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William Bullard Jr. (July 12, 1943 – December 18, 2020) was an American Republican politician. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1983 to 1996. He also was a member of the Michigan Senate from 1996 until 2002. Bullard Jr. died on December 18, 2020 in Pontiac, Michigan from cancer and COVID-19 at the age of 77.
Ali Kirunda Kivejinja (12 June 1935 – 19 December 2020), more commonly known as Kirunda Kivejinja, was a Ugandan politician. He was the senior presidential advisor to the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni. He was the Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of East African Community Affairs from 2016 until his death. Kivejinja died of COVID-19 on 19 December 2020 in Kampala, Uganda at the age of 85.
Märta Norberg (19 September 1922 – 19 December 2020) was a Swedish cross-country skier. She competed in the 1950s. She won two bronze medals in the 3 × 5 km relay at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (1954, 1958). Norberg finished fourth in the 10 km event at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo. Norberg was born in Sidensjö, Sweden. Norberg died on 19 December 2020 in Stockholm at the age of 98.
Maria Piątkowska (née Ilwicka, later Chojnacka; 24 February 1931 – 19 December 2020) was a Romanian-born Polish sprinter, hurdler, and long jumper. She was born in Goleni, Romania.  She was a three-time Olympian (Helsinki 1952, Rome 1960 and Tokyo 1964). In three European Championships (1954 Bern, 1958 Stockholm, and 1962 Belgrade), she won three medals. Piątkowska died on 19 December 2020 at the age of 89.
Samsuddin Ahmed (6 March 1945 – 20 December 2020) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Manikganj-2 constituency during 2001–2006. Ahmed died at a Dhaka hospital on 20 December 2020 from COVID-19 at the age of 75.
The Hustle is a 2019 American comedy movie directed by Chris Addison. It is a remake of the 1988 movie "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels". The movie stars Anne Hathaway, Rebel Wilson, and Alex Sharp. It is about two women who want to steal the money of an internet millionaire. It was released on May 10, 2019 to negative reviews.
The Dinosaur Park Formation is a group of rock layers in Alberta, Canada. It contains many fossils from the "Age of Dinosaurs", the Upper Cretaceous. The uppermost member of the Belly River Group (or Judith River Group), is a major geologic unit in southern Alberta. It was deposited during the Campanian stage of the later Cretaceous, between about 76.9 and 75.8 million years ago. It was deposited in alluvial and coastal plain environments. There, a fast-flowing river spread out over a flat plain. At this time, the continents were still quite close together, and tropical climates were usual. These rocks have a nonmarine Oldman Formation below and the marine (saltwater) Bearpaw Formation above. So they were low-lying and often submerged. The Dinosaur Park Formation contains dense concentrations of dinosaur skeletons, both articulated and disarticulated. They are often found with preserved remains of soft tissues. Remains of other animals such as fish, turtles, and crocodilians, and plants, are also abundant. The formation has been named after Dinosaur Provincial Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site where the formation is well exposed in the badlands that flank the Red Deer River.
Scouse (; sometimes called Liverpool English or Merseyside English) is an accent and dialect of English beginning in the northwest county of Merseyside. It originated mostly from Irish (from the Irish Potato Famine) and Welsh immigrants. The Scouse accent is very noticeable and is not similar with those of the neighbouring regions. The accent is named after the stew scouse, which Liverpudlians eat a lot. Liverpool's accent is often thought to be informal, like most of the "Northern" English accents. The accent can now be found in areas close to Liverpool, like Widnes and Runcorn, because Liverpool was developed a lot in the 1950s. A lot of different types of the accent exist, for example, the Northern accent, which is different from the southern accent.
Svatopluk Karásek (18 October 1942 – 20 December 2020) was a Czech politician, Evangelical priest and activist. He was born in Prague. He was known as a signer of the Charter 77. He was a member of the Freedom Union – Democratic Union. Karásek was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2002 to 2006. Karásek died in Prague on 20 December 2020 at the age of 78.
