. They are brownish and silvery white or gray in summer.

Distribution and Habitat
The montane shrew can be found from northern Alaska to New Mexico and from the Pacific coast to central Manitoba. They also live in the Rocky Mountains, Blue Mountains, and the Sierra Nevada. They can be found on Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Island.

Montane shrews live in a lot of habitats such as tundra, alpine meadows, forests, and prairies. They are usually found in forest floor. They almost never dig a burrow.

Behavior 
Montane shrews are live by themselves. They do not hibernate. They almost never sleep or rest. They are always eating.
Feeding 
Montane shrews are insectivorous. It eats insects and their larvae, earthworms, spiders, snails, and, rarely eats small salamanders. Montane shrews have been seen eating conifer seeds, lichens, and fungi.

Reproduction
The breeding season may last from February to August. The gestation period is estimated to be about 13 to 28 days. The young ones  are born in a small nest made from grass and kept under a rock or fallen tree. They are given birth to blind and naked. At the age of 3 weeks they are weaned. The expected to live up to 12 to 18 months.

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Sorex
Mammals of North America
Pride parades (also known as pride marches, pride events, and pride festivals) are events where people support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary and queer (LGBTQ) acceptance, achievements, legal rights, and gay pride.

LGBT events
Sir Jeremy James Farrar  (born 1 September 1961) is a British medical researcher. He is director of the Wellcome Trust, and has held this position since 2013. He was previously a professor of tropical medicine at the University of Oxford.

Farrar's research interests are in infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, dengue fever, typhoid fever, malaria, and H5N1 influenza.

1961 births
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Knights Bachelor
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The American water shrew (Sorex palustris) is a type of shrew. It is also called a northern water shrew. It is found throughout the mountain ranges of the northern United States and in Canada and Alaska.

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Mammals of North America
Claudio Merulo (8 April 1533 – 4 May 1604) was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. 

1533 births
1604 deaths
16th-century Italian composers
Italian organists
The eastern indigo snake (Drymarchon couperi) is a type of snake in the family Colubridae. It is native to the eastern United States. It is the longest native snake in the United States. It is the largest snake in the United States. It is also the largest, non-venomous snake in the southeastern United States.

Description
The eastern indigo snake has a blue-black colour. It is the longest native snake species in the United States. Males usually grow up to 1.58 m (5.2 ft) in length. Females usually grow up to 1.38 m (4.5 ft) in length. Males usually weigh 2.2 kg (4.9 lb). Females usually weigh 1.5 kg (3.3 lb).

Distribution and Habitat
The eastern indigo snake is found from southwestern South Carolina south through Florida and west to southern Alabama and southeastern Mississippi.

The eastern indigo snake likes flatwoods, hammocks, dry glades, stream bottoms, sugarcane fields, riparian thickets, and sandy soils.
The eastern indigo snake mostly lives in scrublands in Florida and Georgia with different types of plants. These are mainly longleaf pine, southern live oak, laurel oak, Chapman oak, and myrtle oak.

Feeding
The Eastern indigo snake eats other snakes, turtles, lizards, frogs, toads, lots of small birds and mammals, and eggs.

Reproduction
The Eastern indigo snake is oviparous. The breeding season is from November to April. Females lay their eggs from May to June. Females lay from 4 to 12 eggs. Young hatch in about 3 months, usually in August and September.

Conservation status
The eastern indigo snake is threatened by habitat loss. It is believed to be extinct in Alabama.

The eastern indigo snake was extinct in northern Florida because of habitat loss and fragmentation. The eastern indigo snake was last seen in Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve in 1982, until 2017 when 12 snakes were released as part of a conservation program. 20 more snakes were released in 2018. 15 snakes in 2019.

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Kevin Jan Magnussen (born 5 October 1992) is a Danish racing driver.

* Season still in progress.

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Gary Unmarried is an American sitcom television series on CBS from September 24, 2008 to March 17, 2010.

2008 American television series debuts
2010 American television series endings
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English-language television programs
FiveThirtyEight is a website that makes forecasts about elections, sports, and other topics. It also publishes articles about those topics. It was created by statistician Nate Silver on March 7, 2008. FiveThirtyEight's name comes from the number of electors in the United States Electoral College.

