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Del Amitri

Del Amitri is a Scottish alternative rock band formed in Glasgow in 1980. Between 1985 and 2002, the band released six studio albums. Their 1995 single "Roll to Me" reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Five have reached the Top 10 in the UK. Del Amitri have sold six million albums around the world.

History

Band name
Del Amitri's member and songwriter, Justin Currie, said in 2010 that the band's name "was invented to be meaningless – basically a corruption of the Greek name 'Dimitri'." In 2018, he said that 'Del Amitri' was based on the name of the producer of a movie he saw in 1979 – "...probably Dimitri-something, but we couldn't remember..."  Many sources have said that the name was chosen because it is Greek for "from the womb", but this is untrue.

Discography

Studio albums
 del Amitri (1985)
 Waking Hours (1989)
 Change Everything (1992)
 Twisted (1995)
 Some Other Sucker's Parade (1997)
 Can You Do Me Good? (2002)

Compilation albums
 The Best of Del Amitri: Hatful of Rain (1998)
 Lousy with Love: The B-Sides (1998)
 20th Century Masters – The Best of Del Amitri (2003)
 The Collection: Best of Del Amitri (2007)

Live albums
 Into the Mirror: Del Amitri Live in Concert (2014)

Singles
 "Sense Sickness" / "The Difference Is" (1983)
 "Hammering Heart" (1985)
 "Sticks & Stones Girl" (1985)
 "Kiss This Thing Goodbye" (1989, 1990)
 "Stone Cold Sober" (1989)
 "Move Away Jimmy Blue" (1990)
 "Nothing Ever Happens" (1990)
 "Spit in the Rain" (1990)
 "Be My Downfall" (1992)
 "Always the Last to Know" (1992)
 "Just Like a Man (1992)
 "When You Were Young" (1993)
 "Roll to Me" (1995)
 "Driving with the Brakes On" (1995)
 "Tell Her This" (1995)
 "Not Where It's At" (1997)
 "Medicine" (1997)
 "Some Other Suckers Parade" (1997)
 "Cry to Be Found" (1998)
 "Don't Come Home Too Soon" (1998)
 "Just Before You Leave" (2002)

Members 
The current members of the band are:
 Justin Currie - main singer and bass player
 Iain Harvie - guitar
 Andy Alston - keyboards
 Ashley Soan - drums
 Kris Dollimore - guitar

Currie and Harvie are the main songwriters for the band.

Former members of the band are:
 Donald Bentley - guitar
 James M. Scobbie - guitar
 Paul Tyagi - drums
 Bryan Tolland - guitar
 Mick Slaven -guitar
 David Cummings
 Brian McDermott - guitar
 Jon McLoughin - guitar
 Mark Price - drums

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Scottish rock bands
Musical groups from Glasgow
Division of Spence

The Division of Spence is an electoral district for the Australian House of Representatives in the outer northern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia.

History

It is named after Catherine Helen Spence, who worked to get women the right to vote. She was the first female political candidate in Australia.

It was set up in 2018 after a redistribution to reduce the number of seats in South Australia. It cover most of the former Division of Wakefield.

Spence covers the Adelaide Plains between the Little Para River in the south and the Gawler River on the north, and areas around Gawler and Salisbury. It includes the City of Playford and Town of Gawler, Concordia, Kalbeeba, Gawler Belt, Buchfelde, and parts of the City of Salisbury.

Members

Election results
 2019 election results

References

Electoral divisions of Australia
Frame rate

Frame rate is a way of describing video. It refers to the number of images, called frames, that are being shown every second. It is measured in frames per second, or FPS.

Early silent movies were shown at a frame rate between 16 and 24 frames per second. This went up to 20 and 26 FPS later. When movies with sound came out 24 FPS became the standard because it was in the middle of the frame rates theaters used.

Video games are usually played at a frame rate of 60 frames per second. This is because it is a very common refresh rate (display speed) for computer monitors. They also can run at 30 FPS, or even more, such as 144 FPS or 240 FPS, depending on what the monitor can handle. If the frame rate is higher than the refresh rate, not all of the frames can be shown. If two or more frames are displayed at the same time, it can cause problems like screen tearing.

Movie industry
Graphics
Screen tearing

Screen tearing is a type of video error. It can happen when multiple video frames are displayed at a single time on a computer monitor. The frames will each be shown on different parts of the screen, and can leave horizontal lines if the pictures are different at the point.

Screen tearing can be stopped by synchronizing the frames that are put on the screen. Vertical synchronization, or VSync, is one popular way. Another way is FreeSync or G-Sync, but these options only work with certain GPUs and monitors.

