Digswell Viaduct

The Digswell Viaduct, also called Welwyn Viaduct, is a railway viaduct that carries the East Coast Main Line over the River Mimram in the county of Hertfordshire in England. A prominent local landmark, it is located between Welwyn Garden City and Digswell. It is just to the south of Welwyn North railway station.

The viaduct, of 40 arches, is a Grade II* listed structure. It was the longest and tallest viaduct on the Great Northern Railway's route.

The viaduct is around long and comprises forty arches of span, and it is high from ground level to trackbed. It is built of red brick fired from clay quarried on site during construction, and took two years to build, including the construction of embankments at both ends which required the movement of around one million tons of earth by human and horse power. It was designed by William Cubitt and styled after a Roman aqueduct.

It was officially opened by Queen Victoria on 6 August 1850, but she was reportedly so frightened of its height that she refused to travel across it. The train carrying her had to stop, upon which she left the train and entered a horse-drawn carriage to travel the length of the bridge on the ground. She then re-entered the train at the other end of the viaduct and continued her journey.

The viaduct carries the East Coast Main Line, which has to narrow from four tracks to two to cross the viaduct, making it a bottleneck restraining capacity over this strategic transport route. This problem is exacerbated by Welwyn North railway station situated at the northern end of the viaduct, which blocks the line while trains are stationary, and by two tunnels to the north. Several ideas to overcome the limitations of the viaduct and station without damaging the viaduct's essential historic character and rhythmic design are periodically discussed.

A three-year project in the mid 1930s encased the viaduct's deteriorating brickwork in the blue engineering brick seen today. Overhead lines were added when the line was electrified in the 1970s.


Guapa

Guapa (English: "Pretty") is the fourth studio album released on April 25, 2006, by Spanish Pop rock band La Oreja de Van Gogh. On December 5, 2006, Más Guapa (English: "Prettier") was released exclusively in Spain and Mexico. Two months later, on February 13, 2007, the album was also released in Chile. "Más Guapa" includes a second disc of previously unreleased material from the "Guapa" sessions, as well as from recording sessions of previous albums. The album won a Latin Grammy Award for Best Pop Album By a Duo or Group. "Guapa" is the band's last album with Amaia Montero as lead singer.


The Music of Central Asia

The Music of Central Asia is a textbook on Central Asian folk music. The work was written by 27 authors living in 14 countries. It was edited by American musicologist and ethnographer Theodore Levin, Kazakh musicologist and historian Saida Daukeyeva, and Kyrgyz anthropologist Elmira Kochumkulova. The volume was announced along with a companion website, www.musicofcentralasia.org, which contains about 200 musical works and additional materials.

The book deals with the musical heritage of Central Asian countries, in particular Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, the reforms in the music of the peoples living in these countries during the Soviet era, and the lives and works of leading musicians, artists and musicologists. The book also includes a glossary of musical instruments and musical terms of the peoples of Central Asia, many photographs and maps, as well as short biographies of authors and editors.

The handbook was first published in 2015 by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture in Indiana University Press in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. Reprinted 2016. The work is the first textbook on the music of the peoples of Central Asia. The work consists of four major sections ("Music and Culture in Central Asia", "The World of Nomads", "The World of Sedentary Peoples", "Central Asian Music in the Age of Globalization") and 31 chapters.

The book was well received by critics and readers alike. Sunmin Yoon, a professor at the University of Delaware, praised the book: "It is enriched by research written by modern scholars — both Central Asian and foreign. One of the unique features of the book is that the topics covered are written by people who have experienced them both culturally and musically. ... Through a combination of local scholars and artists, as well as foreign researchers who have worked closely with local scholars, this book presents oral traditions and customs that have rarely been explored to date."


Carlia rubigo

Carlia rubigo, the orange-flanked rainbow-skink is a species of skink in the genus "Carlia". It is endemic to Queensland, Australia.


Tårnborgvej

Tårnborgvej is a dead end street extending from the northside of Gammel Kongevej, one block west of H. C. Ørsteds Vej, in the Frederiksberg district of Copenhagen, Denmark.


Tooni

Tooni is a village in Tartu Parish, Tartu County in Estonia.
Tooni is located on the Estonian island Piirissaar. As of 2011, the village has a population of 11.

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Save Your Tears

"Save Your Tears" is a song by Canadian singer the Weeknd for his fourth studio album "After Hours" (2020). The Weeknd wrote and produced the song with producers Max Martin and Oscar Holter, with Belly and Jason Quenneville receiving additional writing credits. The record was met with universal acclaim.

"Save Your Tears" reached the top five in thirty countries. The song was released as the album's fourth and final single on August 9, 2020 in Europe, and impacted US radio on November 24, 2020. It was the official theme song of WrestleMania 37. A remix of the song by Oneohtrix Point Never was officially released alongside the deluxe edition of its parent album on March 23, 2020. A second remix of the song, a collaboration with American singer Ariana Grande, was released on April 22, 2021, reaching number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100, becoming both artists' sixth number one single. This also made "After Hours" the first album since Drake's "Scorpion" in 2018 to have three singles from the same album reach number one. "Save Your Tears" spent 2 weeks atop the "Billboard" Hot 100.


COVID-19 pandemic in Uruguay

The COVID-19 pandemic in Uruguay is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The first cases in Uruguay were reported on 13 March 2020 by the Ministry of Public Health. The early cases were imported from Italy and Spain, with some local transmissions.

The majority of early cases were traced to a wedding with 500 people in attendance in Montevideo, attended by a Uruguayan fashion designer who returned from Spain and later tested positive. Various containment measures were introduced in mid-March, and major restrictions on movement followed in late March. Uruguay is one of the few countries in Latin America to have been able to avoid large outbreaks for a considerable amount of time due to their closing of borders with neighboring countries. The country had one of the lowest numbers of active cases per population in South America up until December when the public health authorities announced that large outbreaks had led to community transmission in Montevideo. On 23 January 2021, President Lacalle Pou announced during a press conference that the government purchased doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Sinovac, while negotiating with a third manufacturer.


Families First Coronavirus Response Act

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act is an Act of Congress () meant to respond to the economic impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The act provides funding for free coronavirus testing, 14-day paid leave for American workers affected by the pandemic, and increased funding for food stamps.

The bill was sponsored by House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D–NY) and passed the United States House of Representatives early on March 14, 2020, before moving on to the United States Senate. President Donald Trump had voiced support for the legislative agreement. The Senate passed the legislation on March 18, 2020. Trump signed the bill into law later that day.


Jerry Hale

Jerry Hale (January 20, 1936 – December 18, 2014) was an American college basketball coach who served as head coach for the College of Southern Idaho and Oral Roberts University.

Hale played college basketball for Henry Iba at Oklahoma A&M University (now Oklahoma State University) where he was a three-year starter. after playing two seasons for the Peoria Caterpillars, Hale began his coaching career at Dumas High School in Texas. He moved to the college ranks as an assistant to Don Haskins at UTEP, before becoming head coach at the junior college College of Southern Idaho. After five seasons and a 161–22 record, Hale was named head coach at Oral Roberts. Hale coached three seasons at Oral Roberts, compiling a record of 61–21. He resigned following the 1976–77 season, despite his .744 winning percentage at the school.

Hale's son Steve played college basketball at North Carolina under Dean Smith.

Hale died on December 18, 2014, after a battle with Alzheimer's disease.


PNR 8000 class

The PNR 8000 class, also known as INKA DMUs, is a class of diesel multiple units (DMUs) operated by the Philippine National Railways since 2019. The trains are the first to feature an LED passenger information system display in each train car.


Viktor Matejka

Viktor Matejka (4 December 1901 - 2 April 1993) was a Viennese politician and writer.

He spent most of the Hitler years as a detainee at one of two concentration camps. In the summer of 1943 inmates at Dachau presented a satirical focusing on Adolf Hitler, watched by the camp's SS guards. The episode was described in his obituary, half a century later, as "probably the most dangerous stage performance in the world, as well as the most absurd". The leader of the improvised performance group was Viktor Matejka. Later he liked to assert that he had survived National Socialism through a blend of cunning and skill, which only the malicious and ignorant would have called "collaboration".


Weber-OSCAR 18

Weber-OSCAR 18 (also called WeberSAT, Microsat 3 and WO-18) is an American amateur radio satellite.

The satellite was jointly developed, built by the Weber State College Center for Aerospace Technology and AMSAT, and on January 22, 1990, as a secondary payload, along with the SPOT 2 earth observation satellite with an Ariane 4 from the Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana.

The satellite had an AX.25 digipeater with uplink in the 2-meter band and downlink in the 70-centimeter band, as well as a CCD camera for color images and a piezoelectric detector for micrometeorites.

