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Iceland–Ukraine relations are the bilateral relations between Iceland and Ukraine, as well as cooperation between the two countries in international organizations and other international institutions.
Political dialogue
Unlike other Scandinavian countries, Ukraine's political dialogue with Iceland is characterized by irregularity and low intensity. It seems that the Icelandic side is more interested in maintaining bilateral relations than the Ukrainian side. The last high-level visit from Ukraine to Iceland took place in May 2002, when the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Anatoliy Zlenko visited the country. Since then, Icelandic Prime Minister Davíð Oddsson (February 2004) and Icelandic Foreign Minister Valgerður Sverrisdóttir (November 2006) have both paid an official visit to Ukraine.
2021–22 Russo-Ukrainian crisis
Icelandic Foreign Minister Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir expressed support for Ukraine in the conflict, and said that Russia's actions "must have consequences".
Trade and economic relations
Trade and economic relations with Iceland since 2009 are limited to imports of Icelandic fresh and frozen fish to Ukraine. The volume of these imports and, accordingly, the total volume of bilateral trade in 2009 reached . In previous years, Ukraine exported to Iceland, however, in small quantities, industrial products. At the same time, Iceland is the 40th among 123 countries-investors in terms of direct investment in Ukraine. Direct investment from Iceland - $ 25 million. The largest of the Icelandic investments in Ukraine was the acquisition in 2006 by the Icelandic International Private Investment Bank together with other investors of a controlling stake (92.5%) in the shares of the Ukrainian Joint-Stock Commercial Bank Lviv in the amount of 8 million USD.
Diplomatic missions
Iceland is accredited to Ukraine from its embassy in Helsinki, Finland.
Ukraine is accredited to Iceland from its embassy in Helsinki, Finland.
See also
Foreign relations of Icelan
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The 2014 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship was the 19th IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship, an international inline hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The World Championship ran alongside the 2014 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I tournament and took place between 1 and 7 June 2014 in Pardubice, Czech Republic. The tournament was won by the Finland, earning their fourth World Championship title. Canada finished in second place and the United States in third after defeating Sweden in the bronze medal match. Great Britain, after losing the relegation game against Slovakia was relegated to Division I for 2015.
Qualification
Seven of the eight teams automatically qualified for the 2014 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship while the eighth spot was awarded to the winner of the 2013 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I tournament. The 2013 Division I tournament was won by Great Britain who defeated Austria in the final to earn promotion back to the World Championship after they were relegated in 2012.
− Finished third in the 2013 World Championship
− Finished fifth in the 2013 World Championship
− Finished seventh in the 2013 World Championship
− Finished sixth in the 2013 World Championship
− Winner of 2013 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I
− Finished fourth in the 2013 World Championship
− Finished second in the 2013 World Championship
− Finished first in the 2013 World Championship
Seeding and groups
The seeding in the preliminary round was based on the final standings at the 2013 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and 2013 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I. The World Championships groups are named Group A and Group B while the 2014 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I tournament use Group C and Group D, as both tournaments were held in Pardubice, Czech Republic. The teams were grouped accordingly by seeding at the previous year's tournament (in par
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Little Meadows is located at the foot of Meadow Mountain in western Maryland. It was a common stopping point for British troops during the French and Indian War and was frequented by George Washington.
George Washington and Little Meadows
After a failed attempt to ask the French to leave the Ohio territory in 1753, Governor Robert Dinwiddie sent Lieutenant Colonel George Washington of the new Virginia Regiment to drive out the French. Starting out from Wills Creek (now Cumberland, Maryland), the expedition stopped at Little Meadows in early May 1754 to make camp. Washington wrote Dinwiddie on May 9, commenting on the local terrain impeding their progress. Washington and his men moved on to ambush French forces and construct Fort Necessity, where they were eventually defeated and forced to return to Cumberland. The ambush and subsequent engagement proved to be a major spark of the French and Indian War, and the larger, worldwide, Seven Years' War.
On June 10, 1755 British and American forces left Fort Cumberland, heading west. On the 16th they arrived at Little Meadows, where Sir John St. Clair had made a temporary camp. General Braddock, the overall British commander, was unaccustomed to frontier warfare and so asked Washington for advice, who made preparations to march on Fort Duquesne. While in camp the famous Captain Jack and his forest rangers, men who dressed in leather and cloth and operated as Indians offered their services to Braddock for intelligence and harassing enemy Indians. Braddock detested unconventional warfare and rebuffed their offer. On the 19th of June, Washington and 1,200 troops moved out, accompanied by their Indian allies, towards Fort Duquesne. General Braddock could not abandon the tactics of Europe, making slow progress on their march, only 12 miles in 4 days. As Washington put it, "instead of pushing on with vigor, without regarding a little rough road, they were halting to level every mole hill, and to erect bridges o
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Sickboy is the name of a street artist from Bristol, UK, known for his temple logo and his 'Save the Youth' slogan. Sickboy moved to London in 2007 and his street art became prevalent particularly in the East End boroughs of Shoreditch and Tower Hamlets. It is claimed Sickboy was one of the first UK graffiti artists to use a logo instead of a 'tag'.
Sickboy originally trained in fine art and, as well as painting graffiti on the street, he also paints on canvas and exhibits conventionally in art galleries. He has been painting street art since circa 1995. In recent years Sickboy has become known for painting his 'temple' logo on wheelie bins, which can then be worth up to £50,000.
In a 2011 The Guardian article Sickboy named Spanish street artist La Mano as a major influence. He said "At the time, graffiti was mainly seen as letter-based, but [Le Mano] just used a logo and repeated it... I'd never been a big fan of stencil work, which is where a lot of people think graffiti crosses over into more acceptable street art. La Mano stuck more closely to the graffiti aspect, which I try to adhere to now. I like the freehand, grab-a-tin-of-spray-paint approach".
References
English graffiti artists
Pseudonymous artists
Artists from Bristol
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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S.Alam Group is a Bangladeshi industrial conglomerate. S. Alam Group also has investment in banking, leasing, insurance, stock brokering, and merchant banking. The industries under this group include food and allied products, steel, banking, consumer products, sugar, cement, power, energy, transportation, shipping, manufacturing, hospitality, financial institution, agro, trading, oil, and gas.
History
In April 2009, S. Alam purchased Oman Bangladesh Leasing and Finance Limited. Md Saiful Alam Masud, chairman of S. Alam Group and First Security Islami Bank Limited, was appointed chairman of Oman Bangladesh Leasing and Finance Limited.
S. Alam Group signed an agreement with SEPCO3 to construct a powerplant in Chittagong in 2013. The Banshkhali power plant movement was launched to stop the construction of the Powe plant. Environmentalists have opposed the construction of the plant on environmental grounds.
On 5 January 2015, Ekushey Television abruptly halted transmissions without any notice in most areas around Bangladesh after airing a speech by the senior vice chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Tarique Rahman. A sedition case was also filed as Rahman's speech was said to be "false, fabricated and instigating". The chairman of Ekushey, Abdus Salam, was subsequently arrested in a case filed under the Pornography Act of 2012, as the network allegedly aired a false report on a girl in one of their programs, Ekusher Chokh. Later, the channel resumed broadcasting in some areas, and resumed nationwide broadcasts over time. On 25 November 2015, a media release issued by Ekushey Television stated that S. Alam Group of Industries had acquired Ekushey, in an auction on 8 October.
