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Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He wrote the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

Eggers is also the founder of McSweeney's, a co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia and the human rights nonprofit Voice of Witness, and the founder of ScholarMatch.

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Amnon Rubinstein (, born 5 September 1931) is an Israeli legal scholar, politician, and columnist. He was a member of the Knesset between 1977 and 2002. He was born in Tel Aviv. Rubinstein was a member and leader of the Shinui party. He was a member of the Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin cabinets.

Rubinstein was Minister of Communications from 1984 to 1987. He was Minister of Science, Technology and Space in 1992. From 1992 to 1993, he was Minister of National Infrastructures, Energy and Resources. From 1993 to 1996, he was Minister of Education, Culture and Sport.

In 2006, Rubinstein won the Israel Prize, for law.

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The Jerusalem Post is a broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem. It was founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post. In 1950, it changed its name to The Jerusalem Post. The newspaper is published in English and also printed a French edition.

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Slash-and-burn is a technique that has been used for thousands of years. Usually at the start of the dry season, a plot of land is  cleared of its vegetation. Very often, this is done manually, for example using machetes. This can take a long time, clearing a hectare can take up to 120 hours of work. If the land is to be used for crops that last more than two years, the roots need to be cleared as well. Usually this is not done for annual plants. The plants cleared are left to dry, often for weeks. When they are dry enough, they are burnt. The ash that is created makes the soil fertile. Weeds, and other pests have also been eliminated, so the field can be used for agriculture. After three to five years, the extra fertility is gone, and the farmer  usually moves ot another field (or again uses slash-and-burn).

Problems 
While the technique is very simple, it also has problems: Often, fires created get out of control, and more land is burned than necessary. That way, a territory the size of Belgium burned down in a fire, created in 1989, in the state of Roraima in Brazil. In general, there are few large fires in the rainforest. the climate is very wet, and rivers block the fires.  In southeast Asia, between May and October, many people have health problems because of the clouds of smoke. During that time, slash-and-burn operations happen in Indonesia. These fires are responsible for the clouds. 

Millions of people use slash-and-burn agriculture, often as a way  of subsistence farming. For this reason, the practice cannot be outlawed. Some steps can be taken ot lessen the impact on the ecosystem:

 Improving soils, for example with charcoal. see also terra preta.
 Adding fast-growing tree species to the primary forest. These trees grow faster than the primary forest. 
 Instead of burning it, the biomass can be cut into small pieces, and left to rot. 
 Using the forest on multiple layers: In the lower layers, for example bananas, in the upper layers: coconuts; alternative: wheat, and citrus fruit or palm trees.

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An annular solar eclipse occurred on June 10, 2021. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, covering the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like a ring. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.

This eclipse is notable for the fact that the path of annularity passed over the North Pole, the only such eclipse in the 21st century.

While the eclipse is visible primarily in northern Canada, in Greenland and in north of Russian Far East, in the northeastern United States and Canada, the sun was partially eclipsed at sunrise, which will be between 5 and 6 A.M. (EDT)

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The Ape is a 1940 American horror movie directed by William Nigh and starring Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gene O'Donnell, Dorothy Vaughan, Gertrude W. Hoffmann. It was distributed by Monogram Pictures. It was based on the 1924 play by Adam Hull Shirk.

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Today is a 1930 American drama movie directed by William Nigh and is the second version of the 1913 play of the same name by George Broadhurst. It stars Conrad Nagel, Catherine Dale Owen, Sarah Padden, John M. Sullivan, Judith Vosselli and was distributed by Majestic Pictures.

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Faxian (337 – c. 422) was a Chinese Buddhist monk. He is also translator. He traveled by foot from China to India, visiting sacred Buddhist sites in Central , South and Southeast Asia between 399–412 to acquire Buddhist texts. He described his journey his travelogue, A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms (Foguo Ji 佛國記).

Other transliterations of his name include Fa-Hien and Fa-hsien.

Biography
In 399, Faxian set out with nine others to locate sacred Buddhist texts. He visited India in the early fifth century. He is said to have walked all the way from  China across the icy desert and rugged mountain passes. He entered India from the northwest and reached Pataliputra. He took back with him Buddhist texts and images sacred to Buddhism. He saw the ruins of the city when he reached Pataliputra.

Faxian's visit to India occurred during the reign of Chandragupta II. He is also renowned for his pilgrimage to Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautama Buddha (modern Nepal). However, he mentioned nothing about Guptas. Faxian claimed that demons and dragons were the original inhabitants of Sri Lanka.

