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Speed (disambiguation)

Speed is the rate of motion, change, or activity.

Speed may also mean:

 Speed (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the surname, given name or nickname

Places

United States
 Speed, Indiana
 Speed, Kansas
 Speed, Missouri
 Speed, North Carolina
 Speed, West Virginia

Elsewhere
 Speed, Victoria, Australia
 Speed River, Canada

Arts and entertainment

Amusement rides
 Speed (ride), a pendulum fair ride
 Speed: No Limits, a roller coaster at Oakwood Theme Park in Wales
 Speed – The Ride, a roller coaster formerly at the Sahara Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas

Movie and television
 Speed (serial), a 1922 movie serial directed by George B. Seitz
 Speed (1936 movie), an American movie starring James Stewart
 Speed (1983 movie), a Soviet movie directed by Dmitry Svetozarov
 Speed (1984 movie), an IMAX documentary
 Speed (1994 movie), an American movie starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock
 Speed (2007 movie), an Indian movie starring Zayed Khan and Urmila Matondkar
 Speed (2015 movie), a South Korean movie written and directed by Lee Sang-woo
 Speed (Australian TV network), a defunct motorsport network
 Speed (TV network), a defunct American motorsports and automobiles channel
 Speed (TV series), a 2001 British series about fast vehicles

Music
 Speed metal or "speed", a subgenre of heavy metal music
 Speedcore or "speed", a subgenre of hardcore techno
 Speed (Japanese band), a female vocal/dance group
 Speed (South Korean band), a group created from members of Coed School
 "Speed" (Billy Idol song), 1994
 "Speed" (Buck-Tick song), 1991
 "Speed" (Montgomery Gentry song), 2002
 "Speed" (Zazie song), 2018
 "Speed", a song by Bond from Shine, 2002

Other
 Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
 Speed (card game), a shedding game
 Speed (Marvel Comics), a fictional superhero
 Speed (novel), a 1970 novel by William S. Burroughs Jr.

Other uses 
 Amphetamine, substituted amphetamine, and related compounds, in slang
 Speed (finance), in quantitative finance, a third-order Greek
 J. B. Speed School of Engineering, formerly Speed Scientific School, at the University of Louisville
 Lens speed, the maximum aperture or light-gathering ability of an optical system
 Transmission (mechanics), a gear or sprocket configuration
 Independence Speed Tandem, a German paraglider design
Clostridioides difficile infection

Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI or C-diff), also known as Clostridium difficile infection, is a symptomatic infection caused by the spore-forming bacterium Clostridioides difficile. Symptoms include watery diarrhea, fever, nausea, and abdominal pain.

It makes up about 20% of cases of antibiotic-associated diarrhea. Problems caused by this infection are  pseudomembranous colitis, toxic megacolon, perforation of the colon, and sepsis.

Clostridioides difficile infection is spread by bacterial spores found within feces.

References

Infectious diseases
Kanha Tiger Reserve

The Kanha Tiger Reserve (or Kanha–Kisli National Park) is the largest national park in the Indian state of  Madhya Pradesh. It is also one of the tiger reserves of India.

National parks in India
Madhya Pradesh
The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes

The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes is a action-adventure video game for the Nintendo 3DS game console. It is part of The Legend of Zelda series. It is the third The Legend of Zelda game released on the Nintendo 3DS, after The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, and The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds.

2015 video games
Adventure games
Nintendo 3DS games
Tri Force Heroes
Lisa Montgomery

Lisa Marie Montgomery (February 27, 1968  – January 13, 2021) was a convicted murderer. In 2004, she attacked and killed a 23-year old pregnant woman, and cut the unborn child from her womb. The mother had been pregnant for eight months, the child survived and was given to the father. In 2007, Montgomery confessed the crime. She was sentenced to death. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Also, during her childhood, she had been sexually abused for years.  She also had other conditions, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, psychosis, dissociative identity disorder and amnesia. Her lawyers argued, that because of these conditions, she was severely handicapped, and should not have been tried in a regular court. Montgomery has four children.  On January 13, 2021, she was executed by lethal injection.

Experts, who looked at the case after she had been condemned, found that when she committed the crime, she had suffered from psychosis. Because of smoking tobacco, she had also suffered permanent brain damage. In addition, she mistrusted men in general.

A history of abuse 
Montgomery had a bad childhood. Her stepfather allegedly raped her for years. To better handle the situation, Montgomery started drinking alcohol. When Montgomery was 14, her mother discovered the abuse. Instead of helping her, her mother threatened her with a gun. From her early teen years, her mother forced her to prostitute herself.  She told other people about her situation, but no one seemed to help. Montgomery tried to escape the situation, and married early, when she was 18 years old. But both her first, and a second marriage led to further abuse.  Montgomery had four children. She falsely claimed to be pregnant several times, according to both her first and second husbands.

