the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
A person who displays afrophobia or is thought to do so is described as being afrophobic and labeled as an afrophobe.
Millions of black Europeans lack equal access to education, employment, housing, as well as goods and services.
A 2009 survey by the EU fundamental rights agency shows that 41 per cent of sub-Saharan African respondents had been discriminated against on the basis of their ethnicity at least once in the previous 12 months.
Black people in the United Kingdom are on average six times more likely to be stopped and searched by the police than white people.
A recent report on Afrophobia in Sweden reveals that Afro-Swedes are the Swedish minority most exposed to hate crimes.
Storrs is a village and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Mansfield, Tolland County, Connecticut, United States.
15,344 people lived here at the 2010 census.
Mohammad Khaledur Rahman Tito (1 March 1945 – 10 January 2021) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician.
In 1986, he was elected to the Jatiya Sangsad.
He left the job in 1988 and was re-elect to the parliament in 2008.
Tito retired in 2014.
Mehdi Attar-Ashrafi  (Persian: مهدی عطار اشرفی‎; 23 December 1948 – 9 January 2021) was an Iranian middleweight weightlifter.
He won a bronze medal at the 1974 Asian Games and a silver at the 1979 Asian Championships and competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Attar-Ashrafi was born in Tehran.
He died on 9 January 2021 in Tehran, aged 72.
František Filip (26 December 1930 – 9 January 2021) was a Czech movie and television director.
Filip was born in Písek, Czechoslovakia.
He was known for directing Tři chlapi v chalupě, Chalupáři and Utrpení mladého Boháčka.
José Méndez (9 May 1937 – January 2021) was a Spanish rower.
He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Pontevedra, Spain.
Kenneth Arthur Middleditch (5 October 1925 – 9 January 2021) was a British motorcycle speedway rider.
He was born in Camberley, Surrey.
Middleditch signed for Third Division team Hastings in 1948.
By 1949 he had become Hastings top points scorer.
He later played for Poole.
Ezra Yitzhak Nawi (; 1952 – 9 January 2021) was an Israeli Mizrahi Jew, left-wing, human rights activist and pacifist.
He was supportive of the Bedouin herders and farmers of the South Hebron Hills.
He was a supporter of Uri Avnery.
He was called "a working-class, liberal gay version of Joe the Plumber".
John Henry Matthew Reilly (November 11, 1936 – January 9, 2021) was an American actor.
He appeared on soap operas including General Hospital, Sunset Beach, and Passions.
Reilly was born in Chicago.
His career lasted from 1965 until 2013.
Madhavsinh Singh Solanki (30 July 1927 – 9 January 2021) was an Indian politician.
He was leader of Indian National Congress party.
He was External Affairs minister of India from 1991 to 1992.
He also was the Chief Minister of Gujarat three times from 1976 to 1977, 1980 to 1985 and from 1989 to 1990.
Càstor Oswaldo Azuaje Pérez (19 October 1951 – 8 January 2021) was a Venezuelan Roman Catholic bishop.
Azuaje Pérez was titular bishop of Vertara and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maracaibo, Venezuela, from 2007 to 2012.
He then was bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trujillo, Venezuela, from 2012 until his death.
Steve Carver (April 5, 1945 – January 8, 2021) was an American movie director, producer, and photographer.
His career began in 1970 and he retired in 1996.
His best known works were Lone Wolf McQuade, Big Bad Mama and Capone.
David Darling (March 4, 1941 – January 8, 2021) was an American cellist and composer.
In 2010, he won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album.
He performed and recorded with Bobby McFerrin, Paul Winter Consort, Ralph Towner and Spyro Gyra.
His best known works were Journal October, Cycles, Cello, Dark Wood, and Prayer for Compassion.
The Darling Conversations, music philosophy
Musicolog
Květa Eretová (21 October 1926 – 8 January 2021), née Jeništová, was a Czech chess player.
She held the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1986).
She was a ten-time winner of the Czechoslovak Women's Chess Championship (1955, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1975, 1976, 1986).
Michael Fonfara (11 August 1946 – 8 January 2021) was a Canadian keyboard player.
He was known as a member of The Electric Flag and Rhinoceros in the 1960s, Rough Trade and Lou Reed's backing band in the 1970s and The Downchild Blues Band, from 1990 until his death.
He won a Juno Award in 2014.
He was born in Stevensville, Ontario.
The European Games is a continental multi-sport event which includes athletes from European nations and several near Europe countries.
The European Games were created by the European Olympic Committees (EOC).
The first Games took place in 2015 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
The second in Minsk, Belarus in 2019.
Emile Hemmen (6 December 1923 – 8 January 2021) was a Luxembourgian lyric poet and writer.
Hemmen was born in Sandweiler, Luxembourg.
From 1945 to 1958 he worked as a teacher.
Then he studied in Paris, specializing in psychology and sociology.
He worked as an attaché for the Luxembourg Ministry of Education from 1968 to 1969.
He founded Éditions Estuaires.
Steven Daniel Hendrickson (August 30, 1966 – January 8, 2021) was a professional American football linebacker in the National Football League.
He played for San Francisco 49ers (1989), Dallas Cowboys (1989), San Diego Chargers (1990 to 1994), Houston Oilers (1995) and Philadelphia Eagles (1995).