It was in operation until 1998.


COVID-19 pandemic in Malta

The COVID-19 pandemic in Malta is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The first case of the disease in Malta was an Italian 12-year-old girl on 7 March 2020. The girl and her family were in isolation, as required by those following the Maltese health authority's guidelines who were in Italy or other highly infected countries. Later, both her parents were found positive as well. The second wave of the virus in Malta is considered to be worse than the first.

, Malta has reported 30,627 confirmed cases, 30,161 recoveries and 420 deaths, while 46 cases remain active.

A mandatory quarantine was imposed on travellers and those who were possibly in contact with those who travelled abroad. A mandatory lockdown was imposed on those over the age of 65 and/or suffering from chronic health conditions. WHO praised the Maltese government's response to the pandemic, before the number of cases rose to 52 on 7 April. On May Day, because the reproductive rate of the virus was below 0, the first relaxation of some measures were announced.

On 12 May 2021, the Minister for Health, Chris Fearne, stated that Malta would be the first EU country to open up the vaccine to the entire population. On 25 May 2021, Fearne announced that 70% of the Maltese population had become fully vaccinated, making it the first nation in the world to reach the minimum estimated benchmark for herd immunity against the virus.


Morgan Geekie

Morgan Geekie (born July 20, 1998) is a Canadian ice hockey centre currently playing for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL).


2020 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix

The 2020 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Emirates Gran Premio dell'Emilia Romagna 2020) was a Formula One motor race which took place on 1 November 2020 at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola, Italy. It was the 28th Formula One race held at the Imola circuit, the first since 2006 and the first-ever running of a race there under the name of Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. The race was the 13th round of the 2020 Formula One World Championship.

The 63-lap race was won by Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, with his teammate Valtteri Bottas taking second place, and Renault driver Daniel Ricciardo taking the final podium place. With their drivers finishing first and second in the race, Mercedes secured the World Constructors' Championship, breaking the record for the most consecutive World Constructors' Championships, with seven.


2020 Russian Grand Prix

The 2020 Russian Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 VTB Russian Grand Prix 2020) was a Formula One motor race held on 27 September 2020 at the Sochi Autodrom in Sochi, Russia. The race was the tenth round of the 2020 Formula One World Championship, ninth running of the Russian Grand Prix and the seventh time held in Sochi. The 53-lap race was won by Valtteri Bottas of the Mercedes team, with Max Verstappen of Red Bull placing 2nd, and Lewis Hamilton taking the final podium place.


Rough and Rowdy Ways

Rough and Rowdy Ways is the 39th studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on June 19, 2020, through Columbia Records. It is Dylan's first album of original songs since his 2012 album "Tempest", following three releases, one a triple album that covered traditional pop standards. The album was recorded at Sound City Studios in January and February 2020. The session musicians included all of the current members of Dylan's Never Ending Tour band alongside other musicians, such as Blake Mills and Fiona Apple. The album's sound was described by critics as Americana, folk, blues, and rhythm and blues.

"Rough and Rowdy Ways" was preceded by the singles "Murder Most Foul", "I Contain Multitudes" and "False Prophet"; "Murder Most Foul" became Dylan's first song to top any US "Billboard" chart. The album was universally praised by critics, described as being one of Dylan's best works and placing highly in many year-end album lists, including the top spot on four lists. It peaked at No. 1 in more than ten countries and No. 2 in the United States and Australia.


London Life

London Life is a 1924 play by Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblock.

It ran for 36 performances at the Drury Lane Theatre in London's West End. It was produced by Basil Dean. The large cast included Clifford Mollison, Henry Ainley, Gordon Harker, Ian Hunter, Edmund Breon, Mary Jerrold and Olive Sloane. It marked the West End debut of Benita Hume, appearing in a small role.


The 1920 United States presidential election in Delaware took place on November 2, 1920. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1920 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

Delaware was won by the Republican nominee, Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio, over the Democratic nominee, Governor James M. Cox of Ohio. Harding ran with Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, while Cox ran with future President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York.


The 2019–20 Georgia State Panthers women's basketball team represented Georgia State University in the 2019–20 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Panthers, led by second year head coach Gene Hill, were a member of the Sun Belt Conference and played their home games on campus at the GSU Sports Arena. They finished season 8–21, 5–13 in Sun Belt play to finish in eleventh place. They were not invited to the Sun Belt tournament following the conclusion of the regular season, and, soon after, the NCAA canceled all post-season play due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


Battle of Chippenham

The Battle of Chippenham was a January 878 battle between a Viking army led by Guthrum and an Anglo-Saxon army led by Alfred the Great. The Vikings forced Alfred to flee Chippenham and managed temporarily to gain control over most of Wessex.

The battle was part of a coordinated strike on Wessex led by Guthrum and Ubba, breaking an earlier truce between the two sides. Alfred, spending the winter at Chippenham, was without his army and was forced to flee to Athelney.

Following Ubba's defeat to Odda, Ealdorman of Devon, Alfred managed to muster his forces and reclaim Wessex following the Battle of Edington in May 878. Guthrum would not attack Wessex again, agreeing to the Treaty of Wedmore. Alfred would then reorganise the army of Wessex to ensure there was always a standing force ready to meet a threat.


COVID Symptom Study

The COVID Symptom Study, formerly the COVID Symptom Tracker, is a COVID-19 epidemiological research mobile app developed in the United Kingdom that runs on Android and iOS. It is a collaboration between King's College London, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals and ZOE Global Limited. The purpose of the app is to track symptoms and other salient data in a large number of people to enable epidemiological results to be calculated.


Regional Development Council

Regional Development Councils (RDCs) are the highest policy-making body governing the administrative regions of the Philippines. They serve as the subnational counterpart of the National Economic and Development Authority. All but two (Metro Manila and Bangsamoro) of the Philippines 17 regions has a Regional Development Council although Metro Manila has a metropolitan body which serves the same function as an RDC. Bangsamoro, an autonomous region, is also set to establish their own equivalent to a RDC.

Metro Manila is recognized in law as a "special development and administrative region," and was thus given a metropolitan authority; the Metro Manila Council within the MMDA serves as the National Capital Region's RDC. The defunct Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao's (ARMM) equivalent of an RDC was the Regional Economic and Development Planning Board.

Under the Bangsamoro Organic Law, the ARMM's successor, Bangsamoro is mandated to establish the Bangsamoro Economic and Development Council (BEDC) which would serve as the autonomous region's equivalent of an RDC.


Hildegard Uhrmacher

Hildegard Uhrmacher (born 15 December 1939), married name Hildegard Kronstein-Uhrmacher, is a German operatic soprano who appeared at European opera houses in coloratura soprano roles such as Mozart's Konstanze, but also in contemporary works including Marie in Bernd Alois Zimmermann's "Die Soldaten". She was a professor of voice at the Musikhochschule Hannover and the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. Her 2006 autobiography is entitled "Hilde, du schaffst das".


Michael Atingi-Ego

Michael Atingi-Ego is a Ugandan economist, who was appointed Deputy Governor of the Bank of Uganda, on 29 March 2020. At the time of his appointment, he served as the Executive Director of the "Macroeconomics and Financial Management, Institute of Eastern and Southern Africa" (MEFMI), based in Harare, Zimbabwe.


Bras Nord-Ouest

The Bras Nord-Ouest ("English: North-West Branch") is a tributary of the north shore of lac la Retenue, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. It flows in the municipality of L'Ange-Gardien, in the regional county municipality (MRC) of La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Capitale-Nationale, in the province of Quebec, in Canada.

The lower part of this valley (north of Lac la Retenue) is served by de la Vallée, des Montagnes and de la Rivière streets.

The surface of the Northwest Arm is generally frozen from the beginning of December until the end of March; however, safe traffic on the ice is generally from mid-December to mid-March. The water level of the river varies with the seasons and the precipitation; the spring flood occurs in March or April.


COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal

The COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The first case in Nepal was confirmed on 23 January 2020 when a 31-year-old student, who had returned to Kathmandu from Wuhan on 9 January, tested positive for the disease. It was also the first recorded case of COVID-19 in South Asia. Nepal's first case of local transmission was confirmed on 4 April in Kailali District. The first death occurred on 14 May. A country-wide lockdown came into effect on 24 March 2020, and ended on 21 July 2020. As of , the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) has confirmed a total of cases, recoveries, and deaths in the country. In the meantime, real-time RT-PCR (RT-qPCR) tests have been performed in across the country. The viral disease has been detected in of the country, with Bagmati Province and Kathmandu being the worst hit province and district respectively. As for Nepalese abroad, as of 26 July 2020, the Non-Resident Nepali Association has reported a total of 12,667 confirmed cases, 16,190 recoveries, and 161 deaths across 35 countries.

