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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust%20%28particle%20physics%29
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Thrust (particle physics)
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In high energy physics, thrust is a property, (one of the event shape observables) used to characterize the collision of high energy particles in a collider.
When two high energy particles collide, they typically produce jets of secondary particles. This happens when one or several quark-antiquark pairs are produced during the collision. Each colored quark/antiquark pair travels its separate way and subsequently hadronizes. Many new particles are created by the hadronization process and travel in approximately the same direction as the original pair. This set of particles constitutes a jet.
The thrust quantifies the coherence, or ″jettiness″ of the group of particles resulting from one collision. It is defined as:
,
where is the momentum of particle , and is a unit vector that maximizes and defines the thrust axis. The sum is over all the final particles resulting from the collision. In practice, the sum may be carried over the detected particles only.
The thrust is stable under collinear splitting of particles, and therefore it is a robust observable, largely insensitive to the details of the specific hadronization process.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20the%20Congo%20nationality%20law
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Republic of the Congo nationality law
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Initially the Portuguese were interested in mineral resources, but quickly turned to the slave trade. In 1491, they sent a fleet including priests, soldiers and builders, who after making their way to the capital, baptized king Nzinga a Nkuwu, who took the name João, and five of his leading chieftains. João's son Nzinga Mbemba, who took the name Afonso I, was also baptized that year. Afonso became a committed Christian and used Christianity to expand and consolidate his reign when he succeeded his father in 1506. In 1509, Afonso used Portuguese troops to assist in subduing the territories to the north of Nsundi, which included Nsanga and Masinga, two copper producing towns which were aligned with the Tio Kingdom. Throughout his reign Afonso was involved in the slave trade with the Portuguese, who needed the labor for their Brazilian plantations. Upon Afonso's death, the kingdom weakened and saw a succession of short-lived monarchs reign between 1545 and 1568, when Jaga warriors invaded the kingdom.
In the 1620s the Dutch began trading in the region at a time when the economic and political power were shifting from the centralized government to the provinces. Different factions of the kingdom established relationships with varying European powers throughout the early seventeenth century. A succession dispute in 1665, plunged the kingdom into civil war eventually fracturing the kingdom. Though Pedro IV of Kongo was able to restore the unified kingdom in 1715, by proposing that succession shift through various kinship groups, the peace was insecure and war reignited in 1730. By the mid-eighteenth century British and French traders had developed ports in the region and diverted much of the trade to ports under their control. The chiefs of the Kongo became increasingly less important and their authority disintegrated.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%20resonance%20imaging
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Electron resonance imaging
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Electron resonance imaging (ERI) is a preclinical imaging method, together with positron emission tomography (PET), computed tomography scan (CT scan), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and other techniques. ERI is dedicated to imaging small laboratory animals, and its unique feature is the ability to detect free radicals. This technique could also be used for other purposes, such as material science, quality of food, etc.
For in vivo imaging purposes, ERI is a minimally invasive method. It requires an intravenous injection of external substances called spin probes (usually nitroxide or triarylmethyl compounds). The main advantage of ERI modality is the ability to map the tissue microenvironment parameters, e.g., oxygen partial pressure (pO2), redox status, oxidative stress, thiol concentration, pH, inorganic phosphorus, viscosity, etc. ERI is commonly used to research in the areas of oncology, neurodegenerative disorders, and drug development.
Origin
ERI is a preclinical application of electron paramagnetic resonance imaging (EPRI). The term "ERI" was introduced to distinguish a commercial device from EPRI devices normally used in the academic domain.
Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy is dedicated to researching substances with unpaired electrons. It was first introduced in 1944, approximately the same time as a similar phenomenon - nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Owing to hardware and software limitations, EPR was not developing as rapidly as NMR. This led to a huge gap between these two methods. Therefore, to underline a breakthrough in preclinical imaging by presenting EPRI as a complementary method to the present ones, the term "ERI" was introduced.
In vivo applications
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana%20National%20Association%20of%20Teachers
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Ghana National Association of Teachers
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The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) is a trade union representing school and college teachers in Ghana.
They promote and protect the rights and interests of the child, as well as place the services of the Association at the disposal of individuals, public bodies and other organizations in pursuit of education.
The union was founded on 14 July 1962, on the initiative of teachers, many former members of the Ghana Union of Teachers, who did not want to be linked with the Ghana Trade Union Congress (TUC). The Government of Ghana permitted the formation on the condition that it was registered as a voluntary association, not a trade union. On formation, the union had 24,384 members.
The union grew steadily, and by 2012 it had 194,000 members, falling slightly to 178,000 in 2018.
Function
The functions of the Executive include exercising general control over the management and administration of the Association, ensuring implementation of approved policies, programmes and projects, approving recommendations and reports of the National Officers, taking affirmative action to ensure effective participation.
Core Values
1. Tolerance
2. Unity
3. Resilience
4. Solidarity
5. Transparency
Why should you join GNAT
1.CPD training
2. Scholarship and bursaries
3. Legal services
4. Handling cases
5. Employment protection
6. Death/retirement benefits
7. Housing Scheme
8. Free cancer treatment
9. Credit Unions
10. Yearly souvenirs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20CEOs%20of%20Chicago%20Public%20Schools
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List of CEOs of Chicago Public Schools
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Chicago Public Schools is headed by a chief executive officer (CEO) appointed by the mayor of Chicago. The most recent CEO was Pedro Martinez. This job is equivalent to a superintendent, and, before 1995, the occupant of this office was known as the "superintendent of Chicago Public Schools".
History
The position of chief executive officer was preceded by one of "Superintendent". The first individual to hold this position had been John Clark Dore, who assumed the position in 1854. In 1855, the authority to remove the Superintendent was given to the Board of School Inspectors by the same ordinance which created the city's first high school, meaning the Chicago Common Council (today known as the "Chicago City Council") no longer held this authority.
The role of Superintendent, when established, did not have well defined duties. The office was originally subordinate to the Board of School Inspectors, and later the Chicago Board of Education (which supplanted the Board of School Inspectors in 1857). Its powers were limited. The role was, in part, shaped by its officeholders over the years. Since the ordinance which established the office did not require administrative authority to be given to the superintendent, there was no clear delineation of policymaking and administrative roles between the superintendent and the school board.
In practice, a stronger superintendency was developed, beginning under Edwin G. Cooley's tenure. However, it was not until the 1917 Otis Bill that the superintendency was granted exclusive administrative power over schools.
In 1995, the Government of Illinois passed the Chicago School Reform Amendatory Act, which replaced the position of superintendent with that of chief executive officer. The first individual to serve under the title of CEO was Paul Vallas.
Officeholders
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt%20of%20Ghent%20%281379%E2%80%931385%29
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Revolt of Ghent (1379–1385)
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The Revolt of Ghent (1379-1385) was an uprising by the city of Ghent against the count of Flanders and the king of France. Under the leadership of successively Jan Hyoens, Philip van Artevelde and Frans Ackerman, Ghent rebelled against Count Louis II of Flanders, Duke Philip the Bold of Burgundy and King Charles VI of France. It was an expression of the growing power of the Third Estate and of economic ties with England that had been strained by the Hundred Years' War. After six years of war, Ghent submitted to the ducal authority while avoiding further punishment. The dream of an autonomous city-state failed, and the era of royal centralization continued.
Outbreak of the Revolt
Count Louis of Flanders (also known as Louis of Male) had allowed the city of Bruges to dig a canal to the Lys in Deinze. Ghent was thus threatened to miss out on a lot of income from its staple port status. In May 1379, when the Bruges canal diggers had entered the Ghent area at Sint-Joris, they were attacked by the White Chaperons led by Hyoens (so-called because they wore white chaperons on their heads). Bailiff Rogier van Outrive arrested a White Chaperon. In reprisal, the citizens of Ghent killed the bailiff and burned down the count's new castle at Wondelgem. Other fortifications in the area were also pillaged. The weavers moved through Flemish towns and managed to provoke a general revolt against Louis of Male, except for Oudenaarde and Dendermonde. After this triumph Hyoens died on October 1, 1379. He was given a lordly funeral.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Timashev
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Alexander Timashev
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On 11 May 1856, he was dismissed from the post of Chief of Staff of the 3rd Army Corps, and on 26 August of the same year, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Gendarme Corps and Manager of the 3rd Department of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery. On 24 September 1856, he was also appointed a member of the General Directorate of Censorship, and on 20 December 1858, a member of the Committee of Railways.
On 17 April 1859, he was awarded the rank of Adjutant General. From 10 September 1859, he temporarily served the duties of the Chief of Gendarmes and the Chief of the 3rd Department. Not getting along with his immediate superior, the Chief of the Gendarmes, Prince Vasily Dolgorukov, finding him too liberal, and also not agreeing with the basic principles of peasant reform, Timashev submitted a petition to relieve him of his post. On 18 March 1861, he was dismissed on indefinite leave.
On 29 May 1863, he was appointed interim Governor–General of Kazan, Perm and Vyatka. On 30 August of the same year, he was promoted to lieutenant general. On 19 October 1864, he was dismissed from his post of Governor–General, due to its abolition.
On 28 February 1865, Timashev received permission to leave "to Russia and abroad, until the illness was cured", with the preservation of his salary. Due to poor health, he left for the south of France, where he was engaged in sculpture and photography.
After the death of Count Ivan Tolstoy, on 12 December 1867, Timashev received the post of Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, but already on 9 March 1868, the ministry was abolished, with the inclusion of its departments in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Timashev was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs, instead of Peter Valuev.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janie%20Simms%20Hipp
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Janie Simms Hipp
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Janie Simms Hipp is an agriculture and food lawyer, policy expert, and the founder of the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative at the University of Arkansas, founder of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Office of Tribal Relations in the Office of the Secretary, founding Executive Director of the Native American Agriculture Fund, . Hipp's work focuses on the intersection of Indian law and agriculture and food law. She is currently the CEO/President of Native Agriculture Financial Services since August 2023.
Early life and education
Hipp was born in the Choctaw areas of Oklahoma, grew up in Idabel, and is a member of the Chickasaw Nation. She graduated from University of Oklahoma in 1978, and earned her Juris Doctor from Oklahoma City University School of Law in 1984. From there, Hipp spent eight years working in food and agricultural law as a commercial litigator, and four years in the Oklahoma Attorney General's Office as the agricultural and rural legal affairs advisor. Working during the 1980s farm crisis, she worked to launch state-level initiatives, and provide assistance to Oklahoma and the national agriculture sector to help curb the farm foreclosures of the time. Hipp went on to attend the University of Arkansas School of Law to earn a Master of Law in Agricultural Law in 1996.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20E.%20McLaughlin
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James E. McLaughlin
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James Ernest McLaughlin (18 October 1873 – 17 February 1966) was a Canadian-American architect active primarily in Boston, Massachusetts, and the surrounding area from about 1905 through the 1950s. He designed Fenway Park—home stadium of the Boston Red Sox baseball team—among many other buildings in Massachusetts. Early in his career, McLaughlin collaborated on some designs with his maternal uncle and fellow architect James Mulcahy. From 1920 onward, McLaughlin was partnered with architect George Houston Burr under the name McLaughlin and Burr.
Early life
McLaughlin was born on 18 October 1873 (some sources say 1874 or 1875) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
In 1885, at the age of 12, McLaughlin immigrated to Boston. On 4 April 1908, he married Mary Josephine Ratigan in Boston. Her parents were Thomas Ratigan and Ellen Heany. James and Mary's son, James Ernest McLaughlin, Jr., was born in 1912.
Professional career
The 1893 Boston Directory listed McLaughlin as a draftsman working at 43 Milk Street in Boston and boarding in Everett, Massachusetts. He began practicing as an architect around 1905. In 1912, McLaughlin designed the now-iconic Fenway Park, home stadium of the Boston Red Sox. Some of his other early projects include Massachusetts Army National Guard armories in the central Massachusetts towns of Hingham, Hudson, Natick, and Newton. McLaughlin collaborated on the armory projects with his maternal uncle and fellow architect James Mulcahy; it is not clear whether they were formal business partners. In 1916, a year after Mulcahy's death, McLaughlin designed the Commonwealth Armory in Boston.
In 1914 a certain George Houston Burr started working for McLaughlin as a draftsman, becoming an architect in his own right in 1915. In 1920 the two men formed a partnership under the name McLaughlin and Burr. The architectural firm of McLaughlin and Burr remained active into the 1950s, designing multiple residential, commercial, and public buildings (including many schools) throughout Massachusetts.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20Murat%20Eren
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A. Murat Eren
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A. Murat Eren (Meren) is a computer scientist known for his work on microbial ecology and developing novel, open-source, computational tools for analysis of large data sets.
Early life and education
Eren grew up in the Barhal Valley in Turkey and studied cryptography as an undergraduate at Canakkale Onsekiz Mart Universitesi where he earned a B.S. in 2002. He moved to the United States and started his Ph.D. at the University of New Orleans. While working at the Children's Hospital of New Orleans, Eren was introduced to microbiology by Michael Ferris. In 2011 Eren completed his Ph.D.; his dissertation was titled Assessing microbial diversity through nucleotide variation.
Career and research
Eren's Ph.D. research involved developing oligotyping, a computational method to examine the diversity of microorganisms within high throughput sequencing datasets. Following his Ph.D., Eren joined the Marine Biological Laboratory as a postdoctoral scientist, during which he applied oligotyping to microbes that live in the human genitourinary tract, oral cavity, and sewage. In 2015 he joined the University of Chicago as an assistant professor, where he started using metagenomics to investigate the ecology and evolution of microbes found in the human gut, human mouth, and surface ocean. In 2022, Eren was appointed Professor of Ecosystem Data Science at the University of Oldenburg and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.
Eren is an advocate of open-source software and leads the community development of anvi'o, a platform to allow analysis and visualization of large datasets.
Selected publications
Awards and honors
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship in Ocean Sciences (2020)
American Society for Microbiology Award for Early Career Environmental Research (2021)
Research Parasite Award Sustained Parasitism (2022)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Staghound
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American Staghound
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The American Staghound, referred to by various names including the Cold-Blooded Greyhound, the Longdog of the Prairie and the American Lurcher, is a crossbreed of various sighthounds. It has been bred in the United States from the 19th century where it is used for hunting.
History
As European pioneers moved west into the American frontier in the 19th century, their livestock frequently fell victim to predation from wolves and coyotes, and large sighthounds were found to be the most effective hound variety for hunting these predators. The American staghound developed as a distinctive variety of dog from crossings of various breeds of sighthound found in America at the time, principally the British Greyhound, Scottish Deerhound and Irish Wolfhound, and the Russian Borzoi. In the Wild West the pioneers hunted predators in hunting parties mounted on horseback and accompanied by their staghounds. After settlement these hunts continued as recreational sport but with the reduction in numbers of predators to hunt, frequently deer was also pursued. In recent decades deer has become the primary, if not exclusive, quarry pursued by these dogs.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathwara%2C%20Raebareli
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Kathwara, Raebareli
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Kathwara is a village in Harchandpur block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located 13 km from Raebareli, the district headquarters, on the road to Lucknow, and on the left bank of the Baita river not far from its confluence with the Sai. The railway passes by Kathwara, and the closest station is at Harchandpur. As of 2011, the population of Kathwara is 5,115, in 921 households. It has two primary schools and no healthcare facilities.
History
At the turn of the 20th century, Kathwara was described as a large but otherwise unremarkable village consisting of three mahals. Each mahal was held in single zamindari tenure, two by Sayyids and one by Sheikhs. It had a small marketplace called Shamsherganj, which was not very busy, as well as a primary school. Its population in 1901 was recorded as 2,622, including 1,031 Muslims.
The 1961 census recorded Kathwara as comprising 7 hamlets, with a total population of 2,095 people (1,123 male and 972 female), in 466 households and 439 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 1,276 acres.
The 1981 census recorded Kathwara as having a population of 3,365 people, in 636 households, and having an area of 515.18 hectares. The main staple foods were given as wheat and rice.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahremau
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Pahremau
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Pahremau is a village in Amawan block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India. Located 5 km from Maharajganj on the road to Nigohan, it is an old Muslim centre that historically served as the headquarters of a taluqdari estate. As of 2011, its population is 3,165, in 577 households. It has 3 primary schools and no healthcare facilities.
History
The taluqdars of Pahremau were a family of Niyazi Pathans that shared a common ancestry with the taluqdars of Amawan. The two branches were originally split between the brothers Qadirdad Khan and Sher Zaman Khan, with Qadirdad Khan receiving Pahremau. He was succeeded by his only son, Najib Khan, who died in 1855, and the Pahremau estate was then split between his four sons.
At the turn of the 20th century, Pahremau was described as an old village that was "compactly built on a large mound." Its population as of 1901 was 1,164, a majority of whom were Muslims.
The 1961 census recorded Pahremau (as "Paharemau") as comprising 14 hamlets, with a total population of 1,202 people (625 male and 577 female), in 268 households and 245 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 983 acres.
