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Kimberly Elise Trammel (born April 17, 1967) is an American movie and television actress. She made her first movie acting in "Set It Off" in 1996. She got high marks for her performance in the 1998 movie "Beloved".
In her career, Elise has appeared in such movies as "The Manchurian Candidate" (2004), "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" (2005), "For Colored Girls" (2010), "Almost Christmas" (2016) and "Death Wish" (2018). She received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in the 2004 drama movie "Woman Thou Art Loosed". She is a four-time NAACP Image Awards winner.
Elise is a vegan.
Elise was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2020 United States Senate election in West Virginia
An election happened on November 3, 2020, to elect a Senator from the U.S. state of West Virginia. The three people in the election were Shelley Moore Capito (Republican Party), Paula Jean Swearengin (Democratic Party), and David Moran (Libertarian Party). Shelley Moore Capito won the election and a second term in the Senate.
There were primary elections for the Republican and Democrat political parties. Three people were in the Republican Party primary and also the Democratic Party primary. Shelly Moore Capito won the Republican Party primary and Paula Jean Swearengin won the Democratic Party primary.
2020 United States Senate election in Virginia
An election happened on November 3, 2020, to elect a Senator from the U.S. state of Virginia. The two candidates were Senator Mark Warner (Democratic Party) and Lieutenant colonel Daniel Gade (Republican Party). Mark Warner won the election and a third term in the Senate.
There was a primary election for the Republican Party. There were three people in the Republican primary and Daniel Gade won. There was no Democratic Party primary because no one ran against Mark Warner.
Nobody in the Democratic Party went against Mark Warner in the primary, so no election happened.
Tim Healy
Timothy Malcolm Healy (born 29 January 1952) is an English actor. He played Dennis Patterson in the ITV-BBC One comedy-drama series, "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet", from 1983 to 1986, and again from 2002 to 2004. Other important parts for Healy were Les/Lesley Conroy in the ITV comedy series, "Benidorm", from 2009 to 2018; and Gastric in the BBC One comedy series, "Still Open All Hours", from 2014 onwards. He has also acted in other British television series such as "Coronation Street", "Emmerdale", "Casualty", and "Waterloo Road".
Healy married actress Denise Welch in 1988. They had two sons before divorcing in 2012; their oldest son, Matthew, is the lead singer of The 1975. Healy married Joan Anderton in 2015. He is an strong supporter of Newcastle United FC.
Benidorm (TV series)
Benidorm is a British sitcom written and created by Derren Litten and produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for ITV that aired for ten series from 1 February 2007 until 2 May 2018. The series features an ensemble cast of holiday makers and staff at the Solana all-inclusive hotel in Benidorm, Spain over the course of a week each year.
Liberia civil wars
There were two civil wars in Liberia, which lasted from 1989 to 2003. Liberia is made of multiple ethnic groups. In the civil wars these groups fought for power and influence. On the other had, there were warlords, who fought each other. The civil wars were also about who had control of the natural resources of the country. Child soldiers were common during these wars.
The first war lasted from 1989 to 1996. Charles Taylor started an armed uprising against president Samuel Doe. Doe was quickly captured, and one of Taylor's associates, Yormie Johnson, tortured him to death. Johnson later split from Taylor, and founded his own movement. The supporters of Doe also founded their own movement, fighting went on between the different factions. All parties were very brutal when it came to interactions with civilians. Joshua Milton Blahyi, a young warlord, who was better known as General Butt Naked, was especially cruel. Using child soldiers, he is said to have killed 20,000 civilians. The UN enforced an embargo against Liberia.
At the same time, there was a civil war in Sierra Leone. Charles Taylor supported a rebel force in Sierra Leone. He is said to have traded with blood diamonds.
The first war lasted until 1996. In 1997, Taylor was elected president. He obtained about 75% of the votes, the elections were called free and fair.
The former enemies of Taylor didn't want to accept the election result, and they started the second war, in 1989. In 2003, the government held control over a third of the country, two thirds were controlled by rebel groups. In 2003, an international arrest warrant was issued against Taylor, for crimes he had committed when supporting the rebels in Sierra Leone. Taylor agreed to step down and leave the county, which ended the war.
Because of both wars, about 250,000 people were killed. Over a million became displaced people or refugees. Some stayed in refugee camps in Liberia, others fled to the neighboring countries.
The wars had a big impact on the economy, which can still be seen. In some regions in Liberia, up to 85% of the workforce are unemployed.
Sexology
Sexology is the scientific study of human sexual behavior. This includes things like sexual development, gender identity, and the question of what a normal sexual behavior is. Sexologists also look at questions as to how mentally ill or disabled people see their sexuality, or how the views on sex change during the life of a person. An old person has different motivations to have sex than a young one or a child. Sexology also looks at sexual disfunctions, offers hints for therapies, and helps people manage them.
Kaitlyn Dever
Kaitlyn Dever (born December 21, 1996) is an American actress. She acted in the television crime drama series "Justified" and the ABC/Fox show "Last Man Standing". She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress-Miniseries for her role in "Unbelievable" (2019).
Movies in which Dever had supporting parts include "Beautiful Boy" (2018), "Detroit" (2017) and "Bad Teacher" (2011).
Dever was born in Phoenix, Arizona.
2020 United States Senate election in North Carolina
An election happened on November 3, 2020 to elect a Senator from the U.S. state of North Carolina. The four people in the election were Thom Tillis (Republican Party), Cal Cunningham (Democratic Party), Shannon Bray (Libertarian Party) and Kevin E. Hayes (Constitution Party). Tillis won the election against Cunningham but many people thought that Cunningham would win.
