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In 1991, Narain became the first Speaker of Guyana’s National Assembly to remove a Member of Parliament after Minister of Agriculture Isahak Basir threw a drinking glass at Narain.
Narain died on 25 August 2020, aged 95.
National Assembly (Guyana)
The National Assembly is one of the two components of the Parliament of Guyana. Under Article 51 of the Constitution of Guyana, the Parliament of Guyana consists of the President and the National Assembly.
The National Assembly has 65 members elected using the system of proportional representation.
Hippolyte Simon
Hippolyte Simon (25 February 1944 – 25 August 2020) was a French Roman Catholic archbishop. He was Bishop of Clermont from 1996 to 2002 before becoming Archbishop, serving until 2016.
He was Vice-President of the Bishops' Conference of France from 2007 to 2013. He was born in Saint-Georges-de-Rouelley, France.
Simon died on 25 August 2020 in Caen, France at the age of 76.
Oscar Cruz
Oscar V. Cruz (November 17, 1934 – August 26, 2020) was a Filipino Roman Catholic prelate. He was archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines. He was the Archbishop Emeritus of Lingayen-Dagupan in Pangasinan, Philippines, from 1991 to 2009. He was born in Balanga, Bataan, Philippine Islands.
Cruz died on August 26, 2020 in San Juan, Philippines from COVID-19, aged 85.
Pride &amp; Prejudice (2005 movie)
Pride & Prejudice is a 2005 romantic drama movie directed by Joe Wright. It is based on Jane Austen's 1813 novel of the same name.
The movie is about five sisters from an English family of landed gentry as they deal with issues of marriage, morality and lies.
Keira Knightley stars in the lead role of Elizabeth Bennet, while Matthew Macfadyen plays her romantic interest Mr. Darcy. The movie also stars Donald Sutherland, Judi Dench, Tom Hollander and Brenda Blethyn.
The movie was released on 16 September 2005 in the United Kingdom and Ireland and on 11 November in the United States.
Matthew Macfadyen
David Matthew Macfadyen (born 17 October 1974) is an English actor. He is known for his role as Mr. Darcy in Joe Wright's "Pride & Prejudice" (2005), and Daniel in the Frank Oz comedy "Death at a Funeral".
acfadyen currently stars as Tom Wambsgans in the HBO drama series "Succession".
Talulah Riley
Talulah Jane Riley-Milburn (born 26 September 1985), known professionally as Talulah Riley, is an English actress.
She has appeared in movies such as "Pride & Prejudice", "St Trinian's", "The Boat That Rocked", "", and "Inception".
Rupert Friend
Dario Marianelli
Dario Marianelli (born June 21, 1963) is an Italian composer. He is known for working with director Joe Wright many times. He was born in Pisa. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his musical score for "Pride & Prejudice".
In 2007, he won an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for his work on "Atonement".
Joseph Wright (born 25 August 1972) is an English movie director.
He is known for his works "Pride & Prejudice" (2005) and "Anna Karenina" (2012), the romantic war drama "Atonement" (2007), the action thriller "Hanna" (2011), Peter Pan origin story "Pan" (2015), and "Darkest Hour" (2017).
Columbus Short
Columbus Keith Short, Jr. (born September 19, 1982) is an American choreographer, actor, dancer and rapper. He choreographed Britney Spears's Onyx Hotel Tour.
He is best known for his roles in the movies "Stomp the Yard", "Cadillac Records", "Armored", and "The Losers".
Pat McCluskey
Patrick McCluskey (13 April 1952 – 24 August 2020) was a Scottish footballer.
In 1970, McCluskey began his professional career with Celtic. However, he went on loan that first season to Sligo Rovers in Ireland. He moved to second-tier Dumbarton in 1977 for £15,000, where he spent three seasons.
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler
Is Paris Burning () is a 1966 French American World War II movie directed by René Clément and was based on the Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. It stars Kirk Douglas, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Charles Boyer, Simone Signoret, Glenn Ford, Anthony Perkins, Leslie Caron and was distributed by Paramount Pictures and was nominated for 2 Academy Awards in 1967.
Operation Rolling Thunder happened when the USA started bombing campaigns of North Vietnam during the Vetnam War.
Guadalupe fur seal
The Guadalupe fur seal ("Arctocephalus townsendi") is a type of fur seal in the genus "Arctocephalus".
Guadalupe fur seals are sexually dimorphic in size. Both males and females are dark brown or dusky black, with the hairs on the back of the neck being yellowish or light tan. The young ones are born with a black coat similar to that of adults.
Harold Janeway
Harold Janeway (February 3, 1936 – August 20, 2020) was an American politician and businessman. He was a Democratic member of the New Hampshire Senate, representing the 7th District from 2006 to 2010. He was born in Glen Cove, New York.
Janeway died of prostate cancer on August 20, 2020, in Webster, New Hampshire at the age of 84.
Webster, New Hampshire
Webster is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,872 at the 2010 census.
Samantha Lewthwaite
Samantha Louise Lewthwaite (; born 5 December 1983), also known as Sherafiyah Lewthwaite or the White Widow, is a British woman who is one of the Western world's most wanted terrorism suspects. Lewthwaite, the widow of 7/7 London terrorist bomber Germaine Lindsay, is accused of causing the deaths of more than 400 people.
Lewthwaite was an alleged member of the Somalia-based radical Islamic militant group Al-Shabaab.
She is believed to have been behind an attack on those watching football in a bar in Mombasa during Euro 2012. In September 2013, it became aware that she is the mastermind behind the Nairobi Westgate shopping mall attack, though many people do not believe this.
