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How to Train Your Dragon 2

How to Train Your Dragon 2 is a 2014 3D American computer-animated action fantasy movie and the second installment in the series. A sequel to How to Train Your Dragon, It is directed and written by Dean DeBlois, It stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller, and Kristen Wiig.

Voice cast 

 Jay Baruchel as Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
 America Ferrera as Astrid Hofferson
 Cate Blanchett as Valka
 Gerard Butler as Stoick the Vast
 Craig Ferguson as Gobber the Belch
 Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Fishlegs Ingerman
 Jonah Hill as Snotlout Jorgenson
 T.J. Miller and Kristen Wiig as Tuffnut and Ruffnut Thorston
 Djimon Hounsou as Drago Bludvist
 Kit Harington as Eret

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2014 movies
2010s 3D movies
2014 action movies
2014 animated movies
2010s fantasy movies
American animated movies
American action movies
American fantasy movies
Wuthering Heights (1939 movie)

Wuthering Heights is a 1939 American romantic period movie directed by William Wyler and is the second adaption of the 1847 novel of the same name by Emily Brontë. It stars Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, David Niven, Flora Robinson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Hugh Williams, Donald Crisp, Leo G. Carroll and was distributed by United Artists. It was nominated for 8 Oscars and won an Academy Award in 1940.

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1939 movies
1930s romance movies
1930s drama movies
1930s romantic drama movies
American romantic drama movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by William Wyler
No-hair theorem

The no-hair theorem is about black holes.  
Black holes can be described by just three visible properties: mass, electric charge, and angular momentum, or spin. 

The theory itself was first stated by Werner Israel, a Canadian physicist. Then John Archibald Wheeler said that black holes have no hairs. This gave the idea its name. What he meant was: except for these three properties, no other properties can be got from a black hole. However, Wheeler said that Jacob Bekenstein coined the phrase.

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Black holes
Riders of Destiny

Riders of Destiny is a 1933 American western movie directed by Robert N. Bradbury and starring John Wayne, Cecilia Parker, Forrest Taylor, George Gabby Hayes, Al St. John, Heinie Conklin, Yakima Canutt. It was distributed by Monogram Pictures.

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1933 movies
1930s western movies
American western movies
Movies directed by Robert N. Bradbury
Lipstick feminism

Lipstick feminism is a kind of feminism that originated with third wave feminism of the 1990s and 2000s. In the first two waves, feminists fought for ideas such as being able to vote in elections. Lipstick feminists still see themselves as feminists, but they also want to keep some of their attributes as women, such as their sexuality, or attractiveness. Women like Zora Neale Hurston and Emma Goldman have argued that by using philosophical ideas of aesthetics and ideas of femininity, it is possible to empower and analyze the ways that gender works in daily life.
Lipstick feminists also want ot use certain derogatory words, such as slut, and use them in positive ways. There is a SlutWalk movement, which fights against victim blaming in rapes.

Feminism
Knick knack

Knickknacks or knick knacks are small objects. Usually knick knacks are not useful. They are usually pretty or interesting.

Other meanings 

There are many words that mean the same thing as knick knack. 
bauble
bric-a-brac
trinket
gimcrack
tchotchke
geegaw

References

Collecting
The Gay Sisters

The Gay Sisters is a 1942 American romantic drama movies directed by Irving Rapper and was based on the novel by Stephen Longstreet. It stars Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, Gig Young, Nancy Coleman, Donald Woods, Larry Simms and was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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1942 movies
1940s romance movies
1940s drama movies
American romantic drama movies
Warner Bros. movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by Irving Rapper
Counting Stars

"Counting Stars" is a song by pop rock band OneRepublic, from their third studio album, Native. The song was released as a second single of the album, on June 14, 2013. It became gold in the UK by number of sold copies.

OneRepublic songs
2013 songs
Pollock, Louisiana

Pollock is a small town in Grant Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Towns in Grant Parish, Louisiana
Washington, Louisiana

Washington is a small town in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Towns in Louisiana
Forest Hill, Louisiana

Forest Hill is a village in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Villages in Louisiana
The General Died at Dawn

The General Died at Dawn is a 1936 American adventure drama movie directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Akim Tamiroff, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall, William Frawley, Philip Ahn. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures and was nominated for 3 Academy Awards in 1937.

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1936 movies
1930s adventure movies
1930s drama movies
American adventure movies
American drama movies
Movies directed by Lewis Milestone
Paramount Pictures movies
October 1974 United Kingdom general election

A general election was held on the 10 October 1974 to elect all 635 members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The Labour Party won the election with a very small majority of 3 seats and Harold Wilson stayed as Prime Minister.

This was the second general election to happen in 1974. The last election in February ended in a hung parliament and no parties wanted to start a coalition government. This meant Labour had to start a minority government. This is why a second election was held, because governments are very hard to run if they do not have a majority.