There was two primary elections for the Democrat and Republican parties. Four people were in the Republican primary election and five people were in the Democratic primary. Thom Tillis won the Republican primary and Cal Cunningham won the Democratic primary.
Utu (movie)
Utu is a 1983 New Zealand drama movie directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Bruno Lawrence, Anzac Wallace, Tim Eliott, Ilona Rodgers, Wi Kuki Kaa, Martyn Sanderson, Kelly Johnson, John Bach.
The Red Lanterns
The Red Lanterns (, translit. Ta Kokkina fanaria) is a 1963 Greek drama movie directed by Vasilis Georgiadis and was based on the play by Alekos Galanos. It stars Tzeni Karezi, Giorgos Foundas, Dimitris Papamichael, Manos Katrakis, Notis Peryalis. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1964.
Girls in the Sun
Girls in the Sun (, translit. "Koritsia ston Ilio") is a 1968 Greek drama movie directed by Vasilis Georgiadis and starring Giannis Voglis, Anne Lonnberg, Kostas Bakas, Miranta Myrat, Vangelis Kazan.
2020 United States Senate election in Oregon
An election happened on November 3, 2020 to elect a Senator from the U.S. state of Oregon. The four people in the election were Jeff Merkley (Democratic Party), Jo Rae Perkins (Republican Party), Gary Dye (Libertarian Party), and Ibrahim Taher (Pacific Green Party of Oregon). The election was thought to be a easy win for the Democrats but the election got a lot of news when Jo Rae Perkins said she agreed with the conspiracy theory group, QAnon. Jeff Merkley won the election and was the senator for the third time.
There was two primary elections for the Democrat and Republican parties. Jeff Merkey was the only one in the Democratic primary and there were four people in the Republican Party primary. Jo Rae Perkins won the Republican primary election.
Brother's Little Helper
"Brother's Little Helper" is the 2nd episode of the 11th season of "The Simpsons". It was first shown on the Fox network on October 3, 1999. The episode is about Bart Simpson getting a prescription to take a drug.
The episode was written by George Meyer. Mark Kirkland is the director of the episode. Meyer did not like his first writing of the episode. He used a fake name when he showed others his writing. The episode makes humor of children in school being misdiagnosed (diagnosed wrong) with ADHD. Mark McGwire is a guest star for the episode.
Principal Skinner teaches his students about fire prevention. However, Bart makes a very big wave that floods the school's gym and schoolyard. Skinner is very angry at Bart. Skinner tells Homer and Marge that Bart has been diagnosed with ADHD. Bart must take the drug Focusyn (a parody of Ritalin). Marge is worried because Focusyn is a new drug and it might not be safe.
Bart takes Focusyn and does better in school. He is good to his parents and he is the tutor of a Navajo boy. However, Bart starts to feel paranoid. He thinks that Major League Baseball is spying on the town with satellites. A doctor tells Bart to stop taking Focusyn. Bart does not want to and overdoses.
Bart goes to a military base and takes a tank. He drives the tank to his school. Bart shoots at the sky. A satellite from Major League Baseball falls from the sky with documents on what everyone does. Mark McGwire comes from the satellite and distracts everyone. He puts the documents under his cap. He gives Bart a baseball bat so he can keep spying on the Simpson family.
"Brother's Little Helper" was written by George Meyer. The episode was first named "Bart a Go Go". "Bart's Inner Child" was the last episode he wrote himself before this one. He was tired after writing that episode. He came back to writing with this episode. He thought it was not easy to write the episode because he was going through "psychological problems". He did not like what he wrote, so he showed it to the other writers using a fake name (a pseudonym). Tim Long said that it was "an amazing draft". Matt Selman came up with the idea of Bart getting a tank. He said that he got the idea after watching the news on a guy who died going "nuts with a tank".
The side effects of Focusyn on Bart were shown with many small changes to him. When Bart is reading a book, a line below his cheek is added. Bart is later seen speed reading and his pupils are smaller. The animators were not sure if Bart's pupils should be bigger or smaller than normal. Kirkland said that there were many model sheets (pictures that help animators draw characters) "going back and forth over the fax machines". The animators made Bart's pupils smaller in the episode. When Bart is with a doctor, he swallows many pills. He was first going to swallow all of the pills in the jar, but the censors did not like it. Mark McGwire is a guest star for the episode. Mike Scully said that McGwire was "probably the biggest man" he had seen and that he "did a great job".
Robert Canning from IGN thought that the episode is "funny" and that it is better than other episodes from the 11th season. However, he thought that the part of the episode with McGwire was not as funny as it should have been. Brian Tallerico from The Deadbolt thought that it was one of the best episodes of the season. Colin Jacobsson from DVD Movie Guide said that the episode has "some good laughs". He likes the morals of the episode but he did not like how Bart acted when he was on too much Focusyn.
Deroy Murdock from Scripps Howard News Service said that the episode "predicts the news." He says this because Bill Clinton had a conference five months after the episode was shown on television. The conference was about students taking too much drugs. The word "exorcism tongs" was made up in the episode. Cracked.com put the word in a list of the best words that were made up by "The Simpsons". In the episode, Homer eats taffy with Focusyn inside it and starts to act crazy. Todd Flanders asks his father Ned if Homer has "a demon". Ned tells him "Looks like it. Run and get daddy's exorcism tongs."