FiveThirtyEight is famous for correctly predicting the winner of all 50 states in the 2012 United States presidential election. In the 2016 election, FiveThirtyEight said that Donald Trump had a 28.6% chance to win. Trump did win. However, 28.6% was much higher than other people thought, such as The New York Times and The Economist.

FiveThirtyEight has also analyzed at the calibration of their forecasts. If a forecast with good calibration says that many things each have a 40% chance of happening, then about 40% will. Their forecasts are fairly accurate.

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Perri Arlette Reid (or "Pebbles"; born August 29, 1964) is an American R&B and pop music singer-songwriter and businesswoman. She was famous for her hit songs "Girlfriend" (1987), "Mercedes Boy" (1988) and "Giving You the Benefit" (1990). Also, Reid created the contemporary R&B group TLC.  

Reid was born Perri Arlette McKissack, one of four siblings, to two mixed African American parents. 

Reid began using the name Sister Perri as part of a religious conversion.

Reid was born in Oakland, California.

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African-American singers
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Skyhooks was an Australian rock band formed in Melbourne in March 1973 by Greg Macainsh on bass guitar and backing vocals, and Imants "Freddie" Strauks on drums.

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Patrick J. "Pat" Smullen (22 May 1977 – 15 September 2020) was an Irish jockey. He won the Irish flat racing Champion Jockey title nine times. Smullen was born in County Offaly, Ireland.

Smullen died on 15 September 2020 from pancreatic cancer at the age of 43.

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 NTRA profile
 Racing Post Profile 

1977 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Aloysio de Andrade Faria (9 November 1920 – 15 September 2020) was a Brazilian banker and billionaire. At the time of his death he was known as being one of the world's oldest billionaires. He was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Faria also owned one of the largest Guarana plantations in the world, the Transamerica Corporation, including a hotel and media groups.

Faria died on 15 September 2020 in Campinas, Brazil at the age of 99.

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William Lynn Ogg (May 17, 1937 – September 10, 2020) was an American politician. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1995 to 2002. His district was located in Scioto County, Ohio. He was born in Portsmouth, Ohio. Ogg was a member of the Democratic Party. 

Ogg died on September 10, 2020 in Portsmouth at the age of 83.

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Democratic Party (United States) politicians
An identity  document is any document that may be used to prove a person's identity. If issued in a small, standard credit card size form, it is usually called an identity card (IC, ID card, citizen card) or passport card. Some countries issue formal identity documents as national identification cards.

Many countries require all foreigners to have a passport or national identity card from their home country available at all times if they do not have a residence permit in the country.

The shape and size of identity cards were standardized in 1985 by ISO/IEC 7810. Some modern identity documents are smart cards including a difficult-to-forge embedded integrated circuit that were standardized in 1988 by ISO/IEC 7816. New technologies allow identity cards to contain biometric information, such as a photograph; face, hand, or iris measurements; or fingerprints. Many countries now issue electronic identity cards.
Identity cards allow officials to look up security data on a person in the host country's information system. Photos of the person's head are scanned into the system to prevent identity theft. A scanned photograph of the face gives a unique series of numbers which identifies that particular individual.

The earliest identity document was written into law by King Henry V of England with the Safe Conducts Act 1414. For the next 500 years and before World War I, most people did not have or need an identity document.

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Authentication methods
Official documents of the United States
Documents
Richard Madden (born 18 June 1986) is a Scottish actor. He is known for his roles as Robb Stark in the first three seasons of HBO's fantasy drama Game of Thrones.

He also starred as Cosimo de' Medici in the first season of the historical fiction series Medici (2016), Prince Kit in Disney's live-action Cinderella (2015), John Reid in the biopic Rocketman (2019), and a lieutenant in the epic war movie 1917 (2019).

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1986 births
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People from Renfrewshire
Renfrewshire () () is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.

It is located in the west central Lowlands. It is one of three council areas contained within the boundaries of the historic county of Renfrewshire, the others being East Renfrewshire to the east and Inverclyde to the west. 

