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Humoresque is a 1946 American romantic drama movie directed by Jean Negulesco and is the second adaption of the 1919 short story of the same name by Fannie Hurst. It stars Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant, Joan Chandler, Peggy Knudsen, Paul Cavanagh and was distributed by Warner Bros.. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1947.

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Leg before wicket (LBW) is one way a batsman can get out in cricket. There must be an appeal to the umpire at the bowler's end, and he makes the decision.

LBW happens when the ball touches a batsman's body before it touches the bat or a hand/glove holding the bat, and the ball would otherwise have hit the wicket. 

Leg before wicket first appeared in the laws of cricket in 1774, as batsmen began to use their pads to prevent the ball hitting their wicket.

Definition

The definition of leg before wicket (lbw) is currently Law 36 in the Laws of Cricket, written by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). 

Before a batter can be dismissed lbw, the fielding team must appeal to the umpire. If the bowler delivers a no-ball — an illegal delivery — the batter cannot be out lbw under any circumstances. 

Otherwise, for the batter to be adjudged lbw, the ball, if it bounces, must hit the pitch in line with or on the off side of the wickets. For a right-handed batsman, the off side is the right-hand side of the pitch when viewed from his perspective. For a left-handed batsman, the off side is the left-hand side. Then the ball must strike part of the batsman's body without first touching his/her bat, In the Laws of Cricket, the batsman's bat is considered to include the hand or hands holding it. in line with the wickets and have been going on to hit the stumps. 

The batter may also be out lbw if, having made no attempt to hit the ball with their bat, they are struck outside the line of off stump by a ball that would have hit the wickets. The umpire must assume that the ball would have continued on the same trajectory after striking the batter, even if it would have bounced before hitting the stumps.

Instant replay 
Sometimes video replay and other technologies are used to decide if a batter is out LBW. For example, heat-tracking ("Hot Spot") can visually show when the ball has hit the bat or part of the batter's body, audio-tracking ("Snickometer") can show if there is a slight sound from the impact of the ball, and advanced simulations ("Hawkeye") can predict where the ball would have gone after impact with the batter's body if the batter had not been there.

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Pramod Pandurang Sawant (born 24 April 1973) is an Indian politician. He is the current Chief Minister of Goa.
Sawant represents the Sanquelim constituency in the Goa Legislative Assembly. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

He is an Ayurveda Medical practitioner by profession.
He was serving as the speaker of the Goa assembly before being sworn in as Chief Minister. After the death of the sitting chief minister Manohar Parrikar, he became chief minister of Goa.

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Jean Graetz (born Jean Ellis; December 24, 1929 – December 16, 2020) was an American civil rights activist. She and her clergyman husband Robert Graetz were well known white supporters of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955. Graetz was born in East Springfield, Pennsylvania. 

Graetz died of lung cancer in Montgomery, Alabama on December 16, 2020 at the age of 90.

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Lyle L. Hanson (May 11, 1935 – December 23, 2020) was an American politician and educator. He was a member of the Democratic Party. Hanson was a member of the North Dakota House of Representatives, representing the 12th district from 1979 to 2013. Hanson was born in Sargent County, North Dakota.

Hanson died on December 23, 2020 in Jamestown, North Dakota, aged 85.

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Quirihue () is a Chilean city in Quirihue, Itata Province, Ñuble Region.

It is about 72 kilometers northwest of Chillán and 410 km southwest of Santiago.

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Progressive bulbar palsy (PBP) is a medical condition. It is a type of motor neuron disease. PBP is a disease that attacks the nerves in the bulbar muscles. They make the cerebral cortex, spinal cord, brain stem, and pyramidal tracts weaker.

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Florentino Domínguez Ordoñez (16 October 1962 – 27 December 2020) was a Mexican politician. He was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. In 2014, he became a member of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies representing Tlaxcala. He was born in Chiautempan, Tlaxcala.

Domínguez Ordoñez died during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico on 27 December 2020 at the age of 58.

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Roberto Junguito Bonnet  (1943 – 27 December 2020) was a Colombian politician. He was Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development from 1983 to 1984 and Minister of Finance and Public Credit from 1984 to 1985 and again from 2002 to 2003. He was born in Bogotá.

Junguito was the Ambassador to the European Union from 1983 to 1984 and of France from 1986 to 1987.

Junguito died on 27 December 2020 in Bogotá, aged 77.

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Marc Basnight (May 13, 1947 – December 28, 2020) was an American politician and businessman. He was a member of the Democratic Party. Basnight was born in Manteo, North Carolina. From 1985 to 2011, he was a member of the North Carolina Senate. From 1993 to 2011, he was President pro tempore of the state senate.

