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Miron Sher

Miron Naumovich Sher (Russian: Мирон Наумович Шер; June 29, 1952 – August 21, 2020) was an influential Ukrainian-born American chess grandmaster. In 1981, at age 29, Sher became a chess coach for the Russian national team, a role he held until 1985.

Sher became an international master in 1988 and a grandmaster in 1992.

In 1991, when the Soviet Union dissolved, Sher became a Russian citizen. 

Sher died August 21, 2020, in New York City at the age of 68.

References

Other websites
 Miron Sher profile at FIDE
 Chess games of Miron Sher at Chessgames.com
 Miron N. Sher Tournament database at www.365chess.com

1952 births
2020 deaths
Ukrainian chess players
Russian chess players
American chess players
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Sportspeople from New York City
A. R. Lakshmanan

Arunachalam Chettiar Lakshmanan, B.A., B.L., (22 March 1942 – 27 August 2020) was an Indian politician and lawyer. He was a Judge of the Supreme Court of India between 2002 and 2007. He was Chairman of the Law Commission of India between 2006 and 2009.

Lakshmanan died on August 27, 2020 in Devakottai, Tamil Nadu from cardiac arrest, aged 78.

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1942 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Indian politicians
Indian judges
Keri Kaa

Hohi Ngapera Te Moana Keri Kaa  (1942 – 26 August 2020) was a New Zealand writer, educator and activist for te reo Māori. 

During her time in Wellington, Kaa was involved with the Haeata Women's Collective (a group of Māori women artists), the Herstory diary project, and the Waiata Koa collective.

Her children's book Taka Ki Ro Wai, written in the Waiapu dialect of te reo, won the inaugural Māori language category in the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and honored in the National Design Awards for creative director Martin Page's work.

Kaa died on 26 August 2020, aged 78.

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1942 births
2020 deaths
New Zealand writers
Activists
New Zealand educators
Bluestar's Prophecy

Bluestar's Prophecy is a children's fantasy novel Warriors series by Erin Hunter. This is the second Warriors Super Edition.  The first was Firestar's Quest. The main character is Bluefur.  The book tells her story from birth until she becomes leader of ThunderClan. It was published by HarperCollins and released on July 28, 2009. It was released in China on July 31, 2010.

Plot

Bluestar is also called Bluefur and Bluepaw during different parts of her life.

Bluestar's Prophecy follows the life of Bluestar, the future leader of ThunderClan. The book opens with a prologue that recounts the Bluestar's death in Warriors: A Dangerous Path from Bluestar's point of view. The book then goes back to Bluestar's childhood, during which Goosefeather, the Clan's medicine cat, receives a prophecy about Bluepaw being a fire that blazes through the forest, but who may be destroyed by water. A few moons later, Bluepaw's mother, Moonflower, is killed by the WindClan's medicine cat, Hawkheart.

Bluepaw's childhood is defined by her relationship with her sister, Snowpaw, which is damaged when Snowpaw - later Snowfur - falls in love with Thistleclaw, whom Bluefur finds arrogant and untrustworthy. Snowfur is later killed when she is hit by a speeding car, leaving a heartbroken Bluefur to care for her son, Whitekit.

As a warrior, Bluefur meets a RiverClan warrior named Oakheart; although they do not like each other at first, they eventually fall in love. They decide to spend one night together at Fourtrees, the regular Clan Gathering plan, but agree that for the good of their Clans, they will never meet again. One moon later, Bluefur is horrified to find out that she is expecting kits. Thrushpelt, a ThunderClan warrior with feelings for Bluefur, offers to help her take care of her kits. Bluefur accepts his offer, allowing the rest of ThunderClan to believe that Thrushpelt is the father of her kits.

Sunstar, ThunderClan's leader, tells Bluefur that he was planning to make her ThunderClan's new deputy, but because of her kits, he will promote Thistleclaw to deputy instead. After having a vision of Thistleclaw drenched in blood, Bluefur realizes that allowing him to become deputy and then leader would be deadly to the Clan. She decides to take her three kits to Oakheart and let them be raised in RiverClan. During this, one of her kits, Mosskit, freezes to death white her other kits, Mistykit and Stonekit, make it to Riverclan. She explains the disappearance of her kits by pretending they have been taken by a starving predator.

Without her kits, Bluefur is made deputy. After Sunstar loses his final life to dogs, she becomes leader, receiving her own nine lives and taking on the name Bluestar. After successfully leading ThunderClan for several seasons, she receives another prophecy from the ThunderClan medicine cat, Spottedleaf: “Fire alone can save our Clan.” Later, while on patrol with Whitestorm and her deputy, Redtail, she catches sight of a bright ginger house cat named Rusty. Recognizing him as the cat from Spottedleaf's prophecy, she names him Firepaw and accepts him into ThunderClan.

References

Warriors books
2009 books
Ted Grace

Edward Laurence Grace (13 March 1931 – 22 August 2020) was a Welsh-born Australian politician. He represented the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in the House of Representatives from 1984 to 1998, representing the seat of Fowler. Grace was born in Swansea, Wales.

