2020 (MMXX) is a leap year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar and is the current year.  It is the first year of the 2020s.  It is the 20th year of the 21st century.

The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic has led to severe global socioeconomic disruption.

Events

January

January 1 — All works published in 1924, except sound recordings, enter the public domain in the United States.
January 3 — A U.S. airstrike near Baghdad International Airport kills Iranian military general Qasem Soleimani, fueling the Persian Gulf crisis.
 January 5 – Second Libyan Civil War: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces that Turkish troops will be deployed to Libya on behalf of the United Nations.
 January 7 – Persian Gulf crisis: 56 people are reported killed and over 200 are crushed on by others at the funeral of Qasem Soleimani in the city of Kerman, Iran.
January 8 — A plane bound for Ukraine crashes just after taking off from Tehran, Iran, killing all 176 on board. It was later announced that Iran accidentally shot down the plane.
January 9 — ISIL militants assault a Nigerien military base at Chinagodrar, killing at least 89 Nigerien soldiers.
January 10 — The Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said, dies aged 79. He is replaced by Haitham bin Tariq.
January 11 — Incumbent President of the Republic of China Tsai Ing-wen is re-elected winning 57% of the vote.
January 15 — Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced his resignation. He was replaced by Mikhail Mishustin.
 January 18 – Yemeni Civil War: 111 Yemeni soldiers and five civilians are killed in a drone and missile attack on a military camp near Ma'rib.
January 26 — Nine Americans, including basketball legend Kobe Bryant, are killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California.
January 28 — President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announce the Trump peace plan.
January 30 — The World Health Organization declared 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak, originating in Wuhan, China.
January 31 — The United Kingdom and Gibraltar leave the European Union.

February

February 4 — Former President Daniel arap Moi, who ruled Kenya for twenty-four years, dies aged 95.
February 5 — President Donald Trump is found innocent during his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate.
February 8 — A Thai soldier shoots and kills 29 people at a mall in the Nakhon Ratchasima Province.
February 9 — The South Korean movie, Parasite, becomes the first non-English-language movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
 February 11 — 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak: The World Health Organization (WHO) names the disease COVID-19.
 February 13 — NASA publishes a detailed study of Arrokoth, the most distant body ever explored by a spacecraft, which New Horizons passed by on its journey through the Kuiper Belt.
 February 19 — Shootings in Hanau, Germany, leaves eleven people dead and five others wounded.
 February 25 — Former President Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for nearly thirty years only to be removed from office during the Arab Spring, dies aged 91.
 February 27 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges by 1,190.95 points, or 4.4%, to close at 25,766.64, its largest one-day points decline in history. This follows several days of large falls, marking the worst week for the index since 2008, triggered by fears of the spreading coronavirus. This would cause a massive global stock market crash.
 February 28 – Ambassadors of all 29 NATO Allies meet in the North Atlantic Council expressing solidarity with Turkey after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in an air strike by the Syrian government forces during the ongoing Syrian civil war.
 February 29 – A truce is signed between American troops, Afghan troops, and the Taliban.

March

March 3
 Several tornadoes tear through Nashville, Tennessee, killing 25.
 Adisumarmo International Airport in Solo (Surakarta), Java, Indonesia, is closed after the eruption of Mount Merapi volcano.
March 4 – Former Secretary-General of the United Nations and Prime Minister of Peru Javier Pérez de Cuéllar dies at the age of 100.
March 5 – The I.C.C. approves the Afghanistan War Crimes Inquiry to begin, allowing for the first time for U.S. citizens to be investigated.
 March 8 – Italy places 16 million people in quarantine, more than a quarter of its population, in a bid to stop the spread of coronavirus.
 March 9 – Share prices fall sharply around the world due to an oil price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia, caused by the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 2,000 points. Oil prices fell by as much as 30% in early trading.
 March 11 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic.
March 12 – Global stock markets crash three days after Black Monday due to continued concerns over COVID-19 and the U.S. travel ban on the Schengen Area. The Dow Jones Industrial Average went into free fall, closing at over -2,300 points.
 March 13 – The Government of Nepal announced that Mount Everest would closed off from the public and climbers for the rest of the season over concerns rising from the coronavirus pandemic.
March 14 – Spain goes into lockdown after the country is hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic the day before declaring the Alarm Status.
March 15 - New Zealand cancels the mass gathering marking the first anniversary of the 2019 Christchurch Mosque massacre due to 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic.
March 16 – Oil prices fall into the $20 range, down 10 percent from the previous day amid the coronavirus pandemic, as The Fed cuts interest rates to zero.
March 17
The Iranian government says that "millions" may die from the coronavirus if people keep ignoring health guidelines and continue traveling. Two major shrines were closed on March 16 after fiathful pushed into the courtyards. 90% of the 18,000 coronavirus cases in the Middle East have taken place in Iran; 988 people have died in the country.
 European leaders close the EU's external and Schengen borders for at least 30 days, in an effort to slow the COVID-19 pandemic.
 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: UEFA postpones the Euro 2020 association football tournament until summer 2021.
 March 18 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2020 would be cancelled due to 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic in Europe. It's the first in the history of the contest to be cancelled.
 March 20 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The worldwide death toll from COVID-19 passes 10,000 as the total number of cases reaches a quarter of a million.
 March 23 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The International Baccalaureate cancels the May 2020 IB Exams, affecting 200,000 students worldwide.
 March 24
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: 2.6 billion people, a third of the world's population, face some form of movement restrictions as India goes into lockdown for 21 days to curb the spread of COVID-19.
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang reports that "the spread of domestically transmitted epidemic has been basically blocked" and the outbreak has been controlled in China.
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The United Kingdom goes into lockdown for three weeks to contain COVID-19.
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Japan suspends the Summer Olympics until 2021.
 March 25 – American FBI official Robert Levinson was declared dead by his family after being missing for nearly thirteen years while on a CIA mission. It is believed he died while being held captive by the Iranian government.
 March 26
 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Global COVID-19 cases reach 500,000, with nearly 23,000 deaths confirmed. The United States surpasses China and Italy in total number of known COVID-19 cases, with at least 81,321 cases and more than 1,000 deaths.
China temporarily suspends entry for foreign nationals with visas or residence permits, effective midnight March 28.
Militants in the Philippines, Syria, Yemen, and Libya agree to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres's call for a cease fire; some accept medical aid for themselves and the noncobatants in their communities. Guterres also asked wealthy countries to provide $2 billion to aid in fighting the virus. Colombia and Venezuela discussed a common response to the globabl pandemic, and the UAE has airlifted aid to Iran.
 March 27
 North Macedonia becomes the 30th country to join NATO.
 Hamed Karoui, who was Prime Minister of Tunisia for ten years, dies at the age of 92.
March 30
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The number of deaths in Spain, 7,340, passes those in China.
2020 Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war: The price of Brent Crude falls 9% to $23 per barrel, the lowest level since November 2002.
2020 Summer Olympics: The International Olympic Committee announced of rescheduled Olympics will be July 23 to August 8, 2021.
Former Premier of the Republic of China General Hau Pei-tsun dies of multiple organ failure, aged 100.

April

 April 1 – Former Prime Minister of Somalia Nur Hassan Hussein dies of COVID-19, aged 82.
 April 2 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Over 1,000,000 cases of COVID-19 are confirmed worldwide.
April 3 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong announced a much stricter set of rules called "Circuit Breaker", starting 7 April until at least 4 May. All non-essential workplaces will be closed during this period. Schools will move to home-based learning, and preschools will close.
 April 5
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The first case of COVID-19 in a zoo animal is reported; a four-year-old female Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York.
Mahmoud Jibril, interim Libyan Prime Minister who oversaw the 2011 civil war and the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, dies of COVID-19 at aged 67.
April 7 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Japan declares a state of emergency in response to COVID-19, and passes a stimulus package worth 108 trillion yen ($990 billion), equal to 20% of the country's GDP.
April 8 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: China ends the lockdown in Wuhan, with people allowed to leave the city for the first time in 76 days.
April 10 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 100,000 globally, a ten-fold increase from March 20.
April 12–13 – At least thirty people are killed in an Easter Sunday tornado outbreak in the Southeastern United States.
April 13 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Spain partially stops some lockdown rules, allowing around 300,000 non-essential workers, such as construction and manufacturing industries to return to their jobs.
 April 15
 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 2 million worldwide.
 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Denmark partially lift some of its lockdown rules, allowing children up to age 11 returned to school.
 April 17
 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: China fixes the coronavirus death toll upward in Wuhan, where the virus originated, adding 1,290 more fatalities to bring the country's reported deaths from COVID-19 to 4,632.
 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Europe passes the 100,000 deaths mark.
April 18–April 19 – At least 23 people are killed at random at several places in Nova Scotia, Canada. It was the deadliest attack of its kind in Canadian history.
April 20 – Oil prices reach a record low, falling into negative values, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war.
April 24 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Ecuador revises its total confirmed cases to 22,719, doubled from previous day, caused by increased test capacity and presentation of delayed results.
April 25 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 200,000 globally. The U.K. becomes the fifth country to report 20,000 deaths.
April 26
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The number of cases in Iran passes 90,000.
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Spain further partially eases its lockdown rules, allowing children up to 14 to go outside their home for at most one hour.
April 27 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 3 million worldwide, while the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States passes 1 million.
April 28 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Russia's 87,147 COVID-19 cases passes the 84,341 in China.

Predicted and scheduled events

Scheduled
April 12 — North Macedonian parliamentary election.
April 26
Chilean constitutional referendum.
Serbian parliamentary election.
May 17 — Dominican Republic presidential election.
June 12—July 12 — UEFA Euro 2020 will be held in 12 European countries.  2020 Copa América will be held in Argentina and Colombia.
July 17 — NASA plans a mission to Mars to study the planet's habitability for future human missions.
September 6 —  New Caledonian independence referendum.
October 20 — The 2020 World Expo expected to open in Dubai, UAE.
November 3 — United States presidential election.

