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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin%20Oftana
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Calvin Oftana
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Calvin John Oftana (born January 3, 1996) is a Filipino professional basketball player for the TNT Tropang Giga of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He played college basketball for the San Beda Red Lions in the NCAA. He plays both the small forward and the power forward positions. He has also played as a shooting guard during college.
Early life
Oftana was born in Danao, Cebu, but grew up in Siaton after his parents split up. He was raised by his mother along with his nine siblings. He did track and field, winning a 100-meter sprint in a district meet when he was Grade 6. He was also a volleyball spiker. When he got a growth spurt in high school, he was encouraged to try basketball. He played it in fiesta opens.
High school career
When Oftana was in second year high school, he was discovered by Coach Mike Villahermosa of Asian College-Dumaguete. He convinced Oftana's mother to let Calvin play basketball for him. Under Coach Villahermosa, Oftana learned the basics of basketball. He also watched YouTube videos of shooting and dribbling drills to hone his skills further.
College career
Oftana first played for the San Beda Red Lions in Season 92. He won titles with San Beda from 2016 to 2018. He was a backup to Art Dela Cruz and Javee Mocon during this time, as he developed his work ethic.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20of%20Generation%20Z
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Education of Generation Z
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Data from the Institute of International Education (IIE) showed that compared to the 2013–14 academic year, the number of foreign students enrolled in American colleges and universities grew in 2015–6 to about 300,000 students, before falling slightly in subsequent years. Compared to the 2017–18 academic year, 2018–19 saw for the first time in a decade a drop of 1% in the number of foreign students enrolled. This became a concern for institutions that relied on international enrollment for revenue, as they typically charged foreign students more for tuition than their domestic counterparts. However, the number of foreign graduates who stayed for work or further training had increased. In 2019, there were 220,000 who were authorized to stay for temporary work, a 10% rise compared to fall 2017. The top sources of students studying abroad in the United States were China, South Korea, India, and Saudi Arabia (in that order). The number of Chinese students studying in the United States had fallen since 2019 due to a confluence of factors, which included greater difficulty in obtaining a U.S. visa amid a deterioration in the bilateral relationship, increased competition from the Canadian and Australian higher education systems, and growing anti-Chinese sentiments due to concerns over intellectual property theft. However, students coming from elsewhere in Asia (though not South Korea and Japan), Latin America, and Africa had gone up. In particular, the number of Nigerian students climbed 6% while those from Brazil and Bangladesh rose 10%. The most popular majors had shifted, with business (an academic subject extremely popular among Chinese students) falling by 7% in the 2018–19 academic year. Meanwhile, mathematics and computer science jumped 9%, replacing business as the second most popular majors after engineering.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20of%20Generation%20Z
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Education of Generation Z
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In Oceania
By the late 2010s, education has become Australia's fourth-largest export, after coal, iron ore, and natural gas. For Australia, foreign students are highly lucrative, bringing AU$9 billion into the Australian economy in 2018. That amount was also just over a quarter of the revenue stream for Australian universities. In 2019, Australian institutions of higher education welcomed 440,000 foreign students, who took up about 30% of all seats. 40% of non-Australian students hailed from China. In response to a surge in interest from prospective foreign students, Australian universities have invested lavishly in research laboratories, learning facilities, and art collections. Some senior bureaucrats saw their salaries rise tremendously. But the topic of international students is a contentious one in Australia. Proponents of accepting high numbers of foreign students said this was because the Australian government was not providing sufficient funding, forcing schools to take in more from other countries. Critics argued universities have made themselves too dependent on foreign revenue streams. In 2020, as SARS-CoV-2 spread around the globe, international travel restrictions were imposed, preventing foreign students from going to university in Australia, where the academic year begins in January. This proved to be a serious blow to the higher-education industry in Australia because it is more dependent on foreign students than its counterparts in other English-speaking countries. Australia's federal government excluded universities AU$60bn wage-subsidy scheme because it wanted to focus on domestic students, who, it said, will continue to receive funding. Federal and state governments were likely to provide relief to small regional institutions, but, like the big universities, they might need to shrink in order to survive.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial%20To%20A%20Marriage
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Memorial To A Marriage
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Memorial To A Marriage (2002) is the first marriage equality monument worldwide.
Created by American artist Patricia Cronin as part of a series of works redressing the absence of female and LGBTQ+ representation in public monuments and the prohibition of same sex marriage in the United States, this three-ton Carrara marble monumental statue is a double full figure portrait of the artist and her then partner (now wife) artist Deborah Kass, recumbent embracing on an inclined mattress, on a shared pillow in marital bliss and eternal rest. As an act of political resistance of being denied representation in public civic space by municipal leadership and denied personal liberty by the federal government, Cronin reinterprets sepulchral sculptural portraiture in the canon of Western art history by modeling and carving their likenesses in the patriotic form of 19th century American neo-classical sculpture to address a local and federal governmental failures.
Inspired by a range of art historical references from the Ancient sculpture Sleeping Hermaphrodite to 19th-century French painter, Gustove Courbet's The Sleep (1866) to American sculptor Harriet Hosmer's Beatrice Cenci, to William Henry Reinhart's Sleeping Children. It has also been pointed out that Cronin in titling the work was citing Lincoln Kirstein's book by the same title, Memorial To A Marriage on Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Adams Memorial sculpture.
Prior to the Supreme Court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision on June 26, 2015, over turning the Defense of Marriage Act making the United States only the 29th country out of 195 countries worldwide legalizing same sex marriage, the only legal path for same sex couples to attain a few of the 1200 legal protections heterosexual marriage includes was to hire lawyers to draw up wills, health care proxies and powers of attorney documents. The only purpose for these documents is about attending to events at the end of one's life, not celebrating the beginning of a life together.
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Because They Know Not
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Because They Know Not is a novel by Jamaican author Alvin Gladstone Bennett. Inspired by Bennett's interactions with the Caribbean immigrant community after his migration from Jamaica to Britain in 1954 and first published in 1959, the novel is billed as a "powerful story on the colour problem" and a "novel that will long be remembered" on the front and back covers respectively.
Plot
Because They Know Not follows Jamaican clerk Tom Hendon, as he leaves his family in pursuit of a better career in London. While en route to England, Tom actively avoids talking to the "ordinary" and "uncultured" immigrants on the ship. Back home, Tom's spouse Emma, a Jamaican educator, has an affair with school inspector Max Crost, who is also an anglophile. At the same time, Tom has an affair with a fellow Jamaican immigrant, Marie. Crost is subsequently murdered by Marie's husband; Marie gives birth to Tom's son, Rupert, and dies soon after. Reunited at Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica, Tom and Emma reflect on the "hypocrisy" of Jamaican society. Tom places his "adopted son" in the care of Hilda, who is later revealed to be Tom's sister, and begins a short-lived political career.
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Zambian nationality law
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Federation and return to protectorate status (1958–1964)
The Citizenship of Rhodesia and Nyassaland and British Nationality Act was drafted in 1957. Under its terms at independence, persons born prior to 1 March 1958 were reclassified as nationals of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyassaland, if they had been born as British subjects, or acquired the status of a British subject by descent, registration, or naturalisation. Persons from the protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyassaland could only acquire federation nationality if their father was a British subject. As a result, the majority of persons from the protectorates did not qualify for their status to change. In some instances, they could register as federation nationals. Those born in the federation after its union acquired nationality by being born in the territory of the federation. Under the terms of the British Nationality Act 1958, those who were nationals in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyassaland were able to naturalise as British subjects. On 1 January 1964, the federation was dissolved. Persons who had acquired the nationality of the federation were either transferred to the status of a CUKC or national of Southern Rhodesia. Persons who had remained BPPs during the independence of the federation had no change in that status.
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Elsa Conrad
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Elsa Conrad, nicknamed "Igel" (9 May 1887 - 19 February 1963) was a German businesswoman and night club entrepreneur. In the 1930s she was arrested and interned at Moringen concentration camp by the Nazi Party and was forced to emigrate, due to her sexuality, political views and Nazi racial laws.
Biography
Born Elsa Rosenberg on 9 May 1887 in Berlin, she was the daughter of a Jewish mother, Bertha Rosenberg (1861-1940), and an otherwise unknown non-Jewish father. She completed a commercial apprenticeship. In 1910 she married Wilhelm Conrad. This marriage ended in divorce in 1931; it may have been a sham marriage and that Wilhelm was homosexual.
After the end of the First World War, Elsa Conrad, nicknamed "Igel", on account of her spiky haircut, managed several businesses that became meeting places for lesbian women. One of them was a bar called Verona-Diele. Conrad met her partner, Amalie "Mali" Rothaug (1890-1984) in around 1927 and they opened a bar together in Berlin-Schoeneberg known as Mali und Igel. Inside the bar, was a club called Monbijou des Westens. The club was exclusive and catered for Berlin's lesbian, intellectual elite; one famous guest was the actress Marlene Dietrich. Each year the club hosted balls with up to 600 women in attendance.
When the Nazis came to power, a campaign against homosexual bars began, which in March 1933 led to the closure of the Mali und Igel and so the Monbijou. Since Conrad was Jewish, her property was confiscated and she had to rent out a room in her flat to earn a living. She was arrested on 5 October 1935 and imprisoned for 15 months in Berlin for "insulting the Reich government". She had been denounced because of her "non-Aryan" origins, her sexual orientation and anti-state statements. Whilst Conrad was imprisoned, Rothaug ended their relationship.
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Cartagena Botanical Garden
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Germán Botero de los Ríos living collection
The Cartagena Botanical Garden displays a living collection known as the Germán Botero de los Ríos living collection. It includes approximately 350 native and exotic species, organized in themed gardens such as the evolutionary garden, araceae collection, xerophytic environment, ornamental garden, medicinal plants garden, palmetum, arboretum, orquidarium and Jacquin’s garden.
María Jiménez de Piñeres herbarium
The María Jiménez de Piñeres herbarium is one of the first herbaria in the Colombian Caribbean region, as well as one of the largest. It houses samples collected since 1978, by world known botanists such as Alwyn Gentry, Hermes Cuadros, and Santiago Madriñán, many of them from ecosystems that are difficult to access or have since been lost due to deforestation. The collection includes approximately 14,000 specimens.
José Vicente Mogollón Vélez germplasm bank
The José Vicente Mogollón Vélez germplasm bank is a seed collection containing more than 450 accessions with 294.000 seeds of more than 170 species, most of them native to the Colombian tropical dry forest.
Flora and fauna
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Cartagena Botanical Garden
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Cartagena Botanical Garden has many well-developed specimens of trees, shrubs, and herbs. Large specimens of giant cashew (Anacardium excelsum), and white fig (Ficus maxima), rise above the forest canopy with their massive crowns and huge trunks supported by large buttress roots. The symbol of the garden is the open fruit of Spanish cedar (Cedrela odorata) a common species within the premises. Other frequent trees in the garden are caney (Aspidosperma desmanthum), estera palm (Astrocaryum malybo), wine palm (Attalea butyracea), gumbo-limbo (Bursera simaruba), cuipo (Cavanillesia platanifolia), trumpet tree (Cecropia peltata), shortleaf fig (Ficus citrifolia), mamey apple (Mammea americana), laurel (Nectandra turbacensis), Guiana chestnut (Pachira aquatica), majagua (Pseudobombax septenatum), Panama tree (Sterculia apetala) and broad-leaved mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla). Many of these species are used for their timber and are thus highly threatened in their remaining populations outside the garden.
The Cartagena Botanical Garden houses a rich fauna. Howler monkeys (Alouatta seniculus) are frequently seen and heard, and cotton-headed tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) are recently reintroduced into the area (see Research and outreach). Other mammal species present in the garden include brown-throated sloth (Bradypus variegatus), northern tamandua (Tamandua mexicana), red-tailed squirrel (Sciurus granatensis), Central American agouti (Dasyprocta punctata), lowland paca (Cuniculus paca), ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), and tayra (Eira barbara).
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Cartagena Botanical Garden
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The area is a hotspot for birdwatching with 282 species reported in eBird. Among noteworthy species are red-throated ant-tanager (Habia fuscicauda), scaly-breasted hummingbird (Phaeochroa cuvierii), golden-winged sparrow (Arremon schlegeli), turquoise-rumped parrotlet (Forpus xanthopterygius spengeli]]), lance-tailed manakin (Chiroxiphia lanceolata), chestnut-winged chachalaca (Ortalis garrula), keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus), glaucous tanager (Thraupis glaucocolpa), and black-headed tody-flycatcher (Todirostrum nigriceps).
A wide variety of reptiles and amphibians are found in the garden. Among the most visible are the yellow-striped poison frog (Dendrobates truncatus), iguana (Iguana iguana), Rio Magdalena tegu (Tretioscincus bifasciatus), and yellow-headed gecko (Gonatodes albogularis).
Research and outreach
The Cartagena Botanical Garden conducts research regarding the propagation of native tropical dry forest tree species. It has a scientific plant nursery where germination rates and growth rates are measured, and propagation protocols are developed. The generated scientific information is applied in restoration and conservation initiatives in the region, such as tree plantations for the recuperation of threatened ecosystems. The garden houses a permanent plot in its native tropical dry forest where forest composition, structure and carbon assimilation are measured. Propagation protocols for native species with ornamental potential are developed and consultancies in native landscaping are provided. The garden also offers workshops to people of all ages and knowledge backgrounds in topics related to flora, fauna, and the environment. Several insect species new to science have been identified in the Cartagena Botanical Garden. A reintroduction program of the critically endangered cotton-headed tamarin is led by the garden´s research team.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARP%20Humait%C3%A1
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ARP Humaitá
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ARP Humaitá was a river gunboat of the Humaitá class used by the Paraguayan Navy. Launched in 1930, it participated in the Chaco War, transporting soldiers to the front. After the war, it was involved in numerous rebellions. In 1983, it was decommissioned from active service in the Paraguayan Navy and made accessible to the public as a museum ship.
History
In 1927, President Eligio Ayala decided to expand Paraguay's navy in response to the escalating conflict with Bolivia over the Gran Chaco region, a dispute ongoing since 1887. Naval officer José Bozzano developed plans for the new vessels, emphasizing shallow draft and a significant number of deck guns at the expense of armor and mobility. These specifications were designed for operations on rivers against air and land targets. Negotiations were conducted with Denmark, Italy, France, and the United Kingdom. On 26 September 1928, a contract was signed with an Italian supplier for the construction of two gunboats at a cost of $1.25 million USD.
Construction
The keel for the ship was laid on 21 April 1929 at the Cantieri navali Odero shipyard in Genoa, Italy. Initially named Capitán Cabral, the vessel was launched on 16 April 1930. Its name was officially changed to Humaitá on 30 July 1930.
Construction details
Hull
The empty ship weighed 621 tons, with displacement increasing to 835 tons after equipping and provisioning with 170 tons of fuel. The vessel could additionally carry up to 215 tons of cargo. The gunboat measured 71.2 meters in length and 10.5 meters in width. A key design feature was the hull's shallow draft, with a height of 4.4 meters. When fully equipped, the draft reached 180 centimeters, increasing to 213 centimeters at maximum load. The midsection of Humaitá was protected by a 15-mm thick armored belt, with the command post having 20 mm of armor and gun shields 10 mm thick.
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ARP Humaitá
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The gunboat also provided anti-aircraft cover for unarmed vessels, and between convoys, it operated as an anti-aircraft battery in Asunción and Puerto Casado. The only combat action the ship participated in was a skirmish with two Bolivian Curtiss P-6 Hawk or Vickers Vespa aircraft. On the morning of 22 December 1932, the aircraft took part in an attack on Tacuarí, and later in the afternoon, they encountered Humaitá near Puerto Leda. The engagement ended with the retreat of the attacking pilots. By the end of 1934, the 120 mm gun from Humaitá was dismantled, as it was needed by Paraguayan troops besieging Villamontes. However, the action was halted due to a change in the situation on the front.
Peacetime rebellions
The first rebellion involving Humaitá occurred during Colonel Rafael Franco's coup on 17 February 1936. President Eusebio Ayala sought refuge aboard Paraguay. Initially, the navy supported loyalist forces using machine guns from both gunboats. However, when the tide turned against Ayala, the navy's top commanders declared him their prisoner.
In 1937, Humaitá underwent repairs in Buenos Aires, followed by additional maintenance combined with maneuvers in 1941. During World War II, due to fuel shortages, the vessel saw minimal activity, stationed at the Sajonia base and leaving only for Fleet Week celebrations.
In 1947, both gunboats underwent their third overhaul in Buenos Aires. On 7 March, another coup erupted in Paraguay, which spread to the ships stationed in Argentina. On 7 May, supporters of the Febreristas arrested government-loyal crew members. As the vessels lacked armament during their overhaul, they traveled to Uruguay to obtain modest weaponry. The ships began their journey back to Paraguay on 5 July, navigating the Paraná River. On 10 July, they crossed into Paraguay at Paso de Patria.
