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71448370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadine%20Morris | Bernadine Morris | Bernadine Morris was a New York Times fashion critic and journalist who influenced women's fashion.
Early life and education
She was born in 1925 in Harlem, New York. Morris earned an undergraduate degree from Hunter College in 1945, and then went on to earn a master's degree from New York University.
Career
Morris started working in fashion weekly magazines at Millinery Research. She went on to write for Women's Wear Daily where she started as a dress editor working on what she called "cheap dresses". She also wrote for Fashion Trades, and The New York Journal-American, before joining the staff at The New York Times in 1963. Morris attended fashion shows in multiple countries, including within the United States, Europe, and Britain where she had been invited by Margaret Thatcher.
In 1980, Morris wrote "While short skirts may seem déjà vu, short pants have a lively, contemporary air" which was later used in the definition of the phrase déjà vu in Merriam Webster's Dictionary.
Selected publications
Awards and honors
In recognition of her contributions to the fashion industry, Bernadine won the Medal of the City of Paris in 1985. She was recognized by the Council of Fashion Designers of America in the 1987 awards ceremony. In 1994 the city of Milan awarded Morris with a gold medal in recognition of her work in the fashion industry. | 2.046875 | 0 |
71448389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murong%20Xiang | Murong Xiang | Members of the Murong clan in Zhongshan left the city, all except for Murong Xiang, who had either not completed his preparations to leave by the time they left or had failed to catch up with them. Left with only themselves to fend off the oncoming Wei onslaught, the people of Zhongshan quickly elected Murong Xiang as their leader. Zhongshan was reluctant to surrender to Wei, as they feared Wei would execute them en masse just like they did to the Yan soldiers after the Battle of Canhe Slope two years prior. Under Murong Xiang, the people of Zhongshan put up a strong defence and prevented Wei from breaching the city.
Later, Murong Bao's party, by chance, discovered Murong Lin along the way to Longcheng, causing Murong Lin to flee to Wangdu. However, once Murong Lin was at Wangdu, Murong Xiang sent an army to attack him. Murong Xiang's army captured Murong Lin's wife and children, but Murong Lin himself escaped to the hills. In May 397, Murong Bao defeated his rebellious son, Murong Hui. Murong Hui fled to Zhongshan, but Murong Xiang had him executed.
As the siege of Zhongshan continued, the Wei army's food supply was running low. The Prince of Wei, Tuoba Gui, ordered his general, Tuoba Yi, to lift his siege of Ye and move to Julu to gather grains at Yangcheng (楊城; in present-day Yi County, Hebei). Murong Xiang used this opportunity to launch an attack with 6,000 infantry on the Wei camps. Tuoba Gui instructed his general, Zhangsun Fei, to feign a retreat. As Murong Xiang pursued Zhangsun Fei, Tuoba Gui attacked his rear and routed him. 5,000 of Murong Xiang's men died, while Tuoba Gui captured 700 others, although he soon pardoned and released them. | 2.125 | 0 |
71448583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuhi%20Amuli | Yuhi Amuli | Yuhi Amuli (born 4 September in 1993) is a film director, acreenwriter, producer and lawyer from Rwanda. His directorial debut feature film A Taste of Our Land (2020) premiered at the Pan African film festival in Los Angeles and won the Jury Award for Best First Narrative Feature Film. The film went on to screen at various other film festivals worldwide and won the African Movie Academy Awards (2020) for Best First Feature Film by a Director.
Early life and career
Amuli was raised on Nkombo Island, a small and underdeveloped island in Lake Kivu, Rwanda, which lacked access to running water and electricity. His mother worked as a primary school teacher, while his father was an accountant. Despite the limited resources available, Amuli's upbringing emphasized the importance of education and resilience. He attended several screenwriting and directing workshops worldwide; including Maisha Film Lab in 2014.
Amuli gained recognition with his debut feature film, A Taste of Our Land (2020), which is set in an unspecified African country and unfolds against the backdrop of contemporary Chinese involvement in Africa, particularly in the mining sector. It premiered at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, winning the Jury Award for Best First Narrative Feature Film and the African Movie Academy Award for Best First Feature Film by a Director. It also secured a Best Actor award for Michael Wawuyo Sr at the Festival du Cinéma Africain de Khouribga. | 2.109375 | 0 |
71448610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%2C%20son%20of%20Uros | John, son of Uros | The newly crowned Stephen II initiated a meeting with Vladislaus I, Duke of Bohemia, in order to improve the countries' relations in 1116. The two monarchs met on the river Olšava, which marked the border of their realms. However, the lack of mutual confidence hindered the opening of negotiations, leading to armed conflicts which evolved into a battle on 13 May. While the contemporaneous Cosmas of Prague stated the Hungarians were heavily defeated, the Illuminated Chronicle claimed John's intervention saved the Hungarian army resulting Stephen's victory. Majority of the Hungarian historiography – e.g. Gyula Pauler, Bálint Hóman, Ferenc Makk and Gyula Kristó – accepts the authenticity of Cosmas, considering that the unidentified Hungarian chronicler, who wrote his text during the reign of Géza II or Stephen III, which later was utilized by the 14th-century chronicle composition (i.e. Illuminated Chronicle), included John' heroism as an afterthought beautification.
According to Zoltán Kordé, John led the vanguard consisted of Székelys and Pechenegs during the battle, and has achieved success against the Bohemians before leaving the battlefield. Thereafter, the Hungarian main army led by Stephen II suffered a defeat because of the imprudence of the king. György Szabados, however, accepted the reliability of the Hungarian chronicler who would have had no reason to keep silent about Stephen's defeat (since all subsequent kings descended from Álmos, Coloman's brother and rival). Szabados argued John used ancient steppe military tactics, when launched a surprise victorious charge with the light cavalry. Gergely Pandi considered it cannot be proven that John, who last appears as palatine in contemporary records in 1113, was actually alive during the Battle of Olšava. It is possible that the chronicler sought to make his news report more authentic with a real historical person. | 2.5625 | 0 |
71448637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnome%20%28Dungeons%20%26%20Dragons%29 | Gnome (Dungeons & Dragons) | Society
Gnome society has been modified greatly throughout the different editions of Dungeons & Dragons. In the first edition, they were portrayed as intensely curious and intellectual, keeping in theme with their spell-casting niche, with an interest in gemstones. They typically lived in hills and acted as intermediaries between dwarves, elves, and halflings.
In the second edition, gnomes received further background. According to The Complete Book of Gnomes and Halflings, gnomes have an intricate society based on their love of all kinds of arts, pranks, and their long lives. Their society is based on art; all gnomes must take up some form of art whether music, painting, cooking, building, or any other form that is considered creative by the time they come of age.
Gnomes are naturally friendly, highly social and fun loving people. They are respected by elves for their communion with nature and knowledge of arcane magic, admired by halflings for their humor, and sought out by dwarves for their gemcutting skills. Kobolds hate gnomes due to antagonistic involvement of their deities in the past.
Religion
Garl Glittergold was created by James M. Ward and first appeared in the Nonhuman Deities chapter of the original Deities and Demigods (1980) as the god of gnomes. Roger E. Moore detailed several additional gnomish gods in his article The Gods of the Gnomes in Dragon #61 (May 1982), including: Baervan Wildwanderer, god of adventure and thieves; Urdlen ("The Crawler Below"), god of evil; Segojan Earthcaller, god of earth and nature; and Flandal Steelskin, god of metalworking. These four newer gods then appeared in the original Unearthed Arcana (1985). | 2.484375 | 0 |
71448678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitudo | Solitudo | Solitudo is an extinct genus of tortoise that was found during the Pliocene and Pleistocene on the Mediterranean islands of Menorca, Malta and Sicily. The genus includes three described species, Solitudo robusta, Solitudo gymnesica and Solitudo sicula as well as a likely fourth, undescribed species from Monte Pellegrino in Sicily. Solitudo sicula, the youngest of the species, died out approximately 12.5 thousand years BP. The largest species, Solitudo gymnesica, has been estimated to have reached a carapace length of .
History
The oldest discoveries of fossil turtles now included under Solitudo were made in the 19th century, with Leith-Adams describing remains from Zebbug Cave (Malta) as Testudo robusta. In 1914 Testudo gymnesica was described based on Pliocene material found on Menorca. Younger material was later discovered in the Zubbio di Cozzo San Pietro cave in northern Sicily. These remains, which include a femur, phalanx, pubis and an ischium, were found in what is thought to be a prehistoric funeral site, however repeated human or animal activity changed the stratigraphy of the site. Due to this the turtle remains, although suspected to have belonged to a single individual, were dispersed across the site. Additionally, these finds have been found to be unrelated to the human activity at the site, having been deposited there independently of the human remains. These remains were described in 2022 by Valenti and colleagues, who found sufficient anatomical evidence to establish a new genus they dubbed Solitudo, with "Testudo" robusta serving as the type species. The remains from Sicily were used to erect a new species, Solitudo sicula and Solitudo gymnesica became a new name for "Testudo" gymnesica from Menorca. | 2.84375 | 0 |
71449181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary%20of%20Urkiola | Sanctuary of Urkiola | In June 1646 the new church was inaugurated with a Latin cross plan with a single nave and dome. This church remained open for worship for 15 years. In 1553 the cloister was built, which was called the pilgrims' cloister, and the choir and sacristy were enlarged. These works were carried out by the stonemason Francisco de Elejalde and the carpenters Asensio de Ojanguren and Cristóbal de Eguizabal. The sacristy and the choir were built in 1662 and 1666, respectively. Shortly after, the altarpiece was built by the architects Juan de Bolialdea, Domingo de Ascorbe and Joanes de Iturriza, who finished it.
In 1756, with the approval of the Cabildo and the Patron Saint of Abadiño, it was erected as a parish, detaching itself from the parish of Saint Torcuato, Abadiño's main parish.
Next to the temple, a hospital was built to serve the numerous travelers that circulated along this important route, which had a jail and an interior icehouse. In 1772, the rectory was built in front of it. In 1831 four lateral altars were inaugurated.
During the social crisis of the 19th century, the church was closed for worship and the images of the saints were transferred to the parish church of Abadiño, where they remained for four years. Once this crisis was overcome, the church was returned to worship and several renovations were made to the temple. The most relevant, and that lasts until today, is the construction of a bell tower in 1870. This tower, in neoclassical style, was the work of the master builder Pedro José Astarbe from Durango. | 2.34375 | 0 |
71449181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary%20of%20Urkiola | Sanctuary of Urkiola | The rock at the entrance of the temple is attributed with certain virtues that allow those who go around it clockwise seven times to find a partner (if the turns are made backward, it is said that it has the opposite effect). For this same purpose, alms, papers with notes, colored pins, etc. are also left.
The rock, which is defined as "a conglomerate of stones and pebbles and cobbles and fossils of innumerable kinds that in such a particular way have been mixed and joined with non-artificial cement", was placed in the small square where it is located on November 29, 1929, by order of the then rector of the sanctuary, Benito de Vizcarra. Vizcarra found the stone in a nearby mountain and, given its strangeness, moved it to a place of easy access.
The tradition of going around this stone to find a groom is linked to an earlier tradition of sticking pins in a canvas that was in the sacristy. To find a groom, pins were stuck with white heads if the man was to be blond and with black heads if he was to be brunette. The tradition of going up to Urkiola to ask for a bride or groom has given rise to the following couplets:
Festivals and important dates
Two festivals are celebrated in Urkiola, one in honor of St. Anthony the Abbot and the other in honor of St. Anthony of Padua. | 2.40625 | 0 |
71449447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hours%20After%20Noon | The Hours After Noon | Publication history
One of the longest stories in the collection The Time of Friendship, the work may be termed a short novella. The provenance of its writing is not clear. A corrected transcript for "The Hours After Noon" reads 'Fez, May 14, 1949, while the version that appears in his Collected Stories, 1939-1976 reports that the work was completed in "Paris-Tangiers, 1950." The setting for the story, the Pension Callender, was an actual residence where Bowles roomed while staying in Tangier's International Zone in the post-war period
Theme
The central theme of "The Hours After Noon" is derived from the relationship between Prospero and his daughter Miranda in Shakespeare's The Tempest (1611): "How to introduce innocence to experience without tremendous or irreparable harm." Bowles applies this theme to a mother-daughter relationship, where Mrs. Callender's paranoiac protectiveness of Charlotte is a reflection of her own "aching nostalgia for her own youth" and the anxiety at passing beyond middle-age, the "Hours After Noon" in the title.
Bowles links Royer's sordid demise is his failure to escape his "existential torment"—a torment that Mrs. Callender also suffers—and to acknowledge "human unity." The key to the protagonist's redemption is embodied in an epigraph Bowles provides by the poet Charles Baudelaire:
Moments before Royer is murdered, he struggles to reconstruct a passage from Andre Gide's work on the legends of Amyntas: "Time passing here is innocent of hours, yet so perfect is our inoccupation that boredom becomes impossible."
Footnotes | 2.203125 | 0 |
71450538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20Bramlett | Leon Bramlett | Early life
Bramlett was born on September 17, 1923, in Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States to Leon Crow Bramlett Sr. and Elizabeth Jones Bramlett. He graduated from Clarksdale High School in 1941.
Bramlett played on the football team of the University of Mississippi in 1941, the University of Alabama in 1942, and the U.S. Naval Academy from 1943 to 1947. He was declared an All-America player in 1944 and 1945 and served as captain of the academy's team in 1946. He learned to box from an oil mill employee who worked for his father, and won the academy heavyweight boxing championship in 1943. He decided not to pursue a professional football career after sustaining a knee injury for which he was hospitalized in 1946. Graduating from the Naval Academy in 1947, he was stationed at Quantico, Virginia. In 1948 he was made end coach under head coach George Sauer, and served in that role until 1949. He served in the United States Marine Corps for two years and married Virginia McGehee in 1947. He was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1988. | 2 | 0 |
71450608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macareus%20of%20Lesbos | Macareus of Lesbos | The mainland opposite the islands, we find, had suffered great and terrible misfortunes, in those times, because of the floods. Thus, since the fruits were destroyed over a long period by reason of the deluge, there was a dearth of the necessities of life and a pestilence prevailed among the cities because of the corruption of the air. The islands, on the other hand, since they were exposed to the breeze and supplied the inhabitants with wholesome air, and since they also enjoyed good crops, were filled with greater and greater abundance, and they quickly made the inhabitants objects of envy. Consequently, they have been given the name Islands of the Blessed, the abundance they enjoy of good things constituting the reason for the epithet.
But there are some who say that they were given the name Islands of the Blessed (macarioi) after Macareus, since his sons were the rulers over them. And, speaking generally, the islands we have mentioned have enjoyed a felicity far surpassing that of their neighbours, not only in ancient times but also in our own age; for being as they the finest of all in richness of soil, excellence of location, and mildness of climate, it is with good reason that they are called, what in truth they are, "blessed." As for Macareus himself, while he was king of Lesbos he issued a law which contributed much to the common good, and he called the law the "Lion," giving it this name after the strength and courage of that beast. | 2.25 | 0 |
71450637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontic%20eagle | Pontic eagle | There are many proposed Pontian flags; none has been universally adopted as the official flag. A yellow flag with a black Pontic eagle is common across many organizations. Different Pontian organizations use different flags and banners. The Komninoi Pontian Society, based in Queens in New York City in the USA, uses a yellow flag with a black Pontic eagle. So does the Vityazevo Greek Society in Russia. The Pontian Brotherhood of South Australia, based in Adelaide, also uses a yellow flag with a black Pontic eagle. Their banner has the same design. The Argonauti-Komninoi Pontic Greek Association, based in Athens, uses a yellow flag with black lineart depicting an eagle and the Argonaut.
In sporting clubs
The Apollon Pontou F.C., a men's football club based in Kalamaria, Greece, was founded by Pontian refugees in 1926. A black and yellow Pontic eagle makes up part of their logo. The club was founded with the intention to uphold Pontic history and tradition; however, the club is not exclusive to Pontians.
The Pontian Eagles Soccer Club is a member of the South Australian Amateur Soccer League. It was founded in 1992 by the Pontian Brotherhood of South Australia, a community organization which aims to preserve Pontian history in the diaspora. The soccer club was intended to give Pontian youth a space to belong; like Apollon Pontus F.C., however, it accepts players of all ethnicities. The logo is a stylized eagle in yellow and black. The head is facing forward, unlike in the typical Pontic eagle design where the head is in profile. | 2.296875 | 0 |
71451086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Plicque | Jean Plicque | Initial press reports relied exclusively on the verbal testimony of George Yogolero who stated that both rebels and refugees attacked the men, however subsequent investigations by Warren A. Pinegar of UNHCR concluded that the rebels perpetrated the violence, as most refugees unsuccessfully plead for the lives of Plicque and Preziosi to be spared. Unbeknown to Plicque and Preziosi at the time, they arrived just as the rebels were finishing trying to unsuccessfully persuade the Tutsi refugees to collaborate with them.
Plicque was 33 at the time of his death.
Family life
Plicque was married. His wife had been evacuated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Bujumbura in Burundi just before his death.
Aftermath
United Nations Secretary-General U Thant expressed outrage about the murders.
The Congolese Army recovered the men's bodies which were found with wedding rings on their fingers. The presence of valuable wedding rings led the UNHCR officials to believe that they were immediately buried by the Tutsi rebels. A funeral was held for both men on 31 August 1964 in Bukavu cathedral.