Steve Lightle (November 19, 1959 – January 8, 2021) was an American comics artist.
He worked as a penciller.
He was best known as the artist of DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes and Doom Patrol titles.
Diana Claire Millay (June 7, 1935 – January 8, 2021) was an American actress.
She was best known for her roles as Laura Collins in  Dark Shadows and as Kitty Styles in The Secret Storm.
George William Nankeville (24 March 1925 – 8 January 2021) was a British middle distance athlete.
He won the AAA mile title four times in five years from 1948 to 1952.
Ivo Niederle (26 December 1929 – 8 January 2021) was a Czech actor, entertainer, and commentator.
He was known for his stage works at Municipal Theaters of Prague.
His best known movie and television roles were in Close to Heaven, Žena za pultem, Coach to Vienna.
Pippo Santonastaso (born 25 May 1936) is an Italian actor and comedian.
He was born in Castel San Giovanni, Piacenza.
Santonastaso created an original comic duo with his younger brother Mario and were in many RAI variety shows.
He appeared in many commedia sexy all'italiana movies such as Geometra Prinetti selvaggiamente Osvaldo.
Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn CBE (2 March 1928 – 8 January 2021) was a British journalist, columnist, author and radio presenter.
She was the first woman to have a column in The Observer.
It ran from 1963 to 1996 and from 2011 to 2017.
She was the first female rector of a university in Scotland.
Whitehorn died on 8 January 2021 in London, aged 92.
She had Alzheimer's disease and was diagnosed with COVID-19 before her death.
Shirley Schaub Wilson (September 26, 1925 – January 8, 2021) was an American football coach and player.
He was the head football coach at Elon University for 1967 to 1976 and at Duke University from 1979 to 1982.
He was born in Madison, North Carolina.
Madison is a town in Rockingham County, North Carolina.
2,246 people lived here in 2010.
Burlington is a city in Alamance and Guilford counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
It is the main city of the Burlington, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area.
50,042 people lived here at the 2010 census.
Graham is a city in Alamance County, North Carolina, United States.
As of the 2010 census 14,153 people lived here.
Thomas Glenn Carpenter (February 27, 1926 – January 6, 2021) was an American educator and university administrator.
He was the founding President of the University of North Florida (UNF) from 1969–1980, and was President of Memphis State University from 1980 to 1991.
Pedro Casado Bucho (20 November 1937 – 10 January 2021) was a Spanish footballer.
Casado was born in Madrid.
From 1956 to 1966, he played for Real Madrid and Plus Ultra from 1957 to 1960.
In 1961, he made one appearance for the national team.
Georges Alexis Pernoud (11 August 1947 – 10 January 2021) was a French journalist, television presenter and television producer.
He was known for presenting his television documentary Thalassa from 1980 to 2017.
He was born in Rabat, Morocco.
Evette Huntley Branson (née Flindt; 12 July 1924 – 11 January 2021) was a British philanthropist and child welfare activist.
She was the mother of Richard Branson.
Branson was born in Edmonton, Middlesex.
Branson toured Germany as a ballet dancer with Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA).
She later became an airline hostess for British South American Airways.
Lloyd Cowan  (8 July 1962 – January 2021) was a British track and field athlete.
Cowan was selected for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, but he could not go because of an illness.
He represented England in the 110 metres hurdles event, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games.
Turlapaty Kutumba Rao (1931 – 11 January 2021) was an Indian journalist and orator.
He was known for his journalism in the Telugu language.
He was said to have written 4,000 biographies and delivered over 16,000 public speeches which has been recorded by the Telugu Book of Records as a world record.
András Haán (19 June 1946 – 5 January 2021) was a Hungarian basketball player and sailor.
He competed in the men's basketball tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
He also competed in the sailing at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Eddie Bernice Johnson (born December 3, 1935) is an American politician.
She was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas's 30th congressional district.
Johnson is a member of the Democratic Party.
Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson official U.S. House website
William Joseph Burns (born April 11, 1956) is an American politician.
Burns is the 8th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency since March 19, 2021 during the Joe Biden administration.
He was President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
He was United States Deputy Secretary of State from 2011 to 2014.
On January 11, 2021, President-elect Joe Biden nominated him to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
On March 18, 2021 the United States Senate confirmed his nomination.
United States Embassy in Moscow: Biography of the Ambassador
Natasha Abigail Taylor (born 14 December 1969), known professionally as Natascha McElhone (), is an English actress.
She was in Ronin (1998), The Truman Show (1998) and Solaris (2002).
Life is an album by Culture Club.
It was their sixth album together (apart from several greatest hits albums).
'God and Love' 'Human Zoo', 'Let Somebody Love You', 'What Does Sorry Mean?', '
Runaway Train', 'Resting Bitch Face', 'Different Man', 'Oil and Water', 'More than Silence', and 'Life'
David Khakhaleishvili (, 28 February 1971 – 11 January 2021) was a Georgian heavyweight judoka, mixed martial artist and Olympic gold medalist.
He was born in Kutaisi, Georgia.
He won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
He was not able to qualify for the 1996 Summer Olympics because of his weight.
Liberia is a country in West Africa.
At the start of the American Civil War (in the 1860s) about 12,000 freed slaves lived there.
The name of the country means "Land of the Free" in Latin.
Liberia gained its independence on July 26, 1847.
