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Ferruccio Pisoni

Ferruccio Pisoni (6 August 1936 – 12 December 2020) was an Italian politician. He was a Deputy from 1968 to 1983. Pisoni was born in Trevi, Italy. He was a member of the Christian Democracy.

Pisoni died on 12 December 2020 at the age of 84.

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1936 births
2020 deaths
Italian politicians
Motjeka Madisha

Motjeka Madisha (12 January 1995 – 12 December 2020) was a South African professional soccer player. He played for Mamelodi Sundowns, as a defender. He also played for the national team from 2015 to 2020. 

Madisha was killed in a car crash on 12 December 2020 in Kempton Park, Guateng at the age of 25.

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1995 births
2020 deaths
Road accident deaths
South African footballers
Victor Gnanapragasam

Father Victor Gnanapragasam O.M.I. (November 21, 1940 – December 12, 2020) was a Sri Lankan Roman Catholic prelate. He was the first prefect of the Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan from 2001 until his death. Gnanapragasam was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka.  

Gnanapragasam died on December 12, 2020 from a heart attack at the age of 80.

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1940 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Sri Lankan people
Roman Catholic priests
Escurinho

Benedito Custódio Ferreira, nicknamed Escurinho (3 July 1930 – 12 December 2020) was a Brazilian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and left winger. He was born in Nova Lima, Brazil. Escurinho played for Villa Nova, Fluminense, Atlético Junior, Portuguesa (RJ) and Bonsucesso.

He played eight times for the Brazilian national team between 1955 and 1956.

He died on 12 November 2020 from Alzheimer's disease and multiple organ failure in Nova Lima at the age of 90.

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1930 births
2020 deaths
Brazilian footballers
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Deaths from multiple organ failure
Nicolas Chumachenco

Nicolas Chumachenco (also known as Nicolas Chumachenko; March 27, 1944 – December 12, 2020), was a Polish-born Spanish-German violin soloist and professor. He was director of the Queen Sofía Chamber Orchestra. Chumachenco was born in Kraków, in Nazi-occupied Poland, to Ukrainian parents who left Poland at the end of the Second World War.

Chumachenco died on December 12, 2020 in Schallstadt, Germany at the age of 76.

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1944 births
2020 deaths
Polish musicians
German musicians
Violinists
People from Kraków
Spanish musicians
Claude Castonguay

Claude Castonguay,  (May 8, 1929 – December 12, 2020) was Canadian Progressive Conservative politician, educator and businessman. He was born in Quebec City, Quebec. 

He was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1970 to 1973. Catonguay was a member of the Senate of Canada from 1990 to 1992.

Castonguay died on December 12, 2020 at the age of 91.

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1929 births
2020 deaths
Politicians from Quebec
Bird Averitt

William Rodney "Bird" Averitt (July 22, 1952December 12, 2020) was an American professional basketball player in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. His career lasted from 1973 to 1978. Averitt played for the San Antonio Spurs, Kentucky Colonels, Buffalo Braves and New Jersey Nets.

Averitt died on December 12, 2020 at the age of 68.

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1952 births
2020 deaths
San Antonio Spurs players
Los Angeles Clippers players
New Jersey Nets players
Sportspeople from Kentucky
Scalable Hosting

Scalable Hosting or "Scalacube" develops hosting services that include a control panel, allowing users to create their game servers for Minecraft, Rust, ARK, Hytale, etc. According to their website, they combines VPS and game server hosting. 

The company was founded in January 2019 by Kostiantyn Rohatkin and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia. In October 2020, the business was accredited by the Estonian Startup Committee.

References

Internet
2019 establishments in Europe
Confidence and supply

Confidence and supply is an agreement in a Westminster system government where parties or independents agree to support the minority government in votes of no confidence and appropriation or budget (supply) votes. This lets the government keep control of the lower house.

Related pages
Coalition

References

Government
Politics
McNary, Louisiana

McNary is a village in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Villages in Louisiana
Hung parliament

A hung parliament (also called a balanced parliament, or as a legislature under no overall control) is when no political party (or coalition that existed before) has a majority in the Westminster system of legislatures. If this isn't solved with something like a confidence and supply agreement or a new coalition, the largest party will have to form a minority government. This is bad because they can easily lose a vote of no confidence, so a government is hard to run.

References

Government
Politics
Hagewood, Louisiana

Hagewood is an unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Unincorporated communities in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
Mackenzie Ziegler

Mackenzie Frances Ziegler (born June 4, 2004) is an American dancer, actress, model, and singer. She first got noticed as a child while appearing for six years on the Lifetime reality dance series Dance Moms with her older sister, Maddie Ziegler, who is a dancer and actress. She was also tulip on the masked dancer.

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2004 births
American dancers
American child actors
American television actors
Singers from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Actors from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Living people
Without Love

Without Love is a 1945 American romantic comedy movie directed by Harold S. Bacquet and was based on the 1942 play of the same name by Philip Barry. It stars Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn, Carl Esmond, Patricia Morison and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Other websites

1945 movies
1940s romance movies
1940s comedy movies
American romantic comedy movies
Movies based on plays
MGM movies
1980 United States heat wave

The 1980 United States heat wave was a period of strong heat and drought. It caused serious havoc and damage in the Southern Great Plains and much of the Midwestern United States during the summer of 1980. It was one of the most devastating and damaging natural disasters in terms of deaths.