Armenian mythology
Armenian mythology originated in ancient Indo-European traditions, specifically Proto-Armenian, and gradually incorporated Anatolian, Hurro-Urartian, Mesopotamian, Iranian, and Greek beliefs and deities.
Standing (law)
Gardena, California
Gardena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 58,829 at the 2010 census.
Bell Gardens, California
Bell Gardens is a city in the US state of California in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.The city's population was 42,072 at the 2010 census.
Manhattan Beach, California
Manhattan Beach is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 35,135 in 2010.
Colin McDonald (Australian cricketer)
Colin Campbell McDonald (17 November 1928 – 11 January 2021) was an Australian cricketer. He played in 47 Test matches for his country from 1952 to 1961. He also played in 192 first-class matches between 1947 and 1963. McDonald was born in Glen Iris, Victoria.
McDonald died in Melbourne, Victoria, on 11 January 2021. He was 92.
Azusa, California
Azusa is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 46,361 at the 2010 census.
AOC International
AOC International is a Taiwanese electronics company. It is based in Taipei and manufactures displays like computer monitors and televisions. It is a subsidiary from TPV Technology.
Non-Hispanic whites
Non-Hispanic whites are White Americans who aren’t Hispanic or Latino.
Hungarian Slovak Gypsies in the United States
Hungarian Slovak Gypsies are a subgroup of Romani Americans from Hungary.
Egyptian American
Egyptian Americans are Americans of Egyptian descent.
Arab American
Arab Americans are Americans of Arab descent.
Anitta (singer)
Larissa de Macedo Machado (stage name: Anitta; born March 30, 1993), is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, television host, actress, and businesswoman.
In 2017, she was ranked as one of the most influential celebrities in social media according to "Billboard".
Brazilian Americans
Brazilian food
Brazilian food is a mix of foods from Portuguese, African and indigenous culture.
Flora and fauna of Brazil
Brazil is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world. Brazil is home to many hummingbirds, toucans, parrots, macaws, waterfowl and birds of prey. Mammals living in Brazil are anteaters, pumas, jaguars, armadillos, otters and dolphins. Caimans, turtles and anacondas are reptiles found in Brazil.
Tom Acker
Thomas James Acker (March 7, 1930 – January 4, 2021) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He was born in Paterson, New Jersey. From 1956 to 1959, he played for the Cincinnati Reds.
Acker died on January 4, 2021 in Caernarvon Township, Pennsylvania at the age of 90.
Caernarvon Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Caernarvon Township is a township in northeastern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. 4,748 people lived here in 2010.
C. George Boeree
Cornelis George Boeree (January 15, 1952 – January 5, 2021) was an American psychologist and professor emeritus at Shippensburg University. He worked in personality theory and the history of psychology.
Boeree was also the inventor of the auxiliary language Lingua Franca Nova. He was the coeditor of the Lingua Franca Nova dictionary.
He was born in Badhoevedorp, near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. He died on January 5, 2021 at his home in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania from pancreatic cancer.
John Georgiadis
John Georgiadis (1939 – 5 January 2021) was a British violinist and conductor. He was the Concert Leader with the London Symphony Orchestra during the 1960s and 70s. He was a member of both the ensembles London Virtuosi and the Gaberieli String Quartet as well as conductor for both the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra.
He was Director of Orchestral Studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Georgiadis died on 5 January 2021, aged 81.
Saweetie
Vladimír Oplt
Vladimír Oplt (1937 – 5 January 2021) was a Czech politician. He was a member of the Czech Senate from 1996 to 2001. He was a member of the Civic Democratic Party. Oplt was born in Kladno, Czech Republic.
Oplt died on 5 January 2021 in Prague, aged 83.
John Richardson (actor)
John Richardson (19 January 1934 – 5 January 2021) was an English actor. He was known for his roles in "Black Sunday" (1960) and in "She" (1965). He also starred in "One Million Years B.C." (1966).
Richardson died of COVID-19 on January 5, 2021, at age 86.
William Windham (rower)
William Ashe Dymoke Windham (2 April 1926 – 5 January 2021) was a British rower. He competed for Great Britain in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire.
He died on 5 January 2021 at the age of 94.
Bobby Few
Bobby Few (October 21, 1935 – January 6, 2021) was an American jazz pianist and singer. He played with saxophonist Charles Gayle and led his own trio in Paris. He was working on a Booker Ervin tribute project called "Few's Blues".
Few died on January 6, 2021 aged 85.
Edward Gnat
Edward Gnat (1 March 1940 – 6 January 2021) was a Polish politician. He was a Deputy from 1985 to 1989 and again from 1993 to 1997. He was born in Maurzyce, Poland.
Gnat died, aged 80, in Łódź, of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland.
Francis Hammel
Francis Hammel (11 December 1950 – 6 January 2021) was a French politician. From 1997 to 2002, he was a member of the National Assembly. Hammel was born in Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, France. He was a member of the Socialist Party.
Hammel died on 6 January 2021 at the age of 70.
Gord Renwick
Gordon Ralph Renwick (February 13, 1935January 6, 2021) was a Canadian ice hockey administrator. He was president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA). He also was vice-president of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) and was the team president of the Galt Hornets. He was born in Galt, Ontario.
Renwick died on January 6, 2021 in Cambridge, Ontario at the age of 85.
Antonio Sabàto Sr.
