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Ruhollah Zam (, also Romanized as "Rouhollah Zam"; 27 July 1978 – 12 December 2020) was an Iranian activist and journalist. He was best known for working with Telegram channel named 'Amadnews'.
Zam was a well known activist during the 2017–18 Iranian protests.
In June 2020, an Iran court found him guilty of "corruption on earth" for running a popular anti-government forum. He was sentenced to death by an Iranian court and was executed on 12 December 2020, aged 42.
Valentin Gaft
Valentin Iosifovich Gaft (; 2 September 1935 – 12 December 2020) was a Russian actor. He was awarded the People's Artist of Russia in 1984. Gaft was born in Moscow. Gaft was known for his roles in "Hello, I'm Your Aunt!", "Say a Word for the Poor Hussar" and "Forgotten Melody for a Flute".
Gaft died on 12 December 2020 in Moscow at the age of 85.
Đurđa Ivezić
Đurđa Ivezić, (17 October 1936 – 11 December 2020) was a Croatian actress. She was born in Zagreb. She also voiced dubbed Betty Rubble in Croatian for "The Flintstones" and Smurfette in "The Smurfs". Ivezić also starred in "H-8", "Back of the Medal" and "The Magician's Hat".
Ivezić died on 11 December 2020 in Zagreb of COVID-19 at the age of 84.
Osvaldo Cochrane Filho
Oswaldo Cochrane Filho (29 July 1933 – 9 December 2020) was a Brazilian water polo player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He was born in Espirito Santo, Brazil. He played for the national team for the first time in 1955 until he retired after the the 1971 Pan American Games.
Cochrane Filho died on 9 December 2020 in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 87.
Kurt Stettler
Kurt Stettler (21 August 1932 – 8 December 2020) was a Swiss football goalkeeper. He played for Switzerland in the 1962 FIFA World Cup. Stettler began playing for the national team in 1961 and retired in 1963. Stettler was born in Stettlen, Switzerland. He mainly played with FC Basel from 1957 to 1964 making 160 appearances.
Stettler died on 8 December 2020 in Zürich from COVID-19 at the age of 88.
Kenneth Alwyn
Kenneth Alwyn (born Kenneth Alwyn Wetherell) (28 July 1925 – 11 December 2020) was an English conductor, composer and writer. He was called by the BBC as "one of the great British musical directors".
Alwyn was known for his many recordings, including with the London Symphony Orchestra on Decca's first stereophonic recording of Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture". He was also known for his works with BBC Radio 2's orchestral live music programme "Friday Night is Music Night".
He was a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.
Alwyn died on 11 December 2020 in London at the age of 95.
James Flynn (academic)
James Robert Flynn FRSNZ (28 April 1934 – 11 December 2020) was a New Zealand intelligence researcher. He taught political studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin. He was known for his studies on the increase of IQ scores throughout the world, which is now known as the Flynn effect.
Flynn died on 11 December 2020 in Dunedin, New Zealand at the age of 86.
James R. Flynn
James R. Flynn may refer to:
Dunedin (disambiguation)
Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand.
Dunedin may also refer to:
U. A. Khader
U. A. Khader (1935–12 December 2020) was an Burmese-born Indian writer. He published in Malayalam such as novels. His works have been translated to many languages including English, Hindi and Kannada. Khader was born in Bilin, Rangoon, Burma. Khader's first story was published in "Chandrika" weekly in 1953. He was the president of Purogamana Kala Sahitya Sangham.
Khader died on 12 December 2020 at a hospital in Calicut, Kerala at the age of 85.
Fikre Selassie Wogderess
Fikre Selassie Wogderess (; 13 July 1945 – 12 December 2020) was an Ethiopian politician. He was the first Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (PDRE) from 10 September 1987 to 8 November 1989. He was fired by President Mengistu Haile Mariam.
In 1989, he was sentenced to death for war crimes and murder. In 2010, the Ethiopian court removed his death sentence and released him following year.
Wogderess died on 12 December 2020 in Addis Ababa from diabetes-related problems at the age of 75.
Qisas
Qisas or Qiṣāṣ () is a term interpreted to mean "retaliation in kind", "eye for an eye", or retributive justice. In traditional Islamic law ("sharia"), the doctrine of qisas allows a punishment analogous to the crime. Qisas is available to the victim or victim's heirs against a person convicted of murder or intentional bodily injury. In the case of murder, qisas gives the right to take the life of the killer, if the latter is convicted and the court approves. Those who are entitled to "qisas" have the option of receiving monetary compensation ("diyya") or granting pardon to the person instead.
Hylarana
Hylarana is a genus of true frogs. They are also called golden-backed frogs. They live in tropical Asia. Scientists used to put 84 to 96 valid species in "Hylarana", but they looked at the frogs again. Today, scientists say four species are in "Hylarana".
"Hylarana" frogs can be small or large. Male frogs are from their noses to the ends of their bodies, and females are . The nostrils are oval in shape and there is a piece of skin on top of them. The ear drum is not covered by skin. They have vomerine teeth and a parietal eye. The toes on their back feet are webbed, but the fingers on the front feet are not.
The frogs that scientists used to say were in "Hylarana" lived everywhere from Sri Lanka to the Western Ghat Mountains in India, through Nepal and southern China and Taiwan, south to Southeast Asia to the Philippines and Papua New Guinea, in Northern Australia, and tropical Africa. The four species of frogs that are still in "Hylarana" today live in southern and southeast Asia.
