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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporoparietal%20fascia
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Temporoparietal fascia
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The temporoparietal fascia (or superficial temporal fascia) is a superficial fascia of the side of the head over the area of the temporal fossa situated superficial to the (deep) temporal fascia, and deep to the skin and subcutaneous tissue of the region.
Anatomy
The temporoparietal fascia consists of a thin layer of connective tissue. It measures some 2-3mm in thickness.
Relations
The fascia unites anteriorly with the orbicularis oris muscle, and the frontalis muscle; it unites posteriorly with the occipitalis muscle. Inferior to the zygomatic arch, the fascia is continuous with the superficial muscular aponeurotic system; both structures are continuous with the platysma muscle of the neck, creating a single continuous fascial layer between the scalp superiorly and the clavicle inferiorly.
The fascia is situated superficial to the (deep) temporal fascia, with an intervening layer of (sources differ) avascular loose connective tissue (the innominate fascia) situated in the interval between the two fasciae; this structural arrangement of loose superficial layers and deep rigit layers confers a combination of mobility coupled with structural integrity to the region.
The superficial temporal artery and vein, and the auriculotemporal nerve course within or just deep to the temporoparietal fascia, and the frontal branch of the frontal nerve (CN VII) courses within the fascia.
Clinical significance
The temporoparietal fascia can serve as a donor tissue for reconstructive surgery. It affords reliable flaps with good blood supply when the tissues of the region are intact (however, prior lesions to the region may compromise the blood supply of the tissues; creating flaps from such compromised tissue is contraindicated due to a risk of subsequent ischaemic necrosis of the flap).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining%20Basins%20%28Asturias%29
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Mining Basins (Asturias)
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Industrialization
In the late 18th century, the properties of the hard coal from these valleys - studied by Jovellanos and others - started to be scientifically known. According to numerous testimonies, coal was used to heat homes in this area since the Middle Ages, and it was not until 1787 when Antonio Carreño y Cañedo reported a fire "that would not be extinguished" that his grandfather had witnessed in Carbayín (due, in fact, to the proximity of a subway coal seam).
Systematic exploitation would not arrive until the 19th century with various state laws and policies aimed at this end. Up to mid-century, mining was carried out in deposits at the surface of the earth or in small wells and shacks. In mid 1848, the blast furnace of the Asturian Mining Company in Ablaña was started up - to later give way to the Mieres Factory - and a few years later the Felguera Factory was founded, under which coal mining increased and the expansion of numerous secondary industries (such as chemical, metallurgical, machinery, food, ceramics, energy, etc.) took place. The exploitation of other deposits, such as mercury, was of lesser importance.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becoming%20Babasaheb%3A%20The%20Life
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Becoming Babasaheb: The Life
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Becoming Babasaheb: The Life is a book about B. R. Ambedkar written by Aakash Singh Rathore. The first of an ambitious two-volume biography, Becoming Babasaheb traces Ambedkar's life journey, from his birth in 1891 to the transformative Mahad Satyagraha in 1929. It was published on 13 April 2023 by HarperCollins.
Critical reception
Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta of The Hindu wrote "Every day, in the 21st century, the life of this tremendous intellectual and activist continues to be an inspiration to all those who care for social justice and equality". A Critic of The Tribune says "Rathore’s book refreshingly restarts and re-discovers Ambedkar. It gives us a panoramic-cinematic view and this addition of a newer version on Ambedkar’s life is always a must-read". Pratul Sharma of The Week wrote "The biography will enlighten the new and young readers amid renewed interest in Ambedkar, and of course those politically and ideologically inclined, and the academic researchers who have been missing out on the crucial details while referring to the older biographies".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise%20Nicholson
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Louise Nicholson
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Louise Nicholson (born 1 May 1954) is a British arts journalist, author, and lecturer who focuses on the art and culture of India and London. Her many books are mainly about India and London.
Nicholson is the chair of the charity Save a Child. She and her husband Nicholas Wapshott live in New York City.
Early life
She is the daughter of Royden Joseph Nicholson. She graduated with an MA honours degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1976.
Career
Nicholson wrote for The Scotsman from 1973 to 1976, and for The Times from 1976 to 1983. She started working in 1976 at the Victorian Society. She later co-founded the Twentieth Century Society (at first named The Thirties Society) with Clive Aslet, Gavin Stamp and Bevis Hillier in 1978. She contributed to Aslet's The Best Buildings in Britain project (1980), searching the Church Commissioners' records for Grade A churches in England.
Save a Child
Nicholson is the chair of the US chapter of Save a Child: Save a Child (America) Inc., a non-profit under the legal and regulatory framework of New York State. Save a Child, UK and US, are sponsors of the All Bengal Women's Union.
Bibliography
Nicholson is a prolific travel author. In 1985 her guide to India was published; her guide to London followed in 1988. She has published over 25 books, and her National Geographic Guides to India and London are in their 3rd and 4th editions, respectively.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Lyons%20%28Louisiana%29
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John Lyons (Louisiana)
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In 1842 Lyons enlisted at Albany and signed up for a multi-year enlistment as a private in a U.S. Army artillery unit; he is believed to have participated in the Mexican-American War. On October 30, 1845, he married at Opelousas, Louisiana, to Brigit Delia Fahey. He was discharged from service on July 20, 1847, at Saltillo, Mexico.
At the time of the 1850 census Lyons lived in Saint Landry Parish with his wife and three daughters, aged four, three, and six months old. His occupation was listed as carpenter, and he owned real estate worth . The 1850 slave schedules for Saint Landry Parish listed a slave owner named John Lyons who owned eight slaves, ranging in age from 10 to 50 years old.
In 1853 a John Lyons Sr. of Roberts Cove, Parish of Saint Landry, died and the residue of his estate, including 53 slaves, six creole horses, and about 1400 head of cattle, was auctioned off. In 1854 John Lyons won the contract to build the Waxia drawbridge over the Courtableau. His work was admired:
In 1855, Lyons was administrator of the estate of a neighbor named David Hudspeth, whose plantation was along Bayou Beouf.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bwito%20Chiefdom
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Bwito Chiefdom
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On Friday, March 8, the M23 captured Kashuga and Misinga, approximately 10 km from Mwesso in Masisi Territory. Supported by the Rwandan military, the M23 advanced towards Kalembe, bordering Walikale Territory. They subsequently targeted the Mabenga-Katanda axis and the Kanyabayonga axis. Several sources indicated that the northern advance of the rebels exerted pressure on the towns of Rwindi and Vitshumbi on Lake Edward. With financial support from the European Union, the regional NGO Umoja in Action delivered hygiene kits to at least 3,000 displaced teenage girls in Kanyabayonga. On March 9, the M23 rebels occupied the Rwindi axis. Some sources reported that the elements of M23 were withdrawn but believed to be camping in the surrounding area. Isaac Kibira, a notable from Bwito Chiefdom, stated that neither the FARDC nor the M23 rebels controlled Rwindi at that moment. The same day, another wave of 16,000 displaced households arrived in Kanyabayonga with 2,012 in Mirangi, 3,472 in Birundule, 502 in Iyobora, 4,913 in Lusogha-Bubishi, and 1,042 in Lusogha-Buheri. According to Colonel Alain Kiwewa, Lubero Territory Administrator, some displaced people stayed with host families, churches, and others in schools. Students from primary schools in Vuvogho, Rwindi, Amani, Maendeleo, and the Furaha Institute shared classrooms with displaced people. By March 25, Radio Okapi reported that the number of displaced people in Kanyabayonga had increased to 76,274. Ten displaced people were reported dead in Kanyabayonga due to hunger and lack of medical care. Two other deaths were reported by civil society. The International Committee of the Red Cross, in collaboration with the Red Cross of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, indicated, in a press release made public on March 28, that it had assisted more than 44,000 people displaced by the conflict who had settled in camps around the city of Goma.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Scheduled%20Castes%20in%20Andhra%20Pradesh%20and%20Telangana
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List of Scheduled Castes in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
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The Dalits, once referred to as "untouchables" and currently recognized as Scheduled Castes by official designation, make up around one-sixth of India's population. These Scheduled Castes are predominantly concentrated in rural areas. Throughout centuries, they have endured the status of second-class citizens and were often excluded from India's varna system, a social hierarchy.
As per the 2011 census of India, in the United State of Andhra Pradesh, the total population of Scheduled Castes is 13,878,078 individuals, comprising 6,913,047 males and 6,965,031 females. Out of this population, 10,846,333 people live in rural areas. This represents approximately 6.89% of India's total Scheduled Caste population, which stands at 201,378,086.
Andhra Pradesh, prior to the formation of Telangana, comprised 60 distinct castes. Following the creation of Telangana, the Beda (Budga) Jangam caste was excluded from the list of Andhra Pradesh, while the Godagali caste was removed from Telangana. Consequently, each state now consists of 59 castes, reshaping the demographic composition in the aftermath of the state division.
Scheduled Castes in Andhra Pradesh & Telangana are
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interior%20of%20S%C3%A3o%20Paulo
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Interior of São Paulo
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In the first half of the 17th century, there was a large increase in the number of bandeirante expeditions. Sponsored by governor-general Francisco, the bandeirante André de Leão entered the Paraíba Valley in search of precious stones in the direction of the São Francisco River in 1601, followed a year later by another large expedition carried out by Nicolau Barreto, this time towards the mines of the Viceroyalty of Peru, down the Tietê River. Failing to find precious metals, Nicolau Barreto's expedition devastated the Paranapanema River Valley, enslaving around 2,000 indigenous people. Several other expeditions crossed the interior of São Paulo in this period, following the course of the Tietê River, such as those of Manuel Preto (1606), Belchior Dias Carneiro (1607), Martim Rodrigues Tenório de Aguiar (1608) and Antônio Raposo Tavares (1628). These expeditions had as their main objective the capture of indigenous people to enslave in the Spanish Jesuit missions in Guayrá, Paraguay and Siete Pueblos de las Misiones.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interior%20of%20S%C3%A3o%20Paulo
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Interior of São Paulo
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During the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932, the countryside was the main stage of the war that lasted about three months. Some of the martyrs of May 23, when demonstrators were shot at a protest in the capital, were from the interior: Miragaia was from São José dos Campos; Martins, from São Manuel; and Camargo, although born in the capital, was from an important family in the Amparo region. With great popular appeal and volunteerism in all cities of São Paulo, the enlistment had to be contained by having many volunteers for few weapons. There was intense fighting on the borders of São Paulo territory, such as in the North sector (Paraíba Valley region), East/West sector (Campinas, Ribeirão Preto, São José do Rio Preto) and South sector (Itapetininga). Trenches, which still exist today, were dug in several municipalities, especially in the Historic Valley region, the most intense stage of the fighting. The São Paulo railway network was used for troop transportation and the Armored Train. Heroic cases included the farmer Paulo Virgínio, who, in Cunha, preferred death at the hands of federal troops to surrendering his position to the São Paulo soldiers with the words "I die, but São Paulo wins!", or the women who fought in hiding, like Maria Sguassábia, from São João da Boa Vista, initially combating without revealing her identity, or the boy Aldo Chioratto, a young scout from Campinas who was killed while delivering a letter during one of the several aerial bombings that the city suffered between September 15 and 29. Not only Campinas was bombed by airplanes during the conflict, but so were Jundiaí, Pedreira, Itapira, Buri, Cachoeira Paulista, Cunha and São José do Barreiro.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interior%20of%20S%C3%A3o%20Paulo
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Interior of São Paulo
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In the 1960s and 1970s, the São Paulo government promoted several works that stimulated the economy of the interior of the state, emptied since the coffee crisis in 1930. The opening and duplication of Via Dutra recovers and industrializes the Paraíba Valley, which is concentrated around the aeronautical industry of São José dos Campos. To the west, the establishment of the Viracopos International Airport, the creation of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), the opening of highways such as Anhanguera, Bandeirantes and Washington Luís, the implementation of modern production techniques, especially sugar cane and its by-product ethanol fuel, brought progress again to the regions of Campinas, Sorocaba, Araraquara, Ribeirão Preto and Franca.
Until 1970, the industrial sector in the interior of São Paulo accounted for only 25% of production in this sector in the whole state. From this decade onwards, there is an accelerated expansion towards Campinas, São José dos Campos, Taubaté, Jundiaí, São Carlos, Piracicaba, Sorocaba, Amparo, Indaiatuba, Rio Claro, Americana, Araraquara, Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, Sumaré, Pindamonhangaba, Salto, Itu, Botucatu and other cities.
Demographics
According to the 2010 census, the population of the interior of São Paulo was 19,628,510 inhabitants.
Ethnicities
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie%20August
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Bonnie August
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Bonnie J. August (January 2, 1947–August 9, 2003) was an American fashion designer. In the 1970s, she innovated the disco-era look of unitards under wrap skirts. She favored stretchy materials such as spandex and was among the first designers to incorporate prints and bright colors in activewear. She won a Coty Award in 1978 for "changing the way women dressed". August graduated from Syracuse University and was hired as a design director by Danskin in 1975. She wrote the 1981 book The Complete Bonnie August Dress Thin System. She started the labels Bonnie August Activewear and Bodywear and the Bonnie August Design Studio. Her designs are in the collections of New York's Fashion Institute of Technology museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Early life and education
Bonnie J. August was born on January 2, 1947, in River Edge, New Jersey. She earned a BFA in fabric design from Syracuse University in 1968. She later studied knitwear design at the Fashion Institute of Technology, jewelry design at the Haystack School of Arts and Crafts and the Craft Students League, and computer graphics at the Parsons School of Design.
Fashion career
Following her graduation from Syracuse, August was a guest fashion editor for Mademoiselle magazine. She designed accessories and worked for Aspen Skiwear in 1971, designing ski clothing.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Red%20Riding%20Hood%20%28musical%29
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Little Red Riding Hood (musical)
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Little Red Riding Hood is a musical in two acts with lyrics by Harrison Ward and music by composers Edward E. Rice, Fred J. Eustis, Charles Dennée, T. W. Connor, and B. Gilbert. The musical's book was authored by playwright George T. Richardson and was loosely modeled after British pantomime versions of the classic European fairy tale of the same name. It also included characters from other classic fairy tales. It premiered on Christmas Eve 1899 at the Boston Museum, and then ran for further performances in Boston in January 1900 at the Hollis Street Theatre before transferring to Broadway.
Little Red Riding Hood premiered on Broadway at the Casino Theatre on January 8, 1900. It closed on January 20, 1900, after 24 performances. The production starred Ethel Jackson in the title role and Madge Lessing as Little Boy Blue among others. The production was produced and directed by Edward E. Rice.
Songs
Act 1
"Pretty Little Girl That I know"
"Away, Away" (music by Charles Dennee)
"Maypole Dance" (music by Charles Dennee)
"Simple Simon" (music by F. J. Eustis)
"Maypole Chorus" (music by F. J. Eustis)
"Jack and Jill" (music by Charles Dennee; lyrics by Charles Emerson Cook)
"A Soldier Bold" (music by E. E. Rice)
"Naughty Boys" (music by E. E. Rice)
"The Circus" (music by F. J. Eustis and E. E. Rice)
"At My Time of Life" (music by T. W. Conner)
"When Granny is Elected"
"The Art of Love-Making"
"The Legend of the Stork" (music by Frank Perlet)
"Love Is an Infant" (music by Charles Dennee; lyrics by Charles Emerson Cook)
"Little Boy Blue, Come Blow Your Horn" (music by Charles Dennee)
"Off to the Hunt"
"Shot and Shell" (music by E. E. Rice)
Act 2
"Alphabet Song and Essence" (music by E. E. Rice)
"Larry Barry" (music by E. E. Rice)
"Susie-Ue" (music by B. Gilbert; lyrics by B. Gilbert)
"Shadows Are Falling"
"The Midgely's Bogie Man"
"Nothing To Do with You"
"Grand Toy Dances" (music by F. J. Eustis)
"Barnyard Ballet" (music by F. J. Eustis)
"Off to Fairyland"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime%20Zapata%20%28footballer%29
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Jaime Zapata (footballer)
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Jaime Sebastián Zapata Rodríguez (born 20 June 1959) is a Chilean football manager and former player who played as a goalkeeper.
Playing career
Born in Talcahuano, Chile, Zapata was with Club Orompello from Valparaíso as a youth player. In 1977, he took part in the 1977 Amateur Youth National Championship in representing the Valparaíso city team alongside fellows such as Juan Carlos Letelier, later a Chile international, and Mauricio Hernández Norambuena, later the commander of the political-military organization Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, before joining the Everton de Viña del Mar youth system.
Better known for having represented both Everton and Santiago Wanderers, classic rivals, in the first and the second divisions, he had an extensive career in his homeland. In the Primera División, he also played for Audax Italiano and Deportes La Serena. In the second level, he also played for Cobreandino, Deportes Antofagasta and Unión La Calera. In addition, he represented Coquimbo Unido and San Luis de Quillota in the Copa Polla Gol in 1981 and 1986, respectively.
With Everton, he won the 1984 Copa Polla Gol with Fernando Riera as coach.