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Fayetteville Angels (Arkansas baseball)
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The team became known as the Fayetteville "Angels" in 1937 and continued Arkansas–Missouri League play. Fayetteville qualified for the four team playoffs in the five-team league and advanced to the finals. The Angels ended the 1937 season with a record of 70–56, finishing 8.5 games behind the first place Rogers Lions. The returning Fred Hawn and Ken Blackman served as the Fayetteville managers. Blackman had begun the season as the player/manager of the Monett Red Birds. In the first-round playoffs, the Angels Swept Siloam Springs in 3 games to advance. In the final, the Rogers Lions defeated the Fayetteville Angels 4 games to 1 to win the championship. Pitcher Loy Hanning of Fayetteville led the Arkansas–Missouri League with both 16 wins and a 1.63 ERA. Fayetteville teammate Edward Smith led the league with 179 strikeouts at age 19. The Angels' Paul Fugit compiled 183 total hits, most in the league.
Playing with Fayetteville in 1937 at age 19, in his first professional season, Loy Hanning pitched in the 1939 and 1942 seasons for the St. Louis Browns.
Fayetteville manager Ken Blackman later became a collegiate coach. He coached football, baseball and basketball at Buena Vista College in Iowa from 1947 to 1951. Blackman was inducted into the Buena Vista University Hall of Fame in 1999.
Local journalist and newspaper writer Walter John Lemke wrote a column called "Angel Food" in the Northwest Arkansas Times. The Lemke column covered the Fayetteville Angels team. In 1952, Lemke wrote the book The Fayetteville Angels, or, Why Baseball is Our National Pastime: being A History of the Arkansas-Missouri League about the Fayetteville Angels and the other Fayetteville minor league teams that played between 1934 and 1940. Lemke established the Department of Journalism at the University of Arkansas in 1928. In his honor, the university named the department the Walter J. Lemke Department of Journalism in 1988.
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Fayetteville Angels (Arkansas baseball)
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In 1939, the Fayetteville Angels won the Arkansas–Missouri League pennant while playing the season as a minor league affiliate of the St. Louis Browns. The Arkansas–Missouri League reduced franchises and played the season as a four–team league after the Rogers Reds and Siloam Springs Travelers franchises folded and did not return to league play. The Angels won the pennant, ending the regular season with a record of 79–42, playing under manager Frank Oceak. Fayetteville finished 12.0 games ahead of the Second place Carthage Pirates. In the playoff final, Carthage won the Arkansas–Missouri League championship, defeating Fayetteville, 4 games to 1. Fayetteville pitcher George Bender led the Arkansas–Missouri League in three categories, with his 20 wins, 2.35 ERA and 208 strikeouts on the season being tops in the league.
After his 20–4 season with Fayetteville in 1939 at age 19, George Bender was unsuccessful in his next two seasons, pitching for four different teams in the St. Louis Browns organization and compiling a 13–23 record. He did not pitch in the minor leagues after the 1941 season.
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Parish and Civil Registers in Paris
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On May 23, 1871, at the instigation of anarchist Jean-Louis Pindy, Communards set fire to many public buildings, including Paris’ City Hall. The civil records, stored in an annex at 4 Avenue Victoria, were the first to burn. Within hours, the originals of civil and parish registers were destroyed, along with the collection of the Historical Library of Paris, which had been transferred to City Hall. Just days earlier, on May 17, 1871, Louise Michel had declared at the "Club de la Trinité": "Paris will be ours or will no longer exist!"
On May 24, 1871, the day after City Hall’s destruction, Communards burned the Palais de Justice on orders from Blanquist Théophile Ferré. The second copies of civil and parish registers for Paris and all communes in the Seine were lost as well. Besides civil registry offices, much of the Palais was destroyed: the offices of the Court of First Instance; the General Prosecutor’s Office; the Public Prosecutor’s Office; judges’ chambers; two criminal courts (completed just two years earlier); much of the Court of Cassation; the Court of Appeal; the Great Hall and Grand Chamber; the Correctional Police; and the archives.
During this civil war, which ended the Commune, many other Parisian buildings burned, sometimes accidentally due to artillery fire from both sides. In mere hours, centuries of history were destroyed, including the Tuileries Palace, Palais-Royal, (seat of the Court of Accounts), the Ministry of Finance, the Palace of the Legion of Honor (where many records of honorees were lost), the Police Prefecture, the Louvre Library, the , Gare de Lyon, and the home of Prosper Mérimée at 52 Rue de Lille, which housed his correspondence and part of his library.
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Sato drum
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Satọ drum is a single-faced drum which is very popular among the Ogu people of Badagry in Lagos State, Nigeria. The Satọ is a tall twin drum with a height of 7 feet or more. In traditional Ogu culture, the drum is believed to ward off evil spirits. In contemporary times, Sato drum performance is a common feature in many traditional festivals and cultural celebrations in Nigeria. The Sato is claimed to be the largest and tallest drum in the world.
Tradition
In Ogu tradition, the Sato is a revered twin drum, comprising male and female single-faced drums made from the Iroko tree and an animal-skin membrane. The Sato drum is played at major festivals and ceremonies.
Each of the two drums is commonly beaten by a four-member group of drummers, who dance energetically around the tall drums. The drummers are usually dressed in a special attire, and they chant esoteric songs. Sato drum performances feature an ensemble consisting of the main Sato drummers who are supported by a troupe of other drummers and percussionists playing other smaller drums and brass instruments.
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Joseph Garrera
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Joseph Garrera is an American historian, Abraham Lincoln expert, and museum professional. In 1997 Garrera concluded a year-long study of the Lincoln assassination flags. These are the American Flags that decorated the Presidential Box in Ford's Theatre the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. He concluded that one of the flags, a 36-star American Flag, was in the collections of the Pike County Historical Society in Milford, Pennsylvania. The story was carried by The New York Times on February 9, 1997.
Garrera was named Executive Director of the Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum in 2006, a position he held for eighteen years, concluding in 2025. Under Garrera’s direction, the Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum launched a series of exhibitions including “Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America,” which was endorsed by the federal Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, as well as “Remembering World War II,” and “The American Spirit: The Paintings of Mort Künstler.". Garrera inaugurated the Heritage Museum’s extensive work with school cyber programs, a service the Museum introduced in 2020 because of the pandemic that is now a permanent part of the Museum’s portfolio of programs.
Biography
Garrera earned a Master of Arts in History from East Stroudsburg University (2006) and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Thomas Edison State University (2004). He studied philanthropy at “The Center on Philanthropy” at Indiana University (2005).
Garrera was elected to the Abraham Lincoln Association Board of Directors in 2010, a position he continues to hold. From 1999 until 2010, he served as President of the Lincoln Group of New York in Manhattan, a nonprofit historical society that studies the life and times of Abraham Lincoln.
Honors
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Battle of Shumsk (1233)
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Battle of Shumsk (1233) was an armed clash between the forces of Daniel of Galicia and Vasylko Romanovich and the Hungarian army led by king Andrew, supported by Alexander Vsevolodovich and the Halych boyars. The battle was part of the struggle for control of Halych, forming part of the Romanovichs' rivalry with Hungary for power in the region.
Background
In 1233, the situation in Kievan Rus' was tense due to the rivalry for control of Halych. Daniel of Galicia and Vasylko Romanovich, supported by Vladimir IV of Kiev, posed a threat to Hungarian influence in the region. King Andrew II of Hungary, supported by Alexander Vsevolodovich and the Halych boyars, decided to launch a preventive campaign to weaken the Romanovichs and demonstrate their strength. The Hungarian-Halycian army moved north-east, reaching as far as Beloberez, south of the Sluch River. There their presence was spotted by Daniel's guards, led by one of his boyars.
Battle
he first clashes took place at the Dernava River, where the Hungarians forced the Volhynian troops to retreat. Daniel, after conferring with Vladimir of Kiev, decided to advance against the enemy. The two armies met at Shumsk, by the White River. Initially, the Hungarians and their allies attacked the wings of the Romanovich army, which caused confusion in Daniel's ranks. Despite this, his troops managed to mount an effective counter-attack — Daniel personally led the assault on the rear of the Halych forces, while Vasylko repelled the Hungarians, capturing the banner of king Andrew. In the midst of the battle, Daniel almost fell captive when his mount was wounded, but managed to retreat. Although the battle was fierce and both sides suffered losses, the Hungarians failed to hold their positions and eventually retreated towards Halych. The Romanovich forces held the battlefield, giving them a strategic victory. The Hungarians suffered heavy losses.
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Ettore Socci
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Ettore Socci (25 July 1846 – 18 July 1905) was an Italian politician and a prominent republican intellectual of the Risorgimento.
Life and career
Born in Pisa and educated in Florence, he fought as a volunteer alongside Giuseppe Garibaldi in the Trentino campaign of 1866, at Mentana (1867), and in the French campaign of 1870-71. A fervent Mazzinian, he directed progressive newspapers such as Satana and Il Grido del Popolo, which were eventually shut down, leading to legal troubles. Socci was frequently arrested but also acquitted, notably in 1874 during a trial involving other radical republicans and internationalists.
He became a Freemason in Rome between 1875 and 1879, joined the Grand Orient of Italy, and co-founded the "Rienzi" Lodge in 1881. Socci continued advocating republican ideals, writing for La Capitale and Lega della Democrazia, as well as founding publications like Il Fascio della Democrazia and La Democrazia. He was also involved with La Tribuna Illustrata.
In politics, Socci joined forces with Felice Cavallotti to organize the 1890 Democratic Congress opposing Prime Minister Francesco Crispi. This effort inspired Antonio Labriola's Proletariato e Radicali. Elected as Grosseto's deputy in 1892, Socci championed key reforms, notably abolishing the seasonal migration of public offices (estatatura) in 1897. He was re-elected for other four subsequent terms and became an honorary citizen of Grosseto.
After his death on 18 July 1905, Grosseto honored him by naming a square after him and erecting a bronze bust in his memory.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%20Narayanan
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V Narayanan
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Dr. V. Narayanan (born 14 May 1964) is an Indian aerospace engineer, cryogenic engineer and rocket scientist currently serving as the Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Secretary of the Department of Space since 14 January 2025. He served as the Director of the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) from 23 January 2018 to 14 January 2025, the day when he assumed the chairmanship of ISRO. He is set to lead the organization during the ongoing development of various upcoming programmes, including the Gaganyaan and Chandrayaan-4 missions, as well as the launch of India's first space station in the forthcoming years.
Early life and education
Narayanan was born in the Melakattuvilai village near Nagercoil in Kanyakumari District in the state of Tamil Nadu, on 14 May 1964, to C. Vanniya Perumal, a coconut trader and S. Thangammal. He was the eldest child of six siblings. Narayanan would frequently help out at his father's coconut shop in the Vadasery market in Nagercoil. He studied till 5th grade at the government primary school in , from 1969 to 1974. Narayanan then studied at the LMS Higher Secondary School in Zionpuram till 10th grade, from 1974 to 1979. His house did not have electricity till he was in 9th grade.
Narayanan did his schooling from government primary and high school in Tamil medium. His house was electrified only when he was in class-IX. Until then, he and his siblings studied using kerosene lamps. The primary school where he studied didn't even have a proper roof. So, students there always welcomed rain, as the rainy days meant holidays.
Dr. Narayanan completed both his schooling and DME (Diploma in Mechanical Engineering) with First Rank. He completed his DME at the Government Polytechnic College, Nagercoil in 1982.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJR%20Refugee%20Voices%20Testimony%20Archive
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AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive
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Intended use and format
The archive is specifically designed for use in education and research. The video interviews are fully transcribed, with the transcriptions being provided with a time code that makes it easy to find the corresponding points in the video recordings and vice versa. In addition, a database contains biographical information on the interviewees, which is structured in 44 different categories, such as place of birth, profession, migration route and concentration camp. There is also a summary for each interview, and still images showing photos of family members, acquaintances and friends as well as other relevant objects and documents.
Access
Photos, interview summaries, biographical information and short clips can be accessed via the project's website. Full unedited access to the video interviews and their transcripts is available via the project's institutional partners. These include Wiener Holocaust Library, Mémorial de la Shoah, German Historical Institute London, Freie Universitaet Berlin and Yad Vashem.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Haines-Eitzen
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Kim Haines-Eitzen
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Kim Haines-Eitzen is the Hendrix Memorial Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. She specialises in early Christianity, early Judaism, and other ancient Mediterranean Religions.
Education
Haines-Eitzen received her PhD from the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1997. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Literacy, Power, and the Transmitters of Early Christian Literature. She received an MA from the University of North Carolina in 1993.
Career and research
Haines-Eitzen has published on early Christian scribal practices and on desert monasticism. She published the monograph Guardians of Letters: Literacy, Power, and the Transmitters of Early Christian Literature in 2000 with Oxford University Press. Her second book, The Gendered Palimpsest: Women, Writing, and Representation in Early Christianity, was also published by Oxford University Press in 2011. Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks and What It Can Teach Us was published in 2022 by the University of Princeton Press.
Haines-Eitzen featured in the documentary series The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, made by National Geographic. She was awarded a National Humanities Center (NHC) Fellowship for 2024-25. She has written for The Conversation.
Bibliography
Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks and What It Can Teach Us. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022.
The Gendered Palimpsest: Women, Writing, and Representation in Early Christianity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Boundaries and Bodies in Late Antiquity, co-edited with Georgia Frank, special issue of The Journal of Early Christian Studies 17 (2009)
Guardians of Letters: Literacy, Power, and the Transmitters of Early Christian Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy%20Huth
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Tracy Huth
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Huth earned a total of 24 All-American honors and 13 individual national championships during his swimming career with Oakland. He was a four-time national champion in the 200- and 400-yard individual medley events and earned NCAA Division II Swimmer of the Year three times. Swimming for Oakland in March, 1981, he set an NCAA record at the NCAA National Championships in Youngstown, Ohio, in the 400-meter Individual Medley of 4:03.03. He served as team Captain in 1983. In 1983 as an Oakland swim team competitor, he set a record for the 1650-meter freestyle of 15:53.44. While swimming for Oakland, he won both the 200 and 400 IM NCAA Championships all four years of his collegiate swimming career, and served as team Captain in his Senior year. Huth subsequently merited induction into Oakland’s Athletic Hall of Honor as a champion swimmer.
Huth completed a master’s degree in sports administration from Wayne State University and a bachelor’s degree in secondary education, from Oakland University, in 1985.
Oakland University women's coach
Huth coached Women's swimming at Oakland from 1987-1997. During his accomplished tenure, his teams finished in the top three nationally in nine consecutive seasons, winning five consecutive national championships and three straight runner-up finishes from 1990-97. In one of his best coaching years, the 1994 Women's Swim and Dive Team was inducted into Oakland's Hollie Lepley Hall of Honor in 2024. Hollie Lepley was a former Director of Athletics at Oakland. The 1994 team was part of a sequential championship run for the Oakland program. Under Coach Huth, Oakland's women swimmers finished the 1993-94 season with an 8-2 record, and captured a Great Lake's Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Championship and Oakland's fifth straight NCAA Division II Championship, which they won consecutively from 1990 through 1994.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20Hamilton%20%28Pennsylvania%29
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Fort Hamilton (Pennsylvania)
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Fort Hamilton was a stockaded fort built during the French and Indian War to protect Pennsylvania settlers in the area of what is now Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. The fort was named for James Hamilton, former Mayor of Philadelphia, and former and subsequent Deputy Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania. The fort never saw military action and was abandoned in 1757.
History
Background
At the beginning of the French and Indian War, Braddock's defeat at the Battle of the Monongahela left Pennsylvania without a professional military force. Lenape chiefs Shingas and Captain Jacobs launched dozens of Shawnee and Delaware raids against British colonial settlements, killing and capturing hundreds of colonists and destroying settlements across western and central Pennsylvania. In late 1755, Colonel John Armstrong wrote to Governor Robert Hunter Morris: "I am of the opinion that no other means of defense than a chain of blockhouses along or near the south side of the Kittatinny Mountains from the Susquehanna to the temporary line, can secure the lives and property of the inhabitants of this country."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20Maria%20Warren
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Alice Maria Warren
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Alice Maria Warren (, 1882–1973) was a British-born artist, short story writer, poet and newspaper editor, who used the pseudonym Glory. She emigrated to Australia and then New Zealand.
Life
Warren was born in 1882 in Hemel Hempstead, England. After her first marriage she became Alice Maria Carr-Tibbits.
She emigrated to Australia where she raised her three children. She remarried and became Alice Maria Warren. Warren studied singing at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, Adelaide, South Australia, then published the crime short story "The Valley of Silence" in The Australian Journal in 1924.
After moving to New Zealand, Warren was employed by Sun newspapers and the New Zealand Mirror. She later became "Lady Editor" of the New Zealand Observer. She was a member of the League of New Zealand Penwomen.
