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The Emblem of Ethiopia has a yellow star with five rays of light on a blue shield.

Ethiopia
Ethiopia
Zacharie Séry Bailly, or Séry Bailly, (13 March 1948 – 2 December 2018) was an Ivorian academic, politician and short-story writer. He was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He was known as chairperson of Harris Memel-Fotê-Jean Jaurès Fondation in Abidjan, he was also vice-chairman of the Academy of sciences, arts, cultures of Africa and the African diaspora (ASCAD).

Bailly died in Abidjan on 2 December 2018 from complications of surgery, aged 70.

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Jaime Paz Zamora (born April 15, 1939) is a Bolivian politician. He was President of Bolivia from August 6, 1989 to August 6, 1993. He was vice-president between 1982 and 1984.

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Amélie Mummendey  (19 June 1944 – 17 December 2018) was a German social psychologist. From 2007 until her death she was a Vice-Rector for the Graduate Academy at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. She was born in Bonn, Germany. She held a chair in social psychology at the University of Münster (1980–1997) before taking up a chair in social psychology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in 1997.

Mummendey died on 17 December 2018 at the age of 74.

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Karl Gunnar Myrdal (; 6 December 1898 – 17 May 1987) was a Swedish economist and sociologist. In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Friedrich Hayek for their work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations. He was best known in the United States for his study of race relations, which is seen in his book An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy.

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was a Japanese middleweight judoka. He won a gold medal at his only Olympics in 1972. He was born in Oarai, Ibaraki, Japan.

Sekine died on 18 December 2018 at the age of 75.

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"Joy to the World" is a popular Christmas song. English minister Isaac Watts added the words to the song. As of the late 20th century, the song was the most published Christmas hymn in North America.

Origin
The words of the hymn are from Isaac Watts. They are based on Psalm 98, 96:11-12 and Genesis 3:17-18. The song was first published in Watts' collection The Psalms of David in 1719.

The version of this hymn heard since 1848 is from an edition by Lowell Mason for The National Psalmist. It was his fourth revision of the tune he named ANTIOCH.

Words
The text appears thus in The Psalms of David : imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian State and Worship (London 1719):

Psalm XCVIII. Second Part.
The Messiah's Coming and Kingdom

Joy to the World; the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King!
Let ev'ry heart prepare Him room,
And Heaven and nature sing.

Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns!
Let men their songs employ;
While fields & floods, rocks, hills & plains
Repeat the sounding joy.

No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make his blessings flow
Far as the curse is found.

He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love.

Alternate lyrics
In the Latter-day Saints' hymn, the refrain in the first verse is "And Saints and Angels Sing".

Modern recordings, mostly those aimed at children, take out the first verse.

Recordings
A version from the Trinity Choir was very popular in 1911. Since then, the song has been recorded by a number of artists, including Johnny Cash, Mariah Carey, Pat Boone, Ella Fitzgerald, The Supremes and Nat King Cole.

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Encinitas is a beach city in the North County area of San Diego County, California. It is located within Southern California. It is about  north of San Diego. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 59,518.

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Central Sulawesi (Indonesian: Sulawesi Tengah) is a province of Indonesia. It is at the center of the island of Sulawesi. The  capital and largest city is Palu. The population was 2,633,420 in the 2010 census. In 2014, the government reported the population as 2,839,290. The area of Central Sulawesi is

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Gorontalo (Gorontaloan: Hulontalo) is a province of Indonesia. It is on the island of Sulawesi. Gorontalo is part of the Minahasa Peninsula. Gorontalo was part of the province of North Sulawesi until it became a new, separate province on 5 December 2000. The provincial capital and largest city is Gorontalo City.

Religion

Like most Indonesian provinces, Islam is the majority religion. Islam came to Gorontalo in the 15th century from Ternate and Bone. Non-governmental Islamic organisations such as Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah have offices in Gorontalo.

Christians are the second-largest population in Gorontalo. Most are migrants from North Sulawesi and other parts of Indonesia. They are 2.19% of the population. There are several churches in Gorontalo.

Other religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism are mostly followed by migrants from other parts of Indonesia.

Language 
Indonesian is the official language of the province. Road signs and government documents are in Indonesian. However, Gorontaloan language is the most common spoken language in the province. There are several other languages that are similar and may be dialects of Gorontaloan. These include: Suwawa language, Atinggola language, Limboto language, Kwandang language, Tilamuta language and Sumawata language.

Gorontaloan is related to languages from North Sulawesi and the Philippines. Gorontaloan is written in the Latin alphabet. Gorontaloan is the language of everyday life. However, Indonesian is used in schools, the media, and government.