Antonio Sabàto Sr. (2 April 1943 – 10 January 2021) was an Italian-American actor. He was the father of model and actor Antonio Sabàto Jr. He was known for his roles in spaghetti western movies. His best known movies were "One Dollar Too Many" and "Due volte Giuda".
Sabàto Sr. died in Los Angeles on 10 January 2021 from COVID-19, aged 77.
Antonio Sabàto Jr.
Antonio Sabàto Jr. (born February 29, 1972) is an Italian-American model, actor, and politician. Sabàto was an underwear model for Calvin Klein and playing Jagger Cates on the soap opera "General Hospital" from 1992 to 1995.
Sabàto ran unsuccessfully as the Republican candidate for U.S. Congress against incumbent Democratic Congresswoman Julia Brownley for California's 26th district in the 2018 election.
Jim Townsend (Irish politician)
James Townsend (20 June 1937 – 7 January 2021) was an Irish Labour Party politician. In 1991, he was elected to Carlow County Council. He was a member of the Seanad Éireann from 1993 to 1997.
Townsend died on 7 January 2021, aged 83.
Albanian food
Albanian food is the cuisine of Albania. Albanian food is Mediterranean, but also has oriental influences as part of Balkan cuisine. One of the most famous Albanian dish is Tavë kosi.
Filip Trifonov
Filip Trifonov () (4 May 1947 – 6 January 2021) was a Bulgarian actor. He appeared in more than thirty movies. His career began in 1971. Trifonov's best known role was as Ran in the 1972 movie "The Boy Turns Man". Trifonov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Trifonov died on 6 January 2021 from a heart attack in Sofia, aged 73.
Greek food
Greek food is the cuisine of Greece. Greek food is Mediterranean.
Jan Blommaert
Jan Blommaert (4 November 1961 – 7 January 2021) was a Belgian sociolinguist and linguistic anthropologist. He was a Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization and Director of the Babylon Center at Tilburg University. Blommaert was born in Dendermonde, Belgium.
Blommaert died on 7 January 2021, aged 59.
Biserka Cvejić
Biserka Cvejić (; November 5, 1923 – January 7, 2021) was a Serbian operatic mezzo-soprano and contralto. She was a university professor. Her career began at the Belgrade Opera in 1954.
She was a member of the Vienna State Opera from 1959 to 1979. She first appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in 1961 as Amneris in Verdi's "Aida".
Cvejić died at the age of 97 in Belgrade on January 7, 2021.
Playboi Carti
Jordan Terrell Carter (stage name: Playboi Carti; born September 13, 1995), is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia.
Vladimir Kiselyov
Vladimir Viktorovich Kiselyov (; ; sometimes listed as Volodymyr Kyselyov 1 January 1957 – 7 January 2021) was a Soviet-born Ukrainian athlete. He competed in the shot put during his career. He competed for the USSR in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, where he won the gold medal.
Kiselyov died on 7 January 2021, aged 64.
Rich the Kid
Dimitri Leslie Roger (stage name: Rich the Kid; born July 13, 1992), is an American rapper and songwriter.
Kodak Black
Bill Kahan Kapri (stage name: Kodak Black; born Dieuson Octave, June 11, 1997), is an American rapper, singer and songwriter.
Tom LaBonge
Thomas J. LaBonge (October 6, 1953 – January 7, 2021) was an American politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party. LaBonge was born in Los Angeles. He was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 2001 to 2015.
LaBonge died on January 7, 2021 from cardiac arrest in Los Angeles, aged 67.
Genival Lacerda
Genival Lacerda Cavalcante (5 April 1931 – 7 January 2021) was a Brazilian forró singer-songwriter. He was born in Campina Grande, Paraíba. His best known songs were "Severina Xique-Xique", "Radinho de Pilha" and "O Chevette da Menina".
In December 2017, Lacerda was honored with the Order of Cultural Merit.
Lacerda died on January 7, 2021, in Recife, Pernambuco from COVID-19, aged 89.
John Land
John Land (17 July 1938 – January 2021) was a British field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Land died in January 2021, aged 82.
Marion Ramsey
Marion Ramsey (May 10, 1947 – January 7, 2021) was an American actress and singer. She was known for her role in "Cos" and as Officer Laverne Hooks in the "Police Academy" movies. She also starred in "Lavalantula" and "2 Lava 2 Lantula!".
Ramsey died on January 7, 2021 in Los Angeles at the age of 73.
Norberto James Rawlings
Norberto James Rawlings (February 6, 1945 – January 7, 2021) was a Dominican Republic poet. His poetry was about the everyday life in his country’s multicultural society. His first book of poetry from 1969, "Sobre la marcha" ("On the March").
Henri Schwery
Henri Schwery (14 June 1932 – 7 January 2021) was a Swiss prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Bishop of Sion from 1977 to 1995. He was promoted to cardinal in 1991. Schwery was born in Saint-Léonard, Switzerland.
Schwery died at a retirement home in St-Léonard on 7 January 2021, aged 88.
Reynaldo Umali
Reynaldo Villar Umali (February 26, 1957 – January 7, 2021) was a Filipino politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 2010 to 2019. He ran as governor of Oriental Mindoro in 2019 but lost to Humerlito Dolor.
Umali died on January 7, 2021 from COVID-19 while being treated with liver cancer, aged 67.
Back-to-Africa movement
Mel Weitsman
Hakuryu Sojun Mel Weitsman (born Mel Weitsman; July 20, 1929 – January 7, 2021) was an American Buddhist. He was the founder, abbot and guiding teacher of Berkeley Zen Center. Weitsman was a Soto Zen roshi.
