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This

This may refer to:

Places
 This (Egypt), or Thinis, an ancient city in Upper Egypt
 This, Ardennes, a region in France

Basic English 850 words
Spongiforma squarepantsii

Spongiforma squarepantsii is a species of fungus. It is in the Boletaceae family and the Spongiforma genus. It was first seen in Malaysia in 2011. It makes orange fruit bodies that have the odor of a fruit. The fruit bodies can grow to 10 cm wide and 7 cm tall. If water is taken out, it will go back to its first shape. Its spores are in the shape of an almond. The spores can be 10 to 12.5 μm in width and 6 to 7 µm in depth. The name of the fungus came from the fictional character SpongeBob SquarePants. S. squarepantsii is one of the two species in Spongiforma. The other is S. thailandica.

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Fungi
SpongeBob SquarePants
Sloan Digital Sky Survey

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey or SDSS is a major multi-spectral imaging and spectroscopic redshift survey using a 2.5-m wide-angle optical telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, United States. The project was named after the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which made much of the funding.

Astronomical objects
2001 QR322

2001 QR322 is a minor planet and the first Neptune trojan discovered on 21 August 2001, by the Deep Ecliptic Survey at the Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chile. It orbits ahead of Neptune at its L4 Lagrangian point.

Other Neptune trojans have been discovered since. A study by American astronomers Scott Sheppard and Chad Trujillo from the Carnegie Institution suggests that Neptune could possibly have twenty times more trojans than Jupiter.

Trojan asteroids
Neptune
May 2021 lunar eclipse

A total lunar eclipse took place on 26 May 2021. It was the first total lunar eclipse since the January 2019 lunar eclipse. It was visible in areas of southeast Asia, all of Australia, all of Oceania, most of Alaska and Canada, all of the lower 48 states, all of Hawaii, and most of South America. Totality lasted for 14 minutes making it one of the shortest eclipses of the 21st century.

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Eclipses
May 2021 events
Solar eclipse of June 10, 2021

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

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

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

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Eclipses
June events
June 2021 events
2020 United States Senate election in Oklahoma

An election happened on November 3, 2020 to elect a Senator from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The three people in the election were Jim Inhofe (Republican Party), Abby Broyles (Democratic Party), and Robert Murphy (Libertarian Party). Jim Inhofe won the election and went back to the Senate for the fourth time.

There were two primary elections. They election was on June 30, 2020. One was for the Republican Party and one for the Democratic Party. Four people were in the Republican primary election and the Democrat primary election. Jim Inhofe won the Republican Party primary and Abby Broyles won the Democratic Party primary.

Republican Party primary

Democratic Party primary

Results

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2020 United States Senate elections
Oklahoma
Savannah Guthrie

Savannah Clark Guthrie (born December 27, 1971) is an American broadcast journalist and lawyer. She is a main co-anchor of the NBC News morning show Today. She began this position in July 2012.

Guthrie joined NBC News in September 2007 as a legal analyst and correspondent. Between 2008–2011, she was the White House correspondent. In 2010 and 2011, as co-anchor of the MSNBC program The Daily Rundown, Guthrie became the co-host of Today's third hour with Natalie Morales and Al Roker. She stopped being the third-hour and chief legal analyst in 2012. Also in 2012 she replaced Ann Curry as the co-anchor of Today.

Guthrie was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She was raised in the United States.

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1971 births
American television personalities
American journalists
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Writers from Melbourne
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The Ape (1940 movie)

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

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1940 movies
1940s horror movies
American horror movies
Movies based on plays
Movies directed by William Nigh
Black-and-white movies
Today (1930 movie)

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

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1930 movies
1930s drama movies
American drama movies
Movies based on plays
Movies directed by William Nigh
Black-and-white movies
Faxian

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

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

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

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

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

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337 births
420s births
Chinese people
Translators
Buddhists
28th century

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

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

3rd millennium
Centuries
Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, translator, critic and editor. Her poetry had formal innovation, irony and wit.

Moore's first professionally published poems appeared in The Egoist, a periodical, and Poetry, a magazine in spring 1915.

Moore's first book, Poems, was published without her permission in 1921 by British novelist Bryher.

Moore's second book, Observations, was given the Dial Award in 1924. During these years, she worked as a librarian part-time. Then from 1925–1929 she edited The Dial magazine, a literary journal.

Moore was awarded the Helen Haire Levinson Prize by the Poetry magazine in 1933.

Moore's Collected Poems won the National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize and Pulizer Prize in 1951.

Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri. She had a number of strokes in her last years. She died at age 84 in New York City.

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1887 births
1972 deaths
American poets
Writers from New York City
Deaths from stroke
TPV Technology

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

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

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Other websites 
 

Electronics companies of China
Hong Kong
Jack Miller

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

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

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

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

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1916 births
1994 deaths
US Republican Party politicians
Politicians from Chicago
United States senators from Iowa
Elton John (album)

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

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1970 albums
Rock albums
Elton John
Hey Duggee

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

English-language television programs
Great Purge

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

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

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

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

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

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History of the Soviet Union
Mass murder by country
Political movements
1930s in the Soviet Union
Numerology

Numerology is the belief in a mystical divine connection between a number and certain incidents or events. It is also the study of the numerical value of the letters in words, names, and ideas. It is usually related to the paranormal, astrology, and divinatory arts.

Despite the long history of numerological ideas, the word "numerology" is not found in English before about 1907.

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Astrology
Bambang Suryadi

Bambang Suryadi, also known by his nickname Basur (1 October 1968 — 4 January 2021) was an Indonesian politician. He was a member of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle. Suryadi was a member of the People's Representative Council from 2019 until his death in 2021. Suryadi was born in Blitar, East Java.

Suryadi died on 4 January 2021 at a Jakarta hospital due to COVID-19, aged 52.

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1968 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
Indonesian politicians
Christina Crosby

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

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

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

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

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1953 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
American academics
American feminist writers
LGBT writers
Lesbian feminists
Writers from Pennsylvania
LGBT people from Pennsylvania
People with disabilities
Educators from Pennsylvania
Dyke (slang)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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LGBT in the United States
LGBT in the United Kingdom
Gay slang
Pejoratives
English profanity
Homophobia
Slurs
Gerald Hiken

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

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

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1927 births
2021 deaths
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
Actors from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jerry Douglas (director)

Jerry Douglas (November 15, 1935 – January 9, 2021) was an American pornographic director and screenwriter. He was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He was known for directing many gay porno movies. He directed the play The Deep Throat Sex Scandal in 2010 and the 1999 gay porno Dream Team. He also wrote the screenplay for Score (1974).

Douglas died on January 9, 2021 in New York City, aged 85.

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1935 births
2021 deaths
American movie directors
American theatre directors
American screenwriters
LGBT directors
LGBT screenwriters
Gay men
Writers from Des Moines, Iowa
Joël Batteux

Joël Batteux (16 December 1943 – 10 January 2021) was a French politician. He was born in Vitré, France. He was a member of the Socialist Party and the Citizen and Republican Movement. From 1983 to 2014, Batteux was Mayor of Saint-Nazaire. 

In 2008, Batteux was made a member of the Order of the British Empire.

Batteux died on 10 January 2021 from surgery-related problems in Paris at the age of 77.

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1943 births
2021 deaths
French mayors
Deaths from surgical complications
Walter Taibo

Wálter Taibo Martínez (7 March 1931 – 10 January 2021) was a Uruguayan football goalkeeper. He played for national team from 1955 to 1966, making thirty appearances. He played with them in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. He also played for C.A. Peñarol and Huracán.

Taibo died on 10 January 2021, aged 89.

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1931 births
2021 deaths
Uruguayan footballers
Frank Arok

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

Arok died on 12 January 2021, aged 88.

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1932 births
2021 deaths
Serbian footballers
Serbian football managers
Naturalised citizens of Australia
Australian footballers
Australian football managers
Massoud Achkar

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

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

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

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2021 deaths
Lebanese politicians
1956 births
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Lebanon
Elias Rahbani

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

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

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1938 births
2021 deaths
Lebanese entertainers
Composers
Musicians
Songwriters
Conductors
Television personalities
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Lebanon
Vassilis Alexakis

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

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

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

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

Alexakis died on 11 January 2021, aged 77.

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Other websites
 Unofficial website of Vassilis Alexakis : "Paris-Athènes" (in French)

1947 births
2021 deaths
Greek writers
French writers
European translators
People from Athens
Howard Johnson (jazz musician)

Howard Lewis Johnson (August 7, 1941 – January 11, 2021) was an American jazz musician. He was known for his work on tuba and baritone saxophone. He also played the bass clarinet, trumpet, and other reed instruments. He was born in Montgomery, Alabama.

Johnson was known for his sideman work, mainly with George Gruntz, Hank Crawford, and Gil Evans. During the 1970s, he was the live band conductor of the Saturday Night Live Band.

