[{"text": "Michael Pittman Jr. (born October 5, 1997) is an American professional football wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the USC Trojans, earning consensus second-team All-American honors as a senior. He was selected by the Colts in the second round of the 2020 NFL draft. Early life. Pittman grew up in Southern California and attended Valencia High School as a freshman, and Oaks Christian School in Westlake Village, California, for his sophomore, junior, and senior year. As a senior, He caught 81 passes for 1,990 yards and 24 touchdowns and was named first-team All-America by \"Parade\" and \"Max Preps\" and participated in the All-American Bowl. In the final game of his high school career, Pittman caught 16 passes for 354 yards and five touchdowns. Rated a four star recruit, Pittman initially committed to play college football for the UCLA Bruins. He re-opened his recruitment in the summer of 2015 and ultimately committed to play at the University of Southern California over Oregon. College career. Pittman enrolled at USC in the spring of 2016 after graduating from Oaks Christian a semester early. As a true freshman, he caught 6 passes for"}, {"text": "82 yards on offense while returning two punts for 63 yards, four kickoffs for 31 yards, blocking punt and forcing a fumble on special teams. In his sophomore season, he had 23 receptions for 404 yards and two touchdowns with a punt returned for a touchdown and a blocked punt on special teams. Pittman was named the Pac-12 Conference Special Teams Player of the Week for Week 12 after returning a punt 72 yards for a touchdown against UCLA and was named first-team All-Conference as a special teamer. As junior, Pittman was named honorable mention All-Pac-12 Conference after posting 41 receptions for 758 yards with six touchdowns. Following the end of the season, Pittman considered forgoing his final season of eligibility to enter the 2019 NFL draft but opted to return for his senior year after receiving a third-round grade from the NFL Draft Advisory Board. Pittman caught 10 passes for 232 yards (5th-most in a game in USC history) and a touchdown in a 30\u201323 win over tenth-ranked Utah on September 20, 2019. Pittman finished the season with 101 receptions for 1,275 yards and 11 touchdowns and was named first-team All-Pac-12 and a consensus second-team All-America selection. He was"}, {"text": "also a finalist for the Fred Biletnikoff Award and won the Pop Warner Award, given to the college senior with the biggest impact on and off the field. Professional career. 2020 season. Pittman was selected by the Indianapolis Colts in the second round with the 34th overall pick in the 2020 NFL draft. Pittman made his professional debut on September 13, 2020, against the Jacksonville Jaguars, catching two passes for ten yards in the 27\u201320 loss. He was placed on injured reserve on October 3, 2020, due to compartment syndrome in his calf. He was activated on October 31. In Week 9 against the Baltimore Ravens, he caught 4 passes for 56 yard in a 24\u201310 loss to the Ravens. He had his first 100-yard game with seven receptions for 101 yards in the 34\u201317 victory against the Tennessee Titans in Week 10 on \"Thursday Night Football\". He was the first Colts' rookie to have 100 receiving yards in a game since Donte Moncrief in 2014. In Week 11 against the Green Bay Packers, Pittman caught 3 passes for 66 yards and his first career touchdown reception on a 45 yard pass play in a 34\u201331 victory. Pittman finished his"}, {"text": "rookie season with 40 catches for 503 yards. 2021 season. In a Week 2 loss against the Los Angeles Rams, Pittman had a career game, hauling in 8 passes for 123 yards. Pittman scored his second career touchdown in a 31\u201325 loss to the Ravens, finishing with 6 receptions for 89 yards. Continuing to carve out a big role in the Colts' offense, Pittman hit 100 receiving yards for the third time in his career in a Week 7 \"Sunday Night Football\" matchup against the San Francisco 49ers. He caught 4 passes for 105 yards, including a touchdown catch that sealed the Colts' 30-18 win. In the following week's overtime loss against the Titans, Pittman recorded 10 receptions on 15 targets for 86 yards, also scoring 2 touchdowns within a minute. His targets, receptions, and touchdowns were all career-highs. In a Week 14 win against the New England Patriots, Pittman was ejected in the third quarter for his involvement in a fight with Patriots safety Kyle Dugger. On December 23, 2021, Pittman was named a 2022 Pro Bowl alternate. In the Colts' Week 17 loss against the Las Vegas Raiders, Pittman broke 1,000 receiving yards on the season and became"}, {"text": "the sixth Colts' pass catcher since 2000 to do so. 2023 season. In Week 1, Pittman caught eight passes for 97 yards and one touchdown, during a 31\u201321 loss to the Jaguars. In a Week 13 victory over the Tennessee Titans, Pittman hauled in his 314th career reception, breaking the Colts franchise record for the most catches in the first four years of a player's career. One week later, he tied former Colts receiver and Pro Football Hall of Famer Marvin Harrison for the most consecutive games with at least eight receptions in Colts history. In the Week 15 game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittman was taken out of the game due to a concussion after taking a hit from safety Damontae Kazee, which led to Kazee being ejected from the game and a 15-yard roughness penalty being enacted on Pittsburgh. He finished the season as the Colts leading receiver with 109 catches for 1,152 yards and four touchdowns. He was fifth in the league in catches and 14th in receiving yards. 2024 season. On March 5, 2024, the Colts placed the franchise tag on Pittman. On March 11, he signed a three-year, $71.5 million contract extension with $46 million"}, {"text": "guaranteed. Personal life. Pittman is the son of former NFL running back and Super Bowl champion Michael Pittman and Kristin Randall. Pittman Sr. played on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2002 championship roster. His younger brother, Mycah Pittman, plays wide receiver for the University of Utah. Pittman also runs a YouTube channel with his wife, Kianna Pittman, called \"Michael and Kianna\". He produces two series on YouTube: \"Gameday Vlogs\" and \"Path to the Draft\". He and his wife have two children together, a daughter and a son. Pittman is a Christian."}, {"text": "Formia War Memorial (Italian: \"monumento ai caduti di Formia\") is an Italian war memorial erected in 1926 to commemorate the dead of the First World War and earlier conflicts. It stands in the Piazza della Vittoria, in the centre of Formia, a town on the coast of the Province of Latina beside the Tyrrhenian Sea, about southeast of Rome and northwest of Naples The high structure comprises a monumental bronze statue mounted on a tall white marble pedestal, standing on a plinth with two steps. The bronze statue entitled \"Sacraficio\" depicts a soldier, larger than life size, wearing an Adrian helmet, and trousers with puttees and boots, but bare-chested, standing with both arms raised, as if offering himself in sacrifice. The pedestal has a carved decorative frieze around its top edge, and the front has a carving of a female figure bearing a palm frond and holding a laurel branch over a dedicatory inscription \"\" (\"To the fallen / for the independence and greatness of the fatherland // Formia / proud and recognising\"). On the rear are the inscriptions \"\" and two lines from the 1818 poem \"All'Italia\" (\"To Italy\") by the poet Giacomo Leopardi: \"\" (\"Dear land of my"}, {"text": "birth, / The life you gave to me here I give back.\"). The sides are inscribed with the names of 120 war dead from Formia, killed in the First World War and earlier conflicts, including the Battle of Lissa (1866), the Battle of Adwa (1896), and the Italo-Turkish War (1911\u201312) The Australian sculptor Dora Ohlfsen-Bagge (1869\u20131948) received a commission from the Italian government to create the sculpture around 1923, reportedly due to her friendship with Duke (1874\u20131939). It is claimed that she was the only woman in Italy and the only non-Italian to have been awarded such a commission. She first completed a plaster model, which was then cast in bronze, reportedly using bronze from captured guns, and completed around February 1925. The model for the bronze statue may have been Fulco's son Luigi Tosti di Valminuta (1871\u20131958). The memorial was unveiled on Sunday 18 July 1926, at a ceremony attended by the Italian government minister Pietro Fedele, Marshal Armando Diaz, Admirals and Giuseppe Sirianni, the Archbishop of Gaeta, war veterans, and a large crowd of spectators. An Italian navy vessel in the harbour fired a salute. The strong masculine sculpture was considered a fitting commemorative work by the Fascist"}, {"text": "government of Benito Mussolini. There was suggestion that the statue should be removed in the Second World War, so the bronze could be reused in the war effort, as despite the work's historical and patriotic value, it was said to have little artistic value. In the event, the memorial remained in place. It was restored in 2008."}, {"text": "Jing, the Thirteenth (\"fl.\" 880), was a Chinese businesswoman. Jing was described as a rich widow and businesswoman, though her business is not specified. She lived in Yangzhou close to Nanjing. She was known for her charitable nature and her wish to do good and intervene in the cause of justice, and was therefore regarded in history as a n\u00fcxia or female justice fighter. She lived with her lover, the student Zhao Zhongxing, who, though wasteful with her fortune, shared her justice ideals. She is best known for the story in which she helped a friend of her lover, Li, to elope with a courtesan who had been forced to marry a corrupt man by the name Zhuge Yin. Her story was portrayed in fiction for centuries."}, {"text": "The Church of the Holy Archangels (; ; ) is a former 14th-century Serbian Orthodox church in Gornje Nerodimlje near the city of Uro\u0161evac, Kosovo. It is listed as a Cultural Monument of Exceptional Importance of the Republic of Serbia. It was destroyed by Albanians during the Kosovo War. Description. The church was built in the 14th century and restored in 1700. It had a single nave with a narthex. The western fa\u00e7ade had two rectangular windows. The fa\u00e7ades and the porches were whitened by lime. Under the 18th-century frescoes, there were several paintings from the 14th and 15th centuries. The building also hosted icons from the 17th and 18th centuries. The Pine of Tsar Du\u0161an, a black pine tree planted by Emperor Du\u0161an, was located near the church."}, {"text": "Dior Deposits is the debut studio album by American rapper Guapdad 4000. It was released on October 25, 2019 by TWNSHP and Warner Records. It includes features from Tory Lanez, 6LACK, Chance the Rapper, G-Eazy, Buddy, and Denzel Curry, among others. Singles. On July 12, 2019, Guapdad 4000 released the single \"Scammin\" featuring Mozzy. In August, he released two more singles: \"First Things First\" featuring G-Eazy, and \"Prada Process\" featuring 6lack. On October 3, 2019, he released the next single \"Gucci Pajamas\" featuring Chance the Rapper and Charlie Wilson. Critical reception. Aaron Williams of \"Uproxx\" wrote a positive review of the album saying \"His jester-like geniality makes him a joy to listen to and his commitment to the craft of rapping makes listeners take him seriously. The hints of a broader story on Dior Deposits promise more artistic depths for him to plumb on future projects, while his creativity ensures that those tales will be told in engaging, innovative ways.\""}, {"text": "Isabel Maitland Stewart (January 14, 1878 \u2013 October 5, 1963) was a Canadian nurse. She was the founder of the Winnipeg General Hospital Nursing Alumnae and member of the first legislative committee that helped establish the Manitoba Association of Graduate Nurses. Early life and education. Stewart was born on January 14, 1878, the fourth oldest of nine children. She came from a family of Scottish descent, due to the heritage of both her parents. Career. Stewart attended and graduated from the Winnipeg General Hospital Training School for Nurses, but was disappointed by the lack of hands-on training and education. She thus enrolled at Columbia University Teachers College and earned a bachelor's and master's degree. Stewart and Mary Adelaide Nutting, the principal of the School of Nursing, led the National League of Nursing's The Standard Curriculum for Schools of Nursing. By 1925, she took over the program after Nutting's retirement, and became the Helen Hartley Jenkins Foundation Professor of Nursing Education and Director of the program. After her retirement, the Teachers College announced a professorship in her name, titled the \"Isabel Maitland Stewart Research Professorship of Nursing.\" In 1928, Stewart directed the first University-sponsored studies in nursing using a research team"}, {"text": "approach at Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing. What made the survey unique was that it focused on both the nursing process and results of care in terms of patient comfort and safety. During WW1, Stewart Chaired the Vassar Training program for nurses. She later became a founder of the Winnipeg General Hospital Training School for Nurses alumnae program and a member of the legislative committee that helped establish the Manitoba Association of Graduate Nurses. Her main ambition was to train nursing school teachers. Stewart also Chaired the Education Committee of the International Council of Nurses. By 1944, she was elected vice-president of the American Council on Education. Two years later she received the Finland Medal for Humanitarian Work. In 1956, she was the recipient of an honorary degree of law from the University of Manitoba. Stewart died in October 1963. Legacy. In 1978, Columbia University Teachers College created the Isabel Maitland Stewart Fund. They also started the annual Stewart Conference on Research in Nursing. Selected publications. The following is a list of selected publications:"}, {"text": "St Aidan's High School (simply referred to as St Aidan's) is an 11\u201318 mixed, Roman Catholic, secondary school in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Motherwell. It was rated 'good' by Education Scotland following its inspection in December 2018, and was ranked 139th out of 339 secondary schools in Scotland for exam results in 2019."}, {"text": "Watch Meeting\u2014Dec. 31st 1862\u2014Waiting for the Hour is an 1863 painting by the US artist William Tolman Carlton. The location of the original painting is not known, but a different version, possibly a study, is displayed in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House. Watch meetings originated as nighttime religious services of the Methodist Church. The painting depicts a watch meeting or vigil in the dark interior of a wood cabin, with a group of enslaved black men, women and children are covertly gathered on December 31, 1862, around a pulpit made from U.S. Sanitary Commission crates. An older black man stands with a book and a large pocket watch with an anchor at the end of its chain, a symbol of hope. To his right sits a white woman holding a black baby. The man and woman may be intended to resemble Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom. Several other women are sitting or kneeling in prayer, and one has prostrated herself. They are all waiting in expectation for the Emancipation Proclamation to be issued by the U.S. President Abraham Lincoln the following day, concerned to make sure that the President carries through with the preliminary proclamation that he"}, {"text": "published on September 22, 1862. To the left, in the doorway, a black person is holding the U.S. flag draped over their arms. Outside, an illuminated cross can be seen in the night sky. A banjo hangs on the wall. To the right of the painting, a slave in a neck collar stands holding a torch aloft before a copy of the proclamation pasted to the wall, which reads \"Proclamation / 1st Jan. / For ever free / Slave\". At the bottom, the title of the work is written out on the links of a metal chain. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison wrote in a letter to Lincoln on January 21, 1865 that it was \"an admirable painting\" which abolitionist donors in Boston had contributed \"upwards of five hundred dollars\" to give as a gift to Lincoln. The original version of the painting disappeared after Lincoln's death, possibly removed by his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. A different version, possibly a study, was found at an antiques shop in New York City in 1975, and it was presented to the White House by the Republican Party in 1976, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence in"}, {"text": "1776. It is displayed in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House. The painting was widely spread by copies on engraved copies on cartes de visite, in which the details are clearer than the known painted version held by the White House."}, {"text": "\"What's Wrong with Me?\" is a song by Australian singer song writer Anthony Callea. It was self-released on 25 October 2019. Callea said \"'What's Wrong with Me?' is a deep and meaningful song for me. It's inherently personal but also a song that I think many will be able to relate to. Telling a story through music is in my DNA and when I close my eyes and get behind the mic, I feel like I am home. It's an honour to share this song with Australia and the World. Self-discovery is a beautiful yet confronting and scary process, so I hope that when you hear this song, you connect with me and we share a moment together, a moment of honesty, purity and respect.\" Reception. Out in Perth said \"We've had a couple of listens to the new tune and it's very powerful and instantly memorable.\""}, {"text": "\"The Rain\" is a song by American R&B singer K. Michelle. It was released on October 25, 2019 via eOne Music as the second single from her fifth studio album \"All Monsters Are Human\". Production of the song was handled by Jazze Pha, while the song was penned by Michelle, Pha, Rafael Ishman, Cory Moore, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Background. Michelle shared the song to her fans via her Instagram live in April 2019. The track was produced by Jazze Pha and samples the 1988 hit \"Can You Stand the Rain\" by R&B group New Edition. Critical reception. Erika Marie of the website \"HotNewHipHop\" stated, \"When K. Michelle first announced \"The Rain,\" fans thought that she would be paying homage to R&B group SWV's 1998 classic \"Rain.\" However, K. and Jazze Pha instead tapped New Edition iconic 1988 chart-topper \"Can You Stand The Rain\" for the singer's sexy track. \"The Rain\" isn't about the weather, either; We'll just leave it up to you to listen to the song and figure out what wetness K. Michelle is talking about.\" Brittany Burton of \"Respect\" commented on Michelle's concept, stating: \"Her desire to push the lines between sexuality and sensuality stand out"}, {"text": "vividly on this single. But most importantly, K. Michelle reminds fans that real R&B is here and thriving like never before. Her passion for her craft and creating a work of perfection, is why she has found so much longevity in the music business.\" Music video. The music video for \"The Rain\" was directed by Zachary Greaton and premiered simultaneously with the release of the song on October 25, 2019. Live performances. K. Michelle debuted the song with its first live performance on the Soul Train Music Awards on November 17, 2019. During this performance, the singer wore an all-white dress, and was accompanied by four male backup dancers in white tuxedos. According to BET's Alexis Reese, Michelle delivered \"sultry\" vocals in front of the simplistic white stage set. On January 30, 2020, Michelle performed the song on The Wendy Williams Show."}, {"text": "\"What She Wants Tonight\" is a song by American country music singer Luke Bryan. Co-written by him along with Hillary Lindsey, Ross Copperman, and Jon Nite, it is the second single from his seventh studio album, \"Born Here Live Here Die Here\", released on August 7, 2020. Content and history. Bryan released the single on October 24, 2019. It was included on his seventh studio album, \"Born Here, Live Here, Die Here\". The song's producers are Jeff Stevens and his son, Jody Stevens. Bryan wrote the song along with Ross Copperman, Jon Nite, and Hillary Lindsey, three writers with whom Bryan had expressed interest in working. Bryan felt that the song would appeal to female listeners because the girl in the song controls the dynamic of the situation\", and that \"I've been wanting to get a big, rocking tempo out for some time and this is certainly it.\" Lyrically, the song is about a sexual encounter with a woman; Taste of Country said of its content that \"Passing references of trucks and Kentucky keep the song country, but otherwise, 'What She Wants Tonight' is a fantasy that finds Bryan subject to a wild woman's charms and urgent sexual desires. The"}, {"text": "song's release was accompanied by a music video directed by Michael Monaco. Commercial performance. \"What She Wants Tonight\" has sold 51,000 copies in the United States as of March 2020."}, {"text": "\"No One\" is a song originally recorded by American singer and actress Connie Francis in 1960. It was released by MGM Records as the B-side of her bigger hit, \"Where the Boys Are\", but charted separately. The song reached number 34 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 during the winter of 1961. Ray Charles cover. The most successful version of \"No One\" was recorded by American singer, songwriter, and pianist Ray Charles in 1963. His version was released in June 1963 by ABC-Paramount and peaked at number 21 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and became a Top 10 R&B and AC hit. It also charted in the United Kingdom, reaching number 35. Brenda Lee cover. In 1965, American singer Brenda Lee covered \"No One\", with chorus and orchestra directed by Owen Bradley. It was released in May 1965 by Decca Records as an A-side, however, it was backed with \"Too Many Rivers\", which became the bigger hit (number 13). Her rendition reached only number 98 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100. Nevertheless, it also reached #25 on the US \"Billboard\" Easy Listening chart, and was the only version of the song to chart in Canada, where it became a"}, {"text": "Top 40 hit (number 36)."}, {"text": "Blue Mountain is a rural locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Blue Mountain had a population of 83 people. Geography. The Peak Downs Highway runs through the north-western extremity. Blue Mountain has the following mountains: The Marlborough\u2013Sarina Road runs across the southeast corner. History. Blue Mountain Provisional School opened in July 1943. In 1958 it became Blue Mountain State School. The school closed in 1963. It was on Blue Mountain Road (approx ). Demographics. In the , Blue Mountain had a population of 92 people. In the , Blue Mountain had a population of 83 people. Education. There are no schools in Blue Mountain. The nearest government primary schools are Eton State School in neighbouring Eton to the north and Swayneville State School in neighbouring Sarina to the east. The nearest government secondary schools are Mirani State High School in Mirani to the north and Sarina State High School in Sarina."}, {"text": "David Matthew Grannell (born October 4, 1952) is a former American football tight end in the National Football League (NFL) who played for the San Diego Chargers. He also played college football at Arizona State University."}, {"text": "Riding Mountain National Park Film Festival is a Canadian film festival held in Wasagaming, Manitoba, inside Riding Mountain National Park. Held in July each year, the event screens both short and feature films, concentrating especially on themes of environmentalism, agriculture, food and regional films from Canada's Prairie provinces. Founded by Manitoba filmmaker and activist Steve Langston, the event was staged for the first time in 2012."}, {"text": "Rustington may refer to:"}, {"text": "British singer Charli XCX has embarked on seven tours as a headlining artist (including one as a co-headlining artist) and 11 tours as a supporting act. She began her career performing in warehouse raves and parties in her teenage years. Between 2010 and 2013, XCX was a support act for The Ting Tings, Azealia Banks, Coldplay, Marina and the Diamonds, Sleigh Bells, Ellie Goulding, and Paramore. After finding commercial success as a featured artist on Icona Pop's \"I Love It\" and Iggy Azalea's \"Fancy\", she increased in popularity as a solo artist with tracks such as \"Boom Clap\" and \"Break the Rules\". XCX also released her second studio album, \"Sucker\", in 2014 and embarked on the Girl Power North America Tour to promote it. In 2015, she and Jack Antonoff toured the US on the Charli and Jack Do America Tour. That same year, she toured alongside Katy Perry on her Prismatic World Tour. Following the release of her mixtapes \"Number 1 Angel\" and \"Pop 2\" (both in 2017), XCX lead several brief promotional tours to promote the records. In 2017 she supported Halsey and Sia on their tours. Following a 53-stop tour with Taylor Swift, XCX released her third"}, {"text": "studio album, \"Charli\" (2019), and staged the Charli Live Tour to promote it."}, {"text": "Nagari numerals may be,"}, {"text": "M\u00e9lodie Collard (born 29 June 2003) is a Canadian tennis player. She plays college tennis for the Virginia Cavaliers. On the ITF Junior Circuit, Collard has a career-high combined ranking of 36, achieved on 16 September 2019. She won her first ITF pro title at the 2019 Challenger de Saguenay, in the doubles draw, partnering Leylah Fernandez."}, {"text": "Charles Duncan (1823 1891) was a Scottish-born stonemason in Utah. He worked on his own and with sons, sometimes known as Charles Duncan and Sons, building numerous stone houses and culverts around Davis County, Utah, and he contributed to the construction of the Salt Lake Temple. With son John Samuel Duncan, he built the John, Harriet, and Eliza Jennett Duncan House in Centerville, Utah around 1873. It is one of a number of his works listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Duncan helped build the Salt Lake Temple during the portion of its construction from 1863 to 1867. Duncan was born in 1823 in Dysart, Fifeshire, Scotland and in 1844 he married Margaret Bowman; they lived in Dysart where Charles was employed as a stone cutter and rock mason. The family came from Liverpool to New Orleans by the January to March 1852 voyage of the ship \"Kennebec\"; records show Duncans with first names Charles, Margaret, Isabell, Janet, another Margaret, were on board."}, {"text": "Epsom is a rural locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Epsom had a population of 21 people. Geography. The locality is loosely bounded to the east by Whitehorse Mountains and Blue Mountains. The Peak Downs Highway enters the locality from the north-east (Blue Mountain) and exits to the south-west (Nebo). Epsom has the following mountains: Epsom State Forest 2 is in the north-west of the locality, while Epsom State Forest 3 is in the south-east of the locality. Apart from these protected areas, the land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation with a small amount of crop growing. History. In early 1865, Charles Heineman was granted a license for a public house near Denison's Creek, which he called the Retreat Hotel, possibly after the Spencers Retreat pastoral run nearby. Demographics. In the , Epsom had a population of 9 people. In the , Epsom had a population of 21 people. Education. There are no schools in Epsom. The nearest government primary schools are Eton State School in Eton to the north-east and Nebo State School in neighbouring Nebo to the south. The nearest government secondary schools are Mirani State High School in Mirani to the"}, {"text": "north and Sarina State High School in Sarina to the east; however, students in the south-west of Epsom may be too distant to attend either of these schools; the alternatives are distance education and boarding school. Amenities. The Retreat Hotel provides accommodation and meals at 20601 Peak Downs Highway ()."}, {"text": "Molluscs of Venezuela may refer to:"}, {"text": "Collaroy is a rural locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Collaroy had \"no people or a very low population\". Demographics. In the , Collaroy had a population of 9 people. In the , Collaroy had \"no people or a very low population\"."}, {"text": "Macro is the third studio album by Ukrainian metalcore band Jinjer, released on 25 October 2019 by Napalm Records. Release and promotion. The album was announced by the band on 23 August 2019 with the release of its lead single \"Judgement (& Punishment)\". The following single, \"On the Top\", was released on 11 October 2019. \"Macro\" was released on 25 October 2019 and featured experiments in reggae and progressive rock. The band toured North America from 7 September to 2 November and Europe from 8 November to 22 December to support the album. Jinjer was forced to cancel several other planned tours, including their first in Latin America, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Critical reception. In 2024, Emily Swingle of \"Metal Hammer\" named \"Macro\" as the second-best Jinjer album. \"Loudwire\" named it one of the fifty best metal albums of 2019."}, {"text": "Angi Ma Wong (February 7, 1947 \u2013 July 12, 2015) was an American businesswoman, publisher, teacher, counselor, and author of 27 books. She was also co-founder of the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California and served time as its president. She was regarded as an expert in feng shui. Her historical fiction children's book \"Night of the Red Moon\" was nominated for a John and Patricia Beatty Award. Early life. Ma Wong was born in Nanjing, China and baptized as an Anglican. Her family then moved to Hong Kong. When Ma Wong was two years old, the family moved again, this time to New Zealand. There, Ma Wong grew up in Wellington. Her family then moved to Taipei. Following that, they ended up in Richfield, New Jersey, by which time Ma Wong was in 8th grade. She was the first and only Asian student there. A year later, the family moved to Washington, D.C., where her father, a diplomat, had been transferred. Subsequently, Ma Wong went off to college in Blacksburg, Virginia, where she attended Virginia Tech. After college, Ma Wong married and moved to Los Angeles with her husband. In 1989, at age 26, she experienced breast cancer\u2014the first"}, {"text": "of several times she would have it. The illness inspired her to fulfill two dreams she had at the time, one being to write a book, and the other, to own her own business. Education and marriage. Ma Wong attended Virginia Tech. While at Virginia Tech she founded the service sorority Chi Delta Alpha (XDA). She then graduated from USC with BA in English. She then earned her teaching credential from California State University, Long Beach. Ma Wong and her husband, Norman, had four children. Career. Ma Wong founded a feng shui consulting and corporate training service in 1989, a notable early date for the popularization of the discipline in the United States, as it had only taken hold in the U.S. in 1972, after President Richard Nixon visited China. She subsequently founded Pacific Heritage Books in 1992. She co-founded the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California and served as its president, also becoming active in Rotary Club activities that earned her a place in their Hall of Fame for the years 2014\u20132015. Ma Wong served the Los Angeles Unified School District in a variety of capacities, including teacher and counselor, for 33 years. Ma Wong also served on the"}, {"text": "board of directors at Los Angeles's historic Banning Museum, designed and used by Civil War general Phineas Banning."}, {"text": "Oxford is a rural locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Oxford had a population of 43 people. Geography. The Goonyella railway line forms part of the northern boundary of the locality with Nebo to the north and also passes through the western corner of the locality from Strathfield to Coppabella. In the west of the locality, the Fitzroy Developmental Road enters the locality from the south-west (Valkyrie) and exits to the north-west (Strathfield). In the east of the locality, the Marlborough\u2013Sarina Road enters the locality from the south (Lotus Creek) and exits to the north (Nebo). There are two state forests in the east of the locality: Dipperu National Park is in the south-west of the locality. It contains a large and significant brigalow forest of exceptional scientific value in the North Brigalow Belt. Demographics. In the , Oxford had a population of 39 people. In the , Oxford had a population of 43 people. Education. There are no schools in Oxford. The nearest government primary schools are: However, some students in Oxford could too distant from these schools for a daily commute; the alternatives are distance education and boarding school. Similarly, the nearest government secondary"}, {"text": "school is Sarina State High School in Sarina to the north-east, but most students in Oxford would be too distant to attend it with distance education and boarding school being the alternatives."}, {"text": "Peter Andersen (24 December 1814 \u2013 18 September 1887) was a Danish industrialist. He was the owner of an iron foundry and machine factory in Frederiksberg and also established Frederiksberg Municipality's first waterworks. P. Andersen's Water Tower is listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places. Career. In 1853, Andersen established an iron foundry on the Svanholm estate at Gammel Kongevej 62-64, between Vodroffsvej and Danmarksgade, in Frederiksberg. Svanholm Brewery was located on an adjacent site (No. 68(. In 1859, he was granted a five year monopoly on the casting of \"hollow cylindrical objects\" (\"hule cylindriske legemer ved hj\u00e6lp af vertikale jernformkasser og kernestiver\"). Frederiksberg was incorporated as an independent municipality in 1857. In the early 1860s, a small working class neighbourhood known as the Sch\u00f8nberggade Quarter developed around his factory. The industrial activities and increasing density of the area resulted in a severe shortage of water. In 1868, after the magistrate in Copenhagen had rejected to supply the area with water, Andersen was given permission to establish his own waterworks on his property. It was completed in 1870 and he had by then als installed the necessary water pipes in the Sch\u00f8nbergs Quarter. On 16 Juni 1870,"}, {"text": "the Municipakl Council visited the complex. He later signed a contract with Frederiksberg Municipality for the installation of water pipes in Gammel Kongevej, All\u00e9gade, Nyvej and Frederiksberg All\u00e9 as well as for the supply of water for watering the roads and for fire emergencies. His waterworks had a limited capacity of 4,000 barrels of water a day. In 1877, Frederiksberg Municipality therefore had to establish its first public waterworks. Andersen that same year constructed a new watertower at Lygtevej. Personal life and legacy. Andersen was married to Oline Louise Andersen (13 Februar 1810 \u2013 19 March 1874). They had two children, Carl Theodor Andersen and Vilhelmine Andersen. Peter Andersen died on 18 September 1887 and is buried at Frederiksberg Old Cemetery. Carl Theodor Andersen continued the company. The street Prinsesse Maries All\u00e9 was established on the western part of the property in 1905. In 919, Svanholm was the following year acquired by the wholesale company Bang & Pingel. The buildings were demolished in the 1950s to make way for the Codan Building. P, Andersen's Water Tower was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1991. It was designed by Vilhelm Tvede."}, {"text": "Mirrors is the debut full-length studio album by Hong Kong recording artist Jackson Wang. It was released by his own label, Team Wang and Western and 6th, on October 25, 2019. \"Bullet to the Heart\" and \"Dway!\" served as the album's lead singles. Background. The album was initially titled \"Journey to the West\", referring a traditional Chinese story, and symbolized Wang's journey to the west of the world, that is America. It was supposed to be of pop genre. On September 12, 2019, Wang held a listening session of his first album \"Mirrors\" for the press: the digital record, which expresses the emotions of the contemporary youth and incorporates elements of China's traditional culture, was produced in China, South Korea, and the United States. Wang supervised the whole process, from the initial creation to the packaging, and was personally involved in arrangements, lyrics writing, and music video shooting. The album features the Chinese version of Stephanie Poetri's \"I Love You 3000\" and seven tracks in English, among which \"Faded\" was supposed to be released as a standalone single in March 2019. In an interview with \"i-D\", Wang stated \"For this album I actually found my true identity. I've released a"}, {"text": "lot of rap songs in the past; In China I release many ballads and R&B songs, so it just came to a conclusion where I felt like the fusion of it all was me.\" Through \"Mirrors\", he shares his truest and deepest feelings, talking about love, running out of time, his achievements and where he is in life. Although the songs' main theme looks like romantic love, the counterpart he sings about is himself, his demons, fears, or his passions. The album's first single, \"Bullet to the Heart\", was released on September 24 and is about overcoming the obstacles and hardships experienced while pursuing a dream. \"On the Rocks\" depicts the image of speaking the truth before getting drunk, but never giving up the obsession with love. The album's second single was \"Dway!\", published on October 22, and expresses Wang's pride towards his achievements and his conviction that he's able to master his life. The title is a word play with the Chinese word \"\u5bf9\", which means \"I'm right\". The full album was released on October 25, 2019 along with a music video for \"Titanic\", a collaboration song with Indonesian singer and rapper Rich Brian. In the music video, Wang"}, {"text": "dances with Asian dance group Kinjaz. Critical reception. About the album, \"Clash\" said \"Jackson Wang's solo career is set to truly shine. [...] What's most impressive about the record [...] is the brilliant range of distinct sounds the young artist has managed to cover in eight short tracks; no track sounds like another and that sets the bar really high for whatever he comes out with next. Connections of the heart, the career he has worked for and his conviction in seeing himself through the hard journey, and a celebration of his Asian culture to boot, makes up Jackson Wang's debut album \u2013 and it's hard to find any glaring faults with it barring the slow start of the first few tracks and a wish that the record was longer than just a total of 20 minutes.\" It also indicated \"Titanic\" as the highlight of the record. Jeff Benjamin from \"Billboard\" wrote \"The album's title of \"Mirrors\" is a perfect fit as an album shooting a real, sometimes harsh, reflection of one's true self. It's a change-up from the previously announced \"Journey to the West\" title Jackson was previously playing, as these eight songs all look to be a larger"}, {"text": "meditation on Wang as a human rather than about a crossover attempt. [...] One of \"Mirror\"'s standout tracks \"Bad Back\" shines as one of the most interesting on the album as it seems to have multiple layers to representing Jackson as both an artist and as a person\" and \"\"Mirrors\" felt like a journey of self-discovery with a tracklist that showcased new sides of Jackson as an artist.\" Daniel Spielberger of \"HipHopDX\" deemed the record heartfelt but unoriginal, lacking a knock-out hit and lyricism. Commercial performance. Upon its release, \"Bullet to the Heart\" debuted at #1 on the Billboard China Chart and peaked at #1 on the China Social Chart. In the November 3\u20139 week, the album placed #32 on Billboard 200, becoming the highest-charting debut album ever from a Chinese artist. In the same week, it also debuted on other \"Billboard\"'s charts: it placed #3 on Digital Albums Chart, #1 on Independent Albums Chart, #2 on Rap Album Sales Chart, #3 on Digital Albums Chart, #4 on Top Album Sales Chart and Top Current Albums Chart, #18 on Top Rap Albums Chart, and #22 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart. Track listing. Credits adapted from NetEase Music."}, {"text": "The discography of Hong Kong recording artist Jackson Wang consists of two studio albums, 24 singles, 45 collaborations and 9 soundtrack appearances for television shows."}, {"text": "The third season of \"The Crown\" follows the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II. It consists of ten episodes and was released by Netflix on 17 November 2019. The season was promoted with the tagline \"Times Change. Duty Endures.\" Olivia Colman stars as Elizabeth, along with main cast members Tobias Menzies, Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Daniels, Jason Watkins, Marion Bailey, Erin Doherty, Jane Lapotaire, Charles Dance, Josh O'Connor, Geraldine Chaplin, Michael Maloney, Emerald Fennell, and Andrew Buchan. John Lithgow and Pip Torrens return in cameo appearances. Premise. \"The Crown\" traces the life of Queen Elizabeth II from her wedding in 1947 through to the early 2000s. Season three covers the time period between 1964 and 1977, beginning with Harold Wilson's election as prime minister and ending with the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II. Events depicted include the unmasking of the Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, Sir Anthony Blunt as a Soviet spy, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath's respective terms as prime minister, the Aberfan disaster, the Apollo 11 Moon landing, the 1969 Investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales, the death of the Duke of Windsor (the Queen\u2019s uncle and the former King Edward VIII), the death and"}, {"text": "state funeral of Winston Churchill, and Princess Margaret's affair with Roddy Llewellyn that leads to divorce from Tony Armstrong-Jones. US President Lyndon B. Johnson and Camilla Shand also feature. Cast. Main. Featured. The following actors are credited in the opening titles of up to two episodes: Episodes. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Production. Development. By October 2017, early production had begun on an anticipated third and fourth season, and by the following January, Netflix confirmed the series had been renewed for a third and fourth season. Casting. The producers recast some roles with older actors every two seasons, as the characters age. In October 2017, Olivia Colman was cast as Queen Elizabeth II for the third and fourth seasons. By January 2018, Helena Bonham Carter and Paul Bettany were in negotiations to portray Princess Margaret and Prince Philip, respectively, for these seasons. However, by the end of the month Bettany was forced to drop out due to the time commitment required. By the end of March 2018, Tobias Menzies was cast as Philip. In early May 2018, Bonham Carter was confirmed to have been cast, alongside Jason Watkins as Prime Minister Harold Wilson. The next month, Ben Daniels was cast as Tony Armstrong-Jones for"}, {"text": "the third season, along with Erin Doherty as Princess Anne. A month later, Josh O'Connor and Marion Bailey were cast as respectively Prince Charles and the Queen Mother. In October 2018, Emerald Fennell was cast as Camilla Shand. In December 2018, Charles Dance was cast as Louis Mountbatten. Filming. The third season began filming in July 2018. Release. The third season was released on Netflix worldwide in its entirety on 17 November 2019, and consists of ten episodes. Reception. Rotten Tomatoes reported a 90% approval rating for the third season based on 102 reviews, with an average rating of 8.50/10. Its critical consensus reads: \"Olivia Colman shines, but as \"The Crown\" marches on in reliably luxurious fashion through time it finds space for the characters around her, providing ample opportunity for the appealing ensemble to gleam, too.\" On Metacritic, the season holds a score of 84 out of 100 based on 30 critics, indicating \"universal acclaim\". Writing for \"The Daily Telegraph\", Anita Singh called the series \"by far, the best soap opera on television\". The \"Los Angeles Times\"s Lorraine Ali praised the attention to historical detail and the performances, particularly from Colman and Bonham Carter. \"The Guardian\"s Lucy Mangan praised"}, {"text": "the \"top-notch performances\", adding that the season is \"so confident and so precision-engineered that you don't notice the defects\". Daniel Fienberg for \"The Hollywood Reporter\" judged the cast transition to be a success, adding the series \"remains a model for carefully crafted episodic storytelling\". There was some criticism of the lack of nuance within the writing. The BBC's Hugh Montgomery found it \"increasingly on the nose\", with the season \"the best yet\". Alison Rowat from \"The Herald\" opined some scenes were \"over-engineered\" and dialogue \"too on the nose\", but nevertheless that it excels as a political drama. \"Vulture\"s Jen Chaney found the writing \"a bit heavy-handed\" in nevertheless \"an absorbing, thoroughly enriching experience\". Reviewing for \"Variety\", Caroline Framke thought the series does not always succeed in humanising the royal family, but when it does, it is \"as compelling a portrait of how power warps individuals, and the world along with them, as exists on TV\". Ed Power from \"The Independent\" was less complimentary, praising Colman's performance but finding the series somewhat \"colourless\". Historical accuracy. The Queen did not visit Churchill following his final stroke. Writer Hugo Vickers claims that by then he was senile and incapable of holding a conversation."}, {"text": "Anthony Blunt's exposure as a Soviet spy also drew criticism. Vickers noted that the episode did not mention that he was publicly exposed in 1979 and stripped of his knighthood, while also noting that he never resided at Buckingham Palace and ridiculing a scene in which he discusses his exposure with Prince Philip in an attempt to blackmail the royal family. The depiction of the relationship with President Johnson has been criticised. It has been suggested that he did not refuse to attend Churchill's funeral, in response to Wilson's refusal to support the Vietnam War, but that he was genuinely unable due to poor health. His disappointment with Wilson's views on Vietnam had developed much later. Historians also denied the episode's implication that no US president had ever been to Balmoral; Eisenhower had visited Balmoral while president in 1959. Critics noted that the episode did not mention that Johnson had been the only president since Truman never to have met the Queen. The implication that Johnson did not know who Princess Margaret was before her visit to America was also criticised. The Princess did attend a White House dinner, but the details are mostly fictional (such as her carousing with"}, {"text": "Johnson and kissing him, dirty limericks, and helping secure a US bailout, which in fact had already been negotiated). The depiction of Princess Margaret and President Johnson publicly insulting the late President Kennedy during the same White House dinner was seen as highly unlikely since members of the Kennedy family, as well as John Connally, who was riding with Kennedy during the assassination, were reportedly among those who attended the dinner. The relationship with Princess Alice has also drawn criticism for Prince Philip's depiction as being estranged from his mother and objecting to her visiting London. In reality, he visited her regularly and often transported her by plane, and her depicted interview with a journalist from \"The Guardian\" never happened. Vickers also stated that the same episode ignored that Prince Philip encouraged her to move to London permanently. Prince Charles did visit the Duke of Windsor in Paris in 1972, although the depiction of the letters concerning his affections for Camilla was criticised: the Prince and Camilla had met, but were not intimately close during the Duke's lifetime. The Queen did visit the Duke ten days before his death, but this had been long-planned and not requested at short notice."}, {"text": "Simpson was not with the Duke when he died. The timeframe of Woods's posting as Dean of Windsor around the time of the Apollo 11 spaceflight and lunar landing in July 1969 is inaccurate, as he had taken the role in 1962. Prince William of Gloucester had also died five years before the Queen's Silver Jubilee. It has been suggested that there was no plot by the palace to prevent Prince Charles and Camilla's marriage, with Camilla's love for Andrew Parker Bowles being genuine, and Prince Charles unable to decide. It has also been suggested that Princess Anne's relations with Andrew Parker Bowles did not overlap with Prince Charles and Camilla's introduction. Reviews of the episode noted that it ignored more significant events, citing Princess Anne's 1973 wedding to Captain Mark Phillips and her attempted kidnapping in 1974."}, {"text": "Jack G. Makari (December 23, 1917 \u2013 May 4, 2013) was a Lebanese-American cancer immunologist. He is known for the development of several cancer tests, including the Makari Intradermal Cancer Test. During his career, he taught and conducted research at institutions including Harvard University, the University of Texas, and Johns Hopkins, and he was the founder of the Makari Research Laboratories. Early life. Jack G. Makari was born on December 23, 1917, in Enfeh, Lebanon, and received his medical degree in 1941 from the Medical School of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, where he served as a professor until 1945. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1959. Career. Between 1945 and 1947, Makari was a British Council scholar at the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons in England. Beginning in 1947, Makari served as a senior physician and director of the hospital laboratory to the Trans-Arabian Pipeline Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, where he pursued research into subject matters including intradermal testing for infectious diseases like malaria and hepatitis. He remained there until 1950, when he became a World Health Organization fellow at Harvard University Medical School until 1951 and received a Masters of Public Health"}, {"text": "from Harvard in 1953. Between 1952 and 1953, Makari was a fellow in medicine at the Biological Division of Johns Hopkins Hospital. He continued at Hopkins as a researcher from 1953 to 1954 while simultaneously working as a physician at the Baltimore City Hospital. He then moved to the University of Texas, where from 1954 to 1956 he was an associate professor of immunology, while also working as an immunologist at the M. D. Anderson Hospital & Tumor Institute. From 1957 to 1963, he served as the director of research at the Muhlenberg Hospital in Muhlenberg, New Jersey, earning his license to practice medicine in the State of New Jersey in 1962, before directing a cancer clinic at that hospital in 1963. From that point forward he worked as the director of the Makari Research Laboratories located in New Jersey. Over his career he became a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Royal Society of Medicine in London. Research. In 1955, he presented his research on a cancer test based on a cancer specific antigen used with a modified Schultz-Dale Reaction, at the annual meeting of the American"}, {"text": "Association of Bacteriologists and Pathologists, and his development of a Tumor Skin Test and cancer blood test were presented in 1958. In 1965, a five-year preliminary study of the Skin Tumor Test was presented at the New York Academy of Sciences. This work led to the development of the Makari Intradermal Cancer Test, which over the next decade was studied by researchers in the United Kingdom, Japan, and Germany, among others, and was approved for licensure in the UK in 1982 after testing. In 1988, he received a US patent on the test. Makari also pursued research into the possibility that viruses may be associated with cancer, such as the Marek's disease herpes virus in chickens. He published in journals including \"Nature\", the \"British Medical Journal\", and the \"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences\", among others. Personal life. Makari was married to Odette Tamer in 1955, with whom he had three children. Makari died on May 4, 2013."}, {"text": "Lotus Creek is a rural locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Lotus Creek had a population of 113 people. Geography. The locality is loosely bounded to the south-west by the Isaac River and to the west by its tributary Connors River and to the north-west by its tributary Funnel Creek. The Marlborough-Sarina Road enters the locality from the south (Clarkes Creek) and exits to the north (Oxford). The Tierawoomba State Forest is in the north-east of the locality extending into neighbouring Oxford. Apart from this protected area, the predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation. History. Baradha (also known as Barada, Toolginburra, Baradaybahrad, Thararraburra, Toolginburra, and Baradha) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Baradha people. The Baradha language region includes the locality of Lotus Creek and extends along the inland ranges towards Nebo and extends along the Connors River catchment. The Marlborough-Sarina Road was formerly part of the Bruce Highway. However, it developed a reputation as a \"horror road\" as it was narrow and winding with creekbed crossings and many vehicles sustained damage. A number of murders of travellers using the road (e.g. the 1975 murders of Noel and Sophia Weckert) caused fear."}, {"text": "In 1974, it was decided that a coastal route via Carmila would be developed to eliminate the Malborough-Sarina Road from the Bruce Highway. Demographics. In the , Lotus Creek had a population of 75 people. In the , Lotus Creek had a population of 113 people. Education. There are no schools in Lotus Creek. The nearest government primary schools are: However, some parts of Lotus Creek are too distant from these schools for a daily commute and there is no nearby secondary school. The options are distance education and boarding schools."}, {"text": "James C. Harrington is a Texas civil rights lawyer and founder of the Texas Civil Rights Project. Dedicated to social justice, he fought for workers' rights alongside Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers. Harrington had a reputation for taking on powerful adversaries, including the Texas Supreme Court and the Texas State Bar. He worked on a variety of cases, including civil rights, worker's rights, racial discrimination, as well as many cases under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Harrington was an adjunct law professor at University of Texas, popular with students who sought more than a theoretical perspective. Early life. Influenced by his Irish Catholic childhood and summers working with migrant farm workers in Michigan, Harrington grew up wanting to help the poor. At first he studied to be a priest, however after eight years he had a revelation that he could be a more effective advocate as a lawyer. He enrolled in law school at the University of Detroit, where he met Rebecca Flores. They married in 1972. The next year they moved to Texas and Harrington began working for the Texas branch of the American Civil Liberties Union. Career. Harrington worked with the Texas branch of the"}, {"text": "American Civil Rights Union from 1973 to 1990. He collaborated with the organizing and litigation efforts of United Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez to secure farm workers' rights to sanitary facilities, toilets, and drinking water in the fields. Harrington served as Chavez' lawyer for 18 years. They also secured unemployment benefits, workers\u2019 compensation, and the right to know about dangerous chemicals used in the workplace. In 1981 they won a Texas ban on the use of the short-handled hoe, which caused permanent injuries to farm workers. In 1978, Harrington founded Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido, Inc. (OLPU) as a grassroots foundation in South Texas. Its South Texas Project, led by Harrington, became the Texas Civil Rights Project in September 1990. The establishment of Texas Civil Rights Project marked the end of Harrington working for the Texas Civil Liberties Union. He said that the TCLU more interested in classic civil liberties issues, like free speech, while he was focused on racial justice issues. Under Harrington's leadership, the TCRP had a significant impact, winning many civil rights cases. These included the areas of disability rights, rural economic justice, compliance with Title IX, the criminal justice system, racial discrimination, police brutality and the"}, {"text": "right to privacy. After leading the TCRP for 25 years Harrington retired in 2015. In a departing piece published in the Texas Observer, he expressed his passion for civil rights and his desire to continue to serve, but by working \"directly with people in a different way.\" Since retiring from TCRP, Jim Harrington has served as the director of Proyecto Santiago at St. James\u2019 Episcopal Church in Austin and was ordained to the priesthood in 2020. In 2023, Harrington authored a complaint asking the Texas State Bar to stop Ken Paxton from practicing law in the state, accusing him of abuse of office and other misconduct, including bribery and organized crime. Three former State Bar of Texas presidents and ten other lawyers joined Harrington in the complaint."}, {"text": "Elgin is a rural locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Elgin had a population of 52 people. Geography. Epping Forest National Park is in the south-east of the locality (). Apart from the national park, the land use is almost entirely grazing on native vegetation. Demographics. In the , Elgin had a population of 41 people. In the , Elgin had a population of 52 people. Education. There are no schools in Elgin nor nearby. The options are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "John de Cresswell was an English soldier and nobleman. Biography. John was a younger son of Alexander de Cresswell. He was engaged in the Hundred Years' War and was Captain of Bordeaux Castle. After the crushing English defeat at Pontvallain, Cresswell was in charge of an English garrison at Saint-Maur. A French army, led by Bertrand du Guesclin approached and after on assault was defeated negotiations arranged the English release on payment for the town. During an expedition in Scotland he was taken prisoner, along with Lord Greystoke in 1380. Richard II of England organised his release. He is known to have had two sons, John and George."}, {"text": "\"Aventura\" (English: \"Adventure\") is a song by Puerto Rican musicians Lunay, Ozuna and Anuel AA. The song was released on October 25, 2019, as the fifth single from Lunay's debut album \"\u00c9pico\". The song debuted number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Airplay chart."}, {"text": "\u00c9pico is the debut studio album by Puerto Rican singer Lunay. Released on October 25, 2019, under the label Star Island, the album features 14 tracks, and features collaborations with urban artists such as Daddy Yankee, Bad Bunny, Ozuna, Anuel AA, Myke Towers, Wisin & Yandel, Brytiago, Lyanno, Alex Rose, Darell, Chris Jedi and Gaby Music. It was released 14 months after Lunay started his musical career. Critical reception. \"Remezcla\" called \"\u00c9pico\" a \"14-track wonder of reggaeton, Latin trap and dancehall influences that mark a young artist who is already well on his way to mainstay status in m\u00fasica urbana. (\u00c9pico is certainly a manifestation, if not ambitious, in its \"epic\" name.)\""}, {"text": "The 1986 Madrid Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Club de Campo Villa de Madrid in Madrid, Spain that was part of the 1986 Nabisco Grand Prix circuit. It was the 15th edition of the tournament and was played from 28 April until 4 May 1986. First-seeded Joakim Nystr\u00f6m won the singles title and earned $17,000 first-prize money. Finals. Singles. Joakim Nystr\u00f6m defeated Kent Carlsson 6\u20131, 6\u20131 Doubles. Anders J\u00e4rryd / Joakim Nystr\u00f6m defeated Jes\u00fas Col\u00e1s / David de Miguel 6\u20132, 6\u20132"}, {"text": "The Regina International Film Festival and Awards (RIFFA) is an annual Canadian film festival, staged in Regina, Saskatchewan. RIFFA is considered the largest film festival in Saskatchewan. The event founded by John Thimothy was launched in 2015, and concentrated solely on short films in its first year. It was not held in 2016, with its second iteration instead taking place in 2017, but has been staged annually since then and has expanded to include feature films. The festival also presents an annual program of awards to the films deemed to be the best in that year's festival."}, {"text": "Charles Rosenberg may refer to:"}, {"text": "Buxus balearica, the Balearic boxwood, is a shrub or small evergreen tree typical of the Mediterranean forest. It grows wild in Algeria, Morocco, the Island of Sardinia and Spain. Description. The Balearic boxwood is a monoecious tree or shrub up to three meters high. Its leaves, somewhat larger than those of the common boxwood, are oval and bright, sometimes showing a reddish or yellowish color. It blooms in spring and can be reproduced from seeds or from cuttings. Like other Mediterranean species, it is able to regenerate well after a fire. Distribution in Spain. In Spain the Balearic boxwood can be found in very fragmented populations in Eastern Andalusia and the Balearic Islands. In Eastern Andalusia, it is found in the provinces of M\u00e1laga and Granada in the Sierras of Tejeda, Almijara and Alhama Natural Park. It is also found in the Province of Almer\u00eda in the Sierra de G\u00e1dor. In the Balearic Islands it can be found in the Serra de Tramuntana of Mallorca, as well as in the Island of Cabrera, but has become extinct from the island of Menorca. In the Region of Murcia the species was cited in 1943 in the Sierra de la Muela, Cabo"}, {"text": "Ti\u00f1oso y Rold\u00e1n, but is currently considered extinct. In general, in Spain, it is included in the IUCN Red List of threatened vascular flora as \"near threatened\", in the Red List of vascular flora in Eastern Andalusia, as \"vulnerable\". Distribution in Africa. In Morocco it can be found in the Rif, in the Talassemtane National Park. Taxonomy. \"Buxus balearica\" was described by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and published in Encyclopedie M\u00e9thodique, Botanique 1 (2): 511. 1785. Number of chromosomes of \"Buxus balearica\" and infraspecific taxa: 2n = 28 Buxus: generic name that derives from the ancient Greek bus, Latinized buxus, buxum which is the name given to boxwood. Balearica: geographical epithet that alludes to its location in the Balearic Islands . \"Buxus haleppica\" K. Koch \"Buxus longifolia\" Boiss."}, {"text": "Darknet Diaries is an investigative podcast created by Jack Rhysider (), chronicling true stories about crackers, malware, botnets, cryptography, cryptocurrency, cybercrime, and Internet privacy, all subjects falling under the umbrella of \"tales from the dark side of the Internet\". Launched in October 2017, episodes average around 30 minutes to an hour, each covering a single topic through original interviews, audio footage, and Rhysider's narration. The show's journalistic style has received widespread acclaim. Production. For the first 40 episodes, Rhysider was responsible for all of the research, writing, narrating, editing, sound design, publishing, marketing, and logistics. Later on, due to a passionate cult following, Rhysider was able to enlist the help of additional writers, researchers, editors, and graphic designers. By December 31, 2018, \"Darknet Diaries\" had amassed more than 1.2 million downloads. In 2019 alone, it had more than 8.2 million downloads. Impact and real-life influences. Episode 17 (\"Finn\") was adapted and featured on the WNYC Studios podcast \"Snap Judgment\". Episode 32 (\"The Carder\") uncovered information about the criminal actions and subsequent investigation of Roman Seleznev. Episode 27 (\"Chartbreakers\") was highlighted for its investigation into the manipulation of the Apple Podcasts Top Charts through a vast industry termed as \"dark podcast"}, {"text": "marketing\". Rhysider received and then subsequently released photos of the promoters themselves. Crossovers and appearances. Rhysider has made appearances on a variety of other programs, the most notable being \"Snap Judgment\" and the Lit Hub/Podglomerate \"Storybound\". Other podcast appearances include \"Smashing Security\", \"The Many Hats Club\", \"Brakeing Down Security\", \"The Word From Mouth\", \"InfoSec ICU\", \"The Cyberwire\", \"Podcast Business Journal Spotlight\", \"Overnight America\", \"Aidan Wheller Podcast and Audio Reviews\", \"Getting into InfoSec\", \"Grimerica\", \"Cyber Speaks Live\", and \"Chartable Radio\". Reception. When describing the show's style and presentation, various media outlets have drawn comparisons between \"Reply All\" and \"This American Life\", with \"The Irish Times\" writing, \"\"Darknet Diaries\" is...where storytelling is mixed with investigative techniques to provide a strong narrative with real people at its core.\" \"The New York Times\" wrote, \"Though the episodes are often startlingly short, condensing stories into 30 minutes that could easily justify a full hour, Rhysider\u2019s hypnotic narration and deep expertise creates results that are never less than gripping.\" \"The Boston Globe\" called \"Darknet Diaries\" \"a true-crime podcast with no blood [and] no bodies...[leaving] you wondering why there aren't more hacks, breaches, and cyber-crime.\" Miranda Sawyer of \"The Observer\" highlighted the podcast's reported \"small disasters\" of"}, {"text": "online life, writing: \"Neatly edited and charmingly presented by Jack Rhysider, the podcast does occasionally stray into nerdiness, but it\u2019s chock-full of real-life examples of when our virtual lives fail.\" Vulture magazine listed \"Darknet Diaries\" among its list of \"52 of the Best True-Crime Podcasts\", following what they deemed as \"the post-Serial boom\", citing how \"some of these [cybercrimes] may hit a little too close to home\" while also advising listeners: \"Cover your laptop camera, throw that iPhone in the river, and hang out in that weird no-reception corner of your home.\""}, {"text": "Diving competitions at the 2019 Military World Games were held in Wuhan, China from 24 to 27 October 2019."}, {"text": "The Arthur Taylor House is a historic two-story house in Moab, Utah. It was built in 1894 for the Taylor family, who arrived in Moab as cattle ranchers in 1881 and switched to sheep farming after neighboring ranchers kept stealing their cattle. Arthur's brother Elmer built this house with local bricks, with a porch and balcony designed in the Stick-Eastlake style. Inside, the walls were painted by Carter Brothers, a firm based in Provo. The house was inherited by Arthur's brother Lester, and it was later remodelled as a restaurant. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since February 28, 1980."}, {"text": "Josip Elic (born Joseph Elich Jr.; March 10, 1921 \u2013 October 21, 2019) was an American actor. He is best known for his role as Bancini in the film \"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest\" (1975). Early life. Elic was born in Butte, Montana, the son of Croatian immigrants, Martha and Joseph Elich. One of several children, including siblings John and Helen, he grew up in the East Side neighborhood known as \"Cabbage Patch\". At age 16, he began work in a Montana copper mine, before later joining the U.S. Navy. In 1945, following his service, and a brief stint on Wall Street, Elic relocated to New York City to pursue an acting career, using the G.I. Bill to enroll in acting school. At the age of 30, he officially changed his name in homage to his Croatian roots. Initially entering show business by building sets for an Upstate Connecticut summer stock company, he eventually began appearing in off-Broadway productions, including \"Threepenny Opera\" in 1954, alongside Bea Arthur and John Astin. Career. While off-Broadway shows and burlesque were amongst Elic's first forays into acting, in 1956, the 6-foot-3-inch Montanan landed his first television role on the NBC anthology series \"Kraft"}, {"text": "Television Theatre\", opposite Rance Howard and Joe Mantell, in an episode directed by William A. Graham. While numerous minor television and film roles soon followed, Elic was also notable for his commercial appearances, becoming one of the first character actors to headline television ads, a role traditionally reserved for Hollywood's leading men. He later became more nationally recognized after two appearances on \"The Twilight Zone\", including in \"The Obsolete Man\" with Burgess Meredith. His breakout role however came when asked to appear as confused mental patient, Bancini, in Milo\u0161 Forman's 1975 classic, \"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest\". Despite having few lines in the film, his major scene came in the form of an improvisation by Jack Nicholson for the patient's basketball game. In his words, Elic remembered the scene's development as: Although his film and television career began to dwindle by the late seventies, Elic's final on-screen performance was in 1989 for the Ridley Scott action thriller, \"Black Rain\". Regardless of his disappearance from television and theater screens however, he continued to maintain a strong presence in the acting community of New York, and would regularly make appearances at conventions to meet fans. Personal life and death. Suffering a"}, {"text": "fall in his New York apartment, Elic briefly stayed at the home of his longtime friend, actress Lee Meredith, and her husband, Bert, before moving into the Brookdale Senior Living assisted-living residence in Paramus, New Jersey. In October 2019, at the age of 98, Elic died of complications from his fall."}, {"text": "Priluk () is a rural locality (a village) in Verkhovskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 9 as of 2002. Geography. Priluk is located 30 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kudrinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pukirevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Chushevitskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 20 as of 2002. Geography. Pukirevo is located 46 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ploskovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pyatino () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhne-Vazhskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 5 as of 2002. Geography. Pyatino is located 8 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Markovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rogachikha () is a rural locality (a village) in Verkhovazhskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 23 as of 2002. There are 2 streets. Geography. Rogachikha is located 6 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yuzhny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rogna () is a rural locality (a village) in Sibirskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 410 as of 2002. There are 8 streets. Geography. Rogna is located 49 km southeast of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Studentsovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Gao Fu (; born 15 November 1961), also known as George Fu Gao, is a Chinese virologist and immunologist. He served as Director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention from August 2017 to July 2022 and has been Dean of the Savaid Medical School of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2015. Early life and education. Gao was born in Ying County, Shuozhou, Shanxi province in 1961. He entered Shanxi Agricultural University and was assigned to study veterinary medicine even though he did not want to be a veterinarian. After graduating in 1983, he entered the graduate school of Beijing Agricultural University, where he earned a master's degree in microbiology and veterinary epidemiology in 1986. This enabled him to change his career direction to infectious disease research, and he joined the faculty of the university as a teaching assistant and later lecturer in virology. Education and career abroad. In 1991, Gao went to the United Kingdom to study at Oxford University, where he earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1994 under the supervision of David H. L. Bishop and Ernest A. Gould. After a three-month stint at the University of Calgary in Canada, he returned"}, {"text": "to Oxford as a postdoctoral researcher, working under John I. Bell, Andrew McMichael and Bent K. Jakobsen. In 1999, Gao moved to Harvard Medical School as a Wellcome Trust International Travelling Fellow and conducted research under Don Craig Wiley and Stephen C. Harrison until 2001. From 2001 to 2004, Gao taught at Oxford University, serving as a lecturer, doctoral supervisor, and group leader. Career in China. After 13 years abroad, Gao returned to China in 2004 to serve as Professor and Director of the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMCAS). In 2008 he was appointed Vice President of Beijing Institutes of Life Science and Director of the National Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microorganism and Immunology of the CAS. He has also been an adjunct professor at Oxford since 2010. Gao was appointed Deputy Director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in April 2011. He was promoted to Director in August 2017, succeeding Wang Yu (\u738b\u5b87). In 2015, Gao was appointed Dean of the Savaid Medical School of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also serves as Vice President of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. In 2020, Gao contributed to research on"}, {"text": "SARS-CoV-2. Contributions. Gao's main research focus is on the mechanism of viral entry and release, especially the cross-species transmission (host jump) of the influenza virus. He also studies viral ecology, including the ecology of the flu virus in migratory birds and poultry markets. He was the first to describe the cross-species transmission mechanism of the H5N1 avian flu virus. Gao's research also involves public and global health policy. During the peak of the 2014 Ebola outbreak, he spent two months leading the China Mobile Test Laboratory in Sierra Leone from September to November, playing a role that is described by the US National Academy of Sciences as \"heroic\" in fighting the epidemic. As of 2019, Gao has published 20 books or book chapters and over 500 peer-reviewed research papers, including those on newly discovered pathogenic viruses such as the SARS virus and the H7N9 avian flu virus."}, {"text": "Rodionovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Verkhovskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 15 as of 2002. Geography. Rodionovskaya is located 34 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Osnovinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Terror Keep is a 1927 thriller novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. It is part of a series featuring Wallace's detective J.G. Reeder."}, {"text": "Rostovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Chushevitskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 34 as of 2002. Geography. Rostovo is located 46 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Krasulino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ruchyevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhne-Vazhskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2002. Geography. Ruchyevskaya is located 4 km northeast of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Abakumovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ryapolovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Sibirskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 5 as of 2002. Geography. Ryapolovskaya is located 46 km southeast of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Biryuchevskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Savinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Sibirskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 5 as of 2002. Geography. Savinskaya is located 47 km southeast of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kozevskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Savkovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Chushevitskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2002. Geography. Savkovo is located 42 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Shchekino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sakulinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Sibirskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 13 as of 2002. Geography. Sakulinskaya is located 43 km southeast of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Voronikha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Samovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhne-Vazhskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2002. Geography. Samovo is located 10 km northeast of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Klimushino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Richard Godfrey Ashley (8 September 1774 \u2013 11 October 1836) was an English musician, and a son of John Ashley. Early life. Ashley was the fourth son of John Ashley, a conductor and bassoonist who became the father of a notable family of musicians (General Charles Ashley, John James Ashley, and Charles Jane Ashley), and his wife, Mary (\"n\u00e9e\" Jane). He was born on 8 September 1774, in the parish of St George Hanover Square, London, and baptised in the parish church on 10 September. At 9 years old, Ashley was already performing, participating in Westminster Abbey's 1784 Handel Commemoration and performing at the Pantheon in May and June of the same year. Career. As of Joseph Doane's \"Musical Directory\" (1794), at age 20, Ashley was living at his father's house. At this time, he was employed as a drummer for the Royal Opera House's oratorios, where he worked alongside his family. The Royal Society of Musicians also made him one of the musicians to play at the annual St Paul's Cathedral benefit concert, an honour usually reserved for members of the Society. His father proposed him as a member the following year, a proposal which was ratified in 1796,"}, {"text": "certifying Ashley as a qualified organist, violinist, violist, and player of kettledrums. He continued to play at this concert from 1795 to 1805, gaining the right to send a deputy in his place in 1806. At several dates in the 1810s, he served on the Society's Court of Assistants. Ashley enjoyed what one \"Biographical Dictionary\" called \"a long orchestral and solo concert career\". From 1798, he performed in Ranelagh Gardens, under his father's influence. He also performed under his elder brother, John, at the Royal Opera House's oratorios. As of his father's death in 1805, Ashley was apparently in \"a better situation than either of his brothers were placed in\", according to the will. In 1817, he was part of the King's Theatre Band. According to the \"Oxford Dictionary of National Biography\", \"throughout his life he was in demand at major festivals\"; it lists him as leading the violas at the Three Choirs festival in 1811, Oxford in 1813, York in 1823, and Chester in 1829. On 8 October 1800, Ashley became a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, and, on 7 July 1802, entered the Company's livery. Personal life. At age 42, on 1 April 1816, Ashley married"}, {"text": "the \"spinster\", Elizabeth Palmer, at St George Hanover Square. He died on 11 October 1836 at his home of Park Place, Chelsea, having signed his will the previous day. His obituary was published in that year's volume of the \"Gentleman's Magazine\". Elizabeth survived her husband, receiving a widow's allowance of \u00a32 12s 6d by 1837. Later that year, the Society donated \u00a35 for the treatment of Elizabeth's epilepsy, and Elizabeth was dead by 9 January 1839, when \u00a38 was spent on the funeral of \"the widow of the late Richard Ashley\"."}, {"text": "Safronovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Sibirskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 15 as of 2002. Geography. Safronovskaya is located 42 km southeast of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Voronikha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sboyevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Morozovskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 9 as of 2002. Geography. Sboyevskaya is located 27 km northwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Morozovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Svetilnovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Lipetskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 31 as of 2002. Geography. Svetilnovo is located 51 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gridino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Rich-Steeper House, at 415 S. Main St. in Centerville, Utah, was built in 1908. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. It is a one-and-a-half-story yellow brick single family residence. Its design is transitional, between Victorian and Bungalow form; it combines central-block-with-projecting bays and bungalow house types, and has Neoclassical stylings. Its front, south-facing gables have \"Palladian style windows with decorative muntins in the upper sashes of the flanking windows.\""}, {"text": "The John Henry Shafer House is a historic house in Moab, Utah. It was built in 1884 for John Henry Shafer, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who moved to Moab from Salt Lake City with other Mormon settlers in 1878. Shafer married Mary Forbush in 1881, and they lived in this house, designed in the Victorian Eclectic style, until she died in 1889. He later married Sariah Eveline Johnson. Shafer was a Republican, and he served as the first member of the Utah House of Representatives from Grand County, Utah. The house was deeded to John Tangren, an immigrant from Sweden, in 1891; he lived here with his wife, Ester Alien, who was the president of the local Relief Society. It later purchased by two ranchers: Dale M. Parriot in 1912, and Richard L. Holyoak in 1941. The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 2, 2001."}, {"text": "The Guelph Film Festival is an annual Canadian film festival, staged in Guelph, Ontario. Launched in 1984, the festival programs an annual lineup of documentary films, focusing on themes such as social justice, the environment and community building. Films are screened at a variety of venues throughout the city, including the University of Guelph, the Guelph Public Library, the Guelph Civic Museum, the Boarding House Gallery, the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre and various caf\u00e9s and pubs in the downtown core."}, {"text": "Beverly \"Bev\" Marsh is a fictional character created by Stephen King and one of the main characters of his 1986 horror novel \"It\". The character is seen as a member of \"The Losers Club\" and a romantic interest of fellow members Bill Denbrough and Ben Hanscom. She is portrayed in the 1990 TV miniseries adaptation by Emily Perkins as the young version and Annette O'Toole as an adult. In the film adaptions of 2017 and the 2019 sequel, Sophia Lillis and Jessica Chastain portray Beverly Marsh as the younger and adult version, respectively. Fictional character biography. Beverly Marsh was born in 1947. She is the daughter of Alvin and Elfrida Marsh. Her mother's presence in her life differs among the three continuities. Beverly is a classmate of Ben Hanscom, who harbors a secret crush on her. Ben writes her an anonymous love poem which states, \"your hair is winter fire, January embers, my heart burns there too.\" Beverly is led to believe that the poem was written by Bill Denbrough, who grows up to be a professional writer. Beverly eventually joins \"The Losers Club\" and befriends Eddie Kaspbrak, Richie Tozier, Mike Hanlon and Stanley Uris. Beverly has her first encounter"}, {"text": "with Pennywise in her bathroom when she hears voices coming from her sink chanting \"We All Float Down Here\". A balloon-like construct begins growing from her sink and bursts, covering her bathroom with blood. Beverly's screams attract the attention of her father, who cannot see the blood. She confides in The Losers Club, who can all see the blood and help her clean the bathroom. The Losers Club eventually are chased into the sewers by Henry Bowers under the influence of Pennywise. After the group finds and finishes off the clown, they find themselves lost. After they escape the sewers, the Losers make an blood oath that if Pennywise hasn't been defeated, they will all return to Derry to finish him. In her adulthood, due to the power of Pennywise and the town of Derry, Beverly forgets about The Losers Club and her childhood. She becomes a fashion designer and enters an abusive relationship with her husband, Tom Rogan. After she gets a call from Mike asking her to return to Derry, she stands up to Tom and finally leaves the relationship. She returns to Derry and reunites with The Losers Club. Beverly returns to her old home, now inhabited"}, {"text": "by an old woman named Mrs. Kersh, who informs her that her father has been deceased for five years. She apologises and begins to leave, only to be invited in by Mrs. Kersh for tea. However, Mrs. Kersh is revealed to be a form of Pennywise and Beverly escapes. She reunites with Ben, and shares a romantic encounter with him, but Ben realises that Beverly is another form of Pennywise. The Losers Club return to the sewers to face Pennywise for the final time. Unfortunately, the confrontation results in Eddie's death, but the Losers are able to overcome and kill Pennywise. After the confrontation, Ben is finally able to confess his feelings for Beverly, and they begin a relationship. Adaptations. Beverly is portrayed in the 1990 TV miniseries by Emily Perkins as a child and Annette O'Toole as an adult. This interpretation remains fairly faithful to the novel. Perkins' portrayal of Beverly was met with a relatively positive reception, but O'Toole's portrayal was met with a more negative one. The portrayal of Beverly in the 2017 film and its 2019 sequel by Sophia Lillis as a child and Jessica Chastain as an adult were much more positively received. This interpretation"}, {"text": "shows Beverly as being the moral compass of The Losers Club and playing a key role in defeating Pennywise in both films. In the novel Beverly was born in 1947, however in the TV mini-series she was born in 1948 and in film adaptions in 1976. Her mother Elfrida is present in the novel, but she is mostly too preoccupied with her job to be much of a parent to Beverly; however, she does have concerns about her husband Alvin abusing her daughter, and even asked Beverly one time if her father has ever \"touched\" her. In the TV mini-series, she is never seen or mentioned. A flashback in the 2019 film reveals that her mother has died when Beverly was young; her death is implied to have been suicide due to mental illness, possibly postpartum depression. Alvin blames Beverly for her mother's death, and abuses her physically and sexually throughout her childhood. During production of the 2017 film, actress Chlo\u00eb Grace Moretz was a frontrunner for the role of Beverly. However as the project remained in development hell, the actress eventually became too old to play the role of a child. Eventually, Moretz became attached to a different Stephen"}, {"text": "King adaptation in the role of Carrie White for the 2013 remake of \"Carrie\". Appearances in other King stories. Beverly appears in a brief cameo in King's novel \"11/22/63\". In the novel, she appears dancing with Richie Tozier preparing for a talent show a few months after fighting Pennywise. The two are approached by time-traveller Jake Epping, who enquires about the Dunning family. Afterwards he teaches the two how to dance properly. However, this meeting is erased by the end of the novel as Epping removes his mark on history. Interestingly in the TV mini-series adaptation of '11/22/63' although the storyline in Derry and scenes with Beverly and Richie Tozier are omitted; Annette O'Toole (adult Beverly in the 1990 TV mini-series) appears as Edna Price - Jake Epping's landlady, in The Episode: \"The Kill Floor\", Set in Holden, Kentucky, which is a stand-in in-lieu of Derry, Maine. Reception. The characterization of Beverly in King's novel has received acclaim from critics. Lillis was nominated for multiple awards for her portrayal of the character, including a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor, a MTV Movie & TV Award for Best Scared-As-Shit Performance, and a Teen Choice Award for Breakout"}, {"text": "Movie Star. Lillis was also nominated for Breakthrough Artist by the San Diego Film Critics Society and for Best Youth Performance by Seattle Film Critics Society and by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association. The portrayal of adult Beverly by Annette O'Toole in the 1990 miniseries received more negative reception. Analysis. Controversy. The scene in the novel where preteen Beverly has sex with the rest of the members of The Losers Club in the sewers of Derry after defeating Pennywise for the first time has become one of the more controversial in the novel. The scene was omitted from Andy Muschietti's film series as well as the 1990 miniseries. The scene was reportedly meant to take place in Cary Joji Fukunaga's original screenplay, but was removed once Muschietti became involved. O'Toole has admitted to disliking the removal of the Losers' orgy scene in the miniseries: \"This was their greatest attachment to one another \u2013 she thought they were all going to die, and this was a gift she was giving to each one of them, and I thought it was the most beautiful, generous love-filled gift, and it tied them all together in such an amazing way.\" Depiction of"}, {"text": "abuse victims. Throughout the novel, Beverly is consistently abused by the men in her life. As a child, she is physically abused by her father, Alvin. As an adult, due to the repressed memories of Derry, she marries Tom Rogan, who is physically, sexually, and emotionally abusive towards her. The abuse Beverly faced at the hands of her father has been described as one of the more disturbing elements of the novel due to the realistic undertones. Loss of innocence. As with Bill Denbrough, Beverly reflects the novel's themes of maturity and loss of innocence. While this is most blatantly noticeable in the controversial sexual encounters in the sewers, Beverly also faces maturity in different ways throughout the novel. Beverly is struggling with her budding womanhood, and is beginning to deal with different problems. This is more explicitly shown in the 2017 film adaptation, where Beverly attempts to purchase tampons from the local pharmacy. In this scene, Beverly first encounters Bill, Eddie and Stan. Beverly comes across the boys in an attempt to avoid Greta Bowie (re-named Greta Keene in this adaptation), to avoid further humiliation from her, as Keene had earlier dumped a bag of trash on Beverly and"}, {"text": "\"slut-shamed\" her. Beverly attempts to hide the products from the boys to save her from embarrassment, and later attempts to hide them from her abusive father, to no avail. After being asked by her father if she's \"still his little girl\", Beverly cuts her hair in her bathroom in an act of defiance. Beverly has to face more of the ideas of maturity than the other members of The Losers Club due to the abuse she faces at home, and the rumors of promiscuity that follow her at school. Beverly has to find her own way of maturing into womanhood, which has helped the character to stand out for many readers."}, {"text": "Governor Armitage may refer to:"}, {"text": "The 2014 Pan American Youth Championship was the second edition of the Pan American Youth Championship, an international field hockey competition held from 11 \u2013 15 February 2014 in Montevideo, Uruguay. The tournament also served as a direct qualifier for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, with the winner and runner-up qualifying."}, {"text": "Star Hall is a historic building in Moab, Utah. It was built in 1905-1906 by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for the Moab Ward after Bishop Randolph H. Stewart and second counselor Orlando W. Warner purchased the land from Leonard Leonidas Crapo, and it was designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The building was later acquired by the Grand County School District. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 14, 1993."}, {"text": "Sekushinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Sibirskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. Sekushinskaya is located 51 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Leushinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Governor Walker may refer to:"}, {"text": "Semyonovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Lipetskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 22 as of 2002. Geography. Semyonovskaya is located 51 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Leushinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Shoot (German: Der Schut) is a 1964 adventure film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Lex Barker, Marie Versini and Ralf Wolter. It was made as a co-production between West Germany, France, Italy and Yugoslavia. It is based on the 1892 novel of the same title by Karl May, and was part of a string of adaptations of his work started by Rialto Film's series of western films. It was a commercial success, benefiting from the presence of Barker and Versini who were stars of Rialto's series. It was shot at the Tempelhof and Spandau Studios in West Berlin and on location in Kosovo and Montenegro then part of Yugoslavia. The film's sets were designed by the art director Dragoljub Ivkov. It was shot in Eastmancolor. Synopsis. In the Balkans, then part of the Ottoman Empire, two travellers assist in the battle against a notorious bandit who has kidnapped a French engineer."}, {"text": "Sergeyevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhne-Vazhskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. Sergeyevskaya is located 5 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Afoninskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Silinskaya-1 () is a rural locality (a village) in Morozovskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 103 as of 2002. There are 2 streets. Geography. Silinskaya-1 is located 25 km northwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Morozovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Frankfield is a rural locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Frankfield had a population of 100 people. Geography. The Gregory Developmental Road enters the locality from the north-west (Belyando) and exits to the west (Kilcummun). Mazeppa National Park is a protected area in the west of the locality (). It is mix of gidgee scrub, brigalow scrub and open eucalypt woodland and protects various types of wildlfe, including finches, the vulnerable squatter pigeon and koala. Apart from the national park, the land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation with some crop growing. History. Mazeppa National Park was gazetted in 1994 under the Nature Conservation Act 1992. On 17 May 2019, it was decided to discontinue the locality of Mistake Creek and absorb its land into the neighbouring localities of Clermont, Laglan, Frankfield and Peak Vale. Demographics. In the , Frankfield had a population of 37 people. In the with the boundaries having been enlarged in 2019, Frankfield had a population of 100 people. Education. There are no schools in Frankfield. Residents in the east of the locality can access Kilcummin State School in neighbouring Kilcummin to the east, but it is too distant for those"}, {"text": "in other parts of the locality. Similarly, Clermont State High School in Clermont to the south-east is the nearest government secondary school, but most residents of Frankfield would be too far away. The other options are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "Silinskaya-2 () is a rural locality (a village) in Morozovskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 9 in 2002. Geography. Silinskaya-2 is located 34 km west of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bushnitskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Simonovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhnekuloyskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 18 as of 2002. Geography. Simonovskaya is located 33 km southeast of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Drugosimonovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Skulinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Verkhovskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. Skulinskaya is located 30 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Moiseyevskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Benjamin Sylvester Blacknall (September 26, 1946 \u2013 April 25, 2012) was an American football player and coach also former sergeant (Sgt.) in the Air Force. He served as the head football coach for Delaware Hornets at Delaware State University from 2000 to 2003, compiling a record of 16\u201324. He was fired midway through the 2003 season after Delaware State lost their first six games. Blacknall played college football for North Carolina A&T Aggies at North Carolina A&T University under the guidance of Willie Jeffries. Blacknall lettered at A&T from 1968 to 1971, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1975. Blacknall was mentor to Anthony Jones, who had played for Wichita State under his guidance and recruited Blacknall to Morehouse in 1999."}, {"text": "Sludnaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Verkhovskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 119 as of 2002. Geography. Sludnaya is located 42 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Srednyaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Smetanino () is a rural locality (a village) and the administrative center of Verkhovskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 524 as of 2002. There are 17 streets. Geography. Smetanino is located 28 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kiselevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Laglan is a rural locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Laglan had a population of 21 people. Geography. The Great Dividing Range runs roughly along the western boundary of Laglan. Laglan has the following mountains in the east of the locality: The predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation. History. \"Yagalingu\" (also known as \"Jagalingu\", \"Auanbura\", \"Kokleburra\", \"Owanburra\", \"Kowanburra\", \"Wagalbara\", and \"Djagalingu\") is an Australian Aboriginal language of Central Queensland. Its traditional language region was within the local government area of Isaac Region, from the headwaters of the Belyando River south to Avoca, north to Laglan, west to the Great Dividing Range, and east and south to Drummond Range. On 17 May 2019, it was decided to discontinue the locality of Mistake Creek and absorb its land into the neighbouring localities of Clermont, Laglan, Frankfield and Peak Vale. Demographics. In the , Laglan had \"no people or a very low population\". In the , Laglan had a population of 21 people. Economy. There are a number of homesteads in the locality, including: Transport. Doongmabulla Airstrip is at the Doongmabulla homestead (). Laglan Airstrip is at Laglan homestead (). Education. There are no schools in Laglan"}, {"text": "and none nearby. Distance education and boarding schools are options."}, {"text": "Somitsyno () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhne-Vazhskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 28 as of 2002. There are 3 streets. Geography. Somitsyno is located 3 km northeast of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Cheryomushki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Spirino () is a rural locality (a village) in Chushevitskaoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 29 as of 2002. Geography. Spirino is located 50 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vladykina Gora is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Spitsynskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhne-Vazhskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2002. Geography. Spitsynskaya is located 19 km southeast of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Borisovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Nathan T. and Anna Porter House, at 224 South 210 West in Centerville, Utah, was built in 1915. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. It was deemed significant in part as a \"fine example of an Arts and Crafts-style bungalow - one of only two contributing Craftsman bungalows in Centerville.\" A historic garage is a second contributing building on the property."}, {"text": "Srednyaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Verkhovskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 60 as of 2002. Geography. Srednyaya is located 41 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sludnaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "is a Japanese women's shogi player ranked 3-dan. Women's shogi professional. Yamane defeated Manaka Inagawa to win the in August 2019 for her first shogi tournament championship. Yamane's first appearance in a major title match came in May 2021 when she challenged Kana Satomi for 32nd title (MayJune 2021). Yamane lost the match 3 games to none. Promotion history. Yamane's promotion history is as follows. Note: All ranks are women's professional ranks. Major titles and other championships. Yamane has appeared in one major title match, but has yet to win a major title. Yamane has won one official non-title women's professional shogi tournament. Awards and honors. Yamane won the Japan Shogi Association's Annual Shogi Award for \"Excellent Women's Professional\" for the 20202021 shogi year. Personal life. Yamane is married to shogi professional Kei Honda. The JSA officially announced the couple's marriage on its website on May 2, 2023, and stated that Yamane will continue to use her maiden name as a women's professional."}, {"text": "Christopher Michael Cardone, OP (born December 20, 1957) is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Honiara in the Solomon Islands since 2016. He is a member of the Dominican Order. Biography. Early life and education. Christopher Cardone was born on December 20, 1957, in Long Island, New York and graduated from Chaminade High School in 1976. He attended Providence College and made his religious profession to the Dominican Order on August 15, 1981. He completed his studies at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. Priestly ministry. Cardone was ordained as a Dominican priest on May 30, 1986. After his ordination, Cardone served for two years as a parish priest at St. Gertrude Parish in Madeira, Ohio. In 1988, Cardone moved to the Dominican vicariate in the Solomon Islands. He held positions on the island of Gizo as a parish priest in Nila and Nora; pastor of St. Peter's Parish in Gizo, and as director of vocations for the Diocese of Gizo. Episcopal ministry. Cardone was appointed titular bishop of Thuburnica and as an auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of Gizo on March 27, 2001, by Pope John Paul II. Bishop Bernard C. O'Grady consecrated"}, {"text": "Cardone on June 9, 2001. Cardone was appointed Bishop of Auki on Oct 19, 2004, by Pope John Paul II. Cardone made an \"ad limina\" visit to Pope Benedict XVI in Rome as a member of the delegation from Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands on June 26, 2005. Cardone was appointed Archbishop of Honiara by Pope Francis on June 22, 2016. He was installed on September 10, 2016."