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Siv Widerberg (12 June 1931 – 24 December 2020) was a Swedish writer and journalist. She received "doctor honoris causa" from the University of Umeå. She was born in Bromma, Sweden. She was a member of the Swedish Academy for Children's Books.
Widerberg died on 24 December 2020 in Stockholm, aged 89.
Reginald Foster (Latinist)
Reginald Thomas Foster (November 14, 1939 – December 25, 2020) was an American Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Discalced Carmelites. From 1970 until his retirement in 2009, he worked in the Latin Letters section of the Secretariat of State in the Vatican.
Foster died on December 25, 2020 at the age of 81.
Dab (dance)
Dabbing, or the dab, is a simple dance move in which a person drops their head into their bent upwardly angled arm, while raising the opposite arm out straight in a parallel direction.
Since 2015, dabbing has been used as a playful manner, becoming a youthful fad and Internet meme.
The move looks like someone sneezing into their elbow.
Milka Babović
Milena "Milka" Babović (27 October 1928 – 26 December 2020) was a Croatian sprint and hurdles runner and journalist. Babović was born in Skopje and grew up in Sarajevo, but moved to Ruma and Belgrade. She came in fifth place at the 1954 European Championships.
She was a journalist for "Narodni sport". She was a multiple-time president of the sport journalist section of the Croatian Journalist Association and was a member of the Yugoslav Olympic Committee.
Babović died of COVID-19 in Zagreb on 26 December 2020 at the age of 92.
Brian Binley
Brian Arthur Roland Binley (1 April 1942 – December 2020) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Northampton South from 2005 to 2015. Binley was born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.
Binley died in December 2020 at the age of 78.
George Blake
George Blake (' Behar; 11 November 1922 – 26 December 2020) was a British spy. He worked as a double agent for the Soviet Union. He became a Communist and decided to work for the KGB while a prisoner during the Korean War.
His crimes as a double agent was discovered in 1961 and sentenced to 42 years in prison. He escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison in 1966 and fled to the Soviet Union.
Blake died on 26 December 2020, aged 98, in Moscow.
Cambridge Five
The Cambridge Spy Ring was a group of spies in the United Kingdom that passed information to the Soviet Union during and after World War II. It was active from the later 1930s until at least into the early 1950s.
None was ever prosecuted for spying. The number and membership of the ring became public slowly, since the 1950s. Their most damaging achievement was to pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union.
The sudden flight of Donald Maclean (cryptonym: Homer) and Guy Burgess (cryptonym: Hicks) to the Soviet Union in 1951 was the first public news.
In 1961, defector Anatoliy Golitsyn provided information which pointed to Kim Philby. Philby (cryptonyms: Sonny, Stanley), fled the country in 1963. He spent the rest of his life in Moscow.
After Philby's flight, British intelligence got confessions from Anthony Blunt (cryptonyms: Tony, Johnson) and then John Cairncross (cryptonym: Liszt), who were the last two of a group of five. Their involvement was kept secret for many years: until 1979 for Blunt, and 1990 for Cairncross.
The group became known as the Cambridge Five. All five spies met as students or teachers at Cambridge University.
Anthony Blunt
Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), styled Sir Anthony Blunt KCVO from 1956 to 1979, was a British art historian and spy. In 1964, he confessed to having been a spy for the Soviet Union and was part of the spy group the Cambridge Five.
Chic McLelland
Chic McLelland (24 March 1953 – 26 December 2020) was a Scottish football player and manager. He played for Aberdeen, Motherwell, Dundee and Montrose. His playing career lasted from 1973 to 1990. His managing career lasted from 1990 to 1991.
McLelland was born in Glasgow. He died on 26 December 2020 at the age of 63.
Julio César Rojas López (June 14, 1955 – December 26, 2020) known as Tito Rojas a.k.a. "El Gallo Salsero" was a Puerto Rican salsa singer. He was born in Humacao, Puerto Rico. His career began in 1972. He was known for his albums: "Tres Mujeres" (1987), "Sensual" (1990), "Vida" (2010), "Independiente" (2011) and "El Viajero" (2014).