Grace died on 22 August 2020 in New South Wales, aged 89.

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1931 births
2020 deaths
Welsh politicians
Naturalised citizens of Australia
People from Swansea
Politicians from New South Wales
Cinderella (Disney character)

Cinderella is a fictional Disney Princess. She is the main character of the 1950 Disney movie Cinderella, which is based on the fairly tale of Cinderella.

Fairy tales
Disney characters
Kingdom Hearts characters
Judith Ivey

Judith Lee Ivey (born September 4, 1951) is an American actress and theatre director. She twice won the Tony Award for her roles in Steaming (1981) and Hurlyburly (1984).

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Tony Award winning actors
Drama Desk Award winners
1951 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American voice actors
American theatre directors
Actors from El Paso, Texas
Actors from Illinois
Actors from Michigan
Tamara Tunie

Tamara Tunie (born March 14, 1959) is an American actress, director, and producer. She is best known for her roles as attorney Jessica Griffin on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns (1987-1995, 2000-2007, 2009), and as medical examiner Melinda Warner in the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2000-2019).

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Other websites
 

1959 births
American movie actors
American stage actors
American television actors
Drama Desk Award winners
Tony Award winners
Living people
Actors from Pennsylvania
Youghiogheny River

The Youghiogheny River , or the Yough (pronounced Yok ) for short, is a  tributary of the Monongahela River in the U.S. states of West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. It drains an area on the west side of the Allegheny Mountains northward into Pennsylvania.

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Rivers of West Virginia
Rivers of Maryland
Rivers of Pennsylvania
Connellsville, Pennsylvania

Connellsville is a city in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States,  southeast of Pittsburgh on the Youghiogheny River, a tributary of the Monongahela River. It is part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. The population was 7,637 at the 2010 census.

References

Cities in Pennsylvania
Alma G. Stallworth

Alma G. Stallworth (November 15, 1932 – August 25, 2020) was an American Democratic politician and businesswoman. She was in the Michigan House of Representatives from 1971 to 1974, 1983 to 1996 and from 2003 to 2004. She also founded the Black Caucus Foundation of Michigan in 1985. Stallworth was born in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Stallworth died on August 25, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan at the age of 87.

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1932 births
2020 deaths
State legislators of the United States
Businesspeople from Arkansas
Businesspeople from Detroit, Michigan
Politicians from Arkansas
Politicians from Detroit, Michigan
People from Little Rock, Arkansas
US Democratic Party politicians
Angolan genet

The Angolan genet or miombo genet (Genetta angolensis) is a type of genet. It only lives in Southern Africa. It is very common in Southern Africa. It is a Least Concern species.

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Viverrids
Mammals of Africa
Asian palm civet

The Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) is a type of Viverrid. It comes from South and Southeast Asia. It is a Least Concern species. In Indonesia, it is threatened by poaching and illegal buying and selling of wild animals; buyers use it to make kopi luwak, a type of coffee that is eaten and excreted by the animal.

References

Viverrids
Mammals of Asia
Brown palm civet

The brown palm civet (Paradoxurus jerdoni), is a type of palm civet. It is also called the Jerdon's palm civet. It only lives in the Western Ghats of India.

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Viverrids
Mammals of Asia
Dancer in the Dark

Dancer in the Dark is a 2000 Danish German Dutch Italian British French Swedish Finnish Icelandic Argentine Norwegian Taiwanese Belgian musical drama movie directed by Lars von Trier and stars Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Cara Seymour, Joel Grey, Jean-Marc Barr, Vincent Paterson, Željko Ivanek, Udo Kier. It was distributed by Fine Line Features and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2001.

Other websites
 
 

2000 drama movies
2000s musical movies
Danish movies
German drama movies
Dutch drama movies
Italian drama movies
British drama movies
British musical movies
Swedish drama movies
Finnish movies
Icelandic movies
Argentine drama movies
Norwegian movies
Taiwanese movies
Belgian drama movies
Movies directed by Lars von Trier
Kanuites

Kanuites is an extinct genus of paradoxurine viverrid carnivore. It lived in Africa, during the Miocene epoch.

Description
Kanuites was about  long, and looked very similar to modern genets. Kanuites was probably an omnivore and may have had retractable claws, like a feline. It may have lived in trees during some time in its life.

References

Viverrids
Miocene
Mammals of Africa
University of Wrocław

The University of Wrocław is a public university in Wrocław, Poland.  It was started in 1702 by Leopold I (Holy Roman Emperor), and has nearly 25,000 students.

History 
The first attempt to found a university in Wroclaw was in 1505. The initiator was Vladislav II. Due to wars, lack of money, the university was not opened.

In 1702, the Society of Jesus founded a university called Leopoldina. It had the only faculty of philosophy and сatholic theology. 

In 1811, as a result of a reform, the universities in Breslau and Frankfurt an der Oder were merged. The university was called Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University. Here students studied at 5 faculties — Catholic theology, Protestant theology, law, philosophy and medicine. The University of Breslau became the first German university to have both Catholic and Protestant faculties. 

After the end of World War II, the German university in the city was closed and then transformed into a Polish state university, which was officially opened on June 9, 1946. 