Coaching career
As coach of men's teams, Zapata has led San Luis de Quillota, Everton and Lota Schwager.
He also served as the assistant coach of Luis Santibáñez in Qatari club Al-Arabi in 2000.
As coach of women's teams, Zapata is considered the driving force of the women's football for since 2008 and worked for over ten years at youth and senior level in the club. In 2019, he assumed as coach of Colo-Colo.
In addition, he led the women's team of the Valparaíso Region in the 2009 Binational Games.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood%20history%20in%20Chehalis%2C%20Washington
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Flood history in Chehalis, Washington
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The event was due in part to the Great Coastal Gale of 2007, which produced of rainfall in the Upper Chehalis Basin. The severity of the disaster was also connected to global warming and a combination of poor floodplain development and logging practices. In opposition, local officials stated that developers in the city are mandated to exceed the requirements to build in a flood-prone area.
The total cost of damages was estimated by a state commission to be $930 million and 100 homes in the region were demolished. Between the Twin Cities, 220 business suffered damages, which included a combined loss of $6.8 million to the local landmark shopping centers, Sunbirds and Yard Birds Mall. Due to the closure of the highway, approximately $4 million of daily economic losses to the state were estimated and repairs to the freeway in Chehalis were assessed to cost several hundred thousand dollars.
Two months after the record flood of 2007, the USGS determined the disaster to likely be classified as a 500-year flood.
Flood of 2009
Another major flood materialized in January 2009, with the Chehalis River reaching a high of and the Newaukum cresting at approximately over its flood stage. The event was based on heavy rain and a warm weather event that led to sudden snowmelt. Several regions within Chehalis were immersed and rail lines were shut down, as well as of the interstate, which was covered by as much as of water. Lowlands around the Dillenbaugh Creek watershed were underwater and residential roads near the Government and Pennsylvania-Westside districts experienced some minor submergence. The fairgrounds and airport levees held and little damage was reported at the Twin Cities Town Center.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanyue
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Lanyue
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The Lanyue () lander, formerly known as the China crewed lunar surface lander () or simply as the lunar surface lander (), is a spacecraft under development by the China Academy of Space Technology. The purpose of the lander is to carry two astronauts to the lunar surface and to return them to lunar orbit after a set period of time. The lander's initial lunar-landing attempt is envisioned to occur by 2030.
Nomenclature
The official names for both the crewed lunar lander and the next-generation crewed spacecraft, the Mengzhou (), were revealed by the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on 24 February 2024. One possible English translation for Lanyue is Embracing the Moon while the English translation for Mengzhou can be Vessel of Dreams or Dream Vessel.
Overview
Since at least August 2021, Western news media has reported that China's main spacecraft contractor was working on a human-rated landing system for lunar missions. On 12 July 2023, at the 9th China (International) Commercial Aerospace Forum in Wuhan, Hubei province, Zhang Hailian, a deputy chief designer with the CMSA, publicly introduced a preliminary plan to land two astronauts on the Moon by the year 2030. Under this plan, the astronauts will conduct scientific work upon landing on the Moon, including the collection of lunar rock and regolith samples. After a short stay on the lunar surface, they will carry the collected samples back into lunar orbit in their spacecraft and subsequently, to Earth.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanyue
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Lanyue
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The rover's planned mass is about 200 kilograms, and it will be able to carry two astronauts; it has a planned traverse-range of about 10 kilometres.
Lander mission architecture
Under CMSA's crewed lunar landing plan, the landing segment initially will be injected into an Earth-Moon transfer orbit via the Long March 10 carrier rocket, and subsequently acquire lunar orbit under its own power. It then will await a lunar orbit rendezvous with and docking by the separately launched Mengzhou spacecraft (formerly known as the next-generation crewed spacecraft, the analog to the Apollo program's Apollo command and service module) whereupon two astronauts will transfer to the lander, undock from Mengzhou, and maneuver the landing segment for a lunar-landing attempt.
The landing segment's powered descent phase will employ a "staged-descent" concept. Under this concept, the combined lander and propulsion stage will begin descending from lunar orbit with the latter providing the necessary deceleration; when the stack is close to the surface, the lander will separate from the propulsion stage and proceed to complete the powered descent and a soft-landing under the lander's own power (the discarded propulsion stage meanwhile will impact the lunar surface a safe distance away from the lander). At the conclusion of the surface portion of the mission, the full lunar lander will act as the ascent vehicle for the astronauts to return to lunar orbit. According to a report by the Xinhua News Agency, the lander also will be capable of autonomous flight operations.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine%20Grimes
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Geraldine Grimes
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Geraldine "Gerie" Grimes (née Butler, 1950–2022) was an educator and activist in Denver, Colorado, who advocated for better education for Black children and children with disabilities. She was CEO and president of Hope Center, and was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2018.
Biography
Geraldine Butler was born on September 17, 1950, in Aurora, Colorado, to parents retired master sergeant Alonzo and Elizabeth Jane Butler. She was one of seven children. She graduated from East High School in Denver in 1968.
Grimes received her undergraduate degree in non-profit administration from Metropolitan State University in 1987. She received her graduate degree in non-profit management from Regis University in 2001.
Grimes married Kenneth Grimes and the couple were married for 52 years. They had two sons, Troy Del Ray and Aaron Dion Grimes. She and her family lived in the Park Hill neighborhood, where she focused much of her activities.
Grimes is best known for her work with Hope Center, where she served as president and CEO. She joined the organization in 1982 as a bookkeeper in the vocational program.
The organization serves children and adults who are labeled "at risk" by the state for their developmental disabilities. She worked for the organization for 36 years.
For 45 years, she was involved with numerous other community organizations, including: Center for African American Health, Denver Early Childhood Council, Holly Area Redevelopment Project (HARP), Falcon Youth Organization, and Colorado Special Olympics Volunteer.
She also had leadership roles in organizations; she spent two terms as the president of the Metropolitan State University Alumni board, was president of the Colorado Black Roundtable and the Colorado Black Women for Political Action.
In 2009, she was a Ph.D candidate and Buell Fellow at University of Denver.
Grimes died on May 11, 2022.
Recognition
2013, Anna Jo Haynes Caring About Kids Award from Mile High United Way
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The Farmlink Project
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The Farmlink Project is a United States-based non-profit organization that combats food waste by collecting excess produce from farms and other food donors across America and delivering it to organizations that serve food insecure communities. Since its founding in 2020, the organization has rescued over 130 million pounds of food, distributed to over 400 communities, and grown to a network of over 600 volunteers nationwide.
The Farmlink Project has raised over $15 million in fundraising efforts, and has partnered with organizations such as Chipotle, Kroger, and Uber Freight.
History
The Farmlink Project was founded in Los Angeles in April 2020 by James Kanoff and Aidan Reilly, both juniors in college at the time. Additional founding team members included Ben Collier, Will Collier, Owen Dubeck, Jordan Hartzell, Max Goldman, AJ Weaver and Stella Delp.
At the time, due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the food banking system in America was experiencing extraordinary levels of demand while millions of pounds of fresh goods went to waste on farms due to factors such as supply chain disruptions and the closures of restaurants, hotels, and schools. In reaction, Kanoff and Reilly—along with dozens of other college student volunteers—began cold calling farms around the state of California to inquire about their surplus produce and determine methods for food rescue and distribution. The organization's first operation consisted of renting a U-Haul truck and driving out to Trafficanda Egg Ranches to rescue a surplus of 10,800 eggs, which was delivered to Westside Food Bank in Los Angeles.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthusian%20Spanish%20horse
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Carthusian Spanish horse
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The (Carthusian stud farm), near Jerez, housed over 700 animals in 1700. The Carthusian bloodline was solidified in the early 18th century when brothers Andrés and Diego Zamora acquired a stallion named El Soldado, along with two mares descended from horses purchased by the King of Spain, which had been placed at Aranjuez, one of Spain's oldest stud farms. One of El Soldado's descendants, a dark gray colt named Esclavo, became the founding sire of the lineage. Noted for its qualities during that period, Esclavo was known for its mane and temperament. It has an abundant mane and has an excellent temperament. Notably, he carried what were described as "warts under its tail", which were actually melanomas, and this trait was often seen as proof of descent from Esclavo. Esclavo was sold to Don Pedro Picado in Portugal, but a group of mares he had sired were given to Carthusian monks to settle a debt, around 1736. Other animals from these lineages are absorbed into the main Andalusian breed. The stock given to the monks is bred as a special line, known as the Zamorano. Over the next century, the Carthusian monks fiercely protected this lineage, resisting royal orders to cross their horses with Neapolitan and Central European breeds, although they did introduce Arabian and Barb bloodlines to improve their stock.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20J.%20Eustis
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Fred J. Eustis
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Frederick J. Eustis, sometime referred to as F. J. Eustis, (c. 1858, in Boston, Massachusetts – March 28, 1912, in Toronto, Canada) was an American composer, conductor, and theatre director. He is best remembered for writing music for several Broadway musicals.
Career
Eustis first drew attention as a theatre composer with the 1879 musical Sancho Pedro, with a book by Charles Felton Pidgin, staged at the Gaiety Theatre on Broadway in 1879. This was followed by the musical Penny Ante; or The Last of the Fairies, with a book and lyrics by Jeff S. Leerburger and premiered at Broadway's Fourteenth Street Theatre on June 9, 1884, It featured the actor Charles H. Drew performing the title heroine in drag. He wrote music for the 1890 musical Blue Beard, Jr. which was a tremendous success when it premiered at the Grand Opera House, Chicago; ultimately touring to Broadway's Niblo's Garden.
Eustis composed music for two Broadway musicals based on classic fairy tales: Mother Goose (Fourteenth Street Theatre, 1899) and Little Red Riding Hood (Boston Museum, 1899; and Casino Theatre, 1900). He also directed the musical The Ameer, which was staged at Wallack's Theatre in 1899–1900, and served as the music director for the Broadway musicals Miss Simplicity (1902) and The Tenderfoot (1904).
Eustis died at the age of 53 on March 28, 1912, in Toronto, Canada.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20Paraguayan%20Primera%20B%20Nacional
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2023 Paraguayan Primera B Nacional
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The 2023 Paraguayan Primera División B Nacional, known locally as Campeonato de la Primera División B Nacional 2023, was the twelfth season of the Paraguayan Primera División B Nacional, one of the three leagues of Paraguay's Tercera División, the third-tier of the country's football league system, in which clubs and teams from the leagues of the interior of the country compete.
This edition gave half a place to the 2024 División Intermedia for the champion, who must play a promotion against the runner-up of the 2023 Primera B Metropolitana.
Teams and locations
First stage
They were divided into 3 groups of 6 teams each. The 2 best of each group and the 2 best third teams will advance to the second stage.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Ranking of third-placed teams
The two best third-placed teams from the three groups advance to the second stage along with the three group winners and three runners-up.
Second stage
The qualified teams were divided into 2 groups of 4 teams each. The best 2 of each group will qualify to the knockout stage.
Group A
Group B
Final stage
Promotion play-off
The champion played two-legged matches against the runner-up of the Primera B Metropolitana for a place in the División Intermedia.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Jews%20in%20Sofia
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History of the Jews in Sofia
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As per the 2021 Bulgarian census, the Jews in Sofia number around 901.
Sofia had Jewish inhabitants before the ninth century; and in 811 the community was joined by coreligionists among the 30,000 prisoners whom the Bulgarian czar Krum brought with him on his return from an expedition against Thessaly, while a number of Jewish emigrants from the Byzantine empire voluntarily settled in Sofia in 967.
In 1360 some Jews from the south of Germany established themselves in the city, and their number was augmented seven years later by Jews driven from Hungary. When Murad I. seized Sofia, about 1389, he found four synagogues, belonging respectively to the Byzantines ("ḳahal de los Gregos"), the Ashkenazim, the "Francos," or Italian Jews (especially those of Venice), and the native Jews. According to local statements, a Macedonian and a Maltese synagogue, founded at dates as yet unascertained, existed in Sofia up to the middle of the nineteenth century.
Early in the fifteenth century Joseph Satan was rabbi in Sofia, and some time before the immigration of the Spanish Jews the city had a yeshibah whose instructors included a chief rabbi, Meïr ha-Levi. In 1492 a number of Spanish Jews, chiefly from Castile and Aragon, settled at Sofia where they founded the Sephardic synagogue. In the second half of the sixteenth century Joseph Albo (1570) was chief rabbi of the city; in the seventeenth century the post was filled by several rabbis, two of whom, Ḥayyim Meborak Galipapa and Abraham Farḥi, are mentioned in letters of approbation. In 1666, during the incumbency of Abraham Farḥi, the false Messiah Sabbatai Zevi sent a letter from the prison of Abydos, inviting his "brethren of Sofia" to celebrate the Tisha B'Av, the anniversary of his birth, as a day of festivity and rejoicing. After the conversion of Shabbethai, his follower and successor, Nathan of Gaza, took refuge in Sofia, where he died, his body being interred at Uskub.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon%20Khanun%20%282023%29
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Typhoon Khanun (2023)
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Khanun weakened further due to an ongoing eyewall replacement cycle, allowing its eye to grow massively, but degrading its overall structure. The inner eye began to encounter colder ocean temperatures on infrared satellite imagery, surrounded by a symmetric ring of cold. Despite the cycle on August 3, Khanun had moved over cooler sea surface temperatures, and hence continued its weakening trend. Khanun's eye had degraded on satellite imagery due to quasi-stationary and the warming cloud tops. However, as Khanun tracked poleward, the storm turned towards the northwest as it rounded the southern edge of the subtropical high. Following structural weakening, the JMA and JTWC downgraded Khanun to a severe tropical storm, with estimated winds of . The storm began to look strong on satellite images with deep banding features over the quadrants. After passing north of Tokunoshima, the storm accelerated to the southeast. The center of the storm becoming exposed and deep convective banding wrapping into a broad circulation. Satellite imagery showed a consolidating LLCC with formative convective banding and deep convection over the northern semicircle, the storm passed southwestern island of Kyushu. Around 00:00 UTC on August 10, Khanun made landfall on Geojedo Islands in South Korea with winds of . Rapidly moving towards the northwest, the storm low-level circulation center was obscured by a lingering deep convection. The JMA continued to monitor Khanun as a tropical cyclone until early on August 11.
Preparations, impact, and aftermath
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelo%20Telefone
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Pelo Telefone
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According to a statement by Donga to Brazil's Museum of Image and Sound, "The chief of police... was a parody created by the journalists of A Noite. In 1913, newspaper reporters had placed a roulette wheel in to demonstrate the police's tolerance of gambling. Musician and broadcaster Henrique Foréis Domingues, in the February 13, 1972 issue of the newspaper O Dia, confirmed this by saying: "someone in the newsroom of 'A Noite', taking inspiration from the episodes in question, created the famous parody". Domingues also accused Donga of having appropriated a collective work. Donga claimed that the music was different, but conceded that he was not the author of the lyrics, which were written by . He blamed the label for omitting his partner's name. "The omission of Mauro's name on the recording by Casa Edison cannot be attributed to me", he said.
The Jornal do Brasil newspaper, on February 4 1917, published a note from Grêmio Fala Gente announcing that "the true tango 'Pelo Telephone', by composers João da Mata, Germano, Tia Ciata and Hilário, will be sung on Avenida Rio Branco, dedicated to the good and remembered friend Mauro."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iribe%20Center
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Iribe Center
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The Iribe Center (; officially known as the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation) is a building at the University of Maryland, College Park that is used primarily for computer science education and research. It replaced the university's previous computer science buildings, the Computer Science Instruction Building and the A. V. Williams Building.
Construction
The construction of the center was completed in 2019 after several years of construction and at a reported cost of $152 million. It was named after Brendan Iribe, who donated money to pay for part of the construction cost. He is an entrepreneur and former student at the university who had previously dropped out. Part of the center's funding also came from the state government. The opening ceremony was held on April 26, 2019, a date chosen to coincide with the university's public outreach day, although parts of the facility were accessible to students before that time. Those in attendance to the opening ceremony included the state governor, Larry Hogan, and the president of the university, Wallace Loh. Loh stated that the building represents the fusion of the "traditional academy and the technological future and economic development of the state of Maryland".
Design and usage
Designed by a team at the Omaha-based architecture firm HDR led by Brian Kowalchuk, the center consists of two general-purpose floors and several floors dedicated to computer science research, in addition to an auditorium with approximately 300 seats. The research area includes devices such as 3D printers, laser cutters, vinyl cutters, and metal milling machines, many of which cannot be found anywhere else on the university's campus.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marciano%20Jos%C3%A9%20Pereira%20Ribeiro
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Marciano José Pereira Ribeiro
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Marciano José Pereira Ribeiro (died 4 March 1840) was a Brazilian doctor and politician. He was the president of Rio Grande do Sul in two terms in 1835 and 1836.