The 1981 census recorded Pahremau as having a population of 1,575 people, in 315 households, and having an area of 678.28 hectares. The main staple foods were given as wheat and rice.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puran%20Mal
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Puran Mal
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In 1542, Sher Shah added Malwa to his empire. During this campaign, he ordered his amir Shujaat Khan to bring Puran Mal to his presence. Shujaat Khan conducted Puran Mal, who had taken with him 6,000 horsemen before Sher Shah, who at once presented his new ally with a hundred horses and a hundred splendid robes of honour and then sent him home. Puran Mal set out for the return journey to Raisen leaving his brother Chaturbhuj in the service of Sher Shah. This arrangement soon went away. In 1543, a year after the understanding between the Afghan sultan and the Puran Mal, Sher Shah took Chanderi from Puran Mal and then laid siege to his stronghold Raisen. As his motive for this campaign Sher Shah is said to have given vent to his anger against Puran Mal, ‘who had made captives of the families of Muslims in Chanderi’, had forcibly made their daughters to be the dancing-girls and had not co-operated with his son. The siege continued for six months with the fort coming under heavy bombardment. Artillery proved to be the deciding factor and Puran Mal had to negotiate once again with Sher Shah. The negotiations were soon successful. Sher Shah granted to Puran Mal the iqta of Benares.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius%20van%20der%20Strete
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Cornelius van der Strete
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Cornelius van der Strete (died 1529) was a tapestry worker at the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII of England.
He was appointed Arras maker to Henry VII in 1502.
In 1503 the king's daughter Margaret Tudor went to Scotland as the bride of James IV. Cornelius van der Strete was paid £7-8s for making or supplying 74 Flemish sticks of tapestry for her. The historian and curator Thomas P. Campbell suggests his own works were simple armorial tapestries or borders to be attached to figural tapestries purchased elsewhere. Strete's work producing such tapestries may have been influenced by the preferences of Catherine of Aragon.
Cornelius van der Strete and his twelve colleagues travelled to Nottingham Castle in August 1511 to mend and line tapestries, table carpets, and counterpoints. The tapestries, described as verdure and 96 pieces of hawking and hunting, were lined with canvas and mended with woollen yarn.
In 1514 he supplied tapestry including a suite of the Labours of Hercules from Bruges for Mary Tudor, Queen of France. Cornelius continued to mend and repair tapestries, and insert the royal badges of roses and portcullises to newly purchased pieces. His wages in 1516 were twelve pence daily.
Cornelius van der Strete died in 1529.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace%20Harral
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Horace Harral
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Death and legacy
In later life Harral resided at Chobham Cottage in Chobham, Surrey. On 23 January 1905 he died whilst at Hastings in Sussex. Harral had become a significant shareholder in Luson Thomas's company, H. R. Baines & Co., the publishers of The Graphic and his estate was worth £54,856 (£). Harral left significant donations to many charitable organisations in his will. These included £500 (£) each to: the East Suffolk and Ipswich Hospital; the Suffolk Convalescent and Sea Bathing Infirmary; the East London Hospital for Children and Dispensary for Women; the Hospital for Sick Children; the Artists' General Benevolent Institution; the Gordon Memorial College in Khartoum, Sudan; the Royal Normal College and Academy of Music for the Blind; Dr Barnardo's Homes; the Royal National Lifeboat Institution; the Free Cancer Hospital; St Luke's House (a hospital in Bayswater) and the Royal Association in Aid of the Deaf and Dumb. He also left £200 (£) each to the Royal Humane Society and the Temporary Home for Lost and Starving Dogs. These bequests totalled £6,400 (£); the trustees were instructed to dispose of the rest of his estate to charities of their choice, except for £1,000 (£) which went to other beneficiaries.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Fedorovich%20von%20Schultz
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Mikhail Fedorovich von Schultz
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Scuttling of the Novik
By July 1904, only a few warships had managed to breakthrough Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō's fleet. The Novik, after resupplying in Qingdao, tried to reach Vladivostok but was intercepted by the Japanese cruiser Tsushima at Sakhalin Island. After the Battle of Korsakov, both ships were badly damaged. The Novik was rendered immobile so Schultz had the ship scuttled near Korsakov. Schultz wrote a detailed report about the event.
The sinking of the Novik was a national event in Russia. The journal Chronicle of the War with Japan soon published an article entitled In Memory of Novik which read:
As Boris Galenin notes:
Schultz was awarded the Order of St. George 4th class for his actions at the battle.
Arriving in Vladivostok on August 9, 1904, Schultz became acting commander of the Thunderbolt, replacing N. D. Dabicha who was wounded in a battle in the Korea Strait on August 1. Lev Alekseevich Brusilov, Dabicha's replacement, was expected to arrive by December, but did not arrive until April the following year.
Schultz became acquainted with Vladimir Arsenyev and Orel commander A. N. Pell while in Vladivostok. Together, they took part in archaeological research. The Grodekov Museum in Khabarovsk exhibits some artifacts found in autumn 1916 on the peninsula in Amur Bay by the group. Paleolithic stone spearheads, axes and chips were among what they found, with pottery dated from a later period also discovered on the peninsula. After World War II, the peninsula was excavated by Alexey Okladnikov.
Admirals Zinovy Rozhestvensky and Nikolai Nebogatov, due to their involvement in the Battle of Tsushima and Siege of Port Arthur, were court marshaled. Schultz testified against the admirals and defended former Port Arthur commander Konstantin Smirnov. By the time these trials began, Schultz was stationed in the Black Sea and promoted to Captain 1st Rank.
1905 – 1913
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor%20Johns
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Eleanor Johns
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Eleanor Johns or Jones was a Welsh-born courtier of Elizabeth of York and her daughter Margaret Tudor.
She may have been a daughter of Richard Johnes, a groom of the chamber to Henry VII and Constable and Keeper of the parks of Llantrisant and Barry Island.
Her half year's wage in the household of Elizabeth of York in 1503 was £6-13s-4d. She travelled with the queen to Raglan Castle in August 1502.
Elizabeth of York died in 1503 and several members of her household became servants of her daughter, Margaret Tudor, who had been married by proxy to James IV of Scotland, including Eleanor Johns and Eleanor Verney. Margaret Tudor's marriage contract allowed her 24 English attendants, and James IV subsequently undertook to pay them "competent fees".
In Scotland she is recorded as "Mistress Eleanor" and in 1505 received the same salary as in England. Her companion "Inglis Ladyis" included Eleanor Verney and Elizabeth Berlay. As a New Year's Day gift in January 1507 she received a gold chain.
James IV paid a priest at Whithorn Priory to say Mass for "Mastres Helenor" on 26 June 1504, perhaps Eleanor Johns or Eleanor Verney.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian%20nobility
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Venetian nobility
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Then there were fifteen families descended from citizens who had distinguished themselves in the repression of the Tiepolo conspiracy in 1310, some of which include:
Other families added in 1310 include the Addoldo, Agrinal, Buoninsegna, Caroso, Diente, Diesello, Ferro, Grisoni, Mengolo (another branch), Papaciza, Sesendillo (another branch), and the Vidor.
Newest houses
At the turn of the fourteenth century, the War of Chioggia brought the Venetian economy to its knees. The Genoese fleet, deployed at the entrance to the Lagoon, had blocked all forms of commercial exchange and thus the revenue in terms of import duties.
In 1379 the Venetian government decreed the granting of entry into the Patriciate to the thirty commoners who had contributed most in any way to the war effort. Many flocked to it, some making their servants, their children or themselves available, some keeping a group of soldiers, some arming galleys, some simply giving money. After the conflict, on 4 September 1381 the Senate elected the winners from a shortlist of sixty-two candidates (for a total of fifty-eight families). It is difficult to establish on the basis of which criterion this choice was made: many of the rejected had participated in the war effort with conspicuous offers, conversely there were those who were admitted with a very modest contribution. Evidently other factors weighed on them, including the marriage strategies that had allowed many non-nobles to create solid ties with the "old houses" of the aristocracy.
In the list there are eleven candidates with the same surname to that of families already present in the Patriciate, and they can be presumed to belong to undocumented or illegitimate branches of those families.
Non-Venetian patricians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonight%20%281975%20TV%20programme%29
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Tonight (1975 TV programme)
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Tonight is a BBC television current affairs programme that was shown on weekday nights from
1 September 1975 until 5 July 1979 on BBC1. It was initially presented by Sue Lawley, Denis Tuohy and Donald MacCormick and reporters included John Pitman, Richard Kershaw, David Lomax, David Jessel and Michael Delahaye. Michael Bunce was the programme's first editor. Unlike its predecessor also called Tonight which was shown in the early evening, this programme was generally the last BBC1 programme each evening and appeared at variable times. It took over from the 24 Hours programme, also on BBC1 in late evenings, and ran in the same years as the BBC's Nationwide which was shown early evening.
In 1976, under editor Chris Capron, John Timpson alternated with Tuohy and MacCormick presented occasional topics. Lawley took maternity leave and Ludovic Kennedy and Robin Day, from BBC2's Newsday current affairs series, became new presenters, supported by Melvin Bragg and Barry Norman for arts and cinema topics. Jeremy Paxman became a new presenter.
Valerie Singleton had become a presenter and Roger Bolton the editor by the time the programme ended in July 1979, making way for Newsnight on BBC2.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sims%203%20expansion%20packs
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The Sims 3 expansion packs
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On June 8, 2011, producer Ben Bell gave a presentation and demonstration previewing Pets that was streamed over EA's website. The demonstration contained parts of the game that had never been seen before by the public. Christopher Lennertz provided the original score for Pets.
Gameplay
Pets
In Pets, players can create and customize pets in Create-a-Pet mode. Players can customize the pet's coat, shape, pattern, and color, as well as body parts. The can also select from pre-designed breeds. Pets use the same trait system as sims, with three traits instead of five. A player can have up to six pets in one household, extending the maximum amount of Sims in a household from eight to ten.
Cats and dogs can be obtained when created with a new household, adopted by computer or phone, or befriended as strays. The reinforcement social system is used to correct bad behaviors and to praise good ones. Getting by with no punishment for bad behavior can lead a pet to take on that trait. When grown up, adult dogs can learn tricks and cats can learn to hunt.
Horses are a new species of pet that is only introduced in the PC/Mac versions of Pets, and are not available in the console games. Horses can be created with the household, adopted using a computer or phone, or bought from the Equestrian Center. Horses can learn two skills – racing and jumping. Wild horses appear in herds in home neighborhoods and can be befriended like other stray pets. Unicorns also appear at night in the wild and can be befriended.
The player can also adopt small pets, such as birds or snakes.
Appaloosa Plains is the name of the new town in the PC/Mac versions of Pets, named after the Appaloosa breed of horse. The new location is set in a Midwestern United States ranching town nestled between lush green hills.
Reception
Upon release in North America, The PC/Mac versions of Pets got positive reviews, with IGN rating the game 7.5/10. The console version (360, PS3), also getting a similar score, with IGN giving it a rating of 7/10.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Garschall
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Michael Garschall
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Opera Klosterneuburg
Since 1998, Garschall has directed the operklosterneuburg, which over the years has risen to become Austria's third largest open-air opera festival... For numerous young singers, the festival became a springboard for international careers, including Daniela Fally, Annely Peebo, Florian Boesch, Markus Werba, Pavol Breslik, Günther Groissböck, as well as conductors such as Thomas Rösner and Andrés Orozco-Estrada. In addition to popular works of opera literature from Mozart to Donizetti to Verdi, the programme also includes lesser-known works such as Rossini's comic opera Le Comte Ory. For the younger generation, the festival offers specially adapted versions - the Oper für Kinder.
Functions
Garschall was involved in the provincial and national board of the Wirtschaftsforum der Führungskräfte and held numerous functions in the . As a jury member, he takes part in various singing competitions (Nico-Dostal-Operetta Competition, Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität, Klassik Mania etc.) and participates in the jury of the literature competition Forum Land as well as in the Kulturbeirat des Amtes der Niederösterreichischen Landesregierung.
Productions
Garschall staged among others L'Elisir d'Amore by Gaetano Donizetti (operklosterneuburg), the Barber of Seville by Giovanni Paisiello and La Contessina by Florian Leopold Gassmann (Festwochen Schärding), La Serva Padrona by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (Schloss Hof), Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach and Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss (Herbsttage Blindenmarkt).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreis%20R%C3%B6%C3%9Fel
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Kreis Rößel
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The Rößel district was a Prussian district in the administrative region of Königsberg (and later Allenstein) in the Prussian province of East Prussia. It was located in Warmia in the middle of East Prussia and existed from 1818 to 1945. The seat of the district administration was initially Rößel (Reszel) and, from 1862, Bischofsburg (Biskupiec).
Geography
The area of the district was 850.84 km2 and was located northeast of Landkreis Allenstein. The four towns of the district, Rößel, Bischofsburg, Seeburg and Bischofstein, were located in the four corners of the district and promoted economic life. However, the district did not have a clear center.
From the heights of the Baltic Uplands, the landscape merges north into the Schippenbeil plain. The south-western area is touched by the Allenstein Lake District, the 10 km2 Daddaisee (today Jezioro Dadaj) and the Lauternsee (Jezioro Luterskie) were the largest lakes in the district. Near the Lauternsee in the center of the district was the 220m high Voigtsdorfer Berg, the highest point. The northeast is touched by the river Zaine, the only river of note in the district.
The district of Rößel was one of the smaller districts of East Prussia in terms of area, but was the most densely populated with 61 inhabitants per km2 at times. In 1939, 51,086 people lived in the district, 88.3 percent of them being of Catholic faith. While there were still 339 Jews in 1890, their number fell steadily afterwards: in 1925 there were 132, in 1933 only 108. In 1900, the Polish minority was reported to be 14%.
The towns of Bischofstein and Bischofsburg were located on Reichsstrasse 128 Königsberg - Ortelsburg, and Reichsstrasse 141 Allenburg – Bischofsburg ran through Rößel. In addition, the Insterburg – Allenstein and Wormditt – Rastenburg railway lines ran through the district. The main sources of income were agriculture and forestry.
History
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VMF(N)-531 GCI Detachment
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Deployment to the South Pacific
The detachment arrived at Espiritu Santo in September 1943. After initial staging and acclimatization, the detachment departed Espiritu Santo on 9 October onboard LST-395 bound for Vella Lavella. While on the way, they picked up the remainder of the radar detachment on Guadalcanal. The detachment's gear was initially set up near Liapari Point however the position was untenable for controlling due to local terrain interference. It was not until 18 October that the squadron's pilots were able to work with their own GCI section during night patrols. On 25 October the GCI Detachment moved again, this time to Pakoi Bay in the northwest part of Vella Lavella and again began nighttime GCI controls using the callsign "Moon." A few days later on 31 October, two controllers from the GCI detachment controlled the first dedicated kill by a night fighter in the Pacific. They led an intercept by an F4U-2 Corsiar from the U.S. Navy's VF(N)-75. The squadron's first successful ground controlled intercept of a Japanese aircraft utilizing the squadron's own aircraft occurred on 6 December 1943, when Captain Owen M. Hines vectored one of the squadron's PV-1s against a Japanese boat plane near Motupina Point on Bougainville.
On 18 January 1944, the radars were repositioned to Stirling Island in the Treasury Islands. From there they also sent out a smaller radar detachment of 16 personnel to Green Island on 27 January to support the Allied landings.
Personnel from VMF(N)-531, to include the GCI detachment rotated back to the United States in four different echelons between May and August 1944. The final echelon of the squadrons arrived back in San Francisco, California on 3 September 1944, where the squadron was disbanded that same day by verbal orders received from Headquarters Marine Corps.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OV3-3
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OV3-3
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Charles H. Reynolds, who worked at AFCRL from 1955, was the technical manager for the OV3 program.
Prior to the launch of OV3-3, two other OV3 satellites had been placed into orbit. OV3-1, launched 22 April 1966, measured radiation around the Earth, returning data for over a year. Launched on 10 June 1966, OV3-4 was the second in the OV3 satellite series. It measured the effects of radiation on tissue-equivalent samples.
Spacecraft design
Like the rest of the OV3 satellites, OV3-3 was an octagonal prism, in length and width, with experiments mounted on booms. 2560 solar cells provided 30 Watts of power. The satellite was spin-stabilized, but because it was asymmetrical once its booms were extended, OV3-3 maintained its attitude in orbit with a precession damper. The spacecraft was spin stabilized at 8 revolutions per minute (rpm) A Sun sensor, as well as an onboard tri-axial magnetnometer, gave information on the satellite's aspect (facing), its spin rate, and rate of precession.
OV3-3 massed . Its design life-span was one year.
Experiments
OV3-3's scientific payload consisted of seven experiments originally flown on the failed OV2-1 mission. Designed to measure particle radiation over a wide energy spectrum, the instruments included a Faraday Cup electrometer, two directional telescopes, and three spectrometers. OV3-3 also carried a magnetometer to measure magnetic fields and plasma fluctuations, aided in this by its VLF radio receiver.
Mission
Launched from Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 5 on 4 August 1966 at 10:45:01 UTC via Scout B rocket into a polar orbit, OV3-3 was the third satellite to be launched in the OV3 series. The satellite measured trapped and precipitating particles and their correlated electromagnetic wave fields. Its systems performed well for 14 months until the onboard tape recorder failed in September 1967. Low-latitude, real-time tracking continued into 1969 when the spacecraft was deactivated.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission%20of%20the%20Russian%20Federation%20for%20UNESCO
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Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO
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Members of the Commission
The President of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO is appointed by the Government of the Russian Federation. Since 2004 this position is held by Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov. In 2012 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation Alexander Dzasokhov was appointed as Deputy President of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO.
The composition of the Commission is approved by the Government of the Russian Federation upon the proposal of the President of the Commission. It includes heads of relevant Russian ministries and agencies, prominent national figures of education, science, culture, art and journalism.
The highest body of the Commission is the General Assembly, which develops and approves Russia's policy towards UNESCO. Meetings of the General Assembly of the Commission are convened at least once a year.
The working body of the Commission is its Secretariat, which is a part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. It is headed by the Secretary-General of the Commission, appointed by the President of the Commission. Since 2004 Grigory Ordzhonikidze, Ambassador-at-Large for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has been serving as Secretary-General of the Commission.
