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Jean Poiret, born Jean Poiré, (17 August 1926 – 14 March 1992) was a French actor, director, and screenwriter. He was known as the author of the original play "La Cage aux Folles".
Leticia Lee
Leticia Lee See-yin (, 17 August 1964 – 16 December 2020) was a Hong Kong political activist. She was pro-China. Lee ran unsuccessfully in the 2016 Hong Kong legislative election. In 2018, Lee was accused of corruption. She had conservative views and her views of anti-LGBT rights made her controversial.
Lee died on 16 December 2020 at a Hong Kong hospital at the age of 56. She tested positive for COVID-19 in the simple test before she died but it's still not confirmed that she died from COVID-19.
Hanna Stankówna
Hanna Stanek-Lisowska (4 May 1938 – 14 December 2020) was a Polish actress. She was born in Poznań, Poland. She was known for her roles in "The Real End of the Great War", "Lokis" and "The Third Part of the Night".
Stankówna died on 14 December 2020 in Warsaw at the age of 82.
José María de la Torre Martín
José María de la Torre Martín (9 September 1952 – 14 December 2020) was a Mexican Roman Catholic bishop. De la Torres Martín was born in Mexico City. He became a priest in 1980. He was titular bishop of "Panatoria" and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guadalajara, Mexico from 2002 to 2008 and as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aguascalientes, Mexico, from 2008 until his death in 2020.
De la Torre Martín died on 14 December 2020 from COVID-19 in Aguascalientes, Mexico at the age of 68.
Manuel Costas (footballer, born 1942)
Manuel Costas Sanromán (8 May 1942 – 15 December 2020) was a Spanish professional footballer. He played as a defender. Costas was born in Panxón, Spain. He played for Sevilla FC from 1963 to 1974. He also played for Recreativo de Huelva from 1964 to 1965.
Costas died on 15 December 2020, aged 78.
Yaakov Agmon
Yaakov Agmon () (24 June 1929 – 16 December 2020) was an Israeli theater producer, manager, and director. He was born in Tel Aviv. He was director of United Jewish Appeal and also as a columnist and the secretary of the "Rimon" weekly publication.
In 1978, he founded Beit Lessin Theater. In 1995, Agmon was appointed general and artistic director of the Habima Theatre. In 2010, Agmon was appointed general manager of the Arabic-Hebrew theater of Jaffa.
Agmon died on 16 December 2020 at a hospital in Ramat Gan from COVID-19 at the age of 91.
Feng Duan
Feng Duan (; June 11, 1923 – 15 December 2020) was a Chinese physicist and politician. He was an expert in solid-state physics. He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1980 until his death. He was a delegate to the National People's Congress from 1983 to 1994. Feng was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu.
Feng died on 15 December 2020 in Nanjing, Jiangsu at the age of 97.
Tesfaye Gessesse
Tesfaye Gessesse (September 27, 1937 – December 16, 2020) was an Ethiopian actor and theatre director. He was born in Addis Ababa. He became the General Director of Hager Fikir Theatre in 1974. In 1975, he was removed and sent to prison by the Derg government after his play "Iqaw" which criticized as state terrorism.
Gessesse died on 16 December 2020, at the age of 84.
David Byrd (politician)
David Byrd (born September 8, 1957) is an American politician and retired basketball coach. He is a Republican. Byrd represented the 71st district of the Tennessee House of Representatives since 2015. He was born in Waynesboro, Tennessee.
On December 10, 2020 Byrd was hospitalized in Waynesboro with COVID-19 and placed in a ventilator.
Waynesboro, Tennessee
Waynesboro is a city in and the county seat of Wayne County, Tennessee, United States. 2,449 lived here since the 2010 census.
Wayne County, Tennessee
Wayne County is a county located in Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, 17,021 people lived here. Its county seat is Waynesboro.
Waldemaro Bartolozzi
Waldemaro Bartolozzi (26 October 1927 – 16 December 2020) was an Italian racing cyclist. He finished in ninth place in the 1956 Giro d'Italia. He was born in Scandicci, Italy.
Bartolozzi died on 16 December 2020 in Scandicci at the age of 93.
Scandicci
Crystal Lowe
Crystal Lowe (born January 20, 1981) is a Canadian actress and model. She is best known for her roles in horror movies such as roles as "" (2001), "Final Destination 3" (2006), "Black Christmas" (2006) and "" (2007).
Kawasaki theorem
Western Conference (MLS)
The Western Conference is one of Major League Soccer's two conferences. The other conference is the Eastern Conference.
† – The LA Galaxy were declared winners of the Western Division in 2001 after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks forced the cancellation of the rest of the regular season. The MLS Cup Playoffs began on September 20.
Taipei frog
The Taipei frog also referred to as Taipeh frog, Taipei grass frog, two-striped grass frog, striped slender frog, Taipei slender frog, Taipeh slender frog, white-banded frog, Taiwanese frog or stripe-backed frog ("Hylarana taipehensis") is a frog from China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
The adult frog is 4.0 cm long. It is bright yellow, green, brown, or mixed in color with some dark brown on the sides of its head. During the day, this frog stays where the trees are close to each other. It can live near humans, on farms and in cities.