"Hylarana" is in the subfamily Raninae. They are true frogs, so they are in the family Ranidae. The name "Hylarana" comes from from the New Latin word "hyle" ("wood" or "forest") and "rana" ("frog"). Scientists used to think "Hylarana" was a subgenus of the genus "Rana", but they changed their minds in 2005. In 2006, scientists took "Hylarana" and split it into more genera. They treat these as junior synonyms of "Hylarana". In 2015, Oliver et al. looked closely at "Hylarana" again. They said that only four species are really "Hylarana sensu stricto": The other frogs were moved to "Abavorana", "Amnirana", "Chalcorana", "Humerana", "Hydrophylax", "Indosylvirana", "Papurana", "Pulchrana", and "Sylvirana".
Scientists used to say this genus had 84 to 96 valid species of frogs in it. But they looked closely again. Now, scientists say only four frogs are truly "Hylarana":
After these changes, scientists are not sure where a few "Hylarana" species should be placed:
Ron Springett
Ronald Deryk George Springett (22 July 1935 – 12 September 2015) was an English footballer. He played as a goalkeeper.
Springett died on 12 September 2015.
John Michael Connelly (18 July 1938 – 25 October 2012) was an English footballer. He played as an outside forward.
Connelly died at home on 25 October 2012, at the age of 74.
The Celestine is the name with which has popularised the Tragicomedy of Callisto and Melibea, attributed to Fernando of Rojas. His composition traces back to the last years of the 15th century, during the reign of the Catholic Kings in Spain and his extraordinary publishing success began in the 16th century and continued, with altibajos, until his prohibition in 1792
Kevin Großkreutz
Kevin Großkreutz (born 19 July 1988) is a former German footballer. He could play as a right-back or a winger.
Javier "Javi" Martínez Aginaga (born 2 September 1988) is a Spanish footballer. He plays as a defensive midfielder or a center-back for Bayern Munich.
Jason Merrells
Jason Scott Merrells (born 2 November 1968) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as receptionist Matt Hawley in the BBC One medical drama series, "Casualty", from 1994 to 1997; stylist Gavin Ferraday in the BBC One hairdressing drama series, "Cutting It", from 2002 to 2005; Headteacher Jack Rimmer in the BBC One school-based drama series, "Waterloo Road", from 2006 to 2008; and Home Farm owner Declan Macey in the long-running ITV soap opera, "Emmerdale", from 2010 to 2014. More recently, he plays the role of Sir Charles Fraith in the comedy-drama series, "Agatha Raisin", from 2016 onwards.
Sharlene Whyte
Sharlene Whyte (born 19 May) is an English actress, best know for her role as Jenny Edwards in the CBBC children's comedy-drama series, "The Story of Tracy Beaker", from 2002 to 2003. Whyte is also well-known for her roles as Adanna Lawal in the BBC One school-based drama series, "Waterloo Road", during 2011, although she first appeared in "Waterloo Road", as Alison Yates, during 2009; and Bev in the CBBC children's comedy-drama series, "Sadie J", during 2013. She has also acted in other British television series such as multiple roles in "Doctors", and "Casualty", and roles in "Silent Witness", and "Coronation Street". She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from 1996 till 1999.
Whyte is of Grenadian descent.
Neil Morrissey
Neil Anthony Morrissey (born 4 July 1962) is an English actor, voice actor, comedian, singer, and businessman. He is known for his role as Tony in the ITV-BBC One sitcom, "Men Behaving Badly", from 1992 to 1998, and again in 2014. Other notable acting roles include Rocky in the ITV crime drama series, "Boon", from 1987 to 1995; Deputy head Eddie Lawson in the BBC One school-based drama series, "Waterloo Road", from 2007 to 2009; and Nigel Morton in the BBC Two police procedural series, "Line of Duty", from 2012 to 2016. Morrissey also provides the voice of many cartoon characters, including Bob, Roley, Scrufty, Lofty, Mr. Angelo Sabatini, Mr. Fothergill, and Farmer Pickles in the UK version of "Bob the Builder".
Laurie Brett
Laurie Brett (born 28 March 1969) is a Scottish actress, best known for her roles as Jane Beale in the long-running BBC soap opera, "EastEnders", from 2004 to 2012, and again from 2014 to 2017; and Christine Mulgrew in the BBC One school-based drama series, "Waterloo Road", from 2012 to 2015.
Elizabeth Berrington
Elizabeth Ann Berrington (born 3 August 1970) is an English actress, and graduate of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. She is best known for her roles as Mel Debrou in the ITV satirical comedy-drama series, "Moving Wallpaper", from 2008 to 2009; Ruby Fry in the BBC One school-based drama series, "Waterloo Road", from 2009 to 2011; Paula Kosh in the Sky 1 comedy-drama series, "Stella", from 2012 to 2013, and again from 2015 to 2017; and Dawn Stevenson in the BBC One drama series, "The Syndicate", during 2015. She has also acted in other British television series such as "The Bill", "Doc Martin", "Doctor Who", "The Office", "Casualty", "The Lakes", "The Grimleys", and "Rose and Maloney".