Bishop Mile Bogović (7 August 1939 – 19 December 2020) was a Croatian Roman Catholic prelate. He was born in Gornji Cerovac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Bogović was a Titular Bishop of Tamata and Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Rijeka–Senj from 4 June 1999 until 25 May 2000 and the first Diocesan Bishop of the new created Gospić-Senj from 25 May 2000 until his retirement on 4 April 2016. Bogović died on 19 December 2020 of COVID-19 in Rijeka, Croatia at the age of 81.
Badlands National Park is an American national park in southwestern South Dakota. The park protects of sharply eroded rocks, and the largest undisturbed prairie in the United States. The National Park Service manages the park. The South Unit is co-managed with the Oglala Lakota tribe. The Badlands Wilderness protects of the park as a designated wilderness area. It is a site where the black-footed ferret, one of the most endangered mammals in the world, was reintroduced to the wild.  The South Unit, or Stronghold District, includes sites of 1890s Ghost Dances, a former United States Air Force bomb and gunnery range, and Red Shirt Table, the park's highest point at . Authorized as Badlands National Monument on March 4, 1929, it was not established until January 25, 1939. Badlands was redesignated a national park on November 10, 1978.  The park also administers the nearby Minuteman Missile National Historic Site. The movies "Dances with Wolves" (1990) and "Thunderheart" (1992) were partially filmed in Badlands National Park.
Helen Slayton-Hughes (October 30, 1930; December, 7 2022) is an American actress. She played Ethel Beavers in "Parks and Recreation". She was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Her career began in 1980. Slayton-Hughes died in her sleep on Wednesday, December 7, 2022 at age 92. Her death was publicly announced by her family on Thursday, December 8, 2022, via Facebook.
Viola Lynn Collins (born May 16, 1977) is an American actress. She has made television appearances in "True Blood" (2008) and ' (2017). She also starred in the movies ' (2009) and "John Carter" (2012).
Georg Albert Ruthenberg (born August 5, 1959), better known by the stage name Pat Smear, is an American musician. He is best known as a rhythm guitarist of the rock band Foo Fighters. He has recorded five studio albums with the band. Smear was a founding member of punk band the Germs.
Chesterfield is a constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Derbyshire, England. It has been represented in the House of Commons by Labour politician Toby Perkins since 2010. It was first created in 1885. Election results. Elections in the 1940s. General Election 1939/40: Another general election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected; *Labour: George Benson,
Lily-Rose Melody Depp (born May 27, 1999) is a French-born American actress and model. She is the daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis. She is known for her role as Ellen Hutter in the 2024 supernatural horror movie "Nosferatu". Depp began her acting career with a small role in "Tusk" (2014). She later starred in "The Dancer" (2016), "Planetarium" (2016), and "The King" (2019).
Oleg Gennadyevich Sentsov (; ; born 13 July 1976) is a Ukrainian filmmaker, writer and activist.  He is known for his 2011 movie "Gamer".  After the Russian annexation of Crimea, he was arrested in Crimea in May 2014 and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment by a Russian court in August 2015 on charges of plotting terrorism acts. This was controversial and many believed his arrest was politically motivated. On 7 September 2019 he was released in a prisoner swap.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (born September 10, 1938) is an American indigenous rights activist, feminist writer, and historian. She is known for her 1977 book "The Great Sioux Nation".  She is Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Hayward. Since retiring from university teaching, she has been lecturing widely and writing.
Leo Victor Panitch (3 May 1945 – 19 December 2020) was a Canadian philosopher, editor and political scientist. He was a professor at York University. Starting in 1985, he was co-editor of the "Socialist Register". Panitch was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was a supporter of Marxism. Panitch died on 19 December 2020 at a hospital in Toronto, Ontario from pneumonia caused by COVID-19 and multiple myeloma, aged 75.
