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It is one of the smallest seabirds. Its length is and wingspan about . It weights about .It is usually black, with a white patch. The biggest known colony is probably that on Nólsoy, on the Faroe Islands. The birds can mainly be found in the ocean between Iceland, the Lofoten and the Faroe Islands.
Stacey Plaskett
Stacey Plaskett (born May 13, 1966) is an American politician, lawyer and commentator. She is the fifth delegate for the United States House of Representatives from the United States Virgin Islands' at large congressional district. Plaskett is a member of the Democratic Party.
Plaskett has practiced law in New York City, Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Plaskett was born in Brooklyn, New York.
Lauriana Mae
Lauriana Mae (born January 18, 1983) is an American pop, R&B and soul singer-songwriter. She has collaborated with other singers, including CeeLo Green, B.o.B. and Kwamé. She performed guest vocals with Green on "Only You". That led to a performance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show on April 17, 2013.
Mae released her first extended play, "Love Mae", in 2011. In 2015, she released an extended play called "City of Diamonds". The record had R&B and hip hop on it.
In 2016, Mae released a mixtape, "Can't Go Back". She released the studio album "Small Town City Dreams" in 2019.
Mae was born in Red Bank, New Jersey.
Marielle de Sarnez
Marielle de Sarnez ( ; 27 March 1951 – 13 January 2021) was a French politician. He was a member of the Democratic Movement. In 2017, De Sarnez was elected a member of the National Assembly.
De Sarnez was Minister for European Affairs in the Édouard Philippe cabinet from May to June 2017. From 1999 to 2017, she was Member of the European Parliament.
De Sarnez was born in Paris. She was married to Philippe Augier. De Sarnez died of leukaemia in Pairs on 13 January 2021, aged 69.
Theodoros Mitras
Theodoros Mitras (14 May 1948 – 12 January 2021) was a Greek politician and lawyer. He was born in Katerini, Greece. He was a member of the New Democracy Party. Mitras was a member of the Hellenic Parliament from 1993 to 1996.
Mitras died on 12 January 2021 in Thessaloniki, Greece at the age of 72.
Herbert Kroemer
Herbert Kroemer (born August 25, 1928) is a German-American physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for "developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics".
Kroemer is professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Jack Kilby
Jack St. Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005) was an American electrical engineer. He helped discover the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 2000. Kilby was also the co-inventor of the handheld calculator and the thermal printer.
Daniel McFadden
Daniel Little McFadden (born July 29, 1937) is an American econometrician. He won the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with James Heckman. He won the prize "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice".
He is the Presidential Professor of Health Economics at the University of Southern California and Professor of the Graduate School at University of California, Berkeley.
James Heckman
Gallant Journey
Hideki Shirakawa
Shirakawa was born in Tokyo. He studied at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is a critic of the Nobel Prize and its media coverage.
Alan J. Heeger
Alan Jay Heeger (born January 22, 1936) is an American physicist and academic. He won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He won the prize with Alan G. MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa "for their discovery and development of conductive polymers".
Heeger was born in Sioux City, Iowa, to a Jewish family. He grew up in Akron, Iowa.
Player can play as Soji Okita and Hijikata Toshizo, where their mission began to getting breed bandits in Kyoto. Each time you played Okita, an arrow will be displayed insanity, while you face the ronin. And at the same time, you can make a gap attack you created, and your attack will level-up instantly. For example, if you choose Harada Sanosuke , the attack power will increased significanly, but the defense power will slow down decreases.
Wolfgang Ketterle
Wolfgang Ketterle (born 21 October 1957) is a German physicist. He is a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His works focused on experiments that trap and cool atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero.
He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, together with Eric Allin Cornell and Carl Wieman.
Carl Wieman
Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, 1951) is an American physicist. He works at Stanford University.
In 1995, while at the University of Colorado Boulder, he and Eric Allin Cornell created the first true Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC). In 2001, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Anthony James Leggett
Sir Anthony James Leggett (born 26 March 1938) is a British theoretical physicist. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Leggett is known for his theory of low-temperature physics. He won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek (; born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004. Jelinek was born in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria.
Her best known works are "The Piano Teacher", "Die Kinder der Toten", "Greed" and "Lust".
David Gross
David Jonathan Gross (; born February 19, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of asymptotic freedom. Gross is the Chancellor's Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
Philip III of France
Philip III or Philip the Bold, was King of France from 1270 until 1285.
Hugh David Politzer
Frank Anthony Wilczek (; born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist and mathematician. He works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Wilczek, along with David Gross and H. David Politzer, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction."
John L. Hall
John Lewis "Jan" Hall (born August 21, 1934) is an American physicist. He won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics with Theodor W. Hänsch and Roy Glauber for his work in precision spectroscopy.
Theodor W. Hänsch
Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch (born 30 October 1941) is a German physicist. He won one fourth of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique" sharing the prize with John L. Hall and Roy J. Glauber.
Tim Bogert
John Voorhis "Tim" Bogert III (August 27, 1944 – January 13, 2021) was an American blues rock singer-songwriter and bassist. He was born in New York City. Bogert played with Carmine Appice and appeared with Vanilla Fudge, Cactus and the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice.
Bogert died on January 13, 2021 at the age of 76.
