"The Green Book" was very important in Libya. Schoolchildren would spend 2 hours a week learning about it.
By 1993, colleges all around the world were having lectures and seminars about The Green Book.
The books has 110 pages. It is divided into 3 parts:
The book is against both capitalism and communism. Gaddafi was against communism because he thought it was not respectful to religion. Instead, he promoted Islamic socialism.
It also rejects representative democracy.
The table below gives a chapter-by-chapter summary of the book:
A lot of people thought that Gadaffi didn't do a good job writing the book. They thought that the book was a bunch of proverbs rather than something with new and unique ideas or a strong argument.Cheesman's big-eyed tree frog
Cheesman's big-eyed tree frog ("Nyctimystes cheesmani") is a tree frog from southeastern Papua New Guinea.
The adult male frog is 4.8 to 5.7 cm long, and the adult female frog is 5.5 to 6.5 cm long. It can be light brown to dark brown or green-brown in color. It has very dark eyes. It has purple color on some parts of its body. It has vomerine teeth in its upper jaw.
Scientists found this frog in streams in forests that were open enough for the sunlight to come through.
In 2020, the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature considered calling the frog "cheesmanae" but decided not to.
Flat-headed cat
The flat-headed cat ("Prionailurus planiceps") is a wildcat that lives in Indonesia and Malaysia. It used to live in Thailand but may be extinct there.
This cat is 45 to 52 cm long (18 to 20 inches) and its tail is another 12 to 17 cm long (4.7 to 7 inches). It weights 1.5 to 2.5 kilograms (3.3 to 5.5 pounds). It is about the size of a domestic cat but its legs and tail are shorter, its body is longer, its paws are rounder, and its head is flatter. Its fur is red-brown and dark brown and it has white marks on its face and a white belly. Unlike most cats' claws, the flat-headed cat's claws do not retract all the way.
The flat-headed cat lives in low rainforests, swamps, lakes, and forests with rivers in them. It catches its food in the water, and its body helps: Its teeth point backwards in its mouth so fish cannot get away. Its jaws are longer and narrower than other cats' jaws. It has some webbing between its toes.
Some scientists think this cat likes water even more than the fishing cat does. When some scientists studying apes caught a flat-headed cat by accident, they let it go between a forest and a river. The cat ran to the river and dove in instead of running to the trees to hide. The scientists thought that the cat felt safer in the water than in the trees.
Like other cats, the flat-headed cat sprays urine to mark its territory, but while other cats stand up and spray onto a tall object like a tree. The flat-headed cat crouches down and sprays while it walks, leaving its urine on the ground.
The flat-headed cat is pregnant for 56 days. Female cats have one to four kittens at a time. In zoos, a flat-headed cat can live 14 years.
Flat-headed cats are endangered because of pollution and because humans catch too many fish but mostly because humans have cut down the forests to build farms. Flat-headed cats like forests that are not too far above sea level, and this makes good farmland, so humans want it. Some scientists think that flat-headed cats can live in forests that have grown back after being cut down. Scientists do not think the flat-headed cat can hunt and live near farms the way the Iriomote cat does.
Hotstar
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Marvin Rees
Marvin Johnathan Rees (born April 1972) is a British politician. Since May 2016, he has served as mayor of Bristol. He is a member of the Labour Party.
Rees grew up in Bristol. He is mixed race. His mother is British, and his father is Jamaican. He is married and has three children.
J. I. Packer
James Innell Packer (July 22, 1926 – July 17, 2020), usually cited as J. I. Packer, was an English-born Canadian evangelical theologian in the low-church Anglican and Calvinist traditions. He was as the Board of Governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was thought to be one of the most influential evangelicals in North America. He had been the theologian emeritus of the Anglican Church in North America. Packer was born in Twyning, England.
Packer died on 17 July 2020 in Vancouver, British Columbia at the age of 93.
Alex McCool
Alex A. McCool Jr. (December 10, 1923 – July 14, 2020) was an American scientist. He was a manager of the Space Shuttle Projects Office at the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He worked on several space developments including Skylab and the Space Shuttle program. He was born in Daytona Beach, Florida.
McCool died on July 14, 2020 in Huntsville, aged 96.
José Paulo de Andrade
José Paulo de Andrade (18 May 1942 – 17 July 2020) was a Brazilian journalist. He was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He was also a radio personality and television presenter. He presented the radio programs "O Pulo do Gato" and "Jornal da Bandeirantes Gente" from Rádio Bandeirantes São Paulo.
Andrade died on 17 July 2020 in São Paulo from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and COVID-19, aged 78.
Time Out Group
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Time Out Group also gives entertainment, food, and drink recommendations to an international audience through print and digital platforms. Time Out was created in 1968, by founder Tony Elliott.
Barry Jarman
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Fourteen months and seven first-class matches later he was selected in the Australian team touring New Zealand, where he played in the unofficial Test series.
In 1997 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia "for service to sport as a cricket player, coach and international cricket referee, and to horseracing in South Australia".
Jarman died on 18 July 2020, aged 84.
Igor Chernykh
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Chernykh died on July 15, 2020 in Moscow from COVID-19, aged 88.
Muhammad Mohaiminul Islam
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Islam died from COVID-19 in Dhaka on 16 July 2020, aged 78.
Parliament of Sri Lanka
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It is made up of 225 members known as Members of Parliament (MPs).
Ashoka Wadigamangawa