She is nicknamed the "White Widow".
Nancy Guptill
Nancy Evelyn Guptill (April 28, 1941August 24, 2020) was a Canadian politician. She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1987 to 2000. She was a member of the provincial Liberal Party.
She represented the electoral districts of 5th Prince from 1987 to 1996 and St. Eleanors-Summerside from 1996 to 2000. She was elected speaker in 1993.
Guptill died on August 24, 2020, in Summerside, Prince Edward Island from a long-illness, aged 79.
Persian Inscriptions on Indian Monuments
Persian Inscriptions on Indian Monuments is a book written by Dr.Ali-Asghar Hekmat and published in 1956 and 1958 and 2013. new print has the Persian texts of more than 200 stone inscriptions found on historical places in India, many of which are now listed as national heritage or UNESCO world heritage.
After being lost for over 50 years, a third edition of the book has been printed by Dr. Mohammad Ajam with 200 pictures. the book is important for students of Persian language and teachers.
In India, Persian inscriptions are usually found on buildings such as mosques , tombs,forts, palaces, gateways, water tanks, wells, gardens and bridges. Certain movable objects such as seals, signets, vases and eating pot. Most pre-Mughal Indian quranic and Persian inscriptions in India date from the last decade of the 12th century AD, when Muhammad Ghori (Guri) conquered Delhi and established his ruling there. However, a small number of inscriptions have been found in Haryana, Gujarat and Kerala which bear earlier dates. the persian language was official language of courts in India for 600 years .
The book explain Persian Inscriptions on many palaces and fort in India including:
The book describes 47 Mausoleum and tombs in India inscribed with Persian Inscriptions.
The book had described Persian inscription in the 14 mosques in India including:
. Shah Jahan also built the Taj Mahal, at Agra and the Red Fort in Old Delhi, which stands opposite the Jama Masjid.it remained the royal mosque of the emperors until the end of the Mughal period.
some Pictures of the Indian important places which have Persian inscriptions and have been explained in the book: more pictures in flicker
Juan Fernández fur seal
The Juan Fernández fur seal ("Arctocephalus philippii") is a type of fur seal. It is the second smallest type of fur seal. They are only found on the Juan Fernández Islands and the Desventuradas Islands.
New Zealand fur seal
Darragh Ennis
Darragh Russell Ennis (born 14 March 1980) is an Irish neuroscientist and quizzer. He is one of the six Chasers on the ITV game show The Chase. He is nicknamed The Menace and alternatively The Dublin Dynamo and The Quiz Assassin. He was a contestant on the show in 2017. In April 2020, Ennis became the first ever contestant in the UK to become a new Chaser. His Chaser debut aired on 19 November 2020.
Ennis studies the brains of insects at Oxford University. He also claimed that he has lived in Canada for three years. He also studied at Maynooth and Concordia University.
Ennis is married, he and his wife have one daughter together.
Denys Shmyhal
Denys Anatoliyovych Shmyhal (; born 15 October 1975) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician.
On 4 March 2020, he became the Prime Minister of Ukraine.
Denys was born on 15 October 1975 in Lviv. In 1997, he graduated from the Lviv Polytechnic (engineering and economics).
1997-2005 he works as accountant in private sector. From June 2006 to August 2008, he was Director for the investment company "Comfort-Invest".
In 2008-2009, Shmyhal was General Director at "Rosaninvest LLC".
Shmyhal worked in multiple leading political roles in Ukraine's Lviv Oblast from 2009 until December 2013.
In 2009-2013 served as the head of the Department of Economics and the head of the Department of Economic Development, Investment, Trade and Industryat the Lviv Oblast Administration.
In 2015-2017 he was a Vice President of Lviv company Lvivkholod.
In 2018-2019, Shmyhal was a Director of the Burshtyn TES.
From August 2019 till February 2020 he was the Governor of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
On 4 February 2020, he became the Minister of Regional Development of Ukraine.
In March 2020, Denys Shmyhal became the Prime Minister of Ukraine.
Shmyhal is married to Kateryna. The couple has two daughters.
Neil Douglas (physician)
Sir Neil James Douglas (28 May 1949 – 23 August 2020) was a Scottish medical doctor. He was president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) from 2004 to 2010 and chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) from 2009 to 2012.
Douglas died on 23 August 2020 in Edinburgh, aged 71.
Narendra Patel, Baron Patel
Sir Narendra Babubhai Patel, Baron Patel, (born 11 May 1938) is a British obstetrician and cross bench peer. From 2006 to 2017, he was the Chancellor of University of Dundee. He was born in Lindi, Tanganyika Territory.
Patel became a Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1969, and a Fellow in 1988. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1999.
Patel received a knighthood in the 1997 Queen's Birthday Honours, and was created a life peer on 1 March 1999, as Baron Patel, of Dunkeld in Perth and Kinross.
Dirk Mudge
Dirk Frederik Mudge (16 January 1928 – 26 August 2020) was a Namibian politician. He was the chairman of the 1975–1977 Turnhalle Constitutional Conference. He also co-founded the Republican Party (RP) of Namibia as well as the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA).
Mudge was a member of the Constituent Assembly and 1st National Assembly until he retired in 1993. Mudge is the founder of Namibia's Afrikaans daily "Die Republikein" and its publisher Namibia Media Holdings.
Mudge died in Windhoek, Namibia from COVID-19 on 26 August 2020, aged 92.