It also shares borders with Glasgow, North Ayrshire and West Dunbartonshire, and lies on the southern bank of the River Clyde.

Other websites
 Renfrewshire Events Guide
 Paisley Daily Express local daily newspaper
 The Gazette Newspaper weekly
 Renfrewshire24.co.uk, online only news and events website

Renfrewshire
Paul Méfano (March 6, 1937 – September 15, 2020) was a French composer and conductor. He was born in Basra, Iraq. 

In 1972 he was appointed director of the Conservatory of Champigny-sur-Marne until 1988. He also was professor of composition and orchestration at the Paris Conservatory until 2002.

From 1996 until 2005 he directed the Conservatory of Versailles.

Méfano died on September 15, 2020 at the age of 83.

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Alien Huang (; 28 November 1983 – 16 September 2020), also known as Xiao Gui (小鬼) was a Taiwanese singer, actor, television presenter, illustrator and fashion designer. He was born in Taipei. He was known for presenting the television variety show 100% Entertainment. He also starred as Christopher in Already Famous (2011) and as A-hsien in Din Tao: Leader of the Parade (2012).

Huang was found dead with a head injury on 16 September 2020 in Taipei at the age of 36. The cause of death was a head injury caused by falling in the shower.

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Nikolay Havrylovych Shmatko () (17 August 1943 – 15 September 2020) was a Ukrainian sculptor and painter. He was born in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.

In 2004, for his work "Sviatohorska Blessed Virgin" - a statue of the Virgin Mary (Theotokos "Hegumenia") for Sviato-Uspenskyi Sviatohorskyi Monastery - Shmatko was awarded the order of Nestor Letopisets by Volodymyr Sabodan, the Kiev Metropolitan, and all of Ukraine.

Shmatko died on 15 September 2020 in Kiev at the age of 77.

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Kapila Vatsyayan (कपिला वात्स्यायन) (25 December 1928 – 16 September 2020) was an Indian scholar of classical dance, art, architecture, and art history. She was a member of parliament between 2006 to 2012. She was the founding director of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. Vatsyayan was born in New Delhi.

Vatsyayan died on 16 September 2020 at her home in New Delhi at the age of 91.

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Jan Krenz (14 July 1926 – 15 September 2020) was a Polish composer and orchestra conductor. He was born in Włocławek, Poland.

In 1968, he became artistic director of the Grand Theatre in Warsaw, and was General Director of Music in Bonn from 1979 to 1982. At the same time, he directed the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen. 

On 26 March 1958, Krenz was the first person to conduct Musique funèbre by Witold Lutosławski. In addition to conducting many orchestras, he has also written many compositions.

Krenz died on 15 September 2020 at the age of 94.

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Polish conductors
Lois Jane Stratton (January 5, 1927 – September 11, 2020) was an American politician. She was a member of the Washington House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985. She also was in the Washington State Senate from 1985 to 1993. Stratton was a member of the Democratic Party. She was born in Springdale, Washington.

In 1983, she unsuccessfully ran for Mayor of Spokane, Washington. She was member of the Spokane Tribe. Stratton was the first female enrolled tribal member in the Washington State Legislature.

Stratton died on September 11, 2020 in Spokane at the age of 93.

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Springdale is a town in Stevens County, Washington, United States. The population was 285 at the 2010 census.

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Martin John Dunn (March 9, 1956 – September 11, 2020) was an American lawyer and politician. He was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He was the Mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts from 1987 to 1991. He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 1991 to 1993. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

Dunn died on September 11, 2020 in Holyoke at the age of 64.

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Francis Williams Sargent (July 29, 1915 – October 22, 1998) was an American politician. He was the 64th Governor of Massachusetts from 1969 to 1975. He was a member of the Republican Party.

Sargent died on October 22, 1998 in Dover, Massachusetts at the age of 83.

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Dover is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,127 in 2019.

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Gerry Lynn (May 28, 1952 – September 6, 2020) was an American politician and lawyer. He was the Judge-Executive of Meade County, Kentucky from 2011 until his death. He was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from the 27th district from 2005 to 2007. He was a member of the Republican Party.