La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes
The life of Guide of Tormes and of his fortunes and adversities (more known like Guide of Tormes) is an Spanish novel. It was written by an unknown author. It is written in first person and in style epistolar (like an single long letter). The first editions known are from date of 1554. The book is an autobiographical form of the life of a boy, Lázaro of Tormes, in the century XVI, from his birth and childhood problemsy until his wedding, already in the adulthood. It is considered precursor of the pictoresque novel by elements like the realism, the narration in first person, the itinerant structure, the service to several masters and the moralistic and pessimistic ideas
"Guide of Tormes" is an ironic and merciless outline of the society of the moment, of which show his vices and attitudes hipócritas, especially the ones of the clergymen and religious. There is different hypothesis on his authorship. Probably the author was simpatizante of the ideas erasmistas. This motivated that the Inquisition forbade it and that, later, allowed his publication, once expurgada. The work did not go back to be published entirely until the century XIX
Letterlike Symbols
Dressed to Kill (1980 movie)
Julie Fisher
Julie D. Fisher is an American diplomat. In December 2020, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved her designation as ambassador to Belarus. She will be the first American ambassador to that country since 2008, when the United States withdrew its ambassador as part of political tensions between the two countries. Previously, Ms. Fisher had been the U.S. chargé d'affaires and acting ambassador to Russia. She served as Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs from September 1, 2018 until July 22, 2020 after being the Deputy Permanent Representative of the U.S. Mission to NATO.
As an undergraduate, Ms. Fisher majored in Russian and East European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has a Master’s degree from the Woodrow Wilson School for International Affairs at Princeton University.
Aydın Büyükşehir Belediyespor
Aydın Büyükşehir Belediyespor is the women's volleyball department of Aydın Büyükşehir Belediyespor Kulübü, a Turkish sports club based in Aydın, Turkey. Aydın Büyükşehir Belediyespor was established on 7 November 2014. The team plays its home matches at the Mimar Sinan Spor Salonu hall in Aydin.
Samdari
Samdari is a tehsil of Barmer district in Rajasthan, northern India.
According to the Indian Census 2011, the population of Samdari is 25012, where male population is 12805 and female population is 12207.
In 2007 is a break of gauge junction station on Indian Railways. Broad gauge lines go to Munabao and Jodhpur, while a metre gauge line subject to conversion goes to Bhildi. Now broad gauge has completed and passenger train has started from 16 October 2010.
Mena Report (Middle East and North Africa Business Report) is a business news source established in 2001 and run by Al Bawaba (Amman, Jordan, and Dubai). It covers business and economics across the Arabic world.
The "Mena Report" was established in 2001. It covers economy and trade, IT and telecom, financial markets, oil and energy, agriculture, general industry, retail and services, transport and tourism. At time of launch, Menafn.com and Zawya.com provided similar content as the "Mena Report". Al Bawaba employs journalists and editors to cover news and events in the Middle East and North Africa. The content is presented on Al Bawaba's own website, and is syndicated to other publishers and aggregators. In 2009 the "Mena Report" portal claimed to have 123,409 monthly site visits.
Enclosed Alphanumerics
Enclosed Alphanumerics is a Unicode block (a group of symbols in Unicode). It has 160 symbols. Most of the symbols in the block are letters and numbers inside of circles or in parentheses. In the first Unicode plane (Basic Multilingual Plane), the blocks Dingbats and Enclosed CJK Letters and Months have more numbers inside of circles. In the next plane, the block Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement has symbols of letters inside of more circles, parentheses, and squares.
Many of the symbols were made to be used as bullets when writing lists. The numbers and letters in parentheses were made to look like how typewriters showed numbers and letters in circles. Unicode was made to think that the characters in this block look different than similar copyright symbols (for example, the copyright symbol (left) and the enclosed C (right): © and Ⓒ). The circled S (Ⓢ) was used by German missionaries at around 1900 as a symbol for the ditto mark.
Eric Lopez
Eric Lopez (born April 20, 1978) is an American voice actor, best known for his voice role of Blue Beetle in "Young Justice". He was born in Havana, Cuba.
Lopez is the current voice of the Bumblebee Man in "The Simpsons".
Vinland is an area of the coast of North America, which Leif Erikson discovered around AD 1000. The name appears in the Vinland Sagas. It probably describes Newfoundland and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, as far north as New Brunswick.
Note that the vines the name refers to could also have been blackcurrant. Even today, blackcurrant is called "Vinbär" ("wine-berry") in Swedish. In the north of Germany the name Weinbeere has been used to refer to blackcurrant, since the Middle Ages.The terms Meertrübli or Trübli (small grape) is still present in some southern German dialects, to refer to blackcurrant.
The first reference outside the Sagas is that of Adam of Bremen (1076) in his Gesta Hammaburgensis. He wrote: ""Praeterea unam adhuc insulam recitavit a multis in eo repertam occeano, quae dicitur Winland, eo quod ibi vites sponte nascantur, vinum optimum ferentes. Nam et fruges ibi non seminatas habundare, non fabulosa opinione, sed certa comperimus relatione Danorum."" This can be translated as: ""In addition [the king of the Danes] reports on one of many islands in the ocean, which is called Winland, because vines grow there wild, which produce wine. That there are fruit in abundance which have non been [planted], we have not known from an incredible rumour, but from the report of the Danes.""
Guaraní language
Guaraní is an American Indian language from Paraguay. It is an official language of Paraguay. Guaraní is written using the Guaraní alphabet.
Guaraní is one of the most widely spoken American languages. It is often used among the Paraguayan people and neighboring communities. This is unique among American languages. Language shift towards European colonial languages (in this case, Spanish) has been nearly universal in the Western Hemisphere. However, Paraguayans have kept their traditional language while also adopting Spanish.
Hugues Le Bars
Hugues Le Bars (13 October 1950 in Versailles Yvelines – 1 November 2014) was a French film music composer.