Graphics
Emsley A. Laney High School

Emsley A. Laney High School is a high school in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States. It is known as the high school that was attended to by NBA star Michael Jordan.

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Tunica County, Mississippi

Tunica County is a county in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, 10,778 people lived there. Its county seat is Tunica.

References 

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Mississippi counties
Wilkinson County, Mississippi

Wilkinson County is a county in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, 9,878 people lived there. Its county seat is Woodville.

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1802 establishments in the United States
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Winston County, Mississippi

Winston County is a county in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, 19,198 people lived there. Its county seat is Louisville.

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Martin J. Schreiber

Martin James "Marty" Schreiber (born April 8, 1939) is an American politician, publisher, author, and lobbyist. He was the 38th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin and the 39th Governor of Wisconsin from 1977 to 1979.

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Yazoo County, Mississippi

Yazoo County is a county in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, 28,065 people lived there. Its county seat is Yazoo City.

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Bob Wade (artist)

Bob "Daddy-O" Wade (January 6, 1943 – December 23, 2019) was an artist. He was born in Austin, Texas. He helped shape the 1970s Texas Cosmic Cowboy counterculture. His work was exhibited at the South Austin Museum of Popular Culture in the fall of 2009. 

He was best known for his creating large sculptures of Texas symbols and for experimenting with hand-tinting black-and-white vintage photographs transferred to large photo canvases. His  giant iguana, knowns as "Iggy", sat on top of the Lone Star Cafe in New York City from 1978 to 1989.

Wade died on December 23, 2019 in Austin of cardiac arrest at the age of 76.

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 William Campbell Contemporary Art 
 

1943 births
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Táňa Fischerová

Taťana Fischerová (better known as Táňa Fischerová) (6 June 1947 – 25 December 2019) was a Czech actress, writer, television host, politician and civic activist. From 2002 to 2006, she was a member of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. She was a candidate for president in the 2013 Czech presidential election. She was born in Prague.

Fischerová died on 25 December 2019 in Prague of cancer at the age of 72.

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Karel Schwarzenberg

Prince Karel Schwarzenberg (, born 10 December 1937) is a Czech politician. He was the leader of the TOP 09 party. He was the party's candidate for President of the Czech Republic in the 2013 election. He is a Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP).

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1937 births
Living people
Politicians from Prague
Vladimir Bushin

Vladimir Sergeyevich Bushin (; January 24, 1924 – December 25, 2019) was a Soviet-Russian writer, essayist, literary critic, columnist and social activist. He was a member of the Union of Soviet Writers and Communist. He was born in Moscow. He was a critic of Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. His works were about Joseph Stalin and how he was a positive figure of the Soviet Union.

Bushin died in Moscow on December 25, 2019 of cardiopulmonary arrest, aged 95.

References

Other websites
 Владимир Бушин. Выступление на VII съезде писателей России.

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David Lee Roth

David Lee Roth (born October 10, 1954) is an American rock singer-songwriter, musician, author, and radio personality. He was the lead singer of hard rock band Van Halen across two stints from 1974 to 1985 and again since 2006.

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Ari Behn

Ari Mikael Behn (né Bjørshol, 30 September 1972 – 25 December 2019) was a Danish-born Norwegian writer. He wrote three novels, two collections of short stories and a book about his wedding.

His 1999 short stories collection Trist som faen ("Sad as hell") sold about 100,000 copies. His books have been translated into Swedish, Danish, German, Hungarian, and Icelandic as well as French. In the spring of 2011, Behn made his debut as a playwright with Treningstimen.

He was married to Princess Märtha Louise from 2002 to 2017. They had three children.

In December 2017, Behn alleged that he was sexually assaulted by Kevin Spacey. He accused Spacey of groping his genitals in 2007, at a nightclub during the afterparty for the Nobel Peace Prize concert.

Behn died killing himself at his home in Lommedalen on 25 December 2019, aged 47. He had struggled with alcoholism and mental health issues. In a 2009 interview he said he was chronically depressed and lonely.

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Princess Märtha Louise of Norway

Princess Märtha Louise of Norway (born 22 September 1971) is a Norwegian princess. She is the only daughter and elder child of King Harald V and Queen Sonja. She is fourth in the line of succession to the Norwegian throne, after her brother Haakon, and his children.

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 Official Site of the Norwegian Royal Family
  Official Site of the Norwegian Royal Family: Princess Märtha Louise

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Queen Sonja of Norway

Queen Sonja of Norway (born Sonja Haraldsen on 4 July 1937) is the Queen consort of Norway as the wife of King Harald V. She became Queen consort on 17 January 1991, when her husband became king.