Plicque was posthumously awarded the Nansen Refugee Award (for Outstanding service to the cause of refugees) in 1964. | 1.914063 | 0 |
71452303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Christie%20%28musician%29 | Jack Christie (musician) | Upon his Return to New Zealand, Christie established the Atomic Radio Company in Karangahape Road, Auckland where he imported radios and gramophones as well as records until he was accused of parallel importing. After which he included free records with every purchase. It was while working here he got to know radio technician Stan Dallas, who worked for 2ZB. In 1948 Stan built the recording studio at TANZA (To Assist New Zealand Artists) which Jack assisted with, working in copyrights for the company as well. TANZA was the first New Zealand company to record and produce its own records. While the studio was being developed Stan called on Jack to record sample acetates which were heard by the rest of the company. When the studio was completed Jack was invited to record. He recorded two records in 1949 with his cover of Roy Darling's song "Overlander Trail" become popular in New Zealand. This was the first commercially available New Zealand made country record, released the same year as The Tumbleweeds "Maple On The Hill". Over the next three years TANZA released seven more records and in 1954 he released one final record. Jack was the third artist to be recorded by the label. He was proceeded by Ruru Karaitiana and Ken Avery. Although most of Jack's songs were covers of Australian and American songwriters, his song "The New Zealand Cowboy", released in 1951, was written by him, possibly the first country style song recorded about New Zealand. A year prior he also released "Serenade A Star", written by Sam Freedman, a songwriter from Wellington who also wrote songs for other TANZA musicians such as Pixie Williams, Mavis Rivers and Daphne Walker. | 1.921875 | 0 |
71452491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan%20Pachomius%20of%20Behira | Metropolitan Pachomius of Behira | Metropolitan Pachomius or Pakhomious (, ) is the serving Metropolitan bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Behira and Matrouh, Titular Archbishop of Pentapolis and the Five Western Cities, and Abbot of the Monastery of Saint Macarius of Alexandria, located in Beheira. He is also a member of the standing committee of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Early life
He was born as Samir Kheir Sokkar (), on 17 December 1935 in Shebein el-Kom, Menoufia, Kingdom of Egypt. His family relocated to Tanta around 1945 then to Zaqaziq in 1949. In 1949, at the age of thirteen, he began to serve in Sunday School, at the behest of Walim Shenouda, one of the early deputy servants of the movement. He served in various cities and villages establishing classes and youth meetings. During this time he met with Nazir Gayed (Pope Shenouda III) and learned from him the essentials of service. In 1952, he moved to Greater Cairo to attend Ain Shams University; during this time he was one of the founding members of a college meeting, and served in the villages of Giza.
After receiving his Bachelors of Commerce, in 1956, he moved to Damietta where he found employment first in the Ministry of Finance, and later as an accounting manager in the Ministry of Health. He also became the general secretary of Sunday school at this time. In 1959, he returned to Greater Cairo to live as a consecrated servant. He managed a house for deacons in Giza, and began attending the Coptic Theological and Clerical College, and then the Higher Institute of Coptic Studies. In 1961, he was sent on a pastoral mission to serve as a Deacon in Kuwait.
Monastic life
In 1962, he returned to Egypt and joined the Syrian Monastery, being tonsured a monk under the name Antonius the Syrian (). He was ordained as a priest on 2 January 1966, and entrusted with preparing servants and missionaries for Africa. | 2.078125 | 0 |
74438260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issue%20Yield | Issue Yield | In political science, Issue Yield refers to Issue Yield theory or its derived Issue Yield index.
Issue Yield theory
Issue Yield theory was developed to explain party strategy and voting behavior in democratic elections. The theory focuses on the electoral risks and opportunities that specific policy issues present to political parties or candidates. The risk-opportunity mix of an issue (its "issue yield") gives incentives or disincentives to each party to emphasize that particular issue in their policy platform and election campaigns. Voters embrace these issue priorities and update their party support in line with their own policy preferences. Overall, by bringing together party strategy and voting behavior, Issue Yield theory seeks to account for the development of public policy and its variation among democratic societies.
According to the theory, high-yield issue goals are those that combine three characteristics:
the party's existing voters agree (almost unanimously) on the issue goal, thus minimizing risks of internal division;
a large share of the general electorate also agrees on the issue goal, thus maximizing opportunities for electoral expansion;
the party is considered credible to achieve the goal, both within the party and by the general electorate.
If these conditions are fulfilled, the issue goal presents a win-win situation, allowing electoral expansion outside the party without losing existing voters.
Issue Yield theory was first presented in an article that appeared in the American Political Science Review in 2014; a simpler presentation (also framing the theory vis-à-vis other theoretical frameworks on the topic) was later published as an entry of the Routledge Handbook of Elections, Voting Behaviour and Public Opinion. | 2.078125 | 0 |
74438450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusebie%20Popovici | Eusebie Popovici | Eusebie Popovici (October 20, 1863–November 15, 1937) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian politician and teacher.
Born in Rușii-Mănăstioara, a village southeast of Suceava, he attended the Suceava Gymnasium, followed by the University of Innsbruck, from which he received a doctorate in philology. He taught Romanian and Latin at the Cernăuți normal school (1889-1890) and at the Suceava Gymnasium (1890-1928); he was also principal of the Suceava girls’ high school. He authored a number of textbooks. Active in politics and culture, he founded a credit union in Suceava (1898) and a patriotic association (1908), which he led. He joined the Romanian Radical Party (1898), the Romanian National Party of Bukovina (1905) and the Christian Social Party of Bukovina (1908).
In 1918, he was at the forefront of the citizens of Suceava who demanded an end to Austrian rule. Elected a member of the Romanian National Council in October, he became its vice president the following month. In early November, he became mayor of Suceava, succeeding the Austrian incumbent and welcoming the Romanian Army upon its entry. He represented the city in the congress that voted for union with Romania on November 28. In 1920, he was leader of the People's Party for Suceava County, later holding a similar position within the National Liberal Party. He sat in the Assembly of Deputies in 1920-1921 and in 1926–1927. He was again mayor of Suceava in 1926–1927.
After retiring from politics, he was in good health and remained active in public life. While getting off a train at Suceava railway station, he slipped and fell, fracturing his leg, an incident some considered suspicious. He eventually died as a result. The funeral was attended by a large crowd of officials, ordinary citizens and former students, with 22 Orthodox priests performing the liturgy, led by Visarion Puiu, and a military honor guard in attendance. He was buried in Suceava's central cemetery. | 2.109375 | 0 |
74438496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund%20Ahnfelt | Sigmund Ahnfelt | Ahnfelt followed the operations of the UN troops in Korea during the Korean War in 1951 and served as a teacher in the Royal Swedish Army Staff College from 1952 to 1956 and attended the Swedish National Defence College in 1956. In 1956, the Chief of the Army, Lieutenant General Carl August Ehrensvärd appointed the then major Ahnfelt as commander of the Swedish UN battalion in the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF). The Swedish government opposed the nomination because of Ahnfeldt's previous involvement in the Lindholm movement. Ahnfeldt had been Sven Olov Lindholm's closest man for six years and had at the age of 27 candidated for the National League of Sweden after Alf Meyerhöffer at the municipal elections in Östersund. Ehrensvärd threatened to resign unless he got his way, according to prime minister Tage Erlander. Ahnfeldt was persuaded, however, by defence minister Torsten Nilsson to resign from the post. He was replaced by Lieutenant Colonel Ingmar Stevenberg.
Ahnfelt then served as head of the Defence Staff's Army Department from 1957 to 1960, and became lieutenant colonel in the General Staff Corps in 1959. He was an adviser in the 1960 Defence Committee, head of Section I in the Defense Staff from 1960 to 1961, and served in Älvsborg Regiment in Borås in 1961. Ahnfelt was promoted to colonel in 1962 and was an adviser in the Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces's working group before the . He then served as deputy commander of Älvsborg Regiment in 1962 and became its commander the year after. Ahnfelt was promoted to major general in 1966 and served as chief of staff and Deputy Commanding General of the Southern Military District in Kristianstad from 1966 to 1973. In 1973, he was appointed Commanding General of the Bergslagen Military District in Karlstad. He served in this position until 1979 when he retired from active service. | 2.359375 | 0 |
74438723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact%20of%20the%20Eras%20Tour | Impact of the Eras Tour | The demand shock was also further reported in Argentina and Australia. Economists who observed the inflation in Southeast Asia termed it "Swiftflation". Marketing professor Seshan Ramaswami wrote that the Eras Tour is one of the significant steps in a movement involving the Government of Singapore's conscious attempts to expand the demographic reach of the city-state's cultural tourism "to young music fans... From all over Asia and perhaps even the Middle East". Following the tour's tie-up with the United Overseas Bank for premium tickets in Singapore, the bank reported a record (US$76 million) in income from credit card fees, an 89% increase from the previous year in the quarter.
According to a survey by online research company QuestionPro, 58 percent of the Eras Tour attendees were between ages 35 and 64, 37 percent between ages 18 and 34, and less than 5 percent under age 18. The tour's economic valuation was also estimated to be $5 billion, higher than the GDP of 50 countries. QuestionPro later increased the estimate to $6.3 billion in the United States and Canada. Other economic agencies projected an impact as high as $80 billion globally. According to Insider, one movie studio marketing team found that attendees of the Eras Tour spent an average of $300 per concert. Business magazine Fortune reported that fans spent an average of $1,300 on tickets, travel, and clothes to attend the tour, implying that the Eras Tour could raise $4.6 billion in consumer spending in the United States, and consequently "save" the United States from recession. After the tour concluded, QuestionPro estimated a $5 billion boost for the US economy in direct spending, whereas the US Travel Association calculated a $10 billion boost, factoring in indirect spendings on the tour. | 1.921875 | 0 |
74438836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Kotor | Battle of Kotor | The Battle of Kotor took place during the Hungarian War of Independence of 1848-1849 on 17 October 1848 between the Hungarian Revolutionary Army under the command of Major András Gáspár and the Croatian troops under Colonel Captain Georg Bornemissza, defending the Muraköz/Međimurje region. Mór Perczel, the leader of the Hungarian brigade which attacked Muraköz, split his troops in two, and while his detachment defeated the Croatian troops defending the line of the Mura River in the Battle of Letenye, the other column defeated the Croatians at Kotor. As a result of these victories, Perczel's troops liberated Muraköz.
Background
On 16 October General Mór Perczel concentrated his troops at Nagykanizsa, to start the operation to liberate Muraköz (the region between the Drava and the Mura rivers, today part of Croatia, called Međimurje County) from the Croatian occupation.
Perczel divided his troops into two columns. The column he led was made up of the Hunyadi troop, the volunteers from Szabolcs and Zala counties, the national guards from Nagykanizsa, from the Alexander and Nicholas Hussars a company each, and the newly formed 6-pounder battery (with eight guns). This crossed the Mura at Letenye. Perczel's column marched through Kiskanizsa, Becsehely, and Pola to Letenye, where they entered in a fight with the Croatian troops, defending the line of the Mura river, in order to break in Muraköz.
Prelude
The other column was led by András Gáspár, who was promoted to major after the success at Ozora. The infantry of this column consisted of the Zrínyi troop, the volunteers from Sopron, the Somogy and the Szepetnek national guards led by Királyi Pál, the cavalry of one company of Nicholas Hussars, and the artillery of 6 guns. | 2.125 | 0 |
74438893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepa%20Palanad | Deepa Palanad | Deepa Palanad (born 17 April 1982) is one of the few female Kathakali musicians from the Indian state of Kerala. She is known to make a mark in the four-century-old classical dance-drama from a social system, that kept women away from temple art, which is mostly dominated by men.
Life and career
Deepa was born at Kattupara in Pulamanthol village near Perinthalmanna in Malappuram district, Kerala as the daughter of Kathakali musician Palanad Diwakaran and Sudha. She started learning the basics of Carnatic music from her father at the age of three and later received first lessons in Kathakali music from her father's teacher, Kalamandalam Unnikrishna Kurup. She then learned advanced Carnatic music under V. V. Sadanandan, Velnezhi Subramanian, Punnapuzha Ramanathan and Vechur Shankar. She studied Kathakali music under Madambi Subrahmanyanambuthiri and Kottakkal Madhu. Deepa has also studied dance under Kalamandalam Sudha.
Deepa's stage debut was delayed because there was no other girl available to sing along with her. Finally in 1999, when Deepa made her debut at the age of seventeen, it was her brother Sudeep who sang with her. Since then, she has performed with artistes like Hyderali at many venues in Kerala. Deepa, who also completed her BEd in 2003, started her career as a maths teacher at Porur Aided UP School in 2010.
Deepa has won first place in the Kerala State School Arts Festival for Kathakali music. She is also a winner of the Kalamandalam Unnikrishna Kurup Memorial Kathakali Music Competition. Deepa studied Kathakali music for ten years with a scholarship from the central government. In 2021, she was honoured with the Venmani Haridas Award, which is given for the young singers in Kathakali. | 2.171875 | 0 |
74439609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorgeir%20Gu%C3%B0mundsson | Thorgeir Guðmundsson | Thorgeir Guðmundsson (27 December 1794 - 28 January 1871) was an Icelandic-Danish clergyman and publisher of ancient Norse manuscripts. He was a co-founder of the Royal Society for Ancient Norse Manuscripts in 1825.
Early life and education
Guðmundsson was born at Olafsvellir, Iceland. He matriculated in 1814 from Bessastaðir before moving to Copenhagen in 1824 to study theology at the University of Copenhagen. He received his Master of Theology degree in 1924. He spent the following 15 years teaching at the naval boys' school and the school (kateket) under Holmens Church.
Icelandic manuscripts
Guðmundsson was a co-founder of Det Kongelige Nordiske Oldskriftselskab (1825) and was the publisher or co-publisher of several volumes of Fornmanna sögur. He was also instrumental in the publication of Islendinga sögur I-II (1829–30) and other publications. In 1827, he received economic support from the society to travel to Stockholm to copy and register saga manuscripts. He did not acquire a deeper knowledge of philology, and his publications are flawed by a number of misreadings and other errors.
Late life on Lolland
A controversy with the Society of Ancient Norse Manuscripts' secretary C. C. Rafn prompted Guðmundsson to leave his position. In 1839, he was appointed as pastor of Gloslunde and Græshave on Lolland. In 1849, he was transferred to Nysted and Herridslev. He is buried at Nysted Cemetery. | 1.976563 | 0 |
74439622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahomed%20Hameed%20Ullah%20Khan | Mahomed Hameed Ullah Khan | Mahomed Hameed Ullah Khan (17 March 1864 - ?), also known by his title Nawab Sarbuland Jung Bahadur was an Indian judge.
Early life and education
He was born at Agra on March 17, 1864. His father, Moulvi Mahomed Samee Ullah Khan was a prominent judge and educationist. His father established the Muhammadan Anglo Oriental College in his bungalow at Aligarh, with half a dozen students, including Hameed.
After completing his early education, he joined Wren and Gurney. In 1882, he joined Christ's College, Cambridge and Lincoln's Inn. He was called to the bar in 1886.
Career
In 1886, he enrolled as an advocate of the Allahabad High Court. While in Allahabad, he owned and edited The Allahabad Review, a bilingual magazine. He was also instrumental in setting up a hostel for Muslim students at the Muir Central College.
In 1895, he was appointed puisne judge of the Nizam's High Court and awarded the title of Afzulul-Ulema and Nawab Sarbuland Jung by the Nizam. He held this position until 1904, when he was appointed Home Secretary to the Cabinet and Legislative Council.
In 1908, he was appointed the Chief Justice of Hyderabad.
Personal life
He was married to Akhtar-un-Nisa, who was also known as Begum Sarbuland Jung.
His daughter was married to Abdul Majeed Khwaja. His grandson is Najeeb Jung. Another grandson is Jamal Khwaja. | 2.328125 | 0 |
74439984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor%27s%20House%2C%20Quetta | Governor's House, Quetta | During his royal tour of British India in 1905–06, Prince George, Duke of York (later King George V) is known to have visited the residency along with his spouse, Princess Victoria Mary, and planted a chinar sapling. Amongst those who were present to receive the royals at the residency was Shahbaz Khan Bugti, chief of the Bugti tribe. During the 1935 Quetta earthquake, the building underwent significant structural damage. Subsequently, it was recommissioned and refurnished by the viceroy of British India at the time and completed in 1942. The new building, finished in colonial style with a new façade, functions as the present structure. Its exterior is constructed from mudbrick and partially from burnt bricks.
After Pakistan's independence in 1947, the house became the residence of the provincial chief commissioners up until 1955. The founder and first governor-general of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, notably spent some of his last days at the Quetta Residency. Jinnah had been advised by his physician to relocate from his Ziarat Residency to the lower altitudes of Quetta, on account of his worsening lung health. He spent a month at the Quetta Residency, until he was flown to Karachi where he died in September 1948. In February 1961, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh arrived at the Quetta Residency while visiting the city during their first royal tour of Pakistan. Following the tradition of her grandfather George V, Elizabeth planted a pine sapling at the complex. | 2.5 | 0 |
74440157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Vin%20herb%C3%A9 | Le Vin herbé | is a secular oratorio () in three parts, composed by Frank Martin. It is based on the medieval story of Tristan and Iseult, as reconstructed by Joseph Bédier in 1900. Martin set excerpts of the novel to music for twelve vocalists and a chamber ensemble of seven strings and piano. The work was premiered in concert on 26 March 1942 at the Tonhalle, Zürich. A first scenic performance was given in German, (The Magic Potion), on 15 August 1948 at the Salzburg Festival.
History
Frank Martin began in 1938 to compose an oratorio around the medieval story of Tristan and Iseult, that Richard Wagner had set in Tristan und Isolde. He was prompted by a commission from to compose a piece of around 30 minutes for his chamber choir, the Zürcher Madrigalchor, ideally for twelve voices and few instrumental players. He took the text from Joseph Bédier's novel Le Roman de Tristan et Iseut, a reconstruction of the story that the medievalist had published in 1900, using writings by Béroul and Eilhart von Oberge. Martin preferred these early sources to the later poem by Gottfried von Strassburg that had inspired Wagner. It meant a distance to the German whose work was admired by the Nazis.
Martin set in 1938 the excerpt about the love potion, titled Le Philtre. This early short version was first performed on 16 April 1940.
Martin, fascinated with the story, chose two more chapters from Bédier's novel, La forêt du Morois and La mort; in 1940 and 1941 he assembled a more substantial structure of three parts, in 18 scenes with prologue and epilogue. The focus is on death rather than on love. The complete work was premiered on 26 March 1942 at the Tonhalle, Zürich, again by the Zürcher Madrigalcor.
A first scenic performance was given on 15 August 1948 at the Salzburger Landestheater as part of the Salzburg Festival, directed by Oscar Fritz Schuh in set and costumes by Caspar Neher, and conducted by Ferenc Fricsay. Martin, who felt that the audience had to understand the text, prepared the translation himself, together with . | 2.5625 | 0 |
74440175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectacles%20in%20ancient%20Rome | Spectacles in ancient Rome | The origin of gladiatorial combat is open to debate, although there is a tendency to interpret it as a practice from Etruria that, like many other aspects of Etruscan culture, was adopted by the Romans. There is systematic evidence of it beginning with Roman funeral rites during the Punic Wars (3rd century BC), and from then on it quickly became an essential element of the Roman world's politics and social life. The munera gladiatoria, in particular, were due to the custom of wealthier individuals to offer the people, at their own expense, public spectacles on special occasions, such as duels to the death between slaves on the occasion of the funeral of some relative. The munera could be ordinaria, that is, scheduled on certain holidays, or extraordinaria to celebrate particular occasions. The popularity of gladiators led to their use in increasingly lavish and expensive ludi. Gladiatorial games lasted for nearly a thousand years, reaching their peak between the first century BCE and the second century CE. The Flavian dynasty, which began with Emperor Vespasian, endowed Rome with special monumental infrastructures expressly dedicated to the munera: first and foremost, the Flavian Amphitheater, which has gone down in history as the "Colosseum," inaugurated by Emperor Titus, to which were added the imperial gladiatorial schools, the ludi (Ludus Magnus, Ludus Gallicus, Ludus Matutinus and Ludus Dacicus), built by Emperor Domitian. The Flavians and their successors thus had a privileged stage and a dedicated "assembly line" for their expensive and bloody spectacles. Between 108 and 109 CE, Trajan celebrated his Dacian victories using 10,000 gladiators and 11,000 animals in ludi lasting 123 days. The cost of gladiators and munera continued to rise out of all control. Marcus Aurelius' 177 AD legislation did little to solve the problem, and the subsequent reign of Commodus, Marcus Aurelius' son and heir, was marked by inordinate use of munera and venationes | 2.765625 | 0 |
74440175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectacles%20in%20ancient%20Rome | Spectacles in ancient Rome | The first known naumachia was the one organized by Julius Caesar in Rome in 46 BC for his fourfold triumph. After having a large reservoir dug near the Tiber in the Campus Martius, capable of containing real biremes, triremes, and quadriremes, he hired from among the prisoners of war 2,000 fighters and 4,000 oarsmen. In 2 BC, for the inauguration of the temple of Mars Ultor (Avenging Mars), Augustus organized a naumachia that faithfully reproduced the one of Caesar. As he himself recalls in the Res gestæ, he had a reservoir dug on the right bank of the Tiber, in the place called the "forest of the Caesars" (nemus Caesarum), where 3,000 men, not counting the oarsmen, on 30 vessels with rostrums, and many smaller units faced each other.
Claudius in 52 held a naumachia on a vast natural body of water, Fucine Lake, to inaugurate its drainage works through the opening of Claudius' tunnels. The combatants were convicts sentenced to death. It is known in particular from Suetonius that the naumachiarii (fighters in the naumachia) before the battle greeted the emperor with a phrase that has become famous: Morituri te salutant. An erroneous tradition has appropriated it to make it a ritual phrase of the gladiators to the emperor, when in fact it is attested only on this occasion.
The naumachia was thus a more deadly spectacle than that of the gladiators: the latter engaged lesser personnel, and the battles did not systematically end with the death of the vanquished. The appearance of the naumachiae is closely related to that, somewhat earlier, of another spectacle, the "combat between troops," which did not engage combatants in pairs, but two small armies. Precisely in the latter the combatants were more often convicts without specific training than real gladiators. Caesar, creator of the naumachia, simply transposed the principle of land battle formations to a naval setting. | 2.859375 | 0 |
74440571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture%20of%20Julfar | Capture of Julfar | In 1633, the Omanis, led by Nasir bin Murshid attacked the two fortresses at Julfar (modern-day Ras Al Khaimah) one held by Persians and the other by Portuguese. The Omanis successfully captured the two forts.
Background
In 1624, a new imam was elected in Oman called Nasir bin Murshid which led to the foundation of the Ya'rubids. The imam had two objectives: one was to unite Oman into a single country and end the civil wars, the second was to get rid of the Portuguese hegemony that held the coastal cities. However, after the enthronement, many Omani tribes began revolting against him, and he focused his efforts on subduing the rebels, beginning from 1624 to 1630. In late 1632, which was the first contact between the Yarubids and the Portuguese, the ruler of Samail, Mani' bin Sinan, revolted against Nasir alongside the ruler of Bahla, Saif bin Muhammad. Nasir defeated both of them and they fled to Portuguese territory. Mani' went to Muscat, so Nasir prepared an army against him led by Mas'ud bin Ramadan and went to a place called Tuwa al-Rowla close to Muttrah, where he met a Portuguese force and successfully routed them. Mas'ud then marched to Muscat and began bombarding it until the Portuguese asked for a truce, which he accepted, thus saving Muscat from the Omani invasion. Around 1631, the Portuguese built a fort in Ras Al Khaimah. | 2.890625 | 0 |
74440590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen%20Getty | Aileen Getty | Aileen Getty is an American heiress and activist. She is a member of the Getty family, the granddaughter of J. Paul Getty, a British petroleum industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company. She co-founded the Climate Emergency Fund in 2019. The fund has distributed over $4 million to several environmental activist organizations including Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil.
Early life
She is the daughter of John Paul Getty Jr.. Her brother Mark Getty is the co-founder of Getty Images. Her brother, John Paul Getty III was kidnapped and ransomed in 1973.
She spent her childhood in Italy and attended boarding school in the United Kingdom.
Activism
In 2019, Getty co-founded the Climate Emergency Fund. The fund has distributed over $4 million to several environmental activist organizations including Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil.
As of 2018, she has given $92,400 to campaigns and independent committees of Gavin Newsom.
Personal life
In 1981, she married Christopher Wilding, son of Elizabeth Taylor. They had two children before divorcing.
In 1984, she was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, later saying she was unsure whether the source of infection had been a blood transfusion or an extramarital affair.
In 2023, Getty purchased Brad Pitt’s estate near Los Feliz for $33 million. | 1.921875 | 0 |
74441006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison%20Joseph-Gauvreau | Maison Joseph-Gauvreau | In May 1906, Dr. Joseph Gauvreau rented land at the intersection of rue de l'Évêché and rue de la Cathédrale, a brand-new crossroads in the city, from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rimouski. The contract, signed by Mgr. André-Albert Blais for an initial five-year term, stipulates that the building to be constructed there must be worth at least $2,500 dollars, the value of the land. Dr. Gauvreau quickly had the house built in 1906–1907, a building of "impressive dimensions" reflecting the architectural tastes of the time, which served as his medical clinic and residence. On the first floor, he set up his hydrotherapy clinic, known as "Pharmacie Les Bains", which quickly became renowned throughout Quebec.
In 1907, the protuberances on his arm became infected, resulting in amputation. He continued his career for some time in Rimouski, holding administrative positions with the Collège des médecins du Québec. In 1909, he was appointed Provincial Registrar of the organization and moved to Montreal. Dr. Gauvreau then rented out his sumptuous home.
Around the same time, Louis Lenghan, owner of the Hotel Lenghan, sold his establishment to Antoine Fortin, who changed the name to Château Tracy. Louis Lenghan, in turn, rented Dr. Gauvreau's residence and equipped it with rooms and hotel services. He named his establishment Hôtel St-Louis. Thus began the story of this prestigious Rimouski hotel in 1914–1915. By 1915, Dr. Gauvreau had placed another advertisement for the rental of his house. It seems that it was rented to Dr. L.-J. Moreault until 1918. | 2.015625 | 0 |
74441557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920%E2%80%9321%20YMCA%20College%20Maroons%20men%27s%20ice%20hockey%20season | 1920–21 YMCA College Maroons men's ice hockey season | The 1920–21 YMCA College Maroons men's ice hockey season was the 17th season of play for the program.
Season
The hockey team met for the first time in early December and began to prepare for an 11-game season. Due to a fairly warm winter, the temporary rink was rarely usable for practice and the team was forced to train on the local lake instead.
In spite of the difficulties, including a postponement of a match with Williams, the Maroons were ready to go for their first game at Rensselaer. YMCA netted two goals within the first 8 minutes of the game and RPI responded by pulling back and trying to defend. While this curtailed the scoring for the Maroons, it also meant that their goal was not under threat. The Engineers didn't realize their mistake until YMCA made it 3–0 at the start of the second half but by then it was too late. Benny Leonard had missed the team's train when it travelled to Troy but managed to catch a later one. He changed into his equipment en route and ran to the rink from the station, arriving in time to play the final 5 minutes of the game. The team continued its good start with a win over Amherst a week later. In a very physical game, the Sabrinas opened the scoring less than 5 minutes into the game but were unable to increase their lead. The hitting and rough play increased in the second half and broken sticks littered the ice surface. Fink's goal forced overtime, enabling Delano to put the winning goal while Begg held the fort. | 2.03125 | 0 |
74442246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupinus%20prunophilus | Lupinus prunophilus | Lupinus prunophilus, commonly known as the hairy bigleaf lupine or chokecherry lupin, is a medium-sized herbaceous plant that grows in the Great Basin and other parts of the U.S. interior between the Sierra-Nevada and the Rockies. It is a close relative and very similar to Lupinus polyphyllus and is considered a subspecies by some botanists.
Description
Lupinus prunophilus is a herbaceous perennial plant that start the growing season with many leaves on short stalks growing from the base of the plant (basal leaves) and retain these leaves as the much taller flowering stem grows and start to bloom. The multiple flowering stems grow outward and then upward (ascending) reaching 23–65 centimeters tall. David B. Dunn described the stems as either slim or somewhat hollow (somewhat fistulose). The stems are sparsely covered in coarse hairs that stand out straight from the stem surface (spreading-hirsute). Both the basal leaves and the flowering stems arise from a woody caudex.
The basal leaves are much more numerous with the 7–30 centimeter long leaf stems (petioles) spreading in every direction to from a rounded tuft of leaves. Each leaf is made up of 8–13 small leaflets, each leaflet is 4–8 centimeters long and rarely less than 10 millimeters wide. The leaflets are flat and much longer than they are wide with the widest portion towards the tip rather than towards the base (oblanceolate). The leaflets are on smaller stalks that are 4–10 centimeters long and attached together at a central point (palmate compound) to the leaf stalk, one of the defining features of genus Lupinus. The leaves are smooth on their upper sides (glabrous) with, at most, only a few hairs on the leaf edges. On the underside they are sparsely covered in fine downy hairs. It has some leaves shorter leaf stalks growing from the flowing stem. | 2.75 | 0 |
74442898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmful%20Digital%20Communications%20Act%202015 | Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015 | The Harmful Digital Communications Act is a New Zealand law that regulates the occurrences and impacts of issues such as online bullying, harassment, revenge porn, and other forms of digital abuse and intimidation. Netsafe is the agency approved by the New Zealand Police to process complaints about harmful digital communications.
A person committing an offence under the act can face fines up to $50,000 or two years in prison. If the offender was a company, they can face fines of up to $200,000.
Background
Cyberbullying and other forms of harmful digital communications have large impacts on people, especially those who are children, teenagers, disabled, LGBT, and seniors. The Harmful Digital Communications Act was created to address the issue.
History
In 2022, the act was amended, adding "intimate visual recording" being posted without consent as a form of harmful communication.
As of 2021, more than 500 people have been charged under the act, and over 14,000 complaints have been made.
Legislative features
The act defines digital communications as including:
Emails
Texts and pictures
Website content
Blog posts
Comments
Online forums ("Chatrooms")
Social networks or social media sites
Phone-based apps
Voice mail messages
Approved agency
The New Zealand Police appointed Netsafe as the approved agency for the harmful communications act. In this position, the agency receives and accesses complains about harmful communications, investigates complaints, attempts to resolve complaints, forms relationships with foreign and domestic service providers, and provides education and policies on online safety. | 2.34375 | 0 |
74442914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Eh%2030 | Nick Eh 30 | Nicholas Amyoony (born March 14, 1995), better known online as Nick Eh 30, is a Canadian online streamer, YouTuber and professional gamer. Amyoony began making gaming videos as a student at Dalhousie University, and later dropped out to pursue his gaming and streaming career as he received online success while starting to play Fortnite Battle Royale in late 2017. Amyoony is particularly known for being family-friendly.
Early life
Nicholas Amyoony was born on March 14, 1995 and is of Lebanese Canadian descent. He was raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia and became interested in video games at a young age, particularly The Last of Us. He attended Prince Andrew High School in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. During his high school years, Amyoony received high grades while actively participating in taekwondo, guitar lessons, and football. With aspirations to become a doctor, Amyoony dedicated much of his time focusing on his studies, leading him to give up extracurricular activities and spending time with his friends. Whenever he needed a break, Amyoony would play on his PlayStation 3. His name "Nick Eh 30" comes from "Nick" being a part of his name, the "Eh" originating from the first letter of his last name, A, as a nod to the Canadian "Eh" stereotype, and the "30" coming from his high school football jersey number. | 1.921875 | 0 |
74443020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocan%C3%A1 | Rocaná | Rocaná (Room of Light) is an orchestral composition written in 2008 by the South Korean composer Unsuk Chin. The work was commissioned by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian State Opera, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Beijing Music Festival. Its world premiere was given by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano at the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Montreal, on March 3, 2008.
Composition
Rocaná is cast in a single movement and lasts approximately 21 minutes. The title comes from the Sanskrit word meaning "room of light."
Instrumentation
The work is scored for a large orchestra comprising three flutes (1st doubling alto flute; 3rd doubling piccolo), three oboes (3rd doubling Cor anglais), three clarinets (3rd doubling bass clarinet), three bassoons (3rd doubling contrabassoon), six horns, four trumpets, trombone, two bass trombones, tuba, timpani, four percussionists, harp, piano, celesta, and strings.
Reception
Rocaná has been praised by music critics. Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times called the piece "a knockout," writing, "It begins with a gnarly, clattering, explosion; call it the Little Bang. Then comes a pattern of background harmonies, always simmering, eerily quiet and pervasive. But throughout the work, jolts of energy keep happening: leaping lines, ominous 12-tonish themes that pierce the tranquil background buzz, outbursts of wailing brasses and metallic strings that come at you like a musical flamethrower." Christopher Dingle of BBC Music Magazine similarly wrote that "the orchestra reflects, refracts and distorts its material as if the sound is sent through combinations of prisms and mirrors. It is intended, and manages, to be a scintillating work, while not being the least bit showy."
Recording
A recording of Rocaná, performed by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano, was released alongside Unsuk Chin's Violin Concerto No. 1 by Analekta on March 24, 2009. | 2.125 | 0 |
74443169 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Wave%20%28manga%29 | New Wave (manga) | was a movement within the Japanese manga industry during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Critics together with artists challenged the by then conventional frameworks of shōnen manga, shōjo manga and gekiga by introducing innovative means of expression and non-gendered approaches to manga. While artists differed vastly in terms of style, the visual language of Katsuhiro Otomo, new approaches to science fiction, the emergence of boys' love (BL) manga, and a less feminine approach to shōjo manga were the main New Wave characteristics. The short-lived movement was centered around smaller manga magazines that were initiated by manga critics, but had a wide impact onto the development of mainstream manga.
History
Until the 1960s, Japan's manga industry was divided into four distinct genres: shōnen manga, shōjo manga as well as gekiga and seinen manga, with only a few experimental magazines like Garo and COM deviating from this pattern.
Towards the late 1970s, several minor manga magazines and anthologies were launched by the members of , a collective of manga critics that was active in the doujinshi scene and founded the Comiket. These publications, such as June, Peke, Shōnen Shōjo SF Manga Kyōsaku Taizenshu, Bessatsu Kisōtengai SF Manga Taizenshu, and Mankinchō, featured works both by established manga artists and emerging amateur doujinshi artists. The artists featured in these magazines were recognized for breaking the conventions of existing manga genres and working outside of the gendered framework of shōjo and shōnen manga. | 2.90625 | 0 |
74443186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sphinx%20of%20Eaglehawk%3A%20A%20Tale%20of%20Old%20Bendigo | The Sphinx of Eaglehawk: A Tale of Old Bendigo | The Sphinx of Eaglehawk: A Tale of Old Bendigo (1887) is a novel by Australian writer Rolf Boldrewood.
The novel was originally published in serial form in 5 weekly instalments in The Australasian between 19 November and 17 December 1887.
Synopsis
The novel is set in the Victorian gold-mining town of Bendigo, in 1852, during the height of the gold-rush. The Sphinx, of the title, is a new barmaid in town who is persecuted by one of the gold miners.
Critical reception
A reviewer in The Bulletin called the novel "a short tale of life on old Bendigo bowdlerised to suit respectable English families. The episodes are familiar, and the author has described them better before."
A writer in the South Australian Chronicle commented that the "novel is a story of gold digging on Bendigo in the days of 1852, and it is characterised by all the naturalness and fidelity to real life which have made Mr. Browne's previous works so thoroughly successful...Robberies, murders, conspiracies, and other spicy seasoning are added to the general ingredients of the book, and all together combine to make up a very clever and attractive novel."
Publication history
After its original publication in 1887 in The Australasian the novel was published as follows:
Macmillan, UK, 1895 | 1.96875 | 0 |
74443244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kankoro%20mochi | Kankoro mochi | Kankoro mochi (かんころもち, the kanji representation 甘古呂餅 is a registered trademark) is a type of mochi mixed with parboiled sweet potato. It is a regional cuisine and wagashi originating from the Gotō Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture.
It is manufactured throughout Nagasaki Prefecture, mainly in Gotō, Saikai, and Sasebo.
Origin
"Kankoro", in Gotō's regional dialect, refers to thinly-sliced, sundried sweet potato. Originally prepared as a non-perishable food for winter in the Gotō region, it has become a specialty, or tokusanhin, of Nagasaki Prefecture and is manufactured and sold throughout the prefecture.
Sweet potatoes can be grown on the Gotō Islands despite its lack of flat ground and abundance of barren slopes. Additionally, there is little difference between a good and bad harvest, and they are resistant to damage from typhoons, eliminating the risk of famine. These qualities have made sweet potatoes valued as a vital agriculture product supporting the economy of the Gotō Islands.Although it is unknown when sweet potatoes came to be cultivated on the Gotō Islands, it had become a crop grown by commoners by the Kanbun era (1661–1672), and in 1833, the Fukue Domain began to promote sweet potato cultivation in a dramatic shift from existing regulations. Sweet potatoes began to spread across the islands at the beginning of the Meiji era in the late 1860s, and by the Taishō era (1912–1926), it was the Gotō Islands' most abundant agricultural product.
Cultivation of sweet potatoes in Gotō would later slowly decline as their demand as an ingredient in shōchū and starch waned. However, many households still make kankoro mochi for the Japanese New Year to send to children and relatives who have left the islands.
Preparation | 2.90625 | 0 |
74443351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito%20Lombana | Tito Lombana | Tito Lombana (1932 – 1998) was a Colombian sculptor and was brother of sculptors Héctor and .
Biography
Lombana won the first prize in sculpture at the 9th National Showcase of Artists of Colombia in 1952, for which he was awarded a four-year scholarship to study in Europe. He lived in Madrid, where he studied sculpting at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, and completed his studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze in Florence, Italy.
In January 1957, he proposed and executed for the city of Cartagena Las Botas Viejas, a monument in honor of the Cartagena poet , in allusion to his poem entitled "A mi Ciudad Nativa". The sculpture stood in Cartagena until the mid-1990s, when it was demolished to make way for a bridge. His brother, Héctor, recreated the sculpture and placed it by Castle San Felipe de Barajas.
He had a solo exhibition at the Luis Ángel Arango Library in Bogotá, showcasing six marine animal-themed chiseled creations of his made from white carrara marble and callemandino red marble.
In 1975, Lombana and his co-conspirator, Pietro Tirasso, were arrested for drug trafficking in the United States by attempting to distribute 20 kilograms of cocaine.
Legacy
In 2019, Daniela Abad, the granddaughter of Lombana, produced a documentary about Tito Lombana, documenting his life in sculpting and in drug trafficking. It premiered at the Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival. | 2.046875 | 0 |
74443864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918%E2%80%931920%20New%20York%20City%20rent%20strikes | 1918–1920 New York City rent strikes | In March, the state legislature established the Joint Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities, known commonly as the Lusk Committee, to investigate suspected political radicals. Later from June 1919 to February 1920, the committee staged a series of raids within NYC and across New York, arresting thousands and seizing large amounts of radical political literature.
In April, the NY state Joint Legislative Committee on Housing (Lockwood Committee) was formed, and conducted lengthy hearings and investigations from April 1919 to March 1920. The committee eventually led a very limited number of prosecutions against sand and gravel dealers in 1920, which had little overall effect on racketeering or the supply and cost of housing in the city. It also proposed legislation to deal with the rent crisis that would eventually be used to promote the passage of the Emergency Rent Laws later in September 1920.
MCRP and landlord groups
In response to the crisis, The Mayor's Committee on Rent Profiteering (MCRP) was formed on April 14, 1919. The committee worked to settle rent disputes and assisted tenants. At the same time, it attempted to attack and destroy the Socialist-led tenant associations. The MCRP was crucially designed based on, and as an alternative to, the comparable tenant union negotiating committees. The MCRP's policies focused primarily on limiting the tenant organizers' influence, rather than the landlords'. Both Mayor John F. Hylan and committee chairmen Nathan Hirsch viewed the committee's central role as defusing Socialist influence and popularity, not necessarily addressing the housing crisis.
In a letter indicative of this approach, Nathan Hirsch wrote to the Mayor Hylan, | 2.25 | 0 |
74443864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918%E2%80%931920%20New%20York%20City%20rent%20strikes | 1918–1920 New York City rent strikes | That April, members of the GNYTL called a meeting of all striking tenants in the Bronx, and collected strike funds from members. The Workmen's Consumer League of Brownsville also started making plans for living in tents during the summer months to resist the rent increases. That month, the Brooklyn Tenants Union (BTU) formed with the support of Socialist assemblyman Charles Soloman. The BTU quickly demanded 10 percent rent reductions. After the building owners refused, the BTU called a rent strike against eight buildings owned by the president of the landlord association. On April 8, 1919, more than 350 tenants appeared in the Bronx Municipal Court to ask Justice Robitzek to take action to either prevent landlords from raising rent or to delay their evictions. Beyond extending the time when eviction notices became effective, the justice reportedly could do little for those who went before him. Robitzek stated, "This sort of rent raising is practically encouraging Bolshevism. They are doing their best to spread that disease." The strike lasted for 10 weeks, during which tenant leaders were beaten, houses picketed, potential tenants threatened, and one building fully evicted. By the end, tenants had won the rent reductions, however 72 of the 192 families were evicted before the end of the strike. | 2.453125 | 0 |
74443864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918%E2%80%931920%20New%20York%20City%20rent%20strikes | 1918–1920 New York City rent strikes | April Laws
On March 31, 1920, the New York state legislature overwhelmingly passed a series of tenant protections. The next day, on April 1, the governor of New York signed them into law. These soon became known as the April Rent Laws. Several major protections were implemented with its passage:
One provision gave municipal courts the legal power to grant stays of eviction up to one year if a judge was convinced the tenant was unable to final similar housing at a rent they had been paying. The ability for landlords to do no-cause eviction was also removed by a separate legal chapter of the law; previously, a landlord could implement a summary eviction on the basis that the tenant was "objectionable" without needing to provide proof. Now, the landlord would have to provide evidence to a court.
Another law gave tenants the ability to take a landlord to court over unjust rent increases. For any increases lower than 25%, tenants bore the burden of proof, while for increases above 25%, the landlords did. The 25% threshold was heavily criticized for being too high, but this protection only covered increases for current tenants before the laws passage, and it did not apply to new tenants. Chapter 130 repealed the 1918 Ottinger Law, which had been widely blamed for exacerbating the housing crisis. Chapter 133 made it so now a landlord had to provide evidence that a tenant was "objectionable" before carrying out a summary eviction. Previously landlords could evict "objectionable" tenants without evidence. | 2.875 | 0 |
74443864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918%E2%80%931920%20New%20York%20City%20rent%20strikes | 1918–1920 New York City rent strikes | Before long, the April Laws were soon criticized for their failings. In effect, the law created three types of tenant: those with written leases with set expiration dates, month-to-month tenants without written leases, and written leases of unspecified duration. The first category remained fully protected from increases until their lease expired and had to be allowed to renew their lease. The second group was largely not protected from rent increases below 25%, and it was largely impossible to win a case because the burden of proof was on the tenant. However, they were partially protected from eviction because, if they lost a case, most were given a stay of eviction from one month to a year. The last category, while protected from rent increases, were in the most precarious situation. These tenants with signed leases without a set duration could have their lease terminated on October 1 without qualification.
New York City faced the potential of 60,000 evictions at once in 1920 from the Chapter 130, October 1 lease date which applied to that last group of tenants. This had the potential to further inflame the rent and housing crisis.
Emergency Rent Laws
As it became clear that the new tenant protections were still inadequate, pressure from tenant organizations and some of the judges, who were overwhelmed by the continued high numbers of eviction cases and challenges, led to the passage and signing of the Emergency Rent Laws in October 1920, which, alongside the April laws, were the first rent control laws in the nation. The laws applied to a select group of cities in the state of New York and certain multifamily dwellings. | 2.984375 | 0 |
74443971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrolepis%20integerrima | Astrolepis integerrima | Taxonomy
Astrolepis integerrima was first described and named as the subspecies Notholaena sinuata var. integerrima by the famous botanist William Jackson Hooker in 1864. This status as a subspecies was reinterpreted by Richard H. Hevly as a separate species in a 1965 paper where he renamed it Notholaena integerrima. Hevly hypothesized that Astrolepis integerrima was the product of a hybridization event between Astrolepis cochisensis and Astrolepis sinuata based upon its appearance.
John Thomas Mickel (1934-) published a paper in 1979 proposing a change in the boundaries of genus Notholaena and Cheilanthes, resulting in this species being renamed Cheilanthes integerrima along with many others. When fern experts Dale M. Benham and Michael D. Windham proposed the new genus Astrolepis in 1992, Astrolepis integerrima was among the first species they placed there. Benham also found, using isozyme analysis, that it is an allotriploid, a type of polyploid hybrid. In this case a fusion of A. cochisensis and a then unknown Mexican fern closely related to Astrolepis crassifolia. More recently an article in the book The Global Flora: Special Edition: GLOVAP Nomenclature Part 1 proposing moving it and many other fern species in the subfamily Cheilanthoideae into one genus, Hemionitis, was published by Maarten J. M. Christenhusz in 2018.
Genetic analysis of Astrolepis integerrima conclusively show that it is polyploid that reproduces asexually. The currently existing populations are derived from a minimum of five and probably ten separate hybridization events and they found that the other parent species is almost undoubtedly Astrolepis obscura.
As of 2023 it is classified as a species with the name Hemionitis integerrima by Plants of the World Online (POWO) and World Flora Online (WFO). The World Ferns database, however, asserts the correct name and classification is Astrolepis integerrima (Hook.) D.M.Benham & Windham in the family Pteridaceae as does the Flora of North America (FNA). | 2.625 | 0 |
74444258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel%20Ocampo | Miguel Ocampo | Miguel Saturnino Ocampo Leloir (19222015), was an Argentine painter, sculptor, writer, architect, and diplomat. He is known for his contributions to Latin American modernism; and he was a figure within the Madí art movement, the Artistas Modernos de la Argentina art movement, and the Nueva Figuración art movement. He lived in Buenos Aires in his early life, and in La Cumbre from 1978 until his death in 2015.
Biography
Miguel Ocampo was born on November 29, 1922, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied architecture (class of 1947) at the University of Buenos Aires.
In 1948 after graduation Ocampo traveled to Europe, where he met Georges Braque and André Lhote. Ocampo's first art exhibition in Paris was in 1950. Ocampo entered the diplomatic corps in 1955; and was posted to Rome (1956 to 1959), followed by Paris (1961 to 1966), and New York City (1969 to 1978).
His paintings are monochromatic nature, and known for minimalism and geometric abstraction. In 1948 he joined the Madí artistic movement. Notable artworks by Ocampo include ‘The Stage of the Labyrinth’ (1954), ‘Painting’ (1965), and ‘Movement of Space’ (1963).
His work is in museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, and the National Gallery of Art. | 2.046875 | 0 |
74444304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaya%20Wewa | Jaya Wewa | Jaya Wewa () is a salutation and slogan used in Sri Lanka, best translated as "May you be victorious" or "Victory" in Sinhalese. It is most often used patriotically in the phrase "Sri Lanka Jaya Wewa" (ශ්රී ලංකා ජය වේවා; ). It is used in political speeches, as a battle cry, as a chant at sporting events, or to support rallies. It is used equivalently to the Indian phrase “Jai Hind,” or the Pakistani phrase “Pakistan Zindabad.”
Etymology
The word jaya (ජය) in Sinhalese means "victory", and is borrowed from Sanskrit "jaya" (जय), which means "triumph, victory, cheers, bravo, rejoice". The word is very commonly used throughout Sinhalese literature, such as the Mahāvaṃsa. In a Sanskrit context, the word appears in both Vedic texts such as the Atharvaveda, as well as post-Vedic texts such as the Mahabharata. It is the same root word as the one used in the Indian patriotic slogan "Jai Hind".
The word wewa (වේවා) in Sinhalese means "may it happen". For example "subha davasak wewā" (සුභ දවසක් වෙවා), which translates to "May you have a good day". Broken down it means "subha" (good) + "davasak" (day) + "wewā" (may it happen).
History
Jaya Wewa gained prominence as a slogan and chant in favor of the Sri Lankan independence movement.
Jaya Wewa was also used during the 2022 Sri Lankan protests, also known as Aragalaya. Many crowds were heard chanting "Aragalayata Jaya Wewa" or "Victory to the struggle". It is also used colloquially to wish the country success in getting out of its current economic crisis. | 2.15625 | 0 |
74444362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Butte%20%28Montana%29 | West Butte (Montana) | West Butte is a mountain summit located in Toole County, Montana, United States.
Description
West Butte is the highest peak in the Sweet Grass Hills and the highest in the county. It is situated north-northeast of Shelby, Montana, and south of the Canada–United States border, on land administered by the Bureau of Land Management. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains south to the Marias River and north to the Milk River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises above the surrounding plains in which makes it a prominent landmark visible for many miles.
Geology
West Butte is an exposed laccolith composed of diorite porphyry and monzonite which was created by an igneous intrusion through older Mississippian sedimentary rocks during the Eocene, about 50 million years ago. These sedimentary rocks are primarily limestone and shale. Over time, erosion of the sedimentary rock has exposed the solidified laccolith which is more resistant to weathering.
History
The Sweet Grass Hills, which are centered in buffalo hunting territory, are sacred to the Blackfoot and other tribes. The Blackfoot called West Butte "ami sítse katúyis" which means "west side sweet pine." In 1806, Meriwether Lewis sighted West Butte from the Missouri River, which is distant, and George Mercer Dawson reported seeing it from away at Blackfoot Crossing in Alberta. The landform's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names.
Climate
Based on the Köppen climate classification, West Butte is located in a semi-arid climate zone with long, cold, dry winters and hot summers with cool nights. Winter temperatures can drop below −10 °F with wind chill factors below −30 °F. The wettest period of the year is generally May through August, with up to 20 inches of precipitation falling annually on the peak.
West Butte peak has a dry winter subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc). | 2.859375 | 0 |
74444406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Old%20Bush%20Road | The Old Bush Road | "The Old Bush Road" (1892) (aka ("An Old Bush Road") is a poem by Australian poet Jennings Carmichael.
It was originally published in The Australasian on 23 April 1892 and subsequently reprinted in Poems, the author's sole poetry collection, other newspapers and periodicals and a number of Australian poetry anthologies.
Critical reception
While reviewing the author's poetry collection, Poems, a writer in The Australasian observed that Jennings had made the subject of "charmingly poetical" all her own: "It deals with the Australian bush as seen in the tender light of a loving memory that goes back to girlhood's days, and amid the city's growl and grime catches faint breaths of the gum forest at evening, hears the magpies fluting their tumultuous welcome to the dawn, or follows in fancy every winding of the 'old bush road' as it passes round the clumps of wattles, or over the creek where the bell-birds haunt, or skirts the marsh where the mosses grow in their redness, and the swan, the bittern, and the curlew dwell."
Publication history
After the poem's initial publication in The Australasian it was reprinted as follows:
Poems by Jennings Carmichael, Melville Mullen and Slade, 1895
An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens, Angus and Robertson, 1907
Selections from the Australian Poets edited by Bertram Stevens, Cornstalk Publishing, 1913
A Treasury of Colonial Poetry, Currawong, 1982
Australian Bush Poems, Axiom, 1991 | 2.0625 | 0 |
74444465 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen%20Hansma | Helen Hansma | Helen Greenwood Hansma is an American biologist, biophysicist, biochemist, and academic. She is a Researcher Emeritus and Associate Adjunct Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Hansma's research revolves around understanding the origin of life and proposes that life originated between mica sheets in micaceous clay. She has contributed to the fields of biophysics and biochemistry through her work on biomolecular materials, DNA-protein interactions, and the applications of Atomic Force Microscopy to biological materials.
Education
Hansma earned her bachelor's degree in chemistry from Earlham College in 1967, researching zinc-azine coordination compounds with William Stratton. Then she obtained a master's degree in biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of H. A. Barker. Her 1969 thesis was titled "Separation of Basic Amino Acids and Resolution of D and L Isomers by Gas Liquid Chromatography." She then did research in the UC Berkeley Nutrition Department on cholesterol-fed guinea pigs in the lab of Rosemarie Ostwald. In 1972, she enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Biological Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studied behavioral mutants of Paramecium aurelia. Her research explored ion fluxes and ciliary membrane proteins in the lab of Ching Kung. Her thesis was titled "Biochemical Studies on the Behavioral Mutants of Paramecium aurelia: Ion Fluxes and Ciliary Membrane Proteins". | 2.046875 | 0 |
74444643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie%20Bedford | Jessie Bedford | Jessie Bedford (1853–1918) was a British novelist who wrote about ten novels under the name of Elizabeth Godfrey. She wrote about the Stuarts, German history and a biography of the German philosopher Elisabeth of the Palatinate.