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1968 births
2021 deaths
American people executed for murder
People executed by lethal injection
People from Kansas
2020 Georgian parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Georgia on 31 October 2020. Second round where held on 21 November, 2020. Opposition boycotted second round of elections.  Because of election fraud mandates were rejected by opposition parties.

References

October 2020 events
2020 elections
History of Georgia (country)
Musical improvisation

Musical improvisation is when musicians play a tune which does not exist yet. They play what comes to their mind. In the case of groups of musicians, they may have agreed on a few basic rules beforehand. Generally, improvisation requires a few skills:

 The person improvising must be able to play the instrument fairly well. 
 The person must know some basic rules or parameters on the kind of music played
 The person must be creative

Musical composition is different: With composition, people first write down and arrange the music, before playing it, with improvisation they play right away.

Musical performance techniques
Mtavari Arkhi

Mtavari Arkhi (translation: Main Channel) is a private television company in Georgia. It was founded on August 17, 2019. Zaza Okuashvili owns 40% of the channel, 12% - Nika Gvaramia. Most of the channel's team consists of people who left Rustavi 2.

It broadcasts throughout Georgia, both open air and via satellite, through cable operators and IP televisions.

References

Other websites
 Offical site
 
 
 

Television
2019 establishments
Georgia (country)
Nodar Dumbadze

Nodar Dumbadze (July 14, 1928 – September 4, 1984) was a famous Georgian writer.

Works

Novels 
 Granny, Iliko, Illarion, and I — 1960 
 I Can See the Sun — 1962
 The Sunny Night — 1967 
 Don’t Be Afraid, Mother! — 1971 
 The White Banners — 1973 
 The Law of Eternity — 1978

Short novels 
 Kukaracha — 1981

Short stories 
 Hellados
 What the falcon is doing in a city?!
 Sematary
 Chinkas
 Romani
 Khazarula
 Sun
 Diderot
 Dog
 Ungrateful
 Bullfighting
 Do not wake up
 Longing
 Mother
 Bird
 Blood
 Kantsi (horn)
 Timur
 Astvats! Inchu, Hamar!
 Taliko

1928 births
1984 deaths
Writers from Georgia (country)
Papurana garritor

The Eilogo Estate frog (Papurana garritor) is a frog from New Guinea and the d'Entrecasteaux Islands.  Scientists have seen it up to 1500 meters above sea level.

References

Animals of Oceania
Frogs
Bootle

Bootle is a town in Sefton, Merseyside.

Transport

Road 
The A565, A5057 and A5058 roads pass through Bootle.

Rail 
Bootle has two train stations: Bootle Oriel Road and Bootle New Strand.

Ferry 
There are ferries available to Dublin from Bootle. However, these are freight only.

References 

Towns in Merseyside
Terrence Scammell

Terrence Frederick Scammell (born January 10, 1958) is a Canadian voice director and voice actor living in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

In a career that has spanned more than 30 years, Scammell worked on hundreds of series, live-action films, documentaries and video games for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and production companies around the world.

Scammell received an BAFTA award for voicing the character of Darph Bobo and his directing work has been nominated for awards in Europe, the UK and North America.

He is married to writer and blogger Sheila Singhal and divides his time between Montreal and Ottawa. He is a member of BAFTA and the British Actors' Equity Association unions.

1955 births
Living people
English people
English voice actors
People from Manchester
Keith Wickham

Keith Wickham (born 9 February 1965) is a British voice actor, comedian and screenwriter known for providing the voice of Polluto in Tommy Zoom and various characters in the children's television series Thomas & Friends and Noddy's Toyland Adventures.

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Living people
1965 births
English comedians
Actors from Hertfordshire
English television actors
English voice actors
1966 Ballon d'Or

The 1966 Ballon d'Or was the 11th Ballon d'Or. It was awarded to Manchester United midfielder Bobby Charlton.

Rankings

Source: http://www.francefootball.fr/Ballon Or 1966

Other websites
 France Football Official Ballon d'Or page

1966 in sports
1960s in Europe
Association football
Sports trophies and awards
Narnia (world)

Narnia is a fantasy world from the book series The Chronicles of Narnia. It is run by Aslan, a lion. The population consists of smart talking animals.

Fictional locations
Level (video game)

Level in video games is a form of structure to progression in a video game.

Video games
Dafydd ap Gruffydd

Dafydd ap Gruffydd (11 July (?) 1238 – 3 October 1283) was Prince of Wales from 11 December 1282 until  on 3 October 1283. His execution was ordered by King Edward I of England. The execution was especially gruesome.

