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Omeros (1990) is the epic work of poetry by Derek Walcott. This epic poem helped Walcott win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. The title refers to the Greek myths about Homer.  The poem refers to characters in the Iliad and Odyssey. But the poem is set on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia where Walcott was born.  

This massive, three-hundred-page epic describes contemporary Caribbean life. Walcott's heroes are ordinary men and women who live in the modern world.

Related pages 
 Caribbean poetry
 Epic poetry

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Poems
Nobel Prize in Literature winners
Greek mythology
Dasani is a bottled water brand created by The Coca-Cola Company. It was launched in the year 1999, the product is filtered tap water with added sodium.

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Drinks
Water
Series 80 (formerly Crystal) is a mobile software platform introduced in 2000 that uses Symbian. It was made by Nokia for their enterprise and professional level smartphones. All devices that use it have a screen resolution of 640×200 pixels and a full QWERTY keyboard. The large size of the screens are used to good effect, but software has to be developed specifically for it and the market for it was relatively small.

The last Series 80 device is the Nokia 9300i, announced in 2005 and shipped in 2006. The last Communicator, the Nokia E90 Communicator, released in 2007, uses S60 3rd Edition instead of Series 80.

Features
 Support for editing popular office documents
 Full QWERTY keyboard
 Integrated mouse for navigation
 SSL/TLS support
 Full web browser based on Opera
 VPN support

Devices

S80 v1.0:
 June 2001 — Nokia 9210 Communicator
 June 2001 — Nokia 9290 Communicator (American variant of Nokia 9210 Communicator)
 May 2002 — Nokia 9210i Communicator (improved version of Nokia 9210 Communicator)

S80 v2.0:
 February 2005 — Nokia 9500 Communicator
 July 2005 — Nokia 9300 (not branded as "Communicator")
 March 2006 — Nokia 9300i (improved version of Nokia 9300; not branded as "Communicator")

Games
 Doom port for S80 
 SCUMM emulator for S80 (allows you to play games like Monkey Island, etc.)

References

Mobile phones
Wild Company is a 1930 American drama movie directed by Leo McCarey and starring Frank Albertson, Joyce Compton, Sharon Lynn, H. B. Warner, Bela Lugosi, Claire McDowell, Kenneth Thomson.

Other websites
 

1930 movies
1930s drama movies
American drama movies
20th Century Fox movies
Movies directed by Leo McCarey
Diiriye Guure was the Dhulbahante king and the former Sultan of the Darawiish. From 1897 until 1917, Diiriye Guure was the sixteenth monarch of the Dhulbahante garaadship. Being a Dhulbahante chieftain meant Diiriye Guure had more power than other Darawiish.

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The Grande Arche is a monument that was constructed in La Défense, near Paris, in the 1980s. It is at one end of what is known as axe historique (the other is the Musée du Louvre). It looks like the 3D projection of a tesseract. The Grande Arche was built when François Mitterrand was president. It was opened on 14 July 1989, 200 years after the French Revolution. The Grande Arche houses different offices of the government. There is a terrace at the top, and a space for exhibitions.

Monuments and memorials
Buildings and structures in France
Victory Day in Russia is the anniversary of their Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin. Victory Day is one of the most significant holiday in Russia.

Victory Day Parades 
In many countries of the former Soviet Union, large-scale mass events are planned. Victory Day parades are military parades that are held on 9 May. They are mostly celebrated in various post-soviet nations such as Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and until 2015, Ukraine. The first victory day parade was on Red Square. Red Army and a small detachment from the First Polish Army participated in the Parade on 24 June 1945.

References

Other websites 

 The importance of Victory Day
 Official website of the Organizing Committee for the preparation and holding of the celebration of the 75th anniversary of Victory
 Official site of the Russian Ministry of Defense "Memory of the People"
 The official website of the Russian Ministry of Defense "People's feat" 

World War II
2020 in Europe
A Noble family is a family who are related to the Royal family, but they are ranks below King. Nobles usually are less known then Royals but in some cases nobles were more well known. Some "Noble families" are not noble. Take the Medici family and the Borgias.Thoes to family's are known as Banking families and aristocrats. Those families are Rich but not a member of Nobility that is recognized by the King/Emperor.

History 
Nobles were always recognized as lower families of the King/Queen. Nobles usually ruled Duchy's, Counties, and principalities. Nobles were usually given a "House" which was of course a noble house. Nobles usually worked as advisors to the King, and land owners. But some families did not work at all because they were really rich. But not all nobles were rich. Some Nobles were very poor. One of the richest claim to be noble families were the Medicis. The Medici's ruled Tuscany, Milan ect. The Medici's were pretty much common people, but they were richer than most monarchs at there time until there fall in the 1700's. One of the poorest family's were a period of time was the Bonaparte family. They were poor until Napoleon became Emperor of the French.

Power 
Noble families had plenty of power depending on what land they ruled. The rich Duchy of Burgundy was a major power spot because of how big to Duchy was. Another power spot was the Duchy of Milan and the Duchy of Luxembourg. But some Nobles had little to no power. Mostly because most nobles are given an style like "Lady" that is non hereditary.

