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For roll crushers, there are two side by side rolls, one fixed and the other can move a little bit from side to side. The gap between the rollers is what determines the output size of the rocks. Forcing rocks through these gaps produces a large amount of shear stress on them and causes them to break apart.
The bisection method is a way to estimate solutions for single equations. When we solve one equation, this method can help us to get a number that is very close to the real solution.
Think about a continuous function F(x). If the curve of F(x) passes through the x-axis, it means that there must be one specific x number which makes F(x) = 0, in other words, a solution. But how to judge whether the curve passes the x-axis or not? We pick one section with lower boundary a1 and upper boundary b1. Then we calculate F(a) and F(b). If F(b) has different signal with F(a) (or F(a)*F(b) < 0), the F(x) curve will pass through the x-axis in this section, which means F(x) must have a solution in this section. In this way, we can estimate a range of the solution.
To make our estimation more precise, we need to shorten the range which contains the solution. We divide this section into two equal parts: ( a , a/2+b/2) and (a/2+b/2, b). Then we apply the same method to judge whether there is a solution in each section. If there is no solutions in one section( F(a)*F(a/2+b/2) > 0 or F(a/2+b/2)*F(b)> 0), we ignore this section. If there is a solution in one section (F(a)*F(a/2+b/2) < 0 or F(a/2+b/2)*F(b) < 0), we continue to shorten the range until the range is smaller than the error of estimation we expected. Finally, we take the middle point of the final range as a solution of F(x).
Deaths in 2021
The following is a list of deaths that should be noted in June 2021. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.
Deaths in January 2021
The following is a list of deaths that should be noted in January 2021. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.
Deaths in February 2021
The following is a list of deaths that should be noted in February 2021. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.
Deaths in March 2021
The following is a list of deaths that should be noted in March 2021. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.
Deaths in April 2021
The following is a list of deaths that should be noted in April 2021. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.
Deaths in May 2021
The following is a list of deaths that should be noted in May 2021. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.
Valorant (stylized as VALORANT) is a free-to-play multiplayer tactical first-person shooter developed and published by Riot Games, for Microsoft Windows. First talked about under the codename "Project A" in October 2019, the game began a closed beta period with limited access on April 7, 2020, followed by official release on June 2, 2020.
Nernst equation
Nernst Equation is a scientific equation used to find the reduction potential or voltage of an electrochemical cell. It is widely used in cell physiology and neurobiology. It is named after . He was a German chemist who created this equation.
This equation can be used to check which combination of chemicals will be suitable to construct a powerful electric cell.
Nernst Equation:
E = Reduction potential or voltage of the electrochemical cell.
E = Standard potential of the cell. It is the reduction potential of the cell or voltage under standard conditions (Temperature = 298 Kelvin, Pressure = 1 bar).
R = Gas constant. It is an important constant used in thermodynamics. Its value is 8.314 J.K.mol.
T = Temperature of the electrochemical cell in Kelvin.
z = Number of moles of electrons that got transferred when reduction took place.
F  = Faraday constant. It is equal to the charge carried by 1 mole of electrons. Faraday constant = 96,485.3329 s Ampere/mole.
Q = Reaction quotient of the chemical reaction that is driving the cell.
When the reduction potential of a cell = 0 V, it is in equilibrium. At equilibrium, the reaction quotient Q = K (equilibrium constant).
Thermodynamics in nutrition
The law of conservation of energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be transformed from one form to another. This law also applies to nutrition.
Many experts disagree with the belief of counting calories as a method to lose bodyfat. 1 pound of bodyfat roughly equals 3500 calories. Therefore, eating 500 calories less everyday for 7 days straight would result in exactly 1 pound of loss in bodyfat. Several studies have proven this to be false solidifying the belief that counting calories does not work. This disparity can be explained.
1. Thermic effect of food: 1 calorie of protein is not the same as 1 calorie of carbohydrates or fats. The body requires energy to digest food. Fats require only 0-3% of the total energy from food to get digested. Carbohydrates require 5-10% of energy while proteins require 20-30% of energy. Therefore, the macronutrient profile (protein, carbohydrates and fats ratio) play an important role in weight loss.
2. NEAT: Non exercise activity thermogenesis or NEAT is the amount of energy a person uses during daily activities. Examples of NEAT include jittering, walking, brushing teeth and even writing. People generally feel weaker when they consume less calories so they tend to move less reducing NEAT.
3. Miscounting calories: Studies have shown that over 90% of the population underestimate their daily caloric consumption.
Ultimately, calories consumed versus calories spent will always hold true. In order to lose weight, one must consume less calories and move more.
Angle grinder
An angle grinder is a handheld power tool. It is also known as a disc grinder or side grinder. They are commonly used in machine shops and metal workshops. Most angle grinders today are powered by electricity. They can be corded or battery-powered. Angle grinders can be used for cutting, grinding, and polishing objects.
There are different kinds of discs that are used for various materials and tasks. Angle grinders can use grinding stones, sanding discs, wire brush wheels, cut-off discs, abrasive grinding discs, and polishing pads. Angle grinders come in different disc sizes and motor specifications. Other differences include a power source, rpm, and arbor size. Generally disc size and power increase together. Disc size is measured in imperial or metric units. Pneumatic grinders are generally used for lighter duty jobs where more precision is required. Electric grinders are more commonly used for larger, heavy-duty jobs.
