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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.
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.
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.
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 ' (2001), "Final Destination 3" (2006), "Black Christmas" (2006) and ' (2007).
The Western Conference is one of Major League Soccer's two conferences. The other conference is the Eastern Conference. Western Conference regular season 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.
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. People have seen this frog as high as 800 meters above sea level. Appearance. The adult frog is 40 mm long from nose to rear end. 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. Threats. Scientists do not think this frog is in danger of dying out right now, but there are fewer of them than there were. Scientists think it would be bad for the frog if human beings changed the place where they live too much. Chemicals that make farm plants grow, chemical poisons that kill pests, and pollution can all kill this frog.
The life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of his fortunes and adversities (more known like Lazarillo de Tormes) is an Spanish novel. It was written by an unknown author. It is written in first person and in epistolary style (like an single long letter). Its oldest known editions date from 1554. The book is an autobiographical form of the life of a boy, Lázaro of Tormes, in the 16th century, from his birth and miserable childhood until his wedding, already in the adulthood. It is considered a precursor of the picaresque novel due to elements such as realism, the narration in first person, the itinerant structure, the service to several masters and the moralistic and pessimistic ideology. "Lazarillo de Tormes" is an ironic and merciless outline of the society of the moment, of which its vices and hypocritical attitudes are shown, especially the ones of the clergymen and religious. There are different hypothesis about its authorship. Probably the author was sympathetic to Erasmian ideas. This motivated the Inquisition to forbid it and, later, to allow its publication, once it was expunged. The work was not published again in its entirety until the 19th century.
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.
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.
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.
Eric Lopez (born April 20, 1978) is an American voice actor, best known for his voice role of Blue Beetle in "Young Justice". Lopez is the current voice of the Bumblebee Man in "The Simpsons".
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.""
Guaraní is an Native American language from Paraguay. It is one of the two official languages of Paraguay, along with Spanish. 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.
Hugues Le Bars (13 October 1950 in Versailles Yvelines – 1 November 2014 in La Queue-les-Yvelines) was a French film music composer.
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.
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.
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.
John G. Page III (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.
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.
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.
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.
Adela Ana María del Rosario Camacho Sinibaldi de Torrebiarte (March 30, 1949 – December 15, 2020) was a Guatemalan politician. She was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala. She was a member of the Commitment, Renewal and Order.  She was Minister of the Interior from 2007 to 2008. De Torrebiarte was President of the National Football Federation from 2016 to 2017. In 2020, she became a member of the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala. De Torrebiarte died of lung cancer in Guatemala City on 15 December 2020.
Renê Carmo Kreuz Weber (16 July 1961 – 16 December 2020), was a Brazilian football player and manager. He was born in Roque Gonzales, Rio Grande do Sul.  In 1986, he played for the national team. He mainly played for Fluminense and Vitória. On 16 December 2020, Weber died in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 59 from COVID-19.
Sigillaria is a lycopod fossil of the late Carboniferous and early Permian. They were typical coal forest trees similar to the "Lepidodendron". These swamp forest trees grew to 50 meters. They were anchored by an extensive network of branching underground roots.  It was a lycopod, an early land plant. This was one of the trees which made up the Carboniferous coal-forests. It had thin grasslike leaves that grew on the stem. The stem of the plant was green. Sigillaria reproduced with spores. It went extinct about 300 million years ago.
Hennadiy Adolfovych Kernes (, 27 June 1959 – 17 December 2020) was a Ukrainian politician. In 2010, he became Mayor of Kharkiv. He was born in Kharkiv. Kernes was hospitalized in September 2020 with COVID-19 in Berlin. He died on 17 December 2020 from kidney failure caused by COVID-19 at the age of 61.
Satya Deo Singh (27 February 1945 – 17 December 2020) was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1991 and resigned in 1998. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was President of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha from 1980 to 1985. Singh was born in Kolkata, West Bengal. Singh died on 17 December 2020 in Kolkata from cardiac arrest caused by COVID-19, aged 75.
Rosaly Davidman Papadopol (23 February 1956 – 16 December 2020) was a Brazilian actress. She was born in São Paulo, São Paulo. Her career began in 1975. Papadopol was known for her roles as Florinda in the 1987 drama "Night Angels" and as Sofia in the 2001 crime "Bellini and the Sphinx". Papadopol died of lymphoma on 16 December 2020 in São Paulo at the age of 64.