William Ash (actor)
William Ash (born 13 January 1977) is a English actor, known for playing the roles of Nicky in the BBC One comedy-drama series, "Making Out", from 1989 to 1991; Darren Walsh in the ITV children's drama series, "Children's Ward", from 1989 to 1991; Jack Stubbs in the ITV military drama series, "Soldier Soldier", from 1993 to 1994; Stephen Snow in the ITV drama series, "Where the Heart Is", from 1997 to 1998; Nick Anderson in the BBC One drama series, "Clocking Off", from 2001 to 2002; Jon Moore in the BBC Three black comedy drama series, "Burn It", during 2003; Christopher Mead in the BBC One school-based drama series, "Waterloo Road", from 2009 to 2011; and Boleslaw 'BB' Borawski in the Sky Atlantic crime drama series, "The Tunnel", from 2016 to 2017. His film appearances include "Mad About Mambo" (2000), and "Hush" (2008). Ash made his acting debut in 1987, whilst appearing in a episode of the ITV soap opera, "Coronation Street".
City Girls
City Girls are an American hip hop duo from Miami, Florida consisting of Yung Miami (born Caresha Romeka Brownlee on February 11, 1994) and JT (born Jatavia Shakara Johnson on December 3, 1992). They garnered attention after making an uncredited guest appearance on Drake's chart-topping hit, "In My Feelings". Their debut studio album, "Girl Code" (2018), spawned the platinum certified singles "Twerk" and "Act Up". Their second studio album, "City on Lock" was released in 2020.
Lil Baby
Dominique Armani Jones (born December 3, 1994), known professionally as Lil Baby, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia. He rose to mainstream fame in 2017 following the release of his mixtape "Perfect Timing", becoming one of the most popular artists in the trap music genre as of now.
Lil Baby's debut studio album "Harder Than Ever" (2018) was certified RIAA Platinum and included the song "Yes Indeed" with Drake, which peaked at six on the "Billboard" Hot 100. He went on to release two more mixtapes in 2018, "Drip Harder" and "Street Gossip", the former containing his most popular song "Drip Too Hard", which peaked at number four on the "Billboard" Hot 100, and the latter peaking at number two on the US "Billboard" 200. Lil Baby's second album, "My Turn" (2020), peaked at number one on the "Billboard" 200. The song "We Paid", from the album, charted at number ten on the Hot 100. In June 2020, he released the single "The Bigger Picture", which peaked at number three on the Hot 100 and became the highest charting song of his career.
Throughout his career, Lil Baby has been nominated for three Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, and seven BET Awards.
Contraband (1980 movie)
Sledge, Mississippi
Sledge is a town located in Quitman County, Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, 545 people lived in the town.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Thomas Brodie-Sangster (born 16 May 1990), also credited as Thomas Sangster, is an English actor. He played Sam in "Love Actually" (2003), Ferb in "Phineas and Ferb" (2007–2015) and Jojen Reed in "Game of Thrones" (2013–2014).
Vincent Martella
Vincent Michael Martella (born October 15, 1992) is an American actor and singer. He played Greg Wuliger on the UPN/CW sitcom "Everybody Hates Chris" and was the voice of Phineas Flynn in the Disney Channel original animated show "Phineas and Ferb".
Stephanie Kelton
Stephanie Kelton (née Bell; born October 10, 1969) is an American economist and academic. She is currently a professor at Stony Brook University and a Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research. She was a professor at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.
She also was an advisor to Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign.
She is founder and editor-in-chief of the blog New Economic Perspectives.
Belle Delphine
Mary-Belle Kirschner (born 23 October 1999), better known online as Belle Delphine, is a South African-born British Internet celebrity, model, and YouTuber.
Delphine was born on 23 October 1999 in South Africa, and was raised in Cape Town. She experienced a devout Christian family upbringing. After her parents divorced, she moved to Lymington, England with her mother. Now in Hampshire, she attended Priestlands School, but dropped out at the age of fourteen, due to being bullied online. Around this time, she was treated for depression. After dropping out, she found work as a waitress, nanny, and barista. Delphine additionally began posting pictures of her cosplay onto her Facebook account, which was later deleted. Delphine's now-deleted cosplay posts were "low-res and dimly lit."
Delphine has a boyfriend, who often works on the photography of her modeling content and likes to remain anonymous. Claire Kittrell has stated that she is dating Delphine.
Happy Asmara
Heppy Rismanda Hendranata, known as Happy Asmara born in (Kediri, East Java, July 10, 1999) is a Indonesian singer and songwriter. The song entitled "Tak Ikhlasno" became one of his most popular songs. His name is increasingly known after the singing of the song "Dalan Liyane".
Gutierre de Cetina
Tony Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Tony Stark, known as Iron Man, is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he's portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. and he's based on the character of the same name. Initially he's a fabbricator of weapons until he discovers that terrorists used them to harm innocents. Then he decided to stop the production of weapons and instead he starts building and wearing a technological suit to fight criminals.
As of 2020, Stark is one of the main figures of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, having currently appeared in seventh films. The character and Downey's performance are always credited for the still going success of the franchise with many calling Stark the best character of the series.
Tony is a genius and a philanthropist. He's good hearted and also eccentric, wisecracking, sarcastic, esuberant, rational and optimistic. He's also very charismatic and friendly as he's able to befriend with someone in a short period of time.
Robert Downey Jr. portrays the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe appearing for the first time in "Iron Man" (2008) and subsequently appearing in "Iron Man 2" (2010), "The Avengers" (2012), "Iron Man 3" (2013), "" (2015), "" (2016), "" (2017), "" (2018) and "" (2019). He made a cameo in "The Incredible Hulk" (2008) and Downey will reprise his role in "Black Widow" (2021).