Calamites
Cantar de mio Cid
The Cantar de mio Cid (Song of My Lord) is an anonymously written poem about the life of the Spanish knight El Cid. The original manuscript is believed to have been written around the year 1200.
It is the oldest Spanish epic poem that is nearly complete; the only missing pages are the first page along with 2 others within the writing. However, other accounts of the work have led historians to produce what is likely to have been in the missing segments. Along with this poem, there exists three other works chronicling the life of El Cid: "Mocedades de Rodrigo" (circa 1360), the "Cantar de Roncesvalles" (circa 1270), and an epitaph, the "Epitafio épico del Cid" (circa 1400).
The poem has literary significance, and is credited with being the original work of the discipline of the study of Spanish literature: the study has been given credit to historian Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869-1968), who sparked interest in the work and popularized the study of Spanish literature.
Congress of the Republic of Guatemala
The Congress of the Republic () is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of Guatemala. The Guatemalan Congress is made up of 160 deputies who are elected to serve four-year terms.
31 of the deputies are elected on a nationwide list, while the rest of the 127 deputies are elected in 22 multi-member constituencies.
Michigan's 2nd congressional district
Zeeland, Michigan
Zeeland ( ) is a city in Ottawa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. About 5,504 lived here since the 2010 census.
Hudsonville, Michigan
Hudsonville is a city in Ottawa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. About 7,116 people lived here since the 2010 census.
Richard Laird
Richard Laird (July 4, 1939 – December 14, 2020) was an American Democratic politician. He was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from 1978 to 2014. He was born in Rome, Georgia.
Laird died of COVID-19 on December 14, 2020, in Carrollton, Georgia at age 81.
Jack Page (politician)
Jack Page (January 18, 1950 – December 14, 2020) was an American Democratic politician. He was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from the 29th district from 1993 to 2010. He was born in Kokura, Kyushu, Japan.
Page died of COVID-19 on December 14, 2020, in Gadsden, Alabama at age 70.
Anthony Casso
Anthony Salvatore Casso (May 21, 1942 – December 15, 2020), nicknamed "Gaspipe", was an American mobster and former underboss of the Lucchese crime family.
Casso was known as a "homicidal maniac" in the Italian-American Mafia.
He is suspected of having done dozens of murders, and had confessed to involvement in between 15 and 36 murders.
Following his arrest in 1993, Casso became one of the highest-ranking members of the Mafia to turn informant. In 1998, sentenced him to 455 years in prison for racketeering, extortion, and murder.
Casso died on December 15, 2020 while in prison in Tucson, Arizona from COVID-19 at the age of 78.
Kálmán Sóvári
Kálmán Sóvári (21 December 1940 – 16 December 2020) was a Hungarian footballer. He played for Újpesti Dózsa as a defender. He played 17 games for the Hungary national football team from 1960 to 1966. He was born in Budapest.
Sóvári died on 16 December 2020 in Budapest at the age of 79.
Lorenzo Taliaferro
Lorenzo Taliaferro (December 23, 1991December 16, 2020) was an American football fullback. He played college football at Coastal Carolina. He was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in 2014. He was born in Yorktown, Virginia.
Taliaferro died on December 16, 2020 in Williamsburg, Virginia from a heart attack, aged 28.
Adela de Torrebiarte
Adela Ana María del Rosario Camacho Sinibaldi de Torrebiarte (March 30, 1949 – December 15, 2020) was a Guatemalan politician. She was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala. She was a member of the Commitment, Renewal and Order.
She was Minister of the Interior from 2007 to 2008. De Torrebiarte was President of the National Football Federation from 2016 to 2017. In 2020, she became a member of the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala.
De Torrebiarte died of lung cancer in Guatemala City on 15 December 2020.
Renê Weber
Renê Carmo Kreuz Weber (16 July 1961 – 16 December 2020), was a Brazilian football player and manager. He was born in Roque Gonzales, Rio Grande do Sul.
In 1986, he played for the national team. He mainly played for Fluminense and Vitória.
On 16 December 2020, Weber died in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 59 from COVID-19.
Sigillaria
Sigillaria is a lycopod fossil of the late Carboniferous and early Permian. They were typical coal forest trees similar to the "Lepidodendron". These swamp forest trees grew to 50 meters. They were anchored by an extensive network of branching underground roots.
It was a lycopod, an early land plant. This was one of the trees which made up the Carboniferous coal-forests.
It had thin grasslike leaves that grew on the stem. The stem of the plant was green. Sigillaria reproduced with spores. It went extinct about 300 million years ago.
Hennadiy Kernes
Hennadiy Adolfovych Kernes (, 27 June 1959 – 17 December 2020) was a Ukrainian politician. In 2010, he became Mayor of Kharkiv. He was born in Kharkiv.
Kernes was hospitalized in September 2020 with COVID-19 in Berlin. He died on 17 December 2020 from kidney failure caused by COVID-19 at the age of 61.
R. N. Shetty
Dr. Rama Nagappa Shetty (15 August 1928 – 17 December 2020) was an Indian entrepreneur, philanthropist and an educator. He was born in Murudeshwar, British India. He was in charge of the Upper Krishna Project. His company makes mangalore tiles.
Shetty died of a heart attack on 17 December 2020 in Bengaluru, India at the age of 92.
Satya Deo Singh
Satya Deo Singh (27 February 1945 – 17 December 2020) was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1991 and resigned in 1998. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was President of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha from 1980 to 1985. Singh was born in Kolkata, West Bengal.
