juno-labs/simple_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
1980 United States heat wave

The **1980 United States heat wave** was a period of strong heat and drought. It caused _serious_ havoc and damage in the Southern Great Plains and much of the Midwestern United States during the summer of 1980. It was one of the most devastating and damaging natural disasters in terms of deaths.

The heat wave first got started in June 1980. A strong high pressure area began building in the central and Southern United States. That allowed the temperatures to soar to  almost every day from June to September. This high pressure system acted as a cap on the atmosphere. That prevented thunderstorm development and caused severe drought conditions. But the heat wave broke when the dying Hurricane Allen stopped the weather pattern.

The heat wave and drought led a number of cities in the Midwest and South to have record heat. In Kansas City, Missouri, the high temperature was only below  twice. In the same city, the high temperature hit  17 days in a row. In Memphis, Tennessee, the high temperature reached  on Sunday, July 13. It was part of a 15-day stretch of  temperatures that lasted from July 6 to July 20.

The agricultural damage by the 1980 heat wave and drought was over $20 billion (1980 USD). That allowed the temperatures to soar to  almost every day from June to September. This high pressure system acted as a cap on the atmosphere.

In Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, high temperatures exceeded  a total of 69 times. Forty-two of those were consecutive days. In Dallas-Fort Worth, the high temperature hit  on two days: June 26 and 27.
Lovers and Liars

***Lovers and Liars*** (_Viaggio con Anita_) is a 1979 Italian French comedy movie directed by Mario Monicelli and starring Goldie Hawn, Giancarlo Giannini, Claudine Auger, Aurore Clément, Laura Betti, Andréa Ferréol.
MediaZona

**Mediazona** is a Russian website. Two girls from the Russian punk rock collective Pussy Riot (Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova) made it in 2014. Russian political journalist Sergey Smirnov is the main editor of the website.

Mediazona gives information on the judicial, law enforcement, and penal system in Russia. Since 2020 the site gives such news on Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Belarus too.

Mediazona has a Russian media license, but Tolokonnikova said in 2016 that it could be taken away at any time.

The site of Mediazona can't be opened in Belarus. In February 2025, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus recognized Mediazona Belarus as an extremist group.

On 30 January 2021, the main editor of Mediazona Sergey Smirnov was locked up by the police.

## Infobox (website)

- **name**: Mediazona
- **logo**: Лого Медиазона.png
- **logo size**: 230px
- **commercial**: Yes
- **type**: News website
- **registration**: None
- **language**: Russian
- **owner**: Pyotr Verzilov
- **creator**: Nadezhda Tolokonnikova,
Maria Alyokhina
- **editor**: Sergey Smirnov (main editor)
- **content license**: Proprietary
- **current status**: Active
Born to Win

***Born to Win*** is a 1971 American black comedy movie directed by Ivan Passer and starring George Segal, Karen Black, Paula Prentiss, Hector Elizondo and Robert De Niro. It was distributed by United Artists.
Creator (movie)

***Creator*** is a 1985 American comedy movie directed by Ivan Passer and was based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Jeremy Leven. It stars Peter O'Toole, Mariel Hemingway, Vincent Spano, Virginia Madsen, David Ogden Stiers, John Dehner, Ian Wolfe, Kenneth Tigar, Jeff Corey and was distributed by Universal Pictures.
A Letter for Evie

***A Letter for Evie*** is a 1946 American comedy movie directed by Jules Dassin and starring Marsha Hunt, John Carroll, Hume Cronyn, Spring Byington, Norman Lloyd, Pamela Britton, Donald Curtis, Esther Howard. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Miriam Naor

**Miriam Naor** (October 26, 1947 – January 24, 2022) was an Israeli judge. She was President of the Supreme Court of Israel. She was in that position from 2015 to 2017.

## Biography

Naor was born in Jerusalem. She served in the IDF as a soldier-teacher.

Naor married Arye Naor, who was a governments secretary in Menachem Begin's government. In 1972 she began working at the state attorney's office, and was later promoted to the position of the state's senior attorney. At the same time, she worked as a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1980, she was appointed to be a judge in Jerusalem and in 1989 was promoted to the district court.

In 2001 she began serving as a judge on the Supreme Court of Israel. In 2012, the judge electing panel chose her to the position of vice-president of the Supreme Court, and in 2015 she became its President. Throughout the years as a judge, Naor was in-charge of important cases and rulings in all court levels. She retired from the position in October 2017 after reaching the retirement age.

In October 2018, she became the President of the Zionist Supreme Court of the World Zionist Organization.

Naor died on January 24, 2022 in Jerusalem from cardiac arrest, aged 74.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **image**: Reuven Rivlin with the heads of Supreme Court judges of Israel, July 2017 (3419) (cropped).jpg
- **office**: President of the Supreme Court of Israel
- **term start**: 2015
- **term end**: 2017
- **predecessor**: Asher Grunis
- **deputy**: Elyakim Rubinstein (2015–17)
Salim Joubran (2017)
- **successor**: Esther Hayut
- **office2**: Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel
- **term start2**: 2003
- **term end2**: 2015
- **birth place**: Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
- **death place**: Jerusalem, Israel
- **alma mater**: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Shock (1946 movie)

***Shock*** is a 1946 American thriller movie directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore, Anabel Shaw, Stephen Dunne, Reed Hadley. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Charlotte Tillar Schexnayder

**Charlotte Tillar Schexnayder** (December 25, 1923 – December 11, 2020) was an American journalist and politician. She was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from the 74th district from 1985 to 1999. She was born in Tillar, Arkansas. Schexnayder was a member of the Democratic Party.

Schexnayder died on December 11, 2020 in Little Rock, Arkansas at the age of 96.
Huang Zongying

**Huang Zongying** (; 13 July 1925 – 14 December 2020) was a Chinese actress and writer. She starred in many black-and-white movies such as _Rhapsody of Happiness_ (1947), _Crows and Sparrows_ (1949), _Women Side by Side_ (1949), and _The Life of Wu Xun_ (1950). Huang was born in Beijing.

