Calanley mosque or Masjid express is a historically Ibadist mosque in Kismayo, Jubaland. Its minarets have a Ibadite semiellipse shape. The reason the minarets have a Ibadist design is that Kismayo and Jubaland used to be under the influence of the Ibadi-ruled Sultanate of Zanzibar. This is the reason that colonial era buildings in Jubaland have an Ibadist design.
Sultanate of Zanzibar
The Sultanate of Zanzibar was an Ibadite kingdom in East Africa. It was under the influence of the Omani Muscat Sultanate at first. It came to an end when the British East Africa colony was established. This means it ended at the turn of the twentieth century.
Rustamid kingdom
The Rustamid kingdom is a former Ibadist kingdom in Algeria. The Rustamid Kingdom had an Ibadite dynasty which ruled Algeria from 779 until 909. The Rustamids are the longest-lasting Ibadi kingdom in north Africa.
Paramount+
Paramount + would also expand to international markets, starting with Latin America on the day of the service rebranding, followed by the Nordic countries on March 25, 2021 and Australia in mid-2021.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Hermann Ebbinghaus (24 January 1850 – 26 February 1909) was a German psychologist. Today, he is mostly known for his work regarding learning and forgetting. He was the first to do experiments to explore how memory works. He first described the forgetting curve, the learning curve and the spacing effect. The Ebbinghaus illusion, which is named after him is related to the perception, not memory. His son was the philosopher Julius Ebbinghaus.
In 1896, he did a test on children in school: The pupils had to complete sentences, and their teacher had to rate each pupil, if the pupil was in the lowest, the middle or the highest third of all the people in the class. Ebbinghaus saw a relationship between the teacher's rating, and the result of the pupil, but he could not give a correlation (because he was lacking the tools to do so). This was possibly the first test of verbal intelligence in a group.
Many of his experimental methods to rate memory performance are still in use.
Ebbinghaus died of pneumonia, when he was 59 years old.
Will Hurd
William Ballard Hurd (born August 19, 1977) is an American politician. He was the U.S. representative for Texas's 23rd congressional district from 2015 to 2021.
Ruhollah Zam
Ruhollah Zam (, also Romanized as "Rouhollah Zam"; 27 July 1978 – 12 December 2020) was an Iranian activist and journalist. He was best known for working with Telegram channel named 'Amadnews'.
Zam was a well known activist during the 2017–18 Iranian protests.
In June 2020, an Iran court found him guilty of "corruption on earth" for running a popular anti-government forum. He was sentenced to death by an Iranian court and was executed on 12 December 2020, aged 42.
Valentin Gaft
Valentin Iosifovich Gaft (; 2 September 1935 – 12 December 2020) was a Russian actor. He was awarded the People's Artist of Russia in 1984. Gaft was born in Moscow. Gaft was known for his roles in "Hello, I'm Your Aunt!", "Say a Word for the Poor Hussar" and "Forgotten Melody for a Flute".
Gaft died on 12 December 2020 in Moscow at the age of 85.
Đurđa Ivezić
Đurđa Ivezić, (17 October 1936 – 11 December 2020) was a Croatian actress. She was born in Zagreb. She also voiced dubbed Betty Rubble in Croatian for "The Flintstones" and Smurfette in "The Smurfs". Ivezić also starred in "H-8", "Back of the Medal" and "The Magician's Hat".
Ivezić died on 11 December 2020 in Zagreb of COVID-19 at the age of 84.
Osvaldo Cochrane Filho
Oswaldo Cochrane Filho (29 July 1933 – 9 December 2020) was a Brazilian water polo player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He was born in Espirito Santo, Brazil. He played for the national team for the first time in 1955 until he retired after the the 1971 Pan American Games.
Cochrane Filho died on 9 December 2020 in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 87.
Kurt Stettler
Kurt Stettler (21 August 1932 – 8 December 2020) was a Swiss football goalkeeper. He played for Switzerland in the 1962 FIFA World Cup. Stettler began playing for the national team in 1961 and retired in 1963. Stettler was born in Stettlen, Switzerland. He mainly played with FC Basel from 1957 to 1964 making 160 appearances.
Stettler died on 8 December 2020 in Zürich from COVID-19 at the age of 88.
Kenneth Alwyn
Kenneth Alwyn (born Kenneth Alwyn Wetherell) (28 July 1925 – 11 December 2020) was an English conductor, composer and writer. He was called by the BBC as "one of the great British musical directors".
Alwyn was known for his many recordings, including with the London Symphony Orchestra on Decca's first stereophonic recording of Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture". He was also known for his works with BBC Radio 2's orchestral live music programme "Friday Night is Music Night".
He was a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.
Alwyn died on 11 December 2020 in London at the age of 95.
James Flynn (academic)
James Robert Flynn FRSNZ (28 April 1934 – 11 December 2020) was a New Zealand intelligence researcher. He taught political studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin. He was known for his studies on the increase of IQ scores throughout the world, which is now known as the Flynn effect.
Flynn died on 11 December 2020 in Dunedin, New Zealand at the age of 86.
James R. Flynn
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Dunedin (disambiguation)
Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand.
Dunedin may also refer to:
U. A. Khader
U. A. Khader (1935–12 December 2020) was an Burmese-born Indian writer. He published in Malayalam such as novels. His works have been translated to many languages including English, Hindi and Kannada. Khader was born in Bilin, Rangoon, Burma. Khader's first story was published in "Chandrika" weekly in 1953. He was the president of Purogamana Kala Sahitya Sangham.
Khader died on 12 December 2020 at a hospital in Calicut, Kerala at the age of 85.
Fikre Selassie Wogderess
Fikre Selassie Wogderess (; 13 July 1945 – 12 December 2020) was an Ethiopian politician. He was the first Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (PDRE) from 10 September 1987 to 8 November 1989. He was fired by President Mengistu Haile Mariam.
In 1989, he was sentenced to death for war crimes and murder. In 2010, the Ethiopian court removed his death sentence and released him following year.
Wogderess died on 12 December 2020 in Addis Ababa from diabetes-related problems at the age of 75.
Qisas
Qisas or Qiṣāṣ () is a term interpreted to mean "retaliation in kind", "eye for an eye", or retributive justice. In traditional Islamic law ("sharia"), the doctrine of qisas allows a punishment analogous to the crime. Qisas is available to the victim or victim's heirs against a person convicted of murder or intentional bodily injury. In the case of murder, qisas gives the right to take the life of the killer, if the latter is convicted and the court approves. Those who are entitled to "qisas" have the option of receiving monetary compensation ("diyya") or granting pardon to the person instead.
Hylarana
Hylarana is a genus of true frogs. They are also called golden-backed frogs. They live in tropical Asia. Scientists used to put 84 to 96 valid species in "Hylarana", but they looked at the frogs again. Today, scientists say four species are in "Hylarana".
"Hylarana" frogs can be small or large. Male frogs are from their noses to the ends of their bodies, and females are . The nostrils are oval in shape and there is a piece of skin on top of them. The ear drum is not covered by skin. They have vomerine teeth and a parietal eye. The toes on their back feet are webbed, but the fingers on the front feet are not.