Famous Noble Families 

 House of Boleyn
 House of Grey
 House of Bourbon
 House of Normandy
 House of Foix
 House of Hesse
 House of Nassu

Noble families
Josette is a 1938 American romantic comedy movie directed by Allan Dwan and starring Simone Simon, Don Ameche, Robert Young, Joan Davis, Paul Hurst, Bert Lahr, Lynn Bari, William Demarest, William Collier Sr., Lon Chaney Jr.. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.

Other websites
 

1938 movies
1930s romance movies
1930s comedy movies
American romantic comedy movies
20th Century Fox movies
Movies directed by Allan Dwan
"Proposition Infinity" is a 2010 episode of Futurama season 6.

Plot
Kif Kroker became unhappy that Amy Wong likes dating bad boys. He broke up with her. She started dating and having sex with Bender. The Planet Express crew is unhappy of the two's robosexual relationship. Amy was brought to Mars by her parents and Bender was brought to the Church of Robotology where they try to stop being robosexuals. Bender decides to marry Amy, to Farnsworth's frustration given that robosexual marriage is illegal with the exception of Space Massachusetts. The two decide to create Proposition Infinity to legalize robosexual marriage. Professor Farnsworth opposed the proposition and he and Bender started a debate. Farnsworth remembered dating a scientist named Eunice and saw her sleeping with a robot. He revealed that Eunice was actually a robot named Unit 47. As a result, Farnsworth gave up the debate and robosexual marriage became legal.

Reception
It is one of Executive producer David X. Cohen's favorite episodes.

2010 television episodes
Futurama episodes
"Space Pilot 3000" is a 1999 episode of Futurama season 1 and the series premiere.

Plot
Philip J. Fry became disappointed that he still delivers pizza as of December 31st, 1999. He was supposed to deliver pizza and beer to someone named I.C. Weiner at the cryogenic lab. He believed it was a prank call and accidentally got in a cryopod. He stayed in there until it opened on December 31st, 2999. Fry realized that he woke up on the future. He met a one eyed woman named Leela who did a DNA test on him that he has a living descendent named Professor Hubert Farnsworth. Fry was given a career assignment to be a delivery boy, to his frustration. He ran away and checked out the streets of New New York. Fry saw what he believed is a phone booth and met a robot named Bender. They went inside and Fry learned it was a Suicide Booth that kills people who don't want to live. Fry and Bender avoided the weapons and left the Suicide Booth. They went to a bar. Bender explained to Fry that he's a suicidal drinker and wants to go to another booth. Fry wants Bender to stay with him. They went to the Head Museum, a museum of celebrities' living heads including Leonard Nimoy. Leela spotted the two and Bender accidentally broke the presidential head jars, specifically Richard Nixon. At a hidden room, Bender was told to bend girders so he and Fry can escape Leela. They went to the sewers, home of the ruins of Old New York. Leela came to the two and quit her job as a police officer. The three go to Planet Express and meet Professor Farnsworth. They are hunted down by the police and Richard Nixon's head. The four took off on the spaceship as the new year begins. Farnsworth decided to hire the three for Planet Express, to Fry's joy.

Reception
The pilot had great ratings and many thought it was a great start for Futurama.

1999 television episodes
Futurama episodes
Television episodes written by David X. Cohen
"Spanish Fry" is a 2003 episode of Futurama season 4.

Plot
The Planet Express crew stayed at a camp, where Bigfoot is known to be seen. At night, Fry has been abducted by an alien who removed his nose. Back at the Planet Express building, Fry learns that human noses are known as human horn by aliens and an intergalactic aphrodisiac. Fry, Leela and Bender go to an alien flea market where a merchant has been selling noses. The merchant shows a videotape where Lrrr, ruler of the planet Omicron Persei 8 has taken Fry's nose. The three went to Omicron Persei 8 and wanted Lrrr to give Fry's nose back. Bender suggested Lrrr to take his penis instead. Lrrr calls it the lower human horn and wants it removed. Fry suggested that Lrrr and Ndnd should have a romantic dinner by the camp. During the dinner, Fry was stuck in a cage and escaped. As the Omicronians try to rip out Fry's penis, Bigfoot appeared. Lrrr realized that removing Fry's penis won't do any good. The three ran away from Lrrr and Ndnd making out.

Production
There was a scene that showed holograms of Fry with different noses but it was cut.

Reception
Some liked the raunchy humor.

2003 television episodes
Futurama episodes
Superman II is a 1980 superhero movie and a sequel to 1978's Superman.

Cast
 Christopher Reeve as Kal-El / Superman
 Margot Kidder as Lois Lane
 Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor
 Terrence Stamp as General Zod

Reception
People liked the movie, especially Terrence Stamp's portrayal of Zod.

1980 movies
Superman movies
The Taiwan Statebuilding Party (TSP) (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; abbreviated to  or ; Pinyin: Ki-chìn) is a major political party in Taiwan. The party was established in 2016 and is considered a close ally of the Democratic Progressive Party.