Tasks
The Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO has the following tasks:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone%20Roads%20No.%201
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Tone Roads No. 1
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Tone Roads No. 1 is scored for a small chamber ensemble consisting of a flute, a B-flat clarinet, a bassoon, a first violin, a second violin, a viola, two cellos, and a double bass. Ives also sanctioned performing the piece with a chamber orchestra, as long as the instrumentation remains the same. In scores used by conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, who championed Ives's work, a scoring of two flutes, two clarinets in B-flat, two bassoons, twelve first violins, ten second violins, eight violas, six cellos, and four double basses is suggested for chamber orchestra performances. It has a total duration of seven to eight minutes, according to Ives. However, most performances tend to be three or four minutes long. It is marked Allegro at the beginning of the score and has a total length of 42 bars without repetitions or 70 bars with repetitions. The piece is meant to be repeated twice with first and second endings, although the first four bars are omitted after repeating.
The scoring is presumed to have changed within the few years after the piece's completion. Ives wrote in pencil in some manuscripts that it is possible to use three violins, two violas, two cellos, and double bass, apart from the wind section mentioned previously. In other manuscripts, Ives also added a trombone. However, the original instrumentation, which was discarded at the time, featured a flute, a clarinet, a trombone, and a piano.
Roads
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Charles P. Bailey (pilot)
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Charles Phillip Bailey Sr. (November 25, 1918 – April 1, 2001) was a U.S. Army Air Force officer and one of the Tuskegee Airmen's most decorated combat fighter pilots. He was Florida's first African American fighter pilot. He flew 133 missions over Europe and North Africa, and was credited with shooting down two enemy aircraft.
For his heroics during World War II, the U.S. Army Air Corps awarded Bailey four Air Medals and the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Early life
Bailey was born on November 25, 1918, in Punta Gorda, Florida. Known to his family and friends as "Phillip", Bailey was the son of Archie Bailey and Josephine Bailey. Bailey grew up in a home on the corner of Punta Gorda's East Virginia Avenue and Wood Street with his eight siblings.
As a child, Charles P. Bailey delivered Punta Gorda, Florida's local Charlotte Herald newspaper in his neighborhood. During rampant racial segregation in the American South and in Deland, Bailey attended elementary and middle school at Punta Gorda, Florida's Baker Academy. Since Punta Gorga did not allow African Americans to attend its high school, Bailey moved with family out of town to attend high school at the all-African American Howard Academy in Ocala, Florida where he excelled in academics and football.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix%20Desportes
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Félix Desportes
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Personal life
He married Victoire Berryer (1772–1857) in the church of Saint-Gervais on May 5, 1788. A rich heiress, she was "considered the greatest beauty in Paris." She was a Spanish woman, who was amiable and pretty, but inconsistent. He was fickle. The Desportes did not have a happy marriage. At first, the couple lived in Montmarte. Later, while Desportes lived in Colmar in Haut-Rhin, Mme Desportes lived in Paris. They had four children: Lucile; Flore-Pierrette de Montmartre (born May 3, 1791); Louis-Benjamin-Félix (born October 1792) and Victor (born June 19, 1794). Flore-Pierrette married Baron de Boucheporn, who was the Marshal of the Court of the King of Westphalia. Victor studied at the University of Gœttingue.
Lucile, neglected by her father, lived near her mother. She was concerned that her chance to marry would pass her by and she wanted to stop caring for her mother. Lucile fell in love with an officer in 1812 and became pregnant. Desportes did not approve of the marriage and rejected her pleas to be allowed to marry him, before he was killed. Henriette Deluzy-Desportes was born on June 1, 1813, on the rue de la Pépinière in Paris. Her birth was recorded with just her given name Henrietta with no surname and no parents. Lucile did not recognize Henriette for ten years. Desportes refused to admit she was her granddaughter. He provides a 3,000 franc pension to Lucile. Lucile worked to earn money for Henriette's education. She became an apprentice to an engraver and studied under a painter. Lucile died of cholera in 1832, and initially the girl was taken in by Felix's brother Benjamin Desportes. She received 1,500 francs to finish her education and went to Brixton Hill to learn to speak English. She was a governess for the Praslin family, which resulted in the death of the duchess, suicide by the duke, and three months that she spent being interrogated until they let her go for lack of evidence.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsumaki%20Hiroko
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Tsumaki Hiroko
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In 1556, Mitsuhide supported Saitō Dōsan at the Battle of Nagaragawa. There is an anecdote that, after Saitō Yoshitatsu (the eldest son of Dōsan who was in an internal conflict with him) toppled Akechi Castle, Mitsuhide carried a pregnant Hiroko on his back while fleeing to Echizen Province. When Mitsuhide and Hiroko fled to Echizen, they asked to serve Asakura Yoshikage. Despite going through difficult times, Mitsuhide organized a renga (linked verse poetry) event. Hiroko was aware of the struggles Mitsuhide faced in preparing for the feast and sold her own black hair to cover expenses.
Hiroko's relationship with Mitsuhide was genuine, he refused any offer to have a concubine. This relationship has proven strong since she helped Mitsuhide through his hard days - the surrender of the homeland castle, the ronin (masterless) life, serving the Asakura clan, the Ashikaga clan and the Oda clan.
Death
In 1576, Hiroko fell ill. Mitsuhide requested prayers from a Shintō priest for her convalescence. She recovered after ten days, so silver pieces were donated to give thanks at the shrine. Kanemi paid a visit to Hiroko at the quarters of Mitsuhide in Kyōto to wish for her continuing recovery and met with Mitsuhide.
There are several theories about her death, the first is said that she desperately nursed Mitsuhide when he suffered from a serious illness, but she died due to the nursing fatigue. However, some says that she died in 1582 when the Sakamoto Castle fell during the Battle of Yamazaki.
Her grave is in Saikyo-ji Temple in Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture, the family temple of the Akechi clan and Tsumaki clan.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican%20Board%20of%20Mission%20%E2%80%93%20Australia
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Anglican Board of Mission – Australia
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The Anglican Board of Mission – Australia (ABM), formerly Australasian Board of Missions and Australian Board of Missions, is the national mission agency of the Anglican Church of Australia. In its earliest form, it was established in 1850.
History
The Church of the Province of New Zealand was not formed until 1858. In 1850, George Selwyn, the Bishop of New Zealand, approached his fellow Australasian bishops for funds to buy a boat for evangelisation of the islands of Melanesia, which then formed part of his diocese by virtue of a clerical error in the letters patent. That missionary endeavour became the Melanesian Mission, but also led to the establishment of the Australasian Board of Missions.
In 1872 (by which time New Zealand was a separate province) the Australasian Board of Missions was constituted as a board of the church by a canon of General Synod. At that point the board changed its name to the Australian Board of Missions. It was only in 1872 that an administrative structure was created, with a general secretary.
The board celebrated its jubilee in 1900, at the consecration of Gilbert White as Bishop of Carpentaria at St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney. The board was restructured in 1916, which led to the creation of an executive chairman position in place of the former general secretary; the Rev John Jones, general secretary since 1912, became the first chairman. Many chairmen (and the renamed national directors) were former diocesan bishops, including George Cranswick (1942–49), Donald Shearman (1971–73), Ken Mason (1983–93), and Geoffrey Smith (2000-05). Another notable chairman was the Rev Frank Coaldrake (1957–70), a prominent pacifist during WWII and who, in 1970, was elected Archbishop of Brisbane but died before being consecrated.
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Kaunas Mint
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The Kaunas Mint () was a Lithuanian mint which produced coins in Kaunas that operated between 1665 and 1667 and again between 1936 and 1939.
History
The mint was founded on 17 October 1665, during the reign of Grand Duke John II Casimir Vasa of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Building of the mint (10 × 25 meters in size) was located in Kaunas Town Hall Square and was governed by A. G. fon Horn, whose initials GFH were minted on the coins as well. It minted copper shillings (also known as boratynka). In total, more than 40 million coins were minted in the Kaunas Mint, until 15 January 1667.
In 1936, the Kaunas Mint was reestablished by the Ministry of Finance of Lithuania and produced coins from 16 May 1936 to 1939. In 1936, it minted bronze coins of 1, 2, 5 cents, silver coins of 1 Lithuanian litas (with the date of 1925), 5 litas (with a portrait of Jonas Basanavičius) and 10 litas (with a portrait of Vytautas the Great). In 1938, a commemorative silver coin, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of Independent Lithuania, was minted there. In total, more than 25 million coins were minted in the Kaunas mint, while coins, their stamps and blanks were made in Belgium. The mint was located on the ground floor of the building of the joint-stock company Spindulys, governed by Jonas Karys-Kareckas.
Coins minted in the Kaunas Mint (Grand Duchy of Lithuania)
Coins minted in the Kaunas Mint (interwar period)
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Regnault de Chartres
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The king sold him the city of Vierzon on 7 August 1425.
On 17 July 1429 he consecrated Charles VII in Rheims, in the presence of Joan of Arc. On 10 October, on safe conduct, he left for Saint-Denis to negotiate with the English represented by the bishop of Thérouanne, Lewis of Luxembourg, counselor of Henry VI of England.
On 26 July 1432 he received 600 mouton d’or from the king for negotiating a peace treaty in Auxerre. He was appointed to the Archbishopric of Embrun by Pope Eugene IV in 1434, but preferred to stay in Rheims.
On 6 July 1435 he was in Arras to negotiate a treaty with the Duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good, then in Calais to reduce the tensions between France and England.
On 4 April 1436 he was named administrator of the bishopric of Agde, and officiated at the wedding of the Dauphin Louis to Margaret of Scotland, on 24 June in Tours.
Pope Eugene IV appointed him to the bishopric of Orléans in commendam on 17 March 1439. He took possession of it on 25 October, and officiated at the wedding of Charles, Duke of Orléans and Mary of Cleves in 1440 in Saint-Omer. In recognition of his services, the king obtained for him the position of cardinal: he was named cardinal at the General Council held in Florence on 18 December 1439, and took over the titular church of Santo Stefano al Monte Celio on 8 January 1440.
Death
He was given the bishopric of Mende in 1444 when, after mid-Lent, he went to Tours to see Charles VII and conduct peace negotiations with England. As he was going to speak to the king, he was taken with an illness and died suddenly on 4 April 1444. He was buried in the (now destroyed) Fransciscan church.
After his death his archbishopric remained vacant for almost seven months.
The arms of Regnault de Chartres are emblazoned as follows: Argent, a two fess gules.
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Vestegnen
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Vestegnen is a term for a part of the former Copenhagen County, located west of Copenhagen. The area is defined as consisting of the municipalities of Rødovre, Hvidovre, Glostrup, Brøndby, Albertslund, Køge, Vallensbæk, Ishøj and Høje-Taastrup and covers the area around some of the stations of the S-train, which are on the lines towards and , and which are within the former Copenhagen County. The urban area of Hundige is often included due to its proximity to the rest of “Vestegnen” and the former terminus on the Køge Bugt-banen, but Hundige is located in Greve Municipality and thus neither in the former Copenhagen County nor the current Capital Region of Denmark.
Common to the mentioned municipalities – except Vallensbæk Municipality – is that they have for long periods been led by mayors of Socialdemokratiet – in several cases with an absolute majority in the municipal council.
The municipalities covered by the former Vestegnssamarbejde (Rødovre, Hvidovre, Glostrup, Brøndby, Albertslund, Vallensbæk, Ishøj and Høje-Taastrup) has a total population of 229,090 people, of which approximately 26.7% have an ethnic background other than Danish, as per 2018. This is more than twice as high as the national average of 13%. In Brøndby Strand, the number of people with other ethnic background than Danish was the highest, with 51%. Around 108,000 of the inhabitants are part of the labour force, but in the area there are around 136,000 jobs.
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Shoe dryer
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A shoe dryer or boot dryer is a machine used for drying shoes, and usually functions by blowing air on the inside of the shoes. The airflow causes the shoes to dry faster. The air can be heated for even faster drying, and these are the most common types. Shoes dryers can be especially useful for people who often have wet shoes, such as families with small children or people who often hike outdoor in the nature, or for ski boots which often are moist after use. Many shoes dryers have a timer which shuts off the dryer after some time. There are also shoe dryers which instead use a heated grate which the shoes are placed on top of, and which do not blow air.
History
Several patents have been awarded for shoe dryers, with some of the oldest dating back to 1963.
Noise
Many fan-driven shoe dryers emit bothersome noise during use. In a test from 2019, the most silent model was measured at 45 decibel (dB), while the other models were measured at 50 and 57 dB. In 2022, another model was measured at 56 dB in "tornado" mode and 29 dB in "whisper" mode, and in 2023 another variant of the same dryer was measured at 72 dB. It was also commented that the higher pitch of the said models noise could contribute to it being perceived as more intense and bothersome.
Air flow
The volumetric flow rate, i.e. the amount of air that is moved, is an important measure of fan-based shoe dryers. For example, a model tested in 2023 was stated to have a volume flow of 12 cubic meters per hour (m³/h), which corresponds to 12 000 liters per hour or just over 3 liters of air per second. Larger diameters of tubing and fans are beneficial for increased volumetric flow, and also results in lower air speed and thus less noise.
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Posidonia australis seagrass meadows of the Manning-Hawkesbury ecoregion
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Posidonia australis seagrass meadows of the Manning-Hawkesbury ecoregion is an endangered ecological community, listed under the EPBC Act of the Commonwealth of Australia on 7 May 2015
Description
The ecological community is "the assemblage of plants, animals and micro-organisms associated
with seagrass meadows dominated by Posidonia australis occurring in the warm temperate Manning Shelf and Hawkesbury Shelf bioregions on the east coast of Australia." It occurs subtidal waters at depths from less than 1 m to 10m within the sheltered environments of estuaries on the coastline from Wallis Lake to Port Hacking. It is found on sand and silty mud and in these estuarine waters the salinity is close to marine levels.
The meadows of the community occur as both monospecific meadows (of P. australis) or as multispecies meadows (with, for example, P. australis together with Zostera muelleri subsp. capricorni, Halophila ovalis). The macrophyte, Ruppia, may also be found growing within the ecological community (Creese et al., 2009). The leaves of Posidonia australis provide a place for many benthic flora, including epiphytes, to grow. These epiphytes photosynthesise and their proportion within the meadows is largely dependant on the nutrients available in the water.
Fauna found within the shelter of the meadows include: protozoans, bacteria, harpacticoid copepods,ostracods, nematodes, polychaetes, bivalves, amphipods, cumaceans, holothurians, phoronids, rotifers, isopods; small decapods, gastropods, pycnogonids, echinoderms, nemerteans, hydroids, bryozoans, sponges; ascidians; serpulid polychaetes, and fish.
Threats
Coastal development
Dredging
Boat mooring and boating activities
Catchment disturbance and pollution
Climate change
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Jewels of Mary I of England
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In 1536, Catherine of Aragon bequeathed her gold collar and cross to Mary, which was said to contain a relic of the true cross. Catherine Howard gave Mary a gold pomander containing a clock while they were on a progress at Pontefract Castle in 1541. Catherine kept a gold chain set with turquoises, rubies, and pearls which was used to suspend the pomander from a girdle.
Goldsmiths and makers
Mary stored her jewels in a coffer made in 1542 by the craftsman William Green. A biography of Jane Dormer claims that she was in charge of the jewels which Mary kept in her bedchamber and wore regularly. John Mabbe, a London goldsmith, mended her jewelry and made her sets of aglets. Hans Holbein the Younger designed jewels for her. Two of his surviving drawings feature a ribbon with the inscription, "MI LADI PRINSIS", (My Lady Princess), for Mary or possibly Elizabeth.
Cornelis Hayes, a Flemish jeweler, may have realised Holbein's designs. Holbeins's friend Hans of Antwerp and Rogier Horton worked for her. Another name that appears in her records is "Raynolds," which may refer to Robert Reynes, who was granted a coat of arms in 1558. On 25 July 1554, she ordered some of the jewels in the Tower of London to be delivered to her goldsmith "Affabel Partriche".
Jewels at Mary's accession
In April 1553, Lady Mary was given a table diamond with a pendant pearl which had belonged to Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset. At the same time, Jane Dudley, Duchess of Northumberland, was given a tablet locket with a clock, enamelled black, which had also belonged to the Duchess of Somerset. Mary got custody of jewels which had belonged to her father and mother, Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, in 1553 when she became queen.
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Jewels of Mary I of England
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According to Hugues Cousin le Vieux, an Imperial courtier and quartermaster, Henry Dudley had taken some jewels and rings from the royal treasury to reward potential supporters of the Duke of Northumberland and Lady Jane Grey in France. The Imperial ambassador Simon Renard had reported this story as an unconfirmed rumour in July 1553. Some manuscript inventories of jewels from 1553, and published versions or derivatives, appear to be connected with Lady Jane Grey, Andrew Dudley and Arthur Stourton, Keeper of Westminster Palace, or with the Duchess of Somerset, but the evidence is unclear. One list includes a zibellino, a sable skin with a gold head with a ruby tongue and gold feet and paws, which appears the inventory of Henry VIII. Some of the jewels had been issued for weddings, and Edward VI had requested by warrant a diamond jewel with a pendant pearl for Mary to wear in April 1553.
An inventory of jewels, held by the British Library (Harley 7376), has marginal notes recording gifts made by Mary in 1553 and later years, noting items taken for her coronation, and pearls delivered to her embroiderer Guilliam Brallot. Mary wore French hoods at this time, decorated with gold and jewel-set bands of "billiments". She gave pairs of billiments of "goldsmith work" to the ladies and gentlewomen in her coronation procession, including Mistress Anne Poyntz, mother of the maids.
