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John Watkins (South African cricketer)

John Cecil Watkins (10 April 1923 – 6 September 2021) was a South African cricketer. He was born in Durban, Natal. He played in fifteen Tests for South Africa from 1949 to 1957. His first Test was against Australia and his last was against England.

Watkins died on 6 September 2021 in Durban from COVID-19 at the age of 98.

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1923 births
2021 deaths
People from Durban
South African cricketers
White South African people
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa
Paulo Suárez

Rodolfo Paolo Suárez Díaz (born 6 Jun 1980) is a footballer from Montevideo. Suárez plays in the game as a midfielder.

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1980 births
Living people
Uruguayan footballers
Sportspeople from Montevideo
John Watkins (Australian cricketer)

John Russell Watkins (born 16 April 1943) is a former Australian cricketer. He was born in Newcastle, New South Wales. He played one Test for Australia, against Pakistan, in 1973.

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1943 births
Living people
Australian cricketers
Sportspeople from New South Wales
Jimin (singer, born 1995)

Jimin or Park Ji-min (born October 13, 1995) is a member of the South Korean boy band, BTS. He is from Busan, South Korea but moved to Seoul to pursue his passion. He is the main dancer and the lead vocalist in BTS. He Has also performed solo work such as 'Serendipity', 'Promise' and 'Lie'

1995 births
Living people
People from Busan
South Korean singer-songwriters
South Korean models
K-pop singers
BTS members
Tokio Watanabe

Tokio Watanabe (渡部時雄; Watanabe Tokio; 12 December 1899 – 6 February 2010) was a Japanese farmer and supercentenarian, who currently is unverified by the Gerontology Research Group, and the oldest known man ever from Ehime Prefecture.

Watanabe married Shakae, who passed away when he was 42 years old, at age 22 and had two sons (the youngest of whom died in the Pacific War) and six daughters. He worked in agriculture until age 95 and was at age 100 still able to mow the grass and take care of himself.

On 17 January 2010, upon the death of Kiyotoshi Inoue who was just two days older, Watanabe became the second oldest known living man in Japan behind Jiroemon Kimura (who one day later was just 13 weeks shy of his 113th birthday) and the third oldest known living man in the world as well as the youngest of only three known living men born before 1900, behind Kimura and Americanman Walter Breuning (who was 30 weeks older than Kimura).

Watanabe died of pneumonia at a hospital in his hometown Kumakōgen, Ehime Prefecture at age 110 years, 8 weeks on 6 February 2010, just nine days before Tanekichi Onishi's 110th birthday, and was succeeded as Japan's second-oldest living man by Onishi. Watanabe was the last known living man born in 1899.

1899 births
2010 deaths
Japanese supercentenarians
People from Ehime Prefecture
Deaths from pneumonia
Emily Bishop

Emily Bishop (also Nugent and Swain; originally credited as Miss Nugent) is a fictional character in the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street. Portrayed by Eileen Derbyshire, the character is the longest-standing female character in the serial, having first appeared on-screen during an episode which aired on 21 December 1960, played by an uncredited walk on actress. From January onwards, she was played by Eileen Derbyshire. Derbyshire announced in November 2015 that she would be taking a retirement from the show and Emily departed on New Year's Day 2016 after 55 years on screen. It was announced on 9 August 2019 that Derbyshire had agreed to briefly reprise the role. She made a brief cameo on 9 October 2019 for Ken Barlow's (William Roache) 80th birthday celebration.

Coronation Street
Television characters
Philip J. Fry

Philip J. Fry, (born August 14, 1974) commonly known as Fry, is a fictional character and one of the main characters of the animated sitcom Futurama.

Fictional biography
Fry was born in New York with a family. He became a pizza delivery boy for Panucci's Pizza. On December 31st, 1999, he was supposed to give pizza and beer to someone named I.C. Weiner at the cryogenic lab. He noticed no one was there and accidentally landed on a cryopod. He woke up a thousand years later and met Turanga Leela. He was afraid of getting a career chip as a delivery boy.

Development
Billy West based his voice off of his 25 year old self.

Animated television characters
Fictional characters introduced in 1999
Futurama characters
Jack P. Shepherd

Jack Peter Shepherd (born 14 January 1988), known professionally by his stage name Jack P. Shepherd, is an English actor, know for his role as David Platt in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, he has continued to play the role continuously since April 2000. He won the 2008 British Soap Award for Best Actor and the 2008 British Soap Award for Villain of the Year.

References

Other websites 
 

1988 births
Living people
English child actors
English television actors
Actors from West Yorkshire
Praktica

Praktica was the brand name for a number of cameras, that were built by the state-owned company Kamera-Werke Niedersedlitz, and its predecessors.  Between 1949 and 2001, about 9 mililon cameras were made.

With the German reunification, the company was dissolved. The brand name was given to Carl Zeiss AG

References 

Companies of Germany
Chris Gascoyne

Christopher Gascoyne (born 31 January 1968) is an English actor, who is known for his role as the seventh Peter Barlow in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street (2000–2003, 2007–present). Gascoyne has been nominated for several accolades at the British Soap Awards for his portrayal of Peter Barlow.