Basnight died on December 28, 2020 in Manteo from problems caused by progressive bulbar palsy at the age of 73.

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Henry Nolan Mettetal (November 19, 1945 – December 28, 2020) was an American politician. He was a member of the Republican party. Mettetal was member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 2012 to 2020. He also was a member of the Mississippi Senate from 1996 to 2012. Mettetal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Mettetal died of COVID-19 on December 28, 2020 at a hospital in Oxford, Mississippi at age 75.

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<noinclude>The COVID-19 pandemic in Antarctica is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). 

Antarctica was the last continent to have confirmed cases of COVID-19 and was one of the last regions of the world affected by the pandemic. 

The first cases were reported in December 2020, almost a year after the first cases of COVID-19 were seen in China.

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Peter Schmidhuber (15 December 1931 – 26 December 2020) was a German politician. He was a member of the CSU party. Schmidhuber was born in Munich. He was a member of the Munich city council from 1960 to 1966. From 1965 to 1969 and again from 1972 to 1978, he was a member of the Bundestag.

Schmidhuber also held many political posts in the European Union during the Jacques Delors commission.

Schmidhuber died on 26 December 2020 in Munich at the age of 89.

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Victor Theodore Stelly (January 11, 1941 – December 26, 2020) was an American politician and businessman. He was a member of the Republican Party. Stelly was born in Carencro, Louisiana. From From 1988 to 2004, he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.

Stelly died on December 26, 2020 in Lake Charles, Louisiana from problems caused by COVID-19 at the age of 79. His wife, Terry Bass, died hours after him from the same infection.

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Carencro (; historically ) is a small city in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a suburb of Lafayette. 7,526 lived here at the 2010 census.

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Nora Arnezeder (born 8 May 1989) is a French actress and singer. She played the lead role in the 2013 drama Angélique.

In 2012, Arnezeder appeared in the movie Safe House. In the same year she appeared in role of Celia in The Words.

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The Act is an American true crime drama television series that was made by Hulu. The series had eight parts, the first episode was released on March 20, 2019. The final episode came out on May 1, 2019.

The show is about the real life story of Gypsy Blanchard and the murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. Dee Dee abused her daughter Gypsy by lying about her age, faking medical illnesses about Gypsy and physically tying her up.

Joey King played Gypsy and Patricia Arquette played her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. AnnaSophia Robb, Chloë Sevigny, and Calum Worthy also star.

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Haugesund is a town within the Municipality of Haugesund, and is the capital of the municipality. It is within the Rogaland county in the country of Norway. It had a population of roughly 32,000 (42,000 including all of the suburbs) as of January 2020. The "birthplace of Norway", as it is called, Avaldsnes, is approximately 8.5km away from the town. The town is named after the nearby Haugesundet strait which is close to the town.

The residents of the town are nicknamed "Maake" (Seagulls), especially those who live in the east side of the town and support the local soccer team.

Tourist attractions 
Here is a list of tourist attractions which can be found within the town:

• (Natural attraction) The Haraldsvang hiking area. It is quite close to the Skelsvannet lake. 

• (Natural attraction) The Skelsvannet lake is good for fishing, and you could be able to find some fish that are from the region. It would also be good for birdwatching, mostly seagulls which are commonly found in Haugesund.

• There is a North Sea cycling route which runs through, which would be good for cyclists

• Haugesund also has an airport (HAU) for people who like planespotting.

• Haugesund also hosts the Norwegian International Film Festival, and the "Slidajazz" festival in August every year.

Sports in Haugesund 
Haugesund is home to the soccer club Haugesund FK (FKH), who currently play in the Eliteserien, the highest tier in Norwegian soccer (20/21 season).

Municipal council 
The municipal council () of Haugesund is made up of 49 representatives that are elected every four years. The government is located at the Haugesund City Hall.

International relations 

Haugesund is a sister city with the following places:

  Søllerød, Hovedstaden, Denmark
  Ystad, Skåne, Sweden
  Ekenäs, Uusimaa, Finland
  Emden, Lower Saxony, Germany

Each of the sister cities (except Emden) has been given its name to a street in Haugesund. The streets are located in the same area near the border to the neighbouring municipality.

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The Battle of Monmouth or Battle of Monmouth Courthouse was a battle of the American Revolutionary War. It was fought on June 28, 1778 in Monmouth, New Jersey. The British army retreated, but neither side won.  Monmouth was the longest battle between the main Continental Army and the main British Army.

Battle

Four days earlier, the leaders of the Continental Army (the Americans) met.  Some wanted to fight the British army head-on and some did not.  Most of the leaders decided to fight small battles and win slowly.