Originally from Minas Gerais, Ribeiro graduated from medicine in Edinburgh. A republican, he was a provincial deputy to the first provincial assembly of Rio Grande do Sul. He was also the assembly's first president and presided over its first convening. He was the third vice president of Rio Grande do Sul when the Ragamuffin War commenced and the rebels, dubbed the farrapos, took the capital Porto Alegre.
Ribeiro was considered the most trustworthy of the vice presidents of the state at that time. For this, he was elected vice president by the rebels after the overthrowing of the previous president, Antônio Rodrigues Fernandes Braga. During this time period, he had João Manuel de Lima e Silva as an advisor to the Commander of Arms provincial office. He was arrested in 1836, after the city had been taken by imperialist forces, and sent to Rio de Janeiro. He escaped in 1840 and found his way back to Rio Grande do Sul, and to São Gabriel in particular, but by then his health had largely deteriorated. He died on 4 March 1840.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Christern
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Max Christern
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Due to the German invasion of the Netherlands, he didn't get the Dutch nationality. As being a Reich German, Christern was called up during World War II for service in the German army. In an attempt for desertion he applied for pilot training, as he was already interested in aviation from a young age. As a pilot-in-training, he managed to get hold of a plane and flew from the Russian front towards England. However, due to lack of fuel he was forced to land in the Netherlands. He was able to go into hiding and took as name Menno Kannegieter. In May 1944, still during the War, he was arrested during a control and imprisoned. He managed to escape Kamp Amersfoort in August and moved to the surroundings of Nijmegen. After the liberation of Brabant, Christen was able to move to Eindhoven, where he was able in March 1945 to registered at the British Royal Air Force. He went to England to train to become a pilot. After his training, Christern was deployed as a scout. When the Netherlands was liberated, Christern signed-up at the Royal Netherlands Air Force and was stationed at Valkenburg where he had the rank of sergeant-flyer. In 1946 he would move with the HNLMS Karel Doorman (R81) to the Dutch East Indies. After his positive result of the "tropical inspection" he made on 7 October 1946 his first solo flight with the Fairey Firefly. He was given the order to fly in the neighbourhood of the air base to become familiar with the aircraft and then return to the airbase. However, he flew to Apeldoorn where his mother lived. In Apeldoorn he made some dives above the market square. Afterwards he flew in the direction where his mother lived. Christern was flying very low, and probably saw the school tower of the Hogere Burgerschool too late. With an extreme maneuver he managed to avoid the tower, but his right wing touched the left corner of the school building. The wing broke off, tearing open the fuel tank at the bottom of the wing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoGo%20%28bike%20share%29
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MoGo (bike share)
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MoGo is a public bicycle-sharing system in Detroit. In operation since 2017, MoGo is owned by a nonprofit organization of the same name, headquartered at One Campus Martius in downtown Detroit.
History
Planning began in 2012 to establish a bicycle-sharing system in Detroit, headed by Lisa Nuskowski, the eventual founder of Detroit Bike Share. The system, eventually named MoGo, commenced operations on May 23, 2017, with a ceremonial ride in which cyclists rode the system's 300 original bicycles from a central location to their assigned docking stations across the city. The system's ridership exceeded expectations, logging 100,000 rides within its first six months of operation.
To better serve riders with disabilities, MoGo piloted the MoGo Adaptive cycling program in May 2018. The six-month pilot program was successful, and has been offered every summer since. Later, in 2019, MoGo introduced 50 rentable Class I electric bicycles, dubbed MoGo Boost, available at select stations in the main MoGo network.
Nuskowski left MoGo in 2021, becoming the president of M-1 Rail. She was replaced as executive director by Adriel Thornton.
MoGo launched a significant expansion in June 2020, adding stations in northwestern Detroit and several suburbs on the Woodward Corridor to the city's north in Oakland County, taking the system beyond Detroit's city limits for the first time. In September 2022, the network was expanded further, with the addition of three new stations on Belle Isle.
In September 2023, MoGo announced the addition of 26 additional electric bicycles to the fleet, of an improved model relative to the fifty units introduced in 2019. The agency has announced their intention to invest in additional electric bicycles.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix%20Cuadrado%20Lomas
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Félix Cuadrado Lomas
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Félix Cuadrado Lomas (Valladolid, Spain, 4 December 1930 - Valladolid, 17 November 2021) was a Spanish painter specialized in Castilian landscapes. In 2017, he declined the Castilla y León Prize for the Arts. He was a member of the artistic group known as Grupo Simancas.
Biography
He was born and raised in the neighborhood of San Andrés in Valladolid. He spent long periods of time in his mother's village, Calzada de los Molinos, in the province of Palencia, where he became familiar with the Castilian rural landscape from a young age. In 1950, as a young man, he retired to Calzada de los Molinos for a year to recover from tuberculosis.
He studied in Valladolid, first at the Jesuit school, then at the Zorrilla Institute, and finally at the School of Arts and Crafts.
Soon, he began to participate in exhibitions and contests and traveled through Spain, Portugal, and France. In 1966, he won the Painting Prize of the Caja de Ahorros Provincial de Valladolid with the painting "Mulas y tierras" (Mules and Lands). From that moment on, he did not participate in any more contests, and all the awards he received were honorary, without him voluntarily submitting or competing.
He collaborated with numerous writers and poets, such as Francisco Pino, Jorge Guillén, Claudio Rodríguez, and Miguel Casado.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear%20lens%20extraction
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Clear lens extraction
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Clear lens extraction, also known as refractive lensectomy, custom lens replacement or refractive lens exchange is a surgical procedure in which clear lens of the human eye is removed. Unlike cataract surgery, where the cloudy lens is removed to treat a cataract, clear lens extraction is done to surgically correct refractive errors such as high myopia. It can also be done in hyperopic or presbyopic patients who wish to have a multifocal IOL implanted to avoid wearing glasses. It is also used as a treatment for diseases such as angle closure glaucoma.
Overview
As opposed to procedures that use lasers to make corrections to the corneal surface, such as LASIK, the clear lens extraction procedure uses the same procedures as cataract surgery.
Indications
Clear lens extraction can be done in patients with severe refractive error and/or presbyopia who wish to avoid spectacles. It is often necessary in patients with severe refractive error who cannot undergo other refractive procedures such as LASIK or photorefractive keratectomy.
Clear lens extraction is also used as a treatment of choice in patients with diseases such as angle closure glaucoma. A study also found that CLE is even more effective than laser peripheral iridotomy in patients with angle closure glaucoma. A systematic review comparing lens extraction and laser peripheral iridotomy for treating acute primary angle closure found that lens extraction potentially provides better intraocular pressure control and reduces medication needs over time. However, it remains uncertain if it significantly lowers the risk of recurrent episodes or reduces the need for additional surgeries.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Gottlieb%20Kratzenstein%20Stub
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Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein Stub
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Kratzenstein Stub's pictures were much admired in his lifetime, such as by Friederike Brun. The Danish Academy went so far as to appoint him together with C.W. Eckersberg to compete for the professorship at their model school. This general satisfaction probably came from Kratzenstein Stub's choice of subjects, which educated Danes of the time especially appreciated. Thus it was said at the time in Denmark that "it belonged to the [sculptor's] chisel to portray gods and heroes, the [artist's] brush, on the other hand, to depict the actions of heroes and visions from the spirit world". It was felt at the time that a picture should firstly contain beautiful emotions, often wrapped in witty allegories; then beautiful lines; and finally, beautiful colours. Kratzenstein Stub's pictures were thought to embody "a Raphael Mengs' colour and a van der Werff's brush". As an artist, Kratzenstein Stub was compared to Asmus Jacob Carstens, another artist without academic training who reached his ideal representations of people more through the study of other art than through nature. But while Carstens' works were thought to be more epic and sculptural, Kratzenstein Stub's compositions—especially concerning Cupid and Psyche—were felt to embody a lyrical, sometimes sentimental sweetness that corresponds to the vague, dreamy character of his drawing style.
Gallery
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myosotis%20saxosa
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Myosotis saxosa
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Phylogeny
Myosotis saxosa was shown to be a part of the monophyletic southern hemisphere lineage of Myosotis in phylogenetic analyses of standard DNA sequencing markers (nuclear ribosomal DNA and chloroplast DNA regions) of New Zealand Myosotis. Within the southern hemisphere lineage, species relationships were not well resolved. The three individuals of M. saxosa sampled from the Maungaharuru Range that were included in the study were monophyletic or closely related, and grouped with other North Island species of Myosotis.
Description
Myosotis saxosa plants are rosettes. The rosette leaves have petioles that are about as long as the leaf blades. The rosette leaves are about 20–30 mm long by 5–10 mm wide (length: width ratio c. 2–6: 1), and the leaf blade is broad-ovate to obovate, widest below, at or above the middle, with an apiculate apex. Both surfaces of the leaf are uniformly and sparsely to densely covered in patent to erect hairs. On the upper surface of the leaf, these hairs are always antrorse (forward-facing) whereas on the lower surface, they can be either antrorse or mostly retrorse (backward-facing). Each rosette has several ascending to erect, ebracteate inflorescences that are up to 70 mm long. The cauline leaves are similar to the rosette leaves, but are smaller, elliptic, and subacute to acute, and have hairs similar to the rosette leaves but more appressed. The flowers are about 12 per inflorescence, and each is borne on a short pedicel, without a bract. The calyx is about 5 mm long at flowering and fruiting, lobed to one-half tor more of its length, and densely covered in appressed hairs, as well as some patent hairs, all of which are mostly antrorse. The corolla is white and 7–13 mm in diameter, with a cylindrical tube, and small scales alternating with the petals. The anthers are exserted, surpassing the faucal scales. The nutlets are c. 2.2 mm long by 1.3 mm wide.
The pollen of Myosotis saxosa is unknown.
The chromosome number of M. saxosa is 2n = 22.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20Test%20Medal
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Nuclear Test Medal
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The Nuclear Test Medal is an award intended to recognise the service of personnel involved in the United Kingdom's nuclear weapons testing programmes.
History
Following many years of campaigning, in November 2022, the British Government announced the creation of a new medal intended to recognise the contribution of military and civilian personnel that took part in the various programmes aimed at developing nuclear weapons to be used by the British Armed Forces. The announcement was made to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the first UK nuclear test. In July 2023, the design of the new medal was released, with a commitment that many eligible veterans would receive their medals by Remembrance Sunday in November 2023.
Description
The medal features a crowned effigy of Charles III facing right with the inscription CHARLES III DEI GRATIA REX FID DEF on the obverse, while the reverse shows an atom design surrounded by olive branches, with the words NUCLEAR TEST MEDAL beneath. It was manufactured by Worcestershire Medal Service.
The ribbon has a central white stripe, with symmetrical stripes of yellow, black and red, and sky blue stripes on the out edge – the blue is intended to represent the sky and the sea in the Pacific, where the UK's nuclear tests took place.
Qualification
To qualify for the Nuclear Test Medal, individuals need to have served at locations where atmospheric testing took place during the UK's atomic and thermonuclear development programmes between 1952 and 1967, on one of the following test operations:
Operation HURRICANE – October 1952, Montebello Islands, Western Australia
Operation TOTEM – October 1953, Emu Field, South Australia
Operation MOSAIC – June 1956, Montebello Islands, Western Australia
Operation BUFFALO – September – October 1956, Maralinga, South Australia
Operation GRAPPLE – May 1957 – September 1958, Malden Island, Kiribati
Operation ANTLER – September – October 1957, Maralinga, South Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20Guards%20Cavalry-Mechanised%20Group
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1st Guards Cavalry-Mechanised Group
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As the German Army Group Centre's main Luftwaffe formation, Luftflotte VI, only possessed 40 fighter aircraft, the air was soon dominated by the Soviet Red Air Force, which dedicated over 5300 aircraft to the operation in order to substantiate the Red Army's advance, allowing the Soviets to strafe the German supply lines, while also constantly putting their ground forces under bombardments and attack, greatly hindering the Wehrmacht's ability to halt the communist offensive. On the ground, KMG Pliev comprised the 4th Guards Cavalry Corps that main relied on transportation by horseback, enabling these troops to traverse the adverse terrain of the Pripet Marshes more effortlessly than the wheeled or tracked vehicles, while the group's firepower and mobility would also be augmented by the 9th Tank Corps and 1st Mechanised Corps. While the tanks and armoured vehicles from the tank and mechanised corps, such as the T34-85 medium tanks and IS-2 heavy tanks, could provide cover for the advancing cavalry, the horsemen were capable of dismounting rapidly and engaging the opponents, or charging against them with their Cossack shashka drawn.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith%20Cole%20%28tennis%29
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Edith Cole (tennis)
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Edith Mary Hutchinson Cole (10 September 1862 - 22 October 1945) née Edith Coleridge also known as Edith Coleridge Cole was an English tennis player of the late 19th century. She won the singles at the prestigious Northern Championships in Manchester in 1883, and was also an All Comers' finalist at the Wimbledon Championships in 1887.
Career
She was born Edith Coleridge the daughter of Major W Coleridge (1826-1902). She married Charles John Cole, in Hove, East Sussex, England on 16 April 1884. In major tournaments she competed at the first Wimbledon Championships for women in 1884 and again in 1887 and 1890.
In October 1881 she won the Sussex County Lawn Tennis Tournament on the Hove Rink Tennis Courts, at Hove against Leila Lodwick by 2 sets to 1, the she won the Brighton Lawn Tennis Club Tournament by 2 sets to 1. In May 1882 she successfully defended the singles title at the Brighton Lawn Tennis Club Tournament against an Eva Adshead, and also won the mixed doubles title partnering Robert Braddell. Then in October she also won the Sussex County Lawn Tennis Tournament defeating Florence Kemmis.
In 1883 she won the prestigious Northern Championships title held at the Northern Lawn Tennis Club, Manchester defeating Miss Eckersley in straight sets. In June 1884 she played at London Athletic Club Open Tournament (today called the Queen's Club Championships) where she reached the final before losing to Maud watson in four sets. Later at the Wimbledon Championships, but she exited early in the first round going out to Blanche Bingley.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritz%20Frohm
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Mauritz Frohm
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Mauritz Bernhard Julius Frohm (1840 – 1912) was a Swedish architect and Helsingborg's first city architect. He held the post between the years 1868 and 1903 and left behind several significant buildings in the city.
Early life, education and practice
Fromm was born on September 22, 1840, in Helsingborg, the son of jeweler Jonas Fromm and his wife Christina (née Ramberg). He also had a brother named Arvid who worked as a penman but later migrated to America. In 1856 Fromm completed his education in the public education system in Helsingborg and then moved to Gothenburg where he began studying at the Chalmerska slojdskolan (Later Chalmers University of Technology). At that time, the school was a lower technical educational institution that, among other things, offered architecture education as an alternative to higher education at the Royal Institute of Art. It was probably there that he received his education in architecture.
In 1865 Frohm returned to Helsingborg and in 1868 he was made the city's city architect. As an urban architect, the appearance of the buildings he designed was dominated by richly decorated and often classicist buildings. He left his job in 1903. Frohm never married and died in 1912. Alfred Hellerström succeeded him as city architect.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasites%20and%20pathogens%20of%20wolves
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Parasites and pathogens of wolves
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Wolves may suffer from various pathogens, both viral and bacterial, and parasite, both external and internal. Parasitic infection in wolves is of particular concern to people. Wolves can spread them to dogs, which in turn can carry the parasites to humans. In areas where wolves inhabit pastoral areas, the parasites can be spread to livestock.
Diseases
Viral
Viral diseases carried by wolves include: rabies, canine distemper, canine parvovirus, infectious canine hepatitis, papillomatosis, and canine coronavirus. Wolves are a major host for rabies in Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq and India. In wolves, the incubation period is eight to 21 days, and results in the host becoming agitated, deserting its pack, and travelling up to a day, thus increasing the risk of infecting other wolves. Infected wolves do not show any fear of humans, most documented wolf attacks on people being attributed to rabid animals. Although canine distemper is lethal in dogs, it has not been recorded to kill wolves, except in Canada and Alaska. The canine parvovirus, which causes death by dehydration, electrolyte imbalance, and endotoxic shock or sepsis, is largely survivable in wolves, but can be lethal to pups. Wolves may catch infectious canine hepatitis from dogs, though there are no records of wolves dying from it. Papillomatosis has been recorded only once in wolves, and likely does not cause serious illness or death, though it may alter feeding behaviours. The canine coronavirus has been recorded in Alaskan wolves, infections being most prevalent in winter months.
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Parasites and pathogens of wolves
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Bacterial
Bacterial diseases carried by wolves include: brucellosis, Lyme disease, leptospirosis, tularemia, bovine tuberculosis, listeriosis and anthrax. Wolves can catch Brucella suis from wild and domestic reindeer. While adult wolves tend not to show any clinical signs, it can severely weaken the pups of infected females. Although lyme disease can debilitate individual wolves, it does not appear to significantly affect wolf populations. Leptospirosis can be contracted through contact with infected prey or urine, and can cause fever, anorexia, vomiting, anemia, hematuria, icterus, and death. Wolves living near farms are more vulnerable to the disease than those living in the wilderness, probably because of prolonged contact with infected domestic animal waste. Wolves may catch tularemia from lagomorph prey, though its effect on wolves is unknown. Although bovine tuberculosis is not considered a major threat to wolves, it has been recorded to have killed two wolf pups in Canada.
Parasitic
Wolves carry ectoparasites and endoparasites; those in the former Soviet Union have been recorded to carry at least 50 species. Most of these parasites infect wolves without adverse effects, though the effects may become more serious in sick or malnourished specimens.
Extoparasites
Wolves are often infested with a variety of arthropod exoparasites, including fleas, ticks, lice, and mites. The most harmful to wolves, particularly pups, is the mange mite (Sarcoptes scabiei), though they rarely develop full-blown mange, unlike foxes. Lice, such as Trichodectes canis, may cause sickness in wolves, but rarely death. Ticks of the genus Ixodes can infect wolves with Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The tick Dermacentor pictus also infests wolves. Other ectoparasites include chewing lice, sucking lice and the fleas Pulex irritans and Ctenocephalides canis.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%20Johnston%20%28folklorist%29
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Annie Johnston (folklorist)
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Annie Johnston (10 February 1886 - 6 March 1963) was a Gaelic folklorist who contributed a variety of songs and stories from her native Barra to song collections and scholarly works in the early and mid-20th century. She was known for her expertise on waulking songs (òrain ruaidh), as well as her contributions to Marjory Kennedy-Fraser's well-known collection Songs of the Hebrides.
Biography
Johnston (also called Annag Aonghais Chaluim) was born in Barra to Catherine McNeil and Angus Johnston, and was one of eight children. She remained in Barra for her entire life and became a schoolteacher, noted for her enthusiasm in passing on her knowledge of Gaelic traditions to the children she taught.
Johnston introduced song collectors to the waulking song, a type of traditional Scottish Gaelic song traditionally sung by women while they treated homespun cloth by rhythmically beating it upon boards (known as waulking or fulling). She performed many of the traditional songs she learned during her childhood in Barra, including over 40 songs recorded for Kennedy-Fraser, and was known for her willingness to collaborate with and educate collectors who wished to record traditional songs. Today her performances make up a valuable part of the collection of the University of Edinburgh's School of Scottish Studies.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISOLTRAP%20experiment
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ISOLTRAP experiment
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The high-precision mass spectrometer ISOLTRAP experiment is a permanent experimental setup located at the ISOLDE facility at CERN. The purpose of the experiment is to make precision mass measurements using the time-of-flight (ToF) detection technique. Studying nuclides and probing nuclear structure gives insight into various areas of physics, including astrophysics.
Background
Mass spectrometry is a technique to determine the mass-to-charge ratio of ions. For a radioactive ion beam, there may be many radionuclides present within the beam and mass separation is needed to isolate a specific ion for measurements.
An ion trap uses electric and magnetic fields to capture charged particles in a system. There are multiple types of ion traps using various mechanisms, including the Penning trap. A Penning trap uses a uniform magnetic field and a quadrupole electric field to confine the particle radially and axially respectively.
Experimental setup
The ISOLTRAP experiment is a high-precision mass spectrometer/separator, consisting of four ion traps. These include a radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ) trap, a multi-reflection time-of-flight (MR-ToF) mass spectrometer, and two Penning traps.
The RFQ trap is used convert the radioactive ion beam delivered by the ISOLDE facility into low-energy ion pulses, before it is injected into the MR-ToF mass spectrometer. It does this by electrostatically decelerating the ions and then passing them through a buffer-gas-filled environment. The radio-frequency creates an oscillating electric field which confines the ions to a thin line. The ions are guided towards the trapping region by a potential, where they interact with the buffer gas and the energy spread of ions is reduced. This forms a small cloud of ions which is then ejected as a bunch out of the trapping region and transported to the MR-ToF.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20de%20La%20Rochefoucauld%2C%204th%20Duke%20of%20La%20Rochefoucauld
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François de La Rochefoucauld, 4th Duke of La Rochefoucauld
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François VIII de La Rochefoucauld, 4th Duke of La Rochefoucauld, 1st Duke of La Roche-Guyon (17 August 1663 – 22 April 1728) was a French nobleman who succeeded his father as Duke of La Rochefoucauld and Grand Huntsman of France in January 1714.
Early life
La Rochefoucauld was born on 17 August 1663. He was the son of François VII de La Rochefoucauld and Jeanne Charlotte du Plessis-Liancourt (1644–1669), daughter of Henri du Plessis-Liancourt, Count of La Roche-Guyon. His younger brother, Henri Roger de La Rochefoucauld, Marquis of Liancourt, never married.
Career
He succeeded his father as Grand Huntsman of France, a position in the King's Household in France during the Ancien Régime.
In 1679, as a gift of the King Louis XIV for his marriage with the eldest daughter of François-Michel Le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, he was created 1st Duke of La Roche-Guyon by letters of November 1679. Upon his father's death in 1714, he inherited the Duchy-peerage of La Rochefoucauld.
Personal life
In 1679, he married Madeleine Le Tellier (1665–1735), eldest daughter of François-Michel Le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, King Louis XIV's Finance Minister, and heiress Anne de Souvré, Marquise de Courtenvaux. Together, they were the parents of:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio%20De%20Simone
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Sergio De Simone
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Sergio De Simone (born Naples, Italy 29 November 1937; died Hamburg, Germany, 20 April 1945) was a Neapolitan child victim of the Holocaust who was arrested with his Jewish family while summering in Rijeka (now Croatia, then part of the Kingdom of Italy). He was then deported to Germany, where he was subjected to human experimentation and subsequently murdered.
At age seven, De Simone was one of the children of the Bullenhuser-Damm Massacre. Twenty children of disparate nationalities were selected by Joseph Mengele as human subjects for medical experimentation by Kurt Heissmeyer at the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg. As the Allies closed in on Hamburg and the perpetrators sought to destroy evidence of the experimentation, all 20 children, their four adult caretakers and 24 Soviet prisoners were taken to the basement of Hamburg's Bullenhuser Damm School and murdered.
Although almost initially lost in the wake of WWII, the story and identity of the children was ultimately uncovered through the research of German journalist, Günther Schwarberg (1926-2008) and his wife, attorney Barbara Hüsing. Today the children are remembered internationally; numerous books and films document their story, as well as a foundation: Children of Bullenhuser Damm.
On the street where Sergio De Simone's family lived in Naples, a memorial plaque and a pavement Stolperstein mark his life, which is commemorated annually on 27 January International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio%20De%20Simone
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Sergio De Simone
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For several weeks the children experienced a period of relative calm; the experiment required their good health. On 9 January 1945 Heissmeyer began the experiments: he had the skin on the chest of 11 children, under the right armpit, incised with X-shaped cuts, three to four centimeters long, to introduce tuberculosis bacilli with a spatula — causing rapid spread of the disease. In early March the children, sick and feverish, were operated on to remove their axillary lymph nodes, which according to the doctor's theories should have produced antibodies against tuberculosis.
A series of twenty surviving photographs document the operations; they show each child, shaven and shirtless, presenting their raised arms and their under-arm incisions. The experiment had failed: the removed lymphatic glands were sent to Hans Klein, a pathologist at the Hohenlychen clinic, who on 12 March 1945 certified to Heissmeyer that no antibodies had been generated.
Before leaving the extermination camp on 17 January 1945, the German SS burned all possible evidence attesting to what happened in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Sergio's name appears in a rare exception, a medical report, one of the few documents not destroyed. The document, dated 14 May 1944, confirmed the presence of the children of Bullenhuser Damm.
Bullenhuser Damm Massacre
By the time his experiments failed and news traveled that the Allies were fast approaching, Heissmeyer had fled. The camp commander Max Pauly was left to deal with the children. On the evening of 20 April, orders came directly from Berlin to eliminate all trace of what had transpired in Neuengamme.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter%20and%20Company
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Winter and Company
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Winter and Company was an American manufacturer of pianos. Founded in 1901 as Heller & Co. by cabinetmaker Gottlieb Heller (b. 1868 in Stuttgart), the firm was purchased and renamed in June 1901 by Julius Winter (b. 1856 in Hungary). In 1903, the company opened a factory on Southern Boulevard in The Bronx borough of New York City. In 1904, the company began to sell player pianos that used a "Master Player" mechanism of its own design.
Founded in the last decades of the Golden Age of the Piano, when the instrument had no competition from radio, recorded music, and the automobile, Winter & Co. outlived the vast majority of its contemporary pianomakers, and acquired several of them that fell on hard times. Among these were Chicago-based The Cable Company in 1943, once the country's largest maker of reed organs; the Ivers and Pond Piano Company of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1945; Kranich and Bach in 1946; and Hardman Peck in 1953. Mason & Risch of Ontario, Canada, was another.
Its longtime president was William G. Heller, a son of Gottlieb.
In 1951, the company opened a factory in Memphis, Tennessee.
In the 1960s, Winter & Co. was merged with Aeolian-American pianomaking firm, becoming the Aeolian Company.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Morris%20%28activist%29
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Jacob Morris (activist)
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Many of these proposed sites, such as the home of David Ruggles at 36 Lispenard Street and the place where Elizabeth Jennings Graham was thrown off a street car, are in Lower Manhattan.
Morris said that the trail plan "tells the truth about where we come from and the path we've taken to get to where we are today. We need to know this stuff: the adversity, the things that were surmounted." Council member Ydanis Rodriguez introduced City Council legislation for a taskforce to study the matter, and the plan received support from Community Board 1 under Julie Menin.
In 2006, he worked with Roger Green, an activist from Crown Heights, to co-name a stretch of Duffield Street, near where Abolitionist Place. In 2019, while opposing the treatment by New York City Economic Development Corporation for a memorial to abolitionism, he led efforts to rename the proposed park, Willoughby Square, to Abolitionist Place Park., and the plan received support from Community Board 1 under Julie Menin.
Morris also opposed some of the projects of the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio related to monuments. He opposed public funding for the Women's Rights Pioneers Monument in Central Park before it was changed to include Sojourner Truth. Even then, he wrote a letter to make sure the addition would be historically accurate and appropriate.
He also criticized the de Blasio administration for the placement of some its announced monuments, including for Elizabeth Jennings Graham, Billie Holiday, and the family of Albro Lyons and Mary Lyons.
Another goal of Morris is to name a street after Maya Angelou.
Family history
Morris was born in 1947 in Astoria, Queens. His family was Jewish Greek. The New York Times reported that almost all of his family was killed in the Holocaust due to the Nazi occupation of Greece. In the 1970s, Morris worked in real estate and owned different properties in SoHo, including a video rental chain called "Rare Bird." His tenants implemented a rent strike, forcing him in the 1990s to declare bankruptcy.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin%20Dunlap
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Melvin Dunlap
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Melvin Carl Dunlap (June 9, 1945 - September 12, 2021) was an American bass guitarist most recognized for his work with Bill Withers and Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm band. Additionally, Dunlap was an accomplished session musician, producer, and composer.
Career
Dunlap began his bass playing career as a young child looking for a way to overcome his boredom of being stuck indoors from multiple ailments including myasthenia gravis. He then became a bass player for hire in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, where he played with various local groups. In the early days of his career Dunlap was asked by fellow Ohio natives The O'Jays to become their touring bass player. He agreed and subsequently settled in California, where he worked several odd jobs while trying to make a living as a musician. In Los Angeles he met Charles Wright, a platinum-selling recording artist. Wright then hired Dunlap in the mid-1960s to be a part of his band Charles Wright and the Wright Sounds which would later go on to become Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band.
Dunlap recorded bass on the band's signature 1970 hit record Express Yourself, and with the band toured alongside artists such as Nina Simone, The Temptations, Diana Ross, The Supremes, and Bill Cosby (who was a major advocate for the band and helped propel the group's popularity). During this period, Dunlap also briefly played bass for the funk band Dyke & The Blazers along with several other members of the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January%202022%20North%20American%20blizzard
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January 2022 North American blizzard
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Meteorological history
Beginning in mid-to-late January 2022, computer models began to suggest the potential for a powerful storm to form in the western Atlantic Ocean at the end of the month – although the exact track was uncertain and thus snowfall estimates were not in agreement. By January 25, models such as the GFS and the European model (ECMWF) indicated the storm would track closer and stronger to the coast.
A deep upper-level trough ejected from the High Plains and Rocky Mountains on January 27 and moved eastwards towards the Atlantic. As the trough began to tilt negative, the Weather Prediction Center (WPC) reported that a surface low-pressure area had developed off the Southeast coast near Florida on January 28 as a result of the upper-level interactions. The system began intensifying as it moved north as snow and wintry precipitation blossomed over the Mid-Atlantic states later that night as a result. Rapid deepening began due to favorable conditions aloft – with the pressure dropping from at 00:00 UTC on January 29 to at 18:00 UTC later that day, a drop in only 18 hours, more than enough to meet the required criteria. The cyclone also attained hurricane-force winds around this time as well.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo%20literature
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Igbo literature
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John Clarke and Joseph Merrick jointly published Specimens Of Dialects, Short Vocabularies Of Languages: And Notes Of Countries And Customs In Africa, which included approximately 250 Igbo words. In 1854, Sigismund Koelle published Polyglotta Africana, featuring 300 Igbo words in five different dialects. In the same year, William Balfour Baikie included a short Igbo vocabulary in his work, Narrative of an Exploring Voyage up the Rivers Kwora and Binue.
Following the British Niger Expeditions of 1854 and 1857, Samuel Ajayi Crowther produced a primer for the Igbo language in 1857, written in the Isuama dialect. A revised edition of Crowther's primer was published in 1859 by John Christopher Taylor, who had established a school in Onitsha with Simon Jonas. This primer served as a textbook for the school. In 1861, James Schön, in collaboration with Taylor, published Oku Ibo: Grammatical Elements of Ibo Language. In Grammatical Elements Schön criticised the translations made by Taylor for failing to include folktales and native proverbs. In 1869, Taylor published Igbo proverbs as an appendix to The Gospel on the Banks of the Niger, a journal he co-edited with Crowther. Shortly afterwards, he withdrew from the Niger Mission due to a heated Taylor-Schön debacle. Subsequently, in 1870, W. F. Smart, a catechist in Isuama, authored a primer based on Taylor's work.
In 1881, Samuel Ajayi Crowther compiled the Vocabulary of the Ibo Language, the first comprehensive Igbo dictionary, which was later revised and expanded jointly by Crowther and Schön in 1883 as Vocabulary of the Ibo Language, Part II, an English-Igbo dictionary. The enactment of the first education ordinance in 1882 had a temporary impact on the development of West African languages, resulting in a hiatus in Igbo language publications until 1892. In that year, Julius Spencer, a Sierra Leonean missionary based in Onitsha, published An Elementary Grammar of the Igbo Language.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo%20literature
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Igbo literature
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In 1913, the translation of the New Testament and Old Testament into Igbo by Thomas John Dennis and a group of translators marked the end of the "Isuama period," which used the Isuama dialect, and the beginning of the "Union Igbo period," which used the dialects of Owerri and Umuahia. Dennis continued to be acclaimed for his translations and literary contributions until his death in 1917. Notable translations were made during this period, including Pilgrim's Progress, translated to Ije Nke Onye Kraịst, and Dick Udensi Ogan's translation of Grimms' Fairy Tales into Akụkọ Ifo Grim Kọrọ.
In 1923, Israel E. Iwekanuno published Akuko Ala Obosi, a 262-page history book narrating the history of Obosi town. This was followed by the publication of the first Igbo fiction novel, Omenuko, authored by Pita Nwana in 1932 and published in 1933 by Longman, Green and Co. In 1963, a transliterated edition of Omenuko by J. O. Iroaganachi, referred to as the "Official Orthography Edition," was published by Longman Nigeria. Omenuko is considered a foundational work in Igbo literature. Shortly after the publication of Omenuko, Ala Bingo by D. N. Achara was published in 1937.
Starting from 1941, following a report by Ida C. Ward, the "Union Igbo period" came to an end, and the "Central Igbo period" began. This period witnessed the establishment of magazines such as Amamihe, the publication of guidebooks, and the translation of major European classic literature. However, there was a limited output of indigenous fiction during this period, with most works and translations sponsored or published by the government or Christian missionaries. In 1963, the second major Igbo fiction novel, Ije Odumodu Jere by Leopold Bell-Gam, was published. It was transliterated from the Lepsius orthography into Central Igbo for publication. However, literature like Bell-Gam's remained limited due to the multiplicity of the new standard orthography.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMinn%20County%20Schools
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McMinn County Schools
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In January 2022 the school board, in a 10-0 decision, removed the graphic novel about the Holocaust Maus, the only graphic novel ever to win a Pulitzer Prize, from its curriculum for 8th grade English classes. The board in doing so overrode a Tennessee state curriculum review that had in contrast approved the teaching of the book. According to the school district, the reasons that it removed the book were “unnecessary” profanity (they focused on some bad words, such as "damn"), depictions of nude mice, murder, and suicide, and what the board deemed the values of the community; in addition, a board member pointed out that at one time in the past the author of Maus had drawn cartoons for Playboy magazine. A former teacher who spoke at the meeting observed, in contrast, that “there is nothing pretty about the Holocaust, and for me this was a great way to depict a horrific time in history.” This decision to bar the teaching of the book occurred in proximity to Holocaust Remembrance Day, and during various attempts to remove reading material from other school districts.