Daffyd was the last independent ruler of Wales.

References 

Welsh people
Executed people
1238 births
1283 deaths
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania

Shippensburg is a borough in Cumberland and Franklin counties in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 5,492 people lived here at the 2010 census.

References

Boroughs in Pennsylvania
Dan Newhouse

Daniel Milton Newhouse (born July 10, 1955) is an American politician and agricultural scientist. He is a member of the United States House of Representatives for  since 2015. 

Newhouse was director of the Washington Department of Agriculture and as a member of the Washington House of Representatives from 2009 to 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Newhouse announced his support for the second impeachment of Donald Trump on January 13, 2021, following the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.

References

1955 births
Living people
United States representatives from Washington
Scientists from Washington
US Republican Party politicians
Caroly Wilcox

Caroly Wilcox (born Carolyn Wilcox; May 16, 1931 – January 9, 2021) was an American puppeteer and theatrical designer. She was best known for her work with the Muppets. She was in Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, and Fraggle Rock, and in The Muppet Movie and The Muppets Take Manhattan.

Wilcox died on January 9, 2021, aged 89 years.

References

Other websites
 

1931 births
2021 deaths
American puppeteers
People from Pennsylvania
Edward Beard

Edward Peter Beard (January 20, 1940 – January 11, 2021) was an American businessman and Democratic politician. He was a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1972 to 1974.

Beard was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district from 1975 to 1981. He unsuccessfully ran again for the U.S. House in 1990.

Beard was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He died on January 11, 2021 in Providence from problems caused by Parkinson's disease, aged 80.

References

1940 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
United States representatives from Rhode Island
Businesspeople from Rhode Island
Politicians from Rhode Island
People from Providence, Rhode Island
US Democratic Party politicians
Claudia and David

Claudia and David is a 1946 American comedy movie directed by Walter Lang and is the sequel to the 1943 movie Claudia and also based on the short stories by Rose Franken. It stars Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Mary Astor, John Sutton, Gail Patrick, Rose Hobart, Harry Davenport, Florence Bates and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.

Other websites
 
 
 

1946 movies
1940s comedy movies
American comedy movies
Movies based on short stories
20th Century Fox movies
Movies directed by Walter Lang
Tord Peterson

Tord Peterson (21 April 1926 – 11 January 2021) was a Swedish actor. He was in more than 80 movies and television shows from 1953 to 2013. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden.

Peterson was in The Shot (1969), Grisjakten (1970), Honeymoon (1972), House of Angels (1992), House of Angels – The Second Summer (1994) and Echoes from the Dead (2013).

Peterson died on 11 January 2021 in Stockholm, aged 94.

References

Other websites

1926 births
2021 deaths
Swedish movie actors
Swedish television actors
Actors from Stockholm
Football League Third Division South

The Third Division South was a former 3rd tier in the English Football League. It existed between 1921 to 1958. It ran along side the Football League Third Division North. Teams could be elected to the league, or relegated from Football League Second Division allocated to one or the other according to the team's geographical position.

Champions

Related pages
 Football League Third Division
 Football League Third Division North

1920s establishments in England
1921 establishments in Europe
20th-century disestablishments in England
1950s disestablishments in the United Kingdom
1958 disestablishments
Football in England
English Football League
Fred Levin

Fredric Gerson Levin (March 29, 1937 – January 12, 2021) was an American lawyer and philanthropist. He worked for Levin Papantonio Law Firm in Florida. The Fredric G. Levin College of Law at the University of Florida is named for him because of a donation he made to the school in 1999. He was born in Pensacola, Florida.

In January 2016, Levin was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died from COVID-19 in Gainesville, Florida on January 12, 2021 at the age of 83.

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1937 births
2021 deaths
People with cancer
Lawyers from Florida
American philanthropists
Businesspeople from Florida
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
People from Pensacola, Florida
Álvaro Mejía (athlete)

Álvaro Mejía Florez (15 May 1940 – 12 January 2021) was a Colombian long-distance runner. He competed in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games 5,000 meter final. He was born in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia.

Mejía competed in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics in the 10,000 meters and in the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Mejía also won the 1971 Boston Marathon. He won a bronze medal at the 1971 Pan American Games in the 10,000 metres. Mejía won the Saint Silvester Road Race in 1966.

Mejía died on 12 January 2021 in Bogotá, Colombia at the age of 80.

References

1940 births
2021 deaths
Competitors in athletics
Olympians
Ndubuisi Kanu

Ndubuisi Godwin Kanu (November 3, 1943 – January 13, 2021) was a Nigerian Navy rear admiral and politician. He was the Imo State Governor from 1976 to 1977 and Lagos State Governor from 1977 to 1978. 