Date unknown
 The main segment of track extending from San Francisco to Anaheim of the California High Speed Rail system is completed.
 JAXA plans to send robotic astronauts to the Moon, followed by human astronauts
 This is the year that the Hong Kong MTR South Island Line east section is expected to be completed.
 Last nuclear power plant in Germany scheduled to shut down.
 British newspaper The Guardian published a series of magazines in September 2004 predicting life in 2020. These predictions include widespread use of artificially intelligent cars, "smart" clothing incorporating computer chips, and green energy sources.
 Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council's 2020 Project was published in December 2004 with a long-term view of the future. The NIC is the center for midterm and long-term strategic thinking within the US Government.
 In Australia, Queensland is expected to overtake Victoria as the second most populous state of the nation.
 Mayans Predict Age of Transition.
 Global oil production is expected to peak.
 According to current plans and workings for Project Constellation, NASA should be returning Humans to the Moon by 2020.
 The Russian Federal Space Agency says that they plan to be mining helium-3 from the moon by this year.
 Earliest year that power aboard the space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 is expected to terminate (though either probe may function past this date).
 NASA Venus Surface Explorer mission to Venus (part of the New Frontiers program)
 Several underdeveloped countries have plans to become developed countries by 2020:
 Trinidad and Tobago becomes a developed country under the Vision 2020 development plan initiated by Prime Minister Patrick Manning.
 Malaysia becomes a developed country, under the Wawasan 2020 plan initiated by former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
 Chile becomes a developed country.
 India becomes a developed country as pledged by President A P J Abdul Kalam.
 Oman becomes a developed country under 2020 long term development plan.
 Philippines becomes a developed country as pledged by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
 Shanghai is set to become an "international financial centre and global shipping hub."
 If current trends continue, according to the United Nations, the Aral Sea could disappear completely by this year.
 Volvo hopes to use radar, sonar and other advanced technologies to create a crash-proof car by 2020.
 The IBM Institute for Business Value concluded from their study "Automotive 2020: Clarity Beyond the Chaos" that all automobiles will have some level of hybridization by  2020. Toyota's vice president in charge of powertrain development also believes that all Toyota cars produced will be hybrid vehicles by the year 2020.

Deaths

January

 January 1
 Don Larsen, American baseball player (b. 1929)
 David Stern, American businessman and former NBA commissioner (b. 1942)
 January 2 – John Baldessari, American conceptual artist (b. 1931)
 January 3
 Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Iraqi-Iranian military commander (b. 1954)
 Qasem Soleimani, Iranian general (b. 1957)
 January 5
 Anri Jergenia, 4th Prime Minister of Abkhazia (b. 1941)
 Hans Tilkowski, German football goalkeeper and manager (b. 1935)
 January 6 – Luís Morais, Brazilian football player (b. 1930)
 January 7
 Khamis Al-Dosari, Saudi Arabian footballer (b. 1973)
 Silvio Horta, American screenwriter and television producer (b. 1974)
 Neil Peart, Canadian drummer and lyricist (b. 1952)
 Elizabeth Wurtzel, American writer and journalist (b. 1967)
 January 8
 Edd Byrnes, American actor (b. 1932)
 Buck Henry, American actor, screenwriter and television producer (b. 1930)
 Infanta Pilar de Borbón, Spanish royal (b. 1936)
 January 9 – Mike Resnick, American science fiction author (b. 1942)
 January 10
 Neda Arnerić, Serbian film actress (b. 1953)
 Guido Messina, Italian racing cyclist (b. 1931)
 Qaboos bin Said, Sultan of Oman (b. 1940)
 January 11 – Tom Belsø, Danish motor racing driver (b. 1942)
 January 12 – Roger Scruton, British philosopher and writer (b. 1944)
 January 13 – Isabel-Clara Simó, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1943)
 January 15
 Rocky Johnson, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1944)
 Christopher Tolkien, British academic and editor (b. 1924)
 January 16
 Efraín Sánchez, Colombian footballer and manager (b. 1926)
 Zhao Zhongxiang, Chinese television host (b. 1942)
 January 17
 Pietro Anastasi, Italian football player (b. 1948)
 Derek Fowlds, English actor (b. 1937)
 January 19
 Jimmy Heath, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1926)
 Shin Kyuk-ho, South Korean businessman (b. 1921)
 January 21
 Hédi Baccouche, 6th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1930)
 Terry Jones, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1942)
 Tengiz Sigua, 2nd Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1934)
 Theodor Wagner, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1927)
 January 23
 Alfred Körner, Austrian footballer (b. 1926)
 Gudrun Pausewang, German writer (b. 1928)
 January 24
 Duje Bonačić, Croatian rower (b. 1929)
 Juan José Pizzuti, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1927)
 Rob Rensenbrink, Dutch footballer (b. 1947)
 January 26
 Kobe Bryant, American professional basketball player (b. 1978)
 Louis Nirenberg, Canadian-American mathematician (b. 1925)
 January 28 – Nicholas Parsons, English radio and TV presenter (b. 1923)
 January 30 – Jörn Donner, Finnish writer, film director and politician (b. 1933)
 January 31
 Mary Higgins Clark, American novelist (b. 1927)
 Janez Stanovnik, 12th President of SR of Slovenia (b. 1922)

February

 February 1 – Andy Gill, English musician (b. 1956)
 February 2 – Mike Moore, 34th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1949)
 February 3 – George Steiner, French-American literary critic and essayist (b. 1929)
 February 4
 José Luis Cuerda, Spanish filmmaker, screenwriter and producer (b. 1947)
 Daniel arap Moi, 2nd President of Kenya (b. 1924)
 February 5
 Stanley Cohen, American Nobel biochemist (b. 1922)
 Kirk Douglas, American actor, director and producer (b. 1916)
 February 6 – Jhon Jairo Velásquez, Colombian hitman and drug dealer (b. 1962)
 February 7
 Orson Bean, American actor, comedian and producer (b. 1928)
 Li Wenliang, Chinese ophthalmologist (b. 1986)
 Nexhmije Pagarusha, Albanian singer and actress (b. 1933)
 February 8 – Robert Conrad, American actor (b. 1935)
 February 9 – Mirella Freni, Italian soprano (b. 1935)
 February 10 – Lyle Mays, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1953)
 February 11 – Joseph Shabalala, South African musician (b. 1941)
 February 12 – Geert Hofstede, Dutch social psychologist (b. 1928)
 February 13 – Rajendra K. Pachauri, Indian scientist (b. 1940)
 February 14 – Lynn Cohen, American actress (b. 1933)
 February 15 – Caroline Flack, English presenter (b. 1979)
 February 16
 Harry Gregg, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1932)
 Larry Tesler, American computer scientist (b. 1945)
 February 17
 Ja'Net DuBois, American actress, singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
 Mário da Graça Machungo, 1st Prime Minister of Mozambique (b. 1940)
 Kizito Mihigo, Rwandan gospel singer, organist and peace activist (b. 1981)
 Andrew Weatherall, English music DJ and producer (b. 1963)
 February 18
José Bonaparte, Argentine paleontologist (b. 1928)
 Sonja Ziemann, German actress (b. 1926)
 February 22 – Kiki Dimoula, Greek poet (b. 1931)
 February 24
 Katherine Johnson, American mathematician (b. 1918)
 Diana Serra Cary, American child actress (b. 1918)
 Jahn Teigen, Norwegian singer (b. 1949)
 February 25
Mario Bunge, Argentine philosopher (b. 1919)
 Nexhmije Hoxha, Albanian politician (b. 1921)
 Hosni Mubarak, 41st Prime Minister and 4th President of Egypt (b. 1928)
 Dmitry Yazov, Soviet and Russian marshal (b. 1924)
 February 27 – Sudhakar Chaturvedi, Indian Vedic Scholar and Supercentenarian (b. 1897)
 February 28 – Freeman Dyson, British-born American physicist and mathematician (b. 1923)
 February 29 – Éva Székely, Hungarian swimmer, Olympic champion (b. 1927)

March

 March 1
 Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan poet and priest (b. 1925)
 Jack Welch, American business executive and writer (b. 1935)
 March 2
James Lipton, American writer, lyricist and actor (b. 1926)
 Ulay, German performance artist (b. 1943)
 March 3 – Stanisław Kania, Polish politician (b. 1927)
 March 4
 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, 137th Prime Minister of Peru and 5th United Nations Secretary-General (b. 1920)
 Robert Shavlakadze, Georgian high jumper (b. 1933)
 March 6
 Henri Richard, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player (b. 1936)
 McCoy Tyner, American jazz pianist (b. 1938)
 March 8 – Max von Sydow, Swedish-French actor (b. 1929)
 March 9 – Richard K. Guy, British mathematician (b. 1916)
 March 11
 Charles Wuorinen, American composer (b. 1938)
 Michel Roux, French chef and restaurateur (b. 1941)
 March 12 – Tonie Marshall, French-American actress, screenwriter, and film director (b. 1951)
 March 13 – Dana Zátopková, Czech javelin thrower (b. 1922)
 March 14 – Genesis P-Orridge, English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and occultist (b. 1950)
 March 15 – Vittorio Gregotti, Italian architect (b. 1927)
 March 16 – Stuart Whitman, American actor (b. 1928)
 March 17
 Eduard Limonov, Russian writer, poet, publicist, and political dissident (b. 1943)
 Roger Mayweather, American professional boxer and trainer (b. 1961)
 Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo, Acting President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1958)
Betty Williams, Northern Ireland Nobel peace activist (b. 1943)
 Alfred Worden, American astronaut (b. 1932)
 March 18
 Catherine Hamlin, Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist (b. 1924)
 Joaquín Peiró, Spanish football player (b. 1936)
 March 20
 Amadeo Carrizo, Argentine footballer (b. 1926)
 Kenny Rogers, American country singer and songwriter (b. 1938)
 March 21 – Lorenzo Sanz, Spanish sports executive (b. 1943)
 March 23
Lucia Bosè, Italian actress and beauty pageant winner (b. 1931)
Branko Cikatić, Yugoslav and Croatian kickboxer (b. 1954)
 March 24
Manu Dibango, Cameroonian saxophonist (b. 1933)
Stuart Gordon, American film director (b. 1947)
Terrence McNally, American playwright (b. 1938
Albert Uderzo, French comic book artist (b. 1927)
 March 26 – Michel Hidalgo, French footballer and manager (b. 1933)
 March 27 – Hamed Karoui, Tunisian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1927)
 March 28 – Tom Coburn, American politician (b. 1948)
 March 29
Philip Warren Anderson, American Nobel physicist (b. 1923)
Yuri Bondarev, Russian writer (b. 1924)
Joe Diffie, American country music singer (b. 1958)
Ken Shimura, Japanese comedian (b. 1950)
Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer and conductor (b. 1933)
 March 30
 Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and resistance fighter (b. 1922)
 Hau Pei-tsun, 13th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1919)
 Bill Withers, American singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
 Joachim Yhombi-Opango, 4th President and 12th Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)
 March 31 – Abdul Halim Khaddam, Acting President of Syria (b. 1932)