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Lommedalen

Lommedalen is a rural community in a small valley in Bærum municipality in the county of Akershus, Norway. The population is about 11,000 people.

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George Eastham

George Edward Eastham, OBE (born 23 September 1936) is an English former footballer. He is known for playing for Newcastle United, Arsenal and Stoke City, as well as a non-playing member of England's 1966 World Cup-winning squad.

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Roger Hunt

Roger Hunt,  (20 July 1938 – 27 September 2021) was an English footballer. He played as a forward. He spent eleven years at Liverpool.

Hunt was a member of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup. He played in all six England games in the tournament, scoring three times. Hunt was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2006.

Hunt died on 27 September 2021 at the age of 83.

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1938 births
2021 deaths
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Terry Paine

Terence Lionel Paine MBE (born 23 March 1939) is an English retired footballer. Paine is best known for his career with Southampton. He later played for Hereford United, and briefly worked at Cheltenham Town as a player-manager. 

He played primarily as a winger.

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Other readings
 
 

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Norman Hunter

Norman Hunter (29 October 1943 – 17 April 2020) was an English former footballer. He played for Leeds United, Bristol City, Barnsley and England.

Hunter was hospitalised for COVID-19 in Leeds on 10 April 2020. He died on 17 April from the infection, aged 76.

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Ron Flowers

Ronald Flowers (28 July 1934 – 12 November 2021) was an English former professional footballer. He played as a midfielder, and is most known for his time at Wolverhampton Wanderers. He was a member of England's victorious 1966 World Cup squad.

On 12 November 2021, it was announced that Flowers had died aged 87.

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George Cohen

George Reginald Cohen  (born 22 October 1939) is an English former professional association football right-back. He won the 1966 World Cup with England. He has been added into the English Football Hall of Fame.

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1939 births
Living people
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English footballers
Maurice Norman

Maurice Norman (born 8 May 1934) is an English former footballer. He played nearly 400 times in the Football League as a centre half for Norwich City and Tottenham Hotspur. At international level, Norman won 23 caps for the England national team.

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1934 births
Living people
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Alan Peacock

Alan Peacock (born 29 October 1937) is an English former footballer.

He spent the majority of his career at Middlesbrough, also playing for Leeds United and Plymouth Argyle. He joined Middlesbrough in 1954.

Peacock's high scoring rate earned him a place in the 1962 World Cup England squad.

References

1937 births
Living people
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Bryan Douglas

Bryan Douglas (born 27 May 1934) is an English former footballer.

He also earned 36 caps and scored 11 goals for England. He appeared in two World Cups, in 1958 and 1962, appearing in all of England's matches in the two tournaments.

In February 2019 he was one of the first seven players to be added into the club's Hall of Fame.

References

Other websites
Blackburn Legend: Bryan Douglas

1934 births
Living people
English footballers
Sportspeople from Lancashire
Peter Swan

Peter Swan (8 October 1936 – 20 January 2021) wan English former professional footballer. His career lasted from 1952 until 1974. Swan made 299 appearances for Sheffield Wednesday. 

Swan died on 20 January 2021, aged 84.

References

Other websites
 SWFC Legends Official Sheffield Wednesday biography on Swan
 "Swan still reduced to tears by the fix that came unstuck", The Times 22 July 2006, p. 102, Broadbent, R.
 SWFC Stats Site
 Some Career Info
 Carl Swan Info

1936 births
2021 deaths
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English footballers
English football managers
Maurice Setters

Maurice Edgar Setters (16 December 1936 – 22 November 2020) was an English football player and manager. 

As player, he made more than 400 appearances in the Football League representing Exeter City, West Bromwich Albion, Manchester United, Stoke City, Coventry City and Charlton Athletic.

Setters died of Alzheimer's disease-related problems on 22 November 2020, aged 83.

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People from Devon
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Colin McDonald

Colin Agnew McDonald (born 15 October 1930) is an English former football goalkeeper. He played for Burnley from 1953 to 1959. He also played eight matches for the England national football team, including all four matches in the 1958 FIFA World Cup.

Other websites
Burnley profile

1930 births
Living people
English footballers
Sportspeople from Manchester
Tommy Banks

Thomas Banks (born 10 November 1929) is a retired English footballer. He played for Bolton Wanderers from 1947 to 1961, and six matches for the England national football team in 1958, including all four matches in the 1958 FIFA World Cup.

References

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English footballers
Sportspeople from Lancashire
1929 births
Living people
Freehold Borough, New Jersey

Freehold is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. It is the county seat of Monmouth County. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 12,052.

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Boroughs in New Jersey
County seats in New Jersey
Monmouth County, New Jersey
Clark County, Indiana

Clark County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2010 census, 110,232 people lived there. The county seat is Jeffersonville.

