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Ze'ev Eisenberg (22 March 1973 – 1 October 2020), known as Zef Eisenberg, was the British racecar driver, television presenter and businessman. He was the founder of sports nutrition brand Maximuscle. He was an ultra-speed motorbike racer. He held mant land speed records for motorbike racing. His success in land speed racing led him to become a television presenter racer for the TV series "Speed Freaks", a six episode production on ITV4. He was born in London. Eisenberg was killed, aged 47, when his car flipped and crashed on 1 October 2020 while attempting a British land speed record at RAF Elvington, Yorkshire.
Yves-René-Jean Gérard (6 January 1932 – 6 October 2020) was a French musicologist. He was born in Châlons-sur-Marne, France. He was known especially for his scholarly works on the composers Luigi Boccherini and Camille Saint-Saëns.  He was also known for his studies of the chamber music of late-18th century Italy, Spain, and Austria.  In 1983 he co-edited volume 4 of Berlioz's "Correspondance générale", and in 1996 he co-edited Volume 1 of the composer's "Critique musicale". Gérard died of cancer on 6 October 2020, aged 88.
Epaminondas George Aristotle Alexander Stassinopoulos (17 January 1921 – 16 May 2022) was a German-born Greek astrophysicist. He was the head of the Radiation Physics Office and Emeritus Astrophysicist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He was the author of many papers and articles in the field of space radiation. Stassinopoulos was born in Bonn, Germany. He turned 100 in January 2021. Stassinopoulos died on 16 May 2022 in Culver City, California at the age of 101.
Greendale is a village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 14,854 at the 2020 census.
Ivica Dačić (, ; born 1 January 1966) is a Serbian politician. He has been the Minister of Internal Affairs since May 2024. He is the leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia. From 2008 to April 2014, he was Minister of Internal Affairs, while also being Prime Minister of Serbia for part of that tenure, from July 2012 until 2014. He also was Acting Prime Minister of Serbia from 31 May 2017 until 29 June 2017. He unsuccessfully ran for President of Serbia in 2004.
Bisher Al Khasawneh (; born 27 January 1969) is a Jordanian lawyer and diplomat who was the Prime Minister of Jordan and Minister of Defense, succeeding Omar Razzaz. His government was announced on October 12, 2020. He held the position of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2017 and Minister of State for Legal Affairs 2017-2018. He served as King Abdullah II’s Advisor for Communication and Coordination Affairs from April 2019 to August 17, 2020 and as the King’s Adviser for Policies in the Royal Hashemite Court until 7 October 2020 He obtained a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Jordan, in addition to a master's degree in International Law from the London School of Economics, and a Doctorate in Law from the same college. He also holds an MA in International Relations, Diplomacy and Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He also holds an Executive Diploma in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School.
The Parliament of Jordan ( ') is the bicameral Jordanian national assembly. It was created by the 1952 Constitution, the legislature made-up of two houses: the Senate ( "Majlis Al-Aayan") and the House of Representatives"' ( "Majlis Al-Nuwaab"). The Senate has 65 members, all of whom are directly appointed by the King, while the House of Representatives has 130 elected members, with nine seats reserved for Christians, three are for Circassian and Chechen minorities, and fifteen for women. The members of both houses serve for four-year terms.
The Senate of Jordan is the upper house of the Jordanian parliament which, along with the House of Representatives forms the legislature of Jordan.  All the Senate members of the country are chosen by the king of Jordan, but must follow the terms from Constitution of Jordan. The Speaker of the Senate has a term of two years which can be renewed. A Member of the Senate though has a term of four years which can also be renewable as well.  The decisions they make are determined by the number of votes, not including the Speaker. But if there is a tie in the votes the Speaker may take a vote.