These billiments were worn at the Royal Entry on 30 September 1553 before Mary's coronation. Mary wore a caul or veil of tinsel fabric set with pearls and precious stones, with a newly made gold circlet or coronet like a "hooped garland" also set with precious stones. According to some chronicle narratives, she had to hold these heavy items on her head with her hands. These comments may imply misogynistic criticism of the unprecedented female coronation, suggesting that the trappings of majesty were too weighty.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewels%20of%20Mary%20I%20of%20England
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Jewels of Mary I of England
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Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
Gifts were given to Margaret Douglas, including a brooch made especially to be a New Year's Day gift by John Busshe, a goldsmith in the parish of St Katherine Coleman. When she married the Earl of Lennox in 1544, Mary's gifts included; a balas ruby with a table cut diamond and three mean (smaller) pendant pearls; a gold brooch with a large sapphire; a brooch of gold with a balas ruby and the History of Susanne, and a gold brooch with the History of David. After her accession, Mary gave Lady Margaret Douglas two gowns of cloth of gold, a gold belt or girdle set with rubies and diamonds, and a large pointed diamond for a ring.
In the Bute portrait of Margaret Tudor, the mother of Margaret Douglas, currently displayed at the National Gallery of Scotland, she is depicted wearing a medallion or circular brooch at her girdle with an image and text from the story of Susannah and the Elders.
The executor of the Countess of Lennox, Thomas Fowler brought some of her jewels to Scotland, the inheritance of Arbella Stuart, possibly including gifts from Mary, and they were obtained by the Earl of Bothwell in 1590. The Countess of Shrewsbury wrote to William Cecil for help recovering Arbella's jewels. A list of 21 jewels in a casket bequeathed Arbella by Margaret Douglas, and kept by Thomas Fowler was made in April 1590. It includes an "H" of gold set with a rock ruby, and a gold sable head set with diamonds for a zibellino, but the items cannot be clearly identified as gifts from Mary Tudor. Another list of Arbella's jewels was made in 1607.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca%20Comai
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Luca Comai
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Luca Comai is an Italian plant biologist whose work has focused on trait discovery for improving agricultural crops and on developing protocols and systems for identifying new genes and mutations in plants. Through his work at Calgene, Comai was one of the first discoverers of the glyphosate resistance gene and is considered a pioneer in the field of plant biotechnology research.
His research since then has focused on developing the Targeting Induced Local Lesions in Genomes (TILLING) protocol that allows for new mutations and traits to be quickly identified within a target plant species through genome and sequence analysis. He has received a number of research and teaching awards, along with being named a Fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2023, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Education
Comai received his bachelor's degree in agricultural sciences from the University of Bologna in 1976 and his Master's degree in the field of plant pathology in 1978 from Washington State University. He then went on to earn his Ph.D. in plant pathology from the University of California, Davis and completed a postdoc at the same university. His doctoral thesis was on the subject of how Indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) is produced in bacteria and how this genetic function was homologous to the plant hormone production of the same name in plants that is encoded in the genome as T-DNA from Agrobacterium.
Career
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zolile%20Burns-Ncamashe
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Zolile Burns-Ncamashe
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Prince Zolile Burns-Ncamashe (born 13 September 1965) is a South African politician from the Eastern Cape. He has served as the Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs since March 2023. A traditional leader of the amaRharhabe clan, he joined the National Assembly as a representative of the African National Congress in February 2021.
Early life and education
Burns-Ncamashe was born on 13 September 1965 in Alice in the present-day Eastern Cape. He was educated at Gwali Primary School and Lovedale College. His father, Sipho Burns-Ncamashe, was a Xhosa traditional leader, the Rharhabe praise poet, and later a Ciskei politician.
He has a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and psychology and an Honours in philosophy from the University of Fort Hare. In 2019 he completed a Master's degree in social science at Fort Hare. As of 2021 he was a part-time PhD candidate at the same university, with doctoral research on land reform.
Traditional leadership
Burns-Ncamashe was an advisor, counsellor and spokesperson to the Rharhabe royal family, serving under successive monarchs Noloyiso Sandile and Jonguxolo Sandile. He was a member of the Eastern Cape House of Traditional Leaders between 1996 and 2017 and served as its deputy chairperson under Ngangomhlaba Matanzima from 2002 to 2017. In 1997, he was additionally sworn in to the National House of Traditional Leaders.
Political career
Burns-Ncamashe became politically active in the students' movement during apartheid and became a member of the anti-apartheid Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa. Decades later, he became involved in the post-apartheid national government during the first term of President Cyril Ramaphosa, initially as a traditional affairs advisor to Zweli Mkhize, the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs. Later he was the chairperson of the Department of Water and Sanitation's National Rapid Response Task Team, established by Minister Lindiwe Sisulu in 2019.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain%20mac%20Ailein
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Iain mac Ailein
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Iain mac Ailein, or John MacLean (8 Jan 1787, Caolas, Tiree26 Jan 1848, Addington Forks, Antigonish County, Nova Scotia) was a poet and highly important figure in both Scottish Gaelic literature and in that of Canadian Gaelic. Before emigrating with his family to Nova Scotia in 1819, MacLean had served as the Chief Bard to the 15th Chief of Clan MacLean of Coll. Following his arrival in the New World, MacLean remained a prolific poet and composed one of the most famous and most popular Scottish Gaelic emigration poems, Òran do dh' Aimearaga ("A Song to America"), which is also known as, A' Choille Ghruamach ("The Gloomy Forest"). Robert Dunbar has dubbed MacLean, "perhaps the most important of all the poets who emigrated during the main period of Gaelic overseas emigration", which took place between 1730 and 1860.
Life
Ancestry
According to Robert Dunbar, MacLean, though not considered a Tacksman or a member of the Scottish nobility, could trace his descent back to Eachann Ruadh nan Cath, the 6th Chief of Clan Maclean of Duart, who was killed at the Battle of Harlaw in 1411. Furthermore, his maternal great-grandfather was Neil Lamont, who had been Chief Bard to the Chief of Clan Maclean of Coll. On his father's side, MacLean was related to the famous Tiree poet Gilleasbuig Làidir MacGilleain.
Early life
Iain mac Ailein was born on January 8, 1787, at Caolas, on the island of Tiree, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. He was the third son of Allan MacLean and Margaret MacFadyen.
During his early life, MacLean worked as a shoemaker and small scale merchant. His grandson, Presbyterian minister and Canadian Gaelic scholar Rev. Alexander MacLean Sinclair (1840-1924), later wrote that the Bard was also a seanchai and that, "his powerful memory ensured that his stores of information connected with the Highland clans and poets were very great."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain%20mac%20Ailein
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Iain mac Ailein
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Also in 1835, Iain mac Ailein published twenty of his works of Christian poetry in Gaelic at Glasgow under the title, Laoidhean Spioradail le Iain MacGilleain ("Spiritual Songs by John MacLean"). Although Rev. Sinclair later alleged that the poems in this collection, "were very inaccurately printed", his claim has been disproved by comparisons to a manuscript in Iain mac Ailein's hand that was acquired by the National Library of Scotland in 2011. The manuscript contains all twenty poems as well as six unpublished poems and shows that Iain mac Ailein's Glasgow publisher had actually printed the texts of his poems very accurately.
Following the Disruption of 1843, Iain mac Ailein and his family joined the Nova Scotia branch of the Free Church of Scotland. In this, though, the MacLean family was far from unique. Most Presbyterian Gaels in Nova Scotia, like their co-religionists in the Gàidhealtachd of Scotland, made exactly the same choice.
Despite this fact, Presbyterianism in Nova Scotia was considerably less strict than in an t-Seann Dùthaich ("the Old Country") and, "most of the stern traditions and harsh penalties of the Kirk", were never enforced in the New World. Almost certainly for this reason, Iain mac Ailein felt able to build a very close friendship with Fr. Colin P. Grant, the Roman Catholic priest assigned to St. Margaret of Scotland Church in Arisaig. So close was their friendship that Iain mac Ailein composed a work of Canadian Gaelic praise poetry in honor of Fr. Grant.
Iain mac Ailein died in Addington Forks, Nova Scotia on January 28, 1848. He became the first person buried in the Glen Bard Cemetery, where his grandson, Rev. Sinclair, also lies buried.
In a Canadian Gaelic elegy composed for Iain mac Ailein's death, fellow Antigonish County poet John MacGillivray lamented:
Chaill sinn tuilleadh 's do bhàrdachd,
Ged a tha sinn 'ga h-ionndrainn,
Chaill sinn t' fhiorachadh sàr ghasd.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cees%20van%20Hasselt
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Cees van Hasselt
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Later life
In addition to his activities in sports, Van Hasselt was also active in all kinds of other fields. After the First World War, he started the art dealership Huize van Hasselt together with his son Johannes Hendrikus. They organized the first exhibition of the progressive Rotterdam artist group De Branding and also paid a lot of attention to modern German art. In preparation for the 1937 World Jamboree in the Netherlands, Van Hasselt was responsible for renting out the spaces for shops and restaurants on the market square. Before the Second World War, Van Hasselt was also the organizer of the large flower exhibition Prima Vera, which took place in the Nenijto hall, and attracted thousands of visitors to Rotterdam. In 1938, the seventh edition of the flower exhibition was officially opened by Minister of Economic Affairs Max Steenberghe.
Cees van Hasselt died from the consequences of a stomach haemorrhage. He was buried in the Crooswijk General Cemetery. In 1999, a street in Rotterdam was named after him, the Kees van Hasseltstraat in the new housing estate in Terbregge.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou%20Tian
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Zhou Tian
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Zhou Tian (; born 1981, in Hangzhou, China. Zhou is his family name) is a Chinese-American composer of contemporary classical music. His Concerto for Orchestra received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Contemporary Classical Composition in 2018, making him the first Chinese-born composer and the second Asian composer (following Tōru Takemitsu in 1995) honored in that category.
His compositions have been performed by performers and orchestras such as Louis Langrée, Jaap Van Zweden, Manfred Honeck, Long Yu, Yuja Wang, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Jian Wang, the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, London Philharmonic, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, “The President's Own” United States Marine Band, Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, Dover Quartet, and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, where he served as the Artist-in-Residence. In 2019, thirteen symphony orchestras commissioned his composition “Transcend” in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad's completion. In 2022, he received the Sousa-ABA-Ostwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association for Sinfonia, becoming the first Asian-American winner in the award's 66-year history.
A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Zhou Tian earned his Masters of Music degree from the Juilliard School and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Southern California. He is professor of composition at Michigan State University.
Compositions
Symphonic works and concertos
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter%20Philippus%20Jansen
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Pieter Philippus Jansen
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By October 1945, the contractors and Rijkswaterstaat had managed to assemble a fleet of 14 suction dredgers and bucket dredgers, 135 barges, 61 tugboats, 73 landing craft, 19 floating cranes, 52 bulldozers and draglines along with motor vehicles and other equipment. Difficulties in sourcing adequate materials and the sheer scale of the works during an emergency wartime situation led to innovative use of improvised materials and equipment, such as the Phoenix caissons used in the closure of the dike gaps, which had previously been used as Mulberry harbours during the Allied invasion of Normandy.
On 1 July 1946, he left the Service for the Reclamation of Walcheren, and was appointed as a professor at Delft University of Technology. In September of that year, he received the Order of the Netherlands Lion on the same day as A. den Doolaard.
The Storm Disaster of 1953 and the Delta Works
After the devastating effects of the North Sea Flood of 1953 on The Netherlands, Jansen had an advisory role in the closure of the various dike breaches across the country.
After the flood of 1953, the Delta Commission was formed with the task of preparing measures so that this "would never happen again". Jansen became one of the members of that commission. He played a significant role in the final report. In September 1953, he was appointed as Chief Engineer-Director at Rijkswaterstaat, tasked with carrying out the Delta Works.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widow%20Jane%20Mine
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Widow Jane Mine
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Entrances to the Widow Jane Mine were created to be large enough to accommodate wagons and horses and for the transportation of waste rock and dolomite. Workers used sledgehammers to drive star drills into the rock and carve out blasting holes for black powder.
During the 19th century, mining operations at the Widow Jane Mine involved child labor. Around 20% of the laborers were children, who were not given time for school, play or rest. Many of them were killed and maimed in mining accidents.
Rosendale's cement industry peaked at the end of the 19th century, producing nearly 8.5 million barrels a year. At the peak of its operations, the area's mines employed 5,000 workers and produced nearly half of the cement for North America. Its cement was used in the construction of the Washington Monument, the wings of the United States Capitol building and the Brooklyn Bridge. From 1884 to 1886, limestone from the Widow Jane Mine was transported to Liberty Island where it was used to construct the base of the Statue of Liberty.
The Widow Jane Mine closed in 1970. After the decline in demand for Rosendale cement, mines in the area were used to grow mushrooms for Campbell's Soup, for trout farming, and for storing corn.
Venue
Widow Jane Mine has been likened to an underground pillared room, and hosts frequent events in the summer taking advantage of the unique acoustics.
In addition to a summer concert series, the mine has served as a recording studio and a venue for plays. An annual Subterranean Poetry Festival has been held at Widow Jane Mine since 1989. The mine has a stage used for performances and electricity is provided by generators. An event called "Rave in the Cave", held at Widow Jane Mine in 1996, was attended by at least 3000 people and caused severe traffic issues and a fire. The city of Rosendale sued the Century House Historical Society and a judge limited the occupancy of the mine to 750 people.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-It
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X-It
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X-It (also known as Zonked) is a 1994 puzzle video game developed by Data Design Interactive (DDI) and published by Psygnosis for the Amiga and MS-DOS. The Amiga version was also distributed in Australia by Hot Point. The game stars a character named Bill, who was kidnapped by aliens and placed him on a space junkyard maze to learn about the humans, before launching an invasion against people on Earth. The player controls Bill across 120 levels, each one divided into eight ships that feature their own variety of obstacles. The goal on every level is to get each block into hole fillers to make a path around the exit, without getting blocks stuck against walls or other obstacles under a time limit.
DDI had previously worked for publisher Millennium Interactive on Pinkie prior to X-It. It was designed and programmed by a team within DDI called Flatline; Richard Hackett and Stephen Bond came up with the game's concept and acted as co-designers. The soundtrack was composed by Darren Wood. The game garnered average reception from critics. In 2006, a fan remake for Microsoft Windows titled X-It Again was released as freeware by Finnish group Puzzlehouse.
Gameplay
X-It is a puzzle game that is played from a top-down perspective similar to Sokoban and Anarchy (1987). The premise revolves around a character named Bill, who was kidnapped by aliens and took him aboard their ship. The aliens placed Bill on a space junkyard maze to learn about the humans, before launching an invasion against people on Earth. The player controls Bill across 120 levels, each one divided into eight ships that feature their own variety of obstacles. The goal on every level is to get each block into hole fillers to make a path around the exit, without getting blocks stuck against walls or other obstacles under a time limit. Each block has their own weight and characteristics.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyalosperma%20praecox
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Hyalosperma praecox
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Hyalosperma praecox commonly known as fine-leaf sunray, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is an upright, annual herb with stems branching from the base and yellow or white flowers and grows in New South Wales and Victoria.
Description
Hyalosperma praecox is an upright, multi-stemmed annual high with stems arising from the base. The leaves are narrow, green, long, decreasing in size toward the apex, upper leaves with a dry appendage, and tapering to a point. The white or yellow flowers are borne singly, bracts in several rows, outer bracts about long, inner bracts about long, corolla has five lobes and about long. Flowering occurs in spring and the fruit is an oval-shaped cypsela about long and may be either smooth or warty.
Taxonomy and naming
This species was first described by Ferdinand von Mueller and given the name Helipterum praecox. In 1989 Paul Graham Wilson changed the name to Hyalosperma praecox and the description was published in Nuytsia. The specific epithet (praecox) means "early".
Distribution and habitat
Fine-leaf sunray grows in open forests or grasslands on sand or heavy loam soils in New South Wales and Victoria.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersey%20and%20West%20Lancashire%20Teaching%20Hospitals%20NHS%20Trust
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Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
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Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is an NHS trust that provides services throughout Merseyside and West Lancashire. It began operations on 1 July 2023, following the merger of Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust and St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Services
The trust provides care services at Whiston Hospital, St Helens Hospital, Southport and Formby District General Hospital, Ormskirk District General Hospital and Newton Hospital.
The trust also houses the North West Regional Spinal Injuries Centre, which is based at Southport and Formby District General Hospital, and the Mersey Region Burns and Plastic Surgery Unit, which is based at Whiston Hospital.
The trust also operates the Sefton Sexual Health Service, which provides sexual health services and clinics across the borough of Sefton.
The trust also operates a specialist wheelchair service for patients registered with GPs in West Lancashire, South Ribble and Chorley that is based in the Pimbo Industrial Estate in Skelmersdale.
History
The trust was formed on 1 July 2023, following regulatory approval of a merger between Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust and St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The trusts had already been working in close partnership after an agreement between the two trusts was signed in September 2021, meaning that the trusts would share a chief executive.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspiciliopsis
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Aspiciliopsis
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Aspiciliopsis is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Trapeliaceae. It has two species, both of which occur in the Southern Hemisphere.
Taxonomy
Swiss lichenologist Johannes Müller Argoviensis first proposed Aspiciliopsis as a section of the genus Placodium in 1884. Maurice Choisy promoted it to genus status in 1929. The genus name refers to the Aspicilia-like appearance of the apothecia, which are immersed in the thallus.