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1801 establishments in the United States
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Clinton County, Indiana

Clinton County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, 33,224 people lived there. The county seat is Frankfort.

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1830 establishments in Indiana
Indiana counties
Crawford County, Indiana

Crawford County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, 10,713 people lived there. The county seat is English.

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1818 establishments in Indiana
Indiana counties
Daviess County, Indiana

Daviess County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, 31,648 people lived there. The county seat is Washington.

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1818 establishments in Indiana
Indiana counties
Anneli Jäätteenmäki

Anneli Tuulikki Jäätteenmäki (born 11 February 1955) is a Finnish politician. She was the first female Prime Minister of Finland from 17 April 2003 to 24 June 2003. From 2004 to 2019, she was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Finland. She was the chairwoman of the Centre Party of Finland from 18 June 2000 to 5 October 2003. In 2003, Jäätteenmäki was the Speaker of the Parliament of Finland.

References 

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Prime Ministers of Finland
Speakers of the Parliament of Finland
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MEPs for Finland
Former MEPs
Daviess County

Daviess County is the name of three counties in the United States (all named for Joseph Hamilton Daveiss):
 Daviess County, Indiana
 Daviess County, Kentucky
 Daviess County, Missouri

Other 
 Jo Daviess County, Illinois
Franklin County, Indiana

Franklin County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. It has 13 townships. As of 2010, 23,087 people lived there. The county seat is Brookville.

History 
Franklin County was created in 1811. It was named for Benjamin Franklin.

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1811 establishments in Indiana Territory
Indiana counties
Bowie, Texas

Bowie is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

Cities in Texas
Nocona, Texas

Nocona is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

Cities in Texas
Saint Jo, Texas

Saint Jo is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

Cities in Texas
Alamo Heights, Texas

Alamo Heights is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is surrounded by the city of San Antonio.

Cities in Texas
Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas

Fair Oaks Ranch is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

Cities in Texas
Schertz, Texas

Schertz is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

Cities in Texas
Elmendorf, Texas

Elmendorf is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

Cities in Texas
Leon Valley, Texas

Leon Valley is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

Cities in Texas
Fallout 76

Fallout 76 is a video game in the Fallout series released in 2018. It was developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.

Although it came out after Fallout 4, Fallout 76 is not a sequel. It takes place earlier than all of the other Fallout games, more like a prequel.

Fallout 76 was made using the Creation Engine, just like Fallout 4. It is also the first Fallout game made by Bethesda Game Studios that includes multiplayer. It needs an Internet connection to play, because it is all online.

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Diet of Worms

The Diet of Worms was a council of the Holy Roman Empire in the city of Worms. The council was held because of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. It lasted for five months in early 1521. The Emperor, Charles V led the council. Other councils (called Imperial Diets) were held in Worms in the years 829, 926, 1076, 1122, 1495, and 1545, but the most important Diet of Worms was in 1521.

Background 
In June 1520, Pope Leo X wrote the Papal bull Exsurge Domine ("Arise, O Lord"), in which he talked about 41 problems he saw in Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses and his other works. Because of this, the Holy Roman Emperor told Martin Luther to come to the diet. He promised that he would give Luther safe passage to and from it. The Diet started on 23 January 1521. Martin Luther was told that he had to either take back what he had said or defend it.

Events of the Diet 
Most of the important things in the Diet happened between 16-18 April. On 16 April, Martin Luther got to the city of Worms. He was told to come to the Diet at 4 p.m. on the 17th, and given a lawyer. After a day of arguing about his works, he was told that he was acting like a heretic. On the 18th of April, he went home. But Frederick III, Elector of Saxony thought that someone might kill him, so he faked a highway ambush and used this as a reason to hide Luther in one of his castles.

The Edict of Worms 
By 23 May 1521, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Archduke of Austria, King of Spain (Castile and Aragon), King of Germany, King of Italy, Lord of the Netherlands, and Titular Duke of Burgundy had had enough of all of this Martin Luther business, so he wrote:

For this reason we forbid anyone from this time forward to dare, either by words or by deeds, to receive, defend, sustain, or favour the said Martin Luther. On the contrary, we want him to be apprehended and punished as a notorious heretic, as he deserves, to be brought personally before us, or to be securely guarded until those who have captured him inform us, whereupon we will order the appropriate manner of proceeding against the said Luther. Those who will help in his capture will be rewarded generously for their good work.

In Simple English: Because of this, we are not going to let anyone after this help Martin Luther or keep him safe or defend him or his ideas or agree with him. Instead, we want him to be arrested and punished as a very bad person who does not have the same religious beliefs as we do (he deserves this) and to be taken to us or to be guarded until the people who arrest him tell us and when they tell us we will have a trial against him. Anyone who arrests him will be given several good things for their good work.