Wishbone Ash is the first studio album by British rock band Wishbone Ash. It was released on 4 December 1970. It reached number 29 on the UK Albums Chart in 1971. Track listing. "Blind Eye" and "Queen of Torture" were released on 7" single, MCA MK5061 (Decca 32826 in US) (February 1971)
Argus is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek word "Argos". It may mean: "See The Argus (disambiguation) for publications named "The Argus""
Hollands Kroon is a municipality in the Dutch province of North Holland. In 2019, 47,815 people lived there. It was created on 1 January 2012 from the former municipalities of Anna Paulowna, Niedorp, Wieringen and Wieringermeer.
Wieringen is a former municipality in the Dutch province of North Holland. Since 2012, it has been part of the new municipality of Hollands Kroon. Wieringen was an island until 1932.
Langedijk is a former municipality in the Dutch province of North Holland. In 2021, about 28,300 people lived there. Since 2022, it has been part of the new municipality of Dijk en Waard.
Wilcox's frog, Kinghorn's tree frog, or Ithica Creek treefrog ("Ranoidea wilcoxii") is a tree frog from Australia. It lives in Queensland and New South Wales. The adult male frog is 3.5 to 4.8 cm long and the adult female frog is 3.9 to 6.5 cm long. This frog is light brown. Some frogs have markings and some do not. This frog has a black and yellow stripe down each side of its body. The eggs are dark in color. The female frog lays eggs at the edges of streams where the water does not flow quickly or under rocks in the water. This frog can catch the fungal disease chytridiomycosis.
The N700 series (N700系, Enu nanahyaku-kei) is a Japanese Shinkansen high-speed train with tilting capability developed jointly by JR Central and JR West for use on the Tokaido and San'yō Shinkansen lines since 2007, and also operated by JR Kyushu on the Kyushu Shinkansen line. Formation (N700A).
The R160 is a class of New Technology subway cars built for the New York City Subway B Division. Entering service between 2006 and 2010, they replaced all , , and -operated cars, and most R32 and R42 cars. The R160s are very similar to the R143s and R179s. The biggest differences between them are the FIND (Flexible Information and Notice Display) system and their propulsions sounds. To address the 2017 State of Emergency, a Subway Action Plan was executed to refurbish 100 R160s in order to increase capacity and improve the overall experience. These are known as the "Cuomo wraps", however multiple R160s receiving similar additions such as the looped stanchions, LED lighting, and display LCD screens.
William Standish Knowles (June 1, 1917 – June 13, 2012) was an American chemist. He was born in Taunton, Massachusetts. Knowles was one of the recipients of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He split half the prize with Ryōji Noyori for their work in asymmetric synthesis, specifically for his work in hydrogenation reactions.  The other half was awarded to K. Barry Sharpless for his work in oxidation reactions. Knowles died on June 13, 2012 in Chesterfield, Missouri at the age of 95.
is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001, Noyori shared a half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations.
Dan Shechtman (; born January 24, 1941) is an Israeli chemist. He is the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. On April 8, 1982, while on sabbatical at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., Shechtman discovered the icosahedral phase, which opened the new field of quasiperiodic crystals.  Shechtman was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of quasicrystals, making him one of six Israelis who have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2016.
is a Japanese electrical engineer. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for creating a method for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules with John Bennett Fenn and Kurt Wüthrich.
Kurt Wüthrich (born 4 October 1938) is a Swiss chemist/biophysicist and Nobel Chemistry winner. He is known for developing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods for studying biological macromolecules. He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1989.
Peter Agre (born January 30, 1949) is an American physician and molecular biologist. He was a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. In 2003, Agre and Roderick MacKinnon shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries concerning ion channels in cell membranes." A In 2009, Agre was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and became active in science diplomacy.
Aaron Ciechanover ( ; ; born October 1, 1947) is an Israeli biologist. He won the Nobel prize in Chemistry for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin. He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2009.
Avram Hershko (; born 31 December 1937) is a Hungarian-born Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry. Along with Aaron Ciechanover and Irwin Rose, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
Arieh Warshel (; born November 20, 1940) is an Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist. He is the Dana and David Dornsife Chair in Chemistry at the University of Southern California. He received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems". Scientific organizations. Warshel is a member of the following scientific organizations:
Robert Eric Betzig (born January 13, 1960) is an American physicist. He works as a Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia. Betzig has worked to develop the field of fluorescence microscopy and photoactivated localization microscopy. He was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy" along with Stefan Hell and fellow Cornell alumnus William E. Moerner.
