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The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election. The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and incumbent U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris defeated the Republican ticket of incumbent president Donald Trump and vice president Mike Pence. It was the ninth consecutive presidential election where the victorious candidate did not win a popular vote...
The Turn of the Screw is a 1898 horror novella by Henry James. It is both gothic fiction and a ghost story about a governess caring for two children. The governess becomes convinced that the grounds of the estate are haunted. The story has been adapted numerous times, including a 1950 Broadway play, the Benjamin Britten chamber opera, the 1961...
Gretchen Esther Whitmer is an American politician serving as the 49th governor of Michigan since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2001 to 2006 and the Michigan Senate from 2006 to 2015. She was the Senate’s first female Democratic leader from 2011 to 2015, making her the first woman to...
Roger Federer is a Swiss professional tennis player. He is ranked No. 5 in the world by the Association of Tennis Professionals. Federer has won 103 ATP singles titles, the second-most all-time behind Jimmy Connors. He has won 20 Grand Slam men’s singles titles.
Cleopatra VII Philopator (69 – 10 or 12 August 30 BC) was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. Her native language was Koine Greek, and she was the only PtoLEmaic ruler to learn the Egyptian language. She died of poisoning, contrary to the popular belief that she was bitten by an aspp. Her son Caesarion was later named...
The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war was an armed conflict between Azerbaijan and the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh together with Armenia. It was the latest escalation of an unresolved conflict over the region, which is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but partially governed by Artsakh. A ceasefire agreement was signed between the President of Azerbaijan,. Ilham Aliyev, the Prime Minister of...
Douglas Craig Emhoff is an American lawyer and the husband of U.S. Senator and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Emhoff was married for 16 years to Kerstin Emhoff, née Mackin. They have two children, Cole and Ella.
The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution deals with issues related to presidential succession and disability. It clarifies that the vice president becomes president if the president dies, resigns, or is removed from office. The amendment also establishes procedures for filling a vacancy in the office of vice president and for responding to presidential disabilities.
Anthony Marshon Davis Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. Davis played one season of college basketball for the University of Kentucky, when he was first team All-American and the Consensus National Player of the Year. Davis left college for the NBA after one season and was drafted as the...
Among Us is an online multiplayer social deduction game developed and published by American game studio Innersloth and released on June 15, 2018. The game takes place in a space-themed setting, in which players each take on one of two roles, most being Crewmates, and a predetermined number being Impostors. The goal of the Crewmates is to identify the Im...