April

 April 1
Nur Hassan Hussein, 12th Prime Minister of Somalia (b. 1937)
 Ellis Marsalis Jr., American jazz pianist (b. 1934)
 Adam Schlesinger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1967)
April 4 – Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero, 31st President of Honduras (b. 1943)
 April 5
 Honor Blackman, English actress (b. 1925)
 Margaret Burbidge, English-born American astrophysicist (b. 1919)
 Shirley Douglas, Canadian actress and civil rights activist (b. 1934)
 Mahmoud Jibril, former Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1952)
 Pentti Linkola, Finnish deep ecologist and writer (b. 1932)
 April 6
 Radomir Antić, Serbian football manager and player (b. 1948)
 James Drury, American actor (b. 1934)
 Al Kaline, American baseball player (b. 1934)
 April 7
 Allen Garfield, American actor (b. 1939)
 John Prine, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
 April 8 – Valeriu Muravschi, 1st Prime Minister of Moldova (b. 1949)
 April 10
 Enrique Múgica, Spanish politician (b. 1932)
 Nobuhiko Obayashi, Japanese filmmaker (b. 1938)
 April 11
John Horton Conway, English mathematician (b. 1937)
 Edem Kodjo, 3rd Prime Minister of Togo (b. 1938)
 April 12
 Peter Bonetti, English footballer (b. 1941)
 Stirling Moss, English F1 driver (b. 1929)
 Chung Won-shik, 21st Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1928)
 April 13
 Ryo Kawasaki, Japanese jazz fusion guitarist and composer (b. 1947)
 Landelino Lavilla, Spanish politician (b. 1934)
 April 15
 Brian Dennehy, American actor and writer (b. 1938)
 Rubem Fonseca, Brazilian writer (b. 1925)
 Lee Konitz, American jazz composer and alto saxophonist (b. 1927)
 April 16
 Christophe, French singer-songwriter and record producer (b. 1945)
 Gene Deitch, American animator and comics artist (b. 1924)
 Howard Finkel, American wrestling ring announcer (b. 1950)
 Jane Dee Hull, American politician (b. 1935)
 Luis Sepúlveda, Chilean writer (b. 1949)
 April 17
 Carlos Contreras Guillaume, Chilean international footballer (b. 1938)
 Norman Hunter, English international footballer (b. 1943)
 April 18 – Paul H. O'Neill, American businessman and politician (b. 1935)
 April 19
 Edmond Baraffe, French international footballer (b. 1942)
 Philippe Nahon, French actor (b. 1938)
 April 21
 Abdurrahim El-Keib, Acting Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1950)
 Laisenia Qarase, 6th Prime Minister of Fiji (b. 1941)
 April 22
 Hartwig Gauder, German Olympic champion (b. 1954)
 Shirley Knight, American actress (b. 1936)
 April 25 – Per Olov Enquist, Swedish author (b. 1934)
 April 26
 Tomás Balcázar, Mexican international footballer (b. 1931)
 Giulietto Chiesa, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1940)
 April 27 – Dragutin Zelenović, 1st Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1928)
 April 28
 Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian scientist (b. 1936)
 Michael Robinson, English-Irish footballer and TV commentator (b. 1958)
 April 29
 Trevor Cherry, English footballer (b. 1948)
 Irrfan Khan, Indian actor (b. 1967)
 Jānis Lūsis, Latvian Olympic champion (b. 1939)
 Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, 80th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (b. 1944)
 Maj Sjöwall, Swedish writer (b. 1935)
 April 30 – Rishi Kapoor, Indian actor (b. 1952)

References

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Fatimata M’baye (Arabic: فاطمتا أمباي ) is a Mauritanian lawyer and human rights activist. She started the Mauritanian Association for Human Rights. In 2016 she received an International Women of Courage Award.

Life
M'baye studied law and economics at Nouakchott University from 1981 to 1985. She became the first woman lawyer in Mauritania.

Work
M'baye takes the most difficult legal cases.  She represented clients accused of apostasy.  She also worked for a “committee of widows” whose husbands were murdered.  M'baye helped write the 2007 anti-slavery law.  She got convictions for child exploitation and slavery.  She was in prison many times, and received many threats to her life.

References

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 2016 International Women of Courage Awards, U.S. State Department photostream on Flickr
Secretary's International Women of Courage Award (U.S. Department of State)

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Matilda Cuomo  (born September 16, 1931) is an American activist and philanthropist. She was the First Lady of New York from 1983 to 1994. She is the widow of Governor of New York Mario Cuomo and mother of current Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo and CNN presenter Chris Cuomo. She is the founder of the Child Advocacy Group Mentoring USA.

Cuomo was added into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2017.

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Tony Ranasinghe (31 July 1937 – 16 June 2015) was a Sri Lankan actor. He was known for his roles in Hanthane Kathawa (1969), Duhulu Malak (1976) and Ahasin Polawata (1979). Ranasinghe was born in Modara, Sri Lanka.

Ranasinghe died on 16 June 2015 at a public hospital in Colombo at the age of 77.

References

Other websites
Tony Ranasinghe's Biography in Sinhala Cinema Database

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Elimination Chamber (2014) (No Escape (2014) in Germany) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by WWE. It was held on February 23, 2014 at Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was the fifth Elimination Chamber event held by the WWE.

There were two main events. The first saw The Wyatt Family defeat The Shield and the second saw Randy Orton successfully retain his WWE World Heavyweight Championship in an Elimination Chamber match against Daniel Bryan, John Cena, Cesaro, Christian and Sheamus.

Matches

Entrances and eliminations

References

Other websites
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Caldwell County is the name of five counties in the United States:
 Caldwell County, Kentucky
 Caldwell County, Missouri
 Caldwell County, North Carolina
 Caldwell County, Texas
 Caldwell Parish, Louisiana

Caldwell County


Kingersheim is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

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Rafe Mair (31 December 1931 – 9 October 2017) was a Canadian lawyer, political commentator and former radio personality and politician in British Columbia, Canada. He served as member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for Kamloops from 1975 through 1983. He served as a member of the British Columbia Social Credit Party.

Mair died on 9 October 2017 in Vancouver at the age of 85.

Books
Canada, is anyone listening? (1998)
Rants, raves and recollections (2000)
Still Ranting: More Rants, Raves, and Recollections (2002)
Rafe : a memoir (2004)
Hard talk (2005)
Over the Mountains: More Thoughts on Things that Matter (2006)
I Remember Horsebuns (2015)

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Rafe Mair


Document Records (founded 1986 by Johnny Parth in Austria) is a now British record label. 2000 Parth sold the label to Gary Atkinson. Originally based in Vienna the label is now in Newton Stewart, Scotland.

The label publishes early American blues, bluegrass, gospel, spirituals jazz, and other rural American genres (this genres are also called "roots" music)and made between 1900 and 1945. The label is also owner of the rights for unrealesed Music made by the Edison Company between 1914 and 1929.

Artists (selection)

 Albert Ammons
 Kokomo Arnold
 Francis "Scrapper" Blackwell
 Cleo Patra Brown
 Leroy Carr
 Arthur Crudup
 Cow Cow Davenport
 Sleepy John Estes
 Son House
 Alberta Hunter
 Mississippi John Hurt
 Skip James
 Blind Lemon Jefferson
 Meade "Lux" Lewis
 Cripple Clarence Lofton
 Blind Willie McTell
 Memphis Minnie
 Ma Rainey
 Victoria Spivey
 Roosevelt Sykes
 Sippie Wallace
 Jimmy Yancey

Other websites
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Document Records


Antelope County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2010 census, 6,685 people lived there. The county seat is Neligh. It was founded in 1871.

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Antelope County, Nebraska


Alton "Ben" Powers (July 5, 1950 – April 6, 2015) was an American actor. He was known for his role as Thelma Evans' husband, Keith Anderson, during the sixth and final season of the 1970s TV show Good Times (1978–1979).  During the 1970s, he was a cast member of the TV comedy series, Laugh-In.

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Oberbuchsiten is a municipality in the district of Gäu in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.

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Oberbuchsiten


Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 American horror movie directed by Tim Burton. It stars Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Christopher Walken, Ian McDiarmid, Sir Michael Gambon, Sir Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Richard Griffiths, Jeffrey Jones, Martin Landau and Miranda Richardson. The movie is based on a book by Washington Irving called The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The story is set in 1799. It is about the murders of Sleepy Hollow, New York which Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) has to investigate and find out who is the killer. When the movie went to box office it was a success and it made roughly $207 million worldwide.

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An overture is a piece of music for the orchestra to play at the beginning of an opera or ballet. The word comes from the French word for "opening" because it "opens" the show.

Overtures usually have tunes which are going to be heard during the opera or ballet. In this way it prepares the audience for what is to come.

Many overtures in the 18th century were simply background music to get the audience's attention (people used to chatter during performances). Some composers like Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) used the same overture again and again for his next operas, or just changed bits of it.