}, {"text": "Stepanovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Shelotskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 35 as of 2002. Geography. Stepanovo is located 58 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Shelota is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Peak Vale is a rural locality split between the Isaac Region and the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Peak Vale had a population of 39 people, but its boundaries were altered subsequently and its population was not separately reported in the 2021 census. Geography. The locality is bounded to the west by the Drummond Range. There are a number of named peaks in the locality (from north to south): The Carbine State Forest is in the north of the locality. Apart from that protected area, the land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation in most of the locality, but in the southern more mountainous part of the locality, there is no active land use. History. On 17 May 2019, it was decided to discontinue the locality of Mistake Creek and absorb its land into the neighbouring localities of Clermont, Laglan, Frankfield and Peak Vale and to extend Peak Vale into the Central Highlands Region by altering the boundaries of Argyll. Demographics. In the , Peak Vale had a population of 39 people. In the , the population of Peak Vale was not separately reported, but included within the reporting of the population of neighbouring Clermont and"}, {"text": "Alpha. Education. There are no schools in Peak Vale. Students living in the north of Peak Vale would be able to attend Clermont State School and Clermont State High School in neighbouring Clermont to the north. However, those schools would be too distant for a daily commute for students living in the southern parts of the locality. The other options are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "This is a list of Deakin University people, including notable alumni and staff."}, {"text": "Stepachevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Shelotskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2002. Geography. Stepachevskaya is located 71 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Stolbovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Stikhovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhne-Vazhskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2002. Geography. Stikhovskaya is located 12 km southeast of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lymzino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Stolbovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Shelotskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2002. Geography. Stolbovo is located 70 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Akinkhovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Studentsevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Sibirskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2002. Geography. Studentsevo is located 48 km southeast of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rogna is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tatarinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Shelotskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 10 as of 2002. Geography. Tatarinskaya is located 61 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yakuninskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Agatha Christie Hour was a ten-part series of stand-alone television plays made by Thames Television for the ITV network, based on short stories by Agatha Christie and broadcast between 7 September and 16 November 1982. Music was by Harry Rabinowitz. The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife. Broadcast 7 September 1982<br> Adapted by Freda Kelsall from \"Parker Pyne Investigates\".<br> Directed by Michael Simpson Parker Pyne helps a middle-aged wife who is losing the attention of her philandering husband. In a Glass Darkly. Broadcast 14 September 1982 A man dreams about a scarred man strangling his wife. He goes to an engagement party and finds the couple are the victim and her murderer. The Girl in the Train. Broadcast 21 September 1982<br> Adapted by William Corlett from \"The Listerdale Mystery\"<br> Directed by Brian Farnham<br> George Rowland is fired from his uncle William Rowland's firm of investment brokers and soon finds adventure. He hides a girl on a train who says she is escaping from her uncle, a foreign spy. She gives George a parcel and vanishes. The Fourth Man. Broadcast 28 September 1982<br> Directed by Michael Simpson<br> Adapted from \"The Hound of Death\" by William Corlett Stars John Nettles, Michael Gough,"}, {"text": "Geoffrey Chater A doctor, a priest, and a lawyer, are discussing the suicide of a young woman. They are joined by a fourth man who knows more about it. The Case of the Discontented Soldier. Broadcast 5 October 1982<br> Adapted by T. R. Bowen from \"Parker Pyne Investigates\"<br> Directed by Michael Simpson With the help of Parker Pyne and a retired major, Freda Clegg finds an African treasure and love. Magnolia Blossom. Broadcast 12 October 1982 Theo has a rich uncaring husband and is about to run away to South Africa with a lover, Vincent. They get as far as Paris, but after hearing that her husband's financial empire is collapsing and he may be arrested for fraud, Theo decides to stick by Richard. The Mystery of the Blue Jar. Broadcast 19 October 1982<br> Adapted from \"The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories\" Jack Hartington, a law student out playing golf, hears a woman's voice crying \"Murder, help, murder!\" from a cottage, but no one else hears. The Red Signal. Broadcast 2 November 1982<br> Adapted from \"The Hound of Death\" Dermot West is falling in love with Claire Trent, the wife of his best friend, Jack. He visits them"}, {"text": "and has a premonition, or \"red signal\", that death is in the air. Dermot's uncle, a psychiatrist, is killed after telling him Claire has a homicidal mania. Jane in Search of a Job. Broadcast 9 November 1982<br> Adapted by Gerald Savory from \"The Listerdale Mystery\" Directed by Christopher Hodson Jane Cleveland, who is unemployed, is identical in appearance to a young Grand Duchess threatened by anarchists, and is hired to impersonate her. The Manhood of Edward Robinson. Broadcast 16 November 1982<br> Adapted by Gerald Savory from \"The Listerdale Mystery\" Directed by Brian Farnham Edward Robinson, a timid clerk dominated by a bossy girlfriend, buys a sports car on a whim and finds himself in a romantic adventure."}, {"text": "Franz A. \"Jazz\" Byrd ( \u2013 December 9, 1994) was an American college football player and coach and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee. He served as the head football coach at Florida A&M University from 1926 to 1929, compiling a record of 3\u201313\u20132. College playing career. Byrd played college football at Lincoln University in Chester County, Pennsylvania, helping the Lions to an 8\u20130\u20131 record in 1924 in which they outscored their opponents 306\u20133. Byrd was revered by the sportswriters of the Black press of his era and beyond as the greatest open-field runner at Black colleges. His performances in the annual Thanksgiving Day games against Howard University in 1922, 1923, and 1924 were widely covered and celebrated in the African-American press. Byrd was frequently referred to as the equal of Red Grange, the famed University of Illinois running back of the same era. College coaching career. He served as the head football coach at Florida A&M University from 1926 to 1929. Later life. Byrd was employed by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), before being named the first African American state income tax collector. He died at the age of 90, on December 9, 1994, at Riverside Extended Pavilion Care in"}, {"text": "Wilmington, Delaware."}, {"text": "The Kaysville City Hall, also known as Old Kaysville City Hall and the Old Kaysville Library, at 44 N. Main St. in Kaysville, Utah, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in September 2019. On November 16, 1940, 25-year-old Mayor Thornley K. Swan announced plans to construct a $55,000 PWA Moderne style city hall building. By the time the bond election was held, the bond amount was reduced to $35,000 because part of the project ($20,000) would be paid for by federal funds through the Works Project Administration (WPA). The WPA was part of the New Deal during the Great Depression that gave men much needed jobs. Building programs were of great importance during the 1930s, and virtually every public building constructed in Utah, including county courthouses, city halls, fire stations, national guard armories, public school buildings, and a variety of others were built under federal programs by one of several agencies, the WPA being one of those. Almost without exception, none of the buildings would have been built when they were without the assistance of the federal government. Kaysville City Hall was one of 226 buildings constructed in Utah during the 1930s and early 1940s under the"}, {"text": "Works Progress Administration and other New Deal programs. Of those 226 buildings, 130 are still standing and retain their integrity. In Davis County, a total of five buildings were constructed. The \"Old Kaysville City Hall\" or \"Old Kaysville Library\" is the only one that remains. In 1986, the new Kaysville Municipal Center was built. The library expanded into the newly renovated building in 1987, along with the LeConte Stewart art gallery. In 2006, Davis County took over the operation of the Kaysville library, and moved to its current location at 215 North Fairfield Road in 2014. The \"Old Kaysville City Hall\" is currently vacant awaiting a new use. Today, there are only 6 buildings in Kaysville on the National Register of Historic Places. The \"Old Kaysville City Hall\" or \"Old Kaysville Library\" is the only Publicly owned building on that list."}, {"text": "John B. Carr (September 18, 1900\u2013June 6, 1969) was an American politician who was active in the Massachusetts Democratic Party. He rose from obscurity to win the party's nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1944. He also served as chairman of the Somerville, Massachusetts, board of assessors. Early life. Carr was born and raised in Somerville. After graduating from Somerville High School he traveled the country as a commercial photographer. In 1932 he met his wife in Rochester, New York. The couple settled in Somerville, where Carr worked for a local manufacturing firm. He eventually rose to the position of sale's manager. The Carrs had two sons. Political career. Carr became involved in the Democratic party in the early 1920s. In 1929 he helped John J. Murphy get elected Mayor of Somerville. In 1940 he managed Francis E. Kelly's gubernatorial campaign in Somerville. He remained involved in Kelly's political organization and also served as chairman of Somerville's Ward 2 Democratic committee and as vice chairman of the Somerville Democratic committee. On January 1, 1943, he was appointed to the Somerville board of assessors by mayor G. Edward Bradley. He remained on the board until 1962, when he resigned due"}, {"text": "to illness. He served as the board's chairman for six years. In 1944, Carr ran for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. He won the four-way contest for the Democratic nomination with 33% of the vote. Although he was a relative unknown in statewide politics, Carr did have a similar name to his party's 1942 lieutenant gubernatorial nominee, John C. Carr. John C. Carr chose to break with the party and endorse Republican Robert Bradford over John B. Carr in the general election. Carr lost the general election to Bradford 52% to 47%, though his running-mate Maurice Tobin won in his contest, causing the governor and lieutenant governor seats to be held by members of different parties from 1945 to 1947. Carr ran for lieutenant governor a second time in 1946, but only received 7% of the vote in the Democratic primary. In 1950, Carr was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives seat in Massachusetts's 8th congressional district. He lost to Republican incumbent Angier Goodwin 54% to 46%. Carr ran again in 1952, but was ruled off the ballot by the State Ballot Law Commission due to insufficient signatures. Carr alleged that this removal from the ballot occurred"}, {"text": "due to nepotism; he would have run in the primary against John C. Carr, Jr., the son of John C. Carr who served as the chairman of the state Democratic Committee. After the removal of J. B. Carr from the primary contest, J. C. Carr, Jr. was the only Democratic candidate for the 8th congressional seat; he later lost to Angier Goodwin in the general election. Carr died on June 6, 1969, after a long illness. He was 68 years old."}, {"text": "Herbert Denison Cheney (June 6, 1873 \u2013 January 13, 1931) was an American football coach and educator. He served as the head football coach at the Academy of Idaho\u2014now known as Idaho State University\u2013from 1902 to 1903, compiling a record of 5\u20131\u20131. Cheney was an 1895 graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and earned his master's degree in ancient and modern languages from Harvard University in 1899. As of September 1918, Cheney was teaching at Gooding College and living in Gooding, Idaho, with his wife, Edna. Cheney died on January 13, 1931, after being struck by an automobile in Tacoma, Washington, while on his way to teach night classes at the College of Puget Sound\u2014he was survived by his wife, two daughters, and two sons."}, {"text": "Tyoply Ruchey () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Verkhovazhskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 569 as of 2002. There are 9 streets. Geography. Tyoply Ruchey is located 2 km northeast of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Verkhovazhye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Governor Arthur may refer to:"}, {"text": "Terentyevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Chushevitskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 44 as of 2002. Geography. Terentyevskaya is located 41 km south of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Velikodvorskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Luke Bernard Stoltman (born 22 November 1984) is a Scottish professional strongman competitor, who won the Scotland\u2019s Strongest Man competition five times, Britain's Strongest Man 2025, Europe's Strongest Man competition two times in 2021 and 2024. He has also participated in the World's Strongest Man competition nine times and has reached the finals five times. Renowned for his static shoulder strength, Luke currently holds the British Log Press record. Along with younger brother, Tom Stoltman, the two are widely regarded as the strongest brothers in history and are the only ones to both qualify for the World\u2019s Strongest Man finals; a feat they have managed in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Early life. Born in Invergordon, Ross and Cromarty, Luke was the first of five children for parents Ben and Sheila. Luke attended Newmore Primary School and Invergordon Academy and was an avid footballer in his early years before moving his focus to weight training by the age of 15 inspired by a family photo of his grandfather, a Polish war refugee, carrying a log the same size as his body. Luke left school aged 16 and followed his father\u2019s footsteps into the oil industry training as a"}, {"text": "dimensional surveyor before taking his first offshore based job aged 18. Throughout his early twenties, Luke\u2019s training consisted of predominantly bodybuilder type programs, influenced by the likes of Jay Cutler and Ronnie Coleman; although he was often limited by the gym equipment available on the oil rigs he worked on. Career. Luke later became more interested in the strength aspect of his training, entering, and winning his first contest, a local deadlift competition in 2011 aged 27. This led to him participating in the \u2018Highlands Strongest Man\u2019 in 2012, held in a gym car park in Inverness, where he again placed first. A relative late comer to the sport, Luke\u2019s impressive feats at the local competitions convinced him to pursue strongman training seriously, albeit alongside his \u20189-5 job\u2019 working on oil rigs. In 2013 Luke competed in his first UK's Strongest Man, where he placed 7th. He then went on to secure 5 consecutive Scotland\u2019s Strongest Man titles from 2013 \u2013 2017, and consistently improved his Britain's Strongest Man (BSM) placing each year, reaching 4th by 2017. A debut at World\u2019s Strongest Man came in 2016, after a solid performance at Europe\u2019s Strongest Man the previous year. Although Luke failed"}, {"text": "to reach the final, after a 3rd place finish in his heat, he gained invaluable experience and was starting to get noticed on the international stage. The following year (2017) he again improved on his BSM placing (4th) and at WSM he narrowly missed a place in the final, finishing 3rd in his heat behind future WSM champions Hafthor Bjornsson and Martins Licis. At this stage in Luke\u2019s career, although he was steadily improving his strength, it was not reflected in his contest results. In 2018, he again missed out on a World\u2019s Strongest Man Final qualification, losing out to four time WSM winner Zydrunas Savickas and Robert Oberst in the heats, and placing a disappointing 6th at BSM. Luke\u2019s job, where he would work offshore for two to three weeks at a time on oil rigs without access to the suitable strongman training equipment, was seen to be hampering his preparation for competition. In 2019 Luke took the leap into full-time training, leaving his job in the oil and gas industry to focus solely on fulfilling his potential as a world level strongman competitor. This decision was helped by placing second the 2019 World's Ultimate Strongman International. This led"}, {"text": "to a significant breakthrough as he successfully qualified for the WSM final in his first year as a professional, finishing 7th overall alongside younger brother Tom, who placed 5th. The pair were the first brothers to ever reach the final at WSM, and an achievement that gained them the moniker \u2018The World\u2019s Strongest Brothers\u2019. 2020 brought Luke\u2019s first podium finish at BSM. However with training and competition hampered by the COVID-19 outbreak, Luke was unable to enter Europe\u2019s Strongest Man, and failed to qualify from his heat at the WSM finals. That same year however, Luke established a British record in the log press, successfully completing a lift at World Ultimate Strongman\u2019s \u201cFeats of Strength\u201d showcase. Disappointment at World\u2019s was short-lived, as 2021 proved to be Luke\u2019s best year to date. At the age of 36, Luke took the title of Europe\u2019s Strongest Man and followed this amazing feat up by taking first place at the Giants Live World Tour Finals. In WSM he was close to a podium position, however the extreme heat and the wrong tacky selection in the final event led to him slipping from 3rd to 7th, repeating his 2019 result, whilst brother Tom lifted the"}, {"text": "winner\u2019s trophy. In 2022 Luke gained a podium finish at the Arnold Classic in Ohio in March, taking 3rd place behind Martin Licis and Oleksii Novikov. Luke narrowly missed out on retaining his Europe\u2019s Strongest Man crown, finishing a credible second to Ukrainian WSM 2020 winner, Oleksii Novikov. At Worlds Strongest Man 2022, held in Sacramento, California, Luke won his heat by a considerable margin allowing him to qualify for the final with an event to spare. In the final itself, Luke repeated his Finals success of the previous two appearances, finishing 7th in a line up that contained four previous winners. The competition was won by Tom for the second year in a row. After some time away from competing in the later half of 2023, Stoltman returned to compete at the 2023 Arnold Strongman Classic, where he placed 9th. This was followed by an 8th place finish at WSM and the Rogue Invitational. Luke started working with a new coach late 2023, which saw an early improvement with a 3rd place finish at the 2024 Britain's Strongest Man final, followed by winning Europe's Strongest Man for the second time. Stoltman qualified again for the World's Strongest Man Final"}, {"text": "in May 2024, where ultimately he placed 9th, the competition was won by his younger brother Tom Stoltman for a third time. A bicep injury sustained at the WSM final kept Luke out of competition for several months, returning strongly with a 5th place position at the US Strongman Championship, 4th place at World Tour Finals, and notably a 5th place finish at the Rogue Invitational, where he was only beaten by the podium finishers of the 2024 WSM final plus 2018 WSM winner, Haf\u00fe\u00f3r J\u00fal\u00edus Bj\u00f6rnsson. Luke started the 2025 strongman season with a win at what was his twelfth year entering Britain's Strongest Man. Family and personal life. Luke is the eldest of five siblings, all of which live in and around their hometown of Invergordon close to their father, Ben. Luke\u2019s youngest brother Harry works for the Stoltman Brothers business and is currently training to compete in strongman competition. Luke married wife Kushi Stoltman in 2016 at a ceremony in Kincraig Castle Hotel, near Invergordon. The 8-year marriage came to an end in 2024 when Kushi publicly accused Luke of infidelity with strongwoman Melissa Peacock. Luke\u2019s mother Shiela died aged 56 in 2016. Both Luke and Tom"}, {"text": "regularly cite their mother\u2019s influence as key to inspiring them to succeed in their careers. In 2021 a permanent tribute to Luke and brother Tom was installed by Invergordon Community Council in their hometown, where the signs at the entrances to Invergordon were updated to include their names and achievements. The sign reads \u2018Welcome to Invergordon Hometown of the Stoltman Brothers World, European and UK Strongest Men\u2019. Luke is a strong advocate for mental health and regularly speaks out on the topic and about how he benefited from speaking to a therapist after the death of his mother. Luke has worked as an ambassador for mental health charity Mikeysline. Other ventures. Gym. In 2018, Luke and Tom opened a commercial gym, The Stoltman Strength Centre, in Invergordon. This was originally a joint venture with another party though is now fully owned by the Stoltman Brothers Ltd. Luke was quoted as saying he had always wanted to open his own gym to inspire others. The brothers use the facility for the majority of their training, having originally trained in Luke\u2019s home gym in his garage. In 2023 the brothers announced a partnership with Glasgow based commercial strength equipment brand Primal. As"}, {"text": "part of the deal, the Stoltman Strength Centre received a significant upgrade and redesign to become a state of the art facility. Health and fitness brand. As the popularity of the brothers has risen through their achievements and media presence, they began to sell Stoltman Brothers branded merchandise via an online shop www.stoltmanbrothers.com. Original offerings were primarily focused around images of the brothers; however this has now been built up to include more everyday \u2018lifestyle\u2019 clothing with Stoltman branding, \u2018motivational\u2019 apparel featuring some of the company/brothers\u2019 values and quotes, and a collaboration with other strongmen where t-shirts with the athletes images are produced. All clothing is sold via the Stoltman brothers website and via their shop which they opened in Invergordon in 2022. Stoltman Strength Academy. The Stoltman brothers in 2022 set up their own strength training academy. Media. Together with brother Tom, Luke has a YouTube channel, Stoltman Brothers, through which they show training and competition footage, partake in various challenges, and provide an insight to everyday life for professional strongmen athletes. The brothers regularly collaborate on the channel with other well known health and fitness personalities and YouTubers, with Eddie Hall, Matt Does Fitness, Haf\u00fe\u00f3r J\u00fal\u00edus Bj\u00f6rnsson and"}, {"text": "Larry Wheels all having featured. The brothers are also the subject of a documentary which is currently in production. Footage for which has been shot by Mulligan Brothers Studio and documents the brothers rise to prominence as elite level strongmen athletes and inspirational figures. Publications. In 2023 Luke and Tom released their own autobiography 'Lifting: Becoming the World's Strongest Brothers' which details their story from childhood through to present day, the hardback version of the book was published by Penguin Random House. Luke and Tom both feature and narrate in Coach Mike Chadwick's The Red On Revolution book, published in 2022. Personal records. In competition: During training: Competitive record. Winning percentage: <br>Podium percentage:"}, {"text": "Titovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhnekuloyskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2002. Geography. Titovskaya is located 35 km southeast of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Grikhnevskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tolstukha () is a rural locality (a village) in Chushevitskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2002. Geography. Tolstukha is located 51 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vladykina Gora is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Affairs of State is a 2018 American political thriller film directed by Eric Bross and starring David Corenswet (in his film debut), Thora Birch, David James Elliott, Grace Victoria Cox, Mimi Rogers, and Adrian Grenier. It was released in select theaters and via video on demand on June 15, 2018, by Lionsgate. Synopsis. A young congressional aide, Michael Lawrence (David Corenswet), has an affair with the wife (Mimi Rogers) of his boss, Senator John Baines (David James Elliott). Meanwhile, Baines' ruthless top aide (Adrien Grenier) is in his way. Lawrence then unexpectedly falls for the Senator's daughter (Grace Victoria Cox) and must go t\u00eate \u00e0 t\u00eate with his leftist activist housemate (Thora Birch). Critical response. Noel Murray of the \"Los Angeles Times\" stated, \"an engaging if ungainly hybrid of \"The Graduate\" and \"House of Cards\", the political potboiler \"Affairs of State\" benefits greatly from being both timely and, for this day and age, uncommon. In an era when so many indies are either genre exercises or quirky dramedies, a well-acted, ripped-from-the-headlines melodrama is a novelty.\" Conversely, Derek Smith of \"Slant Magazine\" offered in summation, \"as \"Affairs of State\"'s primary interests lie almost exclusively between the sheets, the intermittent jabs taken"}, {"text": "at establishment politics feel like disingenuous, cheap shots intended to give the film a sense of depth and gravity that it doesn't earn.\""}, {"text": "Udaltsovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Kolengskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2002. Geography. Udaltsovskaya is located 62 km east of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Grigorovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ulyankovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Chushevitskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 24 as of 2002. Geography. Ulyankovo is located 47 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bereg is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Urusovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) and the administrative center of Nizhnekuloyskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 448 as of 2002. There are 17 streets. Geography. Urusovskaya is located 38 km southeast of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dyakonovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Feklukha () is a rural locality (a village) in Kolengskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 329 as of 2002. There are five streets. Geography. Feklukha is located 61 km southeast of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kharitonovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Filinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Verkhovazhskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Verkhovazhye is 5 km. Verkhneye Makarovo, Abakumovskaya, Ruchyevskaya, Yelezovskaya, Tyoply Ruchey, Yeksinskoye, Somitsyno are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Ama Serwah Genfi (born July 4, 1994), known professionally as Amaarae, is an Ghanaian-American singer and songwriter. She is known for her fusion of pop, R&B, afrobeats, and alt\u00e9, as well as her fluid representation of gender and sexuality. After collaborating with local artists and putting out a few non-album singles, she released her debut EP, \"Passionfruit Summers,\" in 2017. In 2020, Amaarae released her debut album \"The Angel You Don't Know\" to critical acclaim. The song \"Sad Girlz Luv Money\" featuring Moliy gained popularity on TikTok. In 2021 the song was remixed with a feature from Kali Uchis and charted globally. Pitchfork labeled the album \"Best New Music\" and named it the 19th best album of 2020. On June 9, 2023, she released her highly anticipated second album \"Fountain Baby\" to rave reviews. Early life. Amaarae was born in the Bronx, New York to Ama Bawuah and Kwadwo Boateng Genfi and was raised between Atlanta, New Jersey and Accra, Ghana. She is the elder of two children. Amaarae wrote her first song at the age of 13. During her teenage years, she enjoyed watching music videos and said that one of her most vivid memories was watching the music"}, {"text": "video for the Kelis song \"Young, Fresh n' New\". She recalls Kelis' unique expression being an inspiration for her. During high school, she started making mixtapes. By the age of 17, she took up an internship at a music studio. At a tertiary institution, she undertook voice training and honed her songwriting skills while studying English literature. She returned to Ghana in June 2017. Career. Amaarae released her debut project \"Passionfruit Summers\" in 2017. The album features the song \"Fluid\", which was complemented by a music video. Amaarae was named one of Apple Music Africa's Favourite New Artists in April 2018 and later that year became an Apple Music Beats 1 featured artist for her debut project \"Passionfruit Summers\" which she released through her independent record label, Golden Child LLC on November 30, 2017. In November 2018 she performed with Teni, BOJ andOdunsi (The Engine) at ART X Lagos, an art fair in Lagos, Nigeria. Amaarae has also been acknowledged for her style and fashion sense. In 2018, she was featured in \"Vogue\" online in an article on four women across the globe with buzz haircuts and was mentioned as one of Vogue online's Top 100 Style Influencers of 2018."}, {"text": "She was nominated as Artist of the Year at the Glitz Style Awards in Ghana. She has also patronized Ghanaian fashion brand Free The Youth. On March 23, 2019, Amaarae was chosen to perform at the first Boiler Room event in Accra alongside La Meme Gang (A Collective comprising Nxwrth, RJZ, KwakuBS, Darkovibes, Kiddblack and $pacely) and rapper Kwesi Arthur. Amaarae has since collaborated with Stonebwoy, Kojey Radical, M3NSA, Santi, Blaqbonez, Buju, Odunsi, B4bonah. In 2019, she collaborated with the Nigerian singer-songwriter Wande Coal. On November 12, 2020, Amaarae released her debut studio album, \"The Angel You Don't Know\". Owen Myers of \"Pitchfork\" wrote that it \"crackles with innovation, a pacesetter at a time when industry bigwigs are waking up to the long-held truth that Africa is setting the global tempo for pop music.\" In May 2022, Amaarae, together with Black Sherif, Stonebwoy and Smallgod met Kendrick Lamar when he visited Ghana and held a private album listening party in Accra for his new album, \"Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers\". On June 9, 2023, she released her sophomore album \"Fountain Baby\" via Interscope Records. The release also came with the news that she'd become the first Ghanaian to appear"}, {"text": "on NPR Tiny Desk. On April 14, 2025, Amaarae made history as the first Ghanaian artist to perform a solo set at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Her performance on the Gobi Stage featured unreleased tracks and songs by Ghanaian artists such as La M\u00eame Gang, Eazzy, Joey B, and the Asakaa Boys. During the set, she announced her upcoming album \"Black Star\" and notably shaved her head on stage, a move that garnered significant attention on social media."}, {"text": "Filinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhne-Vazhskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 13 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Verkhovazhye is 15.1 km, to Kukolovskaya is 3 km. Frolovskaya, Gorka, Klykovo, Pakhomovskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Ed C. Chissus (August 1, 1917 \u2013 December 30, 1987) was an American football and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at his alma mater, Eastern Washington University, from 1953 to 1962, compiling a record of 29\u201352\u20134. He also served as the school's head baseball coach, amassing 300 career victories before retiring in 1981. Chissus died of cancer on December 30, 1987, at Southcrest Convalescent Center, in Spokane, Washington."}, {"text": "Fominogorskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Chushevitskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 24 as of 2002. Geography. Fominogorskaya is located 47 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pukirevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Fominskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Kolengskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 42 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Verkhovazhye is 53 km, to Noginskaya is 1 km. Udaltsovskaya, Nivskaya, Noginskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Fominskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Morozovskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 69 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Verkhovazhye is 25.3 km, to Morozovo is 1 km. Borovaya Pustosh, Olotinskaya, Mikhaylovskaya, Sboyevskaya, Silinskaya-1, Zakharovskaya, Morozovo, Mashkovskaya, Mininskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Frolovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhne-Vazhskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2002. Geography. Frolovskaya is located 7 km southeast of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Klykovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kharitonovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Morozovskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 48 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Verkhovazhye is 33.3 km, to Morozovo is 9 km. Kalitinskaya, Silinskaya-2, Bushnitskaya, Ostrovskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Kharitonovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Sibirskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 21 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Verkhovazhye is 57 km, to Yeliseyevskya is 9 km. Sakulinskaya, Ostashevskaya, Safronovskaya, Voronikha are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Al Ahed Football Club is a football club based in Beirut, Lebanon. The club's first ever participation in an Asian competition was in the 2005 AFC Cup, where they were drawn with Indian side Dempo and Jordanian side Al-Hussein in the group stage. After finishing second in the group, Ahed faced Sun Hei in the quarter-finals, to whom they lost 2\u20133 on aggregate. Prior to winning the competition, their best spell was in 2016, when they reached the semi-finals before being knocked out by Iraqi club Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya 3\u20134 on aggregate. In 2019, Ahed defeated North Korean side April 25 to win the AFC Cup: they became the first Lebanese side to do so, after Nejmeh and Safa's defeats in the 2005 and 2008 finals, respectively. They reached the final of the AFC Cup once more in 2024, finishing runners-up to Central Coast Mariners of Australia who won 1\u20130."}, {"text": "Khoroshevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Chushevitskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 9 as of 2002. Geography. Khoroshevo is located 44 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Chushevitsy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Chavrovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Shelotskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 17 as of 2002. Geography. Chavrovskaya is located 61 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gorka-Nazarovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "\u00d3scar Pelegr\u00ed Ferrandis (born 30 May 1994) is a Spanish former road and track cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2018 to 2024. He competed at the 2019 UEC European Track Championships. 3rd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships 1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships National Track Championships 2nd Madison (with Sebasti\u00e1n Mora) 2nd Team pursuit National Track Championships 1st Madison (with Sebasti\u00e1n Mora) 3rd Team pursuit 1st Stage 3 Grande Pr\u00e9mio de Portugal N2 8th Cl\u00e1ssica da Arr\u00e1bida 1st Stage 3 Tour de Bretagne 4th Overall Tour of Bulgaria 5th Overall In the Steps of Romans 5th Overall Okolo Ji\u017en\u00edch \u010cech 1st Stage 1a (TTT) GP Beiras e Serra da Estrela"}, {"text": "The Independence was a propeller-driven steamboat that was the first steam-driven vessel to run on Lake Superior in October 1845, initiating the era of steam navigation on that lake. During her career, she saw service shipping passengers and supplies to the mining settlements along the south shores of the lake and often returning with copper ore or was commissioned to carry other goods. Her eight-year career on Lake Superior ended when her boilers exploded, killing several aboard, and ultimately sending the steamboat to the bottom in pieces. Description. The \"Independence\" was a wooden hull, steam driven steamboat whose propulsion was effected by means of two rotary steam engines, two screw (Ericson's) propellers, and schooner rigged sails to assist her engines when the winds were effective enough. A single decked vessel, she had a keel of with a beam, and had a 9 \u00bd feet hold, and a cargo capacity of 261 tons. In calm weather should could maintain a speed of 4 mph. The \"Independence\" was built in 1843 in Chicago, Illinois. She was built by James M. Averill. In 1844 the \"Independence\" had her engines modified to burn coal to improve her speed, and her propellers were altered. In"}, {"text": "1852 she was outfitted with a new engine and boilers. In 1856, the value of the \"Independence\" was assessed at $12,000. History. Unlike the first steamboat navigation to appear on the lower Great Lakes beginning in 1816, steamboat navigation did not occur on Lake Superior until 1845, prompted by the abundant copper and iron ore deposits which were discovered along its shores a few years before when the region overall was still a wilderness. The mile long turbulent rapids of Saint's Mary's River, connecting Lake Huron with Lake Superior, had always prevented vessels on the lower Great Lakes from venturing up and into Lake Superior. The independence became the first steamer on Lake Michigan in 1845. In 1842, Captain James Averell, a shipbuilder from Maine, established a shipyard on Chicago's North Side, just below the Rush-street bridge, on Lake Michigan. There he commenced construction of the \"Independence\", and by July, 1843 the \"Independence\" was ready for running on the lakes. It was the first propeller driven vessel built on Lake Michigan, and the third to run on the lake. In the fall of that year the \"Independence\", commanded by Captain Averill, cruised up Lake Michigan where it arrived at Saint"}, {"text": "Mary's River at Sault Ste. Marie. Preparations were made to haul the vessel on rollers over the portage running between Lake Huron and Lake Superior, around the rapids and falls at Sault Ste. Marie in the same manner as several other sailing vessels before her. Late in October, 1845, after being outfitted for a trip across Lake Superior, the \"Independence\" was launched into St. Mary's River above the rapids where she entered Lake Superior, becoming the first steamboat to run on that lake. Her cargo included a large number of kegs filled with blasting powder and supplies for the mining settlements on the Keweenaw Peninsula. The peninsula was discovered to have the largest quantities of pure copper in the world, greatly prompting lake navigation, mining on its shores and commerce. At that time there were few vessels of any kind on Lake Superior, as the Sault Ste. Marie Ship Canal had not been constructed. The \"Independence\" cast her anchor above the rapids in May, 1846. At an average speed of 5 mph, the \"Independence\" ran on the lake successfully. After the arrival of the \"Independence\" the \"Napoleon\" came along and were the only two steam vessels on that lake. Both"}, {"text": "were hauled over the portage alongside and around the rapids of the Saint Mary's river to get to the upper river and to Lake Superior. The \"Independence\" spent much of her career bringing miners and supplies to the various copper mines on the south shore of Lake Superior, while often shipping copper ore across the lake. Arriving from Detroit, on June 11, 1848, the famous newspaper editor Horace Greeley boarded the \"Independence\" and cruised to the Keweenaw Peninsula at Eagle Harbor where he had invested in copper mining. From the deck of the \"Independence\", not believing that Lake Superior was too cold to swim in, Greeley leaped from her deck into the lake. Shortly before reaching the north point of the peninsula the steamer encountered gale force head winds, forcing her to take cover by the shore of the jutting peninsula. After dropping anchor Captain Averell waited 28 hours for the winds to subside. By the time they were able to resume their journey, the smoke stack became almost completely clogged from the rain-soaked soot, forcing the craft to move at slow pace the rest of the way to Eagle Harbor. On November 21, 1853 \"Independences\" career was abruptly ended"}, {"text": "when her boiler exploded on the lake near Sault Ste. Marie. Captain John McKay, left the dock at the Superior-Huron Portage around 12 o'clock, with approximately three dozen passengers, and a heavy freight of winter supplies for Ontonagon and La Point. Departing from Sault Ste. Marie, \"Independence\" had proceeded less than a mile, when her boiler burst, reducing a large section of the craft to splinters, killing one passenger. However, the passenger that was killed was not identified. The explosion of the boiler also scalded and injured the second engineer and several passengers. A portion of the vessel remained afloat where the survivors had gathered on the deck. As the wrecked vessel started drifting towards the river, two keel boats finally made it to the wreck and rescued its survivors, saving them from the rocks along the mile long turbulent rapids of Saint Mary's River not far ahead. . Another crash of the Independence took place as the vessel settled. Overall, there was a property loss of $28,000. Bibliography. Further reading. External links"}, {"text": "Mixed Magic Theatre is a non-profit theater and performance venue at Lorraine Mills in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Mixed Magic Theatre was founded in 2000 by Bernadet and Ricard Pitts-Wiley. It was originally located in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. The theatre relocated to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 2005. In 2007 Mixed Magic officially altered its mission to \"bring diverse stories to the stage.\" The theatre added an outdoor amphitheater in 2017. In addition to producing plays, the theatre acts as a venue for local and national performers. Mixed Magic also produces a set of regular programs, including Rise to Black, a theater series featuring scenes from the works of black artists and the Exult Choir, the theatre's resident choir, formed in 2006. The theatre has attracted international attention for producing \"Moby Dick: Then and Now\", an interpretation of Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick by Ricardo Pitts-Willey. The production featured two casts, an adult company that portrayed the Melville version of the story, and a youth cast where the actors portrayed a story where the white whale is cocaine. The play traveled to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and the International Melville Conference held by"}, {"text": "the Melville Society in Poland in 2007."}, {"text": "Senja is a municipality in Troms county, Norway. It was established on 1 January 2020 when the municipalities of Berg, Lenvik, Torsken, and Tran\u00f8y were merged into one municipality. It is located in the traditional district of H\u00e5logaland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Finnsnes. Some of the notable villages in Senja include \u00c5, Aglapsvik, Bjorelvnes, Botnhamn, Finns\u00e6ter, Fjordg\u00e5rd, Flakstadv\u00e5g, Gibostad, Gryllefjord, Hus\u00f8y, Langnes, Laukhella, Lysnes, Medby, Mefjordv\u00e6r, Rossfjordstraumen, Sandbakken, Senjahopen, Silsand, Skaland, Skrollsvika, Stonglandseidet, Torsken, and Vangsvik. The municipality includes all of the island of Senja, the smaller surrounding islands, and part of the mainland between the Gisundet strait and the Malangen fjord. The municipality is the 40th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Senja is the 83rd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 14,894. The municipality's population density is and its population has increased by 0.2% over the previous 10-year period. General information. In March 2017, the Parliament of Norway voted to merge the municipalities of Berg, Lenvik, Torsken, and Tran\u00f8y. The new municipality was established on 1 January 2020 as \"Senja Municipality\" (). On 1 January 2024, the large Troms og Finnmark county was divided and"}, {"text": "the municipality became part of the newly re-created Troms county. Etymology. The Old Norse form of the name must also have been \"Senja\" or perhaps \"S\u00e6ndja\". The meaning of the name is unknown, but it might be related to the verb \"sundra\" which means to \"tear\" or \"split apart\", possibly because the west coast of the island is torn and split by numerous small fjords. It might also be derived from a Proto-Norse form of the word \"Sandij\u014dn\" meaning \"(area) of sand\" or \"sandy island\". Coat of arms. The coat of arms was approved for use starting on 1 January 2020. The blazon is \"Azure, northern lights vert over mountain peaks argent to sinister\" (). This means the arms have a dark blue field (background) and the charge is the green northern lights above some mountain peaks. The mountain peaks have a tincture of argent which means they are commonly colored white, but if it is made out of metal, then silver is used. The mountain peak is a depiction of the Okshornan mountain. Churches. The Church of Norway has four parishes () within Senja Municipality. It is part of the Senja prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nord-H\u00e5logaland. Government."}, {"text": "Senja Municipality is responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, welfare and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads and utilities. The municipality is governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor is indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council. The municipality is under the jurisdiction of the Nord-Troms og Senja District Court and the H\u00e5logaland Court of Appeal. Municipal council. The municipal council of Senja is made up of 45 representatives that are elected to four year terms. The tables below show the current and historical composition of the council by political party. Mayors. The mayor () of Senja is the political leader of the municipality and the chairperson of the municipal council. Here is a list of people who have held this position: Geography. Senja Municipality is located along the Troms county coast. The municipality encompasses the whole island of Senja, plus some smaller areas on the mainland around the Gisundet strait and the around the Rossfjordvatnet lake. The island is connected to the mainland by the Gisund Bridge. The northern coasts of the island of Senja faces the open sea, the western coast faces"}, {"text": "the islands of And\u00f8ya and Kr\u00f8tt\u00f8ya, the southern coast faces the islands of And\u00f8rja and Dyr\u00f8ya. On the western coast, steep and rugged mountains rise straight from the sea, with some fishing villages (like Gryllefjord, Hus\u00f8y) tucked into the small lowland areas between the mountains and the sea. The eastern and southern parts of the island are milder, with rounder mountains, forests, rivers and agriculture land. The highest point in the municipality is the tall mountain Vassbruntinden which lies on the border of Senja Municipality and M\u00e5lselv Municipality. The municipality is located to the southwest of Troms\u00f8 Municipality; west of Balsfjord Municipality; northwest of M\u00e5lselv Municipality; north of S\u00f8rreisa Municipality, Dyr\u00f8y Municipality, and Ibestad Municipality; and east of Harstad Municipality and And\u00f8y Municipality. All of these neighboring municipalities are separated from Senja by water except for a land border with M\u00e5lselv Municipality and S\u00f8rreisa Municipality. Climate. Climate data from the village of Gibostad on the eastern shore of the island, facing the mainland during the base period of 1961\u20131990. The western side of the island, facing the Norwegian Sea, will have slightly milder but more windy winters. Attractions. Among the sights of the island are \u00c5nderdalen National Park with coastal"}, {"text": "pine forests and mountains, traditional fishing communities, and the Senja Troll, the world's largest troll. There are several small museums documenting local history, among these the Halibut Museum (\"Kveitmuseet\") in Skrolsvik."}, {"text": "The Peter Clegg House, at 8 South 100 East in Tooele, Utah, was built in 1903. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. It is a two-story \"Central-Block-with-Projecting-Bays\"-type single family house, with Victorian Eclectic style. It was deemed significant in part for its association with the life of Peter Clegg."}, {"text": "Joshua Kyle Greer Jr. (born June 13, 1994) is an American professional boxer who held the WBO-NABO bantamweight title in 2019. Professional career. Greer made his professional debut on September 26, 2015, scoring a second-round technical knockout (TKO) victory over Luis Guerrero at the Celebrity Theater in Phoenix, Arizona. Greer defeated Nikolai Potapov for the WBO-NABO bantamweight title. He defended his title against former world title challenger Antonio Nieves. In 2017, his knockout of James Gordon-Smith was a finalist for espn.com knockout of the year."}, {"text": "The 2008 Weber State Wildcats football team represented Weber State University as a member of the Big Sky Conference during the 2008 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The 2008 season was a very successful season for the Wildcats. Led by head coach Ron McBride, the Wildcats compiled an overall record of 10\u20134 with a mark of 7\u20131 in conference play to share the Big Sky championship with Montana. Weber State received an at-large bid to the NCAA Division I Football Championship playoffs, where they beat Cal Poly in the first round before losing to their conference rivals Montana in the quarterfinals. It was the Wildcats' first trip to the playoffs in seventeen years, and their most wins in twenty-one years."}, {"text": "Drew Lint (born 1987) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, whose debut feature film \"M/M\" debuted at the 2018 Slamdance Film Festival. Originally from Dunnville, Ontario, he studied film production at Ryerson University. He directed a number of short films, including \"Parallel Lines\" (2008), \"Collected Memories\" (2008), \"Harvest\" (2009) and \"Mirrors\" (2012), before moving to Berlin, Germany in 2013. His 2014 short film \"Rough Trade\" was his international breakthrough, premiering at Slamdance in 2014. Lint was longlisted for the Directors Guild of Canada's Discovery Award in 2018, and was shortlisted for the Vancouver Film Critics Circle's One to Watch Award at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2018."}, {"text": "Epowers Factory Team was an attempted Hungarian-Italian UCI Professional Continental cycling team, which would have been active for the 2020 season. The team was not able to get the sponsors required to be active in the peloton in 2020, the team had been disestablished."}, {"text": "Maurice James Connor (September 1, 1872 \u2013 March 22, 1939) was an American football coach, state legislator, and attorney. He served as the head football coach at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts from 1898 to 1902. He later served three terms in the New Hampshire House of Representatives and practiced law in Iowa and Nebraska. Early life. Connor was born to Michael and Bridget (Scannell) Connor on September 1, 1872 in Manchester, New Hampshire. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College. Football. In 1895, Connor was the head football coach at Phillips Exeter. He served as the head football coach at Holy Cross from 1898 to 1902, where he compiled a 27\u201315\u20134 record. He was an assistant coach at Bowdoin College in 1903 and assisted Fred W. Murphy at Phillips Exeter in 1904. In 1905, he became an assistant to Walter McCornack at Northwestern University. The school did not field a team in 1906 or 1907, but when the program returned in 1908, he was an assistant under Alton Johnson. Professional career. After graduating from Harvard, Connor returned to Manchester and joined his father in business. Connor earned his law degree at Northwestern and"}, {"text": "practiced law in Des Moines, Iowa for seven years. He returned to Manchester and served three terms in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, where he gained a reputation for using the filibuster and was popular with members of both parties. Although a member of the Democratic Party, Connor was critical of Democratic Governor Samuel D. Felker. In 1921, Connor moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where he practiced law until his death on March 22, 1939."}, {"text": "Paul Strickland is an American storyteller and comedian based out of Cincinnati, Ohio. His award winning solo and collaborative performances have been featured at the National Storytelling Festival, comedy clubs, and Fringe Festivals across the United States and Canada. He gained notoriety with his performance 'Ain't True and Uncle False', which received the Best of Fest Award at Cincinnati Fringe Festival in 2013."}, {"text": "The fourth season of \"The Real Housewives of Dallas\", an American reality television series, is broadcast on Bravo. It premiered on September 4, 2019, and is primarily filmed in Dallas, Texas. Its executive producers are Adam Karpel, Andrew Hoegl, John Paparazzo, Rich Bye, Samantha Billett and Andy Cohen. \"The Real Housewives of Dallas\" focuses on the lives of Stephanie Hollman, LeeAnne Locken, Brandi Redmond, D'Andra Simmons, Kameron Westcott and Kary Brittingham. This season marked the final appearance of LeeAnne Locken. Episodes. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude>"}, {"text": "Louis Broyles \"Pete\" Crayton Sr. (November 27, 1894 \u2013 April 1958) was an American college football coach and businessman. He served as the head football coach at his alma mater, Davidson College, for a single season in 1919, compiling a record of 4\u20136\u20131. He took time away from his business ventures to accept the coaching position on short notice."}, {"text": "The James Anderson House is a historic house in Fairview, Utah. It was built in 1880 for James Anderson, an immigrant from Scotland whose parents converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints before settling in Utah in 1860. Anderson became a sheep farmer and landowner, and he was also the president of the Fairview Co-op, and he served on the boards of directors of the Fairview State Bank and the Union Roller Mills. He lived here with his wife, n\u00e9e Hannah M. Cheney. The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 3, 1980."}, {"text": "Troms og Finnmark (; ; ; ) was a county in northern Norway that existed from 2020 to 2023. The county was established on 1 January 2020 as the result of a regional reform. It was the largest county by area in Norway, encompassing about , and was formed by the merger of the former Finnmark and Troms counties in addition to Tjeldsund Municipality from Nordland county. The administrative centre of the county was split between two towns. The political and administrative offices were based in the city of Troms\u00f8 (the seat of the old Troms county). The county governor was based in the town of Vads\u00f8 (the seat of the old Finnmark county). The two towns are about apart, approximately a 10-hour drive by car. On 15 June 2022, the parliament decided to split the county back into Finnmark and Troms beginning on 1 January 2024, with Tjeldsund Municipality assigned to Troms county (Tjeldsund had been part of Nordland county before 2020). Geography. Troms og Finnmark was the northernmost and easternmost county in Norway (Svalbard, an unincorporated area, is not considered a county). By area, it was Norway's largest county, and also one of the least populated of all"}, {"text": "Norwegian counties. Knivskjellodden in Nordkapp Municipality (on the island of Mager\u00f8ya) sometimes considered the northernmost point of Europe (on an island); Kinnarodden on Nordkinn Peninsula in Lebesby Municipality is the northernmost point on the European mainland. Honningsv\u00e5g in Finnmark claims to be the northernmost city of the world, and Vard\u00f8 is the easternmost town in Norway and is farther east than Istanbul. The coast is indented by large fjords, many of which (in a strict sense) are false fjords, as they are not carved out by glaciers. Some of Norway's largest sea bird colonies can be seen on the northern coast, the largest are \"Hjelms\u00f8ystauran\" on the island of Hjelms\u00f8ya in M\u00e5s\u00f8y Municipality and \"Gjesv\u00e6rstappan\" in Nordkapp Municipality. The highest point is located on the top of the glacier \u00d8ksfjordj\u00f8kelen, which has an area of , and it is located in Loppa Municipality. Both \u00d8ksfjordj\u00f8kelen and Seilandsj\u00f8kelen (\"Seiland glacier\") are located in the western part of Finnmark. The \u00d8ksfjord plateau glacier calved directly into the sea (\"J\u00f8kelfjorden\") until 1900, the last glacier in mainland Norway to do so. The central and eastern part of Finnmark is generally less mountainous, and has no glaciers. The land east of Nordkapp is mostly"}, {"text": "below . The geography varies from barren coastal areas facing the Barents Sea, to more sheltered fjord areas and river valleys with gullies and tree vegetation. About half of the county is above the tree line, and large parts of the other half is covered with small Downy birch. The lushest areas are the Alta River valley area and the Tana River valley, and in the east is the lowland area in the Pasvik valley in S\u00f8r-Varanger Municipality, where the pine and Siberian spruce forest is considered part of the Russian taiga vegetation. This valley has the highest density of Brown bears in Norway, and is the only location in the country with a population of musk-rats, resulting from their introduction from their native North America into Europe in the early 20th century which included their release in a total of 293 localities all over Finland from 1919 and onwards, and then of ca 1,000 muskrats on the Kola Peninsula during 1931\u20131936. The animal spread and the observations of first 'possible' muskrats in the river Altaelva area in Troms county were made around 1960 (Vik 1963), though the first actual specimen was not recovered until 1969, when a muskrat was"}, {"text": "captured alive in in Tana Municipality (Lund & Wikan 1995). In 1970, another specimen was collected from Jarfjorden in S\u00f8r-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark (Pedersen 1970). Between 1980 and 1988 there were very few observations of muskrats in Norway (Lund & Wikan 1995), but since 1988 there has been a rapid population increase in S\u00f8r-Varanger Municipality, and the muskrat has spread to almost every part of the municipality. Lynx and moose are common in large parts of Finnmark, but rare on the coast. The interior parts of the county include part of the great Finnmarksvidda plateau, with an elevation of , with numerous lakes and river valleys. The plateau is famous for its tens of thousands of reindeer owned by the Sami, and swarms of mosquitos in mid-summer. Finnmarksvidda makes up 36% of the county's area. Stabbursdalen National Park ensures protection for the world's most northern pine forest. The Tana River, which partly defines the border with Finland, gives the largest catch of salmon of all rivers in Europe, and also has the world record for Atlantic salmon, . In the east, the Pasvikelva defines the border with Russia. There are mountains all over the county; the most alpine and striking"}, {"text": "are probably the Lyngen Alps (\"Lyngsalpene\"), with several small glaciers and the highest mountain in the county, Jiekkevarre with a height of . Several glaciers are located in Kv\u00e6nangen Municipality, including parts of the \u00d8ksfjordj\u00f8kelen, the last glacier in mainland Norway to drop icebergs directly into the sea (in the J\u00f8kelfjord). The largest river in Troms (waterflow) is M\u00e5lselva (in M\u00e5lselv Municipality), and the largest (not the highest) waterfall is M\u00e5lselvfossen at long and high. Marble is present in parts of Troms, and thus numerous caves, as in Salangen Municipality and Sk\u00e5nland Municipality. Climate. Troms og Finnmark has short and often cool summers, but sometimes warm continental air from southeast Europe or Russia can give surprisingly warm temperatures. The all-time high was recorded in Bardufoss July 2018, but a new record was set in Banak in Porsanger Municipality with on 5 July 2021. The warmest night was at Makkaur in B\u00e5tsfjord Municipality with overnight low on 19 July 2018, the third warmest night recorded in Norway. The winters are fairly mild along the coast due to the temperate sea, but still cold enough for snow. Inland, winters are much colder and drier, especially east of the Lyngen Alps. The Finnmarksvidda"}, {"text": "plateau in the interior has a continental subarctic climate with the coldest winter temperatures in Norway: the coldest temperature ever recorded in Norway is in Karasjok Municipality on 1 January 1886. Karasjok has recorded in July, giving a possible year amplitude of (rare in Europe). Due to the proximity to the ice-free ocean, winters are much milder in coastal areas (and windier). Torsv\u00e5g Lighthouse in Karls\u00f8y Municipality has coldest month (February) 24-hr average , and even Fruholmen near North Cape has coldest month mean . Thaws can occur along the coast even in mid-winter. The year average temperature difference between Harstad Municipality on the coast in the south and Kautokeino Municipality inland northeast is (6 \u00b0C) comparable to the difference between Harstad and London. There is often snow in abundance and avalanches are not uncommon in winter in steep areas. With the prevailing westerlies, lowland areas east of mountain ranges have less precipitation than areas west of the mountains. Skibotn in Storfjord Municipality is the location in Norway which has recorded the most days per year with clear skies (no clouds). In the K\u00f6ppen climate classification, most areas of below the treeline have a boreal climate (subarctic), while the coast"}, {"text": "west of North Cape mostly has a subpolar oceanic climate (Cfc). Highlands and mountains above the treeline have alpine tundra climate (Et). Harstad is located on Norway's largest coastal island in the southwest of the province. Lakselv Airport Banak in Porsanger Municipality has a boreal climate with sparse precipitation. Midnight sun. Situated far north of the Arctic Circle, Troms og Finnmark has midnight sun from the middle of May until late July. Conversely, in two months of the winter, from late November to late January, the county experiences polar nights where the sun is always below the horizon. As a consequence, there is continuous daylight from early May to early August. At midwinter, there is only a bluish twilight for a couple of hours around noon, which can almost reach full daylight if there are clear skies to the south. Northern lights. The county is situated in the Aurora Borealis zone, and because of the dry climate with frequent clear skies, Alta Municipality was early chosen as a location for the study of this strange light phenomenon. For this reason, Alta is sometimes referred to as the city of the northern lights. History. People have lived in this area for"}, {"text": "at least 10,000 years (since the early Stone Age), and there are prehistoric rock carvings at several locations (for instance Ibestad, Balsfjord, Komsa, Pit-Comb Ware culture and Rock carvings at Alta). These people made their living from hunting, fishing, and gathering. The destiny of these early cultures is unknown. Three ethnic groups have a long history in the area: the Sami people, the Norwegian people, and the Kven people. Of these, the Sami probably were the first people to explore what is now Troms og Finnmark. Ohthere of H\u00e5logaland was an adventurous Norwegian (Norseman) from H\u00e5logaland, the area roughly corresponding to today's Nordland county. Around 890 AD, he claimed, according to historical sources (see Ohthere of H\u00e5logaland) that he lived \"north-most of all the Northmen\", and that \"no one [lived] to the north of him.\" Later, Norwegians in the 14th century, and Kvens in the 16th century, settled along the coast. See the articles on Kven people and Vard\u00f8hus Fortress for more details. Southern and mid-Troms was a Norwegian petty kingdom in the Viking Age, and considered part of H\u00e5logaland. Ottar from H\u00e5logaland met King Alfred the Great around 890. The Viking leader Tore Hund had his seat at Bjark\u00f8ya."}, {"text": "According to the sagas, Tore Hund speared King Olav Haraldsson at the Battle of Stiklestad. He also traded and fought in Bjarmaland, today the area of Arkhangelsk in northern Russia . Trondenes (today's Harstad) was also a central Viking power centre. Sami. The Sami are the indigenous people of the area, but Norwegians have lived for hundreds of years on the islands' outer parts, where they made up the majority. The Sami people still constitute the majority in Finnmark's interior parts, while the fjord areas have been ethnically mixed for a long time. This essentially holds true today. The Sami were for many years victims of the Norwegianization policy, which in essence was an attempt by the government to make them \"true\" Norwegians and forget about their Sami way of life and religion, which was seen as inferior. As a result, the Sami living at the coast and in the fjords gradually lost much of their culture and often felt ashamed by their Sami inheritance. The Sami in the interior managed to preserve more of their culture. In the 1970s, instruction of the Sami language started in schools, and a new sense of consciousness started to grow among the Sami;"}, {"text": "today most are proud of their background and culture. In the midst of this awakening (1979), Norway's government decided to build a dam in Alta to produce hydropower, provoking many Sami and environmentalists to demonstrations and civil disobedience (\"Altasaken\"). In the end, the dam was built on a much smaller scale than originally intended and the Sami culture was on the government's agenda. The Sami parliament (\"S\u00e1mediggi\") was opened in Karasjok in 1989. Norwegian. Gjesv\u00e6r in Nordkapp is mentioned in the Sagas (Heimskringla) as a northern harbor in the Viking Age, especially used by Vikings on the way to Bjarmaland (see Ottar from H\u00e5logaland), and probably also for gathering food in the nearby seabird colony. Coastal areas of Finnmark were colonized by Norwegians beginning in the 10th century, and there are stories describing clashes with the Karelians. Border skirmishes between the Norwegians and Novgorodians continued until 1326, when the Treaty of Novgorod settled the issue. The first known fortification in Finnmark is Vard\u00f8hus festning, first erected in 1306 by King Haakon V Magnusson. This is the world's most northern fortress. In the 17th century, Finnmark was home to a large number of witch trials; between 1610 and 1692, 88 people"}, {"text": "were executed as witches, an extremely high number when considered in the context of the low population; there were only 277 (documented) executions in Norway as a whole. The majority were young women, though there were also a small number of men, who were mostly from Sami backgrounds. Ergotism from contaminated flour has been suggested as a likely cause for the frequent trials, as most grain in Finnmark was imported and may have been of low quality. Finnmark first became subject to increased colonization in the 18th and 19th centuries. Norway, Sweden, and Russia all claimed control over this area. Finland was part of Russia at that time and had no independent representative. Finnmark was given the status of an \"Amt\" (county) in the 19th century. For a time, there was a vibrant trade with Russia (Pomor trade), and many Norwegians settled on the Kola Peninsula (see Kola Norwegians). Kven. The Finnic \"Kven\" residents of Finnmark are largely descendants of Finnish speaking immigrants who arrived in the area in the 18th century from Me\u00e4nmaa, and later in the 19th century from Finland, suffering from famine and war. Governance. In 1576, the King of Norway established \"Vard\u00f8hus len\" as a new"}, {"text": "administrative unit for the kingdom. In 1660, it became \"Vard\u00f8hus amt\", a subordinate to the large \"Trondhjems stiftamt\", based in Trondheim. In 1787, the island of Senja and the Troms area were transferred from Nordlandenes amt to Vard\u00f8hus amt (an area similar to today's Troms og Finnmark county). In 1866, the island of Senja and the Troms area were separated from Vard\u00f8hus to form the new Troms\u00f8 amt. In 1919, the names were again changed to Finnmark fylke and Troms fylke. World War II. Per Fugelli has said that World War II resulted in many persons acquiring psychiatric disorders (\"psykiske senskadene\") which could be from experiencing \"bombing, accidents involving mines, burning down of homes, forcible evacuation, illness and starvation during the war and liberation. But it was maybe in particular the treatment of Russian prisoners that left marks on the local population.\" Towards the end of World War II, with Operation Nordlicht, the Germans used the scorched earth tactic in Finnmark and northern Troms to halt the Red Army. As a consequence of this, few houses survived the war, and a large part of the population was forcefully evacuated further south (Troms\u00f8 was crowded), but many people avoided evacuation by"}, {"text": "hiding in caves and mountain huts and waiting until the Germans were gone, then inspected their burned homes. There were 11,000 houses, 4,700 cow sheds, 106 schools, 27 churches, and 21 hospitals burned. There were 22,000 communications lines destroyed, roads were blown up, boats destroyed, animals killed, and 1,000 children separated from their parents. However, after taking the town of Kirkenes on 25 October 1944 (as the first town in Norway), the Red Army did not attempt further offensives in Norway. Free Norwegian forces arrived from Britain and liberated the rest of the county. When the war was over, more than 70,000 people were left homeless in Finnmark. The government imposed a temporary ban on residents returning to Finnmark because of the danger of landmines. The ban lasted until the summer of 1945 when evacuees were told that they could finally return home. Cold War (1947\u20131991). The Cold War was a period with sometimes high tension in eastern Finnmark, at the long border with the Soviet Union. To keep tensions from getting too high, Norway declared that no NATO exercises would take place in Finnmark. There was, however, a lot of military intelligence activity, and Norwegian P-3 Orion maritime surveillance"}, {"text": "aircraft were often the first to get pictures of newly built Soviet submarines and aircraft. A purpose-built ELINT vessel, \"Marjata\", was always stationed near the border, and the current \"Marjata\" (7500 t) is still operating out of the ports in eastern Finnmark. Merging of Troms County and Finnmark County. The merger was not popular, especially in the old Finnmark county. A county-wide non-binding referendum was held in which it was opposed by about 87% of Finnmark residents who voted, but the Storting did not reverse its decision to merge the county. Some political parties campaigned to reverse the merger in the parliamentary term that starts in September 2021. On 28 October 2021, Minister of Local Government Bj\u00f8rn Arild Gram sent a letter to the county confirming that it will be demerged. Later. On 17 March 2021, organisations reported that the county council sent an application to Norway's government to have the county split back up. On 28 October 2021, the Norwegian government confirmed that Troms and Finnmark would become two separate counties again. Government. A county \"(fylke)\" is the chief local administrative area in Norway. The whole country is divided into 11 counties. A county is also an election area,"}, {"text": "with popular votes taking place every 4 years. In Troms og Finnmark, the government of the county was the Troms og Finnmark County Municipality. It included 57 members who were elected to form a county council \"(Fylkesting)\". Heading the \"Fylkesting\" was the county mayor \"(fylkesordf\u00f8rar)\", Ivar B. Prestbakmo (as of 2021). The county also had a \"fylkesr\u00e5dsleder\", the top executive of the county's administration, Bj\u00f8rn Inge Mo. The county also had a County Governor \"(statsforvalter)\" who was the representative of the King and Government of Norway. Elisabeth Aspaker was the County Governor of Troms og Finnmark. On 1 January 2019, Elisabeth Aspaker was appointed as the County Governor of Troms og Finnmark. The municipalities in Troms og Finnmark were divided among several district courts \"(tingrett)\": Alta District Court, Hammerfest District Court, Indre Finnmark District Court, Nord-Troms District Court, Senja District Court, Trondenes District Court, and \u00d8st-Finnmark District Court. All of these courts were subordinate to the H\u00e5logaland Court of Appeal district based in Troms\u00f8. Municipalities. Troms og Finnmark County had a total of 39 municipalities:"}, {"text": "Cheryomushki () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhne-Vazhskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 48 as of 2002. The village was founded in 2000. Geography. Cheryomushki is located 2 km northeast of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Somitsyno is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Chushevitsy () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Chushevitskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 735 as of 2002. There are 18 streets. Geography. Chushevitsy is located 42 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Shchekino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "This page lists notable people from Dagestan."}, {"text": "The Niels Ole Anderson House is a historic house in Ephraim, Utah. It was built in 1868 for Niels Ole Anderson, an immigrant from Sweden whose parents converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and settled in Utah in 1854\u20131855, when Anderson was ten years old. He served in the Black Hawk War in 1865. Anderson lived in this house, designed with elements of Greek Revival and Federal styles, with his first wife, Josephine Overglade, and their nine children. He served as a missionary in his native Sweden from 1880 to 1882. After his wife died in 1884, he married Matilda Nielson in 1885, and they had a son, Niels Henry. The house was inherited by his ancestors. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 5, 1978. It is at the southwest corner of E. 300 South and S. 100 East."}, {"text": "Shelota () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Shelotskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 401 as of 2019. There are 11 streets. Geography. The distance to Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) is 57 km by road. Afoninskaya, Makarovskaya, Fofanovskaya, Maloye Pogorelovo, Stepanovo, Chavrovskaya, Yakuninskaya, Gorka-Nazarovskaya, Dresvyanka, Garmanovo, Doroninskaya, Tatarinskaya, Denisovskaya are the nearest rural localities. It is located in 160 km from Vologda along the M8 highway, the distance from Moscow is 490 km. Relief, flora and fauna. The relief was formed in the area of the penultimate Moscow glaciation. The relief is of an erosional-glacial character.* Coniferous vegetation predominates. The district is rich in useful herbs: Ivan-chai (rosebay willow-herb), Tavolga (meadowsweet) and others. Fauna is typical for the northern part of Russia: elk, brown bear, wild boar, wolverine, white hare, pine marten, badger, wolf, fox; birds - wood grouse, ptarmigan, black grouse, hazel grouse. In rivers and lakes there are salmon, nelma, bream, pike perch, perch, luce, etc.. History. Shelota is the name of the area mentioned in historical documents (list of the Dvina lands) since 1471. In June 1858, the Emperor Alexander 2 rode along the old Arkhangelsk"}, {"text": "tract. There is information about the impressions of Alexander 2 of the area he saw. \u201cOn the way to the next Nikiforovskaya station, before reaching the Shelota Volost government, there is a large mountain, from which a long and sloping descent into the valley begins. The Emperor ordered to stop and, getting up in the carriage, admired the picturesque view. From here, a wide outlook opened up with settlements and villages scattered here and there, whitewashed churches with their high bell towers and spitz shining brightly in the rays of the morning sun, the Vaga River meandering in a bright, silvery ribbon, forests, fields and arable land.\" The view that opened up to His Majesty on the way along the Vaga River impressed the Sovereign Emperor so much that he then drove to the village of Smetaninskaya with an open top of the carriage. Currently Shelota is a central rural settlement as part of Verkhovazhsky District of Vologda Oblast. An expedition was held at the territory of Shelota for filming of the \"Sashka\" movie. It is the story of a 12-year-old boy Sasha, who dreams of getting on the inside of a local gang of hooligans. Since 2017, with the"}, {"text": "support of non-profit organizations, the \"Shelota - Point of Attraction\" project has been organized in which the Shelotyans and people who are interested in rural life hold cultural and social events. Such events include: 1. International Ceramic Festival in Shelota The founder of this festival is Stepanova Svetlana Anatolyevna. The event is international; guests from various Russian cities and countries such as Germany, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon attended. 2. Restoration of the Trinity Church and Trinity Festivities In 2017, 5 bells were cast for the future bell tower with private donations. And in 2020, master Georgy Fedyaevsky restored the stained glass window on the main facade of the building. 3. Various concerts and lectures 4. Cultural tourism 5. Attracting volunteers to develop Shelota. The following traditional and artistic crafts are presented in Shelota: Ceramic craft (Shelota is famous for its International Ceramic Festival, which attracts ceramists and guests from different cities and countries. And in August 2020, the Shelotyans became the first owners of a wood-fired ceramic kiln), Pottery, Weaving, Embroidery, Lace-making, Carpentry, Painting. Sights. Church of the Holy Trinity. Built in 1789. The church is located in the settlement of Makarovskoe in Shelota on a hill, which gives a magical"}, {"text": "view of the village. Church decoration. On the first floor, there are three thrones: Flora and Laurus, the prophet of God Elijah and St. Nicholas the Wonder-worker. On the second floor, there are two thrones: the Life-Giving Trinity and in the name of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. Church history. The church was built in the style of the Totma Baroque, which makes it possible to assume that it was built by craftsmen from Totma. Since 1801, services have been conducted at the church all year round. The first floor of the church was heated, which made it possible to conduct services even in severe frosts. During the Soviet Union times, the bell tower was destroyed to the ground. Today, all that remains of it is trash as a memory. Now the liturgy is held in the summer. The church is under reconstruction. In 2017, the bells for the future bell tower were cast. Bells were cast to order in Tutaev. And in 2020, a stained glass window was installed on the main facade made by the master Georgy Fedyaevsky. Church today. Trinity festivities are held annually in Shelota. Over the past 10 years, on one Sunday, the"}, {"text": "Shelotyans have been organizing festivities which are attended by people from all over the country. The festivities begin immediately after Matins. Religious procession around the church and under the song the crowd then descends from the temple to the field. Games, traditional costumes, dances and singing, folk instruments, an atmosphere of celebration and reunification with roots - this is what the Trinity festivities are all about. Festivities are held with donations from sponsors and residents. Museum of local history. The local history museum is located in a wooden building near the Anyutin Square, which belongs to the Shelota school. Inside there is an exposition of village life, as well as objects of the Soviet Union times, the history of the Shelota School, a collection of stones found in the vicinity, etc. The route \"One day in the village\" has been elaborated, which includes a visit to the church, a walk in the village, a visit to the monument to the writer Vladimir Tendryakov, tea drinking at Koticheva Hill, rest on the grass, swimming in the Vaga river and a master class on making ritual dolls. Monument to Tendryakov. Vladimir Fedorovich Tendryakov is a Russian Soviet writer, author of acutely conflict"}, {"text": "stories about the spiritual and moral problems of contemporary life, acute problems of Soviet society, about life in the countryside. \"Train kiln\" Vaga. In August 2020, in the village of Makarovskaya, the first \"train kiln\"\u2013type wood-fired ceramic kiln appeared in Russia. A team of ceramists under the leadership of the Vologda master Vladimir Kholshchagin built the kiln in 5 days, the stove was named \"Vaga\". The peculiarity is that the kiln has two burners. They start to heat from the bottom. Then, when the temperature rises, they heat from above. By that time, a coal ash bed has formed in the lower burner. Air passes through it and is heated, and ash, settling on the walls of the ceramics, gives the effect of ash glaze. The ceramics in such a kiln is very strong, and the visual effects are unpredictable. The project was conducted by the non-profit organization \"Center for Cultural Projects Festival\" with support of the Presidential Grants Fund. Ceramic Festival. 2017 The Ceramics Festival in Shelota became international in its first year: then ceramists Heida Nonnenmacher and Peter Wichmann, as well as a metal artist Martial Herbst came to the Russian North from Germany. Ceramists Alexander Gladky, Tatyana"}, {"text": "Vereshchagina and Svetlana Zhuchenko, as well as artists David Plaksin and Zoya Malyarenko, came to Shelota from the northern capital. Tatiana Gorbatova, master of the Somov school of ceramics, arrived from Verkhovazhye. During the 7 days of the festival, the participants painted a variety of pottery, built a kiln for coal burning of ceramics, held master classes on three types of burning, including coal, paper and raku, and also exchanged experiences in organizing art exhibitions and charitable events. Local craftsmen taught guests to weave salt shakers from birch bark and make a traditional amulet doll. In addition, the guests of the festival visited the Alekseevskaya Fair in Verkhovazhye, watched a performance at the Orthodox Art Theater, tasted pies from the Russian stove and took part in folk festivities. 2018 The second Ceramic Festival was held together with the non-profit organization Center for Cultural Programs \u201cCulture and Peace\u201d. This time, guests from Syria, Lebanon and Yemen came to Shelota to get acquainted with the Vologda outback and tell about the culture of their countries. Ceramists from St. Petersburg, the Arkhangelsk Oblast and Verkhovazhye, as well as wood master Oleg Arseniev and the folklore ensemble \"Radonitsa\" from the neighboring village of Lipki"}, {"text": "were invited to the festival. During the festival, the participants made a sculpture for fire burning \u201cShelotyanka\u201d, the image of which was inspired by traditional northern motives, held a raku firing and a master class on making products on a potter's wheel, and also listened to a lecture by Ikhlas Alfakih, an artist and lecturer of sculpture at Damascus University about modern technologies of modeling from polymer materials. One of the days of the festival was dedicated to Arab culture: the quests tried tabbouleh, kabsu and coffee from a copper coffee pot, wrote their names in Arabic script and learned to dance the Syrian national dance. Then it was the turn for local residents to tell the Arab guests about their native culture. The program of the \u201cRussian Day\u201d included valiant amusements, ditties, round dances and a lunch with dishes of traditional Russian cuisine. 2019 The third international ceramic festival was dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the Verkhovazhsky District and the 75th anniversary of Tatyana Vasilyevna Gorbatova, the keeper of the Somov craft. The festival was attended by ceramists from St. Petersburg, as well as guests from Moscow and Verkhovazhye. A special guest of the festival was Emily Slide,"}, {"text": "an international communications specialist from the United States, who lives most of her life in Germany and is fond of Russian culture. The participants of the festival got acquainted with the technology of lace production, traditional wooden architecture and the life of the Russian North, visiting museums in Vologda, Semenkovo and Verkhovazhye. During the six days of the festival, everyone saw how to set up a loom, learned how to weave from birch bark and sculpt Somov whistles from clay. The heart of the festival was the fire sculpture \u201cSinging Tree\u201d, which the participants created jointly based on the traditional Somov toy. They sculpted it from a special clay with the addition of chamotte: small particles of already burnt clay, which give the clay its reinforcing properties. On the final day of the festival, after three days of air drying and seven hours of drying with a gas burner, the ceramic sculpture was burned. This spectacle became even more impressive due to the fact that the sculpture exploded and \u201cthe birds flew from the singing tree\u201d. Perhaps because the 60-kilogram sculpture was not dry enough due to weather conditions. the festival participants and local residents celebrated the experience gained with"}, {"text": "champagne and homemade panna cotta with wild berries."}, {"text": "Shchekino () is a rural locality (a village) in Chushevitskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 57 as of 2002. Geography. Shchekino is located 41 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Payus is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Shchekotovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhnekuloyskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2002. There are 2 streets. Geography. Shchekotovskaya is located 43 km east of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gerasimovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yakuninskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Shelotskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 11 as of 2002. Geography. Yakuninskaya is located 58 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Fofanovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yalnichevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhne-Vazhskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 10 as of 2002. Geography. Yalnichevskaya is located 18 km east of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pogost Ilyinsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Hu Dujing (; 1913 \u2013 25 October 2019) was a Chinese plant physiologist, agronomist, and educator. He was a long-time professor at Hunan Agricultural University and co-founded the university's Department of Botany in 1951. Biography. Hu was born in 1913 in Changsha, Hunan, Republic of China, with his ancestral home in Xiangtan. After graduating from Wuhan University, he pursued graduate studies in plant hormone and mineral nutrient at the Institute of Agriculture at National Southwestern Associated University under academician . His research paper on plant growth hormone was published in the journal \"Science\" in April 1940. Hu taught at Guangdong Institute of Arts and Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Hubei Agricultural College (now part of Huazhong Agricultural University), Keqiang College (now part of Hunan University), and Hunan Agricultural College (now Hunan Agricultural University). In 1951, Hu Dujiang and Luo Zemin founded the Department of Botany (originally Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry) at Hunan Agricultural College. Under his leadership, the department established a number of key laboratories. It was recognized by the government of Hunan as a key department of the province and won a number of national and provincial awards. Hu was awarded the honour of \"National Excellent Teacher\" by"}, {"text": "the Chinese government and the HAU Faculty Star by Hunan Agricultural University in 1998. From 1988 to 1993, he served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Council of Hunan Province. Hu researched the cultivation of \"Eucommia ulmoides\" (duzhong) in Hunan to produce Eucommia ulmoides gum as a substitute for rubber. From 1978 to the 1980s, his group tested more than 70 plants and found 20 high-potassium plants for use as biological potassium fertilizer. On 25 October 2019, Hu died at the Hunan Agricultural University Hospital in Changsha, aged 106 (107 in East Asian age reckoning)."}, {"text": "Agafonovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. Agafonovskaya is located 63 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Popovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Alferyevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. Alferyevskaya is located 70 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Loshchinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Andreyevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 28 as of 2002. Geography. Andreyevskaya is located 76 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Voskresenskoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Anisimovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 38 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 69 km, to Beketovskaya is 15 km. Nikolskaya, Kalikinsky Bereznik, Ivankovo, Borisovo are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Ankudinovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2002. Geography. Ankudinovskaya is located 43 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Olyushinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Anufriyevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 15 as of 2002. Geography. Anufriyevskaya is located 61 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ruchyevskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Antsiferovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 59 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 34 km, to Gridino is 11 km. Ogarkovskaya, Stolbikha, Khmylitsa are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Donald Ray \"Red\" Cross (January 26, 1925 \u2013 November 29, 2003) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Southwest Missouri State University\u2014now known as Missouri State University\u2014in Springfield, Missouri from 1969 to 1975, compiling a record of 23\u201345\u20133."}, {"text": "Antsiferovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 39 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 37 km, to Baza is 24 km. Olekhovskaya, Dorkovskaya, Gora, Fedyayevskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Declan Stephen Lambert Lee Kit Meng (born 21 September 1998) is a Malaysian professional footballer who plays as a full-back for Malaysia Super League club Johor Darul Ta'zim and the Malaysia national team. Lambert was born in Kuala Lumpur, but then moved to Thailand and Australia at a young age. He played youth football with Richmond before starting his senior career with the side. In 2018, Lambert moved to the Netherlands, where he played for lower division sides Achilles '29 and FC Den Bosch. In February 2022, he returned to his birthplace and signed for Kuala Lumpur City. He has also represented Malaysia at international level, having made his debut for the national team in September 2022. Early life. Lambert was born in Kuala Lumpur to an English father and Malaysian mother. The family then moved to Thailand, where they stayed for six months before relocating again to Melbourne, Australia. He has a twin brother, Ryan, who is also a professional footballer. The two played together at Clifton Hill, Richmond, Achilles '29 and FC Den Bosch. Club career. After playing youth football for FC Clifton Hill and Richmond, Lambert made his senior debut for Richmond aged 17. In 2018, the"}, {"text": "Lambert twins moved to Europe, and trialed with sides including Sparta Rotterdam and FC Dordrecht. The pair eventually signed for Dutch Tweede Divisie side Achilles '29. However, they left the club after it suffered relegation at the end of the 2017\u201318 Tweede Divisie. The twins then moved to Dutch Eerste Divisie side FC Den Bosch in 2018. Their first-team opportunities were initially limited by the arrival of several other foreign players shortly after their signing. However, Lambert made his debut in the 2019\u201320 Eerste Divisie and by the 2020\u201321 Eerste Divisie season, was a regular starter for the side. On 22 February 2022, Lambert signed for Malaysia Super League side Kuala Lumpur City. International career. Lambert was called up to the Malaysia national team for the first time in September 2022. He made his debut on 22 September in a friendly match against Thailand, scoring one of Malaysia's goals in a penalty shoot-out win. Honours. ASEAN All-Stars Individual Kuala Lumpur City"}, {"text": "State Route 275 (SR 275) is a east\u2013west state highway in eastern Lincoln County, Tennessee, connecting Park City with Flintville via Lincoln and Vanntown. Despite its east\u2013west designation, it runs almost entirely north\u2013south between Vanntown and US 64. Route description. SR 275 begins in Park City at an intersection with US 231/US 431 (SR 10). It heads east as Lincoln Road through farmland and rural areas to pass through the community of Lincoln. The highway then becomes Vanntown Road as it crosses a bridge over the Flint River and continue east through rural areas to the Vanntown community, where it turns north along N Vanntown School Road. SR 275 leaves Vanntown and turns northeast along Oliver Smith Road to cross over the Flint River again to pass through the community of Flintville. It turns north again along Flintville Road to pass through rural areas before coming to an end at an intersection with US 64 (SR 15). The entire route of SR 275 is a two-lane highway."}, {"text": "Baza () is a rural locality (a village) and the administrative center of Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 576 as of 2002. There are 10 streets. Geography. Baza is located 20 km north of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pokrovskoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Baranikha () is a rural locality (a village) in Tigisnkoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 11 as of 2002. Geography. Baranikha is located 52 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gora is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Charles Crawforth Farmstead is a historic house on a farm in Spring City, Utah. It was built with limestone in 1884 by Charles Crawforth, an immigrant from England who converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1854 and settled in Provo, Utah in 1855. Crawforth moved to Spring City in 1873 with his family (including ten children), and he built this house, with aspects of Greek Revival architectural style, in 1884. From his death in 1910 to 1918, it belonged to his son Charles L. Crawforth. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since February 19, 1980. It is located southwest of Spring City, off Pigeon Hollow Rd. The farmstead includes a two-story hall and parlor plan stone house with a rear \"T\"-wing, a granary/root cellar, a stone carriage house, and a log barn. The farm is oriented to the north, with a view up the valley to Mt. Nebo, and was relatively isolated, perhaps showing that Mormon households did not always follow the same pattern of concentrating homes in villages. The house may be the one exactly located at , on the south side of Crawford Rd., about west of"}, {"text": "its intersection with Pigeon Hollow Rd."}, {"text": "Baranovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 46 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 43 km, to Beketovskaya is 9 km. Nazarovskaya, Surkovskaya, Navolok are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Barkanovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 10 as of 2002. Geography. Barkanovskaya is located 72 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Semyonovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Beketovo () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Kadnikovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 171 as of 2002. There are five streets. Geography. Beketovo is located 36 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Neklyudikha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Florida's 4th House district elects one member of the Florida House of Representatives. The district is represented by Patt Maney. This district is located in the Florida Panhandle, and encompasses part of the Emerald Coast, as well as part of the Crestview metropolitan area. The district covers southern Okaloosa County. The largest city in the district is Crestview. As of the 2010 census, the district's population is 158,781. This district contains Northwest Florida State College, located in Niceville. The district also contains Destin\u2013Fort Walton Beach Airport, as well as Eglin Air Force Base. There was a vacancy between February 21, 2010, and April 13, 2010, as the incumbent, Ray Sansom, resigned due to a corruption scandal. Lawyer Matt Gaetz won a special election to fill the seat. Ray Sansom served as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives from 2008 to 2009."}, {"text": "Beketovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) and the administrative center of Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 393 as of 2002. Geography. Beketovskaya is located 54 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Boyarskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Belavinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 107 as of 2002. Geography. Belavinskaya is located 28 km northeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nefedovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Blinovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 12 as of 2002. Geography. Blinovskaya is located 54 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Danilovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bolshaya Klimovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 458 as of 2002. Geography. Bolshaya Klimovskaya is located 1 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vozhega is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bolshaya Nazarovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 in 2002. Geography. Bolshaya Nazarovskaya is located 17 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Okulovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bolshoye Ramenye () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2002. Geography. Bolshoye Ramenye is located 71 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Munskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bor () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 16 as of 2002. Geography. Bor is located 54 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Beketovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Borisovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 46 as of 2002. Geography. Borisovo is located 70 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ivankovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Boyarskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 45 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 52 km, to Beketovskaya is 0.5 km. Beketovskaya, Gashkovo, Bor are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Bukhara () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 16 as of 2002. Geography. Bukhara is located 31 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ogarkovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bucherovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 23 as of 2002. Geography. Bucherovskaya is located 31 km northeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Semenovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bykovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 12 as of 2002. Geography. Bykovo is located 58 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pilyevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bykovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mityukovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 69 km, to Sosnovitsa is 1 km. Sigovskaya, Grishinskaya, Sosnovitsa are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Bykovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 20 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 24 km, to Baza is 10 km. Fominskaya, Savinskaya, Pestinskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Kafil Uddin Sonar (1943/1944 \u2013 25 October 2019) was a Bangladeshi politician belonging to the Jatiya Party. He was elected as an MP of the Jatiya Sangsad from Naogaon-4 in 1988. He died on 25 October 2019 at the age of 75."}, {"text": "Gemini Mountains is a rural locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Gemini Mountains had a population of 65 people. Geography. The Goonyella railway line forms most of the western boundary of the locality, with Mount McLaren railway station serving Graincorp's grain handling facility (). One of the four segments of the Peak Range National Park is in the south of the locality. The locality contains the following mountains: The land use is predominantly crop growing with some grazing on native vegetation. History. The locality takes its name from the mountain range Gemini Mountains (), which consists of two volcanic peaks, Mount Castor and Mount Pollux. Castor and Pollux were the Gemini twins in Greek and Roman mythology. Demographics. In the , Gemini Mountains had a population of 51 people. In the , Gemini Mountains had a population of 65 people. Education. There are no schools in Gemini Mountains. The nearest government primary schools are: The nearest government secondary schools are:"}, {"text": "The Los Angeles Guerrillas M8 (commonly referred to as Los Angeles Guerrillas or LAG) are an American professional Call of Duty League (CDL) esports team based in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Guerrillas M8 is owned by French esports organization Gentle Mates. The Guerrillas were formerly owned by Kroenke Sports & Entertainment from its founding in 2019 to 2024. History. On August 20, 2019, Activision Blizzard announced that Kroenke Sports & Entertainment had purchased one of the two new franchise slots for the \"Call of Duty\" League. According to ESPN, the publisher was looking to sell slots for approximately $25 million per team. On October 18, 2019, branding was revealed as the Los Angeles Guerrillas. The Guerrillas won their first major in franchise history during Major Two of the 2022 Call of Duty League. In December 2024, the franchise slot was sold to the French organization Gentle Mates and the team name was tweaked to the \"Los Angeles Guerrillas M8\"."}, {"text": "The Cox-Shoemaker-Parry House is a historic two-story house in Manti, Utah. It was built in 1858 by Orville Sutherland Cox, who converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Illinois, where he was baptized by Joseph Smith in 1839. Cox later served as the bishop of Bountiful, Utah, and he settled in Sanpete County in 1849. He became a counselor to Bishop John Lowery, Sr., in Manti, and he lived in this house with his three wives: Elvira Mills, Mary Allen, and Eliza J. Losee. The house, designed by Cox, is constructed of coursed ashlar cream-colored limestone. It has a plain entablature, and, on the west front of the house it has pedimented returns, which are suggestive of Greek Revival Style. The house was later purchased by Jezreel Shoemaker, a convert to the LDS Church who served as the mayor of Manti. It was later acquired by Edward L. Parry, a stonemason and immigrant from Wales who converted to the LDS Church and helped build the Salt Lake Temple, the St. George Tabernacle, and the Manti Utah Temple. Parry remodeled and expanded the house around 1880. The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic"}, {"text": "Places since August 4, 1982. The house displayed a Maple Leaf flag along with a U.S. one, in September 2012."}, {"text": "Fausto is a Canadian docufiction film, directed by Andrea Bussmann and released in 2018. Set in Oaxaca, Mexico, the film blurs the lines between reality and fantasy by exploring the community's mythologies and folklore. The film was shot on video, and then transferred to 16mm film. The film premiered at the 2018 Locarno Film Festival, where it received an honourable mention from the Filmmakers of the Present competition jury. It had its Canadian premiere in the Wavelengths program at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Critical response. Peter Goldberg of \"Slant\" gave the film a three-star rating, writing that \"\"Fausto\" abounds with piecemeal stories from locals and fantastic characters that evoke the writings of Borges and Bruno Schulz. These fragments of narration resist the devilish drive to see everything, to encompass everything with understanding. The partial and the limited are championed over the continuous and completed\u2014a short circuit in the desire to continue the story to infinity. For \"Now\", Kevin Ritchie rated the film three N's, writing that \"Bussmann\u2019s camera frequently lingers on swaths of black night and shadow as if more interested in negative space than conventional action. The storytellers aren\u2019t always as captivating as the filmmaker\u2019s eye, but"}, {"text": "this version of Faust is also at the nexus of a lot self-relfection and questioning happening more broadly in cinema right now.\" Awards. The film won the Directors Guild of Canada's DGC Discovery Award in 2018. It was shortlisted for the Vancouver Film Critics Circle's award for Best Canadian Film, and Bussmann was shortlisted for Best Director of a Canadian Film, at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2018."}, {"text": "Hail Creek is a rural locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Hail Creek had a population of 179 people. Geography. The Hail Creek coal mine is within the locality (). It is operated by Glencore Australia. The Suttor Developmental Road (State Route 11) runs through from the south-east (Nebo) to the south-west (Kemmis). The Hail Creek branch of the Goonyella railway line enters the locality from the south-west (Kemmis) and terminates at the Hail Creek railway station on a balloon loop at the Hail Creek coal mine (). The Hail Creek Mine also has a heliport to the north-west of the railway station (). Hail Creek Mine is an heliport (). The locality contains the following mountains (from north to south): The Homevale National Park is in the north-east of the locality extending into neighbouring Mount Britton (). The national park features cliffs and peaks in a vast dry landscape. There are a number of important fossil sites. Apart from the national park and the coal mine, the land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation with a small amount of crop growing in the east of the locality around Oaky Creek. History. Hard granite formations"}, {"text": "were created by a series of volcanic eruptions 30 million years ago which covered older basalt rocks with lava. As the basalt erodes more easily, the remaining formations are visually dramatic. Fossils found in the area have been dated back to the Permian period between 280-225 million years ago. Homevale National Park was previously the Homevale pastoral station where cattle were grazed. Te national park was gazetted in 1995 under the Nature Conservation Act 1992 by regulation, Nature Conservation (Protected Areas) Amendment (No.5) 1995. Its area was extended in 1996, 2009, and 2024. As at 2024, the homestead of the Homevale pastoral station remains within the national park on Homevale Homestead Road () and conservation plans are to be developed for it. Demographics. In the , Hail Creek had a population of 148 people. In the , Hail Creek had a population of 179 people. Economy. Apart from the mine, the locality has a number of homesteads (from north to south): Education. There are no schools in Hail Creek. The nearest government primary schools are Nebo State School in neighbouring Nebo to the south-east, Glenden State School in neighbouring Glenden to the west, and Eungella State School in Eungella to"}, {"text": "the north. The nearest government secondary school is Glenden State School (to Year 12), but some parts of Hail Creek would be too distant from this school and other options would be distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "\"Don't Say You Love Me\" is a song written and performed by American rock musician and singer Billy Squier. Released as the lead single from his sixth album \"Hear & Now\", the song reached No. 4 on the \"Billboard\" Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, being his first top 5 radio hit there since 1984's \"Rock Me Tonite\". Aside of being a considerable hit on rock radio, its music video succeeded in bringing Squier back to MTV rotation as well as helping \"Hear & Now\" reach gold status. Despite being recorded during the sessions for its parent album, the B-side \"Too Much\" wasn't included on it. The song is somewhat a rarity; back in the day being only available on the original US cassette single and Australian 7\" vinyl. Later on, the song has been re-released on Squier's website as a download-only track. When buying the whole \"Hear & Now\" album, the song is automatically included as a bonus track."}, {"text": "The Tuttle-Folsom House is a historic house in Manti, Utah. It was built in 1850, and later acquired by Luther T. Tuttle, the mayor of Manti who was also \" a leading merchant, banker, livestock raiser and served four terms as a territorial legislator.\" From 1880 to 1890, it belonged to architect William Harrison Folsom, who designed the Manti Utah Temple among many other buildings, followed by John C. Witbeck and John E. Metcalf. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 21, 1977. It has an early stone saltbox-type addition, with same cornice detail as in the original portion of the house. There is only a minor break in the roofline, but an obvious break in the stonework of the abutting walls, with just a few interlocking stones. It is located at 195 W. 300 North, at the southeast corner of N. 200 West. A large addition was added on the north side of the house in 2012."}, {"text": "Andrea Bussmann (born 1980) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, most noted for her 2018 film \"Fausto\". The film was longlisted for the Directors Guild of Canada's Discovery Award in 2018, and was shortlisted for the Vancouver Film Critics Circle's award for Best Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2018. Bussmann was also shortlisted for Best Director of a Canadian Film. She is married to film director Nicol\u00e1s Pereda, with whom she codirected the 2016 film \"Tales of Two Who Dreamt\"."}, {"text": "Hail Creek may refer to:"}, {"text": "George Elmer \"Georgie\" Denbrough is a fictional character created by Stephen King from his 1986 epic horror novel \"It\". Georgie is the younger brother of Bill Denbrough, and falls prey to Pennywise the Clown. He is used by Pennywise to taunt Bill throughout the novel. Georgie is portrayed by Tony Dakota in the 1990 TV miniseries adaptation and by Jackson Robert Scott in the theatrical film series. Dakota also reprised his role for a 2019 short fan film based on the 1990 TV miniseries adaptation of the novel, titled \"Georgie\", which shows a \"What If\" scenario if Georgie had survived his encounter with Pennywise. He returns in the 1998 TV series, where he is portrayed by Prashant Rane. Fictional character biography. George Elmer Denbrough was born on September 18, 1951 (1954 in the 1990 TV miniseries and 1981/1982 in the 2017 theatrical film adaptation) to Zack and Sharon Denbrough and is the younger brother of Bill Denbrough. Georgie has a very positive relationship with his older brother, considering him to be his best friend. Encounter with Pennywise. On one October night in 1957 (1959/1960 in the 1990 TV miniseries and 1988 in the theatrical film series), Georgie makes a paper"}, {"text": "boat with his older brother on a rainy day. Bill is too sick to accompany Georgie outside, so he helps him make the boat and sends him on his way. The boat ends up falling down a storm drain, much to Georgie's dismay. Georgie then encounters an evil clown monster (called \"Pennywise\") in the storm drain (who offers him a red balloon) and tells him about how people float down in the sewers. Pennywise offers Georgie his boat back, but when Georgie attempts to reach out to it, Pennywise grabs Georgie's right arm and bites it off, leaving Georgie to bleed to death in the rain. In the theatrical film series, Georgie is instead dragged down the sewers by Pennywise, after his right arm is dismembered by the latter, calling Bill's name as no one hears. Being used by Pennywise. Not long after his death, Georgie's appearance would be utilized by Pennywise to taunt and provoke Bill. While this aspect of the novel is not represented in the 1990 TV miniseries, Georgie appears to Bill several times throughout the theatrical film series. Adaptations. 1990 TV miniseries. Georgie Denbrough was portrayed by Tony Dakota in the 1990 TV miniseries adaptation. This"}, {"text": "iteration remains faithful to the source material, however, Georgie is killed by Pennywise off-screen. Theatrical film series. Georgie Denbrough was portrayed by Jackson Robert Scott in the 2017 film adaptation of the King novel as well as its 2019 sequel. This adaptation of the character features the onscreen demise of Georgie as well as showing more of Pennywise using Georgie to affect Bill psychologically. Behind the scenes of the 2017 film, the young actor stated that he was not afraid of Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd as Pennywise and formed a bond with the actor. Scott's performance as Georgie was acclaimed by fans and critics. Death and controversy. The violent nature of Georgie's death (in the 2017 film adaptation of \"It\") received a polarizing response from some critics. While most people felt that the graphic nature of Georgie's death was necessary to show the danger of Pennywise, some viewers felt that Pennywise ripping a child's arm off and watching him attempt to crawl away was \"downright disturbing\" and \"too graphic\". 2019 short fan film. Georgie Denbrough is the main character of \"Georgie\", a 2019 short fan film based on the 1990 TV miniseries adaptation of the novel, with Tony Dakota reprising his role"}, {"text": "as the title character. This short fan film shows an undead adult Georgie (being resurrected through drawing). This is the only adaptation to show Georgie as an adult. Analysis. Throughout the novel and theatrical film series, Pennywise uses the \"ghost of Georgie\" to play on Bill's survivor's guilt. This is further explored in \"It Chapter Two\" (where Bill blames himself for Georgie's death), exemplified in a scene in which the adult Bill returns to the storm drain where Georgie was murdered. The scene progresses into a flashback where Pennywise's disembodied voice taunts Bill for not being present with Georgie when he died. The adult Bill struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder (due to Georgie's death) and attempts to prevent Pennywise from killing another young boy (to no avail). Georgie has also been seen as an interpretation of the way children are lured by predators, notably seen in Georgie's encounter with Pennywise at the storm drain. In popular culture. The character has also been referenced many times in different forms of media. He is mentioned numerous times by American heavy metal and metallic hardcore band Ice Nine Kills in their 2019 song \"It Is The End\" (which is based upon and inspired"}, {"text": "by the 2017 film adaptation of the novel). The song is from the band's fifth studio album \"The Silver Scream\" (in which all the songs are inspired by horror films). The scene where Georgie meets Pennywise (in the 1990 TV miniseries adaptation of the novel) has become an internet meme depicting Pennywise attempting to coerce Georgie to come down to the sewers with different things. Georgie was also referenced in King's novel \"11/22/63\"."}, {"text": "Kemmis is a rural locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Kemmis had \"no people or a very low population\". Geography. The land is lower and flatter to the south and east, above sea level. However, the terrain becomes more mountainous in the west and north of the locality, with the following peaks (from north to south): The Suttor Developmental Road enters the locality from the north-east (Hail Creek) and exits to the west (Elphinstone). The Goonyella railway line enters the locality from the south-west (Strathfield) and exits to the north-west (Hail Creek). South Walker Creek Mine is a large coal mine in the south of the locality extending into neighbouring Strathfield. There are many other former mine sites in Kemmis. Apart from mining, the land use is grazing on native vegetation. History. The locality was named after pastoralist, Arthur Kemmis, who participated in William Landsborough's 1861 expedition from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Melbourne in search of the Burke and Wills expedition. Kemmis was partner in the lease of Fort Cooper pastoral run. Demographics. In the , Kemmis had a population of 3 people. In the , Kemmis had \"no people or a very low population\"."}, {"text": "Education. There are no schools in Kemmis. The nearest government primary schools are Glenden State School in Glenden to the north-west, Nebo State School in Nebo to the east, and Coppabella State School in neighbouring Coppabella to the south. The nearest government secondary school is Glenden State School (to Year 12)."}, {"text": "Mario Fabiyo Londok (born 14 November 1997) is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Liga 2 club Persiraja Banda Aceh. Club career. Persipura Jayapura. He was signed for Persipura Jayapura to play in Liga 1 in the 2019 season. Mario made his league debut on 22 May 2019 in a match against Persela Lamongan at the Surajaya Stadium, Lamongan. Honours. PSBS Biak Individual"}, {"text": "The Percy Group is an offshore locality consisting of a number of islands (including the Percy Isles) in the Coral Sea within the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia. The islands are mostly uninhabitated as they are within national parks and conservation parks. In the , The Percy Group had a population of 4 people. Geography. The locality is offshore east of Carmila and extends approx into the Coral Sea. There are many small islands in the locality, most of which are in protected areas, including the following larger islands: History. The locality takes its name from the Percy Isles within the Northumberland Islands, which in turn was named in September 1802 by Matthew Flinders, commander of the sloop HMS Investigator, after the family name of the Dukes of Northumberland. Demographics. In the , The Percy Group had \"no people or a very low population\". In the , The Percy Group had a population of 4 people."}, {"text": "This list of botanical gardens in Kenya is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in Kenya."}, {"text": "Patricia Morton-Thomas, usually credited as Trisha Morton-Thomas, is an Australian writer, producer, director, and actor. Her first role in a feature film was in \"Radiance\" (1998), the first feature film by director Rachel Perkins. Morton-Thomas and Rachel Clements co-founded filmmaking company Brindle Films in Alice Springs in 2011. Early life. Morton-Thomas grew up in Alice Springs and the remote Northern Territory. She is an Aboriginal Australian of the Anmatyerr people. Career. Morton-Thomas started her career at the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) in 1983, where she worked as a volunteer radio announcer and later as a cadet journalist until 1990 when she moved to Darwin to work with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation there. In 1991 Morton-Thomas moved to Sydney with her good friend Rachel Perkins, who, she says, \"dragged me along with her\". In Sydney she worked with the newly-formed Bangarra Dance Theatre as a sound technician, collaborating with David Page on the soundtrack for Bangarra's first ballet, \"Praying Mantis Dreaming\". In 1993 she studied with Noel Tovey in the Uta Hagen acting technique at the Eora College for Performing Arts. After finishing at Eora College, Morton-Thomas appeared in \"Radiance\" in 1998, directed by Perkins. She played the main"}, {"text": "character, Mae. In 2004, she returned to Alice Springs and began working with CAAMA as a production manager, producer, and director for their film production slate. In 2007 Morton-Thomas joined the newly established National Indigenous Television as a commissioning editor, later being promoted to senior commissioning editor. She was a presenter on the ABC Television show \"Message Stick\". In 2011 Morton-Thomas formed Brindle Films with Rachel Clements. Based in Alice Springs, Brindle films has produced feature films, documentaries and television shows. In 2020 it was confirmed that ABC and Brindle Films would partner to produce \"MaveriX\", a drama TV series aimed at children and young teenagers set in the world of junior motocross, which would be the largest ever local productions for the NT. It was shot in Alice Springs in 2021 and premiered on ABC Me on 1 April 2022, Morton-Thomas also appeared in the series. Morton-Thomas and Rachel Clements co-produced a feature documentary about Audrey Napanangka, made by filmmaker Penelope McDonald, her son Dylan River, and others. The film took around 10 years to make and was released in 2023. In 2023, Morton-Thomas appeared in the first season of \"Ten Pound Poms\". In May 2024 Morton-Thomas joined the"}, {"text": "production of feature film \"Kangaroo\" as cast and part of the crew. She was also announced as part of the cast for Foxtel/Binge drama \"High Country\". In 2024 Morton-Thomas appeared in the final season of \"Total Control\", reprising her role from the first season."}, {"text": "The Locus Award for Best Horror Novel is a literary award given annually by \"Locus Magazine\" as part of their Locus Awards. It has also been known as both the Locus Award for Best Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel and Locus Award for Best Dark Fantasy/Horror Novel. Winners. Full list of category winners at sfadb."}, {"text": "The Morten Rasmussen House is a historic two-story house in Mount Pleasant, Utah. It was built with red bricks in 1875 by Morten Rasmussen, an immigrant from Denmark who converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and arrived in Ephraim, Utah in 1851, before moving to Mount Pleasant with other Mormon settlers in 1859. Rasmussen lived in this house, designed in the Federal architectural style, with his wife, n\u00e9e Karen Marie Christiansen, also an immigrant from Denmark, and their twelve children. He was a missionary in his native Denmark from 1881 to 1883, and he died in 1885. The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since August 18, 1977."}, {"text": "The Hans A. Hansen House is a historic house in Ephraim, Utah. It was built in 1862 by Hans A. Hansen, an immigrant from Denmark who converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and arrived in Utah in 1853. Hansen had two wives: Annie, who had emigrated to the United States with him, and Mary Christiansen. He built a second house in the Scandinavian style, but this house was designed in a Vernacular English, or \"traditionally American\", style, which is interpreted by Tom Carter of the Utah State Historical Society as Hansen's willingness to integrate into American society. The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 22, 1980."}, {"text": "Patricia de Souza (1964 \u2013 24 October 2019) was a Peruvian writer. She was a Spanish translator of the poetry of Michel Leiris and the narrative of Jean Echenoz, she was the author of a dozen novels, including \"Cuando llegue la noche\". Biography. Patricia de Souza was born in Coracora, Ayacucho. His childhood was spent in Chaclacayo, on the outskirts of the city of Lima. Bachelor of Arts, she studied political science, journalism and philosophy. She completed her doctoral thesis in French Literature on Flora Tristan and Lautr\u00e9amont, extraterritoriality and translation at the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. She worked at Caretas magazine and taught French at the National University of San Marcos. Her first novel, \"Cuando llegue la noche\" (1994), aroused public interest for its maturity and for the issues it addressed: \"violence, uprooting, loneliness...\" However, the author stated that her work was an analysis of the speech that women make in the work. In her work, the writer shows the new models of women, within the perspective of equality, in which she seeks a break with the traditional roles of women. Collaborator in the collective work \"L\u00edneas a\u00e9reas\" (1999). Among her most representative works \"El \u00faltimo cuerpo"}, {"text": "de \u00darsula\" (2000) controversial work in Spain has been translated into English, French and German, and \"Electra en la ciudad\" (2006). Her second novel \"La mentira de un fauno\", was published in Spain and Peru. The French literary magazine of l'NRF (Gallimard), published a short text \"D\u00e9sert\". The last published works were \"Ellos dos\" (2007), \"Er\u00f3tika, escenas de la vida sexual\" (2008), \"Trist\u00e1n\" (2010) and the novel \"Verg\u00fcenza\" (2014). She wrote for the Spanish newspaper El Pa\u00eds and other media in Mexico. The news of her death was made known by her partner Olivier Guyonneau through social networks, the writer who lived in Paris, died at fifty-five due to a serious illness."}, {"text": "Aristarchus () is named with Peisander, Phrynichus, and Antiphon, as a principal leader of the \"Four Hundred\" during the Athenian coup of 411 BC, and is specified as one of the strongest anti-democratic partisans. On the first breaking out of the counter-revolution we find him leaving the council-room with Theramenes, and acting at Peiraeeus at the head of the young oligarchical cavalry; and on the downfall of his party, he took advantage of his office as \"strategos\", and rode off with a party of foreign archers to the border fort of Oenoe, then besieged by the Boeotians and Corinthians. In concert with them, and under cover of his command, he deluded the garrison, by a statement of terms concluded with Sparta, into surrender, and thus gained the place for the enemy. He afterwards, it appears, came into the hands of the Athenians, and was with Alexicles brought to trial and executed, not later than 406 BC."}, {"text": "Turrawulla is a rural locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Turrawulla had \"no people or a very low population\". Geography. One branch of Starvation Creek rises in the locality and flows to the north. Demographics. In the , Turrawulla had a population of 7 people. In the , Turrawulla had \"no people or a very low population\"."}, {"text": "Mihail Movil\u0103 (? \u2013 1608) was the prince of Moldavia for a short time in 1607. Life. He was the elder son of Simion I Movil\u0103 and became prince of Moldova after the death of his father in September 1607. by his cousin Constantin Movil\u0103, pushed by his mother, the ambitious Erzs\u00e9bet Csomortany de Losoncz, widow of Prince Ieremia Movil\u0103. He tried to regain his throne in November 1607 but was forced into exile the following month in the court of Radu \u0218erban in Wallachia, where he eventually died."}, {"text": "Wolfang is a rural locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Wolfang had a population of 84 people. Geography. Wolfang has the following mountains: History. The name Wolfang is derived from the Wolfang pastoral station, which was named for the local mountain (now known as Wolfang Peak) by pastoralist Claudius A. Ker in the 1850s, because of its resemblance to a canine tooth (\"wolf fang\"). Demographics. In the , Wolfang had a population of 89 people. In the , Wolfang had a population of 84 people. Education. There are no schools in Wolfang. The nearest government primary schools are Clermont State School in neighbouring Clermont to the south-west and Dysart State School in neighbouring Dysart to the east. The nearest government secondary schools are Clermont State High School in Clermont and Dysart State High School in Dysart. There is also a Catholic primary school in Clermont."}, {"text": "Kuklite ( ) is a 2,686 m-high peak in the Pirin mountain range, south-western Bulgaria. It is located in the northern part of Pirin on the Kamenitsa secondary ridge between the summits of Yalovarnika (2,763 m), Zabat (2,688 m) to the north-east and Golena (2,633 m) to the south. It is built up of granite. The western and north-western slopes of Kuklite are very steep and are open to the pebbly Begovitsa cirque; the foothills contain accumulations of moraines, densely covered in mountain pine (\"Pinus mugo\") at places. The eastern and south-eastern slopes facing the Bashmandra cirque are grassy and oblique. The Begovishko glacial lake is situated at the northern foothills of the summit. The most convenient starting point for ascending Kulklite is Begovitsa refuge via trails passing through Begovishko lake and the saddle between Kuklite and Zabat. Another trail starts from Pirin refuge and goes through Bashmandra cirque."}, {"text": "Bondoola is a rural locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the , Bondoola had a population of 551 people. Geography. The Rockhampton-Yeppoon Road (as Yeppoon Road) runs through from south-west to north-east. Bondoola railway station is an abandoned railway station on the now-dismantled North Rockhampton to Emu Park railway line (). History. Kington Provisional School opened on 21 February 1887 under teacher Mr Redstone with nine students. It closed on 31 March 1893. It reopened on 6 July 1896 and renamed Bondoola Provisional School in 1897. In 1910, it became Bondoola State School. As at 1921, it was north of Cobraball Road (approx ). It relocated to a new site in 1933. The school celebrated its golden jubilee (50th anniversary) in November 1937. As at 1942, it was located immediately south of the railway station at 54 Bondoola Road (). It closed in 1945. Demographics. In the , Bondoola had a population of 530 people. In the , Bondoola had a population of 551 people. Education. There are no schools in Bondoola. The nearest government primary schools are Yeppoon State School in Yeppoon to the north-east and Cawarral State School in neighbouring Cawarral to the south. The nearest"}, {"text": "government secondary school is Yeppoon State High School in Yeppoon."}, {"text": "Super Cyclonic Storm Kyarr () was an extremely powerful tropical cyclone that became the first super cyclonic storm in the North Indian Ocean since Gonu in 2007. It was also the second strongest tropical cyclone in the Arabian Sea and one of the most intense tropical cyclones in North Indian Ocean history. The seventh depression, fifth named cyclone, and the first, and only Super Cyclonic Storm of the annual season, Kyarr developed from a low-pressure system near the Equator. The system organized itself and intensified to a tropical storm on October 24 2019 as it moved eastwards. The storm underwent rapid intensification and reached Super Cyclonic Storm status on October 27, as it turned westward. On that same day, Kyarr peaked as a Super Cyclonic Storm, with maximum 3-minute sustained winds of 240 km/h (150 mph), maximum 1-minute sustained winds of 250 km/h (155 mph), and a minimum central pressure of , making the system a high-end Category 4-equivalent tropical cyclone. Afterward, Kyarr gradually began to weaken, while curving westward, and then turning to the southwest. On October 31, Kyarr weakened into a Deep Depression, before turning southward on November 2, passing just to the west of Socotra. Kyarr degenerated"}, {"text": "into a remnant low later that day, before dissipating on November 3, just off the coast of Somalia. Despite the immense strength of the storm, and many countries being affected by high tides and storm surges, there were no reported fatalities in Socotra, though there were 5 people reported dead in Karnataka, India, due to heavy rains. Meteorological history. A low-pressure area formed on October 17 in the Arabian Sea west of India near the Lakshadweep islands. Around that time, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) anticipated that the low would eventually develop into a tropical cyclone. The low remained in the same general region for a few days, becoming well-marked by October 22. The IMD classified the system as a Depression early on October 24, upgrading it to a Deep Depression later that day. On the same day, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) began issuing warnings on the system, classifying it as \"Tropical Cyclone 04A\". The Deep Depression initially moved to the northeast, towards the west coast of India. Early on October 25, the IMD upgraded the system to a Cyclonic Storm, naming it \"Kyarr\". Later that day, the storm turned northward and intensified further into a Severe Cyclonic"}, {"text": "Storm. Warm water temperatures of around , as well as low wind shear, fueled rapid intensification. Kyarr turned to the northwest, away from India, on October 26. On the same day, the IMD upgraded the storm to a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm, and later, to an Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm. Early on October 27, the IMD upgraded Kyarr further to a Super Cyclonic Storm, the first one in the Arabian Sea since Gonu in 2007; it was also the only recorded Super Cyclonic Storm in the Arabian Sea to occur after the monsoon season. The IMD estimated the peak maximum sustained winds of , with a minimum central pressure of estimated by the IMD. The JTWC estimated slightly higher winds of . At its peak, Kyarr had a well-defined eye, surrounded by well-defined rainbands and outflow. For about 12 hours, Kyarr maintained peak intensity, although it remained a super cyclonic storm for about 51 hours while moving toward the Arabian Peninsula. On October 30, the storm began weakening as the track shifted to the west, falling to the intensity of a Severe Cyclonic Storm. On the same day, Kyarr co-existed with Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Maha, marking the first time"}, {"text": "on record that there were two simultaneous Cyclonic Storms in the Arabian Sea. Kyarr turned to the southwest, paralleling the coastline of the Arabian Peninsula offshore. On October 31, Kyarr weakened to a Deep Depression, and Kyarr deteriorated further into a Depression on the next day. The storm's circulation passed just north of Socotra on November 2. Shortly afterward, the system weakened into a remnant low off the northern coast of Somalia, before dissipating on the next day. Preparations and impact. Due to the large circulation of the cyclone, the IMD recommended all fishermen avoid sailing in the Arabian Sea for five days. The Indian Coast Guard rescued at least 19 fishermen caught by the storm. The Indian Navy rescued 17 fishermen from a boat that sank amid high seas west of Mumbai. On October 24, Kyarr washed ashore the chemical tanker \"Nu-Shi Nalini\" near Dona Paula in Goa state, which was carrying naphtha, an explosive. The material was salvaged about a month after the storm, and was eventually shipped in early January 2020. Also offshore, the cyclone forced two AIDA cruise ships to reroute their paths. In advance of the tropical cyclone, the IMD issued rain and surf alerts"}, {"text": "for the Indian states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Goa. As Kyarr approached western India, the cyclone dropped heavy rainfall onshore, peaking at in Malvan, Maharashtra. In Goa, the rains caused flash flooding, while strong winds felled trees and power lines. In Mumbai, the storm's heavy rains contributed to a dengue outbreak, with a 70% increase in cases of the mosquito-borne disease in December 2019 compared to the same month in 2018. In Gujarat, more than 157,000 farmers filed insurance claims due to damage related to Kyarr, with most of the losses related to groundnut and cotton. The state government reimbursed farmers for their losses. 5 people killed from rain-related incidents in Karnataka, India. In southern Pakistan, officials closed beaches and opened four shelters due to high tides from the cyclone. Floods affected parts of Karachi, closing a section of Defence Raya Golf and Country Club, killing 200, and damaging 2000 houses. High tides from Kyarr flooded towns on the coast of Oman. In neighboring United Arab Emirates, high tides flooded streets, houses, and schools in eastern coastal areas of Sharjah and Fujairah. Heavy rainfall from the outskirts of Kyarr also caused flooding in Dubai. Kyarr started to slow down as"}, {"text": "it moved through the Arabian Sea, and it dissipated before reaching Socotra Island."}, {"text": "Constantin Movil\u0103 (1594 \u2013 July 1612) was the Prince of Moldavia from 1607 to 1611. The son of Prince Ieremia Movil\u0103 and driven by his mother, the ambitious Ersz\u00e9bet Csomortany de Losoncz, he twice seized the Moldovan throne at the expense of his cousin Mihai Movil\u0103, son of Simion I Movil\u0103 in 1607. In 1610 he welcomed Prince Radu X \u0218erban of Wallachia who was exiled. The following year he was dethroned by \u0218tefan Tom\u0219a, the second son of the ephemeral prince of Moldova, \u0218tefan VII Tom\u0219a. As a refugee in Poland, he attempted to regain the throne leading an army assembled by his Polish brothers-in-law. Defeated at the Battle of Cornul lui Sas, he had to pass the Dniester river again, but once on the left side of the bank, he was captured by the Tatars. He escaped but then drowned in the river in July 1612 at the age of about 17"}, {"text": "Hidden Valley is a mixed-use locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the , Hidden Valley had a population of 879 people. Geography. The Rockhampton-Yeppoon Road (as Yeppoon Road) runs along the northern boundary. The land use is a mixture of grazing on native vegetation, horticulture, housing and undeveloped land. Historical, the housing was rural residential in the north-east of the locality, but the increasing population reflects the recent development of suburban land parcels in the west of the locality. History. Jangga, also known as Yangga, is an Indigenous language of Central Queensland. Demographics. In the , Hidden Valley had a population of 421 people. In the , Hidden Valley had a population of 879 people. Education. There are no schools in Hidden Valley. The nearest government primary schools are Yeppoon State School in neighbouring Yeppoon to the north and Taranganba State School in Taranganba to the east. The nearest government secondary school is Yeppoon State High School in Yeppoon. Facilities. Capricorn Coast Hospital & Health Service is a public hospital at 8 Hoskyn Drive (). It includes dental services, an 24-hour emergency department, and an ambulance station. Amenities. There is a park on Naomi Drive Park ()."}, {"text": "Kumarasamy, known by his stage name, Kovai Senthil, was a Tamil film character artist who appeared in Tamil films starting with Bhagyaraj's \"Oru Kai Osai\". He appeared in over 400 Tamil films. Career. During his career, Kovai Senthil made several collaborations with Bhagyaraj including \"Aararo Aariraro\" and \"Avasara Police 100\". He has starred in several notable films including \"Idhu Namma Aalu\", \"Padayappa\", \"Avvai Shanmugi\" and \"Goa\". Selected filmography. \"This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.\" Death. He died in 2018 due to age related issues. Kovai Senthil was 74 years old during his death."}, {"text": "Taroomball is a rural locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the , Taroomball had a population of 1,136 people. Geography. \"Ross Creek\" rises in the south of the locality and flows to the north before exiting. Demographics. In the , Taroomball had a population of 845 people. In the , Taroomball had a population of 1,136 people. Education. There are no schools in Taroomball. The nearest government primary schools are Taranganba State School in neighbouring Taranganba to the north-east and Yeppoon State School in neighbouring Yeppoon to the north. The nearest government secondary school is Yeppoon State High School, also in Yeppoon. There are also non-government schools in Yeppoon and its suburbs. Amenities. There are a number of parks in the area, including:"}, {"text": "Robert Artur Winnicki (born 18 July 1985) is a Polish former politician who served as a member of the Sejm between 2015\u20132023. He was the head of the National Movement political party between 2015\u20132023. Before entering politics, Winnicki worked as a journalist. He served as a chairman of the far-right All-Polish Youth from 2009 to 2013. In 2012, he founded the National Movement and in 2015, he was first elected in the 2015 Polish parliamentary election running as the main candidate on the list of Kukiz'15 in the 1-Legnica constituency. He was re-elected to the Sejm in 2019, this time running as the main candidate on the list of Confederation Liberty and Independence in the 24-Bia\u0142ystok constituency. Biography. Winnicki attended but did not graduate from the University of Wroc\u0142aw where he studied political science. After his studies he worked in real estate and managed a hotel. He also worked as a journalist. His first political campaign was in 2007 when he unsuccessfully ran in the 2007 Polish parliamentary election as a candidate for the League of Polish Families (LPR). However, his political profile became well known and he was elected Chairman of the All-Polish Youth in 2009 and served until"}, {"text": "2013. His tenure as chairman was the second longest in the Third Polish Republic and through his leadership the organization grew despite the collapse of the LPR. After his tenure ended he was the given the title of honorary chairman. In 2011, he worked with other nationalist groups to form and officially organize the \"Independence March\", a manifestation that would take place annually on 11 November, the anniversary of Poland's independence. The march went from being a marginal event to the single biggest annual march in the country. It has created mass controversy abroad. In 2012 he co-founded the National Movement, which was founded to replace the LPR and the many other fringe nationalist parties which have come and gone through the years. In 2014 it was officially registered as a party and Winnicki became its first chairman. In 2018, Winnicki and Janusz Korwin-Mikke announced that their parties will be forming a coalition ahead of the elections coming up in 2019. The Confederation Freedom and Independence was formed and officially registered next year. He temporarily retired from party politics in May 2023 due to cardiac issues and appears as a political commentator since early 2025."}, {"text": "Tanby is a rural locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the , Tanby had a population of 577 people. Geography. The Rockhampton\u2013Emu Park Road enters from the south (Coorooman) and exits to the south-east (Emu Park). Demographics. In the , Tanby had a population of 539 people. In the , Tanby had a population of 577 people. Education. There are no schools in Tanby. The nearest government primary schools are: The nearest government secondary school is Yeppoon State High School in Yeppoon. There are also non-government schools in Yeppoon and its suburbs. Amenities. There is a Benedictine monastery for nuns at 40 Hannah Road (). It is home to the Sophia Library which can be visited and from which books can be borrowed."}, {"text": "Vasilyevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mityukovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 49 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 71 km, to Sosnovitsa is 3 km. Popovka, Timoshinskaya, Kostyuninskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Henry Norbury (born 1415) of Hoddesdon and Little Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire, was an English soldier and nobleman who served as a Member of Parliament for Bedfordshire in 1454 and later again in 1454. Biography. Henry was eldest son and heir of John Norbury of Hoddesdon and Little Berkhamsted, by his wife Elizabeth Butler, a daughter of Sir Thomas Butler, MP, and widow of Sir William Heron, \"jure uxoris\" Baron Saye. Career. Henry left Portsmouth in Dec 1435 with a force of 1,000 men for France, as part of the relief force that relieved Rouen in 1436. In 1450 he was in command of a detachment at the siege of Valognes, and led a garrison force from Vire, Normandy and was taken prisoner at the Battle of Formigny. He served as a Member of Parliament for Bedfordshire in 1454 and later again in 1454. Marriage and issue. He married Anne Croyser, widow of Ingelram Bruyn and daughter and heiress of William Croyser of Stoke d'Abernon in Surrey; By his wife he had issue including: Death and burial. He was buried at the Greyfriars, London."}, {"text": "Vasilyevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 45 km, to Baza is 24 km. Ust-Votcha, Tarasovskaya, Maleyevskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Vafunenskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2002. Geography. Vafunenskaya is located 12 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Malaya Nazarovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Greaves-Deakin House is a historic two-story house in Ephraim, Utah. It was built in 1875 by Peter Greaves, a native of Paterson, New Jersey who converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with his family in the late 1840s and moved to Sanpete County in 1856. He became a landowner and the president of Andrews and Co., a shipping company based in Nephi, and he also served as a member of the Territorial Legislature from 1891 to 1896. The house was designed in the Greek Revival and Gothic Revival architectural styles. It was inherited by one of his daughters and son-in-law, William Price Deakin. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 3, 1980."}, {"text": "Vershina () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2002. Geography. Vershina is located 69 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Miguyevskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Coorooman is a rural coastal locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the , Coorooman had a population of 97 people. Geography. The many branches of \"Cawarral Creek\" permeate the locality, forming much of the southern boundary, part of the eastern, and draining the interior. Most of the area around the creek network is marshland with most land use occurring in the north and west, a mixture of rural residential housing and grazing on native vegetation. Although a coastal locality, the only boundary with the Coral Sea is the mouth of Cawarral Creek, as the land on either side of the creek mouth is in the localities of Zilzie (north of the creek mouth) and Keppel Sands (south of the creek mouth). The Rockhampton\u2013Emu Park Road enters the locality from the south-west (Coowonga) and exits to the north (Tanby). History. The locality was named after its former railway station on the Emu Park branch line, which in turn took its name from the creek, which is believed to be an Aboriginal word \"coorawan\" meaning \"kangaroo\". Demographics. In the , Coorooman had a population of 87 people. In the , Coorooman had a population of 97 people. Education. There are"}, {"text": "no schools in Coorooman. The nearest government primary schools are Cawarral State School in neighbouring Cawarral to the west and Coowonga State School in neighbouring Coowonga to the south. The nearest government secondary school is Yeppoon State High School in Yeppoon to the north. Amenities. The mouth of the Coorooman Creek is good for fishing. Care must be taken around the creek as crocodiles have been spotted in the area. For boat access to the creek, there is a boat ramp and floating walkway on its north bank in Svendsen Road in Zilzie (). It is managed by the Livingstone Shire Council."}, {"text": "Voskresenskoye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2002. Geography. Voskresenskoye is located 75 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nikulskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Vysokaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mityukovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 51 as of 2002. Geography. Vysokaya is located 70 km southeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gridinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Galuninskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mityukovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 22 as of 2002. Geography. Galuninskaya is located 65 km southeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Galuninskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Anmatjere is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about south of the territory capital of Darwin. History. The locality was named after the former Anmatjere Community Government Council, whose seat was located in the town of Ti Tree. Its boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. Governance and demographics. Anmatjere is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Stuart and the local government areas of the Barkly Shire and the Central Desert Region. The 2016 Australian census reports that Anmatjere had 477 people living within its boundaries, of whom 47.3% were male, 52.7% were female and 87.9% identified as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. Sites and attractions. The following sites located within Anmatjere are listed on the Northern Territory Heritage Register: The homestead of Woodgreen Station, also known as Atartinga, is situated within Anmatjere. Mount Skinner, a mountain, is within Anmatjere. The Ediacaran-aged fossil known as \"Skinnera\" is named for its discovery at from three sites near Mount Skinner. Mount Skinner Station, a station of around in extent, is located approximately north of Alice Springs on the Sandover Highway. The property was established in 1952 by John \"Jock\" Nelson,"}, {"text": "a Labor MP who served in the Australian House of Representatives for 17 years. The Nelson and Barber families held the pastoral lease on the property until 2019, when a South Australian family acquired the station. At that time it had around 2,500 Poll Hereford cattle. , anthropologists' work is continuing on both Woodgreen and Mount Skinner pastoral leases as the basis for any future native title claims, under the auspices of the Central Land Council. Two sculptures, \"Anmatjere Man\" and \"Anmatjere Woman and Child\", are located at the Aileron roadhouse."}, {"text": "Alexandru Movil\u0103 (1601 \u2013 1620) was Prince of Moldavia from 1615 to 1616. Life. The second son of Ieremia Movil\u0103 and his wife Ersz\u00e9bet Csomortany de Losoncz, he is taken to the throne by his mother after the death of his elder brother Constantin Movil\u0103. Supported by Poland he succeeded to establish himself as prince of Moldova on November 22, 1615 in the place of \u0218tefan II Tom\u0219a. His troops were however defeated by the Turks and he was taken prisoner on August 2, 1616 with his younger brother Bogdan. They are sent to Constantinople where they convert to Islam and disappear from history. Their mother who took part in the campaign at the head of the army, is captured at the same time as them. Attributed as a concubine to an A\u011fa she is locked in a harem, where she dies around 1620."}, {"text": "Cobraball is a rural locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the , Cobraball had a population of 81 people. Geography. Cobraball has the following mountains (from north to south): The predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation. History. On 9 November 2019, a bushfire broke out on Old Byfield Road. It spread quickly and unpredictably, putting lives and property at risk with many people being evacuated over the following days. Up to were burned with homes and other structures destroyed, as the fire spread to other localities. Livestock and native animals were also killed. Demographics. In the , Cobraball had a population of 70 people. In the , Cobraball had a population of 81 people. Education. There are no schools in Cobraball. The nearest government primary schools are Yeppoon State School in Yeppoon to the east and Parkhurst State School in Parkhurst, Rockhampton, to the south-west. The nearest government secondary schools are Yeppoon State High School, also in Yeppoon, and Glenmore State High School in Kawana, Rockhampton."}, {"text": "Lake Mary is a rural locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the , Lake Mary had a population of 96 people. Geography. The locality is bounded to the south-west by Hedlow Creek and to the north and east by Limestone Creek. The locality is presumably named after the lake which is in the western part of the locality (). Lake Mary has the following mountains: The land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation with some crop growing. Demographics. In the , Lake Mary had a population of 96 people. In the , Lake Mary had a population of 96 people. Education. There are no schools in Lake Mary. The nearest government primary and secondary schools are Yeppoon State School and Yeppoon State High School in Yeppoon to the east."}, {"text": "Lu\u00eds Gonzaga Duque Estrada (21 June 1863 \u2013 29 September 1911), better known as Gonzaga Duque, was a Brazilian writer, historian and critic. Life and work. He was of Swedish descent on his father's side. After completing his primary education, he enrolled at the prestigious , then studied at the Col\u00e9gio Meneses Vieira. He completed his studies at the Col\u00e9gio Paix\u00e3o in Petr\u00f3polis. It would appear that he never attended a university. His best known work, the novel \"Mocidade Morta\" (1900, Dead Youth), deals with young artists during the Second Reign, a period from 1840 to 1889, when the Republic of Brazil was established, and their opposition to the prevailing conservativism. The initial reviews were not kind; calling it boring, morbid and full of pseudo-intellectual chatter. Later, it received some praise for its documentary value. Recent criticism calls it a significant contribution to understanding the artistic community of late 19th century Brazil and its relationship to the outdated approaches taught at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. As a critic, he produced the first systematic examination of Brazilian art in his book \"A Arte Brasileira\". This came during a period when the artists there were beginning to make a living"}, {"text": "entirely from the proceeds of their painting. In 1907, he was a co-founder of the cultural journal, \"\". Known to be an unsparing critic in the cause of modernism, his caustic comments about the works of Jo\u00e3o Zeferino da Costa, who worked in a conservative, classical style, discouraged Da Costa from ever exhibiting again. A familiar face among Rio's artistic milieu, his portrait was painted by Eliseu Visconti, Belmiro de Almeida, Rodolfo Amoedo and , among others. The Brazilian art scholar, Vera Lins, has done a thorough study of his work, which is available online."}, {"text": "The 2020 mid-year rugby union internationals (also known as the summer internationals in the Northern Hemisphere) were international rugby union matches that were planned to be played during the July international window. They were all postponed or cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Series. France and Wales are to tour Argentina and New Zealand respectively as they did in 2016. They will both play a two-test series as France did four years prior, but unlike Wales as they played New Zealand three times. Ireland are again to tour Australia like they did in 2018, but this time would also play two tests instead of their previous three. Other tours. Italy are to play Argentina while Scotland are to play New Zealand on 18 July."}, {"text": "The William Stuart Seeley House is a historic house in Mount Pleasant, Utah. It was built in 1861, probably by William Stuart Seeley, an immigrant from Canada who converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with his wife before moving to Nauvoo, Illinois. They relocated to Utah in 1847, and he was among Mormon settlers to move to a fort in Mount Pleasant in 1849. Seeley served as the bishop of Mount Pleasant for 29 years, and he was the first mayor of Mount Pleasant. He had ten children with his first wife, n\u00e9e Elizabeth DeHart, who died in 1872. The peace treaty of the Black Hawk War was reported signed in this house in 1872. Seeley later married Ellen Carter, with whom he had two children, and Ann Watkins, with whom he had two more children. Seeley died in 1895. The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 16, 1992."}, {"text": "Sergeant Al Powell is a fictional character from the 1988 action film \"Die Hard\" and the novel on which it was based, portrayed by Reginald VelJohnson. Powell is an off-duty police officer who gets called into work to investigate a potential hostage situation at Nakatomi Plaza. Powell then becomes a central character in the conflict, and a source of moral support for protagonist John McClane. VelJohnson would reprise his role in the sequel film \"Die Hard 2\" (1990) and the second season of the action comedy/spy-drama television series \"Chuck\" (2008). Fictional character biography. Investigation of Nakatomi Plaza. The audience is introduced to Powell while he is on his way home from work. Powell makes a stop at a nearby service station to grab Twinkies for his pregnant wife. While at the station, Powell is radioed in from his work to investigate an apparent emergency at Nakatomi Plaza. Powell investigates the lobby of the building and is led to believe that the alarm had been tripped due to a bug in the building's computer system. As Powell re-enters his car and begins to radio that there is no emergency at Nakatomi Plaza, John McClane throws the body of one of the"}, {"text": "terrorists he had killed onto the hood of Powell's car. After the body lands, the remaining terrorists open fire on the car, causing it to crash nearby. Powell calls in for assistance from his supervisor, Deputy Chief Dwayne T. Robinson. Powell eventually talks with McClane over the radio, knowing him only as \"Roy\". Powell informs McClane of the LAPD's strategies and provides him with encouragement and comfort during the siege. Powell eventually reveals to McClane that he was given a desk job after he accidentally shot a child holding a toy gun. Still traumatized, he refused to fire his weapon ever again. McClane eventually saves his wife, Holly, from the clutches of the German terrorist Hans Gruber, whom he kills. Outside the building, McClane and Powell finally meet face-to-face. The encounter is briefly interrupted by Gruber's henchmen Karl Vreski \u2013 who was believed dead \u2013 emerging from the building with a Steyr AUG. Vreski is shot dead by Powell once Vreski aims his weapon at McClane. Post-Nakatomi. At some point between the events of \"Die Hard\" and \"Die Hard 2\", McClane moved from New York to Los Angeles with Holly, and he and Powell became co-workers and close friends. During"}, {"text": "the events of the film, McClane goes to Washington D.C. to celebrate Christmas with his in-laws, and is waiting at Washington Dulles International Airport for Holly's flight from Los Angeles to arrive. While waiting, McClane sees a pair of armed criminals breaking into the baggage handling area. McClane is forced to kill one of the suspects in self-defense. Due to the unprofessionalism of the airport's police chief, Carmine Lorenzo, McClane is forced to grab an improvised set of fingerprints from the deceased suspect and fax them to Powell in Los Angeles for identification. Powell identifies the suspect as Sergeant Oswald Cochran, who was believed killed in action in a helicopter accident in Honduras two years prior. Powell faxes the dossier to McClane in Dulles and the two say their goodbyes. Production. The character of Powell in \"Die Hard\" was the breakout performance for actor Reginald VelJohnson, who had previously only had small roles in films such as \"Ghostbusters\" and \"Crocodile Dundee\". The role helped VelJohnson to gain the role of Carl Winslow on the television sitcom \"Family Matters\", where he would again portray a police officer. Despite only appearing in two scenes during \"Die Hard 2\", VelJohnson still received fourth"}, {"text": "billing, behind other returning actors Bonnie Bedelia and William Atherton from the first film. Before VelJohnson was cast, actor Wesley Snipes had auditioned for the part. Gene Hackman had also been considered for the part according to VelJohnson, but was unable to take the role. Potential return. It had been speculated that Powell would return in a potential sixth film in the franchise, tentatively called \"McClane\". It had been rumored that VelJohnson would reprise his role in the film, and would appear alongside Bruce Willis as McClane, and potentially Samuel L. Jackson reprising his role as Zeus Carver from \"Die Hard With a Vengeance\". However, the project has currently been cancelled outright due to Disney's acquisition of Fox, and is now planned to be rebooted as a potential streaming service show. Reception. VelJohnson's portrayal of Powell in the first \"Die Hard\" was met with acclaim from fans. Powell has gone on to become one of the most recognisable characters from the franchise, along with John McClane and Hans Gruber. The dynamic between VelJohnson and Bruce Willis in the film was another source for critical acclaim, with many critics citing Powell as the moral center of the film, and with many"}, {"text": "considering him to be something of McClane's sidekick. Powell's character arc and development throughout the first film was also seen by many as a highlight of the film, signifying living with a mistake and dealing with grief. Powell eventually overcoming his guilt to save McClane and Holly at the end of the film was seen as a perfect ending to the character's arc. Legacy. Due to the popularity of his role in \"Die Hard\", VelJohnson was cast as Carl Winslow on the television sitcom \"Family Matters\". VelJohnson would also appear in the television show \"Chuck\" reprising his role as Powell in the episode \"Chuck Versus Santa Claus\". VelJohnson would also appear as himself in the television show \"Brooklyn Nine-Nine\", which often references and pays tribute to \"Die Hard\", as it is main character Jake Peralta's favourite film. VelJohnson appears in the episode \"Bachelor/ette Party\" in the show's fifth season during Peralta's bachelor party. VelJohnson is intended to be a part of a scavenger hunt set up by Peralta's best friend, Charles Boyle. However, Peralta and the other attendees, Terry Jeffords and Captain Raymond Holt, ditch the scavenger hunt. Eventually Boyle finds out about the deception and leaves upset. This leads"}, {"text": "the group to VelJohnson's apartment, where Peralta attempts to apologise to him, where VelJohnson retorts at Peralta and states that he has made an enemy for life, and intends to tell Peralta's idol and VelJohnson's \"Die Hard\" co-star Bruce Willis that he sucks. Powell remains one of VelJohnson's favorite and most iconic roles, alongside Carl Winslow from \"Family Matters\". VelJohnson has commented that many fans give him Twinkies when they meet him. The character's lack of involvement in the main plot of \"Die Hard 2\" disappointed fans of the character, who had wished to have seen the character in more than two scenes. The character's absence from the franchise's later installments has garnered a degree of backlash from fans, who have wished to see the character return in some capacity. Movie critic Chris Stuckmann stated in his review of the film, \"I wish there was more Powell in it too, I want more Reginald VelJohnson. I understand that [McClane] is at an airport in a different place.\""}, {"text": "Hubert Kusz (21 September 1928 \u2013 4 August 2017) was a Polish footballer who played as a defender. He spent more than 10 years of his professional career playing for Lechia Gda\u0144sk. Biography. Born in Chorz\u00f3w Kusz starting playing football for his local team AKS Chorz\u00f3w. After a few seasons of playing with Polonia \u015awidnica Kusz joined Lechia Gda\u0144sk, a decision partly made due to knowing Lechia player Roman Rogocz from his time at AKS Chorz\u00f3w. He made his Lechia debut on 24 April 1949 against Warta Pozna\u0144. Kusz played in what was known as the golden period in Lechia's early history, playing in Lechia's Polish Cup final defeat in 1955 and playing 18 times in the 1956 season when Lechia finished in 3rd place, the team's greatest league achievement until it was equaled in 2019. After that historic season Lechia finished the next few seasons until Kusz's retirement in mid-table positions. In total Kusz made 182 appearances and scoring 2 goals for Lechia, retiring in 1960. In 2011, Kusz was awarded the Cross of Merit for achievements in football and its popularization. The same year he was honoured with a star on Lechia's \"Avenue of Stars\", a way the"}, {"text": "club has commemorated Lechia Gda\u0144sk legends. Kusz died in Bydgoszcz on 4 August 2017 aged 89, with his funeral taking place on 9 August."}, {"text": "Greenlake is a rural locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the , Greenlake had \"no people or a very low population\". Geography. Greenlake is north-west of Yeppoon and north of Rockhampton. The northern part of the locality is relatively flat at above sea level. It is used for plantation forestry. The rest of the locality varies in elevation from and is predominantly used for grazing on native vegetation. Mount Atherton is in the south-west of the locality () and at above sea level is the highest point in the locality. History. The locality presumably takes its name from Green Lake, a lake in the west of the locality (). Demographics. In the , Greenlake had \"no people or a very low population\". In the , Greenlake had \"no people or a very low population\". Education. There are no schools in Greenlake. The nearest government primary schools are Milman State School in Milman to the south-west, Yeppoon State School in Yeppoon to the south-east, and Farnborough State School in Farnborough to the east."}, {"text": "Ugbana Oyet (born September 1976) is a Nigerian-born British chartered engineer and the current Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons. Oyet is the first black Serjeant-at-Arms. Early life. Oyet was born in Nigeria in 1976 and moved to the United Kingdom with his family in 1991. Oyet was educated in Chichester, West Sussex. It was whilst at school in Chichester that he met Claire, his future wife. Oyet attended the University of Southampton, studying electrical engineering. Career. Oyet began working at Parliament in 2012 as Parliament's Principal Electrical Engineer and led efforts to make the parliamentary estate carbon neutral by 2050 before his appointment as Serjeant-at-Arms. Oyet was appointed as Serjeant-at-Arms in October 2019. Personal life. He is married to Claire. They have four children, three sons and a daughter."}, {"text": "Alexandru IV Ilia\u0219 (died 1666) was Prince of Wallachia from 1616 to 1618, then from 1628 to 1629, and Prince of Moldavia from 1620 to 1621 and 1631 to 1633. Life. Alexandru IV Ilia\u0219 was the son of Ilie, or Ilia\u0219, himself son of Alexandru IV L\u0103pu\u0219neanu, Prince of Moldavia. His father was elected Prince of Wallachia in March 1591 but he could not win against Radu. Alexandru IV was approved Prince of Wallachia by the Ottomans from September 1616 to November 1618 and from October 1629 to September 10, 1630. He was also Prince of Moldavia under the name Alexandru Ilie from September 10, 1620 (after the Battle of \u021au\u021bora) to October 1621 and from December 1631 to April 1633; he died the same year (or 1666). From an unknown wife he left two sons:"}, {"text": "Owen Ambrose Gallagher (1902\u20131977) was an American politician who served in both chambers of the Massachusetts General Court and held positions in city and state government. Early life. Gallagher was born on May 24, 1902, in Newton, Massachusetts. His father, Daniel J. Gallagher, was a political and legal figure who served as United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 1920 to 1921. Gallagher grew up in Dorchester and graduated from Boston College High School in 1919. He went on to attend Boston College, where he won the Fulton medal for oratory, was class president his senior year, and played third base for the Boston College Eagles baseball team. He graduated from B.C. in 1923 and the Boston University School of Law in 1926. Political career. Gallagher was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1927 to 1933 and represented the 8th Suffolk District in the Massachusetts Senate from 1933 to 1935. In 1934 he was appointed chairman of the board of street commissioners by Boston mayor Frederick Mansfield. He resigned from this position on March 30, 1937, in order to run for district attorney of Suffolk County. He finished second in the Democratic primary behind incumbent"}, {"text": "William J. Foley. In 1940, Gallagher ran for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. He narrowly won the Democratic primary \u2014 defeating his closest opponent, John C. Carr, by 78 votes. He lost the general election to Horace T. Cahill 50.6% to 47.6%. During World War II, Gallagher was a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy. From 1946 to 1949, Gallagher was a member of the state racing commission. In 1950 he was named the director of the Boston Housing Authority's slum clearance and urban renewal program. The following year he was appointed to the authority's board of directors by Mayor John Hynes. He remained on the board until 1961, when Mayor John F. Collins chose not to reappoint him. Personal life. On April 19, 1951, Gallagher married Emily L. Couture, a switchboard operator at the Suffolk County Courthouse. Gallagher died on April 7, 1977, at the Long Island Hospital. He was predeceased by his wife."}, {"text": "The John Patten House is a historic two-story house in Manti, Utah. It was built with limestone in 1854 by John Patten, a native of Fairplay, Indiana who converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 1830s with his family and relocated to Utah in 1850. Patten had two sons and three daughters with his first wife Candace Smith. After she died, he married her sister Emily, and they had three sons and two daughters. The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since August 22, 1977. The house is primitive vernacular in style, and, in 1977 was being restored by the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers to serve as a pioneer museum. It faces west, and a 1981 photo shows it with the Manti Temple in the background, to the northeast. Its NRHP nomination lists it at 95 W. 400 North St.; the house is found, however, at northeast corner of W. 300 North and N. 100 West, instead."}, {"text": "The 2020 end of year rugby union tests, also referred to as the 2020 Autumn internationals in the Northern Hemisphere, were a number of rugby union test matches contested during the months of October, November and December 2020, primarily involving countries from the Northern Hemisphere hosting those from the Southern Hemisphere. Also involved in matches were those from second-tier teams. These international games counted towards World Rugby's ranking system, with a team typically playing from two to four matches during this period. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic causing a delay or cancellation of many nations' scheduled matches, a different format was developed for this year. The Autumn Nations Cup, an eight-team tournament involving England, Fiji, France, Georgia, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales, replaced the cancelled matches. Also as a result of the pandemic, this year's fixtures incorporated postponed matches from the 2020 Six Nations Championship and 2020 Rugby Europe Championship, the 2020 South American Rugby Championship and all matches from the 2020 Tri Nations Series. Fixtures. Bledisloe Cup \u2013 Part 1. Notes: Bledisloe Cup \u2013 Part 2. Notes: 23\u201325 October. Notes: Notes: 30 October \u2013 1 November. Notes: 6\u20137 November. Notes: 20\u201321 November. Notes:"}, {"text": "Bolor-Erdene Khaltar (born August 15, 1975, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) is a Mongolian author and journalist. She studied at the National University of Mongolia during 1995 and graduated from the journalism department of the College of Literature in 2000. After graduation she started working at newspapers such as \"\"Public Law\", \"Today\", \"The Word\", \"News of the Century\"\" and the agency. She is a freelance journalist and writer. She received the top literary prize of Mongolia \"The Golden Feather\" in 2009, with her book entitled \"You and me\" (psychological stories) and was then awarded for her book \"Khishigt\" for children in 2011. In 2019, her novella for youth \"Khishigt\" was published in France with the revised title \"Khishigt Mongol\"."}, {"text": "Glendale is a rural locality in the Shire of Livingstone, Queensland, Australia. In the , Glendale had a population of 600 people. Geography. The locality is bounded to the north by Etna Creek (the watercourse), to the south-west by the Fitzroy River, and to the south and south-east by Belmont Creek. The land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation, apart from two areas of rural residential housing, one in the west of the locality near the Fitzroy River and the other in the south-east of the locality along Belmont Creek. History. Historically, the locality has been used for grazing, but, from the mid-1980s, there has been subdivision to create large lots for rural residential housing. Between 2008 and 2014, all of the Shire of Livingstone was part of the Rockhampton Region, until the Shire of Livingstone was reinstated following a vote of its residents. Demographics. In the , Glendale had a population of 614 people. In the , Glendale had a population of 600 people. Education. There are no schools in Glendale. The nearest government primary school is Parkhurst State School in Parkhurst, Rockhampton, to the south-east. The nearest government secondary school is Glenmore State High School in Kawana,"}, {"text": "Rockhampton, to the south-east. Amenities. Sondra Lena Park is in Glendale Road (). It was named after Constable Sondra Lena who was killed on 10 April 1992 when she was hit by a car at a roadblock during a search for a prison escapee."}, {"text": "Gashkovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 72 as of 2002. Geography. Gashkovo is located 54 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Beketovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Robert Johnson House is a historic two-story house in Manti, Utah. It was built with limestone in 1860 by Robert Johnson, an immigrant from England who converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and settled in Utah in 1853. He became a prosperous farmer in Manti. The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 14, 1980."}, {"text": "Glazunovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 5 as of 2002. Geography. Glazunovskaya is located 71 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Loshchinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Aristarchus () was a man of ancient Sparta who in 400 BC was sent out to succeed Cleander of Sparta as harmost of Byzantium. The Greeks who had accompanied Cyrus the Younger in his expedition against his brother Artaxerxes II of Persia, had recently returned, and the main body of them had encamped near Byzantium. Several of them, however, had sold their arms and taken up their residence in the city itself. Aristarchus, following the instructions he had received from Anaxibius, the Spartan admiral, whom he had met at Cyzicus, sold all these, amounting to about 400 men, as slaves. Having been bribed by Pharnabazus II, he prevented the troops from recrossing into Asia and ravaging that satrap's province, and in various ways annoyed and ill-treated them."}, {"text": "Gora () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 9 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 52 km, to Gridino is 26 km. Baranikha, Mushchininskaya, Lobanikha, Pozdeyevskaya, Zabereznik, Korotkovskaya, Zavrag, Koryakinskaya, Grishkovskaya, Shibayevskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Gora () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 37 km, to Baza is 23 km. Dorkovskaya, Antsiferovskaya, Fedyayevskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Gorka () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 49 km, to Beketovskaya is 3 km. Gashkovo, Bor, Tarasovskaya, Porokhino are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Gorka () is a rural locality (a village) in Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 28 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 61 km, to Mishutinskaya is 5 km. Lukyanovskaya, Klimovskaya, Pogorelka are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Inverness is a rural locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the , Inverness had a population of 460 people. Geography. The locality is loosely bounded to the north and north-east by the Coast Range rising to elevations of above sea level. The north-west of the locality is on the slopes of Mount Barmoya (in the neighbouring locality of Adelaide Park) rising to elevations of . The land use in the locality is predominantly rural residential housing with some grazing on native vegetation. Demographics. In the , Inverness had a population of 496 people. In the , Inverness had a population of 460 people. Education. There are no schools in Inverness. The nearest government primary and secondary schools are Yeppoon State School and Yeppoon State High School, both in neighbouring Yeppoon to the south-east. There are also non-government schools in Yeppoon and nearby localities. Amenities. Springdale Park is at 43 Springdale Avenue ()."}, {"text": "Miron Barnovschi Movil\u0103 (1590 \u2013 2 July 1633) was the prince of Moldavia from 1626 to 1629 and again in 1633. Life. Family background. Miron Barnovschi comes from a family of Moldovan boyars of Polish origin (Barnowski). His father Dimitrie had held high office in the Moldavian court where he was \"Mare Postelnic\" (\"Grand Chamberlain\") from 1599 to 1606. His grandfather Thomas Barnovschi had been one of the leaders of the conspiracy of the boyars who had ended to the reign of John the Despot in 1563. By his mother, the family of Moldovan boyars Movil\u0103, was also the grand-nephew of the princes Ieremia Movil\u0103 and Simion Movil\u0103. Reign. Barnovschi assumes high office with the princes of Moldavia: he is \"Sp\u0103tar\" (\"Constable\") from 1615 to 1618, \"P\u00e2rc\u0103lab\" (\"Ch\u00e2telain\") of Hotin from 1618 to 1622 and \"Hetman\" (\"Military Governor\" \") from Suceava from 1622 to 1626. At the end of his reign, his father-in-law Radu Mihnea, weakened by the disease, gives him an important role in the management of the country. It is for this reason that at the death of the prince on January 13, 1626, the boyars elect him as prince and that his appointment is confirmed by the"}, {"text": "\"Sublime Porte\". According to the genealogy \"Europaische Stammtafeln\", Miron Barnovschi married a daughter of Prince Radu Mihnea. In his book on the reign Miron Barnovschi, Aurel Golima\u015f presents another version of the facts: in 1614, Barnovschi married a commoner, Elena Vartic (died in 1622). Towards the end of Radu Mihnea's reign, Miron Barnovschi promised to marry Mihnea's daughter, Ecaterina. However, he did not respect his commitment, which Princess Ecaterina would never have forgiven him. In 1626 he would have contracted a union with a Polish princess. On the religious level, his reign in Moldova is characterized by his attention to the construction of religious monuments. He built the Barnovschi Monastery in his family fiefdom and also fortified the Dragomirna Monastery which had been built in 1609 under the auspices of Atanasie Crimca, Metropolitan of Moldova from 1608 to 1629. He was also responsible for the construction of the Church of St. John of Iasi. On the secular level, however, Miron Barnovschi Movil\u0103 left a bad memory in the Moldavian peasantry, because it is he who introduced serfdom by his decree of January 16, 1628, which fixes the peasants to the land of their lord in their forbidding to move freely."}, {"text": "The following year, he refused to accept the increase in tribute that the Grand Vizier wanted to impose on Moldova. In August 1629, he had to give up his throne to his young brother-in-law Alexander the \"little gentleman\", son of Radu Mihnea. He then retired to Poland, which does not fail to awaken the suspicion of the Ottomans. In April 1633, after Prince Alexandru Ilia\u015f was driven out by a rebellion of the boyars, the latter again appointed him as a prince. Miron then decides to go personally to Istanbul (Constantinople) to obtain the confirmation of his election. It takes nearly two months to reach the capital of the Ottoman Empire because he stops in Bucharest where he meets Prince Matei Basarab which reinforces the distrust of the Ottomans against him. When he finally arrives in Istanbul at the end of June, the intrigues led by his opponents, notably the future prince Vasile Lupu, did their job: the Ottoman government refuses to recognize him and condemns him to death. Death. Miron Barnovschi-Movil\u0103 is beheaded on July 2, 1633 for the Divan under the Sultan's eyes. His body is left in the yard until evening. The Grand Vizier then released the"}, {"text": "\"Postelnic\" Iancu Costin (father of the historian Miron Costin) who had been arrested with him, so that he had the remains removed and transported to the Orthodox Patriarchate. From there, Prince Vasile Lupu will later transfer his remains to Moldova. His cousin Musa Movil\u0103, who had married Radu Mihnea's daughter Ecatarina, is named to succeed him."}, {"text": "Stanley A. Quintana (December 23, 1944 \u2013 September 21, 2019) was an American football quarterback and defensive back. He played for the New Mexico Lobos from 1963 to 1965 and the Quantico Marines in 1969 and 1970. He was a member of the Minnesota Vikings taxi squad in 1966 and the traveling squad in 1967. He was selected as the Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year in 1964. Early years. Quintana grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and attended Santa Fe High School. He was a multi-sport athlete in high school, earning all-state honors in football, averaging more than 23 points per game in basketball, and batting almost .400 in baseball. University of New Mexico. Quintana attended the University of New Mexico on a football scholarship starting in the fall of 1962. After playing on the freshman team in 1962, he played at quarterback and defensive back for the New Mexico Lobos football team from 1963 to 1965. He led the team to consecutive Western Athletic Conference (WAC) championships in 1963 and 1964. As a junior, he led the 1964 New Mexico team to a 9\u20132 record and a No. 16 ranking in the UPI poll. During the"}, {"text": "1964 season, he ranked third in the WAC with 1,249 yards of total offense, fourth with 749 passing yards, and fifth with 455 rushing yards (including an 80-yard run against Colorado State). He also set a WAC record for interception return yards (including a 93-yard return against Wyoming), and his average of 7.3 yard of total offense per play in 1964 remains a New Mexico school record. The United Press International selected him as the 1964 WAC Player of the Year, citing his versatility and outstanding play on both offense and defense. After his senior season, he played in three all-star games: the East\u2013West Shrine Game in San Francisco, the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama, and the Chicago College All-Star Game. In three seasons at New Mexico, Quintana set 12 New Mexico and five WAC records. He completed 89 of 214 passes for 1,459 yards and four touchdowns with 12 interceptions. He also rushed for 1,207 yards and eight touchdowns on 247 carries. Later years. After graduating from the University of New Mexico, Quintana was selected by the Minnesota Vikings with the 162nd pick in the 1966 NFL draft but spent the 1966 season on the Vikings' taxi squad. He"}, {"text": "made the Vikings' traveling squad in 1967 but did not see action in any regular season games. In April 1969, Quintana joined the United States Marine Corps. He played at free safety and backup quarterback for the Quantico Marines football team in 1969 and 1970. Following the 1970 football season, he served as an assistant platoon commander in Vietnam with the 2nd Combined Action Group, 3d Marine Amphibious Brigade. He was discharged from the Marines in 1972. After leaving the Marine Corps, Quintana received a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at El Paso. He married Rosella Martinez of Santa Fe, and they had three children: Wendy, Allen, and Shari. Quintana later worked as a high school football coach in El Paso and San Antonio, Texas, and as the receivers coach for the New Mexico Lobos from 1981 to 1986. Quintana was the first Hispanic football coach at the University of New Mexico. In December 1986, New Mexico fired head coach Joe Lee Dunn, and all 10 assistant coaches were also told to look for other work. In 1987, he returned to coaching high school football in El Paso. In 2003, he was inducted into both the UNM Alumni"}, {"text": "Athletic Hall of Honor and the Albuquerque Sports Hall of Fame (later renamed the New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame). In 2018, \"The Santa Fe New Mexican\" selected the 10 best athletes in the city's history, picking Quintana at the No. 4 spot. Quintana died in September 2019 in Florida and was buried at the Santa Fe National Cemetery."}, {"text": "Gridinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mityukovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 22 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 72 km and 4 km to Sosnovitsa. Galuninskaya, Sigovskaya, Bykovskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Grishinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mityukovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 59 as of 2002. Geography. Grishinskaya is located southeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sosnovitsa is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Francis Marion Jolley House is a historic house at 202 East 200 South in Manti, Utah. It was built around 1875 for Francis Marion Jolley, an immigrant from England who converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and settled in Manti in 1853. Jolley lived here with his wife Chelnecha, and he worked as a farmer and carpenter. The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 14, 1980. Brick walls, three bricks thick, two of adobe and one of fired brick, continue all the way up to top of four dormer windows in second floor, centered above window-door-window-window arrangement on first floor. Main portion is in plan. Small adobe room extending out from rear probably predates the main portion. The house faces west on a southeast corner, and has address 201 S. 200 East."}, {"text": "Grishkovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2002. Geography. Grishkovskaya is located 51 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Koryakinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Gubinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2002. Geography. Gubinskaya is located 31 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Shistikha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Danilovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 56 as of 2002. Geography. Danilovskaya is located 53 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Blinovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Derevenka () is a rural locality (a village) and the administrative center of Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 226 as of 2002. Geography. Derevenka is located 47 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Chernovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Dorkovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2002. Geography. Dorkovskaya is located 32 km northeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Antsiferovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Saray Khumalo (born 1972) is a Zambian-born, South African explorer and mountaineer. In May 2019, she became the first black African woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Personal life. With a Rwandan bloodline but now resident in South Africa, Khumalo was born in Zambia. She works as an e-commerce business executive. She is a mother of two children. Mountain climbing. Prior to her 2019 success, she had attempted several times to climb Mount Everest. Her first attempt was in 2014, when she was halted after an avalanche that killed 16 guides on the slope. She tried again in 2015, but was halted by an earthquake in Nepal. Her final try, before her success, was in 2017, where she was forced to turn back because of the terrible weather. Saray has also completed the Seven Summits challenge, which involves climbing the highest peaks on each of the seven continents. It includes Mount Everest (Asia), Mount Kilimanjaro (Africa), Denali (North America), Aconcagua (South America), Vinson Massif (Antartica), Mount Elbrus (Europe), and Mount Kosciuszko (Australia) or Carstensz Pyramid (Australasia). Philanthropy. Khumalo is a Nelson Mandela Libraries ambassador who raises funds through her mountain climbing to support several projects including iSchoolAfrica, the"}, {"text": "Lunch Box Fund and the Mandela Library project in Thembisa, Johannesburg. In 2020, she set a Guinness World Record for the most money raised during an eight-hour stationary cycling fundraiser to build digital libraries for children whose education had been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic."}, {"text": "Aslan Baladze (born 5 June 1960) is a retired Georgian football international player and current manager. Baladze spent most of his player and coaching career at Dinamo Batumi. currently, he is serving in Batumi City Assembly. he was elected in 2021. he is a member of the Georgian Dream party."}, {"text": "Ch\u00e2teau de Courcillon is a castle in Dissay-sous-Courcillon, Pays de la Loire, France. History. A castle was built in the eleventh century. The castle was reconstructed and improved in the fourteenth century. An English force of 300 men captured the castle in 1350, after their defeat at the Battle of Pontvallain, while retreating."}, {"text": "Dorovikha () is a rural locality (a village) in Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 5 as of 2002. Geography. Dorovikha is located 67 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dubrovinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Drovdil () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 21 as of 2002. Geography. Drovdil is located 22 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gridino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Dubrovinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 37 as of 2002. Geography. Dubrovinskaya is located 67 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mishutinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Li Hongkuan (; born March 26, 1963) is a Chinese dissident. Biography. Li Hongkuan was born in Dezhou, Shandong. He graduated from Nanjing University and Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. After graduation, he became a teacher of Beijing Medical University (Today's Peking University Health Science Center). In 1989, Li participated in Tiananmen Square protests and later was persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party. From 1991 to 1994, Li studied for a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. In late 1997, Li began publishing online magazines under the name Big News (). Li founded Small News (), a news journal similar to Big News, in 1998. The aim of the two magazines is to break through the Great Firewall of China and send news about Chinese dissidents and Chinese Opposition Movement to the Chinese domestic e-mail address. Li has also been interviewed by the Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, and other media, and also volunteering as current affairs commentators in some well-known programs. In 1999, Li was awarded the \"Prominent News and Culture Award\" ()."}, {"text": "Antonie Ruset or Antonie Rosetti (c. 1615 \u2013 1685) ruled from November 10, 1675 to November 1678 in the Principality of Moldova. Life. He came from an ancient family of Greek origin. Ruset ordered on March 29, 1677, the relocation of the seat of the Moldovan Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Church from the former princely seat in Suceava in the current capital Ia\u015fi, since according to Byzantine custom both the administrative and the ecclesiastical center of the empire in the same city had to be."}, {"text": "The Frederick C. Jensen House is a historic house in Mount Pleasant, Utah. It was built in 1891 by Frederick C. Jensen, an immigrant from Denmark whose parents had converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After his father died, his mother relocated to Utah with her son in 1861. Jensen became a cabinet maker and furniture dealer in Mount Pleasant. His house was designed in the Victorian Eclectic style, with Eastlake, Second Empire, Classical Revival, and Carpenter Gothic features. Jensen bequeathed it to the Wasatch Academy. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 19, 1982. It is located at 215 S. 100 West in Mount Pleasant."}, {"text": "Kunwarara is a rural locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the , Kunwarara had a population of 69 people. Geography. The North Coast railway line forms part of the southern boundary of the locality with Canoona and then passes through the south-west of locality exiting to Marlborough. Merimal is a neighbourhood within the locality (). It takes its name from the now-abandoned Merimal railway station () on the North Coast railway line. Merimal Park (pastoral property) takes its name from the abandoned railway station and locality. Princhester is an abandoned town in the locality (). It takes its name from the former pastoral run established in 1857 by Dan Connor. Princhester railway siding () is to the north of the town on the North Coast railway line. Despite its name Kunwarara railway station () is now located within the boundaries of Canoona to the south. The Magog Range is in the north-west of the locality () extending into neighbouring Marlborough. It includes a number of peaks within the locality (from north to south): The Pointer Range () forms part of south-eastern boundary of Kunwarara separating it from Canal Creek. The range extends south into Canoona. History. The Princhester"}, {"text": "pastoral run was established in 1857 by Dan Connor. By 1860 a Native Police barracks was constructed at Princhester under Sub-Lieutenant Walter Powell. The first town lots in Princhester were sold in June 1862. There was a gold rush at Princhester in 1883. However, it did not produce very much gold. From time to time, further small finds were made prompting more \"rushes\", but it was not a great gold producing area particularly compared with the success of Mount Morgan. The section of the North Coast railway lines from Yaamba to Kunwarara was opened in August 1915. The next section of the North Coast railway line from Kunwarara to Marlborough was officially opened on Saturday 31 March 1917 by Herbert Hardacre, the Queensland Minister for Public Instruction. Although Kunwarara railway station remains officially an operational station, in 1994 the station building was relocated to the Australian Workers Heritage Centre in Barcaldine. Demographics. In the , Kunwarara had a population of 71 people. In the , Kunwarara had a population of 69 people. Economy. There are a number of homesteads in the locality: Education. There are no schools in Kunwarara. The nearest primary schools are Marlborough State School in neighbouring Marlborough"}, {"text": "to the west and Milman State School in Milman to the south-east. The nearest secondary school is Glenmore State High School in Kawana in Rockhampton to the south."}, {"text": "Meikleville Hill is a rural locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the , Meikleville Hill had a population of 450 people. Demographics. In the , Meikleville Hill had a population of 464 people. In the , Meikleville Hill had a population of 450 people. Education. There are no schools in Meikleville Hill. The nearest government primary and secondary schools are Yeppoon State School and Yeppoon State High School, both in neighbouring Yeppoon to the south. Amenities. Meikleville Park (also known as Meikleville Bushland Corridor) is at 37-41 Meikleville Street (). It has a children's playground."}, {"text": "Dumitra\u0219cu Cantacuzino (c. 1620 \u2013 1686) was Prince of Moldavia 1673, 1674 to 1675, and 1684 to 1685. Life. Dumitra\u0219cu Cantacuzino was the son of the Grand Treasurer () Michael Kantakouzenos (in Romanian Mihai Cantacuzino) and the great-grandson of Michael Kantakouzenos \u015eeytano\u011flu (in Romanian Mihai Cantacuzino \u0218aitanoglu), executed in 1578. In 1663 he betrayed his kinsman and benefactor Constantine Kantakouzenos in favor of Grigore I Ghica. He is then named three times to the throne of Moldavia by the Turks: Dumitra\u0219cu Cantacuzino fled to Constantinople where he lived until his death in 1686. He is, in Romanian and Moldavian history, the prototype of the \"phanariote profiteur\" who founded neither school nor hospice, only ruled 'for its exclusive benefit, acts unscrupulously and impoverishes the country. From his union with a princess Roxandra he left three children including:"}, {"text": "The Niels P. Hjort House is a historic house in Fairview, Utah. It was built with limestone in 1878 by Niels P. Hjort, an immigrant from Norway who converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and settled in Fairview in 1870. His house was designed in the Greek Revival style. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 3, 1980."}, {"text": "Mulara is a rural locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mulara had a population of 93 people. Geography. The Rockhampton-Yeppoon Road (as Yeppoon Road) runs through from south to north-east. Demographics. In the , Mulara had a population of 89 people. In the , Mulara had a population of 93 people. Education. There are no schools in Mulara. The nearest government primary schools are Yeppoon State School in Yeppoon to the north-east, Cawarral State School in neighbouring Cawarral to the south-east, and Parkhurst State School in Parkhurst, Rockhampton, to the south-west. The nearest government secondary schools are Yeppoon State High School in Yeppoon and Glenmore State High School in Kawana, Rockhampton. Surf lake. Yeppoon Surf Lake opened in Mulara in 2018. Located at 1662 Yeppoon Road, the large wave pool was originally established by Surf Lakes International as a research and development facility and not open to the general public. Surfer Mark Occhilupo was engaged as a surf industry advisor to the project. The site was upgraded in 2021 to include a learn-to-surf area. Livingstone Shire Council gave approval on 18 January 2022 to the first stage of a proposed $187million development at the site which"}, {"text": "will see it open commercially and become a tourist attraction. The first stage is expected to incorporate a skate park, a scuba hole, playground, tourist accommodation and a solar farm. Amenities. Hedlow Airfield is at 221B Old Byfield Road (). It has two sealed runways."}, {"text": "Larry A. Curtiss is an American chemist and researcher. He was born in Madison. WI. in 1947. He is a distinguished fellow and group leader of the Molecular Materials Group in the Materials Science Division at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. In addition, Curtiss is a senior investigator in the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), a DOE Energy Storage Hub, and was the deputy director of the Center for Electrochemical Energy Science, a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center. Curtiss is a specialist in developing quantum chemical methods for accurate energy calculations and applying these methods to energy- and material-related problems, including those related to catalysis, batteries, and carbon materials. His work has been cited over 67,000 times. Curtiss is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Early life and education. Curtiss received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1969. He then attended Carnegie-Mellon University, where he completed his master's in physical chemistry in 1971, and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1973. While a graduate student, he worked under the supervision of pioneering chemist Sir John Anthony Pople, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry"}, {"text": "for his work on computational methods in quantum chemistry. Curtiss's thesis focused on quantum chemical studies of hydrogen bonded complexes. After graduating in 1973, he became a research fellow at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio until 1976. Curtiss joined Argonne in 1976 as a research associate in Argonne's former Chemical Technology Division, where he rose through the ranks to become senior scientist in 1988. In 1998, Curtiss was appointed to his current position as senior scientist and group leader of the Molecular Materials Group within Argonne's Materials Science Division. From 2006 until 2009, he was also an acting group leader at the Center for Nanoscale Materials, and from 2004 until 2018, Curtiss was a senior fellow of the University of Chicago/Argonne Computation Institute. In 2000, Curtiss was named an Argonne Distinguished Fellow. Research. Developing and applying computational chemistry methods Curtiss helped develop the Gaussian-n series of quantum chemical methods for accurate energy calculations (G1, G2, G3, and G4 theories). These methods are for calculating the thermochemical properties of molecules and ions. Modeling lithium-ion batteries and beyond-lithium-ion batteries Curtiss is also involved in developing so-called \"beyond-lithium-ion\" batteries, such as lithium-sulfur and lithium\u2013air batteries. He helped create a Li-O2 battery that"}, {"text": "runs on lithium superoxide. Curtiss and researchers from Argonne and the University of Illinois also designed a lithium-air battery that works in a natural air environment for over 700 charge and discharge cycles, surpassing previous technology."}, {"text": "Sandringham is a rural locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the , Sandringham had a population of 49 people. Geography. The land use is grazing on native vegetation. Demographics. In the , Sandringham had a population of 45 people. In the , Sandringham had a population of 49 people. Education. There are no schools in Sandringham. The nearest government primary schools are The Caves State School in neighbouring The Caves to the north-east, Cawarral State School in Cawarral to the east, and Parkhurst State School in Parkhurst, Rockhampton, to the south. The nearest government secondary school is Glenmore State High School in Kawana, Rockhampton, to the south."