He was also a co-abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center, where he was from 1988 to 1997. Weitsman was also editor of the book "Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai".
Weitsman died on January 7, 2021 at the age of 91.
Hubert Auriol
Hubert Auriol (; 7 June 1952 – 10 January 2021) was a French professional off-road motorcyclist and auto racer. He was born in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. He was the director of The Paris-Dakar rally. Auriol was known for being the first competitor to win the Dakar rally on motorcycles and in automobiles.
In 2012, Auriol was named an FIM Legend for his motorcycling achievements.
Auriol died of cardiac arrest caused by COVID-19 at a Paris hospital on 10 January 2021, aged 68.
Tosh Chamberlain
Trevor "Tosh" Chamberlain (11 July 1934 – 10 January 2021) was an English professional footballer. He played at outside left. He was born in London.
In 1952, he joined Fulham for whom he made 204 first-team appearances, scoring 64 goals. He played for Dover Athletic in 1965. He finished his professional career at Gravesend and Northfleet.
Chamberlain died on 10 January 2021, aged 86.
Adam Dyczkowski
Adam Feliks Dyczkowski (17 November 1932 – 10 January 2021) was a Polish Roman Catholic bishop. He was born in Kęty, Poland. He became a priest in 1957.
Dyczkowski was titular bishop of "Altava" and was auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Wrocław from 1978 to 1992. He was auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Legnica in 1992 and 1993. He later was bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Zielona Góra-Gorzów from 1993 to 2007.
Dyczkowski died on 10 January 2021 in Zielona Góra, Poland at the age of 88.
Nancy Walker Bush Ellis
Nancy Walker Bush Ellis (February 4, 1926 – January 10, 2021) was an American environmentalist and political campaigner. Bush Ellis was born in Milton, Massachusetts.
She was the only sister of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, and aunt of both former President George W. Bush and the former governor of Florida John Ellis "Jeb" Bush.
Although she had been a liberal Democrat and an environmentalist. She joined the Republican Party in 1988 when her brother ran for president.
Ellis was hospitalized on December 30, 2020 from COVID-19 in Concord, Massachusetts. She died on January 10, 2021 at an assisted living facility from the infection, aged 94.
Pedro González (baseball)
Pedro González Olivares (December 12, 1937 – January 10, 2021), nicknamed "Speedy Gonzalez", was a Dominican professional baseball second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees from 1963 to 1965) and Cleveland Indians from 1965 to 1967. He was one of the first 15 Dominicans to play big league baseball. He was born in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic.
González died on January 10, 2021 in San Pedro de Macoris, aged 83.
Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier
Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier (August 18, 1935 – January 10, 2021) was a Mexican politician and lawyer. He was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He was Governor of Durango between 1998 and 2004.
Guerrero Mier died on January 10, 2021 in Durango, aged 85.
Dee Rowe
Donald "Dee" Rowe (December 22, 1929 – January 10, 2021) was an American college basketball coach. He coached for the UConn Huskies men's team. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was the director of athletics and the head coach of both the men's basketball and baseball teams at the University of Connecticut for 13 years, from 1955 to 1969.
Rowe died on January 10, 2021 in Storrs, Connecticut at the age of 91.
Afrophobia
Afrophobia is a term to describe hatred and fear towards Black people. A person with afrophobia hates and fears Black people and anyone of African descent. The term "afrophobia" is observable in as discrimination and racist violence on the basis of a persons skin colour, ethnic origin, and nationality. Afrophobia is like homophobia or Islamophobia and other forms of discrimination grounds in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.  Afrophobia can also intersect with other grounds such as sex, homophobia, islamophobia, and disability creating cases of multiple discrimination grounds. A person who displays afrophobia or is thought to do so is described as being afrophobic and labeled as an afrophobe.
There is also afrofobic hate crimes through afrophobic verbal abuse, degrading language, physical violence against black people.
Millions of black Europeans lack equal access to education, employment, housing, as well as goods and services. A 2009 survey by the EU fundamental rights agency shows that 41 per cent of sub-Saharan African respondents had been discriminated against on the basis of their ethnicity at least once in the previous 12 months.
Black people in the United Kingdom are on average six times more likely to be stopped and searched by the police than white people. A recent report on Afrophobia in Sweden reveals that Afro-Swedes are the Swedish minority most exposed to hate crimes.
Storrs, Connecticut
Storrs is a village and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Mansfield, Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. 15,344 people lived here at the 2010 census.
Mohammad Khaledur Rahman Tito
Mohammad Khaledur Rahman Tito (1946 – 10 January 2021) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician. He was a member of the Awami League. In 1986, he was elected to the Jatiya Sangsad. He left the job in 1988 and was re-elect to the parliament in 2008. Tito retired in 2014.
Tito died on 10 January 2021 in Jessore, Bangladesh at the age of 74.
Mehdi Attar-Ashrafi
Mehdi Attar-Ashrafi (Persian: مهدی عطار اشرفی‎; 23 December 1948 – 9 January 2021) was an Iranian middleweight weightlifter. He won a bronze medal at the 1974 Asian Games and a silver at the 1979 Asian Championships and competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Attar-Ashrafi was born in Tehran. He died on 9 January 2021 in Tehran, aged 72.
František Filip
František Filip (26 December 1930 – 9 January 2021) was a Czech movie and television director. Filip was born in Písek, Czechoslovakia. He was known for directing "Tři chlapi v chalupě", "Chalupáři" and "Utrpení mladého Boháčka".