In a 1997 publication, H. Thorsten Lumbsch suggested that there were no significant differences between Aspiciliopsis and Placopsis, and thus he considered it unnecessary to retain Aspiciliopsis as a distinct genus. Later molecular phylogenetics work ultimately showed that the type species of Aspiciliopsis, A. macrophthalma, as well as two species of Orceolina, made up a distinct clade nested within Placopsis. This led to the resurrection of Aspiciliopsis as a monospecific genus distinct from both Orceolopsis and Placopsis.
Description
The thallus of Aspiciliopsis is thick and crust-like, spreading irregularly and forming shallow lobes along its edges. The surface varies in colour from a pale olive-green to grey-green when wet, and a light pinkish white to grey-white or off-white when dry. The surface can be minutely roughened to and usually has white at the edges. It lacks isidia, pseudocyphellae, or soredia — types of vegetative reproduction structures commonly found in other lichens.
The , or outer layer of the lichen, is , comprising cells 10–15 μm in diameter. The medulla, or inner part, is thick and white. The lichen associates with a unicellular, green alga for photosynthesis. In the thallus, there are that are flush with the thallus surface, minutely wrinkled to irregularly or radially cracked. These cephalodia are home to cyanobacteria, specifically either Nostoc or Scytonema species.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloit%20%28Kansas%20baseball%29
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Beloit (Kansas baseball)
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The Beloit team was a minor league baseball team based in Beloit, Kansas. Beloit was without a formal nickname, common in the era, as the franchise played the 1909 and 1910 seasons as members of the Class D level Central Kansas League. Beloit hosted minor league home games at the Association Park.
Beloit was home to the semi-professional "Beloit Leaguers" team from 1919 to 1922. In 1920, the Leaguers notably hosted five games against the visiting Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro National League.
History
The 1909 Beloit team was the first hosted minor league baseball team in Beloit, Kansas, beginning play as members of the 1909 Class D level Central Kansas League. The league expanded from six teams to eight teams in 1909, adding the Abilene and Beloit teams. The Abilene Red Sox, Clay Center Cubs, Ellsworth Blues, Junction City Soldiers, Manhattan Maroons, Minneapolis Minnies and Salina Trade Winners teams joined Beloit in beginning league play on June 14, 1909.
In their first season of play, Beloit placed sixth in the eight-team Central Kansas League. Beloit ended the 1909 season with a record of 33–36, as Hi Ebright served as manager. Beloit finished 12.0 games behind the first place Ellsworth Blues in the final league standings, as no playoffs were held. The final standings were led by Ellsworth (44–23), followed by the Salina Trade Winners (40–28), Abilene Red Sox (37–30), Minneapolis Minnies (36–32), Junction City Soldiers (34–32), Beloit (33–36), Clay Center Colts (32–37) and Manhattan Maroons (16–54).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonjoany
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Masonjoany
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Masonjoany () (or msindanu or msindzano in Comoros and Mayotte) is a cosmetic paste and sunscreen made of ground wood. It is worn as a protective and decorative mask by women and girls in Madagascar, Comoros, and Mayotte. In Madagascar, the paste has yellow and white forms, with yellow masonjoany being derived from the wood of the tabàky or Madagascar sandalwood (Coptosperma madagascarensis), and white masonjoany deriving from the wood of the aviavy or fihamy tree (Ficus grevei). In Comoros, the most commonly used tree for msindzano is Indian sandalwood (Santalum album), producing a "canary yellow" paste. The wood is ground against a surface of ceramic, stone, or coral skeleton, and combined with water and oil to make the paste. The practice in Madagascar originates from cultural exchange in Nosy Be between Malagasy natives and Indian merchants, who first arrived to the island in the 11th century CE.
Masonjoany is both protective and decorative: women wear it as sunscreen and insect repellent, and sometimes paint it in natural and abstract designs with a mix of contrasting white and yellow pastes. Common motifs in decorative masonjoany include flowers, stars, and leaves. Other benefits associated with masonjoany in Madagascar include anti-aging, eliminating skin impurities, and cleansing the skin. Other benefits ascribed in Comoros include the lightening of skin as well as treatment of medical ailments like eczema, acne, and allergies.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammobium%20craspedioides
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Ammobium craspedioides
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Ammobium craspedioides, commonly known as Yass daisy, is a species of perennial herb in the daisy family Asteraceae. It has slender stems, grey leaves and heads of yellow flowers and is endemic to New South Wales.
Description
Ammobium craspedioides is a perennial herb mostly high with unbranched, more or less woolly, slender stems and single flowers. The leaves are formed in a rosette, oblong to lance-shaped, long, wide, grey, upper surface with scale-like hairs, lower surface woolly, apex pointed and the petiole long. The yellow flower heads about in diameter, hemispherical, involucres bracts about long, dry and pale yellow. Flowering occurs in summer and the fruit is an achene about long, smooth and light brown.
Taxonomy and naming
Ammobium craspedioides was first formally described in 1857 by George Bentham and the description was published in Flora Australiensis. The specific epithet (craspedioides) means like the genus Craspedia.
Distribution and habitat
Yass daisy grows in woodland, forests and near roadsides in the Yass district of New South Wales.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol%20and%20Other%20Drug%20Treatment%20Court
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Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court
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The Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court (AODTC) is a specialist court in New Zealand which targets criminal offending driven by alcohol and drug addiction. There are three such specialised courts, in Auckland, Waitākere and Hamilton. Their purpose is to reduce the use of imprisonment by offering offenders with addictions the opportunity to attend treatment in the community. To be admitted to the AODTC, defendants have to be formally assessed as substance dependent (i.e. they have an addiction) by a qualified clinician, be facing a prison sentence of up to three years, and plead guilty.
The treatment programme takes up to 18 months. Participants are drug tested up to twice a week and subject to regular judicial monitoring of their progress. If the defendant successfully completes the programme, on graduation they are sentenced to Intensive Supervision in the community, instead of to prison. This enables additional support and drug testing to be provided for up to another two years.
The Auckland and Waitakere courts were established as a pilot programme in 2012. Judge Lisa Tremewan was appointed to run the Waitakere Court and Judge Ema Aitkin to run the court in Auckland. The pilot was evaluated extensively over the next five years to ascertain how well it was working and made permanent in 2019. In 2021, a new drug court was established in Hamilton. Despite the remarkable success of the AODTC at reducing reoffending, no further funding has been allocated in subsequent Budgets to roll drug courts out nationwide.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhenish%20Tower%2C%20Lynmouth
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Rhenish Tower, Lynmouth
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The Rhenish Tower is a building located on the pier of Lynmouth, in Devon, England, originally built in the 19th century. It is Grade II listed. The tower has been called "a Lynmouth icon".
History and description
It is a square tower, built mostly of rubble. Near the top are two balconies supported by brick machicolations, and above this is a brick turret with a fire basket. The tower acquired its name because it was said to resemble a tower on the River Rhine.
It is thought to have been built in the early 19th century as a beacon to guide mariners. Because the tower was regarded as an eyesore, the balconies were added. An electric light was later fitted as a beacon.
There was an alternative original function: to provide salt water from a tank in the tower to baths in the Bath Hotel on Lynmouth Street (now Grade II listed). Bathing in salt water was believed to be good for health, and allowing participants to avoid cold water or heavy waves.
The tower was the subject of paintings by Arthur Lee (mid 19th-century) and Samuel Calvert. They are both in Lynton Town Hall.
The tower was destroyed by the Lynmouth Flood on 15 August 1952, and was rebuilt in 1954. The fire basket, salvaged from the beach, was the only retained part from the original tower.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%C5%A1an%20Ogrin
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Dušan Ogrin
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Pedagogy
Ogrin founded and directed the study of landscape architecture at the University of Ljubljana, expanded the staff of lecturers and assistants, taught studio courses (Urban Landscape Planning, Landscape Design, Cultural Landscape Protection) and theoretical courses (Theory and Development of Landscape Design, and many others).
He lectured at 29 universities in Europe, the USA, Canada and Asia. He was a visiting professor at Cornell University, Utah State University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Louisiana State University, University of Arizona, University of California, Berkeley), Pomona College, Seattle (Washington), Athens (Georgia), Madison (Wisconsin), Amherst (Massachusetts) and Charlottesville (Virginia) in the USA, Peking University, Montreal (Canada), Ås (Norway), Haifa (Israel), Sheffield (UK) and Hanover (Germany). He was a visiting lecturer at Harvard University ten times between 1983 and 1992.
He mentored students in their preparation of bachelor's and master's theses. During his 43 years of teaching at the Faculty of Biotechnics (1957-2000), he mentored 46 bachelor's theses out of a total of 120 graduates, three of which were awarded the faculty's Prešeren Award, as well as 11 master's theses, out of a total of 120 graduates.
Scientific and professional work
At the very beginning of the professional development of landscape architecture in Slovenia, between 1969 and 1972, Ogrin organised five international conferences, which raised issues of landscape architecture and spatial planning that are still relevant today.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Mausoleum
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Howard Mausoleum
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Howard Mausoleum was erected in County Wicklow, Ireland, commissioned in 1785, for the first Viscount of Wicklow, Ralph Howard. The architect is believed to have been Simon Vierpyl.
History
The granite mausoleum was built to house the remains of the Howard family near Shelton Abbey, close to Arklow in County Wicklow. Until as recently as 2001 it was at significant risk due to neglect. However it is now being restored by the Arklow Marine and Heritage Committee with TÚS.
The first burial to take place there was Isabella Howard, the Vicount's daughter who died at nineteen in December 1784, a year before the pyramid was built. The last burial is recorded as 1823. The tomb was designed to hold 33 people but only 18 were actually interred within it. There is a local ghost story of the body of an infant being interred in the monument which cried at night until taken and reburied elsewhere. The tomb was then silent.
In writing about the location John Betjeman described it as the largest pyramid tomb ‘beyond the banks of the Nile’.
There is a second tomb housing another branch of the family, often mistaken for part of the pyramid. It is an Egyptian-style temple fronted building.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinondoni%20Cemetery
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Kinondoni Cemetery
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Kionondoni Municipal Cemetery (Makaburi ya Manispaa ya Kinondoni, in Swahili) is a historic civil cemetery located in Hananasif ward of Kinondoni District in the Dar es Salaam Region of Tanzania. Ten Commonwealth soldiers from the Second World War are buried in this civil cemetery. The commission is also in charge of the cemetery's four non-war graves and one Belgian war grave.
Overview
There are two sections of the cemetery: Kinondoni FM and Kinondoni Mwembejiji. Within them are subsections of Kionondoni I and II. Famous people like Herman Lupogo, Steve Kabyumba, and Josina Machel, Ephraim Kibonde are buried at the cemetery.
History
A German former colonizer founded the cemetery in 1938, and the British Administration later changed the name to New European Cemetery. In the 1960s, the cemetery was regarded as an upper-class burial ground, but today, people from all social groups are interred there. It is still regarded as the city's most expensive cemetery. Anglicans, Protestants, Catholics, and Bahaiis are buried in the cemetery's eastern section, while Muslims and Christians are buried in Kinondoni Cemetery II in the cemetery's western section.
Congestion and controversy
Investigations by Anadolu Agency in Dar es Salaam showed that burial activities continue unabated at graveyards that are overcrowded, like the Kinondoni and Temeke cemeteries. Investigations have revealed that shady gravediggers and site managers are charging grieving families exorbitant prices for tombs at these locations. According to the inquiry, dishonest grave diggers frequently search for old or unmarked graves to sell space to families in need of new graves. The popular Kindondoni cemetery is at capacity, with the exception of very wealthy families who have secured space, according to the investigation.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe%20Gill
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Phoebe Gill
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Phoebe Gill (born 27 April 2007) is a British track and field athlete who competes as a middle-distance runner. In 2023, she became the British under-17 record holder over both 800 metres and 1500 metres. On 30 June 2024 she won the British 800 metres title at the national championships. Phoebe also claimed the European Under-18 record holder for 800 metres in 2024.
Early life
Gill is from St Albans in Hertfordshire. She was initially focused on swimming before turning her attentions towards athletics. She attends St George's School, Harpenden and became a member of St Albans Athletics Club at under-11 level.
Career
2022
Coached by Deborah Steer at St Albans Athletic Club, Gill set the fifth fastest British U17 age group 800m time in May 2022, running 2:03.74 at the Watford Open Graded Meeting. This placed her ahead of Keely Hodgkinson at the same age and was the fastest by a British U17 athlete since Jessica Warner-Judd in 2011. In August 2022, Gill ran a 1500m time of 4:14.08 which became the fastest ever in the under-17 age group, ran in the UK.
2023
Gill won the English schools title over 800m in July 2023. In July 2023, Gill broke Warner-Judd's U17 British record for the 1500m, when she ran 4:11.96 at the BMC Watford Gold Standard meeting.
Gill was selected to represent England at the 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in August 2023. She clocked a time of 2:02:30 to win gold in the 800m, the fastest time by a British U17 female athlete since Jo White in 1977.
Racing in Britain again later in August 2023, she set a new British U17 record for the 800 metres, running 2:01.50 in Watford.
2024
On 1 January 2024, Gill took more than three seconds off of her indoor 400m personal best, running 54.82 in Lee Valley (mixed gender).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20World%20Not%20Our%20Own
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A World Not Our Own
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A World Not Our Own (Arabic: عالم ليس لنا) is a short story collection by the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani. All the stories in this collection were written between 1959 and 1963, lest for the last story, which was written in 1965. The anthology was published for the first time in 1965 in Beirut. The collection portrays the life of the average Palestinian citizen under the occupation, centering on the never-ending fear and anxiety. Kanafani focuses on the usage of figurative language to address the Palestinian Cause and its effects on Palestinians in Palestine and in the diaspora. The collection takes inspiration from Kanafani's biography, and his struggle with alienation. It also deals with his insistence on his intellectual and physical resistance. Kanafani's preference to use figurative language has political and literary purposes, which he elaborates on in his study Resistance Literature in Occupied Palestine: 1948–1966.
Kanafani addresses his idea of intellectual and weaponized resistance, and this idea persists throughout his oeuvre. The influences of Modernism on Kanafani could be detected in many elements of the collection, primarily his choice to make marginalized characters the protagonists of his stories. Despite the stories centering on different plots, they all go on to form one main message, and it is that of geographical alienation.
Stories in the collection
The collection is composed of fifteen short stories, including: Judranun Min Hadid (Walls of Iron), Al-Saqr (The Falcon), Kafarul Munajjim (The Foreteller's Village), Judranuhu Wa Kaffuhu Wa Assabi’uhu (His walls, Palm, and Fingers), Al-Munazalaq (The Slide), Ulbatul Zujajin Wahida (A Glass Bottle), Atashul Afa’a (The Snake's Thirst), Law Kuntu Hisanan (If I Were A Horse), Nisful ‘Aalam (Half of The World), Al-Shati' (The Beach), Risala Min Masuood (A Letter From Masuood), Jahsh (Donkey), Ra’asul Asad Al-Hajari (The Lion’s Stone Head), and Al-’Aroos (The Bride).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Swamp%20%28novel%29
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The Swamp (novel)
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The Swamp is a novel by the Syrian novelist Hanna Mina, published in 1977. It is the second book of a trilogy inspired by the author's early life in the modern-day Turkish province of Hatay that used to be inhabited by Arabic-speaking people from neighbouring north-western Syria.
Plot
The story takes place in the Sanjak of Alexandretta, 'Saz' in Turkish, meaning 'Swamp,' during the Second World War. The French Mandate had, according to Mina "in collusion with other countries", decided to hand over the Sanjak to Turkey. These events coincided with a severe economic crisis known as "Al-Kariza," which forced people to endure harsh measures to secure their lives, including collecting insects.
Consequently, and due to eating raw snails and the insufficiency of other food, the neighbourhood was hit with a mysterious illness, the municipality imposed quarantine on the infected individuals, out of fear that the disease might be Cholera. Quarantining people, alongside the hunger and illness, did not have positive outcomes; hence, suicide spread.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20burning%20of%20waste
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Open burning of waste
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The open burning of waste is a disposal method of waste or garbage. It is a disposal method used globally, but often used in low and middle-income countries that lack adequate waste disposal infrastructure. Numerous governments and institutions have identified the open burning of waste as a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. It also poses health risks with the cocktail of air pollutants often created when waste is burned in an open air environment.
At COP26 open waste burning was raised as a major contributor to climate change. It produces a wide range of atmospheric pollutants including short lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), such as black carbon (BC). BC emissions are a major source of fine particulate matter, with a climate change impact up to 5,000 greater than .
Background
The United Nations has raised concerns about the amount of black carbon and methane produced from open burning as a method of waste disposal. Many cities and regions suffer with air pollution and low air quality as a direct result of open burning of waste.
It is common for many toxic gases to be released into the atmosphere as a result of open burning of waste. They can include POMs, PAHs, VOCs such as furans; heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury and lead; carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulphur oxides, hydrochloric acid, dioxins and PCBs. "Some of these pollutants can also end up in the ash that is left behind from open burning of garbage". Studies by researchers from London's King’s and Imperial colleges both showed that burning of polystyrene and polyethylene terephthalate produce high amounts of soot. Both are common in plastic water bottles.
According to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, “burning anything in the outdoors can cause a wildfire ... Debris burning is the number one cause of wildfires in Wisconsin and accounts for thousands of acres of forested land unintentionally burned, and hundreds of structures threatened every year”.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriana%20Dias
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Adriana Dias
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Adriana Abreu Magalhaes Dias (1970 – January 29, 2023) was a Brazilian feminist anthropologist, anti-fascist and activist for the rights of people with disabilities and rare diseases. Because of her work, Dias was nicknamed the "Nazi hunter".