Early life
Gascoyne was born on 31 January 1968 in Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire to Marian and Derrick Gascoyne.
He attended Ashfield School, Kirkby in Ashfield. Gascoyne trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Personal life
Gascoyne lives in Chorlton, Manchester with his wife, actress Caroline Harding. They have three children.

Awards and nominations

References

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1968 births
Living people
English television actors
People from Nottinghamshire
Astley Baker Davies

Astley Baker Davies is an English animation company and studio based in London, England, owned by founders directors Neville Astley, Mark Baker and Phil Davies. It produced the television programmes The Big Knights, Peppa Pig and Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom in 2015 it beacame in Entertainment One.

British animation studios
Lyman Beecher

Lyman Beecher (October 12, 1775 – January 10, 1863) was an important minister during the Second Great Awakening.  He was a Presbyterian minister.  He was also a co-founder of the American Temperance Society. He had 13 children, many of whom became notable people, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher, Edward Beecher, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Catharine Beecher and Thomas K. Beecher.

His son Henry Ward Beecher said that his father was "largely engaged during his life-time in controversy" (meaning that he was a controversial person).

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1775 births
1863 deaths
500 (number)

Five hundred (500) is the natural number after 499 and before 501. In Roman numerals, 500 is written as D.

Examples
an HTTP status code for Internal Server Error
in numerology, 500 is believed to be an angel number. Most common versions include 515 and 555. 
the years AD 500, 500 BC.

References 

Integers
Sue Nicholls

Susan Frances Harmar Nicholls (born 23 November 1943) is an English actress, known for her roles on the British television programmes Crossroads (1964–1968), The Fall and Rise of Reginald Pelam (1976–1979), Rentaghost (1981–1984), and her long-running role as Audrey Roberts in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street (1979–1982, 1984–present). She also appeared on Broadway in the 1974 revival of the comedy London Assurance.
  
Nicholls first appeared as Audrey in Coronation Street in 1979 and played the role on a recurring basis for six years, before she joined the cast permanently in 1985. She won the 2000 British Soap Award for Best Comedy Performance, the 2003 British Soap Award for Best Dramatic Performance, and received the Outstanding Achievement Award in 2019.

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1943 births
Living people
Skin cancer survivors
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
English television actors
People from Staffordshire
Square root of 2

The square root of 2, or the (1/2)th power of 2, written in mathematics as  or , is the positive irrational number that, when multiplied by itself, equals the number 2. To be more correct, it is called the principal square root of 2, to tell it apart from the negative version of itself where that is also true.

Geometrically, the square root of 2 is the length of a diagonal across a square with sides with a length of one; this can be found with the Pythagorean theorem. Because of that, it is also called the Pythagoras's constant.

Proof that the square root of 2 is not rational 
The number  is not rational. Here is the proof.

 Assume that  is rational. So there are some numbers  such that .
 We can choose a and b so that either a or b is odd. If a and b were both even, then the fraction could be simplified (for example, instead of writing , we could write  instead).
 If both sides of the equation are squared, then we get a2 / b2 = 2 and a2 = 2 b2.
 The right side is . This number is even. So the left side must be even too, which means that  is even. If an odd number is squared, then an odd number will be the result. And if an even number is squared, an even number would be the result too. So  is even.
 Because a is even, it can be written as: .
 The equation from the step 3 is used. We get 2b2 = (2k)2
 An exponentiation rule can be used (see the article) – the result is .
 Both sides are divided by 2. So . This means that  is even.
 In step 2, we said that a is odd or b is odd. But in step 4, it was said that a is even, and in step 7, it was said that b is even. If the assumption we made in step 1 is true, then all these other things have to be true, but since they disagree with each other they can not all be true; that means that our assumption is not true. 

Therefore, it is not true that  is a rational number. So  must be irrational.

Related pages 

 Imaginary unit
 Mathematical constant
 Methods of computing square roots
 nth root
 Square number

References 

Irrational numbers
Gladius

A gladius is a Roman short sword mainly used by gladiators and soldiers in Ancient Rome.

You are able to read more about gladiators here.

Swords
Walter Hayman

Walter Kurt Hayman FRS (6 January 1926 – 1 January 2020) was a German-British mathematician. He was known for his works to complex analysis. He was Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London. Hayman was born in Cologne.

Hayman died on 1 January 2020 at the age of 93.

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1926 births
2020 deaths
British mathematicians
German mathematicians
People from Cologne
Kotaro Suzumura

was a Japanese economist and professor emeritus of Hitotsubashi University. He graduated from Hitotsubashi University in 1966.  

His research interests were in social choice theory and welfare economics. He was also a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He was born in Tokoname, Aichi, Japan.

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1944 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Japanese scientists
Japanese economists
R. Sathyanarayana

Mahamahopadhyaya Dr R. Sathyanarayana (9 May 1927 – 16 January 2020) was an Indian musicologist and dance teacher. He was born in Mysore, India. In 2018, Sathyanarayana received the Padma Shri. Between 1949 and 1984, he taught chemistry at the Sarada Vilas College, and also taught Karnataka music. He was the President of the Indian Music Congress.