Life
Bedford was born in 1853 near Winchester in the village of Twyford. Her mother was Emma (born Poulden) who was the second wife of Revd James Gover Bedford who had children from his first marriage. Her early writing was for Temple Bar and Macmillan's Magazine in the early 1890s. In 1892 she took the of Elizabeth Godfrey to write a three volume novel titled Twixt Wood and Sea. In 1895 she a book which was like one by Thomas Hardy when she published a "pleasant piece of work". It was called Cornish Diamonds in which a contemporary heroine has to choose between following her talents or her love. Her next book was a "musical novel" titled Poor Human Nature in 1898 which concerned opera singers in a German town. In the following year she published A Stolen Idea: A Novel. This book is about a woman who marries a writer she admires and has plagiarised.
Bedford established friends in the literary world who included the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne
and his supporter the poetry critic Theodore Watts-Dunton and Mary St Leger Kingsley who wrote under the name of Lucas Malet.
Her style changed and from stories about contemporary women she began to write about the seventeenth century. In 1903 and 1904 she published two books titled Home Life under the Stuarts, 1603–49 and Social Life under the Stuarts. Three years later, she revealed her own research in English Children in the Olden Times which was an original look at the history of young children.
In 1906 she published a book about Heidelberg and in 1909 came A Sister of Prince Rupert a biography of the German philosopher Elisabeth of the Palatinate. Elisabeth of the Palatinate was a princess, an abbess and a correspondent of René Descartes. Bedford's last book was about the New Forest where she lived. | 2 | 0 |
74444755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasypoda%20radchenkoi | Dasypoda radchenkoi | Taxonomy
The genus Dasypoda is divided into four subgenera that allow the classification of most species globally: Dasypoda sensu stricto (the group of the common pantaloon bee Dasypoda hirtipes ), Heterodasypoda (including the Iberian Dasypoda morotei ), Microdasypoda (the group of small-sized pantaloon bee Dasypoda crassicornis ) and Megadasypoda (the group of the large-sized pantaloon bees such as Dasypoda vulpecula ). The morphology of Dasypoda radchenkoi is typical of the subgenus Heterodasypoda. The phylogenetic position of the species shows that it is the sister species of the near cryptic Dasypoda morotei, as it could be expected based on morphology alone. After the formal description if D. radchenkoi at the University of Mons, the holotype female was sent to the Museum of Linz, in Austria, where it now hosted. Some paratypes were sent to the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, in The Netherlands.
Etymology
The species is dedicated to Prof. Vladimir G. Radchenko, worldwide authority on the ecology and taxonomy of bees, and head of the Department of General Biology at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Conservation
Based on the guidelines of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Dasypoda radchenkoi was assessed "Data Deficient" based on two arguments: no information about the possible threats to the species is known, and the complete distribution of the species is yet to be assessed. More surveys in southern Spain are necessary to understand more in detail the ecology and biogeography of the species. | 2.53125 | 0 |
74444938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate%20political%20responsibility | Corporate political responsibility | Beginning in the second half of the 20th century, there has been an increased awareness of companies' impact on their social and ecological environment. Under the umbrella label of corporate responsibility, several management concepts have been proposed to encourage corporations to contribute actively to the welfare of these environments. The most established of these concepts is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Since the 2004 United Nations report Who cares wins, which popularly introduced environmental, social, and governance (ESG), sustainability principles have also found consideration in financial markets. In 2007, the political scientist David Vogel observed that many companies were stepping in to remediate their environmental and social impacts by taking 'virtuous' action when faced with deficits in state governance. Efforts by the sportswear manufacturer Nike to contribute to governance by observing self-imposed labor and environmental standards in its international factories, after facing strong pressure from activist groups, have been cited as an example of this approach. | 2.109375 | 0 |
74445200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20Connors | Stanley Connors | Second World War
Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, No. 111 Squadron moved north, initially to Acklington and then to Drem in Scotland, from where it patrolled along the coastline. In February 1940, the squadron shifted again, this time to Wick, where it provided the Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow with aerial cover. By May 1940, the squadron was back in the south of England, from where it regularly flew to France following the invasion of that country. Connors, who had been promoted to flying officer in August the previous year, claimed his first aerial victories on 18 May, destroying a Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter and then a Junkers Ju 88 medium bomber. The following day he shot down three Heinkel He 111 medium bombers and another Ju 88. In recognition of his successes, Connors was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. The published citation read:
At the end of the month and into early June, No. 111 Squadron flew in support of Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk. Connors, by this time a flight lieutenant and leader of one of the squadron's flights, destroyed a Bf 109 over Dunkirk on 31 May although this was not confirmed. Similarly, a He 111 that he claimed to have shot down, also over Dunkirk, on 2 June was unable to be confirmed. Once the evacuation was completed, the squadron subsequently provided escorts for the Fleet Air Arm's bombing operations over the French coast and during one of these, on 7 June, Connors destroyed a Bf 109 to the west of Abbeville. | 2.4375 | 0 |
74445200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20Connors | Stanley Connors | Battle of Britain
Following a period of rest so it could train up replacement pilots, No. 111 Squadron, now based at Croydon, commenced patrolling over the English Channel and then became drawn into the aerial fighting over the southeast of England during the Battle of Britain. Connors shot down a Bf 109 near Folkestone on 19 July, and damaged another on 25 July, in the vicinity of Dover. He shared in the destruction of a Ju 88 over the English Channel on 31 July, but this was unconfirmed. Flying near Margate on 11 August, he shot down a Bf 109. Four days later, across multiple sorties, he shot down a Ju 88 and damaged another near Selsey Bill, and destroyed a Messerschmitt Bf 110 heavy fighter and damaged a second, near Redhill and Croydon respectively. He damaged a Dornier Do 17 medium bomber near Maidstone on 16 August.
On 18 August, on what became known as the Hardest Day, No. 111 Squadron was scrambled to protect the airfield at Kenley, the target of a large Luftwaffe bombing raid. While attacking a Do 17, his aircraft was struck by anti-aircraft fire from Kenley's air defences. Despite his Hurricane being in flames, a witness to the engagement saw Connors persist in attacking the Do 17, which he subsequently shot down. His Hurricane, still in flames, crashed at Wallington. Connors, thrown clear of the wreckage, was killed. Shortly after his death, an award of a Bar to Connors's DFC was announced. Published on 6 September, the citation, which noted that he had since been killed in action, read:
Connors, who was survived by his wife Marjorie, was buried in North Berwick Cemetery. At the time of his death, Connors was credited with having shot down twelve German aircraft, with another two unconfirmed. He also had a shared in one unconfirmed aerial victory. In addition, he was credited with damaging four aircraft. | 2.421875 | 0 |
74445409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impatiens%20henslowiana | Impatiens henslowiana | Impatiens henslowiana is a flowering plant of the Balsaminaceae family, native to the Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well Sri Lanka. It is a large shrub that grows either terrestrially or epiphytically.
Description
Impatiens henslowiana is a woody shrub, also known as Henslow's balsam, that grows to . Its stems can be either erect or procumbent (that is, prostrate or trailing). Its sawtoothed leaves can be opposite, alternate or whorled and are of a tapering ovate shape. Its inflorescences are raceme and pedicellate. Its flowers are bisexual, with zygomorphic symmetry. They usually have three sepals, though they occasionally have five, with the posterior sepal being large, and bag or boat shaped. The five free petals, which alternate with the stamens, can range in color from red to scarlet to purple or be greenish or white. The upper petal is flat, keeled or hooded, with either smooth or crested edges, and is usually lobed at the base. The flowers have multiple oblong ovaries that produce flat oval-shaped nuts. The indehiscent fruit is often asymmetrical and swollen in the middle.
Gallery | 2.125 | 0 |
74445486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremantle%20Octopus | Fremantle Octopus | Fremantle Octopus is an Australian octopus fishery business based in Fremantle, Western Australia. It was founded by former rock lobster fishermen Ros and Craig Cammilleri.
The company catches and processes Octopus djinda. The species of octopus is regarded as having a relatively high grade based on size, texture, and taste; thought in part to be a result of its natural diet in the local environment. Products made by the fishery include frozen raw tentacles, steamed tentacles, and marinated octopus.
The business processes octopus catch from various independently owned boats, and has a processing plant in the suburb of O'Connor. The business' founder Craig Cammilleri has been credited as the inventor of the 'octopus trigger trap', a method for catching octopus that uses a plastic grab with an in-built LED light to lure octopus. Baby octopus and fish are not strong enough to trigger the trap.
The business operates in a fishery with Marine Stewardship Council certification, one of only two octopus fisheries in the world where that is the case. The total catch of Octopus djinda in WA is around 300 tonnes per year, of which Fremantle Octopus processes around 70%. Estimates have placed the sustainable catch rate for the fishery at around 1-2 thousand tonnes per year. Prior to being a valuable commodity, octopus were an annoyance for rock lobster fisherman as a predator of their catch.
Around 80% of the fishery's catch is sold domestically in Australia, with 20% exported to foreign markets including the US, Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai. In 2019 the business expanded its exports to the Chinese market.
In 2017 the company explored a float on the ASX. | 2.125 | 0 |
74445539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva%20Mamlok | Eva Mamlok | In his autobiography, he wrote that she had no political background: "But she was against the Nazis with all her heart and over time also became politically aware." According to other sources, however, Eva Mamlok was a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ), which had been dissolved in June 1933. Since then she had been active in anti-Nazi resistance.
Siemsen describes a succinct scene with her:
The two had fallen in love and often went to a cheap eatery near the Berlin Zoo station, known for an audience which "had nothing to do with the Nazis", so the place was probably monitored closely by Gestapo. Siemsen:
Siemsen was able to leave Germany in 1937 and emigrate to Argentina. Before he left, they bought "wedding rings for 90 pfennigs a pair" from Woolworth. According to his memoirs, they stayed in touch via letters at least until the outbreak of World War II.
Death of father, birth of daughter Tana
On November 10, 1936, Eva's father Albert Mamlok died at 58 in the Jewish Hospital at Berlin-Wedding.
At the date of the German Minority Census in May 1939, Eva lived with her mother Martha and her sister Hildegard in their parents' apartment at Neuenburger Straße 3 in Kreuzberg. Her mother ran the "Martha Mamlok Wine and Spirits Store" at Neuenburger Strasse 3 until 1940.
On September 3, 1939, Eva gave birth to a daughter by the name of Tana, also in the Jewish Hospital, which was among the few places that still gave medical service to Jews. In Tana's birth entry at the Berlin-Wedding registry office, Eva is listed as single mother, occupation 'domestic worker', father of the child unknown. As Siemsen had emigrated in 1937, it could not have been him. From August 1938, only very few first names were allowed for Jewish children, including 'Tana'. According to her colleague Inge Berner, the child's father was not Jewish, but in order to protect him from the "racial defilement" paragraph of the Nuremberg Laws, Eva stated that the father was a Jew who had emigrated. | 2.125 | 0 |
74445560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20chaffinch | African chaffinch | The African chaffinch (Fringilla spodiogenys), is a species of passerine bird in the genus Fringilla. This species can be found in southwestern Morocco through Tunisia and into western Libya along the Mediterranean Coast and also has an isolated population in northeastern Libya near the coast. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the Common chaffinch, (Fringilla coelebs). Its habitat includes deciduous forests and lowlands, and during the nonbreeding season extends its habitat to open areas including weedy fields and olive groves. The African chaffinch is a medium to large finch with an average lifespan of 5.7 years.
The diet of an African chaffinch is similar to a Common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs), mostly eating small invertebrates and their larvae, as well as flowers, seeds, and buds.
Taxonomy
This species was first described by Napoleon Bonaparte’s Nephew, Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte who was an ornithologist. It was first classified as a subspecies of Common chaffinch (Fringilla Coelebs), but work done between 1979 and 2021 found differences between the two species including genetics and vocal behavior that lead to the African chaffinch becoming its own species. | 3.21875 | 0 |
74446452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%20You | Pan You | Pan You (; 938–973) was a politician of the Southern Tang who was arrested by Li Yu and killed by hanging. Pan You was born in Youzhou, now modern Beijing.
During the Southern Tang there were many officials that tried to use the Rites of Zhou to reform the law but failed. Pan You was familiar with classics and history, including the works of Laozi and Zhuangzi. He enjoyed writing and once wrote a thousand word letter to the Southern Han. He authored the 10-volume work "Xingyang Collection" (滎陽集), which is now lost.
Li Yu, ruler of the Southern Tang, lived a luxurious life. During his reign, Pan You went to court seven times and was severely criticized for his writing on politics. During the decline of the Southern Tang, Pan's writings provoked the anger of Li Yu. As a result, Li Yu sent people to arrest and kill Pan You, poisoned Lin Renzhao, and Pan You died by hanging.
In 978, Li Yu confessed to killing Pan You.
Pan You's life was documented in Book of Southern Tang by Ma Ling, the 1184 Book of Southern Tang by Lu You, the 1343 History of Song and Volume 4 of the Junzhai Chronicle (郡斋读书志).
Pan was ugly and got divorced. | 1.914063 | 0 |
74447350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison%20Drouin | Maison Drouin | Architecture
Maison Drouin, one of the oldest surviving buildings on Île d'Orléans, is a prime example of French Colonial Architecture. This architecture, often referred to as "French spirit", should, according to experts such as Gérard Morisset, rather be described as "northern European Romanesque". It is a good example of the rural lifestyle in Quebec before the industrial revolution.
The house is rectangular in plan, with a low ground clearance. The walls are made of rendered stone. The gable roof is covered with wood shingles. It is topped by a stone chimney and features a gabled dormer. The central placement of the chimney, common in the Quebec City region, indicates a longitudinal expansion of the house. Windows and doors, though not numerous, are arranged asymmetrically. Casement windows are composed of medium and large panes.
The first floor is divided by a stone wall that defines two living areas. The rest of the rooms are separated either by wide, tongue-and-groove plank walls or by plastered lath partitions. The oldest room features a fireplace and a bread oven, whose heat pipe communicates with the chimney. The floors are covered with wide planks. A trapdoor in the floor gives access to the cellar, and a miller staircase leads to the attic. A closed room with a small window on the south façade indicates the presence of an indoor dairy. Dendrochronological analyses prove that the floor timbers were cut in the winter of 1729. | 2.796875 | 0 |
74447685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta%20Lister | Henrietta Lister | Henrietta Mabel Lister (also known as Laretta Listakova, Henrietta Listakova and H. M. Burrill-Robinson; 1895–1959) was a British watercolourist, dancer, and race driver.
Early life
Lister was born in 1895 and her parents were Charles Lister (a doctor) and his wife. She attended the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London.
In 1914, Lister, using the stage name Laretta Listakova, was part of a dance company that was touring Bulgaria and Serbia when World War I began. Lister joined Elsie Inglis's Salonika-based Scottish Women's Hospitals unit as a driver, under the auspices of the French Red Cross. For her contributions, she was awarded a British War Medal and Victory Medal, and a Serbian Medal for Zeal.
Motor racing
Between 1924 and 1928, Lister raced a Bamford-type Aston Martin at the Brooklands racetrack in Surrey. She is recorded as having participated in twelve meetings, competing in 22 different races or events. Jack Waters (who went on to star in films and television as Jack Warner) acted as her mechanic and sometimes drove her car.
Some sources report that she sometimes called herself "Henrietta Listakova", whom newspapers reported as being a "Russian ballet dancer" who raced cars in Britain and America. In 1923, Listakova performed in a charity ballet organized by a Mabel Lister in London.
Later life
In 1935, Lister married William Robinson Burrill-Robinson of Elm House, Redmire, North Yorkshire. Lister appears to have given up her adventurous hobbies and turned to watercolours, exhibiting as part of the Castle Bolton Group.
Lister died in 1959 at the age of 64. | 1.929688 | 0 |
74449274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal%20war%20of%20succession%20%281658%E2%80%931659%29 | Mughal war of succession (1658–1659) | The Mughal war of succession of 1658–1659 was a war of succession fought between the four sons of Shah Jahan: Aurangzeb, Dara Shikoh, Murad Bakhsh, and Shah Shuja, in hopes of gaining the Mughal Throne. Prior to the death of Shah Jahan, each of his sons held governorships during their father's reign. The emperor favoured the eldest, Dara Shikoh, However, there was resentment among the younger three, who sought at various times to strengthen alliances between themselves and against Dara. Since there was no Mughal tradition of hierarchy , the systematic passing of rule, upon an emperor's death, to his eldest son. Instead it was customary for sons to overthrow their father and for brothers to war to the death among themselves.
Shah Shuja was victorious in the Battle of Bahadurpur. Shuja turned back to Rajmahal to make further preparations. He signed a treaty with his elder brother, Dara, which left him in control of Bengal, Orissa and a large part of Bihar, on 17 May 1658.
Aurangzeb defeated Dara twice (at Dharmat and Samugarh), caught him, executed him on a charge of heresy and ascended the throne. Shuja marched to the capital again, this time against Aurangzeb. A battle took place on 5 January 1659 at the Battle of Khajwa (Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India), where Shuja was defeated. Ultimately, Aurangzeb was victorious making him the 6th Mughal Emperor.
Background | 2.34375 | 0 |
74450599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20Xavier%20Chaves | Francisco Xavier Chaves | Francisco Xavier Chaves (born c.1762, New Mexico—died 1832, San Antonio, Texas) was taken captive by the Comanche in 1770 and was subsequently sold or traded to the Taovaya. He was fluent in the Taovaya and Comanche languages as well as Spanish. In 1785, along with Pedro Vial, he negotiated a durable peace agreement between the Comanche and the Spanish colony of Texas. Although illiterate, Chaves became a lieutenant in the Spanish and Mexican armies and continued to serve as an interpreter and intermediary between the Spanish and Mexicans and the Indian tribes of the Texas frontier.