Composers like Christoph Willibald Gluck and later Richard Wagner (1813-1883) were very careful to make the overture a dramatic beginning which prepared the audience for the story. Wagner often called his overtures "Vorspiel" (Prelude).

Not all composers wrote overtures to their operas. Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) and Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) often go straight into the first act or they just have a very short prelude.

In the 19th century many Romantic composers wrote concert overtures. These pieces did not belong to any opera or ballet, they were just written to be heard at concerts. They often had a descriptive title because they told some sort of story, e.g. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) wrote an overture "Fingal's Cave" which describes the sea coming into the cave in the Inner Hebrides islands. Sometimes these descriptive pieces were much longer than an overture (which is usually just a few minutes), so they were called tone poems.

Overtures are usually played in sonata form.

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Overture


The 1941 Florida hurricane was a strong tropical cyclone in October 1941. It affected the Bahamas and the southeastern United States This storm's winds were at . The hurricane hit southern Florida first. After that, it went across the Florida Panhandle.

At least ten people were killed by the storm.

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1941 Florida hurricane


Muchinga Province is a province in northeastern Zambia. The capital is Chinsali. It borders with Tanzania in the north, Malawi in the east, Eastern Province in the south, Central Province in the southwest, Luapula Province in the west, and Northern Province in the northwest.

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Muchinga Province


Wakinosaurus (meaning "Wakino lizard") is a dubious genus of theropod dinosaur. It is named from the find of a single tooth. The genus is dubious (doubtful) because it is almost impossible to assign further fossil material to it.

The find was made in Lower Cretaceous deposits in Fukuoka, Japan in 1990 by Masahiro Sato. The triangular-shaped tooth has fine serrations on its cutting edge, which is standard for a theropod dinosaur.

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Wakinosaurus


Alasdair Gray (28 December 1934 – 29 December 2019) was a Scottish writer and artist. His first novel, Lanark, published in 1981, was written over almost 30 years. It was described by The Guardian as "one of the landmarks of 20th-century fiction."

Gray died at a hospital in Glasgow of pneumonia-related problems on 29 December 2019, a day after his 85th birthday.

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Alasdair Gray


Timothy Peter Pigott-Smith OBE (13 May 1946 – 7 April 2017) was an English movie and television actor and author. He won the Fantasporto Award for Best Actor in 2002 for his role in Bloody Sunday. He was known for his role as Creedy in the 2005 movie V for Vendetta. He won a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in 1985.

Pigott-Smith was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to drama.

Pigott-Smith was born in Rugby, Warwickshire. He studied at Bristol University. In 1972, he married Pamela Miles. Pigott-Smith died on 7 April 2017 in Northampton, Northamptonshire from a suspected heart attack, aged 70.

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Indus river dolphin (Platanista gangetica minor) are a subspecies of river dolphins. It is only found in the Indus River in Pakistan. They are very similar to the Ganges river dolphin which is mainly found in the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers in the Republic of India, Bangladesh and Nepal. In fact, the two subspecies are often described together as the South Asian river dolphin

These animals are currently endangered species, mainly because of water pollution.

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Indus river dolphin


Musical composition can mean an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of making a new piece of music.  A composition is a piece of music (the word "composition" means "putting together", so a composition is something where music notes have been put together).  When a composer writes a piece of music he or she is making a musical composition.

The word "composition" can also mean learning the skill of how to compose.  Music students may go to music college to study composition.  They will do this by looking at famous pieces of music to see how the composers of the past wrote music.  They will study musical form, harmony, orchestration, counterpoint and learn about all the instruments and how to write well for them so that it sounds nice.

Other websites

 How to Compose Music www.artofcomposing.com
 Composition Today News, competitions, interviews and other resources for composers.
 Internet Concert Project: Album for the Young Student New Music, an online performance and documentary feature from Bloomingdale School of Music (January 2010)
 A Beginner's Guide to Composing, an online feature from Bloomingdale School of Music (February 2008)
 Gems of compositional wisdom
 A Practical Guide to Musical Composition
 ComposersNewPencil - Information, articles and music composition resources.
 How to compose music
 How to compose Music (Wikihow)
 Répertoire International des Sources Musicales, online database to locations of musical manuscripts from around the world
 How to Compose for New Age Piano
 Music composer | Music Arranger | Music Idea | Minus One
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Current affairs is a type of broadcast journalism that analyzes and discusses recent News stories. This can include news that is still happening. Most of the discussion is on why, where and how a story has happened.it tells you about the recent happenings
 This is different from normal news programmes that report news stories as quickly as they can. They usually do not have as much analysis as current affairs programmes. It is also different from the magazine show format, where events are discussed immediately. The Current affairs shows are becoming less popular. The audience for these shows is usually over age 50.

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Current affairs


The High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy is a position created by the Treaty of Lisbon, starting December 1, 2009 (it was actually already created in 1999). The position is part of the European Commission.

Her duty is to be the face of European Union to the rest of the world, along with the President of Europe

The job is sometimes known casually a "the European Foreign Minister" but this is not correct because she is not a member of any government.

High Representatives:
 Jürgen Trumpf (acting, from Germany): 1999
 Javier Solana (from Spain): 1999-2009
 Catherine Ashton (from the United Kingdom): 2009-2014
 Federica Mogherini (from Italy): 2014-present

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Tanisha Thomas (born on August 28, 1985 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African American reality television participant. She first appeared on the Oxygen show Bad Girls Club in 2008. She was on the second season to become a role model for young women and change her bad behavior. She became a fan favorite for her catchphrase "Pop Off!". After the show was done airing, Thomas was called the "godmother" to all "bad girls". Thomas later hosted the spin-off dating game show Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too starting with its second season in 2011. She also competed on the VH1 show Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp 2. Thomas was on the show to loose weight. Her team the "blue team" won and took home $17,500 each.

A year later, Thomas was given her own show on Oxygen. It was called Tanisha Gets Married. The show was about Thomas' and her fiancee
s journey on planning their wedding. It aired in May 2012 and beat all the key demos of Oxygen that were set in April 2012.

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Ali Daei (born 21 March 1969) is a former Iranian football player. He has played for Iran national team.

Club career statistics

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|1994/95||rowspan="2"|Persepolis||rowspan="2"|Azadegan League||25||15
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|1995/96||13||8

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|1996/97||Al-Sadd||Stars League||16||10

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|1997/98||Arminia Bielefeld||Bundesliga||25||7
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|1998/99||Bayern Munich||Bundesliga||23||6
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|1999/00||rowspan="3"|Hertha Berlin||rowspan="3"|Bundesliga||28||3
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|2000/01||23||3
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|2001/02||8||0

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|2002/03||Al-Shabab Dubai||UAE League||25||11

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|2003/04||Persepolis||Pro League||28||16
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|2004/05||rowspan="2"|Saba Battery||rowspan="2"|Pro League||25||12
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|2005/06||26||11
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|2006/07||Saipa||Persian Gulf Cup||26||10
143||72
16||10
107||19
25||11
291||112
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International career statistics

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|1993||16||7
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|1994||1||0
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|1995||0||0
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|1996||18||22
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|1997||17||9
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|1998||13||9
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|1999||5||2
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|2000||19||20
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|2001||16||10
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|2002||4||2
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|2003||9||5
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|2004||16||17
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|2005||9||4
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|2006||6||2
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!Total||149||109
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The Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute, an affiliate of the National Alzheimer's Association in Chicago, Illinois, is an initiative founded by former United States President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan to accelerate the progress of Alzheimer's disease research. The center was dedicated in 1995.

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The Lynx is a small cat. It is a genus with four species. The four species are in Eurasia, Spain, Canada and America, and do not overlap much.

Appearance
Lynx have short tails, and usually some hair on the ears. They have large paws (feet) padded for walking on snow, and long whiskers on the face. The color of the body is from light brown to grey and is sometimes marked with dark brown spots, especially on the legs. They weigh about 5 kg or about 11 pounds (approximately the size of a large domestic cat) and can weigh up to about 30 kg (66 pounds). They are between 70 and 150 cm long, with a relative short tail - 5-25 cm. They live for about 20 years.

Lynx are similar to a regular house cat, but larger. They have a powerful body on short, furry legs attached to hefty feet, and a bobbed, black-tipped tail. The fur is spotted and yellowish-brown to grey. It has a collar of fur around the face, giving a triangular shape. They also have long black ear tufts.

Habitat
Lynx live in the high altitude forests with many shrubs, reeds and grass. They hunt only on the ground, but can climb trees and swim.

They can be found in the some places in northern Scandinavia, in North America and also in the Himalayas. Since the 1990s people try to move part of the population of the Eurasian lynx to Germany. They can also be found in Białowieża Forest (northeastern Poland), and southern Spain.

The Colorado Division of Wildlife tried to move other wild Lynx populations from Canada back to the United States.

Behaviour
Lynx are usually solitary, although a small group may travel and hunt together occasionally. Mating takes place in the late winter and once a year the female gives birth to between two and four kittens. The young stay with the mother for one more winter, a total of around nine months, before moving out to live on their own as young adults.

Lynx make their dens in crevices or under ledges. They feed on a wide range of animals from white-tailed deer, reindeer, roe deer, small red deer, and chamois, to smaller, more usual prey: snowshoe hares, fish, foxes, sheep, squirrels, mice, turkeys and other birds, and goats. They also eat ptarmigans,voles, and grouse.

The genus Lynx
 Genus Lynx
 Canada lynx, Lynx canadensis
 Eurasian lynx, Lynx lynx
 Iberian lynx or Spanish Lynx, Lynx pardinus
 Bobcat, Lynx rufus

Conservation
The Iberian lynx is the most endangered feline in the world. There are only two populations (together, 300 animals), in the southern Spain.
Hunting lynxes is illegal in many countries.