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1927 births
2020 deaths
Musicologists
Indian educators
I²C

I²C (Inter-Integrated Circuit), pronounced I-squared-C, is a kind of computer bus for connecting integrated circuits and processors. It was invented in 1982 by Philips Semiconductor (which is now NXP Semiconductors).

Computer buses
Terence Hallinan

Terence Hallinan (December 4, 1936 – January 17, 2020) was an American attorney and politician. He was born in San Francisco, California. He was the 26th District Attorney of San Francisco from 1996 through 2004. Hallinan was defeated in the next election for DA by Kamala Harris. Hallinan was a member of the Democratic Party. 

Hallinan died on January 17, 2020 in San Francisco at the age of 83.

References

Other websites
 Zamora, Jim Herron. HALLINAN: A man at odds with authority. San Francisco Chronicle. Published Wednesday, December 10, 2003. Accessed May 29, 2006.

US Democratic Party politicians
Politicians from San Francisco
lawyers from San Francisco
1936 births
2020 deaths
Zhu Yuli

Zhu Yuli (; February 1934 – 8 January 2020) was a Chinese politician and businessman. He was Director of the State Bureau of Technological Supervision from 1990 through 1992, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Astronautics Industry between 1992 to 1993 and General Manager of the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China from 1993 to 1999. Zhu was born in Rugao, Jiangsu, Republic of China.

Zhu died on 8 January 2020 in Beijing, aged 85.

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1934 births
2020 deaths
Chinese politicians
Chinese businesspeople
Wu Shuqing (economist)

Wu Shuqing (; 3 January 1932 – 10 January 2020) was a Chinese economist and educator. He was President of Peking University from August 1989 to August 1996 and vice-president of Renmin University of China. He was born in Jiangyin, Jiangsu.

On 10 January 2020, he died of an illness at the Beijing Hospital, aged 88.

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1932 births
2020 deaths
Chinese writers
Chinese economists
Chinese educators
Rahşan Ecevit

Rahşan Ecevit (née Aral; 17 December 1923 – 17 January 2020) was a Turkish politician. She was the widow of Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit. She was the founder of the Democratic Left People's Party. From 1985 through 1987, she was the party's leader. In 2010, she was the party's chairman. Ecevit was born in Bursa, Turkey.

Ecevit died on 17 January 2020 at the age of 96.

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1923 births
2020 deaths
Turkish writers
Political writers
Turkish politicians
Khagendra Thapa Magar

Khagendra Thapa Magar () (4 October 1992 — 17 January 2020) was a Nepali man. He was the former shortest man in the world, measuring . Magar, who was a primordial dwarf, won the title of shortest man from Edward Niño Hernández when he turned 18 on 14 October 2010. He lost the title in June 2011 to Junrey Balawing of the Philippines.

Magar died in a Pokhara hospital on 17 January 2020 of pneumonia, aged 27.

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1992 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
World record holders
Nepalese people
Morimichi Takagi

was a professional Japanese baseball player. He was known for his long career with the Chunichi Dragons. He was born in Gifu, Gifu, Japan. Takagi played for the Dragons between 1960 to 1980. In 2006, he was added to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.

Takagi died on January 17, 2020 of heart failure at the age of 78.

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1941 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
Japanese baseball players
Appeasement

Appeasement is a diplomatic policy of meeting political demands to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict. The term was used for the foreign policy of the British governments of Prime Ministers Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy between 1935 and 1939.

References

World War II
Die casting

Die casting is a type of metal casting that forces molten metal into the empty space of the mold. The mold is made by using two hardened tool steel dies which are machined into shape. These work like an injection mold.

Most die castings are made from non-ferrous metals (meaning they do not have iron). These metals are  zinc, copper, aluminium, magnesium, lead, pewter, and tin-based alloys. Depending on what type of metal is being cast, a hot- or cold-chamber machine is used.

The casting equipment and the metal dies are expensive. This means it is used only on things that need to be made a large number of times. It is simple to make things using die casting, and it has only four main steps. This helps keep the cost of the items lower. Die casting works well for many small- to medium-sized castings, which is why it is used to make more castings than any other casting process. Die castings have a very good surface finish (compared to other types of casting) and consistent sizes.

References

Manufacturing
Metals
Thayer, Missouri

Thayer is a city in Oregon County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2,243 at the 2010 census.

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Cities in Missouri
Alton, Missouri

Alton is the county seat of Oregon County, Missouri, United States. The population was 871 at the 2010 census.

References

Cities in Missouri
County seats in Missouri
David Glass

David Dayne Glass (September 2, 1935 – January 9, 2020) was an American businessman. He was born in Oregon County, Missouri. He was the President and chief executive officer of Walmart from 1988 through 2000. He was also the Kansas City Royals.

In August 2019, Glass agreed to sell the Kansas City Royals to Cleveland Indians vice chairman John Sherman.