The heat wave first got started in June 1980. A strong high pressure area began building in the central and Southern United States. That allowed the temperatures to soar to  almost every day from June to September. This high pressure system acted as a cap on the atmosphere. That prevented thunderstorm development and caused severe drought conditions. But the heat wave broke when the dying Hurricane Allen stopped the weather pattern.

The heat wave and drought led a number of cities in the Midwest and South to have record heat. In Kansas City, Missouri, the high temperature was only below  twice. In the same city, the high temperature hit  17 days in a row. In Memphis, Tennessee, the high temperature reached  on Sunday, July 13. It was part of a 15-day stretch of  temperatures that lasted from July 6 to July 20.

The agricultural damage by the 1980 heat wave and drought was over $20 billion (1980 USD). That allowed the temperatures to soar to  almost every day from June to September. This high pressure system acted as a cap on the atmosphere.

In Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, high temperatures exceeded  a total of 69 times. Forty-two of those were consecutive days. In Dallas-Fort Worth, the high temperature hit  on two days: June 26 and 27.

References

Severe weather
Droughts
Natural disasters in the United States
1980 in the United States
Lovers and Liars

Lovers and Liars (Viaggio con Anita) is a 1979 Italian French comedy movie directed by Mario Monicelli and starring Goldie Hawn, Giancarlo Giannini, Claudine Auger, Aurore Clément, Laura Betti, Andréa Ferréol.

Other websites
 
 

1979 comedy movies
Italian comedy movies
French comedy movies
Movies directed by Mario Monicelli
MediaZona

MediaZona is a Russian website. Two girls from the Russian punk rock collective Pussy Riot (Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova) made it in 2014. Russian political journalist Sergey Smirnov is the main editor of the website.

MediaZona gives information on the judicial, law enforcement, and penal system in Russia. Since 2020 the site gives such news on Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Belarus too.

MediaZona has a Russian media license, but Tolokonnikova said in 2016 that it could be taken away at any time.

The site of MediaZona can't be opened in Belarus.

On 30 January 2021, the main editor of Mediazona Sergey Smirnov was locked up by the police.

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Other websites 
 
 

2014 establishments
Websites established in the 2010s
Russia
Kyrgyzstan
Kazakhstan
Censorship in Belarus
Free Media Award winners
Born to Win

Born to Win is a 1971 American black comedy movie directed by Ivan Passer and starring George Segal, Karen Black, Paula Prentiss, Hector Elizondo, Robert De Niro. It was distributed by United Artists.

Other websites
 
 

1971 comedy movies
1970s comedy-drama movies
American black comedy movies
Movies directed by Ivan Passer
Creator (movie)

Creator is a 1985 American comedy movie directed by Ivan Passer and was based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Jeremy Leven. It stars Peter O'Toole, Mariel Hemingway, Vincent Spano, Virginia Madsen, David Ogden Stiers, John Dehner, Ian Wolfe, Kenneth Tigar, Jeff Corey and was distributed by Universal Pictures.

Other websites
 
 

1985 comedy movies
American comedy movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by Ivan Passer
A Letter for Evie

A Letter for Evie is a 1946 American comedy movie directed by Jules Dassin and starring Marsha Hunt, John Carroll, Hume Cronyn, Spring Byington, Norman Lloyd, Pamela Britton, Donald Curtis, Esther Howard. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Other websites

1946 movies
1940s comedy movies
American comedy movies
Movies directed by Jules Dassin
Miriam Naor

Miriam Naor (October 26, 1947 – January 24, 2022) was an Israeli judge. She was President of the Supreme Court of Israel. She was in that position from 2015 to 2017.

Biography
Naor was born in Jerusalem. She served in the IDF as a soldier-teacher. 

Naor married Arye Naor, who was a governments secretary in Menachem Begin's government. In 1972 she began working at the state attorney's office, and was later promoted to the position of the state's senior attorney. At the same time, she worked as a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1980, she was appointed to be a judge in Jerusalem and in 1989 was promoted to the district court.

In 2001 she began serving as a judge on the Supreme Court of Israel. In 2012, the judge electing panel chose her to the position of vice-president of the Supreme Court, and in 2015 she became its President. Throughout the years as a judge, Naor was in-charge of important cases and rulings in all court levels. She retired from the position in October 2017 after reaching the retirement age. 

In October 2018, she became the President of the Zionist Supreme Court of the World Zionist Organization.

Naor died on January 24, 2022 in Jerusalem from cardiac arrest, aged 74.

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1947 births
Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Israel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
People from Jerusalem
2022 deaths
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Shock (1946 movie)

Shock is a 1946 American thriller movie directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore, Anabel Shaw, Stephen Dunne, Reed Hadley. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.

Other websites
 
 
 

1946 movies
1940s thriller movies
American thriller movies
Movies directed by Alfred L. Werker
Charlotte Tillar Schexnayder

Charlotte Tillar Schexnayder (December 25, 1923 – December 11, 2020) was an American journalist and politician. She was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from the 74th district from 1985 to 1999. She was born in Tillar, Arkansas. Schexnayder was a member of the Democratic Party.

Schexnayder died on December 11, 2020 in Little Rock, Arkansas at the age of 96.

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1923 births
2020 deaths
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Arkansas
American journalists
Writers from Arkansas
US Democratic Party politicians
Huang Zongying

Huang Zongying (; 13 July 1925 – 14 December 2020) was a Chinese actress and writer. She starred in many black-and-white movies such as Rhapsody of Happiness (1947), Crows and Sparrows (1949), Women Side by Side (1949), and The Life of Wu Xun (1950). Huang was born in Beijing.