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F. W. Bernstein (born Fritz Weigle, 4 March 1938 – 20 December 2018) was a German poet, cartoonist, satirist and academic. He worked for the satirical monthly Pardon. He was professor of caricature and comics at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1984 to 1999. He was one of the founding members of the Neue Frankfurter Schule, which published the satirical Titanic.

Bernstein died on 20 December 2018 in Berlin at the age of 80.

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 Der Göttinger Elch
 Lyriker und Satiriker F.W. Bernstein gestorben (obituary) Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung, 21 December 2018
 Nachruf auf den Karikaturisten F.W. Bernstein Ein fast schon kriminell bescheidener Mann  rbb24.de 21 December 2018

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Gerard Bernacki (3 November 1942 – 21 December 2018) was a Polish Roman Catholic bishop. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1967. He was titular bishop of Sala Consilina and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Katowice, Poland, from 1988 to 2012.

Bernacki died on 21 December 2018 in Prudnik, Poland at the age of 76. He was buried in Katowice.

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is a Japanese manga series created by Kouta Hirano. The series began in 1997 and ended in September 2008.

The series is about a secret Hellsing Organization. The organization fights against vampires, ghouls, and other supernatural enemy who threaten England. The series was licensed for English language release in North America by Dark Horse Comics, in Australia and New Zealand by Madman Entertainment, and in Singapore by Chuang Yi.

An anime series of the same name was produced by Gonzo. The series was directed by Umanosuke Iida. It was based on the manga but used a screenplay by Chiaki J. Konaka. It was different from the manga in terms of plot, though it used some of the same characters and similar character designs. It has thirteen episodes. It was broadcast on Japan's Fuji Television from October 10, 2001 to January 16, 2002. An original video animation (OVA) called Hellsing Ultimate was produced by Geneon. It followed the manga storyline more closely than the anime series. The series was 10 episodes long. It was released in Japan between February 10, 2006 and December 26, 2012. In North America, the series ran from December 5, 2006 to October 28, 2014.

Reception
In 2005, the six and seventh volumes of the Hellsing manga series ranked among Diamond Comics Distributors' list of the top 48 manga volumes sold in the United States for the year.  In November 2007, the ninth volume was among the top 10 volumes sold according to Japan's monthly sales rankings.

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Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (15 August 1931 – 22 December 2018), formerly also called The Red Prince, was a senior member of the Saudi royal family. He was known for his liberal stance. He supported a national Constitution, the full rule of law and equality before the law. He was also the leader of Free Princes Movement. His father was Ibn Saud.

Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud died on 22 December 2018 in Riyadh, aged 87.

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Lucas Purugganan Bersamin (born October 19, 1949) is a Filipino politician. He was the 25th Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court, the highest court in the Philippines. 

He was named by then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to the High Court as an Associate Justice on April 2, 2009. He was a member of the Court of Appeals.

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Elias Menachem Stein (January 13, 1931 – December 23, 2018) was an American mathematician. He was a known in the field of harmonic analysis. He was professor of Mathematics at Princeton University from 1963 until his death in 2018.

His honors include the Steele Prize (1984 and 2002), the Schock Prize in Mathematics (1993), the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1999), and the National Medal of Science (2001). In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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 Citation for Elias Stein for the 2002 Steele prize for lifetime achievement
 Elias Stein Curriculum Vitae

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, in short GTO, is a Japanese shōnen manga series. It was created by Tooru Fujisawa. It was originally published in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from May 1997 to April 2002. The story focuses on 22-year-old Eikichi Onizuka. He becomes a teacher at a private middle school, Holy Forest Academy, in Tokyo, Japan. Shonan Junai Gumi (lit. "Shōnan True Love Group") and Bad Company are other manga series by Tooru Fujisawa. They focus on the life of Onizuka before he became a teacher in Great Teacher Onizuka. 

A twelve-episode Japanese television drama running from July to September 1998 was created based on this manga. A live-action film directed by Masayuki Suzuki and released in December 1999 was also created based on this manga. A 43-episode anime television series based on this manga aired in Japan by Fuji Television and Animax from June 1999 to September 2000. Both the anime and manga have been licensed in North America by Tokyopop. A second live action series aired in Japan during 2012, and two more in 2014. It won the 1998 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen category.

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Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng (or just Michelle Yeoh; born 6 August 1962) is a Malaysian actress. She became famous by having a number of roles in 1990s Hong Kong action movies. She is best known for her role as Wai Lin in Tomorrow Never Dies. Also, she played as Yu Shu Lien in the 2000 movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. 

Yeow won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant at age 20 in 1983. She also represented Malaysia at the Queen of the Pacific 1983 beauty pageant. The pageant was held in Australia. She won.

Yeoh started her career acting in martial arts and action movies. She did her own stunts. In a few earlier movies, she was credited as Michelle Khan. She later wanted to use her real name.

Yeoh played the family matriarch Eleanor Young in Crazy Rich Asians in 2018.