General George Washington and General Charles Lee led the Continental Army to Englishtown.  There, Washington ordered the army to attack British General Sir Henry Clinton's army.  During the battle, Lee ordered his own Continental troops to retreat.  Washington became angry and ordered Lee and "Mad" Anthony Wayne to slow the British down while he, Washington, took command.  The Continental Army defended its position while the British attacked all day.  That night, the British left in the dark.

There were about 10,000 Continental troops and about 11,000 British troops. About 100 British troops were killed or injured and about 150 Continentals.  About 100 people fell or died from heatstroke.  George Washington's horse also died of heatstroke.

June 28 was a very hot day.  Mary Ludwig Hayes brought water to her husband and other gunners during the battle many times.  One time, she brought water and found her husband had been shot and injured.  She took over his job as gunner.  People gave her the nickname "Molly Pitcher."  There may have been more than one real-life woman who was given the name "Molly Pitcher."

Nathanael Greene and the Marquis de Lafayette also fought in this battle.

Weapons

Both armies had muskets.  The Highland Scots in the British army also had broadswords.  The British and the German soldiers had bayonets, long blades attached to the ends of the muskets.  The Continental army had been trying to get bayonets.  Some of the Virginia troops had rifled firearms.

This was the first time the Continental army used the tactics and training they had learned at Valley Forge from then-Acting Inspector General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben.

Outcome

General Lee asked to be court-martialed for his actions in this battle.  He was sentenced to one year suspension.

After the Battle of Monmouth, the war moved to the South.

Today

Reenactors reenact the battle at Monmouth Battlefield State Park in Freehold, New Jersey.

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Anubias is a genus of tropical plants in the family Araceae. Members of this genus are popular as aquarium plants. Because of the often shady places where the plants grow, the genus was named after the Egyptian god Anubis, the god of the afterlife. The genus was first described in 1857 by Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, with A. afzelii as its type species. Besides A. afzelii, the genus has the following species:  A. barteri, A. gigantea, A. gilletii, A. gracilis, A. hastifolia, A. heterophylla, and A. pynaertii.

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Edward Craven Walker (4 July 1918 – 15 August 2000) was a British inventor, who invented the lava lamp. He is also known for being a naturist.

Work on the lava lamp 
Walker got the idea of a lava lamp from seeing what is now called a "blob light", a mix of oil and water heated by a lightbulb at the bottom. He thought it would look more interesting if the oil was thick enough to form shapes, and spent 10 years trying to make it good.

Eventually, his product was launched in 1963, and Walker's factory soon began production of it as it grew in popularity.

Apparently, Walker once said, "If you buy my lamp, you won't need drugs."

Lava lamps were featured in the sitcom series "Absolutely Fabulous", which some people think helped the lava lamp's popularity, which was declining at the time.

Eventually, as it become less popular in the 1980s, Walker sold the company to Elizabeth Granger. Her company, Mathmos, was one of Britain's fastest growing companies, mostly from the lava lamp. Walker believed the lava lamp would be good for her company.

"I think it will always be popular." he once said. "It's like the cycle of life. It grows, breaks up, falls down, and starts all over again."

Naturism 
Walker's interest in nudity began with a visit to the Isle du Levant in the 1950s. He liked the idea, and tried to make it popular. "Eves on Skies" was broadcast in 1958, and "Travelling Light" followed soon after in 1960.

The success of Travelling Light gave Walker the money to buy a nightclub in Bournemouth. He turned it into a nudist resort. He tried to ban overweight nudists from entering, but failed.

"We are all against these fat fogies, it's not what naturism is about," he said

Death 
Walker was suffering from cancer in the mid and late 1990s, and he eventually died because of it. He died in Ringwood, Hampshire at the age of 85 on the 15th of August 2000.

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Parviz Parastui (also spelt Parastooee or Parastouei, ‎, born 24 June 1955) is an Iranian actor.

Related pages 
 List of Iranian actors

Other websites 
 
 His Profile on IranActor.com 
 TIFF.net | Toronto International Film Festival – Today
 FilmNetNews.com | Latest news about Parviz Parastooi 

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Midway is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in La Salle Parish, Louisiana, United States.

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Trout is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in La Salle Parish, Louisiana, United States.

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The Sumatra frog ("Hylarana" persimilis) is a frog from Indonesia.

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Agni Sakshi (2017 TV Series) was an Indian Telugu Language Soap Opera aired on Star Maa. 

It Stars Arjun Ambati and Aishwarya Pisse in lead roles.