Stephen Tjephe (1 August 1955 – 16 December 2020) was a Burmese Roman Catholic prelate. Tjephe was born in Danoku, Myanmar. He became a priest in 1984. In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI made Tjephe the Titular Bishop of Nova Barbara. In 2015, Pope Francis made him Bishop of Loikaw. Tjephe died on 16 December 2020 in Loikaw, Myanmar at the age of 65.
Penang Football Club (or simply known as Penang FC) is a Malaysian professional football club based in George Town, Penang that currently plays in the Malaysia Premier League. It was unofficially founded in 1920.
Namat Abdullah (30 March 1946 – 17 December 2020) was a Malaysian football player. He was born in Penang, Malaysia. Abdullah played for Penang F.C. between 1967 and 1977. He also played for the national team between 1967 and 1975. Abdullah died on 17 December 2020 in Perak, Malaysia from stomach cancer at the age of 74.
Maciej Tomasz Grubski (20 August 1968 – 17 December 2020) was a Polish politician. He was a member of the Civic Platform. From 2007 to 2019, Grubski was a member of the Senate of Poland. Grubski was born in Łódź, Poland. Grubski died on 17 December 2020 in Łódź from COVID-19 at the age of 52.
Happiest Season is a 2020 American romantic comedy movie directed by Clea DuVall. The movie stars Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Dan Levy, Mary Holland, Victor Garber and Mary Steenburgen. The movie is about a woman who has a hard time to tell her conservative parents that she is a Lesbian and in a relationship with her roommate during Christmas.  It was released in the United States on November 25, 2020 by Hulu to strong positive reviews.
Michael Hogan (born 1949) is a Canadian actor. He is known for his roles as Colonel Saul Tigh in the 2004 "Battlestar Galactica" series, Billy in "The Peanut Butter Solution", the voice of Armando-Owen Bailey in the "Mass Effect" series, Gerard Argent in "Teen Wolf" and the voice of General Tullius in "". On February 17, 2020, Hogan had a brain injury after falling and hitting his head which caused him to have memory loss and paralysis.
Jeffrey Thomas Donovan (born May 11, 1968) is an American actor. He played Michael Westen in the television series "Burn Notice". He starred in the movies "Hitch", "Believe in Me", "Changeling" and "Come Early Morning". He played Robert F. Kennedy in Clint Eastwood's "J. Edgar" (2011) and his brother John F. Kennedy in Rob Reiner's "LBJ".  He played Dodd in the second season of the TV series "Fargo" (2015).
Group 8 is a group of elements in the periodic table. Group 8 has iron (Fe), ruthenium (Ru), osmium (Os) and hassium (Hs). Group 8 is in the transition metals section.
Jacques Lambinon (born 28 September 1936 in Namur and died in Liège on 14 November 2015) was a Belgian botanist. He was a professor at the University of Liège and member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. He is the main author of the "New Flora of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Northern France and neighbouring regions" which is used by thousands of students. He was a recognized specialist of: Among his very numerous functions, we can mention his role in the direction of the herbarium (Vascular plants) of the University of Liege. He was a member of many scientific committees such as the Flore de Corse or the National Botanical Conservatory of Bailleul. He was editor, proofreader and relentless proofreader, he was editorial secretary of "Lejeunia, Revue de Botanique", secretary of the Society for the Exchange of Vascular Plants of Europe and the Mediterranean Basin and correspondent (since 1983) of the Med-Checklist editorial committee (Geneva &amp; Berlin). Works. Bacidia clauzadei sp.nov., une espèce nouvelle de lichen foliicole produisant des cils conidiogènes. Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Provence, 45:349-35 The non native vascular flora of Belgium Systematics and Geography of Plants 76: 217-220
El cerco de Numancia (The siege of Numancia) is a tragedy written in 1585 by the Spanish writer and soldier Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It tells the story of the defeat of Numancia by the Roman Empire in the 2nd century BC. The play is also known as "The Numancia", "Comedy of the siege of Numancia", "The destruction of Numancia" and "Tragedy of Numancia". Two handwritten copies of the play have survived. One copy is in the National Library of Spain which is an actor's script from the 17th century. Another copy, the codex "Sancho Rayón", is held by the Hispanic Society of America. This copy was made by Antonio of Sancha in 1784, with modern spelling, together with another play, the "Trip of the Parnaso". Both copies are believed to be based closely on the original, although the modern editors prefer to use "The Numancia" from the manuscript "Sancho Rayón".
Monster's Ball is a 2001 American romantic drama movie directed by Marc Forster and starring Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Heath Ledger, Peter Boyle, Sean Combs, Mos Def. It was distributed by Lionsgate Films and was nominated for 2 Oscars and won an Academy Award in 2002.