Filip died on 9 January 2021 at the age of 90 from COVID-19 in Prague.
José Méndez (rower)
José Méndez (9 May 1937 – January 2021) was a Spanish rower. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Pontevedra, Spain.
Mendez died in January 2021, aged 83.
Ken Middleditch
Kenneth Arthur Middleditch (5 October 1925 – 9 January 2021) was a British motorcycle speedway rider. He was born in Camberley, Surrey. Middleditch signed for Third Division team Hastings in 1948. By 1949 he had become Hastings top points scorer. He later played for Poole.
Middleditch died on 9 January 2021, aged 95.
Ezra Nawi
Ezra Yitzhak Nawi (; 1952 – 9 January 2021) was an Israeli Mizrahi Jew, left-wing, human rights activist and pacifist. He was supportive of the Bedouin herders and farmers of the South Hebron Hills. He was a supporter of Uri Avnery. He was called "a working-class, liberal gay version of Joe the Plumber".
Nawi died on 9 January 2021 from cancer, aged 69.
John Reilly (actor)
John Henry Matthew Reilly (November 11, 1936 – January 9, 2021) was an American actor. He appeared on soap operas including "General Hospital", "Sunset Beach", and "Passions". Reilly was born in Chicago. His career lasted from 1965 until 2013.
Reilly died on January 9, 2021 at the age of 84.
Madhav Singh Solanki
Madhavsinh Singh Solanki (30 July 1927 – 9 January 2021) was an Indian politician. He was leader of Indian National Congress party. He was External Affairs minister of India from 1991 to 1992. He also was the Chief Minister of Gujarat three times from 1976 to 1977, 1980 to 1985 and from 1989 to 1990.
Solanki died on 9 January 2021, aged 93.
Cástor Oswaldo Azuaje Pérez
Càstor Oswaldo Azuaje Pérez (19 October 1951 – 8 January 2021) was a Venezuelan Roman Catholic bishop. He became a priest in 1975.
Azuaje Pérez was titular bishop of Vertara and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maracaibo, Venezuela, from 2007 to 2012. He then was bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trujillo, Venezuela, from 2012 until his death.
Azuaje Pérez died from COVID-19 at the age of 69 on 8 January 2021 in Valera, Trujillo.
Steve Carver
Steve Carver (April 5, 1945 – January 8, 2021) was an American movie director, producer, and photographer. He was born in New York City. His career began in 1970 and he retired in 1996. His best known works were "Lone Wolf McQuade", "Big Bad Mama" and "Capone".
Carver died in Los Angeles from a heart attack on January 8, 2021, at age 75.
David Darling (musician)
David Darling (March 4, 1941 – January 8, 2021) was an American cellist and composer. In 2010, he won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album. He performed and recorded with Bobby McFerrin, Paul Winter Consort, Ralph Towner and Spyro Gyra.
His best known works were "Journal October", "Cycles", "Cello", "Dark Wood", and "Prayer for Compassion".
Darling died on January 8, 2021 at the age of 79.
Květa Eretová
Květa Eretová (21 October 1926 – 8 January 2021), née Jeništová, was a Czech chess player. She held the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1986). She was a ten-time winner of the Czechoslovak Women's Chess Championship (1955, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1975, 1976, 1986). She was born in Prague.
Eretová died on 8 January 2021 in Prague, aged 94.
Michael Fonfara
Michael Fonfara (11 August 1946 – 8 January 2021) was a Canadian keyboard player. He was known as a member of The Electric Flag and Rhinoceros in the 1960s, Rough Trade and Lou Reed's backing band in the 1970s and The Downchild Blues Band, from 1990 until his death. He won a Juno Award in 2014. He was born in Stevensville, Ontario.
Fonfara died on 8 January 2021 in Toronto from cancer, aged 74.
European Games
The European Games is a continental multi-sport event which includes athletes from European nations and several near Europe countries. The European Games were created by the European Olympic Committees (EOC). The first Games took place in 2015 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The second in Minsk, Belarus in 2019.
The 2019 Minsk European Games Sports Programme had 15 kinds of sport.
Emile Hemmen
Emile Hemmen (6 December 1923 – 8 January 2021) was a Luxembourgian lyric poet and writer. Hemmen was born in Sandweiler, Luxembourg. From 1945 to 1958 he worked as a teacher. Then he studied in Paris, specializing in psychology and sociology. He worked as an attaché for the Luxembourg Ministry of Education from 1968 to 1969. He founded "Éditions Estuaires".
Hemmen died on 8 January 2021 at the age of 97.
Steve Hendrickson
Steven Daniel Hendrickson (August 30, 1966 – January 8, 2021) was a professional American football linebacker in the National Football League. He was born in Richmond, California. He played for San Francisco 49ers (1989), Dallas Cowboys (1989), San Diego Chargers (1990 to 1994), Houston Oilers (1995) and Philadelphia Eagles (1995).
Hendrickson died on January 8, 2021, at his home in Nampa, Idaho at the age of 54.
Steve Lightle
Steve Lightle (November 19, 1959 – January 8, 2021) was an American comics artist. He worked as a penciller. He was best known as the artist of DC Comics' "Legion of Super-Heroes" and "Doom Patrol" titles. He was born in Kansas.
Lightle died on January 8, 2021 from cardiac arrest caused by COVID-19 at the age of 61.
Diana Millay
Diana Claire Millay (June 7, 1935 – January 8, 2021) was an American actress. She was best known for her roles as Laura Collins in "Dark Shadows" and as Kitty Styles in "The Secret Storm".