National Assembly (Namibia)
The National Assembly is the lower chamber of Namibia's bicameral Parliament. Since 2014, it has a total of 104 members.
96 members are directly elected through a system of closed list proportional representation and serve five-year terms. Eight additional members are appointed by the President.
Parliament of Namibia
National Council (Namibia)
The National Council is the upper chamber of Namibia's bicameral Parliament. It reviews bills passed by the lower chamber and makes recommendations for legislation of regional concern to the lower chamber.
The 42 National Council members are chosen by regional councils, which are indirectly elected for a term of five years. Each of the 14 regional councils chooses three of its members to serve on the National Council.
South American fur seal
Rand Beers
Rand Beers (born November 30, 1942) is an American government official. He was Deputy Homeland Security Advisor to the President of the United States during the Barack Obama administration.
He also was acting United States Secretary of Homeland Security following the resignation of Secretary Janet Napolitano on September 6, 2013, until Jeh Johnson replaced her on December 23, 2013.
Hidden-ear frog
The hidden-ear frog or earless water-holding frog ("Ranoidea cryptotis") is a frog from Australia. It lives in the Kimberly region in the Ord and Fitzroy Valleys. It lives in Western Australia and small parts of Queensland and the Northern Territory.
The adult male frog is 3.4 to 4.6 cm long. The adult female frog is 3.6 to 4.8 cm long. This frog has a round body and a small head. It does not have any webbing on its front feet. This frog can be gray or brown. Adult frogs can have a mottled pattern. It has five stripes running across its body from the sides. They can be bright orange in color.
This frog waits for wet weather before it lays eggs. It lays its eggs in pools of water. The water can be very hot, 40°C. It can be white and full of clay. The tadpoles can be 4.6 cm long. They have five rows of teeth, two on the top and three on the bottom. The tadpoles take about one month to become frogs.
Aunjanue Ellis
Aunjanue L. Ellis (; born February 21, 1969) is an American actress.
Ellis is best known for her roles in movies "Men of Honor" (2000), "The Caveman's Valentine" (2001), "Undercover Brother" (2002), "Ray" (2004), "" (2008), "The Taking of Pelham 123" (2009) and "The Help" (2011).
COVID-19 pandemic in Namibia
The COVID-19 pandemic in Namibia is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ().
The Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr. Kalumbi Shangula, announced on 14 March 2020 that the virus had reached Namibia. A Romanian couple constituted the two first cases and recovered after 79 days after their initial diagnosis.
On 17 March 2020, President Hage Geingob declared a which caused the closure of all borders, suspension of gatherings and economic related resolutions.
No infections were reported from 6 April 2020 to 20 May 2020, however there was a notable increase in cases after this period - possibly due to local transmission.
As of August 2020, Namibia was within the top 20 number of countries with the most COVID-19 cases reported in Africa.
A total of 166 health care workers tested positive for the virus, increasing the pressure on the health system given that a shortage of health care workers existed even before the pandemic.
On 31 July, the Health Minister announced a small end in quarantine protocols that would account for faster recovery rates. Patients with a positive COVID-19 result will automatically be regarded as recovered 10 days after their infection, given that they do not display symptoms anymore.
Vaccinations started on 19 March 2021, initially with 100,000 doses of the donated by China and 24,000 doses of the purchased through COVAX.
Run out
A run out is a way of getting a batter out in cricket. It involves hitting a wicket with the ball when no batsman is in the ground of that wicket; the batsman who is out is the one who is nearest to that ground, or if both batsmen are in a ground, the batsman who reached that ground second. Run outs can happen when batters are trying to score runs by running between the two grounds.
When a bowler is readying himself to bowl, the ball becomes live; if the nonstriker leaves the ground at the bowler's end before the bowler has thrown the ball, then the bowler can hit the wicket in this ground with the ball to "mankad" the nonstriker.
A stumping is a special type of run out in which the wicketkeeper (the fielder with gloves behind the striking batter) hits the wicket in the ground at the striker's end with the ball when the striker is out of that ground.
Stumpings are not allowed on no-balls; a striker who is not trying to run can only be run out on a no-ball if the wicketkeeper has another fielder help him.
Bowled
In cricket, a batter can be out bowled if the bowler delivers the ball to the batter and it hits the wicket behind the batter before touching anyone other than the batter. When the wicket is hit, one of its 5 sticks must fall to the ground for the batter to be out. A batter can't be bowled if the ball was not delivered legally.
A batter can also be out leg before wicket (LBW) if they use their body to prevent the ball from hitting the wicket.
South American sea lion
The South American sea lion ("Otaria flavescens"), is a type of sea lion. It is also called the Southern Sea lion and the Patagonian sea lion. The South American fur sea lion is found on the Ecuadorian, Peruvian, Chilean, Falkland Islands, Argentinean, Uruguayan, and Southern Brazilian coasts. It is the only member of the genus "Otaria".
Pseudorandom number generator
A pseudorandom number generator is a way that computers generate numbers. Computers aren't good at creating random numbers. We use an "algorithm" to make a random number.
A good analogy is a jar of (numbered) marbles. Humans can reach into the jar and grab "random" marbles. However, to understand pseudo random numbers, we must understand that this process is not random. We decided to reach into the bag based off of our brain giving us a signal to reach in this way, and the marbles themselves being arranged in a certain way.
Pseudo-Random Number Generators tell the computer to position the marbles in some way, and tells the computer to reach in and pick out the "random" marbles.