Huang died on 14 December 2020 in Beijing at the age of 95.

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1925 births
2020 deaths
Piotr Machalica

Piotr Machalica (13 February 1955 – 14 December 2020) was a Polish actor. His career began in 1979. Machalica was born in Pszczyna, Poland. Machalica played Tadeusz in Hero of the Year (1987), Roman in Dekalog: Nine (1988) and Roman in A Short Film About Love (1988).

Machalica died on 14 December 2020 in Warsaw from COVID-19 at the age of 65.

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1955 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland
Polish movie actors
Polish television actors
Polish stage actors
Polish voice actors
Alfonso Gagliano

Alfonso Gagliano   (; (January 25, 1942 – December 12, 2020) was an Italian-born Canadian accountant and a Liberal Party politician. He was born in Siculiana, Italy. Gagliano was a member of the Parliament of Canada from 1984 to 2002. He also was a Minister of Labour from 1996 to 1997 and of Public Works and Government Services from 1997 to 2002.

Gagliano died on December 12, 2020 at the age of 78.

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1942 births
2020 deaths
Italian politicians
Canadian politicians
Naturalized citizens of Canada
Terry Kay

Terry Kay (February 10, 1938 – December 12, 2020) was an American author. Kay was known for his work as To Dance with the White Dog. Kay was born in Royston, Georgia.

Kay died on December 12, 2020 from liver cancer in Athens, Georgia at the age of 82.

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1938 births
2020 deaths
American novelists
Deaths from liver cancer
Writers from Georgia (U.S. state)
Royston, Georgia

Royston is a city in Franklin, Hart, and Madison counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. 2,582 lived here in 2010.

References

Cities in Georgia (U.S. state)
Jerzy Mikułowski Pomorski

Jerzy Mikułowski Pomorski (3 January 1937 – 12 December 2020) was a Polish sociologist and professor. He was a doctor honoris causa of Grand Valley State University (1993) and Teesside University (1995). He was a rector of Cracow University of Economics in years 1990–1996.

Pomorski died on 12 December 2020 at the age of 83.

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1937 births
2020 deaths
Polish scientists
Sociologists
Radhika Ranjan Pramanick

Radhika Ranjan Pramanick (18 December 1932 – 13 December 2020) was an Indian politician. He was born in West Bengal, British India. Pramanick was a member of the All India Trinamool Congress. From 1989 to 2004, he was a member of the Lok Sabha. 

Pramanick died on 13 December 2020 in Kolkata, India at the age of 87.

References

1932 births
2020 deaths
Indian politicians
Shahid Mahmood

Shahid Mahmood (Urdu: شاہد محمود) (17 March 1939 – 13 December 2020) was a Pakistani cricketer. He was born in Lucknow. He played in one Test in 1962. He played first-class cricket in Pakistan from 1957 to 1969. He played for the national team.

Mahmood died on 13 December 2020 in New Jersey at the age of 81.

References

1939 births
2020 deaths
Pakistani cricketers
Otto Barić

Otto Barić (; 19 June 1933 – 13 December 2020) was an Austrian-born Croatian football player and later manager. He was born in Eisenkappel-Vellach, Austria. From 1958 to 1963, he played for Lokomotiva Zagreb. He managed the national team from 2002 to 2004.

Barić died of COVID-19 on 13 December 2020 in Zagreb, Croatia at the age of 87.

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1933 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Croatia
Croatian footballers
Croatian football managers
Austrian footballers
Austrian football managers
SK Sturm Graz managers
Fiorenzo Alfieri

Fiorenzo Alfieri (11 September 1943 – 13 December 2020) was an Italian educator and politician. He was born in Polignano a Mare, Italy. He was a member of the Turin City Council from 1995 to 2000.

Alfieri died of COVID-19 in Turin on 13 December 2020 at the age of 77.

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1943 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy
Italian politicians
Italian educators
Polignano a Mare

Polignano a Mare (; Barese: ) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, southern Italy, located on the Adriatic Sea.

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Other websites
Official website 

Towns in Italy
Settlements in Apulia
Hasu Yajnik

Hasmukhray Vrajlal Yajnik (12 February 1938 ― 10 December 2020), better known as Hasu Yajnik, also spelled Hasu Yagnik was a Gujarati writer and editor. He wrote novels, short stories, criticism, folklore, and children's stories. He was a professor of Gujarati in many government colleges in Gujarat. 

He wrote twenty novels, three short story collections, two jail stories, four medieval stories, and criticism of four medieval works. He edited twelve folk works and six works of children's literature.

He was the registrar of the Gujarat Sahitya Akademi, Gandhinagar from 1982 to 1996. He was a founder and managing trustee of the Meghani Lokvidya Sanshodhan Bhavan, Ahmedabad from 1996 to 2005.

He died on 10 December 2020 due to COVID-19 in Ahmedabad at the age of 82.

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1938 births
2020 deaths
Indian writers
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India
Critics
Editors
Diego Novelli

Diego Novelli (born 22 May 1931) is an Italian politician. He was born in Turin. 

Novelli was a member of the Italian Communist Party. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 1984 to 2001. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1987 to 2001. Novelli was Mayor of Turin from 1975 to 1985.

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1931 births
Living people
People from Turin
Mayors
Former MEPs
MEPs for Italy
Valentino Castellani

Valentino Castellani (born 19 March 1940) is an Italian politician. He was the independent Mayor of Turin from 24 June 1993 to 1 June 2001. Castellani was born in Varmo, Italy. From 1999 to 2006, he was President of the International Olympic Committee.