Angle grinders generate sparks when cutting ferrous metals. The blades on the angle grinder may also break during operation. Proper personal protective equipment must always be worn when using an angle grinder. Angle grinders should never be used without their guard or handle attached. Inspect the discs for cracks, defects, and wear before using an angle grinder.
Snowboard core material
The core material of the snowboard must withstand 3 types of loading: transverse loading, longitudinal loading, and torsional loading. Transverse loading is applied on the middle of longitudinal axis and the edge of the board. Longitudinal loading is applied on the middle of the rear binding of the board. Torsional loading is applied in the middle where the front section of the board will twist towards the opposite direction of the rear section.
The objectives of a snowboard core is to minimize mass and cost of production. Mass affects the performance of a snowboard, as it is easier to reach higher speed. Cost is minimized to lower expenditure and increase sales.
The constraints on a snowboard core are width, length, and fracture toughness. Width is constrained to 240mm to 260 mm. Length is constrained to 1000mm to 1600mm. Fracture toughness must be above 0.7 MPa*m^(1/2) so that the snowboard does not break easily.
Some common core materials include wood, Kevlar, and aluminum. Wood is used in the core as a sandwich-like structure. Kevlar is resistant to heat and have tightly knitted fibers. Aluminum is used in a honeycomb like a bee's nest.
Demis Hassabis
Demosthenes "Demis" Hassabis (born 27 July 1976) is a significant figure in artificial intelligence. He is a British researcher, neuroscientist, video game designer, entrepreneur, and five times winner of the Pentamind board games championship.
Hassabis is the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, a machine learning AI startup, founded in London in 2010 with Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman. Hassabis met Legg when both were postdocs at University College London's Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, and he and Suleyman had been friends through family. Hassabis also recruited his university friend and Elixir partner David Silver.
DeepMind's mission is to "solve intelligence" and then use intelligence "to solve everything else". More concretely, DeepMind aims to use powerful general-purpose learning algorithms to build an artificial general intelligence (AGI).
The company was bought by Google for £400 million.
They created AlphaGo, a program which defeated world champion Lee Sedol at the complex game of Go. Go had been considered a holy grail of AI, for its high number of possible board positions and resistance to existing programming techniques. However, AlphaGo beat European champion Fan Hui 5-0 in October 2015 before winning 4-1 against former world champion Lee Sedol in March 2016.
More recently, DeepMind turned its artificial intelligence to protein-folding, one of the toughest problems in science. In December 2018, DeepMind's tool AlphaFold won the 13th Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP) by successfully predicting the most accurate structure for 25 out of 43 proteins.
Although Hassabis is expert at many games, he does not program specific rules into Deep Mind. For Go and chess, the machine played many games with itself, learning from its results. In other words it taught itself how to play, given the basic rules of the game.
George Carter (basketball)
George Carter (January 10, 1944 – November 18, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. He was a 6'4" swingman. He was born in Buffalo, New York. His career lasted from 1967 to 1977. He played for the Detroit Pistons and for the New York Nets.
Carter died on November 18, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada at the age of 76.
Eduardo Lourenço
Eduardo Lourenço , (23 May 1923 – 1 December 2020) was a Portuguese essayist, professor, critic, philosopher, and writer. He was a professor at the University of Coimbra. He won the Camões Prize in 1996. Lourenço was born in Almeida, Portugal.
Lourenço died on 1 December 2020 in Lisbon at the age of 97.
November 2020 lunar eclipse
DeepMind
DeepMind Technologies is a UK based artificial intelligence company and research laboratory founded in September 2010. It was bought by Google in 2014.
The company is based in London, with research centres in Canada, France, and the United States.
Miguel Algarín
Miguel Algarín Jr. (11 September 1941 – 1 December 2020) was a Puerto Rican poet, historian and writer. He was known as the co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café. He was a Rutgers University professor of English. Algarín was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
Algarín's books include "Mongo Affair", "On Call" (1980), "Body Bee Calling from the 21st Century" (1982), "Time's Now/Ya es tiempo" (1985), "Love Is Hard Work: Memorias de Loisaida/Poems" (1997, Lower East Side Memories/Poems).
Algarín died on 1 December 2020 in New York City, aged 79.
Jim McFarland
James Darrell McFarland (October 4, 1947 – November 27, 2020) was an American football player. He played tight end for six seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Buffalo Bills, St. Louis Cardinals, and Miami Dolphins. He was born in North Platte, Nebraska.
After leaving football, he became a member of the Nebraska Legislature between 1986 to 1991 as a Democrat. He unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Nebraska in 1998.
McFarland died of pancreatic cancer on November 27, 2020, in Omaha, Nebraska at age 73.
Dieter Popp
Dieter Popp (24 November 1938 – 27 November 2020) was a West German insurance agent. He worked as a spy between 1969 and 1990. He was born in Bonn. He was a spy for the of the East German National People's Army.
Popp died on 27 November 2020, three days after his 82nd birthday.