List of Chairpersons 
 Chen Yi-chi (2016–)

References

Other websites 
 Official website

Political parties in Taiwan
Liberal parties
Nationalist organizations in Taiwan
2016 establishments in Asia
21st-century establishments in Taiwan
Suez is a 1938 American romantic drama movie directed by Allan Dwan and starring Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Annabella, Sidney Blackmer, Nigel Bruce, Henry Stephenson, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Moscovitch, George Zucco, Brandon Hurst. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox and was nominated for 3 Academy Awards in 1939.

Other websites

1938 movies
1930s romance movies
1930s drama movies
American romantic drama movies
20th Century Fox movies
Movies directed by Allan Dwan
Sheldon J. Plankton is one of the ten main characters of SpongeBob SquarePants. He is a planktonic copepod who runs the Chum Bucket restaurant alongside with Karen, a waterproof robot who is Plankton's sidekick and wife.

Plankton debuted in the episode "Plankton!", which aired on July 31, 1999.

SpongeBob SquarePants characters
Fictional characters introduced in 1999
If something is life-affirming it means it has a positive and healthy attitude towards living. It is the opposite of being "life-denying". To affirm means to agree or to say something is good.

This is also called "Nietzschean affirmation" after the German thinker Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche wrote that a person is life-affirming only if they  life the way it is. This means to love their life even when it hurts or isn't comfortable. Nietzsche wrote that the best people will say yes to living, even if they would have to live the exact same life on Earth over and over. He wrote that if anyone truly affirms even just one moment then they affirm everything in life. If someone "has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event—and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed." According to Nietzsche, Christians are not life-affirming.

Related pages 
 Optimism

References 

Philosophical concepts
Karen Plankton is one of the main characters of SpongeBob SquarePants. She is a waterproof supercomputer who lives in the Chum Bucket laboratory. She is Plankton's wife and sidekick to steal the secret formula of the Krabby Patty. Karen's name is based on Hillenburg's wife Karen Hillenburg.

Karen first appeared in the episode "Plankton!" along with Plankton on July 31, 1999.

SpongeBob SquarePants characters
Fictional characters introduced in 1999
Pearl Krabs is one of the ten main characters of SpongeBob SquarePants. She is a young whale who lives in an anchor with Mr. Krabs. When Pearl grows up, Mr. Krabs wants her to continue the family business by inheriting the Krusty Krab and become the owner.

SpongeBob SquarePants characters
Fictional characters introduced in 1999
Günther Pfaff (12 August 1939 – 10 November 2020) was an Austrian sprint canoeist. He competed from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. He was in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the K-2 1000 m event at Mexico City in 1968.

Pfaff also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. He was born in Vienna.

Pfaff died on 10 November 2020 in Vienna, aged 81.

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1939 births
2020 deaths
Olympic bronze medalists
Sportspeople from Vienna
Boris Maksimovich Gurevich (; 23 March 1931 – 10 January 1995) was a Soviet wrestler. He won gold medals at the 1952 Olympics, the 1953 world championships, and the 1958 world championships.

Gurevich first trained in gymnastics and later took up wrestling in 1948. 

After retiring from competitions he coached wrestlers in Moscow.

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1931 births
1995 deaths
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Wrestlers
Sportspeople from Moscow
Boris Mikhaylovich Gurevich (also Gurevitch, Gurewitsch, or Hurevych; February 23, 1937 – November 12, 2020) was a Soviet wrestler. He was born in Kiev, Ukraine. Gurevich won the 1968 Summer Olympic Games freestyle middleweight (191.5 lbs; 82 kilograms) gold medal in Mexico City.

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2020 deaths
Soviet Olympic gold medalists
Wrestlers
Walter J. Gex III (March 29, 1939 – November 12, 2020) was an American politician and lawyer. He was the United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi from 1986 until his death. He was nominated by President Ronald Reagan. Gex was born in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

Gex died on November 12, 2020 at his home in Diamondhead, Mississippi at the age of 81.

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2020 deaths
American judges
Lawyers from Mississippi
Politicians from Mississippi
US Republican Party politicians
Kanybek Abdouvassitovitch Isakov (, 4 June 1969 – 12 November 2020) was a Kyrgyz politician and academic. He was born in Jangy-Nookat, Kyrgyzstan. He was the Minister of Education and Science from 2019 to 2020 during the Kubatbek Boronov cabinet. He was kicked out of office due to the 2020 Kyrgyzstani protests. From 2011 to 2019, he was the Rector of Osh State University.

Isakov died of COVID-19 on 12 November 2020 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan at the age of 51.

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2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstani people
Civil servants
Educators
Tibor Méray (6 April 1924 – 12 November 2020) was a Hungarian journalist and writer. He worked for many newspapers such as for Szabad Nép and Csillag. He was a war correspondent for Szabad Nép during the Korean War.

He co-wrote the 1969 comedy spy novel Catch Me a Spy, which was later made into a 1971 movie To Catch a Spy starring Kirk Douglas.

Méray died on 12 November 2020 in Paris at the age of 96.

References

Other websites
Biography of Tibor Méray

1924 births
2020 deaths
Journalists
Hungarian novelists
People from Budapest
David Spencer Quall (January 26, 1936 – November 12, 2020) was an American politician. He was a Democratic member of the Washington House of Representatives from the 40th district from 1993 to 2011. He was born in Bellingham, Washington.

Quall died on November 12, 2020 at the age of 84.

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Other websites
  Official Biography
 Contact Information

1936 births
2020 deaths
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Washington
US Democratic Party politicians
Neilia Hunter Biden (July 28, 1942 – December 18, 1972) was an American teacher. She was the first wife of President Joe Biden. 

She died in a car crash in 1972 with her infant daughter, Naomi. Her two sons, Beau and Hunter, were badly injured but survived.

A park in a suburban area of unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, outside the city of Wilmington, Neilia Hunter Biden Park, is dedicated in her memory.

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1942 births
1972 deaths
Road accident deaths in the United States
Educators from New York
Joe Biden
People from Wilmington, Delaware
Educators from Wilmington, Delaware
Skaneateles ( ,  ) is a town in Onondaga County, New York, United States. The population was 7,209 at the 2010 census.

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Towns in New York
Skaneateles ( ,  ) is a village in the town of Skaneateles, in Onondaga County, New York,  United States. As of the 2010 census, the village had a population of 2,450 residents.

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Villages in New York
Edward Francis Blewitt (January 2, 1859  May 26, 1926) was an American civil engineer, businessman, and politician. He was a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 22nd district from 1907 to 1910.

He was a maternal great-grandfather of Joe Biden, the President of the United States.

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1859 births
1926 deaths
Engineers from Pennsylvania
State legislators of the United States
Scientists from Louisiana
Businesspeople from New Orleans, Louisiana
Politicians from New Orleans, Louisiana
Scientists from Pennsylvania
Businesspeople from Pennsylvania
Politicians from Pennsylvania
People from Scranton, Pennsylvania
US Democratic Party politicians
Joe Biden
Aldo Tambellini (April 29, 1930 – November 12, 2020) was an Italian-American artist. He was known for his works on electronic intermedia. He was a painter, sculptor, and poet. Most of his works were known as avant-garde. Tambellini was born in Syracuse, New York.

Tambellini died on November 12, 2020 at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts from surgery-related problems, aged 90.

Related pages
 List of Italian painters

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1930 births
2020 deaths
Italian painters
Italian sculptors
Italian poets
American painters
American sculptors
American poets
Deaths from surgical complications
Writers from New York
People from Syracuse, New York
Howard Thomas Winter (March 17, 1929 – November 12, 2020) was an American mobster. He was a leader of the Winter Hill Gang. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was active from 1965 to 1979 when he went to jail for extortion. He was released in 1987. He was arrested again in 1993 after dealing cocaine. He was released in 2003.

Winter died on November 12, 2020 in Millbury, Massachusetts from a heart attack, aged 91.

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1929 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
People from Boston, Massachusetts
People convicted of drug offenses
American criminals
Mobsters
Peter Florjančič (5 March 1919 – 14 November 2020) was a Slovenian inventor and Olympic athlete. He competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics. He invented a perfume atomiser, plastic injection molding machines, and the plastic photographic slide frame.

Florjančič died on 14 November 2020 at the age of 101.

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1919 births
2020 deaths
Slovenian sportspeople
Olympians
Inventors
Centenarians
Hasan Muratović (11 April 1940 – 14 November 2020) was a Bosnian politician, entrepreneur and professor. He was the 4th and last Prime Minister of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 30 January 1996 to 3 January 1997.

Muratović died on 14 November 2020, in Sarajevo from COVID-19 during its pandemic in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the age of 80.

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1940 births
2020 deaths
Business people
Educators
Prime Ministers of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Henri "Rik" Joseph Boel (5 September 1931 – 13 November 2020) was a Belgian politician and lawyer. He was a member of the Belgian Socialist Party. He was born in Tienen, Belgium. Boel was Minister of the Interior from 1977 to 1979. He was also a judge on the Constitutional Court from 1986 to 2001.

Boel died on 13 November 2020 in Tienen at the age of 89.

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1931 births
2020 deaths
Belgian judges
Belgian lawyers
Belgian mayors
Flemish politicians
Government ministers of Belgium
People from Flemish Brabant
Socialistische Partij (Belgium) politicians
Terry Duerod (July 29, 1956 – November 13, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. He was born in Royal Oak, Michigan. In 1981, he was a NBA champion. 

From 1979 to 1980, he played for the Detroit Pistons. In 1980, he played for the Dallas Mavericks. From 1980 to 1982, he played for the Boston Celtics. In 1982, Duerod played for the Golden State Warriors. 

Duerod died on November 13, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan from leukemia at the age of 84.

References

Other websites
Career statistics
Interview with Terry Duerod
Detroit Mercy Hall of Fame

1956 births
2020 deaths
Boston Celtics players
Dallas Mavericks players
Detroit Pistons players
Golden State Warriors players
Cancer deaths in the United States
Deaths from leukemia
People from Royal Oak, Michigan
József Halzl (19 December 1933 – 13 November 2020) was a Hungarian businessman and mechanical engineer. He was born in Győr, Hungary. He was the  co-founder of the Hungarian Democratic Forum. He was an Honorary Life Chairman of the Rákóczi Association. He chaired the association from 1990 to 2018.

Halzl died in Budapest on 13 November 2020, aged 86.

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1933 births
2020 deaths
Hungarian businesspeople
Hungarian scientists
Hungarian engineers
Attila Horváth (28 July 1967 – 13 November 2020) was a Hungarian discus thrower. He represented Hungary at two Summer Olympics (1992 and 1996). His personal best was 68.58 metres, thrown on 24 June 1994 in Budapest. He was a nine-time national champion in the men's discus event, including eight in a row (1990–1997). He was born in Kőszeg, Hungary.

Horváth died on 13 November 2020 from COVID-19 in Szombathely, Hungary at the age of 53.

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1967 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Hungary
Hungarian sportspeople
Olympians
Alfred Muller (23 December 1940 – 13 November 2020), was a French politician. He was a member of the National Assembly of France from 1993 to 1997. He also was the Mayor of Schiltigheim from 1977 to 2008. He was born in Strasbourg, France. He was a member of the Socialist Party.

Muller died on 13 November 2020 at the age of 79.

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1940 births
2020 deaths
French mayors
Jean-Pierre Chevènement (; born 9 March 1939) is a French politician. He was a minister in the 1980s and 1990s. He is best known for his candidacy in the 2002 French presidential election. 

He was mayor of Belfort. He was elected to the Senate for the Territoire de Belfort in 2008. He is a co-founder of the PS and founder of the Republican and Citizen Movement (MRC).

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1939 births
Living people
French mayors
Louis Rostollan (1 January 1936 – 13 November 2020) was a French professional road bicycle racer. He was a professional from 1958 until 1967, winning the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré in 1958 and the Tour de Romandie in 1960 and 1961. He was born in Château-Gombert, Marseilles, France,

Rostollan died on 13 November 2020 of lung disease in Château-Gombert at the age of 84.

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1936 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from lung disease
French cyclists
Sportspeople from Marseille
Krunoslav "Kićo" Slabinac (28 March 1944 – 13 November 2020) was a Croatian pop rock singer-songwriter and musician. He was born in Osijek, Independent State of Croatia. His career began in the 1960s. His best known work was the 1971 hit single "Tvoj dječak je tužan". He performed it at  that year's Eurovision Song Contest.

Slabinac died on 13 November 2020 in Zagreb from a long-illness, aged 76.

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1944 births
2020 deaths
Croatian writers
Pop singers
Pop musicians
Rock singers
Rock musicians
Eurovision Song Contest entrants
Dr. Vladimír Székely (January 11, 1941 – November 13, 2020) was a Hungarian electrical engineer. He was professor emeritus at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. In 2010, he became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 

He published research results in 360 peer-reviewed papers listed in Web of Science. He was best known for his works relating to the electro-thermal phenomena simulation and test.

Székely died on November 13, 2020 in Budapest at the age of 79.

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1941 births
2020 deaths
Hungarian engineers
Hungarian scientists
People from Budapest
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( (MTA)) is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. 

Its main responsibilities are to support and grow science, scientific findings, supporting research and development and representing Hungarian science domestically and around the world. There are over 1,300 members.

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National academies of sciences
Buildings and structures in Europe
Budapest
Sir John Meurig Thomas or JMT  (15 December 1932 – 13 November 2020) was a Welsh scientist, educator, university administrator, and historian. He was known for his work on heterogeneous catalysis, solid-state chemistry, and surface and materials science.

From 1986 to 1991, he was Director of the Royal Institution. In 2016, he was awarded the Royal Medal. Thomas was born in Carmarthenshire, Wales.

Thomas died on 13 November 2020 at the age of 87.

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1932 births
2020 deaths
Welsh writers
British historians
British educators
British chemists
Carmarthenshire (; ;  or informally ) is a unitary authority in southwest Wales, and one of the historic counties of Wales. The largest town in Carmarthenshire is Carmarthen, a market town with a population of 14,000.  The area has many farms, and the land is very rural and has many hills. There are many towns, such as Llanelli and Ammanford.

References

Counties of Wales
Landsberg am Lech (Landsberg at the Lech) is a town in southwest Bavaria, Germany, about 65 kilometers west of Munich and 35 kilometers south of Augsburg. It is the capital of the district of Landsberg am Lech.

Geography

Landsberg is on the Romantic Road and is the center of the Lechrain region, the boundary region between Swabia and Bavaria. It is noted for its historic center.

Notable people
Lanspergius (1489–1539), Carthusian monk and ascetical writer
Ignaz Kögler (1680–1746), Jesuit missionary and mathematician
Dominikus Zimmermann (1685–1766), architect
Sir Hubert von Herkomer (1849–1914), artist, film and theatre director
Alois Wolfmüller (1864–1948), inventor and aeronautical engineer
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876–1956), World War II field marshal and war criminal
George Remus (1878–1952), attorney and famed bootlegger during U.S. Prohibition
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), dictator (was in prison in Landsberg 1923/24)
Luise Rinser (1911–2002), writer and politician
Johnny Cash (1932–2003), American singer/songwriter stationed here in the early 1950s while serving in the U.S. Air Force
Siegfried Rauch (1932–2018), actor
Samuel Bak (born 1933), painter and writer
Anton Posset (1941–2015), holocaust researcher and founder of the European Holocaust Memorial located in Landsberg
Erwin Neher (born 1944), biologist
Julian Nagelsmann (born 1987), football manager
Michael Unterbuchner (born 1988), darts player

Twin towns – sister cities
Landsberg am Lech is twinned with:

 Hudson, United States (1984)
 Saint-Laurent-du-Var, France (1986)
 Bushey, England, United Kingdom (1989)
 Rocca di Papa, Italy (1989)
 Waldheim, Germany (1990)
 Siófok, Hungary (2002)

Sports
Landsberg is home to the following sports clubs:

Sources
 
 Thomas Raithel, Die Strafanstalt Landsberg am Lech und der Spöttinger Friedhof (1944-1958). Eine Dokumentation im Auftrag des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin (München: Oldenbourg 2009).

References

Other websites

 Official Website (in German) 
 European Holocaust Memorial Citizens´Association European Holocaust Memorial Foundation
 The Holocaust in the Landsberg area - Citizens´ Association "Landsberg in the 20th Century" (English)
Landsberger lager-cajtung (Landsberg am Lech, Germany), B1110 is a digitized periodical at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York

Landsberg (district)
Rohtak () is a city and the administrative headquarters of the Rohtak district in the Indian state of Haryana. It lies  north-west of New Delhi and  south of the state capital Chandigarh.

References

Cities and towns in Haryana
Sterlington is a town in northern Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, United States, near the boundary with Union Parish. At the 2010 census, the population was 1,594.

References

Towns in Louisiana
Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
Harold William Holman (16 November 1957 – 6 November 2020) was an English professional footballer. He played as a forward for Exeter City and Peterborough United in the Football League. His career lasted from 1976 to 1979. He was born in Exeter, England.

Holman died on 6 November 2020, just ten days before his 63rd birthday.

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1957 births
2020 deaths
English footballers
People from Devon
Paul Rodriguez Sr. (born January 19, 1955) is a Mexican-American actor, comedian, singer and rapper.

He is known for his movie and television roles in Blood Work, D.C. Cab, Born in East L.A., Tortilla Soup, Rat Race, Ali, King of the Hill, Dora the Explorer, and Beverly Hills Chihuahua. 

Rodriguez was born in Culiacan, Sinaloa. His family later migrated to Compton, California.

He is a well known Republican having supported the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney and Donald Trump.

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1955 births
Living people
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Mexican movie actors
Mexican television actors
Mexican voice actors
Mexican comedians
Mexican singers
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Rap musicians from California
Republicans (United States)
Singers from Los Angeles
Actors from Los Angeles
Comedians from Los Angeles
People from Compton, California
Richard Ivanovich Kosolapov (; 25 March 1930 – 15 November 2020) was a Soviet Russian scientist, author, social philosopher and journalist. He was born in Novonikolaevskaya, Volgograd Oblast.  He was a Professor at the Moscow State University (MSU).

Starting in 1974, he became the First Deputy Chief Editor of Pravda, and in 1976 became the Editor-in-Chief of the Kommunist, a post which he held until 1986. During his time at Kommunist, he was twice elected to the Central Committee of the CPSU, in 1976 and 1981.

Kosolapov died on 15 November 2020 in Moscow at the age of 90.

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Mohammad Ali ( – 13 November 2020) was a Bangladeshi politician. He was a Member of Parliament of Cox's Bazar-4 from 1996 to 2001. Ali was a member of the Awami League.

Ali died on 13 November 2020 at a hospital in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh at the age of 76.

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Ravi Belagere (15 March 1958 – 13 November 2020) was an Indian writer and journalist. He was born in Ballari, Karnataka. He was the editor of Kannada language tabloid Hai Bangalore and the magazine O Manase.

Belagere died on 13 November 2020 in Bangalore from a heart attack, aged 62.

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Bellary, officially Ballari, in the eponymous Bellary district, is a major city in the state of Karnataka, India. It is  from the state capital of Bangaluru and  from Hyderabad. Bellary has an urban population of 4,10,445 and metro population of 7,70,929.

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Settlements in Karnataka
The Brown River tree frog (Litoria vocivincens) is a frog from Papua New Guinea.  It lives not far from the ocean.  Scientists saw as high in the hills as 1000 meters above sea level.

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Frogs
The word “Avenue” has a similar meaning with the word “street” except that “Avenue” is most times used to describe a longer and bigger street.

Roads
Neopronoun or neo-pronoun, neolanguage in some languages, is a form of gender-neutral third-person pronoun neologism, used in place of he, she, it, one pronoun and singular they, specially used by some non-binary. Examples of neopronouns are thon/thons, xe/xem and zie/hir.

Neopronouns that are based on nouns are called nounself pronouns, such as fae/faer, moss/mossself, bun/bunself, moth/mothself, and rot/rotself. Spivak pronouns are based on they/them, such as ey/em and ae/aer.