Johnson died on January 11, 2021 at his home in New York City, aged 79.

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1941 births
2021 deaths
American jazz musicians
American saxophonists
American conductors
Musicians from Alabama
Musicians from New York City
People from Montgomery, Alabama
Kurt Oddekalv

Kurt Willy Oddekalv (27 July 1957 – 11 January 2021) was a Norwegian environmentalist. He was born in Senja, Norway.

Oddekalv was removed from the Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature in 1993 over his controversial views. He created his own environmental organization Green Warriors of Norway of which he was the leader until his death.

Oddekalv revealed in 2015 that he believed in chemtrails, which was criticized by many environmentalists.

Oddekalv died on 11 January 2021 after falling through ice and drowned at a lake near Bergen, Norway at the age of 63.

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1957 births
2021 deaths
Accidental deaths by drowning
Norwegian businesspeople
Environmentalists
Prentice E. Sanders

Prentice Earl Sanders, also known as Earl Sanders (October 12, 1937 – January 11, 2021) was an American police officer and member of the San Francisco Police Department from 1964 through 2003. He was born in Nacogdoches, Texas.

Sanders became the first African American chief of that department in 2002. He resigned a year later over his handling of Fajitagate, a fight between off-duty cops and civilians over a bag of fajitas.

Sanders died on January 11, 2021 at the age of 83.

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1937 births
2021 deaths
American police officers
People from Texas
People from San Francisco
Fajita

A fajita (; ) in Tex-Mex is any grilled meat that is usually served as a taco on a flour or corn tortilla. 

Popular meats used include steak, chicken and other cuts of beef, as well as vegetables instead of meat. 

In restaurants, the meat is usually cooked with onions and bell peppers. Popular condiments include shredded lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, salsa, pico de gallo, shredded cheese, beans, and diced tomatoes.

References

Mexican food
Salsa (sauce)

Salsa is a variety of sauces used as condiments for tacos and other Mexican and Mexican-American foods, and as dips for tortilla chips. They may be raw or cooked.

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Mexican sauces
Condiments
Tortilla chip

A tortilla chip is a snack made from corn tortillas, which are cut into triangles and then fried—or baked. Corn tortillas are made of corn, vegetable oil, salt and water. It is a well known Mexican food.

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Mexican food
Snack foods
Dipping sauce

A dip or dipping sauce is a common condiment for many types of food.  Dips are used to add flavor to a food, such as pita bread, dumplings, crackers, cut-up raw vegetables, fruits, seafood, cubed pieces of meat and cheese, potato chips, tortilla chips, falafel, and sometimes even whole sandwiches.

Dips have many forms and are eaten all over the world. People have been using sauces for dipping for thousands of years.

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Condiments
Tex-Mex

Tex-Mex cuisine (from Texan and Mexican) is an American regional cuisine that comes from the food creations of the Tejano people of Texas. 

It has spread from border states such as Texas and others in the Southwestern United States to the rest of the country as well as Canada. 

Tex-Mex is most popular in Texas.

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Texas
American food
Mexican food
Tejanos

Tejanos (; singular: Tejano/a; Spanish for "Texan") are the Hispanic residents of the U.S. state of Texas.

Many Tejanos are related to Spanish-speaking settlers of Tejas, Coahuila, and other northern Mexican states.

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People from Texas
Stacy Title

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

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

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1964 births
2021 deaths
Movie directors from New York
Movie producers from New York
Screenwriters from New York
Deaths from motor neurone disease
Scott Kelly (astronaut)

Scott Joseph Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American engineer, retired astronaut, and naval aviator. Kelly flew and was in charge of the International Space Station (ISS) on Expeditions 26, 45, and 46.

Kelly retired from NASA in 2016. 

His identical twin brother, Mark Kelly, is also a retired astronaut, and the junior Senator from Arizona.

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1964 births
Living people
American astronauts
Twin people from the United States
Engineers from New Jersey
American aviators
Scientists from New Jersey
Scientists from Texas
People from Orange, New Jersey
Marina Bay Sands

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

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

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2010s establishments in Singapore
2010 establishments in Asia
Buildings and structures in Singapore
Entertainment venues
Hotels
Malls
National Assembly (Malawi)

The National Assembly of Malawi is the only legislative body of the nation. It is located on Capital Hill, Lilongwe along Presidential Way. The National Assembly alone has legislative supremacy and is the ultimate power over all other political bodies in Malawi. 

At its head is the Speaker of the House who is elected by his or her peers. Since June 19, 2019 the Speaker is Catherine Gotani Hara.