Robert Downey Jr. will voice the character in the Disney+ animated anthology series "What If...?".
National parks and nature reserves of Israel
The national parks of Israel are historic sites or nature reserves, which are mostly operated by the National Nature and Parks Authority. In 2015, Israel had 81 national parks and more than 400 nature reserves.
Some of the country's most notable parks are located at sites such as Tel Megiddo, Jerusalem and Ashkelon. These include the "Alexander stream" and "Mount Carmel National Park". Several parks and nature reserves have camping options, such as tent grounds and bungalows, open to small groups or campers. The main idea behind these parks and reserves is to guard the values of nature, landscape, heritage, and species.
Following the drying of Lake Hula, the Hula Reserve was established in 1964 and became the first declared nature reserve in Israel. It is a major stopover for birds migrating between Africa, Europe and Asia. In 1963 the Israeli parliament approved the "National parks and nature reserves act", and as a result, two authorities were established: the National Parks Authority and the Nature Reserves Authority. In 1998 the two authorities were merged into one body - Israel Nature and Parks Authority.
In Israel, the difference between national parks and nature reserves is often hard to make. National parks are in most cases centered around archaeological sites, but sometimes include protected nature as well. The nature reserves often contain not just protected flowers, trees and animals, but also archaeological sites of importance.
Brandon Bernard
Brandon Anthony Micah Bernard (July 3, 1980 – December 10, 2020) was an American man who was convicted for the 1999 robbery, kidnapping, and murder of two people. He was sentenced to death for the murders and remained on death row until his execution in December 2020.
Bernard was a gang member. In 1999, Bernard was one of five gang members who together robbed, kidnapped, and murdered two youth pastors. After forcing the pastors into the trunk of their car, Christopher Andre Vialva shot both in the head before Bernard set the car on fire with the victims inside. Vialva was executed on September 24, 2020, and Bernard was executed on December 10, 2020.
Carol Sutton (actress)
Carol Sutton (née Dickerson; December 3, 1944 – December 10, 2020) was an American actress. She was best known for her roles in the movie "Steel Magnolias", "Monster's Ball", and "Ray".
Sutton died on December 10, 2020 from COVID-19 in New Orleans at the age of 76.
Mongkol Na Songkhla
Mongkol Na Songkhla (, 16 January 1941 – 11 December 2020) was a Thai politician. He was the Minister of Public Health from 2006 to 2008 during the Surayud Chulanont cabinet. He was born in Bangkok.
Na Songkhla died on 11 December 2020 in Bangkok from cancer, aged 79.
Jimmy Collins (basketball)
James Earl Collins (November 24, 1946 – December 13, 2020) was an American basketball player and coach. He was born and raised in Syracuse, New York. He played for the Chicago Bulls from 1970 to 1972.
Collins was the head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1996 to 2010. He helped push the team to the NCAA Tournament in 1998, 2002 and 2004, and an NIT showing in 2003.
Collins died on December 13, 2020 from heart surgery-related problems in Chicago at the age of 74.
Investing.com
Investing.com is a notable financial website. It provides financial news as well as information about market "quotes", foreign exchange, stocks, commodities, currencies, interest rates and more. As of December 2020, it is the second most popular financial website in the world and is among the top 200 most popular websites overall.
The website was founded in 2007 as "Forexpros". In 2012 its name changed to Investing.com, after the company bought their (domain) name for $2.45 million.
In the years 2013-2014, Investing.com launched Android and iOS apps, and in 2019 had editions in 24 languages.
Nur Hossain Kasemi
Allama Nur Hossain Kasemi () (10 January 1945 — 13 December 2020) was a Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, politician, educator, religious speaker and spiritual figure. He was the Secretary General of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh from November 2020 until his death. He also was in charge of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh from 2015 until his death. Kasemi was born in Dhaka.
Kasemi died at a Dhaka hospital on 13 December 2020 from respiratory failure, aged 75.
Ferruccio Pisoni
Ferruccio Pisoni (6 August 1936 – 12 December 2020) was an Italian politician. He was a Deputy from 1968 to 1983. Pisoni was born in Trevi, Italy. He was a member of the Christian Democracy.
Pisoni died on 12 December 2020 at the age of 84.
Motjeka Madisha (12 January 1995 – 12 December 2020) was a South African professional soccer player. He played for Mamelodi Sundowns, as a defender. He also played for the national team from 2015 to 2020.
Madisha was killed in a car crash on 12 December 2020 in Kempton Park, Guateng at the age of 25.
Victor Gnanapragasam
Father Victor Gnanapragasam O.M.I. (November 21, 1940 – December 12, 2020) was a Sri Lankan Roman Catholic prelate. He was the first prefect of the Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan from 2001 until his death. Gnanapragasam was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
Gnanapragasam died on December 12, 2020 from a heart attack at the age of 80.
Escurinho
Benedito Custódio Ferreira, nicknamed Escurinho (3 July 1930 – 12 December 2020) was a Brazilian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and left winger. He was born in Nova Lima, Brazil. Escurinho played for Villa Nova, Fluminense, Atlético Junior, Portuguesa (RJ) and Bonsucesso.
He played eight times for the Brazilian national team between 1955 and 1956.