In 1952 — 1989 the university was named after the President of Poland Bolesław Bierut. 

In 2001, there were celebrations in Wroclaw dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the foundation of the University.

General information 
The University of Wroclaw is a higher education institution in the Republic of Poland. 

There are 10 departments that provide 44 areas of study, classes are mostly Polish, with only some in English. The University of Wrocław provides Bachelor, Master, and Doctoral level programmes.  

Teaching at the university is conducted at the following faculties:  

 Philological
 History and pedagogy
 Law, administration and economics
 Physicists and Astronomy
 Biotechnology
 Biology
 Geography, geology and environment
 Social Sciences
 Chemistry
 Mathematics and Computer Science.

References

Other websites

The Wrocław University

1700s establishments in Europe
1702 establishments
Wroclaw
Wrocław
Cape genet

The Cape genet (Genetta tigrina), is a type of genet. It is also called the South African large-spotted genet. It only lives in South Africa. It is a Least Concern species. Like other genets, it is nocturnal and arboreal. It prefers riparian zones of forests, as long as these are not marshy places.

References

Viverrids
Mammals of Africa
Knife-footed frog

The knife-footed tree frog, olive water-holding frog or desert collared frog (Ranoidea cultripes) is a frog from Australia.  It lives in the Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia.

The adult male frog is 4.1 cm long and the adult female frog is 4.3 cm long.  Their front feet are not webbed and their back feet have only a little webbing.  This frog digs in the ground to make a burrow, where it hides.  This frog is gray-brown or olive-brown in color with a thin stripe in the middle of its back down its spine.

This frog lives on flood plains near small streams.  It comes aboveground after rain. Scientists do not know what its tadpoles are like.

References

Animals of Australia
Frogs
Laurinburg, North Carolina

Laurinburg is a city in and the county seat of Scotland County, North Carolina, United States. The population at the 2010 Census was 15,962 people.

References

Cities in North Carolina
County seats in North Carolina
Clyde Hill, Washington

Clyde Hill is a city located in King County, Washington. It is part of the Eastside region, located to the east of Seattle. The population was 2,984 at the 2010 census.

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Cities in Washington (U.S. state)
Dahl's aquatic frog

Dahl's aquatic frog, the northern waterfrog, Dahl's olive tree frog, Dahl's tree frog, floodplain frog, northern lagoon frog or aquatic frog (Ranoidea dahlii) is a tree frog from Australia and New Guinea.  Most of them live in Western Australia and the Northern Territory.  There are a few more in Queensland and New Guinea.

This frog lives near bodies of water that either take months to dry up or do not dry up at all.  During the day, it sits next to the water.  When the weather is dry, it finds a crack in the ground to hide in.  Scientists do not know what the eggs or tadpoles are like.

References

Frogs
Animals of Australia
Half dollar

The United States Half dollar is the largest US coin currently produced and in circulation measuring at 1.2 inches in diameter and 0.08 inches in thickness. It is worth half of a dollar, or 50 cents.
It is worth the equivalent of 50 pennies, 10 nickels, 5 dimes, or 2 quarters.
The US president shown on the half dollar is John F. Kennedy
Half dollars are 2 times the weight of a US quarter dollar.
Half dollars were first minted in 1964 and are still being minted, however they are hard to find at most banks since not many people use half dollar coins anymore.
Coins
Free culture

Free culture is a concept and a movement that tries to help people share art very freely. It says copyright laws are too strict and tries to create a less limiting system. The word "free" In "free culture" means "freedom", not price.

The beginning of the movement is connected to Lawrence Lessig who has written a book named Free Culture and started Creative Commons, an organization that supports things like free culture and education. The movement is similar to free software movement but focuses on all art works, e.g. images or songs. Some free cultural works are for example the movie Big Buck Bunny or files at Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia is also part of free culture because it uses a free license for its articles.

The rules 

Works, for example movies, that respect free culture are called free cultural works or simply free works. These works have to allow anyone to:

 Use the work personally without limits, for example watch the movie.
 Use the work in any other way, for example examine it and see how it was made.
 Give the work to others, for example your friends, or even sell it to someone.
 Change the work in any way, for example add different music to the movie. You can also do everything above with the changed version.

The artist who creates something can make it free by adding a free license to it. Most famous free licenses are Creative Commons (CC) licenses. However, not all Creative Commons licenses are free (some for example prohibit commercial use or changing the work). The free CC licenses are CC0, CC-BY and CC-BY-SA.

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Free content
MOS Technology 6502

The MOS Technology 6502 is an 8-bit microprocessor developed by MOS Technology in 1975. When It was introduced it was highly praised for its cost and is still being produced to this day as the 65C02 by the Western Design Center (WDC).

Many popular home video games consoles and computers such as the Atari 2600, Atari XL, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System and other systems have used the 6502 and variants of it as its main processor.

References

Microprocessor design
BBC Micro

The BBC Micro or the Beeb was an 8-bit home computer from 1981.  Acorn Computers developed and built the BBC Micro. Over 1.5 million units were sold during its lifespan. For many children in the UK, the BBC Micro was their first exposure to computers because many were in schools. An estimated 80% of schools in the UK had a BBC Micro computer.