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Malawi
Sidik Mia

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

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

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

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1965 births
2021 deaths
Malawian people
African businesspeople
African politicians
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 pandemic in Malawi

The COVID-19 pandemic in Malawi is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The virus was confirmed to have reached Malawi on 2 April 2020. It has spread to all the districts of the country.

President Peter Mutharika confirmed the country's first three cases of coronavirus disease 2019 on 2 April. The three cases include a Malawian of Asian origin who travelled back from India, her relative and their housemaid.

On 7 April, the first death from the infection was reported.

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Malawi
Malawi
Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud

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

Al Saud died in January 2021.

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1937 births
2021 deaths
Saudi Arabian businesspeople
Princes and princesses
The Man with Two Brians

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

Story 

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

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

Production 

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

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

Reception 

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

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Other websites 

Family Guy (season 7) episodes
2008 television episodes
Mamie Till

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

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1921 births
2003 deaths
Elizabeth Holmes

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

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

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

Trial 

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

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

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

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1988–90 North American drought

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Menoetius (moon)

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

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

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

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

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Robert Woodson

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

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

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The 1619 Project

The 1619 Project is a controversial project in the United States created by Nikole Hannah-Jones, writers from The New York Times, and The New York Times Magazine. It is meant to change the country's history by talking about the effects of slavery. The project said that the United States was actually founded in 1619 when the first slaves arrived to the country. 

The project was first published in August 2019 for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in the Virginia colony. 

The project was very controversial and had negative comments from many historians.

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Nikole Hannah-Jones

Nikole Sheri Hannah-Jones (born April 9, 1976) is an American journalist. She is known for her coverage of civil rights in the United States. In April 2015, she became a staff writer for The New York Times. In 2020, she won a Pulitzer Prize for her work on The 1619 Project.

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Ebenezer Baptist Church

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

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

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

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Diamond, Missouri

Diamond is a city in Newton County, Missouri, United States. It is in the southeast of Joplin. 902 people lived here at the 2010 census. It is part of the Joplin, Missouri, Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is the birthplace of George Washington Carver.

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Warrenton, North Carolina

Warrenton is a town in and the county seat of Warren County, North Carolina, United States. 862 people lived here at the 2010 census.

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Plumpy'nut

Plumpy'Nut is a peanut-based paste wrapped in plastic, used to treat severe malnutrition. It's manufactured by Nutriset, a French company. The paste removes the need for hospitalization, and the 92-gram (3¼ oz) packages of it can be eaten at home and allows large numbers of people to be treated.

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Barrackpore

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

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

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Young Republicans

Young Republicans is the name of an organization for members of the American Republican Party under the age of 40. It has both a national organization and chapters in individual states. The current Chairman of the Young Republican National Federation is Michael Mack.

The current Chairman of the Young Republican National Federation is Michael Mack. The 2006 Young Republican National Federation (YRNF) convention will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Delegates are expected to elect Nicolee Ambrose of Maryland as the next Chairman of the National Young Republican Federation. 

It can also be used as a generic term to mean relatively youthful political conservatives, whether or not they belong to the organization. In this usage it often carries the unspoken assumption that younger people are traditionally expected to be comparatively liberal in their politics.

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Dafydd ap Llywelyn

Dafydd ap Llywelyn (c. April 1212  25 February 1246) was Prince of Gwynedd from 1240 to 1246. He claimed the title Prince of Wales. Henry III accepted that he ruled Gwynedd, but not more. Henry forced him to accept that he did not rule outside Gwynedd.

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CNN Airport

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

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

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

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Hh blood group

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

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bombay blood group is a very rare blood group
Deborah Rhode

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

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

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David and Frederick Barclay

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

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

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

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

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Bruno Ghedina

Bruno Ghedina (21 February 1943 – 10 January 2021) was an Italian ice hockey player. He competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics. He played for SG Cortina. Ghedina won 8 times the scudetto. He was born in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. His career lasted from 1960 until 1975.

Ghedina died on 10 January 2021 in Belluno, Italy at the age of 77.

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Luis Adriano Piedrahíta Sandoval

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

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

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

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Florentin Crihălmeanu

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

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

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Tim Lester (running back)

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

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

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Milton, Georgia

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

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Philaret (Vakhromeyev)

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

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

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

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John Capodice

John Capodice (born December 25, 1941) is an American character actor. He was born in Chicago. His career began in 1978. He is known for his roles in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994), Speed (1994), Independence Day (1996), and Enemy of the State (1998).

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Sandy Martin

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

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