Between January and March, Nepal took steps to prevent a widespread outbreak of the disease while preparing for it by procuring essential supplies, equipment and medicine, upgrading health infrastructure, training medical personnel, and spreading public awareness. Starting in mid-January, Nepal established health-desks at Tribhuvan International Airport as well as on border checkpoints with India. Land borders with India as well as China were later completely sealed off, and all international flights were suspended. All academic examinations were cancelled, and schools and colleges were closed. Quarantine centres and temporary hospitals are being set up across the country. Laboratory facilities are being upgraded and expanded. Hospitals have been setting up ICU units and isolation beds. The SAARC countries have pledged to cooperate in controlling the disease in the region. India, the United States and Germany increased their support to Nepali health sectors.

The pandemic forced Nepal to cancel the then ongoing Visit Nepal Year 2020 tourism campaign. The country's economy is expected to be severely affected due to the pandemic's impact on tourism, remittance, manufacturing, construction, and trade. The World Bank has warned that the pandemic could push about one-third of the country's population below the International Poverty Line (i.e., $1.90 per day).

Vaccination for COVID-19 began in Nepal on 27 January 2021.


The 1880 United States presidential election in Iowa took place on November 2, 1880, as part of the 1880 United States presidential election. Voters chose 11 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Iowa voted for the Republican nominee, James A. Garfield, over the Democratic nominee, Winfield Scott Hancock. Garfield won the by a margin of 24.19%.

With 10.02% of the popular vote, Iowa would prove to be Greenback Party candidate James B. Weaver's second strongest state after Texas.


Ingvild Almås

Ingvild Almås is a Professor of Economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) at Stockholm University. She is also an external member of the new committee on monetary policy and financial stability in Norges Bank, the central bank of Norway.

Almås obtained her PhD from the Norwegian School of Economics in 2008 with a thesis on economic inequalities for which she received Norges Bank's award for best PhD thesis in macroeconomics.

Almås' research is mainly focused on gaining a better understanding of economic inequalities and has been published in journals such as the American Economic Review and the Journal of Political Economy.


Council of Advisors on Digital Economy

The Council of Advisors on Digital Economy (, abbreviated "BJDW") is an advisory board to the German government established within the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy of the Federal Republic of Germany. It was created in 2013 to advise on strategic decisions related to the digital economy and digital transformations. The council meets in non-public sessions and is directly reporting to the federal government: the current minister responsible is Peter Altmaier serving on the cabinet of Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel as her Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy.


Riyad Hijab government

The Riyad Hijab government was the fourth Syrian government formed during the presidency of Bashar al-Assad. It was formed on 23 June 2012 and dissolved on 6 August 2012 after Prime Minister Riyad Farid Hijab defected. He was later succeeded by Wael Nader al-Halqi.


Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989 are a series of legislative acts of the US Congress from 1989 to 1995. These are pre-eminent financial laws.

Adopted by the Chambers of the 101st US Congress (3 January 1989 - 3 January 1991), 102nd US Congress (3 January 1991 - 3 January 1993), 103rd US Congress (3 January 1993 - 3 January) 1995) and the 104th US Congress (January 3, 1995 - January 3, 1997).

The laws were passed under continuous dominance in both chambers of the US Congress of Democrats and the presidency of 2 presidents - George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

The legislation is an expression of US policy towards Central and Eastern European countries, which were previously members of the Warsaw Pact and the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. Initially targeted at Poland and Hungary, they subsequently encompassed Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and the countries of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

The legislative focus is on the establishment of democratic institutions in these countries through aid for agriculture, private sector development, trade and investment, educational, cultural and scientific activities, as well as specific programs. A prerequisite for so-called financial assistance is the removal of trade restrictions, the liberalization of investment and capital, including through foreign investment, and the exportation of profits from these countries by foreign (US) investors. The other focus is on the development of the capital financial markets in these countries, and in particular on the privatization and concession of public assets.


Francisco Undurraga

Juan Francisco Undurraga Gazitúa (born 29 September 1965) is a politician currently serving as First Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile and as a member of the Chamber of Deputies representing District 11 of Santiago.


Lalan Paswan

Lalan Paswan is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly from Chenari constituency of Bihar in the February 2005 and October 2005 as a member of the Janata Dal (United) again 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Rashtriya Lok Samta Party.

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Oleg Butković

Oleg Butković (born 4 May 1979) is a Croatian politician serving as Minister of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure in the Government of Croatia since 2016. He assumed the position in the cabinet of Tihomir Orešković and continued to hold the position in the first and second cabinet of Andrej Plenković.


Lake King William

Lake King William is a reservoir on the upper Derwent River, Tasmania running in Tasmania.


Anna Maria Hinel

Anna Maria Hinel, (; born 31 January 1924 in Warsaw, died on March 19, 1943 in Auschwitz-Birkenau), Polish girl scout, activist of the underground independence movement during World War II, author of a diary from the German Nazi occupation.


Sawtooth Bridges

The Sawtooth Bridges are a pair of railroad bridges on the Northeast Corridor (NEC) known individually as Amtrak Bridge No. 7.80 and Amtrak Bridge No. 7.96. They are located in the Meadowlands in Kearny, New Jersey between Newark Penn Station and Secaucus Junction at a stretch where the rights-of-way of Amtrak, NJ Tranist, PATH, and Conrail converge and re-align. The name refers to their appearance and the numbers refer to the milepoint (MP) from New York Penn Station. Originally built by Pennsylvania Railroad, they are owned and operated by Amtrak. They are slated for replacement as part of the Gateway Program, an infrastructure improvement program along the NEC.


West Coast Shit

"West Coast Shit" is a song by American rapper Pop Smoke, featuring Tyga and Quavo, from the former of the three's debut studio album, "Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon" (2020). The song was written by Pop Smoke, known as Bashar Jackson, alongside Quavo, Tyga, Mustard, and Bongo ByTheWay, who have the respective real names of Quavious Marshall, Michael Stevenson, Dijon McFarlane, and Uforo Ebong. It was produced by Mustard and Bongo ByTheWay. Mustard passed the song on to Pop Smoke for him to put on the album.

"West Coast Shit" interpolates the lyrics of Too Short's "Shake That Monkey". In the lyrics of the song, Pop Smoke and Tyga rap about the wonders of the West Coast. The song received generally mixed reviews from music critics, with a number of them criticizing the song's production. In the United States, the song reached number 65 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and number 37 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songschart, while it further peaked at number 48 on the Canadian Hot 100.


Castex government

The Castex government (French: "Gouvernement Castex") is the forty-second and current government of the French Fifth Republic, formed on 3 July 2020 and headed by Jean Castex as Prime Minister under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron.


Unir Movement

Unir Movement () is a Chilean left-wing political movement, founded in 2020 by former members of the Socialist Party of Chile. In July 2020, it became part of the Broad Front, a left-wing political coalition.


Minerva McGonagall

Professor Minerva McGonagall is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series. Professor McGonagall is a professor at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry and is the head of Gryffindor House and professor of Transfiguration, as well as being the Deputy Headmistress under Albus Dumbledore and a member of the Order of the Phoenix. Following Lord Voldemort's defeat at the hands of her student Harry Potter and the deaths of Headmasters Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape, McGonagall takes the position of Headmistress. Professor McGonagall was portrayed in the film adaptations by Maggie Smith.


27th Fajr International Film Festival

The 27th Fajr International Film Festival () held from 31 January to 10 February 2009 in Tehran, Iran.

"Doubt" (Varuzh Karim-Masihi, 2009) — which adapted from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" — was the festival's best film in "Competition of Iranian Cinema" and "Snow" (Aida Begić, 2008), a Bosnian film, was the festival's best film in "Competition of International Cinema".

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Sopronbánfalva

Sopronbánfalva (), also known as Bánfalva, is a former village part of the city of Sopron, Hungary, since 1950. Before 1945, the village had 3,304 inhabitants, with the majority being ethnic Germans. However, many were deported, remaining only approximately 700 inhabitants after the event. This happened due to the desire to, among other things, secure the border with Austria.


The 1981 Belgian International Championships was a men's tennis tournament staged at the Leopold Club in Brussels, Belgium that was part of the Grand Prix circuit. The tournament was played on outdoor clay courts and was held from 8 June until 14 June 1981. It was the tenth and last edition of the tournament and third-seeded Marko Ostoja won the singles title.


J. E. B. Stuart Monument

The J. E. B. Stuart Monument is a partially deconstructed monument to Confederate general J. E. B. Stuart at the head of historic Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, which was dedicated in 1907. Currently an empty granite pedestal, the equestrian statue of General Stuart was removed from its pedestal and placed into storage on July 7, 2020 after having stood there for 113 years. The removal was in response to nationally reported events of police brutality and a corresponding emergency declaration in Virginia.