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1940 births
Living people
Mayors
Italian politicians
People from Turin
Varmo

Varmo () is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Udine in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia. It is about  northwest of Trieste and about  southwest of Udine.

References

Settlements in Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Burshtyn

Burshtyn () is a city located in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. Its population is 14,976 (2020).

It was developed significantly during the Soviet Union period due to Burshtyn Coal Power Station. The city has an old Roman Catholic Church in the center of the city.

History 
The first written mention of the settlement dates back to 1554 (or in 1436 according to other sources).

In the second half of the 16th century the town belonged to the Polish nobleman Skarbek. In October 1629, a famous battle took place near the town, in which the registered Cossacks and the Polish army under the command of Stefan Khmeletsky defeated the Tatar.  The attackers were driven further, in particular, to Monastyrysk, where their remains were again destroyed.

From 1630 the owner of Burshtyn was the magnate Yablonovsky. During the Middle Ages, the city was destroyed by raids by Tatars and Turks, in particular during the Polish-Turkish wars of the XVII century (1629, 1675).

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Cities in Ukraine
Anatoliy Kinakh

Anatoliy Kyrylovych Kinakh (; born 4 August 1954) is a Ukrainian politician. He is the leader of Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine.

Kinakh is most known for holding the Prime Minister of Ukraine office under the President Leonid Kuchma from 2001 to 2002. He was also the first Vice Prime Minister and a Minister of Economy of Ukraine.

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1954 births
Living people
Prime Ministers of Ukraine
Economists
Guangdong frog

The Guangdong frog, brown grasspound frog, three-striped grass frog, long-toed frog, marbled slender frog, long-toed slender frog or stripe-backed frog (Hylarana macrodactyla) is a frog from China, Myanmar , Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaysia.

This frog lives in tropical and subtropical forests that are not too wet and in some grasslands

The name "macrodactyla" means "with big fingers," or "long-toed."

References

Animals of Asia
Frogs
1962 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1962 Atlantic hurricane season was not very active. It was the least active hurricane season since 1939, as there were only five named storms. It started on June 15, 1962, but the first storm was not until August 26.

Systems

References

Atlantic hurricane seasons
1962
Battle of Lepanto

The battle of Lepanto (in Italian Battaglia gave Lepanto; in Turkish: İnebahtı deniz muharebesi 'naval battle of İnebahtı') was a naval fight that took place on 7 October 1571 near of the Greek city of Náfpaktos (Lepanto in Italian).

They confronted  in her the armed of Imperio otomano against the one of a Catholic coalition, called Saint League, formed by the Spanish Empire, the States Pontificios, the Republic of Venecia, the Order of Malta, the Republic of Génova and the Duchy of Saboya.

In this battle participated Miguel de Cervantes, that resulted injured and lost the mobility of his left hand, what cost him the nickname of «manco of Lepanto». This writer, that was very proud to having combated there, described it like «the more memorable and high occasion that saw the past centuries, neither expect to see the coming». Also it entered the history in the Quijote, through the #narration of the captive, as typical work of literature of border.

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Battles involving Greece
The Baron of Arizona

The Baron of Arizona is a 1950 American western movie directed by Samuel Fuller and was based on the 1949 article by Homer Croy. It stars Vincent Price, Ellen Drew, Vladimir Sokoloff, Beulah Bondi, Reed Hadley, Robert Barrat, Margia Dean, Jonathan Hale, Edward Keane and was distributed by Lippert Pictures.

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1950 movies
1950s western movies
American western movies
Movies directed by Samuel Fuller
The Web (movie)

The Web is a 1947 American crime thriller movie directed by Michael Gordon and starring Ella Raines, Edmond O'Brien, William Bendix, Vincent Price, Maria Palmer, Howland Chamberlain. It was distributed by Universal Pictures.

Other websites
 
 
 

1947 movies
1940s crime movies
1940s thriller movies
American crime thriller movies
Movies directed by Michael Gordon
Borders of Israel

The state of Israel has borders with four countries: Lebanon in the north, Egypt (and Gaza) in the southwest, Jordan (and the West Bank) in the east, and Syria in the northeast. Israel also has "sea borders" in the Red Sea, the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. The current borders Israel are the result of war, diplomatic agreements between Israel and its neighbors, and colonial powers from before its creation.

Some borders are internationally recognized while others are not accepted by all countries. The borders with Lebanon, Syria and Jordan are based on those drawn by the United Kingdom and France in 1923. The border with Egypt is the international border determined in 1906 between United Kingdom and the Ottoman Empire. Israel's borders with Egypt and Jordan have been formally recognized as part official peace treaties between the countries. On the other hand, the borders with Syria and Palestinian National Authority are still in dispute between the sides involved. The Golan Heights area is at the heart of the dispute between Israel and Syria on their common border. There is agreement between Israel and Lebanon on their border, with the exception of a small area of known as the "Shebaa Farms" which Israel took over during a war. Since the 1990s, Israel and the Palestinian Authority have been negotiating a border between them as well.

References

Other websites
Israel - Maps

Geography of Israel
Happy Joe's

Happy Joe's Pizza & Ice Cream Parlor is an American pizza parlor chain based in Bettendorf, Iowa. The restaurant chain was founded in 1972 by Lawrence Joseph "Happy Joe" Whitty. He was a former Shakey's Pizza manager.