Singh died on 17 December 2020 in Kolkata from cardiac arrest caused by COVID-19, aged 75.
Rosaly Papadopol
Rosaly Davidman Papadopol (23 February 1956 – 16 December 2020) was a Brazilian actress. She was born in São Paulo, São Paulo. Her career began in 1975. Papadopol was known for her roles as Florinda in the 1987 drama "Night Angels" and as Sofia in the 2001 crime "Bellini and the Sphinx".
Papadopol died of lymphoma on 16 December 2020 in São Paulo at the age of 64.
Stephen Tjephe
Stephen Tjephe (1 August 1955 – 16 December 2020) was a Burmese Roman Catholic prelate. Tjephe was born in Danoku, Myanmar. He became a priest in 1984. In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI made Tjephe the Titular Bishop of Nova Barbara. In 2015, Pope Francis made him Bishop of Loikaw.
Tjephe died on 16 December 2020 in Loikaw, Myanmar at the age of 65.
Penang F.C.
Penang Football Club (or simply known as Penang FC) is a Malaysian professional football club based in George Town, Penang that currently plays in the Malaysia Premier League.
It was unofficially founded in 1920.
Namat Abdullah
Namat Abdullah (30 March 1946 – 17 December 2020) was a Malaysian football player. He was born in Penang, Malaysia. Abdullah played for Penang F.C. between 1967 to 1977. He also played for the national team between 1967 to 1975.
Abdullah died on 17 December 2020 in Perak, Malaysia from stomach cancer at the age of 74.
Maciej Grubski
Maciej Tomasz Grubski (20 August 1968 – 17 December 2020) was a Polish politician. He was a member of the Civic Platform. From 2007 to 2019, Grubski was a member of the Senate of Poland. Grubski was born in Łódź, Poland.
Grubski died on 17 December 2020 in Łódź from COVID-19 at the age of 52.
Happiest Season
Happiest Season is a 2020 American romantic comedy movie directed by Clea DuVall. The movie stars Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Dan Levy, Mary Holland, Victor Garber and Mary Steenburgen.
The movie is about a woman who has a hard time to tell her conservative parents that she is a Lesbian and in a relationship with her roommate during Christmas.
It was released in the United States on November 25, 2020 by Hulu to strong positive reviews.
Michael Hogan (Canadian actor)
Michael Hogan (born March 13, 1949) is a Canadian actor. He is known for his roles as Colonel Saul Tigh in the 2004 "Battlestar Galactica" series, Billy in "The Peanut Butter Solution", the voice of Armando-Owen Bailey in the "Mass Effect" series, Gerard Argent in "Teen Wolf" and the voice of General Tullius in "".
On February 17, 2020, Hogan had a brain injury after falling and hitting his head which caused him to have memory loss and paralysis.
Ann Cusack
Mary Holland
Jeffrey Donovan
Jeffrey Thomas Donovan (born May 11, 1968) is an American actor. He played Michael Westen in the television series "Burn Notice".
He starred in the movies "Hitch", "Believe in Me", "Changeling" and "Come Early Morning". He played Robert F. Kennedy in Clint Eastwood's "J. Edgar" (2011) and his brother John F. Kennedy in Rob Reiner's "LBJ".
He played Dodd in the second season of the TV series "Fargo" (2015).
Amesbury, Massachusetts
Amesbury is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts. About 16,283 people lived here at the 2010 census.
Bokeem Woodbine
Royal Belgian Football Association
Group 8 element
Group 8 is a group of elements in the periodic table.
Group 8 has iron (Fe), ruthenium (Ru), osmium (Os) and hassium (Hs).
Group 8 is in the transition metals section.
Mekozhoor
Jacques Lambinon
Jacques Lambinon (born 28 September 1936 in Namur and died in Liège on 14 November 2015) was a Belgian botanist. He was a professor at the University of Liège and member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium.
He is the main author of the "New Flora of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Northern France and neighbouring regions" which is used by thousands of students.
He was a recognized specialist of:
Among his very numerous functions, we can mention his role in the direction of the herbarium (Vascular plants) of the University of Liege.
He was a member of many scientific committees such as the Flore de Corse or the National Botanical Conservatory of Bailleul.
He was editor, proofreader and relentless proofreader, he was editorial secretary of "Lejeunia, Revue de Botanique", secretary of the Society for the Exchange of Vascular Plants of Europe and the Mediterranean Basin and correspondent (since 1983) of the Med-Checklist editorial committee (Geneva & Berlin).
Bacidia clauzadei sp.nov., une espèce nouvelle de lichen foliicole produisant des cils conidiogènes. Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Provence, 45:349-35
The non native vascular flora of Belgium Systematics and Geography of Plants 76: 217-220
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El cerco de Numancia
El cerco de Numancia (The siege of Numancia) is a tragedy written in 1585 by the Spanish writer and soldier Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It tells the story of the defeat of Numancia by the Roman Empire in the 2nd century BC.
The play is also known as "The Numancia", "Comedy of the siege of Numancia", "The destruction of Numancia" and "Tragedy of Numancia". Two handwritten copies of the play have survived. One copy is in the National Library of Spain which is an actor's script from the 17th century. Another copy, the codex "Sancho Rayón", is held by the Hispanic Society of America. This copy was made by Antonio of Sancha in 1784, with modern spelling, together with another play, the "Trip of the Parnaso". Both copies are believed to be based closely on the original, although the modern editors prefer to use "The Numancia" from the manuscript "Sancho Rayón".