Carmine Appice ( ) (born December 15, 1946) is an American drummer and percussionist. He played with Vanilla Fudge; Cactus; the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice; Rod Stewart; King Kobra; and Blue Murder.
Margo St. James
Margaret Jean St. James (September 12, 1937 – January 11, 2021) was an American women's rights activist and sex worker. In 1973 she started the organization COYOTE and St. James Infirmary Clinic. COYOTE is a medical and social service organization helping sex workers in San Francisco. St. James was born in Bellingham, Washington.
St. James died on January 11, 2021 under hospice care in San Francisco, aged 83.
Karim is an Arabic name with a female and male form, the male form is Kareem. It means "generous", "noble", or "honorable".
Makoto Kobayashi (physicist)
Makoto Kobayashi
Makoto Kobayashi may refer to:
Toshihide Maskawa
Andre Geim
Sir Andre K. Geim (; born 21 October 1958) is a Russian-born Dutch-British physicist. He works at the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.
Geim was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics with Konstantin Novoselov for his work on graphene.
He is Regius Professor of Physics and Royal Society Research Professor at the National Graphene Institute. He was born in Sochi, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
Konstantin Novoselov
Sir Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov (; born 1974) is a Russian-British physicist. He is a Professor at the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, National University of Singapore.
His work on graphene with Andre Geim won them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010.
Saul Perlmutter
Saul Perlmutter (born September 22, 1959) is an American astrophysicist. He worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Perlmutter won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Adam Riess
Adam Guy Riess (born December 16, 1969) is an American astrophysicist. He works at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes.
Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt for "providing evidence that the accelerating expansion of the universe".
In 2020, Riess was made fellow of the American Astronomical Society.
Serge Haroche
David J. Wineland
Mo Yan
Guan Moye (; born 17 February 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (, ), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer.
He is best known to Western readers for his 1987 novel "Red Sorghum Clan". In 2012, Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".
Isamu Akasaki
Akasaki was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology in 2009. He was also awarded the 2014 Nobel prize in Physics with Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources".
Akasaki died on April 1, 2021 at his home in Nagoya, Japan from pneumonia, aged 92.
Hiroshi Amano
Shuji Nakamura
With Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, he is one of the three winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics.
Patrick Modiano
Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet
The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet (Arabic: الرباعي التونسي للحوار الوطني‎, French: "Quartet du dialogue national") is a group of four civil society organizations. They focus on democracy and the constitutional settlement in Tunisia.
The quartet was formed in the summer of 2013 after a political crisis.
On 9 October 2015, the quartet was awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize.
Takaaki Kajita
On 1 October 2020, he became the president of the Science Council of Japan.
William C. Campbell (scientist)
William Cecil Campbell (born 28 June 1930) is an Irish-born American biologist and parasitologist. He is known for his work in discovering a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworms. He won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He helped to discover a class of drugs called ivermectins.
Campbell worked at the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research and is currently a research fellow emeritus at Drew University.
Duncan Haldane
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons is a global civil society group working to support and promote the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. ICAN was launched in 2007 and counts 541 partner organizations in 103 countries as of 2019.
The campaign received the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize "for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons."
Peter Fenwick
Peter Brooke Cadogan Fenwick (born 25 May 1935) is a British neuropsychiatrist and neurophysiologist. He is known for his studies of epilepsy and end-of-life phenomena.
Fenwick is a senior lecturer at King's College, London. He works as a consultant at the Institute of Psychiatry.
Deathbed phenomena
Deathbed phenomena is many experiences seen by people who are dying. There are many examples of deathbed phenomena in both non-fiction and fictional literature.
In scientific literature, they have been called as death-related sensory experiences (DRSE). Dying patients have reported to staff working in hospices they have experienced comforting visions.
Modern scientists think that the deathbed phenomena and visions are hallucinations.
Devi Lal
Chaudhary Devi Lal (born Devi Dayal; 25 September 1915 - 6 April 2001) was an Indian politician. He served as 6th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1991 in the management of V. P. Singh and Chandra Shekhar. He is popularly known as Tau (uncle). Devi Lal came out as farmer leader from the state of Haryana. He served as the Chief Minister of Haryana first in 1977-79 and then in 1987-89.
Chaudhary Devi Lal was born in Teja Khera village of Sirsa district in present-day Haryana to Shunga Devi and Lekh Ram Sihag. Lekh Ram was a Jat of Chautala village. He owned 2750 bighas of land. Lal received education up to middle-school. His son, Om Prakash Chautala has also served as Haryana's chief minister four times.
In 1928 at the age of 16, Devi Lal participated in independence struggle event by Lala Lajpat Rai. He was a student of ""Dev Samaj Public High School Moga"" in Moga during his 10th class. At that time, he was arrested at Congress office in 1930. He quit studies and joined freedom movement. He also took wrestling lesson at an Akhara in Badal village of Punjab. He was first elected MLA in 1952.
Lal comes from a productive political period of time with his powerful family rulers of Haryana. His older brother Sahib Ram Sihag was the first politician from the family. Sahib Ram Sihag became Congress MLA from Hisar in 1938 and 1947. Lal had four sons - Partap Singh, Om Prakash Chautala, Ranjit Singh and Jagdish Chander. His eldest son, Partap Singh, was an MLA from Indian National Lok Dal in the 1960s.