The initial position of the marbles is called the "seed." The seed is used to create the randomness. To come up with the seed some programs use time of day, while others convert background noise into a number.
When you need to get the next random number ("marble") the generator calculates it with some algorithm. It is based on the previous generated number, in turn, depending on the initial "seed." The algorithm is strict, it will always produce the same sequence of random numbers ("marbles") given the same initial "seed".
Subantarctic fur seal
House of Bruce
The House of Bruce began as the lords of Annandale. The most well known member was King Robert the Bruce. He beat the English army at the Battle of Bannockburn and became king. He died in 1329. He was succeeded by King David II, his son. He was deposed by Edward Balliol.
David II died at Edinburgh Castle at age 46. With him the House of Bruce ended.
African civet
Maverique
Maverique is a term for a non-binary gender identity that is characterized by autonomy and conviction about one's inner sense of self which is not related to or derived from manhood or womanhood, but also is not or a form of agender.
The maverique pride flag is made of three equal stripes. Yellow represents non-binary gender and being separate from male or female. White represents a blank slate and independence from the . Orange represents the inner conviction regarding one's own gender, and the definition of the root word .
This term was coined by Vesper Hill in 2014 to describe their own identity after finding no existing label that did.
Bete-ombro
Bete-ombro, also known as tacobol, bets, or pau na lata, is a Brazilian form of street cricket. There are two teams of two players, one which has the bat, and the other having the ball, and there are two wickets.
A player from one team throws the ball from one wicket to the other, while a player from the other team holding a bat stands at the other wicket. The batter can hit the ball and then run between the wickets to score runs, while his partner does the same but crossing him. If the ball is thrown at a wicket before a player from the batting team gets to it, then the teams swap.
Plaquita
Bottom (TV series)
Bottom is a British television sitcom created by Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall. It was first broadcast on BBC2 between 1992 and 1995. The show stars Edmondson and Mayall as two poor, perverted flatmates in Hammersmith, London. The show uses violent slapstick comedy.
Two stage shows between 1993 and 2003; and one movie, "Guest House Paradiso" (1999), were also made about "Bottom". In 2004, "Bottom" was voted number 45 in a poll for "Britain's Best Sitcom".
'*' = Episodes featuring only the two main characters
<br>'+' = Episodes where no part of the episode is set in the flat
Alexander Taraikovsky
Alexander Taraikovsky (, ) (26 March 1986 – 10 August 2020) was a participant in protests against the false numbers of the 2020 Belarusian presidential election. He was shot dead point-blank (from a very close range) by special forces officers on August 10, 2020, in Minsk. The government-run media tried to present it as something that happened through his own carelessness (failure to take the care that a cautious person usually takes).
He was shot by the police on the evening of August 10, 2020, near Pushkinskaya metro station in Minsk (after that it was said by the chief of GUBOPiK (a special police unit in Belarus) Nikolai Karpenkov). On February 2, 2021, TUT.BY got the results of the audio test of the record made by BYPOL. Talks on the killing of Alexander Taraikovsky and more are on the record. The expert test made it clear that the Nikolai Karpenkov's voice is on the record and there are no signs of changes made to it.
He was buried at Western cemetery in Minsk on August 15, 2020. The death of Taraikovsky caused more protests.
On December 21, 2020, the representative of the public initiative "Belarusian People's Tribunal" Igor Makar published the materials of the preliminary investigation. They claim that Aleksandr Taraikovsky was deliberately and cynically killed by an employee of the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit "Almaz" Korovin Nikita Yuryevich(born in 1993), with the complicity of other unidentified employees of this spesial forces unit.
On September 17, 2020, European Parliament spoke on the situation in Belarus. It printed a decision, supported by a very big number of people in the parliament, calling for an "independent and effective investigation" into the death of Alexander Taraikovsky related to the protests.
On November 19, 2020, Jim Gilmore, United States Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, spoke on a three-month end of the investigation into the death of Alexander Taraikovsky. He said that it is another sign of “the impunity with which Belarusian security forces pursue their violent crackdown on peaceful protesters.”
On November 26, 2020, European Parliament spoke on the situation in Belarus. It printed a decision, supported by a very big number of people in the parliament, calling for a "prompt, thorough, impartial and independent investigation into the death of Alexander Taraikovsky."
Gerald Carr
Gerald Paul "Jerry" Carr (August 22, 1932 – August 26, 2020) (Col, USMC, Ret.) was an American mechanical and aeronautical engineer, United States Marine Corps officer, naval aviator, and NASA astronaut.
He was Commander of Skylab 4, the third and final crewed visit to the Skylab Orbital Workshop, from November 16, 1973, to February 8, 1974.
Carr was born in Denver, Colorado. He studied at the University of Southern California and at Princeton University.
Carr died in Albany, New York on August 26, 2020, four days after his 88th birthday.
Edward Gibson
Edward George "Ed" Gibson (born November 8, 1936) is a former NASA astronaut, pilot, engineer, and physicist.
Gibson was selected as part of NASA Astronaut Group 4, the first group of scientist-astronauts. He was on the support crew of Apollo 12, the second Moon landing mission. He worked on the development of the Skylab space station.
In 1973–74, Gibson made his only flight into space as science pilot aboard Skylab 4, the third and final crewed flight to Skylab. He, along with Commander Gerald Carr and Pilot William Pogue, spent just over 84 days in space.
Gibson resigned from NASA in December 1974, but returned in 1977 to preside over the selection of scientist-astronaut candidates. Gibson retired from NASA for the last time in October, 1982.