Joseph Jenkins Roberts was the first president of Liberia.
European states were quick to recognize Liberia as a state, but it took the US until 1862 to do so.
Many of the black people who were sent to Liberia were missionaries.
Its official language today is English because of this history.
The country's constitution is similar to that of the United States.
In the 2017 elections, George Weah became the twenty-fifth President of Liberia.
The President before Weah was Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first African female president.
In August 2021, spurred on by President George Weah who called for a roadmap, the Senate voted on a series of recommendations to finally turn the page on this war.
It starts with the creation of a victims compensation fund.
Wayne Radford (May 29, 1956 – January 11, 2021) was an American professional basketball player.
Raford was born in Indianapolis, Indiana.
He won the NCAA Division I championships in 1976.
From 1978 to 1979, Radford played for the Indiana Pacers.
Jessica Alice Cave Lloyd (born 5 May 1987) is an English actress, comedian and cartoonist.
She played Lavender Brown in the Harry Potter movie series.
She is also known for her shows in London and at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Shefali Chowdhury (born 20 June 1988) is a Welsh actress.
She played Parvati Patil in the Harry Potter movie series, except for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004).
Chowdhury was born in Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales.
Her parents were from Bangladesh.
Chowdhury's career began in 2005.
I Am The Doorway  Rowney Brothers Site
Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, was impeached for a second time by the United States House of Representatives on January 13, 2021.
After the impeachment, a trial happened in the United States Senate.
It happened after his presidency ended.
The Senate voted that Trump was not guilty, with only 57 guilty votes.
Over two thirds (67) votes were needed for Trump to be found guilty.
After the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters on January 6, 2021, many government officials said that Trump had told them to do it.
Because of this, Members of Congress from both the Democratic Party wanted to remove Trump from his office as President of the United States.
Most Republicans still support the President.
Twenty-fifth amendment
Firstly, they wanted Section 4 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution to be used by Vice President Mike Pence, which would remove office from Trump immediately.
If he didn't do this, they said they would impeach him in the House of Representatives and convict him in the Senate instead.
Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment was also talked about.
Impeachment plans
As of January 8, Democrats planned to push for an impeachment resolution on January 11.
By late January 9, it was said that Pence had not ruled out that he might use the 25th Amendment.
On January 11, an Article of Impeachment saying that Trump caused the "lawless action at the Capitol" began in the United States House of Representatives.
House votes
Senate votes
Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher.
He wrote the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
Eggers is also the founder of McSweeney's, a co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia and the human rights nonprofit Voice of Witness, and the founder of ScholarMatch.
Amnon Rubinstein (, born 5 September 1931) is an Israeli legal scholar, politician, and columnist.
He was a member of the Knesset between 1977 and 2002.
Rubinstein was a member and leader of the Shinui party.
He was a member of the Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin cabinets.
Rubinstein was Minister of Communications from 1984 to 1987.
He was Minister of Science, Technology and Space in 1992.
From 1992 to 1993, he was Minister of National Infrastructures, Energy and Resources.
From 1993 to 1996, he was Minister of Education, Culture and Sport.
Nina Wiener Avidar (born 1933) is an Egyptian-born Israeli activist.
In 1977, she founded the ISAF - International Fund for Education.
Equal Opportunity at The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post is a broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem.
It was founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post.
In 1950, it changed its name to The Jerusalem Post.
The newspaper is published in English and also printed a French edition.
Slash-and-burn is a technique that has been used for thousands of years.
Usually at the start of the dry season, a plot of land is  cleared of its vegetation.
Very often, this is done manually, for example using machetes.
This can take a long time, clearing a hectare can take up to 120 hours of work.
If the land is to be used for crops that last more than two years, the roots need to be cleared as well.
Usually this is not done for annual plants.
The plants cleared are left to dry, often for weeks.
When they are dry enough, they are burnt.
The ash that is created makes the soil fertile.
Weeds, and other pests have also been eliminated, so the field can be used for agriculture.
After three to five years, the extra fertility is gone, and the farmer  usually moves ot another field (or again uses slash-and-burn).
While the technique is very simple, it also has problems: Often, fires created get out of control, and more land is burned than necessary.
That way, a territory the size of Belgium burned down in a fire, created in 1989, in the state of Roraima in Brazil.
In general, there are few large fires in the rainforest.
the climate is very wet, and rivers block the fires.
In southeast Asia, between May and October, many people have health problems because of the clouds of smoke.
During that time, slash-and-burn operations happen in Indonesia.
These fires are responsible for the clouds.
Millions of people use slash-and-burn agriculture, often as a way  of subsistence farming.
For this reason, the practice cannot be outlawed.
Some steps can be taken ot lessen the impact on the ecosystem:
Improving soils, for example with charcoal.
see also terra preta.
Adding fast-growing tree species to the primary forest.
These trees grow faster than the primary forest.
Instead of burning it, the biomass can be cut into small pieces, and left to rot.
Using the forest on multiple layers: In the lower layers, for example bananas, in the upper layers: coconuts; alternative: wheat, and citrus fruit or palm trees.
This (Egypt), or Thinis, an ancient city in Upper Egypt
This, Ardennes, a region in France
Spongiforma squarepantsii is a species of fungus.
It is in the Boletaceae family and the Spongiforma genus.
It was first seen in Malaysia in 2011.