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1974 in Europe
1970s elections in the United Kingdom
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February 1974 United Kingdom general election

A general election was held on 28 February 1974 to elect all 635 members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The election ended in a hung parliament as no party had a majority. Nobody agreed to start a coalition, so Labour had to start a minority government (as they had won the most seats), and Harold Wilson became Prime Minister.

It is very hard to run a government if the party has no majority, and so the House of Commons agreed to hold another general election in October. This was done so that a party could win a majority.

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1974 in Europe
1970s elections in the United Kingdom
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Cream puff

A cream puff is a French dessert made out of a pastry ball filled with whipped cream, custard, pastry cream, or ice cream. A cream puff can also be called a profiterole or a chou à la crème.

French food
Desserts
1970 United Kingdom general election

A general election was held on 18 June 1970 to elect all 630 members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The Conservative Party won the election and Edward Heath became Prime Minister.

Most people thought that the Labour Party would win the election and it was a surprise that the Conservatives won. Opinion polls had showed Labour ahead, but were wrong. This was the first election where people aged over 18 could vote, instead of 21.

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1970
1970s elections in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom general elections
Cranberry Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania

Cranberry Township is a town in Butler County, Pennsylvania. 28,098 people lived there in 2010.

Surrounding neighborhoods
Cranberry Township has seven borders, including Jackson Township to the north, Forward Township at its northeast corner, Adams Township to the east, Seven Fields to the southeast, Pine Township and Marshall Township to the south, and New Sewickley Township to the west.

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Townships in Pennsylvania
The Garden of Allah (1936 movie)

The Garden of Allah is a 1936 American romantic adventure drama movie directed by Richard Boleslawski and is the third version of the 1904 novel of the same name by Robert S. Hichens. It stars Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith, John Carradine, Lucile Watson and was distributed by United Artists. It was nominated for 3 Oscars and won an Academy Award in 1937.

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1936 movies
1930s adventure movies
1930s romance movies
1930s drama movies
American romantic drama movies
1930s American adventure movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by Richard Boleslawski
Michaela Conlin

Michaela Conlin (born June 9, 1978) is an American actress. Conlin is best known for her role as Angela Montenegro on the Fox crime procedural comedy-drama Bones. Conlin was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

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1978 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American voice actors
Actors from Pennsylvania
People from Allentown, Pennsylvania
Niki Caro

Nikola Jean Caro  (born 20 September 1966) is a New Zealand movie director and screenwriter. She is best known for directing the 2002 movie  Whale Rider and the 2020 live action version of Disney's Mulan.

References

1966 births
Living people
New Zealand movie directors
New Zealand screenwriters
People from Wellington
John King (journalist)

John King (born August 30, 1963) is an American news anchor. He is CNN's chief national correspondent and is an anchor for Inside Politics. He is the former anchor of State of the Union, as well as John King, USA. 

King is known for his data breakdown on CNN during election cycles such as congressional, primary and presidential elections.

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1963 births
Living people
American television news anchors
CNN people
American political commentators
Writers from Boston, Massachusetts
Dolf de Vries

Dolf de Vries (11 July 1937 – 5 December 2020) was a Dutch actor and writer. He was born in The Hague. He was known for his roles as Paul in Turkish Delight (1973), Jacques in Soldier of Orange (1977), Dr. de Vries in The Fourth Man (1983) and as Mr. Smaal in Black Book (2006).

de Vries died on 5 December 2020 in The Hague at the age of 83.

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1937 births
2020 deaths
Dutch movie actors
Dutch television actors
Dutch stage actors
Dutch voice actors
Writers from The Hague
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 movie)

The Charge of the Light Brigade is a 1936 American adventure movie directed by Michael Curtiz and was based on the 1854 poem of the same name by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce, Donald Crisp, David Niven, Spring Byington and was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was nominated for 3 Oscars and won an Academy Award in 1937 and was remade in 1968.

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1936 movies
1930s adventure movies
1930s American adventure movies
Movies based on books
Warner Bros. movies
Movies directed by Michael Curtiz
Winterset (movie)

Winterset is a 1936 American crime drama movie directed by Alfred Santell and was based on the 1935 play of the same name by Maxwell Anderson. It stars Burgess Meredith (in his film debut), Margo, Eduardo Ciannelli, Maurice Moscovitch, Stanley Ridges, Willard Robertson, Alec Craig and was distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. It was nominated for 2 Academy Awards in 1937.

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1936 movies
1930s crime movies
1930s drama movies
American crime drama movies
Movies based on books
Jack Scarbath

John (Jack) Carl Scarbath (August 12, 1930December 6, 2020) was a professional American football quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins and Pittsburgh Steelers.  He was honored into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983. Scarbath was born in Baltimore, Maryland.

Scarbath died on December 6, 2020 in Rising Sun, Maryland from congestive heart failure, aged 90.

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1930 births
2020 deaths
Washington Redskins players
Pittsburgh Steelers players
Deaths from congestive heart failure
American football quarterbacks
Sportspeople from Baltimore
Rising Sun, Maryland

Rising Sun is a town in Cecil County, Maryland, United States. The population was 2,781 at the 2010 census.

References

Towns in Maryland
Pumza Dyantyi

Pumza Patricia Dyantyi (5 September 19487 December 2020) was a South African politician and anti-apartheid activist. She was a member of the African National Congress. Dyantyi was elected to the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature in 2014. She was the Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Health from 2014 to 2018. From 2019 Dyantyi was a member of the South African National Assembly.

Dyantyi died on 7 December 2020 at the age of 78.

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1948 births
2020 deaths
South African politicians
Political activists
Howard Wales

Howard Wales (February 8, 1943 — December 7, 2020) was an American rock jazz keyboardist. He was best known for his works with Jerry Garcia in the early 1970s. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His works include 1970 Grateful Dead album American Beauty.  He played organ on the songs "Truckin'" and "Candyman", and piano on "Brokedown Palace".

Wales died on December 7, 2020 in Redding, California from a cerebral hemorrhage, aged 77.

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1943 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from cerebral hemorrhage
American rock musicians
American folk musicians
American keyboard players
Musicians from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Harold Budd

Harold Montgomory Budd (May 24, 1936December 8, 2020) was an American avant-garde composer and poet. He was known for his works with Brian Eno and Robin Guthrie. 

Budd died on December 8, 2020 from COVID-19 in Los Angeles at the age of 84.

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1936 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
American composers
American poets
American pianists
American jazz musicians
Musicians from Los Angeles
Writers from Los Angeles
Raffaele Pinto

Raffaele "Lele" Pinto (13 April 1945 – 8 December 2020) was an Italian rally driver. He won the 1974 Rally Portugal and the 1978 Rally Sanremo. His career lasted from 1973 to 1978. Pinto was born in Casnate, Italy. 

Pinto died on 8 December 2020 in Cecina, Tuscany at the age of 75.

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1945 births
2020 deaths
Italian racecar drivers
Cecina, Tuscany

Cecina () is a comune (municipality) of  28,322 people living here in the Province of Livorno in the Italian region Tuscany. It is located about  southwest of Florence and about  southeast of Livorno.

References

Settlements in Tuscany
Alejandro Sabella

Alejandro Javier Sabella (; 5 November 19548 December 2020) was an Argentine football player and manager. 

He began his playing career with River Plate. He moved to England in 1978 to play for Sheffield United. 

Sabella was known as "Alex" while in England. He played for Leeds United, before returning to South America and representing Estudiantes, Grêmio, Ferro Carril Oeste and Irapuato.

From 1983 to 1984, he managed the national team.

Sabella died of heart failure caused by a virus on 8 December 2020 at a hospital in Buenos Aires, aged 66.

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1954 births
2020 deaths
Argentine footballers
Argentine football managers
Sportspeople from Buenos Aires
Deaths from heart failure
Yevgeny Shaposhnikov

Yevgeny Ivanovich Shaposhnikov (; 3 February 1942 – 8 December 2020) was a Soviet and Russian military leader and politician. He was born in Rostov Oblast, Soviet Union. Shaposhnikov was Minister of Defence between 1991 and 1992.

Shaposhnikov died on 8 December 2020 in Moscow from COVID-19 at the age of 78.

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1942 births
2020 deaths
Russian politicians
Russian military people
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
Gerard Stokes

Gerard James Stokes (1955 – December 2020) was a New Zealand rugby league footballer. He played in the 1970s and 1980s, and coached in the 1980s through to the 2010s. He represented New Zealand. He was a  coach of the Serbian national side. He was the father of England international cricketer Ben Stokes.

In August 2020 Stokes revealed that he had been diagnosed with brain cancer in January 2020. Stokes' death was announced on 8 December 2020.

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1955 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from brain cancer
New Zealand rugby league players
Jillian Bell

Jillian Leigh Bell (born April 25, 1984) is an American comedian, actress, and screenwriter. She is known for her role in Brittany Runs a Marathon. She starred as Jillian Belk on Workaholics and had a role as Dixie on the final season of Eastbound & Down, and appeared in 22 Jump Street and Fist Fight. Bell was born in Las Vegas, Nevada.

References

Other websites

1984 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Comedians from Las Vegas, Nevada
Actors from Las Vegas, Nevada
Writers from Las Vegas, Nevada
American screenwriters
Lo-fi music

Lo-fi (short for low-fidelity) is a type of music which was qualities which are usually seen as not perfect of a recording or performance are audible, sometimes as a deliberate aesthetic choice. 

Lo-fi began to be recognized as a style of popular music in the 1990s, when it became alternately referred to as DIY music.

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Music genres
Jack (1996 movie)

Jack is a 1996 American comedy-drama movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It stars Robin Williams as Jack. The movie co-stars Diane Lane, Jennifer Lopez, Fran Drescher, Bill Cosby, and Brian Kerwin.

Williams plays Jack Powell, a boy who ages four times faster than normal because of Werner syndrome, a form of progeria.