Rojas died on December 26, 2020, at the age of 65, after suffering a heart attack in Humacao.
Humacao, Puerto Rico
Humacao () is a municipality in Puerto Rico.
Nomvuzo Shabalala
Nomvuzo Francisca Shabalala (1960 – 26 December 2020) was a South African politician. She was a member of the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party. From 2011 to 2016 she was the deputy mayor of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality. In 2018, Shabalala was elected a member of the National Assembly.
Shabalala died on 26 December 2020 at the age of 60. The cause of death was problems caused by COVID-19.
Kadambur R. Janarthanan
Kadambur R. Janarthanan (22 October 1929 – 26 December 2020) was an Indian politician and trade unionist. He was born in Tamil Nadu, India. He was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1984. He left the parliament in 1996 only to serve again from 1998 to 1999.
Janarthanan died on 26 December 2020 at the age of 91.
Leader of the Opposition (Scotland)
The Leader of the Opposition is an informal term given to the leader of the largest party not in government in the Scottish Parliament. Since 11 August 2020, this has been Ruth Davidson of the Scottish Conservative Party.
Ruma
"More Cowbell" is a comedy sketch. It is a part of "Saturday Night Live". It was first shown on television on April 8, 2000. The sketch is shown as a fake episode of "Behind the Music". It is about the real band Blue Öyster Cult making a sound recording for the song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper". Will Ferrell is shown in the sketch as a man playing the cowbell. He plays the cowbell very loud and annoys the members of Blue Öyster Cult. Christopher Walken is in the sketch as a music producer that keeps asking for the cowbell to be louder.
Many people thought that it was one of the best sketches of Saturday Night Live. "Rolling Stone" named it the 9th best sketch of Saturday Night Live. "More Cowbell" became a catchphrase in popular culture.
Rastamouse
Rastamouse is a British animated program on CBeebies.
The show was created in 2011.
Peter Parker (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Peter Parker, known as Spider-Man, is a fictional character who appears in some movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe such as "", "", "", "", and "". He is based on the Marvel Comics superhero of the same name and is portrayed by Tom Holland. This is the fourth time Spider-Man has been played in the movies, following after Tobey Maguire's portrayal in Sam Raimi's film series and Andrew Garfield's portrayal in Marc Webb's "The Amazing Spider-Man" movies.
Peter Parker is a teenager in New York City who has had spider-like abilities for a while. He lives with his Aunt May and is best friends with Ned Leeds. One day, Tony Stark, the president of Stark Industries who also serves as Iron Man, comes to visit him and Aunt May. Mr. Stark recruits Peter, whom he has figured out is Spider-Man, to fight alongside some other superheroes during a dispute with Captain America.
Tom Holland's portrayal of a teenaged Spider-Man in the films has been well-liked, though some people made fun of him for being too dependent on Iron-Man.
Slovene Americans
Latvian Americans
Turn or Turn: Washington's Spies is an American television show. It is set during the American Revolutionary War. It is about the spies and the beginning of espionage. It was on television for four seasons. It started in 2014.
"Turn" is based on the Culper Ring, real spies from the Revolutionary War. The television show was based on the book "Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring", by Alexander Rose. The book is not fiction. Rose is one of the show's producers and writers.
A cabbage farmer named Abraham Woodhull (Jaime Bell) and his friends become spies for George Washington (Ian Kahn). The story covers the British plan to use counterfeit money, the time Benedict Arnold changed sides, and the execution of John Andre.
Much of the story takes place on Long Island in New York. It also shows other parts of the American colonies, including Manhattan, Philadelphia, and West Point.
According to Long Island historian Margo Arceri, the show is "about 70 percent inaccurate."
Because of the television show, more tourists came to Long Island. Many of the buildings where the real Culper Ring spies worked are still there.
Icelandic Americans
Icelandic Americans are Americans of Icelandic descent or Iceland-born people who reside in the United States. Icelandic immigrants came to the United States primarily in the period 1873–1905 and after World War II.
Estonian Americans
Faroese Americans
Monacan Americans
Kazakh Americans
Kashubian Americans
Sorbian Americans
Liechtensteiner Americans
Liechtensteiner Americans are Americans of Liechtensteiner descent.