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Arnulf of Carinthia ( 850 – December 8, 899) was the duke of Carinthia who removed his uncle, Emperor Charles the Fat from power. He was the disputed King of Italy from 894 and the disputed Holy Roman Emperor from February 22, 896 until his death at Regensburg, Bavaria.

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Lambert (c. 880 – 15 October 898) was the King of Italy from 891, Holy Roman Emperor, co-ruling with his father from 892, and Duke of Spoleto and Camerino (as Lambert II) from his father's death in 894. 

He was the son of Guy III of Spoleto and Ageltrude, born in San Rufino. He was the last ruler to issue a capitulary in the Carolingian tradition.

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Frederik Batti Sorring, also known by FBS, (May 28, 1955 – December 21, 2020) was an Indonesian politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was the Regent of North Toraja Regency from 2011 until 2016. He was the first Vice Regent of Asmat Regency in Papua province from 2005 to 2010.

In December 2020, Batti Sorring tested positive for COVID-19. He died from problems of COVID-19 at Grestelina Hospital at the age of 65.

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William Theodore Link (December 15, 1933 – December 27, 2020) was an American screenwriter and producer. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Link was known for creating the television programs Columbo, Murder, She Wrote and Mannix. He won two Primetime Emmy Award in 1970 and 1972. 

Link died on December 27, 2020 in Los Angeles from heart failure at the age of 87.

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Csaba Ali (4 November 1946 – 27 December 2020) was a Hungarian swimmer. He competed in two events at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He was born in Eger, Hungary.

Ali died on 27 December 2020 at the age of 74.

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Paul Sueo Hamaguchi (1 August 1948 – 28 December 2020) was a Japanese Roman Catholic bishop. Hamaguchi was born in Oita, Japan. He became a priest in 1975. He was bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oita, Japan, from 2011 until his death.

Hamaguchi died on 28 December 2020 at the age of 72.

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Hatem Ali  () (2 June 1962 – 29 December 2020) was a Syrian television and movie director and actor. His career began in 1988. He was born in Fiq, Syria. He was known for his television roles in Al-Taghreba al-Falastenya, Salah Al-deen, and Omar TV series.

Ali died on 29 December 2020 in Cairo from a heart attack at the age of 58.

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Luke Joshua Letlow (December 6, 1979 – December 29, 2020) was an American politician. He was a member of the Republican Party. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives for  in November 2020 but died before he could take office. 

Before his election to Congress, Letlow served as chief of staff to retiring Representative Ralph Abraham and former Governor Bobby Jindal. He was born in Monroe, Louisiana.

On December 18, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Letlow announced that he had tested positive for the virus and was hospitalized in Monroe. He was later trasnferred to Shreveport, Louisiana on December 23. He died six days later at the age of 41.

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Elaine McCoy,   (March 7, 1946 — December 29, 2020) was a Canadian politician. She was born in Brandon, Manitoba. McCoy was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. McCoy was a member of the Legislative Assembly from Alberta from 1986 to 1993. She was the Senator from Alberta from 2005 until her death.

McCoy died on December 29, 2020 in Ottawa, Alberta at the age of 74.

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Nikhil Nandy (1932 – 29 December 2020) was an Indian footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He played for the national team. He was born in Kolkata, India.

Nandy died on 29 December 2020 in Nagerbazar, India at the age of 88.

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Corrado Olmi (24 October 1926 – 29 December 2020) was an Italian actor and comedian. He was born in Jesi, Italy. His career lasted from 1956 to 2000. He played Bobino in Wake Up and Die, Don Ermino in Scandal in the Family and as the Mayor in Madly in Love.

Olmi died on 29 December 2020 in Rome from COVID-19 at the age of 93.

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Daniel S. Paletko (December 21, 1950December 29, 2020) was an American Democratic politician. He was born in Dearborn Heights, Michigan. From 2003 to 2004, he was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives. Paletko was Mayor of Dearborn Heights from 2004 until his death.

Paletko died on December 29, 2020 in Dearborn Heights from COVID-19 at the age of 70.

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Luigi Snozzi (29 July 1932 – 29 December 2020) was a Swiss architect. He was born in Mendrisio, Ticino. From 1962 to 1971, Snozzi worked with architect Livio Vacchini.

From 1982 to 1984, he was a Visiting Professor and in 1985 he was appointed Professor of Architecture at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.  Snozzi was a professor of the University of Sassari, at the Faculty of Architecture of Alghero, Sardinia.

Snozzi died in Minusio, Switzerland on 29 December 2020 from COVID-19, at the age of 88.