It makes orange fruit bodies that have the odor of a fruit.
The fruit bodies can grow to 10 cm wide and 7 cm tall.
If water is taken out, it will go back to its first shape.
Its spores are in the shape of an almond.
The spores can be 10 to 12.5 μm in width and 6 to 7 µm in depth.
The name of the fungus came from the fictional character SpongeBob SquarePants.
S. squarepantsii is one of the two species in Spongiforma.
The other is S. thailandica.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey or SDSS is a major multi-spectral imaging and spectroscopic redshift survey using a 2.5-m wide-angle optical telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, United States.
The project was named after the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which made much of the funding.
2001 QR322 is a minor planet and the first Neptune trojan discovered on 21 August 2001, by the Deep Ecliptic Survey at the Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chile.
It orbits ahead of Neptune at its L4 Lagrangian point.
Other Neptune trojans have been discovered since.
A study by American astronomers Scott Sheppard and Chad Trujillo from the Carnegie Institution suggests that Neptune could possibly have twenty times more trojans than Jupiter.
A total lunar eclipse took place on 26 May 2021.
It was the first total lunar eclipse since the January 2019 lunar eclipse.
It was visible in areas of southeast Asia, all of Australia, all of Oceania, most of Alaska and Canada, all of the lower 48 states, all of Hawaii, and most of South America.
Totality lasted for 14 minutes making it one of the shortest eclipses of the 21st century.
An annular solar eclipse occurred on June 10, 2021.
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, covering the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth.
An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like a ring.
An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.
An election happened on November 3, 2020 to elect a Senator from the U.S. state of Oklahoma.
The three people in the election were Jim Inhofe (Republican Party), Abby Broyles (Democratic Party), and Robert Murphy (Libertarian Party).
Jim Inhofe won the election and went back to the Senate for the fourth time.
There were two primary elections.
They election was on June 30, 2020.
One was for the Republican Party and one for the Democratic Party.
Four people were in the Republican primary election and the Democrat primary election.
Jim Inhofe won the Republican Party primary and Abby Broyles won the Democratic Party primary.
Savannah Clark Guthrie (born December 27, 1971) is an American broadcast journalist and lawyer.
She is a main co-anchor of the NBC News morning show Today.
She began this position in July 2012.
Guthrie joined NBC News in September 2007 as a legal analyst and correspondent.
Between 2008–2011, she was the White House correspondent.
In 2010 and 2011, as co-anchor of the MSNBC program The Daily Rundown, Guthrie became the co-host of Today's third hour with Natalie Morales and Al Roker.
She stopped being the third-hour and chief legal analyst in 2012.
Also in 2012 she replaced Ann Curry as the co-anchor of Today.
Guthrie was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
She was raised in the United States.
The Ape is a 1940 American horror movie directed by William Nigh and starring Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gene O'Donnell, Dorothy Vaughan, Gertrude W. Hoffmann.
It was based on the 1924 play by Adam Hull Shirk.
Today is a 1930 American drama movie directed by William Nigh and is the second version of the 1913 play of the same name by George Broadhurst.
It stars Conrad Nagel, Catherine Dale Owen, Sarah Padden, John M. Sullivan, Judith Vosselli and was distributed by Majestic Pictures.
Faxian (337 – c. 422) was a Chinese Buddhist monk.
He is also translator.
He traveled by foot from China to India, visiting sacred Buddhist sites in Central , South and Southeast Asia between 399–412 to acquire Buddhist texts.
He described his journey his travelogue, A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms (Foguo Ji 佛國記).
In 399, Faxian set out with nine others to locate sacred Buddhist texts.
He visited India in the early fifth century.
He is said to have walked all the way from  China across the icy desert and rugged mountain passes.
Faxian's visit to India occurred during the reign of Chandragupta II.
He is also renowned for his pilgrimage to Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautama Buddha (modern Nepal).
However, he mentioned nothing about Guptas.
Faxian claimed that demons and dragons were the original inhabitants of Sri Lanka.
After two years stay on Ceylon, Faxian was coming back to China.
Suddenly a violent storm drove his ship onto an island, probably Java.
After five months there, Faxian took another ship for southern China.
But, again, it was blown off course and he ended up landing at Mount Lao in what is now Shandong in northern China,  east of the city of Qingdao.
337 births
420s births
c. 2800 BC – 2700 BC: Seated Harp Player, from Keros, Cyclades, is made.
It is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
2775 BC – 2650 BC: Second Dynasty wars in Ancient Egypt.
Around 2773 BC - the 365-day calendar is introduced in Egypt.
2750 BC: End of the Early Dynastic I Period, and the beginning of the Early Dynastic II Period in Mesopotamia.
c. 2750 BC: End of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture in the region of modern-day Romania, Moldova, and southwestern Ukraine
c. 2715 BC: Start of the Old Kingdom of Egypt (another possible start date is 2660 BC).
Marianne Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, translator, critic and editor.
Her poetry had formal innovation, irony and wit.
Moore's first professionally published poems appeared in The Egoist, a periodical, and Poetry, a magazine in spring 1915.
Moore's first book, Poems, was published without her permission in 1921 by British novelist Bryher.
Moore's second book, Observations, was given the Dial Award in 1924.
During these years, she worked as a librarian part-time.