After two years stay on Ceylon, Faxian was coming back to China. Suddenly a violent storm drove his ship onto an island, probably Java. After five months there, Faxian took another ship for southern China. But, again, it was blown off course and he ended up landing at Mount Lao in what is now Shandong in northern China,  east of the city of Qingdao.

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The 28th century will begin on January 1, 2701 and will end on December 31, 2800.

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c. 2800 BC – 2700 BC: Seated Harp Player, from Keros, Cyclades, is made. It is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
2775 BC – 2650 BC: Second Dynasty wars in Ancient Egypt.
Around 2773 BC - the 365-day calendar is introduced in Egypt.
2750 BC: End of the Early Dynastic I Period, and the beginning of the Early Dynastic II Period in Mesopotamia.
 c. 2750 BC: End of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture in the region of modern-day Romania, Moldova, and southwestern Ukraine
c. 2715 BC: Start of the Old Kingdom of Egypt (another possible start date is 2660 BC).

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TPV Technology Limited is a Chinese electronics company. It is headquartered in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong and incorporated in Bermuda. It designs and produces CRT and TFT LCD monitors and LCD TVs. TPV owns brands like AOC, Envision, and Philips for some products. It is also an original design manufacturer for other companies.

It is the world’s largest manufacturer of computer monitors with a 33% market share.

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Jack Miller (June 6, 1916 – August 29, 1994) was a Republican United States Senator from Iowa. He went through two terms, 1961–73. Next, he was the United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. 

Miller was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1955. He was elected to the Iowa Senate in 1957. He was first elected to the United States Senate in 1960.

Miller voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He then voted for the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Miller was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died in Florida, age 78.

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Elton John is the self-titled second studio album by English singer-songwriter Elton John, released on 10 April 1970 by DJM Records and by Uni Records as John's debut album in the United States; many people there assumed it was his first album, as Empty Sky was not released in that country until 1975.

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Hey Duggee is a British animated educational preschool television series aimed at 2 to 5 year olds. Created by Grant Orchard, it is produced by Studio AKA in association with BBC Studios. The show is narrated by Alexander Armstrong in co-production with Cartoon Network (Latin America) and Disney Channel in partciectip with Birdo Studio.

English-language television programs
The Great Purge or the Great Terror (), was a purge in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938. 

It was a large-scale "repression" of the more wealthy peasants (kulaks). Ethnic minorities were murdered. Even members of the Communist Party, government officials, and the Red Army leadership were killed. 

Everyone was watched by the police. Everyone was suspected.                        People were imprisoned without a fair trial. Executions were common. Historians think the total number of deaths due to Stalinist repression in 1937–38 was between 950,000 to 1.2 million.

The "Kulak Operation" and the targeting of national minorities made up the Great Terror. Together these two actions caused nine-tenths of the death sentences and three-fourths of Gulag prison camp sentences. 

In the Western world, Robert Conquest's 1968 book The Great Terror popularized the phrase. Conquest's title was a reminder of the French Revolution time known as the Reign of Terror (French: la Terreur, "the Terror"; from June to July 1794: la Grande Terreur, 'the Great Terror').

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Christina Crosby (September 2, 1953 – January 5, 2021) was an American scholar and writer. She was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.

Her works were about 19th-century British literature and disability studies. She was the author of The Ends of History: Victorians and "The Woman's Question" and A Body, Undone, a memoir about her life after she was paralyzed in a cycling accident in 2003. 

She spent her career at Wesleyan University, where she was a professor of English and of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies. Crosby, a feminist, was also openly a lesbian.

Crosby died on January 5, 2021 at her home in Middletown, Connecticut from pancreatic cancer, aged 67.

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The term dyke is a slang term. It is used as a noun for lesbians. It is also used as an adjective for things related to lesbianism. It began as a homophobic and misogynistic term for a masculine or butch girl or woman.

The origin of the term dyke is obscure. Many theories have come out. Most theories tell that dyke comes off the word bulldyke, which has a similar meaning.

From the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, dike had been American slang for the well-dressed man. Diked out and out on the dike meant a young man was in his best clothes.

The word dyke was used in the 1950s as a derogatory term for lesbians by straight people. But it was also used by lesbians of higher social status to mean crude and rough-bar lesbians.

Facebook controversy 
Facebook censored use of the word dyke as "abusive content" in June 2017 on its website. The decision triggered a Change.org protest petition created by the Listening 2 Lesbians collective. It was signed by 7,247 supporters.

Dyke Marches have become popular gay pride events in the United States and Canada. They also happen in Europe, including London and Berlin, as well as across Mexico.

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Gerald Hiken (May 27, 1927 – January 6, 2021) was an American actor. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Hiken was nominated for a Tony Award in 1980 for his role in Strider. He was in The Candidate (1972), Reds (1981), and Fat Man and Little Boy (1989).