S. Alam Group bought 50 per cent of the shares of Social Islami Bank Limited through 19 subsidiaries violating the Banking Company Act, 1991 in the process in 2017 achieving a hostile takeover. The same year the company took over Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd and appointed Arastoo Khan ch
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Wilfred or Wifred, called the Hairy (in Catalan: Guifré el Pilós), (died 11 August 897) was Count of Urgell (from 870), Cerdanya (from 870), Barcelona (from 878), Girona (from 878, as Wilfred II), Besalú (from 878) and Ausona (from 886). On his death in 897, his son, Wilfred Borrell, inherited these Catalan counties.
He was responsible for the repopulation of the long-depopulated no-man's land around Vic (the county of Ausona, a frontier between Christians and Muslims), the re-establishment of the bishopric of Vic and the foundation of the Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll, where he is buried.
Historical significance
Wilfred was the Catalan Count of Barcelona (878–897) who created the tradition of hereditary passage of titles. His son, Wilfred Borrell, inherited the county without any interruption and held it from 897–911.
A number of primitive feudal entities developed in the Marca Hispànica during the 9th century. They were generally self-sufficient and agrarian, but ruled by a small military elite. The pattern seen in Catalonia is similar to that found in similar border lands or marches elsewhere in Europe.
Traditionally the Count of Barcelona was appointed directly by the Carolingian (Frankish) emperor, for example the appointment of Bera in 801. The appointment of heirs could not be taken for granted. However, with the rise of strong counts such as Sunifred (fl. 844–848) and Wilfred, and the weakening of Carolingian royal power, the appointment of heirs eventually become a formality. This trend resulted in the counts becoming de facto independent of the Carolingian crown under Borrell II in 985.
Wilfred remained obscure until drawn into the historians' net by Sir Richard Southern, in The Making of the Middle Ages, 1953.
Origins
Wilfred was of Gothic lineage from the region of Carcassonne. Tradition claims he was born near Prades in the County of Conflent, now Rià, in Roussillon, France.
According to legend, he was the son of Wilfred of Arriaount (o
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NLA media access (often shortened to the NLA) is the collecting society for UK newspapers, a privately owned limited company. It undertakes collective rights management on behalf of its members and licenses companies, such as press cuttings agencies and media monitoring firms.
History
The NLA was founded in 1996 by the following eight UK national newspaper publishers, who were equal shareholders:
Associated Newspapers
Financial Times
Guardian Media Group
ESI Media (comprising The Independent and Evening Standard)
Northern & Shell
News International
Daily Telegraph
Trinity Mirror
There are seven shareholders as of 2019, following Northern & Shell's acquisition by Trinity Mirror.
NLA media access distributes over £22m each year to national and regional newspapers in respect of copyright works. In 2009 NLA media access licensed over 1000m copies of newspaper cuttings from more than 1,400 titles and collected licence fees from over 8,300 licensees (representing over 150,000 organisations).
In 2006 the NLA launched eClips, an online database of newspaper cuttings. In 2008, it launched ClipSearch, allowing anyone to search and retrieve original newspaper articles from around the UK, updated 72 hours after publication. In 2009, it introduced Newspapers for Schools, to encourage and ease the access of newspaper material to schools throughout the UK. NLA media access also supports the Journalism Diversity Fund which provides bursaries to students from ethnically and socially diverse backgrounds looking to train as journalists.
Clipping services litigation
In 2010, NLA media access introduced a licence covering media monitoring services which crawl sites and offer paid-for services based on their filtered results. A media monitoring company, Meltwater Group, charged its clients to view relevant results without those clients needing a licence from a newspaper company or copyright service to read the original mention. The case revolved around whether a client
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LEP is the Large Electron–Positron Collider, a particle accelerator.
LEP or Lep may also refer to:
Science
Laser Excited Phosphor, great beam distance light powered by a laser
Light emitting plasma, or plasma lamps
Light emitting polymer
Lep, an abbreviation for Lepus (constellation)
LEP, an alias for leptin, a gene
Laser evoked potentials, in neuralgia
The liquid entry pressure (LEP) of a hydrophobic membrane
Organisations
Liberal Egyptian Party
Local ecumenical partnership or local ecumenical project
Local enterprise partnership, a type of partnership between government and the business community for economic development in England
Other uses
Lower Elements Police, a police squad in the Artemis Fowl children's novels
Limited English proficiency, in English language learning and teaching
Lancashire Evening Post, an English newspaper
See also
Leps (disambiguation)
Lepidoptera, an order of insects that includes moths and butterflies
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Stephen Gilbert (1910–2007) was a British painter and sculptor.
Steve or Stephen Gilbert may also refer to:
Stephen Gilbert (novelist) (1912–2010), Northern Irish novelist
Stephen Gilbert, Baron Gilbert of Panteg (born 1963), Conservative member of the British House of Lords
Steve Gilbert (born 1976), British politician
Steve Gilbert (American football), head football coach at Jacksonville University
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Artista Academy is a Philippine talent and reality show aired on TV5. Hosted by Cesar Montano and Marvin Agustin in cooperation with the Asian Academy of Television Arts (AATA), it premiered on July 30, 2012. The show aims to find new talented actors and actresses, with worth of prizes and an artist management contract at stake. The show had its one-time Grand Audition at the Smart Araneta Coliseum on June 19, 2012 for all aspirants between 16 and 22 years old. The show ended on October 27, 2012 through the "awards night" at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, having Vin Abrenica and Sophie Albert as winners.
Each of the 16 aspirants will undergo training at the AATA as special scholars. Noted experts from the Philippine entertainment industry and veteran artists will tutor the candidates.
Faculty
Hosts
Cesar Montano (Artista Academy Live Exams)
Marvin Agustin (Artista Academy Primetime)
Mr. Fu (Close-Up Artista Academy Breaktime)
Valeen Montenegro (Close-Up Artista Academy Breaktime / Live Exams)
Executive committee
Mac Alejandre
Wilma Galvante
Perci Intalan
Live exam critics
Lorna Tolentino
Gelli de Belen
Wilma Galvante
Mac Alejandre
Academy advisers
Joel Lamangan
Louie Ocampo
Georcelle Dapat-Sy
Guest mentors
Boots Anson-Roa
Leo Martinez
Moy Ortiz
Soxie Topacio
Lorna Tolentino
Top 16 students
Elimination chart
Color Keys
– Top 8 scholar male students
– Top 8 scholar female students
– Top scholar student in the Live and Final Exam; Scholar student advanced to the Finals
– Received a Special Award
– Proclaimed as the Grand Winner (Best Actor/Best Actress)
– Final 6 scholar student
– Wildcard Finalist and advanced to the Finals
– Previously Kicked out and then competed as a Wildcard Finalist
– Ranked as one of the Bottom group
– Kicked out (Eliminated)
– Dropped out (Withdraw/Quit/Ejected)
Notes
No eliminations, but there was the Overall Bottom Three.
Alejo and Quisumbing were hospitalized, therefore they were absent on the live exam an
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The River City Rhythm Drum and Bugle Corps is an Open Class competitive junior drum and bugle corps, based in Anoka, Minnesota. River City Rhythm performs in Drum Corps International (DCI) competitions.
History
River City Rhythm began as a competitive drumline, founded in Big Lake, Minnesota in 2009 to compete in the Minnesota Percussion Association (MPA) and Winter Guard International (WGI). The unit has won the MPA Independent A Class Championship in 2010–11 and the MPA Independent Open Class Championship in 2013–16 and 2018–19. They have been WGI Independent A Class World Champion Finalists in 2010–11, WGI Independent Open Class World Champion Finalists in 2012–16, and named WGI Independent Open Class Fan Favorites in 2012–15.
The organization relocated to Champlin, Minnesota in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area during the winter of 2011-12.
In 2014, the organization announced its intent to field a drum and bugle corps to compete in Drum Corps International (DCI) beginning in 2015. While the management was laying the groundwork for starting a new corps, the drumline was one of seventeen that took part in the DrumLine Battle competition in Indianapolis during the 2014 DCI World Championships. In January 2015, DCI announced that River City Rhythm was one of five corps being evaluated for possible inclusion in DCI Open Class competition for 2015. In May 2015, following a period of evaluation of the unit's finances, staffing, and tour plans by DCI's staff, River City Rhythm was added to the list of competing Open Class corps. The corps was added to DCI's summer schedule for four shows in Minnesota and Iowa in preparation for the corps' first appearance at the DCI Open Class World Championship Prelims in Michigan City, Indiana.
Sponsorship
River City Rhythm is a 501 (c)(3) musical organization. The organization is the sponsor of the River City Rhythm Drum and Bugle Corps, the River City Rhythm Indoor Drumline, and the Lux Winterguard. Bojan Hoover is the Executive
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Physics of financial markets is a discipline that studies financial markets as physical systems. It seeks to understand the nature of financial processes and phenomena by employing the scientific method and avoiding beliefs, unverifiable assumptions and immeasurable notions, not uncommon to economic disciplines.
Physics of financial markets addresses issues such as theory of price formation, price dynamics, market ergodicity, collective phenomena, market self-action, and market instabilities.
Physics of financial markets should not be confused with mathematical finance, which are only concerned with descriptive mathematical modeling of financial instruments without seeking to understand nature of underlying processes.
See also
Econophysics
Social physics
Quantum economics
Thermoeconomics
Quantum finance
Kinetic exchange models of markets
Brownian model of financial markets
Ergodicity economics
References
Applied and interdisciplinary physics
Financial markets
Technical analysis
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Eagris hereus, commonly known as the beautiful orange flat, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola and the Central African Republic. The habitat consists of forests.
Adults are attracted to flowers.
Subspecies
Eagris hereus hereus - Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, Central African Republic
Eagris hereus quaterna (Mabille, 1890) - Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, western Cameroon
References
Butterflies described in 1875
Tagiadini
Butterflies of Africa
Taxa named by Herbert Druce
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J & W Dudgeon was a Victorian shipbuilding and engineering company based in Cubitt Town, London, founded by John and William Dudgeon.
John and William Dudgeon had established the Sun Iron Works in Millwall in the 1850s, and had a reputation for advanced marine engines. In 1862 they set up as shipbuilders at a yard to the south of Cubitt Town Pier. They initially specialised in building blockade runners for the American Civil War, at times employing up to 1500 men.
The yard, with of river frontage, stretched nearly inland to Manchester Road. The first ship built there was the 150-foot Flora, the first twin-screw steamer to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The firm survived the 1866 crash of Overend Gurney, with enough orders to take over the disused yard to the south in 1869. This gave a combined river frontage of .
In 1874 the company was severely damaged by the bungled launching of the large warship Independencia for the Brazilian government, repairs and refitting eventually being done by Samuda Brothers, just down the river. The ship was eventually acquired by the Royal Navy, as HMS Neptune. William Dudgeon died in 1875 and the yard closed. John Dudgeon was subsequently judged to be 'of unsound mind' and was admitted to an asylum in Edinburgh.
By 1882 the site had become an oil storage wharf, with tanks below ground level. By 1913 it had 27 oil storage tanks with a combined capacity of over 14,000 tons. It remained in this use until the 1960s, by which time it had nearly 100 tanks, some of 20,000 gallons.
In 1969 an explosion in an oil storage tank being demolished at the site (then known as Dudgeon's wharf) killed five firemen.
The site was later developed for housing and is known as Compass Point.
Ships
References
External links
List of Dudgeon ships
History of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Shipbuilding in London
Ships built in Cubitt Town
Shipyards on the River Thames
Port of London
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The Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was composed between May and August 1888 and was first performed in Saint Petersburg at the Mariinsky Theatre on November 17 of that year with Tchaikovsky conducting. It is dedicated to Theodor Avé-Lallemant.
Place among Tchaikovsky's later symphonies
In the first ten years after graduating from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1865 Tchaikovsky completed three symphonies. After that he started five more symphony projects, four of which led to a completed symphony premiered during the composer's lifetime.
The fifth symphony was composed in 1888, between the Manfred Symphony of 1885 and the sketches for a Symphony in E-flat, which were abandoned in 1892 (apart from recuperating material from its first movement for an Allegro Brillante for piano and orchestra a year later). As for the numbered symphonies, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 was composed between Symphony No. 4, which had been completed ten years earlier, and Symphony No. 6, composed 5 years later, in the year of the composer's death.
Program
Unlike its two predecessors, Symphony No. 5 has no clear program. On 15 April 1888, about a month before he began composing the symphony, the composer sketched a scenario for its first movement in his notebook, containing "... a complete resignation before fate, which is the same as the inscrutable predestination of fate ..." It is however uncertain how much of this program has been realised in the composition.
Cyclical structure
Like the Symphony No. 4, No. 5 is a cyclical symphony, with a recurring main theme. Unlike No. 4, however, the theme is heard in all four movements, a feature Tchaikovsky had first used in the Manfred Symphony, which was completed less than three years before No. 5.
Instrumentation
The work is scored for 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in A, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 2 trumpets in A, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, and strings.
Structure
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The National Day of Sweden ( ) is the national day of Sweden, observed annually as a public holiday on 6 June. Prior to 1983, the day was celebrated as the Swedish Flag Day (). At that time, the day was named the Swedish National Day by the parliament of Sweden.
History
The tradition of celebrating this date began in 1916 at the Stockholm Olympic Stadium, in honor of the election of King Gustav Vasa on 6 June 1523, as this was considered the foundation of modern Sweden. Some question the validity of this as a national holiday, as it was not observed as a holiday until decades later. However, the event signifies the end of the Danish-ruled Kalmar Union, so in a sense it is a marking of Swedish independence, though the event occurred so long ago that it does not have a strong a presence in the social consciousness as, for example, the Norwegian Constitution Day, Syttende mai. Although the national day is celebrated on 6 June, it is actually wrong due to the Julian calendar which was in use before 1582, when the Gregorian calendar was introduced, and which (before March 1700) was ten days behind the Gregorian calendar; the anniversary of the election of King Gustav Vasa therefore falls on 16 June.
In 2005, it became an official Swedish public holiday, replacing Whit Monday. This change led to fewer days off from work (more working-days) as 6 June will periodically fall on the weekend, unlike Whit Monday, which was always celebrated on a Monday. Among newer traditions that have emerged since National Day turned red day is an invitation from the King to the public to visit large parts of Stockholm Palace all day without the usual entry fees.
Image gallery
See also
"Du gamla, du fria" – national anthem of Sweden
Flag flying days in Sweden – days of the calendar year designated as official Swedish Flag Flying Days
Mother Svea – patriotic emblem of the Swedish nation
Three Crowns – national emblem of Sweden
References
Culture of Sweden
Society of Sweden
Swe
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Ifigenia in Tauride is an opera in five acts composed by Leonardo Vinci to a libretto by Benedetto Pasqualigo. It premiered on 26 December 1724 at the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo in Venice, with Faustina Bordoni in the title role. The opera was Vinci's first success in Venice and his only five-act opera.
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External links
Operas
1724 operas
Operas by Leonardo Vinci
Italian-language operas
Operas based on Iphigenia in Tauris
Operas based on classical mythology
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Georges-Henri Halphen (; 30 October 1844, Rouen – 23 May 1889, Versailles) was a French mathematician. He was known for his work in geometry, particularly in enumerative geometry and the singularity theory of algebraic curves, in algebraic geometry. He also worked on invariant theory and projective differential geometry.
