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Sadri Skander

Sadri Skander  (, born April 10, 1982) is a Tunisian television presenter and producer. He is also an editor-in-chief and an entrepreneur. He is also publisher and editor-in-chief of Tunisie Automobile magazine and co-produces and hosts the AutoPRO program on the Attessia TV channel and previously the AutoPlus and Karhabtek Labess programs on El Hiwar El Tounsi.

Television career 
In 2012, he made his debut as a producer and host on Tunisna TV, with the show Drive and Fast. In 2013, he switched to Nessma, to produce 100% auto.

From 2016 to 2018, he was also the presenter of the Karhabtek Labès show dedicated to tuning, of a social nature and broadcast on El Hiwar El Tounsi during the Labès talk show.

From 2014 to 2018, he was presenter and co-producer of the auto show Auto +, broadcast every Sunday on El Hiwar El Tounsi.

From 2019 to 2020, he is presenter and co-producer of the automotive show AutoPRO, on Attessia TV.

Career 
In 2015, he launched a bimonthly automotive magazine, Tunisie Automobile, of which he is editor-in-chief.

In April 2017, he launched AutoPRO, the largest sales center for used vehicles in Tunisia.

In October 2018, he signed with a partaneriat with Italcar, representative of Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Jeep and Lancia, and with Stafim, representative of Peugeot, in May 2019.

Since 2018, he has co-produced and hosted the AutoPRO show on Attessia TV .

In January 2020, he became the face of the Bridgestone brand on the Tunisian market during his contract with the commercial rubber tire company "S.C.P".

References

Other websites 

 
 

Living people
1982 births
People from Tunis
Tunisian television personalities
Tunisian television presenters
Tunisian producers
Single wicket cricket

Single wicket cricket is a form of cricket which is mainly played between two opponents, the batter and bowler.

Rules 
The main feature of single wicket cricket is that the batter had to run from his ground at the striker's end to the bowling crease at the bowler's end and back to score a run. This is different from regular cricket, in which a batter only needs to run between the two batsmens' grounds, and means that one run can only be scored when the batter runs 124 feet (37.7 meters), rather than 58 feet (17.6 meters).

Related pages 
 Last man stands cricket

References 

Cricket
Last man stands cricket

Last man stands cricket (LMS) is a form of cricket in which a single batter can bat alone if all other players on his team are out. It has innings with 20 overs of 5 balls each, like in 100-ball cricket.

Rules 
When a single batter bats alone (is the "last man standing"), they can only be safe when in the ground at the striker's end, which is the area they start running from.

Related pages 
 Single wicket cricket

References 

Cricket
Mouna Noureddine

Mouna Noureddine born Saadia Oueslati (born  January 23, 1939 in Tunis) is a Tunisian actress.

Carrer 
She obtained her graduation certificate in 1952 and then entered the school for teachers in Tunis, which she eventually left for the Arab theater school in Tunis. 

In 1954, she worked in the municipal troupe of the Arab Theater directed by the Egyptian Zéki Touleïmat. The following year, Mohamed Agrebi recruited her for the Tunis municipality troupe he directed, and subsequently she became a subscriber to leading roles in most of the plays. In the wake of this early success, she obtained a diploma in drama. 

In 1957, she successfully passed the recruitment competition for full-time actors for the needs of the troupe in the city of Tunis. Mouna Noureddine is as comfortable on stage as in front of the cameras, interpreting texts in Tunisian as well as in literal Arabic as well as in French.

She went on stage at the age of 15, making the theater merge with her life, to such an extent that the meeting of the one who will share her life and give her his pseudonym - Noureddine Kasbaoui - takes place during the rehearsals of a play by William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice. Mouna Noureddine performs many roles in the troupe's repertoire, notably under the direction of Aly Ben Ayed: Sakr Kouraïch, Al Hallaj, Yerma, Le maréchal, Ghira Tedhraféchira, Hamlet, Elloghz, Leïla men elf lila, Ors eddam, Mejnoun Leïla, Mourad III, Beït Bernard alba, Ahl el berak, Caligula, Atchane ya sabaya, Les Troyennes, etc.

In the cinema, she plays in a large number of Tunisian films including Khalifa le teigneux, Sejnane, Fatma 75, And tomorrow ...?, Cécile's eyes, L’Homme de cendres, The thief of tasting, The season of men, etc. Each of his performances, in Tunisia as well as in the Maghreb and in Europe, earned him consecration, critical praise and public ovation. She plays in the found of the city of Tunis at the Théatre des Nations, the Récamier, the Théâtre de la ville, the Théâtre de l'Odéon, the Beethoven Festival, in Iran and in Egypt.

After half a century of activity, alongside her status as director of the Tunis city troupe since 2002 - a first since the creation of this company - she continues to perform in Tunisian and international productions as well as on stage. For the whole of her career, in 1985 she obtained the honorary prize of the Ministry of Culture and Heritage Protection, the insignia of the Order of Cultural Merit and was elevated to the rank of Officer of the Insignia of the Republic of Tunisia. She is also honored several times in many theater festivals in Tunisia and abroad.