Then from 1925–1929 she edited The Dial magazine, a literary journal.
Moore was awarded the Helen Haire Levinson Prize by the Poetry magazine in 1933.
Moore's Collected Poems won the National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize and Pulizer Prize in 1951.
Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri.
She had a number of strokes in her last years.
She died at age 84 in New York City.
TPV Technology Limited is a Chinese electronics company.
It is headquartered in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong and incorporated in Bermuda.
It designs and produces CRT and TFT LCD monitors and LCD TVs.
TPV owns brands like AOC, Envision, and Philips for some products.
It is also an original design manufacturer for other companies.
Jack Miller (June 6, 1916 – August 29, 1994) was a Republican United States Senator from Iowa.
He went through two terms, 1961–73.
Next, he was the United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Miller was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1955.
He was elected to the Iowa Senate in 1957.
He was first elected to the United States Senate in 1960.
Miller voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
He then voted for the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Voting Rights Act of 1965.
He died in Florida, age 78.
Elton John is the self-titled second studio album by English singer-songwriter Elton John, released on 10 April 1970 by DJM Records and by Uni Records as John's debut album in the United States; many people there assumed it was his first album, as Empty Sky was not released in that country until 1975.
Hey Duggee is a British animated educational preschool television series aimed at 2 to 5 year olds.
Created by Grant Orchard, it is produced by Studio AKA in association with BBC Studios.
The show is narrated by Alexander Armstrong in co-production with Cartoon Network (Latin America) and Disney Channel in partciectip with Birdo Studio.
The Great Purge or the Great Terror (), was a purge in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938.
It was a large-scale "repression" of the more wealthy peasants (kulaks).
Ethnic minorities were murdered.
Even members of the Communist Party, government officials, and the Red Army leadership were killed.
Everyone was watched by the police.
Everyone was suspected.
People were imprisoned without a fair trial.
Executions were common.
Historians think the total number of deaths due to Stalinist repression in 1937–38 was between 950,000 to 1.2 million.
The "Kulak Operation" and the targeting of national minorities made up the Great Terror.
Together these two actions caused nine-tenths of the death sentences and three-fourths of Gulag prison camp sentences.
In the Western world, Robert Conquest's 1968 book The Great Terror popularized the phrase.
Conquest's title was a reminder of the French Revolution time known as the Reign of Terror (French: la Terreur, "the Terror"; from June to July 1794: la Grande Terreur, 'the Great Terror').
Mass murder by country
Numerology is the belief in a mystical divine connection between a number and certain incidents or events.
It is also the study of the numerical value of the letters in words, names, and ideas.
It is usually related to the paranormal, astrology, and divinatory arts.
Bambang Suryadi, also known by his nickname Basur (1 October 1968 — 4 January 2021) was an Indonesian politician.
He was a member of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle.
Suryadi was a member of the People's Representative Council from 2019 until his death in 2021.
Suryadi was born in Blitar, East Java.
Christina Crosby (September 2, 1953 – January 5, 2021) was an American scholar and writer.
She was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
Her works were about 19th-century British literature and disability studies.
She was the author of The Ends of History: Victorians and "The Woman's Question" and A Body, Undone, a memoir about her life after she was paralyzed in a cycling accident in 2003.
She spent her career at Wesleyan University, where she was a professor of English and of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies.
Crosby, a feminist, was also openly a lesbian.
The term dyke is a slang term.
It is used as a noun for lesbians.
It is also used as an adjective for things related to lesbianism.
It began as a homophobic and misogynistic term for a masculine or butch girl or woman.
The origin of the term dyke is obscure.
Many theories have come out.
Most theories tell that dyke comes off the word bulldyke, which has a similar meaning.
From the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, dike had been American slang for the well-dressed man.
Diked out and out on the dike meant a young man was in his best clothes.
The word dyke was used in the 1950s as a derogatory term for lesbians by straight people.
But it was also used by lesbians of higher social status to mean crude and rough-bar lesbians.
Facebook controversy
Facebook censored use of the word dyke as "abusive content" in June 2017 on its website.
The decision triggered a Change.org protest petition created by the Listening 2 Lesbians collective.
It was signed by 7,247 supporters.
Dyke Marches have become popular gay pride events in the United States and Canada.
They also happen in Europe, including London and Berlin, as well as across Mexico.
Gerald Hiken (May 27, 1927 – January 6, 2021) was an American actor.
Hiken was nominated for a Tony Award in 1980 for his role in Strider.
He was in The Candidate (1972), Reds (1981), and Fat Man and Little Boy (1989).
Jerry Douglas (November 15, 1935 – January 9, 2021) was an American pornographic director and screenwriter.
He was known for directing many gay porno movies.
He directed the play The Deep Throat Sex Scandal in 2010 and the 1999 gay porno Dream Team.
He also wrote the screenplay for Score (1974).
Joël Batteux (16 December 1943 – 10 January 2021) was a French politician.
He was born in Vitré, France.
He was a member of the Socialist Party and the Citizen and Republican Movement.
From 1983 to 2014, Batteux was Mayor of Saint-Nazaire.
Wálter Taibo Martínez (7 March 1931 – 10 January 2021) was a Uruguayan football goalkeeper.
He played for national team from 1955 to 1966, making thirty appearances.
He played with them in the 1966 FIFA World Cup.