She studied at Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, then exhibited her paintings with the Rutland Group. As Glory Warren she exhibited at the Auckland Society of Arts.
She died on 27 May 1973 in Remuera, Auckland.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules%20Beau
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Jules Beau
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Joseph Jules Beau (20 April 1864 – 5 April 1932) was a French photographer and one of the first sports reporters, noted for pioneering the art of shooting sports and distributing the results to the press.
Early and personal life
Jules Beau was born in 6th arrondissement of Paris on 20 April 1864, as the son of a pastry chef. He married Louise Adélaïde Nuret (1865–1923), daughter of a maître d'hôtel.
Photographic career
In 1883, the 19-year-old Beau opened his first studio in Avenue des Ternes, in partnership with the photographer Marc Henri Fontès who already owned another studio on Boulevard de Clichy, and both of them then opened a new studio in Passy in 1890, but three months later, on 24 January 1891, he sold it to Beau, who named it "Photographie de Passy".
Beau was thus the owner of two studios, but rather than settling there and being a simple photographer, he instead decided to focus on outdoors activities because he was attracted to sport, producing numerous portraits of athletes of all categories, with a predilection for motor racing and cycling, but also Rugby union, track and field, boxing, rowing, wrestling, football, and Et cetera. In December 1896, he immortalized the Morel stand during the 4th Cycle Show held in Paris.
Between 1900 and 1904, the newspaper La jeune mère ou l'éducation du premier âge offered to its subscribers a portrait or a photograph of their baby in business card format taken by Beau; the advertisement inserted in the newspaper stated: "Mr. BEAU is a distinguished specialist in children's photography; his studio, located in an elegant district of Paris, is the meeting place for a select and distinguished clientele".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January%202025%20Southern%20California%20wildfires
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January 2025 Southern California wildfires
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Winds blew wildfire smoke across Los Angeles, leading to several "very unhealthy" air quality index readings of over 200, with the PM2.5 of the Harrison ES station reaching 184.1 µg/m3, or 36.8 times the annual World Health Organization guideline value. Air quality degraded to 569 µg/m3 in the region, representing the most hazardous category and necessitating avoidance of all outdoor activity. UCLA Health pulmonologist May-Lin Wilgus expected LA residents to suffer from burning eyes and irritation due to the concentrated smoke, and urged residents with underlying health conditions such as COPD and asthma to avoid all outdoor activity and to close all doors and windows while running air conditioning. Los Angeles City Council president Marqueece Harris-Dawson reported that visibility had fallen below one block in Southern Los Angeles, and urged residents to avoid driving when possible.
The United States Department of Agriculture and the Los Angeles Department of Public Health warned that the wildfires can render some food in the nearby area unsafe to be eaten due to the smoke fumes and other chemicals. Carcinogens are common in smoke from urban fires and pose long-term health risks to those who inhale it, particularly firefighters without respiratory protection.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/1891%20F1%20%28Barnard%E2%80%93Denning%29
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C/1891 F1 (Barnard–Denning)
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Comet Barnard–Denning, also known as C/1891 F1 by its modern nomenclature, is a parabolic comet that was observed through telescopes between March and July 1891. It was discovered by American astronomer, Edward Emerson Barnard, and British astronomer, William Frederick Denning.
Discovery and observations
Edward Emerson Barnard was in the Lick Observatory looking for new comets in the northwestern sky when he spotted this comet on the early morning of 30 March 1891, describing it as a "small, faint nebulous object" within the constellation Cetus. William Frederick Denning independently discovered the comet approximately 17 hours after Barnard did.
John M. Thome and his colleague, Richard H. Tucker were the last astronomers to have seen Comet Barnard–Denning, where they observed the comet from the Cordoba Observatory on 9 July 1891 as a faint object within the constellation Vela.
Orbit
The first orbital calculations for C/1891 F1 were written by Adolf Berberich, using positions recorded between 31 March and 2 April 1891. The comet reached perihelion on 28 April 1891. Due to the very few follow-up observations conducted, its retrograde trajectory was not fully determined, however it is assumed to be parabolic.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonka%2C%20Jonek%20and%20Kleks
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Jonka, Jonek and Kleks
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Jonka, Jonek and Kleks are characters from the Polish comic series for children and youth created by Szarlota Pawel. They first appeared in 1974, in the issue 39 (May 14) of the magazine Świat Młodych. Jonka and Jonek and a girl and a boy, while Kleks (literally meaning "inkblot") is a fantastic creature that was born out of an inkwell and drinks ink.
Szarlota Pawel followed the advice of the Polish comic authority Henryk Chmielewski to create a trio of two child and one fantastic characters.
The 50th anniversary collection describes the series thusly: " Jonka and Jonek, brought up among the panel houses of Polish People's Republic, break away from their daily routine thanks to Kleks and enter the land of fantasy and dreams." Szarlota Pawel based her plots on books and fairy tales, sayings, and superstitions familiar to Polish children.
The comics were published in the magazine, initially in black and white, and later in color, and since 1980s as standalone albums.
The 1983 album (The Abduction of the Princess) was translated into Russian as in 1989.
In 2006 published an adaptation, under the title Jonka, Jonek i Kleks, as a Level 1 reading in the children's book series .
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David M. Holland
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David Michael Holland is a Canadian-American climate scientist and mathematician known for his research on the interaction between polar ice sheets and ocean dynamics. He is a professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science at New York University, Director of the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in New York City, and former Director of the Center for Sea Level Change at New York University Abu Dhabi. He received National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2000.
He has developed model and predict sea-level changes caused by climate change, combining fieldwork in the Earth's most remote regions with computational techniques.
Education
He graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1985 with a B.Sc. in Physics and a B.A. in Mathematics. He then pursued graduate studies, earning a M.Sc. in Physical Oceanography in 1987. He completed his Ph.D. in Atmosphere-Ocean Science at McGill University in 1993.
Career
Since 1998, Holland has been a faculty member at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University (NYU), where he became a full professor in 2008. Holland served as the Director of the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science at NYU's Courant Institute from 2008 to 2013 and has been the Director of the Center for Sea Level Change at NYU in New York and Abu Dhabi since 2013.
Research
His work focuses on understanding the mechanisms by which significant sea level changes could arise from the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica in the coming decades. Holland applies advanced mathematical techniques to data collected in remote environments, particularly from his fieldwork in Greenland and Antarctica, where he has spent over 10 years.
He continues to collect data on glaciers in these regions to improve computer models that project global sea level change based on the interaction between ice sheets and warming ocean waters.
His publications include studies on Jakobshavn Isbræ in Greenland, ice-shelf melting, and Antarctic ice-sheet dynamics.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Veronica%20Parish%20%28North%20Philadelphia%29
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St. Veronica Parish (North Philadelphia)
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St. Veronica is an active Catholic Church and Parish of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia in the Franklinville neighborhood. The church, school and rectory are located on the northeast corner of 6th and W. Tioga Streets.
The Parish of Saint Veronica was organized in 1872 for the predominantly Irish emigrants living in North Philadelphia. A chapel was erected at the New Cathedral Cemetery (Catholic) and a second chapel and school were completed in 1894. The Church of St. Veronica opened in 1909. Today the congregation is largely Hispanic, Black and Filipino.
History
Among the first religious services held in the first half of the 18th century in North Philadelphia were those in Nicetown, which served Catholics living in nearby Frankford and Germantown and what would become Franklinville. A "young Irish woman" named Elizabeth McGawley, who came with her tenants, built a chapel, in 1729, on the road between Nicetown and Frankford. Services were later held by priests from Old St. Joseph's and those traveling to and from Philadelphia at the home of John Michael Browne (1703-1750). Born in Tuam, Ireland, he resided in the West Indies before coming to what would become Franklinville, where he purchased acreage in 1742.
Browne was known as a "priest;" his "mansion" stood on land that is now part of the New Cathedral Cemetery and remained into the cemetery's early years. When Browne died, he was interred, according to his wishes, in his orchard, in what was known as "The Priest's Lot," at 2nd St. and Rising Sun Lane. His remains were removed by church authorities and reinterred in the St. Stephen's Church burial yard in Nicetown on February 21, 1848.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware%20Valley%20Railway%20%281901-1937%29
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Delaware Valley Railway (1901-1937)
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The Delaware Valley Railway was an American railroad that ran from East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania in Monroe County north along the Delaware River Valley to Bushkill in Pike County from 1901 to 1937. The railroad began as a project to link Stroudsburg with Port Jervis, New York to the north, with plans to transport coal to New England via the new link. Initial grading on the route began in the 1890s, but it wasn't until 1901 that the newly-organized railroad purchased a locomotive and began construction proper, branching off from the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad at East Stroudsburg. Facing a severe financial downturn, the railroad filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission to abandon the line in 1937 after clearing forty dollars in profit in its first two months of the year. Assets were sold off at a price of $30,600.
Part of the former right of way in Bushkill is now a trail within the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area administered by the National Park Service called the Railway Avenue Trail.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina%20Lasisi
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Tina Lasisi
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Lasisi's research explored the role human hair plays in cooling the human brain, recognizing that curly hair would offer the largest benefit to this process. Lasisi conducted experiments using wigs and controlled temperature conditions, observing that curly hair offered the most protection and reduced the need for sweating, which would in turn save water and electrolytes. Results were published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology in 2016, and a follow-up study was published in Scientific Reports in 2021.
Lasisi acknowledges the history of pseudoscience used to characterize and classify race, but stresses the need for deeper study into biological variation. In 2021, Lasisi stated: "Despite a general shift away from the use of overt racial terminologies, the underlying racialized frameworks used to describe and understand human variation still remain."
In 2023, Lasisi established her own lab at the University of Michigan. She co-founded Black in Biological Anthropology which promotes and assists Black biological anthropologists.
Awards and honors
In 2022, Lasisi was awarded the Jon C. Graff, Ph.D. Prize for Excellence in Science Communication
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Michael Belgrave
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In November 2024, Belgrave's Becoming Aotearoa: A New History of New Zealand was published by Massey University Press. In the book, he argued "that New Zealand's two peoples–tangata whenua and subsequent migrants–worked together to built an open, liberal society based on sometimes frayed social contracts." Belgrave also argued that contemporary New Zealand debates about the New Zealand Crown's relationship with Māori leaders and citizens originated in efforts by Christian missionaries during the 1830s to promote a sovereign Māori nation-state with its own national law system and parliament. Belgrave disagreed with the historian Ruth Ross's view that the Treaty of Waitangi was mistranslated, instead arguing that Māori participants were well informed of the Treaty's contents and had made up their mind before missionary Henry Williams produced the Māori language version of the document. Belgrave argued that Māori advocates viewed the Treaty of Waitangi as a sacred compact between rangatira (tribal nobles) and the Crown.
New Zealand Geographic reviewer Rachel Morris praised Becoming Aotearoa for exploring the relationship between Māori and Christian missionaries and Māori perspectives of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Chris Trotter gave a more critical review of the book in the New Zealand Listener, describing it as revisionist history and comparing it to the 1619 Project.
Views and positions
In September 2019, Belgrave welcomed moves by the Sixth Labour Government to incorporate New Zealand history into the national school curriculum from 2012. He argued that making the teaching of New Zealand history compulsory would force young people to "confront the challenging questions of inequality, racism and legacies of the Empire."
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Matt Nippert
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Matthew Godfrey Nippert (born 1979) is a New Zealand investigative journalist. His 2016 series of articles for the New Zealand Herald has been credited with helping to drive New Zealand tax reform.
Education
Nippert grew up in the Hutt Valley. He has an honours degree in public policy from Victoria University of Wellington, where he was a contemporary of a future prime minister, Chris Hipkins – they served together on the executive of the Victoria University of Wellington Students' Association (VUWSA) in 1999.
After abandoning a journalism course at Auckland University of Technology, Nippert won a Fulbright Scholarship in 2005 and gained a Master of Science degree (graduating with honours) from Columbia School of Journalism.
In 2018, Nippert won a Press Fellowship to Wolfson College, Cambridge.
Career
As a student, Nippert was deputy editor of Salient, the weekly student magazine published by VUWSA.
Nippert began his career writing general interest feature stories with a preference for the arts. From 2010, he began to focus on business and white-collar crime. He is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
Nippert joined the The New Zealand Herald as an investigative reporter in 2014. He has also worked for the New Zealand Listener, the New Zealand Herald on Sunday, the National Business Review and the Sunday Star-Times.
The 'tax gap' series
Nippert's series of New Zealand Herald articles in 2016 revealed that 20 high-profile firms earning revenue in New Zealand paid a surprisingly low level of tax. The series was credited in parliamentary speeches for igniting pressure for corporate tax reform. It was excerpted in A Moral Truth: 150 Years of Investigative Journalism in New Zealand, edited by James Hollings. Hollings opined that "Nippert is helping cement the role of investigative journalism as a core part of New Zealand public life".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaton%20Fire
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Eaton Fire
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The Eaton Fire is an active wildfire burning in the Altadena area of Los Angeles County in Southern California. It began on the evening of January 7, 2025, in Eaton Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains. , at 10:36 a.m. PST, the fire had spread to approximately . It is one of several fires being driven by the extremely powerful Santa Ana winds, along with the larger Palisades Fire. , it is the fifth deadliest fire in California history, having killed 17 people.
Evacuation orders have been sent out to the residents of Altadena, Kinneloa Mesa, La Cañada Flintridge, northern portions of Sierra Madre, Pasadena, Arcadia, and Monrovia, and northeastern portions of Glendale, including most of the San Rafael Hills.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Background
A strong high-pressure system over the Great Basin created a steep northerly pressure gradient across Southern California. The system triggered powerful Santa Ana winds, extremely dry katabatic winds which develop when cooler, dense inland air is funneled through mountain passes and canyons toward the warmer coastal regions.
At the same time, the Southern Coast had experienced "eight months without any measurable rainfall", and much of the region had fallen into moderate drought conditions. The Los Angeles Times quoted a battalion chief for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) that the conditions were "the perfect recipe for a large wildfire". The National Weather Service (NWS) issued red flag warnings on the morning of Monday, January 6, effective through Thursday evening, for multiple regions including the Malibu coast, Santa Monica Mountains Recreational Area, and the San Gabriel, San Fernando, and Santa Clarita valleys.
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Eaton Fire
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The Pasadena Unified School District, the Los Angeles Unified School District, and 23 other surrounding school districts announced the closure of all schools in those districts for Wednesday, January 8 in response to the fire. Closures for January 8 were also announced by Pasadena City College, Fuller Theological Seminary, and the California Institute of Technology. Many of these closures were extended to Thursday, January 9, and Friday, January 10.Flames on Mount Wilson may be affecting local broadcast signals; Mount Wilson Observatory has been evacuated. Local broadcasters KLOS-FM, KABC-TV, and PBS SoCal temporarily lost over-the-air signals on January 9. The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was also evacuated, with operations for the NASA Deep Space Network moved to a back-up command center offsite.
By January 10, a 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew was implemented for the evacuated areas of Altadena and roadblocks into the area were put in place by the California National Guard.
Response
Beginning on January 10, thousands of volunteers and donators convened at the parking lot of Santa Anita Park to assist those displaced and impacted by the fire.
Misinformation on social media regarding the fire spread was common. For instance, CalFire reported that misinformation circulating on Facebook falsely claiming individuals can come to California to join clean up crews.
Structures destroyed
The number of destroyed structures was reported as at least 7,500 as of January 16, including 4,356 single-family homes, 77 multi-family buildings and 123 commercial buildings. The number of structures destroyed was updated to 9,418, with an additional 1,071 structures damaged, as of January 21. The fire destroyed residential sections of Altadena which were settled by African-Americans who moved west in the 1920s and 1930s, during the Great Migration, and had created a working and middle-class neighborhood that had persisted for over a century.Among the historic or culturally significant structures destroyed are:
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James P. Sullivan (judge)
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James Patrick Sullivan (born May 4, 1981) is an American attorney and judge currently serving as a justice of the Texas Supreme Court.
Early life
Sullivan was born near Houston, Texas. During primary schooling, his family moved to Travis County, west of Austin, Texas, where he attended public school, graduating from Westlake High School in 1999. While attending Rice University (BA, 2003) he played football for the Owls, before attending Harvard Law School, eventually serving as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Career
Sullivan was a law clerk to Judge Thomas B. Griffith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, has served as an adjunct professor at George Mason University, and has been an appellate litigator in private practice.
Before being appointed SCOTX justice, Sullivan served the state as deputy counsel for Governor Greg Abbott, having previously served under Abbott (while the latter was state attorney general) as assistant solicitor general.
Upon Sullivan's appointment to the Supreme Court of Texas, Chief Justice Jimmy Blacklock stated "James Sullivan is a brilliant, hard-working lawyer who has served the People of Texas with distinction for many years. He will make an excellent addition to our state’s Supreme Court."
He is a member of the Federalist Society and Teneo.