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1996 comedy-drama movies
Movies directed by Francis Ford Coppola
American comedy-drama movies
Brian Kerwin

Brian Kerwin (born October 25, 1949) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Hal Nichols in 27 Dresses and Mr. Powell in Jack.

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Other websites

1949 births
Living people
American movie actors
American stage actors
American television actors
Actors from Chicago
Werner syndrome

Werner syndrome (WS) (sometimes Werner's syndrome), also known as "adult progeria", is a rare, autosomal recessive disorder which causes the appearance of premature aging.

Werner syndrome is named after the German scientist Otto Werner.

The odds of a baby being born with it are 1 in 100,000 live births.

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Syndromes
John H. Edwards

John Hilton Edwards (26 March 1928 – 11 October 2007) was a British medical geneticist. Edwards reported the first description of a syndrome of multiple congenital malformations caused by the presence of an extra chromosome.

In 1979, Edwards was elected to fellowship of the Royal Society.

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1928 births
2007 deaths
British geneticists
Vyacheslav Kebich

Vyacheslav Frantsevich Kebich ( , ; 10 June 1936 – 9 December 2020) was a Belarusian politician. He was the 1st Prime Minister of Belarus from 1991 to 1994.

Kebich died on 9 December 2020 at a hospital in Minsk, Belarus from COVID-19, aged 84.

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1936 births
2020 deaths
Prime Ministers of Belarus
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Belarus
Sergey Ling

Sergey Stepanovich Ling (; ; born 7 May 1937) is a Belarusian politician and agronomist. He was Prime Minister of Belarus from 1996 to 2000 and Permanent Representative of Belarus to the United Nations from 2000 to 2002.

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1937 births
Living people
Prime Ministers of Belarus
Roman Golovchenko

Roman Alexandrovich Golovchenko (, Russian: Роман Александрович Головченко; born 10 August 1973) is a Belarusian politician. He has been the Prime Minister of Belarus since 4 June 2020.

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1973 births
Living people
Prime Ministers of Belarus
Myechyslaw Hryb

Myechyslaw Ivanavich Hryb (, , ,  born on 25 September 1938) was the eleventh Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus from 28 January 1994 to 10 January 1996. Hryb created the first Constitution of Belarus.

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1938 births
Living people
Presidents of Belarus
Probolinggo

Probolinggo (, ) is a city on the north coast of East Java province, Indonesia. Its area is 56.67 sq. km. The population was 217,062 at the 2010 Census.

References

Cities in Indonesia
John Harvey (racing driver)

John Francis Harvey  (21 February 1938 – 5 December 2020) was an Australian racing driver. He was a top Speedcar driver for many years in the 1950s and 1960s.

In the 2020 Australia Day Honours, Harvey was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to motor sports.

Harvey died on 5 December 2020, aged 82, from lung cancer in Melbourne.

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1938 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
Australian racecar drivers
Sportspeople from Sydney
Ildegarda Taffra

Ildegarda Taffra (June 30, 1934 – December 7, 2020) was an Italian cross-country skier. She competed in the 1950s. She was born in Tarvisio. Competing in two Winter Olympics, she finished eighth in the 3 × 5 km relay at Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956. Taffra also competed in the 10 km event at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, but did not finish.

Taffra died in Trieste on 7 December 2020, aged 86.

References

Other websites
Biography for Ildegarda 

1934 births
2020 deaths
Italian Olympians
Skiers
Tarvisio

Tarvisio (German and , ) is a comune in the northeastern part of the autonomous Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in Italy.

References

Settlements in Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Wang Yupu

Wang Yupu (; 1956 – 8 December 2020) was a Chinese businessman and politician. He was chairman of Sinopec, the world's second-biggest oil refiner.

Wang was born in Xinmin, Liaoning. In September 2017, Wang was appointed as the Director of the State Administration of Work Safety.

He was appointed as the first Minister of Emergency Management in March 2018.

Wang died on 8 December 2020 at the age of 64.

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1956 births
2020 deaths
Chinese businesspeople
Chinese politicians
Mohammad Yazdi

Mohammad Yazdi (, 2 July 1931 – 9 December 2020) was an Iranian cleric and politician. He was the head of Judiciary System of Iran between 1989 and 1999. In 2015, he was elected to lead Iran's Assembly of Experts. Yazdi was also Chief Justice of Iran from 1989 to 1999. Yazdi was born in Isfahan, Iran.

Yazdi died on 9 December 2020 from stomach cancer in Tehran, aged 89.

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1931 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from stomach cancer
Chief Justices of Iran
Aslanbek Fidarov

Aslanbek Fidarov (4 May 1973 – 8 December 2020) was a Ukrainian wrestler. He competed in the men's freestyle 57 kg at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He was born in Kiev, Ukraine.

Fidarov died on 8 December 2020 in Kiev from COVID-19, aged 47.

