André Gagnon (August 2, 1936 – December 3, 2020) was a Canadian composer, conductor, arranger, and actor. He was known for his works of classical and pop styles. Many of his best known compositions were "Neiges", "Smash", "Chevauchée", "Surprise", "Donna", and "Mouvements" in the disco and pop fields. He was born in Quebec. Gagnon was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1978 and an Officer of the National Order of Quebec in 2018.
Gagnon died on December 3, 2020 in Montreal from problems caused by Lewy body dementia at the age of 84.
Jutta Lampe
Jutta Lampe (13 December 1937 – 3 December 2020) was a German actress. She appeared in more than twenty movies from 1963 until his death. She was born in Flensburg, Germany.
Lampe was known for her roles in "Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness" (1979), "Marianne and Juliane" (1981), "The Distant Land" (1987) and "The Possessed" (1988).
Lampe died on 3 December 2020 in Berlin at the age of 82.
Alison Lurie
Alison Lurie (September 3, 1926December 3, 2020) was an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel "Foreign Affairs". She was born in Chicago, Illinois.
Lurie died on December 3, 2020 in Ithaca, New York at the age of 94.
Albert Salvadó
Albert Salvadó i Miras (1 February 1951 – 3 December 2020) was an Andorran writer and industrial engineer. He wrote in both Catalan and Spanish. Salvadó wrote children's stories, essays and novels, often focusing on historical fiction. He was born in Andorra la Vella.
Salvadó died on 3 December 2020 in Andorra la Vella from leukaemia at the age of 69.
Chris Krebs
Christopher Cox Krebs (born January 30, 1977) is an American attorney who served as the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the United States Department of Homeland Security from November 2018 to November 2020.
In November 2020, President Donald Trump fired Krebs for not agreeing with Trump on the disproven claim of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
Monolith
A monolith is a geological feature made up of a single massive stone or rock, such as some mountains, or a single large piece of rock placed as, or within, a monument or building.
Erosion usually causes the geological formations, which are often made of very hard and solid igneous or metamorphic rock.
Brian Deese
Brian Christopher Deese (born February 17, 1978) is an American economic political advisor. He is the Director of the National Economic Council in the Joe Biden administration since January 20, 2021.
Deese was a senior advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama. He was the deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget and was the acting director of the office in the summer of 2014.
Deese also was deputy director of the National Economic Council.
In December 2020, Deese was chosen as the director of the National Economic Council by President-elect Joe Biden.
Gitanjali Rao (scientist)
Gitanjali Rao (born 2005) is an American inventor. She won the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge in 2017. She was honored as Forbes 30 U 30 for her innovations. She was named TIME Top young innovator in 2020 for her innovations and "innovation workshops" she conducts across the globe. In the December 2020 cover, "Time " named Rao the first "Kid of the Year". Rao was born in Lone Tree, Colorado.
Lone Tree, Colorado
Lone Tree is a home rule municipality in Douglas County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 10,218 at the 2010 United States Census.
White hole
A white hole is a hypothetical region in spacetime. It has "not" been proven to exist.
It is said to be the exact opposite of a black hole. While a black hole sucks in objects to its singularity, the white hole emits matter from its singularity. A white hole may be formed after a black hole can no longer suck things in. Immediately, it turns into a white hole and starts emitting the things that it has previously sucked in before. Nothing can enter a white hole as its emitting force is too great. In this sense, it is the reverse of a black hole, which can be entered only from the outside and from which energy-matter, light and information cannot escape.
Like black holes, white holes have properties like mass, charge, and angular momentum. They attract matter like any other mass, but objects falling towards a white hole would never actually reach the white hole's event horizon.
Sardinian tree frog
The Sardinian tree frog, Sardinia tree frog or Tyrrhenian tree frog ("Hyla sarda") is a frog. It lives on islands: Sardinia in Italy, Corsica in France and other islands nearby.
This frog is 3.8 to 4.0 cm long. It is green or gray with a dark stripe down each side of its body. This frog can change color.
This frog can live near humans. Sometimes it lives in gardens and hides in garden walls.
Phumulani
Phumulani is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing domestic violence and sexual abuse in communities of color throughout Minnesota and globally.
Phumulani was founded by Comfort Dondo, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and domestic violence. Born and raised in Zimbabwe and now residing in Minnesota, Comfort’s struggle with domestic violence was compounded by the inability of women’s shelters in America to provide the language, cultural and societal resources she and her children needed to feel safe and supported. Often, she found herself back in her abuser’s home with no alternative.
Now free from the dangerous situation, Comfort wants to make sure women and children of African descent have the cultural resources they need to feel comfortable in sharing their stories and recovering from their experiences. She understands firsthand that individuals who have fled African countries to save their lives often have lasting trauma that needs to be acknowledged and treated holistically to ensure long-term progress.
"Comfort created Phumulani, named for a Zulu word meaning “lover of peace,” as a way of helping African immigrants and refugees in Minnesota. It is truly a place where survivors of gender-based abuse and violence can find peace and recovery."
To stop violence and abuse of women and children. Phumulani is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing domestic violence and sexual abuse in communities of color throughout Minnesota and the nation. By providing culturally-specific resources to women and girls of African descent, we hope to change the cycle of gender-based abuse in the vulnerable populations.
(524522) 2002 VE68
(524522) 2002 VE is an asteroid and a temporary quasi-satellite of Venus. It was the first quasi-satellite to be found around a planet in the Solar System. It looks like it travels around venus during one Venerean year but it actually orbits the Sun, not Venus.
It was discovered on 11 November 2002 at Lowell Observatory. It has a semi-major axis of 0.7237 AU. Its eccentricity is 0.4104. Its orbital inclination is 9.0060°. It is calculated to measure 236 meters in diameters. Its rotational period is 13.5 hours.
2002 VE is in the Minor Planet Center list of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) because it frequently comes as close as 0.05 AU (7,479,894 km) to Earth. It comes as close as 0.04 AU (5,983,915 km) every 8 years.
Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl
Nezahualcóyotl, commonly known as Neza, is a city in Mexico. In 2010, the city had about 1.105 million people living there.
Quasi-satellite
A quasi-satellite is an astronomical object that crosses a planet's orbit during its own orbit.
A quasi-satellite's orbit around the Sun takes exactly the same time as the planet's orbit. Its eccentricity is different from the eccentricity of the planet. The orbits of quasi-satellites are unstable and over time they will break free from the planet's gravity.
Manoj Sinha
Manoj Sinha (born 1 July 1959) is an Indian politician. On 6 August 2020, he became the 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir.