Yaakov Agmon () (24 June 1929 – 16 December 2020) was an Israeli theater producer, manager, and director. He was born in Tel Aviv. He was director of United Jewish Appeal and also as a columnist and the secretary of the "Rimon" weekly publication.
In 1978, he founded Beit Lessin Theater. In 1995, Agmon was appointed general and artistic director of the Habima Theatre. In 2010, Agmon was appointed general manager of the Arabic-Hebrew theater of Jaffa.
Agmon died on 16 December 2020 at a hospital in Ramat Gan from COVID-19 at the age of 91.
Feng Duan
Feng Duan (; June 11, 1923 – 15 December 2020) was a Chinese physicist and politician. He was an expert in solid-state physics. He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1980 until his death. He was a delegate to the National People's Congress from 1983 to 1994. Feng was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu.
Feng died on 15 December 2020 in Nanjing, Jiangsu at the age of 97.
Tesfaye Gessesse
Tesfaye Gessesse (September 27, 1937 – December 16, 2020) was an Ethiopian actor and theatre director. He was born in Addis Ababa. He became the General Director of Hager Fikir Theatre in 1974. In 1975, he was removed and sent to prison by the Derg government after his play "Iqaw" which criticized as state terrorism.
Gessesse died on 16 December 2020, at the age of 84.
David Byrd (politician)
David Byrd (born September 8, 1957) is an American politician and retired basketball coach. He is a Republican. Byrd represented the 71st district of the Tennessee House of Representatives since 2015. He was born in Waynesboro, Tennessee.
On December 10, 2020 Byrd was hospitalized in Waynesboro with COVID-19 and placed in a ventilator.
Waynesboro, Tennessee
Waynesboro is a city in and the county seat of Wayne County, Tennessee, United States. 2,449 lived here since the 2010 census.
Wayne County, Tennessee
Wayne County is a county located in Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, 17,021 people lived here. Its county seat is Waynesboro.
Waldemaro Bartolozzi
Waldemaro Bartolozzi (26 October 1927 – 16 December 2020) was an Italian racing cyclist. He finished in ninth place in the 1956 Giro d'Italia. He was born in Scandicci, Italy.
Bartolozzi died on 16 December 2020 in Scandicci at the age of 93.
Scandicci
Scandicci () is a "comune" (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany. It is located about southwest of Florence.
Crystal Lowe
Crystal Lowe (born January 20, 1981) is a Canadian actress and model. She is best known for her roles in horror movies such as roles as "" (2001), "Final Destination 3" (2006), "Black Christmas" (2006) and "" (2007).
Kawasaki theorem
The Kawasaki theorem is a theorem relating to the mathematics of paper folding. It states that when folding paper, a figure will be flat, if and only if all of the angles have an alternating sum of zero.
Western Conference (MLS)
The Western Conference is one of Major League Soccer's two conferences. The other conference is the Eastern Conference.
^ – MLS did not have draws until the 2000 season.
† – The LA Galaxy were declared winners of the Western Division in 2001 after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks forced the cancellation of the rest of the regular season. The MLS Cup Playoffs began on September 20.
Taipei frog
The Taipei frog also referred to as Taipeh frog, Taipei grass frog, two-striped grass frog, striped slender frog, Taipei slender frog, Taipeh slender frog, white-banded frog, Taiwanese frog or stripe-backed frog ("Hylarana taipehensis") is a frog from China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
The adult frog is 4.0 cm long. It is bright yellow, green, brown, or mixed in color with some dark brown on the sides of its head. During the day, this frog stays where the trees are close to each other. It can live near humans, on farms and in cities.
La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes
The life of Guide of Tormes and of his fortunes and adversities (more known like Guide of Tormes) is an Spanish novel. It was written by an unknown author. It is written in first person and in style epistolar (like an single long letter). The first editions known are from date of 1554. The book is an autobiographical form of the life of a boy, Lázaro of Tormes, in the century XVI, from his birth and childhood problemsy until his wedding, already in the adulthood. It is considered precursor of the pictoresque novel by elements like the realism, the narration in first person, the itinerant structure, the service to several masters and the moralistic and pessimistic ideas
"Guide of Tormes" is an ironic and merciless outline of the society of the moment, of which show his vices and attitudes hipócritas, especially the ones of the clergymen and religious. There is different hypothesis on his authorship. Probably the author was simpatizante of the ideas erasmistas. This motivated that the Inquisition forbade it and that, later, allowed his publication, once expurgada. The work did not go back to be published entirely until the century XIX
Letterlike Symbols
Letterlike Symbols is a Unicode block (a group of symbols in Unicode). It has 80 symbols. Many of these symbols are used in mathematics and look like letters.
Dressed to Kill (1980 movie)
Dressed to Kill is a 1980 American thriller movie directed by Brian De Palma and starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Dennis Franz, David Margulies. It was distributed by Filmways Pictures.
Julie Fisher
Julie D. Fisher is an American diplomat. In December 2020, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved her designation as ambassador to Belarus. She will be the first American ambassador to that country since 2008, when the United States withdrew its ambassador as part of political tensions between the two countries. Previously, Ms. Fisher had been the U.S. chargé d'affaires and acting ambassador to Russia. She served as Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs from September 1, 2018 until July 22, 2020 after being the Deputy Permanent Representative of the U.S. Mission to NATO.
As an undergraduate, Ms. Fisher majored in Russian and East European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has a Master’s degree from the Woodrow Wilson School for International Affairs at Princeton University.
Aydın Büyükşehir Belediyespor
Aydın Büyükşehir Belediyespor is the women's volleyball department of Aydın Büyükşehir Belediyespor Kulübü, a Turkish sports club based in Aydın, Turkey. Aydın Büyükşehir Belediyespor was established on 7 November 2014. The team plays its home matches at the Mimar Sinan Spor Salonu hall in Aydin.
Samdari
Samdari is a tehsil of Barmer district in Rajasthan, northern India.
According to the Indian Census 2011, the population of Samdari is 25012, where male population is 12805 and female population is 12207.
In 2007 is a break of gauge junction station on Indian Railways. Broad gauge lines go to Munabao and Jodhpur, while a metre gauge line subject to conversion goes to Bhildi. Now broad gauge has completed and passenger train has started from 16 October 2010.
Mena Report
Mena Report (Middle East and North Africa Business Report) is a business news source established in 2001 and run by Al Bawaba (Amman, Jordan, and Dubai). It covers business and economics across the Arabic world.
The "Mena Report" was established in 2001. It covers economy and trade, IT and telecom, financial markets, oil and energy, agriculture, general industry, retail and services, transport and tourism. At time of launch, Menafn.com and Zawya.com provided similar content as the "Mena Report". Al Bawaba employs journalists and editors to cover news and events in the Middle East and North Africa. The content is presented on Al Bawaba's own website, and is syndicated to other publishers and aggregators. In 2009 the "Mena Report" portal claimed to have 123,409 monthly site visits.
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