Huang died on 14 December 2020 in Beijing at the age of 95.
Piotr Machalica

**Piotr Machalica** (13 February 1955 – 14 December 2020) was a Polish actor. His career began in 1979. Machalica was born in Pszczyna, Poland. Machalica played Tadeusz in _Hero of the Year_ (1987), Roman in _Dekalog: Nine_ (1988) and Roman in _A Short Film About Love_ (1988).

Machalica died on 14 December 2020 in Warsaw from COVID-19 at the age of 65.
Alfonso Gagliano

**Alfonso Gagliano**   (; (January 25, 1942 – December 12, 2020) was an Italian-born Canadian accountant and a Liberal Party politician. He was born in Siculiana, Italy. Gagliano was a member of the Parliament of Canada from 1984 to 2002. He also was a Minister of Labour from 1996 to 1997 and of Public Works and Government Services from 1997 to 2002.

Gagliano died on December 12, 2020 at the age of 78.
Terry Kay

**Terry Kay** (February 10, 1938 – December 12, 2020) was an American author. Kay was known for his work as _To Dance with the White Dog_. Kay was born in Royston, Georgia.

Kay died on December 12, 2020 from liver cancer in Athens, Georgia at the age of 82.

## Infobox (writer)

- **imagesize**: 200px
- **name**: Terry Kay
- **birth name**: Terry Winter Kay
- **birth place**: Royston, Georgia, Royston, Georgia (US state), Georgia, U.S.
- **death place**: Athens, Georgia, Athens, Georgia, U.S.
- **occupation**: novelist
- **spouse**: Tommie Duncan Kay
- **children**: Three
- **awards**: Townsend Prize
Georgia Author of the Year
Southern Emmy Award
Appalachian Heritage Writers Award
Royston, Georgia

**Royston** is a city in Franklin, Hart, and Madison counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. 2,649 lived here in 2020.
Jerzy Mikułowski Pomorski

**Jerzy Mikułowski Pomorski** (3 January 1937 – 12 December 2020) was a Polish sociologist and professor. He was a doctor honoris causa of Grand Valley State University (1993) and Teesside University (1995). He was a rector of Cracow University of Economics in years 1990–1996.

Pomorski died on 12 December 2020 at the age of 83.

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Jerzy Mikułowski Pomorski
- **image**: JerzyMikułowskiPomorskibyVetulani.JPG
- **birth place**: Katowice, Poland
- **citizenship**: Poland, Polish
- **occupation**: sociologist
Radhika Ranjan Pramanick

**Radhika Ranjan Pramanick** (18 December 1932 – 13 December 2020) was an Indian politician. He was born in West Bengal, British India. Pramanick was a member of the All India Trinamool Congress. From 1989 to 2004, he was a member of the Lok Sabha.

Pramanick died on 13 December 2020 in Kolkata, India at the age of 87.
Shahid Mahmood

**Shahid Mahmood** (Urdu: **شاہد محمود**) (17 March 1939 – 13 December 2020) was a Pakistani cricketer. He was born in Lucknow. He played in one Test in 1962. He played first-class cricket in Pakistan from 1957 to 1969. He played for the national team.

Mahmood died on 13 December 2020 in New Jersey at the age of 81.
Fiorenzo Alfieri

**Fiorenzo Alfieri** (11 September 1943 – 13 December 2020) was an Italian educator and politician. He was born in Polignano a Mare, Italy. He was a member of the Turin City Council from 1995 to 2000.

Alfieri died of COVID-19 in Turin on 13 December 2020 at the age of 77.
Polignano a Mare

**Polignano a Mare** (; Barese: ) is a town and _comune_ in the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, southern Italy, located on the Adriatic Sea.

## Other websites

- Official website

## Infobox (italian comune)

- **name**: Polignano a Mare
- **official name**: Comune di Polignano a Mare
- **image skyline**: 70044 Polignano A Mare BA, Italy - panoramio (4).jpg
- **image shield**: Polignano a Mare-Stemma.png
- **shield alt**: Arms of Polignano
- **pushpin label position**: bottom
- **region**: Apulia
- **metropolitan city**: Metropolitan City of Bari, Bari (BA)
- **frazioni**: Casello Cavuzzi, Chiesa Nuova, San Vito and a part of Triggianello
- **mayor**: Domenico Vitto
- **area total km2**: 67
- **population total**: 18024
- **population as of**: 1 January 2016
- **population demonym**: Polignanesi
- **elevation m**: 24
- **saint**: St. Vitus
- **day**: June 15
- **postal code**: 70044
- **area code**: 080
Hasu Yajnik

**Hasmukhray Vrajlal Yajnik** (12 February 1938 ― 10 December 2020), better known as **Hasu Yajnik**, also spelled **Hasu Yagnik** was a Gujarati writer and editor. He wrote novels, short stories, criticism, folklore, and children's stories. He was a professor of Gujarati in many government colleges in Gujarat.

He wrote twenty novels, three short story collections, two jail stories, four medieval stories, and criticism of four medieval works. He edited twelve folk works and six works of children's literature.

He was the registrar of the Gujarat Sahitya Akademi, Gandhinagar from 1982 to 1996. He was a founder and managing trustee of the Meghani Lokvidya Sanshodhan Bhavan, Ahmedabad from 1996 to 2005.

He died on 10 December 2020 due to COVID-19 in Ahmedabad at the age of 82.