He also played for C.A. Peñarol and Huracán.
Ferenc "Frank" Arok  (; 20 January 1932 – 12 January 2021) was a Yugoslavian-Australian  association football player and coach.
He played for FK Jedinstvo from 1950 to 1960.
From 1983 to 1989, he managed the Australia national soccer team.
He also managed St George many times.
Massoud "Poussy" Achkar (1956 – 11 January 2021) was a Lebanese independent politician.
He was a close advisor to President Bashir Gemayel.
Achkar was the co-founder the Lebanese Forces party.
He was known as "Poussy".
He was in charge of military operations in Achrafieh between 1975 and 1986, the 2009 Lebanese general election and the 2018 parliamentary elections.
Elias Hanna Rahbani (; 1938 – 4 January 2021) was a Lebanese musician, composer, songwriter, orchestra conductor and reality television personality.
He composed more than 2500 songs.
He wrote the soundtrack for more than 25 movies.
He composed songs for many artists including Fairuz and Sabah.
Rahbani was born in Antelias, Lebanon.
He was a reality show judge on SuperStar and Star Academy.
Vassilis Alexakis () (25 December 1943 – 11 January 2021) was a Greek-French writer and self-translator.
He translated many novels in Greek to French.
Alexakis was born in Athens, Greece.
In 1974 he published his first book Le Sandwich, written in French.
The first book directly written in Greek was Talgo, published in 1981.
He self-translated Talgo into French.
In 2006, Les mots étrangers was translated by Alyson Waters and published under the title Foreign Words; this was the first of his novels to be translated into English.
In 1995, he received the prestigious Prix Médicis for La langue maternelle.
In 2007, he received the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française.
Unofficial website of Vassilis Alexakis : "Paris-Athènes" (in French)
Howard Lewis Johnson (August 7, 1941 – January 11, 2021) was an American jazz musician.
He was known for his work on tuba and baritone saxophone.
He also played the bass clarinet, trumpet, and other reed instruments.
Johnson was known for his sideman work, mainly with George Gruntz, Hank Crawford, and Gil Evans.
During the 1970s, he was the live band conductor of the Saturday Night Live Band.
Kurt Willy Oddekalv (27 July 1957 – 11 January 2021) was a Norwegian environmentalist.
He was born in Senja, Norway.
Oddekalv was removed from the Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature in 1993 over his controversial views.
He created his own environmental organization Green Warriors of Norway of which he was the leader until his death.
Prentice Earl Sanders, also known as Earl Sanders (October 12, 1937 – January 11, 2021) was an American police officer and member of the San Francisco Police Department from 1964 through 2003.
He was born in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Sanders became the first African American chief of that department in 2002.
He resigned a year later over his handling of Fajitagate, a fight between off-duty cops and civilians over a bag of fajitas.
Popular condiments include shredded lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, salsa, pico de gallo, shredded cheese, beans, and diced tomatoes.
Salsa is a variety of sauces used as condiments for tacos and other Mexican and Mexican-American foods, and as dips for tortilla chips.
They may be raw or cooked.
A tortilla chip is a snack made from corn tortillas, which are cut into triangles and then fried—or baked.
It is a well known Mexican food.
A dip or dipping sauce is a common condiment for many types of food.
Dips are used to add flavor to a food, such as pita bread, dumplings, crackers, cut-up raw vegetables, fruits, seafood, cubed pieces of meat and cheese, potato chips, tortilla chips, falafel, and sometimes even whole sandwiches.
Dips have many forms and are eaten all over the world.
People have been using sauces for dipping for thousands of years.
Tex-Mex cuisine (from Texan and Mexican) is an American regional cuisine that comes from the food creations of the Tejano people of Texas.
Tejanos (; singular: Tejano/a; Spanish for "Texan") are the Hispanic residents of the U.S. state of Texas.
Stacy Title (February 21, 1964 – January 11, 2021) was an American movie director, screenwriter and producer.
She was known for directing and writing the horror/black comedy movies Let the Devil Wear Black (1999), The Last Supper (1995) and The Bye Bye Man (2017).
Title was raised in New York state.
In December 2017, Title was diagnosed with ALS.
She died from problems caused by the disease on January 11, 2021 at the age of 56.
Scott Joseph Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American engineer, retired astronaut, and naval aviator.
Kelly flew and was in charge of the International Space Station (ISS) on Expeditions 26, 45, and 46.
The Marina Bay Sands  (abbreviation: MBS) is a resort in Marina Bay within the Downtown Core district of Singapore.
It has been called the world's most expensive standalone casino property at S$8 billion (US$6.88 billion), including the land cost.
It is owned by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation.
It was designed by Moshe Safdie.
The resort includes a 2,561-room hotel, a  convention centre, the  The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands mall, a museum, a large theatre, "celebrity chef" restaurants, two floating crystal pavilions, art-science exhibits, and the world's largest atrium casino with 500 tables and 1,600 slot machines.
The National Assembly of Malawi is the only legislative body of the nation.
It is located on Capital Hill, Lilongwe along Presidential Way.
The National Assembly alone has legislative supremacy and is the ultimate power over all other political bodies in Malawi.
At its head is the Speaker of the House who is elected by his or her peers.
Since June 19, 2019 the Speaker is Catherine Gotani Hara.