Millay died on 8 January 2021 in New York at the age of 85.
Bill Nankeville
George William Nankeville (24 March 1925 – 8 January 2021) was a British middle distance athlete. He won the AAA mile title four times in five years from 1948 to 1952. He was born in Guildford, Surrey. He competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Nankeville died on 8 January 2021 at the age of 95.
Ivo Niederle
Ivo Niederle (26 December 1929 – 8 January 2021) was a Czech actor, entertainer, and commentator. He was born in Prague. He was known for his stage works at Municipal Theaters of Prague. His best known movie and television roles were in "Close to Heaven", "Žena za pultem", "Coach to Vienna".
Niederle died on 8 January 2021 in Prague, aged 91.
Pippo Santonastaso
Pippo Santonastaso (born 25 May 1936) is an Italian actor and comedian. He was born in Castel San Giovanni, Piacenza.
Santonastaso created an original comic duo with his younger brother Mario and were in many RAI variety shows. He appeared in many commedia sexy all'italiana movies such as "Geometra Prinetti selvaggiamente Osvaldo".
Katharine Whitehorn
Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn CBE (2 March 1928 – 8 January 2021) was a British journalist, columnist, author and radio presenter. She was the first woman to have a column in "The Observer". It ran from 1963 to 1996 and from 2011 to 2017. She was the first female rector of a university in Scotland. She was born in London.
Whitehorn died on 8 January 2021 in London, aged 92. She had Alzheimer's disease and was diagnosed with COVID-19 before her death.
Shirley Wilson
Shirley Schaub Wilson (September 26, 1925 – January 8, 2021) was an American football coach and player. He was the head football coach at Elon University for 1967 to 1976 and at Duke University from 1979 to 1982. He was born in Madison, North Carolina.
Wilson died on January 8, 2021 in Burlington, North Carolina at the age of 95.
Madison, North Carolina
Madison is a town in Rockingham County, North Carolina. 2,246 people lived here in 2010.
Burlington, North Carolina
Burlington is a city in Alamance and Guilford counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the main city of the Burlington, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. 50,042 people lived here at the 2010 census.
Graham, North Carolina
Graham is a city in Alamance County, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Burlington, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census 14,153 people lived here. It is the county seat of Alamance County.
Thomas G. Carpenter
Thomas Glenn Carpenter (February 27, 1926 – January 6, 2021) was an American educator and university administrator. He was the founding President of the University of North Florida (UNF) from 1969–1980, and was President of Memphis State University from 1980 to 1991.
Carpenter died on January 6, 2021 at the age of 94.
Pedro Casado Bucho (20 November 1937 – 10 January 2021) was a Spanish footballer. He played as a defender. Casado was born in Madrid. From 1956 to 1966, he played for Real Madrid and Plus Ultra from 1957 to 1960. In 1961, he made one appearance for the national team.
Casado died on 10 January 2021 in Madrid, aged 83.
Georges Pernoud
Georges Alexis Pernoud (11 August 1947 – 10 January 2021) was a French journalist, television presenter and television producer. He was known for presenting his television documentary "Thalassa" from 1980 to 2017. He was born in Rabat, Morocco.
Pernoud died in Paris on 10 January 2021, aged 73.
Eve Branson
Evette Huntley Branson (née Flindt; 12 July 1924 – 11 January 2021) was a British philanthropist and child welfare activist. She was the mother of Richard Branson. Branson was born in Edmonton, Middlesex.
Branson toured Germany as a ballet dancer with Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). She later became an airline hostess for British South American Airways.
Branson was a member of the board of directors of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children ("ICMEC").
Branson died from COVID-19 on 11 January 2021 at the age of 96.
Lloyd Cowan
Lloyd Cowan (8 July 1962 – January 2021) was a British track and field athlete. He was born in London.
Cowan was selected for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, but he could not go because of an illness. He represented England in the 110 metres hurdles event, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games.
He won his last medal at the AAA nationals in 1999.
On 11 January 2021, it was announced that Cowan had died at the age of 58.
Turlapaty Kutumba Rao
Turlapaty Kutumba Rao (1931 – 11 January 2021) was an Indian journalist and orator. He was known for his journalism in the Telugu language. He was said to have written 4,000 biographies and delivered over 16,000 public speeches which has been recorded by the Telugu Book of Records as a world record.
He was honored by the Government of India, in 2002, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri making him the first journalist from the state of Andhra Pradesh to receive the award.
Rao died on 11 January 2021 in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh at the age of 89.
András Haán
András Haán (19 June 1946 – 5 January 2021) was a Hungarian basketball player and sailor. He was born in Budapest. He competed in the men's basketball tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He also competed in the sailing at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Haán died on 5 January 2021 in Budapest, aged 74.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Eddie Bernice Johnson (born December 3, 1935) is an American politician. She was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas's 30th congressional district. Johnson is a member of the Democratic Party.
William Joseph Burns
William Joseph Burns (born April 11, 1956) is an American politician. Burns is the 8th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency since March 19, 2021 during the Joe Biden administration. He was President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was United States Deputy Secretary of State from 2011 to 2014.
He was Ambassador of the United States to Jordan from 1998 to 2001, Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs from 2001 to 2005, Ambassador of the United States to the Russian Federation from 2005 to 2008, and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2008 to 2011.
On January 11, 2021, President-elect Joe Biden nominated him to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. On March 18, 2021 the United States Senate confirmed his nomination.