Judicial career
This is Sullivan's first judgeship.
Personal life
Sullivan lives in Austin with his wife and their son.
Sullivan's father is an Austin-born engineer, having spent the majority of his career problem solving for various Texas state agencies. Texan grandfathers included a paternal USAF navigator (Maj.) & maternal NASA rocket scientist (Apollo). He has two younger brothers. His mother was a Houston-born massage therapist.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxiloba%20firmula
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Saxiloba firmula
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Saxiloba firmula is a species of saxicolous lichen in the family Porinaceae. This lichen is native to the Caribbean, where it grows on calcareous rocks in shaded or semi-exposed habitats. Known for its distinctive rosette-like thallus with surface patterns, S. firmula exemplifies the morphological and ecological adaptations characteristic of the genus Saxiloba, for which it is the type species.
Taxonomy
Saxiloba firmula was originally described in 1872 by the Swiss lichenologist Johannes Müller Argoviensis as Porina firmula. In 2020, Robert Lücking, Bibiana Moncada, and Harrie Sipman transferred the species to the newly created genus Saxiloba based on its unique thallus morphology and molecular phylogenetics evidence. The genus was established to separate species with this morphology from other members of the family Porinaceae.
Description
Saxiloba firmula has a flattened, leaf-like thallus that forms tightly appressed rosettes measuring 10–20 mm in diameter. The edges of the thallus feature distinct lobes, and its surface is marked by a network of fine, reticulate lines. These lines define chambers within the thallus that contain clusters of crystals, giving the lichen a textured appearance when wet. The colour of the thallus ranges from silvery grey-green to olive-grey.
The internal structure of S. firmula is complex, with a tightly packed fungal layer forming the upper cortex. Beneath this is the , which contains symbiotic green algae of the genus Trentepohlia. Embedded within the photobiont layer are large crystal clusters, thought to play a role in light management. A loosely arranged medulla of fungal hyphae underlies the photobiont layer, and a dark anchors the lichen to its rocky .
Reproductive structures include perithecia, which are immersed in the thallus and covered by a layer of fungal tissue. The reddish-brown to cherry-red ostioles (openings) of the perithecia are visible on the surface. The asci within produce small, colourless, multi-septate .
Habitat and distribution
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Singkawang Hakka
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From the late Qing Dynasty to the early establishment of the Republic of China, wars and chaos were frequent on the Chinese mainland. As a result, many Hakka people, to avoid military conscription and forced labor or to earn a living, were forced to follow shuike (水客, suihak), brokers who specifically brought people to Southeast Asia, to Malaya or Bangka-Belitung, where they became contract laborers in tin mines. After their contracts ended, many workers moved to the region under the rule of the Sultan of Sambas, particularly to Singkawang and its surroundings, to seek a new life. At that time, a large group of Hopo immigrants arrived and rented land from the local government for farming. Those with skills or relatives in Singkawang chose to settle and engage in small businesses there, selling cakes or working as laborers. By that time, there were already many traditional medicine shops, bookstores, barbershops, and others. Because many small stalls in the rural areas were owned by Hakka people, to facilitate transactions and blend in with the grassroots community, the tycoons of Singkawang, whether Teochew or Hokkien, were inevitably compelled to learn Hakka. Thus, Hakka became the lingua franca in Singkawang, while Teochew and Hokkien are only spoken at home.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singkawang%20Hakka
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Singkawang Hakka
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Geographical distribution and usage
The Hakka language in West Kalimantan is divided into two types: the Pontianak Hakka, which is more related to the Meixian Hakka dialect, and Singkawang Hakka, which is more related to the Lufeng (Hailu) Hakka dialect. These two varieties differ slightly in tone, vocabulary, and pronunciation. The areas that use the Meixian Hakka dialect include Pontianak, Sekadau, Sintang, Sanggau, and Mempawah. Meanwhile, the areas that use the Lufeng Hakka accent include Singkawang, Sungai Duri, Sambas, and Pemangkat. In areas with a significant Hakka population, non-Chinese residents also understand and speak Singkawang Hakka. Many Malays, Dayak, and even Javanese residents are proficient in Hakka and actively use it to communicate with the Chinese community. Meanwhile, many elderly Chinese residents are either unable to speak or are less fluent in languages other than Hakka. Today, Singkawang Hakka is spoken widely beyond Singkawang, Pemangkat, and Sambas, extending to the Chinese business community in Jakarta, specifically in western Jakarta, where many migrants from Singkawang have settled.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listen%20to%20the%20Moon
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Listen to the Moon
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Reception
Ann Moore wrote in the School Library Journal that "this is a superbly written, gripping novel of friendship, family, healing, and war; this is one of Morpurgo's best works to date". Kirkus Reviews wrote "Morpurgo returns to World War I in a beautifully crafted, multivoiced novel about the sinking of the Lusitania, the strength of family bonds, the vicissitudes of memory, and the fear and bigotry of neighbors; Alfie's third-person tale provides the main storyline, supported by other voices, including excerpts from the doctor's journal and the narrow-minded school principal's records of his horrible teaching theories; it is through Lucy's voice that all the elements of the tale weave together both beautifully and dramatically".
Gail Bush from The Booklist said that "chapters intertwined with the narrative describing Merry’s interests in music, drawing, horses, and the moon help readers understand the girl; while back matter duly describes the tale’s historic and geographic significance, it is Morpurgo’s finely woven tapestry of community, trust, endurance, and unconditional family love that keep the Lusitania best remembered". Anita Lock wrote in BookPage "Morpurgo pens a spellbinding story within a story; the book is nothing short of extraordinary, a masterfully woven tale of history, the negative aspects of war and a subtle yet persistent message that love prevails; Morpurgo closes with background historical information, the perfect endnote to this outstanding piece of literature". Ysenda Graham wrote in Country Life that "Morpurgo's novels are reliably good and annoyingly unputdownable; many usual Morpurgo ingredients are here: the Isles of Scilly, likeable children free to roam and a nasty schoolteacher".
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Edward Bagwell Purefoy
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Edward Bagwell Purefoy (6 November 1868 – 19 November 1960) was an Ireland-born British army officer and naturalist. He was the first to discover the life cycle of the large copper butterfly (Lycaena dispar) and succeeded in establishing a colony of L. d. rutilus at his home in Greenfields, Tipperary. The colony survived from 1918 until shortly before his death. He also discovered the life history of the large blue butterfly (Phengaris arion) whose larvae live in the nest of the ant Myrmica sabuleti.
Purefoy was born on the Greenfields estate, Tipperary, in a landed Irish family, the second son of Captain (Honorary Colonel) Edward Bagwell-Purefoy (1819-1883) and Charlotte Wilkinson. One of his brothers was Wilfred Bagwell Purefoy (1862-1930). He was educated at Tonbridge, Kent and joined the Kings Royal Rifle Corps in 1888. Two years later he was with the 16th Lancers. He saw action as an Adjutant in the Boer war with the 57th Buckinghamshire Company of the Imperial Yeomanry. He received a Queen's South Africa Medal with 6 clasps. he was invalided and returned home in July 1901 aboard the troopship Assaye. He retired in 1908 to Maidstone. Purefoy was interested in butterflies from his youth and began to collect and rear them. He became a fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and between 1915 and 1926 he was successful in reintroducing a population of the large copper butterfly which had gone extinct in Britain around 1850. He carefully prepared a bog with the host plant Rumex hydrolapathum and released 120 larvae obtained from near Wolvega by H. E. Wittpen. He had also introduced L. d. rutilis in 1913 from near Berlin and the two apparently crossbred. Hybrid specimens were sent to Tring. A population survived on his estate in County Tipperary until around 1955. He also identified the association of an ant species in the life cycle of the large blue butterfly which became extinct in the UK after his death. He collaborated with F. W. Frohawk on this study.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatiana%20Dettlaff
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Tatiana Dettlaff
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During her third year, while at the Zvengorod Biological Station, Dettlaff attended a practical course in microsurgery in developmental mechanics conducted by Prof. Dmitrii P. Filatov, an eminent scientist and embryologist. Although she was interested in the field of developmental mechanics, Dettlaff did not follow Prof. Filatov for her diploma work as she dreamed of working in phenogenetics. In response, Filatov invited her to the Institute of Experimental Biology and introduced her to the director Prof. Nikolai K. Kol’tsov, who proposed she work on a project on Morphology of embryonic lethaIs in Drosophila. He accompanied Dettlaff as a technician to the Institute where she was tasked with looking after axolotls who regularly became ill and died. Over the next two months, she struggled to obtain, fix, embed and cut eggs, but Filatov continued to be an encouraging presence. During this time, Dettlaff became interested in the specific structural features of the ectoderm in Anura, which had been sidelined by embryologists. After graduating from the university in 1933, Filatov proposed she join postgraduate school under his guidance; Dettlaff agreed much to the dismay of Prof. Kol’tsov who did not forgive this decision until he died.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurst%20Fire
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Hurst Fire
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The Hurst Fire (initially known as the Sylmar Fire) was a wildfire that burned in the Sylmar area of the city of Los Angeles in Southern California. It was one of several fires driven by an extremely powerful Santa Ana wind event.
Cause
The cause of the fire is under investigation. According to some residents, an electrical explosion was witnessed at about 10 p.m. PST on Tuesday, January 7, preceding the fire. It is one of several major wildfires, including the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire, being concurrently driven by an extremely powerful Santa Ana wind event with gusts up to . Southern California Edison issued a report on January 10 about a downed conductor at a tower in the area of the fire. Various fire and law enforcement agencies are currently jointly investigating whether the SCE equipment was involved in starting the fire.
Progression
The fire started at about 10:10 p.m. PST January 7, 2025, with an initial spread to in ten minutes. The fire spread rapidly and was estimated to have doubled in size to less than half an hour after it was reported. By 1:00 a.m. January 8, the fire was estimated to have spread to about , and by 1:49 a.m., the fire had spread to about , largely within the footprint of the 2019 Saddleridge Fire. By 8:02 p.m. the fire had grown to about . By 9:40 p.m., the fire stood at and was at 10% containment after joint efforts by several fire authorities. By 7:02 p.m. on January 10, firefighters reached 70% containment of the fire. As of January 13 at 8:20 a.m., the fire size was revised to and was reported to be at 95% containment. And on January 16, the fire was reported to be 98% contained.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opavice
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Opavice
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The Opavice () is a river in the Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Opava River. It flows through the Moravian-Silesian Region. It is long. Part of the river forms the Czech-Polish state border.
Etymology
The name Opavice is a diminutive of 'Opava'.
Characteristic
The Opavice originates in the territory of Heřmanovice in the Zlatohorská Highlands range at an elevation of and flows to Krnov, where it enters the Opava River at an elevation of . It is long, of which about forms the state border between the Czech Republic and Poland. Its drainage basin has an area of about , of which is in the Czech Republic. The average discharge at 1.7 river km (before the confluence with the Radynka) is .
The longest tributaries of the Opavice are:
Course
The river flows through the municipal territories of Heřmanovice, Holčovice, Město Albrechtice and Krnov. The section on the Czech-Polish border is adjacent to Gmina Głubczyce.
Nature
Among the protected species of animals that live in the river are the European crayfish and the fish common minnow, European bullhead and alpine bullhead. The lower course of the river is also a hunting ground for the common kingfisher.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric%20Chinese%20religions
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Prehistoric Chinese religions
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Banpo villagers also featured in pottery images of a horned ungulate head. To Didier, this bears the same meaning as the human-fish face of repose. The deisgn may trace its origins to a celestial projection, before finding itself associated with ungulates. Because these animals were to the people an important source of food and clothing, it combination with the celestial sky indicates the villagers' belief in the polar authority to provide them with this beneficence.
The Niuheliang ritual construction complex that represents the Hongshan culture also reflects the presence of astronomical perception. A rectangular platform at the center of the ritual plaza may have been a mimic of the Banpo face of repose and constituted of the same projected stellar patterns. Thus, it could be that Hongshan people had ritualized the sky and the polar center. The attention that Hongshan and Yangshao peoples was likely transmitted to the Liangzhu in the Zhejiang area, which certainly had close connections with most Neolithic cultures in the region. The Liangzhu also featured the 'AZ' (anthropo-zoomorphic) motif on its artifacts, which may be an ancestor of the taotie pattern of the Shang dynasty. This 'AZ' probably represented ancestral gods or at least Neolithic cult recipients. A seven-point pattern found in Qijia sites is related to Liangzhu and might trace its origins to as far as Bactria.
Deities
Objects of divine influence were already present during the Xinglongwa culture (7000 BCE) which is known for jade manufacturing. Jade items found in Xinglongwa sites symbolize the significance of agriculture. Shaped like ordinary farming tools, these items indicate a belief in powerful spirits who controlled nature and had the authority over the human realm.
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Prehistoric Chinese religions
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The Niuheliang Hongshan temples feature clay statues of naked women with enormous sizes up to three times a normal human. They were added by a mask which used to be part of a statue depicting pregnancy. Despite the lack of writing to support their claim, some scholars deduce that these figurines symbolized the Hongshan 'Mother Goddess' and her entourage. The grandeur of ritual complexes found in Hongshan sites strongly indicate the worship of fertility goddesses along with former humans. It is also agreed that there existed an 'earth mother' whom Hongshan people treated as a fertility deity and might represent what later literature called the 'Sovereign Earth Mother'. The belief in such goddess, as also evident in Niuheliang, was related to ancestor worship in which the fertility deity herself was a mythified ancestress.
The dragon seemed to be a very significant mythical animal to Neolithic Chinese cultures, which had it as a major iconography emblem. The creature, which might be an exaggeration of the snake, was strongly associated with water and the transcendent realm. A combination of numerous animals like fish, serpents, birds and deers, the Neolithic dragon exhibit extraordinary power to move between what was above and below.
The famous pig-dragon jade pendant of Hongshan signifies a dragon assisting the mother goddess and as such being a symbol of fertility. The mythical dragon was integrated with the pig image as a result of the Hongshan culture being dependent on agricultural and domestic fortune which the pig symbolized. This symbolic dragon of Hongshan was likely transmitted to many other cultures. The Niuheliang excavator Sun Shoudao traces the evolution of the emblematic image from Hongshan through Longshan and Erlitou to the Shang. The connection was suggestive since the Shang themselves produced varieties of the same dragon found at Hongshan, and the Shang writing script even had two characters resembling the creature's shape.
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Prehistoric Chinese religions
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An early example of pyromancy in China was a scapula of a sheep or deer, identified to have been found in either Inner Mongolia or Liaoning province. Radiocarbon-dated with calibration to 3321 ± 179 BCE, the bone exhibits burn marks deliberately inflicted upon its distal blade. It constitutes a collection of Late Neolithic divination examples coming from North China, which also includes the sites Jungar Banner (Inner Mongolia), Fujiamen (Gansu province). Examples from the south include a sheep scapula excavated in the site Xiawanggang in Henan province, dated either to the late Yangshao or Longshan period. Despite the presence of these bones at an early point, it was only during the middle third millennium BCE, during the dynamic Longshanoid period, that divination became properly established.
Type-sites of the Longshan culture provide typical examples for necessary divination by independent practitioners. Representative of Longshan are at least 20 scapulae in Kangjia (Lintong, Shanxi). Although they date back to the early third millennium BCE, similarities shared with late-millennium Longshan oracle bones have been determined. Unlike their Shang counterparts, Longshan bones were neither pretreated nor inflicted with drilled holes and chisel marks before the burning process. Divination marks are scattered on the bones with no clear regulating principles.
Excavations have revealed similar examples from various places. Some come from Longshan sites such as Yangbai (Wutai, Shanxi), Taosi, and Shangpo (Xiping, Henan). In addition, there are also bones from the Qijia culture site Dahezhuang (Gansu) and the previously mentioned Xiawanggang samples.
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Prehistoric Chinese religions
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Aside from dogs, the Neolithic Chinese also used pigs and tortoises as mortuary animals. Archaeological data suggest symbolic pig rituals. Burial of pig skulls was very prevalent in most Yangshao, Longshan and Dawenkou sites, as well as large sites in North China. These interments seem to be spatially ordered and were usually accompanied by rich amounts of prestige goods, suggesting that pigs were seen as symbols of socioeconomic superiority.
Traditional accounts
Some classical Chinese literature from the Zhou and Han dynasties make references to the remote past which they perceived as a succeeding line of primordial rulers. For example, the Guoyu (; Discourses of the States) from the Eastern Zhou period (771256 BCE) describes early shamanism in China:
Various spiritual activities were credited to the time of the Yellow Emperor (Huángdì ; trad. 26982598 BCE). One such act of religion is allegedly the practice of tortoise-shell divination; the Annals record that the Yellow Emperor in the seventh month of his 50th year, having received consultations from his sage men, commissioned a recorder to divine on shells. The emperor was also thought to have practiced sacrifice, as indicated by the Warring States-era Bamboo Annals referring to one occasion of him sacrificing at the Luo River. The ancient historian Sima Qian (86 BCE) credited the Yellow Emperor with worship of spirits, mountains, rivers, as well as heaven and earth.