José Lamiel
José Asensio Lamiel (29 January 1924 – 26 August 2020) was an Aragonese painter and sculptor. He was born in Calanda, Spain.
He studied at the San Carlos Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Valencia.
In the 1960s he moved to Colombia and worked there for six years. He also worked in the United States, before returning to Spain. In 1989 he was awarded the Cruz de San Jorge by the provincial government of Teruel.
Lamiel died on 26 August 2020 in Alcalá de Henares, Spain at the age of 96.
Philippine Space Agency
The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) is the organization within the government of the Philippines that sends satellites and other objects into outer space.
PhilSA was made by "Republic Act No. 11363" that became a law in August 8, 2019.
The Philippines did some space projects before PhilSA became an official organization. Philippines’ Advanced Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI) put the first Filipino-made object into orbit, DIWATA-1, in 2016. The second was Agila 2 in 2018.
The buildings and other things for PhilSA are scheduled to be finished in 2022. In 2020, it operates in the Clark Special Economic Zone in Pampanga and Tarlac, which used to be an American air base.
Winifred Mitchinson
Winifred Mitchinson is a New Zealand born Model/Actress. She is best known for winning Playboy Playmate of the Year in 1988 for Australian Playboy Magazine. She modelled for Australian Playboy Magazine under the name of Desiree Brown. She married Scott Mitchinson in 1990, who she met on the Red Carpet of the premiere for Crocodile Dundee 2. They have one child named Alexander Mitchinson also known as Mc Medicinal, an actor & rapp artist. Scott worked as First Assistant Film Editor on Crocodile Dundee 2, which was directed by John Cornell. Scott also was First Assistant editor to Leon Gast, director for When We Were Kings, feature length academy award winning documentary about B B King & Muhummad Ali at the 3 day soul festival in Africa in 1974.
Europa Europa
Europa Europa (, lit. "Hitler Youth Salomon") is a 1990 German French Polish World War II drama movie directed by Agineszka Holland and based on the 1989 autobiographical novel by Solomon Perel. It stars Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Hanns Zischler, Piotr Kozlowski, André Wilms and was distributed by Orion Pictures. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1992.
Ørnulf Tofte
Ørnulf Tofte (12 February 1922 – 26 August 2020) was a Norwegian police officer. He was an important person in the Norwegian intelligence service during the Cold War. He was born in Oslo.
He was Assistant Chief of Police and Head of counter-intelligence in the Police Surveillance Agency. Tofte found several illegal Soviet spies and personally arrested Asbjørn Sunde, Gunvor Galtung Haavik and Arne Treholt.
Tofte died on 26 August 2020 in Bærum, Norway at the age of 98.
Tim Renton
Ronald Timothy Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry, (28 May 1932 – 25 August 2020) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament between 1974 to 1997.
He was Minister of State for Immigration between 1987 to 1989 in the Thatcher cabinet and as Minister for the Arts between 1990 to 1992 in the Major cabinet.
He was a member of the House of Lords between 1997 to 2016.
Renton died on 25 August 2020, aged 88.
Helmuth Schmidt
Helmuth Schmidt was an American con-man, swindler, and suspected serial killer. From 1913 to 1917 he was suspected in the swindling of at least three women and was connected with the deaths or disappearances of at least two women. After his death, searching through his properties, he was connected to the murders of three more women, with additional located jewelry and watches indicating possible other victims in New York and Missouri.
After the discovery of Pallatinus remains, Schmidt's widow Adele Ulrich noted that Schmidt had allowed her to take a small peek into the cellar, where she later alleged the authorities would most likely find the bodies of Anita Schmidt and Greta Darsch.
Laurent Akran Mandjo
Laurent Akran Mandjo (5 November 1940 – 25 August 2020) was an Ivorian Roman Catholic bishop. He was Bishop of Yopougon from 1982 to 2015. He was born in Songon, French West Africa.
Mandjo died on 25 August 2020 in Abidjan at the age of 79.
Tommy Joe Coffey
Tommy Joe Coffey (November 18, 1936 – August 25, 2020) was an American-born Canadian Football League (CFL) player. He was a wide receiver and place kicker for the Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts. He was born in Texas. His career lasted from 1959 to 1973.
Coffey died on August 25, 2020 at the age of 83.
Erik Allardt
"Erik" Anders Allardt (9 August 1925 – 25 August 2020) was a Finnish sociologist. Allardt was professor of sociology at the University of Helsinki between 1955 and 1991, and as chancellor of Åbo Akademi University between 1992 and 1994. He was born in Helsinki.
Allardt died on 25 August 2020 in Helsinki at the age of 95.
Wolfgang Uhlmann
Wolfgang Uhlmann (29 March 1935 – 24 August 2020) was a German chess grandmaster. He was East Germany's most successful professional chess player.
He won the German Democratic Republic (GDR) national championship 11 times from 1954 to 1986. He was the GDR's most outstanding player at the Chess Olympiads of 1956–1990, where he made 11 appearances.
At the 1964 event in Tel Aviv, he scored a combined 15 points out of 18, earning him the individual board one gold medal.
An individual bronze medal, for a combined score of 13 points out of 18, followed in 1966 at Havana.
Uhlmann died on 24 August 2020 from a fall, aged 85.
Mike Sertich
Mike Sertich (July 18, 1921 – August 24, 2020) was an American ice hockey coach. He was the head coach of Minnesota-Duluth from 1983 through to 2000. He continued coaching for several years after resigning. His career began in 1982 and he retired in 2012. Sertich was born in Virginia, Minnesota.