## Infobox (writer)

- **name**: Hasu Yajnik
- **image**: Hasu_Yagnik.jpg
- **caption**: Hasu Yajnik in November 2018 at Amdavad National Book Fair
- **pseudonym**: Upamanyu, Pushpadhanva, B. Kashyap, Vajranandan Jani and Shridhar
- **birth name**: Hasmukhray Vrajlal Yajnik
- **birth place**: Rajkot, Rajkot State (now Gujarat, India)
- **death place**: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
- **occupation**: Novelist, short story writer, critic, editor, folklorist, children's writer
- **language**: Gujarati language, Gujarati
- **nationality**: Indian
- **education**: MA, PhD
- **alma mater**: Dharmendrasinhji College, Rajkot
- **children**: Yuva Aiyer
Nayan Yajnik
Diego Novelli

**Diego Novelli** (born 22 May 1931) is an Italian politician. He was born in Turin.

Novelli was a member of the Italian Communist Party. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 1984 to 2001. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1987 to 2001. Novelli was Mayor of Turin from 1975 to 1985.
Valentino Castellani

**Valentino Castellani** (born 19 March 1940) is an Italian politician. He was the independent Mayor of Turin from 24 June 1993 to 1 June 2001. Castellani was born in Varmo, Italy. From 1999 to 2006, he was President of the International Olympic Committee.
Varmo

**Varmo** () is a _comune_ (municipality) in the Province of Udine in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia. It is about  northwest of Trieste and about  southwest of Udine.

## Infobox (italian comune)

- **name**: Varmo
- **official name**: Comune di Varmo
- **image skyline**: https://www.google.it/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.professionearchitetto.it%2Fconcorsi%2Fnotizie%2F26060%2FUn-polo-socio-culturale-a-Villa-Giacomini&psig=AOvVaw00k-1ElJO-Gs-OJkaHfb5Z&ust=1626773879352000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAsQjRxqFwoTCLDLqJbr7vE
- **image shield**: Varmo-Stemma.svg
- **region**: Friuli-Venezia Giulia
- **province**: Province of Udine, Udine (UD)
- **mayor**: Sergio Michelin
- **area total km2**: 34.92
- **population total**: 2769
- **population as of**: 30 April 2017
- **population demonym**: Varmesi
- **elevation m**: 18
- **postal code**: 33030
- **area code**: 0432
Burshtyn

**Burshtyn** () is a city located in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. Its population is 13,000.

It was developed significantly during the Soviet Union period due to Burshtyn Coal Power Station. The city has an old Roman Catholic Church in the center of the city.

## History

The first written mention of the settlement dates back to 1554 (or in 1436 according to other sources).

In the second half of the 16th century the town belonged to the Polish nobleman Skarbek. In October 1629, a famous battle took place near the town, in which the registered Cossacks and the Polish army under the command of Stefan Khmeletsky defeated the Tatar.  The attackers were driven further, in particular, to Monastyrysk, where their remains were again destroyed.

From 1630 the owner of Burshtyn was the magnate Yablonovsky. During the Middle Ages, the city was destroyed by raids by Tatars and Turks, in particular during the Polish-Turkish wars of the XVII century (1629, 1675).
Anatoliy Kinakh

**Anatoliy Kyrylovych Kinakh** (; born 4 August 1954) is a Ukrainian politician. He is the leader of Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine.

Kinakh is most known for holding the Prime Minister of Ukraine office under the President Leonid Kuchma from 2001 to 2002. He was also the first Vice Prime Minister and a Minister of Economy of Ukraine.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Anatoliy Kinakh
- **successor3**: Volodymyr Horbulin
- **website**: http://www.kinakh.com.ua/
- **occupation**: Politician, professor
- **alma mater**: Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute
- **children**: Natalia (1980), Zoia (1984), Sofiya (2000)
- **nationality**: Ukrainian
- **birthname**: Anatoliy Kyrylovych Kinakh
- **spouse**: Maryna Volodymyrivna (1960)
- **otherparty**: Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine
- **party**: Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine, Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs as part of the Party of Regions
- **birth place**: Brătușeni, Brătușeni Raion, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
- **predecessor3**: Petro Poroshenko
- **image**: Anatoliy Kinakh.jpg
- **term end3**: May 16, 2006
- **term start3**: September 27, 2005
- **order3**: National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council
- **term end2**: September 2005
- **term start2**: February 2005
- **primeminister2**: Yulia Tymoshenko
- **office2**: First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine
- **successor**: Viktor Yanukovych
- **predecessor**: Viktor Yushchenko
- **term end**: November 21, 2002
- **term start**: May 29, 2001
- **president**: Leonid Kuchma
- **office**: Prime Minister of Ukraine
Guangdong frog

The **Guangdong frog**, **brown grasspound frog**, **three-striped grass frog**, **long-toed frog**, **marbled slender frog**, **long-toed slender frog** or **stripe-backed frog** (_Hylarana macrodactyla_) is a frog from China, Myanmar , Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaysia.

This frog lives in tropical and subtropical forests that are not too wet and in some grasslands.

The name "macrodactyla" means "with big fingers," or "long-toed."
1962 Atlantic hurricane season

The **1962 Atlantic hurricane season** was not very active. It was the least active hurricane season since 1939, as there were only five named storms. It started on June 15, 1962, but the first storm was not until August 26.

## Infobox (hurricane season)

- **basin**: Atl
- **year**: 1962
- **track**: 1962 Atlantic hurricane season summary map.png
- **first storm formed**: June 30, 1962
- **last storm dissipated**: December 4, 1962
- **strongest storm name**: Ella
- **strongest storm pressure**: 958
- **strongest storm winds**: 95
- **average wind speed**: 1
- **total depressions**: 10
- **total storms**: 7
- **total hurricanes**: 4
- **total intense**: 0
- **fatalities**: 39 overall
- **damagespre**: >
- **damages**: 4.88
- **five seasons**: 1960 Atlantic hurricane season, 1960, 1961 Atlantic hurricane season, 1961, **1962**, 1963 Atlantic hurricane season, 1963, 1964 Atlantic hurricane season, 1964
- **east pacific season**: 1962 Pacific hurricane season
- **north indian season**: 1962 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
- **west pacific season**: 1962 Pacific typhoon season
Battle of Lepanto

The **Battle of Lepanto** (in Italian _Battaglia gave Lepanto_; in Turkish: _İnebahtı deniz muharebesi **naval battle of İnebahtı**) was a naval battle that took place on 7 October, 1571 near of the Greek city of Náfpaktos (Lepanto in Italian).