The first Liechtensteiner emigrants of which have record emigrated in United States in the early 1830s. However, first great wave of Liechtensteiner emigrants arrived to the United States on April 7, 1851, settling in New Orleans; and in 1852 other group emigrated to Dubuque, Iowa (including stonemasons, bricklayers and carpenters). Eventually, many of the Liechtensteiner emigrants of Dubuque left the city and got farms nearby. However, the Liechtensteiner emigration was reduced during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Later, when the construction of railroads began "lying the country together and opening up the West", other Liechtensteiners emigrated to United States to work in the construction of railroads.
During the following decades, many other Liechtensteiners emigrated to places such as Guttenberg, Iowa and Wabash, Indiana. However, between 1885 and 1907, Liechtensteiner emigration slowed, limited to a few individuals and families. Less than 30 Liechtensteiners emigrated during that period to United States. Reducing migration was due to the large increase in economic activity from the establishment of first textile factories in the 1880s.
The First World War caused an economic crisis in Liechtenstein (which originated, among other things, because the Entente allies stopped the "import of raw materials" into the country and the "massive speculation by the national bank"), so the Liechtenstein emigration to United States was retaken. Most of the new Liechtensteiner emigrants settled in urban areas, especially in Chicago and Hammond, Indiana, but there were Liechtensteiners throughout the country.
After the Second World War, a few more Liechtensteiners emigrated to the United States, the largest number arriving in 1948, when fifteen individuals or families came to this country. The reduction of the Liechtenstein emigration was due to improvements in economic conditions of Liechtenstein.
Luxembourgian Americans
Luxembourgish Americans are Americans of Luxembourgish ancestry. According to the United States' 2000 Census, there were 45,139 Americans of full or partial Luxembourgish descent. In 1940 the number of Americans with Luxembourgish ancestry was around 100,000.
Cajuns
The Cajuns, also known as "Acadians", are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. states of Louisiana and Texas, and in the Canadian maritimes providences consisting in part of the descendants of the original Acadian exiles-French-speakers from Acadia in what are now The Maritimes of Eastern Canada.
Uruguayan Americans
Bolivian Americans
Bolivian Americans (, or ) are Americans of at least partial Bolivian descent.
Costa Rican Americans
Costa Rican Americans () are Americans of at least partial Costa Rican descent.
Nancy Kress
Nancy Kress (born January 20, 1948) is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976. She has achieved her greatest notice since her Hugo and Nebula Award winning novella "Beggars in Spain". The book, in 1993, became a novel.
Kress later won the Nebula Award for Best Novella for another book: "After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall" in 2013. She also won in 2015 for the book "Yesterday's Kin".
Kress, in addition to her novels, has written a number of short stories. She is a regular columnist for "Writer's Digest".
Kress was born in Buffalo, New York.
Ina Garten
Ina Rosenberg Garten (pronounced EYE-nuh; born February 2, 1948) is an American author and host of the Food Network show "Barefoot Contessa". She was a staff member of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Garten has a number of best-selling cookbooks, magazine products and a popular Food Network television show.
Garten was born in Brooklyn, New York.
2020 Nashville bombing
On December 25, 2020, a recreational vehicle (RV) exploded in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, United States, injuring three people and damaging many buildings.
Human remains were found at the site of the explosion. The explosion took place at 166 Second Avenue North between Church Street and Commerce Street at 6:30 am.
Many people heard gunshots, and loudspeakers on the vehicle warning people to evacuate before the explosion happened.
The explosion was felt many miles away from the crime site. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is leading the investigation.
Authorities said the next day that the attack was likely a suicide bombing. The FBI named a 63-year-old man as a person of interest in the investigation. The FBI searched his home in Nashville on December 26.
Ned Wynn
Ned Wynn (April 27, 1941 – December 20, 2020) was an American actor and screenwriter. He was born in New York City. He played Alonzo in "The Absent-Minded Professor" (1961) and "Son of Flubber" (1963). He also played Luke in "Stagecoach" (1966).
Wynn was the son of actor Keenan Wynn and grandson of Ed Wynn.