Nine models of the BBC Micro were produced, and the Model B was the most common, the BBC Master series with an upgraded 128KB of RAM and other refinements and various other models such as RAM upgraded Model B's and a version for North America that outputted an NTSC video signal.

Related articles 

 ZX Spectrum
 Atari XL
 Commodore 64

Computer hardware
Technology
Urban morphology

Urban morphology is the field of research, study, study, and design of the form of human settlement and the process of their formation and change. This study seeks to understand the spatial structure and nature of: "metropolis, city, town, neighborhood, compound, or agricultural locality" of any kind, by examining the patterns of the component parts Its and the ownership or control and given of the form of land uses. Usually the analysis of the physical form focuses on the pattern of the street, the plot (or for example in UK "the plot") and the building patterns. Land use analysis specifically is usually conducted using cartographic sources and the development process is derived from a comparison of historical maps. Special attention is paid to how the physical shape of a city changes over time and how different cities compare to each other. Another significant part of this research profession deals with the study of the social forms that are expressed in the physical arrangement of a city, and vice versa, how the physical form produces or recreates various social forms.

Related pages 
 Urban design

Other websites 
International Seminar on Urban Form
Urban Morphology and Complex Systems Institute, Paris
Urban Morphology Research Group, Birmingham
Urban Morpohology Institute

Urban design
Mother-of-pearl

Mother of pearl is a smooth shining iridescent substance forming the inner layer of the shell of some molluscs, especially oysters and abalones, used in ornamentation.

Molluscs
Jewelry
Olfactores

Olfactores is a group, called a clade, in taxonomy.  Taxonomy is the way scientists put living things in groups to show how they are related to each other.  Olfactores is part of the phylum Chordata, animals with notochords. These are rods of tissue that form inside the developing embryo.  In many organisms, the notochord helps the spine or nervous system grow, but some animals have only a notochord and no spinal bones.  Olfactores contains Vetulicolia, Tunicata (Urochordata) and Vertebrata (also named Craniata). Most animals in Chordata are also in Olfactores. Only the animals in Cephalochordata are in Chordata but not Olfactores.

Scientists started to think taxonomy needed a special name for this group of living things in 2006.  They studied large numbers of data and saw a pattern that said the organisms in Olfactores had a relationship with each other that they did not have with cephalochordates. The name olfactores comes from Latin word olfactus for "sense of smell."  Scientists named this clade "Olfactores" because the animals in it grow a pharynx as part of their respiratory system and use it to breathe.  Cephalochordates, for example the lancelet, do not have respiratory systems and they do not have any organs whose job is only to smell things.

Phylogeny

References

Chordates
Taxonomy
Jack Dryburgh

Jack "Jackie" Dryburgh (14 January 1939 – 21 August 2020) was a British ice hockey player and coach and administrator. 

He played for many clubs in Scotland and England during the 1950s and 1960s as well as coaching in Aviemore and Solihull. He was a member of the British Ice Hockey Association. She was added into the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 1991.

References

Other websites
A to Z Encyclopaedia of Ice Hockey entry 
British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame entry

1939 births
2020 deaths
Scottish ice hockey players
Thomas Imrie

Thomas "Red" Imrie (15 July 1937 – 24 August 2020) was a British ice hockey defender. He  played in the United Kingdom during the 1950s and 1960s. He also played for the Great Britain national team between 1961 and 1966.

Imrie was honored into the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 1987.

Imrie died on 24 August 2020 at the age of 83.

References

Other websites
A to Z Encyclopaedia of Ice Hockey
Ice Hockey Journalists UK

1937 births
2020 deaths
Scottish ice hockey players
Douglas MacDiarmid

Douglas Kerr MacDiarmid (14 November 1922 – August 26, 2020) was a New Zealand painter. He was known for his diversity and use of colour, and involved with key movements in twentieth-century art. He was born in Taihape, New Zealand. 

MacDiarmid painted the portraits of Rita Angus and Theo Schoon among others.

In 2016, two of his paintings sold through Art+Object for a record price (for the artist) of more than $27,000 each as part of the Tim and Sherrah Francis Collection, the highest grossing art auction in New Zealand history.

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1922 births
2020 deaths
New Zealand painters
Joe Ruby

Joseph Clemens Ruby (March 30, 1933 – August 26, 2020) was an American animator, television editor, writer, and producer. He was the co-founder with Ken Spears of television animation production company Ruby-Spears Productions. He was born in Los Angeles. He helped create Scooby-Doo, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, and Jabberjaw.

Ruby died of natural causes on August 26, 2020 in Los Angeles, aged 87.

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1933 births
2020 deaths
American animators
American television producers
American television writers
American editors
Deaths from natural causes in the United States
Businesspeople from Los Angeles
David Bryant (bowls)

David John Bryant  (27 October 1931 – 27 August 2020) was a British three-time World (outdoors) singles bowls champion (in 1966, 1980 and 1988). He was also a three-time World indoors singles champion (in 1979, 1980 and 1981) and a four time Commonwealth Games singles gold medalist. He was born in Clevedon, North Somerset, England.