After that, he ended the Diet of Worms.

However, because Luther was hidden in Wartburg Castle, nothing ever happened to him.

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Martin Luther
Protestant Reformation
Protestantism in Germany
History of Germany
Rhineland-Palatinate
Worms, Germany
Dual in-line package

A dual in-line package is one way of making microchips and other integrated circuits. The circuit is put inside of a container made out of materials such as plastic or ceramic. All the wires of the circuit are connected to metal pins, and they stick out of the package on two sides. This way the circuit is able to be used from inside the package.

Things can also be put in a dual in-line package that are not integrated circuits. A DIP switch is one example of this, where there are switches on top of the package instead of a circuit inside.

Electronic circuits
Adrian Zandberg

Adrian Tadeusz Zandberg (born 4 December 1979) is a Polish politician, historian, programmer. He is the co-founder of the left-wing political party Razem.

Political career 
On 14 November 2001, he published an article in the "Gazeta Wyborcza" daily newspaper written together with civil rights activist Jacek Kuroń on the topic of social justice in Poland.

He was elected chairman of the youth wing (Forum Młodych) of the Labour United party (Unia Pracy), was a member of the executive of this party and founded the Federation of Young Socialists (Młodzi Socjaliści).

He has been a Member of the Sejm since 2019.

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Computer scientists
Living people
Todd Howard

Todd Howard (born ) is an American video game designer. He has been a designer, producer, and game director for games. The most well known of these are the Fallout and The Elder Scrolls series with Bethesda Game Studios.

Works

Living people
Video game designers
People from Pennsylvania
Clarksdale, Mississippi

Clarksdale is a city in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is the county seat of Coahoma County.

References

Cities in Mississippi
County seats in Mississippi
2039

2039 (MMXXXIX) will be .

Predicted and scheduled events
 January 1 – Books, movies, and other works published in 1943 will enter the public domain in the United States.
September 1 – 100 years since the start of WWII (Invasion of Poland)
 September 2 – The Destroyers for Bases Agreement's 99-year rent-free leases to the United States by the United Kingdom will expire.
 September 17 - Global Superstar and Record Breaker, BTS, will open a time capsule in a purple box that they gave to South Korea's President Moon for the youth which will open on the 20th National Youth day, i.e. September 17, 2039.

2039
Years in the future
Sergei Karimov

Sergei Karimov (German:Sergej Karimow, Russian: Сергей Каримов) (21 December 1986 – 24 December 2019) was a Kazakh footballer. He last played for Lupo Martini Wolfsburg. In 2010, he played for the Kazakhstan national football team.

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2019 deaths
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Footballers
Dario Antoniozzi

Dario Antoniozzi (11 December 1923 – 25 December 2019) was an Italian Christian Democrat politician. He was in the Chamber of Deputies of Italy (1953–1983). He worked in the Government of Italy in the cabinet of Prime Minister of Italy Giulio Andreotti (1976–1979). He was a recipient of the Italian Order of Merit for Culture and Art. He was in the European Parliament from 1979 to 1989.

References

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1923 births
2019 deaths
MEPs for Italy
Former MEPs
Peter Schreier

Peter Schreier (29 July 1935 – 25 December 2019) was a German tenor and conductor. He was born in Meissen, Germany. 

Schreier made his professional debut in August 1959, playing the role of the First Prisoner in Fidelio by Beethoven. In 1963, he was employed by the Berlin State Opera at Unter den Linden. In 1969, he starred as The Witch in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel.

Schreier died on 25 December 2019 in Dresden, Germany at the age of 84.

References

Other websites
Peter Schreier biography on Bach-Cantatas
documentary film on DVD about the last year of Peter Schreier as a singer 
Peter Schreier Page the fanpage about Peter Schreier
Interview with Peter Schreier, March 10, 1997
Mozart REQUIEM
Singing Schubert

1935 births
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Sleepy LaBeef

Thomas Paulsley "Sleepy" LaBeef (né LaBeff; July 20, 1935 – December 26, 2019) was an American rockabilly singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor. He was born in Smackover, Arkansas. 

His first hit was 1968's "Every Day", which peaked at No. 73 on the U.S. Billboard Country charts. After moving to Plantation Records in 1969, he scored a second hit in 1971 with "Blackland Farmer", which charted at No. 67. 

LaBeef also starred in the horror movie The Exotic Ones. He was more popular in Europe. 

LaBeef died on December 26, 2019 in Siloam Springs, Arkansas at the age of 84.