Also traditionally placed during the third millennium BCE, the Emperor Zhuanxu was described as listening to the spirits in regulating human thoughts and actions. He also educated people to sacrifice to the spirits the purest materials with utmost reverence. Sima Qian wrote in his work that a great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor called Ku also attempted to understand the spirits and worship them.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Birch%20Dahlerup
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Hans Birch Dahlerup
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Hans Birch Dahlerup (25 August 1790, Hillerød – 26 September 1872, Frederiksberg) was a Danish admiral and baron . He was among Denmark's most important naval strategists in the 19th century. Dahlerup rose through the ranks to become rear admiral in the Royal Danish Navy. He also served as Vice Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Austrian Navy after the Revolution of 1848. Dahlerup rebuilt the Austrian naval forces and led the blockade and recapture of Venice in 1849. For these efforts, he was knighted by Emperor Franz Joseph.
Dahlerup had a broad interest in culture and science. He was fluent in German, English, French and Italian as foreign languages. He wrote his memoirs, published in four volumes after his death.
Early life
Dahlerup grew up in a family of civil servants in Hillerød on Zealand. His father, Hans Jensen Dahlerup, came from a simple background in East Jutland, but as a young man he was employed by an official in Hillerød, and once sailed as a cabin clerk on a merchant ship to Tranquebar in India. Hans knew little else about his father's family and upbringing. When Hans was growing up, his father was the Amtmann in Frederiksborg County. He was also a civil magistrate and auctioneer. Later, he became a road tax collector, hospital superintendent, and postmaster. His mother, Sophie Marie Birch, was the daughter of a goldsmith. When she died in 1799 of tuberculosis, his father then married her sister, Vilhelmine.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Birch%20Dahlerup
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Hans Birch Dahlerup
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Dahlerup found the many intrigues in the Austrian military very wearing. He began to sense that he no longer had the emperor's full confidence, and rumours began to circulate of his resignation. In July 1851, Dahlerup was formally dismissed by the emperor's adjutant general Karl Ludwig von Grünne. He was offered a position as naval inspector but decided to go home. Minister of War Anton Csorich granted him a life pension, which Dahlerup was assured would not stand in the way of re-entering Danish service. "How much he deceived himself or me in this, I very soon saw," he wrote in his memoirs.
Conflict in Denmark
Upon his return, Dahlerup expected to enter the Danish navy as a Rear Admiral, ranking ahead of CC Zahrtmann, in accordance with his rank of Vice Admiral in Austria. However, creating a new position of Rear Admiral now required the consent of the Danish Parliament. Minister of the Navy Carl van Dockum, Dahlerup's brother-in-law, instead offered him the rank of Rear Admiral, after Zahrtmann. Dockum believed it was unreasonable for an officer who had retired from Danish service to be promoted ahead of his former officer colleagues.
Dahlerup was deeply offended and believed that the king and government had broken their promises. He instead applied for a pension, but the government’s view was that he was not entitled to this as long as he was receiving a pension from Austria. He filed a lawsuit against the treasury but lost. Instead, he was exempted from paying the royal tax for his Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog, which he had been awarded on the recommendation of Dockum. Only foreigners were exempt from royal tax, and Dahlerup, therefore, felt that he was not being treated as if he were Danish. "Even in the presence of the king he adorned himself with Austrian ribbons and orders without wearing the Grand Cross that the king had given him as a sign of his goodwill," wrote Dockum, who called Dahlerup "haughty and repulsive in his behaviour."
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Hans Birch Dahlerup
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He wrote in his memoirs that he did not marry for love – "I was beyond the age when one can generally feel it in its full force and indulge in its rapture" – but the marriage was happy. He recalled with great sadness how Louise died of an incurable heart disease.
Hans and Louise Dahlerup had three children. Their son Hans Joost Vilhelm Dahlerup (1830–1876) became a lawyer and married Ursula Holbech, daughter of a family friend, the painter Niels Peter Holbech. Their daughter Ida Susanne Dahlerup (1833–1908) remained unmarried. They also had a son who died as an infant.
Admiral Dahlerup held his daughter-in-law Ursula in high regard, and he was, according to her, "unboundedly happy" to become a grandfather. She had to struggle with her husband's neuroses and pathological jealousy. But as long as her father-in-law was alive, she was "almost happy," she wrote in her memoirs. She described him as witty, chivalrous, and charming. She also managed to reconcile Dahlerup with his brother-in-law, Admiral Dockum, after many years of hostility.
In the autumn of 1872, Dahlerup stood, as he usually did, outside the Copenhagen customs house to listen to the cannon salute for foreign warships. He caught a cold and died the next day. Like many other naval officers, he was buried in the Holmen cemetery. The childhood friends Dahlerup, Zahrtmann and Dockum had once bought three family graves next to each other so that they could also be together in death.
Hans Birch Dahlerup's descendants were granted the right to bear the Austrian baronial title, according to a letter of nobility of 1 August 1851, but were never naturalized as a Danish noble family. Instead, they have used the equivalent titles "baron" and "baroness".
Honours
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1882%20Manila%20typhoon
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1882 Manila typhoon
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The 1882 Manila typhoon was an intense typhoon that struck the Philippines during October 1882.
Meteorological history
The typhoon was first identified southeast of the Philippines on October 19. Tracking west-northwestwards towards Manila, it made its first landfall over Catanduanes the next day. After that, it then made five more landfalls over Luzon, passing over Manila with sustained winds of at least and a minimum pressure of . Moving into the South China Sea on October 22, the typhoon was not tracked further.
Preparations and impact
The most intense typhoon to strike the Philippines since 1831, the typhoon caused significant impacts when it passed over Manila. The Variedades Theatre was destroyed, with the Tondo Theatre suffering significant impacts. Several tobacco factories in the city were damaged as well. In Santa Lucia, eleven vessels wound up on the shore, with a further six suffering some damage. A barometer in the city was able to record winds of before being damaged. In Ermita, only one house survived the typhoon, while every house in Sampaloc lost their roofs. Additionally, all governmental offices and hospitals in Manila were destroyed. At least six men died when pieces of iron roofing collapsed on them and were blown a distance by the typhoon's winds. Over sixty thousand people went homeless in the city alone.
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Lake Dayet-Aoua
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Lake Dayet-Aoua is a lake, in northern Morocco, in the Middle Atlas at an altitude of 1,460 m. It belongs to the Ifrane Province within the Fès-Meknès region.
Location
Its access is very easy, located 15 kilometers north of Ifrane by the RN 24 Ifrane-Fès, rural commune of Ifrane, which directly overlooks the 140 ha lake, its surface area varies according to different times of the seasons. Lake's depth remains low, four to five meters upstream (west) and a downstream part (east) silted up, marshy in appearance, exondable in summer.
The lake is surrounded by a low wet meadow and forests of holm oaks (Quercus rotundifolia) and cedrus: Cedrus atlantica. A belt of poplars and a few willows surround the lake on its immediate edges. It is one of the few mountainous wetlands with a wide variety of habitats (shallow water, wet meadow, emergent marsh, mudflats and forest).The submerged and emerged flora is abundant and very diverse; presence of Myriophyllum spicatum, Juncus bufonius, carex sp, Persicaria amphibia, Ranunculus millifoliatus, Schoenoplectus lacustris, Phragmites australis and Typha sp.
This lake contributes to the revitalization of the economic activity of the region. Tourist activity is one main source of income for the region. In 2018, the lake dried up and became an infertile land. In 2023, the framework agreement for the 2023-2024 partnership was signed for the ecological rehabilitation of Lake Dayet Aoua.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jafar%20Khan%20Moshir%20od-Dowleh
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Jafar Khan Moshir od-Dowleh
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Mirza Jafar Khan Moshir od-Dowleh (; 1790s – November 1862), also known as Mohandes Bashi (), was an Iranian politician, who was the head of the Council of state from September 1858 until his death in November 1862. His office was similar to the prime minister office, which was vacant during his tenure.
Biography
Background and education
Jafar Khan was born in the 1790s in Farahan, a region in central Iran notable for its high literacy and proficiency in statesmanship. He was the son of Mirza Mohammad Taqi Vazir and nephew of Haji Mirza Hasan, who was the father of Mirza Bozorg Qa'em-Maqam, a bureaucrat who served as the chief minister of the crown prince Abbas Mirza. It was under Mirza Bozorg Qa'em-Maqam and his son Abol-Qasem Qa'em-Maqam that Jafar Khan received his education in the city of Tabriz. In 1815, together with four other students, Jafar Khan was sent by Abbas Mirza to study in England. Their journey to England, referred to as a wanderjahren by the modern historian Nile Green, was an interchange of ideas, which had been made by possible by the diplomatic exchanges between Iran and Great Britain. Jafar Khan is often mentioned in the travelogue one of the students, Mirza Saleh Shirazi. Each student had an area of expertise, with Jafar Khan's being centered around mathematics and engineering. He became an expert in both general engineering and military engineering, including artillery and fort construction. The students returned to Iran in 1819, becoming known as the "first caravan of enlightenment".
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National Museum of Roller Skating
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The National Museum of Roller Skating is a roller skating museum located in Lincoln, Nebraska. It is likely the only roller skating-focused museum in the world.
It purports to contain the world's largest collection of roller skating artifacts, including equipment, costumes, films, and artwork dating back to 1819, as well as memorabilia of other sports related to the hobby.
It shares a building with USA Roller Sports, the nationwide governing body of roller sports.
History
According to the museum, the building is located in a former utility warehouse of the Lincoln Telegram and Telegraph Company. It transferred ownership in an unknown year.
Museum
The museum was established in 1980 and opened to the public on April 13, 1982.
Its audio tour details the history of roller skating, including roller derby in the United States; the roller disco craze; and roller skating in films such as Shall We Dance, Rollerball, Roller Boogie, Xanadu, Roll Bounce, and Skateland.
Display groupings include artistic skating, inline skating, roller derby, speed skating, and a 1956 "jetpack" skating prototype which was a commercial failure.
In 2020, CBS News interviewed the museum's consultant Peggy Young when writing a piece on the resurgence of roller skating during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Amir Ali (field hockey)
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Amir Ali (born 2 May 2004) is an Indian field hockey player from Uttar Pradesh. He made his senior India debut in the Hero Asian Champions Trophy China 2024. He plays as a defender for Uttar Pradesh in the domestic tournaments and for Team Gonasika, Vizag in the Hero Hockey India League 2024.
Early life and education
Ali is from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. His father is a motorcycle mechanic, Tasawar Ali. He took to hockey at the age of 10 at KD Singh Babu society ground in Lucknow and learnt his basics under his first coach Rashid Aziz Khan.
Career
Ali made his senior India debut winning a gold medal in the Hero Asian Champions Trophy 2024 at China. He also played in the Indian team at the FIH Pro League 2023–24. He was part of the Indian under–21 team the Sultan of Johor Cup for three years where India won gold in 2022 and bronze in 2023 and 2024. He was also part of the Indian team at the FIH Junior World Cup 2023 where India finished fourth. He captained the Indian team to a gold medal at the Junior Asia Cup at Muscat, Oman in 2024, to add to his previous Junior Asia Cup gold in the 2023 edition at Salalah, Oman.
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Gálgon Palace
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Gálgon Palace () is a historical building in Timișoara, Romania. It was built in 1912 in the Secession style, with anthropomorphic and geometric decorations.
History
A house has stood on the site of the current palace with various owners since the first half of the 18th century. In 1752, it was owned by Theresia Demmelmayer, the widow of the chancellor of the administration. According to some records, the building was sold for one million florins in 1817, and four years later, it changed ownership again, with the new owner exchanging it for a property in Macedonia.
In the 1840s, the building became well-known for hosting a tavern on the ground floor, named La Cocoșul Negru (; "Black Rooster"). In 1845, a wine cellar called La Pisica Neagră (; "Black Cat") was added to the building.
In the early 1900s, the building was occupied by Gyula Ágoston, a prominent lumber merchant who also owned a grocery store by the same name. In 1911, Ágoston Gálgon, the son of Gyula Gálgon, received a building permit to construct a two-story palace featuring nine apartments and 35 rooms. Designed by architect Henrik Telkes, the palace was finished the following year.
Throughout the 20th century, it housed a hat workshop, a newspaper editorial office, a funeral home, a glass workshop, a clothing store, a hairdresser and a small goods store, and cafes.
Architecture
The palace, built in the style of the 1900s (Secession movement), stands out for its dynamic roof and gable structures, as well as the two-story bay window that defines the building's corner. The facade combines geometric elements typical of the late Secession period with anthropomorphic decorations, such as mascarons, which adorn the capitals of the pilasters—characteristic of 1900s architecture. The bas-reliefs on the first floor, depicting female figures in dance poses, are particularly striking. The most iconic feature of the building, however, is the roof finial, designed as a sheet metal rooster.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Polaczk%C3%B3wna
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Maria Polaczkówna
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Maria Polaczkówna (1878–1944) was a Polish-Ukrainian historian and archivist who worked at the Przemyśl city archives, which in 1951 became the State Archives of Poland. She became a war resistor during World War II. In 1944, after participating in the Warsaw Uprising, she was arrested by German occupiers for providing accommodation for secret activities. She died in captivity in 1944.
Biography
Maria was born into a patriotic family: her father, Adam, took part in the Polish revolt called the January Uprising and spent years an exile in France where he completed medical studies. In his absence, his family lived a very modest life in L’viv and his daughters – Maria and her younger sister Helena Polaczkówna, took on tutoring assignments to earn enough money to afford their education. Despite their modest beginnings, the sisters rose through the academic ranks with each earning a PhD.
Maria earned her doctorate in history. During the years before World War I, and then again in the 1920s, she worked with Professor Eugeniusz Romer (Geographical Institute of L’viv University).
According to archives in Poland, Maria Polaczkówna was the first archivist to work with the city records in Przemyśl, Poland, when she began in 1917. After some years in Przemyśl, she returned to L’viv, where she taught history and geography at local schools until she retired in 1938. She was the author or co-author of geography textbooks and of a valuable monograph “Wahania klimatyczne w Polsce w wiekach średnich” (Climatic Fluctuations in Medieval Poland, L’viv, 1925).
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Joseph Rambaud
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Joseph Rambaud (August 18, 1849 – March 28, 1919) was a French professor, economist, and businessman. In 1879, he founded the Catholic daily newspapers Le Nouvelliste de Lyon and Le Nouvelliste de Bretagne.
Biography
Joseph Rambaud was born into an old Lyonnaise family, descended from and allied with families of silk merchants and former aldermen of Lyon. He represented these wealthy, Christian families who actively participated in society, akin to Édouard Aynard, though Rambaud's Catholicism was more conservative.
He studied under Jesuits at Mongré in Villefranche-sur-Saône from 1866 to 1869 and joined the Papal Zouaves in 1870 before pursuing law and literature studies in Paris. A landowner and administrator of the Firminy mines and the forges of Terrenoire, Rambaud practiced law briefly before dedicating himself to education. He helped establish the Catholic University of Lyon in 1875.
Appointed to a chair of Roman law in 1876, he later taught criminal law and financial legislation and began a course on political economy in 1885. Rambaud held the first chair of political economy in Lyon, the second of its kind in France. Influenced by the Church's social values, particularly the encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891), Rambaud developed an independent economic philosophy, avoiding alignment with traditional socialist or liberal schools. On June 6, 1914, he became a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques.
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Yonatan Shamriz
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As part of the association's activities, the "Kumu" (Awaken) movement was established. Since the movement's establishment, its members have worked extensively on behalf of communities and children in the surrounding areas and the north in the areas of education, health, and security and logistical assistance, such as school protection and transportation for students. The movement's founders formed an education forum in collaboration with several university heads in Israel to help with the plight of tens of thousands of children in the north who were left without an educational framework. They also initiated collaborations with centers of excellence that will be opened in the north and south in collaboration with the Weizmann Institute, designed to provide an educational response to children evacuated during the war. In addition, the movement organizes events, conferences, and lectures throughout the country in an attempt to restore trust between citizens and the state. Shamriz, Shirel Hogeg, and Omri Shafroni, who grew up in the communities of the Gaza parameter, Kfar Aza, Ofakim, and Be'eri during those years, but did not know each other before the October 7 attack, were among the initiators of the national memorial ceremony of the families of October 7, at which Shamriz gave a speech that aroused many echoes. In his speech, Shamriz called for the establishment of a national commission of inquiry, for the return of the hostages, and for the building and repair of the state by the new generation that emerged from the fracture of the October 7 attack.