She was a member of the jury at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival in 1999.

Yeow was born in Ipoh, Malaysia.

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is a Japanese manga series by Mizuho Kusanagi. It is published in Hakusensha's shōjo manga magazine Hana to Yume from  August 2009. An anime television series based on this manga was created by Pierrot. It aired between October 7, 2014 and March 24, 2015.

Funimation has licensed the anime series for streaming and home video rights in North America. The first opening theme is an song by Kunihiko Ryo, called . The first ending theme is  by Vistlip. The second opening theme is "Akatsuki no Hana", by Cyntia. The second ending theme is "Akatsuki", by Akiko Shikata. The first OVA was released on September 18, 2015, the second OVA was released on August 19, 2016 and the third OVA was released on December 20, 2016.

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Charles Porter Mattocks (October 11, 1840 – May 16, 1910) was a colonel in the Union Army. He was given the Medal of Honor for his actions in the American Civil War.  He was born in Danville, Vermont and served in the 17th Maine Infantry during the American Civil War. After being captured by the Confederate States Army he was a prisoner of war for nine months in Danville, Virginia. Later, he commanded the Maine State Militia and fought as a Brigadier General during the Spanish–American War. He was elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 1880, was a county attorney for Cumberland County, Maine, and argued a case in the Supreme Court.

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Patrick Christopher Steptoe CBE FRS (9 June 1913, Oxford, England – 21 March 1988, Canterbury) was a British obstetrician and gynaecologist.

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Adeel Alam (born March 28, 1986) is an American professional wrestler currently signed WWE and perform in SmackDown brand under in his ring name Mustafa Ali. Ali is first wrestler of Pakistani descent.

Professional wrestling career

Independent Circuit (2003-2016) 
Alam wrestle in various wrestling promotion. During his first six years he used a mask. He did it all during the day, while working night shifts as a police officer.

WWE

205 Live (2016-2018) 
On June 25, 2016, after Brazilian wrestler Zumbi was not able to participate in the WWE Cruiserweight Classic due to visa issues, WWE announced that Mustafa Ali would replace him. On July 20, Linch Dorado defeat Ali and he was eliminated from tournament.  He appeared October 26 episode of NXT, where he and Dorado teaming with each other and entered Dusty Rohdes Tag Team Classic. But in first round they were defeated by Kota Ibushi and TJ Perkins.

Professional Wrestling Highlights

In Wrestling 
 ‌‌Finishing Moves
 054 (Imploding 450° Splash)
 450° Splash
 Springboard Spanish Fly 
 Signature Moves
 Dropkick
 Top con grio
 Suicide dive
 Thunder rolling neckbreaker
 Middle rope jumping X-factor
 Tornado DDT
 Superkick
 Chop
 Jackhammer
 Entrance Themes
 "Put 'Em Up" (Cruiserweight Classic; July 20, 2016)
 "Go Hard" by CFO$ feat. Maino (WWE 2016 – 2020)

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On December 24, 2018, a helicopter carrying Martha Érika Alonso Hidalgo, the newly elected Governor of the Mexican state of Puebla, and her husband, Senator and former Governor Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, crashed on a hill in Coronango near the city of Puebla.

Five people on board the helicopter were killed in the crash: Alonso, Moreno, the two pilots, Captain Roberto Coppe Obregón and Captain Marco Antonio Pavera Romero, and Héctor Baltazar Mendoza, an assistant to the senator. Alonso was 10 days into her term as governor.

Its destination was the Helipuerto Radio Capital in Mexico City. It crashed on 24 December at 14:50 local time (20:50 GMT), just ten minutes after takeoff from a heliport in Puebla. The crash site is in the Santa María Coronango.

Mexico had sought the aid of the United States National Transportation Safety Board, but the NTSB could not support the investigation due to the government shutdown underway.

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Jozef Adamec (26 February 1942 – 24 December 2018) was a Slovak football forward and manager.

He played mostly for Spartak Trnava (1959–61, 1963–64, 1966–76). He was member of Dukla Prague (1961–63), he spent one year with Slovan Bratislava (1964–65) and at the end of career played for lower-division Austrian club Slovan Wien (1977–80).

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Osvaldo Bayer (18 February 1927 – 24 December 2018) was an Argentine writer and journalist. He lived in Buenos Aires. In 1974, during the presidency of Isabel Perón, he went into exile, living in Linz am Rhein, Germany. An anarchist, he was a critic of the National Reorganization Process dictatorship (1976–1983).

He also founded the Department of Human Rights in the School of Philosophy and Humanities of the University of Buenos Aires.

He worked at the newspapers Noticias Gráficas, Clarin and Esquel, a local newspaper in the Patagonian town of Esquel. In 1958 he founded La Chispa ("The Spark").