References

Other websites
 Listing of all Sleepy's songs and alternatives 

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Galina Volchek

Galina Borisovna Volchek (; December 19, 1933 – December 26, 2019) was a Soviet and Russian theater and movie director, actress, politician and teacher. She was born in Moscow.

Volchek was known for her roles in Don Quixote (1957), Children of Don Quixote (1966), Beware of the Car (1966), King Lear (1971), The Little Mermaid (1976), About the Little Red Riding Hood (1977), Autumn Marathon (1979) and in Tevye the Dairyman (1985).

Volchek was elected a deputy into the State Duma in 1995. She left parliament in 1999.

Volchek died in Moscow of pneumonia on December 26, 2019 at the age of 86.

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Graham T. Allison

Graham Tillett Allison Jr. (born March 23, 1940) is an American political scientist and educator. He is a professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. 

His book Remaking Foreign Policy: The Organizational Connection was published in 1976. He had some influence on the foreign policy of the administration of President Jimmy Carter who took office in early 1977. 

Since the 1970s, Allison has also been a leading analyst of U.S. national security and defense policy, with a special interest in nuclear weapons and terrorism.

References

Other websites
Appearances on C-SPAN
Graham Allison's post at HuffPo
Graham Allison's Official Harvard Bio 

1940 births
Living people
American political scientists
Educators from Charlotte, North Carolina
American political writers
American political commentators
American critics
Writers from Charlotte, North Carolina
Robert D. Putnam

Robert David Putnam (born January 9, 1941) is an American political scientist. 

He is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. Putnam developed the two-level game theory that says international agreements will only be successfully if they also have domestic benefits.

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American political scientists
American political writers
Writers from New York
Writers from Ohio
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Port Clinton, Ohio

Port Clinton is a city in and the county seat of Ottawa County. It is located at the mouth of the Portage River on Lake Erie, about 44 miles east of Toledo. The population was 6,056 at the 2010 census.

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Robert Banas

Robert "Bobby" Banas (born September 22, 1933) is an American dancer and actor. He is known for his work on movies such as West Side Story (1961), Always (1989) and Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986). He also did a televised performance of the dance (which he also choreographed) for the 1963 Shirley Ellis song, "Nitty Gritty".

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Richard Beymer

George Richard Beymer, Jr. (born February 20, 1938) is an American actor, filmmaker and artist. He is best known for playing the roles of Tony in the movie version of West Side Story (1961), Peter in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and Ben Horne on the television series Twin Peaks (1990–1991, 2017).

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Jimmy Bryant (singer)

James Howard Bryant (born June 2, 1929) is an American singer, arranger and composer. He is most well known for being the singing voice of Tony (played onscreen by Richard Beymer) in the 1961 movie musical West Side Story.  

He also sang for James Fox in the 1967 musical Thoroughly Modern Millie and sang in "The Telephone Hour" number in Bye Bye Birdie. He also sang in the group that performed the theme song of the TV series Batman.

Bryant was born in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Arthur Laurents

Arthur Laurents (July 14, 1917 – May 5, 2011) was an American playwright, stage director and screenwriter.

His best known works were West Side Story (1957), Gypsy (1959), and Hallelujah, Baby! (1967), and directing some of his own shows and other Broadway productions.

His early movie scripts include Rope (1948) for Alfred Hitchcock, followed by Anastasia (1956), Bonjour Tristesse (1958), The Way We Were (1973), and The Turning Point (1977).

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Quogue, New York

Quogue () is an incorporated village in Suffolk County, New York, United States, in the Town of Southampton, near Long Island. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 967.

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Phil Ruffin

Phillip Gene "Phil" Ruffin (born March 14, 1935) is an American businessman. He owns the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. He is also a business partner of Donald Trump, with whom he co-owns the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. 

On the Forbes 2018 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked No. 877 with a net worth of US $2.7 billion.

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Aureus

Aureus (plural: aurei) was a type of gold coin in ancient Rome. It had the same value as 25 denarii silver coins. An aureus was the same size as a denarius, but it weighed more because gold is more dense.

The aureus coin was first used in 1st century BC. It stopped being used in the 4th century AD. It was replaced by the solidus.

Former currencies
Former currencies of Europe
Ancient Rome
Jerry Herman

Gerald Sheldon Herman (July 10, 1931 – December 26, 2019) was an American composer and lyricist. He was known for his work in Broadway musical theater.  He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles.

He was nominated for the Tony Award five times, and won twice, for Hello, Dolly! and La Cage aux Folles. He won a Grammy Award in 1965. In 2009, Herman received the Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. He was a recipient of the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors.

Herman, who was openly gay, was diagnosed HIV-positive in 1985.