Lynn died on September 6, 2020, in Brandenburg, Kentucky at age 68.

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Caroline of Brunswick (17 May 1768 – 7 August 1821) was the wife of King George IV. Her parents were Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick and Princess Augusta of Great Britain.

Caroline married George on 8 April 1795, when he was the Prince of Wales. That made Caroline the Princess of Wales. When George became king on 29 January 1820, Caroline became Queen Consort of the United Kingdom. Caroline and George had one child, Princess Charlotte of Wales. They separated in 1796.

Caroline died on 7 August 1821 at the age of 53. Her physicians thought she had an intestinal obstruction, but she may have had cancer. There were also rumours at the time that she had been poisoned.

Ancestry

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Bibliography
 Plowden, Alison (2005). Caroline and Charlotte: Regency Scandals 1795–1821. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing. .
 Robins, Jane (2006). Rebel Queen: How the Trial of Caroline Brought England to the Brink of Revolution. Simon & Schuster. .

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Other websites

 
 Pictures of Caroline of Brunswick from London's National Portrait Gallery
 

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1768 births
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Matador is a 1986 Spanish comedy-drama movie directed by Pedro Almodóvar and starring Antonio Banderas, Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Nacho Martínez, Assumpta Serna.

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The olive water-holding frog, spotted collared frog or Daly Waters frog (Ranoidea maculosa) is a frog from Australia.  Scientists have only seen it in one place in the Northern Territory, with a few on the other side of the border in Queensland.   This place is called Daly Waters.

This frog is 5.0 cm long.  Most of the skin on its back is pale but it has very dark black marks.

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The eastern racer (Coluber constrictor) is a type of nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae. It only lives in North America and Central America.

Description 
Eastern racers usually grow up to 50 to 152 cm (20 to 60 in) in length. They usually weigh around 556 g (1.226 lb). Its color can range from black, bluish, gray, to olive brown.

Distribution and Habitat 
It is found throughout the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains. It is also found north into Canada and south into Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize.

It is usually found near water, but it can also be found in bushes, trash piles, roadsides, and swamps. It spends most of its time on the ground. But, it is a good climber. It may be found in shrubs and trees where there are bird nests.

Most of the eastern racers like open, grassland habitats where their eyesight and speed can be used. They are usually not far from a place to hide.
Feeding 
They mainly eat small rodents, frogs, toads, lizards, and other snakes. Some subspecies are known to climb trees to eat eggs and young birds. Young eastern racers usually insects with soft bodies, such as crickets and moths. They overcome moving prey by wrapping into one or two coils pressing its prey to hold it so that it can swallow it alive.

Behaviour 
The eastern racers are fast, very active, diurnal snakes. Eastern racers are curious snakes. They have very good vision. They are sometimes seen raising their heads above the grass where they are crawling to see what is around them. They usually run away from a predator. They are hard to hold and will poop, and release a bad smelling liquid from their cloacae.

Reproduction 
It mates in the spring from April until early June. The female lays three to 30 eggs in a hidden nest, such as a hollow log, an abandoned rodent burrow, or under a rock. The young ones hatch in the early fall. They reach maturity when they are around 2 years old.

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Sheykh Jabrail (, also Romanized as Sheykh Jabra’īl and Sheykh Jabr’īl; also known as Chekān-e Mansūrī, Shaikh Jarwāil, and Sheykh Jarvā’īl) is a village in Gowavar Rural District, Govar District, Gilan-e Gharb County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 106, in 24 families.

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Villages in Iran
Kermanshah Province
Structural functionalism, or simply functionalism, is a way of making a theory that sees society as a complex system. The parts of this system work together to keep society stable and its people happy.

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Sociology
The Lorenz cipher was a class of German rotor stream cipher machines used by the German Army during World War II. It was mostly used for messages among headquarters. This machine and its messages were eventually worked out by the team at Bletchley Park during World War II.

British cryptanalysts (codebreakers) worked out its logical structure three years before they saw the machine.