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Richard Choruma (23 November 1978 – 29 December 2020) was a Zimbabwean football winger. His career lasted from 1999 to 2011. He made 54 appearances with Bloemfontein Celtic from 2002 to 2006. Choruma played for Highlanders from 1999 to 2002, 2003 to 2004 and 2007 to 2011. He made eight appearances for the national team from 2001 to 2004.

Choruma died on 29 December 2020 in Thembisa, South Africa from kidney failure at the age of 42.

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Theodore Richard White (born March 25, 1931), known professionally as Ted White, is an American businessman, songwriter, and producer. White was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was the manager and first husband of soul singer Aretha Franklin. White wrote or co-wrote many songs with Franklin such as "Think".

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Leslie Allen Jordan (born April 29, 1955) is an American actor and writer. He played Lonnie Garr in Hearts Afire and Beverly Leslie in Will & Grace. In 2006, he won an Emmy Award.

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Lazar Lazarevich Matveev (Russian: Ла́зарь Лазаре́вич Матве́ев; born 17 April 1927) is a Russian intelligence leader and former Soviet intelligence leader. He was a senior KGB liaison officer during 1982 to 1989. He was the boss of Vladimir Putin when Putin worked for the KGB. Matveev was born in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Soviet Union.

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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 2020 American drama movie directed by George C. Wolfe and written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson. It is based on the play of the same name by August Wilson. 

The movie was produced by Denzel Washington, Todd Black, and Dany Wolf. It stars Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman, with Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo, and Michael Potts.

The movie is about Ma Rainey and talks about her career in Chicago during the 1920s and how her career was affected by racism.

It was released on a limited theatrical release on November 25, 2020, before beginning to stream on Netflix on December 18.

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James Catherwood Hormel (January 1, 1933 – August 13, 2021) was an American philanthropist, LGBT activist, and Democratic politician. He was the United States Ambassador to Luxembourg from 1999 to 2001 during the Bill Clinton presidency. Hormel was born in Austin, Minnesota. He was the first openly gay ambassador ever nominated in the United States. 

Hormel died on August 13, 2021 in San Francisco, California at the age of 88.

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George Smiley OBE is a fictional character created by John le Carré. Smiley is an intelligence officer with "The Circus". This is the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6. 

He is a central character in the novels Call for the Dead, A Murder of Quality, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley's People, and a supporting character in The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, The Looking Glass War, The Secret Pilgrim and A Legacy of Spies. The character has also appeared in a number of film, television, and radio adaptations of le Carré's books.

Le Carré, who created Smiley, wanted to show that Ian Fleming's James Bond series was an inaccurate picture of espionage life. Smiley is polite, shy and humble. He often allows others to mistreat him, especially his unfaithful wife. But his humility masks his inner cunning, excellent memory, mastery of tradecraft, and occasional ruthlessness. His genius being underestimated helps Smiley achieve his goals. In the end, he becomes one of the most powerful agents in Britain.

The character is held in high esteem in Britain, where he has become a pop-culture icon on par with Bond. The Guardian called him "the sort of spy [Britain] believes it ought to have: a bit shabby, academic, basically loyal, and sceptical of...  his political masters".

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An intelligence officer is a person employed to collect and or analyze information (known as "intelligence") which is of use to the organization.

The word officer is a working title, not a  rank. It is used in the same way a "police officer" can be a sergeant, or in the military, where non-commissioned staff may serve as intelligence officers. 

Organizations which employ intelligence officers include armed forces, police, and customs agencies. Mainly, though, the term is used by government intelligence agencies like MI5 and MI6.

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All This and Rabbit Stew is a cartoon with Bugs Bunny. It was first made for viewing on September 13, 1941. Tex Avery is the director of the cartoon. It is about an African American hunter trying to hunt Bugs Bunny.

The cartoon is a part of the Censored Eleven. The Censored Eleven is a group of cartoons that can not be shown on television because they use racial stereotypes. All This and Rabbit Stew shows stereotypes of African Americans.

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Nectanebo II ruled in 360–342 BC. He was the third and last pharaoh of the Thirtieth Dynasty of Egypt, and the last native ruler of ancient Egypt.

Under Nectanebo II, Egypt prospered. During his reign, the Egyptian artists developed a style on the reliefs of the Ptolemaic Kingdom. Nectanebo II started the enormous Egyptian temple of Isis (the Iseum).

For several years, Nectanebo II was successful in keeping Egypt safe from the Achaemenid Empire. However, he was betrayed by a former servant, Mentor of Rhodes.  Nectanebo II was finally defeated by combined Persian and Greek forces in the Battle of Pelusium (343 BC). The Persians occupied Memphis and then seized the rest of Egypt. They took the country into the Achaemenid Empire under Artaxerxes III. Nectanebo fled south and was influential for some time; his final fate is unknown.