They confronted  in her the armed of Ottoman Empire against the one of a Catholic coalition, called Holy League, formed by the Spanish Empire, the Pontifical States, the Republic of Venice, the Order of Malta, the Republic of Génova and the Duchy of Savoy.

In this battle participated Miguel de Cervantes, that resulted injured and lost the mobility of his left hand, what cost him the nickname of «manco of Lepanto». This writer, that was very proud to having combated there, described it like «the more memorable and high occasion that saw the past centuries, neither expect to see the coming». Also it entered the history in the _Quijote'', through the #narration of the captive, as typical work of literature of border.

## Infobox (military conflict)

- **conflict**: Battle of Lepanto
- **image**: (Venice) Allegoria della battaglia di Lepanto - Gallerie Accademia.jpg
- **image size**: 260px
- **caption**: _The Battle of Lepanto_, Paolo Veronese
- **partof**: the Ottoman–Habsburg wars and Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573), Fourth Ottoman–Venetian War
- **date**: 7 October 1571
- **place**: Gulf of Patras, Ionian Sea
- **map mark**: Battle icon (crossed swords).svg
- **result**: Holy League victory
- **combatant1**: **Holy League (1571), Holy League**：

*
*
*

Republic of Genoa
 Duchy of Savoy
 Grand Duchy of Tuscany

- **combatant2**: ** Ottoman Empire**
- **commander1**: John of Austria
 Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz, Álvaro de Bazán
  Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, Alexander Farnese
 Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga, Luis de Zúñiga
 Carlo d'Aragona Tagliavia
 Giovanni Andrea Doria, Gianandrea Doria
 Sebastiano Venier
 Agostino Barbarigo (admiral), Agostino Barbarigo
 Marcantonio Colonna
 Pope Pius V
- **commander2**: Müezzinzade Ali Pasha, Ali Pasha
 Mahomet Sirocco
 Occhiali
- **strength1**: 65,000 men:
*30,000 sailors and oarsmen
*35,000 soldiers
206 galleys
 6 galleasses
- **strength2**: 67,000 men:
*37,000 sailors and oarsmen
*30,000 soldiers
222 galleys
 56 galliots
- **casualties1**: 7,500 – 10,000 killed
 13 galleys sunk or destroyed
- **casualties2**: 20,000 – 30,000 killed
 117 galleys captured
 20 galliots captured
 50 galleys and galliots sunk or destroyed
- **casualties3**: 12,000 Christian slaves freed
The Baron of Arizona

***The Baron of Arizona*** is a 1950 American western movie directed by Samuel Fuller and was based on the 1949 article by Homer Croy. It stars Vincent Price, Ellen Drew, Vladimir Sokoloff, Beulah Bondi, Reed Hadley, Robert Barrat, Margia Dean, Jonathan Hale, Edward Keane and was distributed by Lippert Pictures.
The Web (movie)

***The Web*** is a 1947 American crime thriller movie directed by Michael Gordon and starring Ella Raines, Edmond O'Brien, William Bendix, Vincent Price, Maria Palmer, Howland Chamberlain. It was distributed by Universal Pictures.
Borders of Israel

The State of Israel has borders with four countries: Lebanon in the north, Egypt (and Gaza) in the southwest, Jordan (and the West Bank) in the east, and Syria in the northeast. Israel also has "sea borders" in the Red Sea, the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. The current borders Israel are the result of war, diplomatic agreements between Israel and its neighbors, and colonial powers from before its creation.

Some borders are internationally recognized while others are not accepted by all countries. The borders with Lebanon, Syria and Jordan are based on those drawn by the United Kingdom and France in 1923. The border with Egypt is the international border determined in 1906 between United Kingdom and the Ottoman Empire. Israel's borders with Egypt and Jordan have been formally recognized as part official peace treaties between the countries. On the other hand, the borders with Syria and Palestinian National Authority are still in dispute between the sides involved. The Golan Heights area is at the heart of the dispute between Israel and Syria on their common border. There is agreement between Israel and Lebanon on their border, with the exception of a small area of known as the "Shebaa Farms" which Israel took over during a war. Since the 1990s, Israel and the Palestinian Authority have been negotiating a border between them as well.

## Other websites

- Israel - Maps
Happy Joe's

**Happy Joe's Pizza & Ice Cream Parlor** is an American pizza parlor chain based in Bettendorf, Iowa. The restaurant chain was founded in 1972 by Lawrence Joseph "Happy Joe" Whitty. He was a former Shakey's Pizza manager.

Happy Joe's has 61 restaurants in North Dakota, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois.
Indoor cricket

**Indoor cricket** is a form of cricket that is played in an indoors area much smaller than a regular cricket field. There are multiple versions of indoor cricket, and games can be played with different time lengths.

## Playing area

The indoor cricket court is a  area, with the pitch being  long and  meters wide except in the area where the bowler delivers the ball. There is a running crease 11 meters away from the batting crease. The batting crease is  from the other popping crease.

## Rules

The batsmen run between the batting crease and the running crease to score runs. The bowler delivers the ball with part of their front foot behind the bowling crease (which is the popping crease at the bowler's end of the pitch; it is not to be confused with the "wicket line", the indoor cricket term for what regular cricket calls the bowling crease). The bowler is allowed to deliver the ball underarm, but if they do so, the ball must bounce beyond the underarm line. Teams may have less than 11 players.
Cynthia Ozick

**Cynthia S. Ozick** (born April 17, 1928) is an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. She mostly writes fiction. However, she also writes literary criticism, politics and history.