Kōriyama explosion

The Kōriyama explosion occurred on 30 July 2020 at 8:57 a.m. Japan Standard Time, when a gas explosion destroyed an On-Yasai, a "shabu-shabu" restaurant located along in the city of Kōriyama in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The blast resulted in the death of a person and the wounding of 19 other people. The restaurant was being remodeled at the time of its destruction. The man who was killed in the blast was part of the crew who was renovating the restaurant, though he was the only worker present at the time of the incident. An Ikinari Steak restaurant and a bank within the vicinity of the restaurant were also damaged, four of the bank's occupants were among the injured. Damage caused by the blast was reported up to away from its epicenter at the "shabu-shabu" restaurant.


Our Socialism Centred on the Masses Shall Not Perish is a 1991 work by Kim Jong-il. It seeks to explain that socialism in North Korea will be unaffected by the fall of communism elsewhere because it is based on the "Juche" ideology.


Anhelli

Anhelli is a prose poem written by Polish Romantic-era poet and dramatist Juliusz Słowacki in 1837 and published the following year in Paris.


A Local Man

A Local Man is a 2004 Australian play by Bob Ellis and Robin McLachlan about Ben Chifley. It is a one man show.


Pixel 4a

The Pixel 4a and Pixel 4a (5G) are Android smartphones from the Google Pixel product line. Serving as mid-range variants of the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL, the Pixel 4a was officially announced on August 3, 2020, while the Pixel 4a (5G) was officially announced on September 30, 2020.


Filippo Giovagnoli

Filippo Giovagnoli (born 1 December 1970) is an Italian professional football coach and former player who is a coach of League of Ireland Premier Division club Dundalk.


Riaz Sheikh

Riaz Sheikh (24 December 1968 – 2 June 2020) was a Pakistani cricketer. He played in 43 first-class and 25 List A matches between 1986 and 2005, and was once considered for selection to the national team. He was believed to have contracted the COVID-19 virus and died in Karachi, but he was buried before this could be confirmed.


Park Chun-ran

Park Chun-ran (; born 1965) is a South Korean bureaucrat previously served as President Moon Jae-in's first Vice Minister of Education and currently serving as his second President of National Human Resource Management Institute. Park was the first woman to ever become the deputy head of the Ministry of Education or its preceding agencies which dates back to 1948.

Before becoming the Vice Minister of Education in May 2017, she was the deputy Superintendent of Seoul Office of Education from July 2016 and previously North Chungcheong Office of Education from December 2014.

After passing the state exam in 1989, she dedicated her career in public service - mostly at the Ministry or its preceding agency. In 2005 she became its head of University Affairs Bureau - the youngest to assume this level at South Korean government at the age of 40.

Park also led Office of General Administration at Kyungpook National University and Gangneung–Wonju National University respectively.

After leaving the public service as the Vice Minister in 2018, she was recruited to fulfill the role of President of National Human Resource Management Institute - a vice-ministerial role emptied by Yang Hyang-ja for her 2020 general election.

Park holds two degrees in law - a bachelor from Seoul National University and a master's from UC Berkeley School of Law.


Life in a Year

Life in a Year is a 2020 American romantic drama film directed by Mitja Okorn, from a screenplay by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews. The film stars Jaden Smith, Cara Delevingne, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Nia Long. Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith serve as executive producers under their Overbrook Entertainment banner.

"Life in a Year" was released on November 27, 2020, by Sony Pictures Releasing.


Francine Larivée

Francine Larivée (born 1942) is a Canadian artist.

Larivée graduated from the École des beaux-arts de Montréal in 1965, and received a BA degree in art history from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1973.

Her work is included in the City of Montreal public art collection and in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the National Gallery of Canada


Adagio (T.H.C. album)

Adagio is the second studio album by T.H.C., released on July 13, 1999 by Brain Surgery Music. T.H.C. gained some recognition after the songs "Overfire ", "Dip" and "Need to Destroy" appeared in several of episodes of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and its spin-off "Angel". The songs were performed as part of the fictional band Shy, of whom Veruca was the vocalist and composer George Sarah the band's keyboard player.


BR-470

BR-470 is an east-west Brazilian federal highway that starts in Navegantes, Santa Catarina, and crosses the Gaucho range and highlands. It stretches approximately 833 km, passing through cities such as Itajaí, Blumenau, Rio do Sul, Curitibanos, Campos Novos, Bento Gonçalves, Veranópolis and Montenegro and ends in Camaquã, Rio Grande do Sul.

It's primarily a single lane highway, historically and economically important for connecting the plateau and western Santa Catarina with the coast. It is the main "artery" of the Itajaí Valley and also one of the main access routes to the Port of Itajaí (the main port in the region, being the second largest in the country in handling containers, acting as a port for export and draining almost all state production, where the main exported products are wood, ceramic floors, machinery, sugar, paper and tobacco, as well as imported products such as wheat, chemical products, motors and textiles) and the Navegantes airport (the largest of the state) Santa Catarina, also of great tourist importance). Currently, 73 km are being duplicated in the most important and busiest section, between the urban centers of Navegantes, Gaspar, Blumenau and Indaial, where the state's textile, glass, porcelain and metalworking industries are concentrated. The completion of the duplication will have to do with a large increase in the logistics and economic capacity of the cities, the Port of Itajaí, the Navegantes Airport and in the flow of production from the west of the state and part of the Serra Catarinense.

It has winding and poorly marked sections in the state of Santa Catarina, as well as unpaved or non-existent areas in Rio Grande do Sul. There are also risks in the ascent and descent of Serra Geral, between Pouso Redondo and the access to Otacílio Costa (SC), section known as Serra da Santinha in which many vehicles suffer accidents. In the section that includes Veranópolis and Bento Gonçalves, known as Serra das Antas, there is an intense traffic of slow vehicles (trucks loaded most of the time) that join the few passing points and the precarious conditions of the asphalt end up leaving the slow traffic. There is also a lack of shoulder on this stretch, as the few escape areas that did exist were eventually used to build third lanes, in order to alleviate some of the traffic there.


Offshore Safety Act 1992

The Offshore Safety Act 1992 (1992 chapter 15) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which extends the application of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 to secure the safety, health and welfare of people on offshore installations. It increases the penalties of certain offences under the 1974 Act and empowers the Secretary of State to secure supplies of petroleum and petroleum products.


Gabrielle Charlotte Lévy

Gabrielle Charlotte Lévy (11 January 1886 – 6 October 1934) was a French neurologist, for whose work the Roussy–Lévy syndrome and the Lhermitte-Lévy syndrome are named. She also made significant contributions to the understanding of encephalitis lethargica.


Sofie Louise Johansson

Che Puan Sofie Louise Johansson (born 6 June 1986) is the royal consort of Dr. Tengku Muhammad Fa-iz Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail Petra, the Crown Prince of Malaysian State of Kelantan.


Haatim

Haatim (Chimini: Ra Haatimi, Somali: Haatim, Arabic: حاتم ) are a Somali clan from southern coastal cities of Baraawe, Marka, Kismayo and Mogadishu, they can also be found in the hinterland towns in the inter-riverine are of Somalia and further down the Swahili coast. The Haatim clan are synonymous withe town they first settled in, Baraawe and make up one of the groups part of the "todobo Tol" (roughly translates to 7 clans) also known as Bravanese people.


Richard Rodgers Sr.

Richard Rodgers Sr. (born October 8, 1961) is an American football coach and former player who is the assistant defensive backs coach for the Washington Football Team of the National Football League (NFL). A former Arena Football League player, he is the father of Philadelphia Eagles player Richard Rodgers who is known for “the Miracle in Motown”. He began coaching as soon as he retired from the Arena Football League as a player. Rodgers is also known for being a part of "The Play" against Stanford when he was a college football player at the University of California Berkeley. He has been coaching under his college teammate Ron Rivera, the current head coach of Washington, since 2012 when he began coaching special teams with the Carolina Panthers.


2004 Vuelta a Asturias

The 2004 Vuelta a Asturias was the 48th edition of the Vuelta a Asturias road cycling stage race, which was held from 12 May to 16 May 2004. The race started and finished in Oviedo. The race was won by Iban Mayo of the team.


COVID-19 pandemic in France

The COVID-19 pandemic in France 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 France on 24 January 2020, when the first COVID-19 case in both Europe and France was identified in Bordeaux. The first five confirmed cases were all individuals who had recently arrived from China. A Chinese tourist who was admitted to hospital in Paris on 28 January 2020, died on 14 February 2020, making it the first COVID-19 death in France as well as the first COVID-19 death outside Asia. A key event in the spread of the disease across metropolitan France as well as its overseas territories was the annual assembly of the Christian Open Door Church between 17 and 24 February 2020 in Mulhouse which was attended by about 2,500 people, at least half of whom are believed to have contracted the virus. On 4 May 2020, retroactive testing of samples in one French hospital showed that a patient was probably already infected with the virus on 27 December 2019, almost a month before the first officially confirmed case.