References

Other websites

 Canada Lynx in the Southern Rockies
 The Iberian Lynx The natural history of the Iberian lynx
 Hopes raised by Spain lynx births

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Lynx


Microsoft Excel (full name Microsoft Office Excel)  is a part of Microsoft Office. It is also avaliable on Mac.  It is made by Microsoft and it is proprietary software. It is used on the operating systems Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It can do calculations and graphics. For example, it can make charts and other pictures from data tables. It also has a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Excel is part of Microsoft Office. The current versions are 2016 for Windows and 2016 for Mac.

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Microsoft Excel


Paul Gustave Doré (; January 6, 1832 – January 23, 1883) was a French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor. Most of Doré's work was wood engraving and steel engraving.

Biography
Doré was born in Strasbourg. His first illustrated story was published at the age of fifteen. As a young man, he began work as a literary illustrator in Paris. He was hired to illustrate scenes from books by Rabelais, Balzac, Milton and Dante.

In 1853, Doré was asked to illustrate the works of Lord Byron. British publishers asked him to do more work, including a new illustrated English Bible. Ten years later, he illustrated a French edition of Cervantes's Don Quixote. His images of the knight and Sancho Panza have influenced later readers, artists, and stage and film directors' ideas of how the two characters looked. Doré also illustrated an edition of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" with larger than usual pages. He was paid 30,000 francs by the publisher Harper & Brothers in 1883.

Doré's English Bible (1866) was a great success, and in 1867 Doré had a major exhibition of his work in London. The Doré Gallery in Covelant Bond Street opened after the show. In 1869, Blanchard Jerrold suggested that they work together to make a complete portrait of London. Jerrold got the idea from The Microcosm of London produced by Rudolph Ackermann, William Pyne, and Thomas Rowlandson in 1808. Doré signed a five-year contract with the publishers Grant & Co. He had to stay in London for three months each year. He was paid £10,000 a year for the project.

The completed book, London: A Pilgrimage, was published in 1872.  It had 180 engravings. The book was successful financially and influenced many people. However, many critics at the time disliked it. Some of these critics wrote that Doré paid too much attention to the poverty  in parts of London.

His  later works included Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Milton's Paradise Lost, Tennyson's The Idylls of the King, The Works of Thomas Hood, and The Divine Comedy. His work also appeared in the Illustrated London News.

He continued to illustrate books until he died in Paris after a short illness in 1883. He is buried in  Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Gallery

List of works
Doré made many works of art. This list is very long, but does not include every piece of art that Doré made. It does not include his sculptures and paintings. Also, many journal illustrations are not listed.

References

Bibliography

(80 illustrations, earliest photogravures of Dore paintings)
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(521 illustrations, reprinting most of the Delorme photogravures)
(exhibition book: 591 illustrations)
(343 illustrations)
(500 illustrations)
 (exhibition book: 250 illustrations, 40 in full-color, sometimes incorrectly listed as, “40 b/w, 120 color illustrations”)
 (annual  listing of the books published in France)

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German FTP with Dore illustrations
Dore Bible Gallery
SurLaLune Fairy Tale Illustrations of Gustave Doré
The "Dore Vase" in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, a massive bronze that was exhibited to acclaim at Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and later moved to San Francisco
Gustave Doré's Illustrations for 'Don Quixote'
More of Gustave Doré's Illustrations for 'Don Quixote'
World of Dante Doré Dante illustrations in the World of Dante gallery
Elbert Hubbard's account of the

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Clermont is a city in Lake County, Florida in the United States. The city is famous for the Citrus Tower.

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Famous professor lived here.

Clermont, Florida


The University of Pennsylvania is a private Ivy League university in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Many people call the university "Penn." It contains four undergraduate schools, which are for students without a college degree. These schools are nursing, arts and sciences, engineering, and Wharton, which is a famous business school. It had graduate schools-for those with a college degree- in medicine, business, law, dentistry, veterinary medicine, nursing, education, communication, design, and social policy. Their competitive teams are known as the Quakers.

45th President of the United States Donald Trump graduated here with a Bachelor of Science.

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The Key is a fantasy book that was written by Marianne Curley.  It is the third book in the Guardians of Time Trilogy.

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The Key (novel)


This is a list of rivers in Bolivia.

By drainage basin
This list is arranged by the place the river drains. Tributaries are indented under each larger stream's name. Rivers longer than 400 miles are in bold.

Atlantic Ocean

Amazon Basin
 Amazon River (Brazil)
 Madeira River
 Abuná River
 Río Negro
 Pacahuaras River
 Mapiri River
 Rapirrán River
 Chipamanu River
 Xipamanu River
 Beni River including Alto Beni
 Orthon River
 Tahuamanu River
 Muymano River
 Mamuripi River
 Manuripe River
 Madre de Dios River
 Sena River
 San Martin River
 Manuripi River
 Heath River
 Tambopata River
 Ivón River
 Arroyo Verde
 Madidi River
 Esmeralda River
 Claro River
 Tuichi River
 Yariapo River
 Pelechuco River
 Quiquibey River
 Kaka River
 Coroico River
 Camata River
 Zongo River
 Mapiri River
Challana River
 Tipuani River
 Atén River
 Consata River
 San Cristóbal River
 Boopi River
 Tamapaya River
 La Paz River
 Choqueyapu River
 Santa Elena River
 Alcamachi River
 Cotacajes River
 Río Negro
 Sacambaya River
 Amutara River
 Ayopaya River
 Colquiri River
 Leque River
 Sayarani River
 Tallija River
 Mamoré River including Mamorecillo
 Yata River
 Benicito River
 Iténez (Guaporé) River
 Itonmas River or San Miguel or San Julián or San Pablo
 Machupo River
 Quizer River
 Parapetí River usually ends in the Bañados de Izozog depression
 Cañón Verde River
 Santa Bárbara River
 Río Blanco or Baures or Agua Caliente
 San Martin River
 Negro River or San Joaquin
 San Simón River
 Paragúa River
 San Ramón River
 Tarvo River
 Verde River
 Paucerna River
 San Agustín River
 Yacuma River
 Rápulo River
 Maniqui River
 San Geronimo River
 Bio River
 Apere River
 Matos River
 Curico River
 Tijamuchi River
 Ibare River
 Isiboro River
 Sécure River
 Ichoa River
 Chipiriri River
 Tayota River
 Río Grande or Guapay
 Yapacaní River
 Palacios River
 Alturas del Yapacaní River
 Surutú River
 Paila River
 Piray River
 Bermejo River
 Piojeras River
 Azero River
 Mizque River
 Julpe River
 Tomina River
 Charobamba River
 Chico River
 San Pedro River
 Chayanta River
 Caine River
 Arque River
 Rocha River
 Chapare River
 Espíritu Santo River
 San Matéo River
 Ichilo River includes Alto Ichilo
 Useuta River
 Choré River
 Ibabo River
 Chimoré River
 Sacta River
 Víbora River
 San Matéo River
 Moija River
 Purus River (Brazil)
 Acre River

La Plata Basin
 Paraná River (Argentina)
 Paraguay River
 Bermejo River
 Río Grande de Tarija
 Itaú River
 Tarija River
 Salinas River
 Camacho River
 Guadalquivir River
 Pilcomayo River
 Pilaya River
 San Juan del Oro River
 Tupiza River
 Cotagaita River
 Tumusla River
 Yura River
 Callama River
 San Juan River
 Blanco River
 Bamburral River or Negro
 Tucavaca River
 San Rafael River
 Curiche Grande River
 Río de la Fortuna

Pacific Ocean
 Loa River (Chile)
 San Pedro de Inacaliri River (Chile)
 Silala River

Endorheic basins in the Altiplano

Poopó Lake
 Desaguadero River
 Mauri River
 Lake Titicaca
 Suches River
 Márquez River

Lake Coipasa or Salar de Coipasa
 Laca Jahuira River
 Lauca River
 Sajama River
 Sabaya River

Salar de Uyuni
 Río Grande de Lipez

References
Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
 GEOnet Names Server
Hydrografic Maps of Bolivia

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In algebra, a nested radical is a root that has another root inside.  and  are nested radicals.

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Nested radical


Keren (Ge'ez: ከረን   or كيرين), formerly known as Cheren and Sanhit, is the second largest city in Eritrea. In 2005, 86,483 people lived there.

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Keren


Stephanie Daley is a 2006 drama movie. It was released in 2007 in the United States. drama movie. The movie is about teenage pregnancy. In this movie, the title character dodges questions by her psychologist and insists she is pregnant through an act of God. Amber Tamblyn plays Stephanie Daley in this movie. Also starring are Tilda Swinton and Timothy Hutton.

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Stephanie Daley


Spokane county is a county in the U.S. state of Washington. Its county seat is Spokane, Washington. As of 2010, 471,221 people live in the county. The county has 1,764 square miles, or 4,569 square kilometers, of land, and it was organized in 1858.

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Spokane County, Washington


McHenry County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 308,760 people lived there. The county seat is Woodstock. It is the sixth-most populous county in Illinois.

McHenry County was founded in 1836 and named for William McHenry.

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McHenry County, Illinois


Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin (, 9 April 19383 November 2010) was a Russian politician. He was the first chairman of the Gazprom energy company. Chernomyrdin was the longest-serving Prime Minister of Russia serving from 1992 to 1998.

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Bunk'd is an American comedy television series created by Pamela Eells O'Connell that premiered on Disney Channel on July 31, 2015. The series is a spinoff of Jessie and stars Peyton List, Karan Brar, Skai Jackson, Miranda May, Kevin Quinn, Nathan Arenas, Nina Lu, Raphael Alejandro, Will Buie Jr., and Mallory Mahoney.