Bayer died on 24 December 2018 in Buenos Aires, at the age of 91.

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Osvaldo Bayer page Anarchist Encyclopedia (English)
Osvaldo Bayer, la Patagonia rebelde. La escritura de la memoria.
Artículo de Bayer en Página12 referido a un caso de la problemática de los Pueblos Originarios

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Martha Érika Alonso Hidalgo (; 17 December 1973 – 24 December 2018) was a Mexican politician. She was a member of the National Action Party (PAN). Alonso Hidalgo was the first woman Governor of Puebla. She was Governor for ten days, from 14 December to 24 December 2018.

Her husband was Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, who was the governor of Puebla from 2011 to 2017.

On 24 December 2018, both Alonso Hidalgo and her husband Valle Rosas were killed in a helicopter crash near Santa María Coronango, Puebla, aged 45.

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Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas (30 June 1968 – 24 December 2018) was a Mexican politician. He was a member of the National Action Party (PAN). He was the Governor of Puebla from February 2011 through January 2017. Moreno Valle also was a Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Puebla and as a Senator.

Personal life 
He was married to Martha Erika Alonso Hidalgo, who was the first woman Governor of Puebla from 17 December to 24 December 2018.

On 24 December 2018, a helicopter carrying Moreno Valle and his wife crashed in a field near the town of Santa María Coronango, where they both died.

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William David Baillie (28 May 1934 – 25 December 2018) was a New Zealand runner. He represented his country at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where he placed sixth in the 5000 m. 

He also competed at the 1954, 1958, 1962, and 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. He was born in Nelson, New Zealand.

In 2001, Baillie was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to athletics.

Baillie died in Auckland on 25 December 2018, aged 84.

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Lawrence Eisenberg (December 21, 1919 – December 25, 2018) was an American biomedical engineer and science fiction writer. He is best known for his short story "What Happened to Auguste Clarot?," published in Harlan Ellison's anthology Dangerous Visions. 

His stories have been reprinted in anthologies such as Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century, The 10th Annual of the Year’s Best S-F, and Great Science Fiction By the World's Great Scientists. He was also known for the limericks he posts in the comments sections of various articles in The New York Times.

Eisenberg died in Lincoln, Massachusetts on December 25, 2018 from acute myeloid leukemia, aged 99.

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Sulagitti Narasamma (Kannada: ಸೂಲಗಿತ್ತಿ ನರಸಮ್ಮ; 1920 – 25 December, 2018) was an Indian midwife. She was from the Pavagada village, in Tumkur district of Karnataka state. She performed more than 15,000 traditional deliveries over a 70-year period of service with no medical facilities and no medical cost. 

Her medical services were directed towards poor people in Karnataka. Her work was honored with the National Citizen's award of India in 2012 and the country’s fourth highest civilian award,  the Padma Shri, in 2018.

Narasamma died at a hospital in Bengaluru, Karnataka, on 25 December 2018 at the age of 98 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

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Baldur Ragnarsson (25 August 1930 – 25 December 2018) was an Icelandic poet and author of Esperanto works. He was a teacher and a superintendent of schools in Iceland. His best known work was La lingvo serena. He was in charge of the World Esperanto Association's literary contest from 1975 to 1985. He was president of the organizing committee for the 1977 World Esperanto Congress at Reykjavík and vice-president of the World Esperanto Association.

He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature following the death of William Auld in 2006.

Ragnarsson died on 25 December 2018 in Reykjavík at the age of 88.

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Gurren Lagann is a Japanese mecha anime television series. It was animated by Gainax and co-produced by Aniplex and Konami. It ran for 27 episodes on Japan's TV Tokyo between April 1, 2007, and September 30, 2007. It was directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi. It was written by veteran playwright Kazuki Nakashima. Gurren Lagann takes place in a fictional future where Earth is ruled by the Spiral King, Lordgenome. Lordgenome forces people to live under the surface of the earth. The plot focuses on two teenagers, Simon and Kamina. They live in a village under the earth surface and wish to go to the surface. Using a mecha known as Lagann, Simon and Kamina reach the surface. There they and other humans start fighting against Lordgenome's forces.

In North America, at first it was announced to be licensed by ADV Films in 2007, the license was transferred to Bandai Entertainment in 2008. The license was again transferred to Aniplex of America in 2013. In the United Kingdom, it was licensed by Manga Entertainment in 2007, then transferred to Beez Entertainment in 2008. The license was again transferred to Anime Limited in 2013. The Sci Fi Channel got the broadcasting rights of Gurren Lagann and began airing the anime on July 28, 2008. The anime won several awards at the Tokyo International Anime Fair and the Animation Kobe and Japan Media Arts Festivals.