Hiken died on January 6, 2021 in San Francisco, California at the age of 93.

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Ferenc "Frank" Arok  (; 20 January 1932 – 12 January 2021) was a Yugoslavian-Australian  association football player and coach. He played for FK Jedinstvo from 1950 to 1960. From 1983 to 1989, he managed the Australia national soccer team. He also managed St George many times.

Arok died on 12 January 2021, aged 88.

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Massoud "Poussy" Achkar (1956 – 11 January 2021) was a Lebanese independent politician. He was a close advisor to President Bashir Gemayel. 

Achkar was the co-founder the Lebanese Forces party. He was known as "Poussy". He was in charge of military operations in Achrafieh between 1975 and 1986, the 2009 Lebanese general election and the 2018 parliamentary elections. 

Achkar died on 11 January 2021 in Beirut from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Lebanon, aged 64.

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Elias Hanna Rahbani (; 1938 – 4 January 2021) was a Lebanese musician, composer, songwriter, orchestra conductor and reality television personality. He composed more than 2500 songs. He wrote the soundtrack for more than 25 movies. He composed songs for many artists including Fairuz and Sabah. Rahbani was born in Antelias, Lebanon. His career began in 1962. He was a reality show judge on SuperStar and Star Academy.

Rahbani died on 4 January 2021 at a Beirut hospital from COVID-19, aged 82.

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Vassilis Alexakis () (25 December 1943 – 11 January 2021) was a Greek-French writer and self-translator. He translated many novels in Greek to French. Alexakis was born in Athens, Greece. 

In 1974 he published his first book Le Sandwich, written in French. The first book directly written in Greek was Talgo, published in 1981. He self-translated Talgo into French. 

In 2006, Les mots étrangers was translated by Alyson Waters and published under the title Foreign Words; this was the first of his novels to be translated into English. 

In 1995, he received the prestigious Prix Médicis for La langue maternelle. In 2007, he received the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française.

Alexakis died on 11 January 2021, aged 77.

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Stacy Title (February 21, 1964 – January 11, 2021) was an American movie director, screenwriter and producer. She was known for directing and writing the horror/black comedy movies Let the Devil Wear Black (1999), The Last Supper (1995) and The Bye Bye Man (2017). Title was raised in New York state.

In December 2017, Title was diagnosed with ALS. She died from problems caused by the disease on January 11, 2021 at the age of 56.

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The Marina Bay Sands  (abbreviation: MBS) is a resort in Marina Bay within the Downtown Core district of Singapore. It was opened in 2010. It has been called the world's most expensive standalone casino property at S$8 billion (US$6.88 billion), including the land cost. It is owned by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation.

It was designed by Moshe Safdie. The resort includes a 2,561-room hotel, a  convention centre, the  The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands mall, a museum, a large theatre, "celebrity chef" restaurants, two floating crystal pavilions, art-science exhibits, and the world's largest atrium casino with 500 tables and 1,600 slot machines.

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Sidik Mia (1965 – 12 January 2021) was a Malawian businessman and politician. He was a member of the Democratic Progressive Party. From 2004 to 2014, he was a member of the National Assembly. From 2009 to 2010, he was Minister of Defence and from 2020 until his death, Mia was Minister of Transport and Public Works.

In the 2019 general election, Mia was the running mate of Lazarus Chakwera.

Mia died on 12 January 2021 from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Malawi, aged 56.

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Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud (1937 – January 2021) () was a Saudi royal and businessman. He was a member of the House of Saud. He was the owner of Juddmonte Farms and Mawarid Holding. His father was Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud. In 1990, Prince Khalid's wealth was estimated by Fortune magazine at $1.0 billion. He was the son-in-law of Ibn Saud.

Al Saud died in January 2021.

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"The Man with Two Brians" is the 5th episode of the 7th season of Family Guy. It was first shown on the Fox network on November 9, 2008. The episode is about the Griffin family getting a new dog. The episode was written by John Viener. Dominic Bianchi is the director of the episode. Johnny Knoxville, Will Sasso, and Camille Guaty are guest stars for the episode.

Story 

Peter, Cleveland, Quagmire, and Joe watch the television show Jackass. They want to record themselves doing dangerous stunts. Peter tries to fly over a lake. He hits a tree and falls in the lake. Brian tries to get Peter out of the lake, but he hurts his back. Joe swims to Peter and Brian and saves them both. Lois is not happy and tells Peter that Brian is getting old. Peter is sad because of this, so he gets another dog. He names it New Brian. New Brian is very happy to be with the family. Brian feels that the family does not want him, so he leaves the house.