Sidik Mia (1965 – 12 January 2021) was a Malawian businessman and politician.
He was a member of the Democratic Progressive Party.
From 2004 to 2014, he was a member of the National Assembly.
From 2009 to 2010, he was Minister of Defence and from 2020 until his death, Mia was Minister of Transport and Public Works.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Malawi is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ().
The virus was confirmed to have reached Malawi on 2 April 2020.
It has spread to all the districts of the country.
President Peter Mutharika confirmed the country's first three cases of coronavirus disease 2019 on 2 April.
The three cases include a Malawian of Asian origin who travelled back from India, her relative and their housemaid.
Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud (1937 – January 2021) () was a Saudi royal and businessman.
He was a member of the House of Saud.
He was the owner of Juddmonte Farms and Mawarid Holding.
His father was Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud.
In 1990, Prince Khalid's wealth was estimated by Fortune magazine at $1.0 billion.
He was the son-in-law of Ibn Saud.
"The Man with Two Brians" is the 5th episode of the 7th season of Family Guy.
It was first shown on the Fox network on November 9, 2008.
The episode is about the Griffin family getting a new dog.
The episode was written by John Viener.
Dominic Bianchi is the director of the episode.
Johnny Knoxville, Will Sasso, and Camille Guaty are guest stars for the episode.
Peter, Cleveland, Quagmire, and Joe watch the television show Jackass.
They want to record themselves doing dangerous stunts.
Peter tries to fly over a lake.
He hits a tree and falls in the lake.
Brian tries to get Peter out of the lake, but he hurts his back.
Joe swims to Peter and Brian and saves them both.
Lois is not happy and tells Peter that Brian is getting old.
Peter is sad because of this, so he gets another dog.
He names it New Brian.
New Brian is very happy to be with the family.
Brian feels that the family does not want him, so he leaves the house.
Stewie does not like New Brian.
Stewie wants the first Brian to come back.
Brian does not want to until New Brian is not there.
Stewie goes to New Brian and tells him that he does not like him.
New Brian says that he raped Rupert (Stewie's teddy bear).
Stewie kills New Brian, puts him in a trash can, and writes a suicide note that looks like New Brian wrote it.
The first Brian comes back to the family.
Stewie is traumatized and washes Rupert in a shower.
The design of New Brian is from a drawing made by Seth MacFarlane (the creator of Family Guy).
New Brian was first going to be a Golden Retriever.
He was made gray so that he would not be the same color of the kitchen.
The episode was first put on DVD on June 16, 2009.
Viener is the voice actor for New Brian.
Ahsan Haque of IGN thought that the episode has some "unfunny (not funny) ideas" but that it "succeeds for the most part".
He said that there was a better balance of humor and story.
Genevieve Koski of The A.V. Club did not like how the episode started with Jackass, but he thought that the rest of the story is "far superior".
Robin Pierson from The TV Critic did not like how the jokes were put together.
He said that the episode has "no point to it."
Family Guy (season 7) episodes
Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley (born Mamie Elizabeth Carthan; November 23, 1921 – January 6, 2003) was an American educator and activist.
She took part in the Civil Rights Movement.
She was the mother of Emmett Till, who was killed at the age of 14 years old after allegedly offending a white woman.
Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3, 1984) is a former American businesswoman and convicted fraudster.
She was the founder and CEO of Theranos, a now-defunct health technology company.
In 2015, Forbes had named Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in America.
After revelations of potential fraud in Theranos' claims, in 2016 Forbes revised its estimate of Holmes' net worth to zero.
Fortune named her one of the "World's Most Disappointing Leaders".
The case of U.S. v. Holmes, et al.,
began on August 31, 2021.
It was held in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California - a federal court.
A former manager of Theranos gave testimony (in court) on September 17.
She said "that she made Holmes [...] aware of serious failings of" blood-testing machines from Theranos; claims made by the former manager "were  backed up [...] by emails [showed to jurors or] displayed for jurors", media said.
Holmes was convicted of four counts of fraud and conspiracy in January 2022.
Holmes is waiting for the court to sentence her; she is home on bail.
She can get a maximum sentence of twenty years in prison, and a fine of $250,000.
Jury finds Elizabeth Holmes guilty of fraud and conspiracy at blood-testing startup Theranos .
January 4, 2021
The 1988–90 North American drought was a weather problem that lasted two years.
The drought began in 1988 in the Midwestern United States, High Plains and the Northeastern United States.
A number of high pressure areas set themselves up over certain parts of these areas, stopping thunderstorms from developing.
During the spring of 1988, Milwaukee, Wisconsin had 55 days straight without any precipitation.
In the summer, two record-setting heat waves developed, similar to 1934, 1936 and 1983.
The constant heat waves led to as many as 17,000 deaths in the United States.
During the summer of 1988, the drought led to a number of wildfires in western North America.
That included the Yellowstone fires of 1988.
At its peak, the drought covered 45% of the United States in 1988 alone.
That's less area than the Dust Bowl, which covered 70% of the United States.
But the Drought of 1988 caused $60 billion in damage.
That not only is the most expensive drought in the history of the United States, it was the costliest natural disaster before Hurricane Katrina seventeen years later.
The drought destroyed crops nationwide.
Lawns went brown.
A number of cities ordered water restrictions.
More than four inches of helpful rain came to the Midwest through Hurricane Gilbert.