<onlyinclude></onlyinclude> This was extended twice and ended on 11 May 2020, after a progressive lifting of lockdown and as face masks were made available to all citizens. On 2 May 2020, Health Minister Olivier Véran announced that the government would seek to extend the health emergency period until 24 July 2020. Several mayors opposed the 11 May 2020 lifting of the lockdown, which had been announced by the president a few weeks earlier in a televised address to the nation, saying it was premature. Véran's bill was discussed in Senate on 4 May 2020.

From August 2020, there was an increase in the rate of infection and on 10 October 2020, France set a record number of new infections in a 24-hour period in Europe with 26,896 recorded. The increase caused France to enter a second nationwide lockdown on 28 October 2020. On 15 October 2020, police raided the homes and offices of key government officials, including Véran and Philippe, in a criminal negligence probe opened by the "Cour de Justice de la République". According to a team of French epidemiologists, under 5% of the total population of France, or around 2.8 million people, may have been infected with COVID-19. This was believed to have been nearly twice as high in the Île-de-France and Alsace regions.

On 31 March 2021, Macron announced a third national lockdown which commenced on 3 April 2021 and which was mandated for all of April 2021; measures included the closure of non-essential shops, the suspension of school attendance, a ban on domestic travel and a nationwide curfew from 7pm-6am.


Alexis Beka Beka

Alexis Beka Beka (born 29 March 2001) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Stade Malherbe Caen in the French Ligue 2.


Jole Santelli

Jole Santelli (28 December 1968 – 15 October 2020) was an Italian politician. A member of the centre-right party Forza Italia, she was the President of Calabria from 15 February 2020 until her death eight months later.


Manuel Marrero Cruz

Manuel Marrero Cruz (born 11 July 1963) is a Cuban politician currently serving as the Prime Minister of Cuba, and the first since Cuba resurrected the office of the Prime Minister in December 2019 after the 43-year abolishment of the position from 1976 to 2019. The last Prime Minister before the abolishment in 1976 was Fidel Castro. Marrero is the first person to hold the position of Prime Minister of Cuba in 43 years. A member of the Communist Party of Cuba, he served as the country's long-time Minister of Tourism from 2004 until his appointment to the office of Prime Minister in December 2019. During his tenure as tourism minister, Cuban tourism witnessed massive resilience. Marrero is an architect and worked in Gaviota, the tourism arm of the Cuban military, where he also held the rank of colonel.


Waitangi dildo incident

The Waitangi dildo incident occurred on 5 February 2016 in Waitangi, New Zealand, when a protester flung a rubber dildo at Minister of Economic Development Steven Joyce, striking him in the face. The incident became international news, and was quoted and parodied in art, music, and television comedy.


Karl-Siegmund Litzmann

Karl-Siegmund Litzmann (born 1 August 1893 in Minden; died August 1945 in Kappeln) was General Commissioner for Estonia in the Reichskommissariat Ostland during the German occupation.

He was SA-Obergruppenführer and served from 5 December 1941 to 17 September 1944 in Reval. Karl-Siegmund Litzmann was the son of the general of the infantry Karl Litzmann and uncle of Walter Lehweß-Litzmann

In late 1944 he became an officer of the Waffen SS, and went missing after the fighting in Hungary and the Czech Republic in spring 1945.<br>
Litzmann reappeared in May 1945 under a false name in Kappeln (Schleswig-Holstein) where his sister was living, but died there under unexplained circumstances as early as August 1945.


Anatoly Kuzovnikov

Anatoly Kuzovnikov (November 9, 1922, Pokrovka village, Pokrovsky District, Orenburg Oblast, USSR — November 17, 2004, Moscow, Russian Federation) — was a Soviet and Russian physicist. Doctor of physical and mathematical Sciences, honored Professor of Moscow state University.

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Peugeot e-Legend

The Peugeot e-Legend is a concept electric coupé produced by the French car manufacturer Peugeot, presented at 2018 Paris Motor Show.


Peru Secure Homeland

Peru Secure Homeland () is a centre-right Peruvian political party founded on September 26, 2013 by former members of the defunct Cambio 90, founded by former President Alberto Fujimori in 1990.


COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The World Health Organization declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020, and later declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of , more than cases have been confirmed, with more than confirmed deaths attributed to COVID-19, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history.

The severity of COVID-19 symptoms is highly variable, ranging from unnoticeable to life-threatening. Severe illness is more likely in elderly COVID-19 patients, as well as those who have underlying medical conditions. COVID-19 transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets and small airborne particles. The risk of breathing these in is highest when people are in close proximity, but they can be inhaled over longer distances, particularly indoors. Transmission can also occur if splashed or sprayed with contaminated fluids, in the eyes, nose or mouth, and, rarely, via contaminated surfaces. People remain contagious for up to 20 days, and can spread the virus even if they do not develop any symptoms.

Recommended preventive measures include social distancing, wearing face masks in public, ventilation and air-filtering, hand washing, covering one's mouth when sneezing or coughing, disinfecting surfaces, and monitoring and self-isolation for people exposed or symptomatic. Several vaccines have been developed and widely distributed in most developed countries since December 2020. Current treatments focus on addressing symptoms, but work is underway to develop medications that inhibit the virus. Authorities worldwide have responded by implementing travel restrictions, lockdowns and quarantines, workplace hazard controls, and business closures. Numerous jurisdictions have also worked to increase testing capacity and trace contacts of the infected.

The pandemic has resulted in severe global, social and economic disruption, including the largest global recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It has led to widespread supply shortages exacerbated by panic buying, agricultural disruption, and food shortages. However, it has also caused temporary decreases in emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases. Numerous educational institutions and public areas have been partially or fully closed, and many events have been cancelled or postponed. Misinformation has circulated through social media and mass media, and political tensions have been exacerbated. The pandemic has raised issues of racial and geographic discrimination, health equity, wealth inequality and the balance between public health imperatives and individual rights.


1996 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana

The 1996 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana was the 54th edition of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana road cycling stage race, which was held from 27 February to 2 March 1996. The race started in Calpe and finished in Valencia. The race was won by Laurent Jalabert of the team.


COVID-19 pandemic in Bahrain

The COVID-19 pandemic in Bahrain 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 Bahrain on 21 February 2020. , there have been a total of 265,827 confirmed cases in the country, of which 261,287 have recovered and 1,352 have died. A total of 5,038,697 PCR tests were conducted since the start of the pandemic.


COVID-19 pandemic in Hungary

The COVID-19 pandemic in Hungary is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of chinese coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). On 4 March 2020, the first cases in Hungary were announced. The first coronavirus-related death was announced on 15 March on the government's official website.

On 18 March 2020, Surgeon general Cecília Müller announced that the virus had spread to every part of the country. As of June 2021, Hungary has the second-highest COVID-19 death rate in the world.


Why We're Polarized

Why We're Polarized is a 2020 non-fiction book by American journalist Ezra Klein, in which the author analyzes political polarization in the United States. Focusing in particular on the growing polarization between the major political parties in the United States (the Democratic Party and the Republican Party), the author argues that a combination of good intentions gone wrong and inherent glitches in the institutional design of the country's federal government have caused widespread social problems.

Opinion on the book has varied considerably, with positive reviews in "The New York Times" and "Foreign Affairs", mostly positive but somewhat critical reviews in "The Washington Post", "Publishers Weekly", and "Kirkus Reviews", mixed reviews in "The New Yorker", "The New Republic", "Dissent", and "Jacobin", and mostly negative reviews in "The Wall Street Journal", "Commentary", and "The Outline".


Lodeynoye Pole

Lodeynoye Pole (, lit. "the field of boats") is a town and the administrative center of Lodeynopolsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Svir River (Lake Ladoga's basin) northeast of St. Petersburg. Population: 21,400 (1972).


Gim Myeong-won

Gim Myeong-won (1534–21 January 1603), also known as Kim Myeong-won, was a high official of the Joseon Dynasty, who served King Seonjo during the Seven Year War. Born to a yangban family of the Gyeongju Gim lineage, he was the son of another high-ranking official, Gim Man-gyun. He passed the civil service examination with the highest score in 1561, and was made "jwachamchan", a post of the second junior rank under the State Council. He gained prominence in 1589 when he exposed the treachery of provincial official Jeong Yeo-rip, who was plotting to attack the capital. At this time, he received the title of "Prince Gyeongnim" (경림군).