Personal life
Shamriz is married with two children
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregation%20of%20the%20Gentlemen%20of%20Lyon
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Congregation of the Gentlemen of Lyon
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The Congregation grew while maintaining an elite recruitment policy. Membership increased from 160 in 1830 to 300 in 1850 and remained steady at around 200 by 1945, drawn primarily from Lyon's Catholic nobility and bourgeoisie. Recruitment occurred by co-option, and members maintained secrecy about their affiliation. This led to the Congregation being likened to a "Catholic Freemasonry" that became a breeding ground for counter-revolutionary Catholic elites aligned with Ultramontanism and monarchism.
The congregation's spiritual direction was provided by Jesuits, including Pierre Roger (1802), Joseph de Jocas (1852–1880), Ambroise Monnot (1881–1895), François Varillon, and others. Most members were alumni of Jesuit schools such as Lycée Notre-Dame de Mongré, Institution salésienne Notre-Dame des Minimes, or Externat Saint-Joseph.
Influence in Lyonese Society
Two members of the Congregation, Prosper Dugas and Baron Amédée Chaurand, founded the Lyon Circle in 1868, a legitimist institution located at Place Bellecour. The Circle was described as "an annex of the Congregation" due to its composition and religious orientation.
The Congregation also contributed to the founding of the Catholic University of Lyon in 1875. Influential members such as Lucien Brun, Prosper Dugas, and Joseph Rambaud played key roles in the university's creation. It also supported free education during the Republican educational reforms.
The Congregation's positions were championed in the daily newspaper Le Nouvelliste de Lyon, founded and directed by Joseph Rambaud from 1879. Many Congregation members were shareholders of the paper.
Additionally, the Congregation was active in the agrarian movement, particularly through the Union du Sud-Est des syndicats agricoles, which resisted the Republicanization of rural areas.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Vogel%20%28professor%29
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Peter Vogel (professor)
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Peter Vogel (born 1984) is an Austrian-American professor, author, businessperson, and family enterprise expert. He currently holds the position of Professor of Family Business and Entrepreneurship at the IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland. Vogel is also the Director of the Global Family Business Center at IMD and holds the Debiopharm Chair of Family Philanthropy. Furthermore, he is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Delta Venture Partners AG. His work focuses on family businesses, family offices, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and investments.
Early life and education
Vogel was born in Munich, Germany. He obtained a Bachelor of Science (BSc, 2007) and a Master of Science (MSc, 2009) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). In 2013, he completed his PhD at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where his research focused on entrepreneurship and technology commercialization. His PhD thesis contributed to the publication of his book, Generation Jobless? Turning the Youth Unemployment Crisis into Opportunity, which looked at entrepreneurship as a key mechanism to tackle the youth labor market crisis back in 2014 and 2015.
Career
Academic career
Peter Vogel began his academic journey in 2009 after founding several ventures in the software and digital sectors. In 2013, he completed his PhD in Entrepreneurship at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems. Afterward, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Project Manager at EPFL.
In 2016, Vogel joined the Executive School of Management, Technology, and Law at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, serving as Director of Custom Programs and Business Development. There, he designed and oversaw executive training programs.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babette%20Henry
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Babette Henry
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Babette Henry (born Babette Louise Kohn; January 19, 1915 –July 23, 1980) was an American television director/producer, perhaps best known for her work on Buck Rogers, where she fulfilled both functions from 1950 to 1951. Dubbed by Variety "one of ABC's top TV directors," she also helmed episodes of Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue and the short-lived Jack Lemmon series That Wonderful Guy, as well as The Frances Langford–Don Ameche Show, which also featured the young Lemmon.
Early life and career
Born in Brooklyn and raised there and in White Plains, New York, Henry was the first of two children born to schoolteacher Lily C. Levy and civil engineer Arthur H. Kohn. She attended Cornell University, majoring in hotel administration.
After obtaining her degree, Henry tried her hand at a range of occupations—most notably, interior decorator and accountant—prior to hiring on as a secretary at CBS. From there, she worked her way through legal, sales, and public affairs, before landing a spot in the television programming division. There, she progressed from office manager to continuity writer, script writer, and, ultimately, director. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor effectively shut down television operations and Henry was shifted to the radio division, where she remained for the duration of the war.
In 1945, Henry moved to ABC, where she directed Tele Tales for Children, starring Ireene Wicker. Two years later, she was assigned to the network's fledgling Baltimore affiliate, WMAR-TV. In 1948, she directed Wicker's new series, The Singing Lady.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive%20psychology%20of%20relationships
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Positive psychology of relationships
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A passive–destructive response might be, "You won’t believe what happened to me today," or "What do you want to do for dinner?"Gable and colleagues found that the active-constructive response in close relationships were associated with higher relationship well-being (e.g., intimacy, daily marital satisfaction).
Research
Social networks
A social network impacts the psychological well-being of a person. Research among 222 students showed that the 10% happiest students spent less time alone and were more satisfied in their relationships than the 10% least happy students. A meta-analysis also confirms that larger social networks correlate with higher psychological well-being.
Using network analysis tools, Fowler and Christakis conducted a study to examine how happiness spreads through social connections. They measured the happiness effects between friends (one degree of separation), friends of friends (two degrees), and friends of friends of friends (three degrees). The results indicated that having a happy friend increases the likelihood of a person being happy by 15.3%, while the effect was 9.8% for second-degree connections and 5.6% for third-degree connections.
Friendship
Several studies have found that the quality of friendships contributes more to well-being than the quantity of friendships. A study of 280 college students examined friendship quality and well-being. Students ranked their friends, rating relationships on companionship, intimacy, reliability, and affection. Results showed that only the quality of the best friendship significantly predicted well-being.
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January 2025 Richmond water crisis
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CBS 6 reported that the bottled water distribution at Tucker High School was 30 minutes late on January 9, and that the resources were limited; the first truck was almost empty by 9am.
The county closed all six sites at 8pm on Friday, January 10.
The county distributed 153,000 cases of water to residents, made 120,000 gallons of potable water available, and answered almost 8,000 calls at their call center during the crisis.
Henrico NAACP criticism of the response
The Henrico NAACP unanimously passed an emergency resolution on the night of January 7 that expressed concern over the racial disparity gap in the county. They said that it was historically rooted in disregard for equitable outcomes for the Black community and other vulnerable county communities. They pointed out the racial disparities in the infrastructure failures and lack of clean water across the county.
The organization criticized the two-hour wait times on the designated water related concerns hotline. It called for an independent investigation into the Richmond facility's operational failure and into the dependence of the county on the Richmond facility.
Henrico supervisor Tyrone Nelson expressed his sorrow over the situation and said "We're doing everything we can."
Chesterfield
Bottled water was provided by the County of Chesterfield to the 27 residents impacted by the City's water plant outage, and the county indicated that it was going to continue supporting these residents throughout the duration of the event.
Medical facilities
The lack of potable water severely affected operations at area health care centers.
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January 2025 Richmond water crisis
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Relevance across the US
According to RVAMag, the failure is part of a larger issue facing cities across the United States: one of aging infrastructure an underfunded efforts to modernize. The failure, they said, represents the results of deferred maintenance and insufficient capital investment. They argued in favor of systemic changes to restore trust and to ensure that the city's water system would be equipped for future challenges. Mae Stevens, the CEO of the American Business Water Coalition, a group composed of businesses reliant on water, called for more water infrastructure investment across the United States.
Predicted economic effects
Colleen Heflin, an economist with the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Policy at Syracuse University, remarked to CBS 6 that she was worried over how low-income households would handle the crisis, especially because it occurred in January, a time already difficult for low-income households. She pointed to possible childcare and employment difficulties from the crisis. She predicted that it will have ripple effects through low-income households' finances and that some may be pushed over the brink. She recommended that medical providers screen for food insecurity and access to prescription drugs.
Mayor Avula
Goldman said in his editorial that this could be a "defining" moment for Mayor Avula, but that Avula needs to initiate reforms soon, or the moment may pass. He says that Avula has the opportunity to "dramatically cut the cord" from what he calls the "Jones-Stoney" era of Richmond politics and instead make a long-term plan to fund Richmond's increasingly crumbling infrastructure.
Billing
The city said that it would be providing residents a five-day grace period for January bills with no late penalty or interest applied.
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Papias and Maurus
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Papias and Maurus were a pair of Christian martyrs from an unknown era of persecution. Their cult as saints dates back to at least the 7th century and is recorded in pilrgim itineraries which record them as originally being buried in the Large Catacomb on via Nomentana. The Roman Martyrology records them on 29 January. Papias is sometimes mispelled Papianus.
According to the late (400-700 AD) and legendary martyrdom account Martyrdom of Marcellus and Companions, set during the Diocletianic Persecution, Papias and Maurus were soldiers impressed into conversion by the Christians Sisinnius and Saturninus, especially when the latter dissolved a metal tripod as if it was clay rather than obey the praefectus urbi Laodicius's order to sacrifice to the pagan gods on it. Sisinnius and Saturninus are then tortured and - on complaining of this - Laodoicius orders Papias and Maurus to be stoned and imprisoned. There they are baptised by Marcellus before being beaten and scourged to death in the Circus Flaminius. A priest called John collected their bodies and on 29 January buried them in a cemetery on the via Nomentana.
In 1590 their relics were rediscovered in Sant'Adriano al Foro Romano, then the titular church of cardinal Agostino Cusani. He gave the relics to Santa Maria in Vallicella, where they were placed under the building's high altar with some relics of saints Domitilla, Nereus and Achilleus. The pair were painted three times by Peter Paul Rubens, often with Gregory the Great, traditionally held to be the founder of Santa Maria in Vallicella:
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Sarah Morgan Dawson
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Sarah Fowler Morgan Dawson (February 28, 1842 – May 5, 1909) was an American diarist and editorial writer. She wrote editorials for the Charleston News & Courier using the pen name Mr. Fowler. Her diary, A Confederate Girl's Diary, was published posthumously in six volumes by her son. It was republished in 1991 under the title Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman.
Early life
Dawson was born Sarah Fowler Morgan on February 28, 1842 in New Orleans to Judge Thomas Gibbes Morgan and Sarah Hunt Fowler Morgan. Dawson's father was born in New Jersey and educated in Pennsylvania while her mother, originally from New England, grew up on the Louisiana plantation of George Mather. Dawson was raised as a wealthy member of New Orlean's upper class. Her early childhood was spent in New Orleans until the family moved to Baton Rouge in 1850. The Morgan family lived in a large two-story house, with eight slaves, on Church Street near the State House. Although she received less than a year of formal schooling, Dawson studied French language and English literature at home with her mother and sisters.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Dwarsvlei
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Battle of Dwarsvlei
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The Battle of Dwarsvlei (Afrikaans: Slag van Dwarsvlei, Action at Onrust) in the Second Boer War (1899–1902) was fought by Boer and British forces on 11 July 1900 in the district of Krugersdorp, South African Republic. The action at Dwarsvlei was part of Koos de la Rey's new guerilla strategy and coincided with the battles at Silkaatsnek and Onderstepoort on the same day of July 11, 1900.
Battle
The 150 strong Boers, mainly Krugersdorp Commando under General Sarel Oosthuizen (known as "Rooibul", the Red Bull of Krugersdorp, because of his red beard) ambushed British troops of the 1st Gordon Highlanders and the King's Shropshire Light Infantry under Major general Horace Smith-Dorrien on Oosthuizen's own farm. The Boers were armed with a variety of rifles such as Mausers, Lee-Metfords, Martini-Henry's and Guedes Model 1885.
They attacked the British convoy on its way from Krugersdorp in the south to Hekpoort in the north from high ground positions - marked Z on Smith-Dorrien's map shown on this page - on the Witwatersberg mountain range ridge overlooking an intersection on the Krugersdorp-Hekpoort road.
The battle raged all day and at dusk Oosthuizen was seriously wounded when he tried in vain to capture the English cannons, with only a few burghers. He died from his wounds on 14 August 1900. The British withdrew while the Boers were too weak to follow up.
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Worcestershire Conquest Hoard
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The Worcestershire Conquest Hoard is a Romano-British coin hoard dating to the reign of Nero (AD 54–68). The hoard was found during construction work in Leigh and Bransford, Worcestershire, England, and was hidden inside a clay jar. Valued at minimum of £100,000, there has been a crowdfunding effort since December 2024 to acquire the hoard for Museums Worcestershire, led by the Worcestershire Heritage, Art & Museums Charity.
Background
Following the Claudian invasion in AD 43, the Roman Empire expanded its reach into northern and western Britain, conquering and pacifying the native tribes and kingdoms of Iron Age Britain. Numerous coin hoards were buried during this period, including the Hallaton hoard, the Helmingham Hall hoard, and the Nunney hoard. These finds are often interpreted as the savings of legionaries or wealthy natives, hidden in response to, or anticipation of, violence and conflict.
The hoard was found in 2023 during construction work in Leigh and Bransford, a rural community near Worcester. It was declared as Treasure by HM Coroner on June 2024. Described as the most important archaeological find in the county in the last century, a fundraising campaign was launched in December 2024 by the Worcestershire Heritage, Art & Museums Charity, which hopes to acquire the hoard for the permanent collection of Museums Worcestershire. As of January 2025, the value of the hoard had not been fully determined, but has been suggested to be worth upwards of £100,000.
Since 11 January 2025 the hoard has been on display at the Worcester City Museum and Art Gallery.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix%20Lucia%20Catherine%20Tollemache
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Beatrix Lucia Catherine Tollemache
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Beatrix Lucia Catherine Tollemache (, c. 1840 – 24 December 1926) was a British writer, translator and poet. She was the daughter of William Egerton, 1st Baron Egerton of Tatton.
Family
She was born in 1840 in Cheshire, and was the fourth and youngest daughter of William Egerton, 1st Baron Egerton of Tatton and Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Loftus, daughter of John Loftus, 2nd Marquess of Ely. She had seven siblings.
On 25 January 1870, she married the Hon. Lionel Arthur Tollemache, son of John Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache and Georgiana Louisa Best. They spent much of their married life enjoying long stays in luxury hotels in Europe, such as the Hôtel d'Angleterre in Biarritz, France, and the Hôtel Sonnenberg, Engelberg, Switzerland.
Career
Tollemache developed a career as a writer, with her poems regularly published in The Spectator. She also contributed to the first Oxford English Dictionary and corresponded with Sir Francis Galton.
In 1890, she published Engelberg, and Other Verses. In 1891, she published a translation of Jonquille, or the Swiss Smuggler from French, and co-wrote Safe Studies alongside her husband.
She taught herself Russian when she was in her seventies, with her obituary in recording that "the bent of her exceptional mind was shown by her mastery of the difficult Russian language, which she acquired when she was already a septuagenarian." In 1913, she published a translation of Russian Sketches, Chiefly of Peasant Life.
Death
Tollemache died in 1926 in Haslemere, Surrey.
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Emma Ng
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Katherine Emma Ng (born 1990) is a New Zealand writer and curator. Of Chinese descent, she is most known for her contributions to research about Chinese New Zealand history and experiences.
Life and career
Ng was born in 1990 in Auckland, to New Zealand-born Chinese parents. Her father's family had settled in Auckland, and owned a fruit shop at the bottom of Queen Street, while her mother's family lived in Dunedin where they owned and operated a Chinese restaurant. Her grandparents moved to New Zealand from Guangdong, China.
Ng's primary education was at Victoria Avenue School in the Auckland suburb of Remuera. She later lived in Wellington for seven years and studied at Victoria University of Wellington. She graduated from Victoria with two degrees—a Bachelor of Arts with honours and a Bachelor of Design Innovation—in 2013.
Ng has worked at various art institutions across New Zealand, including the Dowse Art Museum, and Enjoy Contemporary Art Space from January 2014 to August 2016. She has also written for publications including The Pantograph Punch, ArtAsiaPacific, The Spinoff and Art New Zealand. Ng lived in New York City where she completed a master's degree in design research and criticism at the School of Visual Arts.
Books
Ng's 2017 book, Old Asian, New Asian, explores the persistent racism and anti-Asian sentiment present in New Zealand toward Chinese New Zealanders. The book's conception was in response to the Labour Party's leaked data analytics in 2015, which surveyed New Zealand house buyers with 'Chinese' surnames. The book highlights concepts such as yellow peril and the model minority myth, which affect contemporary experiences of Chinese New Zealanders, as well as discussing historical race-based laws including the Chinese Immigrants Act and the poll tax established in 1881. In the book, Ng notes her own experiences of Sinophobia and discrimination.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Riebe
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Anton Riebe
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Anton David Riebe (7 October 1904 – 11 April 1987) was a South Australian artist who painted mainly landscapes in oils and watercolours. His artworks are held by the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Broken Hill City Art Gallery and the Australian Stock Exchange as well as in numerous private collections.
Life and career
Riebe was born on 7 October 1904, in Cottesloe, Western Australia. He was the oldest son of Martin Riebe (1866–1941) and Ernestine Clara (née Wiesener) (1877–1964) who moved back from WA to SA in 1914. Martin and Ernestine Riebe were of German-Lutheran heritage from the Barossa Valley and they had four children (Gottfried Johannes "Erwin", Anton David, Linda Clara and Naemi "Ruth").