A manga based on this was published by ASCII Media Works between 2007 and 2013. Bandai Entertainment licensed the manga and released it in English in North America. A series of four light novels was published by Shogakukan between 2007 and 2008. A Nintendo DS video game was released in October 2007. Two animated film versions were produced. The first premiered in Japanese theaters on September 6, 2008, and the second premiered on April 25, 2009.

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Lata Mangeshkar () (born Hema Mangeshkar; 28 September 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an Indian playback singer and music director.

Reputation
She is one of the best-known playback singers in India. She has recorded songs in over a thousand Hindi movies and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional Indian languages.

Life
Lata Mangeshkar was born in 1929, the eldest daughter of Deenanath Mangeshkar, a Marathi and Konkani musician and his wife Shevanti in Indore. 
Mangeshkar died on 6 February 2022, from multiple organ failure after contracting COVID-19 and undergoing 28 days of treatment at the Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai, India.

Death 
Mangeshkar died on 6 February 2022, from multiple organ failure after contracting COVID-19 and undergoing 28 days of treatment at the Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai, India.

The Government of India announced a two-day national mourning and that the National Flag will fly at half-mast from February 6 to 7 throughout India in her respect.

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Ilyushin Il-2 (Russian: Ильюшин Ил-2; NATO reporting name: Bark) was a Soviet ground-attack aircraft produced by Ilyushin in WWII.

Soviet & Russian aircraft
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Sonali Bendre (born 1 January 1975) is an Indian actress, model, television personality and author. She was born in Mumbai.

Her best known roles were in Diljale (1996), Bhai (1997), Qahar (1997), Major Saab (1998), Sarfarosh (1999), Hum Saath Saath Hain (1999), Kadhalar Dhinam (1998) and its Hindi bilingual Dil Hi Dil Mein (1999) and Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai (2000).

In July 2018, Bendre was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer and was undergoing treatment in New York City.

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Valentine John "Val" Bettin (born August 1, 1923) is an American actor. He is known for using an English accent in all of his roles. He is perhaps best known for voicing Dr. David Q. Dawson in the 1986 Disney animated movie The Great Mouse Detective and the Sultan in The Return of Jafar and Aladdin and the King of Thieves.

References

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Val Bettin at the Great Mouse Detective fansite

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American voice actors
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She's Gotta Have It is a 1986 black and white comedy-drama movie. It was written, directed and edited by Spike Lee. Lee also acts in the movie.

Plot
Nola Darling is a young and attractive woman from Brooklyn. She is in relationships with three men: the polite and well-meaning Jamie Overstreet, the self-obsessed model Greer Childs and the immature Mars Blackmon. Though Nola is attracted to the best in each of them, she refuses to commit to any of them. Instead, she likes her personal freedom.

Her carefree, sexual lifestyle comes to an end when the three men meet and talk about Nola. Greer justifies Nola's arrogant behavior by saying she doesn't see the three as individuals. She sees the three as a group. Jamie and Mars become unhappy over how little Nola cares for all three men.

Jamie realizes that Greer and Mars are too scared of losing Nola to force her to choose one of them. Jamie tells Nola she must choose a single lover. Nola asks Jamie to come to her apartment to have casual sex. Jamie rapes Nola. He mockingly asks her if he's as good sexually as Greer or Mars. Nola has a "no-sex" agreement. Jamie rejects it at first. Then he agrees.

Themes
Nola realizes the freedom to have many sex partners that men have usually enjoyed. "A woman (or, at least Nola) can be a sexual being, doesn't belong to a man and perhaps shouldn't even wish for such a thing".

Cast
 Tracy Camilla Johns as Nola Darling
 Tommy Redmond Hicks as Jamie Overstreet
 John Canada Terrell as Greer Childs
 Spike Lee as Mars Blackmon
 Raye Dowell as Opal Gilstrap
 Joie Lee as Clorinda Bradford
 Dennis Karika as The Trainer
 S. Epatha Merkerson as Dr. Jamison
 Bill Lee as Sonny Darling
 Erik Dellums as Dog 3
 Reginald Hudlin as Dog 4
 Ernest Dickerson as Dog 8
 Fab Five Freddy as Dog 10
 Scott Sillers as Dog 11
 Geoffrey L. Garfield as Dog 12

Release

Box office
She's Gotta Have It opened in one theater on August 8, 1986. It made $28,743 on its opening weekend. The movie took in $7,137,503 in the United States.

Critical reception
The movie was well-liked by critics and audiences. Rotten Tomatoes rated this movie at 90% based on the reviews of 31 critics. The Metacritic rated the movie at 79/100.

Awards
1986 Cannes Film Festival
 "Award of the Youth" Foreign Film  — Spike Lee (won)
1986 Los Angeles Film Critics Awards
"New Generation Award" — Spike Lee (won)
1987 Independent Spirit Awards
 Best First Feature  — Spike Lee (won)
 Best Female Lead — Tracy Camilla Johns (nominated)

Home media
The movie was released in VHS format. In 2008 it was released on DVD in Region 1 by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Television series
A television series based on the movie got started on Netflix in 2017. Director Spike Lee directed the first season.