Wynn died on December 20, 2020 in Sonoma County, California from Parkinson's disease-related problems, aged 79.
William Magee (politician)
William D. "Bill" Magee (June 21, 1939 – December 24, 2020) was an American Democratic politician. He was a member of the New York State Assembly, who represented the 121st Assembly District from 1991 until 2018. He was born in Oneida, New York. He was also a businessman.
Magee died on December 24, 2020 in Nelson, New York at the age of 81.
Oneida, New York
Oneida () is a city in Madison County.
Wampsville, New York
Wampsville is a village found inside the Town of Lenox in Madison County, New York. About 543 people lived here as of the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Madison County.
Lenox, New York
Lenox is a town in Madison County, New York, United States. 9,112 lived here as of the 2010 census.
Nelson, New York
Nelson is a town in Madison County, New York, United States. About 1,980 people lived here at the 2010 census.
Amit Mitra
Amit Mitra (born 20 December 1947) is an Indian economist and politician. He is a member of the All India Trinamool Congress and the current Finance, Commerce & Industries Minister of the government of Indian state of West Bengal.
He is the current MLA in the West Bengal state assembly from the Khardaha state assembly constituency. He was awarded Padma Shri at 2007. He beat Asim Dasgupta, the ex-West Bengal Finance Minister.
He was was the Secretary general of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
Danny Hodge
Daniel Allen Hodge (May 13, 1932 – December 25, 2020) was an American wrestler and boxer. He was born and raised in Perry, Oklahoma. He was known for being able to crush apples with one hand. He won a silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Hodge died of Alzheimer's disease-related problems in Perry on December 25, 2020 at the age of 88.
Barry Lopez
Barry Holstun Lopez (January 6, 1945December 25, 2020) was an American writer. He won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for "Arctic Dreams" (1986) and his "Of Wolves and Men" (1978) was a National Book Award finalist.
Lopez died on December 25, 2020 from prostate cancer in Eugene, Oregon at the age of 75.
Gregorio Salvador Caja
Gregorio Salvador Caja (11 July 1927 – 26 December 2020) was a Spanish linguist. Salvador Caja was born in Cúllar, Granada, Spain. His works were about structural semantics. He wrote for the Spanish newspaper ABC. Salvador Caja was elected to the Real Academia Española on 5 June 1986.
Salvador Caja died on 26 December 2020 at the age of 93.
French Sailing Federation
The French Sailing Federation (FFV) () is the governing body of sailing in France.
Mike Sutton (footballer)
Michael John Sutton (5 October 1944 – 26 December 2020) was an English professional footballer. He was born in Norwich, England. His playing career lasted from 1962 to 1984. He played for Norwich City, Chester City, Carlisle United and Great Yarmouth Town.
Sutton died of dementia-related problems on 26 December 2020 at the age of 76.
Sunil Kothari
Sunil Kothari (20 December 1933 – 27 December 2020) was an Indian dance historian, scholar and critic. He was a professor at Ravindra Bharti University in Kolkata. He started his career with "The Times of India". He also taught at Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics. In 2001, he was honored with the Padma Shri.
Kothari died on 27 December 2020 from cardiac arrest in Kolkata, one week after his 87th birthday.
Hector and the Search for Happiness (movie)
Hector and the Search for Happiness is a 2014 comedy-drama movie directed by Peter Chelsom. It was based on François Lelord's book.
The movie stars Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Toni Collette, Jean Reno, Stellan Skarsgård, Barry Atsma and Christopher Plummer with Togo Igawa.
The movie was released on 15 August 2014 to negative reviews and has a 37% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Barry Atsma
Nicolas Hénard
Nicolas Hénard (born 16 September 1964 in Calais) is a French skipper. He is the current president of the French Sailing Federation.
Togo Igawa
, known professionally as , is a Japanese actor. He was born in Tokyo. Igawa is known for his roles in British movies. His career began in 1979.
Igawa is known for his roles in "Revolver", "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "The Last Samurai". He also voiced Hiro in many "Thomas & Friends" movies.