Arizona (1940 movie)
Monster's Ball is a 2001 American romantic drama movie directed by Marc Forster and starring Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Barry, Heath Ledger, Peter Boyle, Sean Combs, Mos Def. It was distributed by Lionsgate Films and was nominated for 2 Oscars and won an Academy Award in 2002.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Japanese: 戦場のメリークリスマス, Hepburn: Senjō no Merī Kurisumasu - "Merry Christmas on the Battlefield", also known in many European editions as , is a 1983 British Japanese New Zealand World War II movie directed by Nagisa Oshima and was based on the 1963 novel "The Seed and the Sower" by Laurens van der Post. It stars David Bowie, Jack Thompson, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Alistair Browning, Yuya Uchida and won a BAFTA Award in 1984.
Teairra Marí
Teairra Marquisha Thomas (born December 2, 1987) professionally known as Teairra Marí, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress and model.
Marí was discovered by the American music mogul Jay Z while she was 16 years old. Jay Z signed her under his label Roc-A-Fella records. In the same year, she released her debut album, titled ‘Roc-A-Fella Records Presents Teairra Mari’, which turned out to be a major debacle. It was a critical success but struggled in garnering the expected sales numbers. This failure threatened to destroy her musical career even before it started and she exited from the label during the production of her second album. A few years later, she got another chance to redeem her career with the single ‘Hunt 4 U’, and its success enabled her to approach studios to produce her second album. It was eventually released with the title ‘At that Point’. She embarked into acting in 2009 with the film ‘The Magnificent Cooly-T’. Thereafter, she appeared in another film ‘Lottery Ticket’ in 2010. She has also released some mix tapes featuring some well known artists of this era and has tasted success with her latest album, ‘Night Shift’ which was released in 2017.
According to Teairra, she was in an-again-off-again relationship for nine years with Brandy Norwood's brother Ray J. In September 2014, Ray J claimed that Teairra was physically abusive to him during their relationship. In 2011, Teairra was arrested in Beverly Hills, California for allegedly assaulting a police officer. In July 2015, Mari was charged with battery after her Uber driver alleged that she punched him and stole his phone charger after he originally declined to let her charge her phone in his car. Nonetheless, the court case had ended in a mistrial when the judge had to excuse himself due to illness in early 2017.
Chips Ahoy!
Chips Ahoy! is an American cookie brand, baked and marketed by Nabisco, a subsidiary of Mondelēz International, that was started in 1963.
Michael S. Regan
Michael Stanley Regan (born August 6, 1976) is an American environmentalist and politician. Regan is the 16th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency since 2021. He was the secretary of North Carolina's Department of Environmental Quality from 2017 until 2021.
He was an air quality specialist in the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
On December 17, 2020, it was reported that then President-elect Joe Biden nominated Regan to serve as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 11, 2021.
Juan Pérez-Giménez
Juan Manuel Pérez-Giménez (March 28, 1941 – December 10, 2020) was an American lawyer and politician. He was a Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico from 1979 until his death. He was chief judge of the court from 1984 to 1991. Pérez-Giménez was nominated to the court by President Jimmy Carter. He was born in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.
Pérez-Giménez died on December 10, 2020 in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico at the age of 79.
James Atwell
The Very Reverend James Edgar Atwell, MA, BD (3 June 1946 – 12 December 2020) was an English Anglican priest who was Dean of Winchester from 2006 to 2016. Atwell was born in Calne, Wiltshire.
Atwell died on 12 December 2020 at the age of 74.
Sal Rocca
Sal Rocca (October 29, 1946 – December 13, 2020) was an Italian-born American politician and real estate developer. He was born in Casalvieri, Italy. He was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1975 to 1980, 1983 to 1994, and 2001 to 2004.
Before 1992, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Afterwards, Rocca was a Republican. Rocca was raised in Detroit, Michigan.
Rocca died of COVID-19 in Troy, Michigan on December 13, 2020 at the age of 74.
Segundo Galicia Sánchez
Segundo Galicia Sánchez (August 11, 1938 – December 14, 2020) was a Peruvian professor and sociologist. He was born in Virú, Peru. He was a full-time professor and researcher, "C" holder of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, (UAS), Mexico. He also was a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.
Galicia Sánchez died on December 14, 2020 in Mazatlán, Mexico at the age of 82.
John Obiero Nyagarama
Nyagarama (1946 – 18 December 2020), formally known as John Obiero Nyagarama, was a Kenyan politician. He was the first Governor of Nyamira County from 2013 until his death. He was a member of the Orange Democratic Movement. Nyagarama was born in Nyamira County, Kenya.
Nyagarama was diagnosed with COVID-19 on 15 December 2020 and was hospitalized in Nairobi, Kenya. He died three days later from respiratory failure caused by the infection, aged 74.
Rahah Noah
Rahah binti Mohamed Noah (11 June 1933 – 18 December 2020) was a Malaysian socialite. She was the widow of former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak and the mother of former Prime Minister Najib Razak. Noah was born in Muar, Johor.
Noah died on 18 December 2020 in Kuala Lumpur at the age of 87.
Jeremy Bulloch
Jeremy Bulloch (16 February 194517 December 2020) was an English actor. He was best known for the role of the bounty hunter Boba Fett in "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi". Bulloch was born in Market Harborough, Leicestershire.
Bulloch died on 17 December 2020 in London from Parkinson's disease-related problems, aged 75.
Pierre Buyoya
Pierre Buyoya (24 November 1949 – 17 December 2020) was a Burundian politician and soldier. He was the President of Burundi two times from 1987 to 1993 and from 1996 to 2003. Buyoya was the second longest-serving Burundian president.