Natascha McElhone
Life (Culture Club album)
Life is an album by Culture Club. It was released in 2018. It was their sixth album together (apart from several Greatest Hits albums.)
'God and Love' 'Human Zoo', 'Let Somebody Love You', 'What Does Sorry Mean?', 'Runaway Train', 'Resting Bitch Face', 'Different Man', 'Oil and Water', 'More than Silence', and 'Life'
David Khakhaleishvili
David Khakhaleishvili (, 28 February 1971 – 11 January 2021) was a Georgian heavyweight judoka, mixed martial artist and Olympic gold medalist. He was born in Kutaisi, Georgia. He won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He was not able to qualify for the 1996 Summer Olympics because of his weight.
Khakhaleishvili died of heart disease on 11 January 2021 in Tbilisi, Georgia at the age of 49.
Liberia is a country in West Africa. White Americans made the American Colonization Society and bought the land in 1822. They didn't want black people who were not slaves to be in the United States. So they took some of them to Liberia. At the start of the American Civil War (in the 1860s) about 12,000 freed slaves lived there.
The name of the country means "Land of the Free" in Latin. Liberia gained its independence on July 26, 1847. Joseph Jenkins Roberts was the first president of Liberia. European states were quick to recognize Liberia as a state, but it took the US until 1862 to do so. Many of the black people who were sent to Liberia were missionaries. Its official language today is English because of this history.
In the 1990s and in the early 2000s, two civil wars badly affected the country.
The country's constitution is similar to that of the United States. In the 2017 elections, George Weah became the twenty-fifth President of Liberia. The President before Weah was Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first African female president.
Wayne Radford (May 29, 1956 – January 11, 2021) was an American professional basketball player. He played the guard position. Raford was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He won the NCAA Division I championships in 1976. From 1978 to 1979, Radford played for the Indiana Pacers.
Radford died on January 11, 2021 at the age of 64.
Jessie Cave
Shefali Chowdhury
Shefali Chowdhury (born 20 June 1988) is a Welsh actress. She played Parvati Patil in the "Harry Potter" movie series, except for "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" (2004).
Chowdhury was born in Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales. Her parents were from Bangladesh. Chowdhury's career began in 2005.
Second impeachment of Donald Trump
Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, was impeached for a second time by the United States House of Representatives on January 13, 2021. This made Trump the only president to be impeached twice. After the impeachment, a trial happened in the United States Senate. It happened after his presidency ended. The Senate voted that Trump was not guilty, with only 57 guilty votes. Over two thirds (67) votes were needed for Trump to be found guilty.
After the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters on January 6, 2021, many government officials said that Trump had told them to do it. Because of this, Members of Congress from both the Democratic Party wanted to remove Trump from his office as President of the United States. Most Republicans still support the President.
Firstly, they wanted Section 4 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution to be used by Vice President Mike Pence, which would remove office from Trump immediately. If he didn't do this, they said they would impeach him in the House of Representatives and convict him in the Senate instead. Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment was also talked about.
As of January 8, Democrats planned to push for an impeachment resolution on January 11. By late January 9, it was said that Pence had not ruled out that he might use the 25th Amendment. On January 11, an Article of Impeachment saying that Trump caused the "lawless action at the Capitol" began in the United States House of Representatives.
On January 13, the House voted to impeach Trump.
Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He wrote the best-selling memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius".
Eggers is also the founder of "McSweeney's", a co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia and the human rights nonprofit Voice of Witness, and the founder of ScholarMatch.
Amnon Rubinstein
Amnon Rubinstein (, born 5 September 1931) is an Israeli legal scholar, politician, and columnist. He was a member of the Knesset between 1977 and 2002. He was born in Tel Aviv. Rubinstein was a member and leader of the Shinui party. He was a member of the Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin cabinets.
Rubinstein was Minister of Communications from 1984 to 1987. He was Minister of Science, Technology and Space in 1992. From 1992 to 1993, he was Minister of National Infrastructures, Energy and Resources. From 1993 to 1996, Rubinstein was Minister of Education, Culture and Sport.
In 2006, Rubinstein won the Israel Prize, for law.
Nina Wiener
The Jerusalem Post
Slash-and-burn
Slash-and-burn is a technique that has been used for thousands of years. Usually at the start of the dry season, a plot of land is cleared of its vegetation. Very often, this is done manually, for example using machetes. This can take a long time, clearing a hectare can take up to 120 hours of work. If the land is to be used for crops that last more than two years, the roots need to be cleared as well. Usually this is not done for annual plants. The plants cleared are left to dry, often for weeks. When they are dry enough, they are burnt. The ash that is created makes the soil fertile. Weeds, and other pests have also been eliminated, so the field can be used for agriculture. After three to five years, the extra fertility is gone, and the farmer usually moves ot another field (or again uses slash-and-burn).
While the technique is very simple, it also has problems: Often, fires created get out of control, and more land is burned than necessary. That way, a territory the size of Belgium burned down in a fire, created in 1989, in the state of Roraima in Brazil. In general, there are few large fires in the rainforest. the climate is very wet, and rivers block the fires. In southeast Asia, between May and October, many people have health problems because of the clouds of smoke. During that time, slash-and-burn operations happen in Indonesia. These fires are responsible for the clouds.
Millions of people use slash-and-burn agriculture, often as a way of subsistence farming. For this reason, the practice cannot be outlawed. Some steps can be taken ot lessen the impact on the ecosystem: