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This is a list of members of the Senate of the United States of Indonesia. The legislature existed only for a brief period during the existence of the federal state, and had 32 members, two from each constituent state.
Speakers and Deputy Speakers
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Bibliography
References
Lists of political office-holders in Indonesia
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Edlaston and Wyaston is a civil parish within the Derbyshire Dales district, in the county of Derbyshire, England. The parish includes the villages of Edlaston and Wyaston. In 2011 the parish had a population of 220. It is north west of London, north west of the county city of Derby, and south of the market town of Ashbourne. Edlaston and Wyaston touches the parishes of Clifton and Compton, Osmaston, Rodsley, Shirley, Snelston and Yeaveley. There are seven listed buildings in Edlaston and Wyaston.
Toponymy
Edlaston: Appears to derive from 'Eadwulf's farm'. This was reported in Domesday as Dulvestune, before a recognisable modern form appearing in public records from the 12th century.
Wyaston: Also in Domesday, as Widerdestune, meaning 'Wīgh(e)ard's farm'.
Edlaston and Wyaston, as an ecclesiastical and subsequent political entity, the two settlements have been combined as a parish since medieval times.
Geography
Location
Edlaston and Wyaston is surrounded by the following local areas:
Clifton to the north
Hales Green, Rodsley and Yeavesley to the south
Osmaston and Shirley to the east
Snelston to the west.
The parish is roughly bounded by Dobbinhorse Lane along the north, the A515 road to the west, Darley Moor Sports Centre and Brown's Brook along the south, and Poor Plantation and Wyaston Brook to the east.
Settlements
The two settlements within the parish are:
Edlaston
Wyaston
Edlaston
The smaller of the two areas, it is sited centrally within the parish, east of the A515 road, with nearly all properties aligned along Edlaston Lane. The village supports a church and public house. Edlaston Hall is a farmhouse also within the village.
Wyaston
This is southeast of Edlaston, It is aligned to a number of roads including the Ashbourne to Tutbury route, and maintains more residences than Edlaston, as well as the village hall.
Environment
Landscape
Primarily farmland throughout the parish outside the villages, there is some small forestry plot
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This is a list of characters for the manga and anime series Blood Blockade Battlefront.
Libra
A kind and humble young photographer who came to Hellsalem's Lot to help his ailing sister. A mysterious entity gave him the , granting him a variety of powerful ocular powers, at the cost of his sister's sight. His eyes have their limits; when overused, they have a tendency to "shatter", causing his eyes to bleed. He tends to be bullied by Zapp and his lack of fighting skills usually puts him in danger, especially against those who covet his power.
Leader of Libra. A large, very powerful man with a distinctive underbite, he is actually very well composed and gentlemanly and honest to a fault, with an unshakable will. Master of the , which he can use to create large cross-shaped weaponry and seal away enemies. Klaus is also very intelligent, being able to play a chess-like called Prosfair for a period of ninety-nine hours against a being that has studied the game for thousands of years.
His ultimate technique allows him to imprison the Blood Breeds, as they can not be killed due to their immortal nature, but to do so, he must learn the enemy's true name, thus requiring Leo using his powers to reveal it.
A hot-blooded, womanizing Libra member and master of the 's Kagutsuchi branch, which allows him to manipulate his blood into blades and explosions. He is very well trained, being able to keep up with beings much faster than what the human eye can normally follow. His juvenile actions often get him and the rest of Libra into trouble. He is Leonardo's partner and despite his usual attitude, he cares about him in some way. He is always trying to defeat Klaus in a battle but is always the one to lose.
A suit-clad werewolf with the power of invisibility and collaborator from the organization. She can move at high speeds (being able to keep up with Zapp's chain of explosions from one end of the real world to deep into the alter-world) and does a large portion of Libra's rec
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The 2018–19 Ukrainian Second League was the 28th since its establishment. The competition started on 21 July 2018 with the match between Myr and FC Nikopol.
The competition entered in recess for a winter break which started after the completion of Round 17 on 11 November 2018 and resumed on 31 March 2019. The season competitions were scheduled to be completed on 1 June 2019 (later ending on 25 May 2019 due to reduction of participants) culminating with a two legged play-off for promotion held between the two second place from both groups and the 13th and 14th placed teams from the 2018–19 Ukrainian First League on 29 May and 2 June 2019.
Format
The PFL composition of the league was approved at the PFL Conference on 27 June 2017, yet the final composition with the competition regulations will be approved later by the FFU Executive Committee.
The competition is conducted in a triple round robin format. The PFL reinstated direct promotion and relegation between the Second League and the Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship. Some other administrative changes will be introduced for the season in Second League, such as names on jerseys, the PFL emblem, others. In addition, the FFU approved a list of stadiums for each league.
Each winner of group earns a direct promotion, while each runner will contest additional promotion with 13th/14th places of the First League. In case of the Ukrainian Premier League expansion for the next season, winners and second placed teams will get direct promotion, while in play-off will participate third placed teams.
One team from each group with the worst record will be relegated. Those two teams will be swapped with four teams from the Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship.
Teams
Promoted teams
The final composition of the league was adopted at the PFL Conference on 27 June 2018. In the midst of the previous season some several amateur teams expressed their intention to play in Druha Liha. The following teams have been admitted f
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Saint Casilda of Toledo (950–1050) is venerated as a saint of the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. Her feast day is April 9th.
Casilda was a Muslim princess, the daughter of the ruler of Toledo. She showed great kindness to Christian captives. Like Elizabeth of Hungary and Elizabeth of Portugal, the Miracle of the roses was attached to her legend. While Casilda supposedly predated both Elizabeths, her hagiography was not written until three centuries after her death, and is likely influenced by the story of one of them.
Life
According to her legend, St. Casilda, a daughter of a Muslim king of Toledo, (Yahya ibn Ismail Al-Mamun), showed great compassion for Christian prisoners by frequently smuggling bread into the prison, hidden in a basket concealed in her clothes, to feed them. Once, she was stopped by her father and his Muslim soldiers, and asked to reveal what she was carrying in her skirt. When she began to show them, the bread turned into a bouquet of roses.
She was raised a Muslim, but when she became ill as a young woman, she refused help from the local Arab doctors and traveled to northern Iberia to partake of the healing waters of the shrine of San Vicente, near Buezo, close to Briviesca. When she was cured, she was baptized at Burgos (where she was later venerated) and lived a life of solitude and penance not far from the miraculous spring. It is said that she lived to be 100 years old.
Images
Painted between 1638 and 1642, Zurbarán's Santa Casilda used as its model a lady of the Spanish court. She wears the fashions for courtiers of the time.
Bibliography
Concha Espina, Casilda de Toledo (Madrid: Biblioteca nueva, 1940)
See also
Saint Casilda of Toledo, patron saint archive
References
External links
Zurbaran: Santa Casilda
Santa Casilda
St. Casilda of Toledo at the Christian Iconography web site
St. Casilda of Toledo
SANTA CASILDA DE TOLEDO
1050 deaths
Female saints of medieval Spain
11th-century Christian saints
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Jessica Jones is a Marvel Comics character.
Jessica Jones may also refer to:
Jessica Jones (comic book), comic book series
Jessica Jones (EastEnders), character in EastEnders
Jessica Jones (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Jessica Jones (TV series), a television series based on the Marvel character
Jessica Leigh Jones (born 1994), Welsh engineer and astrophysicist
Jess Jones (born 1990), Canadian women's ice hockey player
See also
Jesse Jones (disambiguation)
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Coinye, formerly Coinye West, is a scrypt-based cryptocurrency. Cease and desist letters were issued against it for its use of the American hip hop artist Kanye West as its mascot despite West having no affiliation with the project. The project was abandoned by the original developers following West's filing of a trademark infringement lawsuit against them.
History
Release
Coinye was originally slated for release on January 11, 2014, but legal pressure prompted David P. McEnery Jr. and his development team to release the source code and mining software on January 7, a few days ahead of schedule. Early press materials promised a proper and fair release, with no pre-allocation of coins. However, later statements from the developers confirmed that approximately 0.37% of the maximum money supply of Coinye had been reserved for the creators of the coin before launch. The developers claimed that this was to cover unexpected legal and development costs.
Trademark infringement lawsuit
On January 6, 2014, Kanye West's lawyers sent the development team a cease and desist order on the basis that the then-unreleased currency constituted trademark infringement, unfair competition, cyberpiracy and dilution. In response to the legal threats, the development team changed the name of the currency from "Coinye West" to "Coinye" and moved to a new domain name. By January 10, 2014, the development team stated that they had removed all references to West but instead "to a half-man-half-fish hybrid," a nod to a South Park episode in which West fails to realize why people are jokingly calling him a "gay fish." These actions were not sufficient to appease West's legal team and a lawsuit was filed against the creators of the coin, prompting them to sell their Coinye holdings and leave the project.
Developer departure and community takeover
On January 14, 2014, a representative of Coinye announced on Reddit that "the developers basically dumped all their coins on the one exchange and l
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The history of Champa begins in prehistory with the migration of the ancestors of the Cham people to mainland Southeast Asia and the founding of their Indianized maritime kingdom based in what is now central Vietnam in the early centuries AD, and ends when the final vestiges of the kingdom were annexed and absorbed by Vietnam in 1832.
Abstract
One theory holds that the people of Champa were descended from settlers who reached the Southeast Asian mainland from Borneo about the time of the Sa Huỳnh culture, though genetic evidence points to exchanges with India. Sa Huỳnh sites are rich in iron artifacts, by contrast with the Đông Sơn culture sites found in northern Vietnam and elsewhere in mainland Southeast Asia, where bronze artifacts are dominant. The Cham language is part of the Austronesian family. According to one study, Cham is related most closely to modern Acehnese.
Founding legend
Cham tradition says that the founder of the Cham state was Lady Po Nagar. She hailed from Khánh Hòa Province, in a peasant family in the mountains of Dai An. Spirits assisted her when she drifted on a piece of sandalwood to China, where she married a Chinese crown prince, the son of the Emperor of China, with whom she had two children. She then became Queen of Champa. When she returned to Champa to visit her family, the Prince refused to let her go, but she flung the sandalwood into the ocean, disappeared with her children and reappeared at Nha Trang to her family. When the Chinese prince tried to follow her back to Nha Trang, she was furious and turned him and his fleet into stone.
The Sa Huỳnh culture
The Sa Huỳnh culture was a late prehistoric metal age society on the central coast of Viet Nam. In 1909, urns containing cremated remains and grave goods were discovered at Thanh Duc, near Sa Huỳnh, a coastal village located south of Da Nang. Since then, many more burials have been found, from Huế to the Đồng Nai river delta. The jar burials contain bronze mirrors, coins, bells
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Whispering is an unvoiced mode of phonation in which the vocal cords are abducted so that they do not vibrate; air passes between the arytenoid cartilages to create audible turbulence during speech. Supralaryngeal articulation remains the same as in normal speech.
In normal speech, the vocal cords alternate between states of voice and voicelessness. In whispering, only the voicing segments change, so that the vocal cords alternate between whisper and voicelessness (though the acoustic difference between the two states is minimal). Because of this, implementing speech recognition for whispered speech is more difficult, as the characteristic spectral range needed to detect syllables and words is not given through the total absence of tone. More advanced techniques such as neural networks may be used, however, as is done by Amazon Alexa.
There is no symbol in the IPA for whispered phonation, since it is not used phonemically in any language. However, a sub-dot under phonemically voiced segments is sometimes seen in the literature, as for whispered should.
Social role
Whispering is generally used quietly, to limit the hearing of speech to those closest to the speaker; for example, to convey secret information without being overheard or to avoid disturbing others in a quiet place such as a library or place of worship. Loud whispering, known as a stage whisper, is generally used only for dramatic or emphatic purposes. Whispering can strain the vocal cords more than regular speech in some people, for whom speaking softly is recommended instead.
ASMR
In 2010, it was discovered that whispering is one of the many triggers of ASMR, a tingling sensation caused by listening to soft, relaxing sounds. This phenomenon made news headlines after videos on YouTube of people speaking up close to the camera in a soft whisper, giving the viewer tingles. People often listen to these videos to help them sleep and to relax.
In non-humans
The prevalence and function of low-amplit
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Quercus variabilis, the Chinese cork oak, is a species of oak in the section Quercus sect. Cerris, native to a wide area of eastern Asia in southern, central, and eastern China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea.
Description
Quercus variabilis is a medium-sized to large deciduous tree growing to tall with a rather open crown, and thick corky bark with deep fissures and marked by sinuous ridges. The leaves are simple, acuminate, variable in size, long and broad, with a serrated margin with each vein ending in a distinctive fine hair-like tooth; they are green above and silvery below with dense short pubescence.
The flowers are wind-pollinated catkins produced in mid spring, maturing about 18 months after pollination; the fruit is a globose acorn, diameter, two-thirds enclosed in the acorn cup, which is densely covered in soft long 'mossy' bristles.
Distribution and habitat
The species can be found in evergreen and deciduous forests below , in the Chinese provinces of Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang, as well as in Japan and Korea.
Uses
It is cultivated in China to a small extent for cork production, though its yield is lower than that of the related cork oak. It is also occasionally grown as an ornamental tree. For pharmaceutical grade production of Ganoderma lucidum, known in China as 'the mushroom of immortality,' the dead wood logs of Q. variabilis are used.
References
External links
line drawing, Flora of China Illustrations vol. 4, fig. 359, 2
line drawing, Manual of Vascular Plants of the Lower Yangtze Valley China Illustration fig. 57
variabilis
Trees of China
Trees of Japan
Trees of Korea
Trees of Taiwan
Ornamental trees
Plants described in 1850
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The March 83C is a highly successful and extremely competitive open-wheel race car, designed by and built by March Engineering, to compete in the 1983 IndyCar season. The season was a white-wash and a clean-sweep for March, winning 7 out of the 13 races, and taking 9 pole positions that season. Newey's March 84C chassis successfully clinched the 1983 Constructors' Championship, and the 1983 Indianapolis 500 with Tom Sneva. It was powered by the Ford-Cosworth DFX turbo V8 engine.
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Racing cars
March vehicles
American Championship racing cars
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Amalie Baisch (née Marggraff; 8 October 1859 in Munich – after 1904) was a German writer, best known for her Victorian era guide books on young women's etiquette. She wrote under the pseudonym Ernesta.
Life
Amalie Baisch was born in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, on 8 October 1859. Her father was Rudolf Marggraff, a professor of Art History and Fine Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Her mother was called Elisabeth Marggraff. Amalie Basch attended the Gymnasium Max-Josef-Stift and subsequently took a job as a teacher in Paris. She was a guest in the Parisian salons and travelled extensively. She documented her experiences in a series of literary sketches.
In 1885, Baisch married the author Otto Baisch (1840-1892). Otto had known Rudolf Marggraff since the 1870s. Before his death, Marggraff had been working on a biography of Johann Christian Reinhart, which Otto completed as published in 1882 under the title Johann Christian Reinhart und seine Kreise.
One year before their marriage, Otto took up the position of editor-in-chief of the illustrated magazine Über Land und Meer in Stuttgart, and thus the pair relocated there. Amalie found a stimulating cultural atmosphere in Stuttgart. In 1886, Baisch gave birth to a son, Hermann Baisch.
From 1886 the family lived in a rented flat at 123 Neckarstraße, in the building of the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, the publishers of Über Land und Meer. After the death of Otto Baisch in 1892, Amalie and her son moved to 31 Kernerstraße for a year, before moving back to Munich, were they lived in 14 Barerstraße. Amalie Baisch later remarried to a Major Florian Gassner.
Work
Amalie Baisch's books had a target audience of young women and were predominantly advice books. Below is a selection of her works:
Aus der Töchterschule ins Leben. Ein allseitiger Berater für Deutschlands Jungfrauen, 1889
Die kleiner Feuerwehr, 1892
Der Mutter Tagebuch. Aufzeichnungen über die ersten Lebensjahre ihres Kindes, 1893
Das junge Mädchen auf e
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The Journal of Neurology is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering research on diseases of the nervous system. It was established in 1891 as the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Nervenheilkunde and was renamed to Zeitschrift für Neurologie in 1947. It obtained its current title in 1971. Publication was interrupted in 1945 and 1946.
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External links
Neurology journals
Monthly journals
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
English-language journals
Publications established in 1891
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HTV-X1 is the first flight and the technical demonstration mission of HTV-X, an uncrewed expendable cargo spacecraft. , it is intended to be launched in January 2024 and to resupply the International Space Station (ISS).
Cargo
In addition to the primary mission of carrying the resupply cargo to the ISS, HTV-X1 will carry the following payloads:
i-SEEP
Technology demonstration of lightweight expandable flat antenna
Mt.FUJI, a technology demonstration for satellite laser ranging
Microsatellites to be deployed from HTV-X1 after departure from ISS
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External links
H-II Transfer Vehicles
Supply vehicles for the International Space Station
2024 in spaceflight
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Otumfuo-Yere Julia Osei Tutu (born on 14 December Julia Ama Adwapa Amaning) is the princess consort of the Ashanti Kingdom. She is the wife of Asantehene Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II.
Early life
Lady Julia Osei Tutu, wife of Otumfuo Osei Tutu II Asantehene, was born as Julia Ama Adwapa Amaning, the last of five children born to Mr. S. A. Amaning, a retired career diplomat and Mrs. E. A. Amaning.
A daughter of Akyem Abuakwa in the Eastern Region, Lady Julia and Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II married in April 2002. She is of the House of Oyoko Dynasty (by marriage).
Education
Lady Julia received her primary education at schools in London, Accra and in Berne, Switzerland until 1982, after which she entered Wesley Girls' High School in Cape Coast for her Secondary School education, where she obtained her 'O' Level Certificate in 1986 and 'A' Level Certificate in 1988.
In 1989, Lady Julia entered the Faculty of Law at the University of Ghana, Legon and obtained a Bachelor of Law Degree with honours, LL.B. (Hons.) in 1992. She continued her law studies at the Ghana School of Law, Accra where she completed the Professional Law Course and was called to the Ghana Bar in 1994.
On completion of the Professional Law Course, she served as a Teaching Assistant in International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ghana for a year and also undertook private practice at the Law Offices of Agyemang and Associates, a law firm in Accra.
In September 1995, Lady Julia Osei Tutu was admitted for post graduate studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada and obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M) in International Humanitarian Law after which she served as an Intern with Amnesty International's United Nations Office in New York.
Work
In 1998, she returned to Ghana and joined Ecobank Ghana Limited as Legal/Corporate Affairs Officer. She was also, until March 2002, secretary to the National Partnership for Children's Trust, which Trust is concerned with the promotion of th
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The Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) – or, in English, the International Women's Sports Federation – was founded in October 1921 by Alice Milliat because of the unwillingness of existing sports organisations, such as the International Olympic Committee and the International Amateur Athletics Federation, to let women compete in sports, particularly at an international level.
History
Between 1922 and 1934, it organised the Women's World Games on four occasions (I. 1922, II. 1926, III. 1930 and IV. 1934). Although the FSFI collapsed in about 1936 without having achieved most of its goals, its activities, and the potential threat it posed to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF), led to the inclusion of women's athletics events in the Olympic Games from 1928 onwards and the organisation of women's athletics championships at international level by the IAAF.
Alice Milliat founded the International Women's Sports Federation. She was first a part of the Femina-Sport and an important figure in women's sports. After much hard work in Paris, France, on October 31, 1921, the Fédération Sportive Fèminine Internationale, or the International Women's Sports Federation was created.
The FSFI was ready to join the Olympic games, however; the International Olympic Committee and the International Amateur Athletic Federation declined their request. The organization was faced with an obstacle, but Milliat had a plan. "At its first meeting, it began making rules and regulations for the international competition, drew up a constitution, and set about making plans for a Women's Olympic Games." The Games were held every four years, and during their 15th Anniversary more the 20,000 people came and supported the organization and the women participating in the Games.
The popularity of women's sports increased and the International Olympic Committee became interested. In 1923, The International Olympic Committee wa
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Kearneys Spring is a residential locality in Toowoomba in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Kearneys Spring had a population of 9,419 people.
Geography
Kearneys Spring is located south of the city centre via Ruthven Street.
Kearneys Spring is divided into western and eastern portions by the wetlands formed by West Creek.
The land use is predominantly suburban housing with a small area of farmland in the south of the locality used for grazing on native vegetation.
History
The suburb was named for a family who had a dairy farm in the area. An early irrigation scheme consisting of wooden pipes transported water from the springs, providing Tooowoomba's water supply.
The Christian Outreach College opened in 1982. On 21 January 2019, the school was renamed Highlands Christian College.
Demographics
In the , Kearneys Spring had a population of 8,552 people.
In the , Kearneys Spring had a population of 9,419 people.
Education
Highlands Christian College is a private primary and secondary (Prep-12) school for boys and girls at 505 Hume Street on the east of Kearneys Spring (). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 473 students with 44 teachers (38 full-time equivalent) and 49 non-teaching staff (29 full-time equivalent).
There are no government schools in Kearneys Spring. The nearest government primary schools are Darling Heights State School in neighbouring Darling Heights to the west, Harristown State School in neighbouring Harristown to the north-west, and Middle Ridge State School in neighbouring Middle Ridge to the west. The nearest government secondary schools are Harristown State High School in Harristown and Centenary Heights State High School in neighbouring Centenary Heights to the north-east..
Amenities
Four small shopping centres are located in the suburb: Toowoomba K-Mart Plaza and The Ridge Shopping Centre (containing a Woolworths and an ALDI) on the east side, and Westridge and Uni Plaza (opposite University of Southern Queens
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Charles Melvin "Cootie" Williams (July 10, 1911 – September 15, 1985) was an American jazz, jump blues, and rhythm and blues trumpeter.
Biography
Born in Mobile, Alabama, Williams began his professional career at the age of 14 with the Young Family band, which included saxophonist Lester Young. According to Williams he acquired his nickname as a boy when his father took him to a band concert. When it was over his father asked him what he'd heard and he replied, "Cootie, cootie, cootie."
In 1928, he made his first recordings with pianist James P. Johnson in New York, where he also worked briefly in the bands of Chick Webb and Fletcher Henderson. Williams rose to prominence as a member of Duke Ellington's orchestra when the band was playing at the Cotton Club, with which he first performed from 1929 to 1940. He also recorded his own sessions during this time, both freelance and with other Ellington sidemen. Williams was renowned for his "jungle"-style trumpet playing (in the manner of Ellington's earlier trumpeter Bubber Miley and trombonist Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton) and for his use of the plunger mute. He also sang occasionally, a notable instrumental feature being in the Ellington piece "Echoes of the Jungle". For him, Duke Ellington wrote ''Concerto for Cootie,'' which when lyrics were added became "Do Nothing till You Hear from Me". He was also the soloist in other Ellington compositions, such as "Echoes of Harlem", "Harlem Air Shaft", and the religious piece ''The Shepherd Who Watches Over the Night Flock'', which was dedicated to the Rev. John Gensel.
In 1940, Williams joined Benny Goodman's orchestra, a highly publicized move that caused quite a stir at the time (commemorated by Raymond Scott with the song "When Cootie Left the Duke"), then in 1941 formed his own orchestra, in which over the years he employed Charlie Parker, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Bud Powell, Eddie Vinson, and other young players.
In 1947, Williams wrote the song "Cowpox Boogie" while recupe
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Studen is a municipality in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
History
Studen is first mentioned in 1257 as Studon.
Petinesca: Celtic and Roman remains
The ruins of the Celtic and Roman settlement of Petinesca are still visible in the south-east corner of the municipality on the slopes of Jensberg mountain. The site comprises a Celtic fortification (Oppidum), and a fortified village dating from the Roman empire. Petinesca was mentioned in the Tabula Peutingeriana and the Antonine Itinerary as a station on the road between Aventicum (Avenches) and Salodurum (Solothurn). The Roman site dates from around the middle of the 1st century AD, however the Celtic Oppidum is probably older. The temple complex was in operation from the 1st century until the middle of the 4th century and consisted of six temples, three chapels, an unknown building and a well. Outside the temple complex, additional temples, houses, buildings and graves from the 1st to 4th centuries have been discovered. A small military base, built in 368-69, in the nearby municipality of Aegerten many have been connected to Petinesca.
Studen
During the Middle Ages, the village of Studen and many surrounding villages were owned by the Counts of Neuchâtel-Nidau. In 1398 the entire Inselgau, including Studen, was acquired by the city of Bern and incorporated into the bailiwick of Nidau and the parish of Bürglen. Throughout its history, the village and its surrounding fields were occasionally damaged or destroyed when the Aare river flooded. The Jura water correction projects of 1868 to 1891 rerouted the Aare, prevented flooding and opened up additional farm land. However, as the town grew and industrialized, agriculture became less important and today less than 3% of jobs in the municipality are in farming. Beginning in the 1950s the nearby city of Biel grew into an industrial center and converted Studen into an industrial town. Despite the growth of industry, S
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Glendambo is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Stuart Highway about from the state capital of Adelaide and about from Coober Pedy.
The town was constituted on 13 May 1982 and was derived from the Glendambo Homestead. Boundaries for the locality were established on 23 October 2003 and include both the homestead and the Government Town of Glendambo.
As of 2004, the locality was described as follows:Located 592 km from Adelaide and 186 km north of Port Augusta on the Stuart Highway, Glendambo is an important stopping point on the Stuart Highway as, if you are travelling north, there are no more facilities for 254 km until you reach Coober Pedy. With a population of around 30 people and an annual rainfall of only 185 mm it will never grow into a major centre. It is a comprehensive roadside stopping point with a caravan park, a hotel-motel, a licensed restaurant, roadhouse and general store.
Glendambo is located within the federal Division of Grey, the state electoral district of Giles, the Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia and the state's Far North region. In the absence of a local government authority, the community in Glendambo receives municipal services from a state government agency, the Outback Communities Authority.
References
External links
Travel Guide archived 27 September 2007
Towns in South Australia
Far North (South Australia)
Places in the unincorporated areas of South Australia
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The Shaw River is an ephemeral river in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It was named by explorer F.T. Gregory on 21 August 1861 after Norton Shaw, Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society.
The headwaters of the river rise below the Chichester Range near Emu Springs and flow in a northerly direction through Hillside. The river is braided and has many islands in the riverbed including Long Island and Rocky Island. The river continues through Gorge Range and flows north until discharging into the De Grey River, of which it is a tributary, just south of the North West Coastal Highway approximately East of Port Hedland.
The river has 23 tributaries including Big Creek, Tambourah Creek, Coolargarrak Creek, Dalton Creek and Miralga Creek. It also flows through one major pool; Coondina Pool.
During drought conditions the river can have zero flow for up to 4 years at a time.
The water quality of the river is dependent on flow but has an average salinity of 110 mg/L and a turbidity of 78 NTU.
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Rivers of the Pilbara region
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Chanda Singh Wala is a village in Kasur District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Word 'wala' means 'of' in English. It is located at 31°5'0N 74°37'0E with an altitude of 195 metres (643 feet). It is said that Before the Partition it was a Sikh Village But During the 1947 Partition They Migrated to East Punjab India.
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Populated places in Kasur District
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Article 181 is an article of the criminal code of Belarus which forbids trafficking in people. Passed in 2001, the specific wording in Article 181 states that performing actions to "turning over or obtaining a dependent person" is considered human trafficking and deemed illegal. Article 181 is part of the Chapter of Belarusian law that list crimes against persons, freedom, honor and dignity.
Punishments
If a person is found guilty of a "general offense" related to this article could be sentenced from a period of three months prison term and up to three years of probation or up to six years in prison with the option of the state seizing the property of the convicted.
If the persons that are being trafficked are considered minors under the law and/or involve a group of people to be sold as prostitutes or sex slaves, the punishment is increased to a prison term of five to ten years. People who are sold for their organs also face the five- to ten-year prison terms. Organized crime circles are also affected by this section, since the law targets both individuals and groups who deal with human trafficking.
If the person being trafficked suffers a physical injury that leads to serious health problems or death, the prison term is extended to eight or fifteen years.
Text of the Law
Actions intended to sell or purchase or undertake other types of activities regarding turning over or obtaining a dependent person (trafficking of people), shall be subject to the arrest-up to three months; or to restriction of freedom-up to three years; or to imprisonment with the seizure of property or without-up to six years.
The same actions committed:
knowingly against a juvenile;
against two or more persons;
with the goal of sexploitation or other type of exploitation;
with the goal of using the victim's organs or tissue for purposes of transplantation;
by a group of people based on foregoing planning, or by an organized group;
by public official at the hand of power abuse shall b
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Eryngium foetidum is a tropical perennial herb in the family Apiaceae. Common names include culantro ( or ), recao, chadon beni (pronounced shadow benny), Mexican coriander, bandhaniya, long coriander, Burmese coriander, sawtooth coriander, and ngò gai. It is native to Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America, but is cultivated worldwide, mostly in the tropics as a perennial, but sometimes in temperate climates as an annual.
In the United States, the common name culantro sometimes causes confusion with cilantro, a common name for the leaves of Coriandrum sativum (also in Apiaceae but in a different genus), of which culantro is said to taste like a stronger version.
Uses
Culinary
Eryngium foetidum is widely used in seasoning, marinating and garnishing in the Caribbean (particularly in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad and Tobago), as well as El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, Guyana, Suriname, Ecuador, and in Brazil's and Peru's Amazon regions. It is also used extensively as a culinary herb in Cambodia, Thailand, India, Nepal, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, southwestern China and other parts of tropical Asia. It is sometimes used as a substitute for coriander leaves, but has a stronger taste. Unlike coriander, Eryngium foetidum dries well, retaining good color and flavor, which makes it valuable in the dried herb industry.
In the United States, E. foetidum grows naturally in Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
Traditional medicine
Eryngium foetidum has been used in traditional medicine in tropical regions for burns, earache, fevers, hypertension, constipation, fits, asthma, stomachache, worms, infertility complications, snake bites, diarrhea, and malaria.
Eryngium foetidum is also known as E. antihystericum. The specific name antihystericum reflects the fact that this plant has traditionally been used for epilepsy. The plant is said to calm a person's 'spirit' and thus prevents ep
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Kinship analysis is any analysis that deals with kinship. Such analyses are used in many different disciplines of research, where analysis is conducted in different ways.
In anthropology, kinship analysis is normally either the analysis of social practices related to kinship, or the analysis of systems of kinship terminology in different cultures.
In forensics, kinship analysis is used about forms of genetic profiling aimed at discovering possible genealogical relations between individuals based on DNA samples.
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The Apostolic Datary (Latin: Dataria Apostolica) was one of the five Ufficii di Curia ("Offices of the Curia") in the Roman Curia of the Roman Catholic Church. It was instituted no later than the 14th AD. Pope Paul VI abolished it in 1967.
Origin
According to the De officio et jurisdictione datarii necnon de stylo Datariae of Amydenus and other authorities, the Dataria Apostolica was of very ancient origin, but the previous transaction by other offices of the business that was gradually assigned to it contradicts these authorities. The Dataria was principally entrusted with concession of matrimonial dispensations of external jurisdiction and with collation, i. e., conferral, of benefices and rescripts that were reserved to the Apostolic See. To this double faculty was later added the third of granting many other indults and favors. Until the pontificate of Pope Pius IV, matrimonial dispensations were granted through the Apostolic Penitentiaria. Regarding the authority of collation of reserved benefices, it could not have been granted in ancient times because the institution of those reservations is comparatively recent: although some vestige of the reservations is found prior to the twelfth century, the custom was not frequent before Pope Innocent II, and the reservation of benefices was instituted as a general rule (De pract. et dignit., 3, 4, c. 2 (6°)) only from the pontificate of Pope Clement IV. While the office certainly existed in the fourteenth century, and as an independent one, the date of its institution is unknown.
Constitution
The Dataria consisted of a cardinal as its principal who was titled the "Pro-Datary" ("Prodatarius") until Sapienti Consilio of Pope Pius X, and thereafter was titled "Datarius" ("Datary"). There was formerly as much discussion of the title of "pro-datary" as of that of "vice chancellor" of the Apostolic Chancery: some contend that the title is derived from the fact that the office dated the rescripts of the Supreme Pontiff, whi
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Marian may refer to:
People
Mari people, a Finno-Ugric ethnic group in Russia
Marian (given name), a list of people with the given name
Marian (surname), a list of people so named
Places
Marian, Iran (disambiguation)
Marian, Queensland, a town in Australia
Marian, a village in toe commune of Hîrtop, Transnistria, Moldova
Lake Marian, New Zealand
Marian Cove, King George Island, South Shetland Islands
Mt Marian, Tasmania, a mountain in Australia
Marian, Albania, a village near Lekas, Korçë County
Christianity
Marian, an adjective for things relating to the Blessed Virgin Mary (Roman Catholic), specifically Marian devotions
Congregation of Marian Fathers, also known as Marians of the Immaculate Conception, a Roman Catholic male clerical congregation
Schools
Marian Academy, a Roman Catholic private school in Georgetown, Guyana
Marian College (disambiguation)
Marian High School (disambiguation)
Marian University (Indiana)
Marian University (Wisconsin)
The Marian School, a Catholic private school in Currajong, Queensland, Australia
Omaha Marian
Art, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
Mariane, a character in Tartuffe by Molière
Marian Hawke, the female player character of Dragon Age II (the name may be changed)
Music
"Marian", a song by the British gothic rock band The Sisters of Mercy
Marian Records, a record label
Other uses
Marian, an adjective for things relating to Gaius Marius
Marian, an adjective for things relating to Mari people
Marian, a noun for the students of Saint Mary's University of Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines
Marian Apartments (disambiguation), two places on the US National Register of Historic Places
Marian Party, those Scots who remained loyal to Mary, Queen of Scots in the disputes following her deposition
UCD Marian, an Irish basketball club
Marian, a student of Mount St Mary's School (New Delhi)
See also
Mariana (disambiguation)
Marianne (disambiguation) - for the French spelling
Merian (dis
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The total population of children in Ghana under the age of 15 is 38.01%. The youth constitute the most important human resource potential that can contribute significantly to the overall development of a nation. The idea of children on the streets violates the children's act which states that under no circumstance should a person below the age of fifteen be allowed to work or fend for him or herself. Therefore, the increasing phenomenon of street-ism is a menace. The street children are viewed worldly as problem (because some of them steal to survive) rather than people whose first habitat is the street. Obviously, extreme deprivation and social exclusion create opportunities for engaging in crime. Street children are among the most physically visible of all children, living and working on various street corners and public squares in our cities ranging from Aflao to Bawku. Ironically, they are also among the most 'invisible', considering that they are the most difficult groups to reach with provision of vital services such as education and healthcare, and thus the hardest to protect. Once on the street, aside being exposed to the mercy of the weather, they are vulnerable to all forms of exploitation and abuse, a life far removed from the childhood envisioned in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Street children represent one of the most marginalized groups of children worldwide. They face multiple deprivation of their rights on a daily basis.
Facts
Currently, about sixty-one thousand four hundred and ninety-two children are on the streets of Accra struggling to make ends meet. In May 2009, a head count of street children was done in Accra. The result obtained showed that 43% of the total population were males and 57% were females. In Ghana, a large number of street children can be found in Central Accra, the Kwame Nkrumah circle, Kumasi, Tamale, and other major centres. The largest number of street children came from the Northern Region of
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Howard Willoughby (19 June 1839 – 19 March 1908) was an Australian journalist. Notably, he was the first Australian war correspondent, he wrote against penal transportation to Australia and in favour of the federation of Australia.
Willoughby was born at Birmingham, England. He was educated at primary schools at Birmingham and London and came to Melbourne in 1857. He continued his education there, and in 1861 joined the staff of The Age newspaper as a junior reporter. About a year later he transferred to The Argus. In the 1860s he became the first Australian war correspondent, and accompanied the troops under General Cameron in the New Zealand Wars in New Zealand.
Returning to Melbourne he was sent to Western Australia to report on the convict system. A series of letters from Willoughby appeared in the Argus and were published in a pamphlet of 64 pages in 1865, Transportation: The British Convict in Western Australia. His conclusions were that the sending of further convicts would be bad for Australia and should be resisted and that from the British point of view it was comparatively useless and wastefully expensive. From 1866 to 1869, Willoughby was a member of the first Victorian Hansard staff, and in the latter year was appointed the editor of the Melbourne Daily Telegraph. He married in 1870, Emily Frances Jones, they had a son and two daughters. He wrote for the Telegraph until 1877, when he joined the Argus staff again as chief of the news department and leader writer.
He fought valiantly for the constitutional party in opposition to Victorian Premier Graham Berry, and his column every week, "Above the Speaker" by "Timotheous", was a piece of journalism which never failed to be interesting. He was made chief political leader writer in 1882 and conducted a campaign in favour of federation. A selection of his writings in the Argus on this subject was published with additions in 1891 under the title Australian Federation its Aims and its Possibilities. Willoug
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Whiteshield Mountain is located at the northern boundary of Mount Robson Provincial Park on the Alberta-British Columbia border. It was named in 1924 because of the ice and snow on the eastern side of the mountain.
See also
List of peaks on the Alberta–British Columbia border
References
Whiteshield Mountain
Whiteshield Mountain
Canadian Rockies
Cariboo Land District
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Leonard Deadwyler (February 19, 1941 – May 7, 1966) was an African-American man who was shot and killed by LAPD officer Jerold M. Bova after allegedly speeding and running red lights while driving his wife, who was in labor, to the hospital. His wife later sued Los Angeles for wrongful death, and was represented by Johnnie Cochran, but lost the case. However, his death helped spur the building of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital in South Central.
Life
Deadwyler was born on February 19, 1941, in Gainesville, Georgia. He was the oldest of three children. He met his wife Barbara (nee Buffington) in kindergarten, and they married in 1960. Shortly after, they moved to Kansas; Chattanooga, Tennessee; and finally, Los Angeles. The Deadwylers had three children together. At the time of his death, Barbara Deadwyler was pregnant with their youngest son, Michael.
Shooting
Barbara Deadwyler was eight months pregnant and began experiencing what she believed to be labor pains. Deadwyler tied a white handkerchief to the car's antenna, to signify an emergency, a common sign in Georgia, where the couple had moved from a year earlier. While driving, Deadwyler ran through several red lights while speeding, causing a police chase that began at 108th Street and Avalon Boulevard, which he mistook as a police escort.
Bova eventually pulled the car over at 60th Street and Avalon, where he approached Deadwyler with his gun drawn and leaned into the car. Bova testified that the car lurched forward, causing his gun to go off and shoot Deadwyler at point-blank range. Deadwyler's wife stated that no such movement had taken place and that Bova "shot him for no reason."
Investigation and inquest
During testimony, the State proffered that Deadwyler had a .35 blood-alcohol level and was drunk. His widow refuted this, as he had not been drinking, and an alcohol level that high would make it very difficult for an individual to function and drive safely at a high speed. Bova test
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The 2021 Tver Oblast gubernatorial election was held on 17–19 September 2021, on common election day, coinciding with election to the State Duma. Incumbent Governor Igor Rudenya was reelected for his second term.
Background
Igor Rudenya became Governor of Tver Oblast in March 2016 replacing first-term Governor Andrey Shevelyov. Rudenya previously served as general director of CJSC "Roszerno" (1996-2002, 2012–2016) and Deputy Minister of Agriculture (2005-2007). Igor Rudenya won 2016 gubernatorial election with 72.13% of the vote.
Governor Rudenya since 2009 was considered for the post of Minister of Agriculture, the rumours again floated in 2021. Ultimately he decided to run for another term.
Candidates
Only political parties can nominate candidates for gubernatorial election in Tver Oblast, self-nomination is not possible. However, candidate is not obliged to be a member of the nominating party. Candidate for Governor of Tver Oblast should be a Russian citizen and at least 30 years old. Candidates for Governor should not have a foreign citizenship or residence permit. Each candidate in order to be registered is required to collect at least 7% of signatures of members and heads of municipalities (175-183 signatures). Also gubernatorial candidates present 3 candidacies to the Federation Council and election winner later appoints one of the presented candidates.
Registered candidates
Oleg Gorlov (LDPR), advisor to Vladimir Zhirinovsky for economic affairs
Dmitry Ignatkov (SR-ZP), Member of Tver City Duma
Ilya Kleymenov (Communists of Russia), Member of Konakovsky District Assembly of Deputies, first secretary of CPCR regional committee, 2016 gubernatorial candidate
Igor Rudenya (United Russia), incumbent Governor of Tver Oblast
Lyudmila Vorobyova (CPRF), Member of Legislative Assembly of Tver Oblast
Declined
Aleksey Chepa (SR-ZP), Member of State Duma (running for re-election)
Pavel Grudinin (CPRF), director of CJSC "Lenin Sovkhoz", 2018 Russian presidential cand
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Mirror's Edge Catalyst is a first-person action-adventure platform game developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts. The game was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in June 2016. It is a reboot of the 2008 game that focuses on protagonist Faith Connors.
Mirror's Edge Catalyst received mixed reviews from critics upon release, with most reviewers praising the free-running gameplay and visuals, but criticising its storyline and combat system.
Gameplay
Mirror's Edge Catalyst is a first-person action-adventure game in which the player takes control of Faith Connors as she progresses through a futuristic city named Glass. Similar to the original Mirror's Edge, players traverse the city using aspects of urban exploration and parkour movements to complete missions and evade or fight enemies. Players can also make use of environmental objects such as zip-lines and ledges, and equipment; this includes a MAG (Manifold Attachment Gear) Rope and a Disruptor to travel across buildings, disable certain systems (such as large fans or security cameras) and aid Faith during combat. When players mark an objective on their map, Faith's "runner vision" is activated and some scenery items automatically highlight in red. These act as guides to lead players towards their objective. The use of levels and linear gameplay found in the first Mirror's Edge has been replaced with an open world, free-roaming environment. This gives players more freedom in traversal, allowing for the use of multiple paths to reach one's objective. In addition to the campaign's mission, side activities such as time trials, races and environmental puzzles are featured. Additionally, items called GridLeaks can be found across the world that can be collected by players.
Combat mechanics of the game received an overhaul and a new combat system was developed as traversal is greatly emphasised in the game. Also, though only used sparingly in the previous game, Mirror's Edge Catalyst has removed
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Delhi Metropolitan Education is an undergraduate college located in Sector 62, Noida. It was established in 2012 and is affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. The law college is recognised by the Bar Council of India. The institute provides pro bono legal aid services to the communities nearby the campus. Along with that, the institute helps students who are preparing for judicial services by offering coaching. R K Swami is the director of the institute.
Courses
Bachelor of Business Administration [BBA]
Bachelor of Journalism and Mass Communication [BJMC]
Bachelor of Arts + Bachelor of Laws [BA LLB]
Bachelor of Business Administration + Bachelor of Laws [BBA LLB]
BBA and BA (JMC) courses use Common Entrance Test (CET) conducted by Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. For courses, related to law, Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) scores are used.
Festivals and events
Vritika2020 - Virtual Media Festival (November 2020)
International media conference ICAN
Model United Nation
Innovative International Moot Court Competition
National Moot Court Competition
Hindi Diwas Week (13th - 16th September 2021)
International Symposium on Environmental sustainability (25th-26th March 2022)
Events and conferences hosted
International Media Conference ICAN 2018 was inaugurated at Delhi Metropolitan Education in March 2018. The institute also hosted the National Conference- Mergers & Acquisitions: Legal & Managerial Review in 2019. In 2020, National Conference- Genesis to Terminus of Article 370: Socio-Legal Perspectives was also hosted at DME.
Awards, accolades, and rank
in Times of India Top Emerging BBA Institutes survey
top 70 BBA institutes Times B School 2020 survey
External links
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Universities and colleges in Noida
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Herman Sidney "Eagle" Day was a punter in the National Football League and a quarterback in the Canadian Football League. Eagle Day may also refer to:
Eagle Day, known in German as Adlertag, the first day of operations in the German Operation Eagle Attack during the Battle of Britain
"Eagle Day", an episode from the first series of the crime drama Foyle's War
Eagle Day, the second novel in Robert Muchamore's Henderson's Boys series
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Alaverdi Futsal (), was an Armenian professional futsal club based in the town of Alaverdi, Lori Province.
History
Alaverdi Futsal club was founded in 2015 with the assistance of Alaverdi City Council, as well as the member of Parliament Eduard Sharmazanov who is a native of Alaverdi. The club participated in the 2015–16 season of the Armenian Futsal Premier League, occupying the 6th place among 7 participants in their inaugural season. They played their home games at the Oleg Gorbunov Sports School of Alaverdi. They appear to have folded before the 2018–2019 season as they do not appear in the league statistics for that season and the last YouTube video posted of them playing is from April 2018.
Season by season
References
2015 establishments in Armenia
Futsal clubs established in 2015
Alaverdi
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The World's Largest Tuned Musical Windchime was erected by windchime artist, Ranaga Farbiarz, in the parking area of Celestial Windz Harmonic Bizaar, south of Eureka Springs, Arkansas on Thursday, November 4, 2004.
Construction
With the help of a bucket truck, a tall oak tree, his son David, and numerous friends, the chime was erected on site from prepared components in front of approximately 100 onlookers. The chime is dedicated to Ranaga's late father, Ignatz Farbiarz, a Holocaust Survivor.
The six metal pipes are tuned in an Oriental pentatonic scale, like the black keys on a piano, with the longest and shortest tubes emitting notes an octave apart. The deepest toned tube is long and "sounds like a combination Cathedral Bell, Tibetan Singing Bowl and Jet engine." The shortest is and has a rich Cathedral-like sound. The overall length of the chime is , easily beating the previous record of
The instrument is made from four-inch (102 mm) diameter, thick-walled aluminum tubing. The total weight of the chime is 653 pounds with the musical tubing alone weighing 310 pounds. The by wooden pyramidal shaped top weighs 225 pounds. The center hung circular wood knocker is 3' 6" in diameter and weighs 64 pounds. A long by wide Celestial Wind Dervish which Ranaga makes out of recycled local and imported woods is used as the windcatcher and weighs 18 pounds. The down rods and miscellaneous hardware weigh 36 pounds. Ranaga calls it the "Wind Chime of Mass
Distraction" (WMD) because it is made with the same size and grade aluminum sought by the weapons inspectors in Iraq.
Farbiarz was notified via a formal letter, dated Feb. 9th 2006, from the Guinness World Records Management Team. The letter conveyed the Guinness Team's congratulations upon Farbiarz's achievement of the world record of the largest set of windchimes, and was accompanied by a certificate of commemoration.
See also
World's largest windchime
References
External links
Wind Chime Puts Arkan
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A gyn is an improvised three legged lifting device used on sailing ships. It provides more stability than a derrick or sheers, and requires no rigging for support. Without additional support, however, it can only be used for lifting things directly up and down. Gyns may also be used to support either end of a ropeway.
Two legs, called cheeks, are bound together as in the sheerlegs, with the third spar, called the prypole and is fixed under the cheek lashing to form the apex of the tripod. Alternately, a tripod lashing may be used to form the tripod, with the heel of the center spar pointing in the opposite direction of the cheeks to ensure a solid apex when raised. Only four tackles are required; three as 'splay tackles' to prevent the legs of the tripod from spreading, with the fourth tackle as lifting purchase. A timber hitch, six figure-of-eight turns, and a finishing clove hitch lash the cheeks into a crutch but not too tight because the cheeks need some room to spread their heels. The cheeks of the gyn are now ready to spread and to be erected. The cheek splay tackle is hauled tight and then the two adjacent prypole splay tackles can be rigged and hauled as apex of the gyn is raised. At the sides, the gyn is unstable and it is crucial that the cargo is not swung out of the base triangle; consequently the gyn is only for lifting cargo vertically.
British Army artillery gunners used apparatus such as 'Bell's gyn' designed by John Bell (artillerist) or the 'Gibraltar gyn' for lifting artillery pieces.
Gyns have also been used on land as part of the equipment to help assist water being pumped out of water wells in the Sinai Peninsula.
See also
Gin pole
External links
Illustrations of a gyn and a gyn ropeway are on page 5-24 of the Sea Cadet Corps Seamanship Training Manual
References
Sailing rigs and rigging
Vertical transport devices
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Richard John Barton II (27 December 1879 – 26 May 1931) was a New Zealand pastoralist, runholder, businessman and author in the early 20th century in Wellington and the Wairarapa.
Life
Early life
Richard John Barton was born on 27 December 1879 at Trentham (The Barton Estate) in the Upper Hutt Valley. His family owned generous landholdings in the Hutt Valley and the Wairarapa due to his grandfather Richard Barton being a pioneer settler in New Zealand. His father John Barton inherited the properties of Trentham, Whiterock and other farming stations in the Wellington region. The Barton family were early farmers in the region as well as Wairarapa during the late 19th century.
Education
With prosperous estates, Barton was educated at the Wanganui Collegiate School, a colonial boarding school established by Sir George Grey. Barton was educated here during the tenure of Walter Empson, an Oxford Alumni who became Headmaster.
Marriage
In 1906 he married Georgina Hector, the daughter of Sir James Hector, at St Augustine's Church, Petone. After the wedding a reception was held at Sir James Hector's home, Ratanui. They went on to have five sons and one daughter.
Business
Farming
Like his father and grandfather, Barton became a pastoralist and was engaged in the family farms at Trentham and in the Wairarapa. In the 1890s the Barton family bought the coastal portion of the Mataikona Station from John Johnston. In 1899 he became manager of the Mataikona in the east coast of the Wairarapa before becoming part of the family partnership in 1915, supervising the run. He extended the farms up towards the Upper plains, known as "Tapia".
Some time between 1904 and 1906 Barton offered to sell the Wellington Golf Club 48.5 hectares of their Heretaunga/Trentham farm which is now the Royal Wellington Golf Club.
Associations and clubs
Barton was associated with many of Wairarapa's foundation business societies including:
President of the Masterton A. and P. Association.
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Scandinavica may refer to:
Species
Methylomonas scandinavica, Methylomonas
Primula scandinavica, Primula
Sarcocystis scandinavica, Sarcocystis
Ships
MS Stena Scandinavica, ferry that goes between Gothenburg and Kiel
MS Stena Scandinavica (1973)
Journals
Scandinavica (journal)
Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica
Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
Acta Chemica Scandinavica
Acta Medica Scandinavica, since 1989 known as the Journal of Internal Medicine
Acta Morphologica Neerlando-Scandinavica
Acta Neurologica Scandinavica
Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
Acta Odontologica Scandinavica
Acta Oecologica Scandinavica, aka Oikos
Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica
Acta Pathologica et Microbiologica Scandinavica
Acta Pathologica, Microbiologica et Immunologica Scandinavica (APMIS)
Acta Paediatrica Scandinavica
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
Acta Physiologica Scandinavica
Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica
Ornis Scandinavica, aka Journal of Avian Biology
Books
Scandinavica et Fenno-Ugrica (1954), by Björn Collinder
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Laluna is a music radio station that is licensed to Klaipėda, Lithuania.
History
The station began broadcasting on August 25, 1995 and now it is the most popular radio station in Klaipėda.
Programs
Lalunos Top 40
Gyventi gera
Ant Bangos
Ko širdelė geidžia
Geriausi vakarai
Savaitgalio Žadintuvas
Naktis Su Laluna
External links
Radio stations in Lithuania
1995 establishments in Lithuania
Mass media in Klaipėda
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Perihypoglossal nuclei (nuclei perihypoglossales), called also perihypoglossal complex or perihypoglossal nuclear complex or satellite nuclei is a group of neurons in the floor of the fourth ventricle, close to the nucleus of the hypoglossal nerve in the gray substance of the medulla oblongata, all of which contain cells with characteristics suggestive of reticular connections.
The complex includes three nuclei: the intercalated nucleus, the nucleus prepositus, and the sublingual nucleus. The nucleus prepositus is the largest of the three.
Perihypoglossal nuclei receive afferents from the cerebral cortex, vestibular nuclei, accessory oculomotor nuclei, and paramedian pontine reticular formation. Efferent fibers of these nuclei terminates in cranial nerve nuclei involved in extraocular movement (oculomotor, trochlear, abducens), the cerebellum, and the thalamus. The perihypoglossal nuclei and their connections are part of a complex circuitry related to eye movements. Lesions in the nucleus prepositus impair the ability to keep the eyes fixed on a visual target, although conjugate movements are still performed accurately.
References
John Alan Kiernan, Murray Llewellyn Barr. Barr's The Human Nervous System: An Anatomical Viewpoint. 2008
Neuroanatomy
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The 1974–75 St. John's Redmen basketball team represented St. John's University during the 1974–75 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was coached by Lou Carnesecca in his seventh year at the school. St. John's home games are played at Alumni Hall and Madison Square Garden.
Roster
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Team players drafted into the NBA
References
St. John's Red Storm men's basketball seasons
St. John's
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Stanley G. Hilton is an author and former attorney from San Francisco.
Hilton filed a $7 billion class action lawsuit, in 2002, against United States President George W. Bush, members of his administration (including Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld) and others. The lawsuit was composed of 400 plaintiffs, including 14 families of 9/11 victims, with two named plaintiffs representing the class. The lawsuit alleged Bush administration complicity in allowing the September 11, 2001 attacks. The case was dismissed on Dec 30, 2004, with the judge ruling that US citizens do not have any right to sue a sitting president, based on the Doctrine of Sovereign Immunity; that the lawsuit "presents a non-justicable political question;" that the plaintiffs "lack standing to sue on behalf of all taxpayers;" that the plaintiffs "failed to establish the required causal connection between [their] alleged injuries and these defendants' conduct;" and that "deficiencies of the complaint could not be cured by amendment." In June 2012, he was disbarred from practicing law in California.
Education and early life
Hilton is a native San Franciscan who graduated from Lowell High School (1967) in San Francisco, University of Chicago (BA 1971 and graduate school 1971–72), Duke University School of Law (JD 1975), and Harvard Business School (MBA 1979). He also attended Oxford University (in England, 1970) and JFK School of Government at Harvard University (1984–85).
Background
Stanley Hilton is also an author having written four books, including an unauthorized biography, Bob Dole, American Political Phoenix (1988); Senator for Sale (1995), another biography which purports to reflect Hilton's deep animus towards Dole, Glass Houses (1998), about congressional sex scandals; and To Pay or Not to Pay (2003).
Hilton is a resident of Hillsborough, California, and in 2009 he sued San Francisco International Airport, 62 foreign and domestic airlines, the Town of Hillsborough, and San Fra
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KBCC may refer to:
KBCC-LP, a defunct low-power radio station (107.9 FM) formerly licensed to serve Cave Junction, Oregon, United States
KUHM-TV, a PBS member station in Helena, Montana, United States, which held the call sign KBCC from 1997 to 1998
KVSJ-FM, a radio station (89.5 FM) licensed to serve Tracy, California, United States, which held the call sign KBCC from 2017 to 2020
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Mustafa Muftak Tahir Tajouri is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to the Russian Federation.
Tajouri graduated from the Military College of the Great Jamahiriya in 1982, from which he pursued a career in the Libyan military. After reaching the rank of colonel, he took on teaching roles at a variety of Libyan military educational institutions.
In January 2007, Tajouri was posted as the new Ambassador of Libya to the Russian Federation, and he presented his credentials to Vladimir Putin on 13 April 2007.
See also
Embassy of Libya in Moscow
Libya–Russia relations
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Ambassadors of Libya to Russia
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Isi Leibler (Hebrew: ; 9 October 1934 – 13 April 2021) was a Belgian-born Australian-Israeli international Jewish activist.
Leibler's activities and campaign on behalf of Soviet Jewry are documented in the book: Let my People Go: The untold story of Australia and Soviet Jews 1969 – 1989, authored by Sam Lipski and Suzanne Rutland in 2015.
Leibler had senior roles in the World Jewish Congress (WJC), an umbrella organisation representing global Jewry, including Chairman of the Governing Board and Senior Vice President.
Leibler was a columnist for The Jerusalem Post. He was also a regular columnist for Israel Hayom, the Israeli daily newspaper.
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1934 births
2021 deaths
Australian activists
Belgian Jews
Bloggers
Columnists
Israeli journalists
Naturalised citizens of Australia
Naturalized citizens of Israel
Officers of the Order of Australia
Writers from Antwerp
Zionists
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A denim jacket, also called a jean jacket or trucker jacket, is a jacket made from denim. Introduced in the United States in the late 19th century, it has been a popular type of casual apparel with both men and women and has been described as an iconic element of American fashion. Though a staple of western wear, the denim jacket has also enjoyed a more general appeal.
History
The first recorded denim jacket is part of the collection of the German Historical Commission of the Rhineland (Stiftung Historische Kommission für die Rheinlande 1789–1815) and dates back to 1805 or 1810. In the United States the first recorded denim jacket is from about 1880 which was from the German businessman Levi Strauss, approximately ten years after he had invented jeans as a new type of work apparel intended for use by cowboys, miners, and railroad workers. The "Type III" denim jacket, introduced by Levis Strauss & Co. in 1962, has been described as the Denim jacket "to rule them all". Also known as "the trucker jacket", design elements of the Type III include a tapered style, welt hand pockets, and bar tacks which hold down chest pocket and sleeve openings.
In 2014, Google collaborated with Levi Strauss & Co. to develop a "connected" denim jacket described by Wired as the "denim jacket of the future". The underlying technology, named "Jacquard," encompassed a processor, a built-in battery, and a special yarn that gave the bottom of the arm a pseudo-touchscreen functionality. The same year, New York Fashion Week featured several denim jackets, with The Guardian predicting that the denim jacket would "be everywhere in 2018". A second version of the Jacquard jacket, featuring an appearance closer to jackets without the technology as well as a lower price, was released in late 2019.
In addition to Levi Strauss & Co., companies designing denim jackets have included Wrangler, Calvin Klein, Tom Ford, Gucci, and Dior, among others.
Cultural impact
According to GQ, there are "few things
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Elmalı is a village in the Tercan District, Erzincan Province, Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Balaban tribe and had a population of 16 in 2021.
The hamlets of Çamlık, Gümüşsu and Küçükelmalı are attached to the village.
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Villages in Tercan District
Kurdish settlements in Erzincan Province
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Château de La Motte-Tilly is a castle in the La Motte-Tilly, south-west of Nogent-sur-Seine, Champagne-Ardenne, France. It is on the left bank of the Seine and has been open to the public since 1978. The château is managed by the Centre des monuments nationaux.
The old castle, was first recorded in 1369. It was surrounded by a moat (which is still visible) and belonged to the lords of Trainel, then to the Raguier family, followed by the Elbeyne and Bournonville families. Finally in 1710 Louis XIV gave it to Marshal Duke Adrien Maurice de Noailles. The old castle was demolished and a new manor house was built in 1754 according to a design by the architect François-Nicolas Lancret. The new structure was intended to be a hunting lodge.
Notwithstanding that La Motte-Tilly was (and is) still described as a "château", the current building is in fact a house in the French baroque style, and is not fortified. In this it is similar to many other French country houses (for example the Château de Cheverny), and indeed houses elsewhere in Europe (such as Castle Howard in England, which is an unfortified stately home), where the nomenclature has expanded beyond the strictly accurate.
References
External links
Official website
Castles in Grand Est
Châteaux in Aube
Monuments of the Centre des monuments nationaux
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The Zirbitzkogel (), at , is the highest point of the Seetal Alps in Austria. It lies south of the Upper Mur valley in the Styria near its border with Carinthia. The Lavant, a left tributary of the Drau, has its source on the southern slopes of the mountain.
Its name is not derived, as popularly supposed, from the Swiss pine trees (known in German as Zirben) that dominate the woods in places, but from the Slovenian word zirbiza, that can be translated as "red mountain pasture", which is a reference to the red-petalled alpenrose (Rhododendron ferrugineum) that is common hereabouts. In the local region this rhododendron plant is also known as Almrausch ("alp delirium"), perhaps an indication of the toxicity of the plants.
The summit block of the Zirbitzkogel is formed of crystalline rock; slate, gneisses and granites predominating. In spite of its comparatively low height it exhibits a definite high mountain character. Its relief was formed by ice age glaciers and subsequent slope movements. In the very spring-rich region are several tarns, such as the two Winterleitenseen.
Dense spruce forests cover the slopes up to the subalpine zone before being succeeded by scattered stands of spruce, larch and Swiss pine (Swiss pine-larch forest). In the summit area a ragged sedge grassland dominates, interspersed with almost level plateaus. The summit became well known to ornithologists as a breeding habitat for the dotterel, a few pairs of which bred almost all year round until 1995. Thereafter no more broods were sighted, although individual migrants and roosting birds were observed. Wind-exposed spots are dominated by Alpine Azalea and various lichens.
The area is also known to butterfly researchers for several very rare species, including the endemite, Elophos zirbitzensis.
The touristically well developed Zirbitzkogel is a very popular hiking and touring region. At its summit is the Zirbitzkogelhaus, other huts lie along the routes of ascent. Suitable starting points f
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Music is an art form consisting of sound and silence, expressed through time.
Music may also refer to:
In music
Musical notation, a system for writing musical sounds with their pitch, rhythm, timing, volume, and tonality
Sheet music, paper with printed or written musical notation on it
Albums
Music (311 album), 1993
Music (Carole King album), 1972
Music (Erick Sermon album), 2001
Music (Girugamesh album), 2008
Music (Madonna album), 2000
Music (Mika Nakashima album), 2005
Music (Windsor Airlift album), 2013
Music – Songs from and Inspired by the Motion Picture, a 2021 album by Sia to accompany her musical film Music
Musics (album), by Dewey Redman, 1978
Songs
"Music" (Erick Sermon and Marvin Gaye song), 2001
"Music" (John Miles song), 1976
"Music" (Madonna song), 2000
"Music" (Sakanaction song), 2013
"Music", by Darude from the 2003 album Rush
"Music", by Kelsea Ballerini from the 2017 album Unapologetically
"Music", by Nightwish from the 2020 album Human. :II: Nature.
"Music", by Petula Clark from the 1965 album Downtown
"Music", by September from the 2011 album Love CPR
"Music", by Sia from the 2021 album Music – Songs from and Inspired by the Motion Picture
"Music", by Witchfinder General from the 2003 album Friends of Hell
Computing
Music (Apple), Apple software
Music (Xperia), Sony software
MUSIC, a multi-simulation coordinator software for neuronal network simulators
MUSIC-N, the first music programming language
MUSIC/SP, Multi-User System for Interactive Computing/System Product (originally MUSIC: "McGill University System for Interactive Computing")
Music (video game), a music creation tool
Film and TV
Music (2008 film), a drama film by Juraj Nvota
Music (2021 film), a musical film by Sia
Music (2023 film), a drama film by Angela Schanelec
Music, 2010 documentary by Andrew Zuckerman
"Music", an episode of the television program ChuckleVision
Other
MUSIC (algorithm), a frequency estimation technique
Music (horse), a B
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The Birmingham Humanist Group was formed on 23 May 1962 at the Arden Hotel, New Street, Birmingham, England, at a meeting convened by Dr Anthony Brierley. It changed its name to Birmingham Humanists (Brum Hums) in 2000 and voted to become a Partner Group of the BHA, which changed its name to Humanists UK in 2017. It holds most of its meetings at the rooms of the Community Development trust in Moseley, Birmingham.
History
The group's first chairman was 22-year-old Colin Campbell, who later became Emeritus Professor of Sociology at York University.
In its early years, under the leadership of Fred Lyne, the group was active in the campaign to allow parents the legal right to remove their children from collective worship in schools.
In 1980 it held a joint public meeting with the newly formed humanist group for gay people at which one of its members, Dr Martin Cole, was the main speaker.
Later that decade it started producing a newsletter variously titled Bir-Hug, Hub, Birmingham Humanist and, most recently, News and Views.
Most years since 1990 the group has organised an annual day school or conference on a subject of topical interest, in addition to the regular monthly programme with speakers, discussions and visits. The group was involved in devising the content of the 1975 Birmingham Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education, which was the first to abandon the aim of Christian nurture and to require that a multi-faith approach, including non-religious 'stances for living' such as Humanism should begin in primary schools. However, the group is still not allowed representation on Birmingham SACRE, whose most recent syllabus makes no reference to secular Humanism in spite of the recommendations of the QCDA.
The group celebrated its fiftieth anniversary by holding a day conference: "Humanism: the Way Forward" on 7 June 2014, at which Colin Campbell, Tony Brierley, Pavan Dhaliwal, David Pollock and Kate Smurthwaite were the main speakers.
The group lau
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Tonga has competed in the IAAF World Athletics Championships six times with their first appearance being in 1983 at Helsinki, Finland with Georges Taniel competing in the men's 100m. As of 2019, the country has not recorded any medals. Tonga best performance was in 1983 when Niulolo Pelesikoti placed eighteenth in the Men's decathlon.
Entrants
References
Tonga
World Athletics Championship
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3 Bats Live is a music DVD by rock singer Meat Loaf. Recorded on March 18, 2007 at London, Ontario during his "Seize the Night" tour, it mainly features songs from the Bat Out of Hell trilogy. The DVD was released in the UK on October 15, 2007, and in the UK on November 20, 2007.
Track listing
All songs by Jim Steinman, unless otherwise noted.
"All Revved Up with No Place to Go" (very short version)
"Paradise by the Dashboard Light"
"You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth"
"Out of the Frying Pan (And Into the Fire)"
"Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back"
"I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)"
"Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer than They Are"
"Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through"
"Seize the Night" (very short version)
"The Monster Is Loose" (John 5/Desmond Child/Nikki Sixx)
"Bad for Good"
"If It Ain't Broke, Break It"
"Blind as a Bat" (Child/James Michael)
"Two Out of Three Ain't Bad"
"Bat Out of Hell"
"Black Betty" (Traditional)
"It's All Coming Back to Me Now"
"Mercury Blues"
"Gimme Shelter" (Jagger/Richards)
Extra features
Extra features include the videos for "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" and "Cry Over Me", both directed by P. R. Brown. It also contains the "Monster Is Loose Animated Short Film" and "Making the Monster: Making of Bat Out of Hell III", that were included on the CD+DVD UK edition of the Bat III album. A second disc contains a ninety-minute retrospective documentary called Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise, about preparations for the tour and its first leg.
Other editions
A Limited Collectors "deluxe edition" box was also released, which includes a replica tour programme, tour poster, bat shaped sticker and guitar pick.
A Blu-ray edition was released in the United Kingdom on November 11, 2008 by Mercury UK and is also available as an import in the United States. No official US Blu-ray release has been set at this time by Hip-O or Mercury.
Personnel
Meat Loaf – lead vocals
Kasim Sulton –
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These are the official results of the Women's Heptathlon competition at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. There were a total number of 34 participating athletes, including ten non-finishers. The competition started on Monday August 16, 1993, and ended on Tuesday August 17, 1993.
Medalists
Schedule
Monday, August 16, 1993
Tuesday, August 17, 1993
Records
Results
See also
1992 Women's Olympic Heptathlon
1993 Hypo-Meeting
1994 Women's European Championships Heptathlon
References
Results
IAAF Statistics Handbook Daegu 2011, Part 3 of 5, Page 264
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Heptathlon at the World Athletics Championships
1993 in women's athletics
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Mohammad Jafar Mahjoub
(23 August 1924 – 17 February 1996) was an Iranian scholar of Persian literature, essayist, translator and teacher.
Life
Mahjoub was born in Tehran in 1924 and graduated from the prestigious Alborz High School in 1944. He obtained his bachelor's degree in political science from Tehran University in 1947.
During this time he was employed as a stenographer at the Majlis, where he was recruited into the leftist Tudeh Party. He continued his affiliation with the Tudeh Party for some ten years, working in the press division and authoring unsigned editorials. He later severed all ties with the party and focused strictly on scholarly pursuits.
He obtained a second bachelor's degree in 1954 and his Ph.D. in Persian literature from Tehran University in 1963. His dissertation on the Khorasani style in Persian poetry was published as a book and is regarded as a standard text on the subject.
He taught Persian literature at the Teacher Training College (Tarbiat Moallem University), becoming full professor in 1968, and at Tehran University. He was a visiting professor at Oxford University in the academic year 1971-72, and a guest professor at the University of Strasbourg in 1972-73. He was Iran's cultural attaché to Pakistan from 1974 to 1979.
After the 1979 Iranian Revolution he was appointed as the head of Academy of Persian Language and Literature and the National Academy for the Arts, a post he held until 1980.
Life in exile
In 1980 Mahjoub left Iran for Paris, giving weekly lectures on Persian folk literature at the École Pierre Brossolette. He returned to the University of Strasbourg teaching there from 1982 to 1984 and was the president of the Persian Cultural Society in Paris from 1986 to 1993.
He later moved to the United States and began teaching at the University of California, Berkeley in 1991 until his death from prostate cancer in 1996.
Selected works
Mahjoub is known for his works on Iranian folk literature and language, fo
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The Duke of Buccleuch's Hunt is a fox hunt which hunts in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.
History
The Duke of Buccleuch's Hunt was founded in 1827 by Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch who purchased the pack from George Baillie.
The huntsmen of the Duke of Buccleuch's Hunt have been:
Will Williamson (1827–63)
Will Shore (1863–1902)
George Summers (1902-48)
Tom Smith (1948–64), kennel huntsman until 1977
Sir Hugh Arbuthnot (1964–76)
Captain Simon Clarke (1976–80)
Lionel Salter (1980–87)
Tony Mould (1987–89)
Trevor Adams (1989–2014)
Tim Allen (2014–present)
The Duke of Buccleuch's Hunt hounds are English Foxhounds, originally Old English Foxhounds were used but more modern lines were introduced from the 1970s.
Hunt country
The hunt's country is the largest in Scotland, covering an area in the counties of Berwickshire, Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire, from west of Hawick to east of Kelso, from the foothills of the Cheviots to the bottom of the Lammermuirs.
During the hunting season, the hunt meets three times a week.
See also
Fox hunting
List of foxhound packs of the United Kingdom
References
External links
Baily's hunting directory, "Duke of Buccleuch's Hunt", www.bailyshuntingdirectory.com, retrieved 15 October 2018.
Fox hunts in the United Kingdom
Fox hunts in Scotland
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Holloway Road is a road in London, in length. It is one of the main shopping streets in North London, and carries the A1 road as it passes through Holloway, in the London Borough of Islington. The road starts in Archway, near Archway Underground station, then heads south-east, past Upper Holloway railway station, Whittington Park, past the North London campus of London Metropolitan University near Nag's Head, past Holloway Road Underground station, and the main campus of the university, and then becomes Highbury Corner, near Highbury & Islington station.
Name
The origins of the name are disputed; some believe that it derives from "hollow" due to the dip in the road from the cattle that made their way along the route to the cattle markets in London, whilst some believe it derives from "hallow" and refers to the road's historic significance as part of the pilgrimage route to Walsingham. No documentary evidence can be found to support either derivation.
History
The earliest record giving the name of the road as The Holloway dates from 1307. The main stretch of Holloway Road runs through the site of the villages of Tollington and Stroud. The exact time of their founding is not known, but the earliest record of them dates from 1000. The names ceased to be used by the late 17th century, but are still preserved in the local place names "Tollington Park" and "Stroud Green"; since that time, the area has been known as Holloway.
Description
Holloway Road is one of north London's shopping streets, containing major stores as well as numerous smaller shops. Holloway Road is the site of the main campus of the much-renamed London Metropolitan University (formerly Northern Polytechnic Institute, the Polytechnic of North London and University of North London), and includes the Orion Building, designed by Daniel Libeskind, which can be seen along the central stretch of Holloway Road, and of the headquarters of the National Union of Students and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmam
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Maurice Talvande (1866–1941), self-styled as the Count de Mauny Talvande, was a French-born naturalised British garden designer, writer, and furniture maker. He is best known as the owner of Taprobane Island in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
Early life
Born Maurice Talvande in Le Mans to parents who were not titled, his father was Felix Talvande (a middle-class bank official) and his mother was Marguerite Adélaïde Louise, née Froger de Mauny, known as Madame de Mauny Talvande. She was a granddaughter of a genuine aristocrat of the petty nobility of the duchy of Alençon, Jean Froger de Mauny (1785-1857), who claimed a kinship with the Saintonge noble and more renowned family Froger de la Rigaudière et de l'Éguille.
He attended a Jesuit-run school in Canterbury, England. As a young man, described as "rather good looking", he travelled to America and England where, having assumed the more aristocratic-sounding name of Maurice de Mauny Talvande, he earned a little money giving drawing-room lectures on French châteaux and château life. In 1897, he also gave an address in which he promoted the establishment of settlements for deprived and wayward young men.
Marriage
In June 1898, de Mauny married Lady Mary Byng, daughter of the 4th Earl of Strafford, whom he may have met through her brother, who had attended his school. She was a maid of honour to Queen Victoria. There was talk that Lady Mary married de Mauny, who had no social position or fortune, due to her hostility to her father's second marriage to a wealthy American divorcee, Mrs Cora Colgate.
Shortly prior to his marriage, de Mauny established a small boarding school for teenage boys from upper-class English families seeking to polish their French. Situated at the rented Château Azay-le-Rideau in the Loire Valley, de Mauny relied on his wife's contacts to supply the dozen pupils. It was visited by Lord Lorne and attended by the 2nd Duke of Westminster as a 19-year-old. There were persistent rumours of sexual advances
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Karen Elisabeth Jacobsen is an Australian born and New York based entertainer, singer, motivational speaker, voiceover artist and songwriter.
Early life and career
Born in Mackay, Queensland, Australia and writing songs from the age of seven, Jacobsen was inspired to be a professional singer by her idol Olivia Newton-John. She graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University majoring in voice and piano, winning the Jazz Prize and completing her A.Mus.A. on piano.
International career
On 4 July 2000, she relocated to New York City, writing and recording songs, and has since released ten albums on her independent label Kurly Queen.
Her songs have been on soundtracks for Dawson's Creek and the NBC show Passions and she has shared the stage with Christopher Cross, Neil Sedaka, Norah Jones, Cyndi Lauper, Spyro Gyra, Deborah Cox and Rachael Sage. She has written or recorded with Grammy Award winner Andy Zulla, Tony Award winner David Zippel, ARIA Award winner Sean O'Boyle, Emmy Award nominee Amy Powers and Grammy Award nominee Nicole Zuraitis.
In 2002, Jacobsen's speaking voice was chosen as one of the Australian English options for the text-to-speech system used in GPS units for Garmin, Navman, TomTom and Mio and in telephone and computer software systems. Jacobsen has been dubbed by ABC News and CBS News as 'The Dashboard Diva' and by the Gold Coast Bulletin as 'Gadget Girl'.
She created the empowerment brand 'The GPS Girl' and in speaking engagements and performances shares the five directions for Recalculating, how to 'Recalculate' in Business and Life and 'The GPS Girl's Top Ten Directions for Life' and filmed the pilot of television show, 'Travel the World with The GPS Girl'.
From 2011 to 2014, Jacobsen's voice was used as the original female Australian voice of the Siri application on Apple iPhones, iPods and iPads.
Jacobsen was President of the New York Chapter of the National Speakers Association (2015) and performed on the main stage of th
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Calpe is the Spanish name for Calp, a coastal town in Valencia, Spain. It may also refer to:
Calpe (monolith), also known as the Rock of Gibraltar or Mons Calpe, a monolithic limestone promontory located in Gibraltar. It was one of the Pillars of Hercules.
Gibraltar: Calpe is an ancient name for Gibraltar, taken from the promontory. It still appears in names, and in the motto "Montis Insignia Calpe", traditionally placed on the coat of arms of Gibraltar
Royal Calpe Hunt, formerly Civil Hunt, Civil Calpe Hunt and Calpe Hunt, a fox-hunting club based in Gibraltar, which existed during the 19th and 20th centuries
Calpe (Bithynia), a city of ancient Bithynia in Asia Minor
Calpe (river), a river of ancient Bithynia in Asia Minor
HMS Calpe, two ships of the Royal Navy
Espasa Calpe, Spanish book publisher
Antonio Calpe (1940–2021), Spanish professional footballer
Calpe Treitschke, 1825, a moth genus synonymous with Calyptra
Calpe Quoy & Gaimard, 1827, a siphonophore genus now accepted as Abylopsis
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George Colborne Lemmon (born 20 March 1932) was the seventh Bishop of Fredericton.
After an earlier career as a Linotype operator he studied for a Bachelor of Arts (BA) at the University of New Brunswick. He was ordained in 1963 and began his career at Canterbury, New Brunswick. He later held incumbencies at Wilmot, Renforth, Sackville and Christ Church, Fredericton.
References
1932 births
University of New Brunswick alumni
Anglican bishops of Fredericton
20th-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops
Living people
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Barrillas Airport is an airport serving Puerto Barillas, a small-craft dockage on an arm of the Bahia de Jiquilisco, southwest of Usulután in Usulután Department, El Salvador.
The El Salvador VOR-DME (Ident: CAT) is located west-northwest of the airport.
See also
Transport in El Salvador
List of airports in El Salvador
References
External links
OpenStreetMap - Barrillas
HERE/Nokia - Barrillas
Barrillas
Airports in El Salvador
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The COVID-19 pandemic is the current ongoing global outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2.
Coronavirus outbreak may also refer to:
2002–2004 SARS outbreak, caused by Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-1)
2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak, caused by Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)
2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak in South Korea, caused by MERS-CoV
2018 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, caused by MERS-CoV
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Oleria is a genus of clearwing (ithomiine) butterflies, named by Jacob Hübner in 1816. They are in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae.
Species
Arranged alphabetically within species groups:
Oleria aegle (Fabricius, 1776)
Oleria agarista (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1862)
Oleria alexina (Hewitson, [1859])
Oleria amalda (Hewitson, [1857])
Oleria antaxis (Haensch, 1909)
Oleria aquata (Weymer, 1875)
Oleria assimilis (Haensch, 1903)
Oleria astrea (Cramer, [1775])
Oleria athalina (Staudinger, [1884])
Oleria attalia (Hewitson, 1855)
Oleria bioculata (Haensch, 1905)
Oleria canilla (Hewitson, 1874)
Oleria cyrene (Latreille, [1809])
Oleria deronda (Hewitson, 1876)
Oleria derondina (Haensch, 1909)
Oleria enania (Haensch, 1909)
Oleria estella (Hewitson, 1868)
Oleria fasciata (Haensch, 1903)
Oleria flora (Cramer, 1779)
Oleria fumata (Haensch, 1905)
Oleria gunilla (Hewitson, 1858)
Oleria ilerdina (Hewitson, [1858])
Oleria ilerdinoides (Staudinger, 1885)
Oleria makrena (Hewitson, [1854])
Oleria olerioides (d'Almeida, 1952)
Oleria onega (Hewitson, [1852])
Oleria padilla (Hewitson, 1863)
Oleria paula (Weymer, 1883)
Oleria phenomoe (Doubleday, [1847])
Oleria quadrata (Haensch, 1903)
Oleria quintina (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865)
Oleria radina (Haensch, 1909)
Oleria rubescens (Butler & H. Druce, 1872)
Oleria santineza (Haensch, 1903)
Oleria sexmaculata (Haensch, 1903)
Oleria similigena d'Almeida, 1962
Oleria synnova (Hewitson, [1859])
Oleria tigilla (Weymer, 1899)
Oleria tremona (Haensch, 1909)
Oleria vicina (Salvin, 1869)
Oleria victorine (Guérin-Méneville, [1844])
Oleria zea (Hewitson, [1855])
Oleria zelica (Hewitson, 1856)
The Ollantaya species group:
Oleria aegineta (Hewitson, 1869)
Oleria baizana (Haensch, 1903)
References
Ithomiini
Nymphalidae of South America
Nymphalidae genera
Taxa named by Jacob Hübner
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Stanley Thomas Henry Williams (13 May 1916 – 2002) was a British motorcycle speedway rider for Sheffield and Coventry.
Career
Born in Blaby, Leicestershire in June 1917, Williams started grasstrack racing at the age of seventeen, pushing his bike the eighteen miles from Leicester to Nottingham to take part in his first race. His first speedway experience was from practice sessions at the Leicester Super stadium, later practising at Dagenham. He was signed by Sheffield in 1938, suffering mechanical problems in his first season that saw him close to giving up, but he developed greatly the following year, working under Bluey Wilkinson, including beating Lionel Van Praag in a race at Harringay and reaching the semi-final of the World Championship.
After serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II, he returned to Sheffield as team captain in 1946, leading the team to a second-place finish in the Northern League. A broken ankle in 1946 and a broken wrist in 1947 limited his racing, and he spent much of his time tutoring his younger brother Len, who broke into the Sheffield team in 1947.
Williams stayed with Sheffield until the end of the 1949 season, moving on to Coventry Bees at the start of 1950. He spent four seasons with Coventry before retiring in 1953. He later returned to Coventry as team manager. In the 1960s he managed Newport Wasps.
References
1916 births
2002 deaths
British speedway riders
Coventry Bees riders
English motorcycle racers
Sheffield Tigers riders
Sportspeople from Leicester
Royal Air Force personnel of World War II
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Rumatha polingella is a species of snout moth in the genus Rumatha. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1906. It is found in North America, including California, Texas and southern Arizona.
The wingspan is 23–34 mm for males and 26–35 mm for females. The palpi, head, thorax, forewings and abdomen are dark fuscous, dusted with white and there is a scattering of pinkish scales among the white scales on the costal area. The hindwings are white and semihyaline.
The larvae feed on Cylindropuntia species, including Cylindropuntia leptocaulis. They are solitary feeders within the stems of their host plant.
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Moths described in 1906
Phycitinae
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Jürg Kreienbühl (August 12, 1932, Basel – October 30, 2007, Cormeilles-en-Parisis) was a Swiss and French painter.
Life
After his high school graduation, Jürg Kreienbühl hesitated between pursuing scientific or artistic studies and finally completed an apprenticeship as a house painter in Basel. Earning a scholarship from his city, he traveled to Paris in 1956 to work and to make a living from his painting.
He first settled in Colombes where he painted rubbish tips, cemeteries and decomposing bodies of animals. Two years later, he ended up to move to the slum area of Bezons near Paris in an old wheelless bus. There he lived in difficult conditions among homeless, gypsies and North Africans who became his friends and models. Four years later, he left the slum to settle in an apartment near Argenteuil. The sales of some paintings enabled him to buy a "caravan-studio" and to keep on describing from nature, during more than a decade, the life in the slums and its population : social outcasts, prostitutes, vagrants and disabled people. In 1973, a retrospective exhibition of his work was held at Kunsthaus Museum in Aarau.
In the 1970s, Jürg Kreienbühl started to work on new subjects and to practice again etching and lithography that he could work in his home in Cormeilles-en-Parisis. In 1974, he made his first painting in the Jardin des plantes, "Hommage à Cuvier". One year later, he found by accident a former factory of unsold terra cotta saints for churches in Vendeuvre-sur-Barse: he painted there a series a terra cotta figures lying on dusty grounds. He also spent a lot of time in Le Havre where he painted industrial pollution and the France liner which had to be demolished.
In 1982, Jürg Kreienbühl was invited to visit the Gallery of Zoology (now Gallery of Evolution) of the French National Museum of Natural History, in Paris. Because of disrepair reasons, the gallery was closed since 1965 and was no longer accessible to public. Fascinated by the damaged replica
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Jackie Shane (May 15, 1940 – February 21, 2019) was an American soul and rhythm and blues singer, who was most prominent in the local music scene of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the 1960s. Considered to be a pioneer transgender performer, she was a contributor to the Toronto Sound and is best known for the single "Any Other Way", which was a regional Top 10 hit in Toronto in 1963 and a modest national chart hit across Canada in 1967.
Background
Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, she was born on May 15, 1940. She began performing locally in the 1950s wearing long hair, make-up, and jewelry.
Initially a drummer as well as a vocalist, Shane would play drums standing up while singing. Shane's drumming talent led to studio session work as a drummer, including on Lillian Offitt's "Miss You So", a track which hit #66 pop and #8 R&B on Billboard's US charts in the summer of 1957. Working in Nashville regularly as a stage performer during the late 1950s, Shane also worked in the studio as a drummer on tracks by Larry Williams, Big Maybelle, Gatemouth Brown, Little Willie John, Joe Tex, and numerous other R&B performers.
Vowing to escape the "Jim Crow South", in the late 1950s, Shane joined a traveling carnival and arrived in Cornwall, Ontario, in 1959, where she said she felt free for the first time.
In 1960, Shane moved to Montreal, Quebec, where saxophonist "King" Herbert Whitaker invited her along to watch the popular band Frank Motley and his Motley Crew at the Esquire Show Bar. Shane showed up and sat down near the front. When Motley said, "Get that kid up here and let's see what he can do," pianist Curley Bridges invited Shane, then still presenting as a man, onstage for the next set, where she performed songs by Ray Charles and Bobby "Blue" Bland.
She was soon the band's lead vocalist, and relocated to Toronto with them in late 1961. She returned several times to the United States, on tour with the Motley Crew (to Boston, for example, where they recorded),
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Cerconota tridesma is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1915. It is found in Guyana.
The wingspan is about 22 mm. The forewings are fuscous, with a slight purplish tinge and three light greyish-ochreous lines crossing the wing, the first at two-fifths, bent near the costa, closely preceded by a light greyish-ochreous fascia narrow on the costa and gradually dilating downwards, the second and third bent above the middle, the third running to the tornus, a light greyish-ochreous patch extending along the costa from the second to the apex. The hindwings are grey.
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Moths described in 1915
Cerconota
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
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Peter Tazelaar (5 May 1920 – 6 June 1993) was a member of the Dutch resistance during World War II and worked as an agent for the SOE. Following the war he served in Dutch East Indies, before returning to Europe to work behind the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe for the United States, which served as an inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond series.
Resistance
In September 1938 he trained to be a midshipman at the Royal Netherlands Naval College. In 1939 he moved to Groningen where he enrolled in the . When war broke out on 10 May 1940, Tazelaar was working for the Dutch Merchant Navy. He tried to escape to England by way of Zeeland and northern France, but he failed to reach England. After returning to Groningen in late May 1940, he came into contact with Midshipman John Birnie. During summer 1940, Birnie had joined a group of cadets and midshipmen that had formed a resistance group called the Ordedienst. Birnie introduced his new friend to the Ordedienst which was based in The Hague and headed by Dutch nobleman , who went by the code name of "Uncle Alexander".
Mission to England
Since the resistance had no direct contact with England, Tazelaar was chosen to go to England to make contact with British intelligence forces. In early June 1941 he mustered as a stoker on the Panamanian-flagged, Swiss freighter St-Cergue. The ship was in the port of Schiedam and was voyaging to New York to pick up a supply of corn for the Germans. Two students from Leiden, Bram van der Stok and Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, also escaped to England with Tazelaar. In the Faroe Islands they transferred to a British cruiser and were able to reach England.
Contact Holland
At first it was difficult to get into contact with occupied Holland. At one point Tazelaar and his friends communicated with Queen Wilhelmina and her son-in-law Prince Bernhard. They were able to live in the apartment at the home of Wilhelmina in England.
Van der Stok had devised a plan to pick up people in the occupied Net
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Jurong Airfield (), may also be romanized as Chuyung (Cantonese), was an air force base serving in defense of former capital city of Nanjing during the Republic of China era on the mainland.
History
During the period of the Nanjing Decade, the Imperial Japanese forces staged the Manchurian Incident, which prompted the urgency of the Chinese government in strengthening the national defense of the capital city; Commandant of the Chinese Military Academy General Zhang Zhizhong first proposed to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek the building of Jurong airbase to guard Nanjing. During the construction work on Jurong Airbase, many ancient artifacts were excavated on-site, including ceramic "Korean water kettles" (water containers used by soldiers of Han Shizhong of the Song Dynasty), an ancient tomb, multiple coffins, sacrificial objects and swords. The construction of Jurong airbase was completed in 1934, requiring 610,000 cubic meters of earthwork, over 220,000 yuan in labor and miscellaneous expenses.
On 13 August 1937, in what is known as the first battle of World War II in Asia, the Chinese Air Force had dispatched the following units to Jurong airbase in support of the Battle of Shanghai and defense of Nanjing: the 17th Pursuit Squadron, 3rd Pursuit Group composed of Boeing P-26/281 fighters, which included pilots Liu Lanqing, Qin Jiazhu, along with members of the original Chinese-American volunteer group of fighter pilots John "Buffalo" Huang and John Wong Pan-Yang, plus pilots and crew of the 28th PS, 5th PG flying the Curtiss Hawk II fighters that included Capt. Chan Kee-wong, Lt. Arthur Chin, Lt. Louie Yim-qun et al., the 8th PS, 3rd PG composed of Fiat CR.32 fighters commanded by Capt. Chen Yau-Wei, and several additional Hawk IIs and a Hawk III from the 34th Provisional PS.
On 15 August 1937, the air raid warning net established with the help of the American advisor to the Chinese Air Force, Claire Lee Chennault, reported an incoming flight of 16-20 Imperial J
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Athimarapatti is a panchayat town in Thoothukudi district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.
Demographics
India census, Athimarapatti had a population of 17,527. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Athimarapatti has an average literacy rate of 68%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with 53% of the males and 47% of females literate. 13% of the population is under 6 years of age.
This village is 9 km from Tuticorin city. A narrow road between Spic Nagar and Muthaiyapuram takes you to this beautiful village. Either side of the road you can find beautiful greenery. "As far as Athimarapatti is concerned, banana plantation is the main occupation."
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Villages in Thoothukudi district
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Giuseppina Bozzacchi (23 November 1853 – 23 November 1870) was an Italian ballerina, noted for creating the role of Swanhilda in Léo Delibes' ballet Coppélia at the age of 16 while dancing for the Paris Opera Ballet.
Bozzacchi, who was born in Milan, had come to Paris to study with Mme Dominique. The choreographer Arthur Saint-Léon and the director of the Académie Royale de Musique, Émile Perrin, had been searching for a suitable Swanhilda, after deciding that none of the ballerinas previously considered – Léontine Beaugrand and Angelina Fioretti – were suitable, while , the favorite ballerina of Saint-Léon, had started to prepare the role with choreography in 1868 but then fell seriously ill. In 1869 they even asked the composer, Léo Delibes, to seek out a suitable Swanhilda on his trip to Italy. He returned empty-handed; in the meantime, Saint-Léon and Perrin had discovered 16-year-old Bozzacchi.
She created the Swanhilda role on 25 May 1870 in the presence of Emperor Napoleon III. She repeated her success in the following weeks. In July an international dispute broke out between France and Prussia over the succession to the Spanish throne, and on 19 July France declared war. Bozzacchi danced Swanhilda for the 18th and last time on 31 August, when the Paris Opéra closed for the duration of the Franco-Prussian War. The Opéra had stopped paying salaries, and Bozzacchi, weakened by lack of food, became ill. She contracted smallpox and fever, and died on the morning of her 17th birthday. She was buried at Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris.
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(originally at http://www.ballet.org.uk/reference/notes/coppelia/creation.html; now archived)
1853 births
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Deaths from smallpox
Child deaths
Infectious disease deaths in France
French ballerinas
Italian ballerinas
Dancers from Milan
19th-century Italian ballet dancers
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The Barking Abbey Basketball Academy is an elite 16–19 basketball academy, based at Barking Abbey School in London, England.
History
The school established the basketball academy in 2005, after recognising the lack of elite development opportunities for young players in Britain. Almost unique in British basketball and more similar in structure to a European-style system, the full-time academy is a leading developer of young British talent, many of whom go on to further develop in the NCAA or European academies.
The academy hosted the Nike Junior Euroleague Invitational Tournament in 2010, and was named as the first Great Britain Regional Institute of Basketball in 2011.
Men's team
As of the 2019–20 season the men's team compete as Barking Abbey in NBL Division 1, the second tier of British men's basketball.
From 2010–2012, the academy partnered with NBL Division 1 side Essex Leopards, representing as the BA London Leopards. The joint venture was triumphant in winning the Division 1 league, National Cup and playoffs titles in 2012. Following the end of this partnership, the academy entered a team in its own right in 2012, competing in Division 4. In 2014, the academy partnered with the Medway Park Crusaders, competing as the Kent Crusaders in Division 1.
Players
Season-by-season records
Women's team
The women's team compete, in partnership with the London Lions, as the London Lions in the WBBL, the top tier of British women's basketball.
Academy teams
The academy was a founding member of the Elite Academies Basketball League (EABL) and Women's Elite Basketball League (WEABL).
The men's team won the inaugural Elite League in 2014, defeating Bristol-based SGS College 76–74 in the final. Abbey next won the title in 2017, and defended their title in 2018, defeating Charnwood and Myerscough.
The men's will compete in the 2019–20 Euroleague Next Generation Tournament, the highest junior basketball competition in Europe.
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London Lions (women)
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Gaius Marcius Censorinus (died 3 November, 82 BC) was a late Roman Republican politician and soldier who participated in the first civil war of the Roman Republic, against Sulla.
Family History
Marcius Censorinus was a member of the plebeian Marcia gens of ancient Rome. The cognomen Censorinus was acquired through Gaius Marcius Rutilus, the first plebeian censor, whose son used it. The gens Marcia claimed descent from both Ancus Marcius, a King of Rome, and symbolically from Marsyas the satyr.
Biography
Gaius Marcius Censorinus is first mentioned in historical chronicles after the return of Lucius Cornelius Sulla from Asia. After his return, Marcius Censorius accused him of trying to become a king and of receiving bribes from kings in the Asian provinces. Regardless, on the day of the trial, Marcius Censorius failed to show up and later withdrew his accusation.
With the outbreak of the First Civil War of the Roman Republic, Marcius Censorius joined the ranks of Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Cinna in their efforts to combat Sulla. After the taking of Rome in 87 BC, Marcius Censorius took part in the massacre of Sullan sympathisers in the capital. When Gnaeus Octavius (Consul in 87 BC) was added to the prescribed lists, it was Marcius Censorinus who executed him and took his head to Cinna. The head was displayed in the Roman forum for some time.
In 83 BC, Sulla returned to Italy with his army and began fighting the Populares forces there. Due to the deaths of both Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Cinna, the Populares were commanded by Gnaeus Papirius Carbo and Gaius Marius the Younger. In mid 82 BC, Marcius Censorius was sent to fight Pompey Magnus and was defeated at Sena Galica with Papirius Carbo.
As Marius the younger was besieged at Preneste, his food supply became increasingly scarce. Censorinus was sent by Carbo to his aid at the head of eight legions. Censorinus was ambushed en route by Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus and was once again routed. The survi
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Israel Gohberg (; ; 23 August 1928 – 12 October 2009) was a Bessarabian-born Soviet and Israeli mathematician, most known for his work in operator theory and functional analysis, in particular linear operators and integral equations.
Biography
Gohberg was born in Tarutyne to parents Tsudik and Haya Gohberg. His father owned a small typography shop and his mother was a midwife. The young Gohberg studied in a Hebrew school in Taurtyne and then a Romanian school in Orhei, where he was influenced by the tutelage of Modest Shumbarsky, a student of the renowned topologist Karol Borsuk.
He studied at the Kyrgyz Pedagogical Institute in Bishkek and the University of Chişinău, completed his doctorate at Leningrad University on a thesis advised by Mark Krein (1954), and attended the University of Moscow for his habilitation degree.
Gohberg joined the faculty at Teacher's college in Soroki, at the teachers college in Bălți before returning to Chişinău where he was elected into the Academy of Sciences and also being appointed head of functional analysis at University of Chişinău (1964–73). After moving to Israel, Israel joined Tel Aviv University (1974) and was at the Weizmann Institute at Rehovot. Since then he also had positions at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (1983), as well as at University of Calgary and University of Maryland, College Park.
He founded the Integral equations and operator theory journal (1983).
Gohberg was the visionary and driving force of the International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications, or IWOTA, starting with its first meeting on August 1, 1981. He became a lifetime president of the IWOTA Steering Committee and a founder of the Springer / Birkhäuser Verlag book series Operator Theory: Advances and Applications (OTAA).
Gohberg was awarded the Humboldt Prize in 1992. He received honorary doctorates from the Darmstadt University of Technology in 1997; from the Vienna University of Technology in 2001; from Universitatea de Vest
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The Economic Adjustment Programme for Portugal, usually referred to as the Bailout programme, is a Memorandum of understanding on financial assistance to the Portuguese Republic in order to cope with the 2010–14 Portuguese financial crisis.
The three-year programme was signed in May 2011 by the Portuguese Government under then-Prime Minister José Sócrates of the Socialist Party (PS) on one hand, and on the other hand by the European Commission on behalf of the Eurogroup, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
In June 2014, under the leadership of then-Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), Portugal exited the €78 billion programme, with a concluding tranche of €0.4 billion being disbursed in November 2014.
Background
On 6 April 2011, the resigning Prime Minister José Sócrates of the Socialist Party (PS) announced on television that the country, facing a status of bankruptcy, would request financial assistance to the IMF (at the time managed by Dominique Strauss-Kahn) and the European Financial Stability Facility, like Greece and the Republic of Ireland had done before.
A set of reputed economists (including former Prime Minister and eventual President Aníbal Cavaco Silva) pointed out to a rigid labor market, overstaffing in the public sector and the excessive size of the Portuguese government whose total expenditures overtook 45% of the GDP in 2005.
On the other hand, Robert Fishman, in The New York Times article "Portugal's Unnecessary Bailout", points out that Portugal fell victim to successive waves of speculation by pressure from bond traders, rating agencies and speculators. In the first quarter of 2010, before pressure from the markets, Portugal had one of the best rates of economic recovery in the EU. From the perspective of Portugal's industrial orders, exports, entrepreneurial innovation and high-school achievement, the country matched or even surpassed its neighbors in Western Eu
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The 2014 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Commissioner's Cup, also known as the 2014 PLDT Home TVolution-PBA Commissioner's Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the second conference of the 2013–14 PBA season. The tournament started on March 5, 2014 and finished on May 15, 2014. The tournament allows teams to hire foreign players or imports with a height limit of 6'11" for the bottom two of the last conference, and a limit of 6'9" for other teams.
Format
The following format was observed for the duration of the conference:
Single-round robin eliminations; 9 games per team; Teams are then seeded by basis on win–loss records.
Top eight teams will advance to the quarterfinals. In case of tie, playoffs will be held only for the #2 and #8 seeds.
Quarterfinals:
QF1: #1 seed vs #8 seed (#1 seed twice-to-beat)
QF2: #2 seed vs #7 seed (#2 seed twice-to-beat)
QF3: #3 seed vs #6 seed (best-of-3 series)
QF4: #4 seed vs #5 seed (best-of-3 series)
Semifinals (best-of-5 series):
SF1: QF1 vs. QF4 winners
SF2: QF2 vs. QF3 winners
Finals (best-of-5 series)
Winners of the semifinals
Elimination round
Team standings
Schedule
Results
Bracket
Quarterfinals
(1) Talk 'N Text vs. (8) Barangay Ginebra
(2) San Miguel vs. (7) Air21
(3) Alaska vs. (6) San Mig Super Coffee
(4) Rain or Shine vs. (5) Meralco
Semifinals
(1) Talk 'N Text vs. (4) Rain or Shine
(6) San Mig Super Coffee vs. (7) Air21
Finals
Awards
Conference
Best Player of the Conference: Jayson Castro (Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters)
Best Import of the Conference: Richard Howell (Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters)
Finals MVP: James Yap (San Mig Super Coffee Mixers)
Players of the Week
Imports
The following is the list of imports, which had played for their respective teams at least once, with the returning imports in italics. Highlighted are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the whole conference.
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External links
PBA.ph
PBA Commissioner's Cup
Commissioner's Cup
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Herbert H 'Herbie' Hall (16 March 1926 – 26 February 2013) was a British wrestler.
Career
He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics and the 1956 Summer Olympics.
He represented England and won a silver medal in the -62kg division at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada. He also represented England in the -68Kg division at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales.
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1926 births
2013 deaths
British male sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers for Great Britain
Wrestlers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing
Wrestlers at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Wrestlers at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games medallists in wrestling
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
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Major Sir Robert Lister Bower (12 August 1860 – 13 June 1929) was a British Army, colonial and police officer who served as Chief Constable of the North Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary from 1898 until his death in 1929.
Bower came from an old Yorkshire family; his father was Robert Hartley Bower of Welham Hall, Malton and his mother was a daughter of Sir John Lister-Kaye, 2nd Baronet of Denby Grange. Bower went to Harrow School in 1874 and was later commissioned into the Kerry Militia, from where he transferred to the King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1881. He served in the Anglo-Egyptian War and fought at Tel-el-Mahuta, Kassassin and Tel-el-Kebir. He also served in the 1884 Mahdist War, fighting at El Teb and Tamai, where he was mentioned in dispatches, and in the Nile Expedition of 1884–1885, being mentioned in dispatches twice more. In 1892 he served with the Jebu expedition in West Africa and from 1892 to 1893 he was Political Officer at Jebu Ode. From 1893 to 1897 he was British Resident at Ibadan, Nigeria, where he captured and arrested the Yoruba warrior Ogedengbe of Ilesa. For these services he was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1897.
In 1898, he was appointed Chief Constable of the North Riding of Yorkshire. He served in this role until his death, with a break in 1914–1916 when he returned to the Army as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General in Egypt. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours and was promoted to Knight Commander (KBE) in the 1925 Birthday Honours.
Bower died suddenly from heart failure brought on by pneumonia.
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Obituary, The Times, 15 June 1929
1860 births
1929 deaths
People from Malton, North Yorkshire
People educated at Harrow School
King's Royal Rifle Corps officers
British Army personnel of the Mahdist War
British Army personnel of the Anglo-Egyptian War
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Joseph Maghull Yates (19 June 1844 – 17 April 1916) was an English first-class cricketer, later a barrister and magistrate.
Yates was born in Chorlton-cum-Hardy (now a suburb of Manchester) and educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He played cricket for Cambridge University and appeared in one first-class match in 1866.
While studying at Cambridge Yates was admitted to the Inner Temple and after graduating in 1867 he was called to the bar in 1869. He practised on the Northern Circuit and became a QC in 1893. He was recorder of Salford 1889–1904 and chairman of Quarter Sessions for Salford Hundred. He was also stipendiary magistrate for Manchester 1894–1916. He died in Dunham Woodhouses, Cheshire. His nephew James Yates also played first-class cricket.
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Examples of headline letter spacing
Letter spacing, character spacing or tracking is an optically consistent typographical adjustment to the space between letters to change the visual density of a line or block of text. Letter spacing is distinct from kerning, which adjusts the spacing of particular pairs of adjacent characters such as "7." which would appear to be badly spaced if left unadjusted, and leading, the spacing between lines.
History
Historically, with metal type, a kern meant having a letter stick out beyond the metal slug to which it was attached, or having part of the body of the slug cut off to allow letters to overlap. A kern could therefore only bring letters closer together (negative spacing). Digital kerning could go in either direction. Tracking can similarly go in either direction, but with metal type, one could make groups of letters only farther apart (positive spacing).
In the days of hot metal typesetting, letter spacing required adding horizontal space between letters of words set in metal type in increments of a minimum of a half-point. Some publishers and typesetters avoided letter spacing because it was costly in materials and labor. Letter spacing required hand insertion of copper (a half-point), brass (one point), and printer's "lead" (two points) spaces between individual pieces of type or between matrices. Despite the cost, letter spacing was used in print advertising, book publishing, and custom printing (such as high-end stationary, business cards, wedding invitations, and such). It was also used for very short phrases set in capital letters or small caps to prevent the phrases from appearing too black compared to the rest of the page.
Printer and type designer Frederic Goudy stated that "Men who would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep." Goudy's statement inspired the title of the book Stop Stealing Sheep, an introduction to typography.
Digital systems
Word processing and desktop publishing programs for personal comput
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John Macleod, sometimes John Macleod of Gartymore, (8 August 1862 – 1 April 1931) was MP for Sutherland, representing the Crofters Party (allied to the Liberal Party).
Macleod was born at Helmsdale in 1862 (though he often stated 1863 in later life), the son of John and Ann McLeod. His father was a fish-curer. He trained in Glasgow as an analytical chemist, then after further study in London worked for a Welsh gold-mining company at Gwynfynydd and Glasdir. They sent him to Sutherland in around 1882 to investigate the potential for gold mines at Kildonan, where there had been a minor gold rush in the late 1860s. While working there, he attended a public meeting of the Napier Commission and became active in the land reform movement.
Through the 1880s, he campaigned for the Highland Land League, and was one of the founders of the Sutherland county branch of the movement. He was the campaign agent for Angus Sutherland in the 1885 and 1886 general elections, when Sutherland was elected as the Crofters candidate for the county. In 1888 he moved to Inverness, where he became an editor of the Highland News. He was again active in the county Liberal association, and helped support the election of Donald MacGregor there in 1892. In 1893 he was elected as a representative for Lewis – where he had never visited – on the Ross-shire county council, and appointed Secretary of the Highland Land League.
When Angus Sutherland stood down as an MP in 1894, Macleod was well-placed to secure the Liberal nomination as his successor. He was challenged by Dr. Donald Murray of Brora (later to become MP for the Western Isles), who felt that the county should have consulted more widely before selecting a candidate. Murray stood down in the interests of party unity, though not without a public rebuke to Macleod and his use of the Highland News.
Following this, Macleod was returned unopposed as the Crofters/Liberal candidate. At the 1895 general election he was returned with 65% of the vote,
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A referendum on divorce was held in Malta on 28 May 2011. Voters were asked whether they approved of a new law to introduce allowing divorces, as at that time, Malta was one of only three countries in the world (along with the Philippines and the Vatican City) in which divorce was not permitted. The proposal was approved by 53% of voters, resulting in a law allowing divorce under certain conditions being enacted later in the year.
Background
A private member's bill was tabled in the House of Representatives by Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, then a Nationalist Member of Parliament. The text of the bill, which had been changed twice, did not provide for the holding of a referendum. This was eventually provided for through a separate Parliamentary resolution under the Referenda Act authorising a facultative, non-binding referendum to be held.
The Catholic Church in Malta encouraged a "no" vote through a pastoral letter issued on the Sunday before the referendum day. Complaints were made that religious pressure was being brought to bear upon voters. Around 8 per cent of marriages in Malta are already annulled by the Catholic Church.
Question
Ballot papers had both English and Maltese questions printed on them. The English version of the question put to voters was as follows:
The question, which resembled the proposal approved by Irish voters in the Irish divorce referendum of 1995, was somewhat controversial. It was claimed that it did not reflect the content of the private member's bill.
Results
Although for the purposes of the referendum the whole country was regarded to be a single constituency - taking into account electoral districts - in only three out of the thirteen did the "no" vote reach a majority.
Aftermath
Discussion on the divorce bill started in earnest soon after the result was announced. In the second and third readings a number of MPs still voted against the bill. Parliament approved the law on 25 July. The law came into effect on 1 October.
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The Oratorio di Beleo is a rural Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic chapel-church located in the frazione of Beleo, outside of the town of Casina, province of Reggio Emilia, region of Emilia Romagna, Italy.
History
Documents from 980 record the Ottone II, Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor granting the chapel to the bishop of Reggio. It is documented in 1070 as being once in the possessions of Bonifacio di Canossa. By 1575, documents noted a planned restoration. The structure is a simple stone building restored after damaging bombardment during the Second World War. The 1952 portal has an epigraph reading: "CEU PHONICA ULTRO EX OSSIBUS ET MEDULLIS RENATUM BENIAMIN REGIEN EPUS FAUSTA RECONCILLATIONE LUSTRVIT - VII KAL. JUN. A. SAL. MCMLII". The structure retains medieval windows and the nave has Romanesque columns with sculpted designs. A series of plaques recalls Italian alpine soldiers fallen in wars.
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Churches in the province of Reggio Emilia
11th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
Romanesque architecture in Emilia-Romagna
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The World Chess Championship 2018 was a match between the reigning world champion since 2013, Magnus Carlsen, and the challenger Fabiano Caruana to determine the World Chess Champion. The 12-game match, organised by FIDE and its commercial partner Agon, was played at The College in Holborn, London, between 9 and 28 November 2018. The games were broadcast on worldchess.com and by NRK.
The classical time-control portion of the match ended with 12 consecutive draws, the only time in the history of the world chess championship that all classical games have been drawn. On 28 November, rapid chess was used as a tie-breaker; Carlsen won three consecutive games to retain his title and became four-time world champion.
Candidates Tournament
Caruana qualified as challenger by winning the 2018 Candidates Tournament. This was an eight-player, double round-robin tournament played in Berlin on 10–28 March 2018.
Qualified players
Players qualified for the Candidates Tournament as follows (age, rating and world ranking are as of March 2018, when the tournament was held):
Results
Championship match
The Championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana was held from 9 to 28 November 2018 in London, United Kingdom, at the Cochrane Theatre of The College in Holborn.
Match regulations
The match was organised in a best-of-12-games format. The time control for the games was 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, an additional 50 minutes added after the 40th move, and then an additional 15 minutes added after the 60th move, plus an additional 30 seconds per move starting from move 1. Players were not permitted to agree to a draw before Black's 30th move.
The tie-breaking method consisted of the following schedule of faster games played on the final day in the following order, as necessary:
Best-of-four rapid games (25 minutes for each player with an increment of 10 seconds after each move). The player with the best score after four rapid games is the winner. The players
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The gas-generator cycle, also called open cycle, is one of the most commonly used power cycles in bipropellant liquid rocket engines. Part of the unburned propellant is burned in a gas generator (or preburner) and the resulting hot gas is used to power the propellant pumps before being exhausted overboard, and lost. Because of this loss, this type of engine is termed open cycle.
The gas generator cycle exhaust products pass over the turbine first. Then they are expelled overboard. They can be expelled directly from the turbine, or are sometimes expelled into the nozzle (downstream from the throat) for a small gain in efficiency.
The main combustion chamber does not use these products. This explains the name of the open cycle. The major disadvantage is that this propellant contributes little to no thrust because they are not injected into the combustion chamber. The major advantage of the cycle is reduced engineering complexity compared to the staged combustion (closed) cycle.
Gas-generator combustion engines include the following:
Vulcain, HM7B
Merlin
RS-68
RS-27A
J-2X
F-1
RD-107
CE-20
Rocket launch systems that use gas-generator combustion engines:
Ariane 5
Falcon 9,
Falcon Heavy
Delta IV
Saturn V
Soyuz
GSLV
LVM III
Long March 3B, Long March 2F
Rocket Lab Neutron
Miura 5
See also
Combustion tap-off cycle
Expander cycle
Pressure-fed engine
Rocket engine
Staged combustion cycle
References
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Rocket power cycles
Rocket-Engine Cooling at NASA
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Rocket engines
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The Hochgern is a mountain found in the Bavarian district of Traunstein, in Germany. It is part of the Chiemgau Alps and has a height of 1748 meters above sea level. The Hochgern marks the junction of the municipalities of Unterwössen, Marquartstein and Ruhpolding, as well as the Urschlau Forest district.
Geography
The Hochgern, rising south of the Chiemsee, is a significant member of the Bavarian Alps. With a prominence of 967 meters, the peak is among the most important of the Chiemgau Alps. Several somewhat lower mountains cluster about its centrally-located summit.
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Mountains of the Alps
Mountains of Bavaria
Chiemgau Alps
One-thousanders of Germany
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The Moscow Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev. It was held on May 29, 1988 – June 3, 1988. Reagan and Gorbachev finalized the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) after the U.S. Senate's ratification of the treaty in May 1988. Reagan and Gorbachev continued to discuss bilateral issues like Central America, Southern Africa, the Middle East and the pending withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. Reagan and Gorbachev continued their discussions on human rights. The parties signed seven agreements on lesser issues such as student exchanges and fishing rights. A significant result was the updating of Soviet history books, which necessitated cancelling some history classes in Soviet secondary schools. In the end, Reagan expressed satisfaction with the summit.
Reagan and Gorbachev eventually issued a joint statement, of which excerpts are shown here:
One ironic instance of the summit was when Reagan gave Gorbachev a copy of the movie Friendly Persuasion, whose screenwriter Michael Wilson got blacklisted in the 1950s due to suspected communist sympathies.
See also
List of Soviet Union–United States summits (1943 to 1991)
References
20th-century diplomatic conferences
1988 in international relations
1988 in the Soviet Union
1988 in Moscow
1988 conferences
May 1988 events in Europe
June 1988 events in Europe
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Soviet Union–United States diplomatic conferences
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The stump or tree stump is a small remaining part of the trunk with the roots still in the ground. Stumps may show the ages of a tree through its rings. The study of these rings is known as dendrochronology. Sometimes stumps are able to grow again into new trees. Sometimes a tree is cut to a stump on purpose to grow again. This is known as "coppicing".
References
Buckley, G.P. 1992. Ecology and Management of Coppice Woodlands. Springer 336 pages,, .
Schenk, H.J., and R.B. Jackson. 2002. The global biogeography of roots. Ecological Monographs 72 (3): 311-328.
Other websites
Stump harvesting in Sweden
Regeneration after stump harvesting
Stumps as a resource in Finland
Stump harvesting and forest decomposers
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Walter C. "Steel Arm" Davis (June 22, 1896 – November 30, 1941) was an American Negro league baseball player from 1920 to 1938. He played for the Dayton Marcos, Detroit Stars, Chicago American Giants, Nashville Elite Giants, Gilkerson's Union Giants and Brooklyn Eagles.
During the off-season, Davis often returned to his hometown of Madison, Wisconsin, and worked as a porter for many of the local barber shops.
In the later years of his career, Davis worked as a playing manager for the Black Missions baseball team in San Antonio, Texas. The traveling team followed the same traditions of many other barnstorming baseball teams, playing as far away as Canada, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas and North Dakota. The team also staged exhibitions with Grover Cleveland Alexander when he was with House of David baseball team during summer 1938.
Known to have a hot temper, Davis was shot and killed by "Red" Merrill after a 1941 barroom brawl in Chicago. Merrill was later captured by police.
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1896 births
1941 deaths
Detroit Stars players
Chicago American Giants players
Baseball players from Texas
Dayton Marcos players
People from Freestone County, Texas
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The 13th Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships were held in
the Truman Bodden Sports Complex in Georgetown, Cayman Islands between 10–12 July 1998.
Records
A total of 19 new championship records were set.
Key
†: Electronic timing. Still better hand timing results.
Medal summary
Complete results are published on the CFPI and on the World Junior Athletics History website, and medal winners are published by category: Junior A, Male, Junior A, Female, and Junior B.
Male Junior A (under 20)
†: Event marked as exhibition.
Female Junior A (under 20)
†: Event marked as exhibition.
Male Junior B (under 17)
†: Event marked as exhibition.
Female Junior B (under 17)
Medal table (unofficial)
Participation (unofficial)
The Commonwealth of Dominica competed for the first time at the championships. Detailed result lists can be found on the CFPI and on the World Junior Athletics History website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 361 athletes (187 junior (under-20) and 174 youth (under-17)) from about 21 countries:
(2)
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México (74)
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References
External links
Official CACAC Website
Local Championships Website
World Junior Athletics History
Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics
International sports competitions hosted by the Cayman Islands
1998 in the Cayman Islands
Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships
George Town, Cayman Islands
Athletics competitions in the Cayman Islands
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Based in Oakland, California, the No Kill Advocacy Center is a non-profit organization led by Nathan Winograd, dedicated to expanding no kill animal sheltering across the United States.
History
The No Kill Advocacy Center was founded in 2004 by Nathan Winograd, after he had "created the nation's first—and at the time, only—No Kill community" in Tompkins County, New York. Rather than accepting the typical approach of the humane movement "that the best shelters can do for homeless animals is to adopt out some and kill the rest", Winograd believed that a shelter could save "100 percent of healthy and treatable animals, and 100 percent of feral cats". He took on the position of shelter director for the SPCA of Tompkins County in June 2011, and was able to stop killing immediately. He continued at the position for three years, solidifying the approach, and developing the No Kill Equation, a "roadmap to No Kill" that other organizations could follow.
Winograd created the No Kill Advocacy Center to advise other organizations and expand no kill animal sheltering across the United States. At the start of 2012, thirty no kill communities had been identified; by the end of the year there were almost 90. In 2013, hundreds of communities in the United States were reported as saving from 90% to 99% of impounded animals using the No Kill Equation model of sheltering. A new community announced its No Kill status about every week. Winograd stated that the successes of no kill communities "prove that there is a formula for lifesaving, and that if we are to achieve a No Kill nation, it is incumbent upon shelters nationwide to embrace the programs and services which have been proven to save lives".
No Kill Equation
The "No Kill Equation" is 11 requirements that they consider essential to create communities that do not kill unwanted pets. They are:
Trap–neuter–return (TNR) programs for free-living cats allow shelters to reduce death rates.
No- and low-cost, high-volume spay/neuter
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Henry the Young King (28 February 1155 – 11 June 1183) was the eldest son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine to survive childhood. In 1170, he became titular King of England, Duke of Normandy, Count of Anjou and Maine. Henry the Young King was the only English king since the Norman Conquest to be crowned during his father's reign, but he was frustrated by his father's refusal to grant him meaningful autonomous power. He died aged 28, six years before his father, which left his brother Richard to become the next king.
Early life
Little is known of the young Henry before the events associated with his marriage and coronation. His mother's children by her first marriage to Louis VII of France were Marie and Alix. He had one elder brother, William (d. 1156), and his younger siblings included Matilda, Richard, Geoffrey, Eleanor, Joan and John.
In June 1170, the fifteen-year-old Henry was crowned king during his father's lifetime, a traditional practice of the French Capetian dynasty which held formal overlordship of Henry II's continental domains. King Stephen had previously attempted to have his son Eustace crowned as early as 1143 but was unable to secure papal support. On the latter's death in 1153, Stephen did not even attempt to have his second son William acknowledged as heir.
He was known in his own lifetime as "Henry the Young King" to distinguish him from his father. As he was not a reigning king, he is not counted in the numerical succession of kings of England. According to one of Thomas Becket's correspondents, Henry was knighted by his father before the coronation, but the History of William Marshal asserts that the king was knighted by Marshal in the course of the rebellion of 1173.
Tournament hero and celebrity
Henry did not appear to have been very interested in the day-to-day business of government, which distinguished him from his father and younger brothers. His father, however, is reputed to have failed to delegate authority to his s
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John Waddell (1828–1888) was a Scottish railway contractor based in Edinburgh. He was born in the parish of New Monkland on 16 August 1828, the son of George Waddell and his wife Elizabeth Shanks, of the farm of Gain or Gane. He married Margaret Donald (1831-1892) on 15 June 1852.
Biography
He ran the enterprising and respected firm John Waddell & Sons and went on to complete many routes during the rise of the railways across England during the late 19th century, especially for the NER.
Notable examples of his work include the rebuilding of Putney Bridge in London (1882), the Scarborough & Whitby Railway, completion of the Whitby Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway and the Mersey Railway tunnel. His company also built part of the approaches to the Forth Bridge.
On 17 February 1883 an agreement was reached with John Waddell to construct a tunnel under the River Thames between Tilbury and Gravesend, work which would have carried trains through to Dover for a potential Channel tunnel, although that proposal was eventually dropped.
Death
He died at his home, 4 Belford Park, Edinburgh on 17 January 1888, aged 60. He left three sons – George, Robert and John, who carried on his business after his death – and six daughters, Anne (wife of Joseph Allan Currie), Elizabeth, Margaret (wife of Sir Thomas Kennedy Dalziel), Agnes Russell MB (wife of Hope Gibson CBE), Jane and Janet (wife of John Rebbeck Garrod).
He is buried on a prominent corner on the west side of Dean Cemetery opposite "Lords Row".
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1888 deaths
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British railway pioneers
British railway civil engineers
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Engineers from Edinburgh
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Shades of white are colors that differ only slightly from pure white. Variations of white include what are commonly termed off-white colors, which may be considered part of a neutral color scheme.
In color theory, a shade is a pure color mixed with black (or having a lower lightness). Strictly speaking, a "shade of white" would be a neutral grey. This article is also about off-white colors that vary from pure white in hue, and in chroma (also called saturation, or intensity).
Colors often considered "shades of white" include cream, eggshell, ivory, Navajo white, and vanilla. Even the lighting of a room, however, can cause a pure white to be perceived as off-white.
Off-white colors were pervasively paired with beiges in the 1930s, and especially popular again from roughly 1955 to 1975. In terms of paint, off-white paints are now becoming more popular, with Benjamin Moore having 152 shades of off-whites, Behr having 167, and PPG has 315.
Whiteness measures the degree to which a surface is white in colorimetry.
Web colors
Below is a chart showing the computer web color shades of white. An achromatic white is a white color in which the red, green, and blues codes are exactly equal. The web colors white and white smoke are achromatic colors. A chromatic shade of white is a white color in which the red, green, and blue codes are not exactly equal, but are close to each other, which is what makes it a shade of white.
White
White is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in equal amounts and with high brightness compared to the surroundings. A white visual stimulation will be void of hue and grayness. White is the lightest possible color.
Chalk white
Chalk white is a tint of white resembling the chalk color.
Ghost white
The web color ghost white is a tint of white associated with what the 'creator' of the color imagined the hue of a ghost could be.
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Blair Witch Volume II: The Legend of Coffin Rock is a survival horror video game developed by Human Head Studios for Microsoft Windows. It is a sequel to Blair Witch Volume I: Rustin Parr and was followed by Blair Witch Volume III: The Elly Kedward Tale.
Reception
Blair Witch Volume II: The Legend of Coffin Rock received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. In the United States, it sold 16,000 copies by October 2001.
Daniel Erickson reviewed the PC version of the game for Next Generation, rating it two stars out of five, and called the game short and repetitive, and having a problematic camera control.
The game was released on 25 October 2000 in North America, and on 3 November in Europe.
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2000 video games
Blair Witch
Gathering of Developers games
Psychological horror games
Single-player video games
Take-Two Interactive games
Video games based on films
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the 19th century
Windows games
Windows-only games
Video games about witchcraft
Video games scored by Rom Di Prisco
Video games set in Maryland
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In quantum Darwinism and similar theories, pointer states are quantum states, sometimes of a measuring apparatus, if present, that are less perturbed by decoherence than other states, and are the quantum equivalents of the classical states of the system after decoherence has occurred through interaction with the environment. 'Pointer' refers to the reading of a recording or measuring device, which in old analog versions would often have a gauge or pointer display.
See also
Einselection
Mott problem
References
Quantum mechanics
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