Glass died of complications from pneumonia in Bentonville, Arkansas on January 9, 2020 at the age of 84.

References

Other websites
Kansas City Royals' front office 

NBC Dateline story at PBS Frontline

1935 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Disease-related deaths in Arkansas
Businesspeople from Missouri
Chadds Ford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Chadds Ford Township is a township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It is about  southwest of Philadelphia. As of the 2010 census, Chadds Ford Township had a population of 3,640.

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Townships in Pennsylvania
Chester Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Chester Township is a township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.  </ref> The population was 3,940 at the 2010 census.

References

Townships in Pennsylvania
Hannah John-Kamen

Hannah Dominique E. John-Kamen (born 7 September 1989) is a British actress. She is known for her roles as Dutch in the Syfy television series Killjoys, Ornela in the HBO series Game of Thrones, F'Nale Zandor in Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One, and Ghost in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movie Ant-Man and the Wasp.

References

Other websites
 

1989 births
Living people
British movie actors
British television actors
British stage actors
British voice actors
Actors from Yorkshire
Walter Sickert

Walter Richard Sickert (31 May 1860 – 22 January 1942) was a German-British painter and printmaker. He was a member of the Camden Town Group of Post-Impressionist artists in early 20th-century London. He was an important influence on British styles of avant-garde art in the mid- and late 20th century. His works were often about Jack the Ripper, which led some to believe he might have been the actual killer.

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1860 births
1942 deaths
People from Munich
German artists
British artists
Patricia Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell (born Patricia Carroll Daniels; June 9, 1956) is an American crime writer. She is known for her best-selling novels about  medical examiner Kay Scarpetta solving murders in Richmond, Virginia. Cornwell is also known for leading the new research into the Jack the Ripper killings. Her books have sold more than 100 million copies.

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1956 births
Living people
Writers from Miami, Florida
American novelists
Researchers
Peggy Whitson

Peggy Annette Whitson (born February 9, 1960) is an American biochemistry researcher, retired NASA astronaut, and former NASA Chief Astronaut. 

Her first space mission was in 2002, with an extended stay aboard the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 5.

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1960 births
Living people
American astronauts
American biochemists
Scientists from Iowa
Port Isabel, Texas

Port Isabel is a city in Cameron County, Texas, United States. The population was 5,006 at the 2010 census.

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Cities in Texas
Encoder

Encoder may refer to:

Electronic circuits
 Audio encoder, converts audio from digital to analog
 Video encoder, converts video from digital to analog
 Simple encoder
 Priority encoder
 8b/10b encoder

Media compression
 Compressor, encodes data (such as audio/video/images) into a smaller size (see codec)

Sensors 
 Encoder (position)
 Rotary encoder, converts rotating position to electronic signals
 Linear encoder, converts straight position to electronic signals
 Absolute encoder
 Incremental encoder, converts position changes to electronic signals in real time
 Altitude encoder

Related pages
 Decoder (disambiguation)
Abuse of power

Abuse of power is the act of taking advantage of one's high authority in order to control what other people with lower authority are able to do. Abuse of power is often associated with corruption. Often, presidents are charged with abuse of power because they pressure all of the less powerful politicians into doing things that the other politicians disagree with. Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, was impeached on December 2019 because of a scandal where he agreed with Ukraine to manipulate the 2020 presidential election in exchange for foreign aid.

References

Human rights
Political philosophy
Rotary encoder

A rotary encoder is a device that can keep track of how much something has turned. This is called its angular position. That information is useful to know how far a motor has turned, for example. 

Rotary encoders are often used in manufacturing and robotics. This is because they need things to be measured and controlled very accurately.

Basic types

Absolute
An absolute encoder always keeps track of what value its on, even if it isn't powered.

Incremental
An incremental encoder only keeps track of changes. It gives off signals if it is turned one way or another. 

Sensors
List of cities and towns in California

California is a state in the Western United States. It is the state with the most people, as 37,253,956 people lived there in 2010.

California is split into 58 counties and has 482 municipalities. One county, San Francisco, is a city-county, which means it is both a municipality and county. In California law, there is no difference between a city and town. This means municipalites can use either name. At the 2010 census 30,908,614 people in California lived in an urban area. This is 82.97% of people in the state.

The largest municipality by population is Los Angeles, which had 3,792,621 people living there in 2010. The smallest is Vernon, with 112 people living there in 2010.

Cities and towns

References

California-related lists

California
Cease and desist

A cease and desist letter is a document sent to an individual or business to stop attempted illegal activity ("cease") and not to restart it ("desist"). The letter may warn to the individual or business that if they do not stop certain behaviour by deadlines set in the letter, then that individual or business may be sued. The same letter may also warn the individual or business to take specified actions in order to avoid being sued. When a cease and desist letter is issued by a public authority, it is called a "cease and desist order".

Although cease and desist letters are not exclusively used for stopping copyright infringement, such letters are also used to protect other issues related to intellectual property. The holder of an intellectual property right (i.e. either a copyrighted work, a trademark, or a patent) may send the cease and desist letter to tell a third party (i.e. an individual or business who is not related to the holder of the intellectual property right) that they are infringing intellectual property. The letter may contain either an offer to license the intellectual property or a very clear threat of a lawsuit. A cease and desist letter often causes both parties to make licensing negotiations, and is very often the first step towards a lawsuit.

If someone receives many cease and desist letters, it will cost a large amount of money to manage them. Each claim in the letters must be evaluated, and the person or group who receives it will have to decide what to do to sort out the cease and desist letter. Either, they would have to obtain an attorney's opinion letter, prepare for a lawsuit, and perhaps start making suitable alternatives that do not break the holder's intellectual property.

Cease and desist letters are sometimes used to intimidate the offending groups and can be used by corporations to relax the online critical speech of such groups. A company owning a trademark may send such letter to them that they are doing trademark infringement, although the actual use of the trademark by the offending group may fall under a fair use exception (which follows, in the U.S., the protection of free speech under the First Amendment).

Related pages
 Abmahnung, the equivalent of a cease and desist letter in German and Austrian law
 Clameur de haro
 Demand letter
 Legal threat
 Lumen (formerly known as Chilling Effects), a collaborative archive to protect lawful online activity from legal threats such as cease and desist letters
 Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act
 Strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP)

References

Copyright
Legal terms
Letters
Pepe the Frog

Pepe the Frog is an internet meme. He is an anthropomorphic green frog who had originated in a comic by Matt Furie called Boy's Club. He appears in many different types of popular memes on the internet. By 2015, he is the most popular meme in 4chan and Tumblr.

He has also appears as a symbol of alt-right movement. However, Pepe's creator didn't like it that Pepe the Frog is being used as a hate symbol, and he will sue any organization who uses Pepe as a hate symbol.

References

Internet memes
Khatib MRT station

Khatib MRT station (NS14) is an  Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the North South line in Yishun, Singapore.

The section of tracks between this station and Yio Chu Kang MRT station is the longest between any two stations on the North South line.

History

The station was previously named Nee Soon South. It was renamed to Khatib in January 1987 along with Yishun MRT station which was initially named Nee Soon. In 1990, a power failure which occurred at Yishun station affected services at this station.

In 2002, lift upgrading commenced at this station and was completed on 10 January 2003.

Installation of the half-height screen doors started and operations commenced on 30 September 2011. The station was installed with high-volume low-speed fans and the fans started running since 28 August 2012.

Related pages
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore)

References

Other websites

Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
Kate Ford

Kate Ford (born 29 December 1976) is an English actress, known for portraying the role of Tracy Barlow on the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 2002 to 2007, and 2010 onwards. Ford was born and raised in Salford Disrict, Greater Manchester, England.

Other websites 

1976 births
Living people
English television actors
Actors from Greater Manchester
Greg Davies

Gregory Daniel Davies (born 14 May 1968) is a British stand-up comedian and actor. He is best known for his roles as Greg in We Are Klang, Mr Gilbert in The Inbetweeners, Ken Thompson in Cuckoo, the Taskmaster in Taskmaster and Dan Davies in Man Down. He has made guest appearances in panel shows such as Mock the Week and Would I Lie to You?.

For his role in Cuckoo, Davies was nominated for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance in 2013.

Davies was born in St Asaph, Flintshire, Wales. He grew up in Wem, Shropshire, England. Davies is noted for his height, standing  tall.

Other websites

1968 births
Living people
British stand-up comedians
British movie actors
British television actors
People from Shropshire
People from Flintshire
Nikolai Tsymbal

Nikolai Andreyevich Tsymbal (; 20 January 1925 – 15 January 2020) was an officer of the Soviet Armed Forces. He worked in the force's political branch and reached the rank of . He was deputy head of the Gagarin Air Force Academy. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, and the Order of Friendship.

References

1925 births
2020 deaths
Soviet military personnel of World War II
Soviet generals
Russian generals
Bobby Kay

Romeo Cormier (5 January 1950 – 17 January 2020) was a Canadian professional wrestler. He was best known by the ring name Bobby Kay. He was a member of the Cormier wrestling family, a group of four brothers who were all successful professional wrestlers. 

He worked in Canada and the United States from 1967 to the mid-1980s. He owned and operated part of the Eastern Sports Association. After retiring from wrestling, he performed country music professionally before taking a job with Loblaws.

References

2020 deaths
Canadian professional wrestlers
People from New Brunswick
1950 births
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Pelam

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Pelam, or The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perris, or The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, is a British series sitcom of novels written by David Nobbs. Its also adapted casting Leonard Rossiter, Pauline Yates, John Barron, Sue Nicholls, Geoffrey Palmer, Bruce Bould, John Horsley, Trevor Adams, Sally-Jane Spencer, Tim Preece, Leslie Schofield and Derry Power from the title role. It was produced aireding on the BBC and BBC One from 8 September 1976, until the series till 24 January 1979. He adapted the first series from the novel.

British novels
Ashwini Kumar Chopra

Ashwini Kumar Chopra (11 June 1956 – 18 January 2020) was an Indian politician, cricketer and journalist. He was born in Jalandhar. Chopra was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was a member of the Lok Sabha from 2014 through 2019. As a journalist, he worked for Punjab Kesari. 

Chopra died of cancer on 18 January 2020 in Gurgaon, Haryana. He was 63.

References

1956 births
2020 deaths
Cancer deaths in India
Indian cricketers
Indian politicians
Indian writers
Indian journalists
Mark Pocan

Mark William Pocan (; born August 14, 1964) is an American politician and businessman. He is the U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district since 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party, Pocan is Co-Chair of both the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus. 

From 1999 to 2013 he was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. 

He is openly gay.

In January 2020, Pocan endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for President.

References

Other websites
Congressman Mark Pocan official U.S. House website
Mark Pocan for Congress
 
Campaign 2008 campaign contributions at Wisconsin Democracy Campaign
Meet Mark Pocan, the Original ALEC Spy, Molly Redden, The New Republic, July 25, 2012 

1964 births
Living people
United States representatives from Wisconsin
LGBT politicians
Gay men
People from Kenosha, Wisconsin
US Democratic Party politicians
Peroxisome

Peroxisomes or microbodies are organelles inside eukariotic cells which are enclosed  with a membrane. They are involved in various processes, and use up oxygen.

Peroxisomes play an important role in  metabolism, reactive oxygen species detoxification, and signaling. 

Cell biology
Michael Le Vell

Michael Robert Turner (born 15 December 1964), known professionally as Michael Le Vell, is an English actor. He is known for his role as mechanic Kevin Webster in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, which he has played continuously since 1983.

Other websites

1964 births
Living people
English television actors
People acquitted of rape
Actors from Manchester
People from Lancashire
Rentaghost

Rentaghost is a British children's comedy television show by the BBC between 6 January 1976 and the series until 6 November 1984. The shows plot a number ghost in the Rentaghost film series, it's cast, Anthony Jackson, Michael Derbyshire, Michael Staniforth, Edward Brayshaw, Ann Emery, Molly Weir, Sue Nicholls and Lynda La Plante.

1970s British sitcoms
1980s British sitcoms
BBC television sitcoms
Television series set in London
English-language television programs
Al-Nabk District

Al-Nabk is a town in Syria. It is located to the North of Damascus, the capital. It takes about 90 minutes by car from the main international Airport. The population is about forty thousand people. The weather is very cold and snowy in winter because Al-Nabk lies on high mountains. It is about 1360 meter above the sea level. However, in summer the weather is very nice and warm. It is a place for spending happy holidays.
Geography of Syria
Sally Ann Matthews

Sally Ann Matthews (born 19 September 1970) is an English actress. She is known for playing Jenny Bradley in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street and Sandra Briggs in ITV's fellow soap opera Emmerdale.

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Gary Ablett

Gareth Ian Ablett (19 November 1965 – 1 January 2012) was an English professional footballer and manager. He played as a defender. His professional career lasted from 1985 until 2001.

Ablett was born in the Liverpool suburb of Aigburth. He played for Liverpool between 1985 and 1992. With the club, he won two league titles and an FA Cup, winning against Everton in the 1989 final. In 1995, Ablett moved from Liverpool to city rivals Everton. Later that year, he won the FA Cup with Everton. He remains the only played to win an FA Cup with both clubs. He also played for Derby County, Hull City, Sheffield United, Birmingham City, Wycombe Wanderers, Blackpool and the Long Island Rough Riders during his career. He was also a youth team manager for Liverpool and Everton. From 2009 to 2010, he was manager of Stockport County.

On 1 January 2012, Ablett died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in Tarleton, Lancashire. He was 46.

Honours
Liverpool
Football League First Division: 1987–88, 1989–90
FA Cup: 1988–89
FA Charity Shield: 1988, 1989, 1990 (shared)

Everton
FA Cup: 1994–95
FA Charity Shield: 1995

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1965 births
2012 deaths
Cancer deaths in England
Deaths from non-Hodgkin lymphoma
English footballers
English football managers
Liverpool F.C. players
Sportspeople from Liverpool
The Citadel (1960 miniseries)

The Citadel was a 1960 British adaption television miniseries of A.J. Cronin's 1937 novel The Citadel. The series was directed by John Frankau and Peter Graham Scott. It starred Eric Lander, Zena Walker, Elizabeth Shepherd, Noel Harrison, Richard Vernon, Jack May and Zena Walker.

Miniseries
1960s drama television series
British drama television series
John Barron

John Barron (24 December 1920 - 3 July 2004) was an English actor. Although Barron was a familiar face on British television from the 1950s, he is best remembered for his role in the BBC comedy The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, since 1976 until the series in 1979 playing CJ Perrin's overbearing boss.

1920 births
2004 deaths
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Sally Dynevor

Sally Dynevor MBE (née Whittaker; born 30 May 1963) is an English actress, known for her role as Sally Webster in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, which she has played continuously since January 1986.

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Ben Price

Ben Price (born 30 June 1972) is an English actor, television presenter and writer for YouTube, best known for his portrayal of Nick Tilsey in ITV's longest running television soap opera Coronation Street, a role which he has played since 2009.