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1939 births
Tunisian actors
Tunisian movie actors
People from Tunis
Living people
Tunisian television personalities
Death by coconut

A falling coconut that hits a person can cause injury to their back, neck, shoulders, and head. It could even kill a person.

A 1984 study on "Injuries Due to Falling Coconuts" made people exaggerate statements about how many people died by falling coconuts. An urban legend says that falling coconuts kill a few people every year. This became more known in 2002 when an expert in shark attacks says that falling coconuts kill 150 people every year around the world. This statement is often compared to the number of deaths that are caused by a shark (which is around 5 deaths every year). Reports of death by coconuts have happened in the 1770s.

References

Coconut
Laura Olascuaga

Laura Victoria Olascuaga Pinto (born 1995 in Cartagena, Colombia) is a Colombian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Colombia 2020 pageant on November 16, 2020. She will represent Colombia at Miss Universe 2020.

Life and career

Early life
Olascuaga was born in Cartagena, the capital of the department of Bolívar. She graduated from the Universedad del Norte in Barranquilla, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in social communication and journalism.

Pageantry
Olascuaga began her pageantry career representing the department of Bolívar in Señorita Colombia on November 12, 2018. She placed first runner up, being awarded the title of “Virreina”, but resigned the following day. On November 16, 2020, Olascauga, representing the department of Bolívar, won the title of Miss Universe Colombia 2020 and was crowned by former Miss Germany and current director of Miss Universe Colombia, Natalie Ackermann. As the new titleholder, Olascuaga will represent Colombia at Miss Universe 2020.

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Models
Beauty pageant winners
Colombian people
1995 births
Living people
Moderna

Moderna is an American biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They focus on drug discovery, drug development, and vaccine technologies based on messenger RNA (mRNA).

As of November 2020, Moderna was valued at $35 billion, and while none of its drugs had been approved, its COVID-19 vaccine candidate was close to being authorized for mass use.

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2010 establishments in the United States
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Biotechnology companies of the United States
Steve Ricchetti

Steven J. Ricchetti is an American political aide and lobbyist. On November 17, 2020 he was hired to be the Counselor to the President under President-elect Joe Biden.

He was Chief of Staff to Vice President Joe Biden during the Obama administration and Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations under President Bill Clinton.

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Businesspeople from Ohio
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Year of birth missing (living people)
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Cedric Richmond

Cedric Levan Richmond (born September 13, 1973) is an American lawyer and politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was a U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district from 2011 to 2021.

In 2019, he was named the first national co-chairman of the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign.

On September 5, 2020, he was named a co-chair of the Biden-Harris Transition Team, which is planning Biden's presidential transition.

On November 17, 2020, Richmond announced he would leave Congress in January 2021 to serve as Senior Advisor to the President and director of the Office of Public Liaison.

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Living people
Lawyers from New Orleans
United States representatives from Louisiana
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Football Federation of Macedonia

The Football Federation of Macedonia (); ФФМ/FFM, is the main part of football in North Macedonia based in Skopje. It was founded in 1926.

References

Football organizations
Sport in North Macedonia
Akira Kubodera

was a Japanese actor. His career began in 1995. He was born in Tokyo. His best known roles were as Kunzite in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (2003), Kanai in Kamen Rider Blade (2004) and as Aberu in Kamen Rider Kiva.

Kubodera killed himself at his apartment in Tokyo on November 13, 2020 at the age of 43.

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1977 births
2020 deaths
Japanese movie actors
Japanese television actors
Japanese stage actors
Japanese voice actors
People who committed suicide
Actors from Tokyo
Lindy McDaniel

Lyndall Dale "Lindy" McDaniel (December 13, 1935 – November 14, 2020) was an American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who had a 21-year career from 1955 to 1975. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees and Kansas City Royals. McDaniel was born in Hollis, Oklahoma.

McDaniel died of COVID-19 on November 14, 2020 in Carrollton, Texas at the age of 84.

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2020 deaths
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Raul del Mar

Raul Veloso del Mar (March 20, 1941 – November 16, 2020) was a Filipino Liberal politician and lawyer. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1987 to 1988, then 2001 to 2010 and again from 2012 until his death. He was also the Deputy Speaker of the House from 2004 to 2010. He was born in Cebu City.

Del Mar died on November 16, 2020 in Manila at the age of 79.

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1941 births
2020 deaths
Filipino politicians
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Filipino lawyers
Dairon Blanco

Dairon Alberto Blanco Joseph (2 October 1992 – 16 November 2020) was a Cuban footballer. He played as a midfielder. He was born in Amancio, Cuba. He played club football for Las Tunas and in Uruguay for Canelones del Este. He also played for the Cuban national team between 2012 and 2016

Blance was killed in a car crash on 16 November 2020 in Havana, aged 28.

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Road accident deaths
Footballers
Croatian War of Independence

The Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the government of Croatia—which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY)—and the Serb-controlled Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and local Serb forces.

In Croatia, the war is known as the "Homeland War" () and also as the "Greater-Serbian Aggression".

In Serbian sources, "War in Croatia" and (rarely) "War in Krajina" are used.