Stewie does not like New Brian. Stewie wants the first Brian to come back. Brian does not want to until New Brian is not there. Stewie goes to New Brian and tells him that he does not like him. New Brian says that he raped Rupert (Stewie's teddy bear). Stewie kills New Brian, puts him in a trash can, and writes a suicide note that looks like New Brian wrote it. The first Brian comes back to the family. Stewie is traumatized and washes Rupert in a shower.

Production 

The episode was written by John Viener. Dominic Bianchi is the director of the episode. The design of New Brian is from a drawing made by Seth MacFarlane (the creator of Family Guy). New Brian was first going to be a Golden Retriever. He was made gray so that he would not be the same color of the kitchen.

The episode was first put on DVD on June 16, 2009. Johnny Knoxville, Will Sasso, and Camille Guaty are guest stars for the episode. Viener is the voice actor for New Brian.

Reception 

Ahsan Haque of IGN thought that the episode has some "unfunny (not funny) ideas" but that it "succeeds for the most part". He said that there was a better balance of humor and story. Genevieve Koski of The A.V. Club did not like how the episode started with Jackass, but he thought that the rest of the story is "far superior". Robin Pierson from The TV Critic did not like how the jokes were put together. He said that the episode has "no point to it."

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Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley (born Mamie Elizabeth Carthan; November 23, 1921 – January 6, 2003) was an American educator and activist. She took part in the Civil Rights Movement. She was the mother of Emmett Till, who was killed at the age of 14 years old after allegedly offending a white woman.

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Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3, 1984) is a former American businesswoman and convicted fraudster. She was the founder and CEO of Theranos, a now-defunct health technology company.

In 2015, Forbes had named Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in America.

After revelations of potential fraud in Theranos' claims, in 2016 Forbes revised its estimate of Holmes' net worth to zero. Fortune named her one of the "World's Most Disappointing Leaders".

Trial 

The case of U.S. v. Holmes, et al., began on August 31, 2021. It was held in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California - a federal court.

A former manager of Theranos gave testimony (in court) on September 17. She said "that she made Holmes [...] aware of serious failings of" blood-testing machines from Theranos; claims made by the former manager "were  backed up [...] by emails [showed to jurors or] displayed for jurors", media said.

Conviction
Holmes was convicted of four counts of fraud and conspiracy in January 2022. Holmes is waiting for the court to sentence her; she is home on bail. She can get a maximum sentence of twenty years in prison, and a fine of $250,000.

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Jury finds Elizabeth Holmes guilty of fraud and conspiracy at blood-testing startup Theranos . January 4, 2021

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The 1988–90 North American drought was a weather problem that lasted two years. The drought began in 1988 in the Midwestern United States, High Plains and the Northeastern United States. A number of high pressure areas set themselves up over certain parts of these areas, stopping thunderstorms from developing.

During the spring of 1988, Milwaukee, Wisconsin had 55 days straight without any precipitation. In the summer, two record-setting heat waves developed, similar to 1934, 1936 and 1983. The constant heat waves led to as many as 17,000 deaths in the United States. 

During the summer of 1988, the drought led to a number of wildfires in western North America. That included the Yellowstone fires of 1988. 

At its peak, the drought covered 45% of the United States in 1988 alone. That's less area than the Dust Bowl, which covered 70% of the United States. But the Drought of 1988 caused $60 billion in damage. That not only is the most expensive drought in the history of the United States, it was the costliest natural disaster before Hurricane Katrina seventeen years later.

The drought destroyed crops nationwide. Lawns went brown. A number of cities ordered water restrictions. 

More than four inches of helpful rain came to the Midwest through Hurricane Gilbert. The storm crossed Texas and Oklahoma as a tropical depression. It spread rain as far as the Great Lakes. Other locations, however, were at -6 or lower on the Palmer Drought Severity Index by early autumn 1988.

Dry conditions continued into 1989 and 1990, affecting Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota,Illinois, Colorado, Kansas and Missouri.

The 1988–89 drought caused damage comparable to Hurricane Andrew in August 1992 and Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.

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Menoetius is the only moon of the asteroid Trojan 617 Patroclus.

In 2001, scientists found that Patroclus is a binary system, made up of two asteroids of about the same size. It is one of 18 binary Trojan asteroids known to exist. In 2006, good measurements of the orbit from the Keck Laser guide star adaptive optics system were reported.

It was estimated that the two components orbit around their center of mass in  days at a distance of  in a roughly circular orbit. Combining these observations with thermal measurements taken in 2000, the sizes of the components of the system were estimated at 106 km and 98 km, with an equivalent whole-system diameter of 145 km, refined by later measurements from the Keck Observatory to approximately 122 km and 112 km for each partner, and a co-orbital period of  hours ( days).