Sertich died on 24 August 2020 in Duluth, Minnesota at the age of 99.
Fauna (disambiguation)
Fauna is a collective term for animal life.
Fauna may also refer to:
Magdalen Redman
Magdalen "Mamie" Redman (July 2, 1930 – August 22, 2020) was an American baseball catcher and utility infielder. She played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw right-handed.
Redman was born in Waupun, Wisconsin. She played for Kenosha Comets from 1948 to 1949 and for Grand Rapids Chicks between 1950 to 1954.
Redman died in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin on August 22, 2020 at the age of 90.
Waupun, Wisconsin
Waupun is a city in Dodge and Fond du Lac counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 11,340 at the 2010 census.
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
Oconomowoc ( ") is a city in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 15,712 at the 2010 census.
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Miron Sher
Miron Naumovich Sher (Russian: Мирон Наумович Шер; June 29, 1952 – August 21, 2020) was an influential Ukrainian-born American chess grandmaster. In 1981, at age 29, Sher became a chess coach for the Russian national team, a role he held until 1985.
Sher became an international master in 1988 and a grandmaster in 1992.
In 1991, when the Soviet Union dissolved, Sher became a Russian citizen.
Sher died August 21, 2020, in New York City at the age of 68.
A. R. Lakshmanan
Arunachalam Chettiar Lakshmanan, B.A., B.L., (22 March 1942 – 27 August 2020) was an Indian politician and lawyer. He was a Judge of the Supreme Court of India between 2002 to 2007. He was Chairman of the Law Commission of India between 2006 to 2009.
Lakshmanan died on August 27, 2020 in Devakottai, Tamil Nadu from cardiac arrest, aged 78.
Keri Kaa
Hohi Ngapera Te Moana Keri Kaa (1942 – 26 August 2020) was a New Zealand writer, educator and activist for te reo Māori.
During her time in Wellington, Kaa was involved with the Haeata Women's Collective (a group of Māori women artists), the "Herstory" diary project, and the Waiata Koa collective.
Her children's book "Taka Ki Ro Wai", written in the Waiapu dialect of te reo, won the inaugural Māori language category in the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and honored in the National Design Awards for creative director Martin Page's work.
Kaa died on 26 August 2020, aged 78.
Bluestar's Prophecy
Bluestar's Prophecy is a children's fantasy novel "Warriors" series by Erin Hunter. This is the second "Warriors" Super Edition. The first was "Firestar's Quest". The main character is Bluefur. The book tells her story from birth until she becomes leader of ThunderClan. It was published by HarperCollins and released on July 28, 2009. It was released in China on July 31, 2010.
Bluestar is also called Bluefur and Bluepaw during different parts of her life.
Bluestar's Prophecy follows the life of Bluestar, the future leader of ThunderClan. The book opens with a prologue that recounts the Bluestar's death in "Warriors: A Dangerous Path" from Bluestar's point of view. The book then goes back to Bluestar's childhood, during which Goosefeather, the Clan's medicine cat, receives a prophecy about Bluepaw being a fire that blazes through the forest, but who may be destroyed by water. A few moons later, Bluepaw's mother, Moonflower, is killed by the WindClan's medicine cat, Hawkheart.
Bluepaw's childhood is defined by her relationship with her sister, Snowpaw, which is damaged when Snowpaw - later Snowfur - falls in love with Thistleclaw, whom Bluefur finds arrogant and untrustworthy. Snowfur is later killed when she is hit by a speeding car, leaving a heartbroken Bluefur to care for her son, Whitekit.
As a warrior, Bluefur meets a RiverClan warrior named Oakheart; although they do not like each other at first, they eventually fall in love. They decide to spend one night together at Fourtrees, the regular Clan Gathering plan, but agree that for the good of their Clans, they will never meet again. One moon later, Bluefur is horrified to find out that she is expecting kits. Thrushpelt, a ThunderClan warrior with feelings for Bluefur, offers to help her take care of her kits. Bluefur accepts his offer, allowing the rest of ThunderClan to believe that Thrushpelt is the father of her kits.
Sunstar, ThunderClan's leader, tells Bluefur that he was planning to make her ThunderClan's new deputy, but because of her kits, he will promote Thistleclaw to deputy instead. After having a vision of Thistleclaw drenched in blood, Bluefur realizes that allowing him to become deputy and then leader would be deadly to the Clan. She decides to take her three kits to Oakheart and let them be raised in RiverClan. During this, one of her kits, Mosskit, freezes to death white her other kits, Mistykit and Stonekit, make it to Riverclan. She explains the disappearance of her kits by pretending they have been taken by a starving predator.
Without her kits, Bluefur is made deputy. After Sunstar loses his final life to dogs, she becomes leader, receiving her own nine lives and taking on the name Bluestar. After successfully leading ThunderClan for several seasons, she receives another prophecy from the ThunderClan medicine cat, Spottedleaf: “Fire alone can save our Clan.” Later, while on patrol with Whitestorm and her deputy, Redtail, she catches sight of a bright ginger house cat named Rusty. Recognizing him as the cat from Spottedleaf's prophecy, she names him Firepaw and accepts him into ThunderClan.
Ted Grace
Edward Laurence Grace (13 March 1931 – 22 August 2020) was a Welsh-born Australian politician. He represented the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in the House of Representatives from 1984 to 1998, representing the seat of Fowler. Grace was born in Swansea, Wales.
Grace died on 22 August 2020 in New South Wales, aged 89.
