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Fargo (season 4)

The fourth season of Fargo, an American anthology black comedy–crime drama television series created by Noah Hawley. It premiered on September 27, 2020, on FX and ended on November 29, 2020. It has about 11 episodes. 

The fourth season is set in 1950 in Kansas City. It shows the crime war between to mafia organizations. Chris Rock plays Loy Cannon, the head of a crime mafia made up of black criminals trying to escape from the Jim Crow South.

The season was originally scheduled to premiere on April 19, 2020, but it was pushed back because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It has a 81% approval from Rotten Tomatoes, and is the lowest rated season from the entire Fargo series.

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2020 television seasons
Eden Valley, Minnesota

Eden Valley is a city in Meeker and Stearns counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota. About 1,042 lived here since the 2010 census.

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Cities in Minnesota
Luverne, Minnesota

Luverne () is a city in Rock County, Minnesota, United States. About 4,745 lived here since the 2010 census. It is the county seat.

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Cities in Minnesota
County seats in Minnesota
Allison Tolman

Allison Cara Tolman (born November 18, 1981) is an American actress. She played Molly Solverson in the first season of the FX television series Fargo.

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American movie actors
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Noah Hawley

Noah Hawley (born ) is an American television writer and producer, screenwriter, and bestselling author. He created and wrote the FX television series Fargo (2014–present) and Legion (2017–2019).

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Kathrine Narducci

Kathrine Narducci (born November 22, 1965) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Charmaine Bucco, Artie Bucco's wife, in the HBO crime drama series The Sopranos (1999–2007). Her movie credits include A Bronx Tale (1993), Chicago Overcoat (2009), Jersey Boys (2014), The Wizard of Lies (2017), Bad Education (2019), The Irishman (2019) and Capone (2020).

Narducci was born to an Italian-American family in East Harlem, New York City.  Her father, Nicky Narducci, was a bar owner and organized crime figure in East Harlem. He was killed in a Mafia-related murder when Kathrine was ten years old.

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Virgin Orbit

Virgin Orbit is a company in the Virgin Group that will provide a for small satellites to be put into space. The company was made in 2017 to create the LauncherOne rocket, which would be launched from an airplane. 

They currently have have made one try to go to space on May 25, 2020, which did not work. They will try again no earlier than December 19, 2020

Other Websites 
Virgin Orbit's Website

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Private spaceflight
Great Bitter Lake

The Great Bitter Lake (; transliterated: al-Buhayrah al-Murra al-Kubra) is a saltwater lake in Egypt. Today, it is part of the  Suez Canal, which connects it to the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. It is connected to the Small Bitter Lake (Arabic: البحيرة المرة الصغرى; transliterated: al-Buhayrah al-Murra as-Sughra), through which the canal also runs. Before the canal was built (1869), the site was a dry salt valley or basin. Even the ancient  Pyramid Texts mention it. Ships traveling through the Suez Canal use the Great Bitter Lake as a "passing lane", where they can change their position in line or turn around.

Salinity 
The place where the Great Bitter Lake is located used to be a dry salt valley. This still influences the salinity of the lake. Starting with the Six-Day War (1967), the  Suez Canal was closed for eight years. During this time, the salinity of the lake increased a lot. It depends on how much seawater flows into it from the Red and the Mediterranean seas. Even when the canal is open, the Great Bitter Lake has a salinity level "more than twice" the level of the sea. While this makes it difficult for plant life to exist there, many species (of crabs, for example) migrate from the Red Sea through the area.

As the Suez canal has no locks, sea water flows freely into the lake from the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. In general, north of the lakes, the current changes seasonally, it flows to the north in winter, and south in summer. South of the lakes, the current is tidal, changing with the tides in the Red Sea.

Many fish migrate from south to north through the canal. This is known as Lessepsian migration. It means that certain Red Sea species have come to colonize the eastern Mediterranean.

Quincy Agreement 
On 14 February 1945, in the last year of World War II, Great Bitter Lake was the site of the Quincy Agreement. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, directly after the Yalta Conference with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, met  Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz on board the naval cruiser USS Quincy.

President Roosevelt's interpreter was U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Bill Eddy, who recorded the men's conversation in his book FDR Meets Ibn Saud. The meeting is the subject of a BBC documentary by Adam Curtis, called Bitter Lake (2015).

Yellow Fleet 
During the Six-Day War in 1967, the canal was closed. Egypt kept it closed until 1975, trapping 15 ships in the lake. These ships became known as the "Yellow Fleet", because of the desert sands which soon covered their decks. The crews of the ships would eventually organize, share resources, and later set up their own post office and stamp. Two German-flagged ships eventually sailed out of the canal on their own power. Stranded cargo included various perishables (such as eggs and fruit), T-shirts, and a load of toys destined for Woolworth's.

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Pyramid Texts

Pyramid Texts is the name for several religious texts, found on the wall of several pyramids of the 5th and 6th and 8th dynasties. They are the biggest corpus of Ancient Egyptian texts.

Ancient Egypt
Religious texts
Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising

The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising was an uprising by mostly Bulgarian and some of the Aromanian population in certain regions in the Ottoman Empire. The uprising was against Ottoman rule.