Rosalind Knight (3 December 1933 – 19 December 2020) was an English actress. She acted in "Blue Murder at St Trinian's" (1957), "Carry On Nurse" (1959), "Carry On Teacher" (1959), "Tom Jones" (1963), and "About a Boy" (2002).  She played Beryl in the BBC sitcom "Gimme Gimme Gimme" (1999–2001).  She played Horrible Grandma in "Friday Night Dinner" (2012, 2016–2020). Knight died on 19 December 2020, aged 87.
Ludvonga II (c. 1855 - 1872) was the a prince of Swaziland, son of Mswati II of Swaziland. His mother was from the Khumalo clan. He was the crown prince, meaning he had been selected to be the next king. He died in 1872, so he never became king. Then his half-brother Mbandzeni became crown prince. Ludvonga's mother adopted Mbandzeni. Death. Ludvonga was poisoned in 1872 when he was 17-19 years old.
Sheikh Nasser Bin Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah (; 27 April 1948 – 20 December 2020) was a Kuwaiti royal and politician. He was the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Kuwait from 2017 until 2019. Nasser was the oldest son of Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. He was born in Kuwait City. Nasser died on 20 December 2020, aged 72. He died two months after his father's death in September.
Mswati II (d. 1868), also known as Mswati and Mavuso II, was the king of Eswatini between 1840 and 1868. He was also the eponym of Eswatini. Scholars say Mswati was the best of Eswatini's fighting kings. He made Eswatini much larger. Mswati was the son of Sobhuza I and Tsandzile Ndwandwe (known as 'LaZidze) who after ruling as Queen Mother became Queen Regent after the death of her son. When Sobhuza died, Mswati inherited the kingdom. At that time, it was from present day Barberton in the north and included the Nomahasha district in Mozambique. Mswati's became a strong military power after Mswati and his brothers Fokoti, Somcuba and Malambule stopped fighting each other. When Mswati's armies attacked other Bantu armies or nations, they stole cattle and captured people instead of trying to make the other people's territory part of their kingdom. Around this time, the Trekboers became the first Europeans to meet any Swazis.  Mswati made Swazi territory much larger than it is today. There were military outposts and royal village outposts such as Mbhuleni, on the upper Komati River at the foot of the Mkongomo Mountains, south of Badplaas, Mekemeke which is east of the Mbayiyane Mountains, situated east of Mantibovu (Low’s Creek). The death of Mswati II in July 1868 ended the era of Swazi conquest, territorial expansion and resulted in unification of various people into one nation.
Paul M. Cook (April 25, 1924 – December 14, 2020) was an American businessman. He was the founder and CEO of Raychem. In 1988, he was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Ronald Reagan. Cook was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Cook died on December 14, 2020 at the age of 96.
The Johan Cruyff Shield (Dutch: Johan Cruijff Schaal), or sometimes known as the Dutch Super Cup, is a football trophy. It is named after former Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. It is played between the winner of the Eredivisie and the winner of the KNVB Cup. If 1 team wins both the Eredivisie and the KNVB Cup, the team that finished 2nd in the Eredivisie would replace the KNVB Cup winners. History. Super Cup. The first Super Cup match was played on 25 June 1949. The league winner SVV won 2-0 against the cup winner Quick Nijmegen. The Dutch FA brought back the competition in 1991, with the new name of the PTT Telecom Cup. The match was always played at the De Kuip stadium in Rotterdam. Johan Cruyff Shield. In 1996, the format was changed to the current set-up. It would be played in the Amsterdam Arena under the name Johan Cruyff Schaal, Dutch for Johan Cruyff Shield. Starting in 2017, the match will be played in the stadium of the Eredivisie champions. Winners by club. The performance of various clubs is shown in the following table:
Haverfordwest (/ˌhævərfərdˈwɛst/; [ˈhʊlfɔrð]) is the county town of Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is the most populous urban area in Pembrokeshire. In 2001, 13,367 people lived there. Its community boundaries made it the second-most populous settlement in the county, with 10,812 people. The suburbs include the former parish of Prendergast, Albert Town and the residential and industrial areas of Withybush (housing, retail parks, hospital, airport and showground). Haverfordwest is located in a strategic position, being at the lowest crossing point of the Western Cleddau before the opening of the Cleddau Bridge in 1975. Famous people. The town is famous as the birthplace of Simon Warr, who was in "That'll Teach Em". It is also the birth place of Christian Bale, who was in "American Physco".