Notes

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1995 in Europe
History of Croatia
Wars of independence
1990s conflicts
Tomislav Merčep

Tomislav Merčep (28 September 1952 – 16 November 2020) was a Croatian politician, convicted war criminal and paramilitary. He was active during the Croatian War of Independence. He was born in Vukovar, Croatia. He was a member of the Croatian Democratic Union. He was a member of the Croatian Parliament from 1993 to 2000. 

Merčep unsuccessfully ran for President of Croatia in 2000 presidential elections.

In May 2016 Merčep was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison for failure to prevent the murder of 43 Serb civilians in Pakračka Poljana and other locations, committed by members of the unit under his command.

Merčep died after a long illness on 16 November 2020, aged 68.

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2020 deaths
Croatian politicians
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European military people
Papiamento

Papiamento () or Papiamentu () is a creole language spoken in the Caribbean. It is the most common language on the ABC islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. It is also commonly spoken in Sint Eustatius and Saba.

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Aruba
Bonaire
Curaçao
Litoria wapogaensis

Vera's tree frog (Litoria wapogaensis) is a frog from Indonesia.  Scientists saw it high in the hills near the Waponga River.

Scientists say this frog might be related to the black-dotted tree frog.

References

Animals of Asia
Frogs
Thomson Reuters

Thompson Reuters is a Canadian company that owns the British news group Reuters.

References
Pantanal cat

The Pantanal cat (Leopardus braccatus or Leopardus colocolo braccatus or Lynchailurus braccatus) is a wild cat that lives in South America.  Scientists say it is related to the pampas cat, and it might be the same species.

This cat has black legs and long, thick fur.  It has two subspecies, Leopardus braccatus braccatus and Leopardus braccatus munoai.

This cat lives in grassy places in many parts of South America.

References 

Felines
Mammals of South America
Pokémon Sword and Shield

Pokémon Sword and Shield are the first set of games in the eighth generation of the Pokémon series. They released on the Nintendo Switch on November 15, 2019. This is the first Pokémon game to have DLC, being The Isle Of Armor (released June 17, 2020) and The Crown Tundra (released October 22, 2020).

Gameplay 
Main Article: Gameplay of Pokémon 

Gyms return from previous entries and the combat is the same with new Dynamaxing, which makes the Pokémon larger.

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2019 video games
Nintendo Switch games
Pokémon RPGs
Femi Taylor

Femi Taylor is a Nigerian-British actress who is famous for playing Oola in Return of the Jedi, a Star Wars movie. She has also acted in TV shows and plays, and studied dance in New York.

Life 
She was born in Nigeria. Her father gave her to missionaries because her mother died giving birth and he couldn't take care of all their kids alone. She was adopted by a couple from England and grew up there.

She now runs an interior design company.

She has two children and is married to Claus Skytte Kamper.

Career 
She played a slave dancer Oola in Return of the Jedi, the last film of the original trilogy. She reprised the part fourteen years later, filming new scenes for the 1997 Special Edition release.

References

Websites 

 Femi Taylor at IMDb

Nigerian actors
Star Wars
1961 births
Living people
British movie actors
British dancers
British television actors
British businesspeople
African businesspeople
Ishirō Honda

Ishiro Honda or Inoshiro Honda was a Japanese movie director famous for making godzillas 1954 movie with Eiji Tsuburaya, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Shinichi Sekizawa and Akira Ifukube.

Filmography

Directed 

 Godzilla (1954 movie)
 Mothra (1961 movie)
 Rodan (1956 movie)
 Battle in Outer Space
 Frankenstein vs. Baragon
 Mothra vs, Godzilla

Assistant director 

 Tadano bonji
 Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts

References
Quebec Act

The Quebec Act was a British law passed in 1774.  It was about Quebec in Canada.

Britain ruled Quebec after the French and Indian War.  Before that, it had been ruled by France.  Most of the white people in Quebec spoke the French language and used the Roman Catholic part of the Christian religion instead of the Church of England part of the Christian religion.

The British Parliament passed the Quebec Act in 1774.  It said that French Canadians did not need to say a loyalty oath any more.  It gave Roman Catholics more rights.  It let the French Canadians use some French laws instead of only British laws.

This made many British settlers in Canada angry because they did not like Roman Catholics.  They called the Quebec Act an Intolerable Act.

References

Quebec
Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
History of Canada
Kimiyoshi Yasuda

(born February 15, 1911 Tokyo, Japan, died July 26, 1983) was a Japanese film director from the 1950s to 1970s. He directed at least six films about Zatoichi, the Blind Swordsman and Yokai Monsters: Along With Ghosts.

References
Runner bean

The runner bean (Phaseolus coccineus) is a kind of bean commonly grown in gardens. It is also known as scarlet runner bean or  multiflora bean. It is part of the Fabaceae, which also contains other legumes. It may also be called  butter bean, but that name can also be used for the Lima bean, which is a different species. The runner bean originally grew in South America. It was brought to Europe in the 17th century. 