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Cryptography
World War II
Ignatius Sancho was an African born around 1729 on a slave ship. Towards the end of his extraordinary life, he became a British citizen and was eligible to vote in the parliamentary election of 1774, and then again in 1780.

The details of his early life are not certain. He was born on a slave ship crossing the Atlantic. The ship went to the Spanish colonies in Central America. His parents did not survive long, and he became orphaned. His owner took him to London, and he eventually came to live with John Montague, 2nd Duke of Montagu and Mary, Duchess of Montagu. Sancho worked as her butler until her death in 1751.

While living at Montague House in Blackheath, he educated himself. He enjoyed music, poetry, reading, and writing.
During the 1760s Sancho married a West Indian woman, Anne Osborne. He became a devoted husband and father. They had seven children. Around the time their third child was born, Sancho became a valet to George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu (of the second creation), the son-in-law of his earlier patron. He remained there until 1773.

In 1768 Thomas Gainsborough painted a portrait of Sancho at the same time as the Duchess of Montagu sat for her portrait by the artist. 

In 1774, with Montague's help, he became a shopkeeper in Mayfair. He sold tobacco, sugar and tea, all of which were connected with the slave trade. As a male householder living in Mayfair, he was eligible to vote. He also wrote letters in newspapers, under his own name and under the pseudonym "Africanus". He supported the monarchy and British forces in the American Revolutionary War.
Sancho had many well-known visitors at his shop, including statesman and abolitionist Charles James Fox PC (1749–1806). Fox steered a resolution through Parliament pledging it to abolish the slave trade. A Foreign Slave Trade Bill in Spring 1806 prohibited British subjects from contributing to the trading of slaves with the colonies of Britain's wartime enemies. This cut out two-thirds of the slave trade passing through British ports.

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Black British musicians
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Richard David Precht (born December 8, 1964) is a German philosopher and author. Wer bin ich – und wenn ja, wie viele? (Who am I – and if so, how many?) is a famous book that was written by him. He has a son. He is for a basic income. He does not like the school system in Germany.

Awards 
 2011: IQ Award

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Other websites 

 Richard David Precht: Natural Sciences and Humanities: Genesis of two Worlds, Webvideo, ZAKlessons 2013
 Literature from and about Richard David Precht in the German National Library
 

1964 births
German philosophers
Writers from North Rhine-Westphalia
People from Solingen
Living people
Functionalism may refer to:

 Functionalism (architecture), the idea that architects should design a building based on the what that building will be used for
 Functionalism in international relations, a theory that started during the inter-War period
 Functional linguistics, a theory about how to study language
 Functionalism (philosophy of mind), a theory of the mind in modern philosophy
 Functionalism versus intentionalism, a historiographical debate about what started the Holocaust
 Structural functionalism, a theory of sociology and anthropology
 Biological functionalism, an anthropological paradigm
Roadkill is any animal that has died on a road because it was hit by a vehicle, for example a deer hit by a car.  Vehicles pulled by animals, for example mule carts, did make roadkill, but there was much more roadkill after the invention of the automobile.

In the United States alone, one to two million large animals are killed as roadkill every year and many more small animals.

Causes and costs

Most roadkill is caused by cars or trucks.

If the car hits a large animal, for example a deer or elk, it is likely to be damaged.  In the United States alone, crashes with deer cause $3.6 billion in damage to cars and other vehicles, 200 deaths each year and many injuries.

Uses
Uses

Some roadkilled animals are sent to landfills with other garbage, but other bodies are used for scientific experiments, turned into makeup or turned into food for other animals.  Some people cook and eat roadkill.  Other people make the fur into clothes or other useful things. Some scientists have studied roadkill to see where invasive species have come.

In Alaska, all roadkill belongs to the state.  Officers collect the roadkill, bring it to butchers, and bring the meat to charities.  In other parts of the United States and in other countries, individual people can get permission to collect roadkill in different ways.

Preventing roadkill

Many governments put up road signs such as "deer crossing" or "panther crossing" signs to tell drivers that there may be animals nearby.  Some build fences around roads where cars drive at high speeds.  However, then the animals try to cross at the ends of the fences, and they are hit by cars in those places.
Planning new roads so that wild animals can go over or under them from the start is another very good way to prevent roadkill.