He was thought to be the greatest bowler of all time, winning 19 World and Commonwealth gold medals in total.

Bryant died on 27 August 2020, aged 88.

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1931 births
2020 deaths
British sportspeople
People from Somerset
László Kamuti

László Kamuti (13 January 1940 – 27 August 2020) was a Hungarian fencer. He competed at four Olympic Games in 1960, 1964, 1968 and 1972. He was born in Budapest.

Kamuti died on 27 August 2020 in Budapest, aged 80.

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1940 births
2020 deaths
Olympians
Sportspeople from Budapest
Eugene McCabe

Eugene McCabe (7 July 1930 – 27 August 2020) was a Scottish-born Irish novelist, short story writer, playwright, and television screenwriter. He was born in Glasgow. He was known for his written works Cancer trilogy (Cancer, Heritage, Siege) Tales from the Poorhouse and King Of The Castle.

His 1992 novel Death and Nightingales has been called by Irish writer Colm Tóibín "one of the great Irish masterpieces of the century"

McCabe died on 27 August 2020 in London, aged 90.

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1930 births
2020 deaths
Scottish novelists
Irish novelists
Irish playwrights
Irish screenwriters
People from Glasgow
The Drones (Australian band)

The Drones were an Australian rock band, formed in Perth by mainstay lead vocalist and guitarist, Gareth Liddiard in 1997. 

Their second album, Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By (April 2005), won the inaugural Australian Music Prize. 

In October 2010 their third studio album, Gala Mill (September 2006) was listed at No. 21 in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums. Two of their albums have reached the top 20 on the ARIA Albums Chart, I See Seaweed (March 2013) and Feelin Kinda Free (March 2016). 

The group went on hiatus in December 2016 with Kitschin and Liddiard forming a new group, Tropical Fuck Storm, in the following year.

Albums
 Here Come the Lies (August 2002) 
 Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By (April 2005) 
 Gala Mill (September 2006) 
 Havilah (2008) 
 I See Seaweed (2013)
 Feelin Kinda Free (2016)

Other websites
 Official site
 ATP Recordings page
 Interview with The Drones @ MessandNoise.com
 band page on Spaceland Recordings website 
 Gareth Liddiard interview in Reverb Magazine (November 2010)

1998 establishments in Australia
Australian musical groups
People from Perth, Western Australia
Musical groups established in 1998
Arnaldo Saccomani

Arnaldo Saccomani (August 24, 1949 – August 27, 2020) was a Brazilian music producer, multi-instrumentalist and composer. He was born in São Paulo, Brazil. A television personality, he was known for judging the reality shows Ídolos and Qual é o Seu Talento?.

Saccomani died on August 27, 2020 from renal failure caused by diabetes at a hospital in Indaiatuba, Brazil at the age of 71.

References

Other websites
Arnaldo Saccomani on Twitter

People from São Paulo
Composers
Brazilian singers
Brazilian musicians
Brazilian television personalities
Record producers
1949 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from renal failure
Deaths from diabetes
Brazilian writers
Indaiatuba

Indaiatuba is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Campinas. The population is 251.600 (2019 est.) in an area of 311.55 km².

References

Municipalities in São Paulo (state)
Shooting of Jacob Blake

Jacob S. Blake is a 29-year-old African-American man who was shot by police in August 2020. He was hit by four of seven shots fired at his back during an arrest by police officer Rusten Sheskey. Blake did not die, but he cannot move his body below his waist.  He is paralyzed.

The shooting happened in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on August 23, 2020, as officers were attempting to arrest Blake. There was an arrest warrant against Blake for criminal trespass, domestic abuse, and sexual assault. 

During the encounter, Blake was tasered and scuffled with officers. He was shot as he opened the driver's door to his SUV and leaned in. Three of Blake's sons were in the backseat. 

The shooting was followed by protests, property damage, arson, and shooting deaths in downtown Kenosha.

Both the state of Wisconsin and the U.S. federal government decided not to charge police officer Rusten Sheskey with a crime for the shooting.

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2020 in the United States
2020s in Wisconsin
August 2020 events
Kenosha unrest

In August 2020, in the aftermath of the Jacob Blake shooting, protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States and elsewhere occurred as part of the larger Black Lives Matter movement and reactions to other high-profile police killings of unarmed Black people in 2020. 

After police shot Jacob Blake, many people protested in Kenosha. It was not wholly a peaceful protest. Some people broke into shops and stole the things inside. Some shops were burned down. Armed civilian counter-protesters also came, some of them from other states. They said they wanted to protect businesses.

On August 24, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers activated the Wisconsin National Guard to protect fire fighters and critical infrastructure in Kenosha.

On August 25, one of the armed counter-protesters shot three people, two of whom were later pronounced dead. The shooter was a 17 year old named Kyle Rittenhouse.  Rittenhouse later walked towards police vehicles with his hands up and still armed with a semi-automatic rifle, but the police vehicles drove past him. Both the men he killed, Anthon Huber, 26, and Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, were white.  Many conservatives thought Rittenhouse did not deserve to go to prison, and an online fund for his $2 million bail was filled.