William Esco Moerner (born June 24, 1953) is an American physical chemist and chemical physicist.  He is known for his first optical detection and spectroscopy of a single molecule in condensed phases. Optical study of single molecules has subsequently become a widely used single-molecule experiment in chemistry, physics and biology.  In 2014, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Vincent &amp; Theo is a 1990 Dutch British French German Italian American Argentine biographical drama movie directed by Robert Altman and starring Tim Roth, Paul Rhys, Kitty Courbois, Johanna ter Steege, Wladimir Yordanoff, Hans Kesting, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Anne Canovas, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Peter Tuinman.
Sir James Fraser Stoddart (24 May 1942 – 30 December 2024) was a British chemist. He was Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry and head of the Stoddart Mechanostereochemistry Group in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University in the United States. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Ben Feringa and Jean-Pierre Sauvage in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Stoddart died on 30 December 2024 while on vacation at a hotel in Melbourne, Australia from cardiac arrest at the age of 82.
Simon Gutman (20 July 1923 – 5 October 2020) was a Polish-born French Holocaust survivor. He was born in Warsaw.  Gutman was deported in the 1st Convoy to Auschwitz on 27 March 1942. His mother, Cyma, and, probably, his sister, Bella, were deported to Sobibor extermination camp in March 1943, where they died.  Gutman stayed at Birkenau until 26 October 1944, when he was transferred to multiple camps, including Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp, Hailfingen, Dautmergen, and Altshausen. He escaped during a death march. On 5 April 1945, they met up with the French 2nd Armored Division in Baden-Württemberg and were liberated. He died on 5 October 2020 at the age of 97.
The Liberation of Paris () was a military battle that took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the Germans surrendered the French capital on 25 August 1944.  Paris had been ruled by Nazi Germany since the signing of the Second Compiègne Armistice on 22 June 1940, after which the "Wehrmacht" occupied northern and western France.
Béatrice Arnac (23 April 1931 – 5 October 2020) was an American-born French actress, singer, and composer. She was born in Waterbury, Connecticut.  Arnac was known for her roles in "Mata Hari's Daughter" (1955), "Frou-Frou" (1955), "Lola Montès" (1955), "La Traversée de Paris" (1956), "Les Truands" (1956), "OSS 117 Is Not Dead" (1957), "Last Known Address" (1970) and "Good Little Girls" (1971). Arnac died in Castels et Bézenac, France on 5 October 2020 at the age of 89.
John Francis Harcourt Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton, (2 November 1928 – 6 October 2020), was a British merchant banker. He was chairman of British Petroleum (BP). Lord Ashburton also sat on the boards of Jaguar Cars, Dunlop Rubber and Royal Insurance. Lord Ashburton died at his home on 6 October 2020 at the age of 91.
Lloyd Dee George (February 22, 1930 – October 7, 2020) was an American lawyer and politician. He was born in Montpelier, Idaho. He was nominated to the United States District Court for the District of Nevada in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan. From 1992 to 1997, he was Chief Justice.  George died on October 7, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada at the age of 90.
Alexander Alexeev () (10 March 1938 – 7 October 2020) was a Russian conductor. He was a Honored Artist of the RSFSR. He was Music Director of the Kharkov Philharmonic Orchestra. Alexeev recorded with different orchestras in Russia for the label Melodya, including the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra. Alexeev died in Saint Petersburg on October 7, 2020 at the age of 82.
Ramon Daniel Pennington (December 22, 1933 – October 7, 2020) was an American country music singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. He was known for writing the Waylon Jennings and Montgomery Gentry song "I'm a Ramblin' Man", and for founding the independent Step One Records label. He was born in Clay County, Kentucky. Pennington died in a house fire in Hendersonville, Tennessee on October 7, 2020 at the age of 86.