Teairra Marquisha Thomas (born December 2, 1987) professionally known as Teairra Marí, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress and model. Career. Marí was discovered by the American music mogul Jay Z while she was 16 years old. Jay Z signed her under his label Roc-A-Fella records. In the same year, she released her debut album, titled ‘Roc-A-Fella Records Presents Teairra Mari’, which turned out to be a major debacle. It was a critical success but struggled in garnering the expected sales numbers. This failure threatened to destroy her musical career even before it started and she exited from the label during the production of her second album. A few years later, she got another chance to redeem her career with the single ‘Hunt 4 U’, and its success enabled her to approach studios to produce her second album. It was eventually released with the title ‘At that Point’. She embarked into acting in 2009 with the film ‘The Magnificent Cooly-T’. Thereafter, she appeared in another film ‘Lottery Ticket’ in 2010. She has also released some mix tapes featuring some well known artists of this era and has tasted success with her latest album, ‘Night Shift’ which was released in 2017. Personal life. According to Teairra, she was in an-again-off-again relationship for nine years with Brandy Norwood's brother Ray J. In September 2014, Ray J claimed that Teairra was physically abusive to him during their relationship. In 2011, Teairra was arrested in Beverly Hills, California for allegedly assaulting a police officer. In July 2015, Mari was charged with battery after her Uber driver alleged that she punched him and stole his phone charger after he originally declined to let her charge her phone in his car. Nonetheless, the court case had ended in a mistrial when the judge had to excuse himself due to illness in early 2017.
Chips Ahoy! is the one of the largest cookie brands, baked and marketed by Nabisco, a subsidiary of Mondelēz International, that was started in 1963. Chips Ahoy! currently has 28 unique flavors worldwide.
Michael Stanley Regan (born August 6, 1976) is an American environmentalist and politician. Regan was the 16th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2021 until 2025. He was the secretary of North Carolina's Department of Environmental Quality from 2017 until 2021. He was an air quality specialist in the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  On December 17, 2020, it was reported that then President-elect Joe Biden nominated Regan to serve as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 11, 2021.
Juan Manuel Pérez-Giménez (March 28, 1941 – December 10, 2020) was an American lawyer and politician. He was a Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico from 1979 until his death. He was chief judge of the court from 1984 to 1991. Pérez-Giménez was nominated to the court by President Jimmy Carter. He was born in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. Pérez-Giménez died on December 10, 2020 in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico at the age of 79.
The Very Reverend James Edgar Atwell, MA, BD (3 June 1946 – 12 December 2020) was an English Anglican priest who was Dean of Winchester from 2006 to 2016. Atwell was born in Calne, Wiltshire.  Atwell died on 12 December 2020 at the age of 74.
Sal Rocca (October 29, 1946 – December 13, 2020) was an Italian-born American politician and real estate developer. He was born in Casalvieri, Italy. He was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1975 to 1980, 1983 to 1994, and 2001 to 2004. Before 1992, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Afterwards, Rocca was a Republican. Rocca was raised in Detroit, Michigan. Rocca died of COVID-19 in Troy, Michigan on December 13, 2020 at the age of 74.
Segundo Galicia Sánchez (August 11, 1938 – December 14, 2020) was a Peruvian professor and sociologist. He was born in Virú, Peru. He was a full-time professor and researcher, "C" holder of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, (UAS), Mexico. He also was a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.  Galicia Sánchez died on December 14, 2020 in Mazatlán, Mexico at the age of 82.
Nyagarama (1946 – 18 December 2020), formally known as John Obiero Nyagarama, was a Kenyan politician. He was the first Governor of Nyamira County from 2013 until his death. He was a member of the Orange Democratic Movement. Nyagarama was born in Nyamira County, Kenya. Nyagarama was diagnosed with COVID-19 on 15 December 2020 and was hospitalized in Nairobi, Kenya. He died three days later from respiratory failure caused by the infection, aged 74.
Rahah binti Mohamed Noah (11 June 1933 – 18 December 2020) was a Malaysian socialite. She was the widow of former Malaysian Prime Minister Abdul Razak Hussein. Noah was born in Muar, Johor. Noah died on 18 December 2020 in Kuala Lumpur at the age of 87.
Jeremy Bulloch (16 February 194517 December 2020) was an English actor. He was best known for the role of the bounty hunter Boba Fett in "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi". Bulloch was born in Market Harborough, Leicestershire. Bulloch died on 17 December 2020 in London from Parkinson's disease-related problems, aged 75.