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1973 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine
Olympians
Wrestlers
Sportspeople from Kiev
Valeriu Turea

Valeriu Turea (6 October 1951 – 9 December 2020) was a Moldovan politician and journalist. He was the Moldovan Ambassador to Portugal between the period of 2010 to 2015. From 2015 to 2016 he was the general director of the Office for Relations with the Diaspora. He was born in Rososhany, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukrainian SSR.

Turea died on 9 December 2020 at the age of 69.

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1951 births
2020 deaths
Moldovan politicians
Ambassadors
Journalists
COVID-19 pandemic in Moldova

The COVID-19 pandemic in Moldova is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ().

Arrival
The virus was confirmed to have reached the Republic of Moldova on 7 March 2020, when a Moldovan woman that returned from Italy was tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

Reaction
As the number of infected people started to rise during the next days, on 17 March 2020 the Parliament declared the state of emergency for the entire territory of the Republic of Moldova for a period of 60 days.

On 18 March 2020 the first death caused by COVID-19 was registered. 

On 15 May 2020, in the last day of the state of emergency declared by the Parliament on 17 March 2020, the Extraordinary National Commission of Public Health declared the state of emergency in public health for the entire territory of the Republic of Moldova for the period of 16 May to 30 June 2020. 

, a total of 119,204 confirmed cases, 102,565 recoveries, and 2,460 deaths have been reported in the country.

References

Moldova
Moldova
Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf

Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf (1940 – 9 December 2020) was a Bangladeshi politician. He was a leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. From 2001 to 2004, he was Minister of Disaster Management and Relief. From 2004 to 2006, he was Minister of Food.

Yusuf died of COVID-19 at a Dhaka hospital on 9 December 2020, aged 80.

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1940 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh
Bangladeshi politicians
Bangladeshi Muslims
Michael McKean

Michael John McKean (born October 17, 1947) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and musician. He played Lenny Kosnowski in Laverne & Shirley, David St. Hubbins in This Is Spinal Tap, and Chuck McGill on Better Call Saul.

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1947 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American voice actors
American television writers
American television directors
American composers
Musicians from New York City
Screenwriters from New York City
Movie directors from New York City
Comedians from New York City
Actors from New York City
Annette O'Toole

Annette O'Toole (born April 1, 1952) is an American actress, dancer, and singer-songwriter.  

She played Lisa Bridges in the TV series Nash Bridges; Beverly Marsh in the It miniseries; Lana Lang in Superman III; Kathy in the romantic-comedy Cross My Heart; and Martha Kent, the mother of Clark Kent, on the television series Smallville.

References

1952 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American voice actors
American dancers
Actors from Houston, Texas
Singers from Houston, Texas
Writers from Houston, Texas
American singer-songwriters
John Toll

John Toll,  (born June 15, 1952) is an American cinematographer and television producer. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in both 1994 and 1995 for Legends of the Fall and Braveheart.

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1952 births
Living people
Satellite Award winners
BAFTA Award winners
Academy Award winners
American cinematographers
American television producers
Businesspeople from Cleveland, Ohio
Panamanian American

Panamanian Americans are Americans of Panamanian descent.

Ethnic groups in the United States
Nicaraguan American

Nicaraguan Americans are American of Nicaraguan ancestry.

Ethnic groups in the United States
Honduran American

Honduran Americans are American or US citizens of Honduran heritage, who belong to one or more ethnic group such as Mestizo, White, Lenca, Ladino people, Miskito people, Garifuna, and Creole peoples.

References

Further reading 

Ethnic groups in the United States
Ticker symbol

A ticker symbol or stock symbol is an abbreviation for trading public shares in certain markets. A ticker symbol can have letters and/or numbers. The name comes from the symbols on the ticker tape from the machine of the same name. Ticker symbols are assigned to each traded security, and are different in each country where stocks are traded.

References 

Stock market
Enix

Enix was a Japanese company which published anime, manga, and video games, before merging with Square Co., Ltd. to form Square Enix. Their last game was Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart, for their most popular Dragon Quest series of role playing games which was started on the Famicom. In 2000, they setup a subsidiary to handle fingerprint identification.

1970s establishments in Japan
1975 establishments in Asia
2000s disestablishments in Japan
2003 disestablishments
Japanese video game companies
Juan de Herrera

Juan de Herrera (Roiz, Cantabria, 1530 - Madrid, 15 January 1597) was a Spanish architect, mathematician, geometer and soldier, considered one of the maximum exponents of Spain's Renaissance architecture.

His architectural style, called herreriano in his honour, was representative of the reign of Philip II of Spain (r. 1556-1598) and was a notable influence on 17th century Spanish architecture.
Mood (song)

"Mood" is a song by rapper 24kGoldn.  It was made in 2020.

Rap songs
2020 songs
Green Party (Ireland)

The Green Party (, literally "Green Alliance") is a green political party in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It was started in 1981 as the Ecology Party of Ireland. It was known as the Green Alliance from 1983, before becoming known as the Green Party in 1987. Its leader is Eamon Ryan .

It is currently part of a coalition government with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. It has 12 seats in the Dáil Éireann and is the smallest party in the coalition. It is the fourth largest party in the Dáil. The Green Party was also part of the government from 2007 until 2011.

References

Green political parties
Politics of Ireland
De La Salle College Dundalk

De La Salle College Dundalk is a Secondary School in Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland.

Schools
Albert Chernenko

Albert Konstantinovich Chernenko (January 6, 1935 – April 11, 2009) was a Russian philosopher. His father was Konstantin Chernenko, the fifth General Secretary of the Soviet Union.

1935 births
2009 deaths
Russian philosophers
Hyla perrini

Perrin's tree frog or Po's tree toad (Hyla perrini) is a frog from China.  Scientists saw it on the flat land near the Po in Italy, in Switzerland and in Slovenia.

Scientists used to think this was the same frog as Hyla intermedia but now they think the two frogs are different but related.

References

Animals of Europe
Frogs
Kay Purcell

Kay Purcell (6 December 1963 – 23 December 2020) was an English actress. She was best known for her role as Gina Conway in the CBBC children's comedy-drama series Tracy Beaker Returns (2010–2012), and it's CBBC spin-off The Dumping Ground (2013). Purcell was also well-known for her roles as Cynthia Daggert in the long-running ITV soap opera Emmerdale (2001–2002), although she first appeared in Emmerdale as Carmel Morgan (1996–1998), Candice Smilie in the BBC One school-based drama series Waterloo Road (2007–2009), and Mrs. Rennison in the CBBC sitcom So Awkward (2015–2016).

Personal life
In early 2017, Purcell was diagnosed with breast cancer. Purcell posted images, videos and blogs on social media to show her own experience of the disease. In early 2020, Purcell was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer and was given a life expectancy of two years. She died from the disease on 23 December 2020, aged 57.

Filmography

References

Other websites

1963 births
2020 deaths
Breast cancer survivors
Deaths from liver cancer
English stage actors
English television actors
English movie actors
Actors from Lancashire
Eva Pope

Eva Rebecca Pope (born 16 November 1967) is an English actress, who trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. She is known for her portrayal of longest-serving headmistress Rachel Mason in the hit BBC One school-based drama series Waterloo Road, a role she played between November 2007 and July 2010. Her other notable credits include Tanya Pooley in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street (1993–1994), Stephanie Jacobs in the Sky One drama series Dream Team (1997–1998), Frances Myers in the ITV prison drama series Bad Girls (2004), and most recently as Matron Gertrude Bottomly in the CBBC children's drama series Hetty Feather (2015–2020).

Personal life 
Pope was married to graphic designer Laurence Lassalle, with whom she has a daughter Elise (born 1995).

Other websites 
 

1967 births
Living people
English stage actors
English television actors
English movie actors
Wigan
Actors from Greater Manchester
People from Lancashire
Rocky Linux

Rocky Linux is the idea of a Linux distribution to replace CentOS. The idea was born after Red Hat decided not to honor the decision to provide full updates for CentOS 8 until 2024 and maintainence updates until 2029 as initially announced.

Gregory Kurtzer, founder of the CentOS project made this announcement and the community is actively working on the project.

Change in End of life for CentOS 8 
CentOS was acquired by Red Hat in 2014. On December 8, 2020, it was announced that the CentOS project, previously a downstream branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, would be moving to CentOS Stream, an upstream development branch of RHEL. 

The maintenance schedule for CentOS 8 was also changed, ending full updates and maintenance updates on December 31, 2021. As an aside, the maintenance schedule for CentOS 7 is unchanged, with maintenance updates ending on June 30, 2024.

Other websites 
 Official Rocky Linux Website
 Official GitHub Repository

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Mother goddess

A mother goddess is a goddess that is a personification of motherhood, or of fertility. Sometimes, they are called mother earth or earth mother. This concept is usually coupled with a sky father, or father sky. Very often, the mother goddess is also the mother of other deities.

Gods and goddesses
Dynamical system

A Dynamical system is a mathematical model of a process, that is dependent on time. The process is homogeneous, it only depends on the initial state. The current terminology was established by Henri Poincaré and George David Birkhoff. 

Dynamical systems are very common. Examples are the movement of a pendulum in physics, or the predator-prey equations in biology.

Systems theory
Predator-prey equations

The predator-prey equations is an ecological system of two linked equations that models two species that depend on each other: One is the prey, which provides food for the other, the predator. Both prey and predator populations grow if conditions are right.  Alfred J. Lotka found these equations in 1925. Vito Volterra  found them, independently, in 1926. For this reason, the equations are also called Lotka-Volterra equations.

The equations themselves are non-linear differential equations. 

There are a number of pre-conditions 

 The prey population always finds food
 The size of the predator population only depends on the size of the prey population
 The rate of change of a population depends on its size 
 There are no changes in the environment which would favor one species. Genetic changes are not important 
 Predators have limitless appetite 

In this case the solution of the differential equations is deterministic and continuous. This means that the generations of both the predator and prey are overlapping all the time.