Bitdefender is a multinational Romanian cybersecurity and anti-virus software company. It was created on 6 November 2001 by Florin Talpeș who is currently the chief executive officer of the company. Bitdefender creates and sells cybersecurity products and services. In 2018, the software had about 500 million users worldwide.
Nicholas Leo Hubbard (May 8, 1895 – January 4, 1983) was an American politician, farmer, and businessman. Hubbard was born in Mount Pulaski, Illinois. He went to the Mount Pulaski Public Schools and graduated from Illinois State University. Hubbard served in the United States Army during World War I and was commissioned a second lieutenant. He taught school in Mount Pulaski and was a farmer. He was involved with the grain elevator business and was the owner of the Mount Pulaski Grain Company. Hubbard served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1935 to 1941 and in the Illinois Senate from 1941 to 1945. Hubbard was a Democrat. Hubbard died at the Abraham Lincoln Hospital in Lincoln, Illinois.
Karin Elisabet Lindberg (later Lindén; 6 October 1929 – 2 December 2020) was a Swedish gymnast. She competed at the 1948, 1952 (winning gold medal) and 1956 Summer Olympics (winning silver medal). Lindberg died on 2 December 2020, aged 91.
Neil James Robbins (8 September 1929 – 6 December 2020) was an Australian steeplechase and long-distance runner. He competed in the six-mile run at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games and in the 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1956 Summer Olympics. Robbins died on 6 December 2020, aged 91.
Catherine Simone Avnet Lazarus (April 26, 1976 – December 13, 2020) was an American writer, comedian, and talk show host. Lazarus was best known as creator and host of the "Employee of the Month", a monthly comedy show and podcast filmed live at Joe's Pub in New York City.  Lazarus died from breast cancer at her apartment in New York City on December 13, 2020, at age 44.
Vincent Paul Nihill (5 September 1939 – 15 December 2020) was a British race walker. He competed in the 50 km event at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1964. Nihill died of COVID-19 on 15 December 2020 in Gillingham, Kent at the age of 81.
Eddie Lee Jackson (July 7, 1949 – December 18, 2020) was an American politician. He was a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives from January 9, 2009 through January 11, 2017. He was born in Canalou, Missouri. Jackson died of COVID-19 on December 18, 2020, in East St. Louis, Illinois. He was 71.
Alberto Valdés Lacarra Jr. (30 November 1950 – 19 December 2020) was a Mexican equestrian. He was born in Mexico City. He won a bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Valdés Jr. died on 19 December 2020 in Mexico City, aged 70.
Chad &amp; Jeremy were an English musical duo consisting of Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde, which began working in 1962. The band had its first hit song in the UK with "Yesterday's Gone". That song became a hit in the United States in the following year as part of the British Invasion.  The duo had many hits in the United States, including "Willow Weep for Me", "Before and After", and their biggest hit, "A Summer Song".
The Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation or SVR RF () is Russia's external intelligence agency. It is mainly concerned with civilian affairs. The SVR RF succeeded the First Chief Directorate (PGU) of the KGB in December 1991. The SVR has its headquarters in Moscow. Unlike the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the SVR does intelligence and espionage activities outside the Russian Federation. It works with the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate {the GRU), its military-affairs espionage counterpart. The SVR is also negotiates anti-terrorist cooperation and intelligence-sharing arrangements with foreign intelligence agencies. It gives analysis and dissemination of intelligence to the Russian president. SVR RF is the official foreign-operations successor to many Soviet-era foreign intelligence agencies, from the original 'foreign department' of the Cheka under Vladimir Lenin, to the OGPU and NKVD of the Stalinist era, followed by the First Chief Directorate of the KGB.