On 21 October 2013, both bodies occulted a magnitude 8.8 star as observed by a team of 41 observers stationed across the USA. Observation data put the orbital distance of 664.6 km, and give a size for the slightly larger component, which retains the name Patroclus with overall volume equivalent to a 113 km sphere, with the smaller component now named Menoetius with a volume equivalent to a 104 km diameter sphere.

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Robert L. Woodson Sr. (born April 8, 1937) is an American civil rights activist, community development leader, author, and founder and president of the Woodson Center. He is known for his works to help low-income communities through housing. 

In February 2020, Woodson launched the Center's 1776 Unites campaign.

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Ebenezer Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Atlanta, United States. It is part of the Progressive National Baptist Convention and American Baptist Churches USA. 

It was the church where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was co-pastor from 1960 until his assassination in 1968. The funerals of both Dr. King and congressman John Lewis were held here.

United States Senator-elect Raphael Warnock has been pastor since 2005. It is located in the historic area, now called the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park.

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Barrackpore (also known as Barrackpur) is a city. It is located in the West Bengal state of India. It is around 23 kilometres (14 mi) away from Kolkata . It is also a part of the zone covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). It is the headquarters of the Barrackpore subdivision.

Etymology 
The name Barrackpore may have originated from the English word barracks, because it was the site of the first cantonment of the British East India Company. The Ain-i-Akbari suggests that the name comes from "Barbakpur". Manasa Vijay, written by Bipradas Pipilai, refers to Barrackpore as "Chanak".

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 Official website 

 

 

 

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CNN Airport is an American television network. Owned and operated by WarnerMedia, it is a special version of CNN that only plays in United States airports. The network broadcasts news, entertainment, stock market updates, weather, and travel news to 58 airports across the United States. CNN pays airports to show the channel exclusively on their monitors.

CNN Airport's 24-hour schedule is described as roughly 16% news, 19% live sports, 24% lifestyle, 24% travel, and 10% for custom messages from airports if they wish to use the timeslot.

On January 12, 2021, CNN's president Jeffrey Zucker announced that the network would be closed by the end of March.

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 Official website

CNN
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hh blood group, or the bombay blood group, is a rare blood type. This blood phenotype was first discovered in Bombay, now known as mumbai, in India, by Dr. Y. M. Bhende in 1952. It is mostly found in the Middle East such as Iran.

Blood
bombay blood group is a very rare blood group
Deborah L. Rhode (January 29, 1952 – January 8, 2021) was an American jurist. She was the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. She created the term The "No-Problem" Problem. She wrote over 250 articles and 30 books, including Women and Leadership, Lawyers as Leaders, and The Beauty Bias. Rhode was born in Evanston, Illinois.

Rhode died at her home on January 8, 2021 in Stanford, California at the age of 68.

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Sir David Rowat Barclay (27 October 1934 – 10 January 2021) and Sir Frederick Hugh Barclay (born 27 October 1934), known as the "Barclay Brothers" or "Barclay Twins", were British billionaires. They founded the The Very Group. They were born in Hammersmith, London.

The Sunday Times Rich List of 2020 said their wealth were at £7 billion.

In 1993 the brothers bought the lease of the island of Brecqhou, off the coast of Sark, Brecqhou being one of the smallest of the British Channel Islands.

Sir David died on 10 January 2021, after a short illness.

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Luis Adriano Piedrahíta Sandoval (7 October 1946 – 11 January 2021) was a Colombian Roman Catholic bishop. He became a priest in 1972. He was titular bishop of Centenarian and was auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cali, Colombia, from 1999 to 2007. 

He then was bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Apartadó, Colombia, from 2007 to 2014 and bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Marta, Colombia from 2014 until his death in 2021. 

Piedrahíta Sandoval died on 11 January 2021 from COVID-19, aged 74. He was diagnosed with the infection on 20 December 2020.

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Florentin Crihălmeanu (17 September 1959 – 12 January 2021) was a Romanian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was born in Iași, Romania. He became a priest in September 1990. He was named auxiliary bishop of the Cluj-Gherla Diocese in November 1996 by Pope John Paul II. In 2002, he became Bishop of Cluj-Gherla.

Crihălmeanu died on 12 January 2021 of COVID-19 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania at the age of 61.

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Timothy Lee Lester (June 15, 1968 – January 12, 2021) was an American football professional running back. He played in the National Football League for eight seasons for the Los Angeles Rams, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Dallas Cowboys. He was born in Miami, Florida.