Kanu died on January 13, 2021 at the age of 77.

References

1943 births
2021 deaths
Nigerian politicians
Seyoum Mesfin

Seyoum Mesfin Gebredingel  (25 January 1949 – 13 January 2021) was an Ethiopian politician. He was Ethiopia's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1991 until September 2010. He was Ethiopia's Ambassador to the People's Republic of China from 2010 until 2017. Mesfin was born in Adigrat, Ethiopia. He was a member of the People's Revolutionary Democratic Front.

Seyoum was killed during the Tigray War by the Ethiopian National Defense Force on 13 January 2021, aged 71.

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1949 births
2021 deaths
Ethiopian politicians
Ambassadors to China
Deaths by firearm
Joël Robert

Joël Robert (26 November 1943 – 13 January 2021) was a Belgian professional motocross racer. He was one of the most successful motocross racers competing in the Motocross World Championships during the 1960s and early 1970s.

Robert died on 13 January 2021 in Gilly, Belgium, aged 77. He was in a coma after having a heart attack while being treated with COVID-19.

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1943 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Belgian sportspeople
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium
Eusébio Scheid

Eusébio Oscar Scheid, S.C.J. (8 December 1932 – 13 January 2021) was a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro from 2001 to 2009. He was born in Luzerna, Brazil.

Scheid was Bishop of São José dos Campos from 1981 to 1991 and Archbishop of Florianópolis from 1991 to 2001.

Scheid died on 13 January 2021 in São José dos Campos, Brazil from pneumonia caused by COVID-19, aged 88.

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1932 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic bishops
Brazilian people
Philip Tartaglia

Philip Tartaglia (11 January 1951 – 13 January 2021) was a Scottish bishop of the Catholic Church.  He was the Metropolitan Archbishop of Glasgow from 2012 until 2021.  He was the Bishop of Paisley from 2005 to 2012. Tartaglia was born in Glasgow, Scotland.

Tartaglia died on 13 January 2021 at his home in Glasgow from COVID-19 at the age of 70.

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1951 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
Roman Catholic bishops
People from Glasgow
Maguito Vilela

Maguito Vilela (24 January 1949 – 13 January 2021) was a Brazilian politician and lawyer. He was Governor of Goiás from 1995 to 1998. He was also a member of the Brazilian Senate from 1999 to 2007. For a short time in January 2021, he was Mayor of Goiânia.

Vilela died on 13 January 2021 in Goiânia from COVID-19, aged 71.

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1949 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
Brazilian politicians
Brazilian lawyers
Kathleen Heddle

Kathleen Joan Heddle,  (November 27, 1965 – January 11, 2021) was a Canadian rower. She won two gold medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1996 Summer Olympics. Heddle also won a bronze medal in 1996. In 1997, Heddle was awarded the Order of British Columbia and was honored into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. Heddle was born in Trail, British Columbia.

Heddle died on January 11, 2021 in Vancouver, British Columbia from breast cancer and lymphoma, aged 55.

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1965 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from breast cancer
Deaths from lymphoma
Canadian Olympic gold medalists
Canadian Olympic bronze medalists
Rowers
Sportspeople from British Columbia
Koiné language

A koiné language, koiné dialect, or simply koiné (Ancient Greek κοινή, "common [language]") is a standard language or dialect made by people who speak closely related languages or dialects in order to be able to talk and write to each other easily. They are created by combining phonology, vocabulary, and grammar from the different dialects (or sometimes creating new words and grammar based on the same methods earlier this sentence). The name of the term comes from Koine Greek, which was a common dialect used by Greeks to talk and write to Greeks from other city states.

This is not to be confused with pidgins or creoles because those are languages that are created for people who speak unrelated, or distantly related, languages.

Examples 

 Koine Greek
 High German
 Standard Mandarin
 British English Received Pronunciation
General American English
Maghrebi Arabic
Mashriqi Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic
Standard Japanese
Standard Italian
Mexican Spanish
Peninsular Spanish

Pidgins and creoles
European storm petrel

The European storm petrel, British storm petrel, or just storm petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus) is a small seabid. It lives in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean, around the coasts of Europe. Note that storm petrel can also refer to another group of birds, which mainly occur in the New World.

Storm petrels spend almost their whole life at sea. For breeding the come to shore, where they breed in large colonies. The bird has a well-developed sense of smell. It uses this to find its nest, or to find food, at night. In Europe, they can occasionally be seen at the Belgian coast, the Netherlands and the coast of Schleswig-Holstein. 

It is one of the smallest seabirds. Its length is  and wingspan about . It weights about .It is usually black, with a white patch. The biggest known colony is probably that on Nólsoy, on the Faroe Islands. The birds can mainly be found in the ocean between Iceland, the Lofoten and the Faroe Islands.