Buyoya died on 17 December 2020 in Paris from COVID-19 at the age of 71.
Hypovolemic shock
Hypovolemic shock is a medical emergency and an advanced form of hypovolemia. It is caused by low amounts of blood and/or fluid inside the human body to let the heart pump enough blood to the body.
Hypovolemic shock happens when there is a low amount of intravascular volume to the point of heart failure. The hypovolemic shock could be due to severe dehydration or from blood loss.
Stanley Cowell
Stanley Cowell (May 5, 1941 – December 17, 2020) was an American jazz pianist. He was the co-founder of the Strata-East Records label. Cowell was born in Toledo, Ohio.
During the late 1980s, Cowell was part of a regular quartet led by J.J. Johnson. Cowell taught in the Music Department of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Cowell died at a hospital in Dover, Delaware from hypovolemic shock-related problems on December 17, 2020 at the age of 79.
Enrico Ferri (politician)
Enrico Ferri (17 February 1942 — 17 December 2020) was an Italian politician and lawyer. He was born in La Spezia, Italy. Ferri was a member of the Italian Democratic Socialist Party.
Ferri was Minister of Public Works from 1988 to 1989 during the Ciriaco De Mita cabinet. From 1992 to 1994, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies. From 1993 to 1995, he was Secretary of the Italian Democratic Socialist Party. From 1989 to 1994, he was a Member of the European Parliament.
Ferri died on 17 December 2020 in Pontremoli, Italy after a long-illness, aged 78.
Pontremoli
Jacó Roberto Hilgert
Jacó Roberto Hilgert (27 January 1926 – 17 December 2020) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate. He was born in Harmonia, Rio Grande do Sul. In 1952, he became a priest. He was the Bishop of Cruz Alta from 1976 to 2002.
Hilgert died on 17 December 2020 in Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul from cardiopulmonary arrest, aged 94.
Wacław Szybalski
Wacław Szybalski (9 September 1921 – 16 December 2020) was a Polish-American oncologist and biotechnologist. He worked at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Medical School. He discovered the Szybalski's rule. Szybalski was born in Lwów, Poland.
Szybalski died on 16 December 2020 in Madison, Wisconsin at the age of 99.
Benny Napoleon
Benny Napoleon (1955 – December 17, 2020) was an American attorney, law enforcement officer, and Democratic politician. He was the Sheriff of Wayne County, Michigan. He was also a 2013 candidate for Mayor of Detroit. From 2009 until his death, Wayne County Sheriff. Napolean was born in Detroit.
Napoleon was diagnosed with COVID-19 in November 2020. He died on December 17, 2020 in Detroit from the infection, aged 65.
Ignaz Puschnik
Ignaz Puschnik (5 February 1934 – 17 December 2020) was an Austrian football midfielder. He played for Austria from 1957 to 1964 and during the 1958 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Kapfenberger SV from 1956 to 1964. Puschnik was born in Vienna.
Puschnik died on 17 December 2020 in Vienna at the age of 86.
Giovanni Sacco (25 September 1943 – 17 December 2020) was an Italian footballer. He played as a midfielder. Sacco was born in San Damiano d'Asti, Italy. He played for Juventus F.C., Atalanta B.C. and A.C. Reggiana 1919. His career lasted from 1962 to 1976.
Sacco died on 17 December 2020 in Asti, Italy from COVID-19 at the age of 77.
San Damiano d'Asti
Saufatu Sopoanga
Saufatu Sopoanga (22 February 1952 – 17 December 2020) was a Tuvaluan politician. He was the 8th Prime Minister of Tuvalu from 2 August 2002 until 27 August 2004. Sopoanga was born in Nukufetau, Tuvalu.
Sopoanga died on 17 December 2020 at the age of 68.
Pelle Svensson
Per Oskar "Pelle" Svensson (6 February 1943 – 17 December 2020) was a Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler and lawyer. He won a silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics and two gold medals at the World Championships in 1970 and 1971. Svensson was born in Sollefteå, Sweden.
Svensson died on 17 December 2020 from cancer in Sundsvall, Sweden at the age of 77.
Scott Hylands
Coal forest
Coal forests were huge areas of wetlands which covered much of the Earth's tropical land areas in the late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) and Permian times.
At the time most continents were crowded together in the supercontinent Gondwana. They lay on the path of tropical rainfall. As vegetable matter from these forests decayed, enormous deposits of peat accumulated, which later changed into coal. Now those continents are wide apart, but they have the coalfields which those ancient forests left behind.
Much of the carbon in the peat deposits produced by coal forests came from photosynthetic splitting of carbon dioxide. This released oxygen into the atmosphere. This increased the oxygen level, perhaps as high as about 35%. This had the effect of making the air more easily breathable by animals with limitrd respiratory systems. This may explain the size of "Meganeura" compared to modern dragonflies.
The coal forests covered tropical Euramerica (Europe, eastern North America, northwesternmost Africa) and China. Eventually, climate change devastated these tropical rainforests. The so-called Carboniferous rainforest collapse was caused by a cooler drier climate which broke up the rainforest ecosystem. The cause of this change was mountain uplift, no doubt caused by the continental plates squeezing against each other. During most of the rest of Carboniferous times, the coal forests were restricted to North America (such as the Appalachian and Illinois coal basins) and central Europe.
At the very end of the Carboniferous period, the coal forests underwent a resurgence, expanding mainly in eastern Asia, notably China. They never recovered fully in Euramerica. The Chinese coal forests continued to flourish well into Permian times.