Biography
She holds a degree in Social Sciences from the State University of Campinas, a master's (2007) and a doctorate (2018) in anthropology from the same institution. Since her graduation, Dias has specialized in the study of neo-Nazism in Brazil; her work discusses the organization of these groups in virtual environments. In her methodology, whenever she found a neo-Nazi website, she would physically print it out and report it until it was taken down. Dias identified 334 active neo-Nazi cells in the country, that number having jumped to 530 by 2021. One of her discoveries was a 2004 letter signed by then deputy Jair Bolsonaro posted on a neo-Nazi website; in it the politician writes, "Every feedback I get from the communiqués becomes a stimulus to my work. You are the reason my mandate exists.”
Dias had osteogenesis imperfecta, and became known for her activism for the rights of people with disabilities and rare diseases. She was the creator of Instituto Baresi, a national forum associating people with rare diseases, disabilities, and other minority groups, and coordinated the Brazilian Anthropology Association's "Disability and Accessibility" Committee. and was a member of the American Anthropological Association. In politics, she integrated the National Front for Women with Disabilities, was part of the Life and Justice Association in Support of Victims of COVID-19, and participated in the transition team for the third government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in 2022, She participated in hearings of the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission of the Campinas Chamber that investigated Nazi-fascist crimes, and was important in the creation of the bill that instituted the National Day for Rare Diseases.
Dias died aged 52 anos on 29 January 2023, of brain cancer.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Andrew%27s%20Mission%20Church%20%28Charleston%2C%20South%20Carolina%29
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St. Andrew's Mission Church (Charleston, South Carolina)
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In March 1873 Bishop William B. W. Howe confirmed six more at Magwood's Chapel. "I had feared lately," Drayton said, "that the efforts of political preachers and exhorters would tell fatally upon my chapel congregation. But [I] am glad to say that after a full investigation and a face to face talk with my people, I find them determined to abide in the communion of the Church in which they have so long worshipped." The following year he related that "the devotion of my people to our Church continues firm and unabated. They are with rare exceptions, very poor; yet they are doing what they can to aid in restoring our places of worship, and in sending the Gospel to those at home and abroad. May our Church never neglect to foster those who, amid so many, so peculiar, so strong temptations to leave her have yet remained steadfast."
Despite inclement weather, Drayton wrote in 1875, "the interest of my people has not flagged, and, with great distances to overcome, they have continued 'the assembling of themselves together.'" Magwood's Chapel had fallen into disrepair but was restored "as to greatly eclipse [its] former state." After Barker's Chapel was destroyed by fire in 1876, those who had attended services there and who could make the journey now used Magwood's Chapel. The spirit of Drayton's parishioners never wavered in the face of hardship. "The last summer's drought," he reported in 1876, "brought great distress and suffering among my poor people, but they have continued to give in spite of their poverty".
Drayton praised his black congregation to anyone who would listen. "Some of our brethren warned us, not long since, that the exodus of our colored worshippers was near at hand," he reported to the diocese. "I wish that they could come and spend a Sunday with us." Another 26 were confirmed at the chapel in 1880.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Turner%20%28recorder%20player%29
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John Turner (recorder player)
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John Turner (born 1943) is an English recorder player and a former lawyer. He has done much to encourage the development of contemporary music for the recorder, particularly from British composers.
Turner was born in Stockport and attended Stockport Grammar School, where the music master was Geoffrey Verney (previously a colleague of Ralph Vaughan Williams) and the assistant music master Douglas Steele (1910-1999, a composer and previously an assistant to Thomas Beecham at Covent Garden). Here Turner began to play recorder and was first introduced to a wide range of repertoire.
He went on to study law at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he also continued to pursue his musical interests with contemporaries such as Christopher Hogwood and David Munrow. He then took up a legal career, often acting for musicians and musical institutions. In later life he retired from legal work and became a full time musician.
Many composers have written recorder music especially for Turner, including Arthur Butterworth, John Casken, Arnold Cooke, Gordon Crosse, Peter Dickinson, Howard Ferguson, John Gardner, Anthony Gilbert, Peter Hope, John Joubert, Kenneth Leighton, Norman Kay, Robin Orr, Ian Parrott, Ronald Stevenson and Christopher Wright. He claims to have given over 600 first performances of works for the recorder, including pieces by non-British composers such as Leonard Bernstein, Ned Rorem and Peter Sculthorpe. Turner is also a composer of works such as the Four Diversions for descant recorder and piano, which were first performed by David Munrow and Christopher Hogwood at Adlington Hall, Macclesfield in 1969.
Turner has issued many recordings, including (with pianist Peter Lawson) John and Peter's Whistling Book, English Recorder Concertos, Jigs, Airs and Reels, and titles issued by Divine Art Recordings.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella%20Forbes
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Isabella Forbes
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In 1965, on the death of Forbes-Sempill's brother, William Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill, 11th Baronet Forbes of Craigievar, her husband stood to claim the Forbes baronetcy. His first cousin, John Alexander Cumnock Forbes-Sempill, son of Rear Admiral Arthur Forbes-Semphill, challenged the succession on the grounds that the baronetecy could only be passed to a male heir. A case was made before the Court of Session, which ruled that her husband was rightfully the baronet. John Forbes-Sempill challenged the ruling, and the case was brought before the Home Secretary, James Callaghan. Callaghan ruled that Ewan Forbes, as he was then known, to be entered into the Roll of Baronets as the 11th Forbes baronet. Upon her husband's succession to the title, she became styled as Lady Forbes of Craigievar. Her husband recognized that Lady Forbes had been a source of strength for him throughout the legal battle and dedicated his book The Aul' Days to her, writing "my wife who has taken such an interest in all the country lore and been my help at all times."
In 1955, Lady Forbes' husband gave up his medical practice, and the two devoted themselves to farming their 1,300 acre estate at Brux Castle.
She was widowed in 1991. Lady Forbes died on 17 February 2002 at Aberlour.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho%3A%20A%20New%20Translation
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Sappho: A New Translation
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In his review of Barnard's translation, Burton Raffel described Barnard's work as "as nearly perfect an English translation as one can find, a great translation, an immensely moving translation, complete, beautiful, deserving of endless praise". The classicist Guy Davenport, who published his own translation of Sappho's work in 1965, called it "surely the best Greek translation in American literature". In a 1994 review, Lorrie Goldensohn said that it was still one of the best English translations of Sappho's poetry. Barnard's translation is particularly influential in the US, where according to Josephine Balmer it is "iconic". It has been set to music twice, by the composers Sheila Silver and David Ward-Steinman.
Barnard's translation has influenced many subsequent writers. Bruce Whiteman identifies the translations of Sappho's works by Davenport and Jim Powell following in Barnard's poetic lineage. Josephine Balmer acknowledges Barnard as an inspiration for her own translation of Sappho's poetry. The classicist Page duBois has credited reading Sappho: A New Translation as a teenager with inspiring her to learn ancient Greek.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jung%20Jinho
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Jung Jinho
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Jung Jinho (born 1987 in Daegu, South Korea), a South Korean architect, author and illustrator. His picture book Look Up! won a mention in the Opera prima category at the 2015 Bologna Ragazzi Awards, and was selected as an IBBY Outstanding Book for Young People With Disabilities in 2017. He received a Special Mention in the Art - Architecture & Design category at the 2018 Bologna Ragazzi Awards with his book Wall. His best known works include Look Up!, Wall, Me and the Stars, 3-Second Diving, and The Fox Goblin.
Life
Jung Jinho born in 1987 in Daegu Metropolitan City, South Korea, studied architecture at Hanyang University. Involved in an accident when he was two years old, he spent his childhood days in the hospital with picture books at his bedside. As a child, he frequented comic book rental shops with his sister, where girls’ romance comics nurtured his sensitive, artistic side. He majored in architecture at Hanyang University, but took his first step as a picture book author by exhibiting a pile of picture books instead of building models for his graduation thesis. He currently works as a picture book author and illustrator, building narrative structures within picture books. He lives in the city of Seongnam with his wife and two cats, and creates picture books and independent publications.
Career
Jung Jinho completed his “architecture trilogy” picture books with Look up!, Wall, and Me and the Stars. His first picture book, Look Up!, won a mention in the Opera prima category at the 2015 Bologna Ragazzi Awards, and was selected as an IBBY Outstanding Book for Young People With Disabilities. He received a Special Mention in Art at the 2018 Bologna Ragazzi Awards with his book Wall.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20irregular%20units%20in%20Ukraine
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Russian irregular units in Ukraine
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Russia's invasion effort has left the military strapped for volunteers to join the armed forces. In an attempt to circumvent this, Russia has employed a number of tactics to garner more recruits. The largest is to have Russian companies and organizations that are directly or indirectly tied to the Russian government to raise mercenary groups. The basis of these formations is that the higher pay and more stringent recruitment methods will garner more interest and volunteers from civilians, mainly veterans, who have not already joined the war effort. Similarly, many of Russia's subdivisions are paid by the government to raise volunteer militias, usually consisting of between 200 and 400 personnel. These units are largely former veterans, mostly of the Soviet–Afghan War and are between the ages of 50 and 60, however, that is not always the case, as the key driver for recruitment to these units is the higher pay they offer than a mobilized conscript, and the cult of personality around the politicians that created the units. In 2015 Russia created the Combat Army Reserves (BARS) in an attempt to create an analogous reservist organization to the British Territorial Army or the United States Army Reserve with members being paid a salary to undergo part time military training. Additionally, most of the members of BARS units are retained veterans from the War in Donbass.
Private military companies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20San%20Andres%20%28Cuellar%29
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Church of San Andres (Cuellar)
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It houses the image of a Romanesque Christ of the 14th century, which presided over the old church of San Gil, which gives it its name, and to which the people in Cuéllar profess a great devotion. According to what can be read on a plaque, the bishop of Segovia Fernando de Guzmán y Portocarrero granted 1690 forty days of indulgence to all the people who visited the Christ or who gave alms for oil or wax. It is one of the images that participate in the Holy Week.
Baroque organ
The church organ is located at the back of the church, next to the choir. It is perfectly documented; it was built in 1843 by Julián Azura García, a master organ builder present in the provinces of Segovia and Burgos. It is a baroque-style piece and has a handwritten inscription on the wind chest, which reads "This organ was made by Julián Azuara. Being priest Don Isidoro Ibáñez Alonso. In the year 1843"
It was intervened importantly in 1919 by Mariano Velázquez, organ builder of Arévalo, who changed the air system of the piece. At the end of the 20th century, it was dismantled during the restoration of the church and was not put back in its place. It remained dismantled until 2012 when it was placed next to the choir after being completely restored a year earlier by the Jesuit Fermín Trueba. On the occasion of the intervention, it was inaugurated with an organ concert the same year.
It was originally located above the choir, on a raised platform that was removed in the last restoration of the building to leave a Mudejar arch visible. After the restoration of the musical piece, it was placed next to the choir, as it was impossible to put it back in its original place.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphamia%20tubifer
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Siphamia tubifer
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Siphamia tubifer, also known as the sea urchin cardinalfish, is a small (~7 cm) coral reef fish in the family Apogonidae. Its geographic range extends from East Africa to the French Polynesian Islands.
Details
During the day, the sea urchin cardinalfish hides among the spines of sea urchins, and it emerges to feed at night. Male S. tubifer are mouthbrooders, holding their fertilized clutches of eggs in their mouths and releasing the larvae when they are in the preflexion stage. This fish has a facultative symbiotic relationship with a bacterium, Photobacterium mandapamensis, which provides bioluminescence for the fish in a specialized light organ in its abdomen.
Bioluminescence
S. tubifer is thought to acquire the bacteria through ingestion of seawater after its light organ has mostly developed. The luminescence system primarily consists of a ventral light organ that holds the bacteria and a shutter lens in the abdomen. The fish can open and close this shutter at will, controlling the light that it emits. One study showed that at twilight, S. tubifer left its urchin and luminesced to attract and feed on zooplankton near the ocean bottom. Once completely dark again, it stopped emitting light and returned.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross%20Country%20Suite
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Cross Country Suite
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Cross Country Suite is a studio album by clarinetist Buddy DeFranco, in a performance of the work of the same name, composed by Nelson Riddle.
Origin and Reception
Nelson Riddle composed "Cross Country Suite" in 1958 for Buddy DeFranco, who wanted a composition to play at a Le Blanc Clarinet clinic. DeFranco said he "felt it should be a combination of a big band, jazz, and an orchestra . . . [and] it turned out to be one of the best things [Riddle] ever wrote." The suite was also one of Riddle's favorite projects, which he intended to showcase the be-bop clarinetist's brilliance.
The Riddle/DeFranco partnership had its roots in the Swing Era. According to the album liner notes:
They played with and wrote for some of [the era's] giants: Buddy with the bands of Charlie Barnet, Count Basie, Gene Krupa, and Tommy Dorsey; Nelson with those of Charlie Spivak, Bob Crosby, and Tommy Dorsey. It was with the Dorsey orchestra some years ago, in fact, that Cross Country Suite was really born. Riddle and Defranco were contemporaries in that organization; each came to feel that musically he had something to give the other, and they spoke often of such future collaborations as this.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Lumsden
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Thomas Lumsden
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Thomas Arnot Lumsden was a Scottish mathematician, who was educated at the University of Edinburgh, and lectured at Birmingham University. He published "A certain type of Fourier-Bessel Series", a paper about Bessel functions, in 1924. Lumsden, who served during both World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1941–1945), was killed in action in 1944.
Personal life, education, and World War I
Thomas Lumsden was born on 19 September 1895 in Edinburgh, to Mary Scott Arnott, who was born in Glasgow in 1857, and William Lumsden, a wood turner born in 1858 in Penicuik, Scotland. He had an older sister, Janet (1889-1935), and younger brother, Andrew (born in 1898).
Lumsden started studying at George Heriot's in 1906, a private school in Edinburgh. He matriculated at the University of Edinburgh in October 1912.
Lumsden took a break from his studies to fight in World War I where he was assigned to a Special Brigade of the Royal Engineers. He was a corporal from July 1915 to April 1917. Lumsden worked then in Munitions until December 1918. Lumsden was awarded a BSc in absentia on 5 July 1917. He returned from his service in 1918 to continue his studies at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with honours for his master's degree in 1919.
On 4 August 1924, Lumsden married Florence Milne Falconer in Abernyte, Perthshire. Their only child, William Fairly Lumsden was born on 6 February 1926.
Career
Between 1919-1920, Lumsden remained at the University of Edinburgh as an Assistant in Natural Philosophy (under the Nichol Foundation). Following this, he moved to Birmingham to take a position as a lecturer in mathematics at University of Birmingham.
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Berardino Rota
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Berardino Rota (1509 – 26 December 1574) was an Italian Renaissance humanist and poet.
Biography
Born to a wealthy and noble Neapolitan family, Rota was a disciple of Marcantonio Epicuro.
He was a leading figure in the literary life of the middle of the 16th century. He numbered among his friends Annibale Caro, Piero Vettori, and Paulus Manutius and was a member of Vittoria Colonna's literary circle. In 1543 he married Porzia Capece, the daughter of the head of the Accademia Pontaniana Scipione Capece. In 1546, Rota became a member of the Accademia dei Sereni in Naples. He was a knight of the Order of Santiago, and held the position of Secretary to the city of Naples. He died in Naples on 26 December 1574.
Works
Together with Luigi Tansillo, Angelo di Costanzo, and Galeazzo di Tarsia, Rota was one of the most celebrated Neapolitan poets of his generation. He was a pivotal figure in the revival of Petrarchism in Naples.
Rota wrote both Italian and Latin poetry. He owes his fame mainly to a form of poetry that belongs peculiarly to Naples, the piscatorial eclogue. This form, which his countryman Sannazaro had invented and practised in Latin, Rota transferred to the vernacular. He composed his piscatorial eclogues about 1533; they were printed in 1560, 1566, 1567, and 1572. Rota was of the same generation as Della Casa, and one sees in his Eclogues a Latinisation of the style parallel to Della Casa's infusion of Horatian and Virgilian gravity into the sonnet.
Besides his eclogues, Rota composed a much praised collection of sonnets written on the death of his wife in 1559. These Sonetti et Canzoni were published with the poet's Ecloghe Pescatorie (separate title and pagination) at Naples in 1560.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnella%20Frazer%20Jackson
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Johnnella Frazer Jackson
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Johnella Frazer Jackson (September 18, 1896 – January 5, 1981) was an educator, musician, and civil rights activist who taught for 49 years at Virginia State University. She was the school's first-time full-time piano teacher and composed the school's alma mater.
Early life
Frazer was born in Shelbyville, Kentucky on September 18, 1896, to Patterson Tilford Frazer and Laura Sonata Tevis Frazer. Her father was president of Hopkinsville College.
Education
Frazer attended grade school through college preparatory at Hopkinsville College and then went to Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she became a graduate of its music department and majored in music with a piano concentration.
Career
The next school year (1915–1916), she travelled with the Fisk University Singers as a piano accompanist for Mrs. John W. Work, (Agnes Haynes) contralto soloist with the group. They toured 28 Eastern states introducing spirituals. One concert was given in Richmond and some Fisk graduates on the faculty at Virginia State came to hear it. That was her first contact with the college and the next year she went there as a full-time music teacher and stayed.
She joined the Virginia State faculty in 1916 along with another Fisk graduate, Felicia D. Anderson. They collaborated on Virginia State University's alma mater. She did advanced study at Temple University, William Sylvano Thunder, the Chicago Musical College with Richard Hageman and Columbia Teachers College with Robert Pace.
Activism and organizational leadership
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Fourth of July Mice! is a 2004 children's picture book written by Bethany Roberts and illustrated by Doug Cushman, part of the team's Holiday Mice series. The book, about a family of mice celebrating U.S. Independence Day, was published to positive reviews.
