Blau was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 1983. Blau was elected as a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1968.
Blau died on October 20, 2020 in Tel Aviv at the age of 101.
Derryl Cousins
Derryl Cousins (August 18, 1946 – October 20, 2020) was an American umpire in Major League Baseball (MLB). He worked in the American League (AL) from 1979 to 1999, and umpired throughout both leagues from 2000 until his retirement following the 2012 season. Cousins was born in Fresno, California.
Cousins died on October 20, 2020 from cancer in Palm Springs, California at the age of 74.
Bogdan Józef Wojtuś
Bogdan Józef Wojtuś (4 July 1937 – 20 October 2020) was a Polish Roman Catholic prelate. He was an auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Gniezno from 1988 until 2012. He was born in Łąsko Wielki, Poland.
Pope John Paul II appointed him Titular Bishop of Vassinassa on November 17, 1993, and Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno. On September 15, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI accepted his resignation request made for reasons of age.
Wojtuś died on 20 October 2020 from COVID-19 in Poznań, Poland at the age of 83.
Thiruvalla
Thiruvalla, alternately spelled Tiruvalla, is a town in Kerala and also the headquarters of the Taluk of same name located in Pathanamthitta district in the State of Kerala, India. It is known as the "Land of Non resident Indians".
Arthur Takes Over
Arthur Takes Over is a 1948 American comedy movie directed by Malcolm St. Clair and starring Lois Collier, Richard Crane, Skip Homeier, Ann E. Todd, Jerome Cowan, William Bakewell, Howard Freeman, Luana Walters, Almira Sessions. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Homesteaders of Paradise Valley
Homesteaders of Paradise Valley is a 1947 American western movie directed by R. G. Springsteen and starring Allan Lane, Ann E. Todd, Robert Blake, Martha Wentworth, Gene Roth, Mauritz Hugo, Emmett Vogan, Edythe Elliott.
Maubara Administrative Post
Maubara is a village in Maubara Subdistrict, just west of the city of Liquiçá. Most of the inhabitants speak Tocodede. It lies near the Maubara Important Bird Area, the small coastal Lake Maubara. The Parish Church of Maubara is located here. There is a historic Dutch fort.
David Choquehuanca
David Choquehuanca Céspedes (born May 7, 1961) is a Bolivian politician. In November 2020, he became the Vice President of Bolivia. He was the Foreign Minister from 23 January 2006 to 23 January 2017.
Álvaro García Linera
Álvaro Marcelo García Linera (; born 19 October 1962), is a Bolivian politician. He was Vice President of Bolivia from 2006 until his removal in 2019 during the Evo Morales presidency.
Vice President of Bolivia
The Vice President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia () or Vice President of Bolivia (), is the second highest political position in Bolivia.
The Vice President replaces the President in his absence, death or in the event of removal from office.
2020 Bolivian general election
Snap general elections were held in Bolivia on 18 October 2020 for President, Vice-President, and all seats in both the Senate and Chamber of Deputies.
The results of the election will replace the disputed results of the October 2019 elections, which were annulled during a prolonged political crisis.
Chamber of Senators (Bolivia)
The Chamber of Senators () is the upper house of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia.
The Senate has 36 seats. Each of the country's nine departments returns four senators elected by proportional representation (using the D'Hondt method).
Chamber of Deputies (Bolivia)
The Chamber of Deputies () is the lower house of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia. The composition and powers of this house are established in the Political Constitution of the State.
The Chamber of Deputies comprises 130 seats, elected using the additional member system: 70 deputies are elected to represent single-member electoral districts, 7 of which are Indigenous or Campesino seats elected by the usos y costumbres of minority groups, 60 are elected by proportional representation from party lists on a departmental basis. Deputies also serve five-year terms, and must be aged at least 25 on the day of the election.
2019 Bolivian political crisis
On 10 November 2019, after 21 days of civil protests following the disputed election results of October 2019 and the release of a report from the Organization of American States (OAS), which showed irregularities in the electoral process, trade unions, the military and the police of Bolivia asked president Evo Morales to resign.
Morales resigned and was offered political asylum to Morales the following day, which Morales accepted a day afterwards.
The second vice president of the Senate, opposition senator Jeanine Áñez, assumed the role of president on 12 November, being the next in line for the presidency.
Morales has called for the Bolivian people to reject the leadership of Áñez. He and his supporters argue that the event was a coup d'état.
2019 Bolivian general election
General elections were held in Bolivia on 20 October 2019.
Voters elected all 130 members of the Chamber of Deputies and 36 senators and cast ballots for a joint slate of president and vice president.
Disputes over the transparency and legitimacy of the elections caused weeks of widespread protests in Bolivia after incumbent President Evo Morales was declared the winner with 47.08% of the vote. This was greater than ten-point margin over his nearest competitor, Carlos Mesa, this was enough for Morales to be announced as a winner without a run-off second-round vote.
The Organization of American States (OAS) said that there was "clear manipulation" and significant irregularities.
Luis Fernando Camacho
Luis Fernando Camacho Vaca (born 15 February 1979) is a Bolivian lawyer, businessman and activist. He is a member of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement in Bolivia.
He was a major critic of Evo Morales in the 2019 Bolivian general elections, demanding Morales resign on 5 November 2019. He unsuccessfully ran for President of Bolivia in 2020.
2019 Bolivian protests
From 21 October 2019 until late November of that year, protests and marches occurred in Bolivia in response to claims of electoral fraud in the 2019 general election of 20 October.
After 11 November 2019 there were protests by supporters of the outgoing government in response to Jeanine Áñez becoming the acting president of Bolivia. The claims of fraud were made after the suspension of the preliminary vote count, in which incumbent Evo Morales was not leading by a large enough margin (10%) to avoid a runoff.
Eddie Tonks
Edward James Tonks ( – 18 October 2020) was a New Zealand businessman and sports administrator. He was chair of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union (NZRFU) between 1990 and 1995. He also chaired the International Rugby Board (IRB).
Tonks died at his home in Wellington on 18 October 2020, aged 85.
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker. She analyses politics and criticizes capitalism. Since 2018, she has been the Gloria Steinem Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University.
Klein's "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate" (2014) was a "New York Times" non-fiction bestseller and won the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
Naomi Klein has a Jewish background.
List of incidents of xenophobia and racism related to the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic started in the city of Wuhan, China in December 2019. It has led to increased acts of prejudice, xenophobia, discrimination, racism and violence against people of Southeast Asian, Hispanic, East Asian, Native American, biracial and black people all over the world. With the spread of the pandemic and in formation of hotspots, like those in Asia, Europe and the Americas, discrimination against people from these hotspots was reported.