Aristóteles Sandoval
Jorge Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz (22 January 1974 – 18 December 2020) was a Mexican politician. He was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Sandoval was Governor of Jalisco from 2013 to 2018. Sandoval was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco.
Sandoval was assassinated on 18 December 2020 in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco at the age of 46.
Arsphenamine
Arsphenamine, also known as Salvarsan or compound 606, is a drug. It was introduced at the beginning of the 1910s. It was the first effective treatment for syphilis and African trypanosomiasis. This organoarsenic compound was the first modern antimicrobial {antibiotic} agent.
Arsphenamine was first synthesized in 1907 in Paul Ehrlich's lab by Alfred Bertheim.
The antisyphilitic activity of this compound was discovered by Sahachiro Hata in 1909. He surveyed hundreds of newly synthesized organic arsenical compounds. Ehrlich thought that by screening many compounds, a drug could be discovered which would have anti-microbial activity but not kill the patient.
Ehrlich's laboratory developed a more soluble (but slightly less effective) arsenical compound, Neosalvarsan (neoarsphenamine), which was easier to prepare.
Puerto Vallarta
Hawk Junction
Hawk Junction is a community with a local services board in the Canadian province of Ontario, found just north of Highway 101, about east of Wawa.
The community was made by people of Italian, Scottish and French ancestry in 1909 when the Algoma Central Railway was made through the area. In 1923-1924 it was destroyed by fire. The community was rebuilt and is now a terminal for the Algoma Central Railway.
In September 2017, the last business, the Big Bear Hotel closed, leaving Hawk Junction without any services. Residents had needed to drive to the town of Wawa for any services. It is a popular starting point for wilderness hunting and fishing trips. During the winter Hawk Junction is a major snowmobile drop off point. The Big Bear has now recently reopened its doors under a new owner.
Wawa, Ontario
Wawa is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located within the Algoma District and associated with Wawa Lake. Previously known as the township of Michipicoten, after a nearby river of that name, the township was officially renamed in 2007 for its largest community of Wawa.
This area was first made for fur trading. In the late 19th century, both gold and iron ore were found and mined, leading to the region's rise as the steel industry developed in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. From 1900-1918 the Helen Mine had the highest production of iron ore of any mine in Canada.
The township includes the smaller communities of Michipicoten and Michipicoten River, which are small port settlements on the shore of Lake Superior. These names are from the Ojibwe term for the river.
The municipal council is made up of one mayor and four councillors. The current mayor is Ron Rody. Councillors Tamara Liddle, Bill Chiasson, James Neufeld and Yvan Besner were elected on October 27, 2014 for four years. After James Neufeld resigned on April 27, 2015, Matthew Morrison was appointed to fill the empty seat on August 10, 2015. In 2016, Councillor Tamara Liddle and her husband, Gerry Liddle were investigated and it was revealed that both Gerry Liddle and Councillor Tamara Liddle harassed CAO Chris Wray to try and get a personal benefit to avoid paying taxes. Both were punished by town council. After the 2018 elections, Ron Rody was victorious as mayor and the following councillors were elected: Bill Chiasson, Mitch Hatfield, Robert Reece, and Pat Tait.
The community is known for its 8.5-metre (28-foot) metal statue of a Canada goose, which was built in 1960, and was dedicated to the community in 1961. Wawa takes its name from the Ojibwe word for "wild goose", "wewe". Wawa was called wild goose in "The Song of Hiawatha." On July 5, 2010, the Canada Post made a commemorative stamp of the Wawa Goose as part of its Roadside Attractions collection. On July 1, 2017, a new Wawa Goose was made to replace the second aging goose.
The town is also known for snowmobiling and sport fishing. The Voyageur Hiking Trail passes through the town. One important shopping location is Young's General Store, home of the locally famous Pickle Barrel.
FIFA Puskás Award
The FIFA Puskás Award is an award that is organized by FIFA. It is awarded to the player who scored the best goal in each year. The award was first awarded in 2009.
Territory (animal)
In ethology, territory is the area that a species of animal consistently defends against related animals. Sometimes it means areas defended against animals of other species. Animals that defend territories in this way are referred to as territorial.
Territoriality is not shown by most species. More commonly, a group of animals has an area that they use but do not necessarily defend. This is called their home range. The home ranges of different groups of animals often overlap, and in the overlap areas, the groups tend to avoid each other.
Many animals use vocalisations to advertise their territory. These are short-term signals given only when the animal is present. The sound can travel long distances and through various habitats. Examples include birds, frogs and canids.
Scent markings are used by many mammals. Some have special scent glands; others squirt urine on key places. Domestic cats have graded ritualized aggression. This starts off with vocalizations and sometimes mounts to direct attack.
Territories may be held by an individual, a mated or unmated pair, or a group, and it may vary at different times of the year.
Similar frog
The similar frog ("Papurana attigua") is a frog from Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Scientists saw it between 700 and 1200 meters above sea level.
S.L. Benfica B
Sport Lisboa e Benfica "B", commonly known as Benfica B, is a Portuguese football club based in Seixal. It is the reserve team of S.L. Benfica.
"As of match played 24 October 2020. Only competitive matches are counted, including those in the Premier League International Cup."
Eustace IV , Count of Boulogne
Eustace IV (c. 1130 - August 1153) was the son of Stephen of England, He was Count of Boulogne from 1150 until his death in 1153.
He was believed to have been born around 1130 however his exact year of birth is disputed to be around c. 1128 - 1131.