Clifton Bertrand
Clifton Bertrand (2 March 1936 – 28 November 2020) was a Trinidadian sprinter. He was born in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago. He won three bronze medals at the Pan American Games in 1959 and 1963. Bertrand also competed during the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics.
Bertrand died on 28 November 2020 in New York City at the age of 84.
Shams Badran
Shams Al Din Badran (; 19 April 1929 – 28 November 2020) was an Egyptian politician. He was Minister of Defence of Egypt during Gamal Abdel Nasser's era from 1966 to 1967. He also was Commander of the Egyptian Armed Forces at the same time. He was removed from the ministry during the Six-Day War and later imprisoned.
Badran died at a Plymouth, Devon hospital on 28 November 2020 while living in exile since his prison release in 1974, aged 91.
KaTeX
KaTeX is a JavaScript library that shows mathematical notation on any web browser. It aims to be fast and easy to use.
It was initially developed by Khan Academy. This is why it starts from K. KaTeX is known to be one of the top five popular projects on GitHub in September 2014.
KaTeX claims to be:
Miša Aleksić
Miroslav "Miša" Aleksić (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирослав-Миша Алексић, 16 August 1953 — 29 November 2020) was a Serbian musician. He was best known as the bass guitarist for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.
On 29 November 2020, Aleksić died from problems caused by COVID-19 in Belgrade at the age of 67.
José Rafael Barquero Arce
José Rafael Barquero Arce (27 October 1931 – 29 November 2020) was a Costa Rican Roman Catholic bishop. He became a priest in 1956. He was titular bishop of 'Arindela' and was auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Alajuela, Costa Rica, from 1979 to 1980. He then was bishop of the diocese from 1980 until 2007.
Barquero Arce died on 29 November 2020 at the age of 89.
Marco Dino Brogi
Marco Dino Brogi, O.F.M. (12 March 1932 – 29 November 2020) was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
Brogi was born in Cairo, Egypt. He was became a priest on 5 May 1963. Pope John Paul II made Brogi titular archbishop of Città Ducale, Apostolic Nuncio to Sudan, and Apostolic Delegate to Somalia on 13 December 1997. Pope John Paul named him Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt and Apostolic Delegate to the Arab League on 5 February 2002.
Brogi ended his service as Nuncio on 27 January 2006. Benedict named him a Consultor to the Congregation for the Oriental Churches on 15 September 2007.
Brogi died on 29 November 2020 in Rome at the age of 88.
The Delian League was founded in 478 BC. It was an association of Greek city-states under the leadership of Athens. The League had a many cities: at various times between 150 and 330.
The League was led by Athens to continue fighting the Persian Empire. The Greeks had won the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second Persian invasion of Greece.
The League's modern name comes from its official meeting place, the island of Delos, where congresses were held in the temple. The treasury stood there, until Pericles moved it to Athens in 454 BC.
Soon after the League was set up, Athens began to use the League's funds for its own purposes. This led to conflict between Athens and the less powerful members of the League. By 431 BC, the League presented a threat to Sparta. This, and Athens's heavy-handed control of the League, started the Peloponnesian War. The League was dissolved after the war's end in 404 BC by the order of Lysander, the Spartan commander.
Irina Antonova
Irina Aleksandrovna Antonova () (20 March 1922 – 30 November 2020) was a Russian art historian. He was a Director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow for 52 years, from 1961 to 2013. She was the oldest and the longest serving director of a major art museum in the world.
Antonova was honored with the State Prize of the Russian Federation and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She was the President of the Pushkin Museum.
Antonova died of COVID-19 at a Moscow hospital on 30 November 2020 at the age of 98.
Dee Benson
Dee Vance Benson (August 25, 1948 – November 30, 2020) was an American politician and lawyer. He was born in Sandy, Utah. He was nominated to the United States District Court for the District of Utah in 1991 by President George H. W. Bush. From 1999 to 2006, he was chief justice of the court.
Benson died of brain cancer on November 30, 2020 at his home in Salt Lake City, Utah at the age of 72.
Sandy, Utah
Sandy is a city in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, located in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. The population of Sandy was 87,461 at the 2010 census.
Tan Eng Bock (29 April 1936 – 30 November 2020) was a Singaporean water polo player He competed in the men's tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Tan died in Singapore on 30 November 2020 at the age of 84.
Ben Bova
Benjamin William Bova (November 8, 1932November 29, 2020) was an American writer. He was the author of more than 120 works of science fiction. He was a six-time winner of the Hugo Award.
He was an editor of "Analog Magazine", an editorial director of "Omni"; he was also president of both the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America. He was known for his "Grand Tour" novel series.
Bova died on November 29, 2020 at a hospital in Naples, Florida from pneumonia and a stroke caused by COVID-19, aged 88.
Abhay Bharadwaj
Abhay Ganpathrai Bharadwaj (2 April 1954 – 1 December 2020) was an Ugandan-born Indian politician, activist and lawyer. He was born in Kampala, Uganda.
Bharadwaj was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 22 July 2020 until his death. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He also was a member of the national Law Commission from 2016 to 2018.
Bharadwaj died of COVID-19 on 1 December 2020 at a hospital in Chennai, India at the age of 66.