Early life and captivity
Chaves was born about 1762 in the Atrisco valley near Albuquerque, New Mexico, the son of Ignacio Chaves and Gregoria Maese. He was taken captive about 1770 by the Comanche while he was herding sheep near his home. A Comanche woman adopted him, but she died and he was sold to the Taovaya, a Wichita tribe living along the Red River in Oklahoma and Texas. In 1784 he was in a raiding party of Taovaya near San Antonio. On July 18, he deserted the raiders and the same day offered his services to Domingo Cabello y Robles, the Spanish governor of Texas.
Chaves, 22 years old, was described as little more than tall, dressed as an Indian, and with his eyes tattooed in the Taovaya style. He spoke both the Comanche and the Taovaya languages. Cabello was under pressure from Spanish authorities to negotiate a long-sought peace with the Comanche and he realized that Chaves was a rare asset. Unknown to the Spanish, the eastern Comanche were weaker and perhaps more disposed toward peace because a smallpox epidemic four years earlier had killed as many as two thirds of them in some bands. A concurrent drought reduced the quality of the grazing land for the bison and horse herds they depended upon and also reduced the production of agricultural products by the Taovaya and other farming Indians for which the Comanche customarily traded as an essential part of their diet. | 2.84375 | 0 |
74451064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate%20oath%20of%20allegiance | Confederate oath of allegiance | The Confederate oath was occasionally sworn by civilians whose loyalty was considered dubious and who were thus required to make a pledge attesting to their loyalty. Texas governor Sam Houston refused to take the Confederate oath and was removed from office. Southern Unionist newspaper editor (later Governor of Tennessee and U.S. Senator from Tennessee) William Gannaway Brownlow was imprisoned in Confederate Tennessee on charges of treason and expected to hang because he refused to take the Confederate oath of allegiance (Brownlow was ultimately booted out of the state in lieu of execution). Andrew Johnson's son Charles Johnson and son-in-law David T. Patterson both took Confederate oaths under duress, although the former later joined the Union Army and the latter was described as a "Union man as would put some of us to shame." According to one account of the St. Albans Raid, soldiers administered the Confederate oath of allegiance, at gunpoint, to customers of the bank. American and English Encyclopedia of Law (Vol. 28, 1895) references case law that found "avoidance to take the confederate oath of allegiance" to be substantial evidence of loyalty in wartime.
Some long-term Union Army prisoners-of-war ultimately took oaths to the Confederacy; these men were known as Galvanized Rebels and received work assignments in exchange for their pledges of allegiance. | 2.375 | 0 |
74451247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen%20Agull%C3%B3%20D%C3%ADaz | Carmen Agulló Díaz | María de Carmen Agulló Díaz (Xinzo de Limia, Province of Ourense, 1957) is a Spanish tenured professor of Theory and History of Education at the University of Valencia. In addition to being a book writer, she is one of the most prestigious researchers in the Spanish environment around the history of women's education, especially in Republican teachers. She is also highly recognized in this field for her participation in the documentary directed by Pilar Pérez Solano in 2013, , winner of the Goya award for best documentary film in 2014. Though she is a native Galician, Agulló Díaz has lived in the Valencian Community since 1978.
Education
Agulló Díaz began her studies at the Santa Marina de Ginzo de Limia Academy. She received her Baccalaureate at the Colegio de las Carmelitas de Orense and the Instituto Nacional Femenino de Vigo. She studied Pedagogy and Psychology at the University of Santiago de Compostela and earned a degree in Psychology at the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Valencia. She holds degrees in Psychology, Philosophy, and Educational Sciences, and she has a Ph.D. in Pedagogy. Her doctoral thesis (1994) was directed by Juan Manuel Fernández Soria.
Career and research
Agulló Díaz is a tenured professor at the Department of Comparative Education and History of Education at the University of Valencia. Despite having worked as a psychologist in the municipal cabinet in the Llutxent City Council, she went on to teach classes at the Faculties of Philosophy and Educational Sciences and Teaching, in Valencia and Ontinyent.
Her work as a researcher is aimed at recovering the history of education in Valencia, especially during the period of the Second Spanish Republic and the Franco regime, also focusing on giving women a voice during the history of education and the recovery of Valencian historical educational heritage and the defense of public education. | 2.234375 | 0 |
74451481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign%20of%20Alfonso%20XIII | Reign of Alfonso XIII | During that time an agreement was reached between the company and the workers thanks to the work of the moderate CNT leader Salvador Seguí. There remained the pending issue of the imprisoned strikers, subject to military jurisdiction, but Captain General Milans del Bosch did not give in, so the CNT had to carry out its threat to declare a general strike. The response of the employers, who supported Milans' position, was to declare a lock-out which condemned the workers to destitution. The government tried to dismiss Milans, who had declared a state of war, but the King opposed it, so Romanones resigned. He was replaced by the conservative Antonio Maura, who approved Milans del Bosch's policy. The CNT was dissolved and its leaders were imprisoned, while the Somatén joined in the maintenance of public order in Barcelona.
The Catalan workers' conflict degenerated into a "social war" with both sides resorting to violence, the setting being Barcelona, where unionists and employers' pistoleros clashed with each other. The latter were led by the ex-policeman Manuel Bravo Portillo, hired by the Employers' Federation, who formed an extensive and well-organized gang composed of criminals and corrupt trade unionists, who carried out the first assassinations of CNT militants and leaders. In the anarchist ranks, and protected by their leaders, action groups were formed whose members, according to Moreno Luzon, "moved between murder for hire and the anarchist revolution, protagonists of more and more attacks against businessmen, foremen, policemen, thugs and dissident workers". Among them stood out Buenaventura Durruti, "young gunman and clandestine agitator". | 2.03125 | 0 |
74451481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign%20of%20Alfonso%20XIII | Reign of Alfonso XIII | The government of "liberal concentration" presided by Manuel García Prieto announced its intention to advance in the process of responsibilities —in July 1923 the Senate granted the supplication to be able to prosecute General Berenguer since he had parliamentary immunity as he was a member of that Parliament—. Likewise, he tried to reaffirm the primacy of civilian power over the military in the two pending issues, Catalonia and Morocco. He also proposed a very ambitious project of reform of the political regime which would lead to the birth of a true parliamentary Monarchy, although in the elections he convened at the beginning of 1923 there was again widespread fraud and resort to the cacique machinery to ensure a majority. However, the anti-system parties made progress, especially the PSOE, which obtained a resounding victory in Madrid, where it won seven seats. In the end, however, the government was unable to carry out its plans for reform and accountability because on September 13, 1923, General Miguel Primo de Rivera, Captain General of Catalonia, led a coup d'état in Barcelona that put an end to the liberal regime of the Restoration. King Alfonso XIII did not oppose the coup.
Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (1923–1930) | 2.421875 | 0 |
74451481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign%20of%20Alfonso%20XIII | Reign of Alfonso XIII | As the Dictatorship lost support, opposition groups grew. Among the members of the parties of the turn, of the old politics, who confronted the Dictatorship was the conservative José Sánchez Guerra, who, as he had promised, when the National Constituent Assembly was called, went into exile in Spain, and later participated in the attempted coup d'état of January 1929. But the parties of the turn as such, the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party, had practically disappeared as a consequence of their removal from power and the policy of the Dictatorship of "dismantling the caciquismo". Some of its members joined the Unión Patriótica and others, such as Sánchez Guerra or Manuel de Burgos y Mazo, of the Conservative Party, or Santiago Alba, of the Liberal Party, joined the Constitutional Bloc founded by the reformist Melquiades Álvarez, who advocated the abdication of Alfonso XIII and the calling of Constituent Courts. Others would openly join the Republican camp, such as Niceto Alcalá-Zamora and Miguel Maura Gamazo, who founded the Republican Liberal Right. | 2 | 0 |
74451575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20H.%20Beardsley | William H. Beardsley | Finally, in 1919 construction began on a multiple-arch dam designed by engineer Carl Pleasant. Beardsley's son, Robert, assisted in the Arizona project after graduating in 1919 with an engineering degree from Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut. During this time, William Beardsley allowed Robert, Pleasant and other investors take over the project. Beardsley's original Camp Dryer Dam would be completed in 1926. The "Carl" Pleasant Dam, was constructed between 1926 and 1928 creating the upper portion of the Lake, and renamed the Waddell Dam in 1964.
Later, a canal would also be built, named the Beardsley Canal, that moved water from Lake Pleasant to ranches as far as thirty-three miles away in present day Buckeye, Arizona.
Today, Beardsley's project is known as the Maricopa Water District (MWD) which maintains its original water rights to the Aqua Fria River and is entitled to 157,600 acre-feet of water stored in Lake Pleasant.
While living in Arizona, William Beardsley also started his own town, Beardsley, which is a non-incorporated area in present day Sun City.
Personal life
William Beardsley married Ida R. Oglesby in December 1888. The couple had one child together, Robert Oglesby Beardsley, born in 1889.
Aside from the irrigation project in Arizona, Beardsley went on to invent and acquire patents for the Keyboard Adding Machine in March 1891 and an adjustable chair in 1895.
Death and legacy
After finishing his brother's work in Arizona, William Beardsley moved to Los Angeles, California, where he died December 15, 1925. He is buried in Woodside Cemetery, Middletown, Ohio.
Beardsley Road in Phoenix is named in his honor. | 2.34375 | 0 |
74452385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20William%20Yerbury | John William Yerbury | John William Yerbury (30 March 1847 – 10 November 1927) was a British Indian army officer and a naturalist. He collected birds, insects, reptiles, and mollusc specimens which were sent to the British Museum (Natural History) during his service across British India with numerous species described from his collections and several named after him.
Life and work
Yerbury was born near Saharanpur, Ambala, where his namesake father Major Yerbury (1804-1858), posted with the 3rd Light Dragoons, was travelling. His mother Emma nee Webb, was travelling on elephant back at the time of his birth according to a family story. The family returned to England around 1854 and lived at Belcombe Court in Bradford-on-Avon. After the death of his father, Yerbury went to Wellington College and in 1862 to Dr William Bridgman's Woolwich Common school.
He enrolled at the Royal Military Academy in 1865 and was a posted Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1868. He served in India and Yemen, with his last years of service spent in Sri Lanka. In his spare time he studied natural history, collecting specimens and sending them to specialists. He did not have a private collection, but sent nearly all his specimens to the British Museum. He retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1892 and returned to England.
He made a long sea trip in 1887 from India to England and made yet another trip to Aden in 1895. He lived in London and gave his mailing address as the Army and Navy Club in Pall Mall. He continued his natural history collections in Britain and Europe until around 1914, after the death of his friend Dora Isaac and of his friend and cousin John Henry Wood. He was a member of the Entomological Society from 1888. His eyesight began to fail from around 1910 and this may have contributed to an accident in which he was hit by a taxi leading to injuries and a premature death. Yerbury exonerated the driver of the cab.
He collected across taxa. Most of his collections are now in the Natural History Museum in London. | 2.28125 | 0 |
74452858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasue%20Kodama | Yasue Kodama | Stylistic shifts
In an essay for the exhibition catalogue at Art Site in 1994, Art Critic Yoshinobu Shimasaki establishes that the gradual process of Kodama's shift away from the representational towards more abstract works of forms and colors began in 1988 “the still objects in her paintings began to show a tendency to gradually melt or disappear into the hazy space surrounding them.”
Commenting on Kodama's early forays into abstraction, Shimasaki describes her early abstract monochromatic colored surfaces or forms as “masses” that pursue her “interest in the painting space that originates from still life without borrowing the forms of objects from the world outside the painting.” He says that the lines of Kodama's brushstrokes and the “saturation and brightness” of the carefully selected hues in her earlier works portended her eventual transition towards the abstract.
In her essay regarding Kodama, art critic Chikako Ikegami attributes her shift away from representational still-life towards the abstract as a shift in focus from the objects themselves to the spatial relationship between them. Ikegami explains, “As the forms of the actual objects being painted gradually disappeared, leaving nothing but the sense of space surrounding the objects, the surface of these Morandi style paintings grew infinitely close to nothingness. The artist’s interest gradually shifted away from the attempt to grasp the objects to be painted, and towards the interstices created between the objects. She moved the focus to the background of the still life”. | 2.296875 | 0 |
74452858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasue%20Kodama | Yasue Kodama | Monet’s Legacy exhibition
Kodama's works were also included in the Monet’s Legacy exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art which presented various Claude Monet works and various contemporary artists who can be said to trace his legacy. In her essay explaining Kodama within this context, Kyoko Sakamoto, assistant curator at the museum, explains Kodama's technique of layering colors on her canvases and renders her nature motifs before the paint can dry while recalling her sensation when she first encountered the landscape. Kodama paints these time consuming works in series, often depicting similar scenes in multiple works. Sakamoto says that this technique allows for the landscape to “emerge from the depths of the canvas and incorporate all of Kodama’s senses, not only vision, but also temperature, humidity, even the taste of the air.” Sakamoto relates Kodama's images to sense of “extracting and condensing the landscapes that Monet painted every day in his garden in Giverny. The figurative motifs and the inspiration he gained from them were sublimated into something essential and acquired a vast universality through the process of painting repeatedly.” | 2.3125 | 0 |
74452929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20A.%20Morgan | Donald A. Morgan | Donald A. Morgan is an American cinematographer. He has won 11 Emmy Awards, including seven for Home Improvement and three for The Ranch. In 2022, he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. As of 2021, he held the record for the most awarded Black person at the Emmys.
Early life
Morgan was born in Philadelphia to American jazz musician Al Morgan and his wife, though the family moved to Los Angeles when his mother took a job as a pathologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. Following in his father's footsteps, Morgan was a musician, playing the stand-up bass in middle school and the bass guitar in high school.
After graduating from Alexander Hamilton High School, Morgan attended Los Angeles Trade–Technical College, where he studied graphic art and architecture.
Career
One of the first Black directors of photography at a major network, Morgan started his television career in KTTV's mailroom, advancing to their lighting department. During the 1970s, he worked in Norman Lear productions such as All in the Family, The Jeffersons, and One Day at a Time. Due to the diverse casts in the shows, Morgan had to learn new techniques to appropriately and adequately provide lighting for people with varying skin tones. In 1983, he was named Director of Photography, one of the first Black people to hold such a role on a major network. Morgan went on to contribute to series such as Three's Company, Silver Spoons, Gloria, Home Improvement, and The Ranch, in addition to lighting for other programs, including Baryshnikov on Broadway and the NAACP Image Awards. | 2.046875 | 0 |
77362826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornsea%20Lifeboat%20Station | Hornsea Lifeboat Station | In 1856, Mrs Ann Wood of Eltham offered to donate £150 for a new lifeboat, if she could name the boat. This was gladly accepted, and the gift was appropriated to Hornsea. A new 28-foot Self-righting 'pulling and sailing' (P&S) lifeboat, one with oars and sails, was constructed by Forrestt of Limehouse, and was transported, along with a new carriage and all her equipment, from London to Hull, free of charge, by the General Steam Navigation Company, arriving in March 1857. The lifeboat was named B. Wood.
Neither of the first two lifeboats at Hornsea was ever launched on service. In 1864, a 30-foot lifeboat was placed at Hornsea. The boat was already 5-years old, and had served at Carmarthen Bay Lifeboat Station (later named Ferryside Lifeboat Station). On arrival at Hornsea, the boat would be renamed B. Wood.
This lifeboat would be launched on 29 October 1869, but couldn't get close to the casualty vessel, the brig Giuseppina, on passage from Naples to Leith when she was driven ashore and wrecked. Three of the 10 crewmen had been lost, but six were rescued by a fishing boat. John Banyard, Chief Officer, H.M. Coastguard Hornsea, then swam out to the wreck with a line, rescuing the Master. For his efforts, he was awarded the RNLI Silver Medal.
The full-rigged ship Martha of Norway was driven ashore on 7 February 1871. 15 crewmen were rescued by the Hornsea lifeboat. A few days later, whilst salvage work continued on the vessel, another storm picked up, becoming the Great Gale of 1871, and 13 men were again rescued from the Martha by the Hornsea lifeboat. | 2.109375 | 0 |
77362906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involvement%20of%20Northeast%20Indian%20insurgents%20in%20the%20Myanmar%20conflict | Involvement of Northeast Indian insurgents in the Myanmar conflict | Operation Golden Bird
Operation Golden Bird was a 2 month long India-Myanmar joint military operation from March to May 1995. The goal of the operation was to cut off a weapon smuggling trail used by several Northeastern rebel groups to smuggle weapons into India's Manipur State. Cadres numbering around 170 of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), the People's Liberation Army of Manipur (PLA-M), and the All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) planned to pick up an arms shipment near Cox Bazar, Bangladesh, and transport it to Manipur. After the cadres accidentally crossed the India-Myanmar border in Chin State, they came into conflict with the Chin National Front (CNF), a Chin nationalist organisation. After reportedly clashing with the CNF, the CNF and the National United Party of Arakan (NUPA) began supplying the Indian Army with information about the movements of the cadres. After this, the Assam Rifles and the Myanmar military clashed with the cadres several times while they moved deeper into Burmese territory. Several times, discoordination led to both Myanmar Army and Indian Army troops requesting for the other to withdraw. By the end of April, the rebel column was severely weakened and demoralised.
On 4 May, India announced that the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding was being given to Nobel Peace Prize winner and pro-democracy politician Aung San Suu Kyi. In response, the military junta of Myanmar withdrew from the front and released "scores" of detained militants, allowing the besieged rebel column to escape and eventually make it to Manipur. Operation Golden Bird ended 21 May 1995.