On January 12, 2021, Lester died in Milton, Georgia from COVID-19 at the age of 52.

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Milton is a suburban city in Fulton County, Georgia, United States. It is a suburb of Atlanta. It was created on December 1, 2006. 32,661 people lived here in 2010.

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Metropolitan Philaret (, , born Kirill Varfolomeyevich Vakhromeev, ; 21 March 1935 – 12 January 2021) was a Russian-born Belarusian Orthodox prelate. He was Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk from 1978 to 2013 and Leader of the Belarusian Orthodox Church from 1978 to 1989. 

In 2006, for his work in the Russian Orthodox Church he was awarded the title Hero of Belarus by President Alexander Lukashenko.

Philaret died on 12 January 2021 in Minsk, Belarus at the age of 85.

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People from Moscow
Sandy Martin (born March 3, 1949) is an American actress, playwright, theatre director, and producer. She is best known for her roles in the movie Napoleon Dynamite and the television series Ray Donovan, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Big Love.

References

Other websites

Sandy Martin Official Website

1950 births
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American theatre directors
American playwrights
Theatre producers
Actors from New York City
Actors from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Living people
Writers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Writers from New York City
Speed is the rate of motion, change, or activity.

Speed may also mean:

 Speed (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the surname, given name or nickname

Places

United States
 Speed, Indiana
 Speed, Kansas
 Speed, Missouri
 Speed, North Carolina
 Speed, West Virginia

Elsewhere
 Speed, Victoria, Australia
 Speed River, Canada

Arts and entertainment

Amusement rides
 Speed (ride), a pendulum fair ride
 Speed: No Limits, a roller coaster at Oakwood Theme Park in Wales
 Speed – The Ride, a roller coaster formerly at the Sahara Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas

Movie and television
 Speed (serial), a 1922 movie serial directed by George B. Seitz
 Speed (1936 movie), an American movie starring James Stewart
 Speed (1983 movie), a Soviet movie directed by Dmitry Svetozarov
 Speed (1984 movie), an IMAX documentary
 Speed (1994 movie), an American movie starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock
 Speed (2007 movie), an Indian movie starring Zayed Khan and Urmila Matondkar
 Speed (2015 movie), a South Korean movie written and directed by Lee Sang-woo
 Speed (Australian TV network), a defunct motorsport network
 Speed (TV network), a defunct American motorsports and automobiles channel
 Speed (TV series), a 2001 British series about fast vehicles

Music
 Speed metal or "speed", a subgenre of heavy metal music
 Speedcore or "speed", a subgenre of hardcore techno
 Speed (Japanese band), a female vocal/dance group
 Speed (South Korean band), a group created from members of Coed School
 "Speed" (Billy Idol song), 1994
 "Speed" (Buck-Tick song), 1991
 "Speed" (Montgomery Gentry song), 2002
 "Speed" (Zazie song), 2018
 "Speed", a song by Bond from Shine, 2002

Other
 Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
 Speed (card game), a shedding game
 Speed (Marvel Comics), a fictional superhero
 Speed (novel), a 1970 novel by William S. Burroughs Jr.

Other uses 
 Amphetamine, substituted amphetamine, and related compounds, in slang
 Speed (finance), in quantitative finance, a third-order Greek
 J. B. Speed School of Engineering, formerly Speed Scientific School, at the University of Louisville
 Lens speed, the maximum aperture or light-gathering ability of an optical system
 Transmission (mechanics), a gear or sprocket configuration
 Independence Speed Tandem, a German paraglider design
Lisa Marie Montgomery (February 27, 1968  – January 13, 2021) was a convicted murderer. In 2004, she attacked and killed a 23-year old pregnant woman, and cut the unborn child from her womb. The mother had been pregnant for eight months, the child survived and was given to the father. In 2007, Montgomery confessed the crime. She was sentenced to death. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Also, during her childhood, she had been sexually abused for years.  She also had other conditions, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, psychosis, dissociative identity disorder and amnesia. Her lawyers argued, that because of these conditions, she was severely handicapped, and should not have been tried in a regular court. Montgomery has four children.  On January 13, 2021, she was executed by lethal injection.

Experts, who looked at the case after she had been condemned, found that when she committed the crime, she had suffered from psychosis. Because of smoking tobacco, she had also suffered permanent brain damage. In addition, she mistrusted men in general.

A history of abuse 
Montgomery had a bad childhood. Her stepfather allegedly raped her for years. To better handle the situation, Montgomery started drinking alcohol. When Montgomery was 14, her mother discovered the abuse. Instead of helping her, her mother threatened her with a gun. From her early teen years, her mother forced her to prostitute herself.  She told other people about her situation, but no one seemed to help. Montgomery tried to escape the situation, and married early, when she was 18 years old. But both her first, and a second marriage led to further abuse.  Montgomery had four children. She falsely claimed to be pregnant several times, according to both her first and second husbands.

