Luboš Kohoutek (, born 29 January 1935) is a Czech astronomer. He was known as a discoverer of minor planets and comets, including Comet Kohoutek which was visible to the naked eye in 1973. He also discovered comets 75D/Kohoutek and 76P/West–Kohoutek–Ikemura.
The main-belt asteroid 1850 Kohoutek was named after him.
British Academy
The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.
It was created in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year.
The academy is a self-governing and independent registered charity, based at 10–11 Carlton House Terrace in London.
The British Academy is funded with an annual grant from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).
Udupi
Udupi, otherwise spelt "Udipi" and also known as Odipu, is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka. Udupi is located about north of the educational, commercial & industrial hub Mangalore and about west of state capital Bangalore by road.
Jeff Bergman
Jeffrey Allen Bergman (born July 10, 1960) is an American voice actor, comedian and impressionist. He is known for his voice work with "Looney Tunes" and Hanna-Barbera characters.
Bergman was the first to replace Mel Blanc as the voice of Bugs Bunny and several other Warner Bros. cartoon characters following Blanc's death in 1989.
Eric Bauza
Eric Adrian Bauza (born December 7, 1979) is a Canadian-born American voice actor, stand-up comedian and animation artist. His roles include Stimpy on "Ren and Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon"", Rudolfo Rivera/White Pantera on "", Foop on "The Fairly OddParents" and Lord Stingray on "Superjail!", "The Powerpuff Girls".
He is also one of the current voices of characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Marvin the Martian, Pepé Le Pew, Tweety, Woody Woodpecker, Boo-Boo Bear, Ranger Smith, Scrappy Doo, and Dino.
Selectorate theory
Selectorate Theory is a political theory that attributes the actions of leaders to rational, calculated decisions based on acquiring and maintaining power, originally proposed by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita.
Originally proposed in 1993 as a part of a work titled "The Logic of Political Survival", co-written by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, Randolph M. Siverson, and James D. Morrow, published by MIT Press. It discusses the selectorate theory of politics. Their theory was refined into a 2011 publication titled "The Dictator's Handbook." The main thesis of the book is the implications of selectorate theory and how to improve world and national politics based on its principles.
The theory is based on a single idea: No political leader has ever had total control of their government. Leaders need the support of at least some people to lead, because those people either do something for the leader or tell other people what to do. This means that there is a group of people the leader needs to persuade in order to obtain or keep power. These people are the selectorate, and are divided into three categories:
There are three groups of people that a leader, or their contenders, must remain aware of in order to keep, or acquire, power:
There are many ways that a leader and the selectorate interact with each other, mostly through the five rules that leaders follow to acquire and keep power.
There are two methods of governance that form using the Selectorate Theory: a government with few Essentials- called a small coalition- and a government with a large group of Essentials- called a large coalition.
Small coalition governments are autocracies such as North Korea or the Soviet Union. Although many people can vote in their elections, if there are any, a leader stays in power because of the very few people who are rewarded for their loyalty. In small coalition governments, a leader can simply bribe their Essentials with material rewards such as money or real estate.
Large coalition governments are governments that force leaders to appeal to large amounts of people to take power, such as through an election. This style of governance makes it implausible to bribe individual voters or Essentials, meaning a leader instead pools the money earned from taxes to create policy that disproportionately rewards their Essentials more than other groups.
With the basic idea of how a leader and their selectorate interact with each other, there are several ways that this manifests in domestic and foreign policy.
Monarchy is a system where a regent has a small court of lords whom support the ruler. However, those who are eligible to become a member of the court is also small. This means a contender can easily promise big rewards for those who are able to become members of the court who aren't already, while those in the court must always prepare to be replaced, meaning they are never as loyal as they could be.
As such, democracy and autocracy are more stable systems for a leader because these systems allow them to follow the Second Rule: keep the Nominal selectorate as large as possible.
Foreign aid with no strings attached, such as the giving of money from a wealthy nation to a less fortunate one, often acts as a symbiotic relationship between dictators and democrats. Large-coalition governments send foreign aid money to impoverished nations as a policy concession- thus retaining power- while the impoverished nations, who are often governed by small coalitions, distribute the money among the coalition instead of benefiting the people.
Conversation Piece
Conversation Piece () is a 1974 Italian French erotic drama movie directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano, Claudia Marsani, Romolo Valli, Philippe Hersent, Umberto Raho.
The Damned (1969 movie)
The Damned (Italian title: "La caduta degli dei", lit. "The Fall of the Gods") is a 1969 Italian German Liechtenstein drama movie directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger, Renaud Verley, Umberto Orsini, Charlotte Rampling. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1970 and was distributed by Warner Bros..
Hattie Morahan
Harriet Jane Morahan (born 7 October 1978) is an English actress. Her roles include Alice in "The Bletchley Circle", Gale Benson in "The Bank Job" (2008), Ann in "Mr. Holmes" (2015), Rose Coyne in "My Mother and Other Strangers" (2016), and Agathe/The Enchantress in "Beauty and the Beast" (2017).
Joe Ruklick
Joseph Ruklick ( (August 3, 1938 – September 17, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played for the Philadelphia Warriors between 1959 to 1962. Ruklick was born in Princeton, Illinois.
Ruklick died of natural causes on September 17, 2020 in Evanston, Illinois at the age of 82.
Berni Alder
Berni Julian Alder (September 9, 1925 – September 7, 2020) was a German-born American physicist. His works focused in statistical mechanics, and an important person of numerical simulation in physics. He was born in Duisburg, Germany. In 2008, he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2009, he was honored with the National Medal of Science.
Alder died on September 7, 2020 at the age of 94.
Scheduled monument
In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or historic building. The schedule legally protects the monument from unauthorised change.
The protection of scheduled monuments is given under the "Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979". There are about 20,000 scheduled monuments in England.
According to the 1979 Act, a monument cannot be a structure which is occupied as a dwelling, used as a place of worship or protected under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973.
List of territorial entities where Persian is an official language
The following is a list of sovereign states that have Persian as an official language.
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