References

Birds of Europe
Procellariiformes
Stacey Plaskett

Stacey Plaskett (born May 13, 1966) is an American politician, lawyer and commentator. She is the fifth delegate for the United States House of Representatives from the United States Virgin Islands' at large congressional district. Plaskett is a member of the Democratic Party.

Plaskett has practiced law in New York City, Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Plaskett was born in Brooklyn, New York.

References

1966 births
African American politicians
US Democratic Party politicians
Politicians from Brooklyn
Lawyers from New York City
Living people
Lauriana Mae

Lauriana Mae (born January 18, 1983) is an American pop, R&B and soul singer-songwriter. She has collaborated with other singers, including CeeLo Green, B.o.B. and Kwamé. She performed guest vocals with Green on "Only You". That led to a performance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show on April 17, 2013.

Mae released her first extended play, Love Mae, in 2011. In 2015, she released an extended play called City of Diamonds. The  record had R&B and hip hop on it.

In 2016, Mae released a mixtape, Can't Go Back. She released the studio album Small Town City Dreams in 2019.

Mae was born in Red Bank, New Jersey.

References

1983 births
American singer-songwriters
Singers from New Jersey
American R&B singers
American pop singers
Living people
Marielle de Sarnez

Marielle de Sarnez ( ; 27 March 1951 – 13 January 2021) was a French politician. He was a member of the Democratic Movement. In 2017, De Sarnez was elected a member of the National Assembly.

De Sarnez was Minister for European Affairs in the Édouard Philippe cabinet from May to June 2017. From 1999 to 2017, she was Member of the European Parliament. 

De Sarnez was born in Paris. She was married to Philippe Augier. De Sarnez died of leukaemia in Pairs on 13 January 2021, aged 69.

References

1951 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from leukemia
Politicians from Paris
MEPs for France
Former MEPs
Cancer deaths in France
Theodoros Mitras

Theodoros Mitras (14 May 1948 – 12 January 2021) was a Greek politician and lawyer. He was born in Katerini, Greece. He was a member of the New Democracy Party. Mitras was a member of the Hellenic Parliament from 1993 to 1996. 

Mitras died on 12 January 2021 in Thessaloniki, Greece at the age of 72.

References

1948 births
2021 deaths
Greek politicians
Greek lawyers
Herbert Kroemer

Herbert Kroemer (born August 25, 1928) is a German-American physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for "developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics". 

Kroemer is professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

References

1928 births
Living people
Naturalized citizens of the United States
German physicists
American physicists
People from Weimar
Jack Kilby

Jack St. Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005) was an American electrical engineer. He helped discover the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958. 

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 2000.  Kilby was also the co-inventor of the handheld calculator and the thermal printer.

References

1923 births
2005 deaths
Engineers from Missouri
American inventors
Scientists from Missouri
Scientists from Dallas, Texas
Cancer deaths in Texas
Daniel McFadden

Daniel Little McFadden (born July 29, 1937) is an American econometrician. He won the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with James Heckman. He won the prize "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice". 

He is the Presidential Professor of Health Economics at the University of Southern California and Professor of the Graduate School at University of California, Berkeley.

References

1937 births
Living people
American economists
Scientists from North Carolina
People from Raleigh, North Carolina
James Heckman

James Joseph Heckman (born April 19, 1944) is an American economist. He won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2000. He works at the University of Chicago. He is Co-Director of Human Capital and Economic Opportunity (HCEO) Global Working Group.

References

1944 births
Living people
American economists
Scientists from Chicago
Gallant Journey

Gallant Journey (also known as The Great Highway) is a 1946 American drama movie directed by William A. Wellman and starring Glenn Ford, Janet Blair, Charles Ruggles, Henry Travers, Charles Kemper, Arthur Shields, Willard Robertson. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures.

Other websites
 

1946 drama movies
American drama movies
Movies directed by William A. Wellman
Hideki Shirakawa

is a Japanese chemist and engineer. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Zhejiang University. He is best known for his discovery of conductive polymers. He won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger.

Shirakawa was born in Tokyo. He studied at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is a critic of the Nobel Prize and its media coverage.

References

1936 births
Living people
Japanese chemists
Japanese engineers
Scientists from Tokyo
Alan J. Heeger

Alan Jay Heeger (born January 22, 1936) is an American physicist and academic. He won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He won the prize with Alan G. MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa "for their discovery and development of conductive polymers".

Heeger was born in Sioux City, Iowa, to a Jewish family. He grew up in Akron, Iowa.

