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The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 8, 2016. The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and U.S. senator from Virginia Tim Kaine. Trump took office as the 45th president, and Pence as the 48th vice...
Daniel Joseph Levy is a Canadian actor, writer, director, and producer. He is best known for starring as David Rose in the CBC sitcom Schitt’s Creek. He was the first person to win a Primetime Emmy Award in all four major disciplines in a single year. In July 2017, it was announced that Levy would host The Great Canadian Baking...
Jimmy Butler III is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association. He was drafted with the 30th overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls. His father abandoned the family when he was an infant, and his mother kicked him out of the house at 13 years old. Butler is...
Genshin Impact is a free-to-play action role-playing game developed and published by miHoYo. It features a fantasy open-world environment and action-based battle system using elemental magic. The game is online-only and features a limited multiplayer mode allowing up to four players to play together. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Android and iOS on September 28, 2020.
Schitt’s Creek is a Canadian television sitcom that aired on CBC Television from January 13, 2015, to April 7, 2020. The series follows the trials and tribulations of the formerly wealthy Rose family when they are forced to relocate to a small town. Dan Levy came up with the idea for the show while watching reality television. It was sold...
Novak Djokovic is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has won 17 Grand Slam men’s singles titles, and 81 ATP singles titles overall. He is the first and only player to win all the annual elite-tier tournaments of the men’s professional circuit. He won a bronze medal in singles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Carlo Acutis was an English-born Italian Catholic youth and amateur computer programmer. He is best known for documenting Eucharistic miracles around the world and cataloguing them onto a website that he created before his death from leukemia. The call for him to be beatified began not long after his death and he will be canonised on 10 October 2020.
Sir David Frederick Attenborough is an English broadcaster and natural historian. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine natural history documentary series forming the Life collection. In 2002, he was named among the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide poll for the BBC. In 2018 and 2019, he received...
Iga Świątek (born 31 May 2001) is a Polish professional tennis player. She was the champion at the 2020 French Open and is the first Polish player to win a Grand Slam singles title in history. As a junior, she was the 2018 French Open girls’ doubles champion alongside Caty McNally, and the 2018 Wimbledon girls’ singles champion. She led...
Victoria Pedretti is an American actress. She had her breakthrough portraying Eleanor in the Netflix horror series The Haunting of Hill House. In 2019, she appeared as Leslie Van Houten in Quentin Tarantino’s comedy-drama film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. In 2020, she guest-starred in the anthology series Amazing Stories.