Lal was a follower of Mahatma Gandhi. He was involved in the struggle for India's independence from the British Raj. Both he and his elder brother, Sahib Ram, left their studies unfinished to take part in the freedom movement.
For this, he was sentenced to one year rigorous imprisonment and sent to Hissar jail on 8 October 1930. He took part in the movement of 1932. He was then kept in Sadar Delhi Thana (Jail). In 1938 he was selected delegate of All-India Congress Committee. In March 1938, his elder brother was elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly in a by-election on the Congress party ticket. In January 1940, Sahib Ram courted arrest as a "satyagrahi" in the presence of Lal and over ten thousand people. He was fined Rs 100 and sentenced to 9 months imprisonment.
Lal was arrested again on 5 October 1942. He then kept in jail for two years for taking part in the 1942 Quit India movement. He was released from prison in October 1943. He negotiated parole for his elder brother. In August 1944, Chhotu Ram, the then Revenue Minister, visited Chautala village. He, along with Lajpat Rai Alakhpura, made efforts to woo both Sahib Ram and Lal to desert Congress and join the Unionist Party. But both workers, being dedicated freedom fighters, refused to leave the Congress Party.
After independence, Lal emerged as a popular farmer leader in the 1950s and started a farmers' movement, for which he was arrested along with his 500 workers. After some time, then chief minister, Gopi Chand Bhargava, made an agreement and the Muzzara Act was amended. He was elected a member of the Punjab Assembly in 1952 and President of the Punjab Congress in 1956. In 1958, he was elected from Sirsa.
He played an active and clear role in the (creation and construction/ group of objects) of Haryana as a separate state. In 1971, he left Congress. In 1972 Vidhan Sabha elections, he argued over unsuccessfully against the two Congress heavyweights. One was Bansi Lal in Tosham (Vidhan Sabha seat) and another was Bhajan Lal in Adampur seat. In 1974, he successfully contested in the Rori constituency. In 1975, Indira Gandhi declared the Emergency. Lal along with all opposition leaders were jailed for 19 months. In 1977, the emergency ended and general elections were held. He was elected on the Janata Party ticket from Bhattu Kalan. He then became the Chief Minister of Haryana. As the chief minister of Haryana he made several decisions benefiting farmers and rural people.
He remained a Member of Parliament from 1980 to 1982. He was a member of State assembly between 1982 and 1987. He formed Lok Dal. He started Nyaya Yuddh (en. battle for justice), under the banner of Haryana Sangharsh Samiti. In the 1987 state elections, the alliance led by Lal won a record victory winning 85 seats in the 90 member house. Congress won the other five seats. Lal became the chief minister of Haryana for the second time. In the 1989 parliamentary election, he was simultaneously elected, both from Sikar, Rajasthan and Rohtak, Haryana.
He went on to become deputy prime minister of the country from 1989 to 1991.
He was elected to Rajya Sabha in August 1998. Later, his son Om Prakash Chautala also became the chief minister of Haryana.
His popularity among farmers and rural people earned him the title of 'Tau' (Elder Uncle). Lal died on 6 April 2001 at the age of 85. He was cremated at Sangarsh Sthal on the banks of the river Yamuna in New Delhi. "Kisan Ghat" is the samadhi of another popular leader of the farmers, Charan Singh, the fifth Prime Minister of India.
Yashwantrao Chavan
Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan (12 March 1913 – 25 November 1984) was an Indian politician. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister of India from 1979 to 1980. He was a strong Congress leader. He is also co-operative leader, social activist and writer. He was popularly known as "Leader of Common People".
Yashwantrao Chavan was born in a Maratha family on 12 March 1913 in the village of Devrashtre in Satara District (now in Sangli District) of Maharashtra, India. He had three siblings. Chavan lost his father in his early childhood and was brought up by his uncle and mother.
Chavan was an active participant in the struggle for independence of India. As a schoolboy in Karad in 1930, he was fined for his participation in the Non-cooperation Movement led by Mahatma Gandhi. In 1932, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison for hoisting the Indian flag in Satara.
Yashwantrao Chavan died of a heart attack on 25 November 1984 in Delhi. He was aged 71 years.
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (; 6 May 1918 – 2 November 2004) was the ruler of Abu Dhabi for more than 30 years (6 August 1966 – 2 November 2004).
He was the main builder of the United Arab Emirates. He was the Union's first "Raʾīs" (President), a post which he held for almost 33 years (1971 until his death in 2004). He is known as the "Father of the Nation".
Storm petrel
Storm petrel may mean one of two bird families, both in the order Procellariiformes, once treated as the same family.
The two families are:
Continental philosophers
Continental philosophers are a group of philosophers mainly from continental Europe (especially France and Germany). Continental philosophy includes philosophical movements from the 19th century and after. The term became popular among researchers in England after World War II. It is often used to separate from analytic philosophy. Being a philosopher from continental Europe is not quite the same as being a continental philosopher. Some continental philosophers are from other parts of the world.
There are many movements within continental philosophy, such as: critical theory, deconstruction, existentialism, German idealism, Hegelianism, Marxism, Nietzscheanism, phenomenology, postmodernism, and others.
Papurana supragrisea
2020–21 United States Senate election in Georgia
An election happened to elect a Senator from the U.S. state of Georgia. There were two rounds on November 3, 2020; and January 5, 2021. The two people in last round of the election were Jon Ossoff (Democratic Party) and David Perdue (Republican Party).
Primary elections happened on June 9, 2020. The Republican Party primary only had one person, David Perdue, as he was Senator before the election. There were many people in the Democratic Party primary, and Jon Oscoff won. These went against Libertarian Party candidate Shane T. Hazel. Nobody got more than 50% of the vote, so the top two (Oscoff and Perdue) went to a second round in January. Ossoff won the second round and became Senator.
Echinococcosis
Mulyadi Tamsir
Mulyadi P. Tamsir (8 April 1981 – 9 January 2021) was an Indonesian student activist and politician. He was a member the People's Conscience Party. He was the chairman of the Muslim Students' Association from 2015 until 2018. Tamsir was born in Lampung, Indonesia.
Tamsir was killed in a plane crash on 9 January 2021 outside Jakarta near the Java Sea, aged 39.
Harold Bornstein
Harold Nelson Bornstein (March 26, 1947 – January 8, 2021) was an American gastroenterologist. He was best known as Donald Trump's personal physician. He was his personal physician from 1980 until early 2018. He was born in New York City.
In May 2018 Bornstein said that Trump had told him what to write on a letter about his health over the telephone, then sent a car to pick it up.
Speaking to "The New York Times" in February 2017, Bornstein revealed that he was invited to and attended President Trump's inauguration with his wife Melissa. Bornstein told "The Times" that he enjoyed the attention from being known as the President's personal physician. Bornstein had hoped to be the Physician to the President, but the White House decided that Ronny Jackson would continue in that role.
Bornstein died on January 8, 2021 at the age of 73.
Oscar Rizzato
Oscar Rizzato (28 February 1928 – 11 January 2021) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate. He became a priest in 1954. He was created titular bishop of "Virunum" from 1989 until his death. He was born in Veneto, Italy.
Rizzato died on January 11, 2021 in Padua, Italy from problems caused by COVID-19, at the age of 91.
Mona Malm
Mona Malm (born Mona Kristina Ericsson; 24 January 1935 – 12 January 2021) was a Swedish actress. Her career began in 1957. Malm was born in Stockholm.
Malm was known for her roles in "Smiles of a Summer Night" (1955), "The Seventh Seal" (1957), "All These Women" (1964), "Heja Roland!" (1966), "Fanny and Alexander" (1982), "Nånting levande åt Lame-Kal" (1988), "The Best Intentions" (1992), "The Tattooed Widow" (1998) and "After the Wedding" (2006).
Malm died at a Stockholm hospital on 12 January 2021, at the age of 85.
Mimi Pond
Mimi Pond is an American cartoonist. She wrote the first episode of "The Simpsons" ("Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"). Producers did not allow her to write more episodes because she is a woman. She wrote two memoirs. She wrote "Over Easy" in 2014 and "The Customer is Always Wrong" in 2017.
She is married to the artist Wayne White. They have two children, Woodrow and Lulu White.
I Am Cuba
I Am Cuba (; , "Ya Kuba") is a 1964 anthology drama movie directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. The movie was Soviet-Cuba and was not popular in both countries. It was thought to be a lost movie until being re-discovered in 1994.
The movie is shot in black and white.
John Ward (New Zealand cricketer)
John Thomas Ward (11 March 1937 – 12 January 2021) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played as a wicket-keeper in eight Test matches between 1964 and 1968. He was born in Timaru, New Zealand. He played for Canterbury from 1959 until 1971. He also played for the national team from 1964 to 1968.
Ward died in Timaru on 12 January 2021 after a short illness, aged 83.
Mario Cecchini
Mario Cecchini (25 January 1933 – 13 January 2021) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop. He became a priest in 1958. He was bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola from 1986 until his resignation in 1998. He was born in Arcevia, Italy.
Cecchini died on 13 January 2021 from COVID-19 in Arcevia, aged 87.
Arcevia
Moses Hamungole
Moses Hamungole (1 May 1967 – 13 January 2021) was a Zambian Roman Catholic bishop. Hamungole was born in Lusaka, Zambia. He became a priest in 1994. He was bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Monze, Zambia from 2014 until his death in 2021.
Hamungole died on 13 January 2021 in Lusaka from COVID-19, aged 53.
Gimax
"Gimax", pseudonym of Carlo Franchi (1 January 1938 – 13 January 2021) was an Italian racing driver. He never raced under his real name. He was born in Milan. He entered one World Championship Formula One Grand Prix with Surtees, the 1978 Italian Grand Prix, but did not qualify. Gimax also participated in one non-Championship Formula One race, the 1979 Dino Ferrari Grand Prix.
Gimax died on 13 January 2021 in Milan, aged 83.
Vincent Logan
The Right Reverend Vincent Paul Logan (30 June 1941 – 14 January 2021) was a Scottish Roman Catholic prelate. He was the ninth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dunkeld from 1981 to 2012. He was born in Bathgate, Scotland. He became a priest in 1964,
Logan died on 14 January 2021, aged 79.