Runner beans are more resistant to cold than Great northern beans. For this reason, runner beans are commonly cultivated in Europe, also in higher altitudes. Today, the runner bean is either grown as an ornamental plants, or to get food. Usually, poles of a height of  to  are commonly used, when the plant is grown in the garden. Note also, that in Europe, runner beans die in winter, because they do not support the cold, for a prolonged period of time.

References 

Fabaceae
Yoshiyuki Kuroda

(March 4, 1928 - January 22, 2015) Was a Japanese film director and special effects director.

Filmography

Director 

 Travel is sex appeal (1961)
 Oniisan to Onee and his mother-in-law ("Three times as long as tonight" renamed (1961)
 Shin Kurama Tengu Gojozaka Battle (1965)
 Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare (1968)
 Yokai Monsters: Along With Ghosts(1969)
 Invisible Swordsman (1970)
 Ah single (1970)
 Marine No. 4 student (1971)
 Wolf with children Let's go to hell! Daigoro (1974)

Special effects director 

 Bronze Magician (1963) * Special technology
 Flight from Ashiya (1964)
 Daimajin (1966)
 Daimajin Ikaru (1966)
 Wrath of Daimajin (1966)
 Yokai Monsters (1968)
 Teppo Denki (1968)

References
Japanese American

are Americans who are fully or partially of Japanese descent, especially those who identify with that ancestry and its cultural characteristics. Japanese Americans were among the three largest Asian American ethnic communities during the 20th century; but, according to the 2000 census, they have declined in number to constitute the sixth largest Asian American group at around 773,000, including those of partial ancestry. According to the 2010 census, the largest Japanese American communities were found in California with 272,528, Hawaii with 185,502, New York with 37,780, Washington with 35,008, Illinois with 17,542, and Ohio with 16,995. Southern California has the largest Japanese American population in North America and the city of Gardena holds the densest Japanese American population in the 48 contiguous states.

During World War II, Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes and move to internment camps.

References 

Ethnic groups in the United States
Grubhub

Grubhub Inc. is an American online and mobile prepared food and delivery group. It connects diners with local restaurants. The company is based in Chicago, Illinois and was founded in 2004. As of 2019, the company had 19.9 million active users and 115,000 associated restaurants across 3,200 cities and all 50 states in the United States. Grubhub Seamless went public in April 2014 and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "GRUB".

On June 9, 2020, Just Eat Takeaway, a European food delivery service, announced an agreement to buy Grubhub for $7.3 billion in stock.

Related pages
 DoorDash
 Uber Eats

References

Other websites
 
 

Companies based in Chicago, Illinois
2000s establishments in Illinois
2004 establishments in the United States
Dennis J. Murray

Dennis J. Murray is the temporary President of Marist College. He started this job June 19, 2019. July 1, 2016, Murray was President Emeritus.

Murray had been Marist's president during the academic years 1979 through 2016.  This was a long time to be president. Marist's enrollment more than doubled. Sixteen new academic programs started. Several new academic centers and student residences opened. The university's area expanded to .

Murray earned a bachelor's degree in political science from California State University, Long Beach. He got a master's degree and Ph.D. in public administration from the University of Southern California.

Before working at Marist, Dr. Murray taught at the USC School of International and Public Affairs. He  was Director of University Relations and Executive Assistant to the President at California State University, Long Beach. He was Vice President for Development at Whittier College.

Honors and awards
Franciscan Award from the Sisters of St. Francis
Americanism Award from the Anti-Defamation League
Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal, 1996

References

Living people
1950 births
Premier League Goal of the Season

The Premier League Goal of the Season is an annual football award. The award is given to the player to has deemed to have scored the best goal in the Premier League in the season.

The shortlist features each of the season's nine Premier League Goal of the Month winners. The winner is chosen by a combination of an online public vote (worth 10% of the final tally), and a panel of experts.

The award was first given after the 2016–17 season. It is currently sponsored by Budweiser. The name of the award is the Budweiser Goal of the Season.

Winners

References

Premier League
Sports trophies and awards
All the Young Men

All the Young Men is a 1960 American Korean War movie directed by Hall Bartlett and starring Alan Ladd, Sidney Poitier, James Darren, Glenn Corbett, Mort Sahl, Maria Tsien, Lee Kinsolving, Paul Baxley, Charles Quinlivan. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures.

Other websites
 
 
 

1960 movies
1960s war movies
American war movies
Movies directed by Hall Bartlett
Columbia Pictures movies
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (in case citations, D.C. Cir.) is one of thirteen United States Courts of Appeals. It exercises appellate jurisdiction over decisions from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The court is comprised of eleven appellate judges and is based at the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington, D.C..

United States courts of appeals
Washington, D.C.
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani

Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani is a 2013 release Bollywood movie starring Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Paadukone. The movie was theatrically released on 31 May 2013. Ayan Mukerji is the director, screenplay and story writer of the movie. The movie is produced by Hiroo Yash Johar and Karan Johar.