One Blackfriars
One Blackfriars is a skyscraper in London located at No. 1 Blackfriars Road in Bankside. It has 52 floors and 274 apartments, a hotel and retail shops. The building is tall. It is also known as The Vase or The Boomerang due to its shape.
The shape was inspired by the shape of glass vase Lansetti designed by Timo Sarpaneva in 1952.
Construction of the tower started in 2013. It includes 13 studio houses, 78 one bedroom houses, 120 two bedroom houses, 56 three bedroom houses, 6 four bedroom houses and 1 three apartment house. The tower was finished in 2019.
Peter Chelsom
Carlos Eduardo Cadoca
Carlos Eduardo Cintra da Costa Pereira (April 23, 1940 – December 13, 2020), better known as Carlos Eduardo Cadoca or simply Cadoca, was a Brazilian politician and lawyer. He was born in Recife, Pernambuco.
Cadoca was a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement, Social Christian Party and the Communist Party.
Cadoca was a member of the Recife city council from 1983 to 1995. He later was a member of the Pernambuco Legislative Assembly from 1995 to 1999. From 1999 to 2019, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies.
On December 13, 2020, Cadoca died in Recife from problems caused by COVID-19, aged 80.
Aaron Ehasz
Aaron Gabriel Ehasz (born June 16, 1973) is an American television writer and producer. He is known for being the co-executive producer of "" and the co-creator of the Netflix series "The Dragon Prince".
In November 2019, Ehasz was accused of sexism while working for Netflix.
Cooper pair
A Cooper pair is a pair of free electrons within a solid that act together as one quasiparticle and in large numbers give rise to superconductivity.
Physicists explain superconductivity by describing what happens when temperatures get cold. The thermal energy in a solid or liquid shakes the atoms so they randomly vibrate, but this gets less as the temperature drops. Electrons carry the same negative electric charge which makes them repel each other. At higher temperatures each unbound electron behaves as if it were a free particle. There is also however a very weak attraction between electrons when they are in any solid or liquid. This is due to the way bound electrons distort the spacing of the atomic structure they find themselves in. At relatively rather large distances (many hundreds of nanometers apart) and low temperatures (near absolute zero), the attractive effect and lack of thermal energy allows pairs of electrons to hang together. This is called a cooper pair and it is a quasiparticle, that is it acts as if it were a new kind of particle in its own right even though it is made up of two fundamental electrons.
Many overlapping cooper pairs can exist in the same nanometer sized space. Since paired electrons constitute a boson the motions of all of the cooper pairs within a single superconductor synchronise and they function as if they are a single entity. This is known as the Bose–Einstein condensation. The Cooper pairs form this condensate, which is superfluid or super-conducting. Small disturbances such as scattering of electrons are forbidden in this state as long as the temperature remains low. It moves as one showing no resistance to its motion. It is hence now a superconductor.
Operculum
Mohamed El Ouafa
Mohamed El Ouafa ( - 1948 – 27 December 2020) was a Moroccan politician. He was a member of Istiqlal Party. He was Minister of Education in Abdelilah Benkirane's cabinet from 2012 to 2013. Between 2000 and 2012 he was Ambassador to India, Iran and Brazil.
Ouafa died of COVID-19 on 27 December 2020 in Rabat, Morocco at the age of 72.
Chandrakant Chiplunkar Seedi Bamba Wala
Chandrakant Chiplunkar Seedi Bambawala was a Hindi comedy television series that aired on SAB TV. The show was premiered on August 18th, 2014, and ended on November 12th, 2014. The show revolved around a fire brigade employee of Marathi origin who belonged to a middle-class family.
The show hit the small screen every week from Monday to Friday at 10 p.m. The TV series showcased the funny incidents in which the firefighter gets involved and which then results in a comedy of errors. Every time he gets trapped into hilarious events, his cosmopolitan friends or family members or his neighbors assist him.
The serial explores the life of the Chiplunkar family and their interesting mix of neighbours who always come together to help each other. The lead protagonist is being played by Prashant Damle, as Chandrakant Chiplunkar, a fire brigade employee. Kavita Lad and Anang Desai played supportive cast in the serial.