Happy Joe's has 61 restaurants in North Dakota, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois.

References

American food companies
1972 establishments in the United States
Companies based in Iowa
Indoor cricket

Indoor cricket is a form of cricket that is played in an indoors area much smaller than a regular cricket field. There are multiple versions of indoor cricket, and games can be played with different time lengths.

Playing area 

The indoor cricket court is a  area, with the pitch being  long and  meters wide except in the area where the bowler delivers the ball. There is a running crease 11 meters away from the batting crease. The batting crease is  from the other popping crease.

Rules 
The batsmen run between their grounds, which are separated by the batting crease and the running crease and the area between these creases, to score runs, with the bowler delivering the ball with part of their front foot behind the bowling crease (which is the popping crease at the bowler's end of the pitch; it is not to be confused with the "wicket line", the indoor cricket term for what regular cricket calls the bowling crease). The bowler is allowed to deliver the ball underarm, but if they do so, the ball must bounce beyond the underarm line. Teams may have less than 11 players.

References 

Cricket
Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia S. Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. She mostly writes fiction. However, she also writes literary criticism, politics and history.

Ozick received an Edward Lewis Wallant Award and the National Jewish Book Award for her short story collection, The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories in 1971. She received the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction in 1977 for her book Bloodshed and Three Novellas.

Ozick was selected as the winner of a Rea Award for the Short Story in 1986.

The novelist David Foster Wallace called Ozick one of the greatest living American writers.

Published works

Novels
 Trust (1966)
 The Cannibal Galaxy (1983)
 The Messiah of Stockholm (1987)
 The Puttermesser Papers (1997)
 Heir to the Glimmering World (2004) (published in the United Kingdom in 2005 as The Bear Boy)
 Foreign Bodies (2010)
 Antiquities (2021)

Shorter fiction
 The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (1971)
 Bloodshed and Three Novellas (1976)
 Levitation: Five Fictions (1982)
 Envy; or, Yiddish in America (1969)
 The Shawl (1989)
 Collected Stories (2007)
 Dictation: A Quartet (2008)

Essay collections
 All the World Wants the Jews Dead (1974)
 Art and Ardor (1983)
 Metaphor & Memory (1989)
 What Henry James Knew and Other Essays on Writers (1993)
 Fame & Folly: Essays (1996)
"SHE: Portrait of the Essay as a warm body" (1998)
 Quarrel & Quandary (2000)
 The Din in the Head: Essays (2006)
 Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays (2016)

Drama
 Blue Light (1994)

Miscellaneous
 A Cynthia Ozick Reader (1996)
 The Complete Works of Isaac Babel (introduction 2001)
  Fistfuls of Masterpieces

References

1928 births
American novelists
American short story writers
Writers from New York City
Living people
O. Henry Award winners
26th century

The 26th century will begin on January 1, 2501 and will end on December 31, 2600.

3rd millennium
Centuries
Bandō prisoner of war camp

Bandō prisoner of war camp was a prisoner of war camp that existed from 1917 to 1920, during and shortly after the First World War. It was located in the city with the same name. It housed about 1000 of the 3900 prisoners of war captured at Tsingtao, China, in 1914. Today, the camp is considered special, because of the liberal rules it had. Many of the prisoners were not professional soldiers, but had other jobs before the war. The commander of the camp, Matsue Toyohisa, saw this, and allowed the prisoners many liberties. One of these liberties was that they were allowed to follow courses to improve their skills. That way, Hermann Richard Hansen directed a choir and an orchestra of prisoners, to perform Beethoven's 9th symphony. This was the first performance of the symphony in Japan and in Asia. When the camp closed in 1920, 63 people chose to stay in Japan.

References

History of Japan
World War I
MOD (Marehan, Ogaden, Darawiish)

MOD in Somali politics stands for Marehan, Ogaden, Darawiish. It is an acronym to describe the political alliance between the Marehan, Ogaden and reer Darawiish tribes. The political alliance between MOD (Marehan, Ogaden, Darawiish) started in the 1980s in the Hantiwadaag era. The political coalition of MOD ended in 1989 with the Somali Civil War. The political alliance between Marehan, Ogaden and Darawiish was led by president Siad Barre.

References

1970s establishments in Africa
1989 disestablishments
Somalia
Tartib al-Musnad

Tartib al-Musnad is the hadith collection used by people who follow the Ibadism sect.

References

Ibadism
Decision stream graph

Decision stream is a directed acyclic graph of decision rules for classification and regression tasks (Fig. 1). This decision tree based method  avoids the problem of data exhaustion in terminal nodes by merging of leaves from the same/different levels of predictive model. 

Decision stream provides:

– High accuracy due to the precise splitting of data with unpaired two-sample test statistics.

– Decrease of overfitting due to partition of data only into statistically representative groups.

– Reduction of complexity on every level of predictive model.

– Self-regulated depth of predictive model.

References 

Artificial intelligence
Nina Ivanova

Nina Ivanova (6 January 1934 – 1 December 2020) was a Russian-Soviet actress. She was born in Moscow. Ivanova's career began in 1944. Her best known roles were in Once There Was a Girl (1944), Spring on Zarechnaya Street (1956), An Easy Life (1964) and There Is Such a Lad (1964).

Ivanova died on 1 December 2020 in Moscow at the age of 86.