Trial
Kyle Rittenhouse's trial is scheduled to start on November 1. He is charged with homicide: first-degree reckless homicide, first-degree intentional homicide and attempted first-degree intentional homicide. He is also charged with carrying a weapon even though he was under 18 years old, which is illegal in that state. The largest punishment he could get is life in prison.

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2020 crimes
2020 in the United States
2020s crimes in the United States
2020s fires
2020s riots
2020s in Wisconsin
Arson
August 2020 events

Fires in the United States
Looting
Riots in the United States
September 2020 events
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is a first-person shooter video game developed by Treyarch and Raven Software and published by Activision. It is the fifth installment of the Black Ops series, and the seventeenth installment in the overall Call of Duty series.

Background
It is a sequel to Call of Duty: Black Ops, Black Ops Cold War was released on November 13, 2020.

The game's campaign reveal took place on August 26, 2020, and its multiplayer mode was set to be published on September 9th, 2020. It is currently available on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Windows 8 and 10. It costs 60 USD for the Base game.

Plot
Black Ops Cold War is set during the early 1980s of the Cold War during the Ronald Reagan presidency. The campaign follows CIA operative Russell Adler as he looks for an alleged Soviet spy, Perseus, whose stated goal is to subvert the United States and tilt the balance of power toward the Soviet Union.

References

Other websites
 Official website

Video game sequels
Call of Duty series
Bob Armstrong

Joseph Melton James (October 3, 1939 – August 27, 2020) was an American professional wrestler. In 2011, he was honored into the WWE Hall of Fame. He wrestled for the National Wrestling Alliance.

In his 50 year career, Armstrong held many championships throughout the Southeastern United States. He was born in Marietta, Georgia.

His four sons, Joseph, Robert Bradley, Steve and Brian, all became wrestlers.

Armstrong died on August 27, 2020 in Pensacola, Florida from bone cancer at the age of 80.

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1939 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from bone cancer
American professional wrestlers
Sportspeople from Georgia (U.S. state)
Jay, Florida

Jay is a town in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States. The population was 533 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Pensacola–Ferry Pass–Brent Metropolitan Statistical Area.

References

Towns in Florida
Brent, Florida

Brent is a census-designated place (CDP) in Escambia County, Florida, United States.  The population was 21,804 at the 2010 census. It is a principal city of the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent Metropolitan Statistical Area.

References

Census-designated places in Florida
Ferry Pass, Florida

Ferry Pass is a census-designated place (CDP) in Escambia County, Florida. It is a community in Pensacola. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 28,921. The University of West Florida, located in Ferry Pass.

References

Census-designated places in Florida
University of West Florida

The University of West Florida (West Florida or UWF) is a public university in Pensacola, Florida. It was opened in 1963 as a member institution of the State University System of Florida.

It is a research university without faculties of law or medicine, a space-grant institution, and the third largest campus in the State University System, at . 

The main campus is a natural preserve that is bordered by two rivers and Escambia Bay. The university's mascot is an argonaut and its logo is the chambered nautilus.

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Lute Olson

Robert Luther "Lute" Olson (September 22, 1934 – August 27, 2020) was an American Hall of Fame basketball coach. He was born in Mayville, North Dakota.

He was also honored in the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame (2006) and re-inducted in the class of 2019. 

He was the head coach of the University of Arizona's men's team for 25 years. He was also head coach at the University of Iowa for nine years and California State University, Long Beach for one season.

On October 23, 2008, Olson announced his retirement from coaching.

Olson died on August 27, 2020 under hospice care in Tucson, Arizona from stroke-related problems at the age of 85.

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Mayville, North Dakota

Mayville is a city in Traill County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 1,858 at the 2010 census.

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Hillsboro, North Dakota

Hillsboro is a city in Traill County, North Dakota, United States. It is the county seat of Traill County. The population was 1,603 at the 2010 census. Hillsboro was founded in 1881.

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Anthony Provenzano

Anthony Provenzano (May 7, 1917 – December 12, 1988), also known as Tony Pro, was an American mobster. He was a member of the Genovese crime family New Jersey faction.  Provenzano was known for his dealings with Teamsters Union director Jimmy Hoffa due to Provenzano's job as an International Brotherhood of Teamsters president for Local 560 in Union City, New Jersey. He was born in New York City.

On December 12, 1988, Provenzano died of a heart attack at Lompoc Federal Penitentiary in Lompoc, California, aged 71.

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Avalanche Express

Avalanche Express is a 1979 Irish American adventure movie directed by Mark Robson and was based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Colin Forbes. It stars Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Linda Evans, Maximilian Schell, Joe Namath, Horst Buchholz, Mike Connors, Claudio Cassinelli, Sky du Mont, David Hess, Günter Meisner, Cyril Shaps and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.

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Parenthood (1989 movie)

Parenthood is a 1989 American comedy movie directed by Ron Howard and starring Steve Martin, Dianne Wiest, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Robards, Rick Moranis, Tom Hulce, Martha Plimpton, Keanu Reeves, Harley Jane Kozak, Joaquin Phoenix, Kevin Hart,  Dennis Dugan. It was distributed by Universal Pictures and was nominated for 2 Academy Awards in 1990. It was spun off into two television adaptions in 1990 and 2010.

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Come Home with Me (movie)

Come Home with Me () is a 1941 Danish drama movie directed by Benjamin Christensen. It stars Bodil Ipsen, Tudlik Johansen, Johannes Meyer, Grethe Holmer, Eigil Reimers, Mogens Wieth, Helga Frier.

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Dan Yochum

Dan Yochum (August 19, 1950 – August 26, 2020) was an American-Canadian offensive lineman for the Montreal Alouettes from 1972 to 1980 and the Edmonton Eskimos in 1980. He played for the Canadian Football League. He won three Grey Cups for the Alouettes and was a four-time CFL All-Star.

Yochum was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Yochum was honored into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2004.

Yochum died on August 26, 2020 at the age of 70.

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Harve Presnell

George Harvey Presnell (September 14, 1933 – June 30, 2009) was an American actor and singer. He played Leadville Johnny in the Broadway musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown and its movie version.

He appeared in Fargo (1996), Saving Private Ryan (1998), and Flags of Our Fathers (2006).

In 1965, he won a Golden Globe Award.

Presnell died on June 30, 2009, aged 75, from pancreatic cancer at a hospital in Santa Monica, California.

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Peter Gallagher

Peter Killian Gallagher (born August 19, 1955) is an American actor, musician and writer. He is best known for his roles as Sandy Cohen in the television drama series The O.C. from 2003 to 2007, as Deputy Chief William Dodds on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,   Stacey Koons on the Showtime comedy-drama Californication, and Nick on the Netflix series Grace & Frankie.

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Erick Avari

Erick Avari (born Nariman Eruch Avari; 13 April 1952) is an Indian–American actor. He is known for his roles in Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996) and The Mummy (1999).

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Cao Chunan

Cao Chunan (; August 15, 1930 – August 27, 2020) was a Chinese scientist. His works focused in corrosion and electrochemistry. He was a member of the Jiusan Society. In 1991, he became a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Cao was born in Changshu County, Jiangsu.

Cao died on August 27, 2020 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang at the age of 90.

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Chinese chemists
Józefa Hennelowa

Józefa Maria Hennelowa (1 April 1925 – 22 August 2020) was a Lithuanian-born Polish publicist, journalist and politician. She was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. As a journalist, she worked for Tygodnik Powszechny. Hennelowa was a member of the Sejm from 1989 to 1993.

Hennelowa died in Krakow, Poland on 22 August 2020, aged 95.

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Masud Yunus

Mas'ud Yunus (1 January 1952 – 27 August 2020) was an Indonesian politician. He was born in Mojokerto, East Java. Yunus was a member of the Democratic Party of Struggle. Between 2013 to 2018, he was mayor of Mojokerto. 

Yunus died on 27 August 2020 at a hospital in Mojokerto from COVID-19, aged 68.

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East Java

East Java () is a province of Indonesia. It has a land border only with the province of Central Java to the west.

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Java
Mojokerto

Mojokerto ( (Majakerta)) is a city in East Java Province, Indonesia. It is located 40 km southwest of Surabaya.

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Java
Chaim Dov Keller

Chaim Dov Keller (1930August 17, 2020) was an American Haredi rabbi,
Talmudic scholar, and journalist. He was the co-founder and co-rosh yeshiva ("dean") of the Telshe Yeshiva in Chicago. He wrote in Haredi newspapers such as the Yated Ne'eman in the United States. He was born in New York City.

Keller was diagnosed with COVID-19 in March 2020. He died on August 17, 2020 in Chicago, aged 90.

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David Simon

David Simon is an American journalist, screenwriter and producer.

Biography 
David Simon's journalistic career began with articles in the school newspaper. After graduating from college in 1983, he came to The Baltimore Sun, where he worked for twelve years. In the newspaper, Simon dealt with criminal issues. 

In 1991, his first documentary, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. The book was based on his experiences shadowing the Baltimore Police Department homicide unit during 1988.  Focusing on work in the series. Simon left the newspaper in 1995.   

Simon was the creator, show runner, executive producer and head writer of the HBO drama series The Wire.  

Simon produced and wrote Generation Kill for HBO with Ed Burns.The miniseries is an adaption of the non-fiction book of the same name. It relates the first 40 days of the 2003 invasion of Iraq as experienced by 1st Reconnaissance Battalion and their embedded reporter, Evan Wright.   

In 2014, HBO greenlit production for Simon's next project Show Me a Hero. The miniseries is an adaptation of the nonfiction book of the same name by Lisa Belkin and tells the story of Nick Wasicsko, the youngest big-city mayor in the nation who finds himself thrust into racial controversy when a federal court orders to build a small number of low-income housing units in the white neighborhoods of Yonkers, New York.       

Simon is married to writer Laura Lippman.