Herman died on December 26, 2019 at a hospital in Miami, Florida from lung disease at the age of 88.

References

Other websites
Jerry Herman Official Web Site.
University of Miami's Jerry Herman Ring Theatre Official Web Site

Jerry Herman - Downstage Center audio interview at American Theatre Wing.
TonyAwards.com Interview with Jerry Herman
Jerry Herman podcast series by Sony BMG Masterworks
Jerry Herman Gathers His Girls for a Swinging Broadway Bash People Weekly, April 21, 1986
Ken Bloom collection of Jerry Herman memorabilia, 1955-2000, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

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Adam DeVine

Adam Patrick DeVine (born November 7, 1983) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and singer. He is one of the stars and co-creators of the Comedy Central series Workaholics.

He plays the role of Bumper in the musical movies Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2 and Andy in the sitcom Modern Family and Adam Demamp in the sitcom Workaholics. 

His other roles include Neighbors, The Intern, The Final Girls, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, Game Over, Man! and When We First Met. 

He has voiced characters in movies including Ice Age: Collision Course and The Lego Batman Movie. 

DeVine has voiced characters on animated series Uncle Grandpa, Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero, Vampirina, and Green Eggs and Ham.

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Hack and slash

Hack and slash or hack and slay (H&S or HnS; also hack-and-slash or hack 'n' slay) is a type of gameplay that emphasizes combat.

The term "hack and slash" was used to describe a play style in tabletop role-playing games, from there to MUDs, MMORPGs, and role-playing video games. In arcade- and console-style action video games, it has a different usage, it focuses on real-time combat with hand-to-hand weapons against guns or fists.

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Sachse, Texas

Sachse is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Lowry Crossing, Texas

Lowry Crossing is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Celina, Texas

Celina is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Allen, Texas

Allen is a city in Collin County, Texas, United States, a northern suburb of Dallas. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a total population of 84,246.

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The Colony, Texas

The Colony is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is a suburb of Dallas.

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Ennis, Texas

Ennis is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Hurst, Texas

Hurst is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Dalworthington Gardens, Texas

Dalworthington Gardens is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. It is a suburb of Arlington. The population was 2,259 at the 2010 census.

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Azle, Texas

Azle is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Hudson Oaks, Texas

Hudson Oaks is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Bovina, Texas

Bovina is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Mirasi

Mirasi refers to a caste of people living in North India, Pakistan especially punjab area who earn their living by singing, dancing, entertaining as jokers. These people are considerd inferior caste in social system.

Punjabi people
Friona, Texas

Friona is a city in Parmer County, Texas, United States. In 2010, 4,123 people lived in Friona.

Cities in Texas
Appleby, Texas

Appleby is a city of Nacogdoches County, in the U.S. state of Texas.

Cities in Texas
Chireno, Texas

Chireno is a city in Nacogdoches County, Texas, United States. The population was 386 at the 2010 census.

American actress, singer, and dancer Ann Miller (1923-2004) was born in Chireno.

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 Official site

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Cushing, Texas

Cushing is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Garrison, Texas

Garrison is a city of Nacogdoches County, in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Haslet, Texas

Haslet is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Justin, Texas

Justin is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Roanoke, Texas

Roanoke is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Dearborn County, Indiana

Dearborn County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, 50,047 people lived there. The county seat and largest city is Lawrenceburg.

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Ball, Louisiana

Ball is a suburb of Alexandria. It is in Rapides Parish, Louisiana.

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Boyce, Louisiana

Boyce is a small town in Rapides Parish, Louisiana.

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Decatur County, Indiana

Decatur County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, 25,740 people lived there. The county seat is Greensburg.

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Warren Park, Indiana

Warren Park is a town in Warren Township, Marion County, Indiana, United States. The population was 1,480 at the 2010 census.

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Austwell, Texas

Austwell is a city in Refugio County, Texas, United States.

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Italy, Texas

Italy is a town in Ellis County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, 1,863 people lived there.

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 City of Italy official website

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Brazos Bend, Texas

Brazos Bend is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Perryton, Texas

Perryton is a city in Ochiltree County, Texas, United States. The population was 8,802 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Ochiltree County.