Ozick received an Edward Lewis Wallant Award and the National Jewish Book Award for her short story collection, _The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories_ in 1971. She received the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction in 1977 for her book _Bloodshed and Three Novellas_.

Ozick was selected as the winner of a Rea Award for the Short Story in 1986.

The novelist David Foster Wallace called Ozick one of the greatest living American writers.

### Novels

- _Trust_ (1966)
- _The Cannibal Galaxy_ (1983)
- _The Messiah of Stockholm_ (1987)
- _The Puttermesser Papers_ (1997)
- _Heir to the Glimmering World_ (2004) (published in the United Kingdom in 2005 as _The Bear Boy_)
- _Foreign Bodies_ (2010)
- _Antiquities_ (2021)

### Shorter fiction

- _The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories_ (1971)
- _Bloodshed and Three Novellas_ (1976)
- _Levitation: Five Fictions_ (1982)
- _Envy; or, Yiddish in America_ (1969)
- _The Shawl_ (1989)
- _Collected Stories (2007)
- _Dictation: A Quartet (2008)

### Essay collections

- _All the World Wants the Jews Dead_ (1974)
- _Art and Ardor_ (1983)
- _Metaphor & Memory_ (1989)
- _What Henry James Knew and Other Essays on Writers_ (1993)
- _Fame & Folly: Essays_ (1996)
- "SHE: Portrait of the Essay as a warm body" (1998)
- _Quarrel & Quandary_ (2000)
- _The Din in the Head: Essays_ (2006)
- _Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays_ (2016)

### Drama

- _Blue Light_ (1994)

### Miscellaneous

- _A Cynthia Ozick Reader_ (1996)
- _The Complete Works of Isaac Babel_ (introduction 2001)
- Fistfuls of Masterpieces
Bandō prisoner of war camp

**Bandō prisoner of war camp** was a prisoner of war camp that existed from 1917 to 1920, during and shortly after the First World War. It was located in the city with the same name. It housed about 1000 of the 3900 prisoners of war captured at Qingdao, China, in 1914. Today, the camp is considered special, because of the liberal rules it had. Many of the prisoners were not professional soldiers, but had other jobs before the war. The commander of the camp, Matsue Toyohisa, saw this, and allowed the prisoners many liberties. One of these liberties was that they were allowed to follow courses to improve their skills. That way, Hermann Richard Hansen directed a choir and an orchestra of prisoners, to perform Beethoven's 9th symphony. This was the first performance of the symphony in Japan and in Asia. When the camp closed in 1920, 63 people chose to stay in Japan.
MOD (Marehan, Ogaden, Darawiish)

**MOD** in Somali politics stands for _Marehan, Ogaden, Darawiish_. It is an acronym to describe the political alliance between the Marehan, Ogaden and reer Darawiish tribes. The political alliance between MOD (Marehan, Ogaden, Darawiish).
Tartib al-Musnad

**Tartib al-Musnad** (Arabic: طَرِيبٌ الْمُسْنَدِ) is the hadith collection used by people who follow the Ibadism sect.
Decision stream graph

Decision stream is a directed acyclic graph of decision rules for classification and regression tasks (Fig. 1). This decision tree based method  avoids the problem of data exhaustion in terminal nodes by merging of leaves from the same/different levels of predictive model.

Decision stream provides:

– High accuracy due to the precise splitting of data with unpaired two-sample test statistics.

– Decrease of overfitting due to partition of data only into statistically representative groups.

– Reduction of complexity on every level of predictive model.

– Self-regulated depth of predictive model.
Nina Ivanova

**Nina Ivanova** (6 January 1934 – 1 December 2020) was a Russian-Soviet actress. She was born in Moscow. Ivanova's career began in 1944. Her best known roles were in _Once There Was a Girl_ (1944), _Spring on Zarechnaya Street_ (1956), _An Easy Life_ (1964) and _There Is Such a Lad_ (1964).

Ivanova died on 1 December 2020 in Moscow at the age of 86.
Mickaël Bethe-Selassié

**Mickaël Bethe-Selassié** (15 February 1951 – 5 December 2020) was an Ethiopian sculptor. He was known for his work in papier mâché. Many of his works were seen at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C..

Bethe-Selassié died on 5 December 2020 in Washington, D.C. at the age of 69.

## Other websites

- Biographical sketch
- Official Website
Marilyn Lewis

**Marilyn Stoughton Lewis** (July 19, 1931 – December 7, 2020) was an American politician. She was a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1979 to 1982. Lewis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

She was married to Andrew L. Lewis Jr..

Lewis died on December 7, 2020, in Lansdale, Pennsylvania at age 89.
Wallace Barnes

**Wallace Barnes** (March 22, 1926 – December 10, 2020) was an American businessman and politician. He was born in Bristol, Connecticut. Barnes was a member of the Republican Party. He was a member of the Connecticut Senate from 1959 to 1971. He was married to Barbara Franklin.

Barnes died in Washington, D.C. on December 10, 2020, at the age of 94.
Rafael Ramón Conde Alfonzo

**Rafael Ramón Conde Alfonzo** (13 July 1943 – December 10, 2020) was a Venezuelan Roman Catholic bishop. Conde Alfonzo was born in Caracas. He became a priest in 1968. He was titular bishop of _Bapara_ and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Caracas from 1995 to 1997.

He was bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of La Guaira from 1997 to 1999. He then became bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Margarita from 1999 to 2008 and as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Maracay from 2008 to 2009.

Conde Alfonzo died at the age of 77 on 10 December 2020 from pancreatic cancer in Maracay.
Maracay

**Maracay** () is a city in north-central Venezuela. It is the capital of the state of Aragua. About 955,362 people lived here in 2011.