References

1936 births
Living people
American physicists
American chemists
American academics
Scientists from Iowa
People from Sioux City, Iowa
Educators from Iowa
Code of the Samurai

is the hack & slash video game for the PlayStation 2. Published by Red Entertainment, and developed by Sega (Japan version) & also by Midas Interactive Entertainment (Europe version).

Overview
Player can play as Soji Okita and Hijikata Toshizo, where their mission began to getting breed bandits in Kyoto. Each time you played Okita, an arrow will be displayed insanity, while you face the ronin. And at the same time, you can make a gap attack you created, and your attack will level-up instantly. For example, if you choose Harada Sanosuke , the attack power will increased significanly, but the defense power will slow down decreases.

List of Shinsengumi characters

Main characters
 Soji Okita
 Harada Sanosuke
 Hijikata Toshizo

Villain characters
 Ryoma Sakamoto
 Izou Okada
 Saigō Takamori

Other websites
Official Site of Code of the Samurai 

PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
2005 video games
Sega video games
Video games developed in Japan
Wolfgang Ketterle

Wolfgang Ketterle (born 21 October 1957) is a German physicist. He is a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His works focused on experiments that trap and cool atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero. 

He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, together with Eric Allin Cornell and Carl Wieman.

References

1957 births
Living people
German physicists
People from Heidelberg
Carl Wieman

Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, 1951) is an American physicist. He works at Stanford University. 

In 1995, while at the University of Colorado Boulder, he and Eric Allin Cornell created the first true Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC). In 2001, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

References

1951 births
Living people
American physicists
Scientists from Oregon
Anthony James Leggett

Sir Anthony James Leggett  (born 26 March 1938) is a British theoretical physicist. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

Leggett is known for his theory of low-temperature physics. He won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics.

References

1938 births
Living people
British physicists
Scientists from London
Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek (; born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004. Jelinek was born in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria.

Her best known works are The Piano Teacher, Die Kinder der Toten, Greed and Lust.

References

1946 births
Living people
Austrian playwrights
Novelists
David Gross

David Jonathan Gross (; born February 19, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of asymptotic freedom. Gross is the Chancellor's Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). 

He is a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

References

1941 births
Living people
American physicists
Scientists from Washington, D.C.
Philip III of France

Philip III or Philip the Bold (1245 - 5 October 1285) was King of France from 1270 until 1285.

References

Kings and Queens of France
Hugh David Politzer

Hugh David Politzer (; born August 31, 1949) is an American theoretical physicist. He is the Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and Frank Wilczek for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics. He was born in New York City.

References

1949 births
Living people
American physicists
Scientists from New York City
Frank Wilczek

Frank Anthony Wilczek (; born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist and mathematician. He works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Wilczek, along with David Gross and H. David Politzer, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction."

References

1951 births
Living people
American physicists
Scientists from New York
American mathematicians
John L. Hall

John Lewis "Jan" Hall (born August 21, 1934) is an American physicist. He won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics with Theodor W. Hänsch and Roy Glauber for his work in precision spectroscopy.

References

1934 births
Living people
American physicists
Scientists from Denver, Colorado
Theodor W. Hänsch

Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch (born 30 October 1941) is a German physicist. He won one fourth of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique" sharing the prize with John L. Hall and Roy J. Glauber.

Other websites
Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics
United States Patents by Theodor Hansch
Hänsch's homepage at the MPI for Quantum Optics
A video interview with Theodor Hänsch
Hänsch's homepage at LENS(Firenze) 
 Group photograph taken at Lasers '95 including (right to left) Marlan Scully, Theodor W. Hänsch, Carl E. Wieman, and F. J. Duarte.

1941 births
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People from Weimar
Tim Bogert

John Voorhis "Tim" Bogert III (August 27, 1944 – January 13, 2021) was an American blues rock singer-songwriter and bassist. He was born in New York City. Bogert played with Carmine Appice and appeared with Vanilla Fudge, Cactus and the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice.

Bogert died on January 13, 2021 at the age of 76.

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Carmine Appice

Carmine Appice ( ) (born December 15, 1946) is an American drummer and percussionist. He played with Vanilla Fudge; Cactus; the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice; Rod Stewart; King Kobra; and Blue Murder.

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Margo St. James

Margaret Jean St. James (September 12, 1937 – January 11, 2021) was an American women's rights activist and sex worker. In 1973 she started the organization COYOTE and St. James Infirmary Clinic. COYOTE is a medical and social service organization helping sex workers in San Francisco. St. James was born in Bellingham, Washington. 

St. James died on January 11, 2021 under hospice care in San Francisco, aged 83.

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Karim

Karim is an Arabic name with a female and male form, the male form is Kareem. It means "generous", "noble", or "honorable".

