Enclosed Alphanumerics is a Unicode block (a group of symbols in Unicode). It has 160 symbols. Most of the symbols in the block are letters and numbers inside of circles or in parentheses. In the first Unicode plane (Basic Multilingual Plane), the blocks Dingbats and Enclosed CJK Letters and Months have more numbers inside of circles. In the next plane, the block Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement has symbols of letters inside of more circles, parentheses, and squares.
Many of the symbols were made to be used as bullets when writing lists. The numbers and letters in parentheses were made to look like how typewriters showed numbers and letters in circles. Unicode was made to think that the characters in this block look different than similar copyright symbols (for example, the copyright symbol (left) and the enclosed C (right): © and Ⓒ). The circled S (Ⓢ) was used by German missionaries at around 1900 as a symbol for the ditto mark.
Eric Lopez
Eric Lopez (born April 20, 1978) is an American voice actor, best known for his voice role of Blue Beetle in "Young Justice". He was born in Havana, Cuba.
Lopez is the current voice of the Bumblebee Man in "The Simpsons".
Vinland
Vinland is an area of the coast of North America, which Leif Erikson discovered around AD 1000. The name appears in the Vinland Sagas. It probably describes Newfoundland and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, as far north as New Brunswick.
Note that the vines the name refers to could also have been blackcurrant. Even today, blackcurrant is called "Vinbär" ("wine-berry") in Swedish. In the north of Germany the name Weinbeere has been used to refer to blackcurrant, since the Middle Ages.The terms Meertrübli or Trübli (small grape) is still present in some southern German dialects, to refer to blackcurrant.
The first reference outside the Sagas is that of Adam of Bremen (1076) in his Gesta Hammaburgensis. He wrote: ""Praeterea unam adhuc insulam recitavit a multis in eo repertam occeano, quae dicitur Winland, eo quod ibi vites sponte nascantur, vinum optimum ferentes. Nam et fruges ibi non seminatas habundare, non fabulosa opinione, sed certa comperimus relatione Danorum."" This can be translated as: ""In addition [the king of the Danes] reports on one of many islands in the ocean, which is called Winland, because vines grow there wild, which produce wine. That there are fruit in abundance which have non been [planted], we have not known from an incredible rumour, but from the report of the Danes.""
Guaraní language
Guaraní is an American Indian language from Paraguay. It is an official language of Paraguay. Guaraní is written using the Guaraní alphabet.
Guaraní is one of the most widely spoken American languages. It is often used among the Paraguayan people and neighboring communities. This is unique among American languages. Language shift towards European colonial languages (in this case, Spanish) has been nearly universal in the Western Hemisphere. However, Paraguayans have kept their traditional language while also adopting Spanish.
Hugues Le Bars
Hugues Le Bars (13 October 1950 in Versailles Yvelines – 1 November 2014) was a French film music composer.
Calamites
Calamities were horsetail like trees that went extinct about 250 to 360 million years ago. These plants were medium-sized trees, growing to heights of 30-50 meters and about 100-160 feet. The trunk of these trees had an appearance like a bamboo trunk while the leaves were needle-shaped. These calamities reproduced by cloning
Cantar de mio Cid
The Cantar de mio Cid (Song of My Lord) is an anonymously written poem about the life of the Spanish knight El Cid. The original manuscript is believed to have been written around the year 1200.
It is the oldest Spanish epic poem that is nearly complete; the only missing pages are the first page along with 2 others within the writing. However, other accounts of the work have led historians to produce what is likely to have been in the missing segments. Along with this poem, there exists three other works chronicling the life of El Cid: "Mocedades de Rodrigo" (circa 1360), the "Cantar de Roncesvalles" (circa 1270), and an epitaph, the "Epitafio épico del Cid" (circa 1400).
The poem has literary significance, and is credited with being the original work of the discipline of the study of Spanish literature: the study has been given credit to historian Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869-1968), who sparked interest in the work and popularized the study of Spanish literature.
Congress of the Republic of Guatemala
The Congress of the Republic () is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of Guatemala. The Guatemalan Congress is made up of 160 deputies who are elected to serve four-year terms.
31 of the deputies are elected on a nationwide list, while the rest of the 127 deputies are elected in 22 multi-member constituencies.
Michigan's 2nd congressional district
Michigan's 2nd congressional district is a United States congressional district in Western Michigan. From 2003 to 2013, it was made-up of the counties of Benzie, Manistee, Wexford, Mason, Lake, Oceana, Newaygo, Muskegon, Ottawa, and the northern portion of Allegan and the northwest portion of Kent.
Zeeland, Michigan
Zeeland ( ) is a city in Ottawa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. About 5,504 lived here since the 2010 census.
Hudsonville, Michigan
Hudsonville is a city in Ottawa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. About 7,116 people lived here since the 2010 census.
Richard Laird
Richard Laird (July 4, 1939 – December 14, 2020) was an American Democratic politician. He was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from 1978 to 2014. He was born in Rome, Georgia.
Laird died of COVID-19 on December 14, 2020, in Carrollton, Georgia at age 81.
Jack Page (politician)
Jack Page (January 18, 1950 – December 14, 2020) was an American Democratic politician. He was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from the 29th district from 1993 to 2010. He was born in Kokura, Kyushu, Japan.
Page died of COVID-19 on December 14, 2020, in Gadsden, Alabama at age 70.
Anthony Casso
Anthony Salvatore Casso (May 21, 1942 – December 15, 2020), nicknamed "Gaspipe", was an American mobster and former underboss of the Lucchese crime family.
Casso was known as a "homicidal maniac" in the Italian-American Mafia.
He is suspected of having done dozens of murders, and had confessed to involvement in between 15 and 36 murders.
Following his arrest in 1993, Casso became one of the highest-ranking members of the Mafia to turn informant. In 1998, sentenced him to 455 years in prison for racketeering, extortion, and murder.
Casso died on December 15, 2020 while in prison in Tucson, Arizona from COVID-19 at the age of 78.
Kálmán Sóvári
Kálmán Sóvári (21 December 1940 – 16 December 2020) was a Hungarian footballer. He played for Újpesti Dózsa as a defender. He played 17 games for the Hungary national football team from 1960 to 1966. He was born in Budapest.
Sóvári died on 16 December 2020 in Budapest at the age of 79.
Lorenzo Taliaferro
Lorenzo Taliaferro (December 23, 1991December 16, 2020) was an American football fullback. He played college football at Coastal Carolina. He was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in 2014. He was born in Yorktown, Virginia.
Taliaferro died on December 16, 2020 in Williamsburg, Virginia from a heart attack, aged 28.
Adela de Torrebiarte
Adela Ana María del Rosario Camacho Sinibaldi de Torrebiarte (March 30, 1949 – December 15, 2020) was a Guatemalan politician. She was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala. She was a member of the Commitment, Renewal and Order.
She was Minister of the Interior from 2007 to 2008. De Torrebiarte was President of the National Football Federation from 2016 to 2017. In 2020, she became a member of the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala.
De Torrebiarte died of lung cancer in Guatemala City on 15 December 2020.
Renê Weber