Walter Wallace Jr., a 27-year-old black man, was fatally shot by police in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States on October 26, 2020.
Two Philadelphia Police Department officers arrived in the area to respond to a domestic dispute. When they arrived, Wallace was getting close to them while holding a knife. The two officers backed away while asking him to put down the knife, but Wallace walked closer. Each officer fired several rounds at Wallace in the shoulder and chest. He later died in the hospital. Wallace's family said he was having a mental health crisis.
In response to the killing, protests happened throughout Philadelphia on October 26 and 27, many of which became violent, leading to arrests, injuries to police, and deployment of the Pennsylvania National Guard.
Timeline of the far future
Some types of science can say what could happen many, many years from now. For example, astrophysics can say how planets and stars form, affect each other, and die; particle physics can say how atoms and other matter act over time; evolutionary biology can allow us to see how living things change over time; and plate tectonics can say how continents shift over time. By observing the past and present, astrophysicists, particle physicists, evolutionary biologists and geologists can make good guesses about what might happen in the future. We call these guesses "predictions".
The second law of thermodynamics is important to predictions about the future of Earth, the Solar System, and the universe. The second law of thermodynamics says that entropy is always happening. That means that the universe is slowly running out of the kind of energy that can do work. For example, stars will eventually run out of hydrogen fuel and burn out.
Physicists believe that most matter, which is anything that has mass and takes up space, will eventually break apart because of radioactive decay. Even the most stable molecules and atoms will break into subatomic particles. Scientists do believe the universe is flat (or almost flat), so it will not collapse in on itself after a finite time. But if there really is an infinite amount of time, then even very unlikely events might happen, such as the formation of Boltzmann brains.
This article shows timelines from the beginning of the 4th millennium (3001 CE) into the far, far future. It discusses whether humans will become extinct, whether protons decay, and whether the Earth will still exist when the Sun expands to become a red giant.
Erosion is when wind, water or other things make a rock or mountain shrink by breaking of tiny pieces of it off over time.
As of 2020, five machines that travel through outer space are moving toward the edge of the solar system: "Voyager 1", "Voyager 2", "Pioneer 10", "Pioneer 11" and "New Horizons". They will travel into interstellar space. So long as they do not crash into anything, these machines should persist indefinitely.
A time capsule is a box or other container that is buried or hidden on purpose and scheduled to be opened many years later. People place things inside the time capsule so people in the future will find them. For example, someone might place a game, tool, toy, journal, magazine or book inside a time capsule so people in the future would see how the people who buried the time capsule lived, played and worked and what they liked to read.
For graphical, logarithmic timelines of these events see:
High roll
A high roll is a hairstyle that Western women wore in the late 1700s.
The style took hours to make. Sometimes, a professional hairdresser would style the woman's hair. That meant the woman had to be rich enough to pay a hairdresser and to spend hours sitting in a chair not working. This made the high roll a status symbol.
The hairstyle could be very tall and make a person's head seem twice as high. First, the woman's hair would be combed. Then the woman or her hairdresser would add pomatum to the hair so it could be shaped. The pomatum would have treated fat, oil and perfumes or spices in it. This would make the hair smell good, kill headlice, and help hold the hair in place. Women would add extra hair collected from cows, horses, or other people. Or they would collect from their own hairbrushes over time and reuse it. Women and hairdressers would use small pillows inside the hair to hold it up. Some women would make curls along the sides or neck with curlers. The hair was held in place with pins. The hair could be natural color or colored gray, brown or white with powder. Some women, for example, Queen Marie Antoinette of France, would wear feathers, jewelry, or sculptures of plants and animals in their high hair. Some women said that it would itch.
The earliest high rolls started in the late 1760s and became taller over time. They started in France and moved to London and North America.
Many people did not like this hairstyle. English critics complained that English women copied it from France. American critics complained that women copied it from England—and this was in the 1770s, when America was at war with England. Other critics said the feathers in the hairstyles made women look like male soldiers with plumed helmets. American critics also complained that the hairstyle made white women look like African-American men. In the 1770s, African-American men wore their hair in a bunch over their foreheads. Rich men also worried about their wives and daughters spending time with male hairdressers.
There are many political cartoons making fun of the high roll and other high hairstyles.
In the television show "Turn", women in New York and Philadelphia wear and talk about high rolls.
Duck Duck Goose (movie)
Duck Duck Goose is a 2018 computer-animated comedy movie directed by Chris Jenkins. The movie was produced by Original Force Animation (USA) and Wanda Media Co., Ltd (China). It stars Jim Gaffigan, Zendaya, Lance Lim, Greg Proops, Natasha Leggero and Stephen Fry. It was released on March 9, 2018.
Winter People
Winter People is a 1989 American romantic drama movie directed by Ted Kotcheff and was based on the 1982 novel of the same name by John Ehle. It stars Kurt Russell, Kelly McGillis, Lloyd Bridges, Mitchell Ryan, Eileen Ryan, Jeffrey Meek. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures and did poorly at the box office.
Smoking room
A smoking room is a versatile structure used in many institutions ranging from campuses to hospitals as a considerate measure for smokers.
Joakim Lundell
Joakim Alexander Lundell (unmarried "Berg", born "Karlsson"; 9 October 1985), is a Swedish YouTuber and musician. He was a reality television star before then. He was born in Vadstena, Sweden.
Lundell is one of the biggest YouTubers in Sweden. His YouTube channel "Jocke & Jonna" gets more than 35 million views every month.
He is married to Jonna Lundell and they have two children.
Chaeyoung
Son Chae-young (; born April 23, 1999), also known as Chaeyoung (채영), is a South Korean singer, rapper, and songwriter. She is a member of K-pop girl group Twice.
Dole effect
The Dole effect is a way of explaining the inequality between the heavy isotope O and the lighter isotope O. There are different isotopes of oxygen on earth. The atmosphere contains mostly O, the oxygen in seawater is mostly O. This is caused by the respiration of plants and animals. It is balanced by photosynthesis. Photosynthesis emits the same oxygen isotope as that of water. Malcolm Dole first described this effect in 1935. It is named Dole effect today.
Paul-Jean Hérault
Paul-Jean Hérault, pseudonym of Michel Rigaud, (22 September 1934 – 26 October 2020) was a French writer and journalist. He worked for "Paris-Presse", "Candide", "L'Aurore", "Paris Jour", RTL, and "Télé Star".
Hérault died of a stroke in Paris on 26 October 2020 at the age of 86.
Jimmy Orr