1995-2015
In mid-1995, the NSCN-K and ULFA formed the United Liberation Front of Seven Sisters, which broke up shortly after. | 2.484375 | 0 |
77363572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Morrison%20%28artist%29 | Robert Morrison (artist) | In 1982, Morrison participated at an experimental poetry performance series called Pigeons at Pipers at Piper's Opera House in Virginia City. Placing four tape recorders on the floor, he threaded blank recording tape in a loop through the machines, turned on both the microphones and the speakers, and hit the start buttons. The tape, picking up dust and debris from the floorboards, made "appaling sounds upon reaching the heads of the machines—sounds recorded and added to and played back by each machine in a building crescendo of unbearable ambient magnitude." This work, according to art critic William L. Fox, "gave the space a voice without any specific authorship by the artist" and "exhibited many of the tensions that would inhabit Morrison's work for the next two decades."
Throughout the 1980s, Morrison turned to creating "sound pieces—large, labor-intensive installations that explore the concept of how sound can affect our sense of space." Working mostly with steel, fiberglass, and radio wire, his sculptures symbolized how figures are "bound in media, trying to speak." The central and "exasperating paradox" of his work emerged when the sculptural material acts as "a resistance to speech." According to American writer Rebecca Solnit, Morrison's work "often explores 'how uncomfortably we occupy' our bodies and our world." | 2 | 0 |
77363686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazhama%E1%B9%85gala%E1%B9%83%20N%C4%81r%C4%81ya%E1%B9%87an%20Na%E1%B9%83p%C5%ABtiri | Mazhamaṅgalaṃ Nārāyaṇan Naṃpūtiri | Initially Nārāyaṇan Naṃpūtiri was staying at his ancestral home at Peruvanam. Later he moved to Thrissur and took up the position of the chief priest of the local Paramekkavu Bagavathi Temple. While at Thrissur, he married a Brāhmaṇi, a woman of the Nambeesan caste. There was a custom of these Brāhmaṇi-s performing ritualistic singing of devotional songs on the occasions marriage ceremonies. The songs sung during these rituals are called Brāhmaṇi songs. Nārāyaṇan Naṃpūtiri composed as many as five such songs for the benefit of his wife.
Nārāyaṇan Naṃpūtiri's works
Work on expiatory rituals
Nārāyaṇan Naṃpūtiri's reputation rests mainly on his literary works and on his magnum opus titled Smārta-prāyaścitta-vimarśinī, a work dealing with expiatory rituals. This treatise deals with the expiatory rituals to be carried out in connection with the performance of mega-rituals like Somayajna and is very popular in Kerala.
Astronomy and mathematics
In one of the verses in Smārta-prāyścitta-vimarśinī, the author has described himself as a gaṇitavid (meaning, "scholar in mathematics"). There are not many works authored by him which can be cited in support of this appellation. An important work that can be cited in this context is a part commentary on Bhāskara II's Līlāvatī. The first half of this commentary called Kriyākramakarī (up to verse 199 in Līlāvatī) has been composed by Śaṅkara Vāriyar, a prominent member of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics, and the commentary on the remaining verses was composed by Nārāyaṇan Naṃpūtiri. Two other works on astronomy have been identified as authored by Nārāyaṇan Naṃpūtiri: One of them is a brief commentary called Karmadīpikā or Karmapradīpikā on the textual verses in Līlāvatī and the other is a treatise in five chapters, titled Uparāgakriyākrama, on some new methods for the computation of lunar and solar eclipses.
Literary works in Sanskrit | 1.976563 | 0 |
77363840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptation%20at%20Scale%20in%20Semi-Arid%20Regions | Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions | The Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR), is a five-year research project (March 2014–December 2018) supported by Department for International Development, DFID and the Canadian IDRC (International Development Research Centre) that aimed to improve adaptive livelihoods for vulnerable groups by better understanding the enablers and barriers to widespread and transformative adaptation at multiple governance scales. ASSAR was part of the CARIAA (Collabora ve Adapta on Research Initiative in Africa and Asia) program.
The ASSAR project integrated multidisciplinary scientific research (at the regional and theme levels), capacity building, and stakeholder engagement. to enhance knowledge of the obstacles and facilitators to successful climate adaptation. Research teams will collaborate in multiple South Asian and African nations to produce reliable information that decision-makers and others may utilize to create effective adaptation strategies.
ASSAR works in a regulated format in six countries across West Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa as well as three states (Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu) in India, on case-study related research and sought to combine climatic, social, economic and environmental change.
Project Goals
The goal of the Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) project is to enhance the management of existing hazards while enabling proactive, longer-term approaches to climate change adaptation in semi-arid regions. ASSAR seeks to address the requirements of practitioner and government stakeholders through participatory work from 2014 to 2018, helping to design more effective policy frameworks and creating more durable adaptation solutions. | 2.1875 | 0 |
77363895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Rhenosterkop | Battle of Rhenosterkop | The Battle of Rhenosterkop (also known as the Battle of Renosterkop) took place on November 29, 1900, during the Second Boer War. The British, led by Arthur Paget, launched an assault on Viljoen's position at Renosterkop, which consisted of three primary attacks. All assaults failed, with the Boers repelling the assault, however retreating at night due to a lack of supplies.
Prelude
The British, for some time, had been looking to eliminate the Commando led by Ben Viljoen, who was operating Northeast of Pretoria. For multiple days, skirmishes between Viljoen's commando and the British forces in the area had occurred, afterwards, Viljoen dug himself into a defensive position 30 km north of Bronkhorstspruit, at Rhenosterkop.
On November 27, Viljoen was made aware that a large contingent of British soldiers was sent to find him and fight him. He sends a scouting party from his positions to gather intelligence on British soldiers and their movements, whilst his men dig a 5 km front, with trenches and fortifications. At his disposal were only 500 men, a Maxim Nordenfeldt 15-pounder and a Krupp cannon.
The same day, the scouting party made contact with the advancing British forces, and they retreated back to their defensive positions. On November 28, the British, having an idea as to where Viljoen was, opened fire on his positions with artillery for most of the day.
Battle
On 29 November, Arthur Paget launched a frontal attack. It started with an infantry attack on Viljoen's left flank but it was beaten off by the Boers with accurate rifle and fire from the Maxim Nordenfeldt. The second attack was against the center of the defenses, but the British were once again beaten back by the Boers. | 2.5 | 0 |
77363931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion%20in%20Malawi | Abortion in Malawi | Health workers are frequently requested to perform abortions, but refuse. There is no government-supported abortion training for public health providers. Some women receive safe abortions from covert providers in public and private clinics in urban areas. These services are expensive, costing about 5000 Malawian kwacha (US$35).
Motives for seeking abortions include poverty, not wanting more children, wanting to space out children's births, wanting to finish education, extramarital pregnancy, pregnancy from rape, and influence by partners or parents. Malawi's high total fertility rate and unmet need for contraception contribute to the frequency of unsafe abortions. Catholic facilities do not offer contraception, and others have low stock. Public perceptions associate birth control with negative health effects or promiscuity. Some husbands discourage contraception to have more children or to discourage promiscuity. Knowledge about contraception is low among both married and unmarried women, especially young women, and is lower in men. There is a stigma surrounding extramarital pregnancy. Young women are more impacted as pregnant girls are not allowed in school. Some girls in rural areas take part in initiation ceremonies that involve beginning sexual relations, which can result in unwanted pregnancies. Older women with unwanted pregnancies are commonly labelled as prostitutes. Abortions, particularly unsafe ones, are common among sex workers.
Unsafe abortions among adolescents are frequent due to low knowledge, early sexual relationships, and low rates of contraception. About one-third of people aged 15 to 19 and one-fifth of those aged 12 to 14 know friends who have attempted abortions. Adolescent girls become aware of their pregnancies after taking pregnancy tests or missing their periods. | 2.4375 | 0 |
77363931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion%20in%20Malawi | Abortion in Malawi | Post-abortion care
Post-abortion care (PAC) is available at most secondary and tertiary care facilities and some primary care facilities. As of 2009, PAC is provided by 93 public facilities, 65 facilities run by NGOs (such as the Christian Health Association of Malawi and Banja La Mtsogolo), and 8 private facilities. Two government hospitals, Chiradzulu District Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, provide the majority of PAC. Public health facilities provide PAC and post-abortion family planning for free. These facilities are mostly in urban areas.
In 2022, health facilities' logbooks recorded 58,000 cases, an increase in documentation since 2020. Over one-quarter of recipients of PAC have at least moderate morbidity. As of 2009, the death rate is 387 deaths per 100,000 PAC complications. Malawi has no national standards for post-abortion care. Nearly all providers post guidelines for care, document cases, and review services.
The government spends at least one million USD per year on PAC. According to Ipas, public health clinics spend $314,000 per year, according to Ipas, and legalizing abortion would reduce PAC costs by twenty to thirty percent.
Many patients come to clinics in life-threatening condition or delay seeking care due to the stigma surrounding abortion. Most do not admit to having abortions. The most common complications treated are sepsis, retained products of conception, and fever. Women from rural areas are more likely to have severe complications. The fatality rate of PAC is 387 per 100,000 procedures, as of 2015. | 2.59375 | 0 |
77363970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrotriche%20patula | Acrotriche patula | Acrotriche patula, commonly known as shiny ground-berry is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south of continental Australia. It is a rigid, prickly shrub with egg-shaped or narrowly egg-shaped leaves and small green, tube-shaped flowers and fleshy, red, spherical or oval fruit.
Description
Acrotriche patula is a rigid, divaricately branched, prickly shrub that typically grows to up high and wide, its young branchlets reddish-brown. Its leaves are thick, widely spreading, egg-shaped or narrowly egg-shaped, sharply pointed, long, wide and glabrous. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in groups of 5 or 10, with bracts long and egg-shaped to more or less circular bracteoles long. The sepals are egg-shaped, long. The flowers are greenish or yellowish-green and fused at the base to form a cylindrical tube, long with widely-spreading lobes long. Flowering occurs from June to September and the fruit is a red, spherical or flattened spherical drupe long and wide.
Taxonomy and naming
Acrotriche patula was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown and the description was published in Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae. The specific epithet (patula) means "wide open" or "spreading", referring to its branching habit.
Distribution and habitat
Shiny ground-berry grows on coastal limestone in mallee scrub along the coast of southern Western Australia in the Hampton and Mallee bioregions, but mostly in South Australia, including in the Nullarbor, Eyre Yorke Block and Kangaroo Island bioregions. | 2.546875 | 0 |
77364051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-kitchen%20home | Single-kitchen home | On October 1, 1908, the first Berlin Einküchenhaus am Lietzensee in Charlottenburg, built by the architect Curt Jähler, was ready for occupancy at Kuno-Fischer-Straße 13. It was a five-storey residential building with a front building and small front garden, two side wings and a transverse building. It was equipped with central heating and hot water supply, the two- to five-room apartments had bathrooms, dressing rooms with dumbwaiters and in-house telephones. The central kitchen was located in the basement and existed until 1913. It was reported that living in this house was 15 percent more expensive for an average family than in a conventional household, but the circles that could afford these costs would not do without a maid for reasons of prestige alone.
On April 1, 1909, the Einküchenhäuser Lichterfelde-West were completed and the architect Hermann Muthesius was hired to build them. These were two detached three-storey apartment buildings, a corner house at Potsdamer Straße 59 (today Unter den Eichen and Reichensteiner Weg) with an L-shaped floor plan, in which only three-room apartments were laid out, and a rectangular house across Ziethenstraße (today Reichensteiner Weg) with two- to four-room apartments. The concept was modified compared to the house on Lietzensee with a "richer cultural program". Both houses each had a central kitchen in the basement, from which dumbwaiters transported the meals to the apartments. There was no common dining room. Instead, roof terraces were used communally and a kindergarten was attached. The apartments had emergency kitchens, equipped with gas stoves, hot water pipes and house telephones. The entire complex was surrounded by spacious grounds and front gardens. The central kitchen had to be abandoned in 1915, the southern of the two houses was demolished in 1969/1970 in the course of widening the street Unter den Eichen, while the northern one has been preserved in a modified form. | 2.1875 | 0 |
77364051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-kitchen%20home | Single-kitchen home | The rationalization of housekeeping
From the mid-1920s, the discussion about the one-kitchen house was overtaken by the rationalization of individual households and in particular the standardization of kitchens. A great success of the women's movement was the direct involvement of women's organizations in housing construction institutions. One of the most effective projects of the time was the Reichsforschungsgesellschaft für Wirtschaftlichkeit im Bau- und Wohnungswesen, initiated by Marie-Elisabeth Lüders, a member of the Reichstag. Funding was provided for Classical Modernist experimental housing estates such as Stuttgart-Weißenhof, Dessau-Törten and Frankfurt-Praunheim, which were examined by architects, engineers and representatives of housewives' associations in terms of their suitability for domestic and family use. The "liberation of women from the kitchen stink" shifted to the design of modern kitchens according to the principles of rational housekeeping. The floor plan and furnishings were selected with smooth work processes in mind, with the Frankfurt Kitchen developed in 1926 by the Viennese architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky considered the prototype.
Schütte-Lihotzky explained the strengths of the rationalization of individual households as opposed to the centralization of housekeeping in an essay from 1927: The one-kitchen house concept suffers from the fact that a stable standard of living for the residents is a prerequisite, as the financing shares for the central kitchen, central heating and other communal facilities must be raised under all circumstances, but cannot be guaranteed by those who may become unemployed within a short period of time. | 2.484375 | 0 |
77364051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-kitchen%20home | Single-kitchen home | Wien 1923
The Heimhof on Pilgerimgasse in Vienna is considered one of the best-known single-kitchen houses. It was built between 1921 and 1923 as a municipal housing project of Red Vienna according to plans by the architect Otto Polak-Hellwig. The developer was the Gemeinnützige Bau- und Wohnungsgenossenschaft Heimhof, which was based on an initiative by the social reformer Auguste Fickert and had been running a house for single, working women since 1911. The core of the complex was a three-storey wing in Pilgerimgasse, with 24 small apartments for married couples and families in which both partners had a job. The central kitchen and a communal dining room formed the heart of the complex. From here, dumbwaiters led to the apartments, which were equipped with so-called utility niches instead of individual kitchens, in which smaller meals could be prepared. The central housekeeping staff were municipal employees who were also responsible for cleaning the apartments and doing the laundry. A laundry was set up in the basement for this purpose. Other collective facilities included reading rooms, hot water baths, roof gardens and sun terraces. The care and supervision of the children during the parents' working hours was described as "excellent".
In 1924, the cooperative ran into financial difficulties, the municipality of Vienna took over ownership of the house and the cooperative remained in charge of its management. According to plans by architect Carl Witzmann, the Heimhof was extended in 1925 from a detached building to a closed block with a total of 352 apartments. The kindergarten was integrated inside the block. During its existence, the Heimhof was criticized in very different ways. In 1923, for example, the following statement was made at a Vienna municipal council meeting:
On the other hand, an architectural journal from 1924, after a very detailed positive description, welcomed the project as forward-looking: | 2.484375 | 0 |
77364305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Fiddlers | Black Fiddlers | Black Fiddlers also delves into the debate over the origins of the violin, exploring whether it is a product of the Italian Baroque or in African roots and traditions. In the process, the film examines how the music played by African American fiddlers evolved in different parts of the United States, from Harlem, New York, to Oregon, and highlights the influence of Creole and Cajun culture on Black musicians such as Cedric Watson in New Orleans.
The narratives in "Black Fiddlers" are enriched by testimonials from several experts and performers, including Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, academic folklorist Kip Lornell, Iris Chapman Thompson, Henrique Prince, Marshall Wyatt, David Roberts, Earl White,
John Jeremiah Sullivan, Howard L. Sacks and Jody Rose Sacks, Beverly Grey, and Terry Jenoure. Black Fiddlers premiered at the 35th edition of the Virginia Film Festival in November 2022.
Filming locations
Principal photography took place in Mebane; Harlem; Floyd, Northfield, Stockbridge, Mount Vernon, Portland, and Chillicothe. | 1.914063 | 0 |
77364418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Grant%20Building | Johnny Grant Building | Johnny Grant Building, also known as Arthur Murray, is a historic two-story building located at 7024 W. Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. It was formerly home to a Arthur Murray Dance Studio and is currently part of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel complex.
History
7024 W. Hollywood Blvd. was built in 1919 by Frank Meline, the same architect responsible for the Garden Court Apartments that once stood nearby. It was constructed of wood and designed in the Renaissance Revival style, and features a red tiled roof, stone detailing, and six second-story arched windows.
Upon opening, the second-floor housed Meglin Dance Studio and later an Arthur Murray Dance Studio, with the building sometimes called Arthur Murray due to its second second-floor tenant. Gypsy Rose Lee rehearsed in this studio in the 1930s, while performing in downtown's Paramount Theatre.
In 1984, the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was added to the National Register of Historic Places, with Arthur Murray listed as a contributing property in the district.
In 1995, the building was named Johnny Grant Building in honor of Hollywood's longtime honorary mayor, Walk of Fame chairman, and good will ambassador Johnny Grant. | 1.914063 | 0 |
77364527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livonian%20campaign%20%281625%E2%80%931626%29 | Livonian campaign (1625–1626) | In early 1626, Gustavus ordered those in his army that had received adequate winter clothing out of their winter quarters and across the Duna River in order to carry out a surprise attack on the Commonwealth camp at Wallhof. Gustavus' expeditionary force consisted of some 4,900 men, which included around 2,800 infantry, 2,100 cavalry, and 6 artillery guns. He led a group of the entire cavalry force along with some 1,000 infantry in horse-drawn sledges, with around three to four men in each one, in order to keep up with the cavalry. This incident may have been one of the first times when Gustavus added detached infantry to his cavalry, which subsequently became a standard practice for him. On January 17, he deployed the first group of troops before dawn. He had hoped to carry out a surprise attack, but it was impossible to determine exactly where the Commonwealth units were.