Yuichiro Hata
He was the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism from June 4, 2012 until December 26, 2012 during the Yoshihiko Noda cabinet. Hata was the son of Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata.
Hata died in Tokyo on December 27, 2020 after being hospitalized with a fever, aged 53. He was about to be tested for COVID-19 at the time of his death.
Sergio Pintor
Sergio Pintor (16 November 1937 – 27 December 2020) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate. He was an Diocesan Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ozieri from 2006 to 2012. Pintor was born in Oristano, Italy. In 1961, he became a priest.
Pintor died on 27 December 2020 in Ozieri, Italy at the age of 83.
Carmen Calvo
María del Carmen Calvo Poyato (born 9 June 1957) is a Spanish politician and author. She became the Deputy Prime Minister of Spain in June 2018 and Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Cortes and Equality in January 2020. Calvo is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party.
Calvo was born in Cabra, Spain. She studied at University of Seville and the University of Córdoba.
From 2004 until 2011, she was a member of the Congress of Deputies. In 2019, she was re-elected to the congress.
On 25 March 2020, Calvo tested positive for COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain. She made a recovery from the illness in May 2020.
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ( ; PSOE ) is a social-democratic political party in Spain. The PSOE has been in government for a longer time than any other political party in modern democratic Spain.
The party was in charge of the Spanish government from 1982 to 1996 under Felipe González; from 2004 to 2011 under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero; and currently since 2018 under Pedro Sánchez.
The PSOE was founded in 1879, making it the oldest party currently active in Spain. When it was founded, it was a Marxist party, however they stopped supporting Marxism in 1979.
Cabra, Spain
Cabra is a town in Córdoba province, Andalusia, Spain. About 20,940 lived here in 2005.
Alfonso Guerra
Alfonso Guerra González (born 31 May 1940) is a Spanish politician. From 1982 to 1991, he was Deputy Prime Minister of Spain.
Rodolfo Martín Villa
Rodolfo Martín Villa (born 3 October 1934) is a Spanish engineer and politician. He was the Deputy Prime Minister of Spain from 1981 to 1982.
He is being investigated in Argentina for murder and crimes against humanity during the 1976 Vitoria massacre.
Leader of the Opposition (Spain)
Miguel Herrero y Rodríguez de Miñón
Miguel Herrero y Rodríguez de Miñón (born 18 June 1940) is a Spanish jurist and politician. He is a member of the Union of the Democratic Centre until 1982, then of People's Alliance and the People's Party.
He is one of the "Fathers of the Constitution", the seven politicians who were part of the draft of the Spanish constitution in 1978.
Joaquín Almunia
Joaquín Almunia Amann (born 17 June 1948) is a Spanish politician. He was President of the European Commissioner for Competition (2009–2014).
From 1997 to 2000, he was the leader of the opposition as secretary general of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.
Antonio Hernández Mancha
Antonio Hernández Mancha (born 1 April 1951) is a Spanish politician, lawyer and businessman. He was president of the People's Alliance political party and Spain's Leader of the Opposition from 1987 to 1989.
People's Party (Spain)
The People's Party ( ; known mostly by its acronym, PP ) is a conservative and Christian-democratic political party in Spain.
The People's Party was founded in 1989 from the People's Alliance (AP). This party was created as a more centre-right party instead of a far-right party.
Next Spanish general election
The next Spanish general election will be held no later than Sunday 10 December 2023, to elect the 15th Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies will be up for election, as well as 208 of 265 seats in the Senate.
Happiness pump
A happiness pump is an idea in philosophy. A happiness pump is someone who will do anything to make other people happy even if it makes them very unhappy themselves. They have turned themselves into a machine (a "pump") that makes happiness.
The happiness pump is a way of showing problems in utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is a moral philosophy. It is a way of deciding which actions are good and which are bad. In utilitarianism, actions that make more happiness or stop pain are good. Actions that stop happiness or make pain are bad. In utilitarianism, it does not matter who is becoming happier or feeling less pain. That means that, in utilitarianism, helping strangers is good. The happiness pump is a person who has taken utilitarianism too far and will give themselves lots of pain so long as they believe it makes other people somewhere in the world much happier.