He died on 12 November 2020 from Alzheimer's disease and multiple organ failure in Nova Lima at the age of 90.
Nicolas Chumachenco
Nicolas Chumachenco (also known as Nicolas Chumachenko; March 27, 1944 – December 12, 2020), was a Polish-born Spanish-German violin soloist and professor. He was director of the Queen Sofía Chamber Orchestra. Chumachenco was born in Kraków, in Nazi-occupied Poland, to Ukrainian parents who left Poland at the end of the Second World War.
Chumachenco died on December 12, 2020 in Schallstadt, Germany at the age of 76.
Claude Castonguay
Claude Castonguay, (May 8, 1929 – December 12, 2020) was Canadian Progressive Conservative politician, educator and businessman. He was born in Quebec City, Quebec.
He was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1970 to 1973. Catonguay was a member of the Senate of Canada from 1990 to 1992.
Castonguay died on December 12, 2020 at the age of 91.
Bird Averitt
William Rodney "Bird" Averitt (July 22, 1952December 12, 2020) was an American professional basketball player in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. His career lasted from 1973 to 1978. Averitt played for the San Antonio Spurs, Kentucky Colonels, Buffalo Braves and New Jersey Nets.
Averitt died on December 12, 2020 at the age of 68.
Hotsuit
Hotsuit is a fitness apparel and accessories brand. It is designed to make the wearer sweat profusely. It is intended for use in sports however, it has become commonly worn in other contexts.
Dopamine is a hormone and a neurotransmitter that plays several important roles in the body. Moving the body generates Dopamine. Hotsuit has been developed to sweat and secrete dopamine. It is being made by Ageas Inc., a subsidiary of American Sporting Goods Co. Ltd.
In 2015, Ageas Inc. established the brand Hotsuit where hot+suit is recognizable with a vision for the brand that exists to create the global sweatsuit market. In 2009, Hotsuit opened its first store in Beijing, China and sponsored the Vertical Marathon of Beijing.
Hotsuits are being sold both in retail stores and online markets like Amazon, Aliexprss, Tmall.
Hotsuit has been seen in the TV series "Ode to Joy" and "Our Glamorous Time". "The Fighter" and "Hello Mr. Billionaire" movies have scenes with Hotsuit.
Scalable Hosting
Scalable Hosting or ""Scalacube"" develops hosting services that include a control panel, allowing users to create their game servers for Minecraft, Rust, , Hytale, etc. According to their website, they combines VPS and game server hosting.
The company was founded in January 2019 by Kostiantyn Rohatkin and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia. In October 2020, the business was accredited by the Estonian Startup Committee.
Confidence and supply
McNary, Louisiana
McNary is a village in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Hung parliament
Hagewood, Louisiana
Master and slave philosophy
"Master and slave" is a theme in philosophy that can be used in different ways. It is explained by the German philosophers Georg W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche but with different meanings. In philosophy, the words "master" and "slave" are not always meant literally. The theme refers to a hierarchy of certain things or people being put beneath others.
Georg W. F. Hegel wrote about a certain kind of recognition that people need. According to Hegel, people have a need to be recognised as individuals by other individuals. People fill this need by being recognised by others who aren't put beneath them. Part of this happens when people struggle against each other, even to death. People will risk their lives just to struggle for this kind of recognition. However, the outcome of this struggle creates a problem for filling this need. The person who loses the struggle will either die or become beneath the other person. This is taking the part of "slave". When someone puts someone else beneath themself, they take the part of "master". The person who loses the struggle can no longer give or receive the recognition that is needed. Therefore, when someone is put beneath others it damages how they think of themself. But also, when someone puts themselves others, they cannot get the recognition they need from those people anymore.
Hegel's explanation of master and slave has become important in many fields of study. Some examples are in social sciences, discourse analysis, and psychoanalysis. The American researcher David Duquette says the more correct name in English for this philosophy is "lordship and bondage", rather than "master and slave". The American professor Robert Brandom also says that Hegel's explanation represents when duty and authority are split apart. Duties are only given to the "slave" but authority is only given to the "master". The problems of master and slave happen when people try to take one without the other.
Friedrich Nietzsche wrote many warnings about the dangers of morality. Morality is dangerous when it harms the best people and favours the people beneath them, says Nietzsche. He explains master and slave as two different approaches to values and morals. The first approach values noble things like honour, courage, self-worth, and excellence. These people value things based on what they see rather than what they are told. The second approach is what Nietzsche calls a weakness. It values things like sameness and pity. He also calls these "priestly values" because they are often to people by priestly religions. He says the ancient Hebrews were an example of priestly culture, and the ancient Romans were an example of a noble culture.
The "slave revolt in morals" is when the weaker people force their weaker values onto others. This happens when they get resentful about being beneath the stronger people. When these values spread, they favour the weak and priestly people at the cost of the better and nobler people. Nietzsche also says they are life-denying values, meaning they have a negative and unhealthy attitude towards living. They are what make morality dangerous. Nietzsche does not say slave morality is always bad though. Instead, "the ideas of the herd should rule in the herd—but not reach out beyond it". What this means is that weaker values be for the weaker people but for the nobler people. Before Nietzsche, the Russian nihilist Dmitry Pisarev had also said extraordinary people should free themselves from morality and priestly ideas.