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1972 births
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English television actors
People from Newcastle upon Tyne
Tina O'Brien

Tina Michelle O'Brien (born 7 August 1983) is an English actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Sarah Platt in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street (1999–2008, 2015–present), and for her role as pupil Bex Fisher in the BBC school-based drama series Waterloo Road (2010–2011).

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1983 births
Living people
English child actors
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English stage actors
Actors from Manchester
Esto perpetua

Esto perpetua is a phrase from latin meaning "Let it be forever". This is the motto of the Idaho state of U.S.

References

Latin state mottos of the United States
Idaho
Connie Hyde

Connie Skov Hyde (born 15 November 1969) is an English actress. Between 2017 and 2019, Hyde played Gina Seddon in the ITV television soap opera Coronation Street.

She was born to his English father and Danish father grew up in Lancashire.

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1970 births
English actors
Living people
Beverley Callard

Beverley Jane McEwan (née Moxon; previously Atkinson, Sowden and Callard; born 28 March 1957) is an English actress, known for her roles as Liz McDonald in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street and Flo Henshaw in the BBC sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet for Crisps.

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1957 births
Living people
English television actors
Actors from Leeds
Actors from Yorkshire
Ryukyuan people

The Ryukyuan people (琉球民族, Okinawan: Ruuchuu minzuku; Japanese: Ryuukyuu minzoku) are the natives of the Ryūkyū Islands, a collection of islands located in Japan.

History 
The Ryukyuans descend from the Jōmon and Yayoi peoples.

By the 14th century, numerous chiefs ruled the Ryukyu Islands. In Okinawa, a new chief named Tamagusuku was unpopular among local lords, causing the island to be split into three kingdoms (Chūzan, Nanzan and Hokuzan). By the 15th century, the island was re-united, causing the Ryukyu Kingdom to be born. In the following centuries, the Ryukyu Kingdom would expand its rule over the Amami, Miyako and Yaeyama islands. They would also become a vassal state of China.

In 1609, the Japanese domain of Satsuma took over the Ryukyu Kingdom. The Amami Islands were then ruled by Satsuma, whereas the rest of the Ryukyu Kingdom was turned into a vassal.

In 1872, the Ryukyu Kingdom became the Ryūkyū Domain. In 1879, the Japanese Empire took control of the country.

After Japanese annexation happened, the local cultures and languages of Ryukyu were suppressed. Children who spoke the native Ryukyuan languages at school were punished with dialect cards.

During the Battle of Okinawa (World War II), between 40,000 and 150,000 Okinawans were killed. After World War II ended, the Ryukyu Islands were placed under American administration. The Amami Islands were returned to Japan in 1953, whereas the ofher island groups were returned in 1972.

Culture

Identity 
Many Ryukyuans (especially the diaspora communities in Hawaii and Brazil) consider themselves to be different from the Japanese, who mainly inhabit the mainland (Honshū, Kyūshū, Shikoku and Hokkaidō).

On the other hand, a lot of other Ryukyuans identify as “Japanese”, which is the result of assimilation that dates back to the Meiji Era.

Language 
Historically, the Ryukyuans spoke the Ryukyuan languages. Because Japan suppressed them in the past, they are all endangered, with most speakers being elderly. A Japanese speaker wouldn't be able to understand any of the six Ryukyuan languages without any knowledge out of it. Despite this, the Japanese government calls the Ryukyuan languages ”Japanese dialects” for political reasons. Most linguists on the other hand refer to the Ryukyuan languages as separate languages.

Religion 
The native religion of the Ryukyuans is the Ryukyuan religion, an animistic faith that believes in ancestor worship. Other religions practiced in Ryukyu include Shintoism, Buddhism and Christianity.

Related pages

 Ryūkyū Islands
 Ryukyuan languages

References
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps is a British sitcom. It is set in Runcorn, Cheshire. It ran from 26 February 2001 to 24 May 2011 on BBC Two. It stars Ralf Little, Natalie Casey, Will Mellor, Sheridan Smith, Karthyn Drysdale and Beverley Callard.

2001 British television series debuts
2011 British television series endings
2000s British sitcoms
2010s British sitcoms
BBC television sitcoms
Cheshire
English-language television programs
Jaguar F-Type

The Jaguar F-Type (project code X152) is a two-door, two-seater sports car, manufactured by British luxury car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover.

2010s automobiles
2020s automobiles
Coupes
Roadsters
Sports cars
Ralf Little

Ralf Alastair John Little (born 8 February 1980) is an English actor, writer, and semi-professional footballer. Little is known for acting in comedy shows. He has played Antony Doyle in The Royle Family and Jenny Keogh in the BBC Two first six series of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, as well as known for playing Joseph in an episode of the second season for the BBC series 'Robin Hood'.

1980 births
British movie actors
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Living people
Simon Gregson

Simon Alan Gregory (born 2 October 1974), better known by his stage name, Simon Gregson, is an English actor, known for his role as Steve McDonald in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, which he has played continuously since December 1989. He has received 17 awards for comedy and performance, plus a Legends of Industry Award. He is a patron for Scotty's Little Soldiers.