}, {"text": "The Centre de stockage de la Manche (CSM)(Manche storage centre) is the oldest French radioactive waste storage centre. It is located in the commune of La Hague, bordering on the La Hague site. The CSM was created in 1969 and then received nuclear waste until it reached saturation in 1994. According to Agence nationale pour la gestion des d\u00e9chets radioactifs (ANDRA)'s inventory, the waste stored includes approximately 1,469,265 packages, corresponding to 527,225 m\u00b3, mainly from nuclear power generation (nuclear power plants and facilities corresponding to nuclear fuel cycle front end and back end). Hurd's Deep, used in the 1950s and 1960s for the dumping of low- and intermediate-level radioactive wastes, is located in the vicinity. History. In 1967, the Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) created Infratome, a private company which was a subsidiary of the . After considering the Biville dunes, owned by the army, the decision was made to build the CSM to the east of the La Hague reprocessing plant, in a wetland area called the \"Haut Marais\". Today, a wetland would never be chosen to house a storage centre. The local elected officials did not want the CSM to be managed by a private operator. As a consequence,"}, {"text": "the CEA controlled the storage facilities until 1991, when the Agence nationale pour la gestion des d\u00e9chets radioactifs (ANDRA: National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management), which had been an entity of the CEA since 1979, took over the centre as an independent public institution (created by the law of 30 December 1991). The first waste received in 1969 was hospital waste, in particular radium used for cancer treatment. Initially, storage consisted of burial in ordinary trenches, in the ground. Then the safer and easier storage on the surface was adopted: Concrete blocks are poured around the casks, then covered with a plastic film and earth. The result of storage on the surface is called a \"tumulus\". In 1976, an accident occurred that caused tritium pollution of the aquifer and water on the surface. For several years, plutonium, radium, thorium, and waste containing tritium from all of the French nuclear power plants had been stored in 6 vaults in a structure called TB2. The leaks would be due to an overflow at the surface of the deep drainage network on the grounds of heavy rainfalls and malfunctions of the lifting pump. In 1984, storage structures were restored (trenches in the ground"}, {"text": "and concrete-walled trenches) and packages were taken back and reconditioned, improving their containment. In 1991, the construction of the centre's roof began. It is intended to protect the packages from water infiltration. In 1994, the last package was received, then the storage was closed by the ANDRA in order to prepare the transition into the monitoring phase (planned for a period of around 300 years). The closure of the facility incorporates a waste encapsulation system (known as a cap) designed for watertightness, durability, and protection. The watertightness is achieved by a bituminous geomembrane. In 2003, a decree authorized the centre to enter the transition into the monitoring phase. Remarks. In 1996, two official reports showed that the site safety studies were positive. The government's evaluation commission also considers that the site cannot be restored to its initial state even after 300 years (in French \"site non banalisable\"), and that it is necessary to keep its memory. According to the Sortir du nucl\u00e9aire (France), the site's management would be poor: \"some defective canister sometimes directly in the ground should be reconditioned, but the project was stopped because of its cost and of the risk to workers; casks are protected from rain"}, {"text": "by a waterproof cover that is already beginning to crack; the embankments are sagging; rivers that flow from the site are subject to pollution\". In 2006, \"Sortir du nucl\u00e9aire\" also claims that it contains more than 100 kg of disseminated plutonium, 200 tonnes of uranium, chemicals and heavy metals. In 2013, a study carried out by , based in Caen, and financed by the Manche departmental council and the \"Autorit\u00e9 de s\u00fbret\u00e9 nucl\u00e9aire\" showed that data from ANDRA were underestimated. According to this association, actinides are found in the bed of"}, {"text": "Vincent E. R. Baker (died July 1990) was a South African professional golfer. He won the 1973 Benson & Hedges Festival of Golf on the European Tour. Professional career. Baker played some tournaments in Britain in 1970. He qualified for the Open Championship through final qualifying at Carnoustie but missed the cut in the Championship itself at St Andrews. From its formation in 1972 until 1979, Baker was a regular competitor in European Tour events. He won once, in the 1973 Benson & Hedges Festival of Golf. Trailing by 5 shots after three rounds, Baker scored a final round 64 to win by 2 strokes from Dale Hayes. He was twice a runner-up, in the 1973 Scandinavian Enterprise Open and in the 1978 Italian Open. In addition to his 1970 appearance, Baker played in five further Open Championships between 1973 and 1978, making the cut twice. His best finish was in 1973 when he was tied for 37th place. Baker won the ICL Transvaal Open in December 1974, beating Andries Oosthuizen in a sudden-death playoff. He was also runner-up in a number of important South African tournaments including the South African Open in early 1973, the South African PGA Championship"}, {"text": "in late 1973 and the South African Masters in 1975. Murder. In July 1990, Baker was stabbed to death in a carjacking by three teenagers near Durban. Professional wins (2). Southern Africa Tour wins (1). Southern Africa Tour playoff record (1\u20130) Results in major championships. \"Note: Baker only played in The Open Championship.\"<br> CUT = missed the half-way cut (3rd round cut in 1975 and 1978 Open Championships)"}, {"text": "The Larsen-Noyes House is a historic house in Ephraim, Utah. It was built in 1897 by Albert Johnson, an immigrant from Norway, for H. P. Larsen, an immigrant from Denmark. It was later purchased by Newton Eugene Noyes, the president of Sanpete Stake Academy, later known as Snow College, for 29 years. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 1, 1978."}, {"text": "Rockyview is a rural locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the , Rockyview had a population of 1,735 people. Demographics. In the , Rockyview had a population of 1,622 people. In the , Rockyview had a population of 1,735 people. Education. There are no schools in Rockyview. The nearest government primary schools are Parkhurst State School in neighbouring Parkhurst, Rockhampton, to the south and The Caves State School in The Caves to the north-west. The nearest government secondary school is Glenmore State High School in Kawana, Rockhampton, to the south. Amenities. There are a number of parks in the area:"}, {"text": "Ji Xiaocheng (; 2 November 1923 \u2013 23 October 2019) was a Chinese paediatrician who served as Director of Paediatrics at Peking Union Medical College Hospital. In the early 1980s, he introduced perinatal medicine to China from the United States, and co-founded China's first neonatal intensive care unit at PUMC Hospital. Biography. Ji Xiaocheng was born in November 1923 in Renqiu, Hebei, Republic of China. He studied at Beijing Medical College under professor Zhu Futang, and graduated in 1948. He went to the Soviet Union in 1955 to study at the Leningrad Institute of Paediatrics, where he earned an associate doctor degree three and half years later. Ji worked at the Institute of Paediatrics of Beijing Children's Hospital after returning to China. In 1961, he was transferred to the Department of Paediatrics at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, where he worked under doctors Zhou Huakang \u5468\u534e\u5eb7 and Lin Qiaozhi. He served as deputy director and then director of the department from 1982 to 1985. After the People's Republic of China and the United States established diplomatic relations in 1979, Ji was sponsored by the China Medical Board to study modern medical practices in the United States at the University of"}, {"text": "California, San Diego. Upon returning to China, he introduced perinatal medicine to the country, and together with doctors Zhou Huakang and Zhao Shimin \u8d75\u65f6\u654f, established China's first neonatal intensive care unit at PUMC Hospital. From 1985 to 1989, Ji organized ten Chinese hospitals to participate in the perinatal medicine program of the United Nations Population Fund and helped propagate modern perinatal practices in China. Personal life. Ji married in 1944 to a college classmate. His wife worked in the Ministry of Health and predeceased him. The couple had two daughters. Ji retired in 1991. He died on 23 October 2019, aged 95."}, {"text": "The N. S. Nielson House is a historic house in Mount Pleasant, Utah. It was built in 1892 for N. S. Nielson, an immigrant from Sweden who converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and settled in Utah in 1868. Nielson became a large sheep farmer. He was also president of the Mount Pleasant Commercial and Savings Bank, and the mayor of Mount Pleasant from 1896 to 1897. His house was designed in the Victorian Eclectic architectural style, with Second Empire, Queen Anne, and Beaux-Arts Classical features, and a \"two-story square tower with a bell-cast mansard roof.\" It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 26, 1982."}, {"text": "The Keppels is a locality containing a group of islands in the Coral Sea within the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the , The Keppels had a population of 60. Geography. The largest islands are Great Keppel Island and North Keppel Island. Demographics. In the , The Keppels had a population of 50. In the , The Keppels had a population of 60. Education. North Keppel Island Environmental Education Centre is an Outdoor and Environmental Education Centre at North Keppel Island ()."}, {"text": "Kakegurui is a 2018 Japanese television drama based on the manga of the same name. Released a year after an anime based on the same manga, the series was broadcast for ten episodes on MBS and TBS from January to March 2018; a second five-episode season was broadcast in April 2019. It was followed by a film adaptation, featuring the same actors, released in May 2019. The series became available for streaming on Netflix in the United States and United Kingdom in May 2018; in Japan in July 2018; and in the Philippines in February 2020. Plot. Hyakkaou Private Academy is a century-old prestigious institution. Students are ranked by their gambling winnings. Yumeko Jabami transfers to Hyakkaou Private Academy and disrupts the students' success. Cast. Main cast includes: Introduced in season 2 are the following actors: Development and release. The live-action drama adaptation was first announced on November 21, 2017. The drama was first broadcast on MBS on January 14, 2018, and TBS' slot \"Dramaism\" on January 16, 2018. The first season opening theme is sung by Re:versed titled while the theme song titled \"Strawberry Feels\" is sung by BIGMAMA. Tsutomu Hanabusa directed the drama. After the live-action series premiered"}, {"text": "in Japan on January 14, 2018, it became available for streaming on Netflix in the United States and United Kingdom in early May, 2018. It became available in the Philippines on February 1, 2020, and Netflix Japan on July 2, 2018. The drama was streamed on Netflix in Japanese with subtitles including English, Spanish, Chinese, and Thai in May 2018. In January 2019, the theme song \"mummy mummy\" for the second live-action season was released, by the rock band Bigmama. Passcode performed the opening song \"Ichi ka Bachi ka\" (All or Nothing). The second season premiered on April 1, 2019 on MBS and TBS, and ran for five episodes. The second season streamed on Netflix in July 2019. A film adaptation featuring the same actors was developed and released in May 2019."}, {"text": "Mannheim station may refer to:"}, {"text": "Historic Manti City Hall is a historical building in Manti, Utah. Designed by A.E. Merriam in the Italianate architectural style, it was constructed between 1873-1882 at a cost of approximately $1,100. It served as the city hall of Manti from 1882 to 1986. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since June 27, 1985. The building is now used as a museum, social hall, and office of Sanpete County Economic Development & Travel and Tourism office, and houses a visitor\u2019s information center. The current city hall is located at 50 South Main Street in the Manti City Building."}, {"text": "Weerriba is a rural locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the , Weerriba had \"no people or a very low population\". Geography. \"Waterpark Creek\" enters from the north-west and flows through to form part of the southern boundary. \"Sandy Creek\", a tributary of \"Waterpark\", forms the south-eastern boundary. Demographics. In the , Weerriba had \"no people or a very low population\". In the , Weerriba had \"no people or a very low population\"."}, {"text": "Solok Equator Luak 50 Kota Football Club (simply known as SEL 50 Kota) is an Indonesian football club based in Lima Puluh Kota Regency, West Sumatra. They currently compete in the Liga 4 and their homebase is Singo Harau Stadium. They formed after the Liga 3 club from Solok, \"Solok Football Club\", merging with local club from Lima Puluh Kota, \"Equator Luak 50 Kota\"."}, {"text": "The Ephraim Carnegie Library is a historic one-story building in Ephraim, Utah. It was built in 1914-1915 by Hans Peterson, A.C. Nielson, and Thors Monsen as a Carnegie library. It was designed in the Beaux-Arts style by Watkins, Birch and Wright. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 25, 1984."}, {"text": "Jos\u00e9 Carlos Mainer Baqu\u00e9 (born 1944) is a Spanish historian of literature and literary critic, Professor Emeritus of the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR). He is credited for his interdisciplinary scholar work intermingling studies on cultural and literary history. Biography. Born in 1944 in Zaragoza, he earned a PhD in Philosophy and Arts from the University of Barcelona (UB). Author of the pioneer \"Falange and literatura\" in 1971, his work regarding the study of literary fascism has been described as \"exculpatory\" towards the Falangist authors involved. He worked as lecturer at the UB, the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) before obtaining a Chair in Literary History of the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) in 1982. He retired from teaching in 2011 and remains active as writer, critic and lecturer and collaborates with the newspapers El Pais and ABC. Awards and recognitions. In December 2002 he was granted by the Diputaci\u00f3n General de Arag\u00f3n the second edition of the 'Premio de las Letras Aragonesas'. In 2004 he was awarded with the journalism prize for the cultural, ethic and democratic values from the Basque Country by the newspaper El Correo. In 2011, in the year of his"}, {"text": "retirement as a professor at the University of Zaragoza, the book Para Mainer de sus amigos y compa\u00f1eros de viaje has been edited."}, {"text": "The Binnington Carr Hoard is a Roman coin hoard dating from the late 1st century AD. It contains 12 silver denarii within a copper alloy bell. It is in the collection of the Yorkshire Museum. Contents. The hoard contains 12 silver coins all of which are denarii: one of Julius Caesar (49-44 BC), one of Nero (AD 54-68), three of Vitellius (AD 68) and seven of Vespasian (AD 69-79). Display. In 2014 it featured in an online Google Arts & Culture exhibition titled 'Yorkshire Hoards'."}, {"text": "The Sarnath capital is a pillar capital, sometimes also described as a \"stone bracket\", discovered in the archaeological excavations at the ancient Buddhist site of Sarnath in 1905. The pillar displays Ionic volutes and palmettes. It used to be dated to the 3rd century BCE, during the Mauryan Empire period, but is now dated to the 1st century BCE, during the Sunga Empire period. One of the faces shows a galloping horse carrying a rider, while the other face shows an elephant and its mahaut. The capital is suggestive of the Hellenistic Ionic order, and is often discussed in conjunction with the Pataliputra capital. The two capitals have also been described as \"quasi-Ionic\", and compared for example to the anta capitals of the Temple of Apollo in Didyma. The capital is now located in the Sarnath Museum."}, {"text": "The Manti Carnegie Library is a historic building in Manti, Utah. It was built in 1910-1911 as a Carnegie library, and designed in the Classical Revival style by Richard C. Watkins and John F. Birch. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 25, 1984."}, {"text": "Denipitiya Vithanage Sumana Amarasinghe (; 21 February 1948 \u2013 5 June 2022) was an actress in Sri Lankan cinema and television. Performing in drama to comedy, she is usually known as the \"Sweet girl\" in Sinhala cinema. She also worked as an assistant director, production manager, costume designer and as a producer. She was also the only actress to contribute to the production, singing, co-directing, and co-editing of Sri Lankan cinema. Personal life. Sumana was born on 21 February 1948 in Ranawana, Katugastota, Kandy, Sri Lanka, as the second child in a family with six siblings. Her father worked in the Inland Revenue Department. Since her family could not stay in Kandy, they came to Colombo and stayed in a rented house in Mt. Lavinia. She first went to the Mount Lavinia Buddhist Girls' College and later to Kalubowila Buddhaghosha Maha Vidyalaya. She has one sister and four brothers. Amarasinghe was married to Roy de Silva, who was also a renowned actor and director. She met de Silva during the 1969 film \"Hathara Peraliya\". The wedding was celebrated on 30 August 1975. The couple had two children. De Silva died on 30 June 2018 while treated for a heart attack"}, {"text": "at Sri Jayawardenepura General Hospital. His remains were buried on 2 July 2018 at Borella Cemetery. In 2014, Amarasinghe was admitted to the hospital due to sudden illness. During her tour to India for a film, she is known to have had a drink which contained a poison. It has affected her liver as well as her heart. At one point her heart even stopped. This germ has not entered her brain and she recovered slowly. She worked at her own beauty shop, \"Salon Sumana\". As a livelihood, she ran 'Salon Sumana' beauty salons in all three cities, Moratuwa, Thalahena and Rajagiriya. Then all this had to be closed due to she could not stay in the salon and a lot of problems arose. All three salons closed during Roy's lifetime. Amarasinghe died on 5 June 2022 at the age of 74 while receiving treatment at the Sri Jayewardenepura Hospital due to a sudden illness. Acting career. She contested the beauty pageant \"Lassana Muhuna\", while she was in school times and won the title. Then she acted in the film \"Hathara Peraliya\" directed by L.M. Perera. Her maiden cinematic experience came through 1967 film \"Pipena Kumudu\", directed by Ruby de"}, {"text": "Mel. Her father allowed Sumana to go only for that movie due to Ruby de Mel. However, she lied to her father and later played a lot of other movies such as \"Rena Giraw\", \"Dahasak Sithuvili\", \"Samanala Kumariyo\" and \"Hathara Peraliya\". In addition to acting, she was involved in the beauty industry, where she learned beauty courses in India, Singapore, Canada in 1980. Her first major breakthrough came through 1975 film \"Sukiri Kella\", which earned her nickname \"Sweet girl in Sinhala cinema\". She acted in a few films with her real husband, which made a cult in Sinhala cinema. Then she joined Tissa Wijesurendra in many popular films screened for more than 100 days which include \"Sudu Paraviyo\" and \"Sithaka Suwanda\". In 1982, she acted in \"Kadawunu Poronduwa remake\", where she acted the role previously acted by Rukmani Devi. Even though she started film career with dramatic roles, she turned to comedy roles in later stages particularly through films directed by her husband. Some of her popular films are \"Binaramalee\", \"Sunethra\", \"Jonsun and Gonsun\" and \"Re Daniel Dawal Migel\" trilogy. After the July 1983 riots, many producers left the film industry, however Sumana contributed to the production of films such"}, {"text": "as \"Tom Pachay\u0101\", \"Tha\u1e47a Giravi\", \"Sudu Piruva\u1e6da\" and \"Jonsan h\u0101 Gonsan\". In addition, she has been a Production Executive, Line Producer, Local Coordinator, Singer, Editor, Assistant, Hairstylist and Costume Designer. She excelled in her artistic career and was one of the pioneers in founding the corporation \"Hela Nalu Nili Coalition\" in 1969 and fought for the establishment of a state corporation for the film industry for the manifesto of Sirimavo Bandaranaike's policies in the 1970 general election."}, {"text": "Vasily Dmitryevich Kryuchyonkin (; 13 January 1894 \u2013 10 June 1976) was a Soviet Lieutenant general during World War II who commanded several armies. Early life, World War I and Russian Civil War. Vasily Dmitryevich Kryuchyonkin was born on 13 January 1894 in the village of Karpovka, Buguruslansky Uyezd, Samara Governorate, in a peasants' family, and had seven siblings. Due to his family's extreme poverty, he was adopted by a wealthy villager, a relative of his father, at the age of two. However, his adoptive father saw him as free labor and from the age of seven Kryuchyonkin worked on the farm and then as a loader in the small store owned by his adoptive father. Kryuchyonkin only graduated from the three-year village primary school. Conscripted into the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, Kryuchyonkin was sent to the Western Front in September 1915, rising to junior unter-ofitser with the 5th Hussar Regiment of the 5th Cavalry Division. After the October Revolution, he joined the 4th Moscow Red Guard Detachment, formed in Cherepovets. As a platoon commander and chairman of the detachment revolutionary committee he fought in the suppression of the Kerensky\u2013Krasnov uprising at Gatchina. In February 1918 the"}, {"text": "detachment was sent to the Eastern Front, where it was reorganized into the 1st Orenburg Cavalry Regiment of the Red Army. With the regiment, Kryuchyonkin serviced as assistant commander of its 2nd squadron and simultaneously as chairman of the regimental revolutionary committee. He took part in the battles against the Orenburg Cossacks of Alexander Dutov. The regiment was assigned to the Zhlobin detachment on 10 May and transferred to the Turkestan Front. During the summer and fall, Kryuchyonkin fought against White and British troops in the regions of Chardzhou, Ashkhabad, and Krasnovodsk. His regiment was then transferred to the region of Akhtubinsk and Orenburg, where it fought against the forces of Alexander Kolchak and Dutov. In September the regiment was redesignated as the 13th Cavalry, which as part of the 3rd Turkestan Brigade fought on the Southern Front against the Armed Forces of South Russia, with Kryuchyonkin commanding a squadron. The regiment was then renamed the 64th Cavalry Regiment, after which it was assigned to the 11th Cavalry Division of the 1st Cavalry Army. In May 1920 the army was relocated to the Southwestern Front and Kryuchyonkin fought in the Kiev operation, Novgorod-Volynsky, Rovno, and Lw\u00f3w operations during the Polish\u2013Soviet"}, {"text": "War. After the Soviet defeat in the war the division was relocated to the Southern Front and took part in the Northern Taurida and Perekop\u2013Chongar operations. Interwar period. After the end of the war, Kryuchyonkin continued to serve with the 11th Cavalry Division. In October 1921, he was appointed acting commander of the 63rd Cavalry Regiment, leading it in the suppression of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine, the forces of Talak and Savinkov and other opponents of the Soviets in Belorussia. In late November he was sent to study at the Kiev Combined Military School. After graduating in September 1923, Kryuchyonkin returned to the 11th Cavalry Division and served as an assistant squadron commander and acting assistant commander of the 64th Cavalry Regiment for personnel. From June 1924 he served as acting regimental commander, then as chief of the regimental school of the 62nd Cavalry Regiment. During this period he fought in battles against the Basmachi movement in the region of Samarkand, Dushanbe, and the Afghan border. From September 1925 to September 1926, Kryuchyonkin completed the Cavalry Officers Improvement Course at Novocherkassk, and on his return to the division was appointed to the 44th Cavalry Regiment as chief and"}, {"text": "\"politruk\" of the regimental school. He served as secretary of the regimental party bureau between September 1927 and August 1928. In December 1928, Kryuchyonkin was sent to the Volga Military District, where he served with the 46th Cavalry Regiment of the 8th Cavalry Division as chief and \"politruk\" of the regimental school and regimental chief of staff. Returning to the 11th Cavalry Division in January 1931, he served with it as commander and commissar of the 48th Cavalry Regiment, and assistant commander for the political section of the 45th Cavalry Regiment. From May 1933, he served as assistant commander for supply of the 13th Cavalry Regiment of the 2nd Cavalry Division of the Ukrainian Military District. From November 1934 to May 1935, Kryuchyonkin returned to studies, completing the Cavalry Senior Commanders Improvement Course at Novocherkassk. After completing the course, he was appointed assistant commander for supply of the 16th Cavalry Regiment of the 3rd Bessarabia Cavalry Division of the Kiev Military District. In April 1936 he transferred to serve as chief of military supply of the 5th M. F. Blinov Stavropol Cavalry Division. From September 1937 he commanded the 111th Cavalry Regiment of the 28th Cavalry Division, then in June"}, {"text": "1938 was appointed commander of the 14th Cavalry Division in the Kiev Special Military District. World War II. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union began on 22 June 1941, Kryuchyonkin led the division in the defense of Kremenets as part of the 5th Cavalry Corps of the 6th Army of the Southwestern Front. In July its units, half-encircled, covered the retreat of units of the 36th Rifle Corps, defending against German mechanized troops in the regions of Berdichev and Kazatin. For his performance in the breakout of the division from encirclement Kryuchyonkin was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. From November he commanded the 5th Cavalry Corps, which, as part of Fyodor Kostenko's operational group and then the 21st and 38th Armies of the Southwestern Front, took part in the Yelets offensive. For its performance, the corps was reorganized as the elite 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps in December. Subsequently, Kryuchyonkin led the corps in the successful Barvenkovo\u2013Lozovaya offensive, the Second Battle of Kharkov, and the Voronezh\u2013Voroshilovgrad defensive operation. In early July Major General Kryuchyonkin was appointed commander of the 28th Army, reorganized into the 4th Tank Army late that month. The army took part in the Battle"}, {"text": "of Stalingrad and as the 4th Tank Army counterattacked the German troops breaking through to the Don north of Kalach. Then its troops took part in sustained defensive battles and were forced to retreat to the Don and organize a defense along the outer encirclement of Stalingrad from the mouth of the Ilovlya river to Vertyachy. Kryuchyonkin was relieved of command in mid-October and began an accelerated course at the Military Academy of the General Staff in December. After completing the course in March 1943, he was appointed commander of the 69th Army, which he led during the Battle of Kursk. Kryuchyonkin was transferred to command the 10th Army on 5 April 1944 and then the 33rd Army on 12 April. That month, the 33rd Army was shifted to the Orsha axis and until the end of June defended the line of Bayevo and Dribin. During Operation Bagration, Kryuchyonkin led the army in the crossing of the Dnieper and the liberation of Shklov and Mogilev during the Mogilev offensive and the Minsk offensive. Relieved of command due to illness in July, Kryuchyonkin was sent to await assignment with the 1st Belorussian Front on recovery in December. In January 1945 he"}, {"text": "was first appointed deputy commander of the 61st Army and then front deputy commander. Postwar. After the end of the war, Kryuchyonkin continued to serve as deputy commander of the 61st Army. In August 1945 the army headquarters was used to form that of the Don Military District, and he was appointed deputy commander of the district. In January 1946 he was placed at the disposal of the Main Personnel Directorate for health reasons, and retired in June. He lived in Kiev until his death on 10 June 1976."}, {"text": "Latabai Chandrakant Sonawane is an Indian politician. She was elected as Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for Chopda in October 2019. She received 78137 votes as a member of Shiv Sena Party."}, {"text": "Huang Lei is a British Chinese foreign fighter who participated in the Syrian Civil War on behalf of the mainly Kurdish People's Protection Units, also known as YPG. Lei is originally from China; however he later moved to the United Kingdom for his education, and studied international politics at university, then eventually traveled to Syria to participate in the civil war in the country. Biography. Lei is reportedly 24 years old, and was born in the Sichuan Province in southern China and lived in Manchester in the United Kingdom. He traveled to Syria in March 2015 claiming it was his \"duty\" to fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, he also claimed he is fighting in Syria to keep terrorism out of his country. In late 2015, a foreign fighter from China claimed that he was inspired to join YPG by Lei and viewed him as inspirational. He also claimed that he fears that ISIL trained Chinese Muslims and sent them to China to carryout attacks, however later stated he regretted speaking to the media and feared ISIL would attack Chinese professionals in Iraq. In 2018 after the start of Operation Euphrates Shield launched by Turkey and"}, {"text": "allied Syrian opposition forces organized under the Syrian National Army, he claimed to be one of 20 or 25 foreign fighters from YPG who arrived in Afrin to fight the Turkish military and allied rebel fighters, in an interview with BBC when asked if he was concerned that fighting Turkey, a member of NATO alongside the United Kingdom, could have legal consequences, to which he confirmed saying he was afraid of being arrested and that his intentions in Syria were to fight terrorists, and that he wishes to return to the United Kingdom. He told CNN regarding the Turkish-led operation that he views Turkey and ISIL as equally aggressive and would fight them both equally."}, {"text": "The Jabez Faux House and Barn is a historic two-story house and a barn in Moroni, Utah. It was built in 1867 by Jabez Faux (b.1837), an immigrant from Yorkshire, England who converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and settled in Moroni in 1860. He built a dugout, then later a log cabin, then eventually this house in which he lived for more than 55 years. Faux was a blacksmith and a farmer, and he served on the board of the Moroni Cooperative Mercantile Institution. The house was deemed significant \"as an excellent example of one of the first brick pioneer homes constructed in the Sanpete Valley. It is also important as the home of one of the community's leaders of Moroni.\" The house was vacant from 1950 to 1970, when it was purchased and renovated by Wilsford Clark. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since November 7, 1976. It is the first house south of N. 80 Street, on the east side of Utah State Route 132 (also known as N. Ducksprings Rd. and as N. 325 West St.)."}, {"text": "Yekimovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 12 as of 2002. Geography. Yekimovskaya is located 22 km north of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Senkinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yelenskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 65 km, to Beketovskaya is 10 km. Rakishevo, Mitrofanovo, Syrnevo, Vrazhnaya, Konechnaya, Pankovo are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Yemelyanovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2002. Geography. Yemelyanovskaya is located 3 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yemelyanovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yereminskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 34 as of 2002. Geography. Yereminskaya is located 56 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Isakovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yesinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 21 as of 2002. Geography. Yesinskaya is located 71 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Timoninskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yeskinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. Yeskinskaya is located 47 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pavlovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yefimovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Vizhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. Yefimovskaya is located 8 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Senkinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zabereznik () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 39 as of 2002. Geography. Zabereznik is located 50 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pesok is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zavrag () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 43 as of 2002. Geography. Zavrag is located 51 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Korotkovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Fairview City Hall is a historic building in Fairview, Utah. It was built by Oscar Amundson in 1936 as the city hall of Fairview under the Public Works Administration program, and designed by architect Hugh Anderson. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 9, 1986."}, {"text": "Fernando Arb\u00f3s y Tremanti (22 October 1844, Rome - 18 December 1916, Madrid) was a Spanish architect; best known for the Iglesia de San Manuel y San Benito. Life and work. He was born in Rome to the painter, , and his wife Gertrudis. From 1862 to 1865, he studied the fine arts in Paris. In 1869, he began to study architecture in Madrid. The following year, together with , he won a competition for a public project, sponsored by the \"Monte de Piedad y Caja de Ahorros de Madrid\" (now known simply as the Caja Madrid). After completing that project, he continued to work for them; designing their headquarters, in the (now demolished), and their (House of Jewelry), in the nearby , which is still in use as an exhibition hall. He also designed La Casa Encendida, another bank building which is now a cultural center, and structures for the \"Necr\u00f3polis del Este\", now known as the Cementerio de la Almudena (1877). When the original Basilica of Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de Atocha was demolished in 1890 and the streets were realigned, the Board of Trustees held a competition for a new temple. Arb\u00f3s was awarded first prize and oversight of"}, {"text": "the project, but it was never fully realized. Only the cloister and the bell tower were completed. The cloister is now part of the Pantheon of Illustrious Men. The unfinished temple was severely damaged during the Spanish Civil War. It was eventually demolished and rebuilt."}, {"text": "Zaozerye () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2002. Geography. Zaozerye is located 56 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mitinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zarechnaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2002. Geography. Zarechnaya is located 41 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yakutinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Isidorus of Cyrrhus was a bishop of Cyrrhus, a Roman city in what is today Syria. Cyrrhus was at the time a diocese about forty miles square and embracing 800 parishes. Very little is known of his life, although he was an attendee at the First Council of Constantinople in 381. Isidorus of Cyrrhus was succeeded by the noted theologian Theodoret of Cyrrhus who may have been consecrated a bishop for the purpose of succeeding Isidorus."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Linafoot is the 59th season of the Linafoot, the top-tier football league in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, since its establishment in 1958. The season started on 16 August 2019., suspended on 16 March 2020 and abandoned on 13 May 2020 by the Congolese Association Football Federation due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in DR Congo. TP Mazembe, who were in first place at the time of abandonment (table considered final) and declared champions, and AS Vita Club, who were at second place, will represent DR Congo in the 2020\u201321 CAF Champions League. AS Maniema Union and DC Motema Pembe, who were at third and fourth place, will represent DR Congo in the 2020\u201321 CAF Confederation Cup. The last two in the standings, OC Bukavu Dawa and AS Nyuki, are relegated to Ligue 2. Teams changes. 16 teams compete in this season: the top 13 teams from the previous season and three promoted teams from the Ligue 2. Relegated from Ligue 1 Promoted from Ligue 2 League table. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude>"}, {"text": "Novosibirsk Psychiatric Hospital No. 3 () is a psychiatric hospital located in Novosibirsk, Russia. History. On June 29, 1929, the West Siberian Neuropsychiatric Dispensary was organized, serving patients of Novosibirsk and the Altai Krai. In 1951, the dispensary was connected with Psychiatric Hospital No. 3 (Stalin Avenue, 35), and the Department of Mental Illness of the Novosibirsk Medical Institute was created on the basis of the psychiatric organization. In 1957, the hospital moved to the complex of buildings of the former military camp (Red Barracks), built during the Tsarist period and located on Vladimirovskaya Street (Zheleznodorozhny District of Novosibirsk). Departments. Three departments of the hospital are located in Novosibirsk, one department is located in the village of Karpysak (Toguchinsky District)."}, {"text": "The Chaplin Trio was a trio of musicians: sisters Eleanor Mary (or Nellie) Chaplin, pianist and harpsichordist; Kate Chaplin, violinist and player of the viola d'amore; and Mabel Chaplin, cellist and player of the viola da gamba. They are particularly known for contributing to the revival of early music. Careers. The sisters were born in London. Nellie Chaplin (11 February 1857 \u2013 16 April 1930) studied at the London Academy of Music with Henry Wylde, and in Hamburg with Elise Timm. Kate Chaplin (3 July 1865 \u2013 9 December 1948) studied at the London Academy of Music with Adolf Pollitzer, and from 1892 to 1894 at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with Eug\u00e8ne Ysa\u00ffe. Mabel Chaplin (19 October 1870 \u2013 6 November 1960) studied at the London Academy of Music with the cellist , and at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with \u00c9douard Jacobs. Nellie and Kate Chaplin gave concerts together from 1882. In 1889, the sisters formed the Chaplin Trio. With other performers, they gave concerts in London (in venues including the Queen's Hall, St James's Hall and the Steinway Hall) and elsewhere in Britain and Ireland. In the early years of the trio, they played music of the"}, {"text": "classical period and of the 19th century. A reviewer of a concert given in St James's Hall in May 1902, during which they played a trio by Brahms, wrote that the trio \"have long since made a name for themselves as intelligent and interesting players... The effects of continuous practice are very evident in their playing, and their ensemble was excellent.\" (\"The Times\", 17 May 1902). The sisters were also teachers. Early music. From the early twentieth century they played early music. One such concert, in 1906, of works by J. S. Bach, Purcell, William Boyce, Domenico Scarlatti and others, took place in the Broadwood Rooms in London. A reviewer wrote that the music was played \"with just the right feeling, quite simply and straightforwardly, like everything else that these players gave us, and without the slightest pose or attempt at archaism...\" (\"The Times\", 19 May 1906). They sometimes played on early instruments: Kate Chaplin played a viola d'amore (named \"The Dragon\") made by George Saint-George in 1899, and Mabel Chaplin played a viola da gamba. In a revival in 1920 of \"The Beggar's Opera\", at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, the sisters, playing harpsichord, viola d'amore e viola da gamba,"}, {"text": "and other musicians formed the orchestra. The production ran until 1923. The BBC transmitted concerts given by the trio: broadcasts on 17 August 1927 and on 13 September 1929 are known. Concerts by the trio are known until 1929, shortly before Nellie Chaplin's death in 1930."}, {"text": "Eric Charles Bensted (11 February 1901 \u2013 24 March 1980) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Queensland from 1923 to 1936. Bensted, an all-rounder, was the first Queensland player to play in 50 Sheffield Shield matches. His highest score was 155 against New South Wales in 1934-35, when he and Cassie Andrews added 335 in 239 minutes for the seventh wicket after Queensland were 6 for 113. They set an Australian seventh-wicket record that stood until 2014."}, {"text": "Notable people with surname Nussbaumer, or Nu\u00dfbaumer, include:"}, {"text": "Donatella Tesei (born 17 June 1958) is an Italian politician and lawyer, former President of the Umbria region. Biography. Tesei is a civil and administrative lawyer. She served as mayor of Montefalco from 2009 to 2019. She joined the right-wing populist League party and served as the member of the Italian Senate for Terni from 23 March 2018 to December 2019. Tesei was elected President of Umbria at the 2019 regional election and took office on 11 November 2019."}, {"text": "Metoecus is a genus of wedge-shaped beetles in the family Ripiphoridae. There are at least five described species in \"Metoecus\". Species. These five species belong to the genus \"Metoecus\":"}, {"text": "The Nile killifish (\"Micropanchax loati\"), also known as the Nile lampeye, is a species of killifish from the family Poeciliidae. It is found in the White Nile drainage in Sudan, the Nile Delta in Egypt, the Wembere and Malagarasi Rivers in Tanzania and in the Lake Victoria basin in Uganda and Tanzania. However, it is thought to have been extirpated from Egypt, the introduction of alien poecilid fish, agricultural pollution and increasing salinity are all thought to have contributed to its local extinction in the Nile Delta. The Nile killifish occurs in small bodies of water and in shallow well vegetated areas in larger water bodies. It can be found in swamps, irrigation ditches, brooks and small river. It does not inhabit temporary habitats and so is not a seasonal killifish. It is an oviparous species and its eggs are laid on vegetation, hanging on to the stalks and twigs by means of threads on the outer coating of the eggs. In captivity the eggs develop in about two weeks with the young reaching sexual maturity when they attain an age of 7\u20138 months. It grows to a maximum total length of . The Nile killifish was described in 1901"}, {"text": "as \"Haplochilus schoelleri\" by the Belgian-British ichthyologist George Albert Boulenger (1858-1937) with the type locality being given as Lake No in South Sudan. The specific name honours William Leonard Stevenson Loat (1871-1932) a British archaeologist and naturalist who was the superintendent of the survey party responsible for collecting the type. It is the type species of the genus Micropanchax."}, {"text": "Second Manohar Lal Khattar ministry was the Council of Ministers in Haryana, a state in North India headed by Manohar Lal Khattar of the BJP from 27 October 2019. In the government, the Chief Minister was the leader of the BJP, while the Deputy Chief Minister from the JJP. Here is the list of ministers"}, {"text": "Umberto Mariani (Milan, 16 November 1936) is an Italian artist and painter. Biography. Son of Ugo and Jole Nizzoli, accounting clerks who represent the typical petty bourgeoisie between the two world wars, Umberto Mariani grew up within a family environment that was however permeated by strong ideals. This is highlighted by his father's active participation in the anti-fascist struggle. In 1943-1944, their home in Milan served as a refuge for groups of persecuted Jews, protected and helped by the clandestine organization headed by Fernanda Wittgens. The experience of war leaves significant marks on the very young Mariani's spirit. He completes his artistic studies, first at the Liceo Artistico and then, in the same historical building, from 1954 to 1958 at the Accademia di Brera, in the school of Achille Funi, where he becomes his assistant. In the years between 1959 and 1965, he closely collaborated with his master in the realization of numerous, magnificent decorative frescoes. He also collaborates on the altarpiece of San Giuseppe in the Basilica of San Pietro in Rome (central altar in the left transept). Through these experiences he acquires the skill to work on a large scale, a skill he will use in the years"}, {"text": "to follow. I Piombi. From 1990, Mariani begins to work from the subject of drapery that he is passionate about, and creates in his works known as \"I Piombi\" a stylized and geometrized idea of this subject matter. The drapery loses all true form, and the works crystallize in straight lines that look to affirm a more idealistic, symbolic vision. He participated in the XIII Rome Quadriennale (1998-1999) and in the XIV Rome Quadriennale (2003-2004). In 2011, the exhibition Le Vesti di Saturno is held in the prestigious halls of the Medici Gallery in Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence. The solo exhibition entitled Recent Works-Piombi followed in 2013 in the Baroque spaces of the Sala San Ignazio in Arezzo and later that year, the anthological exhibition Umberto Mariani-Opere 1967-2013 (catalogue edited by Allemandi) takes place in the Chiostri di San Domenico in Reggio Emilia. Opera Gallery, present with twelves offices located over 5 continents, sign an exclusive contract to organize shows of Mariani's work in Paris, New York and Hong-Kong. The art fairs in Reggio Emilia and Parma show personal exhibitions in 2014 and 2015 respectively and in 2015 a major environmental work entitled Plutone and Dioniso-Omaggi a Dag Hammarskjoeld, a"}, {"text": "eulogy to peace, is exhibited in the Museum of Wall Paintings in Prato. In 2016 the solo show entitled \"Mariani chez Capucci\" takes place at the Capucci Foundation located in Villa Bardini in Florence. In November and December 2016, an anthological exhibition is organized at the Mudima Foundation in Milan with 50 works ranging from 1967 to 2016. In Spring 2017, another personal exhibition is held at the Opera Gallery in Paris, entitled \"Umberto Mariani e le Monochrome Italien\". The exhibition Arte ribelle - 1960/1970 - Artisti del \u201868 takes place in the exhibition halls of the bank Credito Valtellinese in Milan with three large works by the master. The exhibition then moved to Fano at the Galleria Carifano later that year. 2018 - 2019 Three major museums host the solo travelling exhibition Frammenti da Bisanzio: the National Museum of Ravenna, followed by the Museums of San Salvatore in Lauro in Rome and finally at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, in the Palace of the General Staff. At the beginning of 2019, the artist was awarded by the Centro Studi Grande Milano at Palazzo Isimbardi, the Grandi Guglie honor, for his role as an ambassador of Milanese culture"}, {"text": "in the world. 2020 at Gallerie d'Italia, Milan, solo exhibition \"Umberto Mariani. Frammenti da Bisanzio (atto terzo)\" 2024 at Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, historical artworks in the exhibition \"POP/BEAT-Italia 1960-1979 \u2013 Liberi di sognare\""}, {"text": "Zasukhonskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 30 as of 2002. Geography. Zasukhonskaya is located 49 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Okulovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Charles Cox (c. 1731 \u2013 7 April 1808) was a prominent English businessman active in Harwich, Essex. He was mayor of Harwich Corporation six times: 1778, 1784, 1789, 1793, 1798, and 1803. He was an agent for the Harwich packet boat. Cox had an enduring working relationship with John Cobbold (1746\u20131835) after the latter inherited the Cobbold family brewing business in 1767. In 1770, they went into partnership, leasing the Cobbold's family brewery from Sarah Cobbold, John's mother. They founded a private bank together, which became Cox, Cobbold & Co., also known as the Harwich Bank. For many years, this bank had the same partners as another bank, Bacon, Cobbold & Co., of Ipswich. Death. He was interred in the family vault St Nicholas Church, Harwich, alongside his son, also Charles Cox, who had died age 5, and two grandchildren, Charles and Mary-Ann Cox, both children of his son Anthony Cox and Mary-Anne Cox."}, {"text": "Zinenskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. Zinenskaya is located 12 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Olshukovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Metoecus paradoxus, also known as the wasp nest beetle and eyelash bug, is a species of \"Metoecus\" in the family Ripiphoridae. Description. \"M. paradoxus\" measures approximately 10 mm in length. It has a dark head and body and paler, orange-coloured pointed elytra that do not completely cover the abdomen. It has feathery antennae. Biology and lifecycle. \"M. paradoxus\" is primarily a parasitoid of \"Vespula vulgaris\" (the common wasp). Adult females lay eggs in decaying wood in autumn, which hatch in spring or summer. The first instar triungulin clings to a \"V. vulgaris\" worker to be transported to the nest. Once at the nest, the larva parasitises a wasp larva \u2013 once the larva has closed the cell, the \"M. paradoxus\" larva consumes the host and pupates in its place. Adults emerge from late July to early October. The development from larva to adult takes less than one month. Adult beetles live for between 6 and 12 days and probably do not feed. Chemical mechanisms. Parasites employ various mechanisms, including chemical mimicry and chemical camouflage, to mimic the host colony's odor. When the \"M. paradoxus\" beetle penetrates the \"V. vulgaris\" host, it is vital that it avoids being detected. The same"}, {"text": "goes for all parasitic social insect species. These beetles seem to avoid being detected by mimicking the cuticular hydrocarbon profile of their host, the common wasp. A study found that \"M. paradoxus\" shares around 91.1% of compounds with \"V. vulgaris\". Pop culture. In 2020, American rapper Megan Thee Stallion created an Instagram post featuring a video where Megan's friend asks what a bug on their wall is, and Megan responds with, \"Bitch an eyelash bug,\" and the two laugh. Megan then says the bug's eyelashes are \"on fleek\" and says that \"[It] just got [its] eyelashes done at the club.\" The bug then begins to fly, Megan and her friend scream, and the video stops. A second recording shows comments of people reacting to it and identifying it as \"M. paradoxus\" as Megan's friend shows her images of it, to which Megan replies, \"Bitch, that is her. Look at them damn lashes! That is crazy.\" However, the bug in the video appears to be a male \"Pterotus obscuripennis\", of the firefly family. The first video has since gone viral and has become an internet meme."}, {"text": "Zuyevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 16 as of 2002. Geography. Zuyevo is located 78 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pokrovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ivanovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 13 km. Podolnaya, Samoylovskaya, Pavlovskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Ivanovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 77.7 km, to Mishutinskaya is 21.7 km. Isakovo, Fatyanovo, Ozyorny are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Amritha Aiyer (born 14 May 1994) is an Indian actress who appears predominantly in Tamil and Telugu films. Her first lead role was in the Tamil film \"Padaiveeran\" in 2018 and she has since starred in the Tamil films \"Bigil\" (2019) and \"Lift\" (2021) and Telugu films \"Red\" (2021), and \"Hanu Man\" (2024). Her 2024 Telugu film, \"Hanu-Man\", broke several box-office records for a Telugu film. The film has grossed over , emerging as the Fourth highest-grossing Telugu film of 2024, Tenth highest-grossing Indian film of 2024, and the Eighth highest-grossing Telugu film worldwide (At the time of its release, Jan' 2024). Early life. Aiyer was born into a Tamil-speaking family on 14 May 1994 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, and raised in Bengaluru, Karnataka. She attended NHR School, Bangalore, and completed her degree in commerce at St. Joseph's College of Commerce, Bangalore. Career. She made her debut as lead actress in \"Padaiveeran\" (2018) opposite Vijay Yesudas, where she played the role of Malar. In response to her role, a reviewer of the film from \"The Hindu\" stated that \"Amritha fits in her role aptly\". She later played a lead role opposite Vijay Antony in \"Kaali\" (2018). In 2019, she was"}, {"text": "to make her Kannada debut with \"Gramayana\" starring Vinay Rajkumar, but the project was stalled after the producer got COVID. She played the role of Thendral, the Tamil Nadu football team captain, in Atlee's \"Bigil\" (2019), alongside Vijay. In 2021, Aiyer made her Telugu debut in \"Red\", opposite Ram Pothineni, and directed by Kishore Tirumala. Her second release was \"Vanakkam Da Mappilei\" opposite G. V. Prakash Kumar, a film released directly via Sun NXT. Her third release was \"Lift\", the film opt for the theatrical release and directly released via Disney+ Hotstar. Her only release in 2022, was a Tamil film \"Coffee with Kadhal\" opposite Jai. Aiyer then shot for Telugu film \"Hanu-Man\" opposite Teja Sajja. and an untitled Tamil-Telugu bilingual film, opposite Teejay Arunachalam. The film \"Hanu-Man\" premiered on January 12, 2024."}, {"text": "Ivankovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 22 as of 2002. Geography. Ivankovo is located 69 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Borisovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ivoninskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2002. Geography. Ivoninskaya is located 69 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Checheninskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Hiraman Bhikabhai Khoskar is an Indian politician. He was elected as a Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for Igatpuri constituency during the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election. Ahead of the 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, he left the Indian National Congress and joined the Nationalist Congress Party. He was later declared as the Nationalist Congress Party candidate from the Igatpuri Assembly constituency. Early life. Hiraman Khoskar was born in a Agriculturist Koli family of Igatpuri in Maharashtra to Bhikaji Gopala Khoskar on 11 August 1965."}, {"text": "Ignatovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 24 as of 2002. Geography. Ignatovskaya is located 51 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zasukhonskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Isakovo () is a rural locality (a village) in the [Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, in Vozhegodsky District, which is in Vologda Oblast, in the Russian Federation. According to 2002 records, the population of the rural locality is 18. Geography. Isakovo is located 64 km east of Vozhega, which is the district's administrative centre, by road. Fatyanovo is the nearest rural locality. It is located in the north of Vologda Oblast, which is located in north-western Russia."}, {"text": "Isakovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 9 as of 2002. Geography. Isakovskaya is located 56 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yereminskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kadnikovsky () is a rural locality (a village) and the administrative center of Kadnikovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2,250 as of 2002. There are 24 streets. Geography. Kadnikovsky is located 20 km south of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kholuy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Karpovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 55 km, to Derevenka is 6 km. Mitinskaya, Yurkovskaya, Todelovskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Karpovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 26 km, to Baza is 10 km. Nefedovskaya, Okulovskaya, Repnyakovskaya, Lupachikha, Levkovskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Kladovka () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2002. Geography. Kladovka is located 30 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bilskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Klimovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 13 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 60 km, to Mishutinskaya is 6 km. Lukyanovskaya, Gorka, Pogorelka are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Klimovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 54 km, to Derevenka is 5 km. Kholdynka, Yurkovskaya, Todelovskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Kozlovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 45 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 62 km and to Beketovskaya is 11 km. Pekhtach, Yakovlevo, Salnik, and Myshino are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Kozlovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 24 km, to Baza is 5 km. Pavlovskaya, Turabovskaya, Bolshaya Nazarovskaya, Padinskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Konevka () is a rural locality (a village) in Tigisnkoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 81 as of 2002. Geography. Konevka is located 23 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Savinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Konechnaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 5 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 66 km, to Beketovskaya is 10 km. Yelenskaya, Rakishevo, Mitrofanovo, Syrnevo, Vrazhnaya, Pankovo are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Kazimierz Soko\u0142owski may refer to:"}, {"text": "Konechnaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 81.5 km, to Beketovskaya is 25 km. Mytnik, Tigino, Pokrovskaya, Zuyevo, Kuritsino, Filatovskaya, Strokavino are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Korgozero () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 9 as of 2002. Geography. Korgozero is located 36 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Beketovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Korovinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. Korovinskaya is located 15 km southeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Stepanikha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Power Struggle (2019) was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on November 3, 2019, in Osaka, Osaka, at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium. It was the ninth event under the Power Struggle name. Storylines. Power Struggle featured nine professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches."}, {"text": "Korotkovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 25 as of 2002. Geography. Korotkovskaya is located 51 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lobanikha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Korotyginskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 58 as of 2002. Geography. Korotyginskaya is located 29 km northeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Semenovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Koryakinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 25 as of 2002. Geography. Koryakinskaya is located 51 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Grishkovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sergio Wolmar Zavoli (21 September 1923 \u2013 4 August 2020) was an Italian sports and documentary journalist and politician. Born in Ravenna and raised in Rimini, Zavoli joined RAI, Italy's state broadcaster, as a sports radio journalist in 1947. He won two Prix Italia awards for his travel documentary \"Notturno a Cnosso\" (1953) and \"Clausura\" (1957), which included interviews with enclosed nuns. In 1962, he inaugurated the first transmission of , a popular series of sports programmes dedicated to the Giro d'Italia. Zavoli's notable historical documentaries included \"Nascita di una dittatura\" (1972), which won the , \"and La notte della Repubblica\" (1989\u201390), which documented the Years of Lead. Zavoli served as RAI's president between 1980 and 1986. In the 2001 general election, Zavoli was elected senator for the Democrats of the Left, and was reelected for the Olive Tree and Democratic Party in subsequent elections until his retirement at the 2018 general election. Between 2009 and 2013, he served as Chairman of the RAI Supervisory Commission. Zavoli died in Rome on 4 August 2020, aged 96, and was laid to rest near Riminese filmmaker Federico Fellini, a close friend, in the Monumental Cemetery of Rimini. Alongside his journalism and political"}, {"text": "career, Zavoli published several fictional and non-fictional books. His documentaries were notable for platforming voices directly, and their respectful portrayal of political opponents. Early life and career. Zavoli was born in Ravenna on 21 September 1923. He attended the classical lyceum in Rimini, graduating in 1943. Zavoli's journalistic career began as a football radio commentator in 1945. He collaborated in the production of a twice-daily news bulletin broadcast to Rimini's Piazza Cavour; in particular, Zavoli reported on Rimini FC's matches. The broadcast was the predecessor of the daily summer radio programme broadcast along Rimini's beaches; Zavoli is credited with the broadcast's name, . In the late 1940s, Zavoli directed , a weekly newspaper dedicated to discussing Rimini's post-war reconstruction, to which Renato Zangheri, future mayor of Bologna, also contributed. Journalism. Sports journalism and early documentaries. In 1947, Zavoli was scouted for RAI, the Italian state broadcasting company, by , who led RAI's radio commentary editorial team. He made his first debut on national radio on 15 February 1948 at a Roma\u2013Fiorentina match, substituting an indisposed commentator. Zavoli's early documentaries included \"Scartamento ridotto\" (1952), exploring local views about the replacement of the steam engine on the Rimini\u2013Novafeltria railway with oil-powered railcars."}, {"text": "His \"Notturno a Cnosso\" (1953), produced with Giovanni Battista Angioletti, documented a nocturnal tourist itinerary in Crete, including the island's mythology and history; the documentary won the 1953 Prix Italia. Zavoli won a second Prix Italia in 1958 for \"Clausura\" (1957), exploring support and criticism for enclosed nuns, which included interviews through the grates of their enclosures. The documentary was translated into six languages, and its footage reused in a 2001 television series. Move to television. In the 1960s, Zavoli moved more definitively to television. In 1962, he inaugurated the first transmission of , a popular series of sports programmes dedicated to the Giro d'Italia; Zavoli had created a similar programme on radio in 1958. His documentary \"I giardini di Abele\" (1969) reported from inside a psychiatric hospital in Gorizia. While making documentaries on current affairs, he also produced notable historical investigative documentaries, including \"Nascita di una dittatura\" (1972), a six-part series documenting the birth of Fascist Italy which won the , \"and La notte della Repubblica\" (1989\u201390), documenting the Years of Lead in eighteen episodes. (1963), a centenary documentary of Alfredo Panzini's bicycle journey to Bellaria, was celebrated locally. Alongside those of Cesare Zavattini, Zavoli's documentaries were considered part"}, {"text": "of a new movement in Italian documentaries which were broadcast from the field rather than reshot in studios. Zavoli paid particular attention to platforming voices directly. Writing for \"La Stampa\" in 1977, Furio Colombo said that Zavoli's success was attributable to his respectful portrayal of political opponents, a quality that was rare in the Italian press at the time. He disliked intellectual sloppiness, which he called talking dialect (), leading him to encourage doubt and critical inquiry against assumed certainties. RAI leadership and later career. From 1976 to 1980, Zavoli was director of news programming on RAI's Radio 1, after which he became RAI's president until 1986. Zavoli navigated RAI through the advent of private broadcasters. In 1993, Zavoli became the founding president of San Marino's state broadcaster, San Marino RTV. He directed \"Il Mattino\", a daily newspaper in Naples, between 1993 and 1994. In 2001, Zavoli's series \"Diario di un cronista\" retold the story of his most significant investigative documentaries in fifty-five episodes. In 1986, he was awarded an honorary degree in literature by the University of Urbino. Zavoli returned to the university in later years, organising and attending commemorative ceremonies. On 26 March 2007, for the \"extraordinary contribution"}, {"text": "made to the cause of Italian journalism\", the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Rome Tor Vergata awarded him an honorary degree in specialist publishing, multimedia communication and journalism. In 2007, he became President of the Journalism School of the University of Salerno. Political career. In the 2001 general election, Zavoli was elected senator for the Democrats of the Left. On 22 June 2001, he joined the commission on the environment and environmental heritage, moving to the foreign affairs and emigration commission on 23 March 2004, and finally to the public education and cultural heritage commission on 29 September 2005. The first bill he introduced, on 17 October 2001, called for annual contributions to the and an institute in Rome dedicated to Eugenio Montale. In the 2006 general election, Zavoli and was reelected for the Olive Tree, moving to the library and historical archive commission on 7 July 2006 and becoming its president from 18 October 2006 until the 2008 general election, in which he was reelected for the Democratic Party. While his first presidency of the library and historical archive commission ended, he remained a member for the rest of his political career, and rejoined the"}, {"text": "public education and cultural heritage commission from 22 May 2008 to 15 December 2009, after which he returned to the public education and cultural heritage commission until 24 February 2011, when he returned to the environment and environmental heritage commission. Zavoli served as Chairman of the RAI Supervisory Commission from 4 February 2009 until 14 March 2013, succeeded by Roberto Fico. Zavoli's appointment was widely reported in the Italian press as a compromised solution by Italy's political establishment following the controversy of 's appointment. Zavoli was reelected for the Democratic Party in the 2013 general election; aged 89, he was the oldest elected candidate. He had a second term as president of the library and historical archive commission from 18 September 2013 to 22 March 2018, and rejoined the public education and cultural heritage commission on 7 May 2013. Zavoli retired at the 2018 general election. Contrary to a TG2 report on his death, Zavoli was never a senator for life. Among the legislative bills Zavoli cosigned as senator were a bill for a bank holiday on 17 March commemorating the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy, a bill for a trade conference in Parma on food safety, and a"}, {"text": "bill for new tax regulations on the sale of truffles. On 12 October 2006, following Pope Benedict XVI's Regensburg lecture, Zavoli spoke in the senate on \"the treasures of harmony and wisdom that [Islam] continues to reserve also to the civic and cultural dimensions of tradition\". On 29 April 2008, he supported a bill by Ignazio Marino that would have facilitated assisted suicide. Writings. In his childhood, Zavoli dreamed of becoming a poet or writer. Among Zavoli's earlier writings are a collection of anecdotes and characters from Romagna, published in 1959. In 1981, he published \"Socialista di Dio\", which won the Bancarella Award. Several writings on the nature of God, history, and secularism followed in the early 2000s. Zavoli published books on Rimini's local history, including its post-liberation years and an autobiographical work on his memories of the Italian resistance. He prefaced several books on sports journalism. After turning towards publishing poems in his later life, in 2011, Zavoli published the autobiography \"Il ragazzo che io fui\". Personal life. Zavoli was made an honorary citizen of Rimini on 30 September 1972, which the mayor felt necessary to remedy \"an injustice towards Zavoli himself and those who had believed him to"}, {"text": "be from Rimini\". On several occasions, he expressed concerns on the city's development towards mass tourism, finding it \"unnatural\". In 2014, Zavoli became honorary president of Rimini's Prize for Young Poetry. Zavoli was a close friend of Riminese film director Federico Fellini, with whom he would communicate frequently by telephone. Against the outcry from the film industry, Fellini supported Zavoli's short-lived appointment to the directing board of the Venice Film Festival, calling him \"an independent man in his judgments\" who \"is from Rimini and has always been my friend\". For Fellini's funeral on 4 November 1993, Zavoli edited footage he shot into a historical archive, and delivered a funeral oration in Rimini's Piazza Cavour. Ten years later, he wrote the preface and afterword to a book in tribute to Fellini. As well as Fellini, Zavoli was also a close friend of Tonino Guerra. Zavoli's first wife, Rosalba, passed away in 2014; he had one daughter with her, Valentina. In 2017, Zavoli married Alessandra Chello, a journalist whom he met on the editorial staff of \"Il Mattino\". The marriage was conducted in secret in Monte Porzio Catone; Zavoli was aged 93 while Chello was 51. In his later years, Zavoli lived"}, {"text": "in a villa in Monte Porzio Catone. In December 2012, aged 89, he was attacked by four burglars. Death. Zavoli died in Rome on 4 August 2020, aged 96. Among those expressing public condolences were Sergio Mattarella, President of Italy, Nicola Zingaeretti, secretary of the Democratic Party, Stefano Bonaccini, President of Emilia-Romagna, the Diocese of Rimini, and municipal and provincial mayors. Zavoli's death was widely reported on Italian news programmes. A minute's silence was held in the Italian Senate at the opening of its session on 6 August 2020. Zavoli's funeral was held at San Salvatore in Lauro in Rome on 7 August 2020. Its celebrants included Nunzio Galantino and , and senior figures in Italian politics and telecommunications were present, including journalists Gianni Letta, presenter Renzo Arbore, and politicians Walter Veltroni, Franco Carraro, Silvia Costa, Maria Elena Boschi, Anna Finocchiaro, Valeria Fedeli, and Luigi Zanda. After the funeral, Zavoli was transported to Rimini, where a funeral chapel had been installed for public mourning in the Amintore Galli Theatre. In accordance with his wishes, on 8 August 2020, Zavoli was buried a few steps from Fellini and his wife, Giulietta Masina, in the Monumental Cemetery of Rimini, in a ceremony"}, {"text": "presided by the diocesan bishop. Legacy. \"Il ragazzo e la citt\u00e0\" (2023), a concert-show written and directed by Massimo Roccaforte, was performed at the Amintore Galli Theatre on the occasion of the centenary of Zavoli's birth. \"Il sole tramonta alle spalle\" (2023), a film by Mauro Bartoli featuring two unpublished interviews with Zavoli, was also screened at Rimini's Fulgor Cinema for the centenary."}, {"text": "Kostyuninskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mityukovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 83 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 72 km, to Sosnovitsa is 4 km. Popovka, Vasilyevskaya, Timoshinskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Krapivino () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2002. Geography. Krapivino is located 70 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Borisovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kropufinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 38 as of 2002. Geography. Kropufinskaya is located 76 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nikulskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kubinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 26 as of 2002. Geography. Kubinskaya is located 47 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Osiyevskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kuznetsovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2002. Geography. Kuznetsovskaya is located 13 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Malaya Klimovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kuklinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 15 as of 2002. Geography. Kuklinskaya is located 48 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Osiyevskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Yukaghir Highlands () are a mountainous area in the Sakha Republic and Magadan Oblast, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. The area is named after the Yukaghir people. Geography. The Yukaghir Highlands are a mountain region located at the eastern limits of the Sakha Republic and the northwestern end of Magadan Oblast, as well as a little part in the westernmost limit of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. They include two medium height mountain ranges, the Chubukulakh Range and the Siversky Range, as well as a plateau, the Yukaghir Tableland. The average height of the intermontane basins of the plateau is between and . In the ranges a few scattered mountains rise above and the highest point is high Mount Chubukulakh (\u0427\u0443\u0431\u0443\u043a\u0443\u043b\u0430\u0445). The highlands are limited by the Kolyma Lowland to the west and the courses of the Bulun and Namyndykan rivers to the south. The Kolyma Mountains rise to the east and southeast. The Arctic Circle passes through the area. Hydrography. The Yukaghir Highlands separate the basins of the Kolyma and Omolon rivers, both flowing roughly northwards. The latter marks the eastern limit. The Berezovka River has its sources within the area of the mountains. Flora. There are sparse forests of"}, {"text": "larch in the lower slopes of the mountain ranges and thickets of dwarf stone pine at higher altitudes. The mountaintops are covered with tundra."}, {"text": "A bimetallic nanoparticle is a combination of two different metals that exhibit several new and improved properties. Bimetallic nano materials can be in the form of alloys, core-shell, or contact aggregate. Due to their novel properties, they have gained a lot of attention among the scientific and industrial communities. When used as catalysts, they show improved activity as compared to their monometallic counterparts. They are cost-effective, stable alternatives that exhibit high activity and selectivity. Hence a lot of effort has been put into the advancement of these catalysts. The combination or the type of metals present, how they are combined, and their size determines their properties. Since two distinct metals are combined, optimizing their properties through manipulation is possible. There is a lot of flexibility in designing the bimetallic nanoparticle for specific applications. There are several techniques developed for their synthesis and accurate characterization. Improved electronic properties that arise due to bi-metallization is the most important among the novel properties. Electronic effects involve charge transfer or orbital hybridization between the constituent metals. Structural changes can result from alloy formation. The chemical and environmental parameters during their synthesis play a role in determining their structural properties. The difference in the reduction"}, {"text": "rates of the different metal precursors decides the end structural properties of the nanomaterial. The synthesis of bimetallic nanoparticles can be done using co-reduction, successive reduction, reduction of complexes containing both the metals and electrochemical methods. Co-reduction and successive reduction methods are the most popular preparative techniques. Methods of synthesis. Co-reduction method. The co-reduction method is similar to that of the reduction method used in the synthesis of monometallic nanoparticles. The difference is that for bimetallic nanoparticle synthesis two metal precursors will be used instead of one. The two precursors along with the stabilizing agent are completely dissolved in a suitable solvent. The metals will be present in their ionic states. To convert them into their zerovalent states a reducing agent is added. The light transition metals have lower reduction potential which means that they are rarer to undergo reduction. These light transition metals when present in their zerovalent states tend to undergo oxidation very quickly and therefore are unstable. Since these metals are very important in the field of catalysis, several methods to stabilize them are sought after. Successive reduction method. In the successive reduction method, the two precursors are added one after the other. This method generally leads"}, {"text": "to the formation of core-shell bimetallic nanoparticles. The precursor of the metal that has to form the core is added along with the stabilizing agent first. This is followed by the reducing agent. Once the complete reduction of the first metal is ensured, the second metal precursor is added. The second metal ion gets adsorbed on the nanoparticle surface and gets reduced. This results in the core-shell structure of the bimetallic nanoparticle. Reduction of bimetallic complexes A complex containing both the metals to be present in the bimetallic nanoparticle is taken as the precursor. The aqueous solution of these complexes in different concentrations is taken in a quartz vessel and reduced using a photoreactor. Polyvinylpyrrolidone can be used as a stabilizer. The size and composition of the nanoparticles vary with the concentration of the aqueous solution. The composition of the nanoparticles can be analyzed using EDX studies. Electrochemical method. In chemical methods, the metal ions are reduced to their zerovalent states using a reducing agent. In the electrochemical process, bulk metal is converted into metal atoms. The size of the particle synthesized using this method can be controlled by manipulating the current density. There are two anodes made up of"}, {"text": "the constituent bulk metal and a platinum metal plate is used as the cathode. The stabilizing agent is mixed with the electrolyte. When current is passed ions of the metals are formed at the anode and are reduced by the electrons generated in the platinum electrode. The major attractions of this method are its cost-effectiveness, high yield, ease of isolation, and the ability to control the composition of metal simply through variation of current density. Structures of Bimetallic nanoparticles. Crown jewel structure. In this type of arrangement, the more expensive or catalytically important metal atom is individually arranged over the comparatively cheaper metal which is catalytically less active. The precious metal atom will be surrounded by the less expensive metal atoms. As they are present on the surface they are highly accessible for catalytic reactions. Being surrounded by the less expensive metal also alters its electronic properties, this, in turn, improves its catalytic property. As the metal atoms are fixed on the surface individually, the synthesis of crown jewel structure is difficult. It can be achieved through chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The metal is atomized using an electron beam evaporator and the whole process is carried out in an ultra-high"}, {"text": "vacuum. The metal gets diffused and deposits at different points on the less expensive metal surface. Their distribution can be determined by controlling the metal flux in a reproducible manner. Another alternative is the solution state method. Control of size and distribution is more complicated when using this method as opposed to CVD. Hollow structure. The structures have a very high surface to volume ratios and porosity. This material is multifunctional owing to its unique structure. The void can be used to encapsulate various multifunctional nanomaterial or even as a nanoreactor. Their shells can also be functionalized. These materials are better catalysts as they are cheaper, less dense and the material is also saved. They can be synthesized by using already prepared metal nanoparticles as sacrificial templates. This takes place through a galvanic replacement reaction in which a metal nanoparticle comes in contact with a different metal of higher reduction potential gets replaced. The diffusion process and direction of the reaction can be controlled by changing the chemical environment. Core-shell structure. As catalysis is carried out on the nanoparticle surface, the atoms at the center are wasted. This becomes more important when expensive metals are used as catalysts. To reduce"}, {"text": "the cost of the catalysts an inexpensive metal is made the core and the catalytically active metal is taken as the shell. This is achieved by first reducing the core metal followed by nucleation of the shell metal around it. The core metal also electronically modifies the shell and thereby improves catalytic activity. They can be synthesized by using a one-pot co-reduction method. Two metal precursors are added simultaneously. One of them will reduce first due to the difference in the reduction potentials of the different metal ions. This metal will form the core. The pre-formed nanoparticle acts as the seed required for the nucleation of the second metal around it. These structures can be characterized using TEM imaging. The shape and size can be manipulated by varying the different parameters. It is possible to synthesize a more complex multiwalled nanostructure, but it will require better control over the parameters. Alloyed structure. The two different metals present are homogeneously arranged. Due to the variation in their standard reduction potentials the metals tend to nucleate separately and form heterostructures or core-shell. Synthesizing alloyed bimetallic nanoparticles require control over reaction kinetics. Using a reducing agent strong enough to reduce both the metal"}, {"text": "ions is one option. Sodium borohydride is one such reducing agent. Another option is the selection of appropriate counter ion or surfactant. The redox potentials of the metals are adjusted in such a way as to obtain simultaneous reduction through specific coordination or adsorption. The addition of a metal ion that facilitates alloy formation is the third method. A gas-phase synthesis technique is also possible in which the atoms are first brought to their atomic states. But this method will require complicated instrumentation."}, {"text": "Kuritsino () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 34 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 80 km, to Beketovskaya is 1 km. Nikulskaya, Kropufinskaya, Pokrovskaya, Andreyevskaya, Voskresenskoye, Zuyevo, Konechnaya, Filatovskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Tom Lowndes (DJ Tom Loud), known professionally as Hot Dub Time Machine, is an Australian DJ. He has had international success playing at festivals and events including the likes of: Coachella, Tomorrowland, Field Day, Stereosonic, Falls Festival, Groovin the Moo, Reading and Leeds Festival, Latitude Festival, FIB Benicassim and Splendour in the Grass. He has toured extensively around Australia, the UK, Asia the USA and Europe. He has played at Brixton Academy in London twice and performed the biggest shows in the history of the Edinburgh Fringe at the Royal Highland Centre in with 13,500 people attending two shows in 2017. He has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe every year from 2012 to 2019. Background. Hot Dub shows usually consists of a two-and-a-half-hour mix of popular music in chronological order, starting from the 1950s or 1970s going through to the present, although he often plays shorter festival sets. It\u2019s an audio-visual show with Lowndes mixing live on vinyl turntables using Serato and Mix Emergency. History. He developed the show for the 2011 Sydney Fringe Festival, but it first found success at the 2012 Adelaide Fringe, and 2012 Edinburgh Fringe. 2013. he sold over 15,000 tickets at the Edinburgh Fringe and"}, {"text": "was able to become a full time DJ at the age of 35. 2014. Lowndes transitioned from Fringe to mainstream festivals playing Falls Festival, Splendour in the Grass and played to 80,000 at Edinburgh\u2019s Hogmanay NYE street party. 2015. Lowndes played at Groovin the Moo, Coachella, Stereosonic and Sydney\u2019s \u2018City to Surf\u2019 Fun Run to 80,000 people. 2016. He performed at the Australian Open, British GP at Silverstone, Melbourne\u2019s Cox Plate, Canberra\u2019s Spilt Milk Festival, along with his own UK and Australian tours and started Hot Dub Wine Machine (see below). 2017. He performed at Latitude Festival in the UK, the Melbourne Cup and Beyond the Valley Fest. 2018. He performed at the Brisbane Commonwealth Games, Isle of Wight Festival, Rock Oz\u2019Ar\u00e8nes in Switzerland, Reading and Leeds Festival, It\u2019s the Ship Festival in Singapore and before the Australia - India 20/20 Cricket games at the SCG, MCG and Gabba. 2019. He performed in Hakuba Japan, the F1 Australian GP, Ability Fest, Electric Castle in Romania, Territory Day Darwin, FIB Benicassim, Tomorrowland, Marquee Singapore and Your\u2019s and Owls Festival. 2020. While in COVID looked down Lowndes launched his \u2018Hot Dub at Home\u2019 livestream on Twitch, which was one of the biggest"}, {"text": "live streams of 2020 with over 150,000 unique viewers tuning into 13 free shows between April and October. Hot Dub at Home continued in 2021 culminating in a \u2018I Feel Good\u2019 fundraiser stream, raising over 60,000 for Lifeline Australia. 2021. Hot Dub played at \u2018Beyond the City\u2019 NYE in Melbourne\u2019s Sidney Myer Music Bowl and started 2022 at Sydney\u2019s iconic Field Day Festival. Wine Machine. Lowndes started the festival 'Hot Dub Wine Machine' with his former management in 2016 in McLaren Vale South Australia. Later re-branded as \u2018Wine Machine\u2019 the festival became an annual, national, touring festival from 2017. They also launched New Years Eve in the Park in Sydney in 2017, Stein Machine in Edinburgh and Snow Machine in Hakuba, Japan in 2020. In 2020, Lowndes split with Wine Machine and is no longer at all involved in owning or running any festivals.As of May 2023 Hot dub still continues to play at wine machine festivals. He is now managed by TMRW music"}, {"text": "Kurshiyevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 70 as of 2002. Geography. Kurshiyevskaya is located 39 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ogibalovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kutilovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2002. Geography. Kutilovo is located 83 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mytnik is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Levinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 59 km, to Derevenka is 10 km. Blinovskaya, Nekrasovskaya, Lukyanovskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Levinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 53 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 21 km, to Gridino is 1 km. Konevka, Savinskaya, Shchegolikha, Malaya, Petrovka, Ospodarevskaya, Gridino, Stepanikha, Nikitinskaya, Leshchevka are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Levkovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2002. Geography. Levkovskaya is located 25 km northeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lupachikha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Leshchevka () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 39 as of 2002. Geography. Leshchevka is located 18 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nikitinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lobanikha () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2002. Geography. Lobanikha is located 52 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zavrag is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Amida Care is a New York State Medicaid managed care health plan for those with HIV/AIDS and other chronic conditions such as addiction, mental health issues, and homelessness. Overview. Amida Care is a New York Medicaid managed care health plan for those with HIV/AIDS and other chronic conditions such as addiction, mental health issues, and homelessness. The non-profit was founded in 2003. One of its focuses is on members of the LGBTQ community including transgender people. The organization operates in New York, and it is the largest Medicaid Special Needs Health Plan in the state. The president and CEO of the organization is Doug Wirth. In 2018 the company had about $400 million in revenues. Programs. The Live Life Plus health plan includes HIV prevention and risk reduction education, treatment adherence services, and multidisciplinary behavioral health services. Amida Care also provides care for individuals diagnosed with Hepatitis C. It works with local partners to provide care, both medical and non-medical, such as housing consultation. Amida Care works to identify and reach out to individuals who have stopped taking their HIV medication in order to aid in treatment. In 2017 Amida Care expanded the Live Life Plus health plan to enroll"}, {"text": "HIV-negative in addition to HIV-positive transgender individuals, due to the historical difficulty of transgender people in accessing healthcare. Amida Care also enrolls homeless individuals who are HIV-negative or HIV-positive."}, {"text": "Kazimierz \"Kaz\" Soko\u0142owski (born 11 February 1963) is a Polish professional football manager and former player who is the current head of player development of Kongsvinger. Playing career. He was a squad member for the 1980 UEFA European Under-18 Championship and the 1981 FIFA World Youth Championship. He was later capped twice for Poland and upon transferring to Troms\u00f8 IL ahead of the 1992 season, he emigrated to Norway. With Soko\u0142owski settling in Asker, his son Tomasz Sokolowski was capped for Norway. Managerial career. As a head coach Soko\u0142owski led Asker to promotion to the 1996 3. divisjon and the 1999 2. divisjon, and lost promotion to the 2000 1. divisjon only in extra time on the last matchday. Asker's women's team played in the first tier, and Soko\u0142owski was co-head coach with Eli Landsem in 2002. He returned in 2004 as assistant coach under Tomi Markovski. Both also worked at the Norwegian School of Elite Sport (NTG). In mid-2004, Soko\u0142owski also became player developer in another of NTG's cooperation clubs, Lyn. In January 2005, Soko\u0142owski became caretaker manager of Lyn, after Lyn's then-manager Espen Olafsen was struck by the 2004 Thailand tsunami, surviving himself but losing family members. In"}, {"text": "April 2005, Henning Berg was hired as Lyn manager, and Soko\u0142owski left Lyn since his son Tomasz was a squad member. However, Soko\u0142owski would later work as Henning Berg's assistant in several clubs. After rounding off 2005 in the coaching staff of Lyn's junior team, who became runners-up in the Norwegian U-20 Cup, he became Sandefjord's assistant under Tor Thodesen ahead of the 2006 season. Thodesen was sacked in May 2008. After being caretaker manager for a couple of weeks, Soko\u0142owski continued as Sandefjord's assistant until joining V\u00e5lerenga as player developer ahead of the 2009 season. After suffering a tumor on the adrenal gland, he was hospitalized for an extended time, but returned to work in January 2010 and was especially credited with the development of striker Mohammed Abdellaoue. In the summer of 2013, Soko\u0142owski was tempted to sign for SK Brann as assistant, where his son Tomasz played. In 2014, Soko\u0142owski started a lengthy tenure as the assistant manager for Henning Berg, first in Legia Warsaw, where the entire Norwegian coaching team was sacked in October 2015, then successively in Videoton, Stab\u00e6k, Omonia, Pafos and AIK. In between Videoton and Stab\u00e6k, Soko\u0142owski also had a spell in Kongsvinger without"}, {"text": "Berg. After Henning Berg resigned from AIK in June 2024, Soko\u0142owski continued as assistant under caretaker manager Henok Goitom. Ahead of the 2025 season, however, Sokolowski was announced as the new head of player development in Kongsvinger IL. \"Expressen\" conveyed that the move happened for family reasons. Honours. Poland U18"}, {"text": "Bang Yi Khan (, ) is a \"khwaeng\" (subdistrict) of Bang Phlat District, Bangkok's Thonburi side (west bank of Chao Phraya River). History. Its name after Khlong Bang Yi Khan, a small \"khlong\" (canal) that connect Chao Phraya River and other canals in the area such as Khlong Bang Bamru, Khlong Bang Chak, Khlong Pak Nam etc. Bang Yi Khan dates back to Ayutthaya period since there are at least two temples with a history dating back to those times are Wat Bang Yi Khan, and Wat Phraya Siri Aiya Sawan. In addition, there is also abandoned temple that have been built since the Ayutthaya period, namely Wat Suan Sawan, or locally known as Bot Rang (\"abandoned sanctuary\"). What makes Bang Yi khan the most well-known is the location of a liquor factory believed to have been established since the King Rama I's reign in early Rattanakosin period. Until during World War II this factory became under supervision of government and was named \"Bang Yi Khan Liquor Factory\". Told that in those days, yeasts that the factory released into Chao Phraya River, attract toli shad (\"Tenualosa toli\") to swim from the sea into freshwater to eat them as food. Currently,"}, {"text": "the liquor factory has been shut down and its location became a Rama VIII Memorial Park, a good atmosphere public park under the foot of Rama VIII Bridge. The occupation of Bang Yi Khan residents in the past was the cultivation of rambutan and manufacture of lime for eating with betel and areca nut. Pinklao is a popular name used to call this area (shares with Arun Amarin and Bang Bamru), this name after Phra Pinklao Bridge (usually shortened to Pinklao, or spelled Pin Klao), a bridge over Chao Phraya River and links Thonburi with Phra Nakhon sides, located in the area. Geography. Bang Yi Khan is considered to be an area in the southeast of the district. The area is bounded by other subdistricts (from north clockwise): Bang Phlat in its district (Ratchawithi Road is a divider line), Wachiraphayaban in Dusit District, Wat Sam Phraya, and Chana Songkhram in Phra Nakhon District (across Chao Phraya River), Arun Amarin in Bangkok Noi District (Somdet Phra Pin Klao Road is a divider line), and Bang Bamru in its district (Charansanitwong Road is a divider line). Bang Yi Khan is also divided into 13 communities. Bang Yi Khan Station (BL05), the extension"}, {"text": "of MRT Blue Line, indeed, it is overlaps between Bang Yi Khan and Bang Bamru."}, {"text": "Fitful Head is a headland at the southwest corner of Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, some northwest of the island's southernmost point at Sumburgh Head. Its summit is crowned by a trig point adjacent to a NATS installation served by a restricted access vehicular track which ascends from the hamlet of Quendale to the east. There are numerous islets and sea stacks at the foot of the stretch of cliffs which form the coast here. The summit and eastern slopes are formed from Neoproterozoic (late Precambrian) age metamorphic rocks assigned to the Dunrossness Phyllitic Formation, which is placed within the Cliff Hills Division and equates with the Southern Highland Group of the Dalradian suite of rocks of mainland Scotland. The steep cliffs dropping down to the sea are formed mostly from a silica-poor igneous intrusion, itself subject to metamorphism. The upper eastern slopes have a cover of peat. The area is known for its breeding bonxies. Just beneath the clifftop is a cave known as Thief's House, reckoned to be the spot referred to by Sir Walter Scott in his 1821 novel \"The Pirate\", where \"Norma of the Fitful Head\" lived."}, {"text": "Loshchinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 12 as of 2002. Geography. Loshchinskaya is located 71 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Glazunovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lukyanovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 82 as of 2002. Geography. Lukyanovskaya is located 58 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Klimovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lupachikha () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. Lupachikha is located 26 km northeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Karpovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Malaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 10 as of 2002. Geography. Malaya is located 21 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Shchegolikha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Malaya Nazarovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 5 as of 2002. Geography. Malaya Nazarovskaya is located 11 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vafunenskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Maleyevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2002. Geography. Maleyevskaya is located 37 km northeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tarasovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Maloye Ramenye () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 13 as of 2002. Geography. Maloye Ramenye is located 76 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Chichirino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Manuilovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yuchkinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2002. Geography. Manuilovskaya is located 29 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ivanovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Maryinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 138 as of 2002. Geography. Maryinskaya is located 18 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Perepechikha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Matveyevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 11 as of 2002. Geography. Matveyevskaya is located 69 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ivoninskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Miguyevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2002. Geography. Miguyevskaya is located 71 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Barkanovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mitinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 19 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 56.5 km, to Derevenka is 7.5 km. Guryevskaya, Zaozerye, Karpovskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Mitinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 13 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 21 km, to Baza is 3 km. Proletarsky, Soroginskaya, Timoninskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Mitrofanovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. Mitrofanovo is located 68 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yelenskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mikhaylovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 125 as of 2002. Geography. Mikhaylovskaya is located 28 km northeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Belavinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mikheyevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 10 as of 2002. Geography. Mikheyevskaya is located 23 km north of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Fevralsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mishutinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) and the administrative center of Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 135 as of 2002. Geography. Mishutinskaya is located 66 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Patrakeyevskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Molodyozhny () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 165 as of 2002. Geography. Molodyozhny is located 10 km north of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Syamba is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Munskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. Munskaya is located 67 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Myshino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mushchininskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2002. Geography. Mushchininskaya is located 52 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Baranikha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Supriadi is an Indonesian surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "The Aristophyli were a tribe of the district of Paropamisus, in Bactria. near the Karakorum Ranges during the Classical era. History. During the Hellenistic and Persian Empires the Arstophyli lived in the satrapy of the Paropanisadai. They are mentioned in Claudius Ptolemaeus and appear on a map of that work, in the area north west of modern Kabul. They came under the rule of Demetrius I of Bactria, who was ruling Greek Bactria from Kupisa. until Eucratides I of the Indo-Greek Kingdom conquered the area."}, {"text": "Mytnik () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 32 as of 2002. Geography. Mytnik is located 79 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tigino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Three Godfathers may refer to:"}, {"text": "Myshino () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2002. Geography. Myshino is located 66 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Munskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Navolok () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 21 as of 2002. Geography. Navolok is located 45 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Baranovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nadporozhye () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2002. Geography. Nadporozhye is located 12 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tupitsyno is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Dayalan is a 1941 Indian, Tamil-language film produced by T. R. Sundaram and directed by A. Mithra Das. The film stars P. U. Chinnappa, T. R. Mahalingam and K. V. Jayagowri. Plot. King Arputhavarman has two sons, Dayalan from his deceased wife and Bharathan from his second wife. He also brought up a young girl, Padmavathi. Dayalan falls in love with Padmavathi. A servant, Dunmathi, succeeds in poisoning the mind of the King and becomes the prime minister. His son Prathapan conspires with the father and plans to take over the Kingdom. Dunmathi convinces the King to believe that Dayalan is trying to kill the king and take over the Kingdom. The king sentences his son to death. Dayalan escapes from the prison with the help of his friends. After many twists and turns, Dayalan succeeds in exposing the conspiracy by the prime minister and his son. The king realises his folly. Dunmathi and Prathapan are killed. Dayalan marries Padmavathi and crowned as King. Cast. The list is compiled from the film's song book. Production. The film was produced by T. R. Sundaram under his own banner Modern Theatres and was directed by A. Mithra Das. The story was written"}, {"text": "by Kasi Viswanatha Pandian, the Elayaraja (Prince) of Ettayapuram. The dialogue was written by Kuppusami Kavi. Soundtrack. Tunes for almost all the songs were lifted from Hindi and Bengali. The song book gives the source for all songs. However, there is one song, \"Ullame Kavarnthu Ehinal\", sung by P. U. Chinnappa in pure Carnatic raga SayadhaRanjani set to Adi Thalam. No music director was credited. Lyrics were penned by Maharaja Vaththiyar. Reception. Writing in 2014, Randor Guy said the film was only an average success at the box-office. He said, the film is remembered for \"The performances by Chinnappa, Perumal, and melodious music and well-choreographed dances.