Aleksandr Borisovich Nikitin
Aleksandr Borisovich Nikitin (; 4 February 1961 – 14 January 2021) was a Russian professional football coach and player. He was born in Stalingrad, Russia. He was known for playing and managing Rotor Volgograd. His playing career lasted from 1978 to 1993. His managing career lasted from 1997 to 2009.
Nikitin died on 14 January 2021 in Volgograd at the age of 59.
Leonidas Pelekanakis
Leonidas Pelekanakis (2 November 1962 – 14 January 2021) was a Greek sailor. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics, the 2000 Summer Olympics, and the 2004 Summer Olympics. He was born in Athens, Greece.
Pelekanakis died of COVID-19 on 14 January 2021 in Athens, aged 58.
Safwat El-Sherif
Mohamed Safwat El Sherif () (19 December 1933 – 14 January 2021) was an Egyptian politician and businessman. He was Chairman of the State Information Service. He was the Minister of Information from 1981 to 2004.
El Sherif died on 14 January 2021 in Cairo, Egypt from COVID-19 at the age of 88.
Kenneth Mitchell (actor)
Kenneth Alexander Mitchell (born 25 November 1974) is a Canadian actor. He was born in Toronto. His career began in 2000. He is known for playing many Klingon characters "". He also played Deke Slayton in ABC's "The Astronaut Wives Club" television drama series.
In 2006, Mitchell married actress Susan May Pratt. They have two children.
In February 2020, Mitchell revealed that he was diagnosed with ALS in 2019.
Susan May Pratt
Susan May Pratt (born February 8, 1974) is an American actress. She played Mandella in "10 Things I Hate About You", Alicia in "Drive Me Crazy", and Maureen Cummings in "Center Stage".
Pratt was born in Lansing, Michigan. Her career began in 1998. In 2006, Pratt married Kenneth Mitchell. They have two children.
Charlotte, Michigan
Charlotte ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. In the 2010 census, 9,074 people lived here. It is the county seat of Eaton County.
Lansing, New York
Lansing () is a town in Tompkins County, New York, United States. 11,033 people lived here at the 2010 census.
Lansing (village), New York
Lansing is a village in Tompkins County, New York, United States. 3,529 people lived here in the 2010 census.
The Village of Lansing is in the Town of Lansing. It is north of the City of Ithaca.
Methuen is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. 47,255 people lived here at the 2010 census.
Saratoga, Texas
Vidor, Texas
Vidor ( ) is a city in western Orange County, Texas, United States.
Robert Stroud
Robert Franklin Stroud (January 28, 1890 – November 21, 1963), known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz", was an American convicted murderer, federal prisoner and author. He was one of the most notorious criminals in the United States.
During his time at Leavenworth Penitentiary, he sold birds and became a respected ornithologist. He was transferred to Alcatraz, where he was incarcerated from 1942 to 1959.
Stroud was never released from the federal prison system; he was imprisoned from 1909 to his death in 1963.
State Information Service
The State Information Service is an Egyptian government agency. It reports directly to the Egyptian Presidency. It is the official media and public relations apparatus of the Egyptian state. It is responsible for regulating the affairs of foreign press and media correspondents in Egypt.
The Service was founded in 1954 by the Revolutionary Command Council. It abolished the Monarchy. Revolutionary Command Council member Salah Salem was SIS's first Chairman.
The current Chairman of SIS is Diaa Rashwan. He is a journalist and politician. He was appointed to the post by president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in June 2017. Among the previous Chairmen of SIS was Safwat El-Sherif one of the leading figures in president Hosni Mubarak's government.
Chairmen of SIS
- Salah Salem (1954 - 1955)
- Amin Howeidi (1965 - 1966)
- Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid (1967 - 1968)
- Safwat El-Sherif (1979 - 1980)
- Mamdouh El Beltagui (1983 - 1993)
- Nabil Othman (1994 - 2003)
- Taha Abdel Alim (2003 - 2004)
- Nasser Kamel (2005 - 2006)
- Diaa Rashwan (2017 - present)
José Luis Caballero
José Luis Caballero (21 June 1955 – 14 January 2021) was a Mexican footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He won a gold medal at the 1975 Pan American Games. He was born in Mexico City.
Caballero died on 14 January 2021 in Mexico City, aged 65.
Sinikka Nopola
Sinikka Marianna Nopola (26 November 1953 – 13 January 2021) was a Finnish children's writer. She published 80 books from 1987 until her death. Nopola's popular series were series "Hayflower and Quiltshoe" and "Ricky Rapper". Nopola was born in Helsinki. She worked as a journalist for the newspaper "Helsingin Sanomat".
Nopola died on 13 January 2021 in Helsinki, aged 67.
Antonello da Messina
Antonello da Messina (born 1429 or 1430 in Messina, died 1479) was an Italian painter from the 15th century. His real name was Antonio di Giovanni de Antonio, the "da Messina" simply refers to his origin. He was the first to use light in his paintings. With this, he was able to add some of what the Dutch painters of the time did already. Today, he is mostly known for portraits.
A Wicked Woman
The Return of October
Bernd Kannenberg
Bernhard "Bernd" Kannenberg (20 August 1942 – 13 January 2021) was a West German race walker. He won the 50 km event at the 1972 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal. Kannenberg was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, Nazi Germany. After retiring from competitions he coached the German race walking team.