The solutions to the equations lead to the Lotka-Volterra rules:

 There are periodic changes is the populations of predator and prey. The changes in the population of predators follow that of the prey.
 Looking at longer periods of time: the average number of predators, and prey is constant so long as the environment is stable.
 If the number of predators is reduced, the number of prey animals increase.

Applications 
In one of his books, Volterra provided statistics on the number of certain cartilagenous fish caught at some Italian ports in the Mediterranean. Volterra used the term "sélaciens", which refers to sharks. These often prey on other fish. In the table, Volterra provided numbers for 1905, and 1910 to 1923:

He observed that between 1915 and 1920, more of these fish were caught. He expained this as follows: During the First World War, less fishing was done. For this reason, there were more prey animals, so the number of predators increased. After the war, fishing increased again, reducing the number of prey animals. This also led to a decrease in the number of predators, which can be seen in the table above.

The use of the first Lotka-Volerra rule in economics is known as pork cycle.

Extensions 
The predator-prey equations have also been the foundation of other work. Volterra himselft extended it to be able to model intraspecific competition. Intraspecific competition occurs when two aninimals of the same species compete for limited resources. Intraspecific competition is an important factor to regulate population density. It is also important to be able to adapt to a changing environment (and for evoution). Volterra did this by adding new terns to the equation.

Most of Volerra's work is about extending the model to be able to handle more than two classes of animals interacting.

Related pages
Food chain
Carrying capacity

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Acculturation

Acculturation is a term used to describe how an individual or a group from one culture interacts directly with an individual or group from a different culture. Sometimes, these two cultures may be similar, or they may be very different. Unlike culture shock, acculturation includes the ways both cultures influence each other. Also, culture shock is only focused on the individual or group who is entering a new culture. With acculturation, both cultures are looked at. Many things can be exchanged between the two cultures like language, ways of living, or foods. Acculturation is focused on the process of two cultures interacting over a long period of time, not once or twice. Cultural diffusion is different from acculturation because diffusion may occur once or twice, and means that there is an equal balance between the two things involved; with acculturation, this equal balance is not guaranteed.

History 
The term acculturation was first used by people who study anthropology. They wanted to know more about how people from different cultures interact with each other and what happens when they interact. Psychologists have also been interested in studying acculturation but are interested in the effects of acculturation on individuals. Sociologists also study acculturation and how societies change from interacting with new cultures.

Models of acculturation 

The process of acculturation can have four outcomes: assimilation, integration, separation, and marginalization. These four outcomes are shown in the picture to the right. 

 Assimilation is when one culture loses its original identity and takes on the identity of the other culture (in the picture, all of the blue dots become red dots).
 Integration is when one culture still has some of its original identity while also trying to be a part of the other culture (in the picture, there are still blue dots in the larger circle, but some blue dots are trying to “act” or “look like” red dots; some red dots may try to look like blue dots too).
 Separation is when there is an interaction between the two cultures, but nothing is exchanged, the cultures do not change (in the picture, the red and blue dots are in the same circle, but none of them change color).
 Marginalization is when no interaction occurs between the two cultures and one culture loses their own culture (in the picture, the blue dots are in their own circle and are not colored in, while the red dots remain unchanged).

Use of acculturation in social science 
Anthropologists, Psychologists, and Sociologists all use acculturation to help explain changes that happen when cultures interact. One way of measuring levels of acculturation is through acculturative stress. This measurement helps relate acculturation to other ideas or issues and helps researchers understand what happens to individuals and groups during acculturation. Many studies have looked at acculturative stress and health of individuals. Other acculturation research studies have focused on immigrantpopulations to the United States and other minority groups.

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The Base (hate group)

The Base is a world Neo-Nazi and white supremacist hate group. They formed in 2018. They are in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.

The group wants to perform terrorism and overthrow governments. It operates "hate camps". It also organizes ethnic conflict and survivalism.

On January 16, 2020, three members of The Base were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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Fallen Angel (1945 movie)

Fallen Angel is a 1945 American crime mystery movie directed by Otto Preminger and was based on the novel of the same name by Marty Holland. It stars Alice Faye, Linda Darnell, Dana Andrews, Bruce Cabot, Charles Bickford, John Carradine and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.

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2056

2056 (MMLVI) will be .

Predicted and scheduled events

Date unknown
 2056 Summer Olympics will be held.

October 5, 2056
 The 1956 film produced by Cecil B. DeMille entitled The Ten Commandments, topbilled by Charlton Heston as Moses and Yul Brynner as Rameses II turns 100 years old, which could possibly be accompanied by a 100th anniversary edition DVD collection to be released.

2056
Years in the future
Katherine Tai

Katherine Chi Tai (born March 18, 1974) is an American lawyer and politician. She is the 19th and current United States Trade Representative since March 18, 2021. Tai is a member of the Democratic Party.