\""}, {"text": "Nazarovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 26 as of 2002. Geography. Nazarovskaya is located 45 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Baranovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nekrasovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 51 as of 2002. Geography. Nekrasovskaya is located 60 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lukyanovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rebenok () is a Russian surname. Notable people with this surname include:"}, {"text": "Nefedovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 54 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 36 km, to Gridino is 12 km. Bukhara, Ogarkovskaya, Antsiferovskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Nefedovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 16 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 27.9 km, to Baza is 8 km. Belavinskaya, Khodinskaya, Mikhaylovskaya, Panteleyevskaya, Repnyakovskaya, Lupachikha, Karpovskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Takeo Mizoo (born 11 March 1937) is a Japanese speed skater. He competed in four events at the 1960 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Nizhnyaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 69 as of 2002. Geography. Nizhnyaya is located 64 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Anufriyevskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "DWBS is the callsign of the following radio stations in the Philippines"}, {"text": "Nikitino () is a rural locality (a village) that is found in the Beketovskoye Rural Settlement of Vozhegodsky District, in Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2002. Geography. Nikitino is located 72 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Popovka Kalikinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nikitinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 55 as of 2002. Geography. Nikitinskaya is located 19 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Leshchyovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Elle Graham, also known as Woodes, is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter and producer from Melbourne, Australia. Her debut album \"Crystal Ball\" was released in 2020. Woodes has supported Client Liaison on their 2019 \"The Real Thing\" tour. Elle received full rotation on radio for singles including: \"Run For It\", \"The Thaw\", \"Origami\", Set Mo's \"I Belong Here\", and \"Change My Mind\". \"I Belong here\" went Platinum in Australia. Woodes covered a Vance Joy song for her triple j \"Like a Version\". In 2021, she launched Tornado Club, a collaborative duo with The Kite String Tangle. Woodes released her EP, \"Kingdom Come,\" on 9 June 2023. The record explores themes of self-healing, personal growth, and the complexities of relationships. Collaborating with The Kite String Tangle, Woodes stated \"Kingdom Come\" was her most personal music, \"it was all about me finding power within myself after a breakup and moving interstate.\" Touring. In 2018 Woodes supported Sylvan Esso on their \"What Now\" tour. She also supported B\u00f8rns on their Australian tours. Awards and nominations. Environmental Music Prize. The Environmental Music Prize is a quest to find a theme song to inspire action on climate and conservation. It commenced in 2022."}, {"text": "Thomas Alfred Terence Malkin (20 September 1935 \u2013 18 March 2010) was a British speed skater. He competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics and the 1964 Winter Olympics. Malkin died in Vestby on 18 March 2010, at the age of 74."}, {"text": "Nikolskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 56 as of 2002. Geography. Nikolskaya is located 71 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Anisimovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nikulskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 17 as of 2002. Geography. Nikulskaya is located west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Voskresenskoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Jouko Jokinen (30 November 1936 \u2013 22 September 2024) was a Finnish speed skater. He competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics and the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Novaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 18 as of 2002. Geography. Novaya is located 19 km north of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pozharishche is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Novozhilikha () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 12 as of 2002. Geography. Novozhilikha is located southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Popovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Matthew John Peter Minagall (born 13 November 1971) is a former cricketer who played 13 matches of first-class cricket for South Australia from 1991 to 1998. Minagall was a left-arm wrist-spinner who was never able to establish a place in the South Australian team. He had one outstanding match, when he took 7 for 152 and 4 for 111 against Tasmania in Adelaide in 1994-95. Minagall is married to Shannon Minagall (nee Hebbard) and has 2 daughters, Montana and Jesse."}, {"text": "Larry Mason (30 July 1935 \u2013 12 August 2004) was a Canadian speed skater. He competed in three events at the 1960 Winter Olympics. In December 1962, he went to Europe as part of the national team composing of eight Canadian speed skaters, for a six-week training project in Sweden."}, {"text": "The Ambantae were a tribe, in the district of Paropamisis in Bactria near the Hindu Kush ranges in northern Afghanistan during antiquity, and who were mentioned by Ptolemy, Curtius and Strabo. Strabo records that their lands, though very cold in winter, were fertile. History. During the Hellenistic and Persian Empires the Ambantae lived in the satrapy of the Paropanisadai. They are mentioned in Claudius Ptolemaeus and appear on map XI of that work, in the area north west of modern Kabul. They came under the rule of Demetrius I of Bactria, who was ruling Greek Bactria from Kupisa until Eucratides I of the Indo-Greek Kingdom conquered the area."}, {"text": "DWCM is the callsign of the following radio stations in the Philippines owned by MBC Media Group:"}, {"text": "F\u00e1tima Albuquerque is a journalist and documentary filmmaker from Mozambique. She was one of the first Mozambican women to direct films in the 1980s. Her documentaries demonstrate the broad range of documentary filmmaking in Mozambique. After working on news items for \"\", Albuquerque made her first documentary, on street children in Mozambique."}, {"text": "Metallo is a supervillain appearing in DC Comics. Metallo may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Public Employment Services (PES) are services or authorities responsible for connecting jobseekers to the potential employers. Through the use of information, demand of labor market, and placement, PES authorities try to prevent unemployment within the public sector (concerning jobs within the government agency). In the European Union, the idea of establishing these services was imposed by the European Council and European Parliament in order to improve the matter of unemployment in this geographical sector. The official name of this authority is The European Network of Public Employment Services. Its responsibilities include: A Board is responsible for governing this network, in which each of the Member States and Commission are represented by two members. The meetings of the Board take place twice a year in order to promote strategic discussions and make decisions regarding the further activities of the Network. Challenges of Public Employment Services in Europe. Some of the challenges that the labor market experiences in relation to public employment services include demographic factors, globalization, technological changes, labor market challenge, or a rising income inequality. Demographic. Demographic factors show that population trends will have a severe impact on the labor market. Over the next 30 years, the European Union will"}, {"text": "encounter with the problem of population aging. In various European countries, the working population in the economies are already suffering from lack of skills in different occupations and sectors in the economy. The Public Employment Services are responsible for engaging the inactive people and focus on improving employability according to the challenges that these particular people face in different ages. Globalization. Globalization leads labor market to constantly evolving as a result of increasing use of mobile technologies and connections via Internet. Business try to increase their value through the restructuring processes while placing value of business innovations and upskilling of their labor in order to withstand the competition. Therefore, globalization stretches the importance of reemployment and upskilling of the workers who had been redundant due to restructuring processes. Public Employment Services in EU are therefore requiring improving the employability of people, support job-to-job transition and support the restructuring process of employers. Technology. Technology has been constantly evolving, causing the labor market to shift as well. Specifically, the shift from primary and manufacturing sectors towards more knowledge-based services and activities. This means that technology makes progress and greater productivity improvements, including the use of machinery, or turning manual tasks into automated."}, {"text": "And as it does, the global trends lean towards less employment in manufacturing sectors. Even though a shift towards knowledge-based services allows for opportunities, there is a risk of those opportunities to be taken unequally to the employees. Therefore, public employment services are required to serve as an instrument to offer better opportunities to the disadvantaged ones by providing skills and knowledge to help withstand the technological progress. Labor Market Skill Mismatch. Countries incapability to adapt workers\u2019 skills to the certain unmet demand for labor, limits them to excel in the economy. While under-qualification is an issue mostly in the low-income countries, the advanced and developed countries, including most of the European Union member states, struggle with an ample number of workers who are actually over-qualified. This brings another task for public employment services to collaborate with labor market stakeholders in order to improve and eventually develop the skills of the labor force to meet the demands. Rising Income Inequality. The increasing gap between rich and poor in European countries sets another challenge for the labor market. Research shows that a quarter of developed countries had become the richest 10 percent of the population in 2011. Public Employment Services can"}, {"text": "be used as an instrument to confront the income inequality and make it smaller, since a reason for such inequality may be attributed to long-term stagnation of growth in developed countries and low incidence of growth bursts in the developing countries. The \u201cStart and Improve Your Business\u201d Program. In connection with International Labor Organization, the Public Employment Services around the world are cooperating on a new program called Start and Improve Your Business. This program is a management-related training programme which focuses on starting and enhancing the quality of small businesses, promoting this as a strategy to provide men and women around the world with employment. SIYB is currently translated into 40 languages and functions in more than 100 countries, including the European member states. This program aims has been able to train 15 million people and had resulted in at least 2.65 million new businesses worldwide, helping mostly developing economies, but also focusing on European countries. EU Network of Public Employment Services: Strategy 2020. Due to challenges which are imposed by frictional unemployment and structural unemployment, European Public Employment Services are required to adapt their services. The document of EU Network of 2020 Strategy represents the common strategy to"}, {"text": "be promoted by the PES Network and build off of previous amendments. It sets direction of the future arrangements and changes relating to the unemployment issue. According to the decision of the European Council and the European Parliament made in May 2014, the formal legal entity has been given to the former network of Heads of Public Employment Services (HoPES). The mission of the PES Network is as follows: \u201cto be the vehicle for enhanced European PES cooperation enabling them to deliver their role as labor market conductors, contributing to European employment strategies, improving labor market function, integration and creating better balanced labor markets\u201d. Its goals which are designed to promote modernization of the public employment services, include: The latest update from the European Commission suggests that the duration of the EU Decision for establishing the Network of Public Employment Services has extended until 2027. Conclusion. Public Employment Services should be evidence-based, flexible and employment focused organizations. The objectives of these authorities in European Union are primarily their engagements with customers. They need to promote continual employment focus, account for the labor market knowledge and skills needed to withstand the pressure of this market. European PES/authorities share the values of"}, {"text": "respect, social responsibility, honesty and engagement as a part of the European Network. In order to put the requirements into long-term practice, these authorities will need to align the demand of both firms as well as the potential employees."}, {"text": "The Anglican Church of St Margaret at Bagendon in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England was built in the 12th century. It is a grade I listed building. History. The origins of the church are unclear. The current building was erected in the 12th century but there may have been a Saxon church on the site previously. The chancel was rebuilt in the 1460s and there was some further rebuilding in 1830. A Victorian restoration was carried out by Sidney Gambier-Parry in 1889. The parish is part of the Churn Valley benefice within the Diocese of Gloucester. Architecture. The limestone building consists of a nave, north aisle, vestry and chancel with a three-stage west tower supported by diagonal buttresses. The tower contains five bells. The interior includes an 11th-century font and memorials and tombs from various centuries. There is an aumbrey in the south wall of the sanctuary. There are fragments of stained glass from the 15th century. The north west window has glass by Charles Eamer Kempe."}, {"text": "Hermann Strutz (born 2 December 1938) is an Austrian speed skater. He competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics, the 1964 Winter Olympics and the 1968 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "DWAR is the callsign of the following radio stations in the Philippines:"}, {"text": "Terence Austin Monaghan (born 26 August 1933) is a British speed skater. He competed in four events at the 1960 Winter Olympics. He represented Great Britain in the European and World championships between 1956 and 1962. He broke the world record of Hjalmar Andersen on the 10 km which was realized in 1952.Unfortunately for Terry Monaghan some other skaters improved his time. So in the end he became 5th in these Olympic Games and the new world record went to Knut Johannessen. Biography. Terry loved his roller skates when he was a kid and moved to inline roller skates only for fun. But in 1941, he saw the movie Sun Valley Serenade, fell in love with Sonja Henie at 8 years old and decided that he wanted to go to Norway and ice skate. His interest developed from there. His dad died when he was a young teenager, so when his mom found out he loved skating, she bought him a season pass to the ice rink. She wanted to keep him off the streets and away from hanging out with the wrong crowd.He was skating at ages 14 and 15, since you had to 16 to be on the"}, {"text": "team. Though he had no coach, he was racing all over different towns in England and Scotland with the Bournemouth Speed Skating Team. When he was about 16, he jumped over a fallen skater in a race and was told he was skating dangerously.this lead him to be expelled from the club for two weeks. This put him out of the running for the championship half-mile race in which he was the favorite. When some others heard what had happened, they got together and sent him up to Wembley to the half-mile championships of Great Britain instead of the local championships and he made the finals. He was 26 when he competed for the Great Britain in the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley. Though he knew he wasn't going to win, he was thankful to be there for the experience. He worked at the ice arena as a ski instructor in Squaw Valley, during the first feast in 1961. He went to church in 1963 and was baptized. He gave up speed skating because it was his idle. At age 76 years, he was skating on coastal roads and came down a steep Oregon coastal road. He said it"}, {"text": "was fun but that was the last time he skated."}, {"text": "The Parietae or Paryetae, were a tribe, in the district of Paropamisis, in Bactria near the Hinu Kush ranges in northern Afghanistan during antiquity. During the Hellenistic and Persian Empires they lived in the satrapy of the Paropanisadai, but latter came under the rule of Demetrius I of Bactria, ruling Greek Bactria from Kupisa."}, {"text": "Grant Burgess (born 1960) is a male English international lawn bowler. Bowls career. Burgess came to prominence in 1987 when he won his first National title. He was bowling for the Worcester County Ground Bowls Club and the triples team of Burgess, Mark Weaver and John Weaver won the title. His most successful year was in 1998, bowling for the Gilt Edge Bowls Club of Worcestershire he won the prestigious singles title at the National Championships. This second National title earned a call up to represent England in the fours event, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The team of Burgess, Brett Morley, John Bell and Andy Thomson finished 3rd in their group, which meant that they just missed out on a bronze medal. In 2006, he reached his 21st county championship final and continued to participate in the senior events of competitions and reached the final of the National senior fours in 2019 bowling for Chester Road. In 2016 and 2021, he won the men's senior singles to claim his third and fourth National titles (bowling for Chester Road), the latter 34 years after his first in 1987."}, {"text": "Antonio Nitto (2 December 1938 \u2013 2 August 2023) was an Italian speed skater. He competed in three events at the 1960 Winter Olympics. Nitto died in Milan on 2 August 2023, at the age of 84."}, {"text": "Mario Gios (born 7 May 1936) is an Italian speed skater. He competed in four events at the 1960 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "The 1766 Istanbul earthquake was a strong earthquake with epicenter in the eastern part of the Sea of Marmara, in the \u00c7\u0131narc\u0131k Basin (or near the Princes' Islands, north of the basin) which occurred in the early hours of Thursday morning, 22 May 1766. The earthquake had an estimated magnitude of 7.1 on the surface-wave magnitude scale, and caused effects in a vast area extending from Izmit to Rodosto (now Tekirda\u011f). In this area, the earthquake was followed by a tsunami which caused significant damage. The earthquake of 1766 was the last major earthquake to rock Istanbul because of a rupture of the North Anatolian Fault in the Marmara region. Geology. The Sea of Marmara is a pull-apart basin formed at a releasing bend in the North Anatolian Fault (NAF), a right-lateral strike-slip fault. East of the Sea of Marmara the NAF splits into three major branches; while the sinuous southern branch goes inland in a southwesterly direction up to Ayvac\u0131k, where it reaches the Aegean Sea near the southern mouth of the Dardanelles, the other two major branches (northern and central) of the NAF, being under the Sea of Marmara about apart, form the Marmara pull-apart basin, meeting again"}, {"text": "under the northeast Aegean Sea. This local zone of extension occurs where this transform boundary between the Anatolian Sub-Plate and the Eurasian plate steps northwards to the west of \u0130zmit from the Izmit Fault to the Ganos Fault. Inside the Sea of Marmara there is a smaller pull-apart basin, named the \"North Marmara fault System\" (NMFS), which connect the three submarine basins (from west to east): Tekirda\u011f, Central and \u00c7\u0131narc\u0131k) with the Izmit and Ganos Fault (both inland). Near Istanbul the northern side of the NMFS pull-apart coincides with the northern branch of the NAF and is a single main fault segment with a sharp bend. To the west, the fault trends west\u2013east and is pure strike-slip in type. To the east, the fault is northwest\u2013southeast trending and shows evidence of both normal and strike-slip motion. In 1766, the rupture of the fault happened either under the Princes' Islands or, more probably, under the \u00c7\u0131narc\u0131k Basin, since a more central break could not have caused the great tsunami that struck Istanbul and the Gulf of \u0130zmit, although this had been produced by a submarine landslide. The 1766 event has been the last one caused by a rupture of the NAF"}, {"text": "in the Marmara region; successive large events which caused extensive damage in Istanbul, like the earthquake of 10 July 1894 (with epicenter in the Gulf of \u0130zmit) and that of 9 August 1912 (with epicenter northwest of Marmara Island), have to be considered isolated events caused by the non uniform stress relief during the 18th century earthquake sequence, to which the 1766 event belongs. Since the second last major event with an epicenter in the Istanbul region occurred in 1509, a recurrence interval of 200 to 250 years has been hypothesized. Characteristics. The earthquake began half an hour after sunrise, at 5:10 a.m. on 22 May 1766, which was the third day of the Kurban Bairam. The first shock, accompanied by a loud roar, lasted two minutes: it was followed by a less intense shock lasting four minutes, and aftershocks continued for eight minutes. In the following weeks there were also several aftershocks, and the duration of the whole sequence amounted to one year. Mathematical models of this event using Coulomb stress transfer are consistent with a fault rupture whose length ranges from . The earthquake was felt as far away as Ayd\u0131n, Thessaloniki, on Mount Athos, Aytos in eastern"}, {"text": "Bulgaria and along the west coast of the Black Sea. This earthquake was compared to the catastrophic one in Lisbon, which occurred 11 years earlier. Damage. The estimated area of significant damage (greater than the MCS VII grade (Very Strong)) extends from Bursa to K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fck\u00e7ekmece, but destruction occurred from Tekirda\u011f and Gelibolu to the west, \u0130zmit to the east and Edirne to the north. The settlements on the Gulf of Mudanya also suffered damage, while Galata and B\u00fcy\u00fck\u00e7ekmece were severely damaged. In Constantinople the intensity of the earthquake was estimated between grade VII and VIII-IX; many houses and public buildings collapsed. Furthermore, part of the underground water distribution system was destroyed; the Ayvad dam, on the upper K\u00e2\u011f\u0131thane, was damaged, and in Istanbul the vault of an underground cistern subsided. In Istanbul, most of the mosques and churches were damaged, as was the Topkap\u0131 Palace: the sultan had to live in temporary housing until his home was restored. The panicking populace was unable to go back home, and people sheltered themselves in tents pitched in wide and open spaces. Among the imperial mosques, the dome of that of Bayezid was damaged, while the minaret and the main dome of the"}, {"text": "mosque of Mihrimah collapsed. The S\u00fcleymaniye Mosque was also damaged, while the Fatih Mosque suffered the collapse of the minarets, the main dome and several secondary domes, and 100 students in the Koran school of the \"K\u00fclliye\" died; so the complex had to be rebuilt. The Kariye Mosque was also seriously damaged, but the mosque of Ayasofya survived instead almost unharmed. The castle of Yedikule, E\u011frikap\u0131, Edirnekap\u0131 and the city walls were also damaged, while there was damage to Galata and Pera and to the Grand Bazaar. At \u00c7atalca and in the surrounding villages all the masonry buildings collapsed. Since the earthquake struck the eastern part of the Sea of Marmara, serious damage was also recorded on the southern shore, from Mudanya to Karam\u00fcrsel, and the tsunami waves made the ports unusable. The highest level of the tsunami was observed in the Bosphorus region. Casualties. The number of deaths was estimated at 4,000, of which 880 were in Istanbul. August earthquake. In August of the same year, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck the Dardanelles region. On that occasion the damage in Istanbul was slight. This earthquake killed more than 5,000 people."}, {"text": "Edward \"Roy\" Tutty (7 July 1930 \u2013 6 January 2019) was an Australian speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1960 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "The rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup was a Nazi raid and mass arrest of Jews in Lyon's Sainte-Catherine street by the Gestapo. The raid, ordered and personally overseen by Klaus Barbie, took place on 9 February 1943 at the (Federation of Jewish Societies of France), then located at the number 12 of this street. To catch as many people as possible, the Nazis not only chose the day the Federation normally gave free medical treatment and food to poor Jewish refugees, but they also set up a trap by forcing arrested Federation employees to encourage further people to come to the 12 rue Sainte Catherine. A total of 86 Jewish people were arrested, 84 of whom were then sent to the Drancy internment camp. Ultimately 83 people were deported to the extermination camps of Sobibor and Auschwitz, and to a lesser extent to Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, and Majdanek. Of those arrested, two escaped before deportation, one was released from Drancy, and only three survived the extermination camps. A number of victims belonged to the French Resistance. The rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup was one of the main charges against Barbie at his trial. Malvine Lanzet, then 14 years old, the prisoner released from Drancy, testified"}, {"text": "at the trial in 1987. Further written testimonies were given by the few surviving witnesses. Context. In 1943, the offices of the fifth chapter of the Union G\u00e9n\u00e9rale des Isra\u00e9lites de France (UGIF, General union of Israelites of France) were located at 12 Rue Sainte-Catherine in Lyon. Officially, the UGIF was an organisation created by the collaborationist government of Vichy France under the auspices of Nazi Germany. In Lyon, it resulted from the merging of two pre-war entities: the (intergovernmental committee for refugees), created in 1938 to help Austrian and German Jewish refugees settle in France; and a branch of the French Jewish Society. During the war, it was nominally placed under the control of the Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs. The UGIF actually acted in secret for the social assistance and welfare of Jewish people, receiving funding from the American Quakers and, as the Nazis believed, from a Geneva-based Jewish society. The association provided shelter and general help to refugees from all over Europe arriving in Lyon since before the war. The UGIF also provided counterfeit papers and helped smuggle people abroad, in particular to Switzerland. The organisation included a number of non-Jewish helpers as well, who provided temporary housing"}, {"text": "for some refugees. These activities became known by the Nazis and served as a pretext for the Gestapo to raid the UGIF premises in Lyon, although their actual aim was simply to round up and send as many Jews as possible to the extermination camps. Roundup. Events. On Tuesday, 9 February 1943, the Gestapo, acting under the direction of Klaus Barbie, who was personally present, decided to arrest the members of the UGIF in Lyon and set up a trap to arrest all people visiting them. They chose a Tuesday because this was the day that the UGIF gave free food and administered medical treatments to the needy. Gilberte Jacob, one of the few survivors of the roundup reported at the trial of Barbie that she was at her reception desk when, in the early afternoon, three men armed with revolvers arrested her. In total 30 people were present in the UGIF offices when a dozen Gestapo men dressed in plain clothes arrived. In the following hours, the Gestapo forced the UGIF receptionists to answer calls as usual and to especially encourage people to visit the UGIF that day. Four or five Gestapo members plus Barbie interrogated everybody. The Gestapo"}, {"text": "trap worked and soon two rooms were filled with 80 people. The Nazis took all their belongings. Among the arrested people were Victor Szulklaper and Michel Kroskof-Thomas, who both managed to convince Barbie that they were not Jewish thanks to counterfeit documents. Kroskof-Thomas explained his presence by arguing that he was a painter. After he was let go, he tried to warn as many people as possible not to go to the Union office. In 1983 he provided crucial testimony in which he reported that Barbie was personally present at the UGIF premises on the day of the roundup. In 1985, he also formally identified Barbie in prison. Also initially arrested were Annette Grinszpan and her infant son Ren\u00e9 Grinszpan, then eight months old. Using counterfeit papers she passed as Alsacian, but ultimately Barbie sent her away because her baby was crying loudly. On 8 February 1943, L\u00e9a Katz-Weiss, then 16 years old, had overheard that a roundup was going to take place in the Grande synagogue de Lyon the next day. Looking for Rabbi Schonberg to warn him, she went to the UGIF offices in the afternoon of the 9th where she was arrested. She managed to convince a"}, {"text": "Gestapo officer to let her go in exchange for her coming back the next morning to the H\u00f4tel Terminus, so that she could warn her ill mother of her impending departure. Eva Gottlieb, receptionist at the UGIF, used counterfeit papers to claim she was unrelated to the UGIF and was only bringing back a Beethoven music score to a friend, so she was consequently let go. Both Eva Gottlieb and Annette Grinszpan gave written testimonies at the trial of Barbie. Fate of the prisoners. At the end of the day, the Gestapo had arrested 86 people, of whom 62 were men and 24 women. In the early evening they were forced into two trucks and sent to Fort Lamothe, a military casern that served as a temporary prison as the normal Montluc prison was full. They were left there, crammed into two rooms without food or water for two days under the control of the Wehrmacht. Two people, David Luksemberg and Driller Siegfried, managed to escape during this time in the early morning hours of 11 February 1943. The 84 prisoners still in German hands were sent by train convoy to the Drancy internment camp, north of Paris. At some"}, {"text": "point, Malvine Lanzet was released from Drancy, possibly owing to her youth and placed in the care of the UGIF in Paris. The remaining 83 people were deported to the Extermination camps of Sobibor, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Majdanek. Among these, only three survived. Victims. Complete list of people arrested during the Rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup with their age at the time of arrest, given in alphabetical order: The four survivors from the 84 arrested were: And the two prisoners who escaped from Fort Lamothe : Legacy. Following the roundup, the Nazis closed the premises of the UGIF at the Rue Sainte-Catherine. In April 1943, the head of the UGIF in Lyon at the time of the roundup, Robert Kahn, was sacked and replaced by Raymond Geissmann. Geissmann chose new collaborators and relocated the UGIF to the 9 Rue de l'H\u00f4tel de Ville. In spite of this, from then on most of the help to Jewish refugees came from elsewhere, for example from the office of the Rabbi of Lyon as the 5th chapter of the UGIF had been weakened by the roundup. Barbie's trial. In 1983, Serge Klarsfeld accessed the archives of the which had been brought to the YIVO Institute"}, {"text": "for Jewish Research in New York shortly after 1945. Thanks to these documents as well as the list of arrivals at the Drancy camp on 12 February 1943, Klarsfeld managed to establish a complete list of names for the 84 victims. The order signed by Barbie for the roundup was subsequently uncovered, which meant that the events of the Rue Sainte-Catherine were included at the trial of Barbie in 1987. Klarsfeld compiled these documents in the book (The Rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup in Lyon on 9 February 1943). The roundup of the Rue Sainte-Catherine was therefore instrumental in securing Barbie's life sentence. Commemorative plaque. On 13 February 2011, on the occasion of the 68th anniversary of the roundup, a commemorative plaque was put in the Rue Sainte-Catherine with the names of the 84 people arrested on 9 February 1943. The plaque, donated by the (Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees from France), was unveiled by the senator and mayor of Lyon, G\u00e9rard Collomb. Above the names of the victims, it bears the text: A yearly commemoration takes place in Lyon in remembrance of the events of 9 February 1943. On the morning of 21 October 2019, the plaque was defaced with"}, {"text": "half of the names of the victims covered in black ink."}, {"text": "Per-Olof Brogren (born 17 April 1939) is a Swedish speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1960 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Andreas Gro\u00dfbauer (born 1974) is an Austrian classical violinist. From September 2014 to September 2017 he was chairman of the Vienna Philharmonic. Life. Born in Graz, Gro\u00dfbauer received his first violin lessons at the age of five. At the age of twelve he was admitted to the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. He then studied with the Vienna Philharmonic Alfred Staar in Obersch\u00fctzen and Vienna. In May 2001, after winning an audition, he became first violinist with the Wiener Symphoniker. Furthermore he became a member of the Philharmonia Schrammeln Vienna; he belonged to this ensemble for ten years. In September 2005 he was accepted into the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera. Since 2008 he has been a member of the Vienna Philharmonic Association. In the summer of 2007 he was elected by the plenum of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra to the position of Ballchef, since then he has organised the annual in the Vienna Musikverein. On 11 June 2014 Gro\u00dfbauer was elected as the new president of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra by the orchestra's assembly. On 1 September 2014 he succeeded Clemens Hellsberg in this function. On 1 September 2017, Gro\u00dfbauer was replaced by Daniel Froschauer as"}, {"text": "Chairman of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. His wife is the successor of , organizer of the Vienna Opera Ball and since November 2017 Member of the National Council."}, {"text": "The Salatarae were a Bactrian tribe, who lived in the district of Paropamisis near the Hindu Kush ranges of northern Afghanistan during antiquity. They were active through Persian and Hellenistic times. the Salatarae [\u03a3\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1\u03c4\u03ac\u03c1\u03b1\u03b9v] were mentioned by Ptolemy, who says only that they lived along the bank of the Oxus river and based on the context of the text they appear to have been nomadic. Sir William Smith felt the Salatarae may the same people as the Saraparae mentioned by Pliny, though this remains conjecture. Current assessment is that they were ethnically an Iranian tribe dwelling on the northern bank of the Oxus River, that Is outside Persian and Seleucid control. Their neighbors appear to have been the Zariaspa and Chomatri tribes."}, {"text": "The American University of Bahrain (, abbreviated AUBH) is a private university situated in Riffa, Bahrain. Opened in September 2019 and licensed by the Higher Education Council of Bahrain. It is the first purpose-built American-model university in the country. AUBH is licensed by the Higher Education Council of the Ministry of Education of Bahrain. The university is governed by a board of trustees. AUBH Academic Partnerships. The American University of Bahrain is the first comprehensive, purpose-built, American-model co-educational University in the Kingdom of Bahrain and is supported through the Mumtalakat portfolio. Dr. Susan E. Saxton was appointed as the founding president and first president since the university opened the campus during the autumn of 2019. In November 2021, AUBH announced the finalization of an academic partnership with California State University, Northridge (CSUN), part of the largest university system in the U.S.: California State University. CSUN in the city of Los Angeles accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. This partnership is the first of its kind in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Over the years AUBH was persistently partnering with several industries, partnerships with (MISTI), Massachusetts institute of technology, (International Science and Technology Initiative). These partnerships can enable its"}, {"text": "students to engage in a plenty of workshops such as 3D modeling design and fabrication, robotics workshops and startups on the occasions of workshops all that benefits students to engage on their projects. Other partnerships were made with Bahrain's space agency the (NSSA) national space science. As well as partnerships with the telecommunications Zain Group in Bahrain. Campus. The university's campus is located in Bahrain's Southern Governorate, in Riffa. It was designed by US-based architects Ayers Saint Gross to accommodate up to 4,000 students and includes a library, four academic buildings each three storeys high, and an auditorium seating 250. The built-up area of campus totals ; there are 878 parking spaces. Accreditation. AUBH is licensed by the Higher Education Council of the Ministry of Education of the kingdom of Bahrain. On 3 June 2021, a WSCUC panel reviewed the appropriate eligibility criteria and determined that the institution is eligible to proceed with an Application for Accreditation. In March 2023, the university formally gained full WASC accreditation. Colleges. The university offers programs within three colleges: Business and Management, Engineering, and Media & Design."}, {"text": "G\u00f6ran Holter (born 16 November 1963) is a retired Swedish football striker."}, {"text": "Acacia helicophylla is a shrub belonging to the genus \"Acacia\" and the subgenus \"Juliflorae\" that is native to northern Australia. Description. The shrub typically grows to a maximum height of . It has red-brown to blackish coloured minni ritchi style bark peels in long slender strips. The densely haired branchlets are mostly terete with angular upper branchlets slightly and have wide irregular bands of resinous tissue. Like most species of \"Acacia\" it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The light green phyllodes have a narrowly oblong to oblanceolate shape that is undulate or spirally twisted. The hairy phyllodes have a length of and a width of and are narrower toward the base. They have six to eight longitudinal nerves with one prominent midnerve. It blooms between March and August producing golden flowers. The cylindrical flower-spikes occur singly or in pairs in the axils and have a length of . Following flowering thinly coriaceous seed pods form that have a narrowly oblong shape and can be constricted between the seeds. The pods are in length and wide with fine hairs. The seeds within are arranged longitudinally. The dark brown swollen seeds have an elliptic shape and a length of with an"}, {"text": "orbicular areole. Taxonomy. The species was first formally described by the botanist Leslie Pedley in 1974 as part of the work \"Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium\". It was reclassified as \"Racosperma helicophylla\" in 2003 by Pedley then transferred back to genus \"Acacia\" in 2006. Distribution. It is endemic to the top end of the Northern Territory where it is found in a tropical climate in a small area in Nitmiluk National Park between Katherine Gorge and Gunlom Falls where it is usually situated on steep hillsides and on sandstone cliffs where it is found among rocks growing in skeletal sandy soils."}, {"text": "Siyannu () is a Syrian village in Jableh District in Latakia Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Siyannu had a population of 4,784 in the 2004 census. History. Late Bronze. Siyannu, which was also known as U\u0161natu, was part of Ugarit, before having its independence and becoming a border region with Amrit during the reign of the Hittite King Mur\u0161ili II. Iron Age. Siyannu/Shianu, led by King Adunu Baal, took part in the Battle of Qarqar against the invading Assyrians. Nahr as-Sinn was also called \"Siyannu\" which marked the southern borders of Ugarit."}, {"text": "Stefan Mogens Paldan (born 27 October 1971) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He was a squad member for Sweden at the 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship and the 1992 UEFA European Under-21 Championship."}, {"text": "George Gheverghese Joseph, also known as G. G. Joseph is an Indian-born African mathematician who is a specialist in the history of mathematics. His works are mainly focused on the achievements of Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics and the transmission of mathematics from India to Europe. Early life and works. Joseph was born in Kerala, India. At the age of 9, his family moved to Mombasa, Kenya and he pursued his schooling in Kenya. He completed his degree in mathematics at the University of Leicester. After completing his degree, he worked as a school teacher for six years in Kenya and, then he did a master's degree at the University of Manchester, England. He qualified in Law in 2000. He studied and conducted researches in applied mathematics and statistics, including multivariate analysis, mathematical programming, and demography. Through his research and the best selling book The Crest of the Peacock, he argued that the infinite series was invented by Kerala mathematicians in 1350, before Europeans. This work garnered publicity and generated discussions in the history of maths on the discoveries made by Indians that predated the Europeans."}, {"text": "Roger Magnus Nordstrand (born 20 May 1973) is a Swedish former football midfielder. He was a squad member for Sweden at the 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship."}, {"text": "Intel Xe (stylized as Xe and pronounced as two separate letters, abbreviation for \"exascale for everyone\"), earlier known unofficially as Gen12, is a GPU architecture developed by Intel. Intel Xe includes a new instruction set architecture. The Xe GPU family consists of a series of microarchitectures, ranging from integrated/low power (Xe-LP), to enthusiast/high performance gaming (Xe-HPG), datacenter/high performance (Xe-HP) and high performance computing (Xe-HPC). History. Intel's first attempt at a dedicated graphics card was the Intel740, released in February 1998. The Intel740 was considered unsuccessful due to its performance which was lower than market expectations, causing Intel to cease development on future discrete graphics products. However, its technology lived on in the Intel Extreme Graphics lineup. Intel made another attempt with the Larrabee architecture before canceling it in 2009; this time, the technology developed was used in the Xeon Phi, which was discontinued in 2020. In April 2018, it was reported that Intel was assembling a team to develop discrete graphics processing units, targeting both datacenters, as well as the PC gaming market, and therefore competitive with products from both Nvidia and AMD. Rumors supporting the claim included that the company had vacancies for over 100 graphics-related jobs, and had"}, {"text": "taken on former Radeon Technologies Group (AMD) leader Raja Koduri in late 2017 \u2013 the new product was reported to be codenamed \"Arctic Sound\". The project was reported to have initially been targeting video streaming chips for data centers, but had its scope expanded to include desktop GPUs. In June 2018, Intel confirmed it planned to launch a discrete GPU in 2020. The first functional discrete \"Xe\" GPU, codenamed \"DG1\", was reported as having begun testing in October 2019. According to a report by \"Hexus\" in late 2019, a discrete GPU would launch in mid 2020; combined GPU/CPU (GPGPU) products were also expected, for data center and autonomous driving applications. The product was expected to initially be built on a 10 nm node (with 7 nm products in 2021) and use Intel's Foveros die stacking packaging technology (see 3D die stacking). During 2020, the first GPUs were released under the name Intel Iris Xe Max, being integrated in the 11th generation Intel Core processors (codenamed \"Tiger Lake\" and \"Rocket Lake\"), followed in 2021 by the Iris Xe DG1 card, exclusive to Intel OEM manufacturers. Finally and after some delays, the retail launch of these first discrete graphics cards from the"}, {"text": "company in over 20 years, known as the Intel Arc series, would occur during 2022. Architecture. Intel Xe expands upon the microarchitectural overhaul introduced in Gen 11 with a full refactor of the instruction set architecture. While Xe is a family of architectures, each variant has significant differences from each other as these are made with their targets in mind. The Xe GPU family consists of Xe-LP, Xe-HP, Xe-HPC, and Xe-HPG sub-architectures. Unlike previous Intel graphics processing units which used the Execution Unit (EU) as a compute unit, Xe-HPG and Xe-HPC use the Xe-core. This is similar to an Xe-LP subslice. An Xe-core contains vector and matrix arithmetic logic units, which are referred to as vector and matrix engines. Other components include L1 cache and other hardware. Xe-LP (Low Power). Xe-LP is the low power variant of the Xe architecture with removed support for FP64. Xe-LP is present as integrated graphics for 11th-generation Intel Core and the Iris Xe MAX mobile dedicated GPU (codenamed DG1), as well as in the H3C XG310 Intel Server GPU (codenamed SG1). Compared to its predecessor, Xe-LP includes new features such as Sampler Feedback, Dual Queue Support, DirectX12 View Instancing Tier2, and AV1 8-bit and"}, {"text": "10-bit fixed-function hardware decoding. Xe-HP (High Performance). Xe-HP is the datacenter/high performance variant of Xe, optimized for FP64 performance and multi-tile scalability. Xe-HPC (High Performance Compute). Xe-HPC is the high performance computing variant of the Xe architecture. An Xe-HPC Xe-core contains 8 vector and 8 matrix engines, alongside a large 512 KB L1 cache. It powers Ponte Vecchio. Xe-HPG (High Performance Graphics). Xe-HPG is the enthusiast or high performance graphics variant of the Xe architecture. The microarchitecture is based on Xe-LP with improvements from Xe-HP and Xe-HPC. The microarchitecture is focused on graphics performance and supports hardware-accelerated ray tracing, DisplayPort 2.0, XeSS or supersampling based on neural networks (similar to Nvidia DLSS), and DirectX 12 Ultimate. Intel confirmed ASTC support has been removed from hardware starting with Alchemist and future Intel Arc GPU microarchitectures will also not support it. An Xe-HPG Xe-core contains 16 vector engines and 16 matrix engines. An Xe-HPG render slice will consist of four Xe-cores, ray tracing hardware, and other components. Xe-LPG (Low Power Graphics). The Xe-LPG architecture is a low power variant of Xe-HPG designed for the tile-based iGPUs (tGPUs) of Intel's Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake processors. It is based on the same Arc"}, {"text": "Alchemist graphics (Gen 12.7) used by Intel's Arc A-series graphics cards but is optimized for operation with lower wattage and higher performance per watt. Intel Xe 2. A successor to Xe was revealed during Intel Architecture Day 2021, under the name of Xe 2, codenamed Battlemage. In an exclusive interview with HardwareLuxx Tom Petersen confirmed that Xe2 would be segmented into \"Xe2-LPG\" (Low Power Graphics) for integrated GPUs and \"Xe2-HPG\" (High Performance Graphics) for discrete GPUs. Xe 2 was first released with Xe2-LPG in Lunar Lake on September 24, 2024. On December 3 2024, Intel announced the Arc B-Series Graphics Cards for desktop, utilizing the Xe2-HPG architecture, which was later released on December 12 2024. Intel Xe 3. Intel Xe 3, codenamed Celestial, is the upcoming successor to the Intel Xe 2 microarchitecture. Intel Xe 4. Intel Xe 4, codenamed Druid, is the upcoming successor to the Intel Xe 3 microarchitecture. Products using Xe. Integrated graphics. Newer Intel processors use the Xe-LP microarchitecture. These include 11th generation Intel Core processors (codenamed \"Tiger Lake\" and \"Rocket Lake\"), 12th generation Intel Core processors (codenamed \"Alder Lake\"), and 13th generation Intel Core processors (codenamed \"Raptor Lake\"). Discrete graphics. Intel Iris Xe Max (DG1)."}, {"text": "In August 2020, Intel was reported to be shipping Xe DG1 GPUs for a possible late 2020 release, while also commenting on a DG2 GPU aimed at the enthusiast market (later found out to be the first generation of Intel Arc nicknamed \"Alchemist\"). The DG1 is also sold as the Iris Xe MAX and as Iris Xe Graphics (stylized as iRIS Xe) in laptops, while cards for developers are sold as the DG1 SDV. The Xe MAX is an entry-level GPU that was first released on November 1, 2020, in China and is similar in most aspects to the integrated GPU found in Tiger Lake processors, the only differences being a higher clock speed, slightly higher performance and dedicated memory and a dedicated TDP requirement. It competes with Nvidia's laptop-level GeForce MX series GPUs. It is aimed at slim and highly portable productivity laptops and has 4 GB of dedicated LPDDR4X-4266 memory with a 128-bit-wide memory bus, has 96 EUs, 48 texture units, 24 ROPs, a peak clock speed of 1650 MHz and a performance of 2.46 FP32 teraFLOPs with a 25w TDP. By comparison, the integrated GPU in Tiger Lake processors has a performance of 2.1 FP32 teraFLOPs. The"}, {"text": "Xe MAX does not replace the system's integrated GPU; instead it was designed to work alongside it, so tasks are split between the integrated and discrete GPUs. It was initially available on only 3 laptops: The Asus VivoBook Flip 14 TP470, the Acer Swift 3X, and the Dell Inspiron 15 7000. Intel Xe MAX GPUs can only be found on systems with Tiger Lake processors. Intel officially announced Intel Iris Xe Graphics desktop cards for OEMs and system integrators on January 26, 2021. It is aimed at mainstream desktop and business PCs as an improvement over other graphics options in AV1 video decoding, HDR (high dynamic range) video support and deep learning inference, and is not as powerful as its laptop counterpart, with only 80 enabled EUs. The first cards are made by Asus, have DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0, Dual Link DL-DVI-D outputs and are passively cooled. Intel Arc. Intel Arc is a high-performance discrete graphics line optimized for gaming. This will competes with the Radeon and GeForce lines of graphics processing units. The first generation (codenamed \"Alchemist\"), was developed under the \"DG2\" name and is based on the Xe-HPG architecture. Future generations are codenamed Battlemage (\"DG3\", based on Xe2),"}, {"text": "Celestial (\"DG4\", based on Xe3), and Druid (\"DG5\"). Datacenter. Intel H3C XG310. On November 11, 2020 Intel launched the H3C XG310 data center GPU consisting of four DG1 GPUs with 32 GB of LPDDR4X memory on a single-slot PCIe card. Each GPU is connected to 8 GB of memory over a 128-bit bus and the card uses a PCIe 3.0 x16 connection to the rest of the system. The GPUs use the Xe-LP (Gen 12.1) architecture. Ponte Vecchio. Intel officially announced their Xe general HPC/AI GPU codenamed \"Ponte Vecchio\" on November 17, 2019. It was revealed to use the Xe-HPC variant of the architecture and Intel's 'Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge' (EMIB) and Foveros die stacking packaging on a Intel 4 node (previously referred to as 7 nm). Intel later confirmed at Architecture Day 2021 that Ponte Vecchio would use Compute Tiles manufactured on TSMC N5, Base Tiles and Rambo Cache Tiles manufactured using Intel 7 (previously referred to as 10 nm Enhanced SuperFin) and Xe Link Tiles manufactured on the TSMC N7 process. The new GPU is expected to be used in Argonne National Laboratory's new exascale supercomputer, Aurora, with compute nodes comprising two next generation Intel Xeon (codenamed \"Sapphire"}, {"text": "Rapids\") CPUs, and six \"Ponte Vecchio\" GPUs. Rialto Bridge. Intel officially announced the successor to Ponte Vecchio, GPU codenamed \"Rialto Bridge\" on May 31, 2022. On March 3, 2023 Intel announced the discontinuation of Rialto Bridge in favor of their tile-based flexible and scalable Falcon Shores XPU (CPU + GPU) set to arrive in 2025. Arctic Sound. Under the codename Arctic Sound Intel developed data center GPUs for visual cloud and AI inference based on the Xe-HP architecture (Gen 12.5). The GPUs were supposed to be fabbed on Intel's 10nm node and have a die size of around 190 mm2 with 8 billion transistors. Up to four GPUs tiles could be combined into a single package together with HBM2e memory. In October 2021 Raja Koduri announced that Xe-HP won't be commercialized into a final product. Instead the Arctic Sound cards will be based on the Xe-HPG architecture (Gen 12.7), the same as the Alchemist consumer graphics cards. They were launched on August 24, 2022 as the Intel Data Center GPU Flex series. On March 3, 2023 Intel announced that it would discontinue the development of Lancaster Sound which was supposed to succeed Arctic Sound in 2023 with incremental improvements. Instead"}, {"text": "Intel will accelerate the development of Melville Sound which will be a significant architectural leap in terms of performance and features. Intel Graphics Technology. Intel Graphics Technology (GT) is a collective name for a series of integrated graphics processors (IGP) produced by Intel, which are manufactured on the same package or die as the central processing unit (CPU). It was first introduced in 2010 as Intel HD Graphics and renamed in 2017 to Intel UHD Graphics. Before the advent of Intel HD Graphics, Intel integrated graphics were embedded in the northbridge of the motherboard as part of the Intel Hub architecture. They were known as Intel Extreme Graphics and Intel GMA. Within the Platform Controller Hub (PCH) development, the northbridge was eliminated, and graphics processing was moved onto the same die as the central processing unit (CPU). The previous integrated graphics solution from Intel, Intel GMA, had a reputation for insufficient performance and functionality, and therefore was not considered a good choice for more demanding graphics applications, such as 3D gaming. The performance increase provided by Intel HD Graphics made the products competitive with integrated graphics adapters produced by its competitors, Nvidia and ATI/AMD. Intel HD Graphics, demonstrating minimal power"}, {"text": "consumption, which is important for laptops, was sufficiently powerful that PC manufacturers often discontinued offering discrete graphics options in both lower and higher-end laptop lines where reduced size and low power consumption are important. Nowadays, if a mini-PC for a home office or a portable laptop for work and light entertainment is needed, Iris Xe Graphics may be the best choice. Intel Iris Graphics and Intel Iris Pro Graphics are series of IGP introduced in 2013 with some Haswell processor models as high-performance versions of HD Graphics. Iris Pro Graphics was the first in the series to include embedded DRAM. Since 2016, Intel has called this technology Intel Iris Plus Graphics with the launch of Kaby Lake. In the fourth quarter of 2013, Intel integrated graphics accounted for 65% of all PC graphics processor shipments. However, this percentage does not reflect actual adoption, as some of those shipped devices ultimately ended up in systems with discrete graphics cards. Intel HD and Iris Graphics are divided into generations, and within each generation into \"performance tiers\" designated by the \"GTx\" label. Each generation corresponds to an implementation of the Gen graphics microarchitecture with the corresponding GEN instruction set architecture starting from Gen4."}, {"text": "The 17th Raider Infantry Brigade / Kujang I (abbreviated The 17th Raider Brigade / Kujang I) is a Brigade level unit in the 1st Kostrad Infantry Division, a branch of the Indonesian Army. The Raiders Brigade consists of three battalions: The unit's Command Headquarters (Mako) \"Brigadier Raider 17 / Kujang I\" is located in Cijantung, East Jakarta. This brigade was established on May 20, 1966. This unit was previously named the 17th Para Raider Infantry Brigade / Kujang I."}, {"text": "Svante Lennart Samuelsson (born 4 September 1972) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Beginning his career with Vallens IF in 1988, he went on to represent Kalmar FF, \u00d6rgryte IS, SK Brann, and AIK before retiring at Kalmar FF in 2005. He won two caps for the Sweden national team in 2001."}, {"text": "Ram\u00f3n C\u00e1ceres is a Santo Domingo Metro station on Line 2. It was open on 1 April 2013 as part of the inaugural section of Line 2 between Mar\u00eda Montez and Eduardo Brito. The station is located between Mauricio B\u00e1ez and Horacio V\u00e1squez. This is an underground station built below Expreso V Centenario. It is named in honor of Ram\u00f3n C\u00e1ceres."}, {"text": "Andreas Ottosson (born 28 August 1971) is a retired Swedish football striker."}, {"text": "Peter Olofsson (born 10 November 1975) is a retired Swedish football midfielder."}, {"text": "Neckarsulm Nord station () is a railway station in the municipality of Neckarsulm, located in the Heilbronn district in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, Germany. It is adjacent to the major Audi motor factory."}, {"text": "47 (London) Signal Regiment was a Territorial Army (TA) unit of the British Army's Royal Corps of Signals. It had its origins in an engineer company and a cyclist battalion of the former Territorial Force that were amalgamated in 1920. It provided corps signal units during and after World War II. Following a series of postwar mergers Its successors continue in the Army Reserve today. Origin. When the Royal Corps of Signals (RCS) was created in 1920 the 47th (2nd London) Divisional Signals was formed in the Territorial Army (TA). It combined the former 47th (2nd London) Signal Company of the Royal Engineers (RE) with the 25th (County of London) Cyclist Battalion of the London Regiment. Signal Company. When the old Volunteer Force was subsumed into the Territorial Force (TF) after the Haldane reforms in 1908, the 1st Middlesex Royal Engineers (Volunteers) provided the RE components of the TF's 2nd London Division, including the 2nd London Divisional Telegraph Company, RE, with the following organisation: Nos 2\u20134 Sections were attached to and largely manned by the 4th\u20136th infantry brigades of the division. The company (termed a signal company from 1910) served with 47th (1/2nd London) Division on the Western Front during"}, {"text": "World War I and spun off a 2nd Line unit for 60th (2/2nd London) Division, which served in Salonika and Palestine. Cyclist Battalion. The first Bicycle infantry in the British Army were the 26th Middlesex (Cyclist) Volunteer Corps, formed on 1 April 1888 by a group of enthusiastic cyclists. On the formation of the TF it became 25th (County of London) Cyclist Battalion of the London Regiment. It served in coast defence during the early part of World War I, but in February 1916 it sailed for India, leaving its 2nd Line battalion to continue the coast defence duties. In 1917 the battalion joined the Waziristan Field Force as infantry and took part in the Waziristan Campaign of that year. In April 1919 it was on security duty at Amritsar at the time of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, then from May to August took part in the Third Afghan War, including the Relief of Thall, before finally being demobilised almost a year after the end of World War I. Interwar. In 1920 the RE Signal Service became the independent Royal Corps of Signals (RCS). 47th (2nd London) Signal Company merged with the 25th (County of London) Cyclist Battalion, and the"}, {"text": "combined 47th (2nd London) Divisional Signals established its HQ at the Cyclists' drill hall at Fulham House in Fulham. It also administered a number of other TA and Supplementary Reserve (SR) signal units based at Fulham House: The first Commanding Officer (CO) was Lieutenant-Colonel William Fox Bruce, DSO, MC, who had been captured during the German Spring Offensive of 1918 while commanding 47th Signal Company. To meet the growing threat of air attack, a number of TA units began to be converted to the anti-aircraft (AA) role during the 1930s. On 16 December 1935, 47th (2nd London) Divisional HQ was redesignated 1st AA Division (for which London District Signals provided the communications), while 47th Divisional Signals became London Corps Signals. London Corps Signals also administered 204th Medium Regiment and 206th Field Regiment Signal Sections (TA) and 2 (London) Company Air Formation Signals (SR), and had A Company 1st West London Cadet Corps affiliated to it. World War II. Mobilisation. When the TA was doubled in size in early 1939 after the Munich Crisis, the unit split to form 1st and 2nd (London) Corps Signals. However, on the outbreak of war these were redesignated, the 1st Line unit joining Lt-Gen Alan"}, {"text": "Brooke's II Corps with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) as 2nd (London) Corps Signals, while the 2nd Line unit was earmarked for IV Corps in 1940 but became 5th (London) Corps Signals. Organisation. In 1939, the organisation of a corps signal unit was as follows: In 1941, 1 Company supported the Main Corps HQ and 2 Company supported Rear HQ. By 1943 corps signal units had disbanded their third company and divided its duties between signal troops assigned to individual artillery regiments and the new Army Groups Royal Artillery (AGRAs). Finally, in 1944, 1 and 2 Companies supported Main HQ, a new 3 Company was formed for line construction and a new 4 Company supported Rear HQ. 2nd (London) Corps Signals. The unit was warned for mobilisation on 4 August 1939 and was embodied at Fulham House on 25 August. It moved to Ludgershall, Wiltshire, on 1 September, from where all soldiers under the age of 19 were returned to Fulham House to join the 2nd Line unit still being formed. 2nd (L) Corps Signals returned to Sutton, London, on 14 September and completed its war establishment. It embarked for France to join the BEF on 29 September. In December"}, {"text": "1939 and January 1940 it was joined by Nos 10 and 11 Line Sections provided by the 2nd Line unit. Battle of France. Once concentrated, II Corps moved on 12 October up to the French frontier. When the German offensive in the west opened on 10 May 1940. the BEF advanced into Belgium in accordance with 'Plan D'. However, the German Army broke through the Ardennes to the east, forcing the BEF to withdraw again, by 19 May the whole force was back across the Escaut and then went back to the so-called 'Canal Line'. By 26 May the BEF was cut off and the decision was made to evacuate it through Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo), with II Corps acting as flank guard against the German penetration where the Belgian Army had surrendered. The last of the BEF who could enter the Dunkirk bridgehead had done so by 29 May and the evacuation progressed: III Corps went first, followed by II Corps after handing over responsibility for the eastern flank to the rearguards of I Corps. Most of II Corps was evacuated on the night of 31 May/1 June. After evacuation the signal unit was due to return to France as"}, {"text": "part of the Second BEF that was being organised, but on the surrender of France it was instead sent to Northern Ireland as 6th (London) Corps Signals. Middle East and Mediterranean. In 1941 the unit was redesignated again as 3rd (London) Corps Signals and sent to join Middle East Forces. At this time III Corps was a deception HQ in Persia and Iraq Command (Paiforce). In 1942 3rd (L) Corps Signals spun off a separate 21st Corps Signals for Paiforce. This unit later became Eastern Command Signals in India and was disbanded on Indian independence in 1947. 3rd (L) Corps Signals also spun off 3 Army Signals, which served in the Middle East for the rest of the war. In 1944 3rd (L) Corps Signals was reorganised as No 18 Line of Communication Signals and sent to the Italian Front. After 1943, a Line of Communication signal unit was intended to be organised as follows: After a short spell in Italy, 18 LoC Signals served in Greece during the British occupation and civil war that followed the German withdrawal. The unit was demobilised there in 1946. 5th (London) Corps Signals. While the 1st Line unit went to France, the 2nd"}, {"text": "Line continued to absorb recruits and train at Fulham House and various locations round Putney and Wandsworth. During the winter it sent 10 and 11 Line Sections to join 2nd Corps, and in April 1940 it provided a cadre of 150 men to form 7th Corps Signals. Also in April five of its sections (5 Line Maintenance, 9 Wireless, 13 Operating and 25 and 28 Line Sections) were mobilised for overseas service, though this did not happen. In early May some subunits were detached for training to South Shields and Portsmouth, and on their return the whole unit (six officers and 250 other ranks) moved to Old Dean Common Camp in Aldershot Command and then to Minley Manor, which it shared with 4th (North Midland) Corps Signals. The intention was that the London unit would take over as 4th Corps Signals while the North Midland unit would join the North Western Expeditionary Force (NWEF) in the Norwegian campaign. However, the evacuations from Norway and France disrupted all arrangements: both units provided personnel to reform 2nd (L) Corps Signals after its evacuation from Dunkirk (\"see above\") and 5th (L) Corps Signals resumed its title. V Corps HQ under Lt-Gen Claude Auchinleck"}, {"text": "was formed from the NWEF HQ on 17 June 1940 at Tidworth Camp, Wiltshire, in Southern Command. Here it was joined by 5th (L) Corps Signals, initially accommodated at Bhurtpore Barracks and in a tented camp. Within a month Corps HQ was established at Melchett Court, near Salisbury, and 5th (L) Corps Signals at Cowesfield House, fully cabled, with the wireless sections at Deanhill Farm ('Radio City'), a pigeon loft at Redlynch, and a Rear HQ signals office at Romsey. V Corps HQ was responsible for operational control and coast defence in Hampshire and Dorset, and had to respond to numerous false invasion alarms during the summer of 1940. Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery took over as General Officer Commanding (GOC) V Corps on 21 July 1940, and emphasised mobility for all units and HQs in its training exercises. The new GOC was ruthless in replacing officers who did not match up to his standards for fitness and ability. V Corps HQ moved to Longford Castle, still near Salisbury, in mid-September 1940, and 5th (L) Corps Signals was distributed in surrounding parts of Wiltshire and Hampshire as follows: The unit remained in this area until 1942, with frequent exercises of increasing complexity,"}, {"text": "5th (L) Corps Signals deploying the new AEC armoured command vehicle (EVC). In June 1942 V Corps was designated for Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa, and came under the command of First Army. V Corps HQ (now under Lt-Gen Charles Allfrey as GOC) and signals relocated to Hamilton Park Racecourse in Scotland where a series of embarkation and communication exercises were held. The ACVs were deemed unsuitable for North West Africa, and the signal equipment was transferred to soft-skin lorry command vehicles (LCVs). Then between 4 and 10 November the unit moved to Leith and Gourock to embark for the Torch convoys, with the following organisation: Operation Torch. The Allied landings began on 8 November 1942 and the first section of 5th (L) Corps Signals landed at Algiers from SS \"Reina del Pacifico\" in Convoy KMS3 on 22 November. The rest of the unit followed on convoys KMS4 and KMS5, with the transport arriving on 27 November. Temporary Corps HQ and signals were established north of the city, and an advanced HQ at Ferme Fabre between Souk el Arba and Souk El Khemis in Tunisia. The first 5th (L) Corps Signals road convoy left Algiers at 07.40"}, {"text": "on 1 December with some 250 personnel and drove hundreds of miles eastwards, reaching Ferme Fabre on 4 December, where the signal centre was established. V Corps HQ took over the front on 6 December. Wireless links were quickly established to First Army and 78th Division. Next day the civilian telephone network was utilised for links to First Army Command Post, and shortly afterwards wireless links were established to 6th Armoured Division and 'Blade Force'. By now the Axis forces had reacted strongly to the invasion and First Army's drive towards Tunis had been halted in the mountains, with V Corps engaged in hard fighting round Longstop Hill. For the next four months a series of actions was fought along this static line, and an extensive network of signal cables to formation HQs was repaired and laid, despite frequent breaks caused by air raids. 25 Line Section working in the forward areas had to be withdrawn following probes by enemy patrols. Corps Signal Office was established in a storm water culvert under a road, known as 'The Drain'. By May 1943 V Corps was poised for a final advance on Tunis, with the line sections working forwards along the two"}, {"text": "main axes of advance for 78th Division and 4th Division. Signals personnel helping the Royal Engineers clear minefields along these axes suffered several casualties. Rapid progress was made after Operation Strike was launched on 6 May, and 78th Division entered Tunis on 8 May; V Corps HQ moved up to Massicault the same day. The Tunisian campaign ended on 13 May and on 14 May Corps HQ and Signals moved into Carthage. Work continued to restore cable links and remove mines, but on 15 June the unit handed over its communication network to 1st Army Signals and moved west to rejoin V Corps HQ at Constantine. Italian Campaign. V Corps was not involved in the subsequent Allied invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky) but was responsible for administering a number of units in North Africa. 5th (L) Corps Signals collected new equipment and undertook training, as well as lending sections to 15th Army Group HQ. At the end of August it received its orders for the Allied invasion of mainland Italy. On 11 September V Corps' Tactical HQ and Tactical Signals moved to Bizerta and embarked to join Eighth Army at Taranto; the rest of the unit moved to Philipeville on"}, {"text": "16 September for embarkation. The main signal elements arrived on 20 September without their transport and set up in a grove some north of Taranto. The first ship carrying half the vehicles and equipment reached Brindisi on 27 September, but of the second ship, \"Ocean Stranger\" there was no sign. It had arrived at Salerno on the other side of Italy, where fighting was still going on and was at first unable to unload. 5th (L) Corps Signals was finally united at Canosa on 3 October. On 10 October the unit moved up to Serracapriola and began establishing communications for the formations under corps command. Away from the coastal railway civil telephone lines were sparse, and the unit soon used up all the telephone poles in 42 Signal Park. Although power control circuits along the electricity supply pylons up the valleys could also be used, V Corps was faced with the necessity of greater use of wireless. By the end of October the unit's rear elements had joined from North Africa, on 2 November, following the crossing of the Trigno, it moved up to Termoli and on 8 November to Vasto. V Corps' next task was to cross the Sangro"}, {"text": "and tackle the Germans' Gustav Line. During the preparations the line sections had to instal cable down to the river under artillery fire, but the attack on 28\u201329 November succeeded, and cables were laid across the bridges laid by the Royal Engineers. Bad weather hampered further advances, but after 1st Canadian Division took Ortona, V Corps HQ moved forward to San Vito Chietino on 27 December, and then to Rocca San Giovanni on 3 January, remaining there until the end of the month. The Adriatic front in Italy was virtually shut down for winter, and at the end of January V Corps HQ and Signals was withdrawn to a rest area near Naples, though the signal unit lent a detachment to reinforce 2nd New Zealand Division's signallers in the Battle of Monte Cassino, which suffered some casualties. The Corps HQ returned to take over the Adriatic Front once more at the end of February, located at Paglieta. Directly under the command of Allied Armies in Italy (AAI), V Corps' task was to hold the front with the minimum number of troops and harass the enemy, while Eighth Army moved westwards. 5th (L) Signals maintained dummy signals traffic to conceal Eighth"}, {"text": "Army's move. While the front was static, the unit received new equipment, including teleprinters, and Jeeps to replace 15 cwt trucks, cars and motorcycles that were frequently stuck in mud. It also established line communications with Hermon Force, a mixed force operating high in the mountains with Pack transport. On 17 June V Corps HQ was relieved by II Polish Corps and withdrew to Campobasso in Army Group Reserve. The succeeding weeks were spent in training, though 5th (L) Corps Signals lent a wireless detachment to II Polish Corps for the Battle of Ancona in July. Under its new GOC, Lt-Gen Charles Keightley, V Corps' next task was to act as a pursuit force after Eighth Army's expected breakthrough of the Gothic Line in Operation Olive. By the time the attack began, the corps' role had changed to an attempt to rush the Gothic Line by surprise, even though neither the HQ nor its divisions had carried out an offensive operation for many months. The first phase (25 August\u20133 September) went well and the German positions were overrun, Corps HQ and Signals moving up to Montegridolfo. But V Corps was checked at the Battle of Gemmano (4\u201315 September). The signallers"}, {"text": "following behind the advance had to deal with extensive demolitions and minefields, the three line sections as far forward as possible (reinforced by 21 Line Section to carry out maintenance in the rear) and the Tactical HQ signal office located on the edge of the gun line. By 5 September the main cable was through to Morciano di Romagna, but HQ did not follow until 15 September. The cable artery was across the river Conca by 19 September, at the cost of several casualties. By 20 September the enemy began to disengage, but the weather slowed the pursuit. On 6 October signal deception measures were instituted to give the false impression that further advance was impossible, but on the advance continued, with Corps HQ reaching Andrea di Bagnolo on 15 October with Signals HQ in nearby Borghi. Casualties among the signallers had already been heavy, but after the crossing of the Savio the campaign ground on, Corps HQ and Signals moving to Cesena (27 October) and then Bertinoro (11 November). The Marzino was crossed on 24 November and the Lanone the following day, but the rain caused the rivers to rise by several feet and threaten cable links. Finally Faenza"}, {"text": "was taken on 27 December and the front stabilised along the river Senio. Snow brought down all the main signal circuits on 6 January 1945 and V Corps had to rely on wireless for several hours while the line sections worked to restore connections. During the winter pause, as corps boundaries were adjusted, V Corps HQ and Signals moved to Terra del Sole by 19 January and then in early February to Villa Pasatoni with signals in the former I Canadian Corps' Signal Centre in Ravenna. To run the extensive signal network, 5th (L) Corps Signals was reinforced by 523 Basuto Signal Section. Operation Grapeshot began on 9 April, with Eighth Army pushing through the 'Argenta Gap' into the Po Valley, and V Corps HQ following in a series of short bounds. By 23 April the corps had closed up to the River Po, with HQ in Montesanto. The corps began crossing the Po the next day. 5th (L) Corps Signals had practised 'long span construction' for stringing signal cable across a wide obstacle, but its first cable across the river utilised a damaged railway bridge. A second, long span, crossing was swept away within 48 hours. By 29 April"}, {"text": "Corps HQ and Signals had reached Bosaro. On 2 May the German forces in Italy surrendered. The German surrender did not end the rapid advance, as elements of Eighth Army continued on into Austria. V Corps HQ and Signals reached Noventa Padovana on 1 May, Udine on 4 May, and Tricesimo on 7 May. It had outrun its line communications and its wireless was overworked: additional sets were borrowed from Army, Division and Brigade signal units to control traffic at river crossings and along the roads crammed with formations moving north. V Corps entered Austria on 10 May and established its HQ at Pritschitz am Worthersee to begin occupation duties. The Austrian public telephone system could now be utilised and the wireless links closed down. By 16 June the HQ settled at Portschach am Worthersee, with signals in the Hotel Europa. Its role now was to provide communications for the units coping with the complexities of postwar Austria, with its roving bands of partisans, Prisoners of War to secure, and Displaced persons to deal with. At different points 5th (L) Corps Signals had a German signal company and a Hungarian unit under command. A rearrangement of occupation duties saw V"}, {"text": "Corps take over the Styria zone from Soviet forces, and a line section was despatched to establish communications with 46th Division at Graz. On 6 September 5 (L) Corps Signals began a move back to Salerno in Italy, to prepare for disbandment. During October the unit was reduced to 30 per cent of its war establishment and it was officially disbanded on 27 November 1945. On disbandment, the cadre of 5th (L) Corps Signals consisting of men awaiting demobilisation took in reinforcements and formed 3 Company, 7 Headquarters Signals. This consisted of a despatch rider section, an operating section, two medium wireless sections, a terminal equipment section and a signals park, and began training for service in the Middle East. In February 1946 the remaining 5th (L) Corps men left for demobilisation and the company left Italy for Egypt. Postwar. When the TA was reconstituted in 1947, the unit was reformed at Fulham House as 23rd (Southern) Corps Signal Regiment, under the command of Lt-Col E.W.G. Knight, who had been the last commanding officer of 18 LoC Signals. In 1955 the unit was renamed as 2nd Corps Signal Regiment (London), changing to 2nd (London) Signal Regiment in 1958. In 1960"}, {"text": "the regiment regained its traditional number as 47 (London) Signal Regiment. However, the following year it merged with 40 (Middlesex Yeomanry) Signal Rgt to form 47 (Middlesex Yeomanry) Signal Rgt, later reduced to squadron status in 31 (City of London) Signal Regiment. Its successor unit is today's 31 (Middlesex Yeomanry and Princess Louise's Kensington) Signal Sqn in 71 (Yeomanry) Signal Regiment. In 2010, 83 Support Sqn (the former London District Signals) of 31 Signal Sqn was renamed 47 Signal Troop to perpetuate the unit. The Troop is based in Uxbridge and Southfields. Commanders. Commanding Officers. The following served as commanding officer of the unit and its successors: \"47th (2nd London) Divisional Signals\" \"London Corps Signals\" \"1st (London) Corps Signals\" \u2013 later 2nd, 6th and 3rd (L) Corps Signals \"No 18 Line of Communication Signals\" \"21st Corps Signals\" \"Eastern Command Signals (India)\" \"2nd (London) Corps Signals\" \"5th (London) Corps Signals\" \"23rd (Southern) Corps Signal Regiment\" \"2nd (London) Signal Regiment\" Honorary Colonels. The following served as Honorary Colonel of the unit:"}, {"text": "David Warren DeGraaf (born March 26, 1971 in Spring Arbor, Michigan) is an American former handball player who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics. Career. The United States Air Force Academy (Class of 1993) originally recruited him for football and basketball, but he ended up playing for the USAFA Team Handball. He competed at the 1994 Goodwill Games (6th place out of 6), Pan American Games 1995 (4th of 6) & 1999 (4th of 7) and the 1996 Summer Olympics (9th of 12). At the 1996 Summer Olympics he scored a record, 13 goals against Kuwait and a record of seven blocked shots. Only Niclas Ekberg was able to score 13 goals at the Olympic Games in 2012. DeGraaf also scored the game winning goal against Algeria, in overtime, with no time remaining on the clock. In 1997, he was selected as 1996 United States Air Force Athlete of the Year. In 1998, he won the Nationals Championship with Knight Air and was the MVP of the tournament.DeGraaf has over 200 International Games and was awarded the USATHF Male Athlete of the year twice."}, {"text": "Anders Friberg (born 6 August 1975) is a retired Swedish football defender."}, {"text": "The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) intangible cultural heritage elements are the non-physical traditions and practices performed by a people. As part of a country's cultural heritage, they include celebrations, festivals, performances, oral traditions, music, and the making of handicrafts. The \"intangible cultural heritage\" is defined by the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, drafted in 2003 and took effect in 2006. Inscription of new heritage elements on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists is determined by the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, an organisation established by the convention. Saudi Arabia ratified the convention on 10 January 2008. Sixteen elements have been inscribed on the Representative List since then."}, {"text": "Richard Tuwangye (born 16 October 1980) is a Ugandan actor, comedian, and musician. He is a founding member of Fun Factory Uganda. Early life. Tuwangye was born 16 October 1980 to Enock Tuwangye and Hope Tuwangye in Masaka, Uganda. In 1987, he began his primary education at Molly and Paul Primary School, where he started acting in a school drama in Primary One. In Primary Five, he transferred to Bwara Primary School and completed his Primary Leaving Examinations in 1993. He then attended St. Henry's College Kitovu, where he completed the Uganda Certificate of Education in 1997. He continued his studies at Kako Senior Secondary School, where he earned his Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education. He was later admitted to Makerere University\u2019s School of Performing Arts, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Drama in 2004. Career. Acting. In 2002, Tuwangye acted in several plays at the National Theatre, including \"The Virgin\", \"The Journeys\", and \"A Jewel in Every Name\". He joined Theatre Factory in October 2003 and later appeared in \"Hand in Hand\" as Daudi and \"The Last King of Scotland\" as a politician's assistant. Tuwangye also joined Rock Point Radio, where he portrayed Deo and won a Voice"}, {"text": "Actor's Award before leaving in 2007. He acted in the short film \"What Happened in Room 13\" and co-founded Fun Factory Uganda in January 2010, serving as Communications Director and performing in \"Comedicine\". Tuwangye appeared in \"Speak Out\", which premiered on 21 January 2010, and joined \"The Hostel\" in 2011 as Twine, leaving in the following year after fee disputes. He was also part of \"Silent Voices, The Play\" in 2012. In 2016, Tuwangye appeared as Dez in \"Queen of Katwe\" and as Dj Kadanke in \"Rain\". In June 2018, he was among nine actors signed by the Development Channel to promote the African Child Poverty Alleviator Program. Music. In 2004, Tuwangye formed the VIP Modern Dance Troupe. In 2005, he wrote and recorded the song \"Can't Live Without You,\" produced by Fenon Records. The VIP Modern Dance Troupe later evolved into a music group and released \"Tugendeyo.\" Following their third release, the group disbanded. In 2015, Tuwangye released a single titled \"What Should I Do?\". Stand-up. In 2013, Richard performed as part of the acts celebrating Pablo's nine years in the comedy industry. On 12 July 2019, he hosted his first solo comedy show, titled \"Laugh Conquers All.\" Host."}, {"text": "In March 2009, Tuwangye co-hosted the launch of NewFem contraceptive by the Uganda Health Marketing Group (UHMG) alongside Gloria Kasujja. In May 2010, he emceed the Buzz Teeniez Awards ceremony. In May 2018, he hosted Live Sipping Night at Racer's Bar, Bukoto, and in October 2018, he emceed Kenneth Mugabi's maiden concert, \"Strings of My Soul.\" Personal life. Tuwangye is the second of five siblings, born to Enock and Hope Tuwangye. He married Sharon Atwiine Kagarura on 3 June 2016. The couple has two children."}, {"text": "The Parsii were a nomadic tribe, in the district of Paropamisadae in Bactria near the Hindu Kush ranges in northern Afghanistan during antiquity. They lived on the Oxus River, centered on the city of Parsiia. History. During the Hellenistic and Persian Empires they lived in the satrapy of the Paropanisadai. They are mentioned in Claudius Ptolemaeus and appear on map XI of that work, in the area north west of modern Kabul. They came under the rule of Demetrius I of Bactria, who was ruling Greek Bactria from nearby Kupisa. until Eucratides I of the Indo-Greek Kingdom conquered the area."}, {"text": "Lars Johan Paulsson (born 28 December 1970) is a Swedish former football striker."}, {"text": "Daniel Funke (born 23 July 1981) is a German journalist. Since 2019 he has been the head of the Berlin office and lobbyist at BurdaVerlag, a division of German media company Hubert Burda Media. From 2002 to 2009, he studied German studies (\"Germanistik\") and history at Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t Berlin. Between 2004 and 2007, he also worked at the private TV channel Sat. 1 and the magazine \"Blitz\" (\"Flash\"). In 2007, he became an editor at \"Bunte\", a German people magazine, and in 2012, the head of its Berlin office. Personal life. Funke has been married to German politician and former federal secretary of health Jens Spahn (CDU) since 2017. General. Funke caused controversy with a story he wrote for \"Bunte\" magazine about the then-new US ambassador Richard Grenell, which presented Grenell in a very positive light. The story didn't reveal that Funke and Spahn were friends with Grenell and his partner Matt Lashey and could therefore be seen as a political favour to ease Grenell's entry into German politics. In 2024 he left the Bunte Verlag to pursue new projects and tasks FFP 2 masks dealings. Funke again caused controversy in March 2021 when it was revealed that his employer had"}, {"text": "sold 570,000 FFP 2 masks without a formal bidding process conducted by the Federal Ministry of Health, which was led by his husband, Jens Spahn."}, {"text": "James Henderson was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Newcastle United and Ashington. Personal life. Henderson served as a private in the Lancashire Fusiliers during the First World War."}, {"text": "Midgee is a rural locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Midgee had a population of 90 people. Geography. The locality is bounded to north-west by the Fitzroy River. The Bruce Highway enters the locality from the south (Bajool) and exits to the north-west (Port Curtis). The North Coast railway line also enters the locality from the south (Bajool) and exits to the north-west (Port Curtis), running immediately parallel and east of the highway, with the locality served by: The land use is grazing on native vegetation. History. Midgee Provisional School opened on 21 January 1907 under head teacher Eliza Annie Thompson. On 1 January 1909, it became Midgee State School. It closed on 15 June 1942. It was at 48 Roope Road () beside the Midgee railway station. Demographics. In the , Midgee had a population of 44 people. In the , Midgee had a population of 90 people. Education. There are no schools in Midgee. The nearest government primary schools are Port Curtis Road State School in neighbouring Port Curtis to the north-west, Bouldercombe State School in neighbouring Bouldercombe to the south-west, and Waraburra State School in Gracemere to the west. The nearest government secondary"}, {"text": "school is Rockhampton State High School in Wandal."}, {"text": "The Sculpture Journal is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal of sculpture published by Liverpool University Press. It was established in 1997 by the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA), with Marjorie Trusted as founding editor. When the PMSA was wound up in 2020, the journal was sold to Liverpool University Press. The current editors-in-chief are Elisa Foster, Teresa Kittler, Eckart Marchand and Emma Payne. Abstracting and indexing. The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents/Arts & Humanities, EBSCO databases, ProQuest databases, and Scopus."}, {"text": "Claudio Grassi (born 12 November 1955 in Reggio Emilia) is an Italian politician. Biography. In 1973 Grassi started working in the factory as a worker, remaining there until 1992. In these years he was a trade union delegate in the CGIL. In his city, Reggio Emilia, he was promoter of the Italy-Nicaragua Association and of the Association for Peace and was also responsible for cultural activities and vice-president of the Antonio Gramsci club. He was therefore elected municipal councilor for the Italian Communist Party in the municipality of Bibbiano and appointed assessor for culture. In 1991 he joined the Communist Refoundation Party, of which he became regional secretary in 1993. In 1995 he was elected to the national secretariat of the party, where he remained until 2004, holding the position of national treasurer. In 1998, Grassi and other executives left the faction of the party's president, Armando Cossutta, opposed to his decision to vote the confidence to the Prodi I Cabinet, by joining the majority of the secretary Fausto Bertinotti with his component, called The Ernesto. In the VI party congress (2005), founded a new current Being Communists, to support its own motion as an alternative to that of the"}, {"text": "secretary of the party (Bertinotti). In 2006 Grassi was elected Senator, but he was not re-confirmed in the 2008 general election. In the 2013 general election he was candidate to the Chamber of Deputies with Civil Revolution, without being elected. In 2016 he left the Communist Refoundation Party and in 2017 joined the Italian Left, of which he was later appointed president. In 2018 he was again candidate to the Chamber of Deputies among the ranks of LeU. On 1 June 2019, after the resignation of Nicola Fratoianni as secretary, Grassi was appointed regent leader of Italian Left."}, {"text": "Claudio Grassi may refer to:"}, {"text": "Fletcher Creek is a rural locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Fletcher Creek had \"no people or a very low population\". Geography. The \"Dee River\" forms most of the western boundary. The Burnett Highway runs past to the west. Demographics. In the , Fletcher Creek had \"no people or a very low population\". In the , Fletcher Creek had \"no people or a very low population\"."}, {"text": "Wura is a rural locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Wura had \"no people or a very low population\". Geography. The locality is bounded to the east, south-east, and south by the Dee River. The Burnett Highway enters the locality from the north (Oakey Creek) and exits to the south-west (Dululu). History. The locality takes its name from its former railway station, which is believed to be an Aboriginal word meaning \"kangaroo\". The Dawson Valley railway line from Mount Morgan to Wowan opened on 16 October 1912 with Wura being served by: This section of the line closed on 1 August 1987 and the station is now abandoned. Konara State School opened in 1919. It closed in 1927. It was north of the Konara railway station, between the railway line and the Dee River, just south of the confluence with Fletcher Creek (approx ), now in Oakey Creek. Wura State School opened on 10 March 1924 and closed circa 1944. It was between the Wura railway station and the Dee River (approx ). Demographics. In the , Wura had a population of 15 people. In the , Wura had \"no people or a very low population\"."}, {"text": "Education. There are no school in Wura. The nearest government primary schools are Mount Morgan Central State School in Mount Morgan to the north-east and Wowan State School in Wowan to the south-east. The nearest government secondary school is Mount Morgan State High School, also in Mount Morgan."}, {"text": "Thomas Henderson (born 1902) was an English professional footballer who played as a right back and left half in the Football League for Ashington. Personal life. Henderson served as a private in the Durham Light Infantry during the First World War."}, {"text": "Per Anders Mikael Karlsson (27 April 1963 \u2013 23 November 2015) was a Swedish football goalkeeper. He appeared in 413 games for \u00d6rebro SK, which is a club record. More than 200 of these games were in Allsvenskan. Personal life. He died in 2015 when speed skating at Hj\u00e4lmaren, whereupon he went through the ice. His body was found in April 2016."}, {"text": "Peter Westman (born 12 July 1972) is a retired Swedish football goalkeeper."}, {"text": "Wura may refer to:"}, {"text": "Peter Karlsson (born 11 August 1973) is a retired Swedish football midfielder."}, {"text": "Nazarsho Dodkhudoyev (1915\u20132000) was a Soviet Tajik politician. He was born in Rushan in the MBAV. He graduated from college in 1935, a year after he started his political career by joining the Komsomol. He edited the youth paper \"Pioneer of Tajikistan\" in 1939\u20131940. He worked for the NKVD secret service throughout the 1940s, before he was appointed head of the provincial executive committee of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region. In 1950, he became chair of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Tajik SSR, and from 1956 to 1961, he was the head of the Tajik SSR government as well as its minister of foreign affairs. He was the father of Larisa Dodkhudoeva and Lola Dodkhudoeva."}, {"text": "Glenroy is a rural locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Glenroy had a population of 19 people. Geography. The Fitzroy River forms most of the eastern boundary of the locality, entering from the south-east (Gogango / Morinish South) and exiting to the north-east (Canoona / Morinish). The Goodedulla National Park is in the west and south-west of the locality. Immediately to the north of the national park is the Develin State Forest in the north-west of the locality. Apart from these protected areas, the land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation. History. The Goodedulla National Park was gazetted in 1994. Demographics. In the , Glenroy had a population of 28 people. In the , Glenroy had a population of 19 people. Education. There are no schools in Glenroy. The nearest government primary schools are Marlborough State School in neighbouring Marlborough to the north and Ridgelands State School in Ridgelands to the east. However, some students in the south of the locality would be too distant to attend these schools. Also, there are no secondary schools nearby. The alternatives are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "Thomas Andersson (born 3 September 1968) is a retired Swedish football defender."}, {"text": "Morinish South is a rural locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Morinish South had a population of 13 people. Geography. The Fitzroy River enters the locality from the south (Wycarbah) and forms the south-western and western boundaries of the locality before exiting the locality to the north (Glenroy / Morinish). Morinish South has the following mountains (from north to south): The land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation. Demographics. In the , Morinish South had \"no people or a very low population\". In the , Morinish South had a population of 13 people. Education. There are no schools in Morinish South. The nearest government primary schools are Westwood State School in Westwood to the south-east and Ridgelands State School in Ridgelands to the north-east; however, some students in the locality may be too distant to attend either school. Also, there are no nearby secondary schools. The alternatives are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "Axel Kj\u00e4ll (born 1 June 1981) is a Swedish football manager and retired football defender. Ahead of the 2011 season he was named manager of BK Forward. He joined the coaching team of the city's larger team \u00d6rebro SK ahead of the 2013 season. Having both played for and later managed \u00d6rebro SK for several seasons, he became director of sports in 2021. In 2022, the club sacked manager Joel Cedergren after a single league game, and Kj\u00e4ll was brought back as manager. However, he did not last throughout the entire season either. He returned to an administrative position, but in December 2022 he was hired by the Swedish Football Association as head coach of the new Swedish U15 team."}, {"text": "Horse Creek is a rural locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Horse Creek had a population of 83. Geography. The Dee River forms part of the western boundary. The Burnett Highway runs through the eastern end. Demographics. In the , Horse Creek had a population of 123 people. In the , Horse Creek had a population of 83 people. Education. There are no schools in Horse Creek. The nearest government primary and secondary schools are Mount Morgan State School and Mount Morgan State High School, both in neighbouring Mount Morgan to the north."}, {"text": "Mikael Steen (born 21 March 1971) is a retired Swedish football midfielder."}, {"text": "Limestone is a rural locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Limestone had \"no people or a very low population\". History. Limestone Provisional School opened circa 1891 and closed circa 1896. Demographics. In the , Limestone had a population of 7 people. In the , Limestone had \"no people or a very low population\". Education. There are no schools in Limestone. The nearest government primary and secondary schools are Mount Morgan State School and Mount Morgan State High School, both in neighbouring Mount Morgan to the west."}, {"text": "Per Gawelin (born 24 January 1978) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder."}, {"text": "Maksym Andriyovych Brama (; born 1 February 2002) is a Ukrainian professional football defender who played for FC Lviv. Career. Brama is a product of the different local (including FC Lviv) youth sportive school systems. He played for FC Lviv in the Ukrainian Premier League Reserves and in May 2019 Brama was promoted to the senior squad of this team. He made his debut in the Ukrainian Premier League for FC Lviv as a substituted on 30 May 2019, playing in a lost match against FC Shakhtar Donetsk."}, {"text": "Nine Mile Creek is a rural locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Nine Mile Creek had a population of 23 people. Demographics. In the , Nine Mile Creek had a population of 17 people. In the , Nine Mile Creek had a population of 23 people. Education. There are no schools in Nine Mile Creek. The nearest government primary and secondary schools are Mount Morgan State School and Mount Morgan State High School, both in Mount Morgan to the north-west."}, {"text": "In Pakistan, in the summer of 2019, more than 47 people have died and more than 30,000 have been infected by Dengue fever. In October, Prime Minister Imran Khan took notice of the dengue outbreak in the country and sought report from the Special Assistant to Prime Minister on National Health Services Dr. Zafar Mirza. On 10 October 2019, a Peshawar High Court bench sent summons to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's provincial health secretary to explain the situation related to dengue outbreak in parts of the province. As of November 2019, record 44,000 cases were reported in the country with 67 deaths. In December the death toll risen to 91 with total number of cases on 52,485."}, {"text": "Jon Lundblad (born 19 February 1982) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a forward."}, {"text": "Anders \u00c5ke Peter Karlsson (born 4 August 1961) is a Swedish former football striker. Together with S\u00f6ren B\u00f6rjesson and Billy Lansdowne, he became joint top goalscorer of Allsvenskan in 1985. Honours. Individual"}, {"text": "The Bema of Phaidros () is the marble platform created in the third century CE that served as stage front to the Theatre of Dionysos in Athens. It is decorated with a Neo-Attic Roman sculpture of the Hadrianic or Antonine period, this sculpture was dismantled sometime in antiquity, moved from an unknown location, and rebuilt into the bema of the Theatre by Phaidros, archon of Athens. Four stone reliefs decorate the stage front illustrating scenes from the life of Dionysos they are: 1) The birth of Dionysos, 2) the entrance of Dionysos into Attica, 3) the sacred marriage of Dionysos and the Basilinna and 4) the enthronement of Dionysos. These scenes are framed by crouching Silenoi. Description. The sculpture, reading the from viewer's left to right, begins with a scene that can be taken to be the birth of Dionysos. It consists of four figures beginning with a semi-draped seated figure who is likely Zeus facing him is a youth holding a small child, presumed to be Hermes and the infant Dionysos at the moment of his second birth from the thigh of Zeus. Framing the scene are two nude male figures each holding a shield, these have been conjectured"}, {"text": "to be either korybantes or kouretes. The next slab represents the bestowing of the gift of wine, the introduction of the worship of Dionysos to Attica and alludes to the beginnings of tragedy. Again there are four figures; reading right to left they are, a young male figure in a chlamys and lion skin gesturing to his right. Immediately next is a figure identified by his attributes of grapevine, leopard skin and cothurni as Dionysos. Between him and the adjacent figure to his right is a small altar, this latter figure may be Ikarios accompanied by his dog Maera and a tethered goat. To the viewer's left is a draped female, possibly a maenad, sometimes identified as Erigone On the third slab are three figures with a fourth figure lost over time, they are conjectured to be from left to right Dionysus, the Basilinna and Tyche. The final slab on the viewer's far right consists perhaps of, from left to right, Tyche, Theseus, the Basilinna, and Dionysus enthroned. It is evident from the way in which the sculptures have been cut down in size to fit their present placement, and for chronological reasons, that they are reused, secondary material. No"}, {"text": "conclusive solution has been put forward for the original date or location of the sculptures, though it has been suggested that they may have been meant for the scaenae frons of the high pulpitum built during the first half of the second century."