Cast

Cast and characters

Main

 Peyton List as Emma Ross (seasons 1–3), the oldest of the Ross children and counselor-in-training in Cabin Woodchuck. She is shown to have a unique sense of fashion. She becomes manager of the camp in the third season.
 Karan Brar as Ravi Ross (seasons 1–3), an extremely smart counselor-in-training in Cabin Grizzly. The second-youngest of the Ross children, he brings his pet Asian water monitor Mrs. Kipling to camp. In the third season, he becomes camp chef and lead male counselor.
 Skai Jackson as Zuri Ross (seasons 1–3), a sweet yet sharp, sarcastic, and talkative girl. She is the youngest of the Ross children and is a camper in Cabin Woodchuck.
 Miranda May as Lou Hackhouse, a highly enthusiastic farm girl and Emma's friend. She is the head counselor of Cabin Woodchuck and is a longtime friend of Xander.
 Kevin Quinn as Xander McCormick (seasons 1–2), the popular head counselor of Cabin Grizzly and resident musician. He is a longtime friend of Lou and becomes the love interest for Emma.
 Nathan Arenas as Jorge Ramirez (seasons 1–2), a bespectacled boy of Hispanic descent who is Ravi's friend and a camper in Cabin Grizzly. He is shown to be very messy, unclean, and calls people "weird". Jorge once claimed that he was abducted by aliens.
 Nina Lu as Tiffany Chen (seasons 1–2), a young girl camper of Chinese descent whom Zuri befriends. She has an overbearing mother who expects a lot out of her.
 Mallory James Mahoney as Destiny Baker (season 3–present), a girl who has won almost all of the beauty pageants she has competed in.
 Raphael Alejandro as Matteo Sliva (season 3–present), a cautious boy who can find danger in any situation, packs spider and snake bite kits, would rather not be at Camp Kikiwaka, and speaks Portuguese when he is either scared or emotional.
 Will Buie Jr. as Finn Sawyer (season 3–present), Lou's second cousin and a messy boy who does not care about hygiene, washing his clothes, or using his toothbrush. In "By All Memes", his last name is revealed to be Sawyer.
 Israel Johnson as Noah (season 4)
 Shelby Simmons as Ava (season 4)
 Scarlett Estevez as Gwen (season 4)

Recurring
 Mary Scheer as Gladys (seasons 1–2), the strict proprietor of Camp Kikiwaka who is a descendant of Jedediah Swearengen. She has been jealous of Christina Ross ever since Christina had "stolen" Morgan from her. Since then, Gladys has been unsuccessful at getting a boyfriend as most people she tries to romance end up avoiding her in various ways. By the third season, it is mentioned that Gladys has left Moose Rump for good and took the insurance money for the burned-down cabins, leaving the Ross children to gain ownership of the camp.
 Tessa Netting as Hazel (seasons 1–2), the head counselor of Camp Kikiwaka and the main counselor of Weasel Cabin who was then demoted to CIT after accidentally burning down Woodchuck and Grizzly Cabins. She is the niece of Gladys (who share the same problem with men) and descendant of Jedidiah Swearengen. She seeks to steal Xander's affection away from Emma.
 Casey Campbell as Murphy, the camp chef who is responsible for the terrible food and is Gladys' on and off love interest. Though gruff and gross, Murphy also ends up involved in many of the children's hijinks, All of his known cooking includes food from the garbage, roadkill, and expired (possibly due to the camps budget being poor). In season three episode "By All Memes", it was revealed that Murphy resigned from working at Camp Kikiwaka and got a job as a chef at Camp Champion, the rival camp, where his cooking is actually good.
 Nate Stone as Timmy, a camper who was kicked out because his parents check bounced and have never got picked up by his parents, he is eager to get in the camp but they always fail resulting him to get lost in the woods and remains "forgotten", but at the end of season three "Up, Up and Away" he decided to give up and is now adopted by the Kikiwaka (the camps mythical ape like creature) and its child "Doug" when they're about to live in a different forest.
 Lincoln Melcher as Griff (season 2), a juvenile delinquent who is placed in Grizzly Cabin as part of his juvenile hall's Nature Rehabilitation Program during the second season. He eventually decided to change his ways and is now Xander's adopted brother to avoid going back to Juvie.
 Lily Mae Silverstein as Lydia (seasons 2–3), a camper from Weasel Cabin. Lydia is known for a very dark look such as black lipstick and a bandana, and her aggressive demeanor similar to her followers.

Notable guest stars
 Cameron Boyce as Luke Ross, the brother of Emma, Ravi, and Zuri who was in summer school at the start of the series and occasionally visits them.
 Kevin Chamberlin as Bertram Winkle, the butler of the Ross family.
 Christina Moore as Christina Ross, the mother of the Ross siblings and a Camp Kikiwaka alumni.

Episodes

Season 1 (2015/16)
 Lou Hackhauser (Miranda May), Xander McCormick (Kevin G. Quinn), Jorge Ramirez (Nathan Arenas) and Tiffany Chen (Nina Lu) joins the cast.
 Luke Ross (Cameron Boyce) is no longer part of the main cast.
 Kevin G. Quinn was absent for two episodes.
 Nathan Arenas and Nina Lu was absent for four episodes.
 Cameron Boyce makes a guest appearance in one episode "Luke's Back".

Season 2 (2016/17)
 Karan Brar was absent for one episode.
 Kevin G. Quinn was absent for three episodes.
 Nathan Arenas was absent for two episodes.
 Nina Lu was absent for four episodes.
 Cameron Boyce makes a guest appearance in one episode "Luke Out Below".

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Wamba is a small town in Kenya. It is in the Samburu district. The Wamba administrative division is there. The town has a big Catholic hospital. The hospital is considered important to the Samburu district. The town plays a role in the tourism industry in Kenya. It has strong ties with Prince William of Britain due to his efforts to promote conservation and ties with Samburu communities.

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Tessa Lynn Thompson (born October 3, 1983) is an American actress. She is of Afro-Panamanian, English, German, Irish, Mexican and Scottish descent. She was known for her role in the 2009 indie movie Mississippi Damned. In movie, she starred as Nyla Adrose in the drama For Colored Girls (2010), civil rights activist Diane Nash in the historical drama Selma (2014), Bianca in the sports drama Creed (2015), and as Valkyrie in the superhero movie Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and in Avengers: Infinity War (2018).

On television, Thompson starred as Jackie Cook in the mystery drama Veronica Mars (2005–2006), Sara Freeman in the period crime drama Copper (2012–2013), and Charlotte Hale in the HBO science-fiction thriller series Westworld (2016–present).

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The Manucodia is a genus of the bird of paradise that has five  medium-sized members. Members of this genus are monogamous and sexually monomorphic.
They can be found in the lowland forests of northeastern Australia, New Guinea and nearby islands.

Members
 Glossy-mantled manucode, Manucodia atra
 Jobi manucode, Manucodia jobiensis
 Crinkle-collared manucode, Manucodia chalybata
 Curl-crested manucode, Manucodia comrii
 Trumpet manucode, Manucodia keraudrenii

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The Battle of Camden was a battle between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States.  It happened during the American Revolutionary War.  It was a major victory for the British.

The Battle took place north of Camden, South Carolina on August 16, 1780.

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Byng is a town in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Solomon Efimovich Shulman (January 20, 1936 – September 6, 2017), also known as Sol Shulman and Semion Shulman, was a Belarusian author, screenwriter, movie director and adventurer. He was the writer of more than forty documentary movies, five feature movie scripts, plus a host of literary and publicist works, published in many countries worldwide. His best known book was Power and Destiny. His movies include In Broad Daylight, On the Slopes of Elbruce and In Ancient Khiv.

Shulman died on September 6, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia of heart failure, aged 81.

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Lawrenceburg is a city in the state of Indiana, in the United States.

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Perthshire () is a county in central Scotland. Officially, it is the County of Perth, and a registration county in central Scotland. By "registration" is meant marriage and land registration uses Perthshire as a county.

After 1930, when it was an administrative county, governments changed the local system time and again. At the moment Perthshire is split between Clackmannanshire, Perth and Kinross and Stirling. Ordinary people stil call it Perthshire.

Perthshire is known as the "big county" and has a wide variety of landscapes, from the rich agricultural land in the east, to the high mountains of the southern Highlands.

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George Frideric Handel (German (Deutsche) : Georg Friedrich Händel) (23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German composer who went to live in England when he was a young man and later became a naturalised Briton.  Johann Sebastian Bach and Handel were born in the same year.  They were the greatest composers of their time, but they never met. Handel changed his name to George Frideric Handel when he became British; he removed the dots above the "a" and changed the spelling of Georg and Friedrich. The German spelling of his name (Georg Friedrich Händel) is still used by German writers.

Although they both lived in the late Baroque period, Bach and Handel’s music developed differently.  Handel wrote many operas and oratorios and by them became very famous.  He took many trips, including to Italy where he learned a lot about composition.  Bach never left central Germany, and most of the time he was a church musician who was not well known by the general public.

Handel wrote over 42 operas.  Later he wrote oratorios.  His most famous oratorio is the Messiah.  He wrote anthems, chamber music and orchestral music including the Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks.

Life

Early years
Handel was born in Halle in the northeast of Germany, in today's Saxony-Anhalt.  His father was a barber and a surgeon.  He started playing the harpsichord and the organ when he was very young.  He was given a clavichord when he was seven and he used to practice it in the attic where his father could not hear him.  At the age of nine he was already composing.  He had a teacher called Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow who was the organist of the big church, the Marienkirche, in Halle.  He learned the organ, harpsichord and violin as well as composition, harmony.

Handel’s father did not want him to study music; he wanted him to be a lawyer.  Although Handel's father died in 1697, Handel enrolled at the University of Halle in 1703. He studied law for a year because his father wanted him to do so. After that year, Handel was unhappy studying law. He decided to stop studying law and become a musician.  He became organist at the Protestant Cathedral in Halle.  The next year he moved to Hamburg where he got a job as violinist and harpsichordist in the orchestra of the opera-house. Here his first two operas, Almira and Nero, were produced early in 1705. Two other early operas, Daphne and Florindo, were produced at Hamburg in 1708.

Handel was becoming a good opera composer, but he wanted to learn more, so he went to Italy in 1707.  He spent four years there.  His opera Rodrigo was produced in Florence in 1707, and his Agrippina at Venice in 1709.  Agrippina was very popular and had 26 performances.  It made Handel famous.  He also had three oratorios produced in Rome.  He wrote sacred music (church music) and other pieces in an operatic style, e.g. Dixit Dominus (1707).