The 3,800–4,900 strong Commonwealth army under Sapieha at first decided to remain in camp, mostly because of poor reconnaisance and because he had been told to avoid battle, yet he still decided to fight, and was unsure of how to proceed. When the Commonwealth army left the camp, they quickly found themselves outnumbered as the remaining Swedish units under Colonel Maximilian Teuffel arrived as well.
After some early skirmishes, the battle commenced, with a charge of the Swedish cavalry on the right wing led by Count Franz Bernhard von Thurn. On the left wing, the Swedish cavaly was led by Horn. Gustavus himself led the centre, which consisted of infantry. In addition to this, other infantry detachments had taken advantage of the nearby woods to construct improvised wooden field defences on certain parts of the battlefield in order to protect themselves against the Polish cavalry. Since the Swedish cavalry was supported by the Swedish infantry on the flanks, the Polish cavalry quickly broke, quickly pursued by their Swedish counterparts. Being abandoned, the Commonwealth infantry also fled. | 2.890625 | 0 |
77365334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Holocaust%20in%20the%20Kamyenyets%20District | The Holocaust in the Kamyenyets District | The Holocaust in the Kamyenyets District is the systematic persecution and extermination of Jews in the Kamyenyets District of the Brest Region by the occupying authorities of Nazi Germany and collaborators from 1941 to 1944 during World War II, as part of the policy of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" — an integral part of the Holocaust in Belarus and the Catastrophe of European Jewry.
Genocide of Jews in the District
The Kamyenyets District was fully occupied by German forces on June 24, 1941, and the occupation lasted until July 24, 1944. The Nazis incorporated the district into the Bialystok district of the General District of Belarus within the Reichskommissariat Ostland, as part of the province of East Prussia. Control over the district was maintained by the Nazi military occupation administration through field and local commandant's offices established by the Wehrmacht. Belarusian collaborators managed district (volost) administrations and police garrisons in major villages.
To implement the genocide policy and conduct punitive operations, SS punitive units, Einsatzgruppen, Sonderkommandos, the Secret Field Police (GFP), the Security Police and SD, the gendarmerie, and the Gestapo were deployed to the district. Upon occupation, the Nazis and their accomplices began the systematic extermination of Jews. "Actions" (mass murders) were frequently carried out across various locations. In some settlements, Jews were initially confined to ghettos and used for forced labor under inhumane conditions, resulting in high mortality due to overwork, starvation, and lack of medical care. | 2.5625 | 0 |
77365339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snively%20Expedition | Snively Expedition | The Snively Expedition was a military operation launched by the Texan Jacob Snively to attack the merchants of New Mexico. It happened along with an invasion carried out by Mc Daniel and Warfield which ended in a failure.
Background
In an attempt to affirm the Texan ownership of New Mexico and capture the trade that flowed to New Mexico along the Camino de Santa Fe, Texas Governor Mirabeau Lamar launched an unfortunate expedition in 1841. Three hundred and twenty Texans, including 50 merchants, left on the expedition. The expedition failed and 172 men, "weak, hungry and afflicted with scurvy," surrendered to the governor of New Mexico Manuel Armijo. The Texans were forced to march 2,000 miles south to Veracruz prison, although they were released to return to Texas in 1842.
The expedition
January 28, 1843, he asked the government of the republic for permission to organize and equip an expedition with the purpose of intercepting and capturing the property of Mexican merchants who could pass through the territory claimed by Texas on the Camino de Santa Fe. Snively's request was granted on February 16, and he was given permission to intercept and capture the property of Mexican merchants. His purpose was to retaliate and claim the injuries suffered by citizens of Texas; the merchandise and other properties of all Mexican citizens were going to be a legal prize." However, Snively was warned not to infringe the territory of the United States. | 2.359375 | 0 |
77365552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninmeurur | Ninmeurur | Ninmeurur was regarded as a servant of Ishtar. She appears among deities associated with her in the Isin god list. She is placed between Ninigizibara, her deified harp, and Ninḫinuna, a messenger deity associated with her. In an Old Babylonian balaĝ composition, Uru-Ama'irabi, she and Ninigizibara are both designated as her advisers (ad-gi4-gi4). She is also described as her balaĝ. This term referred to a type of string instrument, according to Wolfgang Heimpel to be identified as a harp. However, it was also a designation of a type of servant deities believed to counsel major members of the pantheon. Ninmeurur is more precisely designated as a balaĝ banda, "junior balaĝ", presumably to differentiate her role from that assigned to Ninigizibara, who is also described in this composition as a balaĝ.
Worship
Ninmeurur is already attested in sources from the Old Babylonian period. She is mentioned in the balaĝ composition Uru-Ama'irabi, in the Isin god list, and in another text belonging to this genre which according to Manuel Ceccarelli might be one of the forerunners of later An = Anum. Furthermore, she might be attested in An = Anum itself (tablet IV, line 80), though the name is not fully preserved and the restoration is uncertain. | 2.09375 | 0 |
77366240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinbr%C3%A4cka%20strike | Vinbräcka strike | 4–6 July
On 4 July, the steamship Flora had sailed from Gothenburg to unload stone in the harbor of Vinbräcka. However, one of the strikebreaker's junkboats, the Rex, was blocking the Floras way. The commotion managed to draw in a crowd of circa 100–150 strikers who were there to witness the strikebreaker's troubles. The striker's presence saw the deployment of the police in order to provide cover for the strikebreakers, however, this angered the crowd making one start throwing cooked potatoes towards the law enforcement. Conflict erupted when one policeman responded by hitting one of the strikers in the head with his baton, the workers started throwing stones at the police and blocked any attempt by the strikebreakers to conduct their work. During the day the crowd grew to around 400 people which was too much for the 6 policemen present to handle drawing the conflict to a standstill.
On 6 July, some of the cargo onboard Flora was destroyed by strikers. During the riots, the strikers were reported to have sung several Swedish communist songs including the "Lumplena Visan" and "På Åbyfjordens Strand".
7 July
At 7:00 on 7 July, the gunboat HSwMS Skäggald arrived under Captain Liljecrantz to aid the strikebreakers in conducting their work. The strikers were very loud upon the gunship's arrival making Liljecrantz threaten the demonstrators with military action if they were to become violent. | 2.109375 | 0 |
77366245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955%20Gough%20Expedition | 1955 Gough Expedition | The 1955 Gough Island Scientific Survey was a scientific expedition undertaken in 1955 through 1956 from England to Gough Island, to study various aspects of the island's flora and fauna and to perform geological and cartographic surveys. It was led by John B. Heaney. The book "Mountains in the Sea" was written by one of the expedition crew about the expedition.
Origins
The expedition started after a suggestion from Dr. B.B. Roberts of the Scott Polar Research Institute. Other team members were sourced from British universities, except for J.J. van der Merwe of South Africa. Funding came from the Scott Polar Research Institute, the Royal Geographical Society, the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and others.
R.J.H. Chambers took over as leader of the expedition after doctors persuaded John Heaney to remain in England for his health.
Expedition
The expedition sailed from Britain to South Africa, and from there to Tristan. There, they stayed for some time until there was a sufficient weather window. They saw local dances and attempted to summit the mountain. They landed on October 1, 1955.
When they found a weather window to come to Gough and attempted landing, R.J.H. Chambers suffered a suspected spinal injury and had to be removed from the expedition and shipped back to Capetown. M. Holdgate then took over as leader of the expedition.
On May 13, 1956 the frigate Transvaal took the remaining expeditionary members off of Gough.
Results
The expedition resulted in a mapping of the internal hills of Gough Island for the first time. As well, at least one species was described which was new to science, Joeropsis vibicaria.
They noted one land-based mammal, the house mouse, which they concluded was introduced by sealers. | 2.578125 | 0 |
77366328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infostealer | Infostealer | The researchers also found that the data most frequently stolen using the AZORult infostealers and sold on the black market could be broadly categorised into three main types: fingerprints, cookies, and resources. Fingerprints consisted of identifiers that were constructed by probing a variety of features made available by the browser. These were not tied to a specific service but were considered to be an accurately unique identifier for a user's browsers. Cookies allowed buyers to hijack a victim's browser session by injecting it into a browser environment. Resources refer to browser-related files found on a user's operating system, such as password storage files.
Economics and impact
Setting up an infostealer operation has become increasingly accessible due to the proliferation of stealer-as-a-service enterprises, significantly lowering financial and technical barriers. This makes it feasible for even less sophisticated cybercriminals to engage in such activities. In a 2023 paper, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology noted that the hosted stealer market is extremely mature and highly competitive, with some operators offering to set up infostealers for as low as $12. For the service providers running these stealer operations, the researchers estimated that a typical infostealer operator incurs only a few one-off costs: the license to use the infostealer, which is obtained from a malware developer, and the registration fee for the domain used to host the command-and-control server. The primary ongoing cost incurred by these operators is the cost associated with hosting the servers. Based on these calculations, the researchers concluded that the stealer-as-a-service business model is extremely profitable, with many operators achieving profit margins of over 90% with revenues in the high thousands. | 2.109375 | 0 |
77366667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20net%20loss | No net loss | "No net loss" (NNL) is an environmental policy approach that aims to counterbalance the negative impacts of development projects on the environment by using environmental mitigation measures. For example, the policy aims for no net loss of wetlands in the United States (where it originated) or no net loss of biodiversity in other regions. It is now used in many countries as an objective for biodiversity offsetting, such as in Colombia, France, and Uganda. Its application and feasibility for conserving biodiversity is a subject of debate.
NNL is implemented in planning processes via Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs), which assess the potential for significant adverse impacts on the environment resulting from proposed developments and determine how environmental mitigation can be used to reach no net loss. The mitigation hierarchy is generally used as a sequential framework to guide the implementation of measures to achieve NNL. It varies regionally but often includes the steps avoidance, minimisation, restoration, and offsetting.
Definition
"No net loss" is defined by the International Finance Corporation as "the point at which the project-related impacts on biodiversity are balanced by measures taken to avoid and minimize the project's impacts, to understand on site restoration and finally to offset significant residual impacts, if any, on an appropriate geographic scale (e.g local, landscape-level, national, regional)."
Where the aim is for biodiversity levels to exceed their previous state, a goal of "net gain" (NG) or "net positive impact" (NPI) might be used instead of "no net loss". For example, the Biodiversity Net Gain policy in England requires a 10% net gain in biodiversity or habitat compared to the previous state. NPI also differs from NNL in that it is generally applied in the context of a development project, whereas NNL is applied on various geographic scales. | 2.8125 | 0 |
77366778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Martinez%20%28Tolkien%20scholar%29 | Michael Martinez (Tolkien scholar) | Michael Martinez is an author and Tolkien scholar.
Life
Michael Martinez was born in 1959. He is a Tolkien scholar. In 1997 he launched the Xenite.Org website for fans of fantasy and science fiction; he has published many essays on that website. He also writes about programming languages and search engine optimization.
Tolkien scholar
The Tolkien scholar Colin Duriez states that Martinez has written about many aspects of Tolkien's writings, and has "a loyal following of readers" on the World Wide Web.
David Bratman writes in Tolkien Studies that Understanding Middle-earth is a "somewhat rewritten... collection of Web-published essays by a popular online writer on Tolkien." Bratman describes Martinez's subjects as including discussions of Tolkien's sources, "whimsical speculations and outright guesswork", noting that Martinez does use materials published by Christopher Tolkien after his father's death, and that his facts are "generally reliable". Bratman writes that Martinez's "most characteristic posture is a forceful intervention in debates over the sub-creation, especially in testing the limits of reliable sub-creational knowledge." He describes Martinez as writing "informally and argumentatively but (in small doses) readably... without pretensions to formal scholarship."
Robin Anne Reid, in Journal of Tolkien Research, notes Martinez's statement in his essay "What is the Munby Letter?" that Tolkien affirmed in that unpublished letter that there were "Orc-women". Reid adds that this agrees with Tolkien's mentions of "half-breed Orcs" and that they could reproduce. Further, she cites Martinez's essay "Why is Azog Called the White Orc?" for his statement that the specially large type of Orcs, the Uruk-hai, are explicitly "described as having dark skin", implying that "while there is no canon support for white Orcs specifically", other Orcs may have been white. | 1.984375 | 0 |
77367048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20South%20Hampshire | Transport in South Hampshire | South Hampshire is the term used to refer to the conurbation formed by the city of Portsmouth, city of Southampton and the non-metropolitan boroughs between them. As a result of the area's high population density, it has a developed public transport network. However, due to the area being controlled by different Authorities, most notably Southampton City Council, Portsmouth City Council and Hampshire County Council, there is little coordination of the system.
Local coordination
The area has My Journey, a travel awareness campaign, funded by local councils as well as the Department of Transport, to help better coordinate and advertise local public transport. My Journey also runs Solent Go, which is a travel card, allowing one ticket to be used throughout the area.
The area also has a journey planner app, Breeze, which allows for journey planning throughout the region. However, the app does not provide its own tickets, with ticketing being left to transport operators.
Cycling and E-Scooters
Within the city boundaries of both Southampton and Portsmouth, as well as the Isle of Wight, Voi provides a Scooter-sharing system, which also includes E-Bikes. They are accessed by a mobile app. E-Scooters are only for hire for those with a Provisional or Full driving license.
Cycle Networks
The area hosts multiple National Cycle Network routes. Most prominently, running through the area is National Cycle Route 2, from St Austell to Dover.
The Southampton City Council has a Ten Year Plan to complete a cycle network throughout the City of Southampton. The plan started in 2017, with it consisting of 9 cycle routes, two of which circle the city while the rest act as arterial routes.
Buses
The area has two distinct bus networks, with each one serving one of the two main cities. | 2.453125 | 0 |
77367048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20South%20Hampshire | Transport in South Hampshire | Issues
In 2014, Fareham was named the most car-dependent town in the UK by the Office for National Statistics with 538.7 cars registered to addresses in the town for every 1,000 residents.
In 2016, it was published that the area has an average car journey speed that is 32% lower than the national average.
Again in 2016, many issues were reported about the Rail Network in the area. These include:
Long journey times between Portsmouth and Southampton.
Congestion on some lines.
Lack of Rail connection to Southampton Cruise terminals, the Waterside (Fawley and Hythe) and Gosport - the largest town in the UK with no rail station.
Slow and congested lines into Waterloo.
No freight or passenger rail connection to Portsmouth Port.
Significant delays along the Eastleigh-Fareham Line due to it being single track for most of its length.
Proposed developments
In the late 1960s, as part of Colin Buchanan's plan for development in the area, a network of motorways were proposed. These include the M270, M272, M273 and M274. All would run from the M27 into the new city, much like the current M271 and M275. The development plan was pulled by Harold Wilson's Labour government and after 1974, the recently restructured local government did not support the scheme. As a result of the changes, Junction 6 of the M27 is missing.
In 1972, as part of the re-organisation of local government under the Local Government Act 1972, the whole area had the Hampshire County Council as the Upper Authority, with Portsmouth and Southampton being designated as local boroughs. In 1997 however, the recommendation of Sir David Cooksey through the Cooksey Commission was implemented, which made Southampton and Portsmouth Unitary Authorities, a situation that remains to this day, where the local authorities are divided through the area. | 2.109375 | 0 |
77367479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brno-jih | Brno-jih | The territory of the district was annexed to Brno in several stages. On July 6, 1850, the northern and northwestern part of the modern cadastral territory of Komárov, as well as the northwest of the local part of Trnitá and the peripheral territory in the north of modern Horní Heršpice were annexed to Brno. In the case of this annexed land, these were plots of land then belonging to Trnitá and, to a small extent, to the Křenová cadastral territory (from the territory of the current Brno-jih city district, it included only small parts of today's parcels 425/2 and 560/2 and a short section Ponávky, while in 1941 these plots were added to Trnitá during cadastral adjustments). In 1898, the northeastern part of Trnitá was joined to Brno from the then Černovice. In 1906, another smaller part of modern Trnitá was annexed from Černovice. On April 16, 1919, the southern part of Trnitá was annexed, as well as other territories of the modern city district, including the territory of the former municipalities of Dolní Heršpice, Horní Heršpice, Komárov, Přízřenice, as well as parts of Černovice and Brněnské Ivanovice. During the adjustments to the borders of Brno in 1948, some land belonging to Modřice was also annexed. Finally, on July 1, 1960, the northeastern part of the municipality of Moravany, referred to as Nové Moravany (this territory was later incorporated into Horní Heršpice), and the village of Holásky, whose original territory also extended here, were also added. Until 1945, the territory of the district was predominantly agricultural in nature, after which the development of industry took place, the negative impact of which on the environment of the district was mainly manifested in the 1970s and 1980s. In the years 1966–1969, the territory of this district was also affected by the extensive cadastral reform of Brno | 1.90625 | 0 |
77367940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel%20D%C3%ADez%20de%20Aux | Miguel Díez de Aux | Miguel Díez de Aux, known as "The Younger" (1496, Haina - unknown year, New Spain) was a Spanish mestizo conquistador. Born in Hispaniola to a Spanish father and Taíno mother, he later served under Hernán Cortés in the conquest of the Aztec Empire. He is considered the first documented mestizo in the history of America.
Early life
He was born in Hispaniola. His father, Miguel Díez de Aux the Elder, hailed from the Aragonese lower nobility and served as Bartholomew Columbus' servant in his 1494. The Elder and five other conquistadors had run away from the settlement of La Isabela after he mortally wounded another Spaniard in a duel, leading them to plant their own settlements in the Haina area of the island, along with the Ozama River. There he married by the native rite a Taíno chieftainess who got later baptized as Catalina, eventually giving birth to Miguel the Younger. He was their second child, after a first one who died soon. Aux learned from the indigenous about the existence of gold and farmable land, leading him and his family to return to La Isabela, where he was exonerated from his crime thanks to his findings and the fact that his opponent hadn't died as Aux believed. | 2.953125 | 0 |
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