Synopsis
A family of mice spend Independence Day holding a parade, playing baseball, swimming in the pool, and enjoying fireworks among other activities.
Background
The book is the seventh (and to date, the last) instalment of Roberts and Cushman's Holiday Mice series, whose title characters previously appeared in Halloween Mice! (1995) and Thanksgiving Mice! (2001).
Reception
Fourth of July Mice! received positive reviews. The School Library Journal called it a "slice-of-life story [that is] slight but pleasant", and Publishers Weekly deemed it a "light, rhymed romp". Writing for Booklist, Connie Fletcher said: "[Fourth of July Mice!] just about gushes red, white, and blue—from the colors of the clothing the family wears to the all-American activities that form the backbone of the book....A charming way to prepare for the holiday." The mice's proceedings "[made for] great fun written in quick, rhyming text" (per Bonnie Fowler of the Winston-Salem Journal), while "very simple language helps kids understand the celebration" (according to Children's Bookwatch).
School Library Journal, Booklist, and Winston-Salem praised Doug Cushman's illustrations, along with The Horn Book (which was otherwise less enthusiastic). "The energetic watercolors," The Horn Book reviewer said, "capture the holiday spirit better than the lackluster rhyming text, which relies too heavily on repeated words and onomatopoeia." Four years after its publication, the Spartanburg Herald-Journal wrote, "Featuring the Holiday Mice at their most adorable, this story about our nation's birthday will delight readers young and old."
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Shellie Zhang
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Shellie Zhang (born 1991) is a Chinese multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Ontario.
Zhang is known for work that examines identity, diaspora, gender and tradition.
Her 2018 exhibit A Place for Wholesome Amusement re-imagined marquees for 285 Spadina in Toronto, which previously housed the Standard Theater, a Yiddish playhouse, and the Golden Harvest Theatre, which screened kung-fu films to parallel the histories of immigrant communities in the same space at different points in time. The work was inspired by research conducted at the Ontario Jewish Archives.
Zhang's book Fusion Cuisine, Now with Added MSG! (2018), published with the Art Gallery of York University, looks at the MSG a seasoning additive in Chinese cooking and the role xenophobia played in modern attitudes about the ingredient.
In 2019, Zhang created a project from research in the Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan, the Moosejaw Archives and Library and the City of Saskatoon Archives about the stories of early Chinese settlers in the prairies. The project, Believe it or Not, presented her findings and included seminal stories of Chinese Canadian history such as the Supreme Court of Canada case Quong Wing v.R.
During the 2022–2023 season, Zhang's Beacons was featured along Toronto's Bentway skating trail. Her work and the Bentway's programming was centred on creating a warm public space for newcomers experiencing their first winter in Canada.
On December 16, 2022, she began as artist in residence at The Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego until January 15, 2023.
In 2023, her public art project, Flowers Between, presented a visual and historical parallel between two early Chinese Canadian businesses located in the Region of Waterloo.
Zhang's work is in public collections such as the Robert McLaughlin Gallery and the McMaster Museum of Art.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/258th%20Rifle%20Division
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258th Rifle Division
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A new 258th was formed in late April 1942 based on the 1st formation of the 43rd Rifle Brigade. After several months of forming up and training, first in the Moscow area and later in the Don River area it was assigned to the 1st Guards Army in Stalingrad Front but soon moved to Don Front. During September and October it took part in two offensives attempting to break through to Stalingrad from the north, but these proved to be abortive and costly efforts. Later in October the division was briefly moved to 24th Army in the same Front, but was shifted to 65th Army prior to the start of the Soviet counteroffensive. After German 6th Army was encircled in late November the 258th shifted south, first to 5th Tank Army and later to the newly-formed 5th Shock Army, soon part of the re-created Southern Front. It remained under these commands for the duration of this formation, advancing westward along the Don River and into the eastern Donbas, reaching the Mius River in late February, 1943. For these accomplishments it became the 96th Guards Rifle Division on May 4.
A third 258th was formed in 25th Army of Far Eastern Front in July 1943, based on a separate rifle regiment. It remained under these commands for the remainder of the year, joining 88th Rifle Corps in August. When the Manchurian operation began on August 9, 1945 the division, with its Corps, was in the reserves of 1st Far Eastern Front and was committed two days later. During the remainder of the month it advanced into northern Korea, eventually reaching the 38th parallel. In recognition of its part in the victory, on September 19 it was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. It was disbanded in August 1946.
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258th Rifle Division
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5th Tank Army continued to struggle along the Chir into early December. It was recorded at this time that the division's personnel were roughly 50 percent Russian, 30 percent Turkmen, and 20 percent penal troops. On December 8 a new 5th Shock Army, under command of Lt. Gen. M. M. Popov, was formed in the area, consisting of 4th Guards, 258th, 300th, 315th, and 87th Rifle Divisions, 4th Mechanized Corps, 7th and 23rd Tank Corps, and 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps. Its task was to "destroy the enemy's Nizhne-Chirskaya and Tormosin groupings in cooperation with 5th Tank Army" as well as to prevent any relief of the Stalingrad pocket from this area; this was considered more likely than the operation that eventually began on the Kotelnikovo axis. 5th Shock became fully operational overnight on December 11–12 when the 4th Guards and 258th came under command.
On December 9 the 258th was on the right flank of the new Army, facing elements of 336th Infantry Division in the Lisinsky area. During December 11 the division attacked across the Chir in cooperation with the 6th Guards Cavalry Division and a brigade of the 1st Tank Corps and took Lisinsky; a force of about 15 tanks then got into the rear of the 336th's 685th Regiment. This and another incursion of tanks by 5th Mechanized Corps near Surovikino forced the local German command to call on XXXXVIII Panzer Corps for assistance. The next day roughly half of the 15th Panzer Regiment of 11th Panzer Division intervened, smashed the exploiting tanks and assisted the 336th in retaking Lisinsky in the afternoon. While this was a setback, it further eroded the strength of the prospective relief force.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huanjing%20bunao
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Huanjing bunao
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Regarding the semen, Hippocrates (c. 460- c. 370 BCE) said, "The greater quantity of the material of generation, it is believed on the authority of Galen, is drawn from the brain." (, ). This refers to the Pseudo-Galen , "The semen, as Plato and Diocles opine, is discharged by the brain and the spinal marrow, while Praxagoras and Democritus and thereafter Hippocrates maintain it comes from the whole body." (Noble 2014: 397)
Based upon contemporary medical resources, the anatomical drawing by Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) shows two duct systems entering the penis, one with several branches from the lower spinal cord fusing to form a duct that goes directly through to the tip of the penis, the other system going from the testes with a duct sweeping backwards to circle the bladder before returning to enter the penis (Noble 2014: 393). In the bottom left sketches, note the two channels in the penis, one for urine and one for semen, rather than a single urethra. Leonardo "labeled the spinal cord 'generative power', reflecting the Platonic view (which he later abandoned) that semen derives from the spinal marrow" (Pevsner 2002: 219). Leonardo da Vinci corrected his anatomical mistakes in a lesser-known second (probably after 1508) drawing accurately based on dissection (Noble 2014: 395).
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Johanna Ambrosius
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Johanna Ambrosius (also Johanna Voigt; 1854–1939) was a German poet. Born to a poor peasant family in East Prussia, she received little education and did not start writing poetry until around 1884. Her works were published in various magazines and she came to the attention of Austrian writer Karl Weiß who published a collection of her poems. Her fame peaked in the late 1890s and many of her poems were set to music.
Life and family
Johanna Ambrosius was born on 3 August 1854 in Lengwethen, a village in East Prussia, the second of fourteen children of a craftsman. She grew up in poverty and attended the village school in Lengwethen until she was 11. From then on she helped her parents in the fields and in the house and was hired out as a maid and landlady to estates in the area.
In 1875, she married Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt, the son of a farmer, and moved with him to Dirwonuppen in Kreis Tilsit. They had two children, Marie (born 1875) and Erich (born 1878). In 1883, they acquired a small house with land in Groß Wersmeningken near Lasdehnen in Kreis Pillkallen. Friedrich Voigt died in the summer of 1900. Eight years later, her first child Marie died at the age of 32. Ambrosius followed her son Erich to Königsberg in 1908, where she lived until her death on 27 February 1939. Her grave is in the Neuen Luisenfriedhof (New Luisen Cemetery) in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad).
Poetry
Ambrosius was writing her first poetry by 1884. Her sister Martha had sent some of her poems, without her knowledge, to several editors, among others to , editor of the weekly magazine Von Haus zu Haus. Subsequently, various magazines published individual poems of hers. As a result, she came to the attention of Austrian writer Karl Weiß, who published a collection of her poems in December 1894.
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Senna hirsuta
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Senna hirsuta, commonly known as woolly senna, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is native to Central and South America, but is naturalised in many other countries. It is an erect or spreading shrub or herbaceous perennial with pinnate leaves, with two to six pairs of egg-shaped leaflets, and yellow flowers arranged in groups of two to six, with six fertile stamens and four staminodes in each flower.
Description
Senna hirsuta is an erect or spreading shrub or herbaceous perennial that typically grows to a height of up to . Its leaves are pinnate, long on a petiole long, usually with two to six pairs of egg-shaped leaflets, sometimes with the narrower end towards the base. The leaflets are long and wide, usually spaced apart. There is a sessile gland at the base of the petiole. The flowers are yellow and arranged on the ends of branches and in upper leaf axils in groups of two to five on a peduncle about long, each flower on a pedicel long. The petals are long and there are six fertile stamens, the anthers long and of different lengths, as well as four staminodes. Flowering occurs in most months, and the fruit is a flattened cylindrical pod long, wide and curved.
Taxonomy and naming
This species was first formally described in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus who gave it the name Cassia hirsuta in Species Plantarum. In 1979, Howard Samuel Irwin and Rupert Charles Barneby transferred the species to the genus Senna as S. hirsuta in the journal Phytologia. The specific epithet (hirsuta) means "hairy".
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Minor Basilica of the Most Holy Rosary
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The facade, despite the various restorations it underwent over the years, still retained a large rose window above the front door, the mullioned windows of the side walls, and the towering bell tower, ending in four soaring spires. The ancient church, dating from the period 1310-20, originally had nine altars, four to the right and four to the left of the high altar, dedicated to Our Lady of the Fountain, behind which was the grotto, girded with iron gratings, where the Byzantine fresco discovered by the prince of Taranto was placed. The side chapels, according to ancient documents, were, starting from the right: that of the Venerable, in which was placed a crystal tabernacle of the Blessed Sacrament, of St. Peter the Apostle, of St. Cataldo, and of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem, in which a large relic enclosing a fragment of Christ's cross was venerated. From the left, on the other hand, were the altar of St. Anthony the Abbot, of St. Francis of Paola, of Our Lady of Graces, and of St. Andrew.
The 18th-century church
External architecture
In some respects, the structure of the facade is similar to the churches of the Gesù and of St. Ignatius, both located in Rome. The movement of the lesenes, combined with Corinthian capitals, creates a "plastic-pictorial" effect, giving the facade a wave-like pattern. In general, the design of the facade shows numerous affinities with the various designs executed by Vignola, Borromini and Barigioni, making it more similar to Roman Baroque churches than churches in neighboring towns, which were instead influenced more distinctly by the Lecce Baroque.
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The dome is the tallest in Salento, and ends with a soaring lantern. It is clad on the outside with polychrome maiolica tiles, echoing the Neapolitan decorative technique. With a circular base, it is set on a high drum punctuated by double pilasters, where eight large windows face each other. Inside the drum decorative motifs accentuate the architectural lines. In 2006 it underwent a conservative restoration and static consolidation.
Internal architecture
The church has a domed central layout, with three naves and a Greek cross plan extended into the apse. This structural model is to be considered a rare example in 17th and 18th-century Salentine churches, almost all of which were laid out in the shape of a Latin cross.
Four large pillars, consisting of paired pilasters, lighten the mass, delimit the side chapels of the nave and support arches and spandrels that set the dome. The same arrangement of round-arched pillars, isolating the chapels in the side aisles, highlights the central apparatus.
The two side chapels, placed after the entrance and dedicated to St. Joseph and the Purgatory Souls (the one on the right) and St. Roch (the one on the left), are enlarged with apse areas, in which the altar of St. Joseph and the baptismal font, made in 1864, are arranged, respectively. The chapels of St. Anne (moved from the Castle in 1910) and of Our Lady of Sorrows have the same shape as the previous ones and end with the entrance to the chapels of Our Lady of the Fountain and of the Blessed Sacrament, raised three steps above the side aisles. They have a rectangular floor plan with the altar set away from the wall, on which, in the chapel of the Fountain, the ancient icon of the Virgin and Child has been placed.
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The altar of the Madonna was commissioned in 1773 to the Neapolitan master marble worker Domenico Tucci (who had already created the marble prospectus in the chapel of San Cataldo in 1771) who was offered a fee of 1140 ducats. The altar's model both in marble and in less valuable materials would be reused in many other churches.
The high altar (decorated on the sides by two angels with cornucopia), on the other hand, together with the marble balustrade, comes from the old church of St. Francis of Assisi, located on the site where the church dedicated to St. Alphonsus Liguori stands today. Behind the altar are the wooden choir and the organ, the latter placed on a mezzanine supported by columns and dating back to the 20th century.
The chapter house
Another wooden choir is placed in the chapter house. Also in this hall is a valuable cabinet, also made of wood, inlaid in the stalls, made together with the counter placed in the center of the hall by cabinetmaker Giuseppe Formosi. The cabinet is decorated on the cymatium by five ovalets painted in 1796 by the painter Forleo-Brayda, depicting the Baptism of Christ, the Beheading of St. James the Greater, the Apostle Peter freed from prison, the Heart of Jesus and the Finding of Mary Most Holy of the Fountain.
Above the cabinet are paintings depicting the Seven Sacraments, the large painting of Our Lady of the Rosary (by Domenico Carella), portraits of Cardinal Giuseppe Renato Imperiali, his nephew Cardinal Francesco Spinelli, St. Charles Borromeo and two ovals of St. Irene and the Immaculate Conception.
In the anti-sacristy, on the other hand, is another valuable painting depicting Our Lady of the Rosary, by an unknown author.
Interior decoration
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Neophytos Rodinos
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Neophytos Rodinos (, 1576/7–1659) was a 17th-century Greek Cypriot scholar and Catholic missionary. Born in Cyprus he later converted to Roman Catholicism and undertook missionary work preaching in various regions: Italy, Poland, Greece, Turkey and Albania. Rodinos was a professor of classical Greek with enormous educational activity until his death, using vernacular Greek speech in his proselitizing missions. He was crucial in maintaining cultural ties between his native Cyprus and the wider Greek world as well as preserving a distinctive Greek literary and philosophical tradition.
Life
Early life
Neophytos Rodinos was born in 1576/7 at the village of Potamiou, in Cyprus. His father Solomon Rodinos (1515 - 1575/6) was a scholar and poet who composed the threnos "Lament of Cyprus" which described the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus (1571).
During the 1590s he became a student of scholar Leontios Efstratios, but Rodinos soon moved to Candia, Crete, probably in search for a better education. There he attended classes at the metochion of Saint Catherine's Monastery of Sinai and in 1596 he was ordained a monk there. Because of this important milestone in his life he always signed his works under the full name "Neophytos Rodinos Cypriot Sinaitis".
On the recommendation of scholar Ioannis Morezinos, abbot of the metochion of Sinai, he went to Venice where he became a student of Maximos Margunios and also worked as his subordinate (1599-1602). Margunios was a professor at the Greek School in Venice at that time Iason Sozomenos.
Higher Education and conversion to Catholicism
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Rodinos also managed to distribute all copies of the first edition of his work Σύνοψις in Greece: Thessaly, Epirus, especially in Ioannina as well as in Albania. Although he also aimed at translating a two-paged catechesis (doctrina christiana) to Albanian in cooperation with his student Papa Demetrios, a priest of Albanian origin from Dhërmi, he was dissuaded from doing so because the Propaganda Fide had already printed one earlier. The following years his newly printed works Σύνοψις (second edition), Περί Εξομολογήσεως (On Confession) and Πνευματική Πανοπλία (Spiritual Armor) were circulated in Epirus and to other areas of the Ottoman Empire. In the region of Himara he distributed those books himself.
Rodinos being a Greek scholar and educated in western Europe was well received by the Christian population in Epirus since he was also active in undertaking educational initiatives. On the other hand, the Greek Orthodox leadership saw in his person a dangerous propagandist of the Roman Catholic Church. As such, the Ecumenical Patriarch, Cyril Loukaris, became his main antagonist. In this context although Rodinos was invited in 1633 by the metropolitan bishop of Ioannina, Parthenios, he had to decline the invitation. The same reasons also led Rodinos to decline an invitation from the bishop of Paramythia, Porphyrios. In his correspondence he expresses his joy when being informed that the metropolitan bishops of Adrianoupolis and Chalcedon had attempted to dethrone Loukaris.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Martin%20%28explorer%29
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Joseph-Napoléon Martin (; 15 August 1848 in Vienne, Isère – 23 May 1892 in Novy Margelan, now Fergana, Turkestan Krai, Russian Empire, present-day Uzbekistan) was a French explorer, topographer and geologist. He is known for his pioneering exploration and research in the Russian Far East.
Biography
After finishing his studies in railway engineering Joseph Martin went to the Russian Empire and participated in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). He was awarded the II Degree Order of Saint Stanislaus for his engineering work near Pleven in Bulgaria. Following the end of the war he went to Siberia, where he would stay for about two years. He returned again twice in the following decade, in 1882-1883 and 1889-1892.