## Other websites

- Official site of the Girardot Municipality
- Map of Maracay
- Ciudad Maracay. Information about Maracay and Aragua State

## Infobox (settlement)

- **official name**: Maracay
- **nickname**: "Ciudad Jardín"
()
- **image skyline**: Maracay_norte.jpg
- **image flag**: Bandera de Maracay.svg
- **image seal**: Escudo de Maracay.svg
- **pushpin map**: Venezuela
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision type1**: States of Venezuela, State
- **subdivision type2**: Municipalities of Venezuela, Municipality
- **subdivision name**: Venezuela
- **subdivision name1**: Aragua (state), Aragua
- **subdivision name2**: Girardot Municipality, Aragua, Girardot
- **established title**: Founded
- **established date**: March 5, 1701
- **leader title**: Mayor
- **leader name**: Pedro Bastidas
- **area total km2**: 911.57
- **population as of**: 2011
- **population total**: 955,362
- **population density km2**: 1.439
- **timezone**: Venezuelan Standard Time Zone, VET
- **utc offset**: -4
- **timezone dst**: not observed
- **utc offset dst**: -4
- **elevation m**: 436
- **population blank1 title**: Demonym
- **population blank1**: Maracayero(a)
- **area code**: 0243
- **postal code type**: Postal codes
- **postal code**: 2101, 2102, 2103, 2104
- **blank name**: Köppen climate classification, Climate
- **blank info**: Tropical savanna climate, Aw
- **website**: [https://web.archive.org/web/20020123063424/http://www.alcaldiagirardot.gov.ve/ Alcaldía de Maracay]
- **footnotes**: The area and population figures are for the municipality
Andrzej Skowroński

**Andrzej Skowroński** (16 November 1953 – 10 December 2020) was a Polish rower. He competed in the men's quadruple sculls event at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He was born in Kraków, Poland.

Skowroński died on 10 December 2020 in Kraków at the age of 67.
Per Carlsen (diplomat)

**Per Carlsen** (1948 – December 2020) was a Danish politician. He was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Denmark to Latvia from 2010 through 2015. Before 2010 he was the Danish ambassador to the Russian Federation.

Carlsen died in December 2020 in Copenhagen at the age of 72.
Luis de Góngora

**Luis de Góngora y Argote** (born **Luis de Argote y Góngora**) was a Spanish poet and Catholic priest. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered the most prominent Spanish poets of all time.

## Biography

Góngora was born to a noble family in Córdoba, where his father, Francisco de Argote, was a _corregidor_ (judge). He adopted the surname of his mother, Leonor de Góngora, to preserve his Christian lineage (limpieza de sangre). In 1586, at 25 years old, Góngora became a prebendary of Córdoba Cathedral, taking the post of his uncle, Don Francisco. In 1605, he was ordained priest, and afterwards, lived at Valladolid and Madrid. Then, in 1617, he was appointed honorary chaplain to King Philip III of Spain.

He maintained a long feud with Francisco de Quevedo, with both poets writing many pieces attacking one another. Quevedo criticized him for his large nose, passion for gambling, and even accused Góngora of Sodomy, which was a capital crime in 17th century Spain. This angry feud ended when Quevedo bought the house Góngora lived in solely to eject him from it. In 1626, a severe illness which impaired Góngora's memory forced him to return to Córdoba, where he died the following year. An edition of his poems was published almost immediately after his death by Juan López de Vicuña.

## Infobox (writer)

- **name**: Luis de Góngora
- **honorific prefix**: The Reverend
- **birth name**: Luis de Argote y Góngora
- **birth place**: Córdoba, Spain, Córdoba, Spain
- **death place**: Córdoba, Spain
- **occupation**: Poet, cleric
Hydrophobe

**Hydrophobe** is a term from chemistry for a substance that does not mix with water. Examples of such substances are different types of vegetable oils, and fats. Many hydrophobic substances are lipophiles, they  mix with fats and oils easily.
Ann Reinking

**Ann Reinking** (November 10, 1949 – December 12, 2020) was an American actress, dancer, and choreographer. Reinking was born in Seattle, Washington.

Reinking acted in _Coco_ (1969), _Over Here!_ (1974), _Goodtime Charley_ (1975), _Chicago_ (1977), _Dancin_' (1978) and _Sweet Charity_ (1986). She won a Tony Award for Best Choreography in 1996.

For the 2000 West End production of _Fosse_, she won the Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer.

She was in the movies _All That Jazz_ (1979), _Annie_ (1982), and _Micki & Maude_ (1984).

Reinking died on December 12, 2020 in Seattle at the age of 71.
Robert Bloxom

**Robert Spurgeon Bloxom Sr.** (April 26, 1937 – December 13, 2020) was an American Republican politician. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1978 to 2004. Bloxom was the State Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry from 2005 to 2010. Bloxom was born in Baltimore, Maryland.

Bloxom died on December 13, 2020 in Mappsville, Virginia at the age of 83.
Mappsville, Virginia

**Mappsville** is a census-designated place (CDP) in Accomack County, Virginia, United States. About 311 people lived here since the 2020 Census.
Copperhead

**Copperhead** may refer to:

## Snakes

- _Agkistrodon contortrix_, or copperhead, a venomous pit viper species found in parts of North America
- _Austrelaps_, or Australian copperhead, a genus of venomous elapids found in southern Australia and Tasmania
- _Coelognathus radiata_, or the copperhead rat snake, a non-venomous species found in southern Asia
- _Deinagkistrodon acutus_, or the Chinese copperhead, a venomous pit viper species found in Southeast Asia

## Politics

- Copperhead (politics), Northern Peace Democrats who opposed the American Civil War

### Comics

- _Copperhead_ (Image Comics) an ongoing space western from Image Comics

### Fictional entities

- Copperhead (DC Comics), DC Comics supervillain and member of the Secret Society of Super-Villains
- Copperhead (G.I. Joe), villain in the G.I. Joe universe, member of Cobra
- Copperhead (Marvel Comics), several characters
- "Copperhead", codename of Vernita Green in the movie _Kill Bill_
- The Copperhead, the masked hero of the 1940 Republic serial _Mysterious Doctor Satan_, played by Robert Wilcox