}, {"text": "Walmul is a rural locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Walmul had a population of 21 people. Geography. Walmul railway station is an abandoned railway station on the former Dawson Valley railway line (). History. The locality takes its name from its former railway station, assigned on 18 November 1911. It is believed to be an Aboriginal word meaning \"koala\". Walmul State School opened in 1927. It closed in 1930. Demographics. In the , Walmul had a population of 25 people. In the , Walmul had a population of 21 people. Education. There are no schools in Walmul. The nearest government primary and secondary schools are Mount Morgan State School and Mount Morgan State High School, both in Mount Morgan to the north."}, {"text": "Frans Stefanus Erasmus (19 June 1959 \u2013 7 March 1998) was a South African rugby union player who played three test matches for the South Africa national rugby union team. Playing career. Erasmus started his provincial career with Northern Free State in 1980. He also played for South Western Districts, Northern Transvaal for one season and Eastern Province where he become a stalwart, playing 119 matches. Erasmus made his debut for the Springboks in the third test against the New Zealand Cavaliers on 24 May 1986 at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria."}, {"text": "The 1987 Madrid Tennis Grand Prix was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Club de Campo Villa de Madrid in Madrid, Spain that was part of the 1987 Nabisco Grand Prix circuit. It was the 16th edition of the tournament and was played from 14 September until 20 September 1987. First-seeded Emilio S\u00e1nchez won the singles title after defeating his brother Javier in the final. Finals. Singles. Emilio S\u00e1nchez defeated Javier S\u00e1nchez 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 6\u20132 Doubles. Carlos di Laura / Javier S\u00e1nchez defeated Sergio Casal / Emilio S\u00e1nchez 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 7\u20136"}, {"text": "The Swiss National Sound Archives are the sound archives of Switzerland, based in Lugano. Its mission is to collect sound recordings related to the history and culture of Switzerland, to make them accessible and to make them available for use. In terms of audio recordings, it thus fulfils a similar function to the Swiss National Library in the field of literature. Since 2016, the National Sound Archives have been an organisational part of the Swiss National Library. The collection has more than 500,000 audio carriers and 20-25,000 audio documents are added each year (as of 2018). The institution is a member of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) and the Audio Engineering Society (AES). The Swiss National Sound Archives is also a member of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML). History. There were 15 years between the idea of a Swiss sound archives and the actual foundation. As early as 1972, Robert Wyler, who was responsible for special collections in the Swiss National Library, suggested that a sound archives should be set up for Switzerland. Hans-Rudolf D\u00fcrrenmatt, head of the music department at the"}, {"text": "Central Library in Solothurn, also called for a sound archives in 1976. The two also held this position in the Phonotheque Commission of the Association of Swiss Librarians and the Swiss Association for Documentation. The 1975 Clottu Report (official title: \"El\u00e9ments pour une politique culturelle suisse\"), named after National Councillor Gaston Clottu, recommended the realisation of a phonotek. In 1980, a working group of the Federal Office of Culture presented a report on the planned Swiss National Sound Archives, which also contained a draft of a deed of foundation. However, an application to the Federal Council from the Federal Department of Home Affairs to this effect was withdrawn due to financial hurdles. In 1982, the Federal Council approved start-up financing of CHF 120,000. The city of Lugano made the former radio studio of the city available for the project free of charge. In 1984, the \"Swiss National Sound Archives Establishment Association\" was founded, whose task was to set up the sound archives with the aim of transferring them to the Swiss National Library at a later date. In addition to the start-up funding provided by the Confederation, the Swiss Cooperative of Authors and Publishers of Music (SUISA) contributed 100,000 Swiss"}, {"text": "francs and the City of Lugano 163,000 Swiss francs for the conversion of the radio studio, which was completed in 1985. In 1987 the association was transformed into a foundation under private law. In addition to the canton of Ticino and the city of Lugano, the Swiss Radio and Television Society (SRG) and the collecting societies SUISA, SIG and IFPI also participated in the foundation. Since 1998 Pio Pellizzari has been director of the institution, which in 2007 was renamed from the National Sound Archives to the National Sound Archives. In 2001, the Swiss National Sound Archives moved to the Centro San Carlo. With the integration into the Federal Administration, which the Federal Council decided on 28 November 2014 with the adoption of the Cultural Message 2016-2020, the Foundation was dissolved with effect from 1 January 2016. In addition to the federal subsidy of CHF 1.6 million, the sound archives have received operating contributions from the Canton of Ticino (CHF 290,000) and the City of Lugano (CHF 170,000). This support will be continued. The sound archive is now integrated into the Federal Office of Culture as the \"Swiss National Sound Archives Section\" of the Swiss National Library. Collections. The National"}, {"text": "Sound Archives collects sound recordings with The National Sound Archives began its collecting activities in 1986, but thanks to the acquisition of various existing collections and estates, numerous sound recordings from earlier times are also available. The current collection includes Among the collections acquired in 2016 are those of conductor Th\u00e9o Loosli, chansonnier Pierre Dudan and recording studio Lorelei. In 2017, for example, the National Sound Archives acquired the estates of the conductor Josef Krips and the singer Caterina Valente as well as a large part of the archive of the Schaffhausen Jazz Festival. In 2018 it received, for example, the sound archive of the Tonhalle Zurich, the collection of George Mathys on jazz in French-speaking Switzerland and the collection of all previous recordings of the festival Stubete am See in Zurich, which is dedicated to Swiss folk music. Services. The audio documents are digitized and catalogued in the FN-Base32 database developed by Revelation Software. The size of this database is over 40 terabytes. On the website you can search this database for audio files and listen to them. Copying of the files is possible for private purposes against payment and on request also for professional purposes. Another possibility is"}, {"text": "to visit one of the approximately 50 audiovisual stations located in Switzerland and Italy. In addition to these access services, the Swiss National Sound Archives also offers archiving services such as restoration. Project. In the summer of 1999 the Swiss National Sound Archives started the project VisualAudio, developing the idea of recovery the sound from the picture of a record through optical scanning."}, {"text": "Victoria Ekanoye (born 11 December 1981) is an English actress. She began her career in theatre. On television, she is best known for her roles in the ITV soap opera \"Coronation Street\" (2017\u20132019) and the E! drama \"The Royals\" (2015\u20132018). Early life and education. Ekanoye was born in Bury, Greater Manchester and grew up in Stockport and Rochdale. She is of Nigerian, English and Irish descent, the latter through her maternal grandmother. Ekanoye studied musical theatre at Oldham College. Career. In 2017, Ekanoye played Angie Appleton in the ITV soap opera, \"Coronation Street\", for 94 episodes over three years. She has also played Rachel in \"The Royals\", and has appeared in \"The Chase: Celebrity Special\", \"The Big Quiz\" and \"\". She also appeared in series two of \"Almost Never\" and two episodes of \"Doctors\" as Kate Bennett. In 2022, she appeared in the fourth episode of Series 11 of the BBC crime drama series \"Death in Paradise\", as Miranda Priestley. The same year, she starred as Megan in Lionsgate Films' \"Christmas in Paradise\", with a cast that included Kelsey Grammer, Elizabeth Hurley and Billy Ray Cyrus. Personal life. Ekanoye has sickle cell anaemia. On 8 November 2021, Ekanoye announced that"}, {"text": "she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. After undergoing a double mastectomy, and a year out, she was able to resume acting, returning to television in 2022, as Miranda Priestley in \"Death in Paradise\"."}, {"text": "Louis Hippolyte de Lormel (19 October 1808 \u2013 31 March 1888) was a French colonial administrator who served as Governor of Guadeloupe from 1864 to 1870, and of R\u00e9union from 1869 to 1875. Family. Louis Hyppolite de Lormel was born on 19 October 1808 in Lesina, Dalmatia (now Hvar in Croatia), where his father was a surgeon in the French army of occupation. He was baptized on 26 October 1808. His parents were Alexandre Louis Delormel (ca 1784\u20131861) and Elisabeth Angelinin (died 1835). His sister was Laure Ad\u00e8le Delormel (1816\u20131877). On 21 December 1844, he married Narcisse Jos\u00e9phine Laurent (died 1872) in Saint-Germain-des-Pr\u00e9s, Paris. They had a child Eug\u00e8ne Fran\u00e7ois Louis de Lormel (1847\u20131910). Career. De Lormel studied law and became a notary. He rose through the ranks of the notarial profession, becoming Clerk Grade 1 around 1930. In 1933 he was living at 36 rue du Cadran in Paris. He served in Algeria from 1841 to 1858. He became a knight of the Legion of Honour in 1851, and later became an Officer and Commander of the Legion of Honour. He was given an honorable mention by the Minister of War for his fight against a cholera epidemic in"}, {"text": "Algeria. He was stationed in Paris from 1858 to 1859. Guadeloupe. On 4 February 1861, Lormel was appointed Director of the Interior of Guadeloupe. On 11 January 1862, Lormel became interim governor in place of General Charles Victor Fr\u00e9bault. Fr\u00e9bault resumed office as governor on 4 July 1862. On 26 February 1864, Joseph Desmazes became interim governor. Lormel became governor on 19 May 1864. His son, Eug\u00e8ne Fran\u00e7ois Louis Lormel (1847-1910), an army lieutenant, served as his aide-de-camp in 1874-1875. Lormel issued a decree of 18 June 1864 that removed the need for residents to buy and carry an internal passport at all times, subject to a year's labor if found without it, a law that in practice was only enforced for non-whites. Lormel sent an \"Expos\u00e9 g\u00e9n\u00e9ral sur la situation de la Guadeloupe\" dated 26 September 1865 to the Ministry of the Navy, a useful source of information on the sugar industry. In September 1865, the island was hit by a violent hurricane, and this was followed by an epidemic of Asian cholera that continued until April 1866. In 1867, the colony had 151,744 inhabitants. It had a railroad long. Lormel appointed the convinced Bonapartist Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Alfred Eggiman as"}, {"text": "Director of the Interior. Eggiman did not resign until 1873, when it became certain that France would remain a republic. On 7 December 1868, Desmazes again became interim governor of Guadeloupe, holding office until Gabriel Couturier assumed the post of governor on 24 April 1870. R\u00e9union. On 31 August 1869, Lormel was appointed Governor of R\u00e9union in place of Rear-Admiral Marie Jules Dupr\u00e9. Louis Hippolyte de Lormel arrived in R\u00e9union on 27 September 1869 to take over from Laborde, the \"commissaire ordonateur\", who had acted as governor since the departure of Rear-Admiral Dupr\u00e9. He was the first civilian governor on the island. His inauguration on 2 December 1869 was on the first anniversary of the tragic events in Saint Denis, but he avoided serious trouble. Many of the settlers in Reunion were dissatisfied by the imperial administration's financial management. A telegram of 20 July 1870 arrived on 5 August 1870 and told of the outbreak of war between France and Prussia. News of the fall of the Second French Empire began to trickle into the colony from the start of October 1870. On 2 November 1870, the passenger ship \"Emirne\" arrived in the bay of Saint-Denis and the news was"}, {"text": "official. On 3 November 1870, Lormel proclaimed the French Third Republic from the platform decorated with tricolor flags in the Place du Gouvernement. The proclamation was made to a huge crowd, in the presence of leading military and civilian authorities. On 9 February 1871, a decree was published that allowed a 13 February 1871 election by universal suffrage for the 24 members of the General Council, which first met on 8 March 1871. News of the peace with Prussia arrived on 15 March 1871. Lormel's wife died in Saint Denis on 13 April 1872, and from 21 September to 22 November 1873, Lormel was given leave from his duties. His main achievement while in office was to develop primary education. He created a permanent health services at the end of his term due to the frequent outbreaks of epidemics. Last years. Lormel left office at his request on 18 September 1875 and handed over to Laborde as interim governor. Lormel died in Paris on 31 March 1888, and is buried in the P\u00e8re Lachaise Cemetery, 14th division. The epitaph on his grave reads \"Esprit \u00e9lev\u00e9 et lib\u00e9ral. Il a servi la France et aim\u00e9 sa famille avec passion.\" (With a"}, {"text": "high and liberal spirit, he served France and loved his family with passion)."}, {"text": "Robert Bengtsson-B\u00e4rkroth (born 4 June 1968) is a retired Swedish football midfielder. He played 239 matches in Allsvenskan. During his loan to Barnsley he featured once in the FA Cup and once in the League Cup, but not in the league. He is the father of Nicklas B\u00e4rkroth."}, {"text": "Levi Simeon Davis (born 12 March 1998; disappeared 29 October 2022) is a British rugby union player who played as a winger. He is still known to be missing; at the time of his disappearance, he was a player with Worthing Raiders in the National League 2 South. He is suspected to have drowned. Professional career. Davis made his debut for in 2017. He made his first appearance for Bath in Premiership Rugby in October 2019 against the . In January 2020, Davis joined on loan for the remainder of the 2019\u201320 RFU Championship, making three appearances before the season was curtailed by the COVID-19 pandemic. In August 2020, having departed Bath, he joined Ealing on a permanent transfer signing a two-year deal. Levi joined Worthing Raiders in the autumn of 2021 making his debut in the away fixture at Henley Hawks. He scored his first try in a 28\u201326 defeat at home to Hinckley a week later. Personal life. Davis took part in \"\" in late 2019, as part of the group Try Star, along with fellow rugby union players, Thom Evans and Ben Foden. They placed fifth in the competition. In September 2020, Davis came out as bisexual."}, {"text": "This made him the first professional rugby union player to come out as bisexual while still playing. He also took part in The Channel 4 reality tv show, Celebs Go Dating in 2020. He released his debut single, \"With Me\", under the name LEDA on 14 September 2022. In November 2022, Davis was reported missing after his former rugby club issued an appeal for information on his whereabouts, with him last being seen at The Old Irish Pub in Barcelona, Spain on 29 October. The police confirmed that the last reported sighting of Davis at the Hard Rock Cafe where he walked down to La Rambla, and entered the Barcelona port. At 6.30pm on the 30th of October, four staff members on a cruise ship reported seeing a man in the water as the ship entered the Barcelona port. They reported he was asking for help in English. A life jacket was thrown from the ship, and emergency services searched the area but were unable to find the man. His passport was located at the port in November 2022. He is suspected to have drowned in the sea near the port, as he matched the description of the man seen"}, {"text": "on the 30th."}, {"text": "Autoimmune skin diseases occur when the immune system of an infected animal attacks its own skin. In dogs, autoimmune skin diseases are usually not detected until visible symptoms appear, which differs from detection in humans who are able to verbally express their concerns. Genetics, nutrition, and external environmental factors all collectively contribute to increasing the probability an autoimmune skin disease occurring. The severity of symptoms varies based on the specific disease present and how far it has progressed. Diagnosis often requires the onset of visible symptoms and for a biopsy to be performed. For many diseases, the condition itself cannot be cured, but a veterinarian can prescribe medications and other forms of treatment to help manage the symptoms of the dog. Overview. The immune system has the ability to differentiate between the cells of the body and foreign cells. However, in dogs affected by an autoimmune disease, the immune system loses the ability to make this distinction, causing the immune system to attack the body. Autoimmune diseases in the base layer of the epidermis are characterized by damage to the connective tissue and vesicle formation located below the epidermis layer and the dermis layer below it. There are many autoimmune"}, {"text": "diseases, and they all vary in impact to the dog and progress at their own rates. Clinical symptoms. Dogs suffering from autoimmune diseases of the skin may experience a variety of symptoms, including persistent itching and scratching, lesions, wounds, blisters, and other skin damage, as well as loss of skin pigment. Two cases of autoimmune diseases that are often found include \"Discoid lupus erythematosus\" (DLE) and \"Pemphigus\". DLE can develop into Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). The initial stage of DLE is marked by a loss of skin pigment. The skin becomes red and sores appear on the nose. The palate can undergo erosion, ulceration, and injury to the nasal palate, as well as damage to the nostrils and the tissue around the eyes and ears. In chronic and severe cases, visual scar tissue often occurs. Most symptoms occur after the outer epidermis and inner dermis of the skin are affected by the disease. When this happens, the layers of the skin begin to separate, leading to painful lesions and pustules. The compromised integrity of the skin barrier not only exacerbates the discomfort experienced by the dog, but also heightens the risk of secondary bacterial infections. The weakening of the skin's"}, {"text": "protective layers forms an environment susceptible to microbial infiltration, which could lead to severe complications. Intervening within an earlier time frame and targeted management strategies are essential to minimize further adverse effects. Another autoimmune skin disease which can occur in dogs is vitiligo. In addition to humans, vitiligo can be found in a variety of animals, including cats, horses, and dogs. Vitiligo is a type of autoimmune disease that damages melanocytes in the skin, lips, and oral cavity. Melanocytes are cells that contain pigments such as melanin. These pigments give rise to an organism's phenotype, which determines skin and hair color. Melanocytes are also found in other parts of the body, such as the oral mucosa, eye, cochlea, and the meninges. In addition to vitiligo, there are other autoimmune diseases that target melanocytes, such as Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) syndrome, and Uveodermatological (UDS) syndrome. Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome is an autoimmune disease that affects the eyes. In addition to depigmentation of the skin, the disease is characterized by a combination of conditions, including uveitis, acute iridocyclitis, choroiditis, and retinal detachment. When pemphigus occurs in humans, the skin will begin to blister due to antibodies attacking the adhesive proteins in epidermal cells, which causes them"}, {"text": "to separate. Different types of pemphigus can be identified based on the depth of separation present in the skin. Many forms of pemphigus can be identified in dogs using methods similar to those employed for humans. Pemphigus vulgaris is rare in humans and animals, but is often fatal if left untreated. In dogs, the disease presents itself so similarly to the way it occurs in humans that dogs can be used as models for the disease in humans. When the disease first begins to manifest itself, lesions are usually evident in the oral cavity of the dog. Aside from these blisters, the dog may be mostly asymptomatic before the disease progresses further. The blisters are easily ruptured and become painful upon doing so, which can cause the dog to have difficulty eating. As the disease progresses, the infected dog can become severely infirm, and may succumb to further infection. Sometimes symptoms are characterized by lymphadenopathy, which involves loss of appetite, weakness, fever, and in rare cases, sepsis. \"Pemphigus foliaceus\" is the most common autoimmune skin disease in dogs, making up around one-third of all canine autoimmune disorders. This disease usually affects areas of the ears and face. Early symptoms are"}, {"text": "characterized by depigmentation of the nasal palate, dorsal cleft in the mouth, the ear, and the periocular area around the eye. Itching, pain, and weakness of the body have been observed in some cases. Other symptoms of \"Pemphigus foliaceus\" include hair loss, formation of pustules, and erosions with ulcers. These symptoms can appear on the dog's feet, groin area, and trunk if left untreated. Disease incidence process. The immune system functions in many ways to eliminate foreign substances and particles introduced to the body. This revolves around T-cell differentiation, where mature T-cells with receptors for non-self cells target foreign antigens and act with other cells to dispose of them. There are two mechanisms of tolerance found in the immune system. The first mechanism is positive selection by the thymus, where only T-cells are selected. T-cells recognize peptides in the Histocompatibility Complex (MHC). The second mechanism is negative selection, where T-cells that recognize self-antigens with too high an affinity are removed through the process of apoptosis and are not allowed to enter the body's circulation. Incidences of autoimmune skin diseases can vary based on several factors. Some of these factors include the breed, age, and sex of the dog, along with"}, {"text": "individual genetics and environmental factors. In terms of vitiligo, certain breeds of dogs have a higher chance of developing the disease based on their genetics. These breeds include Rottweilers, German Shepherds, Old English Sheepdogs, Doberman Pinchers, Dachshunds, and German Shorthaired Pointers. However, the exact prevalence of this disease in dogs is currently unknown, as it is likely under-reported. Certain dog breeds that have been documented with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) syndrome include Akitas, Samoyeds, Irish Setters, Golden Retrievers, Saint Bernards, Australian Sheepdogs, and Shetland Sheepdogs. Pemphigus vulgaris can occur in any breed of dog irrespective of its sex or age. However, it appears to occur more often in male dogs than females, which differs slightly from its occurrence in humans. In humans, women are more likely to be affected than men. In terms of age, the disease usually begins when the dog is at least five to seven years old. This correlates to the typical age in which it begins in humans as well, generally occurring in middle age. Diagnosis. Since many autoimmune skin diseases have similar symptoms and usually affect the oral cavity, a biopsy must often be performed in order to correctly diagnose the disease. Due to the wide scale"}, {"text": "of clinical symptoms that can be present, along with the diverse variations of skin autoimmune dermatoses, a single symptom will more than likely not lead to a diagnosis. Instead, the results of the biopsy combined with the canine's history and other clinical signs can help in confirming the diagnosis of the disease. Breed predisposition and the age of the dog can also be indications of the various possibilities of autoimmune skin diseases. Some common symptoms that can be used to lead to a confirmed diagnosis include alopecia, crusting, ulcerations, vasculitis, and many more. Histopathology evaluations can be done by extracting areas of the skin that show indications of being affected, such as taking biopsies of lesions, pustules, and sites of crustation. These tissue samples would then be typically examined under a microscope, where a clinician will form a conclusive diagnosis based on the observed cellular structures and abnormalities. Additionally, other tests such as antinuclear antibody tests (ANA) and complete blood count with white blood cell differential tests can be used to gather more information. For Pemphigus vulgaris, after the skin begins to separate, Nikolsky's sign can be useful to help diagnose the disease. This involves placing pressure along the edge"}, {"text": "of a blister and observing if the skin separates further and if the blister increases in size. However, to diagnose the disease with complete certainty, biopsies must be taken from the edge of the blisters. The tissue sample must then be analyzed using a direct immunofluorescence technique and analyzed microscopically. The direct immunofluorescence technique should be used instead of indirect, as the results may be inaccurate before the disease has progressed to a certain point. Treatment. For most autoimmune skin diseases, it is imperative to begin treatment as early as possible, as the progression of the disease can lead to severe complications and even death. Treatment for many diseases usually involves the use of immunosuppressants such as glucocorticoids. The immunosuppressants aid in suppressing the reaction of the immune system fighting against the body's healthy cells and tissues. This is done by the inhibition of calcineurin, an enzyme that controls and activates T-cell production. Without the consistent production of T-cells, a decrease of autoimmune activity can be observed, leading to less severe symptoms and potential remission of autoimmune diseases. When treatment is first started for Pemphigus vulgaris, the dog will usually be given the corticosteroid prednisone for a limited time. This"}, {"text": "will be administered orally, and the amount given can vary between 1.5 and 13.3 milligrams for every kilogram of the dog's weight. This amount will continue until symptoms begin to subside. Afterward the dose will be lowered, and other medications will be used. The condition cannot be cured, so the dog will require immunosuppressants and steroids for the duration of its lifespan. The specific immunosuppressants used generally include cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, or azathioprine. Antibiotics may also be used to help reduce the risk of infection."}, {"text": "The Anglican Church of St Peter at Little Barrington in the civil parish of Barrington in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England was built in the late 12th century. It is a grade I listed building. History. The church was built in the late 12th century. The nave was largely rebuilt in the 14th and there was further restoration in the 15th century. The church was a dependent chapel of the church in Great Barrington and both became the property of Llanthony Priory. The gallery at the west end of the nave was removed in 1920. The parish is part of the Windrush benefice within the Diocese of Gloucester. Architecture. The limestone building has a stone slate roof. It consists of the nave, with a wagon roof and supported by diagonal buttresses, south porch, north asile and chancel There is a three-stage west tower. The oldest of the bells in the tower is from1638. There is a sanctus bellcote above the chancel arch. The Norman south doorway has 3 levels of chevron and dogtooth carvings. This was dismantled cleaned and reassembled in 1865. The tympaneum which is now displayed in the north wall has a relief of Christ flanked by"}, {"text": "winged angels. A large memorial to the Tayler family takes up much of the interior of the east wall. It consists of an inscribed plaque with carved figures on either side. There are several other memorials within the church. In the nave are wall paintings from 1736. The font is from the 15th century."}, {"text": "Anders Prytz (born 15 November 1976) is a retired Swedish football defender."}, {"text": "World Collection is a series of Japanese releases for original Xbox games published by Microsoft, featuring select overseas (North American and European) titles, released at a reduced price compared to normal releases. Titles in this series retain their original overseas cover artwork with a \"World Collection\" border, and are left entirely in English, with a Japanese-language manual. The series was launched in October 2003, with regular releases every 2-3 months until August 2005."}, {"text": "Trotter Creek is a rural locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Trotter Creek had a population of 12 people. Geography. The \"Dee River\" forms the south-western to north-western boundaries. The Burnett Highway runs along parts of the eastern and southern boundaries. Demographics. In the , Trotter Creek had a population of 10 people. In the , Trotter Creek had a population of 12 people. Education. There are no schools in Trotter Creek. The nearest government primary and secondary schools are Mount Morgan State School and Mount Morgan State High School, both in Mount Morgan to the north."}, {"text": "Clemens Hellsberg (born 28 March 1952) is an Austrian violinist and from 1997 to 2014 was director of the Wiener Philharmoniker. Life. Born in Linz, after attending the Schottengymnasium in Vienna, Hellsberg studied musicology and ancient history at the University of Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1980. At the same time he studied violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He was a special forces soldier, a member of the Jagdkommando with the Bundesheer. In 1976 he was employed by the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, and from 1978 played as first violinist in the orchestra of the same opera house. The Philharmonic recorded him in 1980. From 1997 to 2014 he succeeded Werner Resel on the board of directors. In September 2014, Andreas Gro\u00dfbauer succeeded him in this function. In 2016 he went into retirement. Hellsberg also gained fame through his book \"Democracy of the Kings\", published in 1992. The Austrian Green party published this history of the Vienna Philharmonic because of what they saw as omissions, from the official narrative, of elements of Nazism in the past of the Vienna Philharmonic. He has been a member of the Catholic student fraternity of"}, {"text": "the since 1974."}, {"text": "Airborne Raider Infantry Battalion 305th / Skull is an Indonesian Army unit. It is one of the three Battalions of the Raiders in the 17th Airborne Raider Infantry Brigade, 1st Kostrad Infantry Division. This Infantry Battalion was established on September 7, 1949 in Bintaran Kulon, Yogyakarta. Battalion Headquarters Raider 305 / Skull is in Desa Sirnabaya, Teluk Jambe Timur District, Karawang Regency. History. War for independence. The unit was created in 1945, directly under the control of the Headquarters TKR. In 1946 it was renamed \"Mobile Battalion\" under the leadership of Captain Nasuhi. In 1947 it was organized into the Mobile Brigade Unit with the core Yon A in Yogyakarta, Yon B in Solo and Yon C in Tawangmangu Karanganyar. In 1948, with the rationalization and reorganization of the Indonesian Armed Forces (APRI) Yon A was renamed Battalion I Brigade IV Siliwangi III of the General Reserve Reserve Z. IN November 1948, when the Siliwangi Division was headquartered in Magelang, Battalion I Brigade IV was included in the Siliwangi Division Brigade under the name \"Battalion IV Brigade XIV Siliwangi Division\". Post-war. Based on Siliwangi Division Order No. 56 / DB / 49 of 24 August 1949 and Decree of the"}, {"text": "Commander of the Battle of Tasikmalaya, 7 September 1949 is designated as the Anniversary of Battalion C. Battalion C is the result of reorganization from Yon IV Brigade XIV into two battalions namely: The two Battalions were formed from East Priangan Brigade 13. In 1951 Battalion C changed its name to Battalion 135 Brigade B which was finally established at the end of 1951 with the name \"Infantry Battalion 305 / Skull.\" Battalion 305 became an organic unit 17th Airborne Raider Infantry Brigade, based in Karawang, West Java. Infantry Battalion 305 entered into Kostrad in 1969 when it was renamed the 305nd Infantry Battalion Battalion / Skull, Brigadier Linud 17 / Kujang I, Kostrad and based in Jambe Bay, Karawang, West Java. Motto. The otto of the Republic of Indonesia is \"Build His Soul, Build His Body\". Infantry Battalion 305 adopted two slogans, one for the soul and one for action. Motto of the soul. Their motto of the soul is \"From Give Better Dead Mirrors As Skulls\", which implies that its soldiers are always enthusiastic and never accept failure. Accompanied by sincerity and always close to God Almighty, they are prepared at any time to die facing the Divine."}, {"text": "Motto of action. Their motto of action is \"Fast - Secret - Successful\", which is a Reflection and a Prayer that the Soldiers of the Skull Raider are always: Para and Raider Status. Airborne or Paradier status was obtained by Infantry Battalion 305 in 1966 after completing Para's basic education in Batujajar. 20 May 1966 was designated as Infantry Battalion 305 Para, Brigadier 17 Linud Kujang, Kodam III / Siliwangi | Kodam VI / Siliwangi. Raider status was obtained at the end of 1967. Raider training at the Cititis Complex, Garut was inaugurated on 20 January 1968, with the nickname \"Kujang Raider\", the range under Brigif 17 Linud Kujang, Kodam VI Siliwangi. The validation is based on Kasad Regulation Number 55 Year 2016 dated 7 December 2016 concerning the Organization and Duties of the Infantry Battalion of the Raiders. Infantry Battalion 305 / Skull changed to Infantry Battalion 305 / Skull. At this time all Yonif Para Raider 305 / Skull warriors are required to undergo Raider qualifications at the Pusdikpassus Batu Jajar, after carrying out Cakra warrior formation training."}, {"text": "Johnsons Hill is a rural locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Johnsons Hill had a population of 7 people. Geography. The Burnett Highway runs along the northern boundary. Demographics. In the , Johnsons Hill had a population of 10 people. In the , Johnsons Hill had a population of 7 people."}, {"text": "Chrono Genesis (, foaled 6 March 2016) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse. She was one of the best two-year-old fillies in Japan when she won her first two races including the Ivy Stakes and then ran a close second in the Hanshin Juvenile Fillies. In the following year she won the Daily Hai Queen Cup and then contested all three legs of the Japanese Fillies' Triple Crown, finishing third in both the Oka Sho and the Yushun Himba before winning the Shuka Sho. As a four-year-old, she won the Kyoto Kinen, Takarazuka Kinen and Arima Kinen. Background. Chrono Genesis is a grey mare with a white star bred in Hokkaido by Northern Farm. She was sent into training with Takashi Saito at Ritt\u014d, Shiga and carries the red, black and yellow colours of Sunday Racing. She was ridden in most of her races by Yuichi Kitamura. She was from the tenth crop of foals sired by Bago, an outstanding middle-distance runner in Europe whose biggest win came in the 2004 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. As a breeding stallion in Japan he started well but became disappointing: Chrono Genesis was his first Grade 1 winner since Big Week won the"}, {"text": "Kikuka Sho in 2010. Chrono Genesis's dam Chronologist, from whom she inherited her grey colour, showed modest racing ability, winning one minor race as a three-year-old in 2006. but as a broodmare she also produced Normcore. She was descended from the American broodmare Nimble Doll (foaled 1952), making her a distant relative of Captain Steve. Racing career. 2018: two-year-old season. Chrono Genesis began her racing career by winning an event for previously unraced juveniles over 1800 metres at Kokura Racecourse on 2 September. On 20 October she was stepped up in class for the Listed Ivy Stakes over the same distance at Tokyo Racecourse when she was the only filly in a ten-runner field and won by two lengths from Cosmo Calendula. Saito later commented \"She waited patiently and went all out in the final stages and displayed the kind of kick we thought she would from her morning work\". On 9 December the filly was moved up to the highest level for the Grade 1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies over 1600 metres at Hanshin Racecourse and started the 2.6/1 second favourite in an eighteen-runner field. After starting slowly she was towards the rear for most of the race before making"}, {"text": "rapid progress in the straight and finishing second to the favoured Danon Fantasy, beaten half a length by the winner. In the official ratings for Japanese two-year-olds Chrono Genesis was rated the second best juvenile filly of the year, one pound behind Danon Fantasy and six pounds below the top-rated colt Admire Mars. 2019: three-year-old season. On her first appearance as a three-year-old Chrono Genesis started 1.1/1 favourite for the Grade 2 Daily High Queen Cup (a trial for the Oka Sho) over 1800 metres at Toyo on 11 February. She came from sixth place on the final turn to win by a neck and half a length from Beach Samba and Jodie. In the Oka Sho over 1600 metres at Hanshin on 7 April the filly started the 4.7/1 third choice in the betting behind Danon Fantasy and Gran Alegria. After racing in mid-division Chrono Genesis was switched to the outside and produced a \"powerful turn of speed\" to take third place behind Gran Alegria and Shigeru Pink Dia. On 19 May at Tokyo Chrono Genesis was moved up in distance and made the second favourite behind Loves Only You for the 2400 metre Yushun Himba. She raced just"}, {"text": "behind the leaders for most of the way before keeping on well in the straight but never looked likely to win and finished third behind Loves Only You and the 93.1/1 outsider Curren Bouquetd'Or. After a break of almost five months Chrono Genesis returned for the Shuka Sho over 2000 metres at Kyoto Racecourse on 13 October and started the 5.9/1 fourth choice in the betting behind Danon Fantasy, Curren Bouquetd'Or and Espoir. The other thirteen runners included Beach Samba, Shigeru Pink Dia, Contra Check (Flower Cup), Passing Through (Shion Stakes) and Schon Glanz (Artemis Stakes). Chrono Genesis settled behind the leaders as Danon Fantasy set the pace before being switched to the outside in the straight and launching a sustained run. She took the lead 200 metres from the finish and drew away in the closing stages to win by two lengths from Curren Bouquetd'Or with a further length and half back to Shigeru Pink Dia in third. After the race Yuichi Kitamura said \"I was able to race her in an ideal position... I was able to make bid with confidence. I am grateful for having been able to ride the filly since her debut, I'm really glad"}, {"text": "that I was able to deliver a good result\". Four weeks later the filly contested the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup when she was matched against older fillies and mares for the first time and started the 2.5/1 second favourite. She was settled just behind the leaders for most of the way but was unable to make any significant progress in the straight and came home fifth of the eighteen runners, two lengths behind the winner Lucky Lilac. In January 2020, at the JRA Awards for 2019, Chrono Genesis finished third behind Gran Alegria and Loves Only You in the poll to determine the JRA Award for Best Three-Year-Old Filly, taking 47 of the 274 votes. 2020: four-year-old season. Chrono Genesis began her 2020 campaign in the Grade 2 Kyoto Kinen over 2200 metres on 16 February and started the 1.7/1 favourite ahead of Curren Bouquetd'or, Stay Foolish (Kyoto Shimbun Hai) and Dreadnoughtus (Kyoto Daishoten). After racing in third place she took the lead in the straight and drew away to win by two and a half lengths from Curren Bouquetd'or. Restrictions imposed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic meant that her next start, the Grade 1 Osaka"}, {"text": "Hai over 2000 metres at Hanshin on 5 April was run behind closed doors. Starting the 4/1 fifth choice in a field of twelve she settled behind the leaders before heading the front-running Danon Kingly in the straight but was overtaken in the closing stages and beaten a neck into second place by Lucky Lilac. At the same track on 28 June Chrono Genesis was one of eighteen horses to contest the 61st edition of the Grade 1 Takarazuka Kinen and started the 3.1/1 second favourite behind the four-year-old colt Saturnalia while the other contenders included Lucky Lilac, Blast Onepiece, Glory Vase, Kiseki (Kikuka Sho), Wagnerian and Persian Knight (Mile Championship). After settling in mid division, Chrono Genesis moved up on the outside to take second place behind Lucky Lilac on the final turn before gaining the advantage 300 metres from the finish and going clear of the field to win by six lengths. Kitamura commented \"The filly broke smoothly and we were able to travel in good rhythm in good striking position. I didn't really have to urge her to go but she just went spontaneously. She was responding really well so I knew that she will stretch well"}, {"text": "in the lane. She has become a powerful filly and was in very good condition. She was really strong.\" After a break of over four months Chrono Genesis returned to the track in November and started second favourite behind Almond Eye in the autumn running of the Tenno Sho over 2000 metres at Tokyo. She came from well off the pace with a strong late run in the straight to take third place, beaten half a length and a neck by Almond Eye and Fierement. In the poll which is used to select the field for the Arima Kinen over 2500 metres at Nakayama Racecourse Chrono Genesis topped the list with 214,472 votes, the highest total in the race's history. On 27 December she started the 1.5/1 favourite for the Arima Kinen ahead of Fierement while the other contenders included Curren Bouquetd'Or, Lucky Lilac, World Premiere, Loves Only You, Kiseki, Blast Onepiece and Persian Knight. After being restrained by Kitamura she made rapid progress on the backstretch and exited the final turn in third place behind the tiring pace-setter Babbitt and Fierement. She moved alongside Fierement in the straight and got the better of a sustained struggle with her male"}, {"text": "opponent before holding off the late run of the 73.9/1 outsider Salacia to win by a neck. After the race Kitamura said \"All I wanted was her to be relaxed and her break wasn't that bad, she was in hand and ran in the same rhythm as before. Yesterday and today, I was in 2,500 meter-races here at Nakayama which enabled me to get warmed up with a good idea of how I wanted her to run,\" while Saito commented \"She was in good form and gave us a great impression before the race. I was worried that Yuichi might have made a too early bid, but he was confident and rode her beautifully, holding off the others. This is a dream come true and I have a feeling there will be many more.\" In January 2021 Chrono Genesis was given a JRA Special Award for her performances in 2020. In the 2020 World's Best Racehorse Rankings, Chrono Genesis was rated on 121, making her the equal 34th best racehorse in the world. 2021: five-year-old season. For her first appearance of 2021 Chrono Genesis was sent to Meydan Racecourse in Dubai to face international competition in the Dubai Sheema Classic."}, {"text": "Chrono Genesis ran the 2021 Arima Kinen as her final race before retirement. However, she lost to Efforia."}, {"text": "Bahrain competed at the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan from 18 to 27 October 2019. It sent a delegation consisting of 87 athletes competing in ten sports for the event."}, {"text": "Leydens Hill is a rural locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Leydens Hill had \"no people or a very low population\". Geography. The Burnett Highway runs along part of the eastern boundary before passing through the eastern end to the run along the southern boundary. Demographics. In the , Leydens Hill had \"no people or a very low population\". In the , Leydens Hill had \"no people or a very low population\". Education. There are no schools in Leydens Hill. The nearest government primary and secondary schools are Mount Morgan State School and Mount Morgan State High School, both in neighbouring Mount Morgan to the south-west."}, {"text": "Nehemiah Atkinson (1918\u20132003) was a professional tennis player and tennis coach in New Orleans, Louisiana USA. He managed public tennis facilities in New Orleans and played competitive tennis into old age. He was particularly noted for teaching young African-Americans, especially the underprivileged, to play the sport of tennis. Early life and education. Atkinson was born in 1918 in Biloxi, Mississippi, to parents C.C. Atkinson and Josephine Atkinson. He was the first of ten children in the family. Atkinson's family moved to New Orleans just before the Great Depression as his father became bishop of the Christ Holiness Church there. Atkinson attended New Orleans Public Schools, including two years of high school. He began playing tennis at age nine, learning without the benefit of professional instruction, being attracted to the sport despite its dominance by white people. During World War II, Atkinson served in the United States Army's Black Corps of Engineers, which was responsible for building airstrips in Washington state, Alaska, and various locations in the south Pacific Ocean. Atkinson's role was as a medical corpsman for the 97th Engineer Regiment. He returned to New Orleans after his tour of military duty in December 1945. At that time, he studied"}, {"text": "offset printing at the Louisiana Industrial Training School in Farmerville, Louisiana. Atkinson subsequently returned to New Orleans, where he obtained employment with the Dryades Street branch of the YMCA. Here he organized various activities, especially for young people. He established and taught tennis clinics for young people. During this time, he gained the attention of the local Coca-Cola Bottling Company which was a sponsor of the Dryades Street YMCA and gave Atkinson employment as a night supervisor. Tennis career. In 1947, as part of his experience with the Dryades Street YMCA, Atkinson co-founded the New Orleans Hard Court Tennis Club, which provided opportunities for African-Americans to play competitive tennis in the segregated society of the time. This included organizing tennis tournaments, often taking place at Xavier University, a historically black university. In his early years of teaching tennis, due to limited resources, Atkinson sometimes used parking lots with a modified volleyball net instead of a tennis net as makeshift tennis courts. He taught youngsters the sport of tennis regardless of their ethnic background. Atkinson participated in many tournaments sponsored by the American Tennis Association, and he also supported them by doing volunteer work on behalf of the association. This was"}, {"text": "before the time that the United States Tennis Association accepted African-American players, while the American Tennis Association promoted African-American participation in the sport. As a player, Atkinson won various regional tennis tournaments throughout the southern United States, winning approximately 15 tournament titles. Following the 1974 relocation of the New Orleans Lawn Tennis Club, the former location became the Stern Tennis Center, a part of the New Orleans Recreation Department. This facility, on South Saratoga Street in New Orleans, welcomed African-Americans to play tennis. Atkinson became the manager of the facility, a position he held until his retirement in 1995. At the time of his retirement, Lloyd Dillon became manager of the facility, whom Atkinson has mentored for the position. Atkinson's notable tennis students included Chanda Rubin and Sharon Pettis, who later became the tennis coach at Marquette University. He also helped Pettis obtain a scholarship from the Southern University \"men's\" tennis team, an indication that he broke boundaries in both race and gender relations. Pettis later worked as a tennis instructor for the New Orleans Recreation Department as did Atkinson. Atkinson wrote a column for the \"Louisiana Weekly\" newspaper, with a readership of mostly African-American tennis players, entitled \"Hard Court"}, {"text": "Tennis Notes\". Experience with segregation. Much of Atkinson's career coincided with the era of the Jim Crow South, and he frequently was taunted at integrated tennis tournaments in which he participated. He had urine-filled tennis balls and other objects thrown at him. He received inappropriate foot-fault calls and sometimes was verbally abused by tournament officials. After segregation in the Deep South subsided, Atkinson became a member of the New Orleans Lawn Tennis Club, from which he had previously been excluded for racial reasons. This was the most prestigious tennis facility in New Orleans at the time. As of 2019, the New Orleans Lawn Tennis Club was also the oldest tennis club in the United States (founded in 1876), and it had become racially integrated only in 1986. In the 1960s, local tennis player Harry Anisgard sponsored Atkinson for membership in the formerly all-white New Orleans City Park Tennis Club. In reprisal, Anisgard was dismissed from the club. The club had regrets soon afterward, and re-admitted Anisgard to the club, ironically with Atkinson's sponsorship. Senior tennis. As a senior tennis player, Atkinson won the Men\u2019s 65 Singles Championships in both 1989 and 1990 sponsored by the United States Professional Tennis Registry."}, {"text": "He subsequently won the Men\u2019s 70+ Singles in 1994 through 1997 and then again in 2000 and 2001. In 1993, Atkinson was named Player of the Year for the United States Professional Tennis Registry. In 1999, Atkinson won the 80s National Hard Court Championship in San Diego, California, and, with a doubles partner, the World International Senior Tennis Championship in Barcelona, Spain. In 2001, he won the World Men's 80s Grasscourt Championship, held in Perth, Australia. With regard to his success in senior competitive tennis, Atkinson stated: Later life. Atkinson died of cancer at the Kenner Regional Medical Center in 2003 and was then interred at the Biloxi National Cemetery. Honors and recognition. The Atkinson-Stern Tennis Center of the New Orleans Recreation Department, located in uptown New Orleans, is named in honor of Atkinson and philanthropist Edgar B. Stern. Atkinson served as a pallbearer at the funeral of tennis star Arthur Ashe. In 1977, Atkinson received the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Ripple of Hope Award. He was the first African-American to be inducted into the Southern Tennis Hall of Fame. In 2000, Atkinson was inducted into the Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame. The Louisiana Tennis Association awards the"}, {"text": "Nehemiah Atkinson Diversity and Inclusion Champion Award in Atkinson's honor. The Professional Tennis Registry Foundation awards the Nehemiah Atkinson Humanitarian Grant, given to an individual distinguished by actions aimed at improving the lives of others. As a senior tennis player, he received the T.N. Touchstone, Jr. Memorial Trophy, awarded for his sportsmanship and support of southern tennis."}, {"text": "On 26\u201327 October 2019, the United States conducted a military operation code named Operation Kayla Mueller that resulted in the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the then-leader and self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State. The operation took place in the outskirts of Barisha, Idlib Governorate, Syria. According to General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) commander who oversaw the operation, Baghdadi killed himself along with two children when he detonated a suicide belt while fleeing from U.S. forces during the raid. The U.S. operation was named for Kayla Mueller, an American aid worker who had been captured by and died in the custody of the Islamic State. Background. The raid was launched based on an intelligence effort to locate the leader of IS by the CIA's Special Activities Center. \"The New York Times\" reported that, according to two U.S. officials, the CIA obtained the original intelligence on Baghdadi following the arrests of one of his wives and a courier, after which the CIA worked closely with Iraqi and Kurdish intelligence officials in Iraq and Syria. \"The Guardian\", however, reported Iraqi officials as saying that the break came after a smuggler (who had smuggled the wives of"}, {"text": "two brothers of Baghdadi and Baghdadi's children in the past), a woman thought to be his wife, and Baghdadi's nephew provided information on the routes and destinations. Iraqi officials also stated that the arrest of Muhammad Ali Sajid al-Zobaie, Baghdadi's brother-in-law, helped them in finding a desert tunnel leading to two well-stocked hideouts near Al-Qaim, Iraq, and thereby penetrate a smuggling ring to find Baghdadi. A U.S. official disputed the Iraqi account that Iraq had provided the exact location of Baghdadi, and stated that the operation was triggered when he appeared in a monitored location. Location. Reuters reported Iraqi intelligence officials as stating that the arrest of several Islamic State leaders was the key behind learning about Baghdadi's movements and hiding places. They said that Ismael al-Ethawi, believed to be a top aide to Baghdadi, was found and followed by informants in Syria, apprehended by Turkish authorities, and handed over to Iraqi intelligence agents to whom he provided information in February 2018. The Iraqis then gave the information to the CIA, who kept surveillance on the discovered location through a satellite and drones. They also said that in 2019 the United States, Turkish and Iraqi intelligence conducted a joint operation"}, {"text": "in which they captured several high-ranking IS leaders, including four Iraqis and a Syrian, who provided the locations where they met with Baghdadi inside Syria, after which they decided to coordinate with the CIA to deploy more sources inside these areas. An Iraqi official remarked that Baghdadi's \"last moment to live\" was when he and his family left the location that they were in for the first time in five months. Ethawi and the other aides in an interview to \"The New York Times\" stated that they were blindfolded before being taken to meet their leader, in order to keep his whereabouts secret, they were then kept at the location for hours before being blindfolded again and driven away from the site. Baghdadi's compound was located near GPS coordinates 36.1660, 36.6274, in Syria's Idlib Governorate. Although Idlib is dominated by the Islamic State's rival jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which had connections to al-Qaeda, the Institute for the Study of War warned that Idlib is nevertheless the focus of an IS strategy to raise the next cohort of IS and al-Qaeda recruits. HTS operatives had themselves been hunting for al-Baghdadi in the days prior to the US operation, raiding"}, {"text": "the town of Sarmin and eventually capturing a close aide to al-Baghadi, Abu Suleiman al-Khalidi, further reducing the IS leader's safety network. In July 2019, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford explained that there were around 20,000\u2013\u206030,000 rebels in Idlib by that time in the ongoing Syrian civil war, many of them jihadists. U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East Michael P. Mulroy said that \"Idlib is essentially the largest collection of al-Qaeda affiliates in the world.\" In regard to Baghdadi's possible rationale for choosing the location, \"We assess that he was hiding in Idlib province to avoid the intense pressure that had been put on ISIS in other areas of Syria,\" operational commander General Kenneth McKenzie later stated. Documents later obtained by Al Aan TV's Jenan Moussa reportedly revealed that, from 1 February 2019 until the day of the U.S. raid, Baghdadi's compound had internet access and that the owner of the site paid the equivalent of an $8 monthly fee in cash to the regional ISP for service. According to Moussa, the username Baghdadi used was \"mhrab.\" Baghdadi's compound was destroyed after the successful operation to be sure it would not become"}, {"text": "a memorial. SDF role. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) reported that they provided direct and extensive support to the operation. Prior to the raid, the SDF, working with the U.S. government, had spent five months gathering intelligence on Baghdadi's location. A senior U.S. State Department official said that the Kurdish-led SDF \"played a key role\" in the raid on Baghdadi's compound and that the United States was in close communication with SDF commander General Mazloum Abdi about every aspect of their operation, and Abdi's statements about the raid, in reference to the joint intelligence cooperation on the ground, were accurate. Abdi said the operation had been delayed by a month due to Turkey's military build-up at the Syrian border and the Turkish incursion into northeastern Syria that followed. \"The New York Times\" reported that unnamed U.S. intelligence, military, and counter-terrorism officials said that the abrupt withdrawal of U.S. forces from northern Syria by President Donald Trump had complicated the plans for the operation against Baghdadi, but the Syrian Kurds continued to provide information to the CIA amidst the Turkish offensive. One of the officials remarked that both the Syrian and Iraqi Kurds had provided more intelligence for the raid"}, {"text": "than any single country. CENTCOM commander General Kenneth McKenzie later confirmed the SDF had provided intelligence to American forces prior to the raid in Idlib, but denied reports that President Trump's prior order to withdraw forces from north Syria had any impact on the timing or execution of the mission. Embedded informant. \"The Washington Post\" reported that, according to a U.S. official, an IS militant-turned informant for the Kurds had provided critical intelligence about Baghdadi's location. The SDF commander, General Abdi, said that their informant was deep inside Baghdadi's inner circle as a security adviser and had provided a detailed layout of the complex, and was on-site during the operation, after which he left with the U.S. forces. SDF officials said that the informant had stolen Baghdadi's underwear and a sample of Baghdadi's blood, which was provided to the U.S. intelligence for DNA analysis and resulted in a positive match. U.S. and Middle East\u2013based officials stated that the informant was a Sunni Arab IS operative, who served as a trusted facilitator and logistics aide to Baghdadi, but defected because IS killed his relative, after which he was cultivated as an intelligence asset by the SDF. They said that, after the"}, {"text": "SDF leadership handed control over the informant to U.S. intelligence, he was carefully vetted for several weeks by them and that the effort to begin exploiting this intelligence asset began in the summer of 2019. The informant was subsequently extracted from the region with his family two days after the raid and will likely receive at least some of the $25 million bounty. Prelude. Two U.S. officials stated that Baghdadi had been staying at the compound in Barisha since July 2019 and that it had been under surveillance since, but U.S. forces avoided assaulting it due to the presence of al-Qaeda affiliates and the airspace being controlled and monitored by Russia and the Syrian government. Some U.S. officials claimed that the Pentagon decided to carry out the mission after President Donald Trump ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces from northern Syria in early October, as to not lose track of Baghdadi. However, CENTCOM commander Frank McKenzie stated that the north Syria pullout had \"absolutely\" no effect on the timing or execution of the operation. \"We chose the time based on a variety of factors: weather, certainty, lunar data ... We struck because the time was about right to do it"}, {"text": "then given the totality of the intelligence and the other factors that would affect the raid force going in and coming out,\" General McKenzie added. The Turkish Defense Ministry said that Turkish and U.S. military authorities exchanged and coordinated information ahead of the attack in Idlib. A U.S. official stated that Turkey was informed prior to the operation to avoid an unintended clash between their forces, but was not notified about the target due to concerns that the information would become compromised and did not provide any assistance to the operation. Turkish officials also informed Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which controls much of the area where the raid took place, not to open fire on the helicopters that would be used in the operation; despite being informed, anti-aircraft fire by HTS was used, however, the operators were detained by HTS commanders afterward for not following orders. General McKenzie briefed Defense Department leaders on the intelligence and the plan on October 25 and received the approval of Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley for the operation. President Trump was then briefed \"on all aspects of the plan and the risks involved in its"}, {"text": "execution\" and that Russia and Turkey were contacted ahead of the mission to avoid unintended clashes. With Trump's approval, McKenzie, as operational commander, gave the order for the mission to start October 26 around 9 a.m. EST. Operational name. The operation was named after Kayla Mueller, an American aid worker who was abducted by IS in Syria in August 2013. During her captivity, she was reportedly forced into marriage with al-Baghdadi, during which time she was repeatedly raped, tortured, and physically abused. She was confirmed dead in early February 2015, reportedly murdered by al-Baghdadi himself. The special forces that were to carry out the operation named their task force \"Task Force 8-14\", based on Mueller's birthday. Raid. On October 26, 2019, shortly after U.S. president Donald Trump and a small team of key civilian and military leaders gathered in the White House Situation Room at around 5 p.m. EST (00:00 Syria time), U.S. Joint Special Operations Command's 1st SFOD-D (Delta Force) operators, along with U.S. Army Rangers from the 75th Ranger Regiment, departed Al Asad Airbase in Iraq in eight U.S. military helicopters, including MH-47 Chinooks and MH-60L/M Black Hawks, to conduct an air assault on an \"isolated compound\" 300"}, {"text": "meters outside of Barisha village\u2014located five kilometers (three miles) south of the border with Turkey in hostile rebel-held territory in Syria's Idlib Governorate\u2014to kill or capture Baghdadi. The assault force reportedly flew through Turkish-controlled and Russian-monitored airspace towards the objective and landed after 70 minutes. According to General McKenzie, who oversaw the operation, air cover for the assault included armed helicopters, multiple drones, and fighter aircraft providing close air support; they planned for multiple children/non-militants at the compound and tried to minimize casualties. As the heli-borne assault force approached Baghdadi's compound, the helicopters reportedly came under gunfire from two locations from non-IS militant groups that were outside the target building but in the area of operations; according to McKenzie, they were neutralized with two airstrikes from supporting helicopters. The Delta Force operators, supported by military working dogs and military robots, landed outside the compound and surrounded it, repeatedly calling on its occupants to come out peacefully in Arabic. \"Those who came out of the building were checked for weapons and explosives and moved away,\" McKenzie said. \"U.S. forces detained and later released the noncombatants. The group was treated humanely at all times, and included 11 children.\" Five IS members inside"}, {"text": "the compound\u2014four women and one man\u2014\"presented a threat to the force\" and were killed when they did not respond to commands to surrender, as they were suspected of wearing suicide vests. Believing the main entrance to be booby trapped, operators breached the compound's walls with explosives. Once Delta was inside the target building, Baghdadi fled into a tunnel network under the premises wearing a suicide vest and carrying two children with him. By the time he reached a dead end, an explosive ordnance disposal military robot and a dog (later identified as a male Belgian Malinois named \"Conan\") had been dispatched to subdue him. He detonated his vest, killing himself and the two children, and causing the tunnel to collapse. The children killed were believed to be younger than 12 years old. U.S. soldiers dug through the debris to retrieve some of Baghdadi's remains and lab technicians successfully conducted DNA profiling and biometrics tests within 15 minutes of his death via Defense Intelligence Agency analysis, confirming Baghdadi's identity. According to the White House, \"a combination of visual evidence and DNA tests confirmed Baghdadi's identity.\" The quick DNA confirmation is attributed to special forces already possessing samples of Baghdadi's tissue, reportedly"}, {"text": "voluntarily provided by one of his daughters, according to a U.S. official. McKenzie, however, stated that they were obtained from his time in Camp Bucca. Two adult male captives and a \"substantial\" amount of documents and electronic items were seized from the compound during the raid which, per U.S. officials, was a primary goal so they could understand the current leadership structure of ISIL. Items included 5\u20136 cellphones, 2\u20134 laptops and some USB flash drives. Just before 3:30 am Syrian time, U.S. helicopters departed the area for Iraq and the compound was then destroyed by airstrikes from overhead F-15 jets and MQ-9 Reaper drones, reportedly to prevent the site from becoming a \"shrine\" for sympathizers. According to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, a wide variety of munitions, including AGM-158 JASSM cruise missiles, unspecified precision-guided bombs, and AGM-114 Hellfire guided missiles were responsible for leveling Baghdadi's compound. McKenzie, who called the operation \"exquisitely planned and executed,\" stated that the special forces who took part in the operation were based in Syria and that only U.S. personnel were involved in the raid on the compound itself. The entire operation lasted roughly two hours. Aftermath. General McKenzie called in"}, {"text": "and announced the mission's success to the team in the White House Situation Room, saying \"Got him, 100 percent confidence, jackpot, over,\" according to National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien. Trump press conference. At 9:23 p.m. EST, President Trump tweeted \"Something very big has just happened!\" with the White House subsequently announcing a planned press conference at 9 a.m. the next morning. At the press conference, Trump announced Baghdadi's death and went on to describe the successful operation against him in detail, reporting that U.S. forces used helicopters, jets, and drones through airspace controlled by Russia and Turkey. He also said that they had Baghdadi \"under surveillance for 'a couple of weeks' and 'two or three' raids had been canceled because of his movements\". He continued: \"The forces targeted the compound using eight helicopters, which were met with hostile fire. The commandos entered the building by blowing holes in the wall, avoiding the main door which was booby-trapped.\" Trump elaborated on the entrance to the building during a followup question: And they did a lot of shooting, and they did a lot of blasting, even not going through the front door. You know, you would think you go through the door."}, {"text": "If you're a normal person, you say, \"Knock, knock. May I come in?\" The fact is that they blasted their way into the house and a very heavy wall, and it took them literally seconds. By the time those things went off, they had a beautiful, big hole, and they ran in and they got everybody by surprise. Trump announced that Baghdadi died by detonating a suicide vest after he was chased by U.S. military dogs and was cornered inside a tunnel. He and other officials initially stated that the explosion killed three of his children alongside him, however General McKenzie later said it had been confirmed only two were killed. Trump said Baghdadi died \"like a dog and a coward\" and \"whimpering and crying and screaming\", but JCS Chairman Milley and various Pentagon and administration officials either could not confirm, or outright denied, the \"whimpering and crying\" detail as Trump reportedly had only seen drone surveillance without live audio. Reportedly, some U.S. officials said that Trump's press conference contained several pieces of information that were inaccurate, highly classified, or tactically sensitive. Trump reportedly met with troops involved in the raid during a visit to Fort Bragg, North Carolina on"}, {"text": "October 29, 2020. According to White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Trump presented the operators with a Presidential Unit Citation and visited a Special Forces memorial at the base. Casualties. JCS Chairman Milley said during a Pentagon briefing that the disposal of Baghdadi's corpse was \"handled appropriately\", initially adding that Washington had no plans to release images of his death, but later showed footage of the raid during a briefing on October 30. Baghdadi was buried at sea and afforded Islamic rites, three anonymous U.S. officials told Reuters and a Pentagon source told AFP. An aide of Baghdadi, who handled logistics, was the other man killed according to Iraqi officials. United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that two wives of al-Baghdadi were also killed in the raid. Trump said no U.S. soldiers were injured, but Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said two had been lightly injured during the raid. An American Special Operations Military Working Dog (SOMWD), a male Belgian Malinois named Conan, who chased Baghdadi, was treated for his injuries and returned to work on October 28. During a news conference that day, Esper and Milley declined to identify him for security reasons; Trump released a declassified"}, {"text": "photograph of him later in the day. The dog was injured due to live electrical cables that were exposed, according to McKenzie. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) war monitor, Delta Force killed nine people, including one child, two women and some high-ranking IS leaders. Baghdadi's suicide vest killed two more children, reportedly his own. American forces captured two militants and rescued eleven children. General McKenzie said six IS members, which included four women and another man aside from Baghdadi, were killed in the operation. The raid also killed about 10 to 15 members of other groups who engaged American forces. Delta also killed a local Hurras al-Din commander, identified as Abu Muhammad al-Halabi, the owner of the house Baghdadi was staying at. An Iraqi intelligence official and Hisham al-Hashimi have stated to \"The Independent\" that Halabi was also a smuggler, which is why the IS head and his family utilized his services. According to Der Spiegel, Baghdadi's host was Salam Haj Deen an IS sympathizer. The inhabitants of the village stated that he was a sheep seller, but rarely interacted with his neighbors. His other alias is believed to be Abu Mohammed Salama and his corpse"}, {"text": "was flown away by Delta Force after the raid according to Barisha's inhabitants. He, along with some other Hurras al-Din members, is also suspected to have been part of a pro-IS faction. Based on a receipt book of ISIL found by associates of former American intelligence official Asaad Almohammad, analysts have stated that Baghdadi was paying the members of the group in exchange for hiding him. According to the receipt book, IS paid at least $67,000 to them from early 2017 to mid-2018, including $7,000 in summer 2018 to prepare bases for IS fighters from \"al-Khair province\", hinting that they helped in smuggling IS members. Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi pointed to the fact that the two groups were enemies, citing a warning by Hurras al-Din to its members in February 2019 to avoid contact with IS and the latter issuing the similar statement about the former in July. However, Tamimi also said that some of the receipts might be fabrications, except the ones from March to July 2018 that he was shown. Civilian casualties. Besides the two children killed by Baghdadi's suicide detonation, the U.S. military initially reported no civilian casualties during the operation. A report by NPR released on December"}, {"text": "3, 2019, cited a local farmer, Barakat Ahmad Barakat, as saying that his right hand and forearm were blown off and his two friends were killed by U.S. helicopter fire during the operation. According to Barakat's account, Khaled Mustafa Qurmo and Khaled Abdel Majid Qurmo, two cousins, were driving him home in Barisha on October 26 when helicopters fired on their white van. All three exited the vehicle, but one fell, his legs filled with shrapnel. A follow-up strike targeted the group again, killing the two cousins and blowing off a chunk of Barakat's right arm. The cousins died of shrapnel wounds to the chest, according to autopsy reports by a Syrian doctor with the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations, an international medical group. Several relatives said the cousins operated a van service and had no connection to IS or any armed group; Barakat said the van carried no weapons. Relatives provided video and photos of the scene and the destroyed van to NPR. An unidentified U.S. defense official told NPR by email that it was the first civilian casualty report they received related to the raid, and that initial reports suggested that a white van in the"}, {"text": "vicinity had fired on U.S. helicopters. \"Surveillance footage will be reviewed to determine if an investigation needs to be opened based upon this additional information,\" the official said. Former Pentagon intelligence analyst Marc Garlasco suggested the shrapnel damage at the scene resembled that caused by Hydra 70 rockets, a type used by U.S. military helicopters. Garlasco also suggested the secondary strikes on the men fleeing the van was consistent with a U.S. military practice of targeting \"squirters\"\u2014people perceived to be hostiles running away from an attack. In February 2020, U.S. Central Command launched a formal investigation, called a credibility assessment, into the allegations of possible civilian casualties. In July 2020, Central Command concluded that U.S. forces reacted appropriately to \"actions against U.S. forces, which turned lethal after warnings were not heeded.\" According to CENTCOM, a helicopter fired a warning shot at the approaching van, but the van accelerated towards the helicopter until it was shot upon again, in which the men fled towards Baghdadi's compound without appearing to surrender, leading U.S. forces to perceive the men as hostile \"enemy combatants\". The men would not have been considered hostile if they did not run towards the compound, a spokesman said. CENTCOM"}, {"text": "investigators did not contact Barakat during the assessment and said they will not compensate the victims' families. Retired U.S. Major General Dana Pittard commented that U.S. personnel were justified in protecting themselves against a Syrian vehicle approaching the area with unknown intentions, but said the cousins' response to the warning shot was also understandable, saying \"I assume it was dark...What is your inclination? Just put your foot on the pedal and keep going.\" NPR questioned the military's account, saying it offered no evidence the men intended to threaten troops and speculated whether the military was deliberately portraying confused, fleeing civilians as retreating hostiles. On December 8, 2021, NPR filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York against the U.S. Department of Defense, alleging that the Pentagon failed its legal obligation to provide documents of the investigation and respond to Freedom of Information Act requests in a timely manner. It obtained a redacted copy of the report of the Department of Defense in July 2023, verifying that the two people killed near the van during the raid were civilians and the U.S. military only fired warning shots seconds before targeting it. Analysis. An analysis by the Brookings Institution released"}, {"text": "on November 6, 2019, portrayed the raid's success as a reminder of the United States' \"power and resolve\" in the War on Terror, remarking on three particular aspects of the operation: intelligence collection, international cooperation, and operational capability. Brookings asserted that it was a combination of U.S. hard power and soft power that secured cooperation with Turkey, Russia, Iraq and the Kurds and noted that a synergized combination of HUMINT, SIGINT, and visual intelligence gathering was the key to translating the IS informant's information into actionable operational intelligence, such as how the deployment of military dogs indicated U.S. forces were expecting close-quarters obstacles thanks to intelligence reports. The analysis stated that despite Baghdadi's eight years of experience evading capture or death, the operation succeeded due to the U.S. professionally utilizing the \"Find, Fix, Finish\" intelligence cycle standard: narrow down Baghdadi's suspected location (the Find), verify his identity and location and translate the intelligence into a feasible action plan (the Fix), and subdue the target (the Finish). A Department of Defense Inspector General report on November 19, 2019, citing Defense Intelligence Agency assessments, stated that Baghdadi's death was \"a significant blow to ISIS but would not likely end the ISIS threat\""}, {"text": "and that his demise \"would likely have little effect on the ability of ISIS to reconstitute\" itself as a potent transnational threat, according to open-source analysis. A report from the DIA in 2020 concluded that Baghdadi's death did not have an immediate impact on IS's abilities to operate, as the group's command structure was fairly decentralized by the time of the raid. Reactions. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said the raid was the outcome of intelligence sharing between parties on the ground and thanked those involved in the operation. IS response and subsequent operations. News of the death of Baghdadi was ignored by official Islamic State channels for days and the group did not immediately confirm his death. Many IS supporters refused to believe he was dead, while some others accepted it. Supporters of IS's rival jihadist groups like Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and al-Qaeda praised his death because of his group's noted record for cruelty. Salafi cleric Abdullah al-Muhaysini celebrated Baghdadi's demise and called on IS members to defect. The activity of jihadist supporters in general temporarily decreased online as well. IS's Amaq News Agency confirmed Baghdadi's death on October 31 and announced Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi as his successor."}, {"text": "Abu Hamza al-Qurashi became their new spokesman after its prior spokesperson, Abul-Hasan al-Muhajir, was killed in an October 27 U.S. strike in northwest Syria following the Barisha raid. In an audio message, Hamza al-Qurashi described U.S. president Donald Trump as \"a crazy old man\" and warned the U.S. to \"not rejoice\" and that IS supporters would avenge Baghdadi's death. Since Baghdadi's death several of the leaders operating under him have been killed or captured, along with some of his family members: On November 4, Turkish communications director Fahrettin Altun stated that Rasmiya Awad, Baghdadi's lesser-known older sister, had been captured. According to Reuters, citing Turkish officials, Awad was captured in a raid on a shipping container in the Turkish-controlled Syrian border town of Azaz and that Turkish authorities were interrogating her husband and daughter-in-law who were also detained. When captured, she was also accompanied by five children. \"We hope to gather a trove of intelligence from Baghdadi's sister on the inner workings of ISIS,\" Altun stated. Little independent information is available on Baghdadi's sister and Reuters was not immediately able to verify if the captured individual was her. On December 3, Iraqi security forces announced the capture of Baghdadi's \"deputy\""}, {"text": "who operated under the name \"Abu Khaldoun\". According to security officials, a police unit in Hawija, Kirkuk Governorate, Iraq, tracked down Khaldoun to an apartment in the March 1 area where he was hiding; he possessed a fake I.D. under the name of Shaalan Obeid when apprehended. Khaldoun was previously IS's \"military prince\" of Iraq's Saladin Governorate. On December 26, ISWAP, the West African branch of IS, killed 11 captives in what the group called a \"message for Christians\" and a retaliation for the killing of Baghdadi and Abul-Hasan al-Muhajir. International. Representatives of several countries, including Australia, France, Israel, and the United Kingdom, congratulated the United States and said that the death of Baghdadi marked a turning point in the fight against IS."}, {"text": "The Mannheim-K\u00e4fertal\u2013Heddesheim railway is a metre-gauge railway between Mannheim-K\u00e4fertal and Heddesheim, in the German state of Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg. It was built by the former \"Oberrheinischen Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft AG\" (Upper Rhine Railway Company, OEG), later \"MVV OEG AG\" and is now operated by \"MVV Verkehr GmbH\" (infrastructure owner) and \"RNV\" (operations manager and train operator) according to Eisenbahn-Bau- und Betriebsordnung f\u00fcr Schmalspurbahnen (narrow-gauge railway regulations; ESBO). However, the 6.5 km-long line is still owned by \"MVV Verkehr AG\" (the City of Mannheim's transport utility) as the successor to the OEG. It is operated as a branch line using electronic direct traffic control. History. The line was opened on 1 May 1909 by the South German Railway Company (\"S\u00fcddeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft AG\", SEG) as a branch of the Mannheim\u2013Weinheim line, which was opened in 1887. However, it was sometimes unpopular among the people of Wallstadt, as the nearby terminus of the Feudenheim\u2013Mannheim tram line had a cheaper fare, a more frequent service and a better connection to downtown Mannheim, so many people preferred to walk from Wallstadt to Feudenheim. The K\u00e4fertal\u2013Heddesheim branch line has been operated electrically since 1 November 1946. The electrification was carried out with material from the disused Feudenheim\u2013Mannheim line. The local"}, {"text": "signal boxes were replaced by automatic block signaling in 1979. The line was then controlled by the signal box in K\u00e4fertal, which was put into operation in 1978. The \"MVG 2000\" concept, which led to big changes for the OEG, was implemented in 1995. The line to Heddesheim became part of a tram line of the former MVG and \"Verkehrsbetriebe Ludwigshafen GmbH\" (VBL). After that, tram line 4 replaced the OEG service and ran continuously from Heddesheim to Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim and Bad D\u00fcrkheim. The second track at Im Rott station was opened on 9 September 2001. Due to the increased demand from new residential areas in Wallstadt, there was support for a reduction of services intervals from 20 minutes to ten minutes. This was not possible because of the single-track line to Heddesheim. In 2012, a balloon loop was built to the east of the overpass built over the A6 in 2008. The loop was put into operation on schedule in December 2012. The whole signal infrastructure and signalling operations were renewed between 2010 and 2014. Since the spring of 2014, the entire line has been equipped with the \"Ks\" signalling system (\"Ks-Signalsystem\"), a new colour light signals system being introduced"}, {"text": "in Germany. Operations. Originally passenger traffic on the line was operated as one of four independently operated OEG lines, but it had no line designation. The carriage shed was in Heddesheim. Operations were discontinued due to the Second World War from 26 March to 18 June 1945. After the completion of the electrification of the OEG line, the service on the line was extended to Mannheim Hauptbahnhof and designated as line C. Trains ran every 24 minutes from 2 June 1957, but they did not continue to Mannheim in the mornings until 29 September 1963. A reduced timetable with less regular intervals was operated from 1 July 1971 to 31 June 1973; in the evenings trains were replaced by buses. From 28 May 1978 trains only ran as far as K\u00e4fertal on Sundays; later this also applied to services at lunchtime on non-school days. The Duewag-GT6 sets were replaced with B4 trailer cars from July 1982 until 21 May 1993. Another half-hour cycle was introduced on 23 May 1993 and additional trains ran between Schriesheim and Heidelberg. The top speed was increased from 60 km/h to 80 km/h. Since 24 September 1995, the line from K\u00e4fertal to Heddesheim has been"}, {"text": "served by the MVV (later MVV-V) tram line 4 from Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim, which was extended from K\u00e4fertal. In December 2008, the Bad D\u00fcrkheim\u2013Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim railway, which previously ran to Mannheim-Innenstadt (inner city), was integrated into tram line 4. The connection to Bad D\u00fcrkheim was trialled earlier in evening traffic. GT6N trams were normally used, although RNV8ER trams operated occasionally. With the opening of the tram line to Gartenstadt in June 2016, it became the new destination for trams on line 4 from Bad D\u00fcrkheim, so the trains from Heddesheim to K\u00e4fertal now run as line 5A, instead of line 5 as previously, and continue to Edingen. In the peak hour, when formerly no line 5 services ended in K\u00e4fertal, the line 5A services now run to the city centre and return to Wallstadt as line 15. Originally it was planned to separate a portion in K\u00e4fertal that would run on the OEG's circuit line."}, {"text": "Moongan is a rural locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Moongan had a population of 120 people. History. The locality takes its name from the former Moongan railway station () on the former Dawson Valley railway line. It is believed to be an Aboriginal word meaning \"top of hill\". The section of the railway line from Moonmera railway station to Mount Morgan opened on 26 November 1898. The section between Moonmera and Moongan involves a steep climb up the Razorback Range with a gradient too steep for a steam locomotive, so an Abt rack engine was additionally used on this section. Demographics. In the , Moongan had a population of 118 people. In the , Moongan had a population of 120 people. Education. There are no schools in Moongan. The nearest government primary and secondary schools are Mount Morgan State School and Mount Morgan State High School, both in Mount Morgan to the south."}, {"text": "Avital Inbar (; born September 29, 1944) is an Israeli author, translator, journalist, and restaurant critic. Biography. Avital Inbar was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. His parents, Mordechai Burstein, a native of the Kiev region and Rachel Shilensky, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, were intellectuals and polyglots. They spent much of their lives in France and were imbued in its culture. From the age of 13 to 26 he lived in France, including two years in Marseille, where he learned French, and two years in what was at the time French Algeria, which was in the midst of a war of independence. These intense, unmediated impressions still affect his perspective of the Jewish-Palestinian conflict and internal Israeli divisions. In Paris, he graduated high school at the Alliance Gymnasium, where he studied philosophy from the famous Emmanuel Levinas. He then earned his degree at the Paris Institute of Political Sciences. On his return to Israel in 1970, he served as a foreign correspondent for French media, among others, for the daily Combat, founded by Albert Camus. Since 1976, Inbar has focused on literary translation and he translated into Hebrew several major works of French literature, as well as some English titles. He"}, {"text": "traveled frequently to Paris to meet with publishers and writers and to choose titles for translation for Israeli publishers. He became friends with leading French figures, such as Marguerite Duras and Yves Montand. Altogether, Inbar has translated some 120 titles. In 1995, together with the French-Israeli businessman Jean Frydman, he founded the Yonatan Guides Ltd, which received a franchise from the French restaurant and hotel guide Gault Millau to produce a similar guide in Israel. Since 1997, Inbar wrote nine experiential, hedonistic, travel books dedicated to France and its regions. He also wrote \"Parisian Pictures\", devoted mainly to his encounters with writers and artists in France and the complex relations between France, Israel and the Jews. Since 2018 he has been focusing on Japanese Cuisine and in 2019 published \"Gourmand in Tokyo\", dedicated to Japanese gastronomy. Awards. For his literary work and the dissemination of French culture in Israel, he received two decorations from the French government \u2012 officer in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and officer in the Ordre des Palmes acad\u00e9miques. In July 2019, Inbar was conferred French citizenship, for his contribution to the influence of France and the prosperity of international economic relations. Published work."}, {"text": "Books published in Hebrew. Avital Inbar's work has been an inspiration to the book \"50 Michelin Stars\" by Tzalak, published in Israel in 2017. The author interviewed Inbar and used insights and relative information given by him, based on his vast experience in the French culinary scene."}, {"text": "Walter Arthur Reek (26 January 1878 \u2013 12/19 May 1933), was a social democrat politician in Germany and the Free City of Danzig. He was a member of the Weimar National Assembly, the Danzig Volkstag parliament and mayor of Neuteich (Nowy Staw). Reek was born in Danzig, West Prussia, German Empire (Gda\u0144sk, Poland), and attended the St. Katharinen school in Danzig. He was trained as a carpenter and spent his journeyman years from 1895 to 1900 in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. From 1900 to 1902 he served in the Prussian Army and became the chairman of the Central Federation of carpenters in Danzig in 1902. During World War I Reek initially served in the German army but started to work in several positions in the Kriegsern\u00e4hrungsamt in Danzig in 1916. In 1917 he headed the press commission of the socialdemocratic Volkswacht newspaper in Danzig. In 1918 he was elected to the town council of Danzig and on 19 January 1919 as a member of the Weimar National Assembly, he lost his seat after Danzig became a Free City according to the Treaty of Versailles. Since 1919 Reek worked as Secretary of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund in Danzig. In 1925 he"}, {"text": "was elected the mayor of Neuteich and in 1925/1926 he was an honorary Senator in Heinrich Sahm's Danzig Senate. From 1928 on he served as Senator in the Senate of Danzig again. The circumstances of Reek's death are reported in divergent versions. He either died from a stroke or was killed in SA \"Schutzhaft\" on 12 or 19 May 1933. His name is remembered at the Memorial to the Murdered Members of the Reichstag in Berlin."}, {"text": "Shadreck Mlauzi (born 6 January 1980) is a Zimbabwean football manager and teacher. Career. Mlauzi coached the Zimbabwe's women national football team at their first appearance at the Summer Olympics in 2016. Personal life. Mlauzi studied sports science at Zimbabwe Open University. He works as a physical education teacher at Sikhulile High School."}, {"text": "The Mine is a rural locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , The Mine had a population of 23 people. Demographics. In the , The Mine had a population of 47 people. In the , The Mine had a population of 23 people. Education. There are no schools in The Mine. The nearest government primary and secondary schools are Mount Morgan State School and Mount Morgan State High School, both in neighbouring Mount Morgan to the east."}, {"text": "Limestone Creek is a suburb in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Limestone Creek had a population of 179 people. Geography. The Rockhampton-Yeppoon Road (as Yeppoon Road) enters the locality from the south-east (Parkhurst / Norman Gardens) and exits to the north-east (Ironpot). The creek Limestone Creek rises in the south-east of the locality and forms most of the south-east boundary of the locality before flowing west loosely parallel and north of the Yeppoon Road, exiting the locality to the west (Parkhurst) where it becomes a tributary of the Fitzroy River, which flows into the Coral Sea. Limestone Creek has the following mountains along its southern boundary (from west to east): Seeonee Park is a park in the west of the locality. Operated by Scouts Queensland, it provides camping and other recreational facilities for community groups. In the south-east of the locality are two small sections of the protected areas: Apart from these protected areas and Seeonee Park, the remaining land use is a mixture of rural residential housing and undeveloped land. Demographics. In the , Limestone Creek had a population of 186 people. In the , Limestone Creek had a population of 179 people. Education. There are"}, {"text": "no schools in Limestone Creek. The nearest government primary school is Parkhurst State School in neighbouring Parkhurst, Rockhampton, to the east. The nearest government secondary school is Glenmore State High School in Kawana, Rockhampton, to the south-east. There are also numerous non-government schools in Rockhampton and its suburbs."}, {"text": "KSI vs. Logan Paul II was a cruiserweight professional boxing match contested between English YouTuber KSI and American YouTuber Logan Paul. The bout was held on November 9, 2019, at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. KSI defeated Paul via split decision, with two judges scoring the bout 56\u201355 and 57\u201354 in favour of KSI, and a third judge scoring the fight 56\u201355 in favour of Paul. On the undercard, Billy Joe Saunders successfully defended the WBO super middleweight title against Marcelo Coceres, and Devin Haney was also successful in his defence of the WBC lightweight title against Alfredo Santiago. The decision to have two world-title bouts on the undercard, beneath the two YouTubers, was criticised, with some going as far as describing the event as an 'insult' to boxing. However, a number of figures within the sport, including professional boxers, were receptive to the event and highlighted the professionalism of Paul and KSI \u2013 both of whom received coaching from previous world champion coaches and boxers \u2013 as well as their intention to bring a new audience to the sport of boxing. The fight sold 2 million PPV buys. Background and build-up. After the successful first fight against Paul,"}, {"text": "KSI requested for the second fight to be postponed until May 2019. Citing the difference in time-zones and the potential for the fight to be too late for some UK viewers, KSI said he would prefer the bout to take place in New York City. On August 28, 2018, it was announced that the fight would take place in May 2019 in an undetermined United States venue, provided neither KSI nor Paul opted out, though a date in May was never agreed. On September 3, 2019, KSI and Paul announced via Instagram that the fight would take place on November 9, 2019, at the Staples Center, Los Angeles and that it would be a professional bout, with no head guards\u2014unlike the previous bout. The announcement confirmed that the fight would be promoted by Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Boxing. Press conferences. Three press conferences were held in the following cities: Coaches. Paul's main coach for the fight was two-time heavyweight champion, Shannon Briggs, while KSI trained under up-and-coming professional boxer, Viddal Riley, and Jeff Mayweather, uncle of Floyd Mayweather Jr. As a professional event, only fighters with professional boxing licences, and no other YouTubers, were allowed to participate; this decision was met"}, {"text": "with contention from some in the YouTube community who were hoping to see others participate in what was originally a 'YouTube' event. Criticism. Upon its announcement as a professional bout, the event drew criticism from a number of figures within boxing, as well as boxing journalists and fans, some of whom labelled the fight as an 'insult' to boxing. The headline accusation was that the pair were using the event as a 'cash grab' and questioned the 'legitimacy' of the match as a professional bout, and many questioned the choice of putting professional world-title bouts on the undercard beneath two YouTubers. Others within the sport, however, were more receptive to the fight and embraced the event. The executive director of the California State Athletic Commission (the fight's sanctioning body), Andy Foster, defended the accusation that the YouTubers weren't fit to fight professionally, saying in an interview that \"If they weren\u2019t YouTube stars, this fight is still approvable in every commission in this country as debut athletes\". Kevin Draper of \"The New York Times\" notes KSI, Paul and the organisers' intention to bring a new audience to a 'stagnant' sport and highlights the fact both YouTubers sought coaching from world-champion boxers"}, {"text": "and trainers. Professional boxers Anthony Joshua, Deontay Wilder, Tyson Fury, Dillian Whyte and Andy Ruiz Jr. also expressed support for the event and the fact it was being held as a professional bout, highlighting the benefit it could bring to boxing in terms of expanding the sport's audience. Fight summary. The weigh-in took place at 1 pm PST on 8 November at the Xbox Plaza in Los Angeles. Paul stepped on the scales first, weighing in at 199.4lbs, just under the 200lbs cruiserweight limit, while KSI weighed in at 193.4lbs, just over 6lbs lighter, before the pair shared a brief head to head. Paul entered the ring first, sporting a red-white-and-blue robe and shorts and accompanied by his brother, Jake Paul, and musician Justin Bieber; KSI then entered the arena donning a red-and-black robe, shorts and mask, as American rappers Rick Ross and Lil Baby, and British singer and producer S-X performed KSI's newly released song, titled \"Down Like That\", on which they feature. After they entered, God Save the Queen and The Star-Spangled Banner were performed by Brian King Joseph and Nova Miller, respectively. The first three rounds were controlled by KSI, who offloaded more punches and appeared the"}, {"text": "aggressor, while Paul employed a more cautious approach, throwing more tentative jabs. On the back foot after the first two rounds, Paul slipped to the canvas twice in the third round, before KSI landed an overhand right behind Paul's ear \u2013 enough to send Paul to the canvas \u2013 but no knockdown was called by the referee. A chaotic fourth round saw Paul land a clean uppercut on KSI, but for the second uppercut which followed Paul had his other arm around the back of KSI's head. The illegal blow was enough to send the Briton falling to the canvas. On KSI's way down, Paul broke KSI's fall and offloaded a further illegal punch to the back of his head, then hit him once more when he reached the canvas. What was originally unanimously scored as a 10\u20138 round in favour of Paul for scoring a knockdown was negated by a two-point deduction from Paul's card for the illegal back-of-the-head blows. As well as deducting Paul points, the referee allowed KSI time to regain his composure before resuming the fight. The fifth round was a closer contest, with Paul landing the more meaningful jabs while KSI stayed out of any"}, {"text": "trouble. The sixth and final round matched the frantic pace of the first as both fighters swung wildly in a last attempt to snatch victory, but neither could land a decisive knockout blow. After six rounds, the fight resulted in a split decision victory for KSI, with two judges scoring the bout 57\u201354 and 56\u201355 in favor of KSI, and a third scoring it 56\u201355 in favour of Paul. After the split decision victory, Paul and KSI shook hands and shared an embrace after the fight, with both paying respect to one another, though Paul stated his intention to contest the commission for his point deduction for his illegal punches, stating that he does not dispute what happened but thought he deserved only a warning. Paul did indeed appeal the decision, but the appeal was denied in early December 2019. When asked about a possible rematch, Paul expressed his support for the idea, but KSI rejected any prospect of a third fight against Paul, saying \"It's done ... I'm on to the next thing\". Scorecard. Source: Fight details. Attendance. KSI vs. Logan II had an attendance of 12,000 people in which a number of celebrities were in attendance. This included"}, {"text": "Canadian singer Justin Bieber, Paul's brother Jake Paul, Wiz Khalifa, Post Malone, former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley, Dan Bilzerian, Mike Tyson, as well as all the members of KSI's YouTube group, the Sidemen. Broadcasting. The fight was streamed live on DAZN in the United States and seven other countries. The fight was broadcast live on Sky Sports Box Office in the United Kingdom and Ireland for a fee of \u00a39.95. The fight was streamed live on FITE TV in the countries where the rights are not sold. Due to piracy concerns, the fight was not broadcast on YouTube, like the previous event, this event lost an estimated 1.4 million potential pay-per-view buys to pirated Twitch streams. On British radio, the fight aired on BBC Radio 5 Live. On DAZN, it was the third most streamed fight of 2019 across nine markets, behind only Andy Ruiz Jr. vs. Anthony Joshua II and Canelo \u00c1lvarez vs. Sergey Kovalev. On Sky Sports Box Office, the fight sold 216,000 PPV buys in the United Kingdom. In August 2022, Eddie Hearn would reveal that the fight sold 2 million PPV buys worldwide, which would later be backed up on Twitter by KSI's manager Mams"}, {"text": "Taylor. \"As of November 9, 2019\" Purses. Both KSI and Paul earned a minimum of $900,000 for the bout as stipulated in their contract with the California State Athletic Commission, although their final earnings from the fight are expected to be much higher."}, {"text": "The Flex (formerly known as Rick Flex) are an English hardcore punk band from Leeds, West Yorkshire. In an article by NoEcho, they were cited as one of the progenitors of the New Wave of British Hardcore. History. The band formed in 2012 under the name Rick Flex from members of other UK hardcore bands (including Arms Race and Violent Reaction), playing different instruments to those that they were used to, for the original guitarist Rick Savage's birthday party, however due to in-band tensions, he was eventually replaced by then-drummer Liam Fox and Tom Pimlott of Violent Reaction was recruited to play drums. On 10 May, they released their debut demo. In February 2013, they opened for Rotting Out on their UK tour. On 23 March 2013 they released their debut EP \"Scum On The Run\" through Video Disease and Milk Run Records. In May 2014, they toured the U.S. with Violent Reaction. On 19 March 2015, they released their second EP \"Flexual Healing Vol.5: Do Ya Think I'm Flexi?\" and 23 March released their third EP \"Don't Bother with the Outside World\". Between April and May of the same year, they toured the U.S. supporting Red Death, followed by"}, {"text": "a European Headline tour in June and August. On 1 June 2016, the band opened for Power Trip at the Boston Music Room in London. In April 2018, they played Damaged City festival in Washington D.C., followed by releasing their EP \"Flexual Healing Vol 7: Perhaps the War is Over? Perhaps it's Peace?\" on the 19th of the same month. In June 2019, they opened for Have Heart at their matinee Leeds reunion show. Musical style. The band have been described as hardcore punk and tough guy hardcore. Their music is influenced by the sound of '80s New York and Boston hardcore like Agnostic Front and SSD. Max Cussons of Contactmusic described their sound as \"clobbering two-stepping punk\". Gav Russell of CVLT Nation described them as \"a band who trim away all the fat to leave a no-frills, 80\u2019s infused hardcore battering of the finest order\"."}, {"text": "South Yaamba is a rural locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , South Yaamba had a population of 79 people. Geography. The locality is bounded by the Fitzroy River to the north, north-east, and east. Despite having the same name, the town of South Yaamba is on the other side of the river in the locality of Etna Creek. Calmorin is a neighbourhood in the north-west of the locality (). The land use is mostly grazing on native vegetation with some crop-growing. History. The locality takes its name from the town of Yaamba, which in turn took its name from the parish, which took its name from the pastoral run, named in 1860s by the pastoralist Peter Fitzallan MacDonald. It is believed to be an Aboriginal word meaning \"main camping ground\". Demographics. In the , South Yaamba had a population of 99 people. In the , South Yaamba had a population of 79 people. Education. There are no schools in South Yaamba. The nearest government primary school is Ridgelands State School in neighbouring Ridgelands to the south. The nearest government secondary school is Rockhampton State High School in Wandal, Rockhampton."}, {"text": "This is a list of dams in Saudi Arabia. As of 2014 there are 482 dams in country across all regions with total capacities of 2.08 Billion cubic meters. This list includes a part of these dams."}, {"text": "Ji\u0159\u00ed Langmajer (born 3 June 1966) is a Czech theatre, television, and film actor. Biography. Ji\u0159\u00ed Langmajer was born in Plze\u0148, Czechoslovakia. He studied music and drama at the Prague Conservatory from 1981 to 1987. While still a student, he was cast by director Karel Smyczek in the 1987 film \"Why?\" A year later, he appeared in the miniseries \"T\u0159et\u00ed patro\" by the same director. After graduating, he played in various theatre ensembles and in 1992, he joined Divadlo pod Palmovkou, where he remained until 2005 (with the exception of 1998\u20132000, when he was engaged by Vinohrady Theatre). In 1999, Langmajer received a Thalia Award for artists under 33. In 2003, he was nominated for an Alfr\u00e9d Radok Award in the Actor of the Year category. He was nominated for a Czech Lion in 1999 for his supporting role in the film \"The Idiot Returns\" and in 2006 for \"Pravidla l\u017ei\". He has dubbed over eighty roles and performed in hundreds of radio plays. In July 2019, Langmajer married actress Ad\u00e9la Gond\u00edkov\u00e1. He has two daughters from a previous marriage."}, {"text": "Bogie is a rural locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Bogie had a population of 207 people. Geography. The terrain is mountainous and relatively undeveloped. The principal land use is grazing on native vegetation. The Bowen Developmental Road passes through the middle of the locality from the south-west (Springlands) to the north-east (Bowen). The Newlands railway system roughly follows the same route as the road through the locality with Binbee railway station serving the locality (). History. Twenty-five Mile Camp Provisional School (also known as Aberdeen Provisional School) opened circa July 1919. In 1920, it was renamed Bogie Range Provisional School. It closed circa 1922. On 4 December 1956, the Queensland Government opened for selection a grazing lot of being portions 33 and 34, parish of Adaleigh, County of Herbert in the Bowen Land Agent's district and the Shire of Wangaratta (). It was west of the Bogie Range and the Bogie River flowed through the property. The property is known as Reedy Creek as at 2020. On 4 August 2022, a triple murder occurred on a cattle property in the Bogie area. One additional person was shot in the abdomen by the perpetrator, but survived"}, {"text": "the attack. The suspect was the neighbour of the victims and apparently there was some property dispute. Demographics. In the , Bogie had a population of 161 people. In the , Bogie had a population of 207 people. Education. There are no schools in Bogie. Given the extensive size of the locality and limited road network, the school options would depend on the home location. For primary schooling, the options as Osborne State School in Osborne, Gumlu State School in Gumlu, Collinsville State School in Collinsville, Merinda State School and Bowen State School both in Bowen, and Proserpine State School in Proserpine. For secondary schooling, the options are Bowen State High School in Bowen and Collinsville State High School in Collinsville. The northern and southern parts of Bogie are considered too remote for normal secondary school attendance; the options in these areas would be distance education or boarding schools."}, {"text": "The 2019 U23 World Wrestling Championships were the third edition of U23 World Wrestling Championships of combined events, held from October 28 to November 3 in Budapest, Hungary."}, {"text": "This article lists notable examples of media projects, including films, music, and video games, that were or have been in development for at least ten years after their first public announcement before release without being officially cancelled, a state known as \"development hell\", or, in the software industry, vaporware."}, {"text": "The Scottish Rally Championship is a rallying series run throughout Scotland over the course of a year, that comprises both gravel and tarmac surface rallies. The 2020 series began on the forest tracks around Inverness on 7 March, with the season finale due to take place around Dalbeattie on 19 September. Series Cancellation. On 24 March 2020, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic Organisers of the KNC Groundworks Scottish Rally Championship took the decision to cancel the 2020 championship. The coronavirus pandemic continued to spread leading to a number of events being cancelled. With round 1, the \"Snowman Rally\", being the only event to take place thus far it was decided that the results of that event would stand but the championship points would be null and void. 2020 calendar. For season 2020 there were. scheduled to be seven events held predominantly on gravel surfaces. In January 2020 the organising team of the \"Argyll Rally\" scheduled to take place in June, announced that the 2020 event would not take place. The change from a forest rally to a closed road event meant that the event organisers were unable to secure the relevant authorisations within the timeframe available. Due to the"}, {"text": "COVID-19 pandemic the organisers of the \"Speyside Stages Rally\", the \"Jim Clark rally\", the \"Scottish Rally\", the \"Grampian Stages Rally\" and the \"Galloway Hills rally\" announced that the events would be cancelled."}, {"text": "Noga Levy-Rapoport (; born 25 November 2001) is an Israeli-born British climate activist, speaker, and volunteer within British climate strikes at the UK Student Climate Network. Early life. Noga Levy-Rapoport was born on 25 November 2001 in Tel Aviv. They moved to the UK as a toddler. Levy-Rapoport is non-binary. Activism. On 15 February 2019, they participated in London's first climate strike march, before joining the UK Student Climate Network as a volunteer for school outreach and organising around the Green New Deal with GND UK. They helped to organise London climate strikes for global strike dates on 15 March 2019 and 24 May 2019, as well as hosting and publicly announcing UKSCN's support of a Green New Deal for the UK at the London climate strike on 12 April 2019. Since February, the 17-year-old has spoken at numerous panels, events, strikes and protests around the UK. On 7 May 2019, Noga spoke at the International Maritime Organization in London to call for a limit on shipping speeds in order to reduce emissions alongside the Campaign Against Climate Change group and other activists. The speech was described as 'Greta Thunberg treatment' for the IMO, who, as a UN body, had"}, {"text": "previously come under fire for not being committed enough to reducing their emissions. In July 2019, Levy-Rapoport opened the keynote at the annual Children's Media Conference, arguing that the political balance the media had so far tried to place on children's media when producing content that covered climate change was ineffective and potentially paralysing for young people willing to take action on climate change. Described as an \"outstanding address\", the activist, named as one of CMC's 'Changemakers' of the year, pointedly noted that there was a \"global call for the children to become the leaders of today\", and this ought to start with their media. On 20 September 2019, they hosted London's global climate strike, the largest climate mobilisation in UK history, with 100,000 protesters in the capital and 350,000 attending strikes across the country. In the same month, their joint design for a climate strike placard along with ILOVEYOU agency was entered for Beazley's 'Design of the Year' competition at the Design Museum, which Levy-Rapoport and their fellow activists chose not to boycott, a decision she later explained in an article for \"It's Nice That\". In October 2019, they were selected by the \"London Evening Standard\" as one of"}, {"text": "London's most influential people of 2019 as part of their annual Progress 1000 list. In the same month they discussed the climate crisis and politicians with Clive Lewis for \"Huck Magazine\". The campaigner has taken on a spokesperson role for the youth climate movement in the UK and has been interviewed for several media outlets, local to national, as well as writing for \"The Guardian\", \"It's Nice That\", and the Fabian Society. Levy-Rapoport is also a spokesperson for Labour for a Green New Deal."}, {"text": "The Hersfeld Tithe Register (German: ) is a list of the places and castles in the Friesenfeld Gau (territory) and in Hassegau, from which Hersfeld Abbey received tithes. The original document dates from between 881 and 887 or between 896 and 899, but no longer exists. The list is found in a transcript from the 11th Century, which is now in the Hessischen Staatsarchiv Marburg. The tithe register is divided into four sections. Many placenames are duplicated and triplicated. The first part was apparently compiled between 830 und 860, and lists under 239 numbers a large number of placenames. The second part and subsequent parts were created during the abbacy of Abbott Harderat between 889 and 899 and was bound with the first part and lists 18 names, each of which ends in '-burg' 2. In the third part 13 places are listed and in the fourth 5 markets and 7 places are listed. Many modern placenames in the modern day German states of Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt can be connected with a corresponding name in the register. List of Places. \"Haec est Decimatio quae pertinet ad sanctum Wigberthvm in Frisonoveld\" (This the tithe which belongs to the blessed Wigbert in"}, {"text": "Friesenfeld) Castles. \u201eHaec sunt urbes que cum viculis suis et omnibus locis ad se perti[nentibus] decimationes dare debent ad sanctum Wigberhdym ad Herolvesfeld\u201c (These are the castles with their farmsteads and all localities which must give tithes to the blessed Wigbert in Herodsfeld)"}, {"text": "Syndicate Raj (Syndicate Regime) is an organized form of running corrupt extortion rackets, mostly in the manufacturing and construction sectors, that became prevalent in late 2000s in West Bengal. A small group of people, known as syndicates, started controlling any large monetary transactions including selling of land, construction of buildings, buying of material goods. These people, often connected to the ruling political party, demand a share of any large transaction happening in an area. These practices mostly happen in the construction business, but have recently spread to most sphere of life including building individual residential houses. Corrupt groups often also force builders and consumers to buy from a particular vendor, connected to the same groups and political party officials. Sometimes, this leads to supply of inferior quality materials at a premium price. The Kolkata flyover collapse has been also linked to low quality raw materials supplied by such syndicates. The Narada sting operation exposes close links of syndicates to the top party officials of AITC, showing party leaders taking large sums of money from an unknown businessman. History. The Left-front government used to interfere with most local affairs in West Bengal during their tenure. The leaders of the Left-front parties,"}, {"text": "including the CPI(M), used to monitor local constructions and businesses. However, the top leaders kept a check on the local leaders and groups, not to be involved with any business transactions. Rather, the businesses used to officially donate to party-funds. Still, there were a very few local leaders who used to make money by charging to the businesses. A few years before Trinamool (AITC) came to power in West Bengal in 2011, the local AITC party leaders became very powerful in their areas. The leaders started demanding a share of money for any building constructions happening in that area. Slowly, multiple groups started emerging in individual areas, connected to multiple local AITC leaders. When AITC finally won 2011 Legislative Assembly election and started their term, the whole syndicate business flourished. Tactics. A local leader of AITC employs a group of unemployed people to run the racket. The racket is called syndicate. Wherever a real-estate business is constructing a building, or a company wants to open up a new factory, or even a family wants to buy material goods for building a home, the syndicate appears and inquires about the activity. Then, they force the company or the family to take"}, {"text": "the raw-materials for the construction from a particular vendor that they operate, at a higher rate than the market rate. If the consumer does not agree to buy from them, then they demand large sums of money for the construction. In case the company complains to the local police, the local and top AITC party officials control the police to prevent taking any action by them. In addition, the local administration forces the company to bend to the demands of the syndicates. Recently, the syndicate business has grown to college admissions. Student-wing of AITC demands money to the newly admitted freshers in colleges in West Bengal. They often intimidate the students if they do not succumb to their monetary demands. Mamata Banerjee, the founder of AITC and the Chief Minister of West Bengal, has told party officials to control their rackets. School Teacher Jobs. State government jobs have been one of the most active areas of syndicate rackets. In 2022, the School Service Commission (SSC) scam was revealed, exposing the syndicate business in the education sector. The education minister of West Bengal, Partha Chatterjee was accused of taking large sums of money in exchange of providing government school teacher jobs"}, {"text": "to individuals, bypassing the rigorous examination system for SSC jobs and was later arrested. Although there used to be such allegations against the previous Left-front government, there was no proofs of a large-scale corruption and party-level involvements. On the contrary, SSC jobs were one of the few honest ways many poor and middle-class families used to get a government job in order to achieve a respectable standard of living. Even though Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was also accused but no investigation could prove her direct involvements in this scam. In relation to this, it is important to mention that former education minister Partha Chatterjee was one of the intimate confidantes of Mamata Banerjee. Healthcare. Syndicate business seeped into public hospitals and medical colleges. In the course of events following 2024 Kolkata rape and murder incident, it was revealed that Sandip Ghosh ex-Principal of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, along with Dr. Avik De, Dr Birupaksha Biswas, Sudipto Roy, Dr Susanta Roy and many other tmcp student wing PGT, House staff, Interns and even Mbbs students are involved in illegal business dealings involving the laundering donated kidneys, corpse and other medical subjects. CBI was instructed by the Indian Supreme"}, {"text": "Court to investigate the matter, starting with financial irregularities during the tenure of Dr. Ghosh. Some of the media is calling it a \"health syndicate\". References."}, {"text": "The Portland Cable Tram is heritage tramway in Portland, Victoria, Australia. It opened on 2 March 2002. Although the rolling stock in use are replicas or restored models of cable trams, they now run with diesel motors. History. In 1996, the Portland Cable Tram project was established with the aim of creating a tramway in the town. The basis of the proposal was that although Portland was in a region with natural tourist attractions, it lacked a significant man-made feature which would encourage tourists to stay longer in the area. The funding of such a large project initially presented a problem, as tracks would have to be laid, rolling stock acquired, and a storage shed built. However, a donation of $220,000 by the Handbury family helped the proposal gain momentum. This was followed by $500,000 from the federal government, $775,000 from the Victorian Government and $175,000 from the Shire of Glenelg. A further $500,000 from other sources brought the total to $2.17 million. The first year of operation proved successful, with 14,000 passengers carried. Since opening, more than 135,000 people have ridden the Portland Cable Tram. Current operation. The Portland Cable Tram is run by a group of around 60"}, {"text": "volunteers who undertake roles as tram drivers, conductors, administrators, maintenance workers, cleaners, gardeners, and museum display curators. The tramway's general manager is the only paid employee. The trams usually run five times a day, but only four services operate daily during winter. The route operates 364 days a year; there are no services on Christmas Day nor in the morning on Anzac Day and Good Friday. Tickets, which provide one day's unlimited use of the trams, are available from the Museum and Depot, online, or the tram's conductor. Annual tickets are also available. Passengers may board and alight the trams at any of the six stations. The Portland Cable Tram Museum and Depot is home to an 1880 horse-drawn carriage owned by Edward Henty, the first permanent European settler in the Port Phillip District (later Victoria), as well as model railway exhibits, classic cars and the largest private gemstone collection in the southern hemisphere. The gift shop sells memorabilia and refreshments are also available. Line guide. The line is 3.7 kilometres long and journeys depart from and return to the Portland Cable Tram Museum and Depot. Beginning at the Museum and Depot, the tram heads in a westerly direction, stopping"}, {"text": "at the Powerhouse Museum, a small institution showcasing motor vehicles. A balloon loop then sends the tram back towards the Museum and Depot station after some street running. Passing through Henty Park, the next stop is the Botanic Gardens after which the line turns north and runs close to the Portland harbour along the Foreshore. A stop at the Portland Maritime Discovery Centre is followed by a climb up the headland to the Portland Bay Holiday Park, where another station is located. After passing several homes, the line turns east to terminate at the World War II Memorial Lookout, which also served as a water tower. At this point, the tram sets are turned on a triangle for the return trip back to the Portland Cable Tram Museum and Depot, making the ride 7.4 kilometres and around one hour in length. Rolling stock. There is a variety of rolling stock currently in use on the tramway. The two grip cars operated by Portland Cable Trams are copies of Melbourne cable trams which ran from 1885 to 1940, constructed to the specifications of that period. They were built from scratch under the auspices of Keith McMillan, and are exact replicas, apart"}, {"text": "from the diesel engines that they use in place of the cable system. That method of propulsion was chosen because it would be virtually impossible to build the complicated underground cable network which originally pulled cable trams along. The two saloon cars in service at Portland did run on the Melbourne system during its heyday. After the electrification of the network, the outdated cable tram cars were sold off. Saloon Car No. 95 initially entered service in November 1886 and was used on the Victoria Street route, running via Collins Street. The Portland Cable Tram organisation salvaged that car from Newton Williams in Swan Hill and restored it to service in February 2002. Saloon Car No. 171 was originally built in 1886 and used on the Clifton Hill line until 1928, when it was sold and transported to Mount Macedon. The car was bought by Daryl and Julie Hawksworth in 1974, and in 1980, it was transported to the town of Blampied, Victoria, for restoration. No. 171 is on permanent loan to Portland Cable Trams from the Hawksworths, who had restored it to commemorate the 100th anniversary of cable trams commencing operation in Melbourne. Since its repair in 1985, the"}, {"text": "saloon car has operated at Lake Goldsmith, Bendigo, Melbourne and Kilmore in Victoria, as well as Wollongong and Loftus in New South Wales."}, {"text": "Lake Proserpine is a rural locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Lake Proserpine had a population of 6 people. Geography. The locality completely surrounds the body of water retained by the Peter Faust Dam on the \"Proserpine River\", which is known as \"Lake Proserpine\". Demographics. In the , Lake Proserpine had a population of 9 people. In the , Lake Proserpine had a population of 6 people."}, {"text": "Juicio Final (1985) (Spanish for \"Final Judgement\" 1985) was a professional wrestling supercard show, scripted and produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), which took place on December 6, 1985, in Arena M\u00e9xico, Mexico City, Mexico. The show served as the year-end finale for CMLL before Arena M\u00e9xico, CMLL's main venue, closed down for the winter for renovations and to host Circo Atayde. The shows replaced the regular Super Viernes (\"Super Friday\") shows held by CMLL since the mid-1930s. In the main event of the show El Solar II defeated Belceb\u00fa in a Lucha de Apuestas, or \"bet match\", forcing Belceb\u00fa to remove his devil inspired mask and reveal that his name was Juan Manuel Linares. In the semi-main event of the six-match show, El Dandy defeated Gran Cochisse, which meant that Cochisse had all his hair shaved off afterwards. The four remaining matches included a tag team match and three Best two-out-of-three falls six-man tag team matches. In addition to being EMLL's year end show, thee show was also a benefit show for victims of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake that happened on September 19, 1985, that had caused the death of over 5,000 people and cased major"}, {"text": "damage to Mexico City, including structural damage to Arena M\u00e9xico. The earthquake had also forced the cancellation of the EMLL 52nd Anniversary Show. Production. Background. For decades Arena M\u00e9xico, the main venue of the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), would close down in early December and remain closed into either January or February to allow for renovations as well as letting Circo Atayde occupy the space over the holidays. As a result, CMLL usually held a \"end of the year\" supercard show on the first or second Friday of December in lieu of their normal Super Viernes show. 1955 was the first year where CMLL used the name \"El Juicio Final\" (\"The Final Judgement\") for their year-end supershow. It is no longer an annually recurring show, but instead held intermittently sometimes several years apart and not always in the same month of the year either. All Juicio Final shows have been held in Arena M\u00e9xico in Mexico City, Mexico which is CMLL's main venue, its \"home\". Storylines. The 1985 Juicio Final show featured six professional wrestling matches scripted by CMLL with some wrestlers involved in scripted feuds. The wrestlers portray either heels (referred to as"}, {"text": "\"rudos\" in Mexico, those that play the part of the \"bad guys\") or faces (\"t\u00e9cnicos\" in Mexico, the \"good guy\" characters) as they perform."}, {"text": "The Lodian culture or Jericho IX culture is a Pottery Neolithic archaeological culture of the Southern Levant dating from the first half of the 5th millennium BC, existing alongside the Yarmukian and Nizzanim cultures. The Lodian culture appears mainly in areas south of the territory of the Yarmukian culture, in the Shfela and the beginning of the Israeli coastal plain; the Judaean Mountains, and in the desert regions around the Dead Sea and south of it. The Jericho IX culture is defined by its distinctive pottery. It was first identified by John Garstang during his excavations of the eponymous Layer IX at Jericho. Thomas Levy later coined the term Lodian, shifting the type site to that of Lod, first excavated by Jacob Kaplan in the 1950s. The relationship between the Lodian culture and the two other Southern Levantine Pottery Neolithic cultures, the Yarmoukian and the Wadi Raba culture, has been debated for many years. Levy argued that it was a short-lived but distinct tradition that emerged after the Yarmoukian and before the Wadi Raba. Settlements. Most known settlements associated with the Lodian culture were small and ephemeral. From the few sites remains of architecture have been found, it appears the"}, {"text": "inhabitants lived in circular, semi-subterranean rounded structures, in diameter, made from mudbrick. Next to the structures were many pits dug by these inhabitants. They kept domestic animals, including sheep, goats, cattle and pigs, and also fished and hunted wild gazelle. It is assumed that they also grew the typical Neolithic crops, e.g. cereals and legumes, but no archaeobotanical evidence has been recovered from Lodian sites to confirm this. Sites with Lodian material include Jericho, Lod, Tel Megiddo, Ghrubba, Yesodot, Teluliot Batashi, Tel Lachish, Tel Ali, Abu Zurayq, Wadi Shueib, Dhra\u2032, Khirbet ed-Dharih, Nizzanim, and En Esur. Very few burials have been found at Lodian sites. The inhabitants may have disposed of their dead in other ways, or used dedicated cemeteries away from settlements, as the later Wadi Raba culture was known to do. Tools. Lodian pottery slightly differs in shape to the Yarmukian pottery and in decoration. One of the noted differences is more complexity in paste preparation and another being in its variety of vessel forms. The typical Lodian pottery vessels are painted and burnished, with distinctive geometric motifs. One of these types is the Jericho IX Jar, which possesses distinction by its more common appearance in Lodian culture."}, {"text": "It usually has a rounded rim, flared neck, and 2 thick looped handles from the upper neck to its shoulders. Its lithic industry is dominated by flake tools, including several characteristic types of arrowheads (Haparsa, Nizzanim, and Herzlia points) and sickle blades. Bipolar cores, common in preceding cultures, disappeared during the Lodian. Figurines and other ritual objects are notably rare in Lodian assemblages, unlike the Yarmoukian. The flint tools area also similar to those of the Yarmukian. One distinctive type of flint tool that is unique to the Lodian culture is a rectangular sickle, shaped with pressure flaking."}, {"text": "Mount Pluto is a rural locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mount Pluto had \"no people or a very low population\". Geography. The \"Proserpine River\" forms part of the southern boundary. Demographics. In the , Mount Pluto had a population of 6 people. In the , Mount Pluto had \"no people or a very low population\"."}, {"text": "Malaysia competed in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan from 24 August to 5 September 2021 which was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dato' Sri Megat D Shahriman Bin Dato' Zaharudin, president of the Malaysian Paralympic Council, is the chef de mission of the delegation. Background. Opening and closing ceremonies. Bonnie Bunyau Gustin and Siti Noor Iasah Mohamad Ariffin were flag bearers of Malaysia in the opening ceremony. In the Parade of Nations, both athletes and officials wore the Malay legendary warrior Hang Tuah inspired attire designed by the Department of fashion design and Art and Design Faculty of Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) in Shah Alam (Main Campus). The attire, in the colours of the national flag, featured the \"Songket Bunga Tabur\" pattern. The female athletes and official wore the baju kurung complete with a dokoh (tiered pendant) and selendang (shawl), while the male athletes and officials wore the traditional Baju Melayu complete with an outer coat, a sampin and the Tengkolok (headgear). Shuttler Cheah Liek Hou was named as flagbearer for the closing ceremony. Target and achievement. On 19 July 2021, Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Seri Reezal Merican Naina Merican announced that the Malaysian delegation to"}, {"text": "the 2020 Summer Paralympics had a target to win three gold medals, matching the medal haul of the previous edition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Malaysia managed to achieve this target with three gold medals and two silver medals, totalling to 5 medals, making it the most successful outcome in Paralympic history, surpassing their record of four medals in the 2016 games. Competitors. The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games: Archery. Malaysia have qualified 2 quota for archery. Athletics. All male athletes have qualified from the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships at Dubai. They have qualified by being top 3 in each event. Malaysia have also entered 1 female athlete. Badminton. Malaysia has qualified two para badminton players for each of the following events into the Paralympic tournament based on the Para Badminton World Rankings. Boccia. Chew Wei Lun get a ticket for Malaysia in Individual BC1 events. Cycling. Malaysia sent three male and two female cyclists after allocations from the combined nations ranking. Powerlifting. Bonnie Bunyau Gustin get a ticket for Malaysia in Mens 65kg event. Swimming. Muhammad Nur Syaiful Zulkafli and Brenda Anellia Larry has successfully entered the paralympic slot after breaking the"}, {"text": "MQS. Wheelchair tennis. Malaysia qualified one players entries for wheelchair tennis. Abu Samah Borhan qualified by the world rankings."}, {"text": "Floating Test Range (FTR) is a ship designed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation of India which will serve as a missile testing range. Description. Characteristics. The Floating Test Range (FTR) is a ship designed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation which is expected to serve as a testing range for missiles. It has a displacement of and a length of with a width of . The ship is equipped with an Electro-optical missile tracking system, a S-Band radar, and tracking and telemetry systems. Facilities such as a Launch pad, a Mission control center and a Launch control centre are also present. The FTR will capable of launching missiles with ranges up to around . Purpose. The FTR will enable DRDO to overcome some of the disadvantages of testing missiles from the Wheeler Island. It will enable testing of missiles at different trajectories and altitudes and various ranges by avoiding landmass and sea-lanes related constraints. Since missile testing from the FTR can be performed in the ocean, minimal safety precautions will be required. This will facilitate faster development of missile projects since advanced warnings and notices to ships and planes would not be required, and will minimise the"}, {"text": "risk of civilian damage. The FTR is expected to facilitate the development of the Phase-II of the Indian Ballistic Missile Defence Programme. Construction. Construction work on the ship started in 2015 and was initially expected to be completed within 3\u20134 years. As of October 2019, the ship is expected to be fully ready by 2020."}, {"text": "Crystal Brook is a rural locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Crystal Brook had a population of 237 people. Demographics. In the , Crystal Brook had a population of 183 people. In the , Crystal Brook had a population of 237 people. Education. There are no schools in Crystal Brook. The nearest government primary and secondary schools are Proserpine State School and Proserpine State High School, both in Proserpine to the south-east. There is also a Catholic school in Proserpine."}, {"text": "Herbert S\u00f6llner (born 24 September 1935) was a German speed skater. He competed in the men's 500 metres event at the 1960 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "The Wadi Rabah culture is a Pottery Neolithic archaeological culture of the Southern Levant, dating to the middle of the 5th millennium BCE. Research. This period was first identified at the ancient site of Jericho (Tell es-Sultan) by British archaeologists John Garstang and Kathleen Kenyon in separate excavations. Kenyon has named this period in Jericho \"Pottery Neolithic B\". The name \"Wadi Rabah\" was since used in archaeologic literature thanks to the works of Israeli archaeologist Jacob Kaplan at the site of Wadi Rabah. Settlements. This culture is known from a small amount of sites, in some of which remains of small rectangular structures were discovered. Some larger structures were found in Munhata, Wadi Rabah and Ein el-Jarba, though Israeli archaeologist Yosef Garfinkel suggests that large courtyard structures were erected in that period, like the ones found at Sha'ar HaGolan of the preceding Yarmukian culture (c. 6400\u20136000 BCE) and Tel Tsaf of the following Early/Middle Chalcolithic period (c. 5300\u20134500 BCE)."}, {"text": "Charlotte M\u00f6hring (born 31 March 1887 - died 19 October 1970 in Berlin) was a German aviator and the second German woman to receive a pilot's license. Life. She was born in Pankow in 1887. M\u00f6hring was a passenger on a flight from Johannisthal to D\u00f6beritz on board a Rumpler Taube. On 7 September 1912 she received pilot's license #285 flying a Grade monoplane. She was the second German woman to be licensed (after Amelie Beese), and the third woman in Germany (after Beese and Bo\u017eena Laglerov\u00e1 from Prague). She flew at the \"Essen-Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen\" aerodrome. Charlotte was married to Georg M\u00fcrau, who was also a pilot and instructor, they operated a flying school together in 1914. She was the manager and they toured and exhibited in 21 cities in Germany alone. During and after World War I civil aviation was restricted in Germany, M\u00f6hring did not resume her flying career which in 1953 she described as \"a sport\". She died in 1970 in Berlin."}, {"text": "Eddie Rudolph (August 31, 1941 \u2013 July 19, 2009) was an American speed skater. He competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics and the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Brandy Creek is a rural locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Brandy Creek had a population of 114 people. Geography. The Shute Harbour Road (State Route 59) runs along the western boundary. Demographics. In the , Brandy Creek had a population of 117 people. In the , Brandy Creek had a population of 114 people. Education. There are no schools in Brandy Creek. The nearest government primary school is Cannonvale State School in Cannonvale to the north. The nearest government secondary school is Proserpine State High School in Proserpine to the south-west."}, {"text": "Breadalbane is a rural locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Breadalbane had a population of 23 people. Geography. Lethe Brook forms the south-western and south-eastern boundaries of the locality, entering from the south-west (the locality of Kelsey Creek) and exiting to the west (Glen Isla / Goorganga Plains). The Bruce Highway enters the locality from the south-west (the locality of Kelsey Creek) and exits to the north-west (Proserpine / Glen Isla). The land is flat and low-lying, being above sea level. The land use is a mixture of grazing on native vegetation and growing sugarcane. There is a cane tramway passing through the locality to transport the harvested sugarcane to the local sugar mill. History. In 1894, George Augustus Henry Waite of the Breadalbane pastoral station offered up of land suitable for growing sugarcane on a rent-free basis for three years to selectors who were willing to cultivate the land. By doing so, he hoped to persuade the Queensland Government to support the establishment of a local sugar mill. Demographics. In the , Breadalbane had a population of 26 people. In the , Breadalbane had a population of 23 people. Education. There are no schools in"}, {"text": "Breadalbane. The nearest government primary and secondary schools are Proserpine State School and Proserpine State High School, both in neighbouring Proserpine to the north-west. There is also a Catholic primary-and-secondary school in Proserpine."}, {"text": "Yury Malyshev (13 May 1933 \u2013 2013) was a Soviet speed skater. He competed in the men's 500 metres event at the 1960 Winter Olympics. Malyshev died in 2013."}, {"text": "Fumio Nagakubo (born 23 February 1937) is a Japanese speed skater. He competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics and the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Glen Isla is a rural locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Glen Isla had a population of 43 people. Geography. The locality is bounded to the north-west, north, north-east, east, and south-east by the Proserpine River. The Bruce Highway forms part of the south-western boundary. The land use is crop growing in the west of the locality (predominantly sugarcane) and grazing on native vegetation in the east of the locality. There is a cane tramway network to transport the harvested sugarcane to the Proserpine sugar mill. History. Glen Isla was a sugarcane plantation operated by the Crystal Brook Sugar Company, which was registered in 1882, the first in the district. It consisted of . The plantation used South Sea Islander and Chinese workers and operated a small sugar mill on the banks of the Proserpine River. A drop in sugar prices caused the company to collapse in 1885. Demographics. In the , Glen Isla had a population of 29 people. In the , Glen Isla had a population of 43 people. Education. There are no schools in Glen Isla. The nearest government primary and secondary schools are Proserpine State School and Proserpine State High School, both"}, {"text": "in neighbouring Proserpine to the west. There is also a Catholic primary and secondary school in Proserpine."}, {"text": "Jadwin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "John James McKechnie was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a full back in the Football League for Clapton Orient, Exeter City, Crewe Alexandra, Northampton Town and Stockport County. Personal life. McKechnie served as a corporal in the Royal Horse Artillery during the First World War."}, {"text": "List of largest optical telescopes in Ireland and the United Kingdom is a list of the largest optical telescopes in the British Isles, including in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The most famous telescopes include Herschel's reflector, with which he discovered \"Georgium Sidus\" (the planet Uranus), and the Leviathan of Parsonstown which at was for decades the largest aperture telescope in the world. In the 20th century many older telescopes are popular tourist attractions, such as at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. There are also a number of modest instruments at universities used for various astronomical projects or education. The largest optical telescope in Britain was the Isaac Newton Telescope, which had a mirror; it was located at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Herstmonceux from 1965 to 1980, but was then relocated to Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, Canary Islands. The list is not representative of the largest telescopes operated by the United Kingdom or Ireland, which by the 20th century were building large telescopes overseas or in the southern hemisphere for better weather or other reasons. Current list. The following is a non-comprehensive list of optical telescopes currently located in the British Isles with an aperture"}, {"text": "of or greater: Observations. A noted accomplishment of the biggest telescope at the time, Ross's \"six foot\" leviathan, was the observation of the spiral structure of M51, which was presented at Cambridge in the summer of 1845. Herschel was also quite prolific discovering a planet and many moons of the Solar system with his reflectors."}, {"text": "Gennady Andreyevich Voronin (; 6 September 1934 \u2013 3 May 2004) was a Soviet speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1960 Winter Olympics. Personal life. He was married to a skating champion Inga Artamonova. On 4 January 1966, he stabbed her in the heart, killing her. His claimed motive was jealousy. He was sentenced to ten years of imprisonment, and was released on parole after serving two."}, {"text": "The Seventh Victim (German: Das siebente Opfer) is a 1964 West German thriller film directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb and starring Hansj\u00f6rg Felmy, Ann Smyrner and Hans Nielsen. The film is based on a novel by Bryan Edgar Wallace, one of several films made in an attempt to capitalize on Rialto Film's successful series of adaptions of the novels of his father, Edgar Wallace. It was shot at Spandau Studios in West Berlin with sets designed by art director Hans J\u00fcrgen Kiebach and Ernst Schomer. The film is also known by the alternative title The Racetrack Murders."}, {"text": "Mount Julian is a rural locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mount Julian had a population of 477 people. Geography. The locality is bounded to the north-west by Brandy Creek, which becomes a tributary of Myrtle Creek and the south-western boundary of the locality, which then becomes a tributary of the Proserpine River, which is the southern boundary of the locality. The Proserpine\u2013Shute Harbour Road (State Route 59) runs across the locality from west to east and then turns north along the eastern boundary. The mountain Mount Julian is in the centre of the locality () and rises to above sea level. The locality presumably takes its name from the mountain. The land use is a mixture of growing sugarcane in the north of the locality, rural residential housing on the lower slopes of the mountain, and grazing on native vegetation. There are cane tramways to transport the harvested sugarcane to the Proserpine sugar mill. Demographics. In the , Mount Julian had a population of 492 people. In the , Mount Julian had a population of 477 people. Education. There are no schools in Mount Julian. The nearest government primary and secondary schools are Proserpine State"}, {"text": "School and Proserpine State High School, both in Proserpine to the south-west."}, {"text": "Opportune Aymadji is a Chadian filmmaker and politician. She is a Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS) Member of the National Assembly. In July 2015 she unsuccessfully attempted to become MPS Regional Secretary General for Logone Oriental."}, {"text": "Munsirhat railway station is a halt railway station on Santragachi\u2013Amta branch line of South Eastern Railway section of the Kharagpur railway division. It is situated at Shankarhati, Munsirhat in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History. Howrah to Amta narrow-gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah\u2013Amta new broad-gauge line, including the Bargachia\u2013Champadanga branch line was re constructed and opened in 2002\u20132004."}, {"text": "Goorganga Creek is a rural locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Goorganga Creek had \"no people or a very low population\". Demographics. In the , Goorganga Creek had a population of 7 people. In the , Goorganga Creek had \"no people or a very low population\"."}, {"text": "Thoopara is a rural locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Thoopara had a population of 52 people. Geography. The Andromache River forms the southern boundary of Thoopara as it flows east to join the O'Connell River, which then forms the south-eastern boundary. The Bruce Highway crosses the O'Connell River at the Thoopara / Lethebrook / Bloomsbury tripoint and runs north to form the eastern boundary. The North Coast railway line enters the locality from the south (Andromache / Bloomsbury) and exits to the north (Goorganga Creek / Gunyarra). Thoopara railway station () serves the locatlity and is the location of a passing loop. The land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation with some crop growing (mostly sugarcane). There is a cane tramway network to transport the harvested sugarcane to the local sugar mill. History. In 1923, a large steel-and-concrete railway bridge was erected over the Andromache River as part of the construction of the North Coast railway line. It is on the boundary of three adjacent localities (Andromache, Bloomsbury, and Thoopara). Demographics. In the , Thoopara had a population of 39 people. In the , Thoopara had a population of 52 people. Education. There are"}, {"text": "no schools in Thoopara. The nearest government primary schools are Proserpine State School in Proserpine to the north and Bloomsbury State School in neighbouring Bloomsbury to the south-west. The nearest government secondary school is Proserpine State High School, also in Proserpine."}, {"text": "HMCS \"Grizzly was an armed yacht acquired by the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II for coastal patrol and anti-submarine defence. Constructed in 1909 as Machigonne\", a yacht for William L. Douglas, the vessel was purchased by the United States Navy in 1917 for use as a patrol ship on the United States East Coast during World War I and named USS \"Machigonne\" (SP-507). Following the end of the war, \"Machigonne\" was demobilised and returned to service as a yacht. At the onset of World War II, the Royal Canadian Navy sought capable vessels for port defence, and finding few in Canadian hands, went south to American ports and purchased suitable ships there. \"Machigonne\" was discovered and acquired. However, a lack of familiarity with \"Machigonne\"s propulsion system led to it being burnt out before entering service. Though commissioned as HMCS \"Grizzly\", the armed yacht was not given the modifications that other Canadian armed yachts were and spent the majority of the war anchored in the passages into the harbour at Prince Rupert, British Columbia as a guard ship. By June 1944, \"Grizzly\" was no longer considered safe and was sold for scrap to the Capital Iron and Metal Company"}, {"text": "of Victoria, British Columbia in December. Description. As a yacht, \"Machigonne\" was measured at , long overall, with a beam of and a draught of . The ship was propelled by a propeller powered by vertical triple expansion steam engine, giving the vessel a maximum speed of . In American naval service, \"Machigonne\" was armed with three 3-pounder guns and had a complement of 31 personnel. As a Canadian armed yacht, \"Grizzly\" had a displacement of and was long with a beam of and a draught of . The vessel was equipped with diesel engines and had a maximum speed of . The ship was initially armed with one 6-pounder gun and had a complement of 5 officers and 35 ratings. Service history. As \"Machigonne\". \"Machigonne\" was a steel sailing yacht constructed in 1909 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corporation of New York City, New York. The yacht had been ordered for William L. Douglas, a shoe manufacture who later became mayor of Boston and governor of Massachusetts. During World War I, the vessel was taken up by the United States Navy for $55,000 and given the identification number SP-507 on 15 May 1917. The ship was armed with three 3-pounder"}, {"text": "guns, two machine guns and one Y-gun depth charge projector. USS \"Machigonne\" was commissioned on 9 July 1917 and employed on patrol duties along the United States East Coast. \"Machigonne\" was taken out of United States Navy service and sold for commercial use on 20 June 1919. The engines were later replaced with German submarine-type Foos diesel engines. As \"Grizzly\". To augment the local sea defences of ports, the Royal Canadian Navy sought large, steel-hulled yachts to requisition. However, a significant lack of capable vessels were owned by Canadians. Canada turned to its southern neighbour for suitable ships, finding several that met the navy's requirements. However, US neutrality laws prevented their sale to belligerents in the war. In order to circumvent these laws, the Royal Canadian Navy requisitioned the yachts of prominent Canadian yachtsmen and then sent them to the US to purchase the yachts that had been identified by the navy without the US government knowing they were working for the navy. The money to acquire the vessels was provided by the Canadian government through bank loans. After being acquired, Irving Keenleyside, an executive with Burrard Dry Dock Company who had been selected by the RCN to go to"}, {"text": "the US to acquire yachts, travelled to Long Beach, California to pick up \"Machigonne\". Either shortly before or after arrival at Esquimalt, British Columbia the unfamiliarity with the engine design by Canadian personnel led to them being burnt out due to lubrication issues. Though commissioned as \"Grizzly\", the vessel never saw service as a powered yacht. \"Grizzly\" was primarily used as an anchored harbour/channel guard ship and as an examination vessel on the West Coast. The yacht never received the armaments and asdic the other conversions did and was anchored at the passages into Prince Rupert, British Columbia. At Prince Rupert, \"Grizzly\" was normally anchored between British Columbia and mainland in the northern channel entering the port. The vessel was equipped with two Lewis machine guns and supported by heavier coastal artillery. Every six months, the yacht was towed into Prince Rupert and underwent an overhaul. The vessel was crewed by 14\u201315 naval personnel with up to three officers. In mid-1942, the north passage was closed using a log boom and \"Grizzly\" was towed to the south passage and remained as guard ship there until June 1944. \"Grizzly\" was taken to Victoria, British Columbia in early 1944 to undergo an"}, {"text": "assessment. On 17 June 1944, \"Grizzly\" was paid off as unsafe due to deteriorating plating. The ship was sold in December 1944 to Capital Iron and Metal Company and broken up for scrap at Victoria beginning on 25 March 1945. The ship's wheel was kept as a memorial in British Columbia until at least 1980."}, {"text": "The 1979 Swiss Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Gstaad, Switzerland. It was the 34th edition of the tournament and was held from 9 July until 15 July 1979. The tournament was part of the 1979 Grand Prix tennis circuit and offered total prize money of $75,000. Third-seeded Ulrich Pinner won the singles title. Finals. Singles. Ulrich Pinner defeated Peter McNamara 6\u20132, 6\u20134, 7\u20135 Doubles. Mark Edmondson / John Marks defeated Ion \u021airiac / Guillermo Vilas 2\u20136, 6\u20131, 6\u20134"}, {"text": "Camiel Fortgens (born 1992, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) is a Dutch fashion designer, he founded his eponymous fashion label in 2014. Background. Camiel Fortgens graduated at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2014. With his first clothing collection, he was nominated for the Keep An Eye Grant, this unusual graduation specialization was initially discouraged by his tutors. Shortly after his graduation in 2015, he made his show debut at Amsterdam Fashion Week, the show was an extensive version of his graduation collection. Since then, Fortgens has been presenting its new collections through showrooms and small shows in Amsterdam and Paris. His clothing is worn by A$AP Rocky, Famke Louise and Pusha T, among others. Although 'he prefers more likely to dress his neighbor' according to Fortgens in an interview with \"i-D Magazine\". Fortgens wasn't trained as a fashion designer at the Design Academy Eindhoven, therefore his trial and error process became part of his way of working. By questioning the standards within the fashion world and alienating everyday items, the standard for this job will become more visible. As a result garments are imperfect and not completely finished, seams are not stitched straight and items contain small errors."}, {"text": "Azizur Rahman Chowdhury (1946\u20132011) was a politician of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and a member of parliament for Dinajpur-6. Career. Azizur Rahman Chowdhury was born in 1946 in Professorpara of Birampur Upazila of Dinajpur District, Bangladesh. He was the principal of Bijul Darul Huda Kamil Post Graduate Madrasa for a long time. Chowdhury was elected to the parliament from Dinajpur-6 as a candidate of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami in 1991 and 2001. Death. Aziz died on 30 May 2011."}, {"text": "Gregory River is a coastal rural locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Gregory River had a population of 427 people. Geography. The locality is bounded to the north by Edgecumbe Bay, a bay of the Coral Sea (). Greta Creek flows into the bay and forms the north-western boundary of the locality (), while the Gregory River (the watercourse) also flows into the bay and forms the north-eastern boundary of the locality (). The locality is bounded to the west by the North Coast railway line. Most of the locality is low flat land above sea level, but the south-east of the locality where the Gregory River rises is mountainous terrain rising to above sea level. Mount Dryander is on the locality's eastern boundary with Cape Gloucester (), rising to above sea level. It was named in July 1820 by Lieutenant Phillip Parker King of HM Colonial Cutter Mermaid, after the Swedish botanist Jonas Carllson Dryander who was librarian for Sir Joseph Banks. The Bruce Highway enters the locality from the south (Myrtlevale) and exits the locality to the north-west (Bowen). The North Coast railway line follows the western boundary of the locality, entering the locality"}, {"text": "from the south (Foxdale / Myrtlevale) and exiting to the north-west (Bowen). There are a number of railway stations within the locality, from north to south: The mountainous terrain in the south-east of the locality is within the Dryander National Park and the Dryander State Forest. Apart from these protected areas, the predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation. The land in the south of the locality near the Gregory River is mostly used to grow sugarcane. In the north of the locality near the bay, there is coastal marshland and aquaculture (mostly prawn farming). There is also rural residential housing in the south-east of the locality. There is a small network of cane tramways in the south to the locality to transport the harvested sugarcane to the Proserpine Sugar Mill. Demographics. In the , Gregory River had a population of 307 people. In the , Gregory River had a population of 427 people. Economy. Proserpine Prawn Farm operated by Tassal is Australia's largest prawn farm (). Education. There are no schools in Gregory River. The nearest government primary and secondary schools are Proserpine State School and Proserpine State High School, both in Proserpine to the south, There is"}, {"text": "also a Catholic primary-and-secondary school in Proserpine."}, {"text": "Beatrice Hankey known as Help (17 December 1858 \u2013 1933) was a British evangelist who was the founder of the Christian group or sect known as the \"Blue Pilgrims\". Life. Hankey was born in Barnet and Lodge in London. She came from middle class parents and she was the ninth of ten children. Her mother was Caroline Donovan and her father George Hankey was a merchant banker from Chester. She was drawn to a religious life and she dedicated her time in assisting men and it was not an obvious move when she decided in 1902 that God wanted her to work not with poor and exploited women but with women from well off families. At the time there were few opportunities for these women. She gathered a small group around herself and called her followers knights based on an ancient translation of the word \"knecht\" meaning disciple. Today the group is still small and it has been given the name \"Blue Pilgrims\" based on the items that members wear. The group now accepts both men and women and it allows members to retain their other religious associations. In 2019 it was led by Angela Youngman who was just completing"}, {"text": "ten years in the job. The group use several associations with the time of knights which new members tend to find strange, but acceptable. Hankey died in 1933, but \"The Beatrice Hankey Foundation Limited\" is still (2019) a registered charity with a turnover of c. \u00a350K which is spent by the trustees to \"send forth Christian leaders, teachers and missionaries in deprived areas\"."}, {"text": "The 1996\u201397 B Group was the 41st season of the Bulgarian B Football Group, the second tier of the Bulgarian football league system. A total of 18 teams contested the league. Litex Lovech, Olimpik Galata and Metalurg Pernik were promoted to Bulgarian A Group. Lokomotiv Ruse, Parva Atomna Kozloduy, Spartak Plovdiv, Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa, Chirpan and Hebar Pazardzhik were relegated."}, {"text": "Durval de Lima J\u00fanior (born April 11, 1984), better known by his stage name Junior Lima, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, drummer, guitarist, actor and record producer best known for his work with duo Sandy & Junior. Biography. Durval de Lima J\u00fanior was born in Campinas, S\u00e3o Paulo on April 11, 1984, to entrepreneur Noely Pereira de Lima and singer Durval de Lima, better known as \"Xoror\u00f3\" of the famous \"m\u00fasica sertaneja\" duo Chit\u00e3ozinho & Xoror\u00f3. Interested in music ever since his early childhood, in 1989 he began to perform alongside his older sister Sandy in Brazilian television as child singers, under the moniker Sandy & Junior. In 1991 the duo released their debut album, \"Anivers\u00e1rio do Tatu\", which sold over 300,000 copies, and as the 1990s and 2000s went by they became one of the most successful Brazilian groups of all time, leading them to have their own TV series on Rede Globo (broadcast from 1999 to 2002) and starring on their own full-length film, 2003's \"Acqu\u00e1ria\". By the time they broke up in 2007, they sold over 22 million albums nationwide. Alongside Sandy & Junior he had a side project named SoulFunk which lasted from 2005 to 2007. One"}, {"text": "year after the break-up of Sandy & Junior he formed the supergroup Nove Mil Anjos, alongside other established musicians such as Peu Sousa, a former guitarist for singer Pitty, and former Charlie Brown Jr. and Revolucionn\u00e1rios bassist Champignon. The only newcomer was vocalist P\u00e9ricles \"Per\u00ed\" Carpigiani. Lima was the band's drummer. They only released a single studio album, \"9MA\", before being put on hold in 2009; any possibilities of a reunion ended after the suicides of Sousa and Champignon in 2013. From 2009 to 2014, alongside DJ J\u00falio Torres and Amon-R\u00e1 Lima of Fam\u00edlia Lima, he was part of electronica group Crossover, later renamed as Dexterz. In 2016, Junior and Torres reunited to form the duo Manimal. The same year he debuted as a record producer, collaborating with Manu Gavassi on her extended play \"V\u00edcio\", and released the single \"Sintoma\", his first work as a solo singer in years. On October 30, 2023, Lima's debut solo album, \"Solo, Vol. 1\", recorded between 2020\u20132022, was released, receiving mostly negative reviews; a follow-up came out on May 23, 2024, to a slightly better critical reception. From 2017 to 2019 he was co-host of the YouTube series \"Pipocando M\u00fasica\", a spin-off of \"Pipocando\","}, {"text": "alongside Bruno Bock. In 2019 Sandy & Junior reunited for a special series of tours around Brazil celebrating their 30th anniversary. Personal life. Lima is married to model M\u00f4nica Benini since 2014; the couple's first child, a son, Otto, was born on October 1, 2017. On October 10, 2021, their daughter Lara was born. Previously, he dated actresses Bruna Thedy (whom he met during production of the \"Sandy & Junior\" TV series) and, from 2005 to 2007, Julia Faria. He has a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and earned the belt after 11 years of training."}, {"text": "A glacier head is the top of a glacier. Although glaciers seem motionless to the observer they are in constant motion and the terminus is always either advancing or retreating. On a glacier, the accumulation zone is the area above the firn line, where snowfall accumulates and exceeds the losses from ablation, (melting, evaporation, and sublimation). The annual equilibrium line separates the accumulation and ablation zone annually. The accumulation zone is also defined as the part of a glacier's surface, usually at higher elevations, on which there is net accumulation of snow, which subsequently turns into firn and then glacier ice. Part of the glacier where snow builds up and turns to ice moves outward from there. The glacier head is the highest upslope edge of an alpine glacier or the upslope end of the zone of accumulation. The head of the glacier comes up against a steep bedrock cliff called a cirque headwall Movement and ice loss. The head can come away from the cirque in a downslope movement which can create a large crevasse called a bergschrund. This crevasse can be a major obstacle for mountaineers. The existence of a bergschrund is evidence that ice mass has pulled"}, {"text": "away from the cirque. A shrinking glacier thins faster near the terminus than near the head, which explains why glaciers retreat up-valley and the glacier head stays in place The speed of erosion or accumulation is partly dependent on a shape factor which is the ratio of the change in thickness at the glacier head to the change in the thickness at the terminus. Notes. \"attribution\":Contains text copied from Accumulation zone and Bergschrund and Terminus."}, {"text": "Leucine-sensitive hypoglycemia of infancy is a type of metabolic disorder. It is inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion. It is rare. Names. Other names include hypoglycemia leucine-induced; hypoglycemia leucine induced; and familial infantile hypoglycemia precipitated by leucine."}, {"text": "Sha'ar HaGolan is a Neolithic archaeological site near Kibbutz Sha'ar HaGolan in Israel. The type site of the Yarmukian culture, it is notable for the discovery of a significant number of artistic objects, as well as some of the earliest pottery in the Southern Levant. The first Yarmukian settlement was unearthed at Tel Megiddo during the 1930s, but was not identified as a distinct Neolithic culture at the time. At Sha'ar HaGolan, in 1949, professor Moshe Stekelis first identified the Yarmukian culture, a Pottery Neolithic culture that inhabited parts of Israel and Jordan. The site, dated to ca. 6400\u20136000 BC (calibrated), is located in the central Jordan Valley, on the northern bank of the Yarmouk River. Its size is around 20 hectares, making it one of the largest settlements in the world at that time. Although other Yarmukian sites have been identified since, Sha'ar HaGolan is the largest, probably indicating its role as the Yarmukian center. The site was excavated by two teams from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: one led by Moshe Stekelis (1949\u20131952), and the other by Yosef Garfinkel (1989\u201390, 1996\u20132004), and later co-directed with Michele A. Miller (1998-2000). While during the earlier excavations no architecture was found,"}, {"text": "the second expedition uncovered large courtyard houses, ranging between 250 and 700 m2 in area. The courtyard house makes its first appearance at Sha'ar HaGolan, giving the site a special significance in architectural history. This is an architectural concept still found among traditional Mediterranean societies. Monumental construction on this scale is unknown elsewhere during this period. The houses consist of a central courtyard surrounded by several small rooms. The houses were separated by streets, which constitute evidence of advanced community planning. The dig uncovered a central street about 3 m wide, paved with pebbles set in mud, and a narrow winding alley 1 m wide. These are the earliest streets discovered in Israel and among the earliest streets built by man. A 4.15 m well dug to the local water table indicates a knowledge of hydraulics. Exotic objects discovered during the excavations include sea shells from the Mediterranean, polished stone vessels made of alabaster (or marble), and blades made from obsidian from Turkey. The presence of obsidian points to trade connections extending over 700 km. Pottery. The greatest technological innovation of the Sha'ar HaGolan Neolithic was the manufacture of pottery. This industry, which appears here for the first time in"}, {"text": "Israel, gives this cultural stage its name of Pottery Neolithic. The pottery vessels are in a variety of shapes and sizes and were put to various domestic uses. At the site of 'Ain Ghazal, located along the banks of the Zarqa River near Amman, Jordan, the early Pottery Neolithic period is dated from 6,400 to 5,000 BC. In July 2022, archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority announced the discovery of a 8000 years-old \"Mother Goddess\" figurine. Anna Eirikh-Rose, co-director of the excavation reported that the 20-centimeter long figurine covered by a bracelet with a red bottom was found broken into 2 pieces. It was sculpted in a sitting position with big hips, a unique pointed hat and what is known as \u2018coffee-bean\u2019 eyes and a big nose. Art. About 300 art objects were found at Sha'ar HaGolan, making it the main center of prehistoric art in Israel and one of the most important in the world. One of the houses yielded approximately 70 figurines made of stone or fired clay. No other single building of the Neolithic period has yielded that many prehistoric figurines. Among the outstanding art objects from Sha'ar HaGolan are figurines in human form made of fired"}, {"text": "clay or carved on pebbles. The overwhelming majority are female images, interpreted as representing a goddess. The clay figurines are extravagant in their detail, giving them a surrealistic appearance, while the pebble figurines are minimalist and abstract in form. The members of Kibbutz Sha'ar HaGolan have built a museum that exhibits the finds from the nearby site. Because of the unique artistic quality of the figurines from Sha'ar Hagolan, both the Metropolitan Museum of New York and the Louvre Museum in Paris have mounted ten-year exhibits of objects from the site. In Israel, figurines are exhibited at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem."}, {"text": "Gregory River is a rural locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Gregory River had a population of 65 people. Geography. The Gregory River forms the south western boundary of the locality. Demographics. In the , Gregory River had a population of 65 people. In the , Gregory River had a population of 65 people. Education. There are no schools in Gregory River. The nearest government primary school is Cordalba State School in neighbouring Cordalba to the south. The nearest government secondary school is Isis District State High School in Childers to the south-east."}, {"text": "Alexanders saga is an Old Norse translation of \"Alexandreis\", an epic Latin poem about the life of Alexander the Great written by Walter of Ch\u00e2tillon, which was itself based on Quintus Curtius Rufus's \"Historia Alexandri Magni\". It is attributed in manuscripts of the saga to Brandr J\u00f3nsson, bishop of Sk\u00e1lholt who is also said to have been responsible for authoring Gy\u00f0inga saga. Kirsten Wolf has commented on the saga's literary qualities thus: \"\"Alexanders saga\" [...] has stirred the admiration of scholars and writers for centuries because of its exceptionally imaginative use of the resources of language and its engaging narrative style.\" Manuscripts. \"Alexanders saga\" is preserved in five medieval Icelandic manuscripts and a number of later manuscripts, of which only Stock. Papp. fol. no. 1 has independent textual value. The main manuscript source of the text is AM 519a 4to, dating from 1270-1290. A fragment of the saga appears in AM 655 XXIX 4to which dates from the same period. It is also found in AM 226 fol (and its copy AM 225 fol) which contains the Biblical compilation Stj\u00f3rn. In these manuscripts \"Alexanders saga\" comes after \"R\u00f3mverja saga\" and before \"Gy\u00f0inga saga\". In AM 226 fol, AM 225 fol,"}, {"text": "and Stock. Perg. 4to no. 24 the text is shorter than AM 519a 4to and also contain a translation of \"Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem\". Kalinke and Mitchell identified the following manuscripts of the saga:"}, {"text": "Alexander Parrott Ramsay (1899\u20131957) was an English professional footballer who played as an outside left in the Football League for Newcastle United and Queens Park Rangers. Personal life. Ramsay served as a gunner in the Machine Gun Corps during the First World War."}, {"text": "Myrtlevale is a rural locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Myrtlevale had a population of 205 people. Geography. The locality is bounded to the south-west by the North Coast railway line, but there are no stations serving the locality. The Bruce Highway (locally known as Myrtlevale Road) enters the locality from the south (Foxdale), slightly east of the railway line. It continues northwards through the locality until it reaches the northern boundary of the locality, where it turns to the west and forms part of the northern boundary until the north-west corner of the locality where it exits to the north-west (Gregory River). A discontiguous section of the Conway National Park is in the north-east of the locality. Apart from this protected area, the land use is predominantly growing sugarcane with some grazing on native vegetation. There is a network of cane tramways to transport the harvested sugarcane to the local sugar mill. Demographics. In the , Myrtlevale had a population of 161 people. In the , Myrtlevale had a population of 205 people. Education. There are no schools in Myrtlevale. The nearest government primary and secondary schools are Proserpine State School and Proserpine State High"}, {"text": "School, both in Proserpine to the south."}, {"text": "Mahendralalnagar railway station is a railway station on Santragachi\u2013Amta branch line of South Eastern Railway section of the Kharagpur railway division. It is situated beside Dhasa Road at Ballabhbati, Munsirhat in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History. Howrah to Amta narrow-gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah\u2013Amta new broad-gauge line, including the Bargachia\u2013Champadanga branch line was re constructed and opened in 2002\u20132004."}, {"text": "The Daniel Robert House is a historic house located at 25 West End Avenue in the borough of Somerville in Somerset County, New Jersey. The house was built in 1888 for Daniel Robert (1840\u20131908) by the architectural firm Lambert & Bunnell based on Gothic Revival style houses designed by the architect Alexander Jackson Davis. It now serves as the Somerville Borough Hall and the Somerville Public Library. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 2008 for its significance in architecture from 1888 to 1939. History. The Daniel Robert House is the third building at this location. The first was a tavern built early in the 19th century and the second was built by Albert Cammann in 1848. Daniel Robert, a wealthy businessman from New York, bought the property in 1886. He tore down the Cammann house in 1887 and built the current mansion. He lived here until his death in 1908. His widow sold it to the Somerville Lodge of the Elks in 1923. The borough bought it in 1958 for use as the Borough Hall."}, {"text": "Newlands is a rural locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Newlands had a population of 99 people. Geography. \"Starvation Creek\" enters from Eungella Hinterland to the east, and flows north-west to become the \"Bowen River\". A branch of the creek forms part of the north-eastern boundary, and the river forms much of the northern boundary. The Newlands coal mine is in the south of the locality. The Bowen Developmental Road (State Route 77) runs through from north to south-west. Demographics. In the , Newlands had a population of 66 people. In the , Newlands had a population of 99 people. Education. There are no schools in Newlands. The nearest government primary schools are: The nearest government secondary schools are: However, some students living near the centre of the locality would be too distant from these primary and/or secondary schools for a daily commute; the alternatives are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "The 1978 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards were released by the Hastings Bad Cinema Society in 1979 to honour the worst the film industry had to offer in 1978. The ballot was later revisited and the expanded version was released in the summer of 2003. Listed as follows are the original ballot's picks for Worst Picture and its dishonourable mentions, which are films that were considered for Worst Picture but ultimately failed to make the final ballot (15 total), and all nominees included in the expanded ballot. All winners are highlighted."}, {"text": "Pauls Pocket is a rural locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Pauls Pocket had a population of 38 people. Geography. Mount Quandong is in the south-west of the locality (), rising to above sea level. The Proserpine State Forest occupies most of the north and west of the locality. Apart from this protected area, the land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation with some rural residential housing. Demographics. In the , Pauls Pocket had a population of 42 people. In the , Pauls Pocket had a population of 38 people. Education. There are no schools in Pauls Pocket. The nearest government primary and secondary schools are Proserpine State School and Proserpine State High School, both in Proserpine to the north-east. There is also a primary-and-secondary Catholic school in Proserpine."}, {"text": "Silver Creek is a rural locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Silver Creek had a population of 18 people. Geography. Victoria Creek forms much of the southern boundary before joining Goorganga Creek, which then forms part of the same boundary. The land use is a mixture of growing sugarcane and grazing on native vegetation. There is a cane tramway to transport the harvested sugarcane to the local sugar mill. Demographics. In the , Silver Creek had a population of 8 people. In the , Silver Creek had a population of 18 people. Education. There are no schools in Silver Creek. The nearest government primary and secondary schools are Proserpine State School and Proserpine State High School, both in Proserpine to the north-east. There is also a Catholic primary-and-secondary school in Proserpine."}, {"text": "Psychoides filicivora is a moth of the family Tineidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1937. First found in Ireland in 1909, it is possible that the moth was introduced from imported ferns from Asia. The moth can be found from spring though autumn in a series of generations. The species overwinters as a larva. Life cycle. Larva. Larvae live on a variety of ferns feeding on the sporangia, or the lower surface of the frond, under the cover of sporangia spun in an irregular pile. The feeding signs of the similar fern-feeding moth, \"P. verhuella\" form a loose portable case out of spun sporangia and looks like misplaced sorus. The feeding causes browning of the upper frond. Fully grown, the larvae are c. 4\u20135 mm long with a pale-brown head and a pale-brown posterial margin, which has a split in the middle. The pale-brown head, translucent prothoracic plate and pale-brown tail distinguish \"P. filicivora\" from the similar larvae of \"P. verhuella\", which has a black head and black prothoracic plate. The following ferns have been recorded as food plants, Pupa. Pupa are found on the underside of a frond, usually in a tough white cocoon covered in sporangia. Sometimes"}, {"text": "uncovered. Imago. The moths can be found from spring to autumn in a succession of generations. The wingspan is 10 to 12 mm. They have pale patches on the tornus of their dark forewings which form an approximate diamond shape when the wings are closed. They tend to fly in early morning sunshine, late afternoon and at any time on dull days. Can be found in high numbers. Rarely comes to light. History and distribution. The moth was first discovered by Bryan Beirne at Seapoint, County Dublin, Ireland, which is the type locality. Specimens from the same locality, which had been collected earlier, were later found dating back to 1909. The first published record from elsewhere is from Bournemouth, England, in 1940, although it is possible it was found in c. 1856 by a Mr Drane at Caerphilly, Wales. He found larvae on wall-rue (\"Asplenium ruta-muraria\"), which at the time was identified as \"P. verhuella\", but is much more likely to be \"P. filicivora\". Since 1940 it has been found mainly in coastal locations in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. In the 1990s, the moth was found in undisturbed laurel forests in Madeira and may be a native species. There"}, {"text": "is a related species in Japan and most sources consider it possible that the moth was imported from Asia on ferns; but it could be endemic to Madeira, and imported to Britain and Ireland on ferns from there."}, {"text": "Akhtaruzzaman Mia is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Dinajpur-4. Career. Mia was elected to parliament from Dinajpur-4 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001."}, {"text": "Schepers Bosman is a Dutch fashion designer duo consisting of Sanne Schepers (born 1989, Heerlen, The Netherlands) and Anne Bosman (born 1988, Amsterdam, The Netherlands). Background. Sanne Schepers and Anne Bosman both graduated with honors in 2011 from ArtEZ University of Arts in Arnhem, BA fashion design. Their graduation collections were awarded with various fashion prizes. Schepers continued her studies at the Institut Fran\u00e7ais de la Mode (IFM) in Paris. She was selected by the team of Robert Clergerie to specialize her studies further at l\u2019\u0112cole-de-Style in Romans-sur-Is\u00e8re. Bosman graduated from Central Saint Martins London, MA Menswear. They gained work experience at Clergerie, Christopher Kane, Viktor & Rolf and Alexander van Slobbe, before starting their designer duo collaboration named Schepers Bosman in 2017. The duo presented their debut collection at the 26th edition of the Amsterdam Fashion Week in 2017. Shortly thereafter they won the Mercedes-Benz Les Etoiles Award on the eve of the Paris fashion week, the jury consisted of Alexis Mabille and Dita von Teese among others. All Schepers Bosman collections and garments are designed, developed and produced in the Netherlands. New collection presentations and sales take place during the menswear fashionweeks in Paris. Style. Schepers and Bosman"}, {"text": "simply makes strong collections that are original, surprising and extremely well made. Cool items with raw, visible seams and a wide fit. The collection is packed with regal silhouettes, but the oversized shirts are a standout, both in shape and design. Denim was and is their showstopper. Striking an even balance between streetwear and luxe, stand out pieces include the re-designed workwear and suits along with the patchwork-heavy jumpsuits and trousers. The sleek and playful silhouettes are then dressed in vibrant color palettes of pinks, blues and purples, while darker tones are featured heavily on the outerwear looks."}, {"text": "Charlotte Baldwin (1778\u20131856) was an American stage actress and theatre manager. Baldwin was a popular actor as old women in comedies, notably at the Park Theatre, where she was engaged in 1816. Charlotte Baldwin was one of the earliest female theatre managers in the United States. She was the founder and manager of the City Theatre, Warren Street, Broadway in 1822. She was not the first female theatre manager in the United states, but she was the first woman in the USA who founded her own theatre rather than inheriting one."}, {"text": "Alexey Morosov () (born September 26, 1974) is a Russian sculptor and painter. He is a graduate of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he studied under Lev Kerbel. He has been the director of the since 2013. He has been a member of the Russian Academy of Arts since 2014. He lives and works in Lucca, Italy. Collections and exhibits. His work is held in the collection of the State Russian Museum and the Museum of the New Academy of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg. PONTIFEX MAXIMVS, exhibited in Naples and Moscow (2016\u201317). Morosov's work is notably appreciated for an association with antiquity in particular the use of the Caryatid. Public works. A monument to the founders of the Moscow Art Theatre, Konstantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, created by Morosov in bronze and granite was inaugurated in 2014 adjacent to the theatre."}, {"text": "Olivier Barlet is a French journalist, translator, film critic and researcher on African cinema and its diasporas (black and Arab worlds, interculturalities). Biography. Olivier Barlet was born in Paris on 4 October 1952. He graduated in 1976 from ESCP-EAP (alternative Studies in Paris, London and D\u00fcsseldorf). Initially a rural animator for the DECOR association, he taught translation and interpreting in Munich from 1985 to 1990, then became a literary agent and translated many books on Africa and African authors from German and English. A member of the Syndicat fran\u00e7ais de la critique de cin\u00e9ma, he wrote about cinema in the monthly magazines Africa international, \"Afrique-Asie\" and Continental as well as in the Letter des musiques et des arts Africans, before funding with a few colleagues the magazine \"Africultures\" in November 1997, of which he was editor-in-chief from 1997 to 2004, and where he published nearly 1800 articles on African cinema. He also wrote the cinema pages of the magazine Afriscope (2007-2017). He was president of the Africultures association from 1997 to 2008 and then treasurer until 2016, before turning over to a younger team while remaining director of publications. As president or editor-in-chief, he has intervened in the public debate,"}, {"text": "notably on human zoos, the commemoration of the abolition of slavery, the intellectual movement and immigration issues. For critic Jean-Michel Frodon, Olivier Barlet is \u201cwithout doubt the best French (and therefore European) connoisseur of African cinema\u201d. His books, translated into various languages, are indeed a reference. Published in 1996, Les Cinemas d\u2019Afrique noire: le regard en question, won the 1997 Prix Art et Essai from the Centre national de la Cin\u00e9matographie. By its title, it suggests abandoning the expression \u201cAfrican cinema\u201d, which it considers to confine these plural cinematographies to a genre. \u201cIt enlightens the reader on these cinemas without inviting them to a dramatic fascination for the themes they exploit\u201d, says Gustave Boulou de B\u2019b\u00e9ri. For as Christiane Passevant notes, \u201cthe perception of African cinema by Westerners can be summed up in the questioning go the gaze\u201d. In 2012, Olivier Barlet published a sum on the period 1996-2011: Les Cinemas d\u2019Afrique des ann\u00e9es 2000: perspectives critiques, proposing to \u201crethink the critical discourse on African cinema\u201d, and to \u201cformulate new bases for the criticism of African cinema\u201d. According to Pierre Barrot, he analyses \u201cthree major trends of the past decade: the breakthrough of filmmakers with an immigrant background, the retreat"}, {"text": "of historical taboos and the affirmation of women\u201d. He participated in the creation of the African Federation of Film Critics in Tunis in 2004 and was its treasurer until 2009. He has also conducted dozens of workshops on criticism for journalists in various African countries. He continues to publish reviews, analyses and interviews on the africultures.com, website, often translated into English in the American magazine Black Camera, as ell as in numerous international magazines and books. With the website afrimages.net, he publishes analyses of African films together with academics and critics. From 1992 to 2018, together with Sylvie Chalaye, he directed the collection Images plurielles (cinema and theatre) at Editions L'Harmattan, Paris. Since its creation in 2002, he has also participated in the programming and animation of the Festival des cinemas d\u2019Afrique en pays d\u2019Apt. He is also a programmer for the creative documentary platform T\u00ebnk. At the Cannes Film Festival 2023, he received the Achievement Award for Film Critics awarded by the Arab Cinema Center."}, {"text": "Backeljaia is a genus of small to medium-sized, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies. Species. Species within the genus \"Backeljaia\" include:"}, {"text": "Sugarloaf is a rural locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Sugarloaf had a population of 310 people. Demographics. In the , Sugarloaf had a population of 278 people. In the , Sugarloaf had a population of 310 people. Education. There are no schools in Sugarloaf. The nearest government primary school is Cannonvale State School in Cannonvale to the north-east. The nearest government secondary school is Proserpine State High School in Proserpine to the south-west."}, {"text": "Elizabeth Hamblin (born Elizabeth Walker Blanchard; 1799\u20131849) was a British-born American stage actress and one of the first female theatre managers in the United States. Personal life. Hamblin was the daughter of actor William Blanchard and the half-sister of playwright E. L. Blanchard. She married the actor Thomas S. Hamblin, whom she divorced in 1834. She later married her colleague, James Charles. She was the mother to actor Thomas (William Henry) Hamblin Jr. and Elizabeth \u201cBetsey\u201d Hamblin. Career. Hamblin had a successful acting career in New York from the 1820s to 1840s. She made her debut at the Haymarket Theatre in London in 1818 and debuted in the United States at the Park Theatre in 1825. She had a long-time involvement with the Bowery Theatre, where she was one of the main attractions. Her career at the Bowery ended in 1832, and in 1834 she divorced her first husband and manager of the Bowery, Thomas Hamblin. She continued her involvement with other theatres, mainly in New York. Hamblin also worked as a theatre manager and was the first woman in the United States to have several duties at different theatres. From 1836-37 she managed the Richmond Hill Theatre in New"}, {"text": "York (with a temporary break in 1836 during Annette Nelson\u2019s time as director), and at one point was seen as a competitor to her former husband. Hamblin focused on a narrow range of high-culture theatre art, including ballet. She also managed the Olympic Theatre in 1838, and the musical stages of Tivoli Garden and Colonnade Garden in 1840. During the 1840s she toured the American South and was involved with many theatres. She died in New Orleans in 1849."}, {"text": "Albanian singer and songwriter Elvana Gjata has released three studio albums, three extended plays, 50 singles as a lead artist and five as a featured artist."}, {"text": "Preston is a rural locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Preston had a population of 346 people. The town of Bonavista is within the south of the locality (). Geography. The locality is bounded to the west and south by the Proserpine River. The main road route through the locality is Conway Road which enters the locality from the north-west (Mount Julian / Mount Marlow), passes through the town of Bonavista, and then exits to the south-east (Conway / Palm Grove). The elevation ranges from . The lower-lying land is mostly in the west of the locality and is used for growing sugarcane. There is a cane tramway to transport the harvested sugarcane to the local sugar mill. The higher land are mostly used for grazing on native vegetation. History. The town of Bonavista was originally called Conway, which was derived from Cape Conway, which was named on 3 June 1770 by Lieutenant James Cook, commander of HMS Endeavour, after British Secretary of State for the Southern Department, Henry Seymour Conway. The town was renamed Bonavista from 3 January 1961. However, the road to the town is still called Conway Road. Demographics. In the , Preston"}, {"text": "had a population of 296 people. In the , Preston had a population of 346 people. Education. There are no schools in Preston. The nearest government primary schools are Proserpine State School in Proserpine to the west and Cannonvale State School in Cannonvale to the north-east. The nearest government secondary school is Proserpine State High School, also in Proserpine."}, {"text": "Virginia Monier was an American stage actress and theatre manager. She was one of the first female theatre managers in the United States. She was the founder-manager of the \"Miss Monier's Dramatic Saloon\" in New York City in 1838, and manager of the Washington Theatre in Washington, D.C. in 1840\u20131841, which made her a pioneer in a period when it was still very unusual for women to manage and found theatres in the USA. She was also the star attraction of the National Theatre (Washington, D.C.) in 1836\u201341."}, {"text": "World's Ultimate Strongman was an annual strongman competition which was held from 2018 to 2021 with the participation of top strongmen from all over the world, determining who is the strongest man in the world. The event was noted for its brute-strength-centricity and expanded the sport to a wider audience outside of Europe and USA. It also introduced the 'feats of strength' series in 2020, ensuring the continuous expansion of the sport during the Covid-19 pandemic. The competition has a number of rival and parallel competitions, including the World's Strongest Man, the Arnold Strongman Classic, Rogue Invitational, Strongest Man on Earth and the Giants Live Tour. History. The inaugural edition of the competition was held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and out of a very stacked field of 12 athletes, the Icelandic Giant Haf\u00fe\u00f3r J\u00fal\u00edus Bj\u00f6rnsson emerged victorious and was crowned the inaugural champion. The 2019 edition was also held in Dubai and was won by Poland's Mateusz Kieliszkowski. On February 22, 2020, World's Ultimate Strongman announced the competition would be expanding and would hold the championship in Bahrain at the Bahrain International Circuit with a purse of $350,000 which was the largest for any strongman competition. However, on March"}, {"text": "13, 2020, they released a statement entailing that it had to be postponed due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, until a new date would be announced when it's logistically feasible. The 2020 competition was finally held in March 2021 in Muharraq under the name '2021 WUS Strength Island' and in September they hosted the 2021 competition back in Dubai. Both competitions were won by Ukraine's Oleksii Novikov. The first three competitions out of the four are widely regarded as International strongman majors. Championships. 2018 World's Ultimate Strongman. Events: Truck pull, Arm over arm pull, Silver Dollar Deadlift, Overhead Medley, Super Yoke, Atlas stones 2019 World's Ultimate Strongman. Events: Deadlift, Truck pull, Log lift, Medley, Atlas stones 2020 World's Ultimate Strongman (a.k.a. 2021 WUS Strength Island). Events: Axel Deadlift, Flag Hoist, Circus Dumbbell press, Loading race, Atlas stones 2021 World's Ultimate Strongman. Events: Log lift, Super yoke, Farmer's walk, Chain Railway carriage, Atlas stones Feats of Strength series. Due to the postponement of worldwide sporting events and travel restrictions being in place for many countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic, World's Ultimate Strongman announced an at home/private gym Feats of Strength series with differing strongman record attempts to be live"}, {"text": "streamed for free. Below are the record attempts (Men's World Record unless otherwise stated): Season 1. 1 It was found during the event that Maddox's bar had been misloaded with one side being 25 kg heavier than the other. <br> 2 It was found during the event that Bishop had 402.5 kg on the barbell, rather than 400 kg, causing an unofficial world record of 402.5 kg for 4 repetitions."}, {"text": "The 1992 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship was the 21st annual tournament held by the NCAA to determine the top men's Division II college soccer program in the United States. Southern Connecticut (21-2-1) defeated Tampa, 1\u20130, to win a third national title. The Fighting Owls were coached by Ray Reid. The final match was held in Tampa, Florida on December 5, 1992."}, {"text": "Frederick William Marshall Reed (March 1894 \u2013 1967) was an English professional footballer who made over 130 appearances as a centre half in the Football League for West Bromwich Albion. He captained the club and after his retirement as a player, served it as a trainer until 1950. Personal life. Reed served as a sergeant in the Royal Fusiliers during the First World War."}, {"text": "Maju railway station is a halt railway station on Santragachi\u2013Amta branch line of South Eastern Railway section of the Kharagpur railway division. It is situated beside Amta\u2013Munshirhat Road at Maju in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History. Howrah to Amta narrow-gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah\u2013Amta new broad-gauge line, including the Bargachia\u2013Champadanga branch line was reconstructed and opened in 2002\u20132004."}, {"text": "Paul Wheeler (23 May 1934 \u2013 10 March 2025) was a British screenwriter and novelist. Life and career. Wheeler was born in Kingston, Jamaica on 23 May 1934. He obtained his BA from Exeter College, Oxford in 1959, and his MA from the University of Chicago in 1960. As a screenwriter, he was best known for his scripts for \"The Medallion\" (2003), \"Caravan to Vaccares\" (1974) and \"The Terrorists\" (1975). He also wrote scripts for numerous television series like \"Tenko\", \"Minder\" and \"Poldark\". In the early 1980s, he published a novel on the Bodyline controversy, which was adapted as an Australian television series starring Hugo Weaving. In 1964, Wheeler married Alexandra Martinez. He was related by marriage to the American journalist Morton Kondracke. Wheeler died on 10 March 2025, at the age of 90."}, {"text": "HMCS \"Wolf was an armed yacht of the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II that saw service on the British Columbia Coast of Canada. Constructed in 1915 as the yacht \"Wenowah\", with the US entry into World War I, the vessel was taken into United States Navy service as USS \"Wenonah\" (SP-165) as a patrol ship. The vessel escorted convoys between the United States and Europe and between Gibraltar and Bizerte, Tunis and Genoa, Italy. After the war, \"Wenonah\" was loaned to the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey for three and a half years before being sold to private interests in 1928. In private ownership, the vessel was renamed at least twice, including Stranger and Blue Water\". With the onset of World War II, the Royal Canadian Navy sought vessels capable of patrol duties. However, a lack of Canadian ships led them to acquiring vessels from their southern neighbour. \"Blue Water\" was acquired in 1940 for service on the British Columbia coast and used a patrol vessel. Following the war, the ship was sold again to commercial ownership and renamed Gulfstream. \"Gulfstream\" was wrecked off Powell River, British Columbia on 11 October 1947. Description. \"Wenonah\" measured , long"}, {"text": "overall and between perpendiculars with a beam of and a draught of . The ship was propelled by one shaft powered by a vertical triple expansion steam engine giving the ship a maximum speed of . In United States Navy service the ship had a complement of 65 personnel and was armed with two 3\"/50 caliber guns. In Canadian service, the vessel measured , long with a beam of and a draught of . The ship had a maximum speed of and was armed with one QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun and one 2-pounder gun. \"Wolf\" had a complement of 5 officers and 38 ratings. Service history. As \"Wenonah\". \"Wenonah\" was a yacht constructed in 1915 by George Lawley & Sons at their yard in Neponset, Massachusetts. With the US entry into World War I, the United States Navy (USN) sought out ships for its section patrol and acquired \"Wenonah\" from Walter G. Ladd. The U.S. Navy acquired \"Wenonah\" on 8 June 1917 and gave her the hull identification number SP-165. She was commissioned as USS \"Wenonah\" on 22 October 1917. \"Wenonah\" departed Newport, Rhode Island with five other patrol ships and a tender, towing submarine chasers to Gibraltar"}, {"text": "via Bermuda and the Azores. The convoy arrived on 25 December 1917 and beginning on 15 January 1918 \"Wenonah\" was used to escort convoys between Gibraltar and Bizerte, Tunisia. In March 1918, \"Wenonah\" was in the Mediterranean Sea as part of the escort of a 15-ship Gibraltar-to-Bizerte convoy also escorted by the Royal Navy warship , the U.S. Navy gunboat , and two French naval trawlers. During the night of 25\u201326 March, an enemy submarine torpedoed one of the convoy's ships, and one of the trawlers dropped back to escort the damaged ship. At daybreak on 26 March, several of the convoy's ships reported a suspicious object to port; \"Wenonah\"s crew also sighted it and manned her guns, but determined that the object was not a submarine. Meanwhile, \"Jeannette II\" sighted a submarine on the surface ahead of the convoy. The submarine submerged, and \"Jeannette II\" dropped two depth charges, forcing it back to surface. Several ships in the convoy then opened fire on the submarine, as did \"Wenonah\" at a range of . \"Wenonah\" fired twelve rounds, inflicting considerable damage on the submarine before the convoy overtook it, then ceased fire to avoid hitting ships in the convoy. Members"}, {"text": "of the submarine\u2032s crew then appeared on deck and waved their arms, and the convoy\u2032s escorts discovered that she was the French Navy submarine . \"Jeannette II\" and one of the trawlers went to \"Watt\"s assistance. Under attack by \"Wenonah\", \"Watt\" had suffered two dead \u2014 her commanding officer and a seaman \u2014 and four wounded. \"Jeannette II\" took off \"Watt\"s wounded, and the trawler escorted \"Watt\" into port. A joint court of inquiry into the friendly fire incident with one American, two British, and two French naval officers as members took place at Gibraltar and found no one to blame. Another joint court of inquiry consisting of two British and two French naval officers took place at Bizerte, and also found no one to blame, concluding that \"Watt\" had disobeyed orders governing submarines operating in the area. In July 1918, \"Wenonah\" escorted a convoy to Genoa, Italy. During this operation, one of the vessels she was escorting, , was torpedoed on 23 July. \"Wenonah\" recovered the survivors after dropping one depth charge on a suspected contact. The following day, 24 July, was torpedoed. Once again \"Wenonah\" dropped a depth charge, but this time it failed to detonate and the"}, {"text": "patrol ship turned to rescue work, recovering 38 of \"Rutherglen\"s crew. During the rest of the convoy's voyage \"Wenonah\" dropped several more depth charges and fired a shell at suspected contacts, but no further engagement with the enemy was had before the end of the journey. \"Wenonah\" returned to Gibraltar\u2013Bizerte convoys until the end of the war on 11 November 1918. \"Wenowah\" returned to the US in December 1918 and remained in naval service until 12 April 1919. The vessel was then transferred to the United States Department of Commerce for service in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and given the hull number PY-11. \"Wenonah\" spent three and a half years with Coast ad Geodetic Survey before transferring back to the U.S. Navy in October 1922, joining the 13th Naval District on the United States West Coast and reclassified as a converted yacht. \"Wenonah\" remained in USN service from November 1922 to June 1928, when she was stricken from the Navy List. The vessel was sold on 15 May 1929 to H. W. Goodall of Santa Barbara, California, for $7,000 and renamed \"Stranger\". Goodall sold \"Stranger\" to Mrs. Marian Huntington of San Francisco during the Great Depression. As"}, {"text": "\"Wolf\". To augment the local sea defences of coastal ports, the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) sought large, steel-hulled yachts to requisition. However, a significant lack of capable vessels were owned by Canadians. Canada turned to its southern neighbour for suitable ships, finding several that met the navy's requirements. However, US neutrality laws prevented their sale to belligerents in the war. In order to circumvent these laws, the RCN requisitioned the yachts of prominent Canadian yachtsmen and then sent them to the US to purchase the yachts that had been identified by the navy without the US government knowing they were working for the navy. The money to acquire the vessels was provided by the Canadian government through bank loans. While acquiring the yacht \"Breezin Thru\" for Clarence Wallace, Irving Keenleyside, an executive with the Burrard Dry Dock Company, spotted another yacht that fit the RCN's requirements. The yacht, \"Blue Water\", was deemed acceptable after an investigation and Keenleyside sought the government's permission to purchase the vessel. He gave the name of his partner, E. A. Riddell, who was unaware of the program at the time of the call. The RCN then requisitioned Riddell's yacht upon approval in order to keep"}, {"text": "the real source of the funds secret. Conversion to an armed yacht involved removing most of the luxurious finery and installing naval hardware. The ship was armed with a 12-pounder gun, depth charges and machine guns. The ship was later given a 1-inch anti-aircraft gun for training purposes. The ship was commissioned into the RCN on 2 October 1940. \"Wolf\" was used to patrol the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the mouth of the Fraser River after entering service. The ship remained with the Esquimalt Force for the entire war, though as the war progressed, \"Wolf\" was used for training and then after September 1943, as an examination vessel. The yacht was paid off on 16 May 1945 and by August the ship was laid up for sale. The ship was purchased by Gulf Lines as a coastal ferry in 1946. Renamed \"Gulfstream\", she was wrecked off Powell River, British Columbia, Canada, on 11 October 1947."