Education
Anton studied at the School of Fine Arts in Tynte Street, North Adelaide (1925–1927) and he won a two-year scholarship to study at the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts in the early 1930s. His principal teachers were Marie Tuck, Leslie Wilkie, Ivor Hele, Dorrit Black and Frederick Millward Grey. His contemporaries in South Australia included Kathleen Sauerbier, Rex Wood, Dora Chapman, Max Ragless and Horace Trenerry. He was later influenced by artists such as Hans Heysen and Len Annois.
Career
Anton Riebe earned his living as a signwriter and commercial artist and he worked at John Martin's Department Store for over forty years (1934–1975). One of his roles was as the chief designer for the John Martin's annual Christmas pageant floats. During WW2 he enlisted in the Australian Army (Citizen Military Force – Service Number S42233) becoming an accredited "camofleur" and worked for the Royal Australian Air Force creating camouflage in Darwin and northern Australia. For most of his life, Anton Riebe lived in the family home at 90 Young Street, Parkside with his father, Martin, (until his death in 1941) and mother, Ernestine Clara, (until her death in 1964) and his sister, Naemi "Ruth" (1918–2009), until they sold the house in 1966.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20%C5%A0v%C3%A1ben%C3%ADk
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Jan Švábeník
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Jan Švábeník (24 June 1886 – 16 March 1942) was a Czech zoologist and pedagogue. He studied the anatomy of nematomorphs. He was imprisoned at Auschwitz following German invasion and died in the concentration camp.
Life and work
Švábeník was born in Kdousov near Třebíč in landowning family of František and Terezia Robičková. He graduated from the Třebíč gymnasium in 1905 and joined Charles University. Graduating in 1909 he became a teacher at the gymnasium in Valašské Meziříčí, and later at Břeclav. He joined the teacher's institute in 1922 in Brno and from 1935 headed the teacher's institute in Olomouc.
Švábeník was very active in social and cultural activities in Břeclav. He also conducted research in entomology in his spare time and took part in outings of the Brno zoologists. He described the nematomorph species Gordius montenegrinus in 1909. He also studied the metamorphosis of nematomorpha. In 1941 he was arrested by the Gestapo for his association involvement in various groups as a Czech nationalist. He was declared dead at the Auschwitz concentration camp as found on the record for him as prisoner 26468. He was posthumously awarded a Czechoslovak War Cross in 1945. A memorial stolperstein was installed in 2019 at Olomouc on Křížkovského Street.
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Naga Army
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The Naga Army is the ethnic minority army of the Naga people. Currently it is the military wing of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN).
History
The Naga Army was founded by Reivilie Angami in 1952. In its first phase it was part of the Naga National Council. After 1980 it became the armed wing of the NSCN.
The Naga National Council had two wings, the Naga Federal Government (NFG) —renamed Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN) in 1959— and the Naga Army, also known by other names, such as Naga Home Guard (preceded by the Safe Guard), Naga Federal Army, etc. After more than a decade of unfruitful talks with the Indian authorities, including Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Zapu Phizo, the NNC chairman, lost faith in the diplomatic process. He realized that the possibility of a peaceful settlement of the issue with India would be very remote, for he saw that there was no intention to grant self-determination to Nagaland. When the insurgent army began operating in the Naga territories the Indian government responded heavy-handedly. In 1958 the whole sector was declared a "disturbed area" by the Indian state, the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) was implemented and the Indian Army forced its way into the Naga region. In the ensuing unequal battle the Naga fighters were crushed. Despite official denials, the Indian Armed Forces committed atrocities both against the fighters, as well as against the civilian population, including torture, rape and arson. The Naga National Council leadership fled to East Pakistan and Phizo went from there into exile. The insurgents meanwhile dispersed among the civilian population and engaged in small, sporadic, guerrilla attacks. Some of the most severe confrontations of this period took place in Jotsoma village. Later, on 26 August 1960, a Douglas C-47 plane of the Indian Air Force was shot down during an attempt to drop relief materials and ammunitions to a military outpost. Eventually, on 6 September 1964 the Indian Armed Forces declared a ceasefire.
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Multiple breadbasket failure
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Temperature rise
Corn production faces particular risk due to it requiring temperatures not higher than about to grow well, with higher temperatures resulting significantly smaller yields. Key growing regions like the Midwestern United States face increased risk of crop failures or significantly decreased yields from both higher summer temperatures and excessive spring precipitation. Rice and soybean production also show heightened vulnerability to climate-related disruptions. Wheat production could be a notable exception to the other three primary grains, as agricultural and climate research indicated that it may benefit from higher temperatures in some major breadbaskets.
A 2024 study using Earth System Model climate simulations determined that at 1.5°C warming above pre-industrial levels, approximately 35% of major breadbasket regions are projected to experience extreme heat events. The emulated percentage increased to about 50% at 2.0°C warming, and further rises to approximately 70% and 90% at 3.0°C and 4.0°C warming respectively. Hot spells were projected to impact up to 96-98% of global agricultural land under high-emission scenarios.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20breadbasket%20failure
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Multiple breadbasket failure
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Social impact
The effects of multiple breadbasket failure could extend beyond economic disruption to impact global social stability. The world's approximately 750 million poorest individuals face particular vulnerability to food price spikes. Historically, significant food price increases have contributed to social unrest, political instability, increased instances of terrorism, and broader global conflicts.
Multiple breadbasket failures can trigger social instability through food price increases and supply disruptions. Historical examples include the 2007-2008 world food price crisis, which contributed to civil unrest in multiple regions and played a significant role in sparking the Arab Spring and subsequent Arab Winter, leading to wider conflicts such as the Syrian civil war, the Iraqi insurgency, and the Libyan crisis. Historical research indicates that countries with existing governance challenges or political instability are particularly vulnerable to food-related social unrest, such as Yemen, Tunisia, and Egypt.
Assistant Secretary of Defense Sharon E. Burke and Cornell professor Bram Govaerts used the Russian invasion of Ukraine as an example of how conflict in regions with breadbaskets can cause global food supply chain disruptions and food availability impacts. This is due to Russia and Ukraine collectively representing the first and fifth largest wheat exporters globally, with exports valued at over $11 billion, with the conflict significantly decreasing exports.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roof-end%20Tile%20with%20Human%20Face%20Motif
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Roof-end Tile with Human Face Motif
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The Roof-end Tile with Human Face Motif (), nicknamed the Silla smile (), is a Silla-era ornamental roof tile that went on the end of a roof. It was made a Treasure of South Korea No. 2010 on November 27, 2018.
The smiling face depicted in the tile is considered iconic, and has become a symbol of Gyeongju. It is now located in the Gyeongju National Museum.
It is the only known handmade Korean ornamental roof-end tile; all other known roof-end tiles were made with molds.
History
The tile reportedly came from what is now thought to be the former site of the Silla-era temple Yeongmyosa (at the time of its discovery, it was thought that the site was of another temple ).
The tile first became known in academic circles during the 1910–1945 Japanese colonial period, when a Japanese doctor and collector purchased it in an antique shop in Korea in 1934. The roof tile was featured in a June 1934 research publication written by an , the director of the Gyeongju branch of the Government-General of Chōsen Museum (now the Gyeongju National Museum). Tanaka then took the tile to Japan some time around 1935 to 1940. Ōsaka remained as manager of the museum until the liberation of Korea in 1945, upon which he returned to Japan.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kath%20Carr
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Kath Carr
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Carr married Robert (Bob) Carr, a farmer from western New South Wales, in 1935 at St Philip's Church, Sydney. They spent their honeymoon in Melbourne, Victoria. Carr's appreciation of native flora was born of necessity. After marriage she settled with her husband on a property between Hillston and Ivanhoe, New South Wales, where the rainfall is 250 millimeters in a good year, the soil a sandy loam and summer temperatures reach 40 Celsius for days at a time. In 1947 the Carr's moved to their own property Hidden Brook a 480 hectare property out of Binalong, New South Wales. By the time Carr was designing her own garden she was well versed in the writings of her gardening mentor Edna Walling.
Carr had enormous influence on rural garden making on the south-west slopes and plains of New South Wales in area like Binalong, Galong, Harden, and Young. It is an area of rich black soils, good rainfall and rolling open pastures. The properties in this district are reminiscent of the quintessential country landscapes depicted by painters like Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts. The homestead garden that Carr created for Rhonda and Bill Daly at Milgadara is only a small part of that 1182 hectare property 20 km east of the town of Young but is integral to the way three generations of that family manage their thriving mixed-farming enterprise.
In 1964 Carr and her husband retired to Sydney. After a series of strokes Carr died childless in a nursing home in Bayview, New South Wales, aged 90.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Dvar%20B%C3%A1r%C3%B0arson
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Ívar Bárðarson
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His original written report has not survived. It was translated into Danish with annotations in the early sixteenth century as Det gamle Grønlands beskrivelse, most likely by Danish Bishop Erik Valkendorf, who intended to reestablish the church in Greenland. Several manuscript copies of this Danish translation still exist. The best-preserved is the 17th-century manuscript "AM 777 a 4to" in the collection Safn Árna Magnússonar at the Arnamagnæan Institute. An early English translation was done by Samuel Purchas in 1625.
There are several limitations to the Danish translation as a historical document. It may have been compiled from separate manuscripts by Ívar Bárðarson. It likely includes some interpolations, especially near the end, where exotic fruits are mentioned growing in Greenland. Nevertheless, it remains a significant primary source for historians, especially for the collapse of the Greenlandic Western Settlement. It is also one of only a handful of primary source documents covering interactions between the Precolumbian Norse explorers and Native Americans.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaginella%20valida
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Alaginella valida
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Alaginella valida is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.
Description
The length of the shell attains 6 mm.
(Original description) Shell: small, gibbously biconical, and strong, with a lustrous, porcellanous white surface. It has a long, oblique, rather narrow aperture, a strongly varixed outer lip with faint teeth, and four folds on the columella.
Sculpture: the shell features faint and unequal lines of growth.
Color: lustrous, porcellanous white.
Spire: moderately raised and conical, with an excessively blunt and rounded apex.
Whorls: nearly five whorls, slightly convex above, bluntly rounded at the periphery, produced, and barely concave at the base. The suture is slightly impressed.
Aperture: long, narrow, and oblique, with a truncate front. The outer lip is not emarginate in front, though it is truncate. It ascends at the insertion, forming a wide, shallow sinus, and is convex in the middle. The outer lip has a strong varix and a blunt, rounded edge with faint denticles. The inner lip is not thickened, nearly straight but oblique to the axis. The lower half of its length is occupied by four broad but not very prominent oblique denticles, with the foremost forming a slight flange at the tip of the columella.
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off Queensland.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Spender
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Richard Spender
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C Company were threatened with encirclement, and to prevent this, Spender charged German machine gun positions and was killed. Before his death, his commanding officer reported that Spender had managed to kill four Germans in his charge.
Poetry
By the time of his death at age 21, Spender was already a well regarded and published poet, his poems appearing in publications including The Times Literary Supplement, The Observer, Punch, Country Life, and John O' London's Weekly.
He was described once by the Daily Telegraph as the Rupert Brooke of the Second World War, and three collections of his poetry were published as books by Sidgwick and Jackson.
Legacy
Because of his connection to King Edward VI School in Stratford, when the house system at the school was reformed into four houses in 2000, it was decided that one should be named after Spender, with the colour purple.
Opened in 2017, a £2.2 million building housing the new school library as well as English and Computer science departments was named in his honour.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brno-Kohoutovice
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Brno-Kohoutovice
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History
The territory of the modern city district of Brno-Kohoutovice originally belonged to the cadastres of five former municipalities, which are Kohoutovice (almost the entire cadastral territory of Kohoutovice and the adjacent part of Pisárky bounded in the north by the streets Libušina třída and Libušino údolí, and in the southeast by the middle of the course of the Kohoutovice stream), Old Brno ( part of Pisárky south of the center of the course of the Kohoutovice stream), Jundrov (the northern part of the local part of Pisárky, and part of the local part of the modern cadastral territory of Jundrov), Bosonohy (houses along Pavlovská Street) and Žebětín (a narrow, almost undeveloped strip of land on the western edge of the modern cadastral Kohoutovice, with the local grove, while the division into these five cadastral territories remained unchanged from 1892 until the radical cadastral reform of Brno in the second half of the 20th century. After the abolition of serfdom, Kohoutovice became an independent municipality in 1850, while neighboring Jundrov was connected with Vinohrádky and Žabovřesky to the unified village of Žabovřesky, to which it belonged until 1868, when it became independent again. For a change, on July 6, 1850, Old Brno was permanently annexed to Brno, in 1892, a small part of the original cadastre of Jundrova was annexed to it on the territory of the current district of Brno-Kohoutovice. In 1854, the village of Kohoutovice was attached to Žebětín, but in 1867 it became independent again. On April 16, 1919, Kohoutovice and Jundrov, together with a number of other suburban municipalities, were permanently annexed to Brno.
Since 1949, Kohoutovice was part of the Brno V municipal district. Since 1957, the cadastral territory of Kohoutovice and the territory roughly identical to the modern Pisárka cadastral territory were part of the Brno I municipal district, while the remaining part of Jundrov belonged to the Brno VII municipal district.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey%20G.%20Bennett
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Audrey G. Bennett
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Audrey Grace Bennett (born September 11, 1971) is a Caribbean-American design professor with a joint appointment in Art and Design and Communication and Media at the University of Michigan. She was named a University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor in 2019. She studies visual communication across cultures with specific focuses on ethnocomputing, HIV, food, and health. 2019 University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor.
Early life and academic career
Bennett was born in Nassau, The Bahamas. She moved with her family to Kingston, Jamaica at age three and then East Orange, New Jersey from age six through high school. She attended Dartmouth College and Yale University's School of Art.
Academic career
In 1987, Bennett joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an assistant professor, later promoted to full professor. She was named College Art Association Professional Development Fellow in 1996. In 2010 she and Ron Eglash received National Science Foundation funding to study HIV attitudes in Kenya and Ghana, combining graphic design and science. She published the book "Engendering Interaction with Images" in 2012.
Bennett joined the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 2018 as full professor with tenure in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, with a joint appointment in the Department of Communication and Media. In 2019, she was named a University of Social Design Professors at the University of Michigan.
Bennett is recognized for her contributions to graphic design history, such as the African roots of Swiss design. Her honors include Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Scholar of the University of Pretoria in 2015 and Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary from the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 2022.
Selected publications
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah%20Wangeci%20Kinoti
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Hannah Wangeci Kinoti
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African Communitarian feminist ethics
Primarily, Kinoti sought to construct an African feminist ethic of liberation that extolled indigenous knowledge systems and unique African ways of being. Her work was influenced by the advancement of Liberation Theology and nurtured by her quest to see the full liberation and empowerment of African women and all humanity. Kinoti conceptualized an African communitarian feminist ethics that deconstructed women's oppression and reclaimed women's agency, charting a course for the full realization of their rights, empowerment, and liberation. This scholarly focus was informed by her own experience as both Gikuyu and Christian and the challenges faced by many Africans integrating Christianity with their traditional values. She criticized Western missionaries for imposing their moral and ethical codes, which often overshadowed and marginalized African values. Kinoti argued that colonization disrupted African systems and promoted neocolonialism, which undermined African norms and portrayed these norms negatively. She reclaimed and reconstructed African ethics by merging Christianity with African cultural values. She used indigenous knowledge such as language, proverbs, and folklore to develop a moral framework that honored her Gikuyu and African identity. With this ethical framework, she found a home in the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians and African Feminism.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Music%20Studio
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The Music Studio
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Recreational Piano for Adults
The Music Studio also offers a few levels of group lessons for adults- two beginner levels, an intermediate class, as well as a "no-pressure refresher" for those who have previous musical knowledge.
Classes for Children with Special Needs
The Music Studio offers a program taught by Beth McLaughlin, a music therapist and music teacher, for children with special needs. Circle of Friends is a four week class for 4-6 year old children with special needs and their parents. McLaughlin also teaches private lessons for students with special needs, with the content of instruction individualized to each students' needs.
Summer Camps and Classes
The school has offered several different summer programs in the past, including the Piano Camp, The Music Studio Rocks, and Catch a Rising Star.
The Music Studio Kids
The Music Studio Kids are a group of students within The Piano Program that gather and perform at several different venues and events. Most notably, The Music Studio Kids is invited to perform both singing/dancing and Orff pieces with the Albany Symphony Orchestra at their yearly Christmas show, The Magic of Christmas. When The Music Studio was first asked to join the concert, Liberty looked to find Christmas compositions for both Orff and orchestral instruments. After discovering that no such compositions existed, she enlisted the help of composer Paul Gerike to write original scores.