Other websites

1974 births
Living people
English television actors
Actors from Manchester
Candy bar

A candy bar is a type of candy that has been made into the shape of a bar. The most common kind of candy bar is made with chocolate, but there may be other kinds as well, like a granola bar.

Candy
Jupiter Award (science fiction award)

The Jupiter Awards  were prizes for writing science fiction. There were awards for the best novel, novella, novelette and short story.  These awards were given most years from 1974 to 1978. The group called "Instructors of Science Fiction in Higher Education" gave the awards.

Winners

References

Other websites
 About the Jupiter Awards at The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards

Science fiction awards
Robert Maclennan, Baron Maclennan of Rogart

Robert Adam Ross Maclennan, Baron Maclennan of Rogart  (26 June 1936 – 18 January 2020) was a British politician and life peer. He was the last leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) from 1987 to 1988. He was the president of the Liberal Democrats from 1995 to 1998. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1966 to 2001, when he was raised to the House of Lords.

Maclennan was born in Glasgow. His father was Sir Hector MacLennan. He died in January 2020, at the age of 83.

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Rolf Koschorrek

Rolf Koschorrek (17 June 1956 – 12 January 2020) was a German politician. He was a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He was a member of the national Bundestag from 2005 to 2013. He was in the dentistry industry outside of politics.

Koschorrek was born in Bad Bramstedt. On 12 January 2020, he died of cancer in Berlin. He was 64.

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1956 births
2020 deaths
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Former members of the German Bundestag
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National Book Foundation

The National Book Foundation (NBF) is an American nonprofit organization established "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America". Established 1989 by National Book Awards, Inc.,

Awards
 National Book Awards
 Lifetime Achievement
 5 Under 35
 Innovations in Reading Prize

Programs
Some of the Foundation's programs include:
 Author in Focus 
 BookUp
 Book Rich Environments 
 Book Distribution
 Library Engagement
 Partnership Building
 Why Reading Matters Conference 
 Eat, Drink & Be Literary 
 Literature for Justice
 NBF Presents
 Notes from the Reading Life
 Raising Readers 
 Teen Press Conference

References

1989 establishments in the United States
Non-profit organizations of New York
Petr Pokorný (theologian)

Petr Pokorný (April 21, 1933 – January 18, 2020) was a Protestant theologian. He was a professor at Charles University in Prague, and pastor of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren. He was one of the leading biblical scholars in the Czech Republic.

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1933 births
2020 deaths
Czech writers
Theologians
Piri Sciascia

Piri John Ngarangikaunuhia Sciascia  (6 November 1946 – 18 January 2020) was a New Zealand Māori leader and university administrator. From 2016 until his death, he was kaumātua and advisor to the governor-general and government of New Zealand. He was a member of the organising committee for the international exhibition Te Maori. 

He died on 18 January 2020.

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1946 births
2020 deaths
New Zealand educators
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James Mollison

James Mollison  (20 March 1931 – 19 January 2020) was an Australian arts administrator. He was acting director of the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) from 1971 to 1977 and director from 1977 to 1990. He was also director of the National Gallery of Victoria from 1989 to 1995. He was born in Wonthaggi, Victoria.

Mollison retired as the NGA's director in 1990 and moved to Melbourne to become director of the National Gallery of Victoria. He died on 19 January 2020, at the age of 88.

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1931 births
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Order of Australia
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Sunanda Patnaik

Sunanda Patnaik (7 November 1934 – 19 January 2020) was an Indian classical singer of Gwalior gharana. She was thought to be one of the great singers of Hindustani music.

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1934 births
2020 deaths
Indian singers
Claremont, California

Claremont () is a city on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is  east of downtown Los Angeles. It is in the Pomona Valley, at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 34,926. It is home to the Claremont Colleges, a group of seven colleges.

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Cities in California
Settlements in Los Angeles County, California
Los Osos, California

Los Osos is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place located along the Pacific coast of San Luis Obispo County, California. The community is part of the 93402 and 93412 ZIP codes and area code 805. The population was 14,276 at the 2010 census.

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Unincorporated communities in California
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Settlements in San Luis Obispo County, California
Dinwiddie County, Virginia

Dinwiddie County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 28,001. Its county seat is Dinwiddie.

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Virginia counties
Dinwiddie, Virginia

Dinwiddie is a small unincorporated community and the county seat of Dinwiddie County, Virginia, United States.

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County seats in Virginia
Unincorporated communities in Virginia
Ingham County, Michigan

Ingham County is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population was 280,895.  The county seat is Mason.

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1838 establishments in the United States
Michigan counties
Mason, Michigan

Mason is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is named after the state's first governor, Stevens T. Mason. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 8,252.  It is the county seat of Ingham County.

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County seats in Michigan
Genesee County, Michigan

Genesee County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population was 425,790, making it the fifth-most populous county in Michigan. The county seat and population center is Flint.

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Michigan counties