2013 movies
India
Set-top box

A set-top box is a small device that adds extra functionality to another media device, often a television. In general, there are different kinds of such devices:

 Active devices provide a signal to the TV, they do not get any feedback from the TV. Examples of such devices are video game consoles, or DVD players.
 Passive devices rely on the TV, they don't add any new functionality; they are rare, though
 Bidirectional devices provide a signal to the TV, but they also get information back. Examples for bidirectional devices are videocassette recorders.

The most important functions of a set top box are media playback (DVD, VHS videos, perhaps interacve as a game console), recording of the data received, and being able to receive data using different channels (for example Satellite TV, TV over internet) or methods (sometimes, signals need to be decrypted first; some people want to watch digital TV on an analogue television).

The evolution of set-top boxes can be traced back to early 1980s, when a cable converter box was required to receive extra analog cable TV channels and convert them to content capable of being displayed on a regular television screen. The cable converter boxes came with a wired or wireless remote control, which helped to switch a channel to a low-VHF frequency for viewing on the TV. Some newer television receivers significantly reduced the need for external set-top boxes but they are still in wide use. Cable converter boxes are sometimes required to descramble premium cable channels and receive interactive services such as pay per view, video on demand and home shopping channels.

References 

Everyday life
Isaac Alvarez

Isaac Alvarez (26 July 1930 – 3 November 2020) was an Egyptian-born French actor, mime, and choreographer. He founded the École du théâtre du mouvement in Paris in 1956 with Jacques Lecoq. In 1981, he founded the Théâtre du Moulinage in Lussas.

Alvarez traveled across France to teach with the Comédiens-mimes de Paris. 

Alvarez died in Aubenas, France on 3 November 2020 at the age of 90.

Movies
La Belle Équipe (1958)
Julie la Rousse (1959)
Du rififi chez les femmes (1959)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1960)
Etudes aux Allures et Les Trois Soldats (1961)
Le Perroquet du fils Hoquet (1963)
Belphegor, or Phantom of the Louvre (1965)
Les Compagnons de Baal (1968)

References

1930 births
2020 deaths
French movie actors
French television actors
French stage actors
French theatre directors
French choreographers
French educators
Mimes
Egyptian movie actors
Egyptian television actors
People from Alexandria
Sakari Paasonen

Sakari Paasonen (12 October 1935 – 6 November 2020) was a Finnish sport shooter. He competed in pistol shooting events at the Summer Olympics in 1988 and 1992. Paasonen was born in Mäntyharju, Finland.

Paasonen died on 6 November 2020 in Helsinki, aged 85.

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1935 births
2020 deaths
Finnish Olympians
Sport shooters
Joseph Altairac

Joseph Altairac (25 March 1957 – 9 November 2020) was a French literary critic and essayist. His works focused in science fiction literature and was secretary of the Prix Rosny-Aîné. His articles and works were dedicated to A. E. van Vogt, H. P. Lovecraft, and H. G. Wells.

References

1957 births
2020 deaths
French writers
Critics
Essayists
A. E. van Vogt

Alfred Elton van Vogt  (; April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born American science fiction writer. He was one of the most popular science fiction writers in the mid-twentieth century.

Death
Van Vogt died at his home in Los Angeles on January 26, 2000 from Alzheimer's disease, aged 87.

Novels

References

Other websites
 Sevagram, the A.E. van Vogt information site
 Obituary at LocusOnline (Locus Publications)
 "Writers: A. E. van Vogt (1912–2000, Canada)"  – bibliography at SciFan
 A. E. van Vogt Papers (MS 322) at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas

1912 births
2000 deaths
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
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Naturalized citizens of the United States
Canadian writers
American novelists
People from Manitoba
Chicano Movement

The Chicano Movement, also known as El Movimiento, was a social and political movement inspired by acts of resistance from people of Mexican descent in the 1940s and 1950s, and the Black Power movement, that worked to support a Chicano/a identity. 

The Chicano Movement was heavily influenced by and entwined with the Black Power movement.

References

1940s in the United States
1950s in the United States
Black Power movement

The Black Power movement was a social movement supported by African-Americans who wanted safety and support in African American neighborhoods, Black Power activists founded Black-owned bookstores, food cooperatives, farms, media, printing presses, schools, clinics and ambulance services. The international impact of the movement includes the Black Power Revolution in Trinidad and Tobago.

By the late 1960s, Black Power became violent to fight against American white supremacy. Most of these ideas were inspired by Malcolm X's criticism of Martin Luther King Jr.'s peaceful protest methods.

References

American civil rights
Juan Gómez-Quiñones

Juan Gómez-Quiñones (January 28, 1940 – November 11, 2020) was an American historian, poet, and activist. He was best known for his work in Chicana/o history. He was a co-editor of the Plan de Santa Bárbara.

Gómez-Quiñones was born in Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico. He was raised in Los Angeles, California. He taught at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Gómez-Quiñones died on November 11, 2020 in Los Angeles at the age of 80.

References

1940 births
2020 deaths
Mexican poets
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Mexican historians
Educators from Los Angeles
American poets
American historians
American political activists
Mexican activists
Writers from Los Angeles
Michael Mongeau

Michel Mongeau (c. 1946 – 11 November 2020) was a Canadian actor. He was best known for his roles in He Shoots, He Scores (1989), Gaz Bar Blues (2003), How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause (2003), The Last Tunnel (2004) and in Shake Hands with the Devil (2007).