A slightly different theme of master and slave is also used by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. It is a main part of his philosophy even though it often stays hidden. Plato says that enslavement is when a person cannot master themselves. When this happens they become a slave to their desires. The opposite of this he calls "self-mastery". He also says that people become mastered by others when they cannot master themselves. For example, people have leaders when they cannot lead themselves. For Plato, the slave and master relation is when something natural and disorderly is put beneath something divine and orderly. For example, Plato says the soul is master of the body. He also says that the world is naturally disorderly, but is turned orderly and scientific only by divine things. Nietzsche instead says there is no divine orderliness that masters the world. According to Nietzsche, the ancient Greeks before Plato already understood this better. These ancient Greeks were able to balance the disorder of Dionysus, and the reasoning of Apollo. He saw Plato as destroying this understanding. And so Nietzsche saw Plato as a coward who couldn't accept reality. Nietzsche's explanation of the master and slave theme is instead based on power, rather than orderliness.
Mackenzie Ziegler
Mackenzie Frances Ziegler (born June 4, 2004) is an American singer, dancer, actress and model. She first got noticed as a child while appearing for six years on the Lifetime reality dance series "Dance Moms" with her older sister, Maddie Ziegler, who is a dancer and actress.
1980 United States heat wave
The 1980 United States heat wave was a period of strong heat and drought. It caused "serious" havoc and damage in the Southern Great Plains and much of the Midwestern United States during the summer of 1980. It was one of the most devastating and damaging natural disasters in terms of deaths.
The heat wave first got started in June 1980. A strong high pressure area began building in the central and Southern United States. That allowed the temperatures to soar to 90°F almost every day from June to September. This high pressure system acted as a cap on the atmosphere. That prevented thunderstorm development and caused severe drought conditions. But the heat wave broke when the dying Hurricane Allen stopped the weather pattern.
The heat wave and drought led a number of cities in the Midwest and South to have record heat. In Kansas City, Missouri, the high temperature was only below 90°F twice. In the same city, the high temperature hit 100°F 17 days in a row. In Memphis, Tennessee, the high temperature reached 108°F on Sunday, July 13. It was part of a 15-day stretch of 100°F temperatures that lasted from July 6 to July 20.
The agricultural damage by the 1980 heat wave and drought was over $20 billion (1980 USD). That allowed the temperatures to soar to 90°F almost every day from June to September. This high pressure system acted as a cap on the atmosphere.
In Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, high temperatures exceeded 100°F a total of 69 times. Forty-two of those were consecutive days. In Dallas-Fort Worth, the high temperature hit 113°F on two days: June 26 and 27.
Lovers and Liars ("Viaggio con Anita") is a 1979 Italian French comedy movie directed by Mario Monicelli and starring Goldie Hawn, Giancarlo Giannini, Claudine Auger, Aurore Clément, Laura Betti, Andréa Ferréol.
MediaZona
MediaZona is a Russian website. Two girls from the Russian punk rock collective Pussy Riot (Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova) made it in 2014. Russian political journalist Sergey Smirnov is the main editor of the website.
MediaZona gives information on the judicial, law enforcement, and penal system in Russia. Since 2020 the site gives such news on Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Belarus too.
MediaZona has a Russian media license, but Tolokonnikova said in 2016 that it could be taken away at any time.
The site of MediaZona can't be opened in Belarus.
On 30 January 2021, the main editor of Mediazona Sergey Smirnov was locked up by the police.
Born to Win is a 1971 American black comedy movie directed by Ivan Passer and starring George Segal, Karen Black, Paula Prentiss, Hector Elizondo, Robert De Niro. It was distributed by United Artists.
Creator (movie)
A Letter for Evie
Miriam Naor
Miriam Naor (born October 26, 1947) is the former President of the Supreme Court of Israel. She was in that position from 2015 to 2017.
Naor was born in Jerusalem. She served in the IDF as a soldier-teacher.
Naor married Arye Naor, who was a governments secretary in Menachem Begin's government. In 1972 she began working at the state attorney's office, and was later promoted to the position of the state's senior attorney. At the same time, she worked as a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1980, she was appointed to be a judge in Jerusalem and in 1989 was promoted to the district court.
In 2001 she began serving as a judge on the Supreme Court of Israel. In 2012, the judge electing panel chose her to the position of vice-president of the Supreme Court, and in 2015 she became its President. Throughout the years as a judge, Naor was in-charge of important cases and rulings in all court levels. She retired from the position in October 2017 after reaching the retirement age.
Since October 2018 she serves as the President of the Zionist Supreme Court of the .
Shock (1946 movie)
Charlotte Tillar Schexnayder
Charlotte Tillar Schexnayder (December 25, 1923 – December 11, 2020) was an American journalist and politician. She was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from the 74th district from 1985 to 1999. She was born in Tillar, Arkansas. Schexnayder was a member of the Democratic Party.
Schexnayder died on December 11, 2020 in Little Rock, Arkansas at the age of 96.
Huang Zongying
Huang Zongying (; 13 July 1925 – 14 December 2020) was a Chinese actress and writer. She starred in many black-and-white movies such as "Rhapsody of Happiness" (1947), "Crows and Sparrows" (1949), "Women Side by Side" (1949), and "The Life of Wu Xun" (1950). Huang was born in Beijing.
Huang died on 14 December 2020 in Beijing at the age of 95.