### Films

- _Copperhead_ (2008 film), a 2008 horror film
- _Copperhead_ (2013 film), a 2013 American Civil War film
- _The Copperhead_, a 1920 silent film historical drama

### Literature

- _Copperhead_, the second volume in the U.S. Civil War series The Starbuck Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell

### Music

- Copperhead (band), a San Francisco area band of the early 1970s featuring John Cipollina

## Software

- CopperheadOS, a security-focused mobile operating system based on the Android mobile platform

## Other uses

- Copperhead (climbing), a small metal nut used in rock climbing
- Dodge Copperhead, a more affordable, less-powerful model of the Dodge Viper, not produced
- M712 Copperhead, a U.S. guided artillery shell
- Copperhead, a gaming mouse by Razer USA
- Operation Copperhead, WWII deception operation
- Southwest Florida Copperheads, a rugby league team in the United States
Jorge Bruni

**Jorge Bruni** (1941 – 13 December 2020) was an Uruguayan politician. He was the Minister of the Interior from 2009 to 2010 during the Tabaré Vázquez presidency. He was a member of the Broad Front Party.

Bruni died on 13 December 2020 in Montevideo at the age of 79.
Barry Sonshine

**Barry Sonshine** (1 February 1948 – 13 December 2020) was a Canadian equestrian. He competed in two events at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Sonshine was born in Toronto.

Sonshine died in Toronto on 13 December 2020 at the age of 72.
Antihistamine

**Antihistamines** are drugs which treat allergic rhinitis and other allergies.

Usually people take antihistamines as an over-the-counter drug , with few side effects. It is for relief from nasal congestion, sneezing, or hives. These symptoms may be  caused by pollen, dust mites, or allergy to animals.

Antihistamines are usually for short-term treatment. Chronic allergies increase the risk of health problems which antihistamines might not treat, including asthma, sinusitis, and respiratory tract infections near the lungs. Consultation of a medical professional is recommended for those who intend to take antihistamines for longer-term use.

Although people use the word “antihistamine” to describe drugs for treating allergies, doctors and scientists use the term to describe a class of drug that opposes the activity of histamine receptors in the body. In this sense of the word, antihistamines are subclassified according to which histamine receptor they act upon.
Herman Asaribab

**Herman Asaribab** (10 June 1964 – 14 December 2020) was an Indonesian Papuan military officer. He was the Commander of the 17th Military Regional Command/Cenderawasih from August 2019 to November 2020. Asaribab was born in Jayapura, West Irian.

Asaribab died on 14 December 2020 in Jakarta at the age of 56.
Mamye BaCote

**Mamye Edmondson BaCote** (February 18, 1939 – December 14, 2020) was an American politician. She was a member of the Democratic Party. She was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, representing the 95th District from 2004 to 2016. BaCote was born in Halifax, Virginia.

BaCote died on December 14, 2020 in Newport News, Virginia at the age of 81.
Eric Freeman (cricketer)

**Eric "Fritzy" Freeman** (13 July 1944 – 14 December 2020) was an Australian cricketer. He played in 11 Tests from 1968 to 1970. He was also a leading Australian rules footballer with Port Adelaide Football Club, playing 116 games between 1964 and 1972. Freeman was born in Semaphore, South Australia.

Freeman died on 14 December 2020 from a heart attack at the age of 76.

## Infobox (cricketer)

- **name**: Eric Freeman
- **country**: Australia
- **fullname**: Eric Walter Freeman
- **birth place**: Semaphore, South Australia
- **death place**: Woodville South, South Australia
- **batting**: Right-handed
- **bowling**: Right-arm fast-medium
- **nickname**: Fritzy
- **role**: All-rounder
- **international**: true
- **testdebutdate**: 19 January
- **testdebutyear**: 1968
- **testdebutagainst**: India
- **testcap**: 244
- **lasttestdate**: 19 February
- **lasttestyear**: 1970
- **lasttestagainst**: South Africa
- **club1**: South Australian cricket team, South Australia
- **columns**: 3
- **column1**: Test cricket, Test
- **matches1**: 11
- **runs1**: 345
- **bat avg1**: 19.16
- **100s/50s1**: 0/2
- **top score1**: 76
- **deliveries1**: 2,183
- **wickets1**: 34
- **bowl avg1**: 33.17
- **fivefor1**: 0
- **tenfor1**: 0
- **best bowling1**: 4/52
- **catches/stumpings1**: 5/–
- **column2**: First-class cricket, FC
- **matches2**: 83
- **runs2**: 2,244
- **bat avg2**: 19.17
- **100s/50s2**: 1/9
- **top score2**: 116
- **deliveries2**: 14,281
- **wickets2**: 241
- **bowl avg2**: 27.75
- **fivefor2**: 7
- **tenfor2**: 2
- **best bowling2**: 8/47
- **catches/stumpings2**: 60/–
- **column3**: List A cricket, LA
- **matches3**: 8
- **runs3**: 57
- **bat avg3**: 9.50
- **100s/50s3**: 0/0
- **top score3**: 21
- **deliveries3**: 418
- **wickets3**: 8
- **bowl avg3**: 28.25
- **fivefor3**: 0
- **tenfor3**: 0
- **best bowling3**: 3/29
- **catches/stumpings3**: 3/–
- **date**: 15 December
- **year**: 2020
- **source**: http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/5258.html Cricinfo
Roddam Narasimha

**Roddam Narasimha** (20 July 1933 – 14 December 2020) was an Indian aerospace scientist and fluid dynamicist. He was a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) from 1962 to 1999. He was Director of the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) from 1984 to 1993 and the Chairman of the Engineering Mechanics Unit at<nowiki/>[Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research from 2000 to 2014.