Biography
He did his studies at École Polytechnique (X 1862), where he graduated in 1866. He continued his education at École d'Application de l'Artillerie et du Génie de Metz. As a lieutenant of Artillery he was sent Auxonne first and then to Strasbourg. In 1872, Halphen settled in Paris, where he became a lecturer at the École Polytechnique and began his scientific studies. He completed his dissertation in 1878. In 1872 he married Rose Marguerite Aron, with whom he had eight children, four sons and four daughters. Of the four sons, three joined the military and two of them died in World War I. Louis Halphen (1880-1950) was a French historian specialized in medivial times; Charles Halphen (1885-1915), was deputy secretary of the Société mathématique de France. One of his grandsons was Étienne Halphen (1911–1954), who did significant work in applied statistics.
Awards
Georges-Henri Halphen received in the Steiner prize of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1880 along with Max Noether. In 1881 Halphen received the Grand Prix of the Académie des sciences for his work on linear differential equations: Mémoire sur la Reduction des Equations Différentielles Linéaires aux Formes Intégrales. He received the Prix Poncelet in 1883 and the Prix Petit d'Ormoy in 1885. He was elected to the Académie des sciences in 1886 in the Section de Géométrie, replacing the deceased Jean Claude Bouquet. In 1887 Halphen was elected to the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome.
Works
Oeuvres de G.H. Halphen, in 4 vols. edited by Camille Jordan, Henri Poincaré, Charles Émile Picard with assistance from Ernest Vessiot, 1916, 1918, 1921, 1924, Paris, France: Gauthier-Villars
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WikiProfessional (Wiki for Professionals) was an attempt to create a web-based research environment for semantic searching, providing an intuitive tool for analyzing and relating concepts.
When data is entered, the system semantically analyzed and recognized co-occurrences between different entities. The results were visualized through a "Knowlet," which is a visual representation of semantic distance between associated entities. This Knowlet is then used to notify persons that have subscribed to these entities, enabling a rapid data interchange between collaborators.
The major focus was proteins, using a portal named WikiProteins. It contained over a hundred million entries, "melding some of the key biomedical databases into a single information resource".
Sources included:
245,000 Proteins from UniProt/Swiss-Prot
24,000 Gene Ontology terms from the GO Consortium
880,000 Concepts from UMLS/NLM
112,000,000 Unique sentences from Medline
The project never passed the open beta test phase. It was operated by Knewco and led by initiator Barend Mons, a bioinformatician at the Erasmus MC and Leiden University Medical Centre. Knewco was intending to profit from WikiProfessionals by charging some users (such as drug firms) for "premium services", for example incorporating a private version of the system with in-house data.
After the project disappeared, a group called the Concept Web Alliance formed to try to rebuild a similarly linked database. This became ConceptWiki and the Nanopublication metadata format.
References
Free-content websites
Wikis
Defunct websites
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The Baltic Development Forum is an independent think-tank and non-profit high-level and agenda-setting networking organisation with strategic partners and sponsors from large companies, major cities, institutional investors, business associations and academia in the Baltic Sea Region. The network involves more than 8,000 decision-makers from all over the region and beyond.
History
March 2014 former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Lene Espersen replaced the interim Chairwoman, Mrs. Helle Bechgaard as chairwoman of Baltic Development Forum.
Until November 2011, Baltic Development Forum was chaired by Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark 1982–1993. Mr. Ellemann-Jensen is co-founder of Baltic Development Forum (in 1998) and the Council of the Baltic Sea States (1992). Former CEO of Confederation of Danish Industry Hans Skov Christensen replaced Uffe Ellemann-Jensen as chairman. When Hans Skov Christensen died in autumn 2013 he was provisionally replaced by Member of the Board, Mrs. Helle Bechgaard.
The Baltic Development Forum Honorary Board and Advisory Board consist of high-level political dignitaries and prominent business executives and researchers representing the entire Baltic Sea Region.
Director of Baltic Development Forum is Hans Brask since August 2007. His background is in international affairs. He holds a MA in Political Science from the University of Aarhus (1990) and an MA in History and Philosophy from the University of Essex, UK (1990).
Mission
The mission of Baltic Development Forum is to promote the Baltic Sea Region as an integrated, prosperous and internationally competitive growth region, to position the Baltic Sea Region in the EU and on the global map. Baltic Development Forum has consolidated its position as internationally recognized think-tank and networking organization that wants to inspire and challenge national and international decision-makers within business and government in the Baltic Sea Region. The R
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Micrixalus elegans is a species of frog in the family Micrixalidae. It is endemic to the Western Ghats, India, and occurs between the Palakkad Gap and Goa Gap in the states of Kerala and Karnataka. Micrixalus elegans is one of the Micrixalus species showing "foot-flagging" behaviour, hence the common name elegant dancing frog has been proposed. Other common names include elegant torrent frog and elegant bush frog.
Description
Males measure and females in snout–vent length. The dorsum is uniformly reddish brown, with scattered yellowish grey spots. The sides of the head are distinctly dark blackish brown. The dorsal surfaces of the limbs are reddish brown with dark brown bands.
Males of this species show "foot-flagging" behaviour, stretching the entire hing leg away from the body, that they occasionally conduct, along with calling. Males may also engage in male-male combats, kicking each other.
Habitat and conservation
Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests and rivers. It prefers damp leaf litter by fast-flowing forest streams.
This species was for a long time only known from the holotype, which is probably lost. However, it was rediscovered in 2010 and found to be relatively common; the small adult size of this species might have led researchers to mistake them as juveniles of another species. Classified as "data deficient" before its rediscovery, the species is now known from several localities, some of them in or near protected areas.
References
External links
elegans
Amphibians described in 1937
Frogs of India
Endemic fauna of the Western Ghats
Taxa named by C. R. Narayan Rao
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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Valaya Alongkorn, Princess of Phetchaburi (; ; 16 April 1884 – 15 February 1938), was a princess of Siam (later Thailand), and a member of the Chakri dynasty. She was the daughter of King Chulalongkorn and Savang Vadhana. Her older brother Vajirunhis was the first Crown Prince of Siam. She was also the elder sister of Mahidol Adulyadej, the Prince of Songkla, and the full aunt of kings Ananda Mahidol and Bhumibol Adulyadej.
Birth
Princess Valaya Alongkorn was born on 16 April 1884 at Grand Palace. She was the 43rd daughter of King Chulalongkorn, and the 5th child of Savang Vadhana, princess consort and half-sister of King Chulalongkorn, (later Queen Sri Savarindira). Her full given name was Valaya Alongkorn Narindorn Debyakumari (), given by her father. She had 6 siblings, 3 elder brothers, 1 elder sister, 1 younger sister, and 1 younger brother:
Crown Prince Maha Vajirunhis of Siam (27 June 1878 – 4 January 1894)
Prince Isariyalongkorn (4 September 1879 – 25 September 1879)
Princess Vichitra Chiraprabha (21 April 1881 – 15 August 1881)
Prince Sommatiwongse Varodaya, the Prince of Nakhon Si Thammarat (9 June 1882 – 17 June 1899)
Princess Sirabhorn Sobhon (19 July 1888 – 24 May 1898)
Prince Mahidol Adulyadej, the Prince of Songkla, (posthumously The Prince Father of Thailand; 1 January 1891 – 24 September 1929) father of Galyani Vadhana, Ananda Mahidol, and Bhumibol Adulyadej.
When she was 3 years old, her mother sent her to live with her own sister Queen Saovabha Phongsri, as an adopted daughter, due to Queen Saovabha having lost her own daughters: Bahurada Manimaya and a princess who died shortly after birth. They lived together at the Suddha Sri Abhiromya residence in the Inner court of the Grand Palace.
Childhood
The princess was educated at the Kumari Royal School, which was held classes inside the Amarin Winitchai Throne Hall. When her father, King Chulalongkorn visited southern Asia in 1896, she and many of her sisters accompanied him to a visit of
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Icius minimus is a species of jumping spider in the genus Icius that lives in Ethiopia. It was first described in 2008 by Wanda Wesołowska and Beata Tomasiewicz. The spider is small, with a cephalothorax between long and an abdomen long. The male is smaller than the female, as is recalled in the species name. The spider is similar to the related Icius pulchellus but has a distinctive pattern on the abdomen. The male abdomen is brown with two white stripes fringed with black lines. The female has a large white patch and a pattern of wide stripes, mostly interrupted. The male tibial apophysis is also unusual, being short and shaped like a spatula. The female has longer receptacles than other spiders in the genus.
Taxonomy
Icius minimus is a jumping spider was first described by Wanda Wesołowska and Beata Tomasiewicz in 2008. It was one of over 500 species identified by Wesołowska during her career. It was allocated to the genus Icius, raised by Eugène Simon in 1876. The genus name is based on two Greek words that can be translated distinct, or special, face. The species name recalls the relatively small size of the male. The genus is a member of the tribe Chrysillini, within the subclade Saltafresia in the clade Salticoida. Chrysillines, which had previously been termed heliophanines, are monophyletic. In 2016, Jerzy Prószyński split the genus from the Chrysillines into a group called Iciines, named after the genus. He stated the split was for practical reasons as Chrysillines had become unwieldy.
Description
Icius minimus is a small spider. The male has a cephalothorax that ranges between in length and between in width. The oval carapace is a brown and of low height. It is covered in black hairs apart from a few spots made of white hairs. The eye field is darker, particularly around the eyes, which is black. The clypeus is low, with short white hairs. The chelicerae is dark brown and unidentate. There are protruding light hairs on the outside of the chelicerae.
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Fred Schwab (August 25, 1917 – May 13, 2000) was an American cartoonist whose humor panels and short features were published in a wide variety of comic books from at least 1938 to 1950, during a period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books. His notable comic-book appearances include Timely Comics' Marvel Comics #1 (Oct. 1939), the first publication of the company that would become Marvel Comics; and some of the earliest publications of the companies that would become DC Comics.
Biography
Fred Schwab was born in New York City and educated there at the Art Students League; his influences included cartoonists Billy DeBeck and Milt Gross. Schwab broke into the nascent field of comic books as a teenager in 1936, at Manhattan's Harry "A" Chesler studio, the first of the comic book "packagers" that supplied complete comics to publishers testing the waters of the emerging medium. In 1939, Schwab began freelancing for two other packagers: the Eisner-Iger studio, and Funnies, Inc. He signed his work both with his own name and a variety of pseudonyms that included Boris Plaster, Fred Wood, Fist E. Cuffs, Stockton Fred, Fred Ricks, Fred West, and Fred Watt. For this reason, and because creator credits were not routinely given during the early days of comic books, a comprehensive list of his credits is difficult if not impossible to compile.
Whether for a packager or on his own, Schwab supplied gag cartoons in 1938 and 1939 to the glossy magazine Boys' Life, and in the early 1940s to the military magazine Yank. Schwab's first known comic-book credit is as writer and artist of the two-page "Tenderfoot Joe" Western-humor feature in Centaur Comics' Star Ranger #1 (Feb. 1937). Other early work includes the one-page "Silly Sleuths" in Detective Comics #1-2, 5 and 7 (March–April, July, Sept. 1937), from Detective Comics Inc., one of the predecessors of DC Comics; the two-page "The Great Boodini" in Centaur's Funny Pages vol. 2, #3 (Nov. 1937); the one-page "Butch th
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Sandra is a female name, which is often used as a short form for Alexandra or Cassandra. Alexandra is a feminine form of the male name Alexander, which is a romanization of the Greek name Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros. It is generally interpreted to mean "protector of man" or "defender of man".
The name Cassandra is also from the Greek (: "she who entangles men"). Cassandra is known in Greek mythology, as the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. She was loved by Apollo and given the gift of prophecy but when she did not fall in love with him, he placed a curse on her so that no one would believe her predictions.
See also
List of people named Sandra
Sander (name)
Sondra
Sandro
Xandra (disambiguation)
Xander
References
English feminine given names
Feminine given names
North American given names
Given names of Greek language origin
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Oil Township is one of seven townships in Perry County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,546 and it contained 531 housing units.
History
Oil Township took its name from Oil Creek.
The Jacob Rickenbaugh House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Geography
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 99.68%) is land and (or 0.32%) is water.
Unincorporated towns
Apalona at
Bandon at
Branchville at
Celina at
Doolittle Mills at
Oriole at
Saint Croix at
(This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.)
Cemeteries
The township contains these sixteen cemeteries: Bangle, Colby, Ewing, German Ridge, Guillaume, Jeffries, Jones, Luxenburger, Miller, Rickenbaugh, Senn, Sprinkle, Underhill, Valley, Walker and Woolums.
Major highways
Interstate 64
Indiana State Road 37
School districts
Perry Central Community School Corporation
Political districts
State House District 73
State Senate District 47
References
United States Census Bureau 2009 TIGER/Line Shapefiles
IndianaMap
External links
Indiana Township Association
United Township Association of Indiana
City-Data.com page for Oil Township
Townships in Perry County, Indiana
Townships in Indiana
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Kappa Publishing Group, Inc. is a Blue Bell, Pennsylvania-based publishing company concentrating on adult puzzle books and magazines as well as children's magazines and maps. It is a private company founded in 1955 with $11.5 million in annual sales.
History
In January 2012, Kappa announced that they had acquired Modern Publishing.
Subsidiaries
It has a number of subsidiary companies, such as London Publishing or GAMES Publications. Its original owner, H.L. Herbert ("Larry") founded his puzzle business, Official Publications in Manhattan with titles including Teen Word-Finds, Superb Word-Finds, Variety Word-Finds and countless crossword puzzle, crosspatch and fill-it-in titles. Sons Anthony Herbert (Editorial Director) and Paul Herbert (Sales) helped the business grow to the success it became. Edward Tobias was the Editor. Prior to Mr. Herbert, Sr.'s passing in the 1980s, he sold the business to Nick Karabots, who owned the printer where the titles were being printed. The business was then moved to Ft. Washington, PA. Top word-find contributors in the early 80's included Rich Latta and Frank J. D'Agostino.
Brands
Kappa Publishing Group has a number of brands used for publishing magazines and books for puzzles and games.
GAMES, which is used for GAMES Magazine and other magazines and books
Official, such as for Official's Logic Puzzles and Official's Variety Puzzles
Blue Ribbon, such as for Blue Ribbon Word Find
Children's Fun Puzzles
Kappa Map Group
Kappa began acquiring map publishers in 2007 with the acquisition of Universal Map. It acquired Mapsco in March 2010 and the map division of travel publisher Langenscheidt in August, including its brands ADC (Alexandria Drafting Company), Arrow Map, Hagstrom Map, American Map and Trakker Map. The Kappa Map Group suddenly ceased operations in early 2022 when the group's Managing Director departed for another position and no so-called "white knight" was found to rescue the mapping group. Decades of cartographic w
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The Nashville South Stars were a professional ice hockey team in the Central Hockey League (CHL) for the 1981–82 season. They then played in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League (ACHL) for the 1982–83 season and part of the 1983–84 season before the franchise relocated to become the Virginia Lancers.
It had been 10 years since Nashville's last hockey team, the Nashville Dixie Flyers, played as part of the Eastern Hockey League.
The South Stars were founded by Larry Schmittou, who was a principal owner of the Nashville Sounds minor-league baseball team. The team played at Nashville Municipal Auditorium, where the hockey seating configuration was such that spectators seated more than a row back in the seats that were above and behind the goal lines could not see the nets.
The team was the top affiliate of the Minnesota North Stars of the National Hockey League and was coached by Gene Ubriaco, who would later coach the Pittsburgh Penguins of the NHL.
The South Stars reached the CHL playoffs, but lost in the first round to the Wichita Wind.
The Nashville South Stars played only for one season in the CHL before joining the Atlantic Coast Hockey League for the 1982–83 season. The franchise would relocate to Vinton, Virginia during the next season in December 1983.
Notable personnel
Mike Antonovich, a former Minnesota high school hero who starred in the World Hockey Association. He went on the play in the NHL with both the Minnesota North Stars and the New Jersey Devils.
Goaltender Don Beaupre played in five games for the South Stars during an injury rehab posting.
Bob Suter, a defenseman on the Miracle on Ice U.S. gold-medal team in the 1980 Olympic Winter Games. His son, Ryan Suter, was the first-round draft choice of the NHL's Nashville Predators in 2003.
John Tortorella, right wing, played with the South Stars during the 1983-84 ACHL season. In 1996 he became the Calder Cup winning head coach of the Rochester Americans, and in 2004 the Stanley Cup winning head co
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Colin Crabbe Racing, also known as Colin Crabbe - Antique Automobiles and Antique Automobiles Racing Team, was a privateer team run by Colin Crabbe, a noted dealer in historic racing cars, that entered a single car in 17 Formula One races in 1969 and 1970. Vic Elford and Ronnie Peterson drove for the team, the cars used being a Cooper T86, a McLaren M7B and a March 701.
Background
Colin Crabbe is a well-known collector and dealer of historic racing cars, one of his most famous acquisitions being the pre-war Mercedes-Benz W125 now owned by Bernie Ecclestone that had been hidden behind the Iron Curtain for several years. In 1966 and 1967 he entered several sportscar races as a driver, first in an Aston Martin DB4 GT at Silverstone, then in a Ford GT40 in various races in Europe and southern Africa, his most notable result being an eighth place in the 1967 1000 km of Nürburgring with Roy Pierpoint as co-driver.
1969 season
At the 1969 Race of Champions "Antique Automobiles" made what appears to be the first F1 entry for Colin Crabbe's team, with Roy Pike non-starting due to a fuel pump failure in a Climax-engined Brabham BT23B. A 1967 Cooper T86 Maserati was then entered at the International Trophy, Madrid Grand Prix and Monaco Grand Prix, Neil Corner driving in Spain and Vic Elford driving in the other two. Elford's Monaco entry was somewhat historic, marking the last F1 race for both Cooper as a constructor and Maserati as an engine supplier.
The McLaren M7B, an experimental version of the car with unique low-slung pannier fuel tanks, was then obtained along with a Cosworth DFV engine to replace the rather slow Cooper, which was sold to Swiss car collector Walter Grell. Elford drove the McLaren in a further four Grand Prix that year, finishing tenth at Zandvoort and finishing the next two races in the points with fifth at Clermont Ferrand and sixth at Silverstone. The German Grand Prix was the team's last F1 race that year, as Elford crashed out and wrote off th
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The A2 motorway (), also known as The Motorway of the Sun (), is a motorway in Romania which links Bucharest with Constanța, a city-port on the shore of the Black Sea, where it merges after an interchange into the A4 motorway. It is 206 km long, and has been operational on its entire length since November 2012.
History
The construction of the motorway between Bucharest and Constanța began in the communist era during Nicolae Ceaușescu's regime. The first section, from Fetești to Cernavodă (about 18 km), was opened on 21 November 1987, simultaneous to the new railway bridge and underwent a major rehabilitation in 2003. It crosses the Balta Ialomiței island and includes the Cernavodă Bridge complex system of motorway and railway bridges and viaducts over the Danube and one of its branches at Cernavodă. The motorway bridge passes under the historical railway bridge built by Anghel Saligny in 1895, while the new railway in use today separates the motorway roadways.
After the fall of the communism in 1989, construction continued for a short period, but it was finally stopped in 1993 due to lack of financial resources. When it was completed, it differed from the original plans from the 70s. The original plan of the A2 motorway envisaged a route running northwards through Urziceni and Slobozia, while the current route of the motorway runs eastwards in a straight line towards Fetești. Construction continued after 1998, the motorway being completed in late 2012.
The sector from Bucharest to Fetești crosses the Bărăgan Plain and was built between 2001 and 2007. It was split into four sections. The first section from Bucharest to Fundulea (26.5 km) was built by the Romanian company Romis and is surfaced with concrete slabs. The second section from Fundulea to Lehliu (29.2 km) was built by a Turkish joint venture between Yuksel, Makimsar and Ener, while the third section from Lehliu to Drajna (41.6 km) was built by the French company Colas. The three sections were completed
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William Paul Schaefer (9 October 1925 – 20 July 2003) was a New Zealand field hockey player. He represented New Zealand in field hockey between 1956 and 1964, including at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympic Games.
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External links
1925 births
2003 deaths
Sportspeople from Masterton
New Zealand male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for New Zealand
Field hockey players at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Male field hockey goalkeepers
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Cherokee County is located in the US state of Georgia. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 266,620. The county seat is Canton. The county Board of Commissioners is the governing body, with members elected to office. Cherokee County is included in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area.
History
Original territory
Cherokee County was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on December 26, 1831, covering a vast area northwest of the Chattahoochee River and Chestatee River (except for Carroll County). It was named after the Cherokee people who lived in the area at that time.
The discovery of gold in local streams accelerated the push of European Americans to expel the Cherokee from their land.
In 1832, the State of Georgia implemented the Cherokee Land Lottery, which gave deeds of land that had previously belonged to the Cherokee people to white male citizens. The forcible removal of the Cherokee people to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River began during this year.
Partition
The General Assembly passed a law on December 3, 1832, which created the counties of Forsyth, Lumpkin, Union, Cobb, Gilmer, Murray, Cass (now Bartow), Floyd, and Paulding from area that had previously been part of Cherokee County.
Etowah was declared the county seat in 1833. Its name was later changed to Canton, which is still the county seat today.
In 1857, part of the southeastern corner of the county was ceded by the General Assembly to form Milton County (now the cities of Milton, Alpharetta, Roswell, and parts of Sandy Springs, within north Fulton County).
Development
In the 1890s, The Atlanta & Knoxville Railroad (later renamed the Marietta & North Georgia Railroad when it could not be completed to Knoxville) built a branch line through the middle of the county. When this line was bought by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in the following decade, the L&N Railroad built stations at Woodstock and Holly Springs.
Cherokee County began to see rapid population growth
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This is a complete list of women's medalists of the European Athletics Championships.
Track
100 metres
200 metres
400 metres
800 metres
1500 metres
5000 metres
10,000 metres
100 metres hurdles
400 metres hurdles
3000 metres steeplechase
4 × 100 metres relay
4 × 400 metres relay
Road
Half marathon
Marathon
20 kilometres walk
35 kilometres walk
50 kilometres walk
Field
Long jump
Triple jump
High jump
Note: Mariya Lasitskene (RUS) competed in 2018 as an Authorized Neutral Athlete.