Upon the outbreak of war in 1592, Gim took up military duty, leading the Joseon army to consecutive defeats at the capital and again at the Imjin River. However, he remained vital to the royal family, as he led the army which guarded their retreat to Sunan in the far north following the surrender of Pyongyang.
After the first wave of the war was over, KGim retired from his post as general due to illness. He subsequently served in four ministerial posts in turn, those of Punishments, Rites, Public Works, and Military Affairs. Gim led the Joseon armies once again after the Japanese re-invasion of 1597. He was made Supreme Councillor ("uuijeong", 우의정) of the State Council in that year.

After his death, Gim was given the posthumous title of "Chungik-gong" (忠翼公), "Loyal-winged general."


Region 6 War Room

The Region 6 War Room is a nuclear bunker dating from the early days of the cold war, on the Whiteknights Park campus of the University of Reading in the English town of Reading. It is one of a number of such Regional War Rooms built during the 1950s and designed to co-ordinate civil defence in the event of an attack on the country using conventional bombs or atom bombs.

In the event of war, the war room would have housed the Regional Commissioner and his staff who would have directed the strategic response to air raids throughout the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, and the Isle of Wight. The Regional Commissioner had the authority to assume the full powers of the central government in this region if contact with central government was lost.
The war room takes the form of a two level windowless building, with the upper level being above ground level and protected by massive concrete walls, while the lower level is below ground level. The building is surmounted by towers containing filtration equipment. The bunker was designed to cope with attacks by weapons of the type used during the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.

The development of the hydrogen bomb and the expectation of mutually assured destruction meant that the war room was both inadequately protected, and seen as too small to support the large live-in staff that would be needed after a major nuclear strike. Its principal responsibilities were transferred to a new Regional Seat of Government RSG-6 at Warren Row near Maidenhead. Some sources suggest that it continued in use as a civil defence communications centre for some period after this transfer.

After ceasing to be used for civil defence purposes, the war room was taken over by the University and modified as a secure storage facility for use by the University Library. The building still exists, and can be found to the rear of the Department of Agriculture building, near the Earley Gate to the University's Whiteknights Campus. There is no public access to the interior of the building.

In the University's updated development plan announced in autumn 2007, the bunker was marked as being scheduled for demolition, along with the wartime 'temporary office buildings'. The land was to be used for a car park.

However, in March 2009, the threatened building received a Grade II heritage listing and is now protected.


Botola 2

Botola Pro 2, commonly known as Botola 2 (formerly known before as the "Groupement National de Football 2"), is the second division of the Moroccan football league, behind the Botola, the highest football league in Morocco. It features 16 teams across the country that compete for the top two positions in the competition which at the end of the season allows them promotion to the Botola. Each season as well, the 3 bottom teams are all relegated to the third-level, Division Nationale.


400 East Randolph

400 East Randolph Street Condominiums or simply 400 East Randolph (formerly Outer Drive East) is a 40-story high-rise in Chicago, Illinois, designed by Reinheimer & Associates. The building primarily consists of residential condominiums, though there are a few businesses and restaurants also located in the building. Situated on East Randolph Street on the New Eastside, the building sits between the Buckingham to its west and Harbor Point to its east. Two parks, Millennium Park and Lakeshore East Park, are immediately located to 400 East Randolph's south and north faces respectively. It is one of the buildings in the area that predates the new surrounding Lakeshore East development.

It was developed by Jerrold Wexler, who saw the legally protected lakefront as an ideal location for high income young office workers without children. In 1957, he encountered legal difficulties acquiring a lakefront site. Mayor Richard J. Daley, worried about a tendency of upscale Chicagoans to move to the suburbs, supported the project and told the planning department to make it work. The lakeshore was legally protected, but the city secured the needed legislation and resolved disputes with the Illinois Central Railroad, which originally owned the property. The city extended Randolph Drive into the lake area making the project possible. It was completed in 1962, as one of the largest apartment buildings in the world outside of New York City, with over 900 one-and two-bedroom units. It offered indoor parking, a pool and exercise facilities, a restaurant and a small grocery store. When it opened in 1962 "The Chicago Sun-Times" newspaper reported that Loop-area apartment towers such as Marina City, a few blocks away, "caught the city by surprise." A near-Loop location permitted one to walk to work at hundreds of office buildings, as well as walking access to the major department stores and theaters. In 1963 it became the first major apartment building in this part of downtown Chicago and started the trend of downtown living so that it is now surrounded by other upscale apartment and condominium buildings. However, after the 1970s, the amenities tended to leave the Loop and moved to North Michigan Avenue. It was converted from apartments to condominiums in 1973. Today the building houses a few businesses including the Lakefront Children's Academy and a Segway rental company.


KRWM

KRWM (106.9 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Bremerton, Washington, serving the Seattle/Puget Sound region. It is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, and airs an adult contemporary radio format. The station switches to all-Christmas music from mid-November to December 25.

KRWM broadcasts with 49,000 watts of effective radiated power (ERP) on a tower 1,302 feet in height above average terrain (HAAT). Its transmitter is located near Issaquah on Cougar Mountain, with its studios and offices located at Newport Corporate Center in Bellevue. KRWM broadcasts in HD. Its HD-2 signal plays year-round Christmas music (the main station plays Christmas music as well from mid-November through Christmas Day), and its HD-3 signal simulcasts sister station 880 KIXI.


Sparkman High School

Sparkman High School is a public high school in Harvest, Alabama, United States in the Madison County Schools district. The school was named after senator and former vice presidential nominee John Jackson Sparkman. Sparkman is one of the largest high schools in northern Alabama and serves students in grades 10-12. The school's mascot is a Senator. The school has an enrollment of around 2,400 students. Sparkman High's main rivals are Bob Jones High School and James Clemens High School.

In 2006, the Sparkman Ninth Grade School was built next to the high school.


Inese Galante

Inese Galante (born 12 March 1954) is a Latvian soprano opera singer. Galante is known for a great beauty of tone, nuanced pianissimos and sensitive command of dynamics and colour. Her performance of Vavilov's "Ave Maria" (often attributed to Giulio Caccini), from her "Debut" album 1995 started spreading worldwide interest in the piece.


Kouré shooting

The Kouré shooting was a mass shooting that occurred in Niger on 9 August 2020. The attack left at least 8 civilians dead, six French and two Nigeriens. The attack took place in Kouré, a rural community in Tillabéri Region.


2021 World Snooker Championship

The 2021 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 2021 Betfred World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professional snooker tournament, that took place from 17 April to 3 May 2021 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the 45th consecutive year for the World Snooker Championship to be held at the Crucible Theatre, and it was the 15th and final ranking event of the 2020–21 snooker season. The tournament was organised by the World Snooker Tour, a subsidiary of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. The event was sponsored by sports betting company Betfred and broadcast by the BBC, Eurosport and Matchroom Sport. The event featured a total prize fund of £2,395,000, with the winner receiving £500,000.

Qualifying for the tournament took place between 5 and 14 April 2021 at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. There were 128 participants in the qualifying rounds, with a mix of professional and invited amateur players, 16 of whom reached the main stage of the tournament where they played the top 16 players from the snooker world rankings. Ronnie O'Sullivan was the defending champion, having won his sixth world title at the previous year's event, defeating Kyren Wilson 18–8 in the final. This year, O'Sullivan lost in the second round to Anthony McGill 12–13. Mark Selby defeated Shaun Murphy 18–15 in the final to win his fourth world title and the 20th ranking title of his career. There were a record 108 century breaks made at the Crucible, with an additional 106 made in qualifying. The tournament's highest break was 144 by Murphy in the second round.


Welsh Courts Act 1942

The Welsh Courts Act 1942 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that allowed the Welsh language to be used in courts in Wales and Monmouthshire provided that the person speaking would be under a disadvantage in having to speak English.

Section 1 of the Act repealed section 17 of the Laws of Wales Act 1536 and stipulated that the Welsh language may be used in any court in Wales by any party or witness who considers that he would otherwise be at any disadvantage by reason of his natural language of communication being Welsh.

Section 2 of the Act allowed oaths and affirmations to be taken in Welsh with like effect as with English.

Section 1 of the Act was repealed by the Welsh Language Act 1967, which extended the right to use Welsh in legal proceedings to any person who wished to do so, and the rest by the Welsh Language Act 1993 which made Welsh an official language of Wales.


Ruthild Engert-Ely

Ruthild Engert-Ely (9 October 1940 – 5 May 2013) was a German operatic mezzo-soprano and alto.


Tresi Rudolph

Tresi Rudolph (18 August 1911 – 22 January 1997) was a German operatic soprano, actress and singing teacher.