She was the chief trade counsel for the United States House Committee on Ways and Means.

In December 2020, Tai was nominated by then President-elect Joe Biden to serve as United States Trade Representative. She was confirmed by the United States Senate with a 98-0 vote on March 17, 2021.

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Persona

A persona (plural personae or personas), may mean the public image of one's personality, or the social role that one adopts. It can also mean a fictional character. 

The word originally meant a theatrical mask. So acting is the original idea. But now the concept is much wider. People adopt one persona at work, another at home. 

On the web, users develop virtual personas as online identities.

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Human behavior
Faithful in My Fashion

Faithful in My Fashion is a 1946 American romantic comedy movie directed by Sidney Salkow and starring Donna Reed, Tom Drake, Edward Everett Horton, Spring Byington, Harry Devonpart. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Karim Salman

Karim Salman  (4 March 1965 – 2 December 2020) was an Iraqi football defender. He played for Iraq in the 1988 Summer Olympics. He played for the national team between 1988 and 1993.

Salman died on 2 December 2020, aged 55, from COVID-19 in Baghdad.

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Goo Kennedy

Eugene "Goo" Kennedy (August 23, 1949December 8, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. Kennedy played four seasons in the American Basketball Association as a member of the Dallas Chaparrals, San Antonio Spurs, Spirits of St. Louis, and Utah Stars. He then played one season in the National Basketball Association with the Houston Rockets.

Kennedy died at age 71 on December 8, 2020 in Texas.

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Dick Hinch

Richard W. Hinch (May 1, 1949 – December 9, 2020) was an American Republican politician. He was a member and Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. He became speaker on December 2, 2020 just one week before his death. He was elected to the state house in 2008. Hinch was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

Hinch died at his home in Concord, New Hampshire on December 9, 2020 from COVID-19, at age 71.

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Sean Malone

Sean Malone (April 12, 1970 – December 7, 2020) was an American musician. He played mainly fretless bass guitar and Chapman Stick. However, Malone also played piano, keyboards, and guitar. His most famous for his work was in American band Cynic, in which he developed a strong partnership with the drummer Sean Reinert. 

On 9 December 2020, it was announced that Malone had died.

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Delran Township, New Jersey

Delran Township is a township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.  As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 16,896.

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Marblehead, Massachusetts

Marblehead is a coastal New England town in Essex County, Massachusetts. Its population was 19,808 at the 2010 census.

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Ray Perkins

Walter Ray Perkins (6 November 1941 – 9 December 2020) was an American football coach and player. He played as a wide receiver for the University of Alabama and Baltimore Colts.  He later worked as a football coach for 28 years, including as the head coach for the New York Giants, the University of Alabama, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Arkansas State University. Perkins was born in Petal, Mississippi.

Perkins died on 9 December 2020 in Northport, Alabama from heart disease at the age of 79.

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Petal, Mississippi

Petal is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi, along the Leaf River. It is part of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 10,454 in the 2010 census.

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Astad Deboo

Astad Deboo (13 July 1947 – 10 December 2020) was an Indian contemporary dancer and choreographer. His works focused on Indian classical dance forms of Kathak as well as Kathakali. He was one of the best known dancers of India. He worked with Pina Bausch, Alison Becker Chase and Pink Floyd.

He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1996 and Padma Shri in 2007.

Deboo died on 10 December 2020 in Mumbai from a subdural haematoma caused by a fall at the age of 73.

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Iman Budhi Santosa

Iman Budhi Santosa (28 March 1948 – 10 December 2020), commonly known as IBS, was an Indonesian author. Many of his poems and novels were based on Javanese cultural. He published Ziarah Tanah Jawa ("Pilgrimage to the Land of Java"), a collection of poems written between 2006 and 2012, in 2013.

Santosa died on 10 December 2020 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia from a heart attack, aged 72.

Works
 Tiga Bayangan (poetry anthology; 1970)
 Ranjang Tiga Bunga (novel; 1975)
 Barong Kertapati (novel; 1976)
 Dunia Semata Wayang (poetry; 1996)
 Kalimantang (short story collection; 2003)
 Matahari-Matahari Kecil (poetry; 2004)
 Perempuan Panggung (novel; 2007)
 Ziara Tanah Jawa (poetry; 2013)
 Sesanti Tedhak Siti (geguritan; 2015)

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Mungo Wentworth MacCallum

Mungo Wentworth MacCallum (21 December 1941 – 9 December 2020) was an Australian political commentator and journalist. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales.

Career 
MacCallum was also known for his strongly centre-left, pro-Australian Labor Party views. He worked for The Australian, The National Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and  Nation Review. He wrote political commentary for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) current affairs and news analysis program The Drum,

MacCallum died at his home in Ocean Shores, New South Wales from throat and prostate cancer-related problems on 9 December 2020, aged 78.

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Ocean Shores, New South Wales

Ocean Shores is a coastal town in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia.  At the 2016 census, Ocean Shores had a population of 5,137 people.

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