Mongeau died on 11 November 2020 at the age of 74.

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1946 births
2020 deaths
Canadian movie actors
Canadian television actors
Canadian stage actors
Canadian voice actors
Marie-Claude Vayssade

Marie-Claude Vayssade (8 August 1936 – 11 November 2020) was a French politician. She was a member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1994. Vayssade was a member of the Socialist Party. She was born in Pierrepont, France.

Vayssade died on 11 November 2020 in Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France at the age of 84.

References

1936 births
2020 deaths
Former MEPs
MEPs for France
Piem

Pierre de Barrigue de Montvallon, known as Piem, (12 November 1923 – 12 November 2020) was a French cartoonist. He was born in Saint-Étienne, France. Many of his works appeared on French newspapers. They mainly appeared for Le Figaro, Le Point and La Croix. His career began in 1947. 

Piem died in Notre-Dame-d'Oé, France on 12 November 2020, his 97th birthday.

References

1923 births
2020 deaths
French artists
Cartoonists
Notre-Dame-d'Oé

Notre-Dame-d'Oé is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France.

References

Communes in Indre-et-Loire
Guy-Olivier Segond

Guy-Olivier Segond (14 September 1945 – 12 November 2020) was a Swiss politician. He was born in Geneva, Switzerland. He was a member of the FDP.The Liberals and Free Democratic Party. From 1983 to 1984 and again from 1988 to 1989, he was the Mayor of Geneva. Segond was a member of the National Council from 1987 to 1990.

Segond died on 12 November 2020 in Geneva at the age of 75.

References

1945 births
2020 deaths
Swiss politicians
Mayors
People from Geneva
Jay Kerttula

Jalmar Martin "Jay" Kerttula (April 6, 1928 – November 13, 2020) was an American businessman, farmer, and politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Kerttula was the longest-serving member of the Alaska Legislature. He was in the House from 1961 to 1963 and 1965 to 1973 and in the Senate from 1973 to 1995. 

Kerttula died on November 13, 2020 in Juneau, Alaska at the age of 92.

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Jay E. Adams

Jay Edward Adams (January 30, 1929 – November 14, 2020) was an American Reformed Christian author. He wrote more than 100 books. His books have been translated into 16 languages. He was also known as the founder of The Institute for Nouthetic Studies. Adams was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He also created nouthetic counseling.

Adams died on November 14, 2020 in Woodruff, South Carolina at the age of 91.

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David Stoddart, Baron Stoddart of Swindon

David Leonard Stoddart, Baron Stoddart of Swindon (4 May 1926 – 14 November 2020) was a British politician. He was Member of Parliament for Swindon from 1970 to 1983. He was a life peer in the House of Lords from 1983 to his death in 2020. He was a Labour peer from 1983 to 2002, when he was expelled from the Labour Party.

Stoddart died on 14 November 2020 at the age of 90.

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Henrique Córdova

Henrique Córdova (21 December 1938 – 15 November 2020) was a Brazilian politician. He was Governor of Santa Catarina from 1982 to 1983. He was born in São Joaquim, Brazil. He was a member of the Democratic Social Party.

Córdova died on 15 November 2020 in Lages, Brazil at the age of 81.

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1938 births
2020 deaths
Brazilian politicians
Egidio Cosentino

Egidio Cosentino (6 March 1927 – 15 November 2020) was an Italian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in Genoa, Italy.

Cosentino died on 15 November 2020 in Calgary, Alberta at the age of 93.

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1927 births
2020 deaths
Italian Olympians
Drew S. Days III

Drew Saunders Days III (August 29, 1941 – November 15, 2020) was an American lawyer and politician. He was Solicitor General of the United States from 1993 to 1996 under President Bill Clinton. He alsowas the first African American Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division in the Carter Administration from 1977 to 1980. 

He was the Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia.

Days died on November 15, 2020 in New Haven, Connecticut at the age of 79.

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1941 births
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United States Solicitors General
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Educators from Atlanta, Georgia
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Rosebell Kagumire

Rosebell Kagumire is a feminist, Pan-Africanist, and writer from Uganda. She is the editor of a website about feminism in Africa. Rosebell went to Makerere University for her undergraduate degree is in Mass Communication, attained her masters in Media, Peace and Conflict Studies from Universidad para la Paz (UN University of Peace) in Costa Rica, attended short term study in nonviolent conflict at the Fletcher School Tufts University before beginning her career in activism and social media. She worked in Ugandan leading news media including Daily Monitor and NTV. In 2012, her criticism of the campaign Kony 2012 made her more well-known to many people on international stage. Since then, she has become a writer and analyst for leading international media like Al Jazeera and The Guardian. She is one of many feminists from East Africa who are becoming more well known outside of Africa, along with others like Stella Nyanzi.