Piotr Machalica
Piotr Machalica (13 February 1955 – 14 December 2020) was a Polish actor. His career began in 1979. Machalica was born in Pszczyna, Poland. Machalica played Tadeusz in "Hero of the Year" (1987), Roman in "" (1988) and Roman in "A Short Film About Love" (1988).
Machalica died on 14 December 2020 in Warsaw from COVID-19 at the age of 65.
Alfonso Gagliano
Alfonso Gagliano (; (January 25, 1942 – December 12, 2020) was an Italian-born Canadian accountant and a Liberal Party politician. He was born in Siculiana, Italy. Gagliano was a member of the Parliament of Canada from 1984 to 2002. He also was a Minister of Labour from 1996 to 1997 and of Public Works and Government Services from 1997 to 2002.
Gagliano died on December 12, 2020 at the age of 78.
Terry Kay
Terry Kay (February 10, 1938 – December 12, 2020) was an American author. Kay was known for his work as "To Dance with the White Dog". Kay was born in Royston, Georgia.
Kay died on December 12, 2020 from liver cancer in Athens, Georgia at the age of 82.
Royston, Georgia
Royston is a city in Franklin, Hart, and Madison counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. 2,582 lived here in 2010.
Jerzy Mikułowski Pomorski
Jerzy Mikułowski Pomorski (3 January 1937 – 12 December 2020) was a Polish sociologist and professor. He was a doctor honoris causa of Grand Valley State University (1993) and Teesside University (1995). He was a rector of Cracow University of Economics in years 1990–1996.
Pomorski died on 12 December 2020 at the age of 83.
Radhika Ranjan Pramanick
Radhika Ranjan Pramanick (18 December 1932 – 13 December 2020) was an Indian politician. He was born in West Bengal, British India. Pramanick was a member of the All India Trinamool Congress. From 1989 to 2004, he was a member of the Lok Sabha.
Pramanick died on 13 December 2020 in Kolkata, India at the age of 87.
Shahid Mahmood
Shahid Mahmood (Urdu: شاہد محمود) (17 March 1939 – 13 December 2020) was a Pakistani cricketer. He was born in Lucknow. He played in one Test in 1962. He played first-class cricket in Pakistan from 1957 to 1969. He played for the national team.
Mahmood died on 13 December 2020 in New Jersey at the age of 81.
Otto Barić
Otto Barić (; 19 June 1933 – 13 December 2020) was an Austrian-born Croatian football player and later manager. He was born in Eisenkappel-Vellach, Austria. From 1958 to 1963, he played for Lokomotiva Zagreb. He managed the national team from 2002 to 2004.
Barić died of COVID-19 on 13 December 2020 in Zagreb, Croatia at the age of 87.
Fiorenzo Alfieri
Fiorenzo Alfieri (11 September 1943 – 13 December 2020) was an Italian educator and politician. He was born in Polignano a Mare, Italy. He was a member of the Turin City Council from 1995 to 2000.
Alfieri died of COVID-19 in Turin on 13 December 2020 at the age of 77.
Polignano a Mare
Hasu Yajnik
Hasmukhray Vrajlal Yajnik (12 February 1938 ― 10 December 2020), better known as Hasu Yajnik, also spelled Hasu Yagnik was a Gujarati writer and editor. He wrote novels, short stories, criticism, folklore, and children's stories. He was a professor of Gujarati in many government colleges in Gujarat.
He wrote twenty novels, three short story collections, two jail stories, four medieval stories, and criticism of four medieval works. He edited twelve folk works and six works of children's literature.
He was the registrar of the Gujarat Sahitya Akademi, Gandhinagar from 1982 to 1996. He was a founder and managing trustee of the Meghani Lokvidya Sanshodhan Bhavan, Ahmedabad from 1996 to 2005.
He died on 10 December 2020 due to COVID-19 in Ahmedabad at the age of 82.
Diego Novelli
Diego Novelli (born 22 May 1931) is an Italian politician. He was born in Turin.
Novelli was a member of the Italian Communist Party. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 1984 to 2001. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1987 to 2001. Novelli was Mayor of Turin from 1975 to 1985.
Valentino Castellani
Varmo
Burshtyn
Burshtyn () is a city located in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. Its population is 14,976 (2020).
It was developed significantly during the Soviet Union period due to Burshtyn Coal Power Station. The city has an old Roman Catholic Church in the center of the city.
The first written mention of the settlement dates back to 1554 (or in 1436 according to other sources).
In the second half of the 16th century the town belonged to the Polish nobleman Skarbek. In October 1629, a famous battle took place near the town, in which the registered Cossacks and the Polish army under the command of Stefan Khmeletsky defeated the Tatar. The attackers were driven further, in particular, to Monastyrysk, where their remains were again destroyed.
From 1630 the owner of Burshtyn was the magnate Yablonovsky. During the Middle Ages, the city was destroyed by raids by Tatars and Turks, in particular during the Polish-Turkish wars of the XVII century (1629, 1675).
Maksym Shkil
Maksym Shkil (Ukrainian: Максим Шкіль; born 19 August 1983) is a Ukrainian businessman, founder and owner of MS Capital Holding, which includes the First Logistics Company, AVTOSTRADA, Audi Center Odessa South, and the Pryluky Agrarian Company. He is a founder of Maksym Shkil Charitable Foundation and a Vice President of the National Association of Road Workers of Ukraine.
In 2015, Maksym Shkil graduated from Lviv Polytechnic, majoring in Applied Linguistics.