Other performances include various charitable events, performing at Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC), and at The Music Studio's annual end-of-year shows.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Mesaimeer
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Battle of Mesaimeer
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This agreement, ratified by Mohammad bin Khalifa of Bahrain and acquiesced to by Mohammad bin Thani of Qatar, led to Faisal's departure for Al Ahsa on 26 July, 1851. Consequent to this, Bahrain lifted its blockade of Qatif, and the British withdrew their naval presence. Despite the peace agreement being signed earlier, Al Bidda's blockade was lifted only on 2 August, 1851.
Aftermath and legacy
Despite the peace treaty between the Emirate of Nejd and Bahrain signed in July 1851, tensions would again arise between the two in early 1852, as Muhammad bin Khalifa would once again relay his concerns to British diplomats that Faisal was preparing to invade Bahrain.
Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani, future ruler of Qatar and son of Mohammed bin Thani, participated in the battle and wrote a poem about it in his later years, in which he praises the Qatari forces' bravery:
The battle created political enmity between Qatar and Bahrain which contributed to the Qatari–Bahraini War in 1867 and Qatar's subsequent emergence as an independent political entity, which came to fruition in September 1868 with the signing of a treaty between Mohammad bin Thani and the British representative Lewis Pelly. The battle also served as Jassim bin Mohammed's inspiration to create a flag for Qatar, as his side was the only one lacking its own flag.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%207253
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NGC 7253
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NGC 7253 is a pair of spiral galaxies in the constellation Pegasus. It was discovered by the German-British astronomer Albert Marth on 9 September 1863. It is listed in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp278, as an example of gravitationally interacting galaxies.
Of the pair, the galaxy to the north is known individually as NGC7253A. Its velocity relative to the cosmic microwave background is 4,235 ± 24km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 62.5 ± 4.4Mpc (∼204million light-years). The other galaxy in the pair is known individually as NGC7253B. Its velocity relative to the cosmic microwave background is 4,165 ± 24km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 61.4 ± 4.3Mpc (∼200million light-years).
With a surface brightness equal to 14.06 Mag/arcsec2, NGC7253B can be described as a low surface brightness galaxy.
According to the Simbad database, NGC7253 is a candidate for the title of active galaxy nucleus.
One supernova has been observed in NGC7253B: SN2002jg (type Ia, mag.17) was discovered by Mike Schwartz and LOTOSS (Lick Observatory and Tenagra Observatory Supernova Searches) on 23 November 2002.
Image Gallery
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20of%20Milton%20King
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Death of Milton King
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In 1951, the Union of South Africa and Cape Town in particular were in the midst of complex economic and social changes. Three years prior, D. F. Malan's National Party had gained control of the national government by winning a general election in which white racial anxieties were a key issue. Once in power, the National Party quickly began implementing apartheid (Afrikaans for "apartness"), a policy of institutionalised racial segregation and discrimination against nonwhites. Although legally-sanctioned racial discrimination was widely practised before 1948, apartheid policies reinforced and expanded these structures. Examples include the Population Registration Act of 1950, which classified all South Africans as "Bantu", "Coloured" (used to describe a wide range of multiethnic communities), or "White" ("Asian" would be added later), and the Group Areas Act of 1950, which began spatially segregating South Africa and would lead to the forced removals of nonwhite populations from many towns and neighbourhoods. Anti-apartheid resistance events inside South Africa were limited but growing in scope by the early 1950s, with a 1950 May Day strike seeing 80% of the Rand's mining workforce walk off the job despite the threat of police violence.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibuye%20Hope%20Hospital
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Kibuye Hope Hospital
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The Kibuye Hope Hospital (, HEK) is a hospital in Gitega Province, Burundi.
Location
Kibuye Hope Hospital is a faith-based hospital in the city of Kibuye, in the center of the Kibuye Health District.
It is the only hospital in the district.
It is in the Kibuye colline, Commune of Bukirasazi, Gitega Province.
It is in the Kirimiro natural region in the central plateaus of Burundi.
Services
Kibuye Hope Hospital is a private district hospital service a target population of 62,014 as of 2009.
Services include radiology, laboratory, internal medicine, emergency, ophthalmology, pediatrics, pharmacy, community medicine, clinical psychology, support, physiotherapy and surgery.
History
The Kibuye Hope Hospital was founded by Free Methodist missionaries from the United States of America in 1946.
In 2006 it was one of the hospitals chosen for a pilot Results-Based Financing program.
This program, together with free care, removed budgetary contraints and resulted in a massive increase in patients, particularly maternity cases.
In 2010 the hospital became a university hospital, mainly training health professionals from the Hope University of Africa (Université Espoir d’Afrique), also operated by the Free Methodist Church in Burundi.
Training programs include surgery and family medicine.
In February 2020 a group of armed men broke into the nursing staff house at the hospital and apparently stole some money.
One of them, said to have been identified as a police officer, lost his life.
Staff would not provide details.
As of 2024 the hospital had 230 employees, with over 30 doctors and more than 60 nurses.
It continues to be operated by the Free Methodist Church in Burundi, since 2010 as part of the Hope University.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%20de%20Ibargaray
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Antonio de Ibargaray
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Antonio de Ibargaray (or Ybargaray) was a Franciscan missionary to New Spain.
Biography
Ibargaray was born in Bilbao around the year 1602. He entered the Franciscan order on 17 January 1629, in the in Mexico City. On 20 January 1630, he made his solemn vows in the in Puebla.
Over the course of more than thirty years, Ibargaray served as of a number of missions, including San Miguel (1635), Pecos (1636), Nambé (1662), and Galisteo (1663–1665). On 6 October 1653, he was elected as , or head, of the Franciscan missions in New Mexico, a position he held until 1656. By 1668, Ibargaray was a definitor of the Franciscan order.
Governor Bernardo López de Mendizábal described Ibargaray as "very headstrong and uncontrolled". In November 1636, Ibargaray wrote a letter of complaint to the viceroy, Lope Díez de Armendáriz, about the governor, Francisco Martínez de Baeza. Between 1653 and 1656, Ibargaray clashed with governor Juan de Samaniego y Xaca, and on 6 March 1662, Ibargaray testified before the Inquisition against Teresa Aguilera y Roche, Mendizábal's wife. Ibargaray also likely served as commissary of the Inquisition.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LBX%20Company
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LBX Company
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The merged companies formed the Link-Belt Speeder Corporation as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Link-Belt Company of Chicago. The new Cedar Rapids location also offered a strong base of crane manufacturing experience, since it was also the home of a large Harnischfeger (P&H) crane factory.
Disruptive innovations: gasoline power and hydraulics
This period (1920–1970) put Link-Belt into business history for managing disruptive innovation. Harvard economist Clayton Christiansen analyzed the mechanical excavator industry to understand why disruptive technology innovations frequently cause well-managed companies to fail. Christiansen tracked excavator companies navigating two key technology changes: moving to gasoline power and switching to hydraulic mechanisms.
1920s: Steam engines to gasoline and diesel power
The technology transition to gasoline power was less disruptive than the one to hydraulic mechanisms. Clayton identified Link-Belt as one of thirty-two steam shovel manufacturers operating in the early 1920s. These companies faced a radical technological change to gasoline power, changing their products' foundations. "Where steam shovels used steam pressure to power a set of steam engines to extend and retract the cables that actuated their buckets, gasoline shovels used a single engine and a very different system of gearing, clutches, drums, and brakes to wind and unwind the cable."
Most of the largest manufacturers survived this transition, making gasoline power more of a "sustaining innovation." Following gasoline power, 1928 and onward included less-radical transitions to diesel engines and electric motors. Clayton also noted the surviving companies integrated new articulated-boom technology, "which allowed longer reach, bigger buckets, and better down-reaching flexibility."
This disruptive period in excavator history set the background for the children's classic Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, based on a machine from Marion Steam Shovel.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhonda%20Gouge
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Rhonda Gouge
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Rhonda Gouge, born , is a bluegrass and gospel musician from Ledger, North Carolina. She is a recipient of the 2023 North Carolina Heritage Award.
Music career
Gouge was born in McDowell County, North Carolina but has spent her whole life in Mitchell County. She was exposed to music at an early age through her family. She took piano lessons as a child, but always had a fascination for the guitar. She was finally gifted a guitar in 1967 by her father. This was the entry point for her interest in learning all kinds of musical instruments.
Gouge's musical mentor was fiddle and banjo player, Oscar "Red" Wilson, who received a North Carolina Heritage Award in 2003.
She started accompanying him on guitar with his band, the Toe River Valley Boys.
Gouge began playing bass guitar in church at age twelve. She later started playing banjo and mandolin. Additionally she picked up lead, electric, and steel guitar. Her local community took notice of her interest in music and individuals started to request music lessons from her.
After years of working in the factory lines and also for Wilson's recording studio, she decided to started a recording studio of her own, The Picking Parlor. She teaches students in guitar, mandolin, bass, fiddle, banjo, and singing.
Gouge has performed with several gospel groups such as, the Rebel Creeks Quartet, and the Principles. She formed two groups of her own, the Bear Creek Ambassadors and, Rhonda and Keeping Time.
She currently is performing at her home church, Bear Creek Baptist Church, located in Ledger, North Carolina. She received her master's degree in Appalachian Studies from Appalachian State University.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayari%20Miyake
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Hayari Miyake
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Studies in Europe
Miyake then returned to his hometown and opened a surgical practice in Tokushima. Dissatisfied with the state of medical services in the city, he decided to pursue further studies in Germany, like many other Japanese doctors of the time. In 1898, he arrived in Berlin. Hearing about the scientific achievements of German-Polish-Austrian surgeon Jan Mikulicz-Radecki, who was a student of Theodor Billroth, he decided to travel to Wrocław by train to seek collaboration. He was accepted into the clinic almost immediately. In 1901, Miyake earned his medical doctorate. He was one of Mikulicz's favorite students. When his two-year internship ended, Mikulicz offered him a position at the clinic. According to Mikulicz's wife, "he loved Miyake as his own son". However, Miyake's father requested his return to Japan, so he did not accept Mikulicz's offer. Mikulicz gave him a very favorable letter of recommendation. Shortly afterward, in 1904, Miyake returned to Mikulicz's clinic, spending nearly four years in total in Wrocław.
Shortly after Miyake left, Professor Mikulicz died of stomach cancer, having diagnosed himself with the incurable disease. Miyake learned of his teacher's death from an obituary in the Schlesische Zeitung on 16 June 1905. In 1908, three years after the funeral, Henriette von Mikulicz-Radecki gave Miyake her husband's death mask, his portrait by Läwen, and manuscripts. After the war, Miyake's son, Hiroshi, found the mask and made several copies, sending the original by diplomatic mail to Mikulicz's grandson, F. Anschütz. In a letter dated 27 April 1976, Hiroshi wrote that the mask copies were given to surgical clinics in Japan to be kept "as a memento of the father of our surgery". In 2002, one of the copies was presented to the Surgical Clinic of the Medical Academy in Wrocław by Professor Miyake's great-granddaughter, Sumiko Hiki.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre%2C%20Duke%20of%20Rohan
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Alexandre, Duke of Rohan
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Alexandre Louis Auguste de Rohan-Chabot (3 December 1761 – 8 February 1816), Count of Chabot, then Prince of Leon, 7th Duke of Rohan, Count of Porhoët, was Colonel of the Régiment Royal of the County of Artois, Lieutenant-General of the King's Armies, First Gentleman of the Chamber of King Louis XVIII and hereditary Peer of France.
Early life
Alexandre was born in Paris, France on 3 December 1761. He was the eldest son of Louis Antoine de Rohan-Chabot and his first wife, Élisabeth Louise de La Rochefoucauld (1740–1786). Among his siblings were Armand Charles de Rohan-Chabot, who was murdered during the French Revolution in September 1792, and Alexandrine Charlotte de Rohan-Chabot, who married their uncle, Louis Alexandre de La Rochefoucauld, 6th Duke of La Rochefoucauld. After his murder in September 1792, she married Boniface de Castellane, in 1810. After his mother's death in 1786, his father married Adélaïde Suzanne de Vismes, widow of Jean-Benjamin de La Borde and daughter of Pierre-Martin de Vismes and Marie-Louise Legendre, in 1798.
His paternal grandparents were Guy Auguste de Rohan-Chabot, Viscount of Bignan, and his first wife, Yvonne Sylvie du Breil de Rays. Today, his grandfather is most notable for his 1726 altercation with Voltaire. His maternal grandparents were Jean Baptiste de La Rochefoucauld, Duke of Anville, and Marie Louise Nicole de La Rochefoucauld, Lady of La Roche-Guyon.
Career
At the age of fifteen, he began his military career by entering the Jarnac Dragoons Regiment as a Cadet. In 1777, he was promoted to Lieutenant, and again to captain in 1779. In 1785, he was Second Colonel of the Artois-infantry regiment, in 1788 colonel of the Royal-Piémont-cavalry regiment.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brno-Kom%C3%ADn
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Brno-Komín
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Geography
From the southwestern border, which is defined by the river Svratka and behind which wooded hills rise steeply with the peak of Holedná, the terrain on the left bank of the Komín rises gradually towards the north. The chimney then forms a natural basin bordered by Mniší hora, where the Brno Zoo is located, the southern edge of the Baba nature park, the Medlánky hills natural monument and Palackého vrch (339 m), which is again connected to the Svrateck floodplain at an altitude of approx. 210 m in the south. Inside this basin rises an indistinct ridge in the axis of Chochola (307 m), Panský kopec and the natural monument Netopýrky. Another natural monument is the area of the Medlánky Airfield. In the immediate vicinity of the original village center is the isolated hill Ruský vrch (formerly called Hausperk).
Territorial divisions
The cadastral territory of Komín is further divided into 9 basic settlement units.
Demographics
As of the 2021 census, the population is 7,984, up 7% from 7,457 in the 2011 census. The population peaked at 8,180 in 1980.
Coat of arms
In the blue field there is a silver winemaker's knife on the left and a silver sickle on the right. Between these tools is a white rose on the axis in the upper half of the shield, which is shown five more times along the border in the lower part of the shield.
Transport
The connection with the city center is provided by the Brno Public Transport Company via tram lines No. 1 (connecting Bystrc and Řečkovice), 3 (connecting Bystrc with Židenice) and 10 (connecting Komín, sometimes also Bystrc with Stránská skála or Líšeň).
The connection to the center is also provided by trolleybus line No. 36, which serves the Komin housing estate. The second Komin trolleybus line No. 30 connects Bystrc with the train station in Královo Pole.
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Jefferson-Lee Joseph (born 29 August 2002) is a French rugby union player. He plays as a wing for SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne and the France national rugby sevens team.
Career
He is from Duras, in Lot-et-Garonne. A 15-a side player at SU Agen where he plays on the wing having made a try-scoring debut for the club in 2022 as an 18 year-old away against Oyonnax Rugby. He signed a two-year contract with the club in February 2023. However, he was made available to the France national rugby sevens team in September 2023 in preparation for a home Olympics the following year.
He played as France 7s won the 2024 USA Sevens in Los Angeles, beating Great Britain in the final for their first international tournament win for 19 years. In June 2024, he scored in the final as France won the 2024 Spain Sevens in Madrid. In July 2024, he was confirmed in the French team for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Personal life
Born in France, Joseph is of Guadeloupean descent.
His father was Jeff Joseph. A famous Lead singer and Songwriter from the island of Dominica.
His original band "Grammacks" are legends of a Caribbean musical genre called "Cadence-lypso" that preceded and heavily influenced "Zouk".
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The Kirundo Hospital () is a hospital in Kirundo Province, Burundi.
Location
Kirundo Hospital is a hospital in the city of Kirundo, in the south of the Kirundo Health District.
It is the only hospital in the district.
It is one of two hospitals serving the four health districts of Kirundo Province, the other being Mukenke Hospital.
It is a public district hospital serving a population of 41,682 as of 2014.
Events
A maternity ward was built on the hospital grounds between September 2007 and June 2008, funded by SOS Enfants.
It gave the hospital greater capacity to serve women who chose to give birth in a hospital environment.
In January 2008 the Government of Burundi and the Kingdom of Belgium agreed to create the Kirundo Health Province Development Support Project.
The project began in October 2008.
Plans for Kirundo Hospital included construction of 3 blocks of external latrines (2 pits), construction of an emergency block, construction of a patient isolation block (4 rooms with 3 beds, care & services area), transformation of the operating room and construction of a miscellaneous material warehouse.
A physiotherapy department was created in the Kirundo Hospital in 2018.
In 2019 the hospital only had one ambulance, which was not enough to transport patients from remote areas who could not afford to pay for transport.
At the end of December 2021 the Kirundo Hospital was flooded by malaria patients, and in some cases two or three patients had to share one bed.
A nurse said that it was normal to have a malaria epidemic at that time of year.
At least three people were dying at the hospital each week, most of them children.
A lot of people died every day in local health centers, unable to afford transport to the hospital.
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