In 2020 she co-edited a book: Challenging Patriarchy: The Role of Patriarchy in the Roll-Back of Democracy. She has written a book chapter on Young Ugandan Feminists Voices in Youth in Africa: Agents of Change

Rosebell was honored with the Anna Guèye 2018 award for her contribution to digital democracy, justice and equality on the African continent by Africtivistes, a network of African activists for democracy. Her expertise ranges covers social movements and accountability, women's rights, migrants and refugee rights and social justice. She has spoken widely on racism and the development sector sharing her own story to connect with millions of Black professionals that continue to interface these global systems of oppression.

In 2013, the World Economic Forum recognised Rosebell as one of the Young Global Leaders under 40.

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Feminist writers
Ugandan people
Pan-Africanists
Marvin Zonis

Marvin Zonis (September 18, 1936 – November 15, 2020) was an American political economist. His works focused on Middle Eastern politics and history. He was an emeritus professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He was the first professor at the Business School to teach a course on digital technologies.

Zonis died on November 15, 2020 in Chicago at the age of 84.

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2020 deaths
American political scientists
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American historians
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Bruce Swedien

Bruce Swedien (April 19, 1934 – November 16, 2020) was an American audio engineer and music producer. He was known for his work with Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones.

Career
He became known for his work in 1962 on Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons "Big Girls Don't Cry".

Swedien was a five-time Grammy Award winner. He recorded, mixed, and assisted in producing the best-selling album in the world, Thriller (1982) by Michael Jackson.

He also recorded and mixed for jazz artists such as Count Basie, Art Blakey, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Quincy Jones, Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock, The Second Coming, and Jeff Oster.

Death
Swedien died on November 16, 2020 at the age of 86.

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Other websites
In The Studio with Bruce Swedien
Archived interview with Mr. Bonzai, November 2006
Bruce Swedien on Recording, Mixing Michael Jackson
An Incredible New Sound for Engineers 
Q&A session with Bruce Swedien on GearSlutz
Bruce Swedien Interview - NAMM Oral History Library (2016)

American engineers
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Businesspeople from Minneapolis, Minnesota
2020 deaths
1934 births
Eddie Borysewicz

Edward 'Eddie B' Borysewicz (March 18, 1939 – November 17, 2020) was a Polish-American Olympic cycling coach. He coached the American team that won nine medals at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984. In 1996, he was honored into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame.

Borysewicz died of COVID-19 in Drezdenko, Poland on November 17, 2020 at the age of 81.

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Jagmohan Singh (athlete)

Jagmohan Singh (1 April 1932 – 17 November 2020) was an Indian hurdler. He competed in the men's 110 metres hurdles at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Chandigarh, India.

Singh died on 17 November 2020 from a heart attack in Chandigarh at the age of 88.

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Deaths from myocardial infarction
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Olympians
Sheldon Solow

Sheldon Henry Solow (July 20, 1928 – November 17, 2020) was an American billionaire real estate developer. Solow had a net worth of $4.4 billion. He was born in New York City. He helped develop the Solow Building near Central Park.

Solow died on November 17, 2020 in New York City from lymphoma at the age of 92.

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American Jews
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Deaths from lymphoma
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Jewish businesspeople
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Solow Building

The Solow Building is a skyscraper located at 9 West 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, built in 1974. It was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. 

At 50 stories and  in height, it is the 71st tallest building in New York. 

Floors above the 23rd floor has a ublocked view of Upper Manhattan and a complete view of Central Park and The Plaza Hotel.

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Skyscrapers in New York City
Plaza Hotel

The Plaza Hotel is a 20-story luxury hotel and condominium apartment building in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It opened in 1907 and is owned by Katara Hospitality.

The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1969 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The Plaza Hotel was also made a National Historic Landmark in 1986.

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Hotels
Buildings and structures in New York City
Nondeterminism

In computer science, a nondeterministic algorithm is an algorithm that does not give the same result each time it is used.

Even for the same input, it may show different behaviors on different runs. This may be contrasted with a deterministic algorithm.
The projection of an automaton almost always results in nondeterminism.

Exhibiting nondeterminism; involving choices between indistinguishable possibilities.

Being nondeterministic; involving arbitrary choices; necessitating the choice between various indistinguishable possibilities.

Dependence on factors other than initial state and input.

Moving from a single-processor to a multi-processor system often exposes hidden nondeterminism due to invalid assumptions about scheduling.  

There are several ways an algorithm may behave differently from run to run. Referring to the inability to objectively predict an outcome or result of a process due to lack of knowledge of a cause and effect relationship or the inability to know initial conditions.

Non-deterministic definitions 

Non-predictive. Referring to the inability to objectively predict an outcome or result of a process due to lack of knowledge of a cause and effect relationship or the inability to know initial conditions.

In telecommunications switching and routing, the unpredictability of a path between nodes. See also node, path, route, and switch.

Computing
Algorithms
Gordon Bunshaft

Gordon Bunshaft (May 9, 1909 – August 6, 1990), was an American architect. He was known as a partner in the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), which he joined in 1937. He was born in Buffalo, New York.

Bunshaft was known for his designs for Lever House in New York, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the National Commercial Bank in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 140 Broadway (Marine Midland Grace Trust Co.) and Manufacturers Hanover Trust Branch Bank in New York.