Pole vault
Shot put
Discus throw
Hammer throw
Javelin throw
Heptathlon
Discontinued events
3000 metres
80 metres hurdles
10 kilometres walk
Pentathlon
References
European Championships women
Athletics European Championships
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The Icon Brickell complex is an urban development center in Miami, Florida, United States. It is located on the south side of the Miami River in Downtown's northern Brickell Financial District. The complex consists of three skyscrapers and the Icon Brickell Plaza, connecting the towers at their base. The first two towers, the Icon Brickell North Tower and Icon Brickell South Tower, are twin buildings. Each one is tall with 58 floors. The third phase of the complex is the W Hotel Tower, which is tall with 50 floors. The complex is on the east side of Brickell Avenue between Southeast 5th and 6th Streets. The architectural firm Arquitectonica worked on the project, while the design was done by Philippe Starck and John Hitchcox's design company.
North and south twin towers
The Icon Brickell South Tower is adjacent to its twin, the Icon Brickell North Tower. They are the same height and share the same amount of floors. The North Tower is the same height as the South Tower, but is shaped differently.
W Miami
W Miami (formerly Viceroy Miami) is the third building in the Icon Brickell Complex. Like the North Tower and South Tower, W Miami was designed by Arquitectonica. Unlike the twin towers it shares the site with, W Miami is shorter and instead of simply condominiums, it also includes a hotel. W Miami is managed by Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. The association of condominium owners is named the Icon Brickell Condo Number Three Association.
W Miami is home to the "Whisper Lounge", a 50th floor rooftop lounge that boasts a swimming pool and panoramic view of downtown Miami, Key Biscayne and South Miami Beach.
Gallery
See also
List of tallest buildings in Miami
References
Icon Brickell Complex
External links
Official website
W Miami Official Website
Residential buildings completed in 2008
Residential skyscrapers in Miami
Hotels in Miami
Twin towers
2008 establishments in Florida
Arquitectonica buildings
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George Bagration of Mukhrani, Giorgi Bagration-Mukhraneli or Prince Georgi Alexandrovich Bagration-Mukhranski ( – 29 September 1957) was a Georgian nobleman, and a titular head of the House of Mukhrani, a collateral branch of the former royal dynasty of Bagrationi.
Biography
George was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the son of Prince Alexander Bagration of Mukhrani and Princess Maria née Golovatcheva. He was educated at the Page Corps. He married, in July 1908, Helena Sigismundovna, née Złotnicka-Nowina (Tiflis, – Madrid, 25 April 1979), daughter of Czeslaw-Zygmunt Dimitrievich Złotnicki (Borszczewka, Poland, Russia, 2 June 1849 - ?) and wife Princess Mariam Elisabarovna Eristova of Ksani (Georgia, Russia, 1858 - 1934), a remote descendant of the 18th-century Georgian king Erekle II, paternal granddaughter of Dimitri Antonovich Złotnicki (1805 - 14 December 1865, son of Antoni Polikarp Złotnicki and wife Elisaveta Dmitrievna Norova) and wife Celestina Celestinovna Trzeciak (daughter of Celestin Melchiorovich Trzeciak and wife Elisaveta Beinarovicza), maternal granddaughter of Prince Elisabar Giorgievich Eristov of Ksani (1810 - 1872, son of Prince Shanse Eristov-Ksansky and wife Princess Elena Ivanovna Orbeliani) and wife Princess Kethevan Shalvaevna Eristova (1826 - ?, daughter of Prince Shalva Revazovich Eristov-Ksansky and wife Princess Ekaterina Aslanovna Orbeliani).
George Bagration served as a marshal of the Council of Nobility of Dusheti in Georgia from 1916 to 1917. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, he hailed independent Georgia and fought against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War. George chose to stay in Georgia rather than follow his wife and children in exile following the Sovietization of the country in 1921. He was, nevertheless, arrested by the Soviet authorities in 1930, but was soon released through the efforts of the Russian writer Maxim Gorky. George Bagration left the Soviet Union and joined his family in their European exile.
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The China Grand Rally (also known as China Silk Road Rally) was a rally raid held in China from 2013 to 2016. It was promoted by the former Dakar Rally winner Hubert Auriol.
With about 6.000 km of distance and 12 timed stages crossing the regions of Shaanxi, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, and Xinjiang, it was the second largest marathon rally held in 2013.
Winners
References
Rally raid races
Motorsport in China
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Mount Cameron is a mountain summit located in the Chugach Mountains, in the U.S. state of Alaska. The peak is situated west-northwest of Valdez, Alaska, on the boundary of Chugach National Forest. Although modest in elevation, relief is significant since the southern aspect of the mountain rises up from the tidewater of Prince William Sound's Shoup Bay in approximately 4.4 miles. The mountain takes its name from local prospectors as reported in 1912 by the U.S. Geological Survey.
Climate
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Cameron is located in a subarctic climate zone with long, cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. Weather systems coming off the Gulf of Alaska are forced upwards by the Chugach Mountains (orographic lift), causing heavy precipitation in the form of rainfall and snowfall. Temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C. This climate supports the Shoup Glacier on the east aspect, and immense Columbia Glacier to the west.
See also
List of mountain peaks of Alaska
Geography of Alaska
References
External links
Weather forecast: Mount Cameron
Flickr photo: Mt. Cameron upper left corner
Landforms of Chugach Census Area, Alaska
Mountains of Alaska
North American 1000 m summits
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The or , previously known as the Via Regia or King's Highway, was an ancient Roman road built by Emperor Trajan in the province of Arabia Petraea, from Aqaba on the Red Sea to Bostra. It was specifically known as the Via Traiana Nova in order to distinguish it from the Via Traiana in Italy. It is occasionally also referred to simply as the 'Via Nova' or 'Via Nova Traiana' Its construction started shortly after the annexation of Arabia, supervised by governor Gaius Claudius Severus, and was completed under Hadrian.
Sources
Traiana Nova, Via
Trajan
Arabia Petraea
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The Dow Partbooks (Christ Church, Mus. MSS 984–988) are a collection of five partbooks compiled by Robert Dow in Oxford around 1581–88. The collection includes mostly choral but also some instrumental pieces. At the end is an instrumental La gamba and a canon, both a 3 and apparently copied from Vincenzo Ruffo's book printed in Milan in 1564.
The partbooks are an important source for Tudor music, and the sole known source for some of the pieces. Robert Dow was a trained calligrapher and the books are unusually easy to read among manuscripts of the Tudor period. All works were copied by him, with the exception of numbers 53–4, which were copied by John Baldwin (a singing-man at St George's Chapel), and nos. 99–100, which were copied by an unidentified person. The numberings following no. 54 were added by several other people at a later time (19th century), in sequences that do not coincide perfectly.
The collection was acquired by Henry Aldrich and donated to Christ Church, Oxford as part of his bequest to the college following his death in 1710.
Contents
N.B. pieces are numbered sequentially in the table above, rather than following the numbering of the MS, which contains some errors and is inconsistent between the partbooks.
References
Bibliography
The Dow Partbooks, Oxford, Christ Church Mus. 984-988: facsimile with introduction by John Milsom (Oxford: DIAMM Publications, 2010)
D. Mateer: Oxford, Christ Church Music MSS 984–8; an Index and Commentary, RMARC, no.20 (1986–7), 1–18
External links
High quality, fully zoomable images of the Dow Partbooks are available at the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM) (free registration required):
GB-Och Mus. 984 (Discantus)
GB-Och Mus. 985 (Medius)
GB-Och Mus. 986 (Altus)
GB-Och Mus. 987 (Tenor)
GB-Och Mus. 988 (Bassus)
Music publications
Renaissance music manuscript sources
Books on English music
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Susan Sunderland born Susan Sykes and known as the Calderdale Nightingale (30 April 1819 – 7 May 1905) was a British singer. Some years after she retired the annual Mrs Sunderland Music Festival was organised in Huddersfeld and it is still running in the 21st century.