Kannenberg died on 13 January 2021, aged 78.
Comic book convention
Tadanobu Asano
Tadanobu Asano is a Japanese actor, musician, painter. He was born in Kanagawa on November 27 in 1973. At the age of 16, he played a role in the Japanese famous TV show "Kinpachi Sensei" in 1988. It was the start of his career as an actor. He is also active on social media and has 255,000 followers on Instagram.
His film debut was "Bataashi Kingyo" in 1990. And then, he acted in various roles and appeared in many movies, and thus he has built his career as an actor. His performance is highly appreciated by people not only in Japan but also in overseas countries. He received film awards, for example, the Upstream Prize for Best Actor at the 2003 Venice Film Festival for his role in "Last Life in the Universe" and the award for Best Actor at the 36th Moscow International Film Festival for his role in "My Man" in 2014. He has also appeared in Hollywood's movies. His first appearance in Hollywood's movie was a marvel movie “Thor” in 2011. In addition to that, he acted on "Battleship" in 2012, "Silence" that was directed by Martin Scorsese in 2015, "Midway" in 2019.
In addition to work as an actor, Asano is also known as a musician. He is a band member of SODA!, which formed in 2013, and he is the vocalist. He paints pictures and posts it frequently on instagram and twitter. In 2018, he held a solo exhibition that introduced 700 of his paintings. And also, he published three books of his paintings “error” in 1999, “BUNCH” in 2003 and “Everlasting Fountain” in 2018. He draws with acrylic paints, crayons and pencils, and draws on the papers and even on the back of the envelopes. His paintings are drawn in many different ways. These look like scribble art, comic books, abstract art and so on.
He often posts his outfits on Instaglam and WEAR, which is an app that people can watch and post fashion photography. His outfits in photos are almost all casual style, but he coordinates many patterns and colors well-balanced. Moreover, he has his own fashion brand. He is creating clothes that he wants to wear. He changed his brand name to "TADANOBU ASANO" from "JEAN DIADEM."
New Hope Club
New Hope Club is a British pop band formed in 2015. The members are Reece Bibby, Blake Richardson, and George Smith. All are multi-musicians; they play instruments, sing and write songs. Bibby plays guitar, bass and drums. Richardson plays guitar, ukulele and piano. Smith plays guitar and eight other instruments.
New Hope Club was influenced by The Beatles and Oasis.
The album "Welcome To The Club Pt. 2" released in October 2018 reached first place in iTunes in 10 countries. The song "Let Me Down Slow", released in January 2020, also received attention. The 2017 debut EP "Welcome to the Club" made them popular.
Shota Yasuda
Shota Yasuda is a Japanese actor and singer. He is a member of idol group Kanjani∞, which is managed by Johnny & Associates.
He was born in Japan, Hyogo prefecture Amagasaki city on September 11, 1984. His sister was a fan of Masaki Aiba who is a member of Japanese famous idol group Arashi which is managed by Johnny & Associates. So he tried Johnny & Associates‘s audition and he passed it. So he entered Johnny & Associates in 1997 when he was a 1st grade junior high school student. On September 22, 2002, Kanjani∞ （eight）was formed. And he was elected a member of Kanjani∞. On September 22, 2004, their CD debut was “Naniwa Irohabushi<nowiki>"</nowiki> which is their first single CD. Now, Kanjani∞ became one of the most famous Japanese idol groups. He plays guitar and makes songs. He is called Kanjani∞‘s guitarist. And he has held concerts as Kanjani∞ at Japanese biggest 5 domes in recent 5 years. He is also appearing in many dramas and theater productions.
He suffered from meningioma, which is a kind of brain tumor. He had surgery in February 2017. The surgery took 12 hours. The company did not tell the public until months later. And he joined one Kanjani∞ concert tour that was held at 5 biggest Japanese domes and one stage that he is principal in hiding his sickness. In 2018, he broke his back bones because of lightheadedness of his sickness. So he opened to the public about his sickness. But he joined one Kanjani∞ concert tour that was held at 5 biggest Japanese domes with broken bones for 2 months. Now he has to wear color glasses because of meningioma’s sequelae. And he published his own photo album named “LIFE IS” to share with many people about his experience of sickness in September 2020.
He also works as an actor. He has joined 15 dramas and 4 movies and 7 theater productions. His first drama as principal was "Jitennsyasyounennki". His first movie as a main character was "Eight Ranger". His first theater production as a main character was "Orebushi". He also acted in many commercials and variety programs.
He is Kanjani∞'s guitarist. He can make songs and lyrics. He made 37 Kanjani∞ songs and lyrics for 8 Kanjani∞ songs.
Ushiro Keisuke
Ushiro Keisuke is a Japanese athlete. He competes in in decathalon, discus, javelin, long jump and pole vault.
When he was in elementary school, he belonged to the dodgeball club. He ​belonged ​to the track and field club at Oasa Higashimachi Junior High School, engaged in hurdle running in the first grade, 100m, push out and high jump in the second grade. He grew from 168cm in first year to 183 cm in second year and 188 cm in third year. And he was unable to practice as much as he could because of Osgood’s, which induces knee pain. However, his height later became a very strong weapon in competing within the world. After entering high school, Osgood’s disease was completely cured, and he started the octathlon with the recommendation of the track and field manager. His sense of octathlon is by far the beat, and he finished second in the final inter high school competition.