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American comedy movies
American independent movies
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Screenplays by Spike Lee
Jordan Bernt Peterson (born June 12, 1962) is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He studies abnormal, social, and personality psychology. He is interested in the psychology of religious and ideological belief.

Peterson has criticised political correctness, Marxism, and postmodernism.  Peterson has said "the climate change thing for me is a contentious issue, because you can’t trust the players." However, he does believe climate change to be an issue.

Books 
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (1999)
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (2018)
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life (2021)

Notable research papers 

 Self-Deception Explained
 You can neither remember nor forget what you do not understand
 Complexity Management Theory: Motivation for Ideological Rigidity and Social Conflict
 Play and the Regulation of Aggression
 Three Forms of Meaning and the Management of Complexity
 The Functional Neuroanatomy and Psychopharmacology of Predatory and Defensive Aggression
 Peacemaking among higher-order primates
 Neuropsychology of Motivation for Group Aggression and Mythology

Movies 
The Rise of Jordan Peterson (2019)
No Safe Spaces (2019)

References

Other websites 

 
 Jordan Peterson's channel on YouTube

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Canadian academics
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Canadian scientists
Conservatives
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Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. He survived Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Kaufering, and Türkheim. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of existential analysis, the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy".

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Sir Robert de Zouche Hall, GCMG (27 April 1904 – 19 March 1995) was an English colonial governor. He served in Sierra Leone and Tanganyika.

He moved from the United Kingdom to New Zealand in 1973. He settled in Gisborne.

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Paradise is an unincorporated town and census-designated place (CDP) in Clark County, Nevada, United States. It is close to the city of Las Vegas and contains most of the Las Vegas Strip. The population was 223,167 at the 2010 census, making it the unincorporated town with the most people in Nevada. It was founded on December 8, 1950.

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Caledonia County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Vermont. At the 2010 census, 31,227 people lived there. Its shire town (county seat) is the municipality of St. Johnsbury.

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is a Japanese manga series by Yoshihiro Togashi. The series tells the story of Yusuke Urameshi. He died saving a child from a car. Yusuke goes through tests presented by Koenma, the son of the ruler of the afterlife Underworld. After those tests, Yusuke is brought back to life. He then becomes "Underworld Detective" and investigate many cases involving demons and ghosts in the human world. Later manga becomes more focused on martial arts battles and tournaments. Togashi began creating the series in November 1990.

The manga was originally published in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 1990 to July 1994. The series has 175 chapters collected in 19 tankōbon volumes. In North America, the manga ran completely in Viz's Shonen Jump from January 2003 to January 2010. There is an anime based on this manga with 112 television episodes. It was directed by Noriyuki Abe and co-produced by Fuji Television, Yomiko Advertising, and Studio Pierrot. At first, the television series aired on Japan's Fuji TV network from October 10, 1992 to December 17, 1994. It was later licensed in North America by Funimation in 2001. There it aired on popular Cartoon Network blocks including Adult Swim and later Toonami. The television series has also been broadcast in various other countries around the world. The Yu Yu Hakusho franchise has produced two animated films. It also has produced a series of original video animations (OVAs), audio albums, video games and other merchandise. The manga sold over fifty million copies in Japan. It won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga in 1993. The animated series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize for best anime in 1994 and 1995. Yu Yu Hakusho has been watched by a large number of television viewers in Japan.

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Heloísa Maria Buarque de Hollanda (30 November 1937 – 27 December 2018), also known as Miúcha, was a Brazilian singer and composer. She was born in Rio de Janeiro. In 1960 she moved to Paris where she studied Art History at the École du Louvre. 

In 1975 she made her first professional recording as a singer on the album The Best of Two Worlds. Miúcha partnered with Tom Jobim on two albums, 1977 and 1979, and was part of the show organized by Aloysio de Oliveira along with Vinicius de Moraes, Tom Jobim and Toquinho. The act was shown for a year at Canecão in  Rio de Janeiro. 

Miúcha died on 27 December 2018, in Rio de Janeiro from respiratory failure, at the age of 81.

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Tadeusz Pieronek (pronounced ; 24 October 1934 – 27 December 2018) was a Polish Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop-emeritus. He was auxiliary bishop of the Sosnowiec from 1992 to 1998.

Biography 
He was a Catholic academic and professor of theology and civil law. Pieronek was a leading member of the Stefan Batory Foundation (a George Soros Foundation branch in Poland). He was born in Radziechowy, Poland.

Pieronek died on 27 December 2018 in Sosnowiec, Poland from a heart attack at the age of 84.