Move to England

In 1710 Handel became Kapellmeister (music director) to George, Elector of Hanover, who would soon be King George I of Great Britain. The Elector agreed that Handel could have an immediate leave of 12 months so that he could go to London. He visited London for eight months.  His opera Rinaldo was performed in 1711.  It was the first time an Italian opera had been performed in England.  It was an immediate success. Handel returned to Hanover in the summer of 1711 and spent a year writing chamber and orchestral music because there was no opera in Hanover.  He was also trying to learn English.  In 1712 the Elector allowed him to make another visit to England.  In England he had patrons (rich people who gave him money).  He had a yearly income of £200 from Queen Anne (while Bach earned as little as eighty pounds in a year).  He was having a lot of success, and so stayed in England instead of returning to his job in the Hanover Court.

In 1712 Queen Anne died and the Elector of Hanover became King of Great Britain.  Handel might have been in trouble for staying in Britain.  According to one story the King forgave Handel because he wrote some lovely music called Water Music which was performed on a boat on the Thames at a royal water party.  This story about the king forgiving Handel is probably not true. George would have known that Queen Anne was about to die and he would become King of Great Britain and therefore Handel's master again.  In fact, the new king doubled Handel’s salary. A few years later his salary increased again when he taught music to Queen Caroline’s daughter.

In 1724 Handel moved into a newly built house in 25 Brook Street, London, which he rented until his death in 1759, 35 years later. The house is now called Handel House Museum and is open to the public. It was here that Handel composed some of his most famous music such as  Messiah, Zadok the Priest, and Fireworks Music.

In 1729 Handel's opera Scipio (Scipio) was performed for the first time. The march from this work is now the regimental slow march of the British Grenadier Guards. In the next year he took on British nationality.

In 1731 Handel was commissioned to write four anthems for the coronation ceremony of King George II. One of these, Zadok the Priest, has been sung at every coronation ceremony since.

Handel spent most of his time working on operas.  From 1722-1726 he was director of the Royal Academy of Music.  This was an organisation that put on opera performances.  It had nothing to do with the academy which is called the Royal Academy of Music today where young students study music.  Handel also worked in the management of the  King's Theatres and many of his operas were performed in the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden.  He sometimes travelled to Italy to find new Italian singers and persuade them to come to London.  London became world famous for operas.  In spite of everything Handel was doing for opera he had many enemies as well as friends.  There was a lot of rivalry, especially with a composer called Bononcini whose music is forgotten today.  Handel gave up operatic management in 1740, after he had lost a lot of money in the business.

Later years
In April 1739, age 54, he had a stroke.  It was probably this which left his right arm paralysed for a while so that he could not perform, but he made an excellent recovery after six weeks at a health spa in Aix-la-Chapelle.  At this time he started to write oratorios instead of operas.  In 1742 his oratorio Messiah was first performed in Dublin.  Surprisingly, it was not successful in London until 1750 when it was performed in aid of the Foundling Hospital Chapel.  Handel performed it every year there, which brought the hospital about £600 for each performance.  Handel spent most of his time in these later years composing and producing oratorios.  Judas Maccabaeus was particularly popular.  The singers for these oratorios were English and Italian.  They were not world-famous virtuosos but singers whom Handel had trained himself.

In August, 1750, on a journey back from Germany to London, Handel was seriously injured when his carriage overturned.  In 1751 he started to lose his eyesight. He died, in 1759, in London.  The last concert he went to was his own Messiah.  More than 3,000 mourners went to his funeral.  He was buried with full state honours in Westminster Abbey.  Handel never married, and kept his personal life very private.   He left £20,000 which was a lot of money for those days (Approximately 2800000 pounds today)  His niece inherited most of his money.  He also left some of it to friends, servants, relations and charities.  His autographs (the original copies of the music that he wrote) are now mostly in the British Museum.

His name
Handel adopted the spelling "George Frideric Handel" on his naturalization as a British subject, and this spelling is generally used in English speaking countries. The original form of his name (Georg Friedrich Händel) is usually used in Germany, but he is known as "Haendel" in France. There was another composer with a similar name, Handl, who was a Slovene and is more commonly known as Jacobus Gallus.  This can be very hard for cataloguers (people trying to make a list of his music)

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Glandular fever is a viral infection caused by the EpsteinBarr virus. Glandular fever is often spread through oral acts such as kissing which is why it is sometimes called "the kissing disease". However, glandular fever can also be spread by airborne saliva droplets.

Symptoms
Symptoms of glandular fever include:

 Fever
 Sore throat
 Fatigue
 Headache
 Muscle pain
 Sores in the mouth

Treatment
There is no specific treatment for the Epstein-Barr virus. Paracetamol and NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) can be used to ease the flu like symptoms. Other than that, very little can be done to treat Glandular Fever. The symptoms usually pass over the space of about two to four weeks without any complications.

Diagnosis
In diagnosing glandular fever, your GP will ask you about your symptoms before carrying out a physical examination. They will look for the characteristic signs of glandular fever, such as swollen lymph nodes, tonsils, liver and spleen.
Occasionally if the physical examination does not clearly show evidence of glandular fever, blood tests can sometimes be done in order to get a diagnosis.
Two types of blood tests can usually help to diagnose glandular fever. These are:
 an antibody test – the Epstein-Barr virus causes your immune system to release certain antibodies that can be detected through testing
 white blood cell test – a high number of white blood cells usually indicate the presence of an infection

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Niger is a country in western Africa. The capital is Niamey, and the official language is French. It is surrounded by Algeria and Libya to the north, Chad to the east, Nigeria and Benin to the south, and Burkina Faso and Mali to the west. Niger is landlocked, meaning it has no coastline. Niger gets its name from the Niger River, whose name possibly comes from the Berber word "River of Rivers".

The Mali Empire and the Songhai Empire both had land in what is now Niger. Later France controlled the land that is now Niger. Niger has a population, or the number of people living in an area, of 15,306,252 and an area of 1,267,000 square kilometres. Much of Niger is desert.

After a military coup in 2010, Niger is now a democratic, multi-party state. Most of the people live in rural areas, and have little access to advanced education.

Geography
Niger is on the border between the Sahara and Sub-Saharan regions. Niger's area is  of which  is water. It is the world's twenty-second largest country. Niger borders seven countries. The longest border is with Nigeria to the south.

The lowest point is the Niger River, with an elevation of . The highest point is Mont Idoukal-n-Taghès in the Aïr Mountains at .

Cities
This table shows cities with a population over 10,000, according to 2001 census.

Climate
Niger's subtropical climate is mainly very hot and dry. Much of it is covered by desert. In the extreme south there is a tropical climate on the edges of the Niger River basin. The land is mostly desert plains and sand dunes.  There is flat to rolling savanna in the south and hills in the north.

Education
The literacy rate (the amount of the adult population who can read or write) of Niger is among the lowest in the world. In 2005 it was estimated to be only 28.7% (42.9% male and 15.1% female). Primary education in Niger is required for six years. The primary school enrollment and attendance rates are low, particularly for girls.  Children are often made to work rather than attend school.  This is particularly true during planting or harvest periods.

Related pages
 List of rivers of Niger
 Niger at the Olympics
 Niger national football team

References

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Hendrik Paul "Rie" Diricx (7 July 1927 – 4 July 2018) was a Belgian football player. He was born in Duffel.

Dirickx played for Union Saint-Gilloise. He earned a total of 30 caps for Belgium between 1952 and 1960. He was part at the 1954 FIFA World Cup.

Dirickx died on 4 July 2018, three days shy of his 91st birthday.

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Daddy G, (born Grantley Evan Marshall, ,  Bristol, UK), is an English musician and a founding member of the band,  Massive Attack.

Music
Marshall joined the Bristol music scene as a member of the DJ group The Wild Bunch in the 1980s, which included two other Massive Attack members, Robert Del Naja and Andrew Vowles. In 1986, The Wild Bunch dissolved. Del Naja, Vowles, and Marshall then formed the trip-hop group Massive Attack, which is considered to have pioneered the Bristol Sound along with Portishead and Tricky.

In addition to appearing on Massive Attack's albums, Marshall has also mixed a CD for the DJ-Kicks mix series.

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Dexter Scott King (born January 30, 1961) is an American civil rights activist. He is the son of activists Coretta Scott King and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.. He is the brother of Martin Luther King III, Bernice King and Yolanda Denise King.

King was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He was named for Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.

King was seven years old when his father was murdered.

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Isis is the name of an Egyptian goddess. It may also refer to:

 the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
 the short form of the International Species Information System

Isis (disambiguation)


Anthony Peter "Tony" Musante (June 30, 1936 – November 26, 2013) was an American actor. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut into an Italian-American family. He was known for his role as David Toma in the 1970s television series Toma and as Joe D'Angelo in As the World Turns.

He died of complications following surgery on November 26, 2013, aged 77, in Manhattan, New York City.

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Pargnan is a commune. It is in the Picardie region in the Aisne department in north France.

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Wreck-It Ralph is an 2012 American 3D computer animated comedy movie.  It was produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.

The movie tells the story of Wreck-It Ralph.  He is an arcade game villain.  He does not want to be a villain anymore.  He wants to become a hero. Wreck-It Ralph released to the world on October 29, 2012.  It was a 51st movie and released to the United States on November 2, 2012.

A sequel called Ralph Breaks the Internet was released on November 21, 2018.