Tableau vivant
A tableau vivant is when people pose and make the scene look like the one in a picture. People in a tableau vivant don't move or speak. The name comes from French, and translates as "living picture". The plural is tableaux vivants.
In Europe, tableaux vivants became popular towards the end of the 19th century. Sometimes, there was even music. Jean Sibelius composed his work "Finlandia" (1900) for a sequence of tableaux vivants.
At the beginning of the 20th century, they became notorious, because usually naked women would present them in revue theatres. The dancer Olga Desmond became well-known because of her posing naked in revues at the beginning of the 20th century.
Gillette Stadium
LockWiper
LockWiper is an iOS application developed by iMyFone. It enables users to remove various locks from iPhone, iPad, iPod touch devices. LockWiper can remove the Apple ID without a password, remove the iPhone passcode, and it can also bypass the MDM activation screen & remove MDM Profile from iPhones.
According to its website, the iMyFone LockWiper app can "remove iPhone passcode from locked, disabled, broken screen" and "quickly bypass Screen Time or Restrictions passcode without data loss."
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is a 2003 platformer video game based on the acclaimed animated TV show "SpongeBob SquarePants".
The game lets you play as either SpongeBob, Patrick or Sandy. SpongeBob can switch places with either Patrick or Sandy in the levels. They have to collect Patrick's socks, shiny objects and Golden Spatulas to progress through the game.
Plankton has made a robot army.
The game had mixed to positive reviews but became a cult classic among speedrunners.
Legacy of Kain: Defiance
Legacy of Kain: Defiance is a 2003 platform/action game released for various platforms. It is the fifth entry of the "Legacy of Kain" franchise.
The player can switch between the material and soul realms as Razel and attack enemies as Kain.
Kain has reunited with Raziel and knows that the Elder God is evil.
The game was made after the success after Soul Reaver 2 and Blood Omen 2.
The game had great reviews but didn't sell well.
Thomas and the Magic Railroad is a 2000 British-American live-action/animated fantasy adventure movie based on "Thomas the Tank Engine" and "Shining Time Station".
By 2020, a workprint of the movie has been released including narration done by Mara Wilson instead of Alec Baldwin.
The movie got mixed to negative reviews, including from British reviewers.
Turtles Forever
Turtles Forever is a 2009 television movie based on the "TMNT" franchise. It is a crossover between the 1984 comics, 1987 cartoon and 2003 cartoon.
The 4Kids crew weren't able to get the voice cast of the 1987 show involved due to that the show was recorded in Los Angeles instead of New York.
"The Nightmare Begins" is the first episode of "Invader Zim" as was aired on March 31, 2001.
At Conventia, the convention hall planet, Almighty Tallests Red and Purple are beginning the Great Assigning for Operation Impending Doom II. A small Irken named Zim arrived and wanted to join. The Tallest remember that Zim was banished to Foodcourtia because in the original Operation Impending Doom, he nearly destroyed Irk, the Irken home planet.
Scary Movie 2 is an American comedy movie. It is a parody of a horror movie. It is directed by Keenan Ivory Wayans. It stars Anna Faris Regina Hall, Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans. It was released to mixed reviews on July 7, 2001.
Marlon Brando was going to have a role but he wouldn't make it due to his declining health.
Marcus Terentius Varro
Marcus Terentius Varro Reatinus (116–27 BC) was a Roman writer. He wrote many books, but only one work survives completely "Three books on Agriculture". In this work, he describes farming in Roman times.
Scholars say this book has a little microbiology and epidemiology. Varro warned his contemporaries to stay away from swamps and marshes:
...there are bred certain minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, but which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose and cause serious diseases.
Cassie Cage
Cassie Cage is a fictional character in the "Mortal Kombat" games for video game consoles. She is the daughter of Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade.
She was portrayed in games by Ashley Burch and Erica Lindbeck.
Cassie has been well-liked for her appealing personality and gameplay.
Vipassanā (Pāli) or vipaśyanā (Sanskrit) is a Buddhist word that is usually translated as "insight". It is a form of meditation which aims to have "insight into the true nature of reality."
Ananke (mythology)
Ananke means fate in Greek mythology.
1992 United Kingdom general election
1987 United Kingdom general election
1983 United Kingdom general election
Year 1400 (MCD) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. The year 1400 wasn't a leap year in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar.
Omnisexuality
Omnisexuality is a sexual orientation where one is attracted to all genders or any gender, though gender often still plays a role or a preference in one's attraction. Similar to pansexuality.
Moller's tree frog
Multiracial American
Multiracial Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry.
My Grandfather's Clock
"My Grandfather's Clock" is a song. Henry Clay Work wrote it in 1876. Henry Clay Work also wrote "Marching Through Georgia". British brass bands and colliery bands play "My Grandfather's Clock". Bluegrass musicians also play it.
The "Oxford English Dictionary" says the word "grandfather clock" comes from this song. Before that, grandfather clocks were called "longcase clocks". In 1905, Harry Macdonough and the Haydn Quartet (known then as the "Edison Quartet") made the first recording of this song that people know about.
Henry Clay Work saw a clock in a Piercebridge hotel and thought of the song.
The song is told from a grandchild's point of view. The song is about their grandfather's clock.