Blanching is a cooking process in which a food, usually a vegetable or fruit, is scalded in boiling water, removed after a short timed break, and then dropped into cold water to stop the cooking process. Blanching foods helps reduce the loss of quality over time. People usually use blanching to treat food before freezing, drying, or canning—heating vegetables or fruits to inactivate enzymes, change texture and remove the peel. Blanching is also used to preserve color, flavor, and nutritional value. The benefits of blanching include removing pesticide residues and killing of microorganisms. The disadvantages of blanching can include leaching of nutrients that dissolves in water and the production of effluent. Uses. Blanching is a process mainly used to inactivate enzymes that cause browning as well as changes in texture and off-flavors. Blanching is used to peel fruits, vegetable, and nut as steam peeling produces less environmental pollution. Blanching is also used to kill microorganisms, remove pesticide and toxic residues, surface cleaning, removing damaged seeds or foreign materials and killing parasites and their eggs. Technology. Traditionally, blanching is done using either a water bath or saturated steam. In both methods, the food is heated for a short period of time and then dropped into either cold water or cold air to quickly stop the heating process. At the industrial level, foods move on a conveyor belt through preheating, holding, and cooling systems. Steam blanching systems inject hot air onto food as it passes through the blanching system on a conveyor belt. This method reduces the leaching of water-soluble compounds from the product. It is more energy-efficient. This reduced heat exposure preserves color, flavor, and overall quality of the food. Emerging technologies include ohmic, infrared, microwave, and radio frequency blanching. Tthe times and temperatures are not enough to effectively destroy all microorganisms. A limitation to hot water blanching is the leaching of water-soluble nutrients and the degradation of thermal sensitive compounds. Vitamins, minerals, and other water-soluble compounds, such as proteins, sugars, and flavor compounds, diffuse out of the food and
Dame Sian Seerpoohi Elias (born 13 March 1949) is a New Zealand jurist. She served as the 12th Chief Justice of New Zealand from 1999 to 2019. She was the first woman to hold the position. She has also been the Administrator of the Government four times (2001, 2006, 2011 and 2016). Elias was born in London. Her mother was Welsh and her father was of Armenian ancestry. In 1952, her family moved to New Zealand. They settled in Titirangi, Auckland. She married businessman Hugh Fletcher in 1970.
Perseus was the code name of a hypothetical Soviet atomic spy that, if real, would have allegedly breached United States national security by infiltrating Los Alamos National Laboratory during the development of the Manhattan Project, and consequently, would have been instrumental for the Soviets in the development of nuclear weapons. Among researchers of the subject there is some consensus that Perseus never existed and was actually a creation of Soviet intelligence. Character and history. A reference to the profile of a spy who can be identified with Perseus describes him as an American scientist of young age at the time of the Manhattan Project. If they were real, Perseus would have supposedly participated in the Spanish Civil War. In the early 1940s Perseus would have been in New York City visiting his sick parents. During his stay in that city, he would have managed to be recruited by the GRU after looking for and contacting Morris Cohen, an American who joined the Communist Party during the Great Depression and worked as a Soviet spy. The meeting with Cohen must have been between September 1941 and July 1942, before Cohen enlisted in the army and left for the Western Front in Europe. Perseus reportedly introduced himself to Cohen as a physicist who had been invited to join the work at Los Alamos research center. By 1942, Perseus was supposedly already working at Los Alamos, being that he would have started sometime at least 18 months before German physicist and also atomic spy Klaus Fuchs, who joined the investigation in mid-1944. However, Perseus appears to have been recruited by the Soviets around the same (or at least a nearby) time as Fuchs. According to articles published in Russia by "The New Times", Perseus would have collaborated with the Soviet government for purely ideological reasons to the point that he refused any financial rewards in exchange for classified information, since he was convinced that the United States would use the atomic bomb against the Soviet Union, claiming that: With Morris Cohen in Europe, his wife, Lona Cohen, took it upon herself to travel to Albuquerque on one or two occasions (depending on the source consulted) to serve as a carrier. Once there, Lona Cohen