In 2008, he graduated with a degree in law from Ivan Franko Lviv National University.
In 2010, he received a diploma in "business economics" from Lviv Polytechnic.
In 2012, he received the degree of Candidate of Legal Sciences.
In 2006 he together with partners founded an enterprise for the extraction, processing and sale of granite.
In 2011, Maksym Shkil founded the First Logistics Company LLC, which is one of the largest Ukrainian companies in the field of grain transportation by rail with a fleet of 1,500 cars. Among the partners of the First Logistics Company are the largest traders in Ukraine and the world.
In 2016, Shkil built the largest Audi dealership in Ukraine - Audi Center Odessa South.
In 2016, together with a German partner, he created a joint Ukrainian-German company "AUTOSTRADA", which specializes in the construction and overhaul of roads and bridges. In 2020, the company invested more than $70 million in the development of its own facilities and as for 2020 is one of Ukraine's leaders in the field of road construction.
In 2019, Shkil merged all businesses into one structure, MS Capital Holding, which employs more than 2,000 people.
In 2020, MS Capital Holding established the Pryluky Agrarian Company and invested ₴160 million in the purchase of an elevator and corporate rights for Kurs-Agro, whose land bank is about 5,000 hectares within the Chernihiv and Poltava regions.
Maksym is married and raises two daughters.
In 2011, the businessman founded the Maksym Shkil Charitable Foundation. Over the years, the Foundation has implemented more than 300 social projects and provided assistance to more than 10,000 families throughout Ukraine.
In 2020, the businessman headed the infrastructure committee of the Federation of Employers of Ukraine.
Since 2020, Maksym Shkil holds the position of Vice President of the National Association of Road Workers of Ukraine.
Anatoliy Kinakh
Anatoliy Kyrylovych Kinakh (; born 4 August 1954) is a Ukrainian politician. He is the leader of Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine.
Kinakh is most known for holding the Prime Minister of Ukraine office under the President Leonid Kuchma from 2001 to 2002. He was also the first Vice Prime Minister and a Minister of Economy of Ukraine.
Guangdong frog
The Guangdong frog, brown grasspound frog, three-striped grass frog, long-toed frog, marbled slender frog, long-toed slender frog or stripe-backed frog ("Hylarana macrodactyla") is a frog from China, Myanmar , Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaysia.
This frog lives in tropical and subtropical forests that are not too wet and in some grasslands
The name "macrodactyla" means "with big fingers," or "long-toed."
1962 Atlantic hurricane season
Battle of Lepanto
The battle of Lepanto (in Italian "Battaglia gave Lepanto"; in Turkish: "İnebahtı deniz muharebesi "'naval battle of İnebahtı') was a naval fight that took place on 7 October 1571 near of the Greek city of Náfpaktos (Lepanto in Italian).
They confronted in her the armed of Imperio otomano against the one of a Catholic coalition, called Saint League, formed by the Spanish Empire, the States Pontificios, the Republic of Venecia, the Order of Malta, the Republic of Génova and the Duchy of Saboya.
In this battle participated Miguel de Cervantes, that resulted injured and lost the mobility of his left hand, what cost him the nickname of «manco of Lepanto». This writer, that was very proud to having combated there, described it like «the more memorable and high occasion that saw the past centuries, neither expect to see the coming». Also it entered the history in the "Quijote", through the #narration of the captive, as typical work of literature of border.
Race (anthropology)
The definition of race by Merriam-Webster is any one of the groups that humans are often divided into based on physical traits regarded as common among people of shared ancestry. The field of anthropology has largely been based off of examining racial differences. Despite centuries of scientific racism, the biological concept of race has been debunked.
The term race often refers to skin color, which is direct relation to latitudinal location on planet. Solar radiation from the sun effects melanin production, which is the pigment in the skin that determines skin color. Groups closer to the equator typically produce more melanin, and thus have darker skin to protect from the increased solar radiation.
Charles Darwin(1809-1882), known for his theory of natural selection, believed that there were distinct races, and that human evolution was progressive, meaning that the white races were thought to be more evolved than the black races as he stated in his The Decent of Man. Carl Linnaeus(1707-1778), who created the binomial nomenclature to show the relations between species of animals, put humans into the order primates, and thought that there were four human sub-species- European Whites, American Reds (Native Americans), Asian Browns, and African Blacks.
The field of anthropology is the study of humans through time. There are now four main subfields- Physical (biological) anthropology, cultural anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics. Anthropology was originally created in attempt to understand human differences. Samuel Morton (1799-1851), originally a physician and viewed as the first physical anthropologist, collected human skulls. He measured them and attempted to compare the sizes of five different human racial groups, trying to prove that whites had the biggest brain sizes and therefore were the most intelligent. Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) believed that traits such as a strong work ethic and morality were traits that could be passed down genetically, from parent to child. Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" and used those ideas to justify poor work conditions and racism. All of these ideas led to the rise of scientific racism where scholars used science to back up their racist ideologies, although the science they used was later proved to be wrong. Francis Galton (1822-1911), was an English anthropologist who was interested in the hereditary of intelligence and coined the term eugenics, which was the idea of only mating people with desirable traits to increase the occurrence of those traits. It was thought that since nonwhites were less intelligent, and that you could breed for higher intelligence, whites should not mate with nonwhites. Laws were passed that made interracial marriages illegal.