Some governments have built wildlife bridges over or underpasses under roads that were already there.  In 2009, the local Department of Transportation built fences leading to four culverts on U.S. highway 27, and there were suddenly no roadkilled turtles.

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Wakko's Wish or Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish is a 1999 animated comedy-fantasy musical adventure family movie based on the Animaniacs. This movie was directed by Liz Holzman, Rusty Mills and Tom Ruegger. It was released on July 16, 1999.  It was not shown in theaters but instead sold on VHS. This movie is about three human-like, dog-like characters, Yakko, Wakko and Dot, wishing on a star.  As of 2020, Wakko's Wish was streaming on Hulu.

Plot
Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Warner live in a fictional town called Acme Falls in the kingdom of Warnerstock in 1898. After the king of Warnerstock dies, the nearby kingdom of Ticktockia (a parody of Time Inc.) takes over Warnerstock and taxes the people too much.  By wishing on a star, traveling through the mountains, acting, and other adventures, the Warners save Warnerstock and defeat the evil king of Ticktockia.
Voice Cast
Rob Paulsen - Yakko, Dr. Scratchsniff, Pinky, Larry
Jess Harnell - Wakko, Villager
Tress MacNeille - Dot, Marita, Nurse, Mindy's Mom
Maurice Lamarche - Brain, Squit
Sherri Stoner - Slappy, Prunella
Nathan Ruegger - Skippy
Nancy Cartwright - Mindy, Skipette, Frau Hassenheffer
Frank Welker - Thaddeus Plotz, Ralph, Runt, Buttons, Flavio
Chick Vennera - Pesto
John Mariano - Bobby
Bernadette Peters - Rita
Paxton Whitehead - King Augustus Salazar, Dobermans
Jeff Bennett - Mr. Crazy Person/Joe, Dick, Baloney
Julie Brown - Minerva, Phar Fignewton

Additional voices

Tom Kenny - Villager 2
Carlos Alazraqui - shouting man
Jill Talley - Villager 4 
Susanne Blakeslee - Additional voices

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Movies based on TV series
American animated movies
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1999 comedy movies
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Mtwapa is a small town lying on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya.
The town is situated approximately  north-east of Mombasa on the Mombasa-Malindi road.

"Mtu wa hapa" – in Swahili; this translates to he who lives among us. 

Mtwapa is home to a large number of European retirees and holiday-makers from countries such as Germany, Holland and Great Britain. It is also a destination for sex tourism. Mtwapa Creek is a starting point for fishing tours.

The population of Mtwapa 
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In popular culture 
Part of the events in the story of 2017 "Consummation in Mombasa" (by Andrei Gusev) takes place in Mtwapa. The plot describes the Catholic wedding in Mombasa of the main characters (Russian writer Andy and the girl Jennifer, who was born in Kenya) and then their life in Mtwapa.

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Sarah McBride (born August 9, 1990) is an American LGBTQ rights activist and Democratic politician who is a member of the Delaware State Senate since 2020. She was the National Press Secretary of the Human Rights Campaign. 

After winning the September 15, 2020 Democratic primary in the safe Democratic 1st Delaware State Senate district, she became the first transgender state senator in the country as well as the highest-ranking transgender official in the country.

In July 2016, she was a speaker at the Democratic National Convention, becoming the first openly transgender person to address a major party convention in American history.

On June 26, 2023, after Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester's earlier announcement that she would run for the U.S. Senate, McBride officially announced her candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives. If elected, McBride would become the first openly transgender member of congress.
Personal life
In August 2014, McBride married Andrew Cray after he was diagnosed with terminal oral cancer. Four days after their wedding, Cray died from the disease.

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1990 births
Living people
American LGBT rights activists
American LGBT politicians
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Wilmington, Delaware
Democratic Party (United States) politicians
Transgender people
Marion is a town in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, United States. it is the least populous municipality in Lauderdale County.

Towns in Mississippi
Settlements in Lauderdale County, Mississippi