He was killed possibly by being struck from the force of God whilst plundering church property. However he most likely died of a broken heart.
Hypergamy is the practice of dating or marrying someone of a higher social status than oneself. Hypergamy is usually associated with women. Some sociologists believe that harems formerly existed because of female hypergamy. Some analysts also believe that people have twice as many female ancestors as male ancestors because of female hypergamy.
2020 United States Senate elections
Eltham
Eltham is a district in the south of London in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The London Plan says Eltham is one of 35 major centres in Greater London. As a residential area (a suburb), the main features, apart from the housing, are the schools and the shops.
It was once an elite area with a palace (Eltham Palace) that dates back to the 13th century. It is now the biggest shopping area in S.E. London.
The Palace was made over in the 1930s. Stephen Courtauld had it made up in art deco style. The Courtauld family was immensely rich at the time. The Palace still has a few parts which date back in time to its former royal use. It is now owned by English Heritage.
The three wards of Eltham North, South and West have a total population of 35,459.
Eltham College is a public school (independent fee-paying school) in Mottingham, southeast London. Eltham and Mottingham were part of the same parish.
Secondary schools in Eltham include Eltham Hill School for Girls, Harris Academy Greenwich, St Thomas More Catholic School and Stationers' Crown Woods Academy (built upon the land of King Henry VIII's hunting grounds).
A campus of the University of Greenwich is in Avery Hill Park, on the borders of Eltham and New Eltham .
You, the Living
You, the Living is a 2007 Swedish German French Danish Norwegian Japanese drama movie directed by Roy Andersson and starring Elisabet Helander, Leif Larsson, Björn Englund, Ollie Olson, Jessika Lundberg.
Jesus piece
Jesus piece or Jesus Piece may refer to:
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist. She was an author and speaker in the mass media in the 1960s and 1970s. She was President of the American Advancement for the Association of Sciences in 1975.
Mead was a communicator of anthropology in modern American and Western culture. As an academic, she was often controversial. Her reports about attitudes toward sex in the South Pacific and Southeast Asian culture traditions influenced the 1960s sexual revolution.
Mead was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She died from pancreatic cancer in New York City.
Note: See also "Margaret Mead: The Complete Bibliography 1925–1975", Joan Gordan, ed., The Hague: Mouton.
Beloved (1934 movie)
Ralph K. Winter Jr.
Ralph Karl Winter Jr. (July 30, 1935 – December 8, 2020) was an American politician and lawyer. He was born in Waterbury, Connecticut. He was known as a conservative judge. Winter Jr. was the Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1981 until his death. He was nominated to the court by President Ronald Reagan.
Winter Jr. died on December 8, 2020 in North Haven, Connecticut from esophageal cancer, aged 85.
Greg Burdine
Greg Burdine (May 1, 1959 – December 13, 2020) was an American politician. He was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives, representing the 1st District from 2010 to 2014. Burdine was a member of the Democratic Party. Burdine was born in Florence, Alabama.
Burdine died on December 13, 2020, in Florence, Alabama at age 61.
Collie
Collies form a type of herding dogs, including many similar landraces and standardized breeds. The type began in Scotland and Northern England. Collies are usually medium-sized, fairly lightly-built dogs, with pointed noses. Many breeds have a white color over the shoulders. Collies are very active, and most types of collies are excellent at herding. Collie breeds have spread through many parts of the world (especially Australia and North America), and have then made many varieties, sometimes mixed with other dog types (cross breeding, for example, the Borador). Some collie breeds are still used as working dogs for herding cattle, sheep, and other livestock, while others are kept as pets, show dogs or for dog sports, in which they display great agility, stamina and trainability. While the American Kennel Club has a breed they call "collie", in fact "collie dogs" are a type of herding dog including many related landraces and formal breeds. There are usually major differences between show dogs and those bred for herding trials or dog sports: the herding dogs show good agility, stamina and trainability and behaviour.
Common use of the name "collie" in some areas is limited to certain breeds — the name means Rough Collie in parts of the United States, and Border Collie in many parts of Great Britain. Most collie dog types do not actually include "collie" in their name (see Welsh Sheepdog at right).
Michael F. Land
Michael Francis Land FRS (12 April 1942 – 14 December 2020) was a British neurobiologist. He was a professor of neurobiology in the vision laboratory at the Sussex Centre for Neuroscience, University of Sussex, England. He was known for his visual information of the retinas of mosquitoes.
Land died on 14 December 2020 at the age of 78.
Frank Christopherson Jr.
Frank W. Christopherson Jr. (May 24, 1927 – December 15, 2020) was an American Democratic politician. He was a member of the Wisconsin Senate from 1963 to 1967. He also was in the Wisconsin Assembly from 1959 to 1963. Christopherson Jr. was born in Superior, Wisconsin.
Christopherson Jr. died on December 15, 2020 in Duluth, Minnesota at the age of 93.
Jeff Clayton
Jeff Clayton (February 16, 1954 – December 17, 2020) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and flautist. He was born in Los Angeles. He recorded with Gladys Knight, Kenny Rogers, Michael Jackson, Patti Labelle, and Madonna. Clayton founded The Clayton Brothers in 1977, and later formed the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra with Jeff Hamilton.
Clayton died on December 17, 2020 from kidney cancer-related problems in Los Angeles at the age of 66.
Hybristophilia or Scelerophilia is a paraphilia where someone is romantically attracted to mean people or delinquents. Literature about hybristophilia or scelerophilia is in general use used to describe female attraction to bad boys or to obnoxious guys.
Mekere Morauta