His father is a throwing player in high school, and his father specializes in the high jump and hurdles, and has also participated in Japan Incare as a relay. Partly due to the influence of his parents, ke started track and field. He went on to Kokushikan University after his brother and sister went through Tokyo High School. Also his hobby is folk guitar, and he used to play live on the street in high school.
He has been involved i​n decathlon form university and won the Japan Championship for the first time in 2010 when he was in the 4th grade. The following year, in 2011, he set a record for the Japanese track and field world to break the Japanese record for the first time in 18 years. And he p​articipated​in his first world track and field. In 2012, he participated in the London Olympic Games for the first time in 48 years as a Japanese player, and in 2014 he set a new record in Japan.
Takefusa Kubo
Originally from the training organization of the world famous football club FC Barcelona. At that time, he was called “Japanese Messi” and “Left handed Iniesta” because his play style is similar to Lionel Messi and Andrés Iniesta. His number one feature is ball control skill. Due to his great dribbling these nicknames are well-deserved.
He has started to play soccer since he was 3 years old. In August 2009, he saw an advertisement saying that Barcelona Camp would be held in Japan and you could play against Barcelona if you could become an MVP there. In April 2010, he participated in a tournament held in Belgium as a Barcelona school selection and was selected as a tournament MVP. After that, he belonged to the subordinate organization of Kawasaki Frontale. In August 2011, he passed the trial match of FC Barcelona’s subordinate organization Cantera and went to Spain. He played soccer in Spain until 2015, but an accident happened and he returned to japan. And then he joined FC Tokyo’s subordinate organization. In May 2017, he made his debut as a top team. And he became the first J-Leaguer born in the 21th century.
In November 2017, it was announced that he had signed a professional contract with FC Tokyo. He made his first debut in the match on November 26, and set a young record for the third place in J.League history. However, he gradually lost the opportunity to participate in the match and transferred to Yokohama F. Marinos for a limited time in order to improve the quality of performance. He had played there for 5 months. He returned to FC Tokyo in 2019 and played for half of a year. Then in June 2019 it was decided to transfer to Spain’s prestigious Real Madrid and play as Team B. His technique was highly evaluated and he was promoted to the top team. In the Spanish newspaper Maruka, he was selected as the first place in the evaluation ranking. In August 2019, he transferred to Mallorca for a limited time. He was selected as “Break Eleven” by La Liga Espanola with a clear (obvious) record in the team suffering from the bottom of ranking, and (despite) his performance attracted worldwide attention. In August 2020, it was announced that he transferred to Villarreal for a limited time. And recently it was announced that he would leave Villarreal.
In May 2017, at the age of 15, Kubo was selected the Japan U-20 national team for 2017 U-20 World Cup. In October 2017, he also played for the Japan U-17 national team for 2017 U-17 World Cup. On June 9, 2019, he debuted for the Japan national team against El Salvador. He also participated 2019 Copa América.
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Toshizo Hijikata
Toshizo Hijikata lived in Japan during the late Edo period. He was a member of Shinsengumi. They guarded the Shogun. And he was a Vice President of Shinsengumi. He supported the president, Isami Kondo. He was a very strict person. So he was feared as a Vice President of the ogre. He died in Hokkaido at the age of 35.
In 1835, he was born in Musashino Kuni (Hino city, Tokyo). He was the tenth child and he was the youngest in his family. His father was a wealthy farmer. But he wanted to do martial arts and be a samurai. So he made an effort to practice swordfighting.
As a child, he was a very naughty boy. Also he was a smart boy.
When he was 11 years old, he started to work in the dry goods dealer (Ito Gofukuten). But he quarreled with the leader for a trivial matter and walked back about 40 kilometers to his house. He was so stubborn that he wouldn’t return to the shop even if his family persuaded him.
Next, he started to sell the medicines (Ishida Sanyaku).
The Shinsengumi, or "newly selected troops," protected the Shogun in the last years before the Meiji Restoration.
Hijikata met Isami Kondo when he was 25 years old. He joined Shieikan which Isami Kondo ran. After that, he applied for the Roshigumi to protect Tokugawa Iemochi, the 14th Shogun of the Edo Shogunate. And he went to Kyoto with members of Shieikan. Shinsengumi started in 1863 because they succeeded there. They guarded the Shogun.
He was a Vice President of Shinsengumi. He was a very strict person. So he was feared by all as a Vice President of the ogre. But just before he died in Hakodate, he was kind to everyone.
In 1864 July 8th, Ikedaya case happened. Shinsengumi beat Sonno Joi ha (supporters of the doctrine of restoring the emperor and expelling the barbarians). When he heard that Isami Kondo’s army had found Sonno Joi ha, he immediately joined forces. But he didn’t storm Ikedaya immediately and ambushed around there. The achievements of the Shinsengumi in the Ikedaya case were very great. So the prize was exceptional.
Immediately after the Boshin War began, Isami Kondo was arrested. He tried to save Isami Kondo, but Isami Kondo was executed. When the war of Utsunomiya castle happened, he won temporarily. But it was inferior to a modern weapon of the new government troop with swords and spears. He escaped in Goryokaku, but his stomach was shot and he died. He was 35 years old.