Author Art Spiegelman criticized the move, describing it variously as baffling, "Orwellian", and “daffily myopic.” The board's decision was covered by media in the United States, Europe, and Israel. Spiegelman, whose parents survived the Auschwitz concentration camp, also observed that he got the impression that the board members were asking, “Why can’t they teach a nicer Holocaust?”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paciano%20Tangco
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Paciano Tangco
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Paciano Tangco (March 9, 1892 – 1946) was a Filipino military officer who served as the Chief of the Signal Corps.
Early life
Tangco was born and in Pateros, Rizal, to Julio Calingo Tangco and his wife Agueda Concepción.
Education
Tangco graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the Liceo de Manila (now Manila Central University). He later graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from Escuela de Derecho (now Manila Law College). In May, 1914, Tangco entered the Constabulary Academy (now Philippine Military Academy) as a cadet. In November, 1914, Tangco was commissioned as a Third Lieutenant.
Military career
After commissioning from the Constabulary Academy, Tangco was swiftly promoted. He made second lieutenant in June, 1916; First Lieutenant in September, 1917; Captain February 1, 1920; Major, January 20, 1931; and Lieutenant Colonel September 9, 1937. He was assigned throughout the country in the provinces of Antique, Bataan, Cavite, Manila, Nueva Ecija, Pangasinan, Pampanga, Tarlac, Cotabato, Lanao, Zamboanga, and Sulu in various roles.
In the early 1930s, as a Major, Tangco attempted to provide signal communications for the Armed Forces of the Philippines. He improvised homemade radio sets for the Philippine Constabulary field operatives who were engaging in a campaign against the Asedillo-Encallado bandits in Tayabas province (now Quezon province).
In 1937, a Philippine Army plucking board had recommended Tangco for retirement on the grounds that as a Constabulary officer he sought to secure a promotion through the influence of politicians. However, Philippine President Quezon, under the reasoning of the then assistant military adviser to the Philippine Government Dwight D. Eisenhower, had Tangco reinstated. Eisenhower reasoned that political favoritism was accepted "almost as a matter of course" and that singling out Tangco was unfair.
Legacy
P. Tangco St., Pateros
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kajsa%20Rothman
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Kajsa Rothman
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Activist
In July 1936, when the Spanish Civil War broke out, she was the first Swede to volunteer to serve and took a position as a Red Cross nurse. She mainly worked to help the wounded by transporting them to safer places. Recounting one of her experiences in a letter to her mother, she recalled seeing, "a wounded poor Swedish boy. One arm and the other hand were amputated and his head was also badly messed up. He was so glad to speak to someone Swedish." Soon, she arranged the young Swede, Bruno Franzén, to travel home to Sweden as soon as possible. In an article that appeared in her father's paper, Karlstads Tidning titled “Give Bruno new hands,” she published an urgent appeal for readers to contribute to his care.
Transitioning to work with the Swedish organization, Help to Spain, she focused on growing financing for orphanages in France and Spain. She wrote articles for the Help to Spain magazine Solidaritet and became a broadcaster on Swedish radio transmitted from Madrid. As a press attaché to the Spanish government she worked with other foreign correspondents and contributed to Karlstads Tidning describing the brutality of the Spanish war. Upon returning to Sweden, she wrote a book titled Spanska barn ritar om kriget (Spanish children draw the war) in 1937.
Through her activism, she became widely known in Sweden. In 1938, when she visited Karlstad, Sweden, about 5,000 people waited at the railway station. During her time there, she delivered 135 lectures to strengthen Sweden's solidarity with the Spanish people. She also started “Kajsa’s milk fund” to send powdered milk to Spanish children.
When Franco's forces won the civil war in Spain in 1939, Rothman fled with other activists to France and then Mexico, settling in the village of Tequisquiapan north of Mexico City. There she opened a bar with another woman and ran a school for the children of Mexico's indigenous people.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian%20People%27s%20Army
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Lithuanian People's Army
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Army transformation
The Soviets sought to transform the Lithuanian Armed Forces into the Lithuanian People's Army, which would be very similar to the Red Army. There was a particular urgency to eliminate the army's ties with the Lithuanian Riflemen's Union; thus all 22 military commanders (there also were the same number of riflemen teams) of 20 counties, Vilnius, and Kaunas were removed or transferred to other positions. On 2 July 1940, the institution of military chaplains was abolished and the promotion of religion was banned. On 6 July 1940, the Political Board along with an institution of communist political leaders (politruks) was established to control the activities of all commanders. The Lithuanian national symbols and shoulder straps were abolished, and a surveillance system was introduced. According to Stasys Pundzevičius, in order to suppress the national sentiment of the army, the political leadership of the army, through the army commander, demanded that the singing of the Lithuanian national anthem be banned and national flags be removed, while the officers were fired from the army only by the orders of the political leadership based on the pre-prepared lists. The Soviet propaganda about Lithuania's accession to the Soviet Union was spread in the army, and soldiers were forced to take part in political rallies. Pursuant to the directive of the People's Commissar of Defense of the Soviet Union of 17 August 1940, the Council of People's Commissars of the Lithuanian SSR abolished the Ministry of National Defense of Lithuania by a resolution of 27 August 1940.
Commanders of the Lithuanian People's Army were: Vincas Vitkauskas (until 12 July 1940), Feliksas Baltušis-Žemaitis (since 12 July 1940), while the Chief of Staff was Stasys Pundzevičius.
29th Rifle Corps of the Red Army
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Tesa%C5%99%20%28historian%29
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Jan Tesař (historian)
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Jan Tesař (born 2 June 1933) is a Czech historian and writer. He was a dissident in the times of communist Czechoslovakia.
Life
Tesař was born on 2 June 1933 in Skuteč. After having pursued studies in history at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague, he joined the Military Historical Institute in 1956. Expelled from that institution in 1958 for political reasons, he spent two years without a steady position and worked as an independent researcher before finally obtaining a position at the Museum of Pardubice. In 1961, he joined the Military Historical Institute once again. He became a member of the Communist Party in 1966, but resigned his membership in 1969. He was one of the founders of the Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted (VONS), a signatory of Charter 77, and promoter of the meetings between Czech and Polish dissidents in the Giant Mountains. From 1977, he was the editor of the dissident magazine Dialogy. In 1980, he left Czechoslovakia and initially went to Germany, only to later settle in France where he continued his political activities. After 1989, he took part in several academic and political initiatives concerning democratization.
He currently lives in Slovakia.
Archives on the History of Czechoslovak Dissent
As a historian well trained in archival work, Tesař has left two important collections that concern the history of the Czechoslovak dissident movement. One of them is currently located at the Museum of Moravia, while the other is held in the collections of La contemporaine in France.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%20Baldini
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Antonio Baldini
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Meanwhile, he had become part of a circle of literary scholars including Emilio Cecchi, Vincenzo Cardarelli, Riccardo Bacchelli and Aldo Palazzeschi. During the early years of the twentieth century these men, together, formed the nucleus of a cultural revival, mainly centred around various avant-garde magazines and journals, of which probably the best known was and is "La Voce*, published in Florence between 1908 and 1916. Baldini's first published work appeared in 1912 in another literary journal, "Lirica", founded earlier that same year by Arturo Onofri and Umberto Fracchia. These early contributions combined semi-autobiographical confessional aspects ("fatto personale") with a mix of fantasy, reverie and humour. In 1914 they were combined into a single slim volume entitled "Pazienze e impazienze del Maestro Pastoso" (loosely, "Patience and impatience of Mr. Pastry").
In 1915 Baldini became a regular contributor to the Italian right-of-centre irridentist newspaper L'Idea Nazionale which had recently switched from weekly to daily publication. Baldini's articles appeared on the third page, which by tradition in Italian newspapers was less political than the outer pages and a more focused on literature and other arts-related topics. His contributions consisted of a series of "passeggiate" (literally, "gentle recreational walks, seldom undertaken alone, and generally involving mutually agreeable conversation) or "vedute romane" ("vistas of Rome"). Work for L'Idea Nazionale brought Baldini to the notice of a far wider readership. Baldini was a member of the editorial board of the Rome-based magazine La Ronda between 1919 and 1922.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%20Clifford%2C%2012th%20Baron%20Clifford%20of%20Chudleigh
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Lewis Clifford, 12th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh
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Lewis Joseph Hugh Clifford, 12th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (7 February 1889 – 27 August 1964) was an Australian/British peer. He inherited his title from his older brother, Charles Oswald Hugh Clifford, who died without male issue on 1 February 1962. As he died a little over two years later, he never spoke in the House of Lords.
His younger brother was the colonial administrator, Sir Bede Clifford.
Clifford was born in New Zealand and educated at Xavier College in Melbourne, Australia. Clifford's ancestors were recusants who cherished the relics of saints and martyrs. Lewis Clifford donated a relic of Saint Edmund of Abingdon, which had been rescued from Pontigny Abbey in France in 1849, to Sacred Heart Church in Croydon in Melbourne. Clifford lived at Yarra Brae in Wonga Park in Victoria which was the site of the Australia's first Pan-Pacific Scout Jamboree in 1948. He retired to the United Kingdom.
Family and children
He married Amy Webster and they had three children:
Hon. Rosamund Ann Clifford
Colonel Lewis Hugh Clifford, 13th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh
Hon. Mary Clifford
Following his first wife's death on 15 January 1926, Clifford married Mary Elizabeth Knox, younger daughter of Sir Adrian Knox who served as the second Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20J.%20Bending
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Simon J. Bending
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Simon John Bending, (born 29 October 1957) is a British physicist. He is a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Bath, where he was the Head of department from 2013 to 2016. He is co-director of the Bath-Exeter Centre for Graphene Science and
deputy director of the Bath-Bristol EPRSC Centre for Doctoral Training in Condensed Matter Physics. He developed scanning Hall probe microscopy and has made notable contributions to the field of superconductors.
Early life and education
Bending was born in Brentwood, Essex 29 October 1957 and attended St Peter's School, in South Weald, from 1962 to 1969 and then King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford from 1969 to 1976. In 1979, he graduated B.A. Hons (1st. class) in Natural Sciences - Physics from the University of Cambridge. He obtained his PhD in 1985, from the Applied Physics Department at Stanford University.
Research
Following his PhD, Bending joined the group of Dr P. Guéret at IBM Research Laboratories, Zürich, Switzerland, as a postdoc, in 1985. In 1986, he became a postdoc in the group of Prof. Klaus von Klitzing, at the Max Planck Institut FKF, in Stuttgart, Germany. An year earlier, Von Klitzing had been awarded the Physics Nobel Prize. Bending joined the University of Bath in 1989, first as a Lecturer and then as a Senior Lecturer, from 1995. In 1991–92, Bending supervised Andre Geim as a postdoc in his group. Geim was subsequently awarded the 2010 Physics Nobel Prize. In 1996, Bending was promoted to Reader and, in 2000, he was appointed to a personal chair in the Department of Physics.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Dare
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Margaret Dare
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Margaret Marie Dare (4 February 1902 – 11 February 1976), usually known as Marie Dare, was a Scottish composer and cellist, born in Newport-on-Tay. She composed mostly chamber music, including several string quartets and a quintet. Some of her cello music written for educational purposes is still in use today.
Life
Dare studied cello at the Guildhall School of Music under Charles Warwick Evans and W H Squire. She continued her cello studies in Paris with Paul Bazelaire and also took composition lessons at the Royal Academy of Music with Benjamin Dale. During her education she won the Gold Medal for Instrumentalists and the Sir Landon Ronald Prize.
While still a teenager, Dare made her professional cello debut on 1 July 1919 at the Aeolian Hall in London, and also performed as a soloist in a Victory Concert marking the end of World War 1 at the Royal Albert Hall. With the pianist Cecil Dixon she performed for early 2LO radio broadcasts from Marconi House in the early 1920s. In 1938 she formed the Maria Dare String Quartet, with Marjorie Hayward (violin), Susan Davies (violin) and Olive Davidson
(viola), which broadcast regularly on BBC radio for the next few years.
After serving as a Petty Officer in the Women's Royal Navy Service during World War II, Dare was appointed principal cellist in the Reid Orchestra in Edinburgh, performing as the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations in 1946. She gave recitals in Budapest, London, and Vienna. In her later years, she performed in the Scottish Trio with Wight Henderson (piano) and Horace Fellows (violin). She worked as a professor of Cello at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music. In later life she also played and composed for the double bass. She lived at 32A Warrender Park Terrace, Edinburgh, where she died in February 1976.
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Kandahar (ski course)
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Fatal accidents
On 29 January 1994, Austrian ski racer Ulrike Maier suffered fatal injuries at "FIS Schneise" section crashing into intermediate timing device at during the World Cup downhill event. A week before, she won a giant slalom in Maribor.
Thirty-five years earlier in 1959, Canadian John Semmelink crashed into a rock-filled gully and later succumbed to his injuries. Held on an icy course on 7 February in challenging conditions of fog and flat light, Semmerlink was the 44th racer on the course. At a lower section named Himmelreich (heaven) just from the finish, witnesses said one of his bindings opened and he crashed into a rock-filled gully. Semmerlink had a serious head injury and was taken by U.S. Army helicopter to a nearby U.S. military dispensary, but died of his injuries. Of the 89 starters, 39 did not finish the race.
Club5+
In 1986, elite Club5 was originally founded by prestigious classic downhill organizers: Kitzbühel, Wengen, Garmisch, Val d’Isère and Val Gardena/Gröden, with goal to bring alpine ski sport on the highest levels possible.
Later over the years other classic longterm organizers joined the now named Club5+: Alta Badia, Cortina, Kranjska Gora, Maribor, Lake Louise, Schladming, Adelboden, Kvitfjell, St.Moritz and Åre.
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Harry Aiken Vincent
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Harry Aiken Vincent (1861-1931) was a largely self-taught American artist known for his plein air landscape paintings. Many of his oil paintings portrayed marine scenes at the start or end of the day, featuring boats and fishing activity in New England, particularly on Cape Ann, and in France. The treatment of water, sky, light and color in his works was representative of the American school of Impressionism. He was also skilled at water color and drawing in charcoal.
Vincent was born in Chicago and began his artistic career working for Thomas G. Moses of Sosman and Landis as a scenic painter for theaters, creating elaborate backdrops.
His earliest known oil paintings often depicted rural scenes of towns and farms outside of Chicago. In 1893 he exhibited at the World's Fair in Chicago. Vincent moved to the New York City area in the late 1890s, when his work increasingly drew the recognition of his peers and the attention of collectors. He maintained a studio at 155 W. 29th Street in New York City between 1907 and 1917. In 1907 he won the Shaw Prize awarded for a work in black and white by the Salmagundi Club. He also won the Turnbull Prize in 1918, and the Porter Prize in 1925. In 1928 he was recognized with the Samuel Twybill Shaw prize for watercolor. He also won the Paul L. Hammond prize given by the New York Watercolor Club for his painting "Rockport Harbor".
In the latter part of his career, until his death in 1931, Vincent lived in Rockport, Massachusetts, on Atlantic Avenue facing the inner harbor. He became a respected senior member of the Rockport Art Association, which he helped to found in 1921, serving as its first President, and the North Shore Art Association. Like other Cape Ann artists, he created many views of Gloucester harbor, and interpretations of an iconic fish shack on a wharf in Rockport, known fondly as Motif Number One. Street scenes and landscapes of the local granite quarries also attracted his eye, but he was continuously drawn to seaside settings.
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Jean Raon
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Jean Raon (4 July 1630 – 4 April 1707) was a French sculptor who worked mainly for Louis XIV. He is best known for his sculptures placed in the Gardens of Versailles, although he also produced bas-reliefs and pediments.
Life
Jean Raon, the son of a master mason, was born in Paris, and first trained by his father; in 1666 he went to Rome to study art as a boarder at the French Academy in Rome at the King's expense, in the new study abroad programme supported by the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. After studying Roman antiquities for three years, he returned to France to work at Versailles.
Raon would be continuously employed by Louis XIV to work on Charles Le Brun's major programme of sculpture, architecture and landscaping until 1699. He worked not only at Versailles but also at the royal buildings at Clagny, Marly and Meudon, as well as at the church of the Hôtel des Invalides.
Raon was accepted as a member of the Académie Royale on 26 March 1672 with St Luke, a marble low relief, and received the title of professor at the Academy in 1690. He exhibited at the Salon of the Académie in 1673 and 1679. In his last years he divided his time between teaching and sculpting for the royal residences.
