Sermersooq (Greenlandic: [seʁmeʁsoːq̚], "place of much ice", ) is the most populous municipality of Greenland. Its capital and largest city is Nuuk, also the capital and largest city of Greenland. It was created on 1 January 2009 and is made of five municipalities.
Sermersooq borders the Labrador Sea to the west and the Denmark Strait to the east. It borders the municipalities of Kujalleq, Qeqqata, Qeqertalik and Avanaata. To the north is Northeast Greenland National Park.
Barry Gardiner
Barry Strachan Gardiner (born 10 March 1957) is a British Labour Party politician. He is the Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade since 2016. He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent North since 1997.
Gardiner worked under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown as a junior minister in the Northern Ireland Office, the Department for Productivity, Energy and Industry, the Department of Trade and Industry and finally in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was an airplane flight between Iran and Ukraine that crashed shortly after it flew away from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport on 8 January 2020. All 176 passengers onboard and its crew died.
On 9 January 2020, it was reported that U.S. officials believed that plane was shot down by an Iranian Tor-M1 surface to air missile, probably by mistake.
On 11 January 2020, Iran said that it had shot down the plane by mistake.
Tomorrow (Silverchair song)
"Tomorrow" is a song by the Australian rock band Silverchair. It was released as the group's first single in 1994, and was later re-recorded for their 1995 debut album "Frogstomp". It reached number-one on the charts in Australia, becoming their first of three number-one singles there.
It was written by the group's lead singer and guitarist Daniel Johns, as well as the group's drummer, Ben Gillies.
Freak
"Freak" is a song by the Australian rock band Silverchair. It was released in January 1997 as a single, and was later released the next month on their second album, "Freak Show". It reached number-one on the charts in Australia, becoming their second of three number-one singles there.
It was written by the group's lead singer and guitarist Daniel Johns, as well as the group's drummer, Ben Gillies.
Straight Lines
"Straight Lines" is a song by the Australian rock band Silverchair. It was released on March 20, 2007 as a single, and ten days later it was released on their fifth and final album, titled "Young Modern". It reached number-one on the charts in Australia, becoming their third and last number-one single there.
It was written by the group's lead singer and guitarist Daniel Johns, as well as Australian musician Julian Hamilton. "Straight Lines" is one of only four Silverchair songs to feature a co-writing credit by a non-member, the other three also being songs from "Young Modern" co-written by Johns and Hamilton.
Cass City, Michigan
Cass City is a village in Tuscola County in the U.S. state of Michigan. In 2010, 2,428 people lived there.
Spaniel
A spaniel is a type of gun dog. Spaniels were especially bred in the 1700's in Great Britain to flush game birds out of thick bushes There are many types of spaniel dogs, the most popular ones are the Cocker Spaniel, the English Springer Spaniel, the Field Spaniel and the Welsh Springer Spaniel.
The following types are not spaniels. They are called spaniels as they looked like spaniels.
Vincenzo Cerundolo
Vincenzo Cerundolo (20 December 1959 – 7 January 2020) was an Italian medical researcher. He was the director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Human Immunology Unit at the John Radcliffe Hospital. He was a professor of immunology at the University of Oxford. He was also a Supernumerary Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. He was known for his discoveries in processing and presentation of cancer and viral peptides to T cells and lipids.
Cerundolo was born in Lecce. He was married and had two children. He died in January 2020, at the age of 60.
Fealty
An oath of fealty is a pledge of allegiance of one person to another.
In medieval Europe, the swearing of fealty is an oath made by a subordinate to his lord. "Fealty" also referred to the duties that a servant need to perform. These includes service and aid.
Wolfgang Brezinka
Wolfgang Brezinka (9 June 1928 – 3 January 2020) was a German-Austrian educational scientist. He was born in Berlin. He served as professor of pedagogy at the Pedagogical University in Würzburg. He also worked at the universities of Innsbruck and Konstanz. He was a researcher at Columbia University and Harvard University.
On 3 January 2020, Brezinka died in Telfes, in the Austrian state of Tyrol. He was 91.
Prem Nath Hoon
Prem Nath Hoon (4 October 1929 – 6 January 2020) was an Indian military officer. He was the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Western Command of the Indian Armed Forces from 1986 to 1987. He took part in the 1962 Sino-Indian War and 1965 Indo–Pakistan War. In 1984, he led Operation Meghdoot, the Indian Armed Forces operation to capture the Siachen Glacier in the Kashmir region. He was also part of Operation Brasstacks, the biggest military exercise since World War II. Hoon was born in Abbottabad, North West Frontier Province (now Pakistan).
Hoon died on 6 January 2020 in Chandimandir, Haryana. He was 90.
George Perles
George J. Perles (July 16, 1934 – January 7, 2020) was an American football player and coach. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was a defensive line coach, defensive coordinator and assistant head coach for the National Football League's Pittsburgh Steelers from 1972 to 1982. He was also the head football coach at Michigan State University (MSU) from 1983 to 1994. He was added to the MSU Board of Trustees in 2006. He retired from his position on the board in November 2018 due to health reasons and wanting to spend time with family.
On January 7, 2020, Perles died from Parkinson's disease in Lansing, Michigan. He was 85.
Yong Pung How
Yong Pung How (11 April 1926 – 9 January 2020) was a Singaporean judge. He served as Chief Justice from 1990 to 2006. Before being a judge, he was a lawyer, banker and senior government official. From 2010 until his death in 2020, he had been the Chancellor of the Singapore Management University. Yong was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. He came from an ethnic Chinese family with Hakka ancestry from Dabu County, Guangdong.
Yong died on 9 January 2020, at the age of 93.
Ayako Wakao
Thomas Gage
General Thomas Gage (10 March 1718/19 – 2 April 1787) was a British Army general officer and colonial official best known for his many years of service in North America, including his role as British commander-in-chief in the early days of the American Revolution.
Thomas Gage, on February 20, 1773, already communicated to the governor of Louisiana, Luis de Unzaga y Amézaga 'le Conciliateur', his intention to return to the United Kingdom with his family, a fact that occurred 4 months later, in June Therefore, Gage was not present when the Boston Tea Party took place in December of that year, a city in which both Gage and Unzaga left confidants to be informed by their respective spy networks.
2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
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The 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries and caucuses were a series of elections by the Democratic Party to select the about 3,979 pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Those delegates picked the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in the 2020 United States presidential election.
The elections took place from February to August 2020 in all fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, five U.S. territories, and Democrats Abroad.
On June 5, 2020, Biden passed the threshold of 1,991 delegates, securing the nomination.