Bunshaft died on August 6, 1990 in New York City of cardiac arrest at the age of 81.

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Roman Viktyuk

Roman Grigoryevich Viktyuk (, ; October 28, 1936 – November 17, 2020) was a Ukrainian-Russian theatre director, actor, and playwright. He was born in Lviv, Ukraine. His career began in 1956. In 2006, he was honored with the People's Artist of Ukraine and in 2009 with the People's Artist of Russia.

He was also Professor of the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS).

In late-October 2020, Viktyuk was hospitalized in Moscow with COVID-19. He died from the infection and thrombosis on November 17 2020 at the age of 84.

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Khamakha Hyderabadi

Khamakha Hyderabadi (1929–2017) was an Urdu language poet from Hyderabad in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. He wrote poems and came to Mazahiya Mushairas many times. He wrote in his native Dakhni part of the Urdu language. Most of his poems are humour and satire, which is showing the problems in society by making them look funny.

Bibliography
He wrote three books:
 Harf-e-Mukarrar (A Story Retold)
 Ba-Fard-e-Muhal
 Kagaz ke Tishey

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Urdu poets
Indian writers
1929 births
2017 deaths
Indian poets
Draga Olteanu Matei

Draga Olteanu Matei (née Olteanu) (; 24 October 1933 – 18 November 2020) was a Romanian actress. She starred in more than thirty movies from 1967 to 2006. She was born in Bucharest.

Her best known roles were in A Bomb Was Stolen (1961), Haiducii (1966), Explosion (1973), Uncle Marin, the Billionaire (1979) and in The Famous Paparazzo (1999).

Matei died at a hospital in Iași, Romania on 18 November 2020 from a gastrointestinal hemorrhage, aged 87.

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1933 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from gastrointestinal hemorrhage
Romanian movie actors
Romanian television actors
Romanian stage actors
Actors from Bucharest
Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is bleeding into the subarachnoid space—the area between the arachnoid membrane and the pia mater which surrounds the brain.

Symptoms may include a severe headache, vomiting, loss of consciousness, fever, and sometimes seizures. Neck stiffness or neck pain are also common.

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Medical emergencies
Mridula Sinha

Mridula Sinha (27 November 1942 – 18 November 2020) was an Indian writer and politician. Sinha was Governor of Goa from August 2014 to October 2019. She was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. She was born in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, British India.

Sinha died on 18 November 2020 at the age of 77.

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1942 births
2020 deaths
Governors of Goa
Indian writers
Angelo Caroli

Angelo Caroli (7 April 1937 – 17 November 2020) was an Italian professional football player, journalist and author. As a journalist, he worked for Tuttosport. He also wrote novels. Caroli was born in L'Aquila, Italy. 

His football career lasted from 1955 to 1963. He played for Juventus, Catania, Lucchese, Pordenone and Lecco.

On 17 November 2020, Caroli died at the age of 83 in Torino, Italy.

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1937 births
2020 deaths
Italian footballers
Italian journalists
Stanisław Dulias

Stanisław Dulias (12 April 1939 – 17 November 2020) was a Polish politician and economist. Dulias was born in Zbarazh, Poland. He was a member of the Sejm from 2001 to 2005. 

Dulias died on 17 November 2020 of COVID-19 in Mysłowice, Poland at the age of 81.

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1939 births
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Polish politicians
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland
Polish scientists
Polish economists
Zbarazh

Zbarazh (Ukrainian: Збараж, Polish: Zbaraż, Yiddish: זבאריזש Zbarizh) is a city in the Ternopil Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Zbarazh Raion (district), and is located in the historic region of Galicia.

Other websites
 Zbarazh in Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993)

Cities in Ukraine
Mysłowice

Mysłowice  () is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. The population of the city  is 74,586.

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Cities in Poland
Pim Doesburg

Willem "Pim" Doesburg (; 28 October 1943 – 17 November 2020) was a Dutch football goalkeeper. He made eight appearances for the Netherlands national football team from 1967 to 1981. He played a total of 687 matches in a 25-year career.

Doesburg died on 17 November 2020 at the age of 77.

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 VoetbalFocus  

1943 births
2020 deaths
Dutch footballers
Sportspeople from Rotterdam
Walt Davis

Walter Francis "Buddy" Davis (January 5, 1931 – November 17, 2020) was an American athlete. He won a gold medal in the high jump at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He later became a professional basketball player. He played for the Philadelphia Warriors between 1953 to 1958 and for the St. Louis Hawks in 1958.

Davis was born in Beaumont, Texas. He studied at Texas A&M University. Davis died on November 17, 2020 in Port Arthur, Texas at age 89.

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Golden State Warriors players
Atlanta Hawks players
American Olympic gold medalists
Sportspeople from Texas
People from Beaumont, Texas
The Woodlands, Texas

The Woodlands is a master planned community and census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. state of Texas, in the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. 

It is primarily located in Montgomery County, with parts going into Harris County. 

In 2018, the population of The Woodlands at 116,278.

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Census-designated places in Texas