John Gläser

John Gläser (12 June 1888 – 27 May 1968) was a German operatic tenor, voice teacher and Theaterfunktionär. His career as a performer spanned from 1911 up until 1942, after which he became a singing teacher in his later years.

Born in Berlin, Gläser was already a soloist of the Hof- und Domchor before he began his real singing studies in Berlin. His stage career started in 1911 at Theater Ulm. After that he was at the Landestheater Altenburg (Thuringia) and came to the Wrocław Opera in 1912. Five years later he went to the Oper Frankfurt, where he stayed until the end of his career. In Frankfurt he sang among others Elis on 21 January 1920 at the premiere of the opera "Der Schatzgräber" by Franz Schreker. Guest appearances took him to Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Vienna and to the Salzburg Festival of 1926, where he sang Bacchus in "Ariadne auf Naxos". On the occasion of his 25th anniversary in Frankfurt in 1942, he gave his last performance as "Canio" in "Pagliacci". After that he continued to work as a singing teacher. From 1961 to 1963 he was also honorary president of the Guild of the German Stage.


Maggie MacDonnell

Maggie MacDonnell is a Canadian educator and development practitioner who became the third recipient of the teaching prize award Global Teacher Prize, a $1 million award from Varkey Foundation. The prize was presented by the Prime minister and Vice president of the UAE, and the ruler of Emirate of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Maggie is teaching students at Salluit village where temperature often drops as low as -13 °C to -25°C in winter.


COVID-19 pandemic in Senegal

The COVID-19 pandemic in Senegal 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 Senegal on March 2, 2020.


Battle of Puiflijk

The Battle of Puiflijk occurred on 19 October 1794 in the Land van Maas en Waal region of the Netherlands during the Flanders campaign of the War of the First Coalition against Revolutionary France.

The battle took place in three different locations between French troops under the command of general Jean-Charles Pichegru and Coalition forces. The latter, the Allies, consisted of troops from Great Britain and a French Armée des émigrés force under the Prince of Rohan. They were led by the British commander-in-chief Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany.

The Allies had fortified themselves in outposts behind the Oude Wetering canal and the dykes of the Maas and Waal rivers. On 18 October 1794, the French crossed the Maas from Teeffelen (near Lithoijen) to Alphen. On 19 October, they attacked the Coalition outposts in three locations: near Appeltern (Blauwe Sluis), Altforst and the Waal dyke near Druten (Puiflijk).

At Blauwe Sluis, the forces of Rohan were pushed back after heavy fighting. In this action, 19 Emigrants were captured. They were brought before a French military court in Ravenstein 21 October 1794, where they were condemned to death and executed for 'treason'. The English forces were driven back in great disorder; in the action on the Waal dyke, the standard of the 37th English infantry regiment was captured by the Sans-culottes.


Roman pharaoh

The Roman pharaohs, rarely referred to as ancient Egypt's Thirty-fourth Dynasty, is the term sometimes used for the Roman emperors in their capacity as rulers of Egypt, especially in Egyptology. After Egypt was incorporated into the Roman Empire in 30 BC, the people and especially the priesthood of the country continued to recognize the Roman emperors as pharaohs, according them traditional pharaonic titularies and depicting them with traditional pharaonic garb, engaging in traditional pharaonic activities, in artwork and at temples throughout Egypt.Although the Egyptians themselves considered the Romans to be their pharaohs and the legitimate successors of the ancient pharaohs, the emperors themselves never adopted any pharaonic titles or traditions outside of Egypt, as these would have been hard to justify in the Roman world at large. Most emperors probably cared little of the status accorded to them by the Egyptians, with emperors rarely visiting the province more than once in their lifetime. Their role as god-kings was only ever officially acknowledged by the Egyptians themselves. This was a sharp contrast to the preceding dynasty of pharaohs of Hellenistic Ptolemaic Kingdom, who had spent the majority of their lives in Egypt, ruling from Alexandria. Pharaohs before Egypt's incorporation into the Achaemenid Empire in the Late Period had also all ruled the country from within Egypt. However, Roman Egypt was governed differently from other Roman provinces, with emperors hand-picking governors for the region and often treating it more like a personal possession than a province.

Though not all Roman emperors were recognized as pharaohs, Egyptian religion demanded the presence of a pharaoh to act as the intermediate between humanity and the gods. The Romans being seen as pharaohs proved to be the most simple solution, and was similar to how the Persians had been regarded as pharaohs centuries prior (constituting the Twenty-seventh and Thirty-first dynasties).

Though Egypt continued to be a part of the Roman Empire until it was conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate in 641 AD, the last Roman emperor to be conferred the title of pharaoh was Maximinus Daza (reigned 311–313 AD). By his time, the view of Romans as pharaohs had already been declining for some time due to Egypt being on the periphery of the Roman Empire (in contrast to the traditional pharaonic view of Egypt as the center of the world). The spread of Christianity throughout the empire in the 4th century, and the transformation of Egypt's capital Alexandria into a major Christian center, decisively ended the tradition, due to the new religion being incompatible with the traditional implications of being pharaoh.


Kurdish melodies

"Kurdish melodies (, ) is a collection of Kurdish folk songs collected and transcribed by Armenian composer Komitas during field work among Kurds and published in December 1903. Despite collecting a large amount of Kurdish melodies, most of them were lost and "Kurdish melodies" became the only publication of Kurdish songs by Komitas. "Kurdish melodies" would consequently become the first publication of Kurdish music.


Binnypet (Vidhana Sabha constituency)

Binnypet (Vidhana Sabha constituency) was one of the 224 constituencies in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly of Karnataka a south state of India. It was a part of Bangalore North Lok Sabha constituency.


Orphan 55

"Orphan 55" is the third episode of the twelfth series of the British science fiction television programme "Doctor Who", first broadcast on BBC One on 12 January 2020. It was written by Ed Hime, and directed by Lee Haven Jones.

In the episode, the Thirteenth Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and her companions Graham O'Brien (Bradley Walsh), Ryan Sinclair (Tosin Cole), and Yasmin Khan (Mandip Gill) are transported to a tranquility spa after Graham wins a free holiday, but the resort turns out to be on a barren 'orphan' planet overrun with mutated beings.

The episode was watched by 5.38 million viewers, and was the twelfth series' most poorly rated episode among critics and viewers.


Pika Lake

The Pika Lake is a fresh body of water constituting the main head lake of the Pika River on the watershed of the Saguenay River. Lac Pika is located in the unorganized territory of Lac-Achouakan, in the Lac-Saint-Jean-Est Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. This lake is located in the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve.

This small valley is served indirectly by the route 169 and some secondary roads for the needs of forestry, recreational tourism activities.

Forestry is the main economic activity in the sector; recreational tourism, second.

The surface of Lake Pika is usually frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March, however the safe circulation on the ice is generally made from mid-December to mid-March.


Yvann Maçon

Yvann Maçon (born 1 October 1998) is a French professional footballer who plays as a defender for Ligue 1 club Saint-Étienne.


Ryfylke Tunnel

The Ryfylke Tunnel () is an undersea road tunnel in Rogaland county, Norway. It is part of the Norwegian National Road 13 running between North-Jæren (Stavanger/Sandnes) and Ryfylke (district) under the Horgefjord (part of the Boknafjorden). The tunnel is part of the Ryfast project. It is long and is currently the world's longest and deepest subsea road tunnel (until Rogfast is projected to open in 2031).

The tunnel is designed for 10,000 vehicles per day and is built with one tube for each traffic-direction, and two vehicular lanes in each tube. The entrance on the Ryfylke side is located about north of Solbakk in Strand municipality (just south of Tau). The entrance on the "city side" is on Hundevåg island in Stavanger municipality. Construction began in 2013, and the tunnel opened on 30 December 2019. A half marathon was held in the tunnel on 5 October 2019.

The tunnel has a toll of (about $15) for vehicles in tariff group 1 (light vehicles) starting February 1st 2020, zero-emission vehicles will pay (about $6). Tariff group 2 must pay (about $46).


COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia

The COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The medical response and preparedness to the outbreak in Malaysia are overseen by Director-General of Health Noor Hisham Abdullah under the Health Ministry of two successive governments. The first cases in Malaysia were confirmed among travellers from China in Johor via Singapore on 25 January. While the outbreak was initially limited to imported cases, several local clusters emerged in March 2021. The most notable was a Tablighi Jamaat religious gathering in Kuala Lumpur, which cause a massive spike in local cases and imported cases in neighbouring countries. By the end of March, the total number of cases had risen from below 30 to a staggering 2,000 active cases across every state and federal territory in the country.

At over 750,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, over 65,000 active cases, and over 5,200 deaths, the country is currently ranked third in the number of cases and deaths due to COVID-19 in Southeast Asia, behind Indonesia and the Philippines.