Given name
Karim
 Prince Karim Aga Khan, Imām of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims
 Karim Benzema, French footballer
 Karim Haggui, Tunisian footballer
 Karim Masimov, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan

Kareem
 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born 1947), American basketball player
Makoto Kobayashi (physicist)

is a Japanese physicist. He is known for his work on CP-violation. He won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."

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Toshihide Maskawa

was a Japanese theoretical physicist. He is known for his work on CP-violation. He won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."

Maskawa died on July 23, 2021 in Kyoto, Japan from jaw cancer at the age of 81.

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Andre Geim

Sir Andre K. Geim  (; born 21 October 1958) is a Russian-born Dutch-British physicist. He works at the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.

Geim was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics with Konstantin Novoselov for his work on graphene. 

He is Regius Professor of Physics and Royal Society Research Professor at the National Graphene Institute. He was born in Sochi, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.

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Konstantin Novoselov

Sir Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov  (; born  1974) is a Russian-British physicist. He is a Professor at the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, National University of Singapore. 

His work on graphene with Andre Geim won them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010.

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Saul Perlmutter

Saul Perlmutter (born September 22, 1959) is an American astrophysicist. He worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Perlmutter won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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People from Champaign, Illinois
Adam Riess

Adam Guy Riess (born December 16, 1969) is an American astrophysicist. He works at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. 

Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt for "providing evidence that the accelerating expansion of the universe".

In 2020, Riess was made fellow of the American Astronomical Society.

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1969 births
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Serge Haroche

Serge Haroche (born 11 September 1944) is a French physicist. He won 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics with David J. Wineland for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems".

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1944 births
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Moroccan scientists
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David J. Wineland

David Jeffrey Wineland (born February 24, 1944) is an American physicist. He works at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physics laboratory. He was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics with Serge Haroche for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems". He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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1944 births
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Mo Yan

Guan Moye (; born 17 February 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (, ), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. 

He is best known to Western readers for his 1987 novel  Red Sorghum Clan. In 2012, Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".

Related pages
List of Chinese writers

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1955 births
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Isamu Akasaki

was a Japanese engineer and physicist. He was best known for inventing the bright gallium nitride (GaN) p-n junction blue LED in 1989.

Akasaki was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology in 2009. He was also awarded the 2014 Nobel prize in Physics with Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources".

Akasaki died on April 1, 2021 at his home in Nagoya, Japan from pneumonia, aged 92.

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Hiroshi Amano

is a Japanese physicist, engineer and inventor. His work focused on semiconductor technology. He won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura for "the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources".

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1960 births
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Shuji Nakamura

is a Japanese-born American electronic engineer. He is a professor at the Materials Department of the College of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He is known as the inventor of the blue LED. 

With Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, he is one of the three winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics.

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Patrick Modiano

Jean Patrick Modiano (; born 30 July 1945), generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist. He won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for Rue des boutiques obscures.

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1945 births
Living people
French novelists
Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet

The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet (Arabic: الرباعي التونسي للحوار الوطني‎, French: Quartet du dialogue national) is a group of four civil society organizations. They focus on democracy and the constitutional settlement in Tunisia.

The quartet was formed in the summer of 2013 after a political crisis. 

On 9 October 2015, the quartet was awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Tunisia
Takaaki Kajita

is a Japanese physicist. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics with Canadian physicist Arthur B. McDonald.

On 1 October 2020, he became the president of the Science Council of Japan.

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1959 births
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William C. Campbell (scientist)

William Cecil Campbell (born 28 June 1930) is an Irish-born American biologist and parasitologist. He is known for his work in discovering a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworms. He won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He helped to discover a class of drugs called ivermectins. 

Campbell worked at the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research and is currently a research fellow emeritus at Drew University.

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1930 births
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Duncan Haldane

Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane   (born 14 September 1951), known as F. Duncan Haldane, is a British-born physicist. He is the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics at Princeton University. He is a co-recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with David J. Thouless and J. Michael Kosterlitz.

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1951 births
Living people
British physicists
Slovenian scientists
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International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons is a global civil society group working to support and promote the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. ICAN was launched in 2007 and counts 541 partner organizations in 103 countries as of 2019.

The campaign received the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize "for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons."

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2007 establishments
Nuclear weapons
Peter Fenwick

Peter Brooke Cadogan Fenwick (born 25 May 1935) is a British neuropsychiatrist and neurophysiologist. He is known for his studies of epilepsy and end-of-life phenomena.

Fenwick is a senior lecturer at King's College, London. He works as a consultant at the Institute of Psychiatry.