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Bp. Pieronek at catholic-hierarchy.org
'Holocaust was a Jewish invention', says top Polish bishop. In: The News.pl, 25 January 2010
Pacifici racconta barzellette: la Polonia non é antisemita. Gli Israeliani non rispettano i diritti umani dei palestinesi. La shoa non é solo ebraica, ma riguarda cattolici e polacchi. Israele gode di buona stampa: il potere economico, pontifex.roma.it, 25 gennaio 2010 

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A bootleg recording is an audio or video recording of a performance or song by an artist which was not officially released by the artist. The process of distributing or making such recordings is called bootlegging. 

Recordings may be copied and traded between fans of an artist without profit. But some bootleggers have sold recordings for profit. They sometimes add professional-quality sound engineering and/or packaging to the raw material.

Bootlegs are usually made of either unreleased studio recordings, live performances or interviews with a level of quality that can't be predicted.

Bootlegging dates back to the 16th and 17th centuries, around the time of William Shakespeare.

In the early 20th century, movie soundtracks were often bootlegged. One example was a bootleg of Judy Garland. She performed Annie Get Your Gun. That was before Betty Hutton replaced her early in production. It happened after a full soundtrack had been recorded.

Bootlegging increased between the 1960s and 2000s. One of the most praised bootlegs in the 1980s is Prince's studio album The Black Album. In December 1987, Prince ordered the album taken down because of a few advance copies being used to make bootlegs.

The rise in popularity of the video sharing website YouTube caused it to be a major carrier of bootleg recordings. Its owner, Google, believes that under the "safe harbor" rule of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), it cannot be held responsible for content. That allows bootleg media to be hosted on it without any fear of a lawsuit. In 2010 Youtube removed a 15-minute limit on videos. That allowed entire concerts to be uploaded by fans and bootleggers.

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is an ongoing Japanese superhero webcomic created by ONE. It began publication in early 2009. The series quickly went viral. It received 7.9 million hits in June 2012. One-Punch Man tells the story of Saitama, a very powerful superhero. He has grown bored due to the lack of challenge in his fight against evil and is trying to find a worthy opponent.

A digital manga remake of the series, illustrated by Yusuke Murata, began publication on Shueisha's Young Jump Web Comics website in 2012. The chapters are collected and printed into tankōbon volumes. Sixteen volumes were released as of April 4, 2018. Viz Media has licensed the remake for English publication in its Weekly Shonen Jump digital magazine.

An anime television based on this manga by Madhouse aired in Japan between October and December 2015. It was dubbed in English during the summer of 2016. Later that year a planned second season was announced. On September 25, 2017, it was announced that they would be changing both its production company and director.

The series nominated for the seventh annual Manga Taishō Awards in 2014. The series was also nominated for an Eisner Award in 2015.

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Amos Oz (; born Amos Klausner; May 4, 1939 – December 28, 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and philosopher. He was a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba. He was born in Jerusalem.

Oz's work has been published in 45 languages in 47 countries. He was honored with a Legion of Honour of France, the Goethe Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award in Literature, the Heinrich Heine Prize and the Israel Prize. 

In 2007, a selection from the Chinese translation of A Tale of Love and Darkness was the first work of modern Hebrew literature to appear in an official Chinese textbook. His other best known works were My Michael and A Perfect Peace.

Oz was a supporter of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

Oz died in Tel Aviv on December 28, 2018 from a short-battle with an "aggressive form" of cancer at the age of 79.

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David Longly Bernhardt (born August 17, 1969) is an American attorney, lobbyist and politician. He was the 53rd United States Secretary of the Interior from 2019 to 2021. He was the Deputy United States Secretary of the Interior when Ryan Zinke was secretary.

He began working for the United States Department of the Interior in 2001 and was the department's solicitor from 2006 to 2009, among other roles.

On April 28, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated him to be the United States Deputy Secretary of the Interior.  He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 24, 2017. He became Acting Secretary of the Interior on January 2, 2019, replacing Ryan Zinke. In February 2019, Trump nominated Bernhardt to serve the position as the permanent secretary. He was confirmed on April 11, 2019.

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The City of Rifle is a city in Garfield County, Colorado, United States. The population was 9,172 at the 2010 census. The town was founded in 1882. It is located along Rifle Creek, near its mouth on the Colorado. The community takes its name from the creek.

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Bonner County is a county in the northern part of the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2010 census, 40,877 people lived there. The county seat and largest city is Sandpoint.

Communities

Cities 

 Sandpoint
 Clark Fork
 Dover
 East Hope
 Hope
 Kootenai
 Oldtown
 Ponderay
 Priest River

Census-designated place 
 Blanchard

Unincorporated communities 

 Careywood
 Cocolalla
 Colburn
 Coolin
 Laclede
 Lamb Creek
 Nordman
 Outlet Bay
 Sagle
 Vans Corner
 Westmond

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Clay County is a county in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The county seat is West Point.