The storm crossed Texas and Oklahoma as a tropical depression.
It spread rain as far as the Great Lakes.
Other locations, however, were at -6 or lower on the Palmer Drought Severity Index by early autumn 1988.
Dry conditions continued into 1989 and 1990, affecting Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota,Illinois, Colorado, Kansas and Missouri.
In 2001, scientists found that Patroclus is a binary system, made up of two asteroids of about the same size.
It is one of 18 binary Trojan asteroids known to exist.
In 2006, good measurements of the orbit from the Keck Laser guide star adaptive optics system were reported.
It was estimated that the two components orbit around their center of mass in  days at a distance of  in a roughly circular orbit.
Combining these observations with thermal measurements taken in 2000, the sizes of the components of the system were estimated at 106 km and 98 km, with an equivalent whole-system diameter of 145 km, refined by later measurements from the Keck Observatory to approximately 122 km and 112 km for each partner, and a co-orbital period of  hours ( days).
On 21 October 2013, both bodies occulted a magnitude 8.8 star as observed by a team of 41 observers stationed across the USA.
Observation data put the orbital distance of 664.6 km, and give a size for the slightly larger component, which retains the name Patroclus with overall volume equivalent to a 113 km sphere, with the smaller component now named Menoetius with a volume equivalent to a 104 km diameter sphere.
Robert L. Woodson Sr. (
born April 8, 1937) is an American civil rights activist, community development leader, author, and founder and president of the Woodson Center.
He is known for his works to help low-income communities through housing.
The 1619 Project is a controversial project in the United States created by Nikole Hannah-Jones, writers from The New York Times, and The New York Times Magazine.
It is meant to change the country's history by talking about the effects of slavery.
The project said that the United States was actually founded in 1619 when the first slaves arrived to the country.
Nikole Sheri Hannah-Jones (born April 9, 1976) is an American journalist.
She is known for her coverage of civil rights in the United States.
In April 2015, she became a staff writer for The New York Times.
In 2020, she won a Pulitzer Prize for her work on The 1619 Project.
Ebenezer Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Atlanta, United States.
It is part of the Progressive National Baptist Convention and American Baptist Churches USA.
It was the church where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was co-pastor from 1960 until his assassination in 1968.
The funerals of both Dr. King and congressman John Lewis were held here.
United States Senator-elect Raphael Warnock has been pastor since 2005.
It is located in the historic area, now called the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park.
Diamond is a city in Newton County, Missouri, United States.
It is in the southeast of Joplin.
902 people lived here at the 2010 census.
It is part of the Joplin, Missouri, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
It is the birthplace of George Washington Carver.
Warrenton is a town in and the county seat of Warren County, North Carolina, United States.
862 people lived here at the 2010 census.
Plumpy'Nut is a peanut-based paste wrapped in plastic, used to treat severe malnutrition.
It's manufactured by Nutriset, a French company.
The paste removes the need for hospitalization, and the 92-gram (3¼ oz) packages of it can be eaten at home and allows large numbers of people to be treated.
Barrackpore (also known as Barrackpur) is a city.
It is located in the West Bengal state of India.
It is around 23 kilometres (14 mi) away from Kolkata .
It is also a part of the zone covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA).
It is the headquarters of the Barrackpore subdivision.
The name Barrackpore may have originated from the English word barracks, because it was the site of the first cantonment of the British East India Company.
The Ain-i-Akbari suggests that the name comes from "Barbakpur".
Manasa Vijay, written by Bipradas Pipilai, refers to Barrackpore as "Chanak".
Young Republicans is the name of an organization for members of the American Republican Party under the age of 40.
It has both a national organization and chapters in individual states.
The current Chairman of the Young Republican National Federation is Michael Mack.
The 2006 Young Republican National Federation (YRNF) convention will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Delegates are expected to elect Nicolee Ambrose of Maryland as the next Chairman of the National Young Republican Federation.
It can also be used as a generic term to mean relatively youthful political conservatives, whether or not they belong to the organization.
In this usage it often carries the unspoken assumption that younger people are traditionally expected to be comparatively liberal in their politics.
College Republicans
Dafydd ap Llywelyn (c. April 1212  25 February 1246) was Prince of Gwynedd from 1240 to 1246.
He claimed the title Prince of Wales.
Henry III accepted that he ruled Gwynedd, but not more.
Henry forced him to accept that he did not rule outside Gwynedd.
1212 births
1246 deaths
CNN Airport is an American television network.
Owned and operated by WarnerMedia, it is a special version of CNN that only plays in United States airports.
The network broadcasts news, entertainment, stock market updates, weather, and travel news to 58 airports across the United States.
CNN pays airports to show the channel exclusively on their monitors.
hh blood group, or the bombay blood group, is a rare blood type.
This blood phenotype was first discovered in Bombay, now known as mumbai, in India, by Dr. Y. M. Bhende in 1952.
It is mostly found in the Middle East such as Iran.
bombay blood group is a very rare blood group
Deborah L. Rhode (January 29, 1952 – January 8, 2021) was an American jurist.
She was the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law at Stanford Law School.
She created the term The "No-Problem" Problem.
She wrote over 250 articles and 30 books, including Women and Leadership, Lawyers as Leaders, and The Beauty Bias.
Rhode was born in Evanston, Illinois.