The happiness pump is only an idea. Philosopher Joshua David Greene says it is almost impossible to be a happiness pump for real. People who even tried would give up.
A happiness pump character is on one episode of the television show "The Good Place".
Inés Arrimadas
Inés Arrimadas García (; born 3 July 1981) is a Spanish lawyer and politician. She has been a member of the Congress of Deputies since 2019 and Spokesperson of Citizens party in the Congress. In 2020, she was elected party leader.
April 2019 Spanish general election
The April 2019 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 28 April 2019, to elect the 13th Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 266 seats in the Senate.
With a turnout of 71.8%, the controlling party PSOE of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez won a victory—the first for the party in a nationwide election in eleven years—with 28.7% of the vote and 123 seats. In the Senate, the PSOE became the largest party in the chamber for the first time since 1995, winning its first majority of seats in that chamber since the 1989 election.
However, no party won an outright majority and the top three winners of this race had the option for a coalition government. To prevent this, Prime Minister Sánchez ordered a new election to be held seven months later.
November 2019 Spanish general election
The November 2019 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 10 November 2019, to elect the 14th Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 265 seats in the Senate.
Voter turnout was the lowest since 1975. The opposition party People's Party (PP) won a few seats while the far-right Vox party won many seats, taking away from the Citizens (Cs).
However, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party won the majority of the seats and popular vote and formed a coalition government with the Unidas Podemos party.
Oriol Junqueras
Oriol Junqueras i Vies (; born 11 April 1969) is a Spanish politician, historian and academic.
He was mayor of Sant Vicenç dels Horts. He was Vice President of Catalonia from January 2016 to October 2017. He is president of the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC).
President of the Government of Catalonia
The president of the Government of Catalonia (, ) is one of the main parts of government that make up the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia. The president also is head of government of Catalonia.
The current acting president is Pere Aragonès following Quim Torra's disqualification as president in 28 September 2020.
Josep Tarradellas
Josep Tarradellas i Joan (), 1st Marquess of Tarradellas (1899 in Cervelló, Baix Llobregat – 1988 in Barcelona) was a Spanish politician. He was President of Catalonia from 1954 to 1980.
José Montilla
José Montilla Aguilera (born 15 January 1955 in Iznájar, Córdoba, Spain) is a Spanish politician who is currently a member of the Spanish Senate. He was the 128th President of Generalitat de Catalunya.
Artur Mas
Artur Mas i Gavarró (; born 31 January 1956) is a Spanish politician. He was president of the Government of Catalonia from 2010 to 2015 and acting president from September 2015 to 12 January 2016.
Hugo Clément
Southeast Region, Brazil
Southeast Brazil (Portuguese: Sudeste Do Brasil) is one of five official regions in Brazil. It borders South Brazil, Center-West Brazil, and Northeast Brazil. It makes 60% of Brazil's gross domestic product. Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo are all in Southeast Brazil.
Tom and Jerry: The Movie is an 1993 German-American animated comedy-adventure musical family film directed by Phil Roman produced by
Film Roman and Turner Entertainment, distributed by Miramax Films. released in Germany by October 1, 1992 and United States in July 30, 1993.
Additional voices include Raymond McLeod as Bulldog, Alley Cat 1, Scott Wohjahn as Alley Cat 3, Mitchell D. Moore as Alley Cat 2, Greg Burson, BJ Ward, Tino Insana.
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (born 13 March 1973) is an Icelandic actor, producer and screenwriter. He is known for roles in movies such as "Children" (2006), "The Deep" (2012), "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (2013) and "The Vanishing" (2018). His television work includes shows such as "Trapped" and "Lady Dynamite".
Ólafur was born in Connecticut, United States, the son of Icelandic parents. He holds dual citizenship of Iceland and the United States. He has two children with dancer Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir.
John André
Major John André (b. 1750 - d. 1780) was a British officer in the American War for Independence. He helped Benedict Arnold change sides to the British army and tried to take West Point. He was executed for being a spy.
André was born in 1750 in London.