Bibliography 

 1991   — Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets 
 1997   — The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (co-authored with Ed Burns)

Filmography 

 1993  — 1999   - "Slaughterhouse" / Homicide: Life on the Street (screenwriter, producer) 
 1996 —  « New York Police "/ NYPD Blue (screenwriter) 
 2000  —  "Corner" / The Corner (screenwriter, producer) 
 2002  —  2008   — " Eavesdropping" / The Wire (screenwriter, producer) 
 2008  —  " Generation kill " (screenwriter, producer) 
 2010 — 2013   —  "Treme" (screenwriter, producer) 
 2015   —  " Show Me a Hero" (showrunner, producer, screenwriter)

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Davies' tree frog

Davies' tree frog (Ranoidea daviesae) is a tree frog from Australia.  They live on the Great Dividing Range in New South Wales.

The adult male frog is 5.3 cm long and the adult female is 6.3 cm long.  This frog is gold-brown in color.  Some frogs have green patches.  It has a dark stripe from its nose over its eye and down its body.  This frog has ears that are hard to see.  It has fewer warts than other frogs in its family.

Davies' tree frog tadpoles are different from other tadpoles.  Their mouths have no beaks or teeth.

There are fewer Davies' tree frogs than there were.  The IUCN Red List says they are a vulnerable species.  Scientists say there are fewer Davies' tree frogs because human beings have changed their places where they live from forests, because of predators, and because there are not enough Davies' tree frogs in one place for them to find unrelated partners and make healthy offspring.  They also think the fungus disease chytridiomycosis could kill Davies' tree frogs but no scientist had seen any frogs sick with it as of 2007.

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Animals of Australia
List of rulers of Lithuania

The President of Republic of Lithuania is a official head of government of Lithuania.

List of presidents

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Busch Gardens Williamsburg

Busch Gardens Williamsburg is an amusement park located in James City County, Virginia, United States.

Theme parks in the United States
Buildings and structures in Virginia
1970s establishments in Virginia
1975 establishments in the United States
SeaWorld Orlando

SeaWorld Orlando is a theme park and marine zoological park in Orlando, Florida.

Theme parks in Florida
1970s establishments in Florida
Disney - Orlando
1973 establishments in the United States
Justin and the Knights of Valour

Justin and the Knights of Valour is a 2013 Spanish computer animated comic epic movie produced by Kandor Graphics for Entertainment One Films. It stars Freddie Highmore, Saoirse Ronan, James Cosmo, Charles Dance, Tamsin Egerton, Antonio Banderas, Rupert Everett, Alfred Molina, Mark Strong, Angela Lansbury, David Walliams, Julie Walters and Olivia Williams. It was released on 13 September 2013.

Cast 

 Freddie Highmore as Justin, A young dragon trainer, Justin became a superhero in the world of dragon training after a series of trials and training.
 Saoirse Ronan as Talia
 James Cosmo as Blucher
 Charles Dance as Legantir
 Tamsin Egerton as Lara
 Antonio Banderas as Sir Clorex
 Rupert Everett as Sota
 Barry Humphries as Braulio
 Alfred Molina as Reginald
 Mark Strong as Heraclio
 Angela Lansbury as The Witch
 David Walliams as Melquiades
 Julie Walters as Grandma Lilly
 Olivia Williams as The Queen

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That Lady in Ermine

That Lady in Ermine is a 1948 American musical movie directed by Ernst Lubitsch and stars Betty Grable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Cesar Romero. The screenplay by Samson Raphaelson is based on the 1919 operetta Die Frau im Hermelin by Rudolph Schanzer and Ernst Welisch. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.

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Clarke County, Virginia

Clarke County is a county in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, 14,034 people lived there. Its county seat is Berryville.

Virginia counties
INaturalist

iNaturalist is an American website where people post scientific information about plants, animals and other living things.  Usually, they send photographs of which living things they saw and say where and when they saw them.

iNaturalist works by crowdsourcing, by asking many, many people to work on the project.  Some of the people who send information to iNaturalist are professional scientists and some are citizen scientists, ordinary people who want to help scientific projects.  iNaturalist sends information to International Union for the Conservation of Nature and other projects that watch endangered animals and other populations. iNaturalist users can help park rangers and other people who work in forests find and identify invasive species, for example kudzu.  According to one park ranger from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the United States, rangers usually already know an invasive plant is in their park, but iNaturalist and programs like it help them find out exactly where it is.  Then they can gather people to remove it.

Parks, conservation programs and research teams in many countries have used iNaturalist, for example the United States, Canada and New Zealand.

History

Students at the University of California at Berkeley founded iNaturalist in 2008.  It was a master's thesis project.  Since 2014, the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society have run iNaturalist together.

Platform

People use their smart phones to look at or send information to iNaturalist, usually photographs.  Then other users on the website figure out what the is in the picture.

Seek

In 2020, iNaturalist launched a smaller program called Seek.  Users with Seek can point their phones at a plant or animal and the program will try to tell them its name.  According to iNature's Tony Iwane, "Seek's machine-learning model is based entirely on observations from . . the iNaturalist community, so it's really the hard work of thousands and thousands of people on iNaturalist that enables Seek to function."

Related pages
AmphibiaWeb
IUCN

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