}, {"text": "Gingle Wang (; born 7 February 1998) is a Taiwanese actress and writer. Gingle began her acting career in 2017 in the film \"All Because of Love\". Her breakthrough came in 2019 with the psychological horror film \"Detention\", where her performance won Best Actress at the 22nd Taipei Film Awards and a nomination for Best Leading Actress at the 56th Golden Horse Awards. She has been described by the Harper's Bazaar Taiwan as a rising star amongst the new generation of Taiwanese actresses. Early life and education. Gingle Wang was born on February 7, 1998, in Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan. Raised in a single-mother household, she is close to her mother while having little recollection of her father. In 2009, Gingle entered Taipei Municipal Tian-Mu Junior High School but went to Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy in the United States the following year. In 2013, Gingle published her debut novel \"Bale Love\" under the pen name Jun Jun at age 15. When she studied alone in the U.S., writing helped her deal with her hardships. Additionally, she hoped her mother could recover from her divorce through her novel, which featured a protagonist who was a divorced woman much like Gingle's mother."}, {"text": "Two years later she wrote \"Cockroach Philosophy\", her second novel In 2016, she returned to Taiwan from the United States and was admitted to Temple University, Japan Campus in 2017, where she majored in political science. Acting career. Early career. Wang's acting debut was the 2017 romance film \"All Because of Love\". Her casting in this role was partially attributed to the attention she gained after appearing on a YouTube channel featuring recordings of passengers singing KTV in the backseat of a taxi in 2015 at age 17. In 2018 she was cast as the female lead of the film \"The Outsiders\", based on the 2004 TV series of the same name. She also made an appearance as the lead female in \"Possession\". Her 2018 portrayal in episodes 5 and 6 of the TV series \"On Children\" was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or TV Film at the 54th Golden Bell Awards. Gingle was deeply invested in her role as Molly Lin and felt that she resonated on a personal level with the character. Breakthrough. Gingle's breakthrough role in 2019 as the female lead in John Hsu's supernatural psychological horror film \"Detention\" set during the White"}, {"text": "Terror period in Taiwan and based on the video game of the same name. The film was the highest-grossing domestic film in 2019 in Taiwan, and 15th all-time. For her performance, Gingle was nominated for Best Leading Actress at the 56th Golden Horse Awards and won Best Actress at the 22nd Taipei Film Awards. Gingle continued to star in television series in 2019, playing a leading role in Yuan Chengmei in the 15-part series \"Brave to Love\". Later that same year, she appeared as Yin Yue, a supporting actress in the 10-episode series \"Yong-jiu Grocery Store\". Gingle's next film came in 2021, delayed due to production delays caused by the pandemic, appearing in a supporting role as Wang Ting in \"Plurality\", directed by Aozaru Shiao. Later the same year, she appeared alongside Alyssa Chia in female lead roles as the mother-daughter duo in the critically-acclaimed \"The Falls\" by Chung Mong-Hong. Her performance garnered a nomination for the Best Leading Actress at the 58th Golden Horse Awards. Gingle also starred in Giddens Ko's fantasy romance \"Till We Meet Again\", the second-highest grossing domestic film of 2021 in Taiwan and 14th all-time, where she portrayed a dissatisfied high school girl turned trainee"}, {"text": "love god, alongside her divine partner Ah Lun, played by Kai Ko. On October 22, 2021 romance drama \"\" was released worldwide on Netflix. The ten-part series, one year in the making, featured Gingle as Cream, an orphaned high school girl, and follows her adventures with K, played by Fandy Fan. Gingle made a guest appearance in parts two and three, released in December 2021 and March 2022 respectively, of the three-part television series \"Light the Night\", where she portrayed a younger Rose, the female protagonist of the series, and was widely praised for her role upon the series' release. Gingle had a supporting role in the 2023 supernatural comedy/mystery film \"Marry My Dead Body\" as a fellow police officer of the male lead. She also had a lead role in the political drama TV series \"Wave Makers\". Personal life. Gingle Wang has four tattoos: her sister's name \"Maple\", the Latin aphorism \"carpe diem\", the Bible verse \"Psalm 90:9\", and her mother's English name by a rose, her mother's favorite flower. She is fond of reading, writing novels, and watching history and culture series. Her favorite female writers are Echo Chan (\u4e09\u6bdb) and Xi Murong (\u5e2d\u6155\u84c9). In addition, she also"}, {"text": "loves photography, exploring nature, and travel. Musical works. 2019: One Day from Brave to Love, sing with Xie Xiang Ya 2023: Beautiful Night, sing with Zunya"}, {"text": "Russia competed at the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan from 18 to 27 October 2019. It sent a delegation consisting of 243 athletes competing in 21 sports for the event. Russia finished the event with 161 medals, just second behind to tournament hosts China's medal tally of 239. Participants. Source"}, {"text": "List of mountains in Kenya is a general list of mountains in Kenya with elevation. The highest mountain in Kenya, which is also the second-highest mountain in Africa, is Mount Kenya, standing at tall. Seven of Kenya's mountains, Mount Kenya, Mount Elgon, Mount Satima, Chepunyal Hills, Cherang'any Hills, Mount Kulal, and Mount Ng'iro, are among the ultra prominent peaks of Africa."}, {"text": "Governor Reid may refer to:"}, {"text": "Damon Smith (born October 17, 1972) is an American free improvising bassist. He has worked with Cecil Taylor, Peter Br\u00f6tzmann, Marshall Allen, John Tchicai, Elliott Sharp, Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, Jim O'Rourke etc. Biography. Smith spent his childhood in eastern Washington but moved to Oakland in the mid-1980s. He took up bass in his late teens, inspired by the Minutemen's Mike Watt. His love of Minutemen got him to explore other bands on the SST Records label which led to his discovery of Henry Kaiser, Elliott Sharp and Saccharine Trust. Smith credited Saccharine Trust's improvised live album \"Worldbroken\" with altering his views on punk rock, jazz, and free-form jamming. Eventually Damon was fortunate enough to meet Kaiser and the two have collaborated for over twenty years including more than ten recordings together. Initially an electric bass player due to his love of Minutemen and Watt's followup band fIREHOSE, Smith switched to double bass and began focusing on improvisation inspired by Peter Kowald and his album \"Duos:Europa\" Smith studied with Bill Douglas, Lisle Ellis, Kristin Zerneg, Bertram Turetsky etc. In 2001, Smith launched his own record label called Balance Point Acoustics. More recently, Smith has played with Weasel Walter in his"}, {"text": "Weasel Walter Quartet and in Plane Crash which also includes Henry Kaiser. The latter expanded to become Astral Plane Crash with the inclusion of Vinny Golia and Bob Moses. In 2023 he toured the northeastern US playing in a trio with guitarist Joe Baiza and drummer Matt Crane. Smith has also collaborated with Werner Herzog on soundtracks to his documentary films \"Grizzly Man\" and \"Encounters at the End of the World\". Discography. With Emergency String Quartet With Alvin Fielder With Vinny Golia With William Hooker With Henry Kaiser With Weasel Walter With others"}, {"text": "Kofi Asamoah also known as Kofas is a Ghanaian award-winning film director, writer, and film producer. He is the CEO and Creative Director of Kofas Media, a film, television and advertising production company. Early life. Kofi was born in Assin Anyinabrem in Ghana's Central region but grew up mostly in Takoradi in the Western Region of Ghana where he had his basic and primary education at the Young Christian Preparatory School. He had his secondary education at Mfantsipim School, where he was a member of the school's national debating team. Kofi Asamoah started his tertiary education at the University of Ghana, Legon. As his career in Filmmaking got started, he proceeded to the National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI), where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Film and Television Production with a major in Film Directing. Asamoah then joined Ghana Institute of Journalism where he attained a master's degree in Public Relations. He later moved to the US where he studied Filmmaking at the New York Film Academy. Career. Kofi started out professionally as a news reporter with Skyy Power FM/TV, where he became the voice of their reality show. In 2009, he ventured into film making in Kumasi."}, {"text": "He scripted and produced his first content in 2012 titled \"Boys Kasa\" (comic series) featuring Kalybos eventually shot him into the Ghanaian movie industry. Asamoah has produced and directed several Ghanaian films such as Area Boys (2011), Kalybos in China (2015), John and John (2017), Amakye and Dede, a 2016 film that featured Majid Michel, John Dumelo and Salma Mumin and won Best Movie of the Year Award (Ghana) at City People Entertainment Awards 2016. He won Best Movie Director at the 2016 City People Entertainment Awards."}, {"text": "Martin St Quinton is an entrepreneur who is the chairman of Gloucester Rugby and Cheltenham Racecourse. Career. In 1980 St Quinton started Saint Group Plc, an office equipment company, which was sold to Danka in 1993. St Quinton served as the UK managing director of Danka, where he worked for over seven years, overseeing photocopier equipment sales exceeding \u00a31bn. He then founded Azzurri Communications, a UK based voice and data integrator, which grew to 700 staff and \u00a3150 million turnover in six years. St Quinton employed Claude Littner as a non-executive director of Azzurri Communications. In 2006 Azzurri was sold for \u00a3180 million to the Prudential Group. St Quinton was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2003. He acquired a controlling interest in Gloucester Rugby in 2016 and became its chairman. He is also a race horse owner and in 2019 was appointed chairman of Cheltenham Racecourse, taking over from Robert Waley-Cohen. Personal life. St Quinton was born in Yorkshire and educated at Pocklington School. He graduated from Durham University in 1979. He and his wife, Judith St Quinton, are trustees of The Fold, a children's home in the Limpopo Province in South Africa."}, {"text": "The soils of the Kilte Awula\u2019ilo woreda (district) in Tigray, Ethiopia reflect its longstanding agricultural history, highly seasonal rainfall regime, relatively low temperatures, the presence of a wide depression at the foot of the Atsbi horst and steep slopes. Outstanding features in the soilscape are the wide ancient fluvial deposits, the soils of the granite batholith, cuestas and fertile lands behind tufa dams. Factors contributing to soil diversity. Climate. Annual rainfall depth is very variable with an average of around 600 mm. Most rains fall during the main rainy season, which typically extends from June to September. Mean temperature in woreda town Wuqro is 22.2 \u00b0C, oscillating between average daily minimum of 12.6 \u00b0C and maximum of 31.1 \u00b0C. The contrasts between day and night air temperatures are much larger than seasonal contrasts. Geology. The following geological formations are present: Topography. As part of the Ethiopian highlands the land has undergone a rapid tectonic uplift, leading the occurrence of mountain peaks, plateaus, valleys and gorges. Land use. Generally speaking, the level lands and intermediate slopes are occupied by cropland, while there is rangeland and shrubs on the steeper slopes. Remnant forests occur around Orthodox Christian churches and a few inaccessible"}, {"text": "places. A recent trend is the widespread planting of eucalyptus trees. Environmental changes. Soil degradation in this district became important when humans started deforestation almost 5000 years ago. Depending on land use history, locations have been exposed in varying degrees to such land degradation. Geomorphic regions and soil units. Given the complex geology and topography of the district, it has been organised into land systems - areas with specific and unique geomorphic and geological characteristics, characterised by a particular soil distribution along the soil catena. Soil types are classified in line with World Reference Base for Soil Resources and reference made to main characteristics that can be observed in the field. Soil erosion and conservation. The reduced soil protection by vegetation cover, combined with steep slopes and erosive rainfall has led to excessive soil erosion. Nutrients and organic matter were lost and soil depth was reduced. Hence, soil erosion is an important problem, which results in low crop yields and biomass production. Given the strong degradation and thanks to the hard labour of many people in the villages, soil conservation is carried out on a large scale since the 1980s and especially 1980s; this has curbed rates of soil loss."}, {"text": "Measures include the construction of infiltration trenches, stone bunds, check dams, small reservoirs such as La'ilay Wuqro and May Azaboy as well as a major biological measure: exclosures in order to allow forest regeneration. On the other hand, it remains difficult to convince farmers to carry out measures within the farmland (\"in situ\" soil management), such as bed and furrows or zero grazing, as there is a fear for loss of income from the land. Such techniques are however very effective."}, {"text": "The 14th Legislature of the Third Portuguese Republic () was a meeting of the Assembly of the Republic, the legislative body of Portugal. It convened on 25 October 2019, with its membership determined by the results of the 2019 Portuguese legislative election held the previous 6 October. On 5 December 2021, the President of the Republic decreed its dissolution and called for a snap election on 30 January 2022, following the budget rejection by the Assembly in October 2021. The Legislature ended on 28 March 2022. Election. The 15th Portuguese legislative election was held on 6 October 2019. In the election, the Socialist Party (PS) became the largest party in the Assembly of the Republic but fell short of a majority. Election for President of the Assembly of the Republic. To be elected, a candidate needs to reach a minimum of 116 votes. Then incumbent President of the Assembly Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, since 2015, ran for a second term and was easily re-elected:"}, {"text": "An indirect presidential election were held in Greece on Wednesday 22 January 2020 for the President of the Hellenic Republic. Incumbent President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, who was elected by the Hellenic Parliament on 18 February 2015, was eligible for re-election but did not seek re-election. Katerina Sakellaropoulou won the election with 261 votes. She was elected as the 13th and first female President of Greece. Date. The election procedure was held on Wednesday 22 January 2020. Constitutional provisions. According to Article 32 the Constitution of Greece, the head of state is elected for a five-year term by the Hellenic Parliament in a special session at least a month before the incumbent's term expires. The first and second rounds require a super majority of 200 out of the 300-strong body, dropping to 180 on the third. In the event of a non-election even after the third ballot, the parliament is to be dissolved and a snap election to be called within ten days. After reconvening, the new parliament holds a maximum of three further rounds of voting, with the required majority at 180 votes in the fourth and a simple majority of 151 votes in the fifth round. A sixth and last"}, {"text": "round would be contested between the two candidates with the most votes and decided by a relative majority. However, on 25 November 2019 after a constitutional amendment, the parliament decided the dissolution of snap elections when the president is not elected in the first 3 ballots. That means the Article 32, Paragraph 4 of the Greek Constitution which says about the election of the President has changed and the new reform of the paragraph is: If after 3 ballots (The first two with a required super majority of 200 out of the 300-strong body, dropping to 180 on the third), the president is not elected, the 4th ballot will be held with a required majority of 151 votes. The 5th and last ballot would be decided by a relative majority. Candidates. In afternoon of Wednesday 15 January 2020, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis's government suggested Katerina Sakellaropoulou for the presidency, who had been President of the Council of State since 2018. The next day, both SYRIZA and KINAL backed her candidacy. MeRA25 did not support Sakellaropoulou and suggested their own candidate, Magda Fissa. She is known as the mother of rapper Pavlos Fissas, who was murdered by supporters of the Golden"}, {"text": "Dawn in 2013. Later that night, Fissa stated that she had not been informed of the proposal by the Secretary-General of MeRA25, Yanis Varoufakis, and she later declined the offer, meaning that she would not be a candidate for the post. Procedure. On the morning of Wednesday 22 January 2020, the parliament elected Katerina Sakellaropoulou as 13th President of Greece with 261 votes. 33 MPs voted \"present\" and 6 MPs were absent. Results. MPs from New Democracy, SYRIZA and KINAL voted in favor, while MPs from KKE, Greek Solution and MeRA25 voted present."}, {"text": "Petrus Ebersohn Kruger (born 11 April 1958), is a former South African rugby union player who played two test matches for the Springboks. Playing career. Kruger made his provincial debut for Northern Transvaal in 1981. After five seasons with Northern Transvaal, he moved to Transvaal at the beginning of the 1986 season. He made his debut for the Springboks in the third test against the New Zealand Cavaliers on 24 May 1986 at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria, when he and Frans Erasmus replaced the props from the first two tests, Anton Barnard and Flippie van der Merwe."}, {"text": "Anti-independence refers to movements on a regional level against the independence of their community and therefore for the maintenance of territorial integrity of the state to which the latter is attached. Terminology. The terms \"anti-independence\" and \"loyalist\" are generally synonymous, the second term being used mostly in New Caledonia. Separatist movements generally describe their opponents as neo-colonialists. In the provinces of federal states with secessionist movements, such as Quebec in Canada, anti-independentists are called 'federalists' in the sense that they defend the maintenance of the federal constitution. In a unitary state, anti-independence movements can be distinguished between centralists (also called Jacobins in France or Unionists in United Kingdom), the 'departmental' movement (especially present in the French overseas collectivity of Mayotte, aiming to make this territory a department and thus lose some of its autonomy) or autonomists. Anti-independence can thus include various political ideologies and can be seen as a form of nationalism defending the territorial integrity of an already existing state. Being in favor of independence may also be motivated by nationalism due to cultural or civilizational or ethnic differences with the already existing state."}, {"text": "Jalalsi railway station is a railway station on Santragachi\u2013Amta branch line of South Eastern Railway section of the Kharagpur railway division. It is situated beside Amta-Munshirhat Road at Palgusti in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History. to Amta narrow-gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah\u2013Amta new broad-gauge line, including the Bargachia\u2013Champadanga branch line was re constructed and opened in 2002\u20132004."}, {"text": "John William Veitch Shepherd (1894\u20131936) was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Football League for Ashington and Luton Town. Personal life. Shepherd served in the British Army during the First World War."}, {"text": "Totentanz (Danse Macabre), Op. 12/2, is a composition of 14 motets by Hugo Distler which he composed in 1934 for Totensonntag. The work was inspired by the medieval \"L\u00fcbecker Totentanz\". The music is interspersed with twelve spoken texts. The motets are scored for a four-part choir a cappella, while the texts can be recited by one or more speakers. The text for the sung parts is taken from the Baroque poem \"Der Cherubinische Wandersmann\" by Angelus Silesius. The spoken stanzas were written by Johannes Kl\u00f6cking, a contemporary of Distler. Text and music. In 1934, Distler, then 26, was inspired by the medieval \"\", which would be destroyed in World War II. He chose stanzas from the Baroque poem \"Der Cherubinische Wandersmann\" (\"The Cherubinic Pilgrim\") by Angelus Silesius and used them as text for 14 choral sections. The spoken poems connecting the choral sections were written by , an acquaintance of the composer. They are a paraphrase of poetry from \"L\u00fcbecker Totentanz\", a dialogue in Middle Low German between Death and its victims. The world premiere of \"Totentanz\" was on 24 September 1934 at the Katharinenkirche in L\u00fcbeck, conducted by Bruno Grusnick. For a second performance in Kassel in November 1934,"}, {"text": "Distler composed additional short variations of the song \"\" for solo recorder, which have since been performed regularly between the announcement of the next victim and the dialogue. The work was published as No. 2 of Distler's \"Geistliche Chormusik\" (Sacred choral music), Op. 12. The subtitle is \"14 Spruchmotetten zum Totensonntag nach Worten aus dem \"Cherubinischen Wandersmann\" des Angelus Silesius im Wechsel mit einem von Johannes Kl\u00f6cking nach dem L\u00fcbecker Totentanz gestalteten Dialog f\u00fcr Sprecher; Fl\u00f6te ad libitum\" (14 motets on sayings for the Sunday of Death after words from \"The Cherubinic Pilgrim\" by Angelus Silesius in alternation with a dialogue for speakers created by Johannes Kl\u00f6cking after the L\u00fcbeck Dance of Death; recorder ad libitum). Recordings. \"Totentanz\" was recorded in 1994 by the Kammerchor der Universit\u00e4t Dortmund, conducted by Willi Gundlach, with narrators Will Quadflieg, Michaela Kr\u00e4mer, Heinz Ostermann and J\u00fcrgen Uter. In 2016, it was recorded by the Kammerchor Josquin des Pr\u00e9z, conducted by Ludwig B\u00f6hme."}, {"text": "Juicio Final (1984) (Spanish for \"Final Judgement\" 1984) was a professional wrestling supercard show, scripted and produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), which took place on December 7, 1984, in Arena M\u00e9xico, Mexico City, Mexico. The show served as the year-end finale for CMLL before Arena M\u00e9xico, CMLL's main venue, closed down for the winter for renovations and to host Circo Atayde. The shows replaced the regular Super Viernes (\"Super Friday\") shows held by CMLL since the mid-1930s. The main event of the 1984 year-end show featured a traditional \"Lucha de Apuestas\", or \"bet match\" where both M\u00e1scara A\u00f1o 2000 and Gran Coloso put their mask on the line in the match. M\u00e1scara A\u00f1o 2000 won two falls to one, forcing Gran Coloso to remove his mask and state his name; Jose Luis Gazca. In the semi-main event, the team of Gran Cochisse defeated Mocho Cota defeated, leading to Mocho Cota having all his hair shaved off afterwards. The fourth match, a tag team match with Cien Caras and Villano III facing El Fara\u00f3n & Perro Aguayo]], ended in a disqualification due to Fara\u00f3n and Aguayo taking Villano III's mask. After the show all four wrestlers were suspended"}, {"text": "from working in EMLL for 3 months due to excessive violence. The show featured three additional matches. Production. Background. For decades Arena M\u00e9xico, the main venue of the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), would close down in early December and remain closed into either January or February to allow for renovations as well as letting Circo Atayde occupy the space over the holidays. As a result, CMLL usually held a \"end of the year\" supercard show on the first or second Friday of December in lieu of their normal Super Viernes show. 1955 was the first year where CMLL used the name \"El Juicio Final\" (\"The Final Judgement\") for their year-end supershow. It is no longer an annually recurring show, but instead held intermittently sometimes several years apart and not always in the same month of the year either. All Juicio Final shows have been held in Arena M\u00e9xico in Mexico City, Mexico which is CMLL's main venue, its \"home\". Storylines. The 1984 Juicio Final show featured six professional wrestling matches scripted by CMLL with some wrestlers involved in scripted feuds. The wrestlers portray either heels (referred to as \"rudos\" in Mexico, those that play"}, {"text": "the part of the \"bad guys\") or faces (\"t\u00e9cnicos\" in Mexico, the \"good guy\" characters) as they perform."}, {"text": "Shaami-Yurt (, \"\u015eajmi-Yurt\") is a rural locality (a \"selo\") in Achkhoy-Martanovsky District, Chechnya. Administrative and municipal status. Municipally, Shaami-Yurt is incorporated as Shaami-Yurtovskoye rural settlement. It is the administrative center of the municipality and is the only settlement included in it. Geography. Shaami-Yurt is located between the Fortanga and Shalazha rivers, near to the confluence with the Assa River. It is located north-east of the town of Achkhoy-Martan and south-west of the city of Grozny. The Caucasus highway runs to the north of the village. The nearest settlements to Shaami-Yurt are Davydenko and Samashki in the north-west, Zakan-Yurt in the north-east, Khambi-Irze and Kulary in the east, Gekhi and Valerik in the south-east, and Katyr-Yurt in the south-west. History. In 1944, after the genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was abolished, the village of Shama-Yurt was renamed to Zelyonaya Roshcha (roughly translates as Green Grove), and settled by people from other ethnic groups. From 1944 to 1957, it was a part of the Novoselsky District of Grozny Oblast. In 1957, when the Vaynakh people returned and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored, the village regained its old name, Shaami-Yurt. Shaami-Yurt in the Chechen Wars."}, {"text": "During the First Chechen War, Shaami-Yurt and its environs were known mainly as locations for militants. So in early 1995, front-line and army aviation launched a series of missile-bombing attacks at their places of concentration in the villages of Starye Atagi, Novye Atagi, Shaami-Yurt, Shali and Mesker-Yurt. In the summer of 1999, during the period of the Khasavyurt Accord, a group of people in Shaami-Yurt held Samara journalist Viktor Petrov and head of the regional branch of the \"Congress of Soviet Mothers\" Svetlana Kuzmin, as hostages. After the escape of Viktor Petrov and the release of Svetlana Kuzmina, some participants in their abduction were arrested in Shaami-Yurt. In the fall of 1999, during the Second Chechen War, the village was bombarded by federal troops under the command of Vladimir Shamanov, which led to civilian casualties and started proceedings in international courts. The applicants, including the inhabitants of the village of Shaami-Yurt, represented the Human Rights Organization \"Memorial\". At the end of 2000, Vladimir Shamanov tried to claim that the military operation in Shaami-Yurt had to be carried out because the militants turned a number of settlements, including Shaami-Yurt, into strongholds. Then, at the beginning of 2000, according to Sergey Yastrzhembsky,"}, {"text": "active hostilities took place in Shaami-Yurt. At the same time, news agencies reported that the federal forces opened fire on the militants in the area of the settlements of Katyr-Yurt and Shaami-Yurt, located to the south-west of the Chechen capital, Grozny. According to the Human Rights Organization \"Memorial\", in February 2000, at the command of the federal forces, deliberately within the framework of the developed military operation, a false \u201ccorridor\u201d for the Chechen armed detachments to leave Grozny was opened. This \"corridor\", leading to minefields and ambushes, opened up the way for militants to a number of villages, including the notorious Katyr-Yurt, which had already been declared a \"security zone\" by the federal authorities. As a result, a number of villages - Alkhan-Kala, Katyr-Yurt, Shaami-Yurt, and Zakan-Yurt - when Chechen troops passed through them, and even after they left these settlements, underwent extremely strong artillery and missile-bombing attacks. Subsequently, the bombing of these settlements, among which was Shaami-Yurt, led to terrible damage. There were numerous casualties among the civilian population. The event later became known as the Katyr-Yurt Massacre, where the worst of the attacks on the villages happened. In 2002-2004, Shaami-Yurt and its environs were characterized by local fighting"}, {"text": ", attempts to undermine the village administration building, shelling, the bombing of armored personnel carriers, killings of federal forces, bombings of law enforcement vehicles, the discovery of hiding places with explosives and weapons, shelling of columns with humanitarian aid, the detention of abducted persons, and the creation of extremist literature. Population. According to the results of the 2010 Census, the majority of residents of Achkhoy-Martan (4,014 or 99.9%) were ethnic Chechens, with 4 people (0.1%) coming from other ethnic backgrounds. Infrastructure. Shaami-Yurt hosts one mosque, which was restored in 2007 at the request of the residents of the village. Education. In 2007, the grand opening of the renovated secondary school of the village of Shaami-Yurt took place, in which the President of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov took part. Also, a separate building with 300 places for elementary grade students was built on the territory of the school. Overall, Shaami-Yurt school is able to accept 800 students. Culture. Since 2009, as part of the presidential program to revive and preserve the customs and traditions of the Chechen people, the Ministry of Culture of the Chechen Republic has been conducting events throughout the republic. For example, in Shaami-Yurt, theatrical performances dedicated"}, {"text": "to the onset of spring, \"\u201c\u0414\u0443\u044c\u0445\u0445\u0430\u0440\u0430 \u0433\u043e\u0442\u0430 \u044f\u043a\u0445\u0430\u0440\",\" which roughly translates as \"Feast of the First Furrow\". Sport. In the village of Shaami-Yurt, horse racing is held, which attracts several thousand spectators from all regions of the republic. According to Novaya Gazeta, on March 26, 2007, a sports center was opened in the village in which the head of the administration, Said-Magomed Bagaev, taught children and adolescents about the basics of Jujitsu."}, {"text": "Lorraine of the Timberlands is a 1921 American silent short Western melodrama film produced by Cyrus J. Williams and distributed by Path\u00e9 Exchange. It was directed by Robert North Bradbury and stars Tom Santschi and Ruth Stonehouse. This short film was part of the \"Santschi Series\", which included the other short films \"The Honor of Rameriz\", \"The Spirit of the Lake\", \"The Heart of Doreon\", and \"Mother o' Dreams\", all of which starred Santschi. Plot. A man (Santschi) has lost his faith in God and seeks revenge for the loss of his wife and child. At one point, the villain has him jailed, but he escapes when a bolt of lightning strikes the jail. He is reunited with his daughter, who has since grown up. Reception. Santschi's performance received positive reviews, but the plot was deemed melodramatic."}, {"text": "The 1982 Swiss Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Gstaad, Switzerland that was part of the 1982 Volvo Grand Prix tennis circuit. It was the 36th edition of the tournament and was held from 5 July through 11 July 1982. Second-seeded Jos\u00e9 Luis Clerc won the singles title. Finals. Singles. Jos\u00e9 Luis Clerc defeated Guillermo Vilas 6\u20131, 6\u20133, 6\u20132 Doubles. Ferdi Taygan/ Sandy Mayer defeated Heinz G\u00fcnthardt / Markus G\u00fcnthardt 6\u20132, 6\u20133"}, {"text": "Thimmasandra Madiah Gowda (17 March 1896 \u2013 24 May 1971) was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the Lower House of the Parliament, from Bangalore south constituency in 1952 as a member of parliament from Indian National Congress. He was also Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Ramanagara between 1962 and 1967. Education. Madiah Gowda started his educational journey at the Government High School in Channapatna. His academic path led him to the halls of the esteemed Central College in Bengaluru, where he accomplished his graduation in the arts. The thirst for knowledge then led him to ILS Law College in Pune, where he earned his LLB degree. Notably, it's worth mentioning that during his time at ILS Law College, he shared his academic voyage with the later Chief Minister of Karnataka, S Nijalingapa. Political career. Madiah Gowda was involved in political activities with the Indian National Congress in Ramanagara earlier known as Closepet prior to independence of India. After independence, he was elected as a member of the First Lok Sabha from the Bangalore South constituency in 1952. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Karnataka from the Ramanagara constituency in 1962. Madiah"}, {"text": "Gowda also served in Mysore Representative Assembly, Mysore Legislative Council, Mysore Constituent Assembly and Mysore Legislative Assembly. He enabled the building of many schools, colleges and hospitals across his constituency and also took part in the development of various agricultural, irrigation and industrial projects. Posts held. Mr. Gowda entered the legal profession upon earning his law degree. Throughout his career, he served as an advocate for institutions such as the Mysore University Council, University Senate, Secondary Education Board, School Board of Adult Education Council, Rural Development Committees, and Co-operative Societies. He actively participated in seminars focusing on agricultural and experimental union, the Sir M Visvesvaraya Rural Industrialising Scheme, and cottage industries programs. Notably, he was a member of the Ramanagara Municipal Council, Bangalore District Board, and Bangalore Local Education Board. Assuming the role of President of the Mysore State Adult Education Council in 1947, Mr. Gowda's leadership journey began. Later, he ascended to the position of Vice-President of the Indian Adult Education Association. His involvement extended to roles like District Scouts Commissioner and Chairman of Bangalore Rural District. Additionally, he was a member of the Bangalore District Rural Development Committee. Adult education council. T. Madiah Gowda's impactful legacy spans eight"}, {"text": "years as the President of the Adult Education Council of Mysore Presidency, from 1947 to 1955. His dedication and achievements extended even further, as he later assumed the role of Vice President of the All India Adult Education Council, a testament to the recognition of his influential contributions between 1952 and 1955. Throughout his tenure, he dynamically led and orchestrated significant events such as All India Adult Education Council seminars, the South India Literary Workshop, and the South India Adult Education Conference. His leadership extended beyond boundaries as he presided over the All India Adult Education Conference in Delhi. A visionary with a passion for adult education, T. Madiah Gowda worked alongside distinguished writers, poets, and laureates, channeling their literary brilliance to the masses. Eminent figures like D. V. Gundappa and Kuvempu found their works in his efforts to promote learning among the people. T. Madiah Gowda's influence was particularly felt through the simplified literature versions of Kuvempu's \"Janapriya Valmiki Ramayana,\" \"Puttachariya Kaadu Koli,\" and D. V. Gundappa's \"Baligondu Belaku,\" which he tirelessly championed. Notably, T. Madiah Gowda's commitment reached beyond national borders. He facilitated an international adult education committee seminar in collaboration with UNESCO, a powerful initiative aimed at"}, {"text": "raising awareness about the significance of adult education. This impactful conference was meticulously organized, a reflection of his enduring dedication to empowering individuals through education. In the year 1954 in collaboration with UNESCO and experts of Denmark Adult education experts institutions for staff training centre for adult education was formed in Mysore by Mr T Madiah Gowda. Participation in Indian freedom movement. Madiah Gowda was inspired by the M K Gandhi and participated in Indian freedom movement. He participated in Shivapura Dhwaja Satyagraha where The tricolour flag was hoisted on 9 April 1938 He was part of organising committee when Gandhi visited Channapatna in 1942."}, {"text": "Albert William Joseph Spilsbury (1894\u20131959) was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Football League for Bury. Personal life. Spilsbury served as a sergeant in the Worcestershire Regiment during the First World War."}, {"text": "Hanoch Senderowitz (; born 1963) is an Israeli chemist specializing in the fields of Computational Chemistry, Molecular modelling, Computer-Aided Drug Design, and Chemoinformatics. Biography. Hanoch Senderowitz received his Ph.D. in 1993 from Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Prof. Benzion Fuchs. He then spent four years as a Post Doctorate Fulbright fellow at Columbia University, working with Prof. W. Clark Still. After returning to Israel in 1997, he joined the pharmaceutical industry, working first at Peptor Ltd. for six years and then at Epix Pharmaceuticals until 2008. In 2009, he joined Bar Ilan University as an associate professor at the Department of Chemistry leading the molecular modeling, computer-aided drug design and chemoinformatics lab. Scientific interests and publications. Senderowitz's research focuses on the developing and application of new computational methods to design compounds (i.e., drugs, materials) with improved properties. This design strategy is multi-disciplinary in nature and consists of various levels of theory, different computational techniques, and different machine learning algorithms. Senderowitz is known for the following areas of research: (1) Research on CFTR (Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator), the main protein implicated in the genetic disease Cystic fibrosis, both at the level of the full-length protein and of its"}, {"text": "domains. His basic research focuses on understanding the dynamics of the protein and on the mechanism of action of deleterious, rescuing and stabilizing perturbations to its domains, while his translation research focuses on CFTR as a target for drug discovery. (2) Research on chemoinformatics and materials informatics, focusing on the development of new machine learning algorithms as well as on their application in various areas, for example, for the analysis and development of solar cells with improved photovoltaic properties. (3) Research on computational agriculture including plant disease biocontrol studying anti-bacterial peptides expressed on virus nanoparticles, design of new pesticides in the form of small molecules that inhibits the bacterial quorum sensing machinery, and the design of new sustainable pesticides in the form of peptide aptamers and small molecules that would interfere with cell building enzymes of bacteria. (4) Research on different drug discovery projects, in particular in the field of neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS, Alzheimer, familial dysautonomia and the vanishing white material disease as well as diabetes, and calcification-related diseases and autoimmune disease. He has over 90 peer-reviewed articles, and has contributed to various book chapters."}, {"text": "Nicolas William W\u00e4hling (born 24 August 1997) is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Canadian Premier League club Cavalry FC. Early life. W\u00e4hling began playing youth football with FC Neureut, later moving to Karlsruher SC at U14 level, where he spent five years. Afterwards, he joined the youth system of 1899 Hoffenheim. Club career. Germany. From 2016 to 2019, W\u00e4hling played with 1899 Hoffenheim II. In July 2019, he signed a three-year contract with 2. Bundesliga club SSV Jahn Regensburg. He agree to terminate his contract after two seasons, to facilitate a move to a new club, after having made four league appearances and one cup appearance, as well as nine appearances with the second team in the Bayernliga S\u00fcd. In July 2021, he signed with SSV Ulm until June 2023, with an option for another season. After one season, he departed the club. In July 2022, he signed with Regionalliga Nordost club Energie Cottbus. He departed the club at the end of the season, upon the expiration of his contract. After the season, he went on trial with 2.Bundesliga club SV Elversberg. In August 2023, W\u00e4hling signed with TSV Steinbach Haiger in the Regionalliga S\u00fcdwest"}, {"text": "on a one-year contract. At the end of the season, he departed the club. Canada. In July 2024, he signed with Canadian Premier League club Cavalry FC until December 2025. He made his debut on 13 July against York United FC. W\u00e4hling would score his first goal for the club in a 6-0 win in the 2025 Canadian Championship against League1 Alberta side Edmonton Scottish. Personal life. W\u00e4hling is the son of a German father and an English mother. He is the younger brother of Alexander W\u00e4hling and the older brother of Oliver, Christopher, and Jaime, all of whom are also footballers."}, {"text": "Sarah Kirby-Stark (c. 1813\u20131898) was an American stage actress and theatre manager. She belonged to the first female theatre managers in the United States and became the first female theatre manager in California in 1850. She was a theatre pioneer in the Old West, known for having maintained a high standard with Classical Shakespeare in the West, where theatres normally often offered circus and musical shows and became a role model for other theatre managers in the West. She was the manager of the Tehama Theatre in Sacramento with J. B. Atwater in 1850, Union Theatre in San Francisco with \"Mrs Woodward\" in 1856\u201357, the first theatre in San Jose 1859 and the Metropolitan in San Francisco with Emily Jordan in 1863\u201364, and managed her own touring theatre company in between."}, {"text": "The 1997 Durham mayoral election was held on November 4, 1997, to elect the mayor of Durham, North Carolina. It saw the election of Nick Tennyson. Incumbent mayor Sylvia Kerckhoff did not seek reelection. Results. Primary. The date of the primary was October 7, 1997."}, {"text": "Harishdadpur railway station is a railway station on Santragachi\u2013Amta branch line of South Eastern Railway section of the Kharagpur railway division. It is situated beside Maju Road at Dadpur in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History. Howrah to Amta narrow-gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah\u2013Amta new broad-gauge line, including the Bargachia\u2013Champadanga branch line was re constructed and opened in 2002\u20132004."}, {"text": "The Roman villa of Tourega is in the parish of Nossa Senhora da Tourega in the \u00c9vora District of the Alentejo region of Portugal. During Roman occupation of Portugal it was part of the province of Lusitania, situated a few kilometers to the southwest of \"Civitas Ebora Liberalitas Julia\", the modern-day Evora. It was next to the Roman road to Salacia (present-day Alc\u00e1cer do Sal) and only five kilometers from the Roman road to \"Pax Julia\", the modern-day Beja. Excavations indicate that it was in use between the mid-first century CE and the end of the fourth century and that, at least in the third century, it belonged to a family of senatorial rank. The Villa, which was primarily used for farming, was classified as a Site of Public Interest in 2012. Part of the site was excavated between 1985 and 1996 but ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has identified further large areas to the south and west that remain to be excavated. The area excavated so far consists of a large thermal bath with separate facilities for men and women, with hot and cold water, together with the furnaces and heating systems and a large water reservoir. Archaeologists believe that the"}, {"text": "baths were constructed in three phases. Three main baths have been identified, the largest being 24.5 meters long and about 4.6 meters wide. Excavations found numerous fragments of terra sigillata or ancient Roman pottery as well as of amphorae. Around 876 fragments of sigillata were discovered. Of those whose origins could be identified, the main source was La Rioja in Spain. Other pottery came from Arezzo in Italy and from La Graufesenque in southern France. There were also many fragments of African red slip ware from unidentified locations in northern Africa. Almost all of the amphorae found had contained fish products and had probably been mainly used for products from the Sado River estuary, such as those produced at Creiro. Fragments of only one or two amphorae that had contained wine or olive oil have been found, suggesting that the villa cultivated its own vines and olive trees."}, {"text": "In the history of Japanese martial arts, , also known as or as \"dojo storming\" in English, is the action of visiting a rival martial arts school in order to challenge its members. This usually led to , a fight between the visitor and a member of the school, usually its head or a fighter chosen for the challenge, where the superiority of their respective fighting styles would be tested. The losing side would also lose its martial prestige and in many cases, its apprentices would abandon it for the winner's school. The one who ends victorious in the stand off receives its rivals battle awards. History. Since ancient times, dojoyaburi was an established way for Japanese martial arts organizations to gain popularity and students. It was practiced by schools of kenjutsu, jujutsu, and other styles and it was sometimes associated with musha shugyo and the samurai lifestyle. Its usage fell with the prohibition of taryujiai, which limited martial arts competitions to the bounds of every school, but it blossomed again when the ban was lifted during the Edo period. Modern examples exist as well. In the 19th century, the Kodokan school of judo was particularly known for its intense"}, {"text": "dojoyaburi activity, caused by the opposition of other jujutsu styles. During the 1950s, karate master Teruo Hayashi also was infamous for performing dojoyaburi among the schools of Okinawa. The custom gained controversy in 1970 when a man died in a dojo storm performed by Count Dante and his students on the rival Green Dragon Society's Black Cobra Hall. Dante was ultimately acquitted. A practice similar to dojoyaburi happened in professional wrestling, where legitimate grapplers like Yoshiaki Fujiwara became famous for engaging and defeating martial artists that came to challenge his promotion. The history of vale tudo and mixed martial arts also contained several instances of dojo storms, most notoriously those performed by the Gracie family as part of their promotional story for Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which led to the creation of Ultimate Fighting Championship."}, {"text": "Marietta Judah (c. 1812\u20131883) was an American stage actress. She was a successful actress in the American South and New York during the 1830s and 1840s and became famous in California of the Old West from 1851, where she became one of the pioneer actors and known as \"San Francisco's Favorite Actress\" and \"Grand Old Woman of the Western Stage\"."}, {"text": "Aloe modesta is a species of flowering plant in the family Asphodelaceae. This plant is rare and only known in Mpumalanga and northern KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa."}, {"text": "India competed at the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan from 18 to 27 October 2019. It sent a delegation consisting of 54 athletes competing in nine sports for the event. Participants. Source Medal by sports. 5 para athletics gold and one bronze tennis not counted at medal table because of demonstration sports."}, {"text": "Yevgeniya Kuznetsova is the name of"}, {"text": "Virginia Dare Aderholdt was an Arlington Hall cryptanalyst and Japanese translator. She decrypted the intercepted Japanese surrender message at the close of World War II on August 14, 1945. Early years. Virginia Aderholdt was the daughter of Oscar Wrey Aderholdt, a Lutheran clergyman, and Genolia Ethel Powlas. As a twelve-year-old student, Aderholdt took third place in a state spelling competition. Aderholdt graduated with honors from Wyandotte High School in Kansas. She later studied at Mitchell Community College and Lenoir\u2013Rhyne University in North Carolina, and Bethany College in West Virginia, and Teachers College, Columbia University in New York. Aderholdt also studied at the Biblical Seminary in New York and the Tokyo School of Japanese Language and Culture in Tokyo. A grade school teacher, Aderholdt taught at the Kansas State School for the Blind. She spent four years in Japan. Cryptanalyst. During World War II, Aderholdt worked at Arlington Hall decrypting and translating Japanese messages, particularly those in an older diplomatic code, JAH. Because she was fluent in Japanese, she could decrypt and translate simultaneously. At noon, August 14, 1945, Arlington Hall received an intercept in JAH from Tokyo to the Japanese Embassy in Bern, Switzerland, announcing the Japanese surrender. Aderholdt decrypted"}, {"text": "and translated the message, which was sent in Japanese and English. The decrypt was telephoned to military intelligence, and at 7 p.m. that evening, President Harry Truman announced the surrender. The war was over. Later years. Aderholdt was the only musical missionary sent to Japan by the United Lutheran Church in America. She worked for ten years in Japan as a musical training teacher at the Shokei College School for Girls at Kumamoto, Japan. In November 1957 she delivered a talk on her work at United Lutheran Church, Langley Park, Maryland. She was married twice: first to Paul Wehrmeister McDole, a music teacher, and later to Aksel Christian Larsen, a Lutheran minister. She died of pancreatic cancer in 1997."}, {"text": "The 1999 Durham mayoral election was held on November 2, 1999, to elect the mayor of Durham, North Carolina. It saw the reelection of incumbent mayor Nick Tennyson. Results. Primary. The date of the primary was October 5, 1999."}, {"text": "James Clinton (1733\u20131812) was an American Revolutionary War officer. James Clinton may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Lucinda Collette Evans (born 24 August 1972) is a South African women's rights activist and feminist. She is known for having led nationwide marches and was one of the speakers at the \"#AmINext\" protest outside South Africa's parliament calling for government action against gender-based violence and femicide. Early years. Evans was born in District Six, Cape Town, and was relocated to Lavender Hill as a result of the Group Areas Act when she was five years old. At age nine, she decided to work in community development, and began volunteer work for Red Cross Hospital in the early years of her life. After graduating from the Cape Town College of Education in 1996, she did community work with a focus on gender-based violence and HIV prevention in KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape and Beaufort West, where she played a pivotal role in opening the first ambulance service. Philanthropy. In 2008, after once again witnessing a man abusing his wife on the open street, she finally decided to start her own non-profit organisation Philisa Abafazi Bethu; \"Philisa Abafazi Bethu\" is isiXhosa and means \"Heal Our Women\". In her organisation, Lucinda Evans supports victims of domestic violence, rape, and abuse of all kinds. While"}, {"text": "her initial focus was on supporting women and children, Philisa Abafazi Bethu now also works with men, non-binary people, and entire families. Evans started her organisation in 2008 in her own living room and garage in Lavender Hill; initially with just a support group for women and an after-school programme for children. Since its founding, Philisa Abafazi Bethu has grown rapidly to offer not only women's support groups and after-school programmes for children, but she also has a group for abused seniors, a youth group, a baby saver, a legal clinic, a women's shelter, and a safe house for members of the LGBTQIA+ community who have been victims of sexual violence. Both safe houses are currently the only emergency shelters in the region that accepts people regardless of skin color, social background, prevalent medical conditions or addictions. In 2017, Lucinda Evans and her team assisted the family of the murdered 13-year-old Rene Roman, by providing them with emotional support and helping them in searching for their daughter. Since then, she formed a search team on the 13-year-old's behalf that regularly goes out when children and women go missing. As a result of the ongoing violence against women and children and"}, {"text": "the growing tasks for activists, Evans works with several social workers who offer daily counseling to people from Lavender Hill and the surrounding communities. Since 2020, Philisa Abafazi Bethu's projects\u2014with the exception of the women's shelter\u2014are all under the umbrella of the Philisa Abafazi Bethu Family Center in Steenberg. Lucinda Evans has been politically active against sexual violence and femicide all her life and has initiated and participated in many protest actions in South Africa. For instance, she is the initiator and coordinator of \"One Billion Rising South Africa\" and was instrumental in initiating the protest action \"Am I Next? / #amInext?\" in which people from all over the country protested against the increasing sexual violence in South Africa."}, {"text": "James Clift may refer to:"}, {"text": "Rahel Tewelde (born 1974) is an Eritrean filmmaker. Rahel Tewelde studied in Asmara. Her first film \"Hid'get\" was screened on Eritrean television. Tewelde has also translated the film \"Casablanca\" into Tigrinya."}, {"text": "The barinophytes are a group of extinct vascular plants (tracheophytes). Their relationship with other vascular plants is unclear. They have been treated as the separate class Barinophytopsida, the order Barinophytales of uncertain class and as a family or clade Barinophytaceae within the zosterophylls. They have also been considered to be possible lycopodiopsids. Description. \"Barinophyton\" is the type genus of the group; \"Protobarinophyton\" is similar. They were vascular plants with an exarch protostele. Plants consisted of alternatively arranged branches, apparently without leaves or enations, with their sporangia arranged in two rows on one-sided spike-like structures that developed on side shoots. Each sporangium was born on a curved bract-like appendage (a \"sporangiferous appendage\") and contained several thousand microspores, about 30\u201340 \u03bcm in diameter and about 30 megaspores, 410\u2013560 \u03bcm in diameter, so that the plants were heterosporous. A similar pattern of spore sizes and numbers has been found in the progymnosperm \"Archaeopteris\". \"Dibracophyton\" has been tentatively assigned to this group. It does have some outgrowths on the lower parts of the stems (axes), which raises the possibility that more fossil material might show that other barinophytes did not have naked stems. Taxonomy. Phylogeny. Two very different cladograms have been produced showing the"}, {"text": "evolutionary relationships of taxa assigned to the barinophytes. Kenrick and Crane in 1997 placed two species of \"Barinophyton\" and the genus \"Protobarinophyton\" in the Barinophytaceae in their Sawdoniales, well nested within the zosterophylls. A summary cladogram produced by Crane et al. in 2004, shows \"Barinophyton\" and \"Protobarinophyton\" as 'core' zosterophylls. Taylor et al. in 2009 did not present a cladogram, but considered the barinophytes to be possible lycopsids rather than zosterophylls. By contrast, Hao and Xue in 2013 do not even place \"Dibracophyton\", which they consider to be a possible barinophyte, within the lycopodiopsids, instead putting it between this group and the euphyllophytes. Genera. Genera that are placed, or tentatively placed, in the barinophytes (with the group treated at different ranks) include:"}, {"text": "Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS foundation trust which provides physical health, mental health and learning disability services throughout Gloucestershire. The trust was formed on 1 October 2019 by the merger of 2gether NHS Foundation Trust and Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust."}, {"text": "The Fairview Tithing Office/Bishop's Storehouse is a historic building in Fairview, Utah, United States. It was built with red bricks in 1908 as a tithing office and bishop's office for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The bishop at the time was James C. Peterson. The building was designed in the Victorian Eclectic architectural style, with a pyramid roof. It was sold to Henry A. Rasmussen, who remodelled it as a private residence, in 1932. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since January 25, 1985."}, {"text": "Sallie Reynolds Matthews (born Sarah Anne Reynolds; May 23, 1861\u2013September 14, 1938) is a 1982 National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame inductee. She was a pioneer in Texas who wrote a book chronicling her families. Life. Sarah Anne Reynolds was born on May 23, 1861, at the Cantrell Ranch in Buchanan County, Texas (now Stephens County, Texas). On December 25, 1876, she married John Alexander Matthews. Together they had 9 children. The Matthews and Reynolds families lived on the Texas frontier in West Texas. They were both pioneer families whose lives were well entangled together. This period of the frontier was when settlers were near nomadic as the Indians. Finding material to build homes was difficult. Her family moved often, frequently living near the Matthews family. After she had married John, the couple had 9 children. Sallie Matthews was the third generation of cattle ranchers. She wrote in her book all of the trails of her life as a pioneer. Matthews lived on cattle ranches as a child and in her married life. Ranches were sometimes quite isolated. Her education was quite sporadic due to this. Later in life, Matthews wrote a book about the two families: the Reynolds"}, {"text": "and the Matthews. There had been several marriages between the two families, including hers. They had built quite a community in this part of Texas. The book was originally intended for children, but the information therein ended up being valuable enough that it is now part of the history of the Texas frontier. Matthews wanted her children to know the families and the ranch, Lambshead. The book is \"Interwoven: A Pioneer Chronicle\". On September 14, 1938, she was living in Albany, Texas, when she died. She was buried there. In 1981, she was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum."}, {"text": "Eliza Riddle Field (c. 1812-1871) was an American stage actress. She was famous in the American South and was described by James Murdoch as \"one of the most beautiful and accomplished actresses of the American stage\". Between 1826 and 1856, she was a leading lady and star attraction of Noah Ludlow's and Solomon Smith's theater company, which performed in their own theaters in a circuit between New Orleans, Natchez, St. Louis, Mobile and Huntsville. She was particularly known for her roles as heroines from the tragedies of Shakespeare."}, {"text": "Cheldon is a village and former civil parish, north-west of Exeter, now in the parish of Chulmleigh, in the North Devon district, in the county of Devon, England. In 1961, the parish had a population of 32. Features. Cheldon has a church called St Mary with a 12th-century font and 16th century bells. History. The name \"Cheldon\" means \"Ceadela's hill\". Cheldon was recorded in the Domesday Book as \"Cadeldone\"/\"Cheledone\"/\"Cha(d)eledona\". The parish was historically in the Witheridge hundred. On 1 April 1986, the civil parish was abolished and merged with Chulmleigh."}, {"text": "Eliza Crisp (1822\u20131873) was an American stage actress. She was married to the actor-manager William Henry Crisp and emigrated with him from Great Britain to the United States. Her spouse was the manager of Athenaeum theatre in Mobile, Alabama and the theatre in Montgomery, Alabama and their theatre company toured between Georgia and Alabama prior to the American Civil War. Eliza Crisp was a well known and successful actor, but she was also a director and is known to have directed numerous plays as well as acting in them. After the outbreak of the civil war, the Crisp theater company was one of the few which did not leave the South but stayed during the war. She personally prevented a theatre ban in Atlanta by donating to the war effort. After the war, the company toured Texas."}, {"text": "The Third North Carolina Provincial Congress was a meeting of the provincial congress of the \"de facto\" provincial government of North Carolina, composed of 213 delegates from 35 counties and nine towns. The congress convened in Hillsborough on August 20, 1775, and ended on September 10, 1775, during the final year of Josiah Martin's gubernatorial administration. Samuel Johnston was unanimously chosen as president as the former president, Colonel John Harvey, had died. History. Resolutions. The Third Provincial Congress, which included representatives of all 35 counties and nine towns, established itself as the highest governmental body within the Province of North Carolina after May 24, 1775, when British governor Josiah Martin fled the Governor's Palace at Newbern, ending sixty-three continuous years of colonial rule. The last North Carolina provincial assembly met at Newbern from April 4 to April 8, 1775, before Governor Martin prorogued the House of Burgesses. The Third Provincial Congress divided the province into six militia districts for purposes of organizing the militia and for determining representation on a provincial council. The militia districts included Edenton, Halifax, Hillsborough, New Bern, Salisbury, and Wilmington. Later, an additional district, Morgan, was added for the western part of the province, including counties"}, {"text": "that eventually became part of Tennessee (Davidson, Greene, and Washington). Much of the deliberations of the congress dealt with the safety of its residents and preparation for war with Great Britain. To govern the province when congress was not in session, a 13-man provincial council was elected, constituting the first executive body free of British rule. Cornelius Harnett was elected the first council president. The following 13 members were appointed to the North Carolina Provincial Council by the Provincial Congress: The delegates formed a committee of safety at the provincial level. The delegates also elected members of the military district Committees of Safety \"for their common defence against their Enemies, for the Security of their Liberties and properties\". These committees at the district level would become the roots of the militias. The following persons were elected to the Committees of Safety for military districts: Delegates. The following is a full list of delegates to the third congress by constituency."}, {"text": "The eighteenth season of the American reality television series \"The Voice\" ran from February 24 to May 19, 2020, on NBC. Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson and John Legend returned as coaches for their eighteenth, fifth, and third season, respectively. Nick Jonas joined the panel for his first season as a new coach, replacing Gwen Stefani. Meanwhile, Carson Daly returned for his eighteenth season as host. This is the third season in \"The Voice\" since seasons season 1 and season 3 where the team sizes was not 12, as it was reduced to ten. This is also the first season to have five artists compete in the finale, and the first time each coach would guarantee to have at least one artist representing in the finale since season two. For the first time since season 2, artists are not awarded any multiplier bonuses for streams or iTunes downloads due to the performances being recorded away from the studios (except for the finals) as a measure against the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Todd Tilghman was named the winner of the season, marking Blake Shelton's record-extending seventh win as a coach, making him the oldest winner to date in the show's history \u2013 following"}, {"text": "Josh Kaufman in the 6th season. For the first time, the first artist in the Blind Auditions went on to win the entire season. During the finale, Daly foregoes the announcement of third place but instead proceeding to announce Tilghman winning the season, without revealing the final placements for Thunderstorm Artis or Toneisha Harris. However, through \"The Voice\" Twitter page, Harris was revealed to finish as runner-up, making her currently the highest-placed African American female singer in \"Voice\" history. Coaches and hosts. In October 2019, it was announced that Nick Jonas would join the show as a coach for this season replacing Gwen Stefani who left the panel due to her Just a Girl Las Vegas Residency. This is his second appearance, as he was the Battle Advisor for the 8th season for Team Christina. Blake Shelton returned for his eighteenth season as a coach, John Legend for his third, and Kelly Clarkson for her fifth. This is the twelfth season to feature three male coaches on the panel. This season's advisors for the Battles are: Dua Lipa for Team Kelly, Joe and Kevin Jonas (Jonas Brothers) for Team Nick, Ella Mai for Team Legend, and Bebe Rexha (who was"}, {"text": "the coach for 16th season's Comeback Stage) for Team Blake. James Taylor served as a mega-mentor for all teams during the Knockouts. Teams. Color key Blind auditions. Episode 5 (March 16). The Coaches performed \"Jealous\" at the start of the show. Battles. The battles started on March 23. The advisors for this round were Dua Lipa for Team Kelly, Joe and Kevin Jonas for Team Nick, Ella Mai for Team Legend, and Bebe Rexha for Team Blake. The coaches can steal one losing artist from other coaches and save one losing artist on their team. However, the team coach may only hit their button to save an artist after it is clear that no other coach is going to steal the artist. Artists who win their battle or are stolen by another coach advance to the knockouts. Knockouts. In the knockouts, each coach can steal one losing artist from another team. Artists who win their knockout or are stolen by another coach advance to the live playoffs. James Taylor served as a mega mentor for all teams in this round. New this season, each saved artist from the battles will go head-to-head in the first-ever four-way knockout. Results for the"}, {"text": "four-way knockout are decided by a public vote, with the winner announced during the first week of live shows. Live remote shows. This season, the number of weeks of live shows was reduced to three, consisting of the playoffs, semi-final, and the finale. As a result of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, the live shows were changed to remote shows with performances aired pre-recorded performances at the contestants' and coaches' homes. The instant save is done via \"The Voice Official App\" in the playoffs and semi-final, continuing the shift from Twitter to the official app that took place in season 17. Additionally, the artists did not have studio versions of their covers released on iTunes or Apple Music, meaning that for the first time since the introduction in season 3, there were no streaming votes or bonuses awarded. However, the finalists did have studio versions of their original song and coach duet from the finale released, although they did not contribute to the artists' vote tally. Week 1: Playoffs (May 4\u20135). The live playoffs round constituted episodes 12 and 13. For the first time there is a Top 17. On Monday, James Taylor opened the show with a"}, {"text": "performance with the remaining knockouts artists, followed by the announcement of the four-way knockout's winner. The winner joined the Top 17, who all performed live from their homes using a production kit sent to them. Coaches mentored and gave feedback from their homes: Kelly from Montana, Blake from Oklahoma, and both John and Nick from Los Angeles. On Tuesday's live episode, one artist from each team advanced based on the country's vote, and each coach got to save one of their own artists. The remaining artists from each team with the highest votes will have a chance to compete for the wild card as seen on season 17. These nine artists advanced to the semi-final. Week 2: Semi-final (May 11\u201312). The semi-final comprised episodes 14 and 15. On Monday, the Top 9 artists performed to the theme of \"Dedication Week\" with the public vote results being announced on Tuesday. Four artists are eliminated in a new elimination format: one artist from a team with a higher vote will immediately advance to the Top 5, leaving the remaining five artists to compete for the final spot in the finale via instant save. With the advancement of Thunderstorm Artis to the finale,"}, {"text": "Nick Jonas became the fifth new coach to successfully coach an artist on his team to the finale on his first attempt as a coach, after Usher (Michelle Chamuel in season 4), Alicia Keys (W\u00e9 McDonald in season 11), Kelly Clarkson (Brynn Cartelli in season 14), and John Legend (Maelyn Jarmon in season 16). Week 3: Finale (May 18\u201319). The finale comprised episodes 16 to 18. The final 5 performed on episode 16, with the final results following on episode 18; meanwhile, episode 17 was a cutdown show. On Monday, each artist performed an original song and a cover, and then performed a duet with their respective coach on Tuesday. For the first time this season, artists had studio versions of their performances released on iTunes and Apple Music, with each artist's original song and coach duet being released. However, unlike previous seasons, a purchase or stream of these performances did not factor into voting. Todd Tilghman from Team Blake became the first and the only vocalist of the season to reach top 10 on iTunes. His original song's studio recording hit #1 on iTunes Overall Chart and iTunes Country Chart. With both Tilghman and Harris finishing in top two,"}, {"text": "this marked the second time in which Shelton's artists have finished in the top two since season 3 (Cassadee Pope and Terry McDermott)."}, {"text": "The molecular formula C26H42O4 may refer to:"}, {"text": "Big Brother 1 is the first season of the Polish reality television series Big Brother. The show followed a number of contestants, known as housemates, who are isolated from the outside world for an extended period of time in a custom-built house. Each week, one of the housemates is evicted by a public vote, with the last housemate remaining winning a cash prize. The show was started on March 3, 2001 and concluded on June 17, 2001, last 107 days. For the needs of \"Big Brother\", SMS Premium services were introduced for the first time in Poland. Martyna Wojciechowska and Grzegorz Miecugow host the main show. Janusz Dzi\u0119cio\u0142 walked out as the winner. The prize for him is 500.000 PLN. The final of the season brought viewership to almost 10 million viewers making it the most-watched TV show in Poland in 2001. Big Brother: Ty wybierasz. On 25 February, as part of Big Brother: Ty wybierasz (lit. Big Brother: You Choose), the public vote was open to choose 2 candidates to enter the house from among 5 male candidates (Artur Parlewicz, Jakub Denys, Sebastian Florek, Wojciech Kromka and Wojciech T\u0119czy\u0144ski) and 5 female candidates (Agnieszka Broda, Agnieszka Podg\u00f3rska, Iwona G\u00f3rnicka,"}, {"text": "Ma\u0142gorzata Maier and Patrycja Strzemiecka). The public chose Ma\u0142gorzata Maier and Sebastian Florek to enter the house on 3 March. Patrycja Strzemiecka and Wojciech Kromka entered the house after Piotr Lato was ejected from the house."}, {"text": "Bal\u00e1zs Slakta (born 1 December 1994) is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays for MTE 1904. Career. On 28 September 2019, Slakta played his first match for Kaposv\u00e1r in a 2-0 win against Di\u00f3sgy\u0151r in the Hungarian League."}, {"text": "The James and Caroline M. Metcalf House is a historic house in Gunnison, Utah. It was built in 1883, probably for James Metcalf, an immigrant from England who became a sheep and livestock farmer in Utah, and his Denmark-born wife Caroline, the daughter of Hans Larsen, who gave them the plot of land. However, the Metcalfs may have owned but not lived in the house. It was a hall-parlor plan house with Classical Revival-style details. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 23, 1998."}, {"text": "Runway 18 West (German \"Startbahn 18 West\") is a 4000-meter-long runway that runs from north to south on the western edge of Frankfurt Airport. A small northern portion of the runway is located in the Frankfurt district of Flughafen, while the larger southern portion lies in the R\u00fcsselsheim am Main district. Before going into operation in 1984, the runway met with considerable opposition, becoming an important symbol of the German environmental movement in the 1970s and 1980s. History. Planning. In 1962, Frankfurt Airport/Main AG, Frankfurt Rhein-Main Airport's operating company, decided to design a new arrivals terminal and a third runway. Dramatic growth in air traffic had pushed both the old airport buildings and adjoining railway system, which still exist to this day, to their limits. The Rhine-Main region was experiencing a steady economic upswing, thanks in no small part to the role played by Frankfurt Airport as a European airline hub. Airport expansion was complicated because the site was completely surrounded by forests, including protected Bannwald areas. Other obstacles included the east-to-west Bundesautobahn 3 north of the airport, the north-to-south Bundesautobahn 5 to the east, an overhead power line to the west, and the now-closed U.S. Rhein-Main Air Base to"}, {"text": "the south. Only the southwest corner of the airport offered the possibility of building a new runway, running north to south. But this would entail both immense logging operations and extension of the airport to a municipal area not belonging to the Frankfurt metropolitan zone. Economic factors took precedence over environmental considerations and on 28 December 1965, Flughafen AG applied for a construction permit for \"Runway 18 West\". In May 1966, the Hessian Parliament (Landtag) decided to build a new 4000-metre-long, north-south runway. Following the approval, Frankfurt Airport/Main AG decided in November 1967 to build the new runway at a cost of DM 78 million. At a time of increasing environmental awareness, more and more citizens grew skeptical about the airport expansion. Following planning approval by the Transportation Minister in March 1968, 44 legal actions for cancellation of the project (\"Anfechtungsklagen\" in German) were brought before the courts. Lawsuits. Frankfurt Airport's Terminal Mitte (now Terminal 1) opened in March 1972 and the planning approval procedure for the new Runway 18 West was initiated the following year. The result was more than 100 lawsuits brought before Hessian administrative courts. Runway opponents, who increasingly joined forces in citizens' initiatives (BI), were growing"}, {"text": "in number, as both reduced flights and the 1973 oil crisis mitigated the need for a new runway. Some runway opponents also feared it could be used by NATO. Administrative courts dealt with the planned expansion for nearly a decade before construction approval was annulled for technical reasons. In March 1971, the Transportation Ministry issued a second planning approval order, which again ended up before the courts. At the end of 1978, a citizens' initiative (BI) against the expansion was founded, principally in the affected town of M\u00f6rfelden-Walldorf, but also in Frankfurt and areas surrounding the airport. In July 1978, the Federal Administrative Court referred runway opponents' claims back to the Hessian Administrative Court. In December that year, the State of Hesse sold 303 hectares of land to Frankfurt Airport/Main AG for the construction of the new runway. The expected logging zone amounted to 129 hectares. Intensification of the conflict. When the Hessian Administrative Court ruled in favor of the new runway construction on 21 October 1980, the legal dispute ended but resistance on the ground intensified. On the planned site of Runway 18 West, opponents erected a citizens' initiative (BI) hut as of May 1980, using it as an"}, {"text": "information kiosk for people walking in the area. In July, Hessian Minister of Economics and Transport (FDP), ordered the \"immediate implementation\" of runway construction. In October however, the Hessian Administrative Court rejected this stop request, restoring the construction halt. Yet the first tree felling work began before the winter for technical reasons. First, a seven-hectare site was cleared directly at the airport site. On 2 November 1980, 15,000 people, mainly environmentalists and students, as well as numerous elderly people from the region, demonstrated at the edge of the forest in Walldorf. Since planned occupation actions by protesters failed due to long-running police efforts, the citizens' initiative group decided to expand its \"BI-H\u00fctte\" into a permanently inhabited village to be able to react more quickly and effectively to potential land seizure and clearing operations. As a result, several illegal huts were built, in addition to a hut church of the Walldorf parish, on airport grounds. In May 1981, the Darmstadt city government president ordered that the site be seized. On 6 October, the previously cleared seven-hectare site was occupied by protesters then retaken by police. Hundreds had gathered on the site, excavated a triangular trench, and built a tower inside. The"}, {"text": "first hut village was evacuated on the morning of 2 November 1981; most protesters were removed peacefully. While the tower was more difficult to evacuate, squatters left it voluntarily the following evening. A few days after the site was cleared, a 2.5-metre-high concrete wall was erected to secure construction work. While the hut village eviction itself was peaceful, thousands gathered in the woods outside police cordons during the day and several controversial police operations were carried out against the protesters. Late in the late evening of November 3, 1981, a police operation against an anti-runway demonstration took place on Rohrbachstra\u00dfe in the Nordend district of Frankfurt, seriously injuring several demonstrators. After the removal of protesters, logging and construction work began under massive police protection. Repeated attacks by demonstrators took place against the concrete wall and police officers. Frequent attempts by runway opponents to build permanent hut villages were thwarted by the police. A planned reoccupation of the H\u00fcttendorf site on 7 November, after a rally attended by tens of thousands of protesters, was not carried out after disagreements within the movement over the question of violence. Instead of the planned mass crossing of the police cordons, fifty selected demonstrators with"}, {"text": "bare torsos were allowed onto the premises by police. In an event that would come to be called \"Naked Saturday\", four BI spokespersons then held an inconclusive discussion with Interior Minister Ekkehard Gries (FDP) on the cleared area of the hut village about halting the tree-felling work until a decision could be reached by the State Court. Another version of the day's events claims it was called Naked Saturday because many protesters were too lightly clothed for the colder-than-anticipated weather. Demonstrations. On 14 November 1981, over 120,000 people demonstrated in Wiesbaden against Runway 18 West. The Land returning officer was handed 220,000 signatures in support of a referendum. At the rally, Frankfurt Magistrate Director Alexander Schubart called for a \"visit\" to the airport the next day. The following day, runway opponents blocked airport entrances for hours. When the police used force against them, the demonstrators fled to the adjacent highway and erected barricades. In order to clear the motorway, the police deployed federal border protection units dispatched by helicopter. For over a week, the city centre of Frankfurt and other cities in the Rhine-Main region were effectively shut down by daily protests. Police prevented protestors from occupying Frankfurt Central Station."}, {"text": "Alexander Schubart was sentenced to two years' imprisonment on probation for coercing the state government (Section 105, Section 125 and 240 StGB) and for his call for violence and discharged from the civil service. After ten years of legal battles, he was able to spend only eight months on probation and remain in the civil service. The referendum request \u2013 the final remaining legal method to prevent runway construction \u2013 ended in 1982 with a decision by the Hessian Landtag under Minister-President Holger B\u00f6rner (SPD), and rejection due to non-jurisdiction by the Hessian State Court. In the following period, the runway movement, which had shrunk after the events of the autumn of 1981, primarily shifted to weekly \"Sunday walks\" to the concrete wall around the construction site. During these weekly demonstrations, repeated attempts were made to dismantle the wall, obstruct construction work, and attack police forces. After Construction. On 12 April 1984, Runway 18 West began operating, although opening ceremonies were dispensed with. Two days later, approximately 15,000 people demonstrated against the commissioning of the runway at the perimeter wall in the forest. On 2 November 1987, during a demonstration marking the sixth anniversary of the hut village evacuation, 14"}, {"text": "police officers were shot at with a police firearm stolen from an earlier anti-nuclear demonstration in nearby Hanau on 8 November 1986. Nine police officers were hit, and officers Thorsten Schwalm and Klaus Eichh\u00f6fer succumbed to their injuries. The same night, a massive wave of searches and arrests began against the entire anti-runway movement. Runway opponents Andreas E. and Frank H. were indicted by the Federal Prosecutor's Office as the gunmen responsible for the two police deaths. Andreas E. was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Frank H. was sentenced in 1991 to four and a half years in prison for offences unrelated to the fatal shootings. As a result of these events, the remnants of the protest movement against Runway 18 West fell apart. In 2011, a fourth runway, the Northwest Runway, was built at Frankfurt Airport despite significant resistance from the public. A year after the fourth runway's construction, the website \"Airport Watch\" reported that weekly protests against the runway were occurring at the airport. Initially, the original concrete perimeter wall remained as a relic of the Runway 18 West protests, a rare security barrier for a German airport in the period before"}, {"text": "September 11th. As of February 2018, the wall had been replaced with a modern, combined-wall-and-fence barrier, partly secured with NATO barbed wire. A section of the old wall, approximately 6 m long, has been preserved as a monument. Flight Specifications. Runway West is called '18' because it is faces almost exactly south, a course angle of 180 degrees. Because the Taunus Mountains prevent departures towards the north, only southbound takeoffs are permitted, in the direction of the Upper Rhine Plain. Since aircraft are supposed to take off against the wind, strong northerly winds limit or prevent takeoffs from the runway."}, {"text": "William Leonard Stevenson Loat (15 October 1871 in Norwood, Surrey \u2013 10 April 1932 in Treclome, Mevagissey, Cornwall), the son of William L. and Marianna Eliza Stevenson. was a British archaeologist, naturalist and collector. Many of the objects he had collected from China, Egypt, Peru, Africa, Australia, Assam, Polynesia and North America were bequeathed to the British Museum in 1920 while her also donated some Australian items to the Plymouth City Museum. He often worked on excavations with Flinders Petrie, as well as being a member of the Egypt Excavation Fund. At some point he directed the excavations at Abydos. He first travelled to Egypt in 1899 as an assistant to the zoologist George Albert Boulenger of the British Museum (Natural History) on an ichthyological survey of the Nile. Later he took part in excavations at Gurob in 1903 for Petrie and at Abydos for the Egypt Excavation Fund in 1908-9 and 1912\u201313, He was responsible for finding and publishing a description of the Ibis Cemetery. The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 meant that he had to cease working in Egypt. He then married and took residence at Mevagissy, Cornwall where he pursued an interest in horticulture."}, {"text": "He travelled to the Andes in 1927 and during the 1920s he presented some Egyptian objects to the Penzance Museum. Loat is honoured in the specific names of at least two species of fish, \"Micropanchax loati\" a killifish he collected at Lake No in South Sudan and the cichlid \"Haplochromis loati\" which Loat collected at Gondokoro in South Sudan, in 1902. He received the 4th class of the Imperial Ottoman Order of Osmanieh in 1902, conferred by the Khedive of Egypt for work that year on making a collection of Nile fish for the Egyptian government. Publications. The following is an incomplete list of publications authored by Loat:"}, {"text": "Amta railway station is the terminal railway station on Santragachi\u2013Amta branch line of South Eastern Railway section of the Kharagpur railway division. It is situated beside Amta - Ranihati Road, Kalatala more at Amta in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the part of Kolkata suburban railway system. History. to Amta narrow-gauge track was built in 1897 in British India. This route was the part of the Martin's Light Railways which was closed in 1971. Howrah\u2013Amta new broad-gauge line, including the Bargachia\u2013Champadanga branch line was re constructed and opened in 2002\u201304."}, {"text": "The Lewis Curry House is a historic two-story house in Veral, Utah, United States. Description. The house was built in 1910 for Lewis Curry, the manager of the Bank of Vernal. Curry was Presbyterian, and he later served as a member of the Utah House of Representatives. Curry died in 1922, and his brother Matt Curry married his widow, Sallie, and served in the Utah House of Representatives until 1939. The house was inherited by a son, David H. Curry. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 26, 1982."}, {"text": "Dita \u017delvien\u0117 (also Babrauskait\u0117, Kareckien\u0117) (born 18 April 1968) is a Lithuanian former swimmer and current coach. Career. \u017delvien\u0117 was born in Kaunas on 18 April 1968. She won the Vent\u0117s ragas-Nida swimming marathon in 1985 and 1986. She was a 45 time Lithuanian swimming champion and 51 time national record holder. \u017delvien\u0117 graduated from the Lithuanian State Institute of Physical Education in 1990. She represented Lithuania at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in the 50 m freestyle, 100 m freestyle and 100 m butterfly. She became a coach at Kaunas swimming school in 2001."}, {"text": "Nemesis is a semi-cooperative science fiction Polish board game for 1-5 players, designed by Adam Kwapi\u0144ski and published by \"Awaken Realms\" in 2018. The game is set in the spaceship \"Nemesis\", and includes co-operative mechanisms with other confrontational mechanisms and conflicting objectives. Upon its release, \"Nemesis\" was positively received for its replayability, tension, and components, but its high complexity was met with criticism. Gameplay. In \"Nemesis\", players take on the roles of crew members of the spaceship \"Nemesis\", having been woken from hibernation by the ship's computer due to an infestation of alien creatures dubbed Intruders. Suffering from temporary amnesia, they must explore the ship and try to get back to Earth while dealing with the alien threat, and also have hidden objectives, which may conflict with other players' goals. The game also combines co-operation mechanisms with bluffing, backstabbing, and other elements of a science-fiction survival horror adventure, and is played in 15 turns. To win the game, they must not be eliminated at the end of the game, reach Earth and achieve their chosen objectives using asymmetrical characters. It is possible for none, some or all of the players to win. \"Nemesis\" also has co-operative and solo modes. Reception."}, {"text": "The game received positive reviews upon its release. Dan Thuort from \"Ars Technica\" complimented its engagement, replayability, theme, and the player elimination mechanism. He also considered the game to be similar to \"Alien\" franchise, concluding that \"[rather] than elegant, the game is evocative. Don\u2019t let the piles of plastic fool you\u2014this is one of the most carefully arranged storytelling games of the past year\". Writing for \"Tabletop Gaming\", Dan Jolin also considered it to be similar to \"Alien\" franchise, praising its engagement, solo mode, components, and the combination of co-operative and confrontational elements, but criticised its length, complexity, and player elimination. It was also a nominee for the 2018 \"Golden Geek\" Best Thematic Board Game. Its expansion \"Nemesis Lockdown\" was also complimented by \"GamesRadar\", with the reviewer Matt Thrower praising its narrative, replayability, tension, and component quality. However, he was critical of the accessibility, stating that the \"rules are very complex and presented in an obtuse rulebook rife with minuscule fonts, confusing cross-references, and mislabelling\". References. https://awakenrealms.com/games/awaken-realms/nemesis-retaliation"}, {"text": "Robert N. Denham (October 23, 1885 \u2013 June 18, 1954) was an American attorney who served as general counsel to the National Labor Relations Board. Background. Robert N. Denham was born on October 23, 1885, in St. Louis, Missouri. His parents were Robert Newton Denham and Sarah Compton. He studied in Missouri and Michigan, gained admittance to the bar in Texas, Missouri, and Michigan. Career. During World War I, Denham served as second lieutenant in the Air Corps. Denham became an attorney for banking, brokerage, and corporate interests in New York, Florida, and on the Pacific Coast. In 1928, Denham became a trial examiner. In August 1947, he became the general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). He held \"conservative views\" and wielded \"considerable influence\" on labor-management relations and interpretations of the newly passed Taft-Hartley Act. In 1950, US President Harry S. Truman fired Denham (\"New York Times\": \"left at the behest of the President\"). While NLRB general counsel, Denham received considerable news coverage as a \"quasi-Republican.\" Nominated by US President Harry S. Truman, Denham received unanimous approval by the US Senate Labor Committee. He received \"full and independent powers to investigate violations, file complaints and prosecute offenders"}, {"text": "before the board.\" In August 1947, he supported an \"Anti-Red Affidavit Rule\" and so sided with US Senator Robert A. Taft. In October 1947, the NLRB overruled him, which meant that top officers of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) would not have to sign an anti-Communist oath per the Taft-Hartley Act. In September 1950, President Truman asked Denham to resign. In 1950, Denham resumed private practice. He lobbied for the Continental Baking Company. He was an advisor to the President's Conference on Administrative Procedure. Personal life and death. Denham married three times and had four children. Denham died aged 68 on June 18, 1954, in St. Louis."}, {"text": "This article provides details of international football games played by the Israel national football team from 1934 to 1959."}, {"text": "Annalu Waller is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Dundee and leads the Augmentative and Alternate Communication (AAC) Research Group at the university. Career. Waller was appointed an OBE in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to people with Complex Communication Needs. In September 2017 she was awarded an honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists for her work on AAC. She received the honour from the RCSLT's patron, the Countess of Wessex. She is a trustee of Capability Scotland. Waller is an ordained priest and is the honorary Anglican Chaplain of the Dundee University Chaplaincy."}, {"text": "The Wilm\u00e8s I Government was a caretaker Federal Government of Belgium, led by Prime Minister Sophie Wilm\u00e8s, the first ever female Prime Minister of Belgium. History. The creation of the Wilm\u00e8s Government was announced on 26 October 2019, when previous Prime Minister Charles Michel announced he would be succeeded by Sophie Wilm\u00e8s ultimately on 1 November 2019, effectively forming a new government. Charles Michel left his post as he had been elected to become the next President of the European Council as from 1 December 2019 and wanted to have sufficient time to prepare for his role as President of the European Council hence leaving already by November. The Wilm\u00e8s Government was governing as a caretaker government, until a new cabinet was formed based on the results of the federal elections of 26 May 2019, for which negotiations were still ongoing. Hence the government was a continuation of the centre minority coalition cabinet of Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V), the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats (Open Vld) and the Reformist Movement (MR) which together constituted the Michel II Government. On 16 March, the Wilm\u00e8s Government was given support by several opposition parties to handle the coronavirus outbreak in Belgium, for"}, {"text": "which the cabinet was going to be supported by a majority in parliament by granting it special powers under the form of the Wilm\u00e8s II Government. The opposition parties were giving support for three months to take corona measures, with a possible further three month extension, were the socialists (sp.a & PS), the greens (Groen and Ecolo), the cdH and D\u00e9FI, leaving only the N-VA and the PVDA/PTB and Vlaams Belang in the opposition. Composition. The composition of the government was similar to that of the Michel II Government, with the only differences being Sophie Wilm\u00e8s taking over the role of Charles Michel as prime minister and David Clarinval coming in to replace Wilm\u00e8s as Minister of Budget, Civil Service, National Lottery and Scientific Policy."}, {"text": "James Dabbs may refer to:"}, {"text": "The Second North Carolina Provincial Congress was a meeting of the provincial congress of the \"de facto\" provincial government of North Carolina, composed of 107 delegates from 33 counties (three not being represented) and nine towns. The congress convened in Newbern, on April 3, 1775, and ended on April 7, 1775, during the final two years of Josiah Martin's gubernatorial administration. Colonel John Harvey was unanimously chosen as moderator. History. The Second Provincial Congress met at Newbern, from April 3 to 7, 1775. John Harvey served as moderator. The congress met at the same place and almost the same time as the North Carolina provincial assembly and had almost exactly the same membership (61 of the 107 delegates attended both). This infuriated Governor Josiah Martin, who prorogued the House of Burgesses on April 8, 1775, and never called another. Resolutions. The Second Provincial Congress approved the Continental Association, an economic boycott of Great Britain authorized by the First Continental Congress. Just after the congress met, news reached North Carolina about the Battle of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. On May 24, 1775, British governor Josiah Martin fled the Governor's Palace at Newbern, ending sixty-three continuous years of colonial rule. The"}, {"text": "first military action of the American Revolutionary War within North Carolina took place on July 18, 1775, when the provincial militia burned Fort Johnston, North Carolina, where Governor Martin had previously transferred his headquarters. Delegates. The following is a full list of delegates to the second congress by constituency."}, {"text": "Pusaka (English: Heirloom) is a 2019 Malaysian Malay-language supernatural horror film Co-produced and distributed by Astro Shaw, the film directed by based on screenplay by Anwari Ashraf and Alfie Palermo with original story by Natasha Chopra. Syafiq Kyle stars as Inspector Nuar Ishak who discovers twins Balqis and Qistina, one dead and one alive, trapped in an abandoned house. Since heading the investigation for this case, Inspector Nuar begins experiencing paranormal disturbances and although he realises his judgement is progressively affected and also has problems with his own twin, Nur, he must solve the case before more lives are lost. It was released on 31 October 2019 in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. The film received positive reaction from viewers for its casts and cinematography by Madnor Kassim. A sequel was already planned by director himself and originally was to be released in 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the whole photography was halted. Plot. Nuar and Nur are twins. Nuar, a skilled cop, finds his sister Nur, a drug addict, at a warehouse. Nuar is tired of Nur because she always leaves the rehab center to hide in the warehouse. After a heated argument, Nuar sends Nur back to the"}, {"text": "rehab center. The police dispatch calls Nuar about the stench of corpses, then Nuar goes to an abandoned house. Nuar goes inside the house and encounters a few sightings and weird sounds (sound of a dropping marble on a floor), but he thinks nothing of it. On the second level, he finds a girl, chained and holding a corpse. Later, he learns that the survivor was Balqis, and had been holding her deceased twin sister Qistina. They are the daughters of Megat Mahmud. Nuar becomes more interested in the case, as he find it strange that nobody had even reported the twins missing. When Nuar returns home, things start to feel weird - he hears and sees things. His hand is grabbed by a ghost and the mark turns blue. Later that evening, Balqis is possessed and vomits blood. A note reveals that Faizah's spirit is attacking Khaleeda. Nuar, Lokman and a police officer rush to Faizah's house. Nuar tries to save her, but is pushed by Faizah's spirit. Lokman recites prayers to exorcise Faizah's spirit out of her body and she is arrested. The next morning, Nuar interviews Faizah at police station. After Faizah is possessed, she attacks Nuar"}, {"text": "and runs away. Nuar tries to chase her but she dies in a car accident. Nuar meets Balqis and she explains that their parents were also killed in a road accident. Opah locks Balqis and Qistina at the abandoned house. Faizah goes to the abandoned house along with some food. However, she is shocked that Qistina was killed along with skulls. Nuar is suspected and arrested by ASP Mansor for the murders of Opah and Megat Mahmud. He is sent to jail. At the abandoned house, Nuar and Lokman find out that Khaleeda has been brought by Balqis. Lokman is attacked by spirit of Balqis. Nuar finally meets Nur along with Balqis's spirit, attacking Nuar. As Nuar shoots Balqis, she falls down. But Nur's spirit also attacked Nuar. The cabinet seems to fall down on Balqis, allowing Nuar to pull Balqis's ring in front of her finger before rushing to save Nur. Finally, Luqman saves Khaleeda. Nur is cured, but Nuar is injured. Two months later, Nuar has recovered and is brought back to the police force, while Nur's has a broken arm. Nuar and Nur enjoy sitting on the bench, along with Luqman. In the mid-credits scene, Khaleeda get"}, {"text": "on the bus, but we see Balqis has returned. Reception. Box office. Pusaka has grossed over RM 11 Million after 18 days of theatrical release. Critical reaction. The film receive positive outcome from viewers. Farhana Jafri written that Pusaka have a great casting and stunning visuals. She also praised for superb audio system. Iylia Adreena written for Rojak Daily verdict that the film offers a fresh new take of horror flicks tackling family issues. Future. The sequel was already planned by director and was supposed to start their principal photography on 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the photography was halted."}]