References

Other websites
 

1934 births
2020 deaths
Russian movie actors
Russian television actors
Russian stage actors
Actors from Moscow
Mickaël Bethe-Selassié

Mickaël Bethe-Selassié (15 February 1951 – 5 December 2020) was an Ethiopian sculptor. He was known for his work in papier mâché. Many of his works were seen at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C..

Bethe-Selassié died on 5 December 2020 in Washington, D.C. at the age of 69.

References

Other websites
Biographical sketch
Official Website

1951 births
2020 deaths
Ethiopian people
Sculptors
Marilyn Lewis

Marilyn Stoughton Lewis (July 19, 1931 – December 7, 2020) was an American politician. She was a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1979 to 1982. Lewis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

She was married to Andrew L. Lewis Jr..

Lewis died on December 7, 2020, in Lansdale, Pennsylvania at age 89.

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1931 births
2020 deaths
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
US Republican Party politicians
Wallace Barnes

Wallace Barnes (March 22, 1926 – December 10, 2020) was an American businessman and politician. He was born in Bristol, Connecticut. Barnes was a member of the Republican Party. He was a member of the Connecticut Senate from 1959 to 1971.

Barnes died in Washington, D.C. on December 10, 2020, at the age of 94.

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1926 births
2020 deaths
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Connecticut
Businesspeople from Connecticut
US Republican Party politicians
Rafael Ramón Conde Alfonzo

Rafael Ramón Conde Alfonzo (13 July 1943 – December 10, 2020) was a Venezuelan Roman Catholic bishop. Conde Alfonzo was born in Caracas. He became a priest in 1968. He was titular bishop of Bapara and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Caracas from 1995 to 1997.

He was bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of La Guaira from 1997 to 1999. He then became bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Margarita from 1999 to 2008 and as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Maracay from 2008 to 2009.

Conde Alfonzo died at the age of 77 on 10 December 2020 from pancreatic cancer in Maracay.

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1943 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Roman Catholic priests
Roman Catholic bishops
People from Caracas
Maracay

Maracay () is a city in north-central Venezuela. It is the capital of the state of Aragua. About 955,362 people lived here in 2011.

Other websites
 Official site of the Girardot Municipality
 Map of Maracay
 Ciudad Maracay. Information about Maracay and Aragua State

Cities in Venezuela
Andrzej Skowroński

Andrzej Skowroński (16 November 1953 – 10 December 2020) was a Polish rower. He competed in the men's quadruple sculls event at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He was born in Kraków, Poland.

Skowroński died on 10 December 2020 in Kraków at the age of 67.

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1953 births
2020 deaths
Polish Olympians
People from Kraków
Per Carlsen (diplomat)

Per Carlsen (1948 – December 2020) was a Danish politician. He was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Denmark to Latvia from 2010 through 2015. Before 2010 he was the Danish ambassador to the Russian Federation.

Carlsen died in December 2020 in Copenhagen at the age of 72.

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1948 births
2020 deaths
Ambassadors to Russia
Politicians from Copenhagen
Luis de Góngora

Luis de Góngora y Argote (born Luis de Argote y Góngora) was a Spanish poet and Catholic priest. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered the most prominent Spanish poets of all time.

Biography 
Góngora was born to a noble family in Córdoba, where his father, Francisco de Argote, was a corregidor (judge). He adopted the surname of his mother, Leonor de Góngora, to preserve his Christian lineage (limpieza de sangre). In 1586, at 25 years old, Góngora became a prebendary of Córdoba Cathedral, taking the post of his uncle, Don Francisco. In 1605, he was ordained priest, and afterwards, lived at Valladolid and Madrid. Then, in 1617, he was appointed honorary chaplain to King Philip III of Spain.

He maintained a long feud with Francisco de Quevedo, with both poets writing many pieces attacking one another. Quevedo criticized him for his large nose, passion for gambling, and even accused Góngora of Sodomy, which was a capital crime in 17th century Spain. This angry feud ended when Quevedo bought the house Góngora lived in solely to eject him from it. In 1626, a severe illness which impaired Góngora's memory forced him to return to Córdoba, where he died the following year. An edition of his poems was published almost immediately after his death by Juan López de Vicuña.
Hydrophobe

Hydrophobe is a term from chemistry for a substance that does not mix with water. Examples of such substances are different types of vegetable oils, and fats. Many hydrophobic substances are lipophiles, they  mix with fats and oils easily.

Chemistry
Ann Reinking

Ann Reinking (November 10, 1949 – December 12, 2020) was an American actress, dancer, and choreographer. Reinking was born in Seattle, Washington.

Reinking acted in Coco (1969), Over Here! (1974), Goodtime Charley (1975), Chicago (1977), Dancin' (1978) and Sweet Charity (1986). She won a Tony Award for Best Choreography in 1996. 

For the 2000 West End production of Fosse, she won the Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer. 

She was in the movies All That Jazz (1979), Annie (1982), and Micki & Maude (1984).

Reinking died on December 12, 2020 in Seattle at the age of 71.

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1949 births
2020 deaths
American movie actors
American stage actors
American television actors
American dancers
American choreographers
Tony Award winners
Actors from Seattle, Washington
Robert Bloxom

Robert Spurgeon Bloxom Sr. (April 26, 1937 – December 13, 2020) was an American Republican politician. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1978 to 2004. Bloxom was the State Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry from 2005 to 2010. Bloxom was born in Baltimore, Maryland.

Bloxom died on December 13, 2020 in Mappsville, Virginia at the age of 83.