In response to rising cases, the Malaysian government led by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin imposed a nationwide lockdown known as Movement Control Order, which came into effect on 18 March 2020. By early May, these MCO lockdowns had led to a gradual decline in daily infections. In response, the Malaysian government progressively relaxed lockdown restrictions in a staggered phase; beginning with the "Conditional Movement Control Order" (CMCO) on 4 May 2020, which allows most business sectors to be reopened under strict standard operating procedures (SOPs), followed by the "Recovery Movement Control Order" (RMCO) on 10 June 2020. The Malaysian government had planned to end RMCO at the end of August 2020 but due to the continuous detection of imported cases, measures were extended until the end of the year, with several sectors remained closed as well as the enforcement of strict travel restrictions from several countries.

The third wave of COVID-19 infections in the country occurred as a result of the Sabah state election in September 2020 and several outbreaks at Top Glove facilities in late 2020. In response to a sharp rise in cases nationwide throughout late 2020 and early 2021, the Malaysian government reinstated CMCO and RMCO restrictions in most states. By January 2021, the crippling effect of COVID-19 on the country's healthcare system led to the reintroduction of MCO restrictions across the various Malaysian states and federal territories, which was extended to February 18 and then to March 4, 2021. A nationwide state of emergency was also declared on 12 January 2021 by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to curb the COVID-19 spread, hence suspending Parliament and State Legislative assemblies and granting the Muhyiddin government emergency powers until 1 August 2021.

Due to a decline in new cases by early March, the government lifted MCO restrictions in most states and federal territories. The COVID-19 vaccination programme in Malaysia also began in late February 2021 as an approach to achieve herd immunity against COVID-19 among its citizens and non-citizens that are residing in the country. Since mid-April 2021, several states with an increase in the number of daily infection cases have been placed under MCO restrictions by the government. With novel SARS-CoV-2 variants detected in Malaysia, exacerbated by a rapid surge in daily COVID-19 case and death numbers in the country, the government reintroduced a nationwide "total lockdown" MCO once more, which began on May 12, 2021.


Lyon's snake-eyed skink

Lyon's snake-eyed skink ("Austroablepharus barrylyoni)" is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Queensland in Australia.


Apple A12Z

The Apple A12Z Bionic is a 64-bit ARM-based system on a chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc.

The chip was unveiled on March 18, 2020, as part of a press release for the iPad Pro (2020), the first device to use it. Apple officials touted the chip as faster than most Windows laptops of the time. The chip has an 8-core GPU, one more core than its predecessor, the Apple A12X, which enables better and faster 4K video editing, rendering, and augmented reality. The chip also features tuned performance controllers and a better thermal architecture, which may allow for higher clock speeds. On the iPad Pro it is paired with 6 GB of LPDDR4X RAM. Both the A12Z and A12X are the same, with the A12Z having all 8 GPU cores enabled instead of just 7.

According to floor plan analysis by technology patents firm TechInsights, the A12Z Bionic is the same as the A12X chip, but with an extra GPU core enabled. AnandTech theorized that the A12Z is a re-binned variant of the A12X, which is a common practice in semiconductor manufacturing, allowing the new chip to perform somewhat better than the previous generation because of slightly higher-quality integrated circuits.

At its 2020 WorldWide Developer's Conference, Apple introduced a prototype ARM-based Mac based on the A12Z with 16 GB RAM in a Mac mini enclosure, the first Macintosh computer to use an Apple in-house processor, and the only one to use an A-series processor.


Rivière aux Rognons

The Rivière aux Rognons ("English: Kidneys River") is a tributary of the northeast shore of the Jeannotte River, flowing in the municipality of Lac-Édouard and the town of La Tuque, in the administrative region of Mauricie, in province, in Quebec, in Canada.

The course of the “Rivière aux Rognons” descends on the west side of the Batiscan River and on the east side of the Saint-Maurice River. This river is part of the hydrographic side of the Batiscan River which generally winds south to the north bank of the St. Lawrence River.

The course of the “Rivière aux Rognons” descends entirely into the forest zone in a territory considered to be an island, taking into account that lac Édouard (Quebec) has two outlets. This island is bounded by the Batiscan River (to the east), the Jeannotte River (to the west) and the Lake Édouard (Quebec) (to the north). The river surface is generally frozen from mid-December until the end of March.

Since the middle of the 19th century, forestry has been the predominant activity of the "Rivière aux Rognons" watershed.


Ħal Farruġ

Ħal Farruġ is a hamlet located in the south east of Malta. It was run down in 1941 due to the construction of a new British-controlled airfield. The new runway was to be designated runway 31 and is now the major runway in the Malta International Airport. As of Friday, September 2020, the Maltese Government transferred to the Valletta (The nation's capital) Football Club to be used as a football pitch. A Covid-19 swab-test center was opened in March 2020. It is located on the outskirts of the hamlet.


Virrey del Pino

Virrey del Pino is a city in La Matanza Partido, in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina.

With a total of 117 km², it is the most extensive city in the La Matanza Partido. It is crossed by the RN 3 between kilometers 34 and 48. In this town, there is a Mercedes-Benz plant, in which the Sprinter and Vito utilities are produced, the chassis OF 1621, OH 1621 & 1721 and the Atron 1720 truck. Also in this town, there is the main plant of soft drinks Manaos (drink) and the radio station of Radio Continental.


Brauro Cove

Brauro Cove (, ‘Ivaylov Zaliv’ \i-'vay-lov 'za-liv\) is the 1.93 km wide cove indenting for 620 m the northwest coast of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is entered southwest of Mezdra Point and northeast of Irnik Point.

The feature is named after the Thracian goddess Brauro.


Goel Ratzon

Goel Ratzon (, born 19 September 1950) is an Israeli polygamist who led a cult in Hatikva Quarter in south Tel Aviv. As the cult leader, Ratzon had 21 wives, with whom he bore 49 children. In September 2014, Tel Aviv-Yafo District Court convicted Ratzon of rape, fraud, and other criminal charges against his wives and daughters. He was sentenced to 30 years of imprisonment.


1988 October Revolution Parade

The 1988 October Revolution Parade was a parade that took place in Red Square in Moscow on November 7, 1988 to commemorate the 71st anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution. Mikhail Gorbachev the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikolai Ryzhkov the Premier of the Soviet Union, along with other senior officials within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union viewed the parade from the grandstand Lenin's Mausoleum.

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Ghyslain Tremblay

Ghyslain Tremblay (April 29, 1951 – April 7, 2020) was a Canadian actor and comedian.

Tremblay was married to actress Danielle Brassard-Leduc. They had two sons before divorcing. He died at age 68 from COVID-19, during the pandemic in Quebec; he had been suffering of Alzheimer's disease for ten years.


Heidi Viljanen

Heidi Viljanen (born 18 August 1980 in Kankaanpää) is a Finnish politician currently serving in the Parliament of Finland for the Social Democratic Party of Finland at the Satakunta constituency.


Saproscincus oriarius

Saproscincus oriarius is a species of skink found in New South Wales in Australia.


The 1880 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 2, 1880, as part of the 1880 United States presidential election. Voters chose 21 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Illinois voted for the Republican nominee, James A. Garfield, over the Democratic nominee, Winfield Scott Hancock. Garfield won the state by a margin of 6.55%.


Halbleiterwerk Frankfurt (Oder)

VEB Halbleiterwerk Frankfurt (Oder) (abbreviated HFO or HWF) was the largest manufacturer of semiconductor devices in the German Democratic Republic. In 1989, HFO produced 110 million integrated circuits (70% of all integrated circuits produced in the GDR in that year), 9.7 million transistors, and 150 million transistor chips. Despite this, HFO did not rise to prominence like Zentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden (of "megabit chip" fame) or VEB Mikroelektronik "Karl Marx" Erfurt (known for its microprocessors). Also unlike Zentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden and VEB Mikroelektronik "Karl Marx" Erfurt, HFO did not survive long after German Reunification.


Zinédine Ould Khaled

Zinédine Ould Khaled (born 14 January 2000) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Angers SCO.


Corsia ornata

Corsia ornata is a species of flowering plant in the genus "Corsia" of the small family Corsiaceae, part of the monocot order Liliales. They are saprophytes (Myco-heterotrophs), lacking the ability to photosynthesise, being dependent on other organisms for their nutrition. The plant lives underground, sending up purplish stems above ground in order to flower. The leaves are reduced to scales. One of the six petal-like tepals named the labellum (a little lip), is specialised, being enlarged and hanging protectively over the reproductive organs. It was discovered in New Guinea in 1875, but has since been sighted in Queensland, Australia.