Sumner County is a county located on the central northern border of the U.S. state of Tennessee, in what is called Middle Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 196,281. Its county seat is Gallatin. Its largest city is Hendersonville. The county is named for American Revolutionary War hero General Jethro Sumner.
A New Leaf is a 1971 American black comedy movie directed by Elaine May (who also stars) and was based on the short story "The Green Heart" by Jack Ritchie. It also stars Walter Matthau, Jack Weston, George Rose, James Coco, Doris Roberts and William Redfield and was distributed by Paramount Pictures. In 2019, the Library of Congress selected A New Leaf into the United States National Film Registry.
The Federal Assembly () is the national legislature of the Russian Federation, according to the Constitution of the Russian Federation (1993). It was preceded by the Supreme Soviet. It is made up of the State Duma, which is the lower house, and the Federation Council, which is the upper house. Both houses are located in Moscow.
The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (or Politburo, ; abbreviated: ) was the highest policy-making authority within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. What happened at Politburo meetings remained a mystery until Soviet newspapers, in 1982, began to publish summaries of the ses­sions.  It was founded in October 1917, and refounded in March 1919, at the 8th Congress of the Bolshevik Party. It was known as the Presidium from 1952 to 1966. The Politburo ended in 1991 when the Soviet Union broke-up.
Jan Szarek (13 February 1936 – 8 October 2020) was a Polish Lutheran minister. He was Bishop of Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland from 1991 to 2001 and Chairman of Polish Ecumenical Council from 1993 to 2001. Szarek was born in Bielsko, Poland. Szarek died on 8 October 2020 in Cieszyn, Poland from COVID-19 at the age of 84.
Francesc "Paco" Betriu Cabeceran (18 January 1940 – 7 October 2020) was a Spanish movie director and screenwriter. He was born in Organyà, Spain. Betriu was known for directing and writing the screenplay for "The Time of the Doves", "Sinatra" and "Monica del Raval". Betriu died on 7 October 2020 at the age of 80.
Choi Yun-chil (July 19, 1928 – October 8, 2020) was a South Korean long-distance runner. He was a two-time Olympian and a two-time national champion in the marathon. He competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics and at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in Tanchon, present-day North Korea. Choi died on October 8, 2020 in Seoul at the age of 92.
Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor. She was born in Toronto. Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across the United States and Canada since 1979, including McGill, Michigan, NYU, and Princeton. Carson published more than twenty books of writings and translations. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2005 for her works to Canadian letters.
Annie Ernaux (born Annie Duschesne; 1 September 1940) is a French writer. She was born in Normandy, France. She writes many autobiographical works and awarded Nobel Prize in Literature in 2022. Her books "A Woman's Story," "A Man's Place," and "Simple Passion" were seen by "The New York Times" Notable Books, and "A Woman's Story" was a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.  "Shame" was named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998, "I Remain in Darkness" a Top Memoir of 1999 by "The Washington Post", and "The Possession" was listed as a Top Ten Book of 2008 by More Magazine.