Works
Raon's works include: Apollo at the museum of Versailles; St Luke for a chapel in Notre-Dame, Versailles; Winter in the Tuileries gardens; Vigilance and Diligence, stone statues for the façade of the palace of Versailles and, on the exterior of its chapel, Group of Children Carrying the Emblems for the Catholic Mass, as well as a marble vase decorated with vine branches and two female heads crowned with ivy for the park; Nymph Leaning on an Urn of Flowers and Near Her, a Lover Holding a Quiver, a marble group for the palace of Versailles and for the grounds of the château, Lion Attacking a Boar, two groups of nymphs, Arion, Night and Bacchus.
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Amphitheatre of Castrum Rauracense
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The Amphitheatre of Catrum Rauracense is the youngest known surviving Roman amphitheatre across the entire Roman Empire. It is located in the ancient Roman fort of Castrum Rauracense, near Kaiseraugst, Switzerland and only ruins survive today. It is the eighth Roman amphitheatre discovered in Switzerland to date.
The fort was built around 300 AD, and the amphitheatre also dates to the fourth century, shortly before the collapse of the Roman Empire and local Germanic tribes moved into the area; the amphitheatre was extant by around 337 to 341 AD based on coins found at the site. It was built on the site of a Roman quarry and is roughly long and wide. A boathouse was planned to be built on the site, and the ruins of a Roman quarry were expected to be found. Excavations by the Aargau Canton Archaeology Department, led by Jakob Baerlocher, began on the site in December 2021 and the amphitheatre was discovered instead, with parts of the gates and side entrances complete with preserved sandstone threshold and parts of the interior walls coated with plaster being uncovered. The remains of the amphitheatre will be left in situ and the boathouse will be built above the ruins, with a glass viewing platform to observe the ruins.
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Racial diversity and discrimination in STEM fields
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According to the National Science Foundation (NSF), women and racial minorities are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Scholars, governments, and scientific organizations from around the world have noted a variety of explanations contributing to this lack of racial diversity, including higher levels of discrimination, implicit bias, microaggressions, chilly climate, lack of role models and mentors, and less academic preparation.
Race imbalance in STEM in the United States
Racial minorities, with the exception of Asian Americans, are underrepresented through every stage of the STEM pipeline.
Education and degree attainment
Racial disparities in high school completion are a prominent reason for racial imbalances in STEM fields. While only 1.8% of Asian and 4.1% of White students drop out of high school, 5.6% of Black, 7.7% of Hispanic, 8.0% of Pacific Islander, and 9.6% of American Indian/Alaskan Native students drop out of high school. Among those that graduate high school, 67% of Whites, 62% of Blacks, and 69% of Hispanics enroll in a “degree granting college.” While there is no measurable difference in college enrollment of White, Black, and Hispanic STEM students, only 15% of Black students who initially enrolled in a STEM major received a STEM bachelor's degree at graduation, compared to 30% of White and Asian students.
Employment, occupation, and income
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John Dronsfield
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John Dronsfield (7 March 1900–12 July 1951) was an English artist known for his work in South Africa.
Life
Born in Oldham, Lancashire, Dronsfield studied briefly at the Manchester School of Art before enlisting with the Young Soldiers’ Battalion – Cheshire Regiment in 1918. He was discharged as physically unfit in 1919 and began working in stage design with Sybil Thorndike in London. He worked as an illustrator and advertisement designer in the 1930s, illustrating The Weekend-End Book (Nonesuch Press) in 1936. He emigrated to South Africa in 1939, continuing his career as a stage designer. In 1942, he published Non-Europeans Only, a book of drawings of the Cape Coloured community.
He held his first solo exhibition in Cape Town in 1939, followed by joining a South African exhibition at the Tate in 1948 and the Venice Biennale in 1951. He committed suicide in 1951, following his death, two memorial exhibitions were held in Cape Town in 1955 and 1967.
In 1955, Oxford University Press published a collection of his verses and satires. Two portfolios of his graphic studies were also published under the title African Improvisations.
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Joyce Laing (art therapist)
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Joyce Laing OBE, art therapist (1939 - 2022) was a 'pioneer of art therapy'.
Laing saw a means of releasing creativity in long term psychiatric in-patients such as Angus McPhee (who did not speak for fifty years but created woven grass art), and worked with long-term (including violent) prisoners in the Barlinnie Special Unit, Glasgow, Scotland, such as Jimmy Boyle and Hugh Collins, both in prison for murder, who became sculptors. She was awarded an OBE in 2008 for her work and founded two major Scottish art exhibitions and wrote and edited publications about the evolution of art therapy.
Education and career
Joyce Laing, was born in Aberdeen where she attended Gray's School of Art, studying Fine Art intending a career as an artist. After a friend who fell ill with tuberculosis (TB), became employed working with long term TB patients told her about using painting as a form of therapy. Laing then volunteered at Glen O'Dee TB sanitorium. She observed the relationship and differences between the colour and style of art produced during severe illness and in recovery.
She wrote about the benefits of art in mental health treatment and joined Professor Malcolm Millar at the experimental psychiatric unit at the Ross Clinic, Aberdeen, developing art therapy techniques with schizophrenia and bipolar disorders (then called manic depression). Laing then moved to the Nuffield Clinic, Edinburgh extending her practice to treating alcoholism and worked with 'maladjusted' children.
Her work with the violent prisoners at Barlinnie Special Unit began in 1973, and Laing told BBC Radio Scotland (2007) "If you can channel that energy into positive creation instead of a destructive creation, then you're on to a winner." Her work was admired by emeritus professor of criminal and community justice at the University of Strathclyde, Mike Nellis, who saw her working with prisoners with a history of violence in 2009-10, and said"I saw how crucial she was to the success of the unit.
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"The unit had the most violent men in the Scottish prison system and she started something that no one foresaw - and she handled it.
"That was the genius of Joyce Laing."
Jimmy Boyle's wife, psychotherapist Sara Trevelyan who married him in prison, said "Joyce saw how the work of each individual could express their inner state of being. She knew it was a key to transformation for many of these people."
She discovered, in Craig Dunain psychiatric hospital, Angus McPhee from South Uist, who suffered from schizophrenia and did not speak for fifty years but made 'art' works from natural materials, which he silently saw swept away with the autumn leaves, or quietly burned when clearing the grounds as part of the 'farm ward'. She got his consent to exhibit some of his work and continued to visit him after his release until his death and wrote a book about his work. In 2011/2012 artist Mike Inglis incorporated materials from Angus's work and life in a permanent Public Art wall installation in Inverness and refers to Joyce Laing in "Chasing the Ghost of Angus McPhee" supported by Creative Scotland and University of Edinburgh research grants, presented including a short video of her speaking about him, at the European Outsider Art Conference (2022).
Laing lived in Pittenweem, Fife and founded an art festival there, which included some of the rescued work by Angus McPhee. She also became a consultant and lecturer at the University of Edinburgh School of Art Therapy.
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Dasineura plicatrix
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Dasineura plicatrix is a species of gall midge, an insect in the family Cecidomyiidae, found in Europe. It was described by the German entomologist Friedrich Hermann Loew in 1850. The larvae feed within the tissue of bramble leaves, creating an abnormal growth known as a plant gall.
Description
Signs of Dasineura plicatrix are contorted, young bramble leaves, which are found in the spring and early summer. The leaves can be creased, pleated or pluckered, with thickened veins, and conspicuous black staining around the gall. The white larvae can be found until early summer when they drop out of the galls and pupate in the soil. There is disagreement in the literature as to whether there is a single generation a year or several per year. The gall is often overlooked as just a crumpled leaf.
Galls have been found on the following species,
Rubus caesius – European dewberry
Rubus canescens
Rubus fruticosus – blackberry
Rubus gracilis
Rubus hirtus
Rubus idaeus – raspberry
Rubus plicatus
Rubus ulmifolius – elmleaf blackberry
Rubus vestitus
Distribution
Found in Europe, it is common in Great Britain.
Inquiline
Lestodiplosis plicatricis is an inquiline; a lodger or tenant of Dasineura plicatrix and live in the gall.
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Otocinclus vittatus is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it is known from the basins of the Amazon River, the Xingu River, the Paraguay River, the Orinoco, the Paraná River, and the Tocantins River. It reaches 3.3 cm (1.3 inches) in total length. The species is found in the aquarium trade, where it is usually known as either the common otocinclus or the dwarf otocinclus, both of which are names that are used for other related species.
In the aquarium
The common otocinclus is typically sold as an algae eater. It will rasp most kinds of algae from leaves, hard scape and glass. Unlike many fish sold under this label, this otocinclus is voracious and can starve if not given proper supplementary feedings after stripping an aquarium of all its preferred foods. This can be difficult, as they can be picky and may not take some foods.
The common otocinclus is a fragile fish, and it is almost always wild caught. Losses are not uncommon when adding a school to a tank. It should be kept in numbers, and will easily become stressed if kept without a sufficiently large school.
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HMS Swallow (1745)
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The two ships sailed for the Pacific on 21 August, but the working relationship between Carteret and Wallis had already begun to break down, and Wallis initially refused to tell Swallows captain about their exploration plans, leaving him for three weeks to believe that they were tasked with re-provisioning Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands instead. The ships reached Madeira, with Swallow already holding up the pace of Dolphin. There, eight of Swallows crew swam ashore to find liquor, having left most of their clothes onboard the ship. Upon returning they were accused of desertion, but Carteret pardoned them, saying that "the failings of brave men should be treated with kindness". Swallow and Dolphin reached Cape Virgenes on 16 December, where they recorded the height of the native Patagonians who were thought to be abnormally tall. At Cape Virgenes the store ship Prince Frederick, which had been sailing in company with the expedition, left to go to Port Egmont, having provided further supplies for the other two ships.
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Exploration
Swallow had been serving as a tender for Dolphin and had few supplies of her own on board, and no rendezvous had been agreed upon for if the ships lost each other. With the wind against her, it took her four days to follow Dolphin into open seas. Carteret then made the decision to continue exploring on his own despite the failings of his vessel. Swallow first sailed to the Juan Fernández Islands, expecting that there the crew would be able to prepare the ship for further exploration. Upon arriving there on 10 May Carteret discovered that the previously deserted location had been garrisoned by the Spanish without Britain's knowledge. Unable to refit there, Swallow instead went to Masafuera where she succeeded in watering only after a struggle, as the island lacked a safe landing point. Conditions continued to deteriorate through Swallows two-week stay at Masafuera, and she left the island on 31 May.
Carteret planned to go in search of Davis Land, a phantom island, on a path that would have taken Swallow to New Zealand, but the winds did not allow it and they were forced northwards before beginning to sail west. Carteret discovered an island on 2 July, which he named Pitcairn after the midshipman who first spotted it. Carteret described it as "scarce better than a large rock in the ocean". By August the crew had begun to be beset by scurvy and Carteret set out to look for a safe haven to rest; they reached Santa Cruz Island, but only managed to get water onboard before they were forced away by attacks from the native islanders who were upset by the crew cutting down sacred trees. Four men injured in the skirmish later died of tetanus. Having failed to replenish themselves, the crew was increasingly sickly (including Carteret) and Swallow continued to deteriorate.
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Post-imperial Assyria
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Although the Neo-Babylonian kings largely kept the administration of the Assyrian Empire and at times drew on Assyrian rhetoric and symbols for legitimacy, particularly in the reign of Nabonidus (556–539 BC, the last Neo-Babylonian king), they also at times worked to distance themselves from the Assyrian kings that had preceded them and never assumed the title 'king of Assyria'. Throughout the time of the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid empires, Assyria was a marginal and sparsely populated region, perhaps chiefly due to the limited interest of the Neo-Babylonian kings to invest resources into its economic and societal development. Individuals with Assyrian names are attested at multiple sites in Babylonia during the Neo-Babylonian Empire, including Babylon, Nippur, Uruk, Sippar, Dilbat and Borsippa. The Assyrians in Uruk apparently continued to exist as a community until the reign of the Achaemenid king Cambyses II (530–522 BC) and were closely linked to a local cult dedicated to the Assyrian national deity Ashur.
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Post-imperial Assyria
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In the aftermath of the Achaemenid Empire's conquest by Alexander the Great, Assyria and much of the rest of the former Achaemenid lands came under the control of the Seleucid Empire, founded by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander's generals. Though Assyria was centrally located within this empire, and must have been a significant base of power, the region is mentioned very rarely in textual sources from the period. This might perhaps be explained by the political and economic centers of the Seleucid Empire being in heavily urbanized Babylonia in the south, particularly in Babylon itself and the new city Seleucia, and in Syria in the west, particularly the empire's western capital Antioch. Though the Seleucids adopted a policy of hellenization and often emphasized their Hellenic origin, they also at times took on or played into the cultures of the people they ruled. Perhaps as a result of this, and of the Seleucid Empire governing virtually all of the Assyrian Empire's old lands (other than Egypt, which was only briefly under Assyrian control), a handful of ancient documents correlate the Seleucid Empire to "Assyria".
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Assur, perhaps now known under the name Labbana (derived from Libbali, "heart of the city", the ancient Assyrian name for the city's temple quarter) flourished under Parthian rule, with many buildings being either repaired or constructed from scratch. Per the historian Peter Haider, "after the Parthian conquest of Mesopotamia, Assur came to life again". From around or shortly after the end of the 2nd century BC, the city may have become the capital of its own small semi-autonomous realm, either under the suzerainty of Hatra, or under direct Parthian suzerainty. Among the buildings constructed was a new local palace, dubbed the "Parthian Palace" by historians. All in all, the buildings built under the Parthian period cover about two thirds of the area of the city as it was in Neo-Assyrian times. Stelae erected by the local rulers of Assur in this time resemble the stelae erected by the Neo-Assyrian kings, though the rulers are depicted in Parthian-style trouser-suits rather than ancient garb. The rulers used the title maryo of Assur ("master of Assur") and appear to have viewed themselves as continuing the old Assyrian royal tradition. These stelae retain the shape, framing and placement (often in city gates) of stelae erected under the ancient kings and also depict the central figure in reverence of the moon and sun, an ever-present motif in the ancient royal stelae.
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The archaeological evidence is also scant from the Seleucid period and it consists mainly of coinage and characteristic Seleucid pottery types, such as bowls and fishplates with incurved rims. The most extensive Assyrian archaeological finds from the post-imperial period are from the time of Parthian rule over the region. At Assur, many Aramaic inscriptions have been found from the Parthian period, as well as ruins of sanctuaries and residential areas. Parthian Assur in many ways was a combination of old and new, with several ancient Assyrian temples rebuilt on top of their old foundations, though with stylistic elements combining old native Mesopotamian and new Parthian architectural styles. Exactly on top of the old temple dedicated to Ashur, a tripartite temple was constructed in the Parthian period. In shape and size, this new temple was likely similar to the Great Iwans at Hatra, a mighty temple structure. The ruins of personal houses indicate that they followed Parthian designs. The Parthians rebuilt even the old Assyrian festival house, exactly according to its original plan.
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Language
The official language of the Assyrian Empire was the Assyrian dialect of the Akkadian language. Usage of this language was already becoming more restricted in Neo-Assyrian times due to the growth of Aramaic. By the last few decades of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Aramaic was the main spoken language of the empire. Despite the centuries of foreign rule, and influence of foreign languages such as Greek, the predominant language in the cities and countryside of Assyria likely remained Aramaic throughout the post-imperial period. The Assyrian dialect of the Akkadian language itself remained in use for some time after the fall of the Assyrian Empire, though in a much restricted capacity, probably not going extinct until around the end of the 6th century BC.
The language commonly spoken by modern Assyrians, Suret, resembles Akkadian very little and is instead a Neo-Aramaic language, descended from the Aramaic dialects of the post-imperial period. Modern Aramaic retains some ancient Akkadian influence, as there are several known examples of Akkadian loanwords in the ancient and modern Aramaic dialects. The Syriac language, an Aramaic dialect today mainly used liturgical language, has at least fourteen exclusive (i.e. not attested in other dialects) loanwords from Akkadian, including nine of which are clearly from the ancient Assyrian dialect (six of which are architectural or topographical terms).
Religion
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John Karrs
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John Bernard Karrs (September 19, 1915 – November 27, 1999) was an American professional football quarterback who played for the Cleveland Rams in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Duquesne University.
He was also one of the first left-handed quarterbacks in the history of the NFL.
Coaching career
Karrs was a sports coach for several high school teams. He was primarily a coach at New Kenn High for years. In 1944, he was going to accept a new job at Waynesboro High School but ended up backing out shortly after and remaining a coach at Kenn High. However, he was on the hot seat and had an option to either coach at Kenn High, or play a season with the Cleveland Rams. He ended up choosing to play with the Rams and was no longer a coach at Kenn High.
Professional career
Despite not playing football for six seasons prior, Karrs signed with the Cleveland Rams in 1944. Playing in all ten games of the season and starting in eight, he threw four completions for 49 yards with a 23-yard pass being his longest of the season. He also rushed seven times for 0 total yards with his longest run being 3 yards.
Karrs was still on the Rams in the 1945 offseason but got involved in a 2-for-1 trade that put him on the Pittsburgh Steelers two weeks before the preseason began. He did not play an NFL game with the Steelers.