The clock is purchased on the morning of the grandfather's birth and works perfectly for 90 years, requiring only that it be wound at the end of each week.
The clock seems to know good and bad things that happen in the grandfather's life: It rings 24 chimes when the grandfather brings his new wife into his house. Near the grandfather's death, it rings an alarm, so the family gathers by his bed. After the grandfather dies, the clock stops and it never works again.
Work wrote a sequel to the song two years later. The grandchild is the narrator again. The grandson says he is sad that the clock no longer works. The clock is sold to a junk dealer, who sells its parts and sells its case for people to burn. In the grandfather's house, the clock is replaced by a wall clock. The grandchild does not like the wall clock and calls it "that vain, stuck-up thing on the wall". The sequel was never as popular as the original.
The song was performed and translated many times. In the Czech version, sung by the country band Taxmeni, the song continues with an additional, joyful strophe, narrating further events in the grandson's life: the birth of his son and the purchase of a new clock on the same day, to maintain the family tradition.
"My Grandfather's Clock" was often played in Britain on "Children's Favourites". It was recorded by the Radio Revellers. In the United States, a version, without the last stanza of lyrics was recorded on an extended-play 45 rpm vinyl record on the Peter Pan label. (The other song on that side was "The Syncopated Clock", and the other side had "The Arkansas Traveler" and "Red River Valley".) Johnny Cash covered the song on his 1959 album "Songs of Our Soil". Evelyn Knight recorded the song for Decca Records. In 1959, it was included on the Four Lads' album, "Swing Along". Other versions became popular in other countries, for example, in Japan, singer Ken Hirai performed a cover, which became massively popular in 2002.
In March 1961, on his album "Swing Low", Sam Cooke sang the song.
Bing Crosby sang the song in a medley on his album "101 Gang Songs" (1961).
The song was the inspiration for the 1963 "Twilight Zone" episode "Ninety Years Without Slumbering".
The Big 3 recorded the song in their album "Live at the Recording Studio" in 1964
A popular clock toy, marketed by Fisher-Price from 1962 to 1968, had a dial on it that, when turned, caused the music box mechanism in the toy to play the song along with clock-like ticking and moving hands on the face of the clock. A new version of the toy (which is completely made of plastic and has other activities like a clicking plastic mouse on the side) has been manufactured by Fisher-Price since 1994. Other companies have also made imitations of the toy worldwide.
Jon Pertwee recorded a version in 1966 for the children's album "Children's Favourites", on the Music for Pleasure record label.
John Fahey recorded a solo guitar version on his 1967 album "Days Have Gone By".
Joan Morris recorded it in 1975, on "Who Shall Rule This American Nation (Nonesuch)", an album of songs by Work.
In 1983, Fred Penner, a Canadian children's entertainer, covered "My Grandfather's Clock" on the LP album "Special Delivery", which was later rereleased as "Ebenezer Sneezer" on CD in 1994.
Red Grammer recorded the song on his 1994 family music recording, "Down The Do Re Mi".
The Kenneth Williams character Rambling Syd Rumpo wrote a joke version of this song, "My Grandfather's Grunge", on the BBC radio show "Round the Horne". It was written by Barry Took and Marty Feldman.
Garrison Keillor and the cast of the radio show "A Prairie Home Companion" recorded a parody titled "My Grandmother's Cat", telling the story of an old woman who overfed her cat until it was big enough to knock her down and try to eat her.
"My Grandfather's Clock" is a playable song in the 2008 video game "Wii Music".
This song was also used in the video game, "Five Nights at Freddy's 2", made by Scott Cawthon. It was released on November 10, 2014. The chorus of the song plays whenever a music box is wound up to keep one of the game's animatronic enemies away.
It was also sung by Maple and Cinnamon in the third volume of "Nekopara" visual novel series.
The City Green in Union Park of Middletown, Connecticut includes this bust of the author near his birthplace.
My grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf,
So it stood ninety years on the floor;
It was taller by half than the old man himself,
Though it weighed not a pennyweight more.
It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born,
And was always his treasure and pride;
But it stopp'd short — never to go again —
When the old man died.
In watching its pendulum swing to and fro,
Many hours had he spent while a boy.
And in childhood and manhood the clock seemed to know
And to share both his grief and his joy.
For it struck twenty-four when he entered at the door,
With a blooming and beautiful bride;
My grandfather said that of those he could hire,
Not a servant so faithful he found;
For it wasted no time, and had but one desire —
At the close of each week to be wound.
And it kept in its place — not a frown upon its face,
And its hands never hung by its side.
It rang an alarm in the dead of the night —
An alarm that for years had been dumb;
And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight —
That his hour of departure had come.
Still the clock kept the time, with a soft and muffled chime,
As we silently stood by his side;
Maltese Americans
Maltese Americans are Americans of Maltese descent.
Lithuanian Americans
Antica Dolceria Bonajuto
Antica Dolceria Bonajuto is a chocolate factory founded in Modica in 1880, known as the oldest in Sicily and one of the oldest in Italy.
Francesco Bonajuto founded the current place in 1880 but with the name of Caffè Roma, a socialist inspired meeting place, which became Antica Dolceria Bonajuto in 1992.