The Belarusian Private News Agency () or shortly BelaPAN () is a non-governmental news agency in Belarus. It is a big news agency in the country. BelaPAN makes news on politics, economy, and sports from Belarus in the Russian, Belarusian, and English languages.  BelaPAN has the on-line newspaper Belorusskiye Novosti (naviny.by). Its site can't be opened in Belarus. It has been writing about the 2020 Belarusian protests and 2020 Belarusian presidential election. On January 14, 2021, the office of BelaPAN was searched. Computers and part of the written by hand and printed papers were taken away. All that stopped the work of the news agency. On August 18, 2021, the police searched the office of BelaPAN, houses of its journalists. The police took away computers, smartphones, and other things from there. A number of people who worked for BelaPAN were arrested, including editor-in-chief Iryna Levshyna. The websites of BelaPAN (belapan.by and belapan.com) has stopped working since August 18, 2021. Iryna Levshyna, past head Zmicier Navazhilau and accountant Katsyaryna Boeva became persons in a criminal case on organizing actions that attack public order. On August 19, 2021, ten organizations (the Viasna Human Rights Centre, the Belarusian Association of Journalists, the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and others) made a joint statement. It said that they are political prisoners. In November 2021, the KGB declared BelaPAN an extremist formation. Creation of such a formation or participation in it is a criminal offence in Belarus, and indeed, Levshyna and Navazhilau were charged with creation of an extremist formation. BelaPAN websites, already blocked in Belarus, have stopped updating. Awards. BelaPAN has received numerous awards, including:
29th Street is a 1991 American biographical comedy drama movie directed by George Gallo and was based on the story by Frank Pesce (who also stars) and James Franciscus. It stars Danny Aiello, Anthony LaPaglia, Lainie Kazan, Robert Forster, Rick Aiello and Ron Karabatsos and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Darleane Christian Hoffman (born November 8, 1926) is an American nuclear chemist. She was among the researchers who found the existence of Seaborgium, element 106.  She is a faculty senior scientist in the Nuclear Science Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor in the graduate school at UC Berkeley.  In 2002, she was named as one of the 50 most important women in science by "Discover Magazine". She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Shlomo Gazit (; 1926 – 8 October 2020) was a Turkish-born Israeli military officer and academic. He was a Major General in the Israel Defense Forces. He was in charge of Israel's Military Intelligence Directorate. He later was President of Ben-Gurion University and head of the Jewish Agency. He was born in Istanbul. Gazit died on 8 October 2020 at the age of 93.
Bennebroek is a former municipality in the Dutch province of North Holland. Since 2009, it has been part of the municipality of Bloemendaal. In 2007, 5,162 people lived there. It was the smallest municipality in the Netherlands, covering an area of only 1.75 km².
Jim Dwyer (March 4, 1957 – October 8, 2020) was an American journalist. He was a reporter and columnist with "The New York Times", and the author or co-author of six non-fiction books. In 1992 and 1995, he won the Pulitzer Prize.  Dwyer wrote columns for "New York Newsday" and the "New York Daily News" before joining the "Times". He appeared in the 2012 documentary movie" Central Park Five". He was born in New York City. Dwyer died of lung cancer in New York City on October 8, 2020 at the age of 63.
The kikkelinaamaapina ("Cheirogaleus medius"), is a type of lemur. It is also called the lesser dwarf lemur, western fat-tailed dwarf lemur, or spiny forest dwarf lemur. It is only lives in Madagascar. It is nocturnal. It eats insects, other small animals, fruits and flowers. An adult weighs 160 grams.
Mohammad-Reza Shajarian (; , 23 September 1940 – 8 October 2020) was an Iranian classical singer-songwriter, composer and calligrapher. He was a "Master" (master) of Persian traditional music. His best known single was "Night, Silence, Desert" (2000). In 2017, "Los Angeles Times" called him as the "greatest living maestro of Persian classical music." He was born in Mashhad, Iran. He supported the 2009 protests in Iran and was a critic of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In 2001, Shajarian was diagnosed with kidney cancer. In January 2020, he was hospitalized in Tehran and had surgery. Shajarian died on 8 October 2020 in Tehran at the age of 80.
Ali Khalif Galaydh (, ) (October 14, 1941 – October 8, 2020) was a Somali politician. He was the Prime Minister of Somalia from October 8, 2000 to October 28, 2001. He was a member of the Federal Parliament of Somalia from 2012 until his death. He was also President of the Khatumo State between 2014 until his death. Galaydh was born in Las Anod, Somalia. Galaydh died on October 8, 2020 at a hospital in Jigjiga, Ethiopia from COVID-19 at the age of 78.
James Edward Dwyer (born January 3, 1950) is an American Major League Baseball outfielder. He enjoyed an eighteen-year major league career for seven different teams between and . He played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Montreal Expos, New York Mets, San Francisco Giants, Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles and the Minnesota Twins. In 1983, he won the World Series.
Purmerend is a municipality in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands. As of 2022, about 92,000 people are living there. The municipality of Beemster was added to Purmerend on 1 January 2022.