A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on 30 November 2020. It was visible mainly in North America with visibility reaching to some other places such as parts of South America and Asia.
DeepMind
DeepMind Technologies is a UK based artificial intelligence company and research laboratory founded in September 2010. It was bought by Google in 2014.
The company is based in London, with research centres in Canada, France, and the United States.
Miguel Algarín
Miguel Algarín Jr. (11 September 1941 – 1 December 2020) was a Puerto Rican poet, historian and writer. He was known as the co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café. He was a Rutgers University professor of English. Algarín was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
Algarín's books include "Mongo Affair", "On Call" (1980), "Body Bee Calling from the 21st Century" (1982), "Time's Now/Ya es tiempo" (1985), "Love Is Hard Work: Memorias de Loisaida/Poems" (1997, Lower East Side Memories/Poems).
Algarín died on 1 December 2020 in New York City, aged 79.
Jim McFarland
James Darrell McFarland (October 4, 1947 – November 27, 2020) was an American football player. He played tight end for six seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Buffalo Bills, St. Louis Cardinals, and Miami Dolphins. He was born in North Platte, Nebraska.
After leaving football, he became a member of the Nebraska Legislature between 1986 to 1991 as a Democrat. He unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Nebraska in 1998.
McFarland died of pancreatic cancer on November 27, 2020, in Omaha, Nebraska at age 73.
Dieter Popp
Dieter Popp (24 November 1938 – 27 November 2020) was a West German insurance agent. He worked as a spy between 1969 and 1990. He was born in Bonn. He was a spy for the of the East German National People's Army.
Popp died on 27 November 2020, three days after his 82nd birthday.
Clifton Bertrand
Clifton Bertrand (2 March 1936 – 28 November 2020) was a Trinidadian sprinter. He was born in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago. He won three bronze medals at the Pan American Games in 1959 and 1963. Bertrand also competed during the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics.
Bertrand died on 28 November 2020 in New York City at the age of 84.
Shams Badran
Shams Al Din Badran (; 19 April 1929 – 28 November 2020) was an Egyptian politician. He was Minister of Defence of Egypt during Gamal Abdel Nasser's era from 1966 to 1967. He also was Commander of the Egyptian Armed Forces at the same time. He was removed from the ministry during the Six-Day War and later imprisoned.
Badran died at a Plymouth, Devon hospital on 28 November 2020 while living in exile since his prison release in 1974, aged 91.
KaTeX
KaTeX is a JavaScript library that shows mathematical notation on any web browser. It aims to be fast and easy to use.
It was initially developed by Khan Academy. This is why it starts from K. KaTeX is known to be one of the top five popular projects on GitHub in September 2014.
KaTeX claims to be:
Miša Aleksić
Miroslav "Miša" Aleksić (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирослав-Миша Алексић, 16 August 1953 — 29 November 2020) was a Serbian musician. He was best known as the bass guitarist for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba.
On 29 November 2020, Aleksić died from problems caused by COVID-19 in Belgrade at the age of 67.
José Rafael Barquero Arce
José Rafael Barquero Arce (27 October 1931 – 29 November 2020) was a Costa Rican Roman Catholic bishop. He became a priest in 1956. He was titular bishop of 'Arindela' and was auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Alajuela, Costa Rica, from 1979 to 1980. He then was bishop of the diocese from 1980 until 2007.
Barquero Arce died on 29 November 2020 at the age of 89.
Marco Dino Brogi
Marco Dino Brogi, O.F.M. (12 March 1932 – 29 November 2020) was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
Brogi was born in Cairo, Egypt. He was became a priest on 5 May 1963. Pope John Paul II made Brogi titular archbishop of Città Ducale, Apostolic Nuncio to Sudan, and Apostolic Delegate to Somalia on 13 December 1997. Pope John Paul named him Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt and Apostolic Delegate to the Arab League on 5 February 2002.
Brogi ended his service as Nuncio on 27 January 2006. Benedict named him a Consultor to the Congregation for the Oriental Churches on 15 September 2007.
Brogi died on 29 November 2020 in Rome at the age of 88.
Delian League
The Delian League was founded in 478 BC. It was an association of Greek city-states under the leadership of Athens. The League had a many cities: at various times between 150 and 330.
The League was led by Athens to continue fighting the Persian Empire. The Greeks had won the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second Persian invasion of Greece.
The League's modern name comes from its official meeting place, the island of Delos, where congresses were held in the temple. The treasury stood there, until Pericles moved it to Athens in 454 BC.
Soon after the League was set up, Athens began to use the League's funds for its own purposes. This led to conflict between Athens and the less powerful members of the League. By 431 BC, the League presented a threat to Sparta. This, and Athens's heavy-handed control of the League, started the Peloponnesian War. The League was dissolved after the war's end in 404 BC by the order of Lysander, the Spartan commander.
Irina Antonova
Irina Aleksandrovna Antonova () (20 March 1922 – 30 November 2020) was a Russian art historian. He was a Director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow for 52 years, from 1961 to 2013. She was the oldest and the longest serving director of a major art museum in the world.
Antonova was honored with the State Prize of the Russian Federation and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She was the President of the Pushkin Museum.
Antonova died of COVID-19 at a Moscow hospital on 30 November 2020 at the age of 98.
Dee Benson
Dee Vance Benson (August 25, 1948 – November 30, 2020) was an American politician and lawyer. He was born in Sandy, Utah. He was nominated to the United States District Court for the District of Utah in 1991 by President George H. W. Bush. From 1999 to 2006, he was chief justice of the court.
Benson died of brain cancer on November 30, 2020 at his home in Salt Lake City, Utah at the age of 72.
Sandy, Utah
Sandy is a city in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, located in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. The population of Sandy was 87,461 at the 2010 census.
Tan Eng Bock
Tan Eng Bock (29 April 1936 – 30 November 2020) was a Singaporean water polo player He competed in the men's tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Tan died in Singapore on 30 November 2020 at the age of 84.
Ben Bova
Benjamin William Bova (November 8, 1932November 29, 2020) was an American writer. He was the author of more than 120 works of science fiction. He was a six-time winner of the Hugo Award.
He was an editor of "Analog Magazine", an editorial director of "Omni"; he was also president of both the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America. He was known for his "Grand Tour" novel series.
Bova died on November 29, 2020 at a hospital in Naples, Florida from pneumonia and a stroke caused by COVID-19, aged 88.
Abhay Bharadwaj
Abhay Ganpathrai Bharadwaj (2 April 1954 – 1 December 2020) was an Ugandan-born Indian politician, activist and lawyer. He was born in Kampala, Uganda.
Bharadwaj was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 22 July 2020 until his death. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He also was a member of the national Law Commission from 2016 to 2018.
Bharadwaj died of COVID-19 on 1 December 2020 at a hospital in Chennai, India at the age of 66.
Tableau vivant
A tableau vivant is when people pose and make the scene look like the one in a picture. People in a tableau vivant don't move or speak. The name comes from French, and translates as "living picture". The plural is tableaux vivants.