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1937 births
2020 deaths
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Baltimore
Politicians from Virginia
US Republican Party politicians
Mappsville, Virginia

Mappsville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Accomack County, Virginia, United States. About 440 people lived here since the 2010 Census.

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Census-designated places in Virginia
Jorge Bruni

Jorge Bruni (1941 – 13 December 2020) was an Uruguayan politician. He was the Minister of the Interior from 2009 to 2010 during the Tabaré Vázquez presidency. He was a member of the Broad Front Party.

Bruni died on 13 December 2020 in Montevideo at the age of 79.

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1941 births
2020 deaths
Uruguayan politicians
Barry Sonshine

Barry Sonshine (1 February 1948 – 13 December 2020) was a Canadian equestrian. He competed in two events at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Sonshine was born in Toronto. 

Sonshine died in Toronto on 13 December 2020 at the age of 72.

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1948 births
2020 deaths
Canadian Olympians
Sportspeople from Toronto
Equestrians
Antihistamine

Antihistamines are drugs which treat allergic rhinitis and other allergies.  

Usually people take antihistamines as an over-the-counter drug , with few side effects. It is for relief from nasal congestion, sneezing, or hives. These symptoms may be  caused by pollen, dust mites, or allergy to animals. 

Antihistamines are usually for short-term treatment. Chronic allergies increase the risk of health problems which antihistamines might not treat, including asthma, sinusitis, and respiratory tract infections near the lungs. Consultation of a medical professional is recommended for those who intend to take antihistamines for longer-term use.

Although people use the word “antihistamine” to describe drugs for treating allergies, doctors and scientists use the term to describe a class of drug that opposes the activity of histamine receptors in the body. In this sense of the word, antihistamines are subclassified according to which histamine receptor they act upon.

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Drugs
Herman Asaribab

Herman Asaribab (10 June 1964 – 14 December 2020) was an Indonesian Papuan military officer. He was the Commander of the 17th Military Regional Command/Cenderawasih from August 2019 to November 2020. Asaribab was born in Jayapura, West Irian. 

Asaribab died on 14 December 2020 in Jakarta at the age of 56.

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1964 births
2020 deaths
Indonesian people
Generals
Mamye BaCote

Mamye Edmondson BaCote (February 18, 1939 – December 14, 2020) was an American politician. She was a member of the Democratic Party. She was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, representing the 95th District from 2004 to 2016. BaCote was born in Halifax, Virginia.

BaCote died on December 14, 2020 in Newport News, Virginia at the age of 81.

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1939 births
2020 deaths
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Virginia
US Democratic Party politicians
Eric Freeman (cricketer)

Eric "Fritzy" Freeman (13 July 1944 – 14 December 2020) was an Australian cricketer. He played in 11 Tests from 1968 to 1970. He was also a leading Australian rules footballer with Port Adelaide Football Club, playing 116 games between 1964 and 1972. Freeman was born in Semaphore, South Australia.

Freeman died on 14 December 2020 from a heart attack at the age of 76.

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1944 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Australian cricketers
Sportspeople from South Australia
Roddam Narasimha

Roddam Narasimha (20 July 1933 – 14 December 2020) was an Indian aerospace scientist and fluid dynamicist. He was a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) from 1962 to 1999. He was Director of the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) from 1984 to 1993 and the Chairman of the Engineering Mechanics Unit at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research from 2000 to 2014.

Narasimha died of a cerebral hemorrhage on 14 December 2020 in Bangalore, Karnataka at the age of 87.

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1933 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from cerebral hemorrhage
Indian scientists
Marcelo Veiga

Marcelo Castelo Veiga (7 October 1964 – 14 December 2020), commonly known as Marcelo Veiga, was a Brazilian professional football manager and player. He played for Santos, Internacional, Goiás, Bahia and Portuguesa.

He managed Bragantino. He was born in São Paulo, Brazil.

Veiga died on 14 December 2020, aged 56 in Bragança Paulista, from COVID-19.

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1964 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
Brazilian footballers
Brazilian football managers
People from São Paulo
Ungku Abdul Aziz

Ungku Abdul Aziz bin Ungku Abdul Hamid (28 January 1922 – 15 December 2020) was an English-born Malaysian economist. He was the First General Director of the Council on Language and Literature of Malaysia from 1956 to 1957. Aziz was the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya from 1968 to 1988. He was born in London.

Aziz died on 15 December 2020 in Kuala Lumpur at the age of 98.

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1922 births
2020 deaths
Malaysian people
Educators
Economists
Scientists from London
Deserts of Australia

The deserts of Australia cover , or 18% of the Australian mainland. 

However, about 35% of Australia gets so little rain it is actually a desert. The deserts in Australia are mainly in the western plateau and interior lowlands of the country.

By international standards, Australian deserts receive relatively high rates of rainfall. They are not necessarily devoid of vegetation: they have large areas where vegetation is very limited in height or extent.

Rainfall is mainly in the North and East of the country (especially the Daintree Rainforest), with some in the southern area. Almost all rain falls on the edges of the huge island, not in the centre.

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Australia
Climate
Milomir Odović

Milomir Odović "Oda" (26 March 1955 – 14 December 2020) was a Bosnian professional football manager and player. He was known for playing and managing Bosnian Premier League club Željezničar.

Odović died on 14 December 2020 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, two years after being diagnosed with cancer at the age of 65.