Joseph Martin picked up the threads of the explorations made previously by Peter Kropotkin to find a route between the Lena and the Amur basins, surveying the then little-known Stanovoy Highlands. He made a significant contribution to the cartography of Eastern Siberia and was awarded the gold medal of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society.
On his last journey Joseph Martin wished to explore the Russian Turkestan, but he fell ill while traveling westwards across China and died in May 1892 in Novy Margelan. His tomb is in the Fergana graveyard, Uzbekistan.
Posthumous honors
Pik Martena () in the Kodar Range, part of the Stanovoy, was named in his honor. A street in Vienne, the town of his birth, bears his name.
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Taraxacum ceratophorum, also known as the horned dandelion, is a species of flowering plant within the genus Taraxacum and family Asteraceae. This alpine species has a preference for mountainous habitat, where it can be found growing at elevations up to 3000 meters above sea level. It is native to a large portion of the Northern Hemisphere, inhabiting various countries within Asia, Europe and North America.
Description
Taraxacum ceratophorum is a species of herbaceous perennial plant. The species typically reaches heights ranging from 5 to 30 cm tall. The plant possesses a taproot and a caudex, with the caudex measuring approximately 5 to 10 mm in diameter. The species is diploid and exhibits chromosomal polymorphism with a chromosome count of 2n = 16, 18, 28, 32, or 40.
Leaves
The leaves of Taraxacum ceratophorum are primarily basal, with a patent or erect orientation. They are alternate in arrangement and die annually. Petioles may or may not be present, ranging from 0 to 40 (or occasionally up to 70) mm in length. These petioles can be winged, either broadly or narrowly, and are typically glabrous. The leaf blades of this species are simple in structure, with attenuate bases. They measure 50 to 120 mm in length and 7 to 30 mm in width, displaying an oblanceolate shape. The blades are flat and appear to have a single vein or pinnate veins. The adaxial surface of the blade is glabrous, as is the abaxial surface. The blades can be broadly or narrowly lobed, with runcinate and dentate margins. The degree of incision can range from 5% to 95%, and the apices of the lobes are acute. The blade margins may exhibit between 1 and 8 (or occasionally up to 11) teeth on each side, counting both the dentations and tips of the runcinate lobes. These teeth are located toward the apex of the blade.
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Lilian Lancaster (cartographer)
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Lilian Lancaster (17 November 1852 – 1 August 1939) was a British actress and humorous cartographer, producing anthropomorphic caricatures of maps of European nations with numerous references to the political changes then affecting continental Europe, together with representations of Garibaldi and Bismarck and other figures of the day.
Cartographer
She was born in London in 1852 as Eliza Jane Lancaster. Her wool merchant father Thomas Lancaster (1817-1848) died before her 4th birthday, and she was brought up by her widowed mother, Theodora Claudia Lancaster née Crosthwaite (1822-1906), a mantle maker, who carried on the family business. Aged 15, Lancaster provided twelve colour map caricatures for the illustrated book Geographical Fun: Humorous Outlines of Various Countries (1868). The introduction to the book and the humorous rhyming verse describing the anthropomorphic maps of European countries were provided by 'Aleph', the nom de plume of the City Press journalist and Islington antiquary, Dr. William Harvey [1796-1873]. In the introduction to the book Harvey wrote that the maps had been drawn by a girl to amuse her sick brother. Harvey added that Lancaster had been inspired by an earlier drawing of England represented by Punch (from Punch and Judy) riding on a dolphin. The drawings were intended to educate as well as entertain, Harvey adding: 'no history no journal can be understood without a knowledge of maps, and good services is done when we make such information more easy and agreeable'! Another book illustrated with her maps was E. L. Hoskyn's Stories of Old, again showing European countries, but this time depicting stories from local mythology.
Theatrical career
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Lilian Lancaster (cartographer)
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Beginning in the early 1870s she commenced a career on the stage as a pantomime performer, comedy actress and singer, at first at the Haymarket Theatre and later at the Grecian Theatre where she appeared as Waspino with George Augustus Conquest’s Grim Goblin Pantomime Company in the burlesque pantomime, The Grim Goblin; or, Harlequin Octopus, the Devil Fish, and the Fairies of the Flowery Dell. In the show Lancaster gave a series of lively performances of the comic song, "Lardy dah, Lardy dah!". During 1880 she was touring the United States with this show when the production came to an abrupt end in New York at Wallack's Theatre when Conquest was seriously injured when he fell during his act.
On her return to Great Britain in 1881 Lancaster toured the provinces in Shakespearean productions with Barry Sullivan.
Later life
In 1884 Lancaster married William Edward Tennant, a London tutor and landed proprietor. With her marriage she retired from the stage. On his death aged 43 in 1897 Lancaster moved to Brighton, where she resumed creating her manuscript caricature maps under her married name.
Her niece was the British artist Lilian Lancaster.
In her latter years Lilian Lancaster Tennant lived at 4 Neville Street in South Kensington in London. She died in August 1939 and left an estate valued at £1445 l5s. 6d.
In 2017 two of her hand-painted manuscript maps were displayed in the Sir John Ritblat Gallery at the British Library in London.
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Ahmed Ali Badarpuri
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Ahmed Ali Badarpuri (1915–11 June 2000), also known as Ahmed Ali Banskandi and Ahmed Ali Assami, was an Indian Islamic scholar, a Sufi, a freedom fighter, and a teacher. He was the president of the Assam State Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind for 44 years.
Early life and education
Ahmed Ali Badarpuri was born in 1915 into a Sufi family in Badarpur, Assam, then located in the Sylhet district of British India. He was a descendant of Munawwar Khadim Yemeni, who was an attendant of Shah Jalal Mujarrad's authorised disciple, Sikandar Khan Ghazi.
Badarpuri received his primary education in Badarpur and then enrolled at the Sylhet Government Alia Madrasah for further studies from 1938 to 1940 and graduated in dars-e-nizami. He subsequently joined Darul Uloom Deoband to study the courses again but could not continue due to certain health complications. In 1950, he attended the Deoband seminary once more to study the courses of Daura-e-Hadith (The last year in dars-e-nizami) and Daura-e-Tafsir (specialisation in the exegesis of the Quran), and completed his studies by the next year. At that time, he memorized the Quran in a period of two and a half months. His teachers included Hussain Ahmad Madani, Abdus Samī' Deobandi, Izaz Ali Amrohi, Fakhrul Hasan Muradabadi, and Abdul Ahad Deobandi. He was an authorised disciple of Madani in Sufism.
Career
Badarpuri started his career as a teacher at Darul Uloom Banskandi. In 1955, Hussain Ahmad Madani sent him there without any invitation from the institution. The madrassa authority refused to appoint him as a teacher. However, they later accepted him after they obtained a letter from Madani.
In 1957, Madani appointed him to the post of Sheikh al-Hadith and entrusted to him the charge of the institution. He retained his position until his last breath. Thus, his teaching career lasted for over 45 years. He associated himself with the Indian independence movement.
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Cardinal Technologies
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Cardinal offered modems both external, housed in plastic chassis sat beside the computer, and internal, attached to a computer's internal expansion slot. The company became a major player in the field within three years of its incorporation, helped along by OEM contracts with major computer systems brands. By the early 1990s, the company also produced graphics cards, keyboards, and monitors. In late 1990, the company introduced their first line of personal computer systems, called the PC 10, an IBM PC compatible based on the i386 and i386SX processors and intended to compete with IBM's PS/1 and Apple's Macintosh. In 1991, Cardinal partnered with Fujifilm to develop the Cardinal SnapPlus, an expansion card for IBM PCs and compatibles that acted as a both a character generator and chroma keyer for superimposing digital graphical and textual elements over a videotape feed generated from the computer back onto tape. It also allowed for computers to import photographs from Video Floppy disks taken by early electronic cameras, such as that Fujifilm had produced in the 1980s and 1990s.
Cardinal turned its first profit in 1990, earning $600,000 on sales of $33 million. Employment numbers at the company's Lancaster headquarters hovered between 200 and 220 workers from 1991 to 1993. The company broke even in profits in 1991 and posted a loss in 1992. Its stature in the modem arena continued to grow however, Cardinal becoming the second largest manufacturer of fax modems in the United States in 1992, trailing Intel.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudmund%20L%C3%B6wenhielm
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Gudmund Löwenhielm
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Gudmund Löwenhielm (sometimes spelled: Löwenhjelm) the Elder (born Gudmund Nordberg; 24 December 1656 - 30 May 1739) was a Swedish nobleman, chancellor, governor of Bohuslän and military official. He was the founder of the Löwenhielm family.
Biography
Gudmund Löwenhielm the Elder was born as Gudmund Nordberg, the son of Gudmundus Erlandi Norenius (1607-1675). His father was a provost of Nordmarks, principal of trivialskolan inKarlstad and had acted as speaker of parliament. Gudmund's mother was Elisabet Flygge (-1667), daughter of the Inspectorate General of Västergötland, Värmland, Närke and Dal, Peter Flygge (1648-), who was assigned Bro.
In 1665, Gudmund Löwenhielm graduated the Gymnasium in Karlstad. On 7 September 1670, he obtained a law degree from Uppsala University. In 1680, Gudmund was appointed as Auditor at Svea Court of Appeal. He became a Lawyer at Svea Court of Appeal in 1682.
He served as Auditor at Västgöta Cavalry Regiment and was appointed Auditor at Västgöta-dal's regiment, September 13, 1689.
Gudmund Löwenhielm was later appointed Royal Commissioner and Royal Representative at the forest commission in Västergötland in 1691 and in 1692. In 1699, he was appointed as Deputy governor in Västersysslet [sv] and in Värmland.
Gudmund was appointed Chief Royal Auditor of the Närke and Värmland regiment in 1699.
On 2 January 1702, Gudmund Löwenhielm was appointed as Chancellor of Norrviken's domsaga [sv] (English: Norrviken’s judicial region) and governor of Bohuslän.
From 1706 to 1711, Gudmund was mayor of Strömstad. On 13 August 1716, he was appointed as Chancellery Assessor in Göta Court of Appeal.
On September 1, 1718, Gudmund was appointed as the Lawman of Kristinehamn's domsaga [sv](English: Kristinehamn’s judicial region). On 8 October 1719, he was again appointed as Chancellery Assessor in Göta Court of Appeal.
Gudmund Löwenhielm was knighted on May 12, 1725, and was introduced in the House of Nobility in 1726 under the number 1791.
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Pharmacological cardiotoxicity
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Treatments
The immediate intervention for the development of cardiotoxicity is discontinuation of the drug. Preventative measures for anthracycline induced cardiomyopathy include dexrazoxane, which is the only preventative drug approved by the FDA for prevention of anthracycline cardiomyopathy. Overall, there are no specific treatments targeted towards the cardiotoxicity of anticancer drugs. Rather, treatment is of the resultant heart failure. This often takes the form of ACE inhibitors or beta blockers.
Antiarrhymic cardiotoxicity
Antiarrhythmics are broad class of drugs that are used treat heart rhythm irregularities. Utilizing the Vaughan-Williams (VW) system, antiarrhymic drugs are classified into four main classes based on their mechanism of action. Class I antiarrhymics lead to blockage of sodium channels. Class II antiarrhymatics are beta-adrenoceptor blockers. Class III antiarrhymics act as potassium channel blockers, while Class IV antiarrhymics are non-dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers. While the effects of these drugs may be antiarrhymic, they can also be proarrhymic in other contexts.
Pathophysiology
The pharmacological cardiotoxicity of antiarrhymic compounds is related to their electrophysiological mechanism. In particular, because antiarrhymics drugs act on the opening/closing of ion channels, the modification of the electrical currents can lead to adverse cardiac events such torsade de pointes or ventricular fibrillation. Due to the case-by-case basis in which these medication lead to cardiotoxicity and the development of specific adverse rhythms, it has become increasingly important to assess compounds in a preclinical environment (See Pharmacological cardiotoxicity#In Silico Cardiotoxicity Assessment).
Clinical Manifestation and Epidemiology
The manifestation of antiarrhymic cardiotoxicity may manifest as worsening of the pre-existent arrhythmia or the development of a new arrhythmia.
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Basile Chiefdom
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In the Bizalugulu groupement, cassiterite mining takes place in the village of Kakanga-Kigalama.
The Bashimwenda Mayu groupement operates three quarries in the villages of Itabi, Lukatu, and Makalapongo, where gold and cassiterite are extracted.
The Batumba groupement has three mining sites: Mayengo in the village of Kalungu for cassiterite, Muliza in the village of Kyamba for cassiterite, and Kakanga in the village of Manyota for cassiterite and gold.
The Basilubanda groupement conducts mining operations in Kakulu village for cassiterite and in Kishingu village for cassiterite.
The Bashimwenda I groupement operates in locations such as Lubyolo, Kikindi, Zombe, and Mwana, focusing on the extraction of cassiterite and gold.
The Bawanda groupement engages in mining activities in areas like Powe and Kyunga, extracting minerals such as cassiterite and coltan.
History
The establishment of the Basile Chiefdom dates back to the arrival of Belgian settlers in the Urega region. The region was already home to local traditional leaders who held power within their respective communities. Among them, Kalenga Kitoga Ishinga was accredited as a traditional indigenous chief in 1913. However, his insubordination led to his demotion and the rise of Chief Longange Mpaga, who took control of the Wamuzimu Chiefdom in 1926. Kalenga Kishinga's resistance continued, but he faced relocations and unfortunate circumstances, ultimately losing his life in 1932. On March 31, 1960, just before the Congolese Independence Day, the Wamuzimu Chiefdom was divided, giving birth to the Basile Chiefdom. Mwami Kalenga Lwango, the grandson of the honored resistant leader Kalenga Kishinga, assumed leadership of the newly formed Chiefdom.
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Basile Chiefdom
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Security problems
Since 1996, the Basile Chiefdom has been plagued by ongoing conflict and insecurity due to the First Congo War. The war impacted the eastern region of the DRC, leading to widespread violence and chaos that affected even the most remote areas of the chiefdom. During this turbulent period, various armed factions emerged, vying for power and resources in the area. The dense forests and vast jungles that cover the Basile Chiefdom provided an ideal base of operations for these groups, with the thick foliage and rugged terrain acting as a natural shield, allowing the armed factions to hide, regroup, and launch attacks.
In July 2010, approximately sixty people were reportedly taken hostage by alleged FDLR (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda) fighters in Kagulu, a location situated between Isopo and Kamituga in the Bashimwenda groupement within the Basile Chiefdom.
On August 12, 2011, the FDLR attacked the Lukatu quarry, located 35 kilometers northeast of Kamituga in the Basile Chiefdom. According to civil society in Kamituga, two people were reported dead, and several diggers were reported missing. The locality of Lukatu was looted, and a man was shot dead. The assailants then kidnapped and cut the throat of the head of the Tubindi Sele locality near Ngando in the Balobola groupement.
On September 27, 2011, five people were reportedly killed in the locality of Mukono in the Basile Chiefdom. According to local authorities, the attackers slit their throats and left them lying on the floor. Following the killings, the head of the Basile Chiefdom urged the government to expedite the deployment of soldiers trained in the regiments to their jurisdiction.
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Rituraj Bhowmick
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Rituraj Bhowmick, (a.k.a.: Baap Ka Beta; born August 22, 2013) is a Bangladeshi author and singer.
Biography
Rituraj Bhowmick was born on August 22, 2013. He lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh and studies at Australian International School. Rituraj's father, Shuvashish Bhowmick also sings and supports his career from the beginning. He gained popularity by singing and sharing videos on social media with his father's support. Rituraj can play guitar and had a keen interest in modern-day band songs from an early age.
In 2019, his cover of Tahsan Rahman Khan's song went viral, leading to a good number of followers on their Facebook page and YouTube channel, Baap Ka Beta. Rituraj's talent caught the attention of a telecom company, resulting in his first TV appearance on January 11, 2020. He aspires to be an army officer like his grandfather and enjoys playing cricket.
Popularity and awards
Rituraj Bhowmick gained popularity at his tender age as a prodigious young author and musician. His creative journey began with internet fame as part of the band Baap Ka Beta. Rituraj's passion for writing flourished during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh, leading to the publication of his first book "Goodwill Factory" in 2022 at the age of 9. With age appropriateness language and moral lessons, his stories captivate readers. He received the Rokomari Bestseller Award this year.
Later he published a sequel to his book Goodwill Factory 2. The series is filled with short stories that impart different morals. He earns the Guinness World Record for being the youngest person to publish the book series in 2023.
In addition, Rituraj Bhowmik was honored with the Diana Award in 2023 at the age of 9 for exceptional dedication to empowering underprivileged children in Bangladesh through educational initiatives, donation drives, and authoring books with proceeds solely dedicated to their education.
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Goh Gyong-Sook
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Goh Gyong-Sook (고경숙; born 1972) is a South-Korean writer and illustrator of children's books. Her major works include Jjajang, Jjamppong, Sweet and Sour Pork, The Enchanted Bottle, My Atelier, The Great Mungchi and It’s Me! She won the Ragazzi Award for Fiction at the 2006 Bologna International Children's Book Fair for the first book she wrote and illustrated, The Enchanted Bottle.
Life
Goh Gyong-Sook was born in Seoul in 1972. She graduated from the Department of Oriental Painting at Dankook University, and majored in graphic design at the graduate school of Sookmyung Women's University. She began a collaborative relationship with Jaimimage after attending an illustration workshop hosted by Didimdol, a Korean publisher. She worked on three Classroom Library series books as an illustrator, and then embarked on a quest to find her own style. Inspired by bottles depicted in oil paintings, she created a picture book called The Enchanted Bottle. She uses cutouts of unique shapes from magazines to create her images.
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