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The handover of Hong Kong, or the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong (also called "the Handover" or "the Return" in mainland China) was when the country that controlled Hong Kong was changed from the United Kingdom to China. The handover happened on 1 July 1997. Before this day, British Hong Kong was controlled by the United Kingdom as a colony and a British Dependent Territory. After the handover, Hong Kong became a special administrative region (SAR) of China.

The handover was the end of British control of Hong Kong. They governed over it for 156 years. Because the number of people living in Hong Kong was 6.5 million in 1997, it was the majority of people (97%) living in all British Dependent Territories. Some people think that the handover was the end of the British Empire.

History

Background
The United Kingdom controlled many parts of India by the 1830s. Their goal in this land was to grow cotton so that they didn't have to buy so much from the United States. They were not able to grow cotton, but they found out that they could grow poppies in India and turn them into opium. The British smuggled opium into China so that they could buy tea. This was one of the reasons the Opium Wars happened, when Britain and China fought with each other. After the Opium Wars, the two countries signed three different treaties with the Qing Empire, who controlled China at the time.

Britain was given the power to control the land of Hong Kong in these treaties:
 In 1842, the Treaty of Nanking gave Britain control of Hong Kong Island forever
 In 1860, the Convention of Peking gave control of the Kowloon Peninsula forever as well
 In 1898, the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory gave control of the New Territories and the islands around Hong Kong for 99 years until 1997

Problems
Even though the British did not control the New Territories forever, this part of Hong Kong was developed as quickly as the other parts of Hong Kong. Because there was not enough land and natural resources in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, a lot of infrastructure was also built in the New Territories. When Britain and China began talking about what would happen to Hong Kong after 1997, many people thought it was very hard to separate the New Territories and the rest of Hong Kong and only give the New Territories back to China.

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  by the BBC World Service

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Kereta Api Indonesia (or KAI) is a railway company in indonesia. Began operation in 1945 from former railway ompanies like Statspoorwegen,NIS,and others. The company starts with name-brand DKA (Djawatan Kereta Api),Later PJKA ,PT.Kereta Api and PT.KAI.

Trains
Indonesia
The U.S. state Florida does not get snow very often. Most of the time, major cities in Florida do not get snowfall that can be measured. Some areas in the far north are able to get snow more often. The National Weather Service says that the Florida Keys and Key West have not gotten a snow flurry in more than 300 years. In Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Palm Beach, only one snow flurry was recorded. This happened in January 1977. Miami, Fort Lauderdale, or Palm Beach have not had a snow flurry before or after that.

Florida's climate is low latitude and subtropical. Temperatures that are cold enough to have snowfall do not happen long. Frost is more likely to happen than snow because it needs a temperature of 32°F or 0°C, less than 2 m or 7 ft above sea level, no clouds in the sky, and a relative humidity of 65% or more. For snow to happen in Florida, a polar jet stream must go south through Texas and the Gulf of Mexico. A cold front has to stop around the south part of Florida and curve northeast to add very cold air into clouds.

The earliest known time Florida got snow was in 1774. People in Florida thought it was "extraordinary white rain." The first White Christmas in the northeast part of Florida was on December 23, 1989.

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Florida
The Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń   is a Roman Catholic church located at the Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows, Queen of Poland, in the village of Licheń Stary near Konin in the Greater Poland Voivodeship in Poland. 

It was designed by Barbara Bielecka and built between 1994 and 2004. The construction was funded by pilgrims' donations. With a tower measuring 141.5 meters in height, it is one of the tallest and largest churches in the world.

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Yairus Gwijangge (31 December 1968 – 15 November 2020) was an Indonesian politician. He was born in Mapenduma, Papua, Indonesia. Gwijiangge was the Regent of Nduga from 2011 to 2016 and again from 2017 until his death.

Gwijangge died on 15 November 2020 at a hospital in Jakarta, aged 51.

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Walid Mohi Edine al Muallem (; 13 January 1941 – 16 November 2020) was a Syrian politician. He was a member of the Ba'ath Party. He was Foreign Minister from 2006 to 2020 and as Deputy Prime Minister from 2012 to 2020. Muallem was born in Damascus, Syria.

Muallem died on 16 November 2020 in Damascus from heart disease at the age of 79.

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Carlos Amadeu Nascimento Lemos (6 September 1965 – 15 November 2020), known as Carlos Amadeu, was a Brazilian footballer and manager. He played as a left back. He was born in Salvador, Bahia.

Amadeu joined Bahia's youth setup in 1983. In 1987, after two seasons as a senior, Amadeu moved to Galícia. 

On 15 November 2020, Amadeu was found dead in Riyadh after having a heart attack at the age of 55.

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Michèle Angélique Flournoy (born December 14, 1960) is an American politician and businesswoman. He was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy under President Bill Clinton and Under Secretary of Defense for Policy under President Barack Obama.

He was a principal advisor to U.S. Secretaries of Defense Robert Gates and Leon Panetta from February 2009 to February 2012.

During her tenure in the Clinton administration, Flournoy was the author of the May 1997 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR).