Hijikata's sword was returned to Tokyo. People come to look at it every year.
The Hijikata Toshizo Museum opened in Hino City in 1994. It is in the same building where Hijikata grew up.
A fictional Hijikata appears in the game Hakuouki.
Demon Slayer became one of the representative comic books in 2020. Not only Japanese people but also people all over the world are fascinated by the comic book. And it expanded the range of success from 2019 to 2020, so it was featured on a great deal of media.
“Demon Slayer” is one of a comic book which started to serialize from Weekly Shonen Jump in 2016 on No.11. It was written by Gotouge Koyoharu. The book is completed from 1 to 23. It is a fight story between humans and demons. Demons appear in various places to catch and eat humans. However people who were trained specially confront demons. Even though it is simply a fight story, it is composed of stories that are laughing, moving, powerful.
Tanjiro Kamado decided to embark on a journey because his sister Nezuko Kamado was made to be a demon. Then, he entered an organization which is called “Kisatsutai”. People can attend it over an audition, so there are many strong people in it. Begging with Tanjiro and members who have each “breathing”. Tanjiro has breathing of water, Zenitsu Agatsuma who is synchronous to Tanjiro has breathing of thunder, and Inosuke Hashibira who is also synchronous to Tanjiro has breathing of animals. In addition, there are 9 of the strongest slayers who are called “Hashira”. On the other hand, there is the worst and strongest demon which is called Muzan Kibutsuji.
Demon Slayer started from a comic book, and it expanded various things. Anime started in 2019, and the movie started in 2020 as the “Mugen train” version. In addition, a smartphone app started in 2020, and a home video game is going to start in 2021. Furthermore, there is a stage of the orchestra which performs with pictures of the story of Demon Slayer. In the summer of 2021, the stage of Demon Slayer is going to be held.
The comic book of Demon Slayer became popular since anime started in 2019. So the comic book made 34 times more sales in half of one years. Eventually, the comic book was published 120 million. In addition, the movie sales recorded 32.4 billion on December 28 in 2020, and it was over the sales of Spirited away which had been the most sales in Japan. On the other hand, Demon Slayer combined with Kurazushi and Gindako, and the sales increased by more than 100% year-on-year.
Movie song of Demon Slayer is “Homura” which was sold December 14 in 2020. Anime song of Demon Slayer is “Gurenge” which was sold July 3 in 2019. Both of them were sung by Japanese singer LiSA. They were the first and second songs that were sung in Karaoke of DAM in 2020. In addition, “Demon Slayer” was nominated for the Bussword Award in 2020.
The name of the cartoonist is Koyoharu Gotoge. An interview with the person concerned said the writer is female. She is from Fukuoka in Japan and was born in 1989. She has never been seen publicly, and her true identity is unknown. She started her work as a cartoonist in 2013. Demon Slayer is her fifth product. She is also called "crocodile teacher(In Japanese;Wani Sensei)" because of her self-portrait of a crocodile which wears glasses.
King Gnu
King Gnu is a Japanese alternative rock band. The band is made up of 4 members: Daiki Tsuneta (guitar & vocal), Satoru Iguchi (keyboard & vocal), Kazuki Arai (bass) and Yu Seki (drum).
The band, Mrs.Vinci was formed by centering on Daiki Tsuneta in 2013. 2 years later, Mrs.Vinci renamed Srv.Vinci. After reorganization of members, they renamed King Gnu in 2017. It is what they are now. The band made their major debut in January 2019 by releasing their 2nd album “Sympa”. The band is called “tokyo new mixture style” because each member of the group is influenced from music in various fields and they create their own music style which has overwhelming original sense and high perfection in both their sound and visual. In terms of music, the band creates songs that incorporate elements from a wide range of genres such as R&B, jazz, J-POP, as well as rock.
is the reader of the band. All King Gnu songs are produced by him. He mainly plays guitar and sings as a vocalist with Satoru Iguchi. And he can play piano, bass, cello, drum and so on. He attended Tokyo University of the Arts and majored in cello. He also belongs to PERIMETRON which is a creative group making music videos, jacket pictures, or something making videos. King Gnu’s video and pictures are also created by them.  His work covers a wide range of topics. He also works as a record producer. A project called millennium parade, a group of musicians, is led by him.
is in charge of vocals and keyboard. He also attended Tokyo University of the Arts and belonged to the vocal music department. He is also an actor and narrator.
is a bassist and he plays bass, synth bass, and contrabass. And he is in charge of chorus. He also acts in the millennium parade. He started bass when he was 14 years old, and he learned jazz bass. He had lived with Satoru Iguchi.
is a drummer. His parents are professional musicians and he hit an electronic drum when he was young. He also attended dance school. The goodness of his sense of rhythm comes from it. He acts in the millennium parade.
After the band was renamed King Gnu, they appeared on FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL in July. They released their first album “Tokyo Rendez-vous ” in October. “Vinyl”, which is recorded in the album, is designated as a television CM song.
In April, their first radio program whose name derived from their band name had  started. The radio program title is “RADIO GNU”. In September, they released “prayer X”. And the song is appointed anime’s ending song.