His parents were Huguenots. The Huguenots were Protestants who had lived in France. When the French government said it was illegal to be Protestants, many Huguenots went to other countries. André's mother went to England when she was young. His mother had been born in France and his father had been born in Geneva. André's father was a merchant. André's parents had one other son and three daughters.
André went to school in Geneva and then came back to England in 1767. He had a good education. He could draw, paint, play the flute, write poems, and speak English, French, German, and Italian.
André wanted to join the army, but at that time, people did not become officers unless they could buy the position. When André's father died in 1769, André had to make money to take care of his family. He became a merchant in his father's business.
André fell in love with an English woman named Honora Sneyd. But Sneyd's guardians would not let them marry unless André became rich. André worked hard to be a good merchant. But then Honora Sneyd changed her mind. Then André joined the army. According to Sneyd's foster sister, Anna Seward, André joined the army out of a broken heart.
André joined the army on March 4, 1771. He did special training in Germany for two years. In 1774, he went to Canada with the Royal English Fusileers. He was a lieutenant at the time. André helped defend St. John's from the American army. The siege lasted two months, and the British lost.
André was captured at St. John's. Because he was an officer and not an enlisted man, he was held prisoner in inns instead of barracks and ate dinner with rich people. André was kept prisoner in the house of the Cope family in Lancaster County. Many people in Lancaster County spoke German, and so could André, so he made friends. André also taught art to the Copes' son.
In 1776, André was sent back to the British army. He was traded for American prisoners. He wrote a book about everything he had learned about the British Colonies and drew maps of places he had been. He gave the book to British General William Howe in New York City. Howe thought the book was very good and that André was very intelligent. He promoted André to captain and made him aide to Major-General Charles Grey.
André was part of the invasion of Philadelphia in 1777. At the time, Philadelphia was the largest city in the thirteen colonies. The British captured it. André fought in the Battle of Brandywine, the Paoli Massacre, the Battle of Germantown, the Battle of Monmouth, and Grey's raids into Massachusetts and New Jersey in 1778. André kept a personal book during this time. That book is now a valuable historical source about the war.
During the winter of 1777-1778, there was less fighting because it was too cold and snowy. John André lived in Philadelphia in Benjamin Franklin's house. He wrote poetry for women, for example Peggy Shippen. He also threw a large party called Mischianza extravaganza. When the British left Philadelphia, André packed up and stole many of Benjamin Franklin's inventions, books, and other things. Historians think General Grey may have ordered him to do this.
In 1778, André was promoted to major and deputy Adjutant General.
In May of 1779, Benedict Arnold, a high-ranking American officer, told André he wanted to change sides if the British would give him £10,000 and high rank in the British military. He was the commander of the fort West Point. If the British had West Point, they could control the Hudson Valley and they would be much stronger in New England. André communicated with Arnold for months.
In 1779, André went with General Clinton to attack Charleston, South Carolina, and they won. André returned north with Clinton and began talking to Arnold again. Arnold said he had to meet André in person to plan the surrender of West Point.
In September 1779, André got on a ship and sailed up the Hudson. He met Arnold, who gave him papers and the plans to West Point. But André could not get back to his ship because American forces had attacked it, and it had sailed away. André decided to go back to British territory in disguise. He took off his British army uniform and put on ordinary clothes. On the way, he was captured by American freelance soldiers. They found the papers Arnold had given André. They arrested André as a spy.
Because André had been in disguise and not wearing his uniform, he was legally a spy and not only an enemy soldier. The punishment for being a spy was much worse. André was put on trial in Tappan, New York. Many of his friends wrote letters to George Washington to ask that he be allowed to live. Others asked that he be allowed to die by firing squad, which was the usual way soldiers were killed. On September 29, 1780, André was found guilty of being "under a feigned name and in a disguised habit." He was sentenced to die by hanging. André was hanged at noon on October 2, 1780.
At first, André was buried next to the Hudson River. A peach tree grew on top of his grave. In 1782, King George III had a monument built for André in Westminster Abbey.
In 1821, people dug up John André's bones and took them to England. He is buried in Westminster Abbey. They took the peach tree too and replanted it in the king's garden. There is another monument in Tappan, New York.
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