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Calcutta is a 1947 American crime thriller movie directed by John Farrow and starring Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Bendix, June Duprez, Lowell Gilmore, Benson Fong, Edith King. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures.

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October: Ten Days That Shook the World (; translit. Oktyabr': Desyat' dney kotorye potryasli mir) is a 1928 Russian drama movie directed by Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov and was based on the 1919 novel of the same name by John Reed. It stars Nikolai Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Boris Livanov, Eduard Tisse and was distributed by First National Pictures.

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Movies directed by Grigori Aleksandrov
Jolly Fellows (), also translated as Happy-Go-Lucky Guys, Moscow Laughs and Jazz Comedy, is a 1934 Russian musical comedy movie directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and starring Lyubov Orlova, Leonid Utyosov, Valentin Parnakh. It was distributed by Mosfilm.

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1930s musical movies
1930s comedy movies
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Movies directed by Grigori Aleksandrov
Encounter at the Elbe (in ) is a 1949 Russian World War II movie directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and Aleksey Utkin. It stars Vladlen Davydov, Konstantin Nassonov, Boris Andreyev, Lyubov Orlova, Ivan Lyubeznov, Faina Ranevskaya, Andrei Fajt and was distributed by Mosfilm.

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Two Cars, One Night is a 2004 New Zealand short drama movie directed by Taika Waititi and starring Rangi Ngamoki and Hutini Waikato. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 2005.

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2004 drama movies
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Movies directed by Taika Waititi
The New Mexico Legislature () is the legislative branch of the state government of New Mexico. It is made up of two parts: New Mexico House of Representatives (lower house) and New Mexico Senate (upper house). Both are currently controlled by the Democratic Party.

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State Senate

House of Representatives

History

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State legislatures of the United States
The Passion of Joan of Arc () is a 1928 French drama movie directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and starring Renée Jeanne Falconetti, Eugène Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz, Antonin Artaud.

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1920s historical movies
1920s drama movies
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Easter Parade is a 1948 American musical movie directed by Charles Walters and starring Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, Ann Miller, Clinton Sundberg. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and won an Academy Award in 1949.

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The Texas Legislature is the state legislature of Texas. It is made up of two parts: the Texas House of Representatives (lower house) and the Texas Senate (upper house). The House has 150 members and the Senate has 31 members. The legislature meets at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas.

Both houses are currently controlled by the Republican Party, with Dan Patrick as President of the Senate and Dennis Bonnen as Speaker of the House. Both are Republicans.

Makeup

Senate

House of Representatives

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Texas
State legislatures of the United States
1836 establishments in the United States
1830s establishments in Texas
Gangapuram Kishan Reddy (born 15 June 1960) is an Indian politician. He is currently serving as Minister of State for Home Affairs, Government of India. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

He is an MP representing Secunderabad (Lok Sabha constituency) since 2019. He served the floor leader of the BJP in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 2009. He gave it up after being elected as the state BJP president of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh.

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Living people
Nityanand Rai (born 1 January 1966) is an Indian politician. He is current Minister of State for Home Affairs in the Government of India. He was elected in the 2014 and 2019 General Election from Ujiarpur. He is a member  of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He had continuously represented Hajipur constituency in Bihar legislative assembly winning elections since 2000 (2000, Feb-2005, October- 2005 and 2010).

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Kiren Rijiju (born 19 November 1971) is an Indian lawyer and politician. He is also a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Rijiju is the current Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs of Government of India.

Personal life 
His wife is Joram Rina Rijiju. They were married in 2004. She is a graduate from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi. She is a gold medalist from Arunachal University. She is an Assistant Professor teaching history at Dera Natung College, Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh.

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Lidar is a method for measuring distances by using a laser on a target and measuring its reflection with a sensor.

History 
After the invention of laser, first tool similiar to a lidar was made in 1961 at Hughes Aircraft Company. It was first intended to track satellites. It was originally called "Colidar", acronym for "COherent Light Detecting And Ranging".

One of first usages of lidar were in meteorology. National Center for Atmospheric Research used it to measure clouds and pollution.

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Measuring tools
Meteorology
Sensory system
Eemsdelta, Low Saxon: Emsdelta, is a municipality in the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. It lies in the northeast of Groningen.

About 46,000 people live in Eemsdelta. It covers an area of about .

The main settlements are Delfzijl and Appingedam.

Eemsdelta was established on January 1, 2021. It was made by combining the former municipalities of Appingedam, Delfzijl, and Loppersum.