Works
 The Art of Dying (Continuum, 2008)
 Past Lives: An Investigation into Reincarnation Memories (Berkley, 2001)
 The Hidden Door: Understanding and Controlling Dreams (Berkley Publishing Group, 1999)
 The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences (Berkley Trade, 1997)
 Living with Epilepsy (Bloomsbury, 1996)

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Other websites
The Truth in Light Book Review by Anthony Campbell
Peter Fenwick's YouTube Channel

1935 births
Living people
British writers
British neuroscientists
British psychiatrists
British physiologists
Deathbed phenomena

Deathbed phenomena is many experiences seen by people who are dying. There are many examples of deathbed phenomena in both non-fiction and fictional literature.

In scientific literature, they have been called as death-related sensory experiences (DRSE). Dying patients have reported to staff working in hospices they have experienced comforting visions.

Modern scientists think that the deathbed phenomena and visions are hallucinations.

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Death
Gilda

Gilda is a 1946 American romantic drama movie directed by Charles Vidor and starring Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Joe Sawyer, Steven Geray, George Macready, Joseph Calleia, Don Douglas, Gerald Mohr. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures.

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Argentine drama movies
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Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (; 6 May 1918 – 2 November 2004) was the ruler of Abu Dhabi for more than 30 years (6 August 1966 – 2 November 2004). 

He was the main builder of the United Arab Emirates. He was the Union's first Raʾīs (President), a post which he held for almost 33 years (1971 until his death in 2004). He is known as the "Father of the Nation".

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Storm petrel

Storm petrel may mean one of two bird families, both in the order Procellariiformes, once treated as the same family.

The two families are:
Northern storm petrels (Hydrobatidae) are found in the Northern Hemisphere, although some species around the Equator dip into the south.

Austral storm petrels (Oceanitidae) are found in all oceans, although only white-faced storm petrels (breeding in the North Atlantic, in addition to the Southern Ocean) and Wilson's storm petrels (on migration) are found in the Northern Hemisphere.
Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3

Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 is a children's book written by Bill Martin, Jr. and Michael Sampson. The book features anthropomorphized numbers.

Children's books
Mathematics books
Continental philosophers

Continental philosophers are a group of philosophers mainly from continental Europe (especially France and Germany). Continental philosophy includes philosophical movements from the 19th century and after. The term became popular among researchers in England after World War II. It is often used to separate from analytic philosophy. Being a philosopher from continental Europe is not quite the same as being a continental philosopher. Some continental philosophers are from other parts of the world.

There are many movements within continental philosophy, such as: critical theory, deconstruction, existentialism, German idealism, Hegelianism, Marxism, Nietzscheanism, phenomenology, postmodernism, and others.

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Papurana supragrisea

The Papua gray frog (Papurana supragrisea) is a frog from New Guinea.  Scientists have seen it on the southeast peninsual and the d'Entrecasteaux Islands and they think it may live in other places as well.

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Animals of Oceania
Frogs
2020–21 United States Senate election in Georgia

An election happened to elect a Senator from the U.S. state of Georgia. There were two rounds on November 3, 2020; and January 5, 2021. The two people in last round of the election were Jon Ossoff (Democratic Party) and David Perdue (Republican Party). 

Primary elections happened on June 9, 2020. The Republican Party primary only had one person, David Perdue, as he was Senator before the election. There were many people in the Democratic Party primary, and Jon Oscoff won. These went against Libertarian Party candidate Shane T. Hazel. Nobody got more than 50% of the vote, so the top two (Oscoff and Perdue) went to a second round in January. Ossoff won the second round and became Senator.

Democratic Party primary

Republican Party primary

Results

First round

Second round

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2020s in Georgia (U.S. state)
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Echinococcosis

Echinococcosis is an infection caused by tapeworms. Animals such as dogs and sheep are able to transmit the disease. Risk factors are coming in contact with feces of livestock, dogs and foxes. Humans become infected swallowing tapeworm eggs in the contaminated food. Then eggs can spread to liver, lungs and brain forming cysts. That is why Echinococcosis is also called Hydatid cyst disease. Cysts can be found using ultrasound, computer tomography, or magnetic resonance imaging. To confirm the diagnosis ELISA, immunological test should be done. Treatment includes antiparasitic medications. Surgical intervention such as cyst aspiration is recommended to avoid to prevent to spread of the infection.

Diseases
Mulyadi Tamsir

Mulyadi P. Tamsir (8 April 1981 – 9 January 2021) was an Indonesian student activist and politician. He was a member the People's Conscience Party. He was the chairman of the Muslim Students' Association from 2015 until 2018. Tamsir was born in Lampung, Indonesia. 

Tamsir was killed in a plane crash on 9 January 2021 outside Jakarta near the Java Sea, aged 39.

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