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 City of Perryton official website 

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La Chaux

La Chaux is the name or part of the name of several places:

France 
 La Chaux, Doubs, a commune
 La Chaux, Orne, a commune
 La Chaux, Saône-et-Loire, a commune
 La Chaux, Vienne, a commune in the Vienne department
 La Chaux-du-Dombief, a commune in the Jura department
 La Chaux-en-Bresse, a commune in the Jura department

Switzerland 
 La Chaux (Cossonay), a municipality in the canton of Vaud
 La Chaux (Sainte-Croix), a village in the municipality of Sainte-Croix (Vaud)
 La Chaux-de-Fonds, a municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel
 La Chaux-des-Breuleux, a municipality in the canton of Jura
 La Chaux-du Milieu, a municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel
 La Chaux (Verbier), an area of the Verbier skiing area

Other 
 Chaux (disambiguation)
Shaheed

Shaheed is the translation of Martyr in English to Punjabi. Shaheed is given to the name of martyrs in Sikh history e.g Shaheed Baba Ajit Singh Ji, Shaheed Baba Jujhar Singh Ji, Shaheed Baba Zorawar Singh Ji, Baba Fateh Singh Ji etc. In Sikh history using the word Shaheed is commonly used for sacrifice for a good cause similar to martyr for example the 9th Guru, Guru Tahegbahadur Ji gave his head for the Kashmiri Pundits after the Islam rulers forced the Pundits to convert to Islam. So Sikhs often notice this and call him Shaheed too. Shaheed can also be Shaheedi in correlation to Shaheedi Gurpurab (Gurpurab is like anniversary but more honoured.)

Arabic words and phrases
Fallout 2

Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game (usually just called Fallout 2) was a video game released in 1998. It was made by Black Isle Studios and published by Interplay. It was a sequel to Fallout, and the second game in the Fallout series. It had very similar graphics and gameplay to the first Fallout, but a larger world and longer story.

The sequel to Fallout 2 was not made by Black Isle Studios because Bethesda Softworks bought the Fallout series. Eventually Bethesda Game Studios made Fallout 3 in 2008.

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Tim Cain

Tim Cain is an American video game designer. He designed the game Fallout, which came out in 1997. In 2009 he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time.

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Living people
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Richmond, British Columbia

Richmond is a city on Lulu Island and in the Metro Vancouver area of British Columbia. The Canada Line and Vancouver International Airport are also located inside Richmond. Richmond had 196,660 people in it in 2006.

Events 
 The 2010 Winter Olympics had their Olympic oval in Richmond

Malls 
Many shopping malls are located in Richmond, these include:
 Lansdowne Centre
 Richmond Centre
 Parker Place
 Aberdeen Centre

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2010 Winter Olympics
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" short story by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. It was published in 1973. The story happens in a utopian city called Omelas. The city can only be wealthy and happy as long as a single child suffers. "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Fiction in 1974 and won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1974.

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The Wind's Twelve Quarters

The Wind's Twelve Quarters is a collection of short stories by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. The title is from A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad Harper & Row published the book in 1975. Le Guin called it a look back at her start as a writer. The book has 17 stories that had already been published. Four of the stories were the first ideas for novels she wrote later: "The Word of Unbinding" and "The Rule of Names" was the beginning of Earthsea. "Semley's Necklace" was first titles "Dowry of the Angyar" in 1964. Then it was the start of the novel Rocannon's World in 1966; "Winter's King" is about people living on the planet Winter, as is Le Guin's later novel The Left Hand of Darkness. Most of the other stories are also connected to Le Guin's novels.  The story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" won the Hugo Award in 1974. "The Day Before the Revolution" won the Locus and Nebula Awards in 1975.

Contents
Foreword
"Semley's Necklace"
"April in Paris"
"The Masters"
"Darkness Box"
"The Word of Unbinding"
"The Rule of Names"
"Winter's King"
"The Good Trip"
"Nine Lives"
"Things"
"A Trip to the Head"
"Vaster than Empires and More Slow"
"The Stars Below"
"The Field of Vision"
"Direction of the Road"
"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"
"The Day Before the Revolution"

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Kulubá

Kulubá is an ancient Maya civilization city and archaeological site in the Tizimín Municipality, Yucatán, Mexico.

The archaeological zone was originally discovered in 1941. Excavation of the site is still in its initial stages even though research in the area has been going on for over a decade. So far, a large palace has been partially uncovered. It is 55 meters by 15 meters and stand six meters tall. Other remains include a residential and cooking area. A burial site has also been identified. The governor of Yucatan announced in 2019 that a significant amount of money was to be invested in development of the site as a tourist destination.

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Angela Rayner

Angela Rayner (née Bowen; born 28 March 1980) is a British politician serving as Shadow First Secretary of State and Deputy Leader of the Opposition since 2020. A member of the Labour Party, she currently serves a s its Deputy leader. She has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashton-under-Lyne since 2015. She has served in the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn as Shadow Secretary of State for Education since 2016.

In January 2020, Rayner announced her candidacy for Labour Deputy Leader in the 2020 deputy leadership election, which she won.

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