The uprising lasted from 2 August 1903 up to November 1903. 

The name of the uprising comes from the Christian Orthodox holy day of Ilinden as well as another holy day known as Preobrazhenie on which the revolts began. 

Ultimately the uprising was crushed by the better equipped and much larger Ottoman army. The casualties were on both sides were small however a large number of people were made homeless, the majority of which number around 30,000 fled to Bulgaria.

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Seychellois Creole

Seychellois Creole is the main language spoken in the country of the Seychelles. It is a type of creole language.

Languages of Africa
Seychelles
The Mod Squad

The Mod Squad is an American crime drama series, originally broadcast for five seasons on ABC from September 24, 1968, to March 1, 1973.

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 CBS Television Distribution Syndication Bible (including The Mod Squad)
 Mod Squad

1960s American television series
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Ministry of Defence

The Ministry of Defence or Defense (see spelling differences), may also be known as a Department of Defence or Defense. This is the name for the part of government responsible for matters of defence.

These departments are found in states where the government is divided into ministries or departments. The department usually includes all branches of the military, and is usually controlled by a Defence Minister, Minister of Defence, or Secretary of Defense. The department is often referred to by the initials MoD (UK) or DoD (USA).

Ministries
The Gay Divorcee

The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 American musical movie directed by Mark Sandrich and was based on the 1932 musical of the same name by Dwight Taylor. It stars Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Erik Rhodes, Betty Grable and was distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. It was nominated for 5 Oscars and won an Academy Award in 1935.

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1934 movies
1930s musical movies
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Eastern Conference (MLS)

The Eastern Conference is one of Major League Soccer's two conferences. The other is the Western Conference.

Members

Current

Eastern Conference winners by season

^ – MLS did not have draws until the 2000 season.
† – Miami Fusion were declared winners of the Eastern Division in 2001 after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks forced the cancellation of the rest of the regular season. The MLS Cup Playoffs began on September 20.

Related pages
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Football leagues
The Champ (1979 movie)

The Champ is a 1979 American drama movie directed by Franco Zeffirelli and is the remake of the 1931 movie of the same name. It stars Jon Voight, Ricky Schroder, Faye Dunaway, Jack Warden, Joan Blondell, Strother Martin and was distributed by United Artists. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1980.

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1979 drama movies
American drama movies
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Movies directed by Franco Zeffirelli
Common green frog

The common green frog, leaf frog red-eared frog, golden-lined frog, green paddy frog, common greenback, green lotus frog, or greenbacked frog (Hylarana erythraea) is a frog from Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, Borneo, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, and India.  It also lives in the Philippines and Sulawesi because human beings brought it there.  This frog can live as high in the hills as 1200 meters above sea level.

The adult female frog is 7.8 cm long and the adult male frog is 4.8 cm long.  They can be light green or dark green with a lighter belly.  Some of the frogs are blue.

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Animals of Asia
Frogs
Huw Irranca-Davies

Ifor Huw Irranca-Davies ( Davies; born 22 January 1963) is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative politician. He has been the Member of the Senedd for Ogmore since 2016. He was also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ogmore from 2002 to 2016.

Irranca-Davies was born in Gowerton, Swansea. He was named after his step great-uncle, Ifor Davies, also a Welsh Labour politician. On marriage, he and wife Joanna Irranca both changed their surnames to Irranca-Davies.

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The Son Also Draws

"The Son Also Draws" is the 6th episode of the first season of Family Guy. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on May 9, 1999. The episode is about Chris getting kicked out of the Boy Scouts (the episode calls it "Youth Scouts"). Peter drives the family to Scout headquarters to get Chris back in. During a rest stop at a Native American casino, Lois gambles away the family car. Peter pretends to be a member of the tribe in an attempt to get the car back, and is sent on a vision quest to prove his heritage, giving him and Chris an opportunity to bond.

Story 

Chris wants to leave the Youth Scouts but does not want to tell his father Peter. Chris is later kicked out of the Youth Scouts. Peter takes Chris and the family to Manhattan, where the headquarters of the Youth Scouts is. Brian stays at the house and watches One Day at a Time. He becomes less smart after watching some episodes. 

Peter needs to go to a bathroom, so they go to a Native American casino. Lois gets a gambling addiction and loses the family's car. Peter tries to get the car back by pretending he is a Native American. The Indians who work at the casino tell Peter to go on a vision quest to show that he really is a Native American. Chris goes with Peter into the wilderness. This is so that he can tell Peter he wants to draw instead of be with the Youth Scouts. Peter becomes so hungry in the wilderness that he starts to see talking trees. Fonzie appears in the sky and gets Peter to see Chris as a good artist. Peter and Chris go back to the casino and get their car back. At the end of the episode, the family talks about what Native Americans, Mexicans, and Swedes have achieved in life. Peter then says that "Canada sucks."