Cinderella (Disney character)
Cinderella is a fictional Disney Princess. She is the main character of the 1950 Disney movie, Cinderella, which is based on the fairly tale of Cinderella.
Yellowfang's Secret
Yellowfang's Secret is a teen's fantasy novel written by Cherith Baldry under the writer's name Erin Hunter. It is the fifth "Super Edition" in the "Warriors" novel series. "Yellowfang's Secret" was first released in hardcover on 9 October 2012.
"Yellowfang's Secret" follows Yellowfang, the former ShadowClan and ThunderClan medicine cat, during her early life in ShadowClan. Yellowfang trains as an apprentice but realizes that she would be a better healer, called medicine cat in the books. The book takes place at around the same time as the other Super Editions "Bluestar's Prophecy" and "Crookedstar's Promise". It is written for readers 8-12 years old.
Yellowfang is called Yellowkit when she is born. Her parents are Brightflower and Brackenfoot. Her siblings are Nutkit and Rowankit. Yellowfang always has a special power: She feels other people's pain as if it were hers. When she is small, both she and Nutkit have pain in their stomach one day, even though Nutkit is the only one who is really sick.
When Yellowkit is older, she goes to learn from Deerleap. Later, she is called Yellowpaw. She becomes close with a cat called Raggedpelt. The other cats do not like Raggedpelt because the think his father might have been a house cat. In these books, clan cats do not like house cats because they think they are weak. Yellowpaw tries to help Raggedpaw find out about his father. But when they find he really was a house cat, things become worse. Hal, the house cat, rejects Raggedpelt and then Raggedpelt kills Hal. Another female cat, Foxheart, also likes Raggedpelt, but he likes Yellowpaw.
Yellowpaw is later called Yellowfang. Sagewhisker, the ShadowClan medicine cat, convinces Yellowfang that her power to feel pain would make her a very good medicine cat. At first, Yellowfang wants to be a warrior instead, but later she changes her mind. Yellowfang becomes Sagewhisker's apprentice and takes the medicine cats' vows. In this book, being a medicine cat means never having a mate or kittens. But Yellowfang stays with Raggedpelt in secret for a long time.
Yellowfang finds she is pregnant. Because this is against the medicine cat vows, Yellowfang gives birth in secret. Only one kit survives. She names the kit Brokenkit and gives it to Raggedpelt. Many people think Foxheart is Brokenkit's mother. Brokenkit grows up spoiled, and cruel. Eventually, Brokenkit becomes the warrior Brokentail, and later, gains rank in the clan. Brokentail trains his apprentices harshly. When Raggedpelt tells Brokentail it is too much, Brokentail pretends to agree but then plans to kill him to become leader of the clan. Brokentail makes it look like people from another clan, WindClan, killed Raggedpelt.
Brokentail becomes Brokenstar. He rules ShadowClan cruelly. Using his father's death as an excuse, he has the clan attack other clans. He begins training kits before they are six months old, which is against the rules. He tells old cats to leave the camp. When a kit dies in battle, Yellowfang speaks out; Brokenstar soon secretly sets up another plan, accusing her of the deaths of two kits, and banishing her from the Clan.
Yellowfang leaves; eventually she enters ThunderClan territory, where, exhausted by rage and hunger, she is apprehended by Firepaw (a scene initially depicted in "Into the Wild" from Firepaw's perspective), where after a brief fight, Yellowfang admits defeat. Yellowfang is later cared for by Firepaw as a punishment from Bluestar, the Thunderclan leader, from feeding Yellowfang before he fed the clan.
Barnes and Noble said this book was "an epic stand alone adventure." As of September 2020, it had a ranking of 4.7 out of 5 stars.
Judith Ivey
Tamara Tunie
Tamara Tunie (born March 14, 1959) is an American actress, director, and producer. She is best known for her roles as attorney Jessica Griffin on the CBS soap opera "As the World Turns" (1987-1995, 2000-2007, 2009), and as medical examiner Melinda Warner in the NBC police drama "" (2000-2019).
Youghiogheny River
Connellsville, Pennsylvania
Connellsville is a city in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States, southeast of Pittsburgh on the Youghiogheny River, a tributary of the Monongahela River. It is part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. The population was 7,637 at the 2010 census.
Alma G. Stallworth
Alma G. Stallworth (November 15, 1932 – August 25, 2020) was an American Democratic politician and businesswoman. She was in the Michigan House of Representatives from 1971 to 1974, 1983 to 1996 and from 2003 to 2004. She also founded the Black Caucus Foundation of Michigan in 1985. Stallworth was born in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Stallworth died on August 25, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan at the age of 87.
Angolan genet
Asian palm civet
Brown palm civet
Dancer in the Dark is a 2000 Danish German Dutch Italian British French Swedish Finnish Icelandic Argentine Norwegian Taiwanese Belgian musical drama movie directed by Lars von Trier and stars Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Cara Seymour, Joel Grey, Jean-Marc Barr, Vincent Paterson, Željko Ivanek, Udo Kier. It was distributed by Fine Line Features and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2001.
Kanuites
Kanuites is an extinct genus of paradoxurine viverrid carnivore. It lived in Africa, during the Miocene epoch.
"Kanuites" was about long, and looked very similar to modern genets. "Kanuites" was probably an omnivore and may have had retractable claws, like a feline. It may have lived in trees during some time in its life.
University of Wrocław
The University of Wrocław is a public university in Wrocław, Poland. It was started in 1702 by Leopold I (Holy Roman Emperor), and has nearly 25,000 students.