Over the years many illustrious people of the chocolate shop have been, among them: writer, journalist and art critic Leonardo Sciascia, his friend and colleague Gesualdo Bufalino, or American Journalists Raymond Walter Apple Jr. of the New York Times and Frederika Randall of the Wall Street Journal.
In 1911 Francesco Bonajuto's chocolates won the gold medal at the Turin Universal Exposition (1911) which was organized in conjunction with other national exhibitions such as those in Rome (where Bonajuto was awarded) and Florence.
Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy
The 38th Super Bowl was shown on television as it was happening on February 1, 2004 on CBS. The halftime show of the Super Bowl got controversy when Janet Jackson's breast was revealed by Justin Timberlake to everyone watching the show. This caused a big debate on broadcasting things that people might see as offensive.
MTV was the producer of the halftime show. 143.6 million people watched the halftime show when it first happened. The incident with Jackson and Timberlake made CBS and MTV remove Jackson's songs from its radio and television channels. The Federal Communications Commission gave CBS a fine of US$27,500 for the incident. The fine was made bigger for US$325,000 and then even bigger, for US$550,000. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals removed the fine in 2011. The FCC tried to put another fine on CBS in 2012, but it was rejected.
The incident made Janet Jackson the most searched words ever on the Internet. It also became the most watched event on TiVo and made 35,000 people become new subscribers to TiVo. The term "wardrobe malfunction" (meaning an error related to clothing) was made because of the incident. It was later added to "Webster's Dictionary".
Abdur Rahman Khan
The Blue Whale Challenge, also called Blue Whale game, or simply Blue whale is an internet phenomenon that started in 2016, in Russia. Over a period of 50 days, participants are assigned tasks. Each participant gets one task a day. At first, the tasks are harmless (such as: get up at 4.30am, and watch a horror movie). Later, the tasks require the participants to hurt themselves. The final task requires the player to commit suicide.
When people want to quit, they are threatened. Sometimes, this includes threats to the family of the participant.
The first to report on this was the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, in 2016. It linked many suicides of children. All these children had been members of the group "F57", in the Russian social network called VK. The article claimed there were 130 suicides because of the challenge. The article was later criticized, because it made connections where none existed. None of the suicides were found to be related to the activities of the group. There were several suicides which have been linked to the challenge. So far, no link has been proven.
Two girls in Irkutslk, aged 14 and 15 years committed suicide together, after solving 50 tasks. They jumped off a building. Another 14 year old threw herself in front of a train.
The Way It Is (Keyshia Cole album)
The Way It Is is the debut studio album by American R&B singer Keyshia Cole; it was released on June 21, 2005, by A&M Records. The album debuted at number 6 on the US "Billboard" 200 and it was supported by five singles, including "Never", "I Changed My Mind", "(I Just Want It) To Be Over", "I Should Have Cheated" and "Love". The album sold 89,000 units in its first week.
The album was certified gold within 17 weeks, and then platinum, only eight weeks later. The album stayed on the charts for over a year, eventually selling over 1.6 million copies and it is Cole's second highest-selling album to date.
Upon its release, "The Way It is" garnered generally favorable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a rated mean out of 100 from mainstream critics, the album received a score of 77. Andy Kellman of Allmusic rated the album four out of five stars. He felt that "from the opener, the album seems to be set up like a linear narrative about a crumbling relationship, but it doesn't quite play out that way, with the scenes shuffled out of order. None of it's all that profound, but Cole sells it all extremely well. [Her] voice is sweet and ringing, like a wiser version of Lil' Mo who has had to weather a tremendous amount of drama. She could be around for a while." Janet Tzou, writing for "Entertainment Weekly" found that "Cole certainly nails all the basics on "The Way It Is": big-name guest talent and husky ballads lamenting those tricky matters of the heart. But Cole's native Oakland, California upbringing gives her vocals depth and her songs a genuine, lived-in feel."
Arecibo Telescope
The Arecibo Telescope is now destroyed by a collapse.
The radio telescope was a spherical reflector dish built into a natural sinkhole at the Arecibo Observatory which was completed in November 1963.
For more than 50 years, the Arecibo Telescope was the world's largest single-aperture telescope. In July 2016 the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in China was put into service.
On 19 November 2020, the National Science Foundation announced that they would close and dismantle the telescope. On 1 December 2020, the telescope collapsed.
Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is a COVID-19 vaccine, developed by BioNTech, Pfizer and Fosun Pharmaceutical.
The vaccine is given by injection. It is an RNA vaccine made of nucleoside-modified mRNA which is meant to create spike protein of SARS-CoV-2.
Mony Elkaïm
Mony Elkaïm (7 November 1941 – 20 November 2020) was a Moroccan-Belgian psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He was a part of the anti-psychiatry movement in the 1970s. He was born in Marrakesh, French Morocco.
Elkaïm died on 20 November 2020 in Brussels at the age of 79.
Bonifácio Piccinini
Bonifácio Piccinini (13 May 1929 – 28 November 2020) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop. He became a priest in 1960. He was titular archbishop of Turres in Byzacena and as coadjutor archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cuiabá Brazil, from 1975 to 1981 and as archbishop of the archdiocese from 1981 to 2004.