Roddam Narasimha was also known for his work in understanding how air moves around objects, which is important in building airplanes and space vehicles. He studied how air flows during different weather conditions and how clouds form. His research helped improve both science and technology in India.

He was an important advisor to the Indian government on space and defense projects. Narasimha worked with organizations like ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) and DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation). He helped design better flying machines and supported India’s space missions.

Narasimha died of a cerebral hemorrhage on 14 December 2020 in Bangalore, Karnataka at the age of 87.
Marcelo Veiga

**Marcelo Castelo Veiga** (7 October 1964 – 14 December 2020), commonly known as **Marcelo Veiga**, was a Brazilian professional football manager and player. He played for Santos, Internacional, Goiás, Bahia and Portuguesa.

He managed Bragantino. He was born in São Paulo, Brazil.

Veiga died on 14 December 2020, aged 56 in Bragança Paulista, from COVID-19.
Ungku Abdul Aziz

**Ungku Abdul Aziz bin Ungku Abdul Hamid** (28 January 1922 – 15 December 2020) was an English-born Malaysian economist. He was the First General Director of the Council on Language and Literature of Malaysia from 1956 to 1957. Aziz was the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya from 1968 to 1988. He was born in London.

Aziz died on 15 December 2020 in Kuala Lumpur at the age of 98.

## Related pages

- List of scientists from Asia
Deserts of Australia

The **deserts of Australia** cover , or 18% of the Australian mainland.

However, about 35% of Australia gets so little rain it is actually a desert. The deserts in Australia are mainly in the Australian Shield and interior lowlands of the country.

By international standards, Australian deserts receive relatively high rates of rainfall. They are not necessarily devoid of vegetation: they have large areas where vegetation is very limited in height or extent.

Rainfall is mainly in the North and East of the country (especially the Daintree Rainforest), with some in the southern area. Almost all rain falls on the edges of the huge island, not in the centre.
Milomir Odović

**Milomir Odović "Oda"** (26 March 1955 – 15 December 2020) was a Bosnian professional football manager and player. He was known for playing and managing Bosnian Premier League club Željezničar.

Odović died on 15 December 2020 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, two years after being diagnosed with cancer at the age of 65.

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Milomir Odović "Oda"
- **fullname**: Milomir Odović
- **birth place**: Ilijaš, Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, FPR Yugoslavia
- **death place**: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- **position**: Midfielder#Winger, Left winger
- **youthclubs1**: Ilijaš
- **youthyears2**: –1974
- **youthclubs2**: FK Željezničar Sarajevo, Željezničar
- **years1**: 1974–1984
- **clubs1**: FK Željezničar Sarajevo, Željezničar
- **caps1**: 230
- **goals1**: 22
- **years2**: 1985–1986
- **clubs2**: FC Linz, Linz
- **caps2**: 55
- **goals2**: 7
- **years3**: 1986–1988
- **clubs3**: SV Spittal, Spittal
- **caps3**: 31
- **goals3**: 4
- **totalcaps**: 316
- **totalgoals**: 33
- **manageryears1**: 2003–2004
- **managerclubs1**: FK Željezničar Sarajevo, Željezničar
- **manageryears2**: 2005–2007
- **managerclubs2**: FK Slavija Sarajevo, Slavija Sarajevo
- **manageryears3**: 2007–2008
- **managerclubs3**: FK Borac Banja Luka, Borac Banja Luka
- **manageryears4**: 2009–2010
- **managerclubs4**: FK Slavija, Slavija Sarajevo
- **manageryears5**: 2011
- **managerclubs5**: FK Velež Mostar, Velež Mostar
- **manageryears6**: 2011–2012
- **managerclubs6**: NK GOŠK Gabela, GOŠK Gabela
- **manageryears7**: 2012–2013
- **managerclubs7**: NK Zvijezda Gradačac, Zvijezda Gradačac
- **manageryears8**: 2013−2014
- **managerclubs8**: FK Rudar Kakanj, Rudar Kakanj
- **manageryears9**: 2014–2015
- **managerclubs9**: NK Čelik Zenica, Čelik Zenica
- **manageryears10**: 2015
- **managerclubs10**: FK Željezničar Sarajevo, Željezničar
- **manageryears11**: 2016
- **managerclubs11**: FK Olimpik, Olimpik
- **manageryears12**: 2016–2017
- **managerclubs12**: FK Slavija, Slavija Sarajevo
- **manageryears13**: 2017–2018
- **managerclubs13**: FK Željezničar Sarajevo, Željezničar B
- **manageryears14**: 2018
- **managerclubs14**: FK Željezničar Sarajevo, Željezničar
Roupa Nova

**Roupa Nova**  _(lit. "New Clothes")_ is a Brazilian soft rock band. They had many hits in the 1980s and early 1990s. They are often compared  to American band Toto.

The band was formed in 1970, under the name _Os Famks_.

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Roupa Nova
- **image**: Show da Banda Roupa Nova, 18 July 2008.jpg
- **background**: group_or_band
- **origin**: Rio de Janeiro City, Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- **years active**: 1980–present
- **label**: Universal Music, Roupa Nova Music
- **current members**: Feghali (keyboards/guitars), Nando (bass and vocals), Serginho (drums and vocals), Cléberson (keyboards), Paulinho (vocals), Kiko (guitars and vocals)
Department of Health and Social Care

The **Department of Health and Social Care** is a department of the British Government. It is responsible for the health of people in England, mostly via the National Health Services. Its head is known as the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.  The main offices are in London and Leeds.

The National Health Services in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are run as separate organizations.

It runs:
- Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- UK Health Security Agency
- Human Tissue Authority
- Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
They cover the whole of the United Kingdom.

- NHS Blood and Transplant
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- NHS Business Services Authority
They cover England and Wales.

- Care Quality Commission
- NHS Digital
- Health Education England
- NHS England
- Health Research Authority
- NHS Resolution
- NHS Counter Fraud Authority
They only cover England.