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Great Hanoi Rat Massacre
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The French Quartier Européen was located right next to the old 36 streets of Hanoi, in the perspective of the French the 36 streets were an old and dirty place. The Native Quarter had many lakes and ponds, the roads were mostly dirt roads, when it rained it became muddy, and the houses were shabby with mostly thatched roofs. By contrast, the Quartier Européen area had wide roads, green trees, and white spacious villas. Roughly 90% of the population of Hanoi lived in the Old Quarter which made up only ⅓rd of its surface area, while the Quartier Européen and an administrative and military district to the west held only 10% of the city's population and made up the other ⅔ of the city. This resulted in Hanoi being an examplar "colonial dual city" where the colonial elites enjoyed a spacious luxurious lifestyles compared to the colonised natives who were all cramped into pre-colonial slums.
During the early period of French rule in the Union of Indochina, colonial officials knew almost nothing about the tropical diseases they would encounter. When epidemics of smallpox, diarrhea, dengue fever, syphilis, etc. would break out they could do nothing but erect barriers between them and the natives. The French regarded their colonial empire as a Mission Civilisatrice and justified the urban renovations of Hanoi as an act to "combat disease".
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The French soon started noticing living and healthy rats running around without their tails. The rat hunters amputated their tails and then let them escape so they could breed and create more offspring with tails to then repeat the process. Furthermore, there were also reports that some Vietnamese people were deliberately smuggling in rats from outside Hanoi into the city. The final straw for this plan was when French health inspectors discovered rat farming operations popping up in the countryside on the outskirts of Hanoi, that were breeding rats solely for their tails as some sort of "tail creation factories".
As the French policies had failed to accomplish its objectives, in fact having made the rat problem even worse in Hanoi, they cancelled the bounty programme.
Aftermath
After the failed campaign ended, the rats, now more numerous than ever, continued frolicking underneath the city and the French had resigned to have to live with them.
Former governor-general Paul Doumer wanted to organise the Hanoi Exhibition (an international colonial exposition) as an occasion to flaunt the city of Hanoi as a civilised and sanitary, presenting it as a victory of the French government. The Hanoi Exhibition ran from 1902 until 1903 and during its time many goods and cargo from all over the world poured into Hanoi, this added to Hanoi's burden of disease because foreign rats brought pathogenic germs along with the cargo. By 1903 the Bubonic plague had infected 159 people; Of these, 110 died. Most of the victims were native Vietnamese people, while only 6 French colonists were infected, of which 2 died. Among the reasons why the death toll was higher among the Vietnamese was because they kept their sick family members a secret out of a fear that if the authorities found out about them that they would come to check and interfere.
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Vann originally published Of Rats, Rice, and Race: The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre, an Episode in French Colonial History in a journal in 2003. For years he assumed that only "a few dozen colleagues read the piece and kind of forgot about it" until he was approached by the producers of a podcast show called Freakonomics Radio through a phone call that took place in 2012. The producers of Freakonomics Radio asked Vann if he would attend the podcast to illustrate the economic principle of perverse incentives, a concept he was unfamiliar with at the time. After the interview he learned that his article on the Great Hanoi Rat Massacre was being cited by a substantial number of economists and business journalists.
The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam
In 2018 Micheal G. Vann and comic book artist Liz Clarke published the book The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam (Vietnamese: Cuộc đại thảm sát chuột tại Hà Nội: Đế chế, Dịch bệnh và Sự Hiện đại ở VN thời Pháp thuộc) through the Oxford University Press. The book is a hybrid scholarly volume and graphic novel (long-form comic book). While the bulk of the information contained within the book is the form of an academic work authored by Vann, there are hundreds of pages in comic book format, which were drawn up by Clarke.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer%20zu%20Rain
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Rainer zu Rain
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History
The Rainer zu Rain were considered old tournament nobility, and therefore stood out within the lower nobility as a more respected family. The family remained in Rain until the mid-16th century. They held the hereditary office of chief treasurer of the Duchy of Bavaria. The Carinthian line was founded by Hayman IV von Rain zu Sommeregg († 1543), who came from Bavaria and married Rosina von Graben zu Sommeregg from the von Graben family. Rosina was the heiress to the Sommeregger burgrave Ernst von Graben, and so in 1513 this estate, various other estates and the blue and white coat of arms of the Graben passed to the von Rain family. Haymeran was in the service of Emperor Ferdinand I and served the imperial family as a field captain in Italy. For their services, the brothers Haymeran and Christoph Reiner [Rainer, Von Rain] were appointed barons of Rain zu Sommeregg by Emperor Charles V on 10 November 1530. The marriage of Haymeran and Rosina produced at least three daughters, including Beatrix von Rain († 1538), and a son, Hans Joachim von Rain zu Sommeregg, who was married to Catharina Auwetia from Auburg. Since Hans Joachim, as heir to his uncle Christoph II Rainer zu Rain, moved the center of his rule back to Bavaria in 1548, he sold Sommeregg and the Töplitsch district in 1550 to Christoph Khevenhüller von Aichelberg. Shortly after Hans Joachim von Rain's return home, the entire family died out. The heiress Ursula Freiin von und zu Rain (died 1588) married Paul (Paulus) von Leublfing auf Hautzenstein and Salern zu Rain and Grafentraubach (died 1592) in 1573 and also brought Rain Castle and Lordship to the marriage.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar%20Stoja%C4%8Dkovi%C4%87
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Aleksandar Stojačković
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Aleksandar Stojačković (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Стојачковић; 25 May 1822 - 21 June 1893) was a 19th century Serbian historian, publicist and politician. He was a colleague of Jovan Sterija Popović, and taught Laza Kostić, and Ilarion Ruvarac.
Family, youth
He hails from an old, respectable Serbian family in Sombor from the time of the Military Frontier. His grandfather was Mihailo Stojačković. Father Luka Stojačković (1785-1864) was a prominent figure of the 19th century Sombor and Bačka. Luka distinguished himself from 1848 to 1849 when he was elected president of the District Bačka Board of the Serbian movement. A lawyer by profession, he was for a long time a member of the municipal board, a city senator and the manager of Serbian public schools in Sombor (since 1850). He had from his marriage (concluded in 1818) with Sofia née Djekić from Osijek, two sons - Aleksandar and Nikola, and two daughters. His farm near Sombor was burned down by the Hungarian revolutionaries in February 1849. The character and work of his father Luka, the "Great Serb", were described and published in 1882 by his son Aleksandar.
Aleksandar attended high school in Sremski Karlovci and Kecskemét. He also finished the seminary in Karlovac. He studied philosophy in Pecs and law in Pest.
Career
In 1847, he was elected professor of general history at the Karlovac High School. He represented Karlovac as a member of the May Assembly in 1848. During the Serbian People's Movement 1848-1849. he was the secretary of Duke Stevan Šupljikac. After the end of the revolution, he was a translator for the Serbian language in Timisoara, the administrative center of the Duchy of Serbia and the Tamis Banat. Then he was the mayor of Vršac for a short period. From 1860 he was the first headmaster, and then the secretary of the Hungarian vicarage in Budapest. From 1867 he worked in the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior, first as a secretary and then as a departmental adviser. He retired in 1883 and continued to live in Buda.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar%20Stoja%C4%8Dkovi%C4%87
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Aleksandar Stojačković
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Academic
Professor Stojačković was appreciated in Serbia for his historiographical works. On 1 August 1848, he became a very young, corresponding (correspondent) member of the Society of Serbian Literature in Belgrade. He became a corresponding member, now of the Serbian Academic Society], on 29 July 1864. He became an honorary member of the Serbian Royal Academy on 15 November 1892.
Political engagement
At the Annunciation Assembly in 1861, he was a deputy of the city of Sombor and a parliamentary leader. He also took an active part in the Church-People's Assembly held in 1892. Previously, he chaired the Committee of Fifteen, which in 1891 discussed issues important for the Serbian church autonomy. On several occasions, he was a member of the Hungarian Parliament - as a representative of Sombor (1866-1869), Vršac (1884-1887) and the Bela Crkva constituency (1887-1892).
In the old days, he was the president of the Serbian Orthodox community in Buda for many years.
Scientific and journalistic work
He published his first paper in 1843 in the Serbian People's Gazette of Teodor Pavlović. He published a total of fifteen historical treatises in the aforementioned newspaper, as well as in the Letopi (Chronicle) of Matica srpska. Before the Hungarian revolution in 1847, he published the first book, about the Orthodox rite and promoting the Cyrillic alphabet, which he became famous for in Serbia proper.
For a year (1888-1889) he edited the Serbian daily (Српски дневник), "a paper for politics, education, economy, labour and trade".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Douglas%20Robinson%20Kidder
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Dorothy Douglas Robinson Kidder
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Dorothy Douglas Robinson Kidder (June 30, 1917 – September 18, 1995) was an American socialite, philanthropist and political hostess. She was president of the Association of American Foreign Service Women.
Early life and education
Dorothy Douglas Robinson was born in Manchester, Massachusetts, the daughter of Monroe Douglas Robinson and Dorothy M. Jordan Robinson (later Chadwick). Her grandparents included Douglas Robinson Jr. and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, and her great-grandfather was Boston businessman Eben Dyer Jordan. Her aunt Corinne Alsop Cole and her uncle Theodore Douglas Robinson were both in politics. Her first cousins included journalists Joseph Alsop and Stewart Alsop. Writer Susan Mary Alsop, a relation by marriage, was a close friend and one of her bridesmaids.
Robinson attended the Chapin School in New York and the Foxcroft School in Virginia.
Personal life
Dorothy Douglas Robinson married foreign service officer Randolph Appleton ("Randy") Kidder, son of archaeologist Alfred V. Kidder, in 1938. They had a son, Michael, born in Canada, and a daughter, Charlotte, born in Australia. She died from lung cancer in 1995, aged 78 years, at her home in Washington, D.C. Her memorial service was held at the National Cathedral.
Career
With her diplomat husband, Kidder lived and worked in Canada, Australia, Brazil, Vietnam, and France from 1938 to 1968. Her husband was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia in 1964, but was not able to serve. She was president of the Association of American Foreign Service Women in the 1960s, and contributed travel, fashion, and interview articles to the Boston Globe, while she was living in Paris in the 1970s.
Kidder's philanthropic efforts focused on the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Arboretum, and the Kennedy Center, especially its dance programs. She also founded the Hopeful Fund, to support services for the unhoused population in Washington, D.C.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Astonishing%20Color%20of%20After
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The Astonishing Color of After
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Using Emily X.R. Pan’s novel as an example, scholar Michelle Falkoff examines the pros and cons of assigning books in school that depict suicide, especially the danger of ambiguous depictions read without critical discussion. Falkoff asserts that novels that address these complex topics require guidance, for while they may provide valuable insight for students to gain conscientiousness and compassion, they may create an unhealthy obsession with suicide. She concludes that educators’ positionality is therefore vital in critically analyzing and guiding their students through suicide-topic novels to help build empathy and awareness.
Reception
The Astonishing Color of After was a New York Times and IndieBound best seller.
The book received starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly, as well as positive reviews from The New York Times Book Review, Bustle, and Kirkus.
Meg Medina of The New York Times Book Review called the book "lyrical and suspenseful."
Publishers Weekly wrote, "The subtlety and ambiguity of the supernatural elements place this story in the realm of magical realism, full of ghosts and complex feelings and sending an undeniable message about the power of hope and inner strength."
Kirkus called the book "[a]n evocative novel that captures the uncertain, unmoored feeling of existing between worlds—culturally, linguistically, ethnically, romantically, and existentially—it is also about seeking hope and finding beauty even in one’s darkest hours."
TIME included The Astonishing Color of After on its list "The 100 Best YA Books of All Time." Bustle and Paste named it one of the best young adult books of 2018.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malambo%20%28dance%29
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Malambo (dance)
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The 2020 coming-of-age drama film Karnawal, written and directed by Juan Pablo Félix, tells the story of Cabra, a teenager who dreams of becoming a professional malambo dancer. The leading actor, Martín López Lacci, was discovered by the casting team while he performed in the National Malambo Festival in Laborde.
The 2018 drama film “Malambo: El hombre bueno”, directed by Santiago Loza, revolves around the relationship between a malambo dancer and his mentor, as the protagonist trains in order to return to the National Malambo Festival's competition after sustaining a back injury.
Documentaries
“Guerrero de norte y sur”, a 2019 documentary film directed by Mauricio Halek, depicts the day-to-day life of Facundo Arteaga, a solo malambo dancer, as he tries his luck at the national competition one last time. The film focuses on the solitary nature of the solo dancer “reinforcing the prototypical image of the gaucho from the Pampas Plain in its desolate immensity.”
The documentary film “Origen, el malambo y la mujer” (2021), directed by Sergio Magallanes, revolves around female malambo dancers and the National Women's Malambo Championship (Campeonato Nacional de Malambo Femenino), which takes place in Villa Carlos Paz, Córdoba since 2018. The film includes the testimonies of José Luis Báez and Ivana Carrasco, the creators of the competition.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camerata%20Academica%20of%20the%20Antipodes
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Camerata Academica of the Antipodes
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Camerata Academica of the Antipodes is an Australian chamber orchestra and vocal ensemble formed in 2014. It was founded by three Coward siblings, Imogen, Taliésin and Leon, who are all multi-instrumentalists and composers, together with various friends. Their main genre is the Baroque music of Vivaldi, Handel and Corelli but includes other eras and styles, and their own compositions.
Background
The Coward siblings, Imogen, Taliésin and Leon were home-schooled by their parents up to university level. Their mother, Ann Coward, is of Greek-Australian descent and they attended St George Greek Orthodox Church, Rose Bay. Each sibling has completed a PhD in musicology.
Imogen (born ), at 16 years-old, was studying for an external degree at the University of New England. Leon (born 1991) studied at the Julian Ashton Art School and at the University of New England, and graduated with a first class honours Bachelor of Arts degree in 2013. He completed his PhD study in 2017, writing his dissertation on creating a new method for analysing film design. He used that method in the development of the film, 2BR02B: To Be or Naught To Be (2016). Since 2017 Leon has been a judge for the Sydney Indie Film Festival. At the age of 14 Leon promoted good reading for children and asked a local book store if he could organise events on their premises. Between 2005 and 2008, he organised visits by Australian children's authors to that book store. He met Libby Hathorn through these events, and later illustrated her book Vietnam Reflections (2010). It was a presentation gift to the Australian War Memorial and won the 2010 Poetry Prize at the Inaugural Woollahra Library Word Festival.
Formation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Crest%20Trail%20Association
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Pacific Crest Trail Association
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Through media campaigns and its own outreach, the PCTA educates hikers about issues that affect the trail. These issues can include temporary closures, or can be more global. For example, the PCT makes hikers aware of how climate change is affecting large-scale western forest fires, which can destroy hundreds of miles of trail and create life-threatening conditions that force hikers to abandon their itineraries.
Additionally, the PCTA website contains comprehensive information about trail closures, conditions, relocations, events, books, maps, and upcoming trail events that educate hikers in safe backcountry travel and Leave No Trace principles. In 2017, in cooperation with some of its donors, it operated a program it called P3 (Preserve, Protect, and Promote—taken from its mission statement), which highlighted ten Pacific Crest Trail thru-hikers who would help promote and advocate for the PCT via blogs and social media during their thru-hikes.
Trail maintenance and continuity
The Pacific Crest Trail Association takes a lead role in maintaining the trail and keeping it open and passable as a continuous foot and bridle path from Mexico to Canada. Maintaining the trail requires clearing undergrowth and fallen trees, repairing damage from storms and flooding, building new trail that needs to be relocated because of damage, treadway improvement, or land ownership issues; and maintaining trail signage. Speaking as the executive director of the PCTA in 2016, Liz Bergeron, told ESPN that PCTA volunteers logged 96,500 hours in the previous year, the majority of which were spent on trail maintenance. She estimated that PCTA volunteers probably covered about 50 percent of what is needed every year, or about 1300 miles of the trail's nearly 2700 mile length. The PCTA additionally runs a trail skills course that educates volunteers about trail maintenance, tools, and safety.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef%20Morgenstern
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Josef Morgenstern
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Nazi persecution
When Austria joined the Nazi Third Reich in the Anschluss of March 1938, the Morgensterns were persecuted because they were Jewish. His employer, the limited partnership Kontinentale Eisenhandelsgesellschaft Kern & CoMorgenstern, fired him from his job as deputy head of the Röhrenkartell office in May 1938. The Morgensterns attempted unsuccessfully to flee to North America. Alice and Josef Morgenstern left Vienna for Yugoslavia on August 13, 1938 to the island of Korčula. In December 1938, they traveled to Brussels thanks to a work visa that Morgenstern was able to obtain in Zagreb. However, when German troops invaded Belgium in May 1940, Josef was arrested, deported to southern France, imprisoned in the Saint Cyprien camp, then, at the end of 1940, sent to the Gurs camp and then to the Drancy transit camp. On September 9, 1942, Josef Morgenstern was deported on the 30th deportation transport to Auschwitz, where he was murdered at an unknown date. Alice Morgenstern remained in hiding in Brussels with the help of her lodger. She died on 25 October 1970 in poverty in a Jewish old people's home in Brussels. Josef Morgenstern's only brother and all three of Alice Morgenstern's sisters were murdered by Nazis in the Holocaust.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20Care%20In%20Danger
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Health Care In Danger
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Health Care In Danger is a campaign organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross that highlights violent attacks on patients, healthcare workers, and healthcare facilities in conflict zones.