Piccinini died on 28 November 2020 at the age of 91.
Peg Murray
Margaret L. "Peg" Murray (February 14, 1924 – November 29, 2020) was an American actress. She was born in Denver, Colorado. She won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as the villain "Fräulein Kost" in the original Broadway production of "Cabaret" (1966).
Murray died on November 29, 2020 in Southold, New York at the age of 96.
Southold, New York
The Town of Southold is one of ten towns in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 21,968 at the 2010 census.
Southold (CDP), New York
Southold is a census-designated place (CDP) that is in the Town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The CDP population was 5,748 at the 2010 census.
Ali-Asghar Shahbazi
Ali-Asghar Shahbazi (; November 1922 – 29 November 2020) was an Iranian actor. He was born in Tehran. He was known for his role as Nader's father in the 2011 drama "A Separation".
Shahbazi died on 29 November 2020 in Tehran from cardiopulmonary arrest at the age of 98.
Liliane Juchli
Liliane Juchli (19 October 1933 – 30 November 2020) was a Swiss nurse and writer. She was a member of the Merciful Sisters of the Holy Cross. She was the main author of an important German-language nursing textbook which was called "the Juchli". She was born in Obersiggenthal, Switzerland.
Juchli died in Bern, Switzerland from COVID-19 on 30 November 2020 at the age of 87.
Roger Chappot
Roger Chappot (17 October 1940 – 7 April 2020) was a Swiss professional ice hockey player. He played for HC Villars and Genève-Servette HC in the National League A. He also represented the Swiss national team at the 1964 Winter Olympics.
Chappot died from COVID-19 during the pandemic on 8 April 2020 at the age of 79.
Aleksandr Shatskikh
Aleksandr Shatskikh (21 January 1974 – 30 November 2020) was a Kazakh footballer. He played as a striker. He was born in Taldıqorğan, Kazakhstan. His career lasted from 1990 to 2009.
Shatskikh played club football for Zhetysu / Taldykorgan, Qaynar, Chkalovets, Astana Aqmola / Zhenis Astana, Irtysh Pavlodar, CSKA-Qayrat Almaty, Esil Bogatyr, Megasport and Lokomotiv Astana.
He appeared once for the Kazakhstan national team in 2003.
Shatskikh died on 30 November 2020, aged 46.
Anne Sylvestre
Anne Sylvestre (, born Anne-Marie Beugras 20 June 1934 – 30 November 2020) was a French singer-songwriter and guitarist. She was born in Lyon, France. She was known for her children's songs such as "Fabulettes" (1962). She also appeared many times as a musical guest on the television program "Discorama".
Sylvestre died in Paris on 30 November 2020 from problems caused by a stroke, aged 86.
Dennis W. Sciama
Dennis William Siahou Sciama, (; 18 November 1926 – 18/19 December 1999) was a British physicist. He was an important scientist for the development of British physics after the Second World War.
He was the PhD supervisor to many famous cosmologists, including Stephen Hawking, Martin Rees and David Deutsch. He is seen as one of the fathers of modern cosmology.
Jane Hawking
Jane Beryl Wilde Hawking Jones (born 29 March 1944) is an English author and teacher. She was married for 30 years to Stephen Hawking. She was born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. In 1999 she wrote an autobiography about her first marriage, "Music to Move the Stars: A Life with Stephen".
Hawking was played by Felicity Jones in the 2014 movie "The Theory of Everything".
Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov
Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov (; ; 17 October 1919 – 9 January 2021) was a Soviet-born physicist. He was known for his role in developing the BKL conjecture in general relativity. Khalatnikov was born in Dnipro, Ukraine.
Khalatnikov directed the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Moscow from 1965 to 1992. He was elected to the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1984. In 1994, he became a fellow at the Royal Society.
Khalatnikov died in Chernogolovka, Russia on 9 January 2021, aged 101.
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
The Supreme Court (initialism: UKSC or the acronym: SCOTUK) is the final court of appeal in the United Kingdom for civil cases, and for criminal cases from England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
It hears cases of the greatest public or constitutional importance.
Luciano Guerzoni (born 1938)
Luciano Guerzoni (1 April 1938 – 1 December 2020) was an Italian Communist politician. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies three times representing Parma for his first two terms from 1983 to 1992, and Mirandola in his final term from 1994 to 1996. Guerzoni was born in Naples, Italy.
Guerzoni died on 1 December 2020 in Modena, Italy at the age of 82.
Brian Kerr, Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore
Brian Francis Kerr, Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore, (; 22 February 1948 – 1 December 2020) was a British politician and lawyer.
He was Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and then as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2009 until his retirement in 2020. Until his retirement, Kerr was the longest serving Supreme Court Justice, and the last original member of the Court.
Kerr died on 1 December 2020 at the age of 72.
Mohammad Maleki
Mohammad Maleki (; 11 July 1933 – 1 December 2020) was an Iranian academic and pro-democracy nationalist-religious activist. He was president of the University of Tehran for a short time in 1979.
Maleki died of cancer and diabetes in Tehran on 1 December 2020 at the age of 87.
Erlend Rian
Erlend Rian (15 June 1941 – 1 December 2020) was a Norwegian politician. He was a member of the Conservative Party. He was editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tromsø" from 1974 to 1979. He was mayor of Tromsø City from 1980 to 1995.
Rian died on 1 December 2020 in Tromsø at the age of 79.
Henri Teissier
Henri Antoine Marie Teissier (21 July 1929 – 1 December 2020) was a French-Algerian Catholic prelate. He was the Bishop of Algiers and Archbishop Emeritus of Algiers from 1998 to 2008. He was born in Lyon, France.
Teissier died on 1 December 2020 at a hospital in Lyon from problems caused by multiple strokes at the age of 91.
Moreirense F.C.
Moreirense Futebol Clube is a Portuguese professional football club based in Moreira de Cónegos, Guimarães Municipality, in Minho. It was founded on 1 November 1938 and it plays in the Primeira Liga.
Mohamed Abarhoun
Mohamed Abarhoun (3 May 1989 2 December 2020) was a Moroccan professional footballer. He played as a defender.
Abarhoun joined Portguese Primeira Liga club Moreirense in 2017. After two seasons he joined Turkish club Çaykur Rizespor.
Abarhoun played nine games for the Morocco U20 team and eight for the Morocco U23 team, including three at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He made his senior international debut in 2013, earning 7 international caps.
In February 2020, Abarhoun was diagnosed with stomach cancer. He died from the disease on 2 December 2020 in Istanbul, aged 31.
Hasna Begum
Hasna Begum (February 24, 1935 – December 1, 2020) was a Bangladeshi philosopher and feminist. She was a professor of philosophy at the University of Dhaka until her retirement in December 2000. Begum was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Begum was chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Dhaka from 1991 to 1994 and was appointed to the University Grants Commission (UGC) of Bangladesh's Rokeya Chair in 2010.
She was a board member of the International Association of Bioethics (IAB) from 1997 to 2005. She was a member of the editorial board of "Bioethics".
Begum died at a Dhaka hospital on December 1, 2020 from COVID-19 at the age of 85.
Boris Plotnikov
Boris Grigoryevich Plotnikov (; 2 April 1949 – 2 December 2020) was a Soviet and Russian actor. His career began in 1970 and he retired in 2019. Plotnikov appeared in more than seventy movies and television series. He was born in Nevyansk, Soviet Union.
His best known roles were as Sotnikov in the 1977 drama movie "The Ascent", as Nikolai in the 1988 crime movie "The Cold Summer of 1953" and as Ivan in the 1988 science fiction television movie "Heart of a Dog".
Plotnikov died on 2 December 2020 in Moscow from COVID-19 at the age of 71.
Defection
Defection is when a person leaves their home country in a way the home country claims to be illegal. To the first country, they can be seen as traitors.
It is a political label used by authoritarian countries.
More broadly, it involves abandoning a person, cause, or doctrine to which one is bound by some tie. The tie may be one of allegiance or of duty.
An example of this today are North Koreans who escape the country to live in a new country, such as South Korea or the United States. The North Korean government makes leaving the country without permission illegal, and punishments for this are extremely harsh. Escapees who are caught usually get sent to a prison camp or are publicly put to death. There have been around 33,000 defectors from North Korea since the North Korean famine.
Paraguayan American
Paraguayan Americans are Americans of Paraguayan descent.
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Bullseye (mascot)
Bullseye is the mascot of Target Corporation. It is a Bull Terrier that is used for Target's advertising and marketing starting in 1999. The dog has the Target logo on its left eye. The makeup used for the logo is natural and non-toxic.
There have been many Bull Terriers that have had the role of Bullseye. Only one dog works as Bullseye at a time until another one can get the role. Bullseye lives on a ranch next to Los Angeles. Its owner is dog trainer David McMillan. In 2004, Target asked the artist Amy Brazil to make a painting of Bullseye. Brazil made an 8 ft by 8 ft portrait of Bullseye. The portrait is now in Target's headquarters in Minnesota.
Spark plug
Also known as a "sparking plug", it's a device used in delivering the electric current to the air-fuel mixture in the combustion chamber in an internal combustion engine. It’s connected to the ignition coil and as the electricity flows through the coil, a voltage difference develops between the electrodes on the spark plug. This causes electricity to jump the gap, making a spark which ignites fuel.Sabrina Ferilli
Sabrina Ferilli (born 28 June 1964) is an Italian actress. She is known for her role as Ramona in the 2013 movie "The Great Beauty".
Hyla orientalis
Hyla orientalis (also known as the oriental tree frog, eastern tree frog, Caucasian tree frog or Shelkovnikov's tree frog) is a frog from both Europe and Asia. Scientists saw it in Turkey, Romania, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan and Armenia. It may also live in Greece
Scientists used to think this frog was part of "Hyla arborea" but they do not think so now.
A dewberry is a type of berry. It is similar to a blackberry. Dewberries are very dark blue.
Flash (Camera)
A camera flash, sometimes called a strobe or just a flash, is a device used in photography to allow pictures to be taken of dark areas by producing a flash of very bright light.
Flashes are often built into cameras, but external flashes are available and are mostly used by professional photographers, they can be mounted directly to the camera, or used 'off-camera' on a special stand or tripod.