Release Dates

Voice cast

 John C. Reilly as Wreck-It Ralph, the villain of Fix-It Felix, Jr.
 Sarah Silverman as Vanellope von Schweetz, a racer/glitch in Sugar Rush
 Jack McBrayer as Fix-It Felix, Jr., the hero of Fix-It Felix Jr.
 Jane Lynch as Sergeant Calhoun, the lead character of Hero's Duty
 Alan Tudyk as King Candy, the fake ruler of Sugar Rush/Turbo, the former star racer of TurboTime and a revenge seeker for the arcade.
 Mindy Kaling as Taffyta Muttonfudge, a racer in Sugar Rush
 Joe Lo Truglio as Markowski, the drunk soldier from Hero's Duty
 Dennis Haysbert as General Hologram, a general in Hero's Duty
 Jamie Elman as Rancis Fluggerbutter
 Stefanie Scott as Moppet Girl, a young arcade enthusiast
 Adam Carolla as Wynnchel, Sugar Rush security
 Horatio Sanz as Duncan, Sugar Rush security
 Raymond Persi as Gene, a Nicelander who lives in the game Fix-It Felix, Jr.
 Edie McClurg as Mary, a Nicelander who lives in the game Fix-It Felix, Jr.
 Rachael Harris as Deanna, a Nicelander who lives in the game Fix-It Felix, Jr.
 Ed O'Neill as Mr. Litwak, owner of Litwak's Family Fun Center & Arcade
 Skrillex as DJ
 Kyle Hebert as Ryu from Street Fighter
 Reuben Langdon as Ken Masters from Street Fighter
 Gerald C. Rivers as M. Bison from Street Fighter
 Roger Craig Smith as Sonic from Sonic the Hedgehog
 Maurice LaMarche as the bartender from Tapper
 Jamie Sparer Roberts as Yuni Verse from Dance Dance Revolution

Soundtrack
The film's score was composed by Henry Jackman.

Track listing

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Chase County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2010 census, 3,966 people lived there. The county seat is Imperial. It was founded in 1873.

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Andrew M. Greeley (February 5, 1928 – May 29, 2013) was an American Roman Catholic priest, educator, sociologist, journalist, philanthropist, and popular author.

Greeley was born on February 5, 1928 in Oak Park, Illinois to an Irish family. He was raised a Catholic. Greeley studied at Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary and at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary. He retired in 2009 after an injury.

Greeley suffered skull fractures in a fall in 2008 when his clothing got caught on the door of a taxi as it pulled away; he was hospitalized in critical condition. He remained in poor health. Greeley died on May 29, 2013 at his Chicago home. He was 85.

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The Pacific island nation Nauru (NRU) was at the Summer Olympic Games first in the 1996 games in Atlanta. The country was then in Sydney in 2000, in Athens in 2004, and in Beijing in 2008.

The nation is known for its weightlifting tradition.  All seven athletes have been weightlifters. Nauru is the smallest nation (by population) in the 202 member International Olympic Committee.

Other websites
Nauru. Olympics at Sports-Reference.com

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Shadrach Kabango (born July 18, 1982 in Kenya), known by his stage names, Shad and Shad K., is a Canadian rapper.

Shad was born in Kenya to Rwandan parents and was raised in London, Ontario. He self-made his debut album, When This Is Over with a $17,500 cash prise that he won from 91.5 The Beat's Rhythm of the Future talent competition. His album The Old Prince was nominated for a Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year, and was also nominated for the 2008 Polaris Music Prize. His third album, TSOL was nominated for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize, a 2011 MuchMusic Video Award, and won the Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year at the 2011 Juno Awards.

Discography

Albums
Shad has released 3 studio albums:

References

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Aristides Maria Pereira (; 17 November 1923 – 22 September 2011) was a Cape Verdean politician. He was the first President of Cape Verde from 1975 to 1991.

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The British Virgin Islands are part of the Virgin Islands, which are chain of islands in the Caribbean, the territory is part of the United Kingdom. The British Virgin Islands are the Eastern half of the island chain, and they are a British Overseas Territory.  The British Virgin Islands has sixteen inhabited and more than twenty uninhabited islands.  Over 22,000 people live there, which is many fewer than the neighbouring United States Virgin Islands.

The capital city, Road Town, is on Tortola, one of the islands in the group.  Most of the people live on Tortola, but the other main inhabited islands are Anegada, Virgin Gorda and Jost Van Dyke.

History
The islands were originally inhabited by Caribbean Indians called Arawaks.  But by the time the first European explorers discovered the British Virgin Islands all of the Arawaks had left.  The first Europeans to try and settle in the British Virgin Islands were the Dutch, but the English came soon after and the English and the Dutch settlers used to fight.  The Spanish also claimed the islands, but no Spanish people ever tried to settle there.  But the Spanish did attack the British and Dutch settlers.

In 1672 the British took control of the islands during a war against the Dutch and they have held on to them ever since.

During the early years after European settlement the British Virgin Islands was a plantation economy which relied heavily upon slave labour. After slavery was abolished in the British Virgin Islands there was a long period of decline and many people left.  Those who remained were mostly descended from African slaves, although many of them also left to try and find better lives elsewhere.

In the 1950s the British Virgin Islands got its own government, and the economy of the islands began to get better with the introduction of tourism and financial services.

Government
The British Virgin Islands are mostly indepependent, but some parts of the Government is run by the United Kingdom.

A new constitution was introduced in 2007.  It grants more control over everyday life to the Islanders, and lists the protection a person can expect from the government.  The head of Government in the British Virgin Islands is called the Premier, and he is in charge of a group of ministers of Government which is called the Cabinet.  Laws are passed by a group of elected politicians in the House of Assembly.  Most of the international relations are still dealt with by the British Government in London on behalf of the people of the British Virgin Islands.

Economy
Most people in the British Virgin Islands work in the tourist trade or in financial services.  There are also a small number of farmers and fishermen.

References

Other websites

A visual guide to the British Virgin Islands

British Virgin Islands


Nicaragua national football team is the national football team of Nicaragua.

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Michelle Alonso Morales (born September 15, 1994, Tenerife) is a swimmer from Spain. She has an intellectual disability and is an S14 type swimmer.  As of 2012, she lived in Tenerife. She raced at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, England. She finished first in the 100 meter breaststroke. She has been dubbed by the media as "The Little Mermaid of the Canary Islands". She is also considered one of the most important personalities of Spanish sport.

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Doug Bowser is the current President of Nintendo of America, after the retirement of Reggie Fils-Aime

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Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen (10 December 1886 – 7 November 1959) was a British-American actor and activist. He was known for winning the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1935 for his role in The Informer.

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Victor McLaglen


MacOS Mojave (version 10.14) is the fifteenth major version of MacOS, Apple Inc.'s desktop operating system for Macintosh computers.

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MacOS Mojave


Jericho is a town in Crittenden County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 119 at the 2010 census, down from 184 in 2000.

Geography
Jericho is found at . It lies along Arkansas Highway 77,  north of West Memphis.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land.

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Bukit Gombak MRT station (NS3) is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the North South Line in Bukit Batok, Singapore.

History
This station was a temporary terminus from 18 to 19 September 2010 during the Jurong East Modification Project upgrade and during the late openings of the MRT on Sundays from June to November 2016.

Related pages
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Bukit Gombak MRT station


Al-`Askarī or the `Askariyya Mosque/Shrine (Arabic: مرقد الامامين علي الهادي والحسن العسكري; transliterated: Marqad al-Imāmayn `Alī l-Hādī wa l-Ħassan al-`Askarī) is a Shī`a Muslim holy site. It is in the Iraqi city of Samarra. Samara is 60 miles from Baghdad. It is one of the most important Shīite mosques in the world. It was built in 944. Its dome was destroyed in February 2006 (see al-`Askarī Mosque Bombing).

The remains of the tenth and eleventh Shī`a Imāms, `Alī l-Hādī and his son Hassan al-`Askarī, known as "the two `Askarīs" (al-`Askariyyān), rest at the shrine. It stands next to a shrine to the Twelfth or "Hidden" Imām, Muħammad al-Mahdī. The `Askariyya Shrine is also known as the "Tomb or Mausoleum of the Two Imāms", "the Tomb of Imāms `Alī l-Hādī and Hassan al-`Askarī" and al-Hadhratu l-`Askariyya.

Also buried inside the Mosque are the remains of Hakimah Khatun, sister of `Alī l-Hādī, and of Narjis Khatun, mother of Muħammad al-Mahdi.

Time magazine reported at the time of the 2006 al-Askari mosque bombing that “al-Askari [is] one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest sites. Only the shrines of Najaf and Karbala are more important. Even Samarra's Sunnis hold al-Askari in high esteem. The expression 'to swear by the shrine' is routinely used by both communities".

History
The Imāms `Alī l-Hādī (also known as an-Naqī) and Hassan al-`Askarī lived under house arrest in the part of Samarra that had been Caliph al-Mu'tasim's military camp (`Askaru l-Mu'tasim). As a result, they are known as the `Askariyyān ("Dwellers in the Camp"). They died and were buried in their house on Abī Ahmad Street near the mosque built by Mu'tasim. A later tradition attributes their deaths to poison.

The shrine around their tombs was built in 944 by the Hamdanid governor Nasīr ad-Dawla. It became a focus for pilgrims. It was developed and rebuilt several times in following centuries, including, in particular, by Arslan al-Basasiri around 1053 and by Caliph an-Nasīr li-Dīn Allāh in 1209.

Nasir ad-Din Shah Qajar undertook the latest remodelling of the shrine in 1868, with the golden dome added in 1905. Covered in 72,000 gold pieces and surrounded by walls of light blue tiles, the dome was a dominant feature of the Samarra skyline. It was approximately 20 metres in diameter by 68 metres high.

Bombings

2006 attack
On February 22, 2006, at 6:55 a.m. local time (0355 UTC) explosions occurred at the mosque. The explosions destroyed its golden dome and severely damaged the mosque. Several men, one wearing a military uniform, had earlier entered the mosque. They tied up the guards there and set explosives, which resulted in the blast. Two bombs were set off by five to seven men dressed as personnel of the Iraqi Special forces who entered the shrine during the morning.

2007 attack
At around 9 a.m. on 13 June 2007, suspected al-Qaeda people destroyed the two remaining 36m-high golden minarets flanking the dome's ruins. No fatalities were reported. Iraqi police have reported hearing "two nearly simultaneous explosions coming from inside the mosque compound at around 9 a.m." A report from state run Iraqia Television stated that "local officials said that two mortar rounds were fired at the two minarets."

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Al-Askari mosque