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1968 births
2021 deaths
American people executed for murder
People executed by lethal injection
People from Kansas
Parliamentary elections were held in Georgia on 31 October 2020. Second round where held on 21 November, 2020. Opposition boycotted second round of elections.  Because of election fraud mandates were rejected by opposition parties.

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October 2020 events
2020 elections
History of Georgia (country)
Mtavari Arkhi (translation: Main Channel) is a private television company in Georgia. It was founded on August 17, 2019. Zaza Okuashvili owns 40% of the channel, 12% - Nika Gvaramia. Most of the channel's team consists of people who left Rustavi 2.

It broadcasts throughout Georgia, both open air and via satellite, through cable operators and IP televisions.

References

Other websites
 Offical site
 
 
 

Television
2019 establishments
Georgia (country)
The Eilogo Estate frog (Papurana garritor) is a frog from New Guinea and the d'Entrecasteaux Islands.  Scientists have seen it up to 1500 meters above sea level.

References

Animals of Oceania
Frogs
Bootle is a town in Sefton, Merseyside.

Transport

Road 
The A565, A5057 and A5058 roads pass through Bootle.

Rail 
Bootle has two train stations: Bootle Oriel Road and Bootle New Strand.

Ferry 
There are ferries available to Dublin from Bootle. However, these are freight only.

References 

Towns in Merseyside
Terrence Frederick Scammell (born January 10, 1958) is a Canadian voice director and voice actor living in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

In a career that has spanned more than 30 years, Scammell worked on hundreds of series, live-action films, documentaries and video games for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and production companies around the world.

Scammell received an BAFTA award for voicing the character of Darph Bobo and his directing work has been nominated for awards in Europe, the UK and North America.

He is married to writer and blogger Sheila Singhal and divides his time between Montreal and Ottawa. He is a member of BAFTA and the British Actors' Equity Association unions.

1955 births
Living people
English people
English voice actors
People from Manchester
Keith Wickham (born 9 February 1965) is a British voice actor, comedian and screenwriter known for providing the voice of Polluto in Tommy Zoom and various characters in the children's television series Thomas & Friends and Noddy's Toyland Adventures.

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Living people
1965 births
English comedians
Actors from Hertfordshire
English television actors
English voice actors
The 1966 Ballon d'Or was the 11th Ballon d'Or. It was awarded to Manchester United midfielder Bobby Charlton.

Rankings

Source: http://www.francefootball.fr/Ballon Or 1966

Other websites
 France Football Official Ballon d'Or page

1966 in sports
1960s in Europe
Association football
Sports trophies and awards
Daniel Milton Newhouse (born July 10, 1955) is an American politician and agricultural scientist. He is a member of the United States House of Representatives for  since 2015. 

Newhouse was director of the Washington Department of Agriculture and as a member of the Washington House of Representatives from 2009 to 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Newhouse announced his support for the second impeachment of Donald Trump on January 13, 2021, following the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.

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1955 births
Living people
United States representatives from Washington
Scientists from Washington
US Republican Party politicians
Edward Peter Beard (January 20, 1940 – January 11, 2021) was an American businessman and Democratic politician. He was a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1972 to 1974.

Beard was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district from 1975 to 1981. He unsuccessfully ran again for the U.S. House in 1990.

Beard was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He died on January 11, 2021 in Providence from problems caused by Parkinson's disease, aged 80.

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1940 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
United States representatives from Rhode Island
Businesspeople from Rhode Island
Politicians from Rhode Island
People from Providence, Rhode Island
US Democratic Party politicians
Claudia and David is a 1946 American comedy movie directed by Walter Lang and is the sequel to the 1943 movie Claudia and also based on the short stories by Rose Franken. It stars Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Mary Astor, John Sutton, Gail Patrick, Rose Hobart, Harry Davenport, Florence Bates and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.

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1946 movies
1940s comedy movies
American comedy movies
Movies based on short stories
20th Century Fox movies
Movies directed by Walter Lang
Fredric Gerson Levin (March 29, 1937 – January 12, 2021) was an American lawyer and philanthropist. He worked for Levin Papantonio Law Firm in Florida. The Fredric G. Levin College of Law at the University of Florida is named for him because of a donation he made to the school in 1999. He was born in Pensacola, Florida.

In January 2016, Levin was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died from COVID-19 in Gainesville, Florida on January 12, 2021 at the age of 83.