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1955 births
2020 deaths
Bosnia and Herzegovina footballers
Bosnia and Herzegovina football managers
Deaths from cancer
Zoltan Sabo

Zoltan Sabo (, ; 26 May 1972 — 15 December 2020) was a Serbian professional footballer. He played as a defender. He also held Hungarian citizenship. 

Sabo played for Hajduk Kula, Vojvodina, and Partizan. Sabo began his managerial career at the helm of his hometown club Radnički Sombor in October 2009.

Sabo died on 15 December 2020 in Sremska Kamenica, Serbia from pulmonary embolism-related problems at the age of 48.

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1972 births
2020 deaths
Serbian footballers
Hungarian footballers
Serbian football managers
Hungarian football managers
Deaths from pulmonary embolism
Roupa Nova

Roupa Nova  (lit. "New Clothes") is a Brazilian soft rock band. They had many hits in the 1980s and early 1990s. They are often compared American band Toto.

The band was formed in 1970, under the name Os Famks.

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Brazilian musicians
Department of Health and Social Care

The Department of Health and Social Care is a department of the British Government. It is responsible for the health of people in the United Kingdom, mostly via the National Health Services. Its head is known as the Health Secretary.

1988 establishments in the United Kingdom
Departments of the United Kingdom Government
Valkyrae

Rachell Hofstetter (born January 8, 1992) is an American YouTuber and live streamer. SHe uses the online name Valkyrae, She was born in Washington. 

She began a gaming channel on Instagram and later moved to Twitch. She is the first female gamer and content creator for 100 Thieves. She supports female gamers. 

On January 13, 2020, Valkyrae left Twitch for YouTube.

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1992 births
Living people
American YouTubers
Entertainers from Washington
Twitch (service) streamers
Corpse Husband

Corpse Husband, also known as Corpse, (born August 8, 1997) is an American internet personality and musician. He creates his work on YouTube where he does not show his face but only records his voice. He makes horror story narrations and Let's Play content. He has become well known for streaming gameplay of the video game Among Us on YouTube.

In October 2020, he worked with U.S. representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar along with several other streamers including Disguised Toast, HasanAbi, Pokimane, and Valkyrae for a session of Among Us as part of a get-out-the-vote motivation movement for the 2020 United States presidential election.

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1997 births
Living people
American YouTubers
Twitch (service) streamers
Singers from San Diego, California
Rap musicians from California
American TikTokers
Fargo (season 1)

The first season of the anthology black comedy–crime drama television series Fargo. Its first episode was released on April 15, 2014, on FX. This season stars Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks and Martin Freeman.

Plot
It is set in January 2006 and it is about hitman Lorne Malvo (Thornton) who stops at a hospital in Bemidji, Minnesota after a car accident and motivates insurance salesman Lester Nygaard (Freeman) with his violent ways. Their meeting starts a series of murders throughout the city. Meanwhile, Deputy Molly Solverson (Tolman) of Bemidji and Officer Gus Grimly (Hanks) of Duluth try to solve several crimes across the state that they believe may be related to Malvo and Nygaard.

Reception
The season received strong positive reviews and was nominated for many Emmy Awards.

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Other websites
 

2014 television seasons
Fargo (season 2)

The second season of Fargo, an American anthology black comedy–crime drama television series created by Noah Hawley. It premiered on October 12, 2015 on FX. The ten-episode season's finale aired on December 14, 2015.

Cast
This season stars Kirsten Dunst, Patrick Wilson, Jesse Plemons, Jean Smart, and Ted Danson. 

Cristin Milioti, Brad Garrett, Elizabeth Marvel, Jeffrey Donovan, Rachel Keller, Zahn McClarnon, Bokeem Woodbine, and Nick Offerman all make recurring appearances. Kieran Culkin guest stars.

Plot
This season is a prequel to the events in its first season. In season two of Fargo, it takes place in March 1979. It is about the lives of a young couple—Peggy (Dunst) and Ed Blumquist (Plemons) as they try to cover up the hit and run and homicide of Rye Gerhardt. Ray is part of the Gerhardt crime family. 

During this time, Minnesota state trooper Lou Solverson (Wilson), and Rock County sheriff Hank Larsson (Danson), investigate three homicides linked to Rye.

Reception
Fargo was thought to among the best television shows of 2015. On Rotten Tomatoes, the second season holds a 100% score based and is thought to be the best season of the Fargo series.

References

2015 in television
2010s television seasons
Lipophile

A lipophile is a chemical substance that mixes easily with vegetable oil and fat. An example of such a substance is petroleum. Many lipophiles are also hydrophobes.

Chemicals
Fargo (season 3)

The third season of Fargo, an American anthology dark comedy–crime drama television series created by Noah Hawley. It premiered on April 19, 2017, on FX. The season had ten episodes. The season ended on June 21, 2017.

Plot
The third season is set between 2010 and 2011 in three Minnesota towns: St. Cloud, Eden Valley, and Eden Prairie.

It is the first season not to include Fargo, North Dakota. It is about couple, Ray Stussy (Ewan McGregor) and Nikki Swango (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), who, after unsuccessfully trying to rob Ray's brother Emmit (also played by McGregor), become involved in a double murder case. 

One of the victims is an old man with a mysterious past whose stepdaughter, Gloria Burgle (Carrie Coon), is a policewoman. This happens when Emmit tries to separate from a criminal organization he borrowed money from a year before owned by V. M. Varga (David Thewlis) wants to stop him.

Reception
The third season had strong positive reviews On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 93% approval with many liking McGregor's performance.

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2017 television seasons