The first attempt to found a university in Wroclaw was in 1505. The initiator was Vladislav II. Due to wars, lack of money, the university was not opened.
In 1702, the Society of Jesus founded a university called Leopoldina. It had the only faculty of philosophy and сatholic theology.
In 1811, as a result of a reform, the universities in Breslau and Frankfurt an der Oder were merged. The university was called Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University. Here students studied at 5 faculties — Catholic theology, Protestant theology, law, philosophy and medicine. The University of Breslau became the first German university to have both Catholic and Protestant faculties.
After the end of World War II, the German university in the city was closed and then transformed into a Polish state university, which was officially opened on June 9, 1946.
In 1952 — 1989 the university was named after the President of Poland Bolesław Bierut.
In 2001, there were celebrations in Wroclaw dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the foundation of the University.
The University of Wroclaw is a higher education institution in the Republic of Poland.
There are 10 departments that provide 44 areas of study, classes are mostly Polish, with only some in English. The University of Wrocław provides Bachelor, Master, and Doctoral level programmes.
Teaching at the university is conducted at the following faculties:
Cape genet
Knife-footed frog
The knife-footed tree frog, olive water-holding frog or desert collared frog ("Ranoidea cultripes") is a frog from Australia. It lives in the Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia.
The adult male frog is 4.1 cm long and the adult female frog is 4.3 cm long. Their front feet are not webbed and their back feet have only a little webbing. This frog digs in the ground to make a burrow, where it hides. This frog is gray-brown or olive-brown in color with a thin stripe in the middle of its back down its spine.
This frog lives on flood plains near small streams. It comes aboveground after rain. Scientists do not know what its tadpoles are like.
Laurinburg, North Carolina
Laurinburg is a city in and the county seat of Scotland County, North Carolina, United States. The population at the 2010 Census was 15,962 people.
Clyde Hill, Washington
Clyde Hill is a city located in King County, Washington. It is part of the Eastside region, located to the east of Seattle. The population was 2,984 at the 2010 census.
Dahl's aquatic frog
Dahl's aquatic frog, the northern waterfrog, Dahl's olive tree frog, Dahl's tree frog, floodplain frog, northern lagoon frog or aquatic frog ("Ranoidea dahlii") is a tree frog from Australia and New Guinea. Most of them live in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. There are a few more in Queensland and New Guinea.
This frog lives near bodies of water that either take months to dry up or do not dry up at all. During the day, it sits next to the water. When the weather is dry, it finds a crack in the ground to hide in. Scientists do not know what the eggs or tadpoles are like.
Half dollar
The United States Half dollar is the largest US coin currently produced and in circulation measuring at 1.2 inches in diameter and 0.08 inches in thickness. It is worth half of a dollar, or 50 cents.
It is worth the equivalent of 50 pennies, 10 nickels, 5 dimes, or 2 quarters.
The US president shown on the half dollar is John F. Kennedy
Half dollars are 2 times the weight of a US quarter dollar.
Half dollars were first minted in 1964 and are still being minted, however they are hard to find at most banks since not many people use half dollar coins anymore.
Free culture
Free culture is a concept and a movement that tries to help people share art very freely. It says copyright laws are too strict and tries to create a less limiting system. The word "free" In "free culture" means "freedom", not price.
The beginning of the movement is connected to Lawrence Lessig who has written a book named Free Culture and started Creative Commons, an organization that supports things like free culture and education. The movement is similar to free software movement but focuses on all art works, e.g. images or songs. Some free cultural works are for example the movie Big Buck Bunny or files at Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia is also part of free culture because it uses a free license for its articles.
Works, for example movies, that respect free culture are called "free cultural works" or simply "free works". These works have to allow anyone to:
The artist who creates something can make it free by adding a free license to it. Most famous free licenses are Creative Commons (CC) licenses. However, not all Creative Commons licenses are free (some for example prohibit commercial use or changing the work). The free CC licenses are CC0, CC-BY and CC-BY-SA.
The MOS Technology 6502 is an 8-bit microprocessor developed by MOS Technology in 1975. When It was introduced it was highly praised for its cost and is still being produced to this day as the 65C02 by the Western Design Center (WDC).
Many popular home video games consoles and computers such as the Atari 2600, Atari XL, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System and other systems have used the 6502 and variants of it as its main processor.
The BBC Micro or the Beeb was an 8-bit home computer from 1981. Acorn Computers developed and built the BBC Micro. Over 1.5 million units were sold during its lifespan. For many children in the UK, the BBC Micro was their first exposure to computers because many were in schools. An estimated 80% of schools in the UK had a BBC Micro computer.
Nine models of the BBC Micro were produced, and the Model B was the most common, the BBC Master series with an upgraded 128KB of RAM and other refinements and various other models such as RAM upgraded Model B's and a version for North America that outputted an NTSC video signal.
Urban morphology
Cameo Kirby can refer to:
Mother-of-pearl
Olfactores
Olfactores is a group, called a clade, in taxonomy. Taxonomy is the way scientists put living things in groups to show how they are related to each other. Olfactores is part of the phylum Chordata, animals with notochords. These are rods of tissue that form inside the developing embryo. In many organisms, the notochord helps the spine or nervous system grow, but some animals have only a notochord and no spinal bones. Olfactores contains Vetulicolia, Tunicata (Urochordata) and Vertebrata (also named Craniata). Most animals in Chordata are also in Olfactores. Only the animals in Cephalochordata are in Chordata but not Olfactores.