The municipality borders the Ems river in the northeast, and the Dollart bay in the east. On the other side of the Ems and the Dollart lies East Frisia, which is a region in the German state of Lower Saxony.

The Eemskanaal flows through the municipality, and connects the Ems river with the city of Groningen.

Eemsdelta contains the fifth most important seaport of the Netherlands, in the city of Delfzijl.

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The Manchester Grammar School (MGS) in Manchester, England, is the largest independent day school for boys in the United Kingdom. It has about 1600 pupils.

It was founded in 1515 as a free grammar school. After WWII, MGS was a direct-grant grammar school. It chose to become an independent school in 1976 after the Labour government abolished the Direct Grant System.  Fees for 2016–2017 were £11,970 per annum.

The school is known for its outstanding academic results. In 2017 91% of all A-Level grades were A*-B and at GCSE/IGCSE 68% of all grades were at the A* level.

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1515 establishments
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Manchester
BabyFirst is an American children's television channel. Its programmes are aimed at babies aged 6–36 months. The channel is owned by FirstMedia.  It is based in Los Angeles, California and can be watched in 33 countries and 13 languages. The channel first started in 2006.

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American television networks
2006 establishments in the United States
Calderstone Productions Limited is a subsidiary of UMG. It administers the Beatles' music, and solo music by members of The Beatles.

The Beatles
Companies of England
2012 establishments in Europe
Tāng Wéi (汤唯) (born 7 October 1979) is a Chinese actress. Tang was best known for her roles in movies Lust, Caution (2007) and Blackhat (2015).

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Prof. Dr. H. Muladi, S.H. (26 May 1943 — 31 December 2020) was an Indonesian academician, judge, and politician. In 1998, he became Minister of Justice in Suharto's seventh and last cabinet on 14 March 1998. 

Muladi tested positive for COVID-19 on 17 December 2020. He died from the infection on 31 December 2020.

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Gial Ackbar was a Mon Calamari male admiral from Star Wars. Ackbar was an admiral for the Rebel Alliance and led the rebel attack on the Death Star in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. He was born on the planet called Mon Cala, Ackbar helped his people during a battle against the Confederacy of Independent Systems and led the Mon Calamari ships escape the planet many years later from  the Galactic Empire. The ships went on to become the Rebel Alliance fleet. After the Battle of Endor, Ackbar continued his helping the Rebel Alliance when it became the New Republic. He led the Republic fleet to victory over the last Imperial armies at the Battle of Jakku before retiring to his home planet. During his retirement he had a son named Aftab. About 25 years later Ackbar joined Princess Leia Organa when she asked him to stop the threat of the First Order, joining her Resistance. Ackbar was in the movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens helping the Resistance destroy the First Order's Starkiller Base and he was there during the evacuation of the Resistance base. But when the Resistance fleet was stopped by the fleet of the First Order, Ackbar was killed in the attack that happened.

Behind the scenes
Gial Ackbar is played by Tim Rose in Star Wars episodes, VI, VII and VIII. Erik Bauersfeld also voiced the character in episodes, VI and VII before passing away in 2016 and Tom Kane voicing the character for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

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Fictional characters introduced in the 1980s
Star Wars characters
Star Wars Skywalker Saga characters
Margaret ( ; March/April 1283 – September 1290), was Queen of Scots from 1286 to 1290 after the death of Alexander III of Scotland in 1286.

Margaret was born in Norway.  Her father was King Eric II of Norway and her mother was a Scottish princess, also named Margaret.  Margaret's mother's father was Alexander III, the king of Scotland.  When Alexander died, the Scottish lords decided his granddaughter Margaret should be their queen.  At that time, Margaret was three years old.

The Scottish lords and King Erik agreed that Margaret would marry Edward, an English prince.  Then, Scotland and England would be one kingdom.

In 1290, Margaret got on a ship to go from Norway to Scotland.  On the way, she became sick.  The ship stopped in Orkney, where Margaret died.  She was buried in Bergen, Norway.

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Norwegian people
Kings and Queens of Scotland
1283 births
1290 deaths
Cyberpunk 2077 is a 2020 action role-playing video game created by CD Projekt. The story is an open world set in the Cyberpunk universe. 

The game is first-person.

Cyberpunk creator Mike Pondsmith was a consultant, and actor Keanu Reeves has a starring role.

CD Projekt released Cyberpunk 2077 for PlayStation 4, Stadia, Windows, and Xbox One on 10 December 2020, with PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S versions planned to come out in 2021.

Gameplay
In Cyberpunk 2077, you play as the character V. You can customize V's gender, voice, body, and clothing. Your goal is to complete missions. Sometimes, it may involve killing people, but the main goals in the missions are mostly about survival.