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The Book of the Consulate of the Sea or Book of the Consulate of Sea is a 15th-century maritime commercial law treaty. Is a compendium of maritime law that governed trade in the Mediterranean for centuries. Of Catalan origin, it was translated into many languages and served as the basis for current international maritime law.i

The text serves as disclosure of the practice in the sea, commenting on the uses and customs as a manual. Considered an excellent primary source on the customs of the time, it collects a lot of information on the legal systems of the time in Europe. Theeditio princeps is in the Catalan language, and was printed in Barcelona in 1484, reprinted again ten years later. The first Italian translation is of 1519, it is the work of Antonio Blado and the second at Venice by Giovanni Battista Pederzano (1549), and then by Francesco Lorenzini (1564). If there are more than twenty editions in Italian and others in English, French, German, Dutch, and Spanish.

Origin 

According to Chiner and Chacon, the Ordinances of the Ribera (i.e. seaside) ( Ordianationis Ripairiœ ), written in 1258, did not yet encode the maritime customs of Barcelona, and that the first reference to "Sea consuls" appears in Barcelona in 1282, just one year before the Consulate of the Sea was created in Valencia. Also note that the consuls of Barcelona had no independence assigned later on in the Book of the Consulate of the Sea. Customs collected in the book would be in part coming from a Barcelona origin,  but many would have been created and consolidated in Valencia, from which have been copied to the subsequently created consulates. According to Arcadi Garcia Sanz, the main difference between the consulates of Barcelona and Valencia would be the fact that the latter had from the start a "royal jurisdiction", and therefore has influenced so strongly in the other consulates in the fifteenth century.

Related pages 
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  Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su '''Consolato del mare'
britannica.com
 Consolat de Mar fund in the Library of Ateneo Barcelonés
 Libre apellat con(n)solat de mar in Cervantes virtual (in catalan) 
 Consolat de Mar Derogation 

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José Luis Espert (born November 21, 1961) is an Argentine economist and politician. He believes in liberalism. He was a candidate for the Argentine presidency in the 2019 elections.

Espert was born in Pergamino, Buenos Aires (Argentina). He graduated in economics at the University of Buenos Aires and then got master's degrees from the University of CEMA and the National University of Tucumán.

He writes for several newspapers: La Nación, El Cronista, El País.

In the 2019 elections for the Presidency he recieved 1.47% of votes. Since 2021, he has been a National Deputy elected in Buenos Aires Province for the Avanza Libertad coalition.

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Fluorocarbons are chemical compounds that only contain fluorine and carbon. The terminology isn't strictly followed, many organic compounds are called fluorocarbons. Another name is Perfluorocarbon. Fluorocarbons belong to the group  of hydrofluorocarbons. Fluorocarbons are commonly used in insulation, and as cooling agents, called refrigerants. Because they take a long time to decay, they are considered greenhouse gases.

Organic chemistry
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a free trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific region between the ten ASEAN states (i.e. Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) and five of their FTA partners—Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea. The 15 member countries are responsible for 30% of the world's population and 30% of global GDP, making it the largest trade bloc. 

It was signed at the Vietnam-hosted virtual ASEAN Summit on 15 November 2020. It officially took effect on 1 January 2022.

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Anne Covell (9 August 1950 – 3 November 2020) was a Canadian sprinter. She competed in the women's 400 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He was born in Delta, British Columbia.

Covell died on 3 November 2020, aged 70.

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Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga (1 January 1934  – 15 November 2020) was an Ecuadorean prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the Archbishop of Quito from 2003 to 2010. He was born in Riobamba, Ecuador.

Vela Chiriboga died on 15 November 2020 in Quito at the age of 86.

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Profile on the Archdiocese of Quito's website 
Catholic Hierarchy entry

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Col. (retd.) Shawkat Ali MP (; 27 January 1937 – 16 November 2020) was a Bangladeshi politician. He was deputy speaker of the National Parliament from 2009 to 2014. He was a member of the Awami League. He was a member of parliament from 1979 to 1986 and again from 1991 to 2014. Ali was born in Shariatpur District, Bangladesh.

Ali died on 16 November 2020 at the age of 83.

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The Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church, also known in the United States as the Byzantine Catholic Church, is an Eastern Catholic church that uses the Byzantine Rite. It is one of the 23 Eastern Catholic churches that are in full communion with the Holy See. There are two main communities within the church: American and European. In the United States, the Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh is self-governing (sui iuris).

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Gerald Nicholas Dino (January 11, 1940 – November 14, 2020) was an American prelate of the Ruthenian Catholic Church. He was the bishop of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Phoenix from 2008 to 2016. He was born in Binghamton, New York. In 1965, he was made a priest for the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Passaic. 

On December 6, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him bishop of the Eparchy of Van Nuys, and on March 27, 2008 he was consecrated a bishop.

On reaching the age of 75, Dino submitted his resignation to Pope Francis.

Dino died on November 14, 2020 at the age of 80.

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Lake Stevens is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States, and is named for the lake that it surrounds. It is located  east of Everett. The city's population was 28,069 at the 2010 census.

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Snohomish is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. The population was 9,098 at the 2010 census.

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