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UNCF, the United Negro College Fund, also known as the United Fund, is an American charity organization that funds scholarships for black students and general scholarship funds for 37 private historically black colleges and universities. UNCF was created on April 25, 1944 by Frederick D. Patterson (then president of what is now Tuskegee University), Mary McLeod Bethune, and others. UNCF is headquartered at 1805 7th Street, NW in Washington, D.C.  In 2005, UNCF supported almost 65,000 students at over 900 colleges and universities with about $113 million in grants and scholarships. About 60% of these students are the first in their families to attend college. About 62% have annual family incomes of less than $25,000. UNCF also runs over 450 named scholarships.

UNCF's president and chief executive officer is Michael Lomax. Past presidents of the UNCF included William H. Gray (Pennsylvania politician) and Vernon Jordan.

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Capiz is a province of the Visayas region in the Philippines. The province's capital is Roxas City. The province is one of the 15th most visited places in the country and is known for its seafood.

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Aída León de Rodríguez, born Aída Judith León Lara (born June 23, 1928) is an Ecuadorian philanthropist. She was the First Lady of Ecuador to Guillermo Rodríguez, her husband from 1972 to 1976.

León was born on June 23, 1928 in Pujilí, Cotopaxi Province. In 1953, she married General Guillermo Rodríguez and had five children.

As First Lady of Ecuador, León was president of the National Children's Trust (INNFA since 1980). León was in charge of the evacuation and treatment of victims of a flood in Babahoyo.

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Tom Weisner (October 6, 1949 – December 28, 2018) was an American politician. He was the mayor of Aurora, Illinois from 2005 until 2016. He worked for five years as a volunteer in the Peace Corps. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was born in Batavia, Illinois. He was re-elected in 2012, but in May 2015 announced his retirement. He resigned in August 2016 due to poor health. 

Weisner died of colon cancer-related complications on December 28, 2018 in Aurora, aged 69.

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was a Japanese politician. He was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He was a member of the House of Representatives. He was born in Neyagawa, Osaka. He was an MP from 2003 to 2009 and again from 2012 until his death 2018.

Kitagawa died on December 26, 2018 in Osaka of complications from peritonitis, aged 67.

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 Official website in Japanese.

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Bird Box is a 2018 American horror thriller movie. It was directed by Susanne Bier. The movie is based on a novel of the same name by Josh Malerman.  

The movie is about a woman, played by Sandra Bullock. Together with other people she hides from supernatural creatures. If a human sees such a creature, he kills himself. Later the woman must make it through a forest and river. She has a pair of children with her. Most of the time they are blindfolded to avoid the sight of the creatures. 

Other actors in the movie are Trevante Rhodes, Jacki Weaver, Rosa Salazar, Danielle Macdonald, Lil Rel Howery, Tom Hollander, BD Wong, Sarah Paulson, Colson Baker and John Malkovich. 

Bird Box had its world premiere at AFI Fest on November 12, 2018. The movie began a limited release on December 14. Starting December 21, 2018 the movie was streamed worldwide on Netflix.

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Clay County is a county in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the county had a population of 221,939, making it the fifth-most populous county in Missouri. The county seat is Liberty. It was founded on January 2, 1822.

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Gitega is the capital of Burundi. It is also the second-largest city. Gitega is east of Burundi's largest city, Bujumbura. It is also the capital and largest city of Gitega Province.

History 
On 29 April 1972, the king Ntare V was killed in Gitega.

In March 2007, the President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza said that Burundi was going to bring back its capital to Gitega, saying that it is a better location for a capital than Bujumbura.

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The Ant Bully is a 2006 American computer-animated adventure fantasy comedy movie written, edited and directed by Rich Moore And Eric Darnell And Executive Produced For BBC By: Mike Mitchell, Steven Spielberg, Joe Johnston, James Cameron, Kathleen Branagh And Andrew Stanton based on the 1999 children's book of the same name by John Nickle. And Original Developments Illumination Entertainment, Blue Sky Studios, Sony Pictures Animation And Blizzard Entertainment
 
Original Scoring By: James Newton Howard And Chris Bacon
Orchestratral And Scoring Conducted By: Pete Anthony And Gavin Greenaway
Recorded By: Nick Wollage And Shawn Murthy AT EMI Abbey Road And AIR Lyndhurst Hall, London UK

It features the voices of Zach Tyler Eisen, Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep and Paul Giamatti, was produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone, John A. Davis and Keith Alcorn's DNA Productions, and was released in theatres on July 28, 2006, by Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures. Concurrently with the general release, it was offered in big screen IMAX 3D, the format, also used with Blended.

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