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1937 births
2021 deaths
People with cancer
Lawyers from Florida
American philanthropists
Businesspeople from Florida
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
People from Pensacola, Florida
Álvaro Mejía Florez (15 May 1940 – 12 January 2021) was a Colombian long-distance runner. He competed in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games 5,000 meter final. He was born in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia.

Mejía competed in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics in the 10,000 meters and in the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Mejía also won the 1971 Boston Marathon. He won a bronze medal at the 1971 Pan American Games in the 10,000 metres. Mejía won the Saint Silvester Road Race in 1966.

Mejía died on 12 January 2021 in Bogotá, Colombia at the age of 80.

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1940 births
2021 deaths
Competitors in athletics
Olympians
Joël Robert (26 November 1943 – 13 January 2021) was a Belgian professional motocross racer. He was one of the most successful motocross racers competing in the Motocross World Championships during the 1960s and early 1970s.

Robert died on 13 January 2021 in Gilly, Belgium, aged 77. He was in a coma after having a heart attack while being treated with COVID-19.

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1943 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Belgian sportspeople
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium
Eusébio Oscar Scheid, S.C.J. (8 December 1932 – 13 January 2021) was a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro from 2001 to 2009. He was born in Luzerna, Brazil.

Scheid was Bishop of São José dos Campos from 1981 to 1991 and Archbishop of Florianópolis from 1991 to 2001.

Scheid died on 13 January 2021 in São José dos Campos, Brazil from pneumonia caused by COVID-19, aged 88.

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1932 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic bishops
Brazilian people
Philip Tartaglia (11 January 1951 – 13 January 2021) was a Scottish bishop of the Catholic Church.  He was the Metropolitan Archbishop of Glasgow from 2012 until 2021.  He was the Bishop of Paisley from 2005 to 2012. Tartaglia was born in Glasgow, Scotland.

Tartaglia died on 13 January 2021 at his home in Glasgow from COVID-19 at the age of 70.

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1951 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
Roman Catholic bishops
People from Glasgow
Kathleen Joan Heddle,  (November 27, 1965 – January 11, 2021) was a Canadian rower. She won two gold medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1996 Summer Olympics. Heddle also won a bronze medal in 1996. In 1997, Heddle was awarded the Order of British Columbia and was honored into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. Heddle was born in Trail, British Columbia.

Heddle died on January 11, 2021 in Vancouver, British Columbia from breast cancer and lymphoma, aged 55.

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1965 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from breast cancer
Deaths from lymphoma
Canadian Olympic gold medalists
Canadian Olympic bronze medalists
Rowers
Sportspeople from British Columbia
Stacey Plaskett (born May 13, 1966) is an American politician, lawyer and commentator. She is the fifth delegate for the United States House of Representatives from the United States Virgin Islands' at large congressional district. Plaskett is a member of the Democratic Party.

Plaskett has practiced law in New York City, Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Plaskett was born in Brooklyn, New York.

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1966 births
African American politicians
US Democratic Party politicians
Politicians from Brooklyn
Lawyers from New York City
Living people
Marielle de Sarnez ( ; 27 March 1951 – 13 January 2021) was a French politician. He was a member of the Democratic Movement. In 2017, De Sarnez was elected a member of the National Assembly.

De Sarnez was Minister for European Affairs in the Édouard Philippe cabinet from May to June 2017. From 1999 to 2017, she was Member of the European Parliament. 

De Sarnez was born in Paris. She was married to Philippe Augier. De Sarnez died of leukaemia in Pairs on 13 January 2021, aged 69.

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1951 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from leukemia
Politicians from Paris
MEPs for France
Former MEPs
Cancer deaths in France
Jack St. Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005) was an American electrical engineer. He helped discover the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958. 

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 2000.  Kilby was also the co-inventor of the handheld calculator and the thermal printer.

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1923 births
2005 deaths
Engineers from Missouri
American inventors
Scientists from Missouri
Scientists from Dallas, Texas
Cancer deaths in Texas
is a Japanese chemist and engineer. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Zhejiang University. He is best known for his discovery of conductive polymers. He won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger.

Shirakawa was born in Tokyo. He studied at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is a critic of the Nobel Prize and its media coverage.

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1936 births
Living people
Japanese chemists
Japanese engineers
Scientists from Tokyo
Alan Jay Heeger (born January 22, 1936) is an American physicist and academic. He won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He won the prize with Alan G. MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa "for their discovery and development of conductive polymers".

Heeger was born in Sioux City, Iowa, to a Jewish family. He grew up in Akron, Iowa.

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1936 births
Living people
American physicists
American chemists
American academics
Scientists from Iowa
People from Sioux City, Iowa
Educators from Iowa