Production 

"The Son Also Draws" was written by Ricky Blitt. Niel Affleck is the director of the episode. Alex Borstein (voice actor of Lois) helped write the episode. Seth MacFarlane (creator of the show) thought she was helpful on writing for what Lois does in the episode. The part of the story where Lois loses the family's car was based on the movie Lost in America. The part with Peter trying to be an Indian to get the family car back is similar to real events. People say that they are 1/64th of a Native American so that they can get money from casinoes. Suzie Plakson, Kevin Michael Richardson, Fred Tatasciore, Wally Wingert, Bobby Slayton, Butch Hartman, and Patrick Bristow were guest stars for the episode.

Reception 

Ahsan Haque from IGN thought that the episode was not an "instant classic" like the other episodes of the first season, but is "still quite strong". He said that the episode did not have as many "laugh out loud moments" but has more "bolder" humor. Robin Pierson of The TV Critic thought that the episode was "very poor" and that the story was not focused. The episode's ending with Peter saying "Canada sucks" made Canadians who watched the episode angry.

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Family Guy (season 1) episodes
1999 television episodes
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a 1948 American Mexican adventure drama movie directed by John Huston and was based on the 1927 novel of the same name by B. Traven. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane, Alfonso Bedoya and was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was nominated for 4 Oscars and won 3 Academy Awards in 1949.

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The Bribe

The Bribe is a 1949 American crime drama movie directed by Robert Z. Leonard and Vincente Minnelli and was based on the 1947 short story of the same name by Frederick Nebel. It stars Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, John Hodiak and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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1949 drama movies
1949 crime movies
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American spy movies
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Movies directed by Vincente Minnelli
Metro Trains Melbourne

Metro Trains Melbourne is the branding name of the operator of the train system in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. They have been operating the network since 2009.

2009 establishments in Australia
Companies of Australia
Rail transport in Australia
Transport in Melbourne
The Lost Patrol (1934 movie)

The Lost Patrol is a 1934 American World War I movie directed by John Ford and is the second adaption of the 1927 novel Patrol by Philip MacDonald. It stars Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny, Alan Hale Sr., Billy Bevan, Brandon Hurst and was distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1935.

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1934 movies
1930s war movies
American war movies
Movies based on books
World War I movies
Movies directed by John Ford
Jean Cottard

Jean Cottard (14 July 1926 – 1 December 2020) was a French fencer. He earned his Master of Arms at Fort Carré in 1949. He became the first National Technical Director of France in 1964. He was a member of the French Federation of Fencing from 1988 until his death. Cottard was born in Paris.

Cottard died on 1 December 2020 in Antibes, France at the age of 94.

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1926 births
2020 deaths
Fencers
Sportspeople from Paris
Bernard Vogler

Bernard Vogler (30 April 1935 – 2 December 2020) was a French academic and historian. He was a professor at the University of Strasbourg. He  was a specialist in the History of Alsace from the 15th to the 20th Centuries. Vogler was born in Obermodern-Zutzendorf, France.

Vogler was a member of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques from 1989 to 2000 and was vice-president of the International Commission for Comparative Ecclesiastical History from 1975 to 2001. He was President of the University of the Third Age from 2004 to 2008.

Vogler died on 2 December 2020 in Strasbourg, France at the age of 85.

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1935 births
2020 deaths
French historians
Kaj Ikast

Kaj Ikast (22 December 1935 – 3 December 2020) was a Danish Conservative politician. He was a member of the Folketing from 1985 to 2005 and was the Minister of Transport from 1990 to 1993.

Ikast died on 3 December 2020 at the age of 84.

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1935 births
2020 deaths
Danish politicians
Adil Ismayilov

Adil Alviz oglu Ismayilov (; 5 July 1957 – 3 December 2020) was an Azerbaijani lawyer, jurist and investigator. He was a member of the Azerbaijani Bar Association. Ismayilov was part of the most well-known trials in Azerbaijan during the 1990s and 2000s. He was born in Goychay, Soviet Union.

Ismayilov died on 3 December 2020 from COVID-19 in Baku, Azerbaijan at the age of 63.

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1957 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani people
Lawyers
Gérard Gourgue

Gérard Gourgue (1 December 1925 – 4 December 2020) was a Haitian politician and human rights activist. He ran for President in 1988. He was born in Port-au-Prince. He was a member of the Haitian National Council of Government from February 1986 to March 1986.

Gourgue died on 4 December 2020 in Port-au-Prince at the age of 95.

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1925 births
2020 deaths
Haitian people
Politicians
Pierre Bernard (Tarn politician)

Pierre Bernard (6 June 1934 – 5 December 2020) was a French politician. He was born in Alban, France. He was a member of the Socialist Party. He was Mayor of Trébas from 1970 to 2001. From 1980 to 1993, he was a member of the National Assembly.

Bernard died on 5 December 2020 in Trébas at the age of 86.

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1934 births
2020 deaths
French mayors
Trébas

Trébas is a commune in the Tarn department and Occitanie region of southern France.

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Communes in Tarn
Alban, Tarn

Alban is a commune of the Tarn department in southern France.

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Communes in Tarn
Phyllis Eisenstein

Phyllis Eisenstein (February 26, 1946 – December 7, 2020) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels. She was nominated for both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. Eisenstein was born in Chicago. Her best known works were Born to Exile (1977), Sorcerer's Son (1979) and The Crystal Palace (1988).

Eisenstein died on December 7, 2020 in Chicago from COVID-19 and a stroke at the age of 74.

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1946 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Deaths from stroke
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American editors
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Cardiovascular disease deaths in Chicago
Infectious disease deaths in Chicago
Jimmy McLane

James Price McLane Jr. (September 13, 1930 – December 13, 2020) was an American competition swimmer. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. McLane won two golds and a silver medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics and one gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics. 

McLane died at his home in Ipswich, Massachusetts on December 13, 2020, at the age of 90.

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1930 births
2020 deaths
American swimmers
American Olympic gold medalists
American Olympic silver medalists
Sportspeople from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Paul Wass

Paul Wass (July 7, 1925 – December 13, 2020) was an American Republican politician. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1977 to 1990. Wass was born in Young Township, Pennsylvania. 

Wass died on December 13, 2020 in Indiana, Pennsylvania at the age of 95.

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1925 births
2020 deaths
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Pennsylvania
US Republican Party politicians
Young Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania

Young Township is a township in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States. About 1,775 people as of the 2010 census.

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Townships in Pennsylvania
Florida's 1st congressional district

Florida's 1st congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Florida. It is in the state's western Panhandle. It includes all of Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, and Walton counties and portions of Holmes county. 

The district is currently represented by Republican Matt Gaetz.

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Government of Florida
Paulo César dos Santos

Paulo César dos Santos (September 6, 1952 – December 14, 2020), better known as Paulinho, was a Brazilian singer and percussionist. He was a member of the group Roupa Nova. He was born in Rio de Janeiro.

Paulinho died at the age of 68, from multiple organ failure and cardiopulmonary arrest caused by COVID-19 in Rio de Janeiro.

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1952 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from multiple organ failure
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
Brazilian singers
Brazilian musicians
Deaths from cardiopulmonary arrest
Colic

Colic is a form of pain that starts and stops quickly and out of nowhere. It happens because muscular contractions of a hollow tube (colon, gall bladder, ureter, etc.). This is done to remove an obstruction by forcing content out. It may cause sweating and vomiting.

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Diseases
Totilas

Totilas (May 23, 2000 – December 14, 2020), also known from 2006 to 2011 as Moorlands Totilas, and nicknamed "Toto", was a Dutch Warmblood stallion. Totilas was thought to be one of the most outstanding competitive dressage horses in the world. Totilas was retired from competition in August 2015.

Totilas died of colic on December 14, 2020 at the age of 20.

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Individual animals
Racehorses
Seppo Vainio

Seppo Vainio (3 January 1937 – 14 December 2020) was a Finnish ice hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1960 Winter Olympics. He was born in Helsinki.

Vainio died on 14 December 2020 in Rauma, Finland at the age of 83.

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1937 births
2020 deaths
Finnish Olympians
Finnish ice hockey players
Sudhir Chakraborty

Sudhir Chakravarti (19 September 1934 – 15 December 2020) was an Indian anthropologist and essayist. He was born in Shibpur, British India.

Chakravarti was known for his research works on Folk religion, Lalan Fakir and Cultural Anthropology in Bengal. He spent 30 years researching the folk culture by traveling to different villages all over the West Bengal. 

He was a professor of Bengali literature from 1958 to 1994. Chakravarti worked in Krishnagar Government College. He wrote and edited more than 85 books on many subjects like music, art, folk-religion, cultural anthropology. He was the editor of Bengali literary Magazine Dhrubapada.

Chakraborty died on 15 December 2020 in Kolkata, India from a heart attack at the age of 86.

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1934 births
2020 deaths
Indian scientists
Indian writers
Indian educators
Asian anthropologists
Donald Fowler

Donald L. Fowler (September 12, 1935 – December 15, 2020) was an American political scientist. He was National Chair of the Democratic National Committee from 1995 to 1997. He was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina. From 1971 to 1980, he was Chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party. 

Fowler died on December 15, 2020 from leukemia in Columbia, South Carolina at the age of 85.

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1935 births
2020 deaths
American political scientists
Deaths from leukemia
People from Spartanburg, South Carolina
Politicians from South Carolina
US Democratic Party politicians
Bruce Seals

Bruce A. Seals (June 18, 1953 – December 15, 2020) was an American basketball player. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. His career lasted from 1973 to 1984. Seals played for the Utah Stars, Seattle SuperSonics, Pallacanestro Varese and for Reyer Venezia. 

Seals died on December 15, 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 67.

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1953 births
2020 deaths
Seattle SuperSonics players
Sportspeople from Boston, Massachusetts
Petro Slobodyan

Petro Petrovych Slobodyan (, ; 2 July 1953 – 15 December 2020) was a Soviet-Ukrainian football player and manager. He was born in Sheparivtsi, Kolomyia Raion. He made two appearances for the Soviet Union national football team in 1976. 

Slobodyan died on 15 December 2020 at the age of 67.

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1953 births
2020 deaths
Soviet sportspeople
Ukrainian footballers
Ukrainian football managers
Ian Armstrong (politician)

Ian Morton Armstrong (17 July 1937 – 16 December 2020) was an Australian politician. He was the Deputy Premier of New South Wales from 1993 to 1995. He was a member of the Parliament of New South Wales from 1981 to 2007. Armstrong was a member of the National Party.

Armstrong died on 16 December 2020 at the age of 83.

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1937 births
2020 deaths
Politicians from New South Wales
Caroline Cellier

Caroline Cellier (7 August 1945 – 15 December 2020) was a French actress. She was born in Montpellier, France. Her career lasted from 1964 to 2011. She was known for her roles in This Man Must Die, L'emmerdeur and A Thousand Billion Dollars.

From 1978 to 1992, Cellier was married to actor Jean Poiret. They had one child. 

Cellier died on 15 December 2020 at the age of 75.

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1945 births
2020 deaths
French movie actors
French television actors
Jean Poiret

Jean Poiret, born Jean Poiré, (17 August 1926 – 14 March 1992) was a French actor, director, and screenwriter. He was known as the author of the original play La Cage aux Folles.

Other websites
 

1926 births
1992 deaths
French movie actors
French television actors
French theatre directors
Movie directors from Paris
Writers from Paris
French playwrights
Actors from Paris
French screenwriters
Leticia Lee

Leticia Lee See-yin (, 17 August 1964 – 16 December 2020) was a Hong Kong political activist. She was pro-China. Lee ran unsuccessfully in the 2016 Hong Kong legislative election. In 2018, Lee was accused of corruption. She had conservative views and her views of anti-LGBT rights made her controversial.

Lee died on 16 December 2020 at a Hong Kong hospital at the age of 56. She tested positive for COVID-19 in the simple test before she died but it's still not confirmed that she died from COVID-19.

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1964 births
2020 deaths
Activists from Hong Kong
Chinese politicians
Political activists
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic
Hanna Stankówna

Hanna Stanek-Lisowska (4 May 1938 – 14 December 2020) was a Polish actress. She was born in Poznań, Poland. She was known for her roles in The Real End of the Great War, Lokis and The Third Part of the Night.

Stankówna died on 14 December 2020 in Warsaw at the age of 82.

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1938 births
2020 deaths
Polish movie actors
Polish stage actors
People from Poznań
José María de la Torre Martín

José María de la Torre Martín (9 September 1952 – 14 December 2020) was a Mexican Roman Catholic bishop. De la Torres Martín was born in Mexico City. He became a priest in 1980. He was titular bishop of Panatoria and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guadalajara, Mexico from 2002 to 2008 and as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aguascalientes, Mexico, from 2008 until his death in 2020.

De la Torre Martín died on 14 December 2020 from COVID-19 in Aguascalientes, Mexico at the age of 68.

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1952 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico
Roman Catholic bishops
People from Mexico City
Manuel Costas (footballer, born 1942)

Manuel Costas Sanromán (8 May 1942 – 15 December 2020) was a Spanish professional footballer. He played as a defender. Costas was born in Panxón, Spain. He played for Sevilla FC from 1963 to 1974. He also played for Recreativo de Huelva from 1964 to 1965. 

Costas died on 15 December 2020, aged 78.

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1942 births
2020 deaths
Spanish footballers
Yaakov Agmon

Yaakov Agmon () (24 June 1929 – 16 December 2020) was an Israeli theater producer, manager, and director. He was born in Tel Aviv. He was director of United Jewish Appeal and also as a columnist and the secretary of the Rimon weekly publication.

In 1978, he founded Beit Lessin Theater. In 1995, Agmon was appointed general and artistic director of the Habima Theatre. In 2010, Agmon was appointed general manager of the Arabic-Hebrew theater of Jaffa.

Agmon died on 16 December 2020 at a hospital in Ramat Gan from COVID-19 at the age of 91.

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1929 births
2020 deaths
Columnists
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel
Israeli journalists
Israeli businesspeople
Israeli writers
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Theatre directors
Theatre producers
Feng Duan

Feng Duan (; June 11, 1923 – 15 December 2020) was a Chinese physicist and politician. He was an expert in solid-state physics. He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1980 until his death. He was a delegate to the National People's Congress from 1983 to 1994. Feng was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu.

Feng died on 15 December 2020 in Nanjing, Jiangsu at the age of 97.

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1923 births
2020 deaths
Chinese politicians
Chinese physicists
Tesfaye Gessesse

Tesfaye Gessesse (September 27, 1937 – December 16, 2020) was an Ethiopian actor and theatre director. He was born in Addis Ababa. He became the General Director of Hager Fikir Theatre in 1974. In 1975, he was removed and sent to prison by the Derg government after his play "Iqaw" which criticized as state terrorism.

Gessesse died on 16 December 2020, at the age of 84.

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1937 births
2020 deaths
Theatre directors
Ethiopian people
Stage actors
David Byrd (politician)

David Byrd (born September 8, 1957) is an American politician and retired basketball coach. He is a  Republican. Byrd represented the 71st district of the Tennessee House of Representatives since 2015. He was born in Waynesboro, Tennessee. 

On December 10, 2020 Byrd was hospitalized in Waynesboro with COVID-19 and placed in a ventilator.

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1957 births
Living people
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Tennessee
US Republican Party politicians
Waynesboro, Tennessee

Waynesboro is a city in and the county seat of Wayne County, Tennessee, United States. 2,449 lived here since the 2010 census.

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Cities in Tennessee
County seats in Tennessee
Wayne County, Tennessee

Wayne County is a county located in Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, 17,021 people lived here. Its county seat is Waynesboro.

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Waldemaro Bartolozzi

Waldemaro Bartolozzi (26 October 1927 – 16 December 2020) was an Italian racing cyclist. He finished in ninth place in the 1956 Giro d'Italia. He was born in Scandicci, Italy.

Bartolozzi died on 16 December 2020 in Scandicci at the age of 93.

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1927 births
2020 deaths
Italian cyclists
Scandicci

Scandicci () is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany. It is located about  southwest of Florence.

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Settlements in Tuscany
Crystal Lowe

Crystal Lowe (born January 20, 1981) is a Canadian actress and model. She is best known for her roles in horror movies such as roles as Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001), Final Destination 3 (2006), Black Christmas (2006) and Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007).

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1981 births
Living people
Canadian models
Canadian movie actors
Canadian television actors
Canadian voice actors
Canadian child actors
Canadian stage actors
Actors from Vancouver
Kawasaki theorem

The Kawasaki theorem is a theorem relating to the mathematics of paper folding. It states that when folding paper, a figure will be flat, if and only if all of the angles have an alternating sum of zero.

Mathematical theorems
Western Conference (MLS)

The Western Conference is one of Major League Soccer's two conferences. The other conference is the Eastern Conference.

Members

Current

Western Conference winner by season

^ – MLS did not have draws until the 2000 season.
† – The LA Galaxy were declared winners of the Western Division in 2001 after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks forced the cancellation of the rest of the regular season. The MLS Cup Playoffs began on September 20.

Related pages
Eastern Conference (MLS)
Central Division (MLS)

Other websites 
Complete MLS History

1996 in association football
Soccer in the United States
Football leagues
Taipei frog

The Taipei frog also referred to as Taipeh frog, Taipei grass frog, two-striped grass frog, striped slender frog, Taipei slender frog, Taipeh slender frog, white-banded frog, Taiwanese frog or stripe-backed frog (Hylarana taipehensis) is a frog from China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

The adult frog is 4.0 cm long.  It is bright yellow, green, brown, or mixed in color with some dark brown on the sides of its head.  During the day, this frog stays where the trees are close to each other.  It can live near humans, on farms and in cities.

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Animals of Asia
Frogs
La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes

The life of Guide of Tormes and of his fortunes and adversities (more known like Guide of Tormes) is an Spanish novel. It was written by an unknown author.  It is written in first person and in style epistolar (like an single long letter). The first editions known are from date of 1554. The book is an  autobiographical form of the life of a boy, Lázaro of Tormes, in the century XVI, from his birth and childhood problemsy until his wedding, already in the adulthood. It is considered precursor of the pictoresque novel by elements like the realism, the narration in first person, the itinerant structure, the service to several masters and the moralistic and pessimistic ideas

Guide of Tormes is an ironic and merciless outline of the society of the moment, of which show  his vices and attitudes hipócritas, especially the ones of the clergymen and religious. There is different hypothesis on his authorship. Probably the author was simpatizante of the ideas erasmistas. This motivated that the Inquisition forbade it and that, later, allowed his publication, once expurgada. The work did not go back to be published entirely until the century XIX
Articles with unsourced statements
Spanish-language literature
Letterlike Symbols

Letterlike Symbols is a Unicode block (a group of symbols in Unicode). It has 80 symbols. Many of these symbols are used in mathematics and look like letters.

Symbols

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Unicode blocks
Latin letters
Dressed to Kill (1980 movie)

Dressed to Kill is a 1980 American thriller movie directed by Brian De Palma and starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Dennis Franz, David Margulies. It was distributed by Filmways Pictures.

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1980s LGBT movies
1980 thriller movies
American thriller movies
American LGBT movies
Movies directed by Brian De Palma
Julie Fisher

Julie D. Fisher is an American diplomat. In December 2020, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved her designation as ambassador to Belarus. She will be the first American ambassador to that country since 2008, when the United States withdrew its ambassador as part of political tensions between the two countries. Previously, Ms. Fisher had been the U.S. chargé d'affaires and acting ambassador to Russia.  She served as Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs from September 1, 2018 until July 22, 2020 after being the Deputy Permanent Representative of the U.S. Mission to NATO.

Education
As an undergraduate, Ms. Fisher majored in Russian and East European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has a  Master’s degree from the Woodrow Wilson School for International Affairs at Princeton University.

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American diplomats
Women diplomats
Aydın Büyükşehir Belediyespor

Aydın Büyükşehir Belediyespor is the women's volleyball department of Aydın Büyükşehir Belediyespor Kulübü, a Turkish sports club based in Aydın, Turkey. Aydın Büyükşehir Belediyespor was established on 7 November 2014. The team plays its home matches at the Mimar Sinan Spor Salonu hall in Aydin.

Sports clubs
Samdari

Samdari is a tehsil of Barmer district in Rajasthan, northern India.

Demographics

According to the Indian Census 2011, the population of Samdari is 25012, where male population is 12805 and female population is 12207.

Transport 

In 2007 is a break of gauge junction station on Indian Railways.  Broad gauge lines go to Munabao and Jodhpur, while a metre gauge line subject to conversion goes to Bhildi.  Now broad gauge has completed and passenger train has started from 16 October 2010.

Services 
Computer E-Serves - Sundaram Computers & Arts.
Transport - Bus Service, Train Service, Taxi Service etc.
Hospital - Govt. Hospital, Amrit Hospital, Vardhman Hospital.
Police Station - Govt. Rajasthan Police Station.

Market - Ghor Ka Chokk Markets, Baawari Chowk, Station Market.
Music - MegmumLine Records, Bhatti Music.
Photography - Balaji studio, Namdev studio and Many Photography Studios.

School - Primary, Senior and Senior Secondary Schools and many more Play Group Schools.(Hindi/English Medium).
College - Sankalp College 
Bank - SBI and Cooperative Banks.

Temples 
Pipa Ji Ka Mandir
Lalechi Mata Ka Mandir
Dowal mata Temple
Jain Temple
Govind Ram Ji Ki Bagechi
Math Piple Mandir
Jhupa
Hinglaj Mandir 
Sri Sewaram Ji Khatri Murti
Bajrang Vatika
All Samaj Mandir
Subhdra Mata Temple, Sanjada, Majal
Lakshmi Mata ka Mandir

References 

 Samdari Coordinates

Barmer district
Mena Report

Mena Report (Middle East and North Africa Business Report) is a business news source established in 2001 and run by Al Bawaba (Amman, Jordan, and Dubai). It covers business and economics across the Arabic world.

Profile
The Mena Report was established in 2001. It covers economy and trade, IT and telecom, financial markets, oil and energy, agriculture, general industry, retail and services, transport and tourism. At time of launch, Menafn.com and Zawya.com provided similar content as  the Mena Report. Al Bawaba employs journalists and editors to cover news and events in the Middle East and North Africa. The content is presented on Al Bawaba's own website, and is syndicated to other publishers and aggregators. In 2009 the Mena Report portal claimed to have 123,409 monthly site visits.

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Jordan
Websites established in 2001
Magazines of Asia
Enclosed Alphanumerics

Enclosed Alphanumerics is a Unicode block (a group of symbols in Unicode). It has 160 symbols. Most of the symbols in the block are letters and numbers inside of circles or in parentheses. In the first Unicode plane (Basic Multilingual Plane), the blocks Dingbats and Enclosed CJK Letters and Months have more numbers inside of circles. In the next plane, the block Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement has symbols of letters inside of more circles, parentheses, and squares.

Many of the symbols were made to be used as bullets when writing lists. The numbers and letters in parentheses were made to look like how typewriters showed numbers and letters in circles. Unicode was made to think that the characters in this block look different than similar copyright symbols (for example, the copyright symbol (left) and the enclosed C (right): © and Ⓒ). The circled S (Ⓢ) was used by German missionaries at around 1900 as a symbol for the ditto mark.

Symbols

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Eric Lopez

Eric Lopez (born April 20, 1978) is an Cuban-born American voice actor, best known for his voice role of Blue Beetle in Young Justice. He was born in Havana, Cuba.

Lopez is the current voice of the Bumblebee Man in The Simpsons.

References

Other websites
 

1978 births
Living people
American voice actors
American video game actors
People from Havana
Vinland

Vinland is an area of the coast of North America, which Leif Erikson discovered around AD 1000. The name appears in the Vinland Sagas. It probably describes Newfoundland and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, as far north as New Brunswick.

What the name refers to 
Note that the vines the name refers to could also have been blackcurrant. Even today, blackcurrant is called Vinbär ("wine-berry") in Swedish. In the north of Germany the name Weinbeere has been used to refer to blackcurrant, since the Middle Ages.The terms Meertrübli or Trübli (small grape) is still present in some southern German dialects, to refer to blackcurrant.

The first reference outside the Sagas is that of Adam of Bremen (1076) in his Gesta Hammaburgensis.  He wrote: "Praeterea unam adhuc insulam recitavit a multis in eo repertam occeano, quae dicitur Winland, eo quod ibi vites sponte nascantur, vinum optimum ferentes. Nam et fruges ibi non seminatas habundare, non fabulosa opinione, sed certa comperimus relatione Danorum." This can be translated as: "In addition [the king of the Danes] reports on one of many islands in the ocean, which is called Winland, because vines grow there wild, which produce wine. That there are fruit in abundance which have non been [planted], we have not known from an incredible rumour, but from the report of the Danes."

References 
 Adam von Bremen (1076?): „Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum“ (Latin) 

History of North America
Guaraní language

Guaraní is an American Indian language from Paraguay. It is an official language of Paraguay. Guaraní is written using the Guaraní alphabet.

Guaraní is one of the most widely spoken American languages. It is often used among the Paraguayan people and neighboring communities. This is unique among American languages. Language shift towards European colonial languages (in this case, Spanish) has been nearly universal in the Western Hemisphere. However, Paraguayans have kept their traditional language while also adopting Spanish.

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Paraguay
Languages of South America
Hugues Le Bars

Hugues Le Bars (13 October 1950 in Versailles Yvelines – 1 November 2014) was a French film music composer.

Filmography

Discography 
 1981:  Est-ce le mec
 1989: 1789... ET NOUS (ballet music of Maurice Béjart)
 1991: J'en ai marre
 1995: Zinzin
 1997: Oggy et les Cafards
 2001: Musique pour Versailles
 2010: Massay Massey
 2013: Ettoo

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1950 births
2014 deaths
French composers
French composers by genre
Calamites

Calamities were horsetail like trees that went extinct about 250 to 360 million years ago. These plants were medium-sized trees, growing to heights of 30-50 meters and about 100-160 feet. The trunk of these trees had an appearance like a bamboo trunk while the leaves were needle-shaped. These calamities reproduced by cloning

Extinct plants
Cantar de mio Cid

The Cantar de mio Cid (Song of My Lord) is an anonymously written poem about the life of the Spanish knight El Cid. The original manuscript is believed to have been written around the year 1200.

It is the oldest Spanish epic poem that is nearly complete; the only missing pages are the first page along with 2 others within the writing. However, other accounts of the work have led historians to produce what is likely to have been in the missing segments. Along with this poem, there exists three other works chronicling the life of El Cid:  Mocedades de Rodrigo (circa 1360), the Cantar de Roncesvalles (circa 1270), and an epitaph, the Epitafio épico del Cid (circa 1400).

The poem has literary significance, and is credited with being the original work of the discipline of the study of Spanish literature: the study has been given credit to historian Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869-1968), who sparked interest in the work and popularized the study of Spanish literature.

13th-century books
Congress of the Republic of Guatemala

The Congress of the Republic () is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of Guatemala. The Guatemalan Congress is made up of 160 deputies who are elected to serve four-year terms. 

31 of the deputies are elected on a nationwide list, while the rest of the 127 deputies are elected in 22 multi-member constituencies.

Other websites
 

Guatemala
Michigan's 2nd congressional district

Michigan's 2nd congressional district is a United States congressional district in Western Michigan. From 2003 to 2013, it was made-up of the counties of Benzie, Manistee, Wexford, Mason, Lake, Oceana, Newaygo, Muskegon, Ottawa, and the northern portion of Allegan and the northwest portion of Kent.

Major cities
Allendale
Fremont
Grand Haven
Grandville
Holland
Hudsonville
Kentwood
Ludington
Muskegon
Muskegon Heights
Norton Shores
Spring Lake
 Walker
Wyoming
Zeeland

Voting

References

Michigan
Zeeland, Michigan

Zeeland ( ) is a city in Ottawa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. About 5,504 lived here since the 2010 census.

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Cities in Michigan
Hudsonville, Michigan

Hudsonville is a city in Ottawa County in the U.S. state of Michigan.  About 7,116 people lived here since the  2010 census.

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Cities in Michigan
Richard Laird

Richard Laird (July 4, 1939 – December 14, 2020) was an American Democratic politician. He was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from 1978 to 2014. He was born in Rome, Georgia.

Laird died of COVID-19 on December 14, 2020, in Carrollton, Georgia at age 81.

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1939 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Georgia (U.S. state)
US Democratic Party politicians
Jack Page (politician)

Jack Page (January 18, 1950 – December 14, 2020) was an American Democratic politician. He was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from the 29th district from 1993 to 2010. He was born in Kokura, Kyushu, Japan.

Page died of COVID-19 on December 14, 2020, in Gadsden, Alabama at age 70.

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1950 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Politicians from Alabama
US Democratic Party politicians
State legislators of the United States
Anthony Casso

Anthony Salvatore Casso (May 21, 1942 – December 15, 2020), nicknamed "Gaspipe", was an American mobster and former underboss of the Lucchese crime family. 

Casso was known as a "homicidal maniac" in the Italian-American Mafia. 

He is suspected of having done dozens of murders, and had confessed to involvement in between 15 and 36 murders.

Following his arrest in 1993, Casso became one of the highest-ranking members of the Mafia to turn informant. In 1998, sentenced him to 455 years in prison for racketeering, extortion, and murder.

Casso died on December 15, 2020 while in prison in Tucson, Arizona from COVID-19 at the age of 78.

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1942 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Mobsters
Criminals from New York City
American people convicted of murder
People who died in prison custody in the United States
Kálmán Sóvári

Kálmán Sóvári (21 December 1940 – 16 December 2020) was a Hungarian footballer. He played for Újpesti Dózsa as a defender. He played 17 games for the Hungary national football team from 1960 to 1966. He was born in Budapest.

Sóvári died on 16 December 2020 in Budapest at the age of 79.

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1940 births
2020 deaths
Hungarian footballers
Lorenzo Taliaferro

Lorenzo Taliaferro (December 23, 1991December 16, 2020) was an American football fullback. He played college football at Coastal Carolina. He was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in 2014. He was born in Yorktown, Virginia.

Taliaferro died on December 16, 2020 in Williamsburg, Virginia from a heart attack, aged 28.

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1991 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
American football fullbacks
Sportspeople from Virginia