The campaign was launched in 2011 with the publication of a report detailing attacks on healthcare facilities and workers and analyzing the health impacts for communities as healthcare workers flee.
Background
Global appreciation about the neutral and impartial role that humanitarian aid organizations take in situations of armed conflict diminished in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
Launch
The International Committee of the Red Cross launched the Health Care In Danger campaign in 2011 with the publication of a report detailing 655 attacks on healthcare facilities in sixteen countries, noting them as breaches of the Geneva Conventions.
The report explained how attacks on healthcare facilities and healthcare workers in conflict zones reduced the ability of humanitarian aid organizations to deliver humanitarian health services to people with healthcare needs. The report included the slogan "Violence against health care must end".
The campaign aimed to improve the delivery of healthcare in conflict zones and other contexts, and to improve protections afforded to health care staff, facilities, and patients, during conflict and other emergencies. It cites examples including how one attack in Somalia prevented 150,000 medical consultations per year, and calculated that the consequences of violence against healthcare workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo results in excess mortality of 40,000 people per month. Other examples include the killing of 628 healthcare workers in Iraq and the fleeing of 18,000 doctors in the aftermath of the US-led invasion in 2003.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycorma%20imperialis
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Lycorma imperialis
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Adult L. imperialis measure between to in length. Distant described the general morphology of L. imperialis as similar to the subfamily Aphaeninae, with similarities in the proboscis, upward facing, narrow face, a ridge-like prothorax, and overall wing structure. The head and thorax range from a light brownish yellow to an olive color. L. imperialis''' abdomen is yellowish on the lateral sides with black and white bands separating the abdominal segments present on the top and bottom. The basal two thirds of the forewings are a bluish-green and covered in approximately 25 rounded black spots. The apical third of the forewings is translucent with bright bluish-green color and lacks black spots. The sternum, legs, and rostrum are a chestnut color. The hindwings of L. imperialis range from a crimson color with 8 spots to a purple color with blue bands. The tips of the forewings are black. When the forewings are spread, L. imperialis measures up to 2.5 inches. The orange antennae attach below the eyes and are bulbous with thick bristles covering the outer segments. L. imperialis, along with some related planthoppers, is colloquially referred to as "lanternfly" or "lantern bug", as some of the related genera (e.g., Pyrops) have unusual heads with brightly colored tips that were once thought to emit light. However, no planthoppers emit light.Lycorma imperialis punicea differs from L. imperialis in that the head, legs, abdomen, and thorax are a brick red color. The tegmina are substantially darker and three fourths of the hindwings are scattered with large black spots. The forewings are a purplish-red color and covered with black spots. The subspecies is notably smaller. In Distant's 1906 account, he postulated that this specimen was a subspecies and that its contemporary classification as its own species was incorrect.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi%20Yong-ik
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Yi Yong-ik
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Yi Yong-ik (; 6 January 1854 – 1907) was an official, and politician of the Korean Empire. As an official, Yi was very interested in education. He established Bosung College, which later became Korea University. As an officer he was also a lieutenant general of the Imperial Korean Army.
Biography
On 6 January 1854, Yi was born in Myongchon County, Hamgyong Province, Joseon. His father, Yi Hak-shin, was an official who passed the civil service exam in 1837. His family was a poor, but Yi learned Chinese characters from Seodang. Before becoming an official, Yi was a peddler. During the Gapsin Coup, Yi took Min Young-ik, who was attacked by the Gaewha factions, to Horace Newton Allen. From this incident, Yi became close with Min Young-ik. In 1882, during Imo Incident he helped Min Young-ik to contact with Empress Myeongseong. After the Imo Incident, Gojong appointed him as Busa of Tanchon. In Tanchon, Yi discovered tremendous amount of golds, which aided the government financially.
For these accomplishments, Yi became a high ranked financial officer of the royal family. But in 1888, Yi was indict for the rebellion in Bukcheong. Yi enforced peasants to pay inordinate tax, provoking a rebellion. Because of the rebellion, Yi was banished to South Jeolla Province. On 28 April 1896, Yi was ordered to supervise mining of South Western area. After Gojong's internal exile to the Russian legation, Yi rapidly rose to power with Gojong's favor. However, such rapid rise led Yi to face challenges from the original officials.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20de%20Windsor
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William de Windsor
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On Windsor's withdrawal from Ireland, anarchy broke out. Accordingly, on 20 September 1373 Edward reappointed him to the Viceroyalty. He was commanded to levy the grants formerly promised at Baldoyle and Kilkenny, and to cooperate with Sir Nicholas Dagworth.
In 1374, on the refusal of a parliament at Kilkenny to make a grant at Dagworth's request, Windsor issued writs bidding clergy and laity to elect representatives, finance them, and send them to England to consult Edward on an aid to be taken from Ireland. Meanwhile Newcastle, on the frontier of Wicklow, was taken by the Irish. The government sent help by sea to the garrison in the castle of Wicklow, but the council, meeting at Naas, forbade Windsor to move further south because it left the north in peril. Windsor could carry on the war only by levying forced subsidies of money and provisions.
England
Early in 1376 Windsor gave up his Viceroyalty, and was summoned to England to consult with the King. On 29 September 1376 he was granted 100l. a year for life from the issues of the county of York. On 14 December, a pardon was granted him "for having harboured Alice Perrers, who was banished in 1377, and license granted for her to remain in the realm as long as she and her husband please".
On 23 October 1379, Sir John Harleston was directed to deliver up to Windsor the custody of Cherbourg. In the same year Windsor was sent on the expedition to help the Duke of Brittany against France, receiving large grants of land, most of which had been forfeited by Alice Perrers.
In 1381–2, 1382–3, 1383–4, Windsor had summons to parliament as a baron. In 1381 and 1382 he took a leading part in putting down the Peasants' Revolt, especially in the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon, being granted special authority with this object, and made a special justice and commissary of the peace in Cambridge. On 13 March 1383, he was referred to as a "banneret". Further grants, previously made to Alice Perrers, were in 1381, 1383, and 1384 extended to him.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl%20Giant%20and%20the%20Monkey%20King
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Girl Giant and the Monkey King
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Bethany Anderson is a bully of Thom because of how different she is from the other students. The teachers do not know about it but she is treasured by the soccer coach. Bethany is one of the girls in the "dynamic trio" along with Sarah Mazel and Kathy Joon.
Kathy Joon is a Korean-American student and one of the girls in the "dynamic trio", along with Bethany and Sarah Mazel. When the two other girls are not watching, Kathy is kinder to Thom, especially when they are both Asians.
Sarah Mazel is another bully of Thom and one of the girls in the "dynamic trio".
Cassie Houghton is a goalie. Thom kicked the ball to hard and the ball hits her, causing her to stay in the hospital for a month as a result of breaking a few ribs.
Coach Pendergrass is Thom's soccer coach. She treasures the "dynamic trio" and would compliment Thom when she scored a goal.
Mrs Abbot is Thom's homeroom teacher.
Mrs Colton is the principal of Demille Middle School which is the school Thom attends currently.
Background
Van Hoang used Journey to the West, by Wu Cheng'en, as research for the novel, and was also inspired by stories told by her sister and Asian dramas.
Reception
Overall, the novel received positive reviews.
However, according to commonsensemedia.com, there was a scale of 1 out of 5 dots that indicates how much violence there was.
The violence is stated to have "some accidental punches, hits, and knock downs involving immortal gods and demons. Scenes of bullying, name calling, and laughing at Vietnamese main character for being 'weird' and bringing 'smelly food to lunch.' A soccer goalie's ribs are broken when hit with a ball."
The language also receoved the same scale as a result of the anti-immigrant slurs "fresh off the boat," "fob," and "fobby."
The sex got the same scale because the protagonist is "coupling" with a god. (This may refer to Thom's relationship with the Monkey King, or her relationship with Kha)
This might be the reason why this book is related for pre-teens (minimum of age 10)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor%20Kearny%20Carr
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Eleanor Kearny Carr
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Kearny's father, William, told her that the air in Edgecombe County was conductive to the spread of malaria, and convinced his daughter to spend summers in Warren County instead of on her husband's plantation. In the earlier years of their marriage, Kearny and her children spent summers at Huntersville. In 1867, Carr purchased an estate in Warrenton to be used as a summer residence for Kearny. While away for the summers, Kearny would receive letters from her husband expressing his love and affection for her and the children, keeping her up to date on news with their plantation, and discussing politics.
In 1871, while waiting for a train in Weldon, North Carolina, Kearny reportedly sat in a barroom.
In 1893, Kearny's husband was elected as Governor of North Carolina. She was relatively uncomfortable in the role as hostess of the executive mansion, so her daughter-in-law, Martina Van Riswick Carr, assisted her in her role. After the North Carolina General Assembly allocated funds to purchase furniture for and make repairs on the executive mansion in February 1893, Kearny oversaw the renovations and redecorating. She also oversaw extensive work on the grounds of the mansion. Kearny hired David Haywood to serve as the butler for the first family; he ended up serving fourteen different governors and their families in his career.
Kearny was a charter member of her chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and served as her chapter's first librarian.
Death
She died on March 29, 1912, in Washington D.C., where she was undergoing surgery. Her body was later returned to North Carolina and buried in the family plot at Bracebridge Hall.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982%20Royal%20Air%20Force%20Jaguar%20shootdown%20incident
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1982 Royal Air Force Jaguar shootdown incident
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On 25 May 1982, a Royal Air Force SEPECAT Jaguar of 14 Squadron, while returning to its base at RAF Brüggen in Germany following a training mission, was accidentally hit by an air-to-air missile fired by another Royal Air Force aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas Phantom. As a result, the Jaguar crashed in farmland approximately 35 miles from its base, although the pilot was able to eject safely.
Background
In 1982, the Royal Air Force (RAF) maintained a substantial presence in West Germany under the command of a formation named RAF Germany. RAF Germany's primary focus was the provision of combat aircraft to the Second Allied Tactical Air Force, a NATO formation tasked with the aerial defence of Western Europe. This overall command formation contained a total of 14 individual squadrons across four bases. Included among this list was five squadrons operating the SEPECAT Jaguar, a single seat aircraft utilised in both the strike and tactical reconnaissance roles, and two squadrons using the McDonnell Douglas Phantom, which, at the time, was the RAF's primary air defence interceptor.
Incident
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Biale
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David Biale
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David Biale (July 25, 1949 – July 28, 2024) was an American historian specializing in Jewish history.
Early life and education
Biale was born in Los Angeles, California. His father, Jacob Biale, an immigrant from Poland, was a professor of biology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his mother, Evelyn, was a teacher who held a master’s degree in mathematics. Biale attended Harvard University for one year and then earned bachelor’s (1971) and master’s (1972, Modern European History) degrees at the University of California, Berkeley. After a year as a visiting graduate student at the Hebrew University, he earned his PhD in Jewish History at UCLA in 1977, with Amos Funkenstein.
Career
Biale was the Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis. He was founding director of the campus’s program in Jewish studies and led the program for many years. He also directed its Humanities Institute for three years, and chaired the Department of History for four years. Earlier in his career, Biale was on the history faculty at SUNY Binghamton (1977 to 1986) and led its Judaic Studies Program. He left Binghamton for the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California and was named Koret Professor of Jewish History and director of GTU's (now Richard S. Dinner) Center for Jewish Studies. He was the author or editor of thirteen books on Jewish intellectual, religious and cultural history.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucodecton%20canescens
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Leucodecton canescens
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Leucodecton canescens is a species of lichen in the family Graphidaceae. Found in Sri Lanka, it was formally described as a new species in 2014 by lichenologists Gothamie Weerakoon, Robert Lücking and Helge Thorsten Lumbsch. The type specimen was collected from the Maussakanda Tea Estate (Matale, Central Province) at an altitude of . The lichen, which has been recorded from several locations in the Central Province, grows in semi-exposed, disturbed areas at high elevations. The specific epithet canescens refers to the grey-coloured cover of the thallus.
Leucodecton canescens has a smooth, grey thallus that is 70–100 μm thick with a thin (5–10 μm) cortex. The ascomata are rounded, immersed in the substrate, and measure 0.2–0.3 mm in diameter. The ascospores are muriform, with dimensions of 25–30 by 10–12 μm. Secondary chemicals present in the lichen include stictic acid, constictic acid, acetylconstictic acid, and hypostictic acid. Leucodecton fissurinum is somewhat similar in morphology, but it has a yellowish thallus and narrower ascomata pores that conceal the disc.
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Hydrogen transport
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Hydrogen transport involves the use of technology to transport hydrogen from the point of generation to the point of use.
Techniques
Hydrogen can be transported in a variety of forms.
Gas
Hydrogen can be transported in gaseous form, typically in a pipeline. Because hydrogen gas is highly reactive, the pipeline or other container must be able to resist interacting with the gas. Hydrogen's low density at atmospheric pressure means that gas transport is suitable only for low volume requirements.
Liquid
Hydrogen switches to the liquid phase at . Thus, transporting liquid hydrogen requires sophisticated refrigeration technologies such as cryogenic tanker trucks and liquefaction plants.
Compound
Hydrogen can be reacted with other elements to form a variety of compounds. This allows it to be transported in either liquid (e.g., water) or solid form. One variation on this concept is to transport atomic silicon, produced using renewable energy. Mixing silicon with water separates water's oxygen from its hydrogen without requiring additional energy. The hydrogen can then be oxidixed with the oxygen (or air) to produce energy (with water as the only byproduct).
Mechanochemical
Mechanochemistry refers to chemical reactions triggered by mechanical forces as opposed to heat, light, or electric potential. Ball milling can crush material such as boron nitride or graphene, allowing hydrogen gas to be absorbed by the powder, storing the hydrogen. The hydrogen can be released by heating the powder. These techniques offer the potential of substantial net energy savings.
Safety
Hydrogen transport must address various safety threats.
It is highly flammable, requiring little energy to ignite. However, it is low density (0.0837 g/L), which allows leaked gas to rapidly dissipate, rather than accumulate as a higher density gas might, such as chlorine (3.214 g/L).
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Shawi or Šāwi Arabic is the Arabic dialect of the sheep-rearing Bedouins of Syro-Mesopotamia. The term Šāwi typically refers to the tribes living between the Tigris and the Euphrates, but many tribes are also found elsewhere, such as northern Jordan, Palestine, western Syria, and Lebanon. The dialect of the Arabs of Urfa also belongs to the Šāwi-Bedouin group.
Classification
Cantineau (1936) was the first classification the dialects of the sheep breeders of northern Arabia. He was the first to coin the terminology ‘petit-nomades’ (sheep breeders) and ‘grand-nomades’ (camel breeders). The Shawi dialects typically represent the ‘petit-nomades’ type.
The hallmark of Shawi dialects is the affrication of Old Arabic *k and *g (< *q) in front environments into č [t͡ʃ] and ǧ [d͡ʒ], respectively, as opposed to the north Arabian camel-breeder varieties, which exhibit ć [t͡s] and ź [d͡z]. This feature is shared with Gulf Arabic dialects.
History
Shawi tribes constitute the first recognized Bedouin migration wave from northern Arabia. Local traditions and some studies date their arrival to one millennium ago, although older migrations are likely for some clans.
Phonology
Consonants
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Karl Schmoll von Eisenwerth (18 May 1879, Vienna – 7 July 1948, Gut Osternberg, near Braunau am Inn) was an Austrian-born German painter, graphic artist, and glass designer in the Art Nouveau style.
Biography
He was the second of four sons born to , a civil engineer, originally from Sankt Wendel. His mother, Josephine née Uhl, was a native of Vienna. He lived there until he was ten, then in Sankt Wendel for six years, then in Darmstadt. It was there that he first encountered Art Nouveau. From 1899 to 1901, he studied with Paul Hoecker and Ludwig von Herterich at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. After completing his studies there, he painted in Burghausen, near the Chiemsee, and at the Dachau Artists' Colony. He also took a study trip to Italy.
In 1906, he taught printmaking and drawing at a progressive private art school, operated by Hermann Obrist and Wilhelm von Debschitz. The following year, he was appointed Professor of ornamental and decorative design at the Stuttgart Institute of Technology. During his time there, he created a cycle of six paintings on the Nibelungenlied, in Worms (lost during World War II), and a large mural depicting a scene from the Odyssey, at the University Library of Tübingen. He served as Rector from 1927 to 1929.
In keeping with family tradition, he became a landowner in 1924, with property in Gut Osternberg. Despite his use of "von", his family had never received an official letter of nobility, and were more properly referred to as "". He had not been given legal permission to use "von" until 1910, when it was granted by the Württemberg Justice Ministry.
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