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2020 video games
Groupe BPCE is a French banking group, formed by the 2009 merger of CNCE (Caisse Nationale des Caisses d'Epargne) and BFBP (Banque Federale des Banques Populaires), has more than 8,200 branches nationwide under their respective brand names serving nearly 40 million customers. Through its subsidiaries (including Natixis), it provides banking, financial, and real estate financing services to individuals, professionals, small and medium enterprises, large enterprises, and institutions in France and internationally. It provides various deposit and loan products to small and medium enterprises, craftspeople, franchisees, and franchisers; savings collection and management, credit, payment, and wealth management services; and real estate financing and corporate banking services. The company also offers bancassurance products, including life assurance and pensions that comprise automobile and home insurance, legal protection, the guarantee of life accidents, the supplementary health care insurance, welfare professionals and the collective retirement pensions and health, as well as credit insurance and guarantees to individuals, professionals, real estate professionals, and businesses.

Groupe Banque Populaire
Groupe Banque Populaire is a French group of cooperative banks. The federal union is controlled by 15 independent regional banks and also operates under the CASDEN and the Credit Cooperatif subsidiaries. In 2006, Groupe Banque Populaire created Natixis with another French cooperative banking group, Groupe Caisse d'Epargne. This new Investment Bank is the result of the spin-off of the two former Investment Banks of both groups : Banque Populaire's Natexis and Caisse d'Epargne's IXIS Corporate and Investment Bank. Then in 2009, Banque Populaire and Caisse d'Epargne groups decided to fully merge into a single company, BPCE, which became the 2nd largest  banking group in France.

Groupe Caisse d'Epargne
Groupe Caisse d'Epargne is a French semi-cooperative banking group, founded in 1818, with around 4700 branches in the country. The group is active in retail and private banking, as well as holding a significant stake in the publicly traded investment bank Natixis.

2009 establishments
Carlos Manuel de Ascenção do Carmo de Almeida ComIH (21 December 1939 – 1 January 2021) better known as Carlos do Carmo, was a Portuguese fado singer. He began singing and recording in 1963. His first EP record was "Mário Simões e o seu Quarteto Apresentando Carlos do Carmo". His most famous songs are Lágrimas de Orvalho, Lisboa Menina e Moça and Canoas do Tejo. 

Carmo represented Portugal at the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest with "Uma flor de verde pinho". 

Carmo died on 1 January 2021 from problems caused by a ruptured aneurysm in Lisbon, aged 81.

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2021 deaths
Portuguese singers
Deaths from aneurysm
People from Lisbon
Eurovision Song Contest entrants
Leith Patricia Mullings (April 8, 1945 – December 13, 2020) was a Jamaican-born author, anthropologist and professor. She was president of the American Anthropological Association from 2011 to 2013. She was a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York. Mullings was one of the founding members of the Black Radical Congress.

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2020 deaths
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Jamaican people
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Cancer deaths in New York City
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Franck Balandier (11 July 1952 – 17 December 2020) was a French writer. He was a member of the Société des gens de lettres. Balandier wrote his first novel in 1988.

Balandier died on 17 December 2020 in Paris at the age of 68.

Novels
Les Nuits périphériques (1988)
L’Homme à la voiture rouge (2000)
Ankylose (2005)
Le Silence des rails (2014)
Le Corps parfait des araignées (2017)
Gazoline Tango (2017)
APO (2018)

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1952 births
2020 deaths
French novelists
French poets
Yvonne Sandberg-Fries (14 October 1950 – 20 December 2020) was a Swedish politician. She was a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party until 2014, when she joined the Green Party. She was a member of the Riksdag from 1982 to 1996. She was also in the European Parliament from 2003 to 2004. She was born in Umeå, Sweden.

Sandberg-Fries died on 20 December 2020 in Blekinge, Sweden at aged 70.

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1950 births
2020 deaths
Former MEPs
MEPs for Sweden
Sir Arnold Whittaker Wolfendale FRS (25 June 1927 – 21 December, 2020) was a British astronomer. He was Astronomer Royal from 1991 to 1995. He was Emeritus Professor in the Department of Physics at Durham University and was president of the European Physical Society (1999–2001). He was President of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1981 to 1983.

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1927 births
2020 deaths
British astronomers
People from Warwickshire
Irani Barbosa (1950 – 23 December 2020) was a Brazilian politician. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1991 to 1995. He was elected as a member of the Democratic Movement. Barbosa was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.

Barbosa died on 23 December 2020 from COVID-19 in Belo Horizonte at the age of 70.

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1950 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
Brazilian politicians