Life
Sunderland was born in Brighouse in 1819. Her parents were Hannah and Sykes, a butcher. Her soprano voice was discovered in 1831. She was trained by the choirmaster of Brighouse parish church who was also a blacksmith.
She was fifteen when she gave her first concert. Opportunities outside the area were restricted as there were no railways at the time. When she gave a concert in Huddersfield or performed as principal soprano at St Paul's Church there she walked thirty miles that day, often arriving home at two hours after midnight. She performed "Wise men flattering" by Handel and "The Captive Greek Girl" by Hobbes at the first Leeds Chamber Concert (around 1835).
In 2020 the church is now a concert hall.
The annual "Mrs Sunderland Music Festival"
In 1888 she had been married for fifty years and a celebration was organised, at which she was given an illuminated manuscript to celebrate her skills. After this a group of people decided that there should be an annual competition to find more leading women soloists. In April 1889 the first annual "Mrs Sunderland Festival" took place in Huddersfield with Mrs Sunderland presenting the prizes to the winners. It was a singing competition initially for female soloists but it was expanded to include pianists and violin players on alternate years. The music festival has expanded further and in the 21st century it occupies nine days at Huddersfield Town Hall. The festival in February 2020 was the 131st and it included choirs, ensembles, instrumentalists and spoken performances including those in the local dialect.
Private life
She married Henry Sunderland in 1838. They had six children and never moved house all their lives.
References
1819 births
1905 de
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The 1932 WANFL season was the 48th season of the Western Australian National Football League. The premiership was won by for the first time since 1905. The Cardinals' win ended both a run of four consecutive premierships by , which won its fifth of seven successive minor premierships but lost both finals it played to be eliminated in the preliminary final, and West Perth's longest premiership drought in its history. West Perth's win was highlighted by the success of champion full forward Ted Tyson, who headed the goalkicking with eighty-four goals including a record eight in the Grand Final. Tyson went on to kick an unprecedented 1,203 goals during a twelve-season career with the Cardinals, but their rise from winning only six matches in 1931 was due to the development of second-year defender Max Tetley, the discovery of a third pre-war Cardinal stalwart in Norm McDiarmid, brother of star ruckman Jack, plus further outstanding youngsters Jim Morgan and Bob Dalziell.
It also saw a continuation of the first player drain from the WANFL to the VFL with the loss of Subiaco's Brighton Diggins and Bill Faul resulting in the Lions missing the finals for the first time in nine seasons, a remarkable record for scoring accuracy by Old Easts in slippery conditions, and a longtime record total of suspensions – the last of which was for twelve weeks and ended his career – to "Nails" Western, who had been recruited by Claremont-Cottesloe from East Perth to add toughness and vigour but played little because of his reports. Despite the return of Keith Hough, who set a record for the Sandover Medal with 32 votes, Claremont-Cottesloe remained on the bottom with only one extra victory. Two tragic deaths occurred – Claremont's vice captain "Boy" Morris after collapsing in the street five weeks beforehand on the Saturday of Round 18, and more significantly South Fremantle's Ron Doig after the first semi-final.
Home-and-away season
Round 1
Round 2 (Labour Day)
Round 3
Round 4
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"Just Because" is a song written by Joe Shelton, Sydney Robin and Bob Shelton and originally recorded by Nelstone's Hawaiians (Hubert Nelson and James D. Touchstone) in 1929 and later recorded by The Shelton Brothers in 1933. Some sources say that Sydney Robin wrote the song alone and the Sheltons added their name when they recorded it.
Covers and other recordings
One database devoted to rockabilly music lists 17 issues of "Just Because" in the 1950s and 1960s.
In addition, the song has been covered many times, especially since the Shelton Brothers recording:
In 1933, RCA Victor released a version of the song done by the Lonestar Cowboys. Nelstone's Hawaiians Victor V40273 (1929)
The song was also recorded by Frankie Yankovic. Columbia agreed to release Yankovic's version of "Just Because" in 1948. This recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.
Elvis Presley recorded the song on September 10, 1954 at the Sun Studios; while it was never released on Sun, it was included on Elvis's first album, Elvis Presley after he signed to RCA.
Paul McCartney later recorded the song in a style that was similar to that of Presley's version on his CHOBA B CCCP album.
Duane Eddy included it on his 1959 album, Especially for You.
Al Hirt released a version on his 1964 album, Beauty and the Beard.
"Just Because" is the theme song of the Peninsula Banjo Band of San Jose, California. They have opened with the song at every performance since roughly 1966.
Jorma Kaukonen included a version on his 2002 album release Blue Country Heart.
The song is also included on Brian Setzer's 2005-release Rockabilly Riot Vol. 1: A Tribute to Sun Records.
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1933 songs
1935 songs
Eddy Howard songs
United States National Recording Registry recordings
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The Jatco JF506E/F5A5 transmission is an electronic/hydraulic five-speed automatic transmission for passenger cars and deployed in a variety of cars from Jaguar, Rover, Land Rover, Ford, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Volkswagen and SEAT. This gearbox is known as 09A / 09B on Volkswagen vehicles.
Gear ratios
Applications
2002-2003 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII GT-A
2005-2007 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Wagon GT-A
Volkswagen Golf Mk4, succeeded by the Direct-Shift Gearbox (DSG) based dual clutch transmission on the Golf R32
Volkswagen Jetta/Bora Mk4, with 1.8T, VR5, VR6 and TDI Pump-Duse engines. Final drive ratios: 4.17(gasoline) and 3.48 (TDI)
Volkswagen Sharan Mk I
Land Rover Freelander Mk I
2001-2009 Jaguar X-Type
2000-2006 Ford Mondeo Mk III
Ford Galaxy Mk I & Mk II
1999-2006 Mazda MPV
1996-2003 Audi A3 Mk I
1999-2005 Rover 75
See also
List of Jatco transmissions
JF506E
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Congress created the Chama River Canyon Wilderness in New Mexico in February 1978. The wilderness area covers approximately on the Coyote Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest and the Carson National Forest.
The water in the Rio Chama brings the canyon area to life. Lush vegetation that supports abundant wildlife contrasts with the seemingly bare rocky slopes that lead to the mesa tops.
The wilderness area surrounds much private property along the waterways.
The wilderness area includes the site of the Cañon de Chama land grant. A large area of northern New Mexico was included in the original Mexican land grant, but the U.S. Government confirmed only a small area along the river. The village cemetery is in the wilderness area.
The Rio Chama is a Wild and Scenic River and is not part of the wilderness area. A Forest Service road parallels the river and in some places the wilderness area is only 100 yards from the road. The easy road access means that rafting is a popular activity when water levels are adequate. The Continental Divide Trail traverses the wilderness area and crosses the river on Scull Bridge. Hiking and horseback riding are other popular activities in the wilderness area.
The wilderness area is easily accessible from Santa Fe, New Mexico, along U.S. Highway 84.
References
External links
U.S. Geological Survey Map at the U.S. Geological Survey Map Website. Retrieved March 30, 2023.
IUCN Category Ib
Wilderness areas of New Mexico
Protected areas of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
Santa Fe National Forest
Carson National Forest
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James (Jim) Joseph Mannion (1 August 1912 – 18 September 1968) was a renowned policeman and soldier who worked in the Northern Territory of Australia. He is best known for an act of bravery clearing a burning building of occupants, an act which saw him awarded a George Medal.
Early life
Mannion was born in Broken Hill, New South Wales on 1 August 1912. His father was Martin Henry Mannion and his mother, Marcella Ellen (née Marron) who died when he was two years old. He went to school in Adelaide and began his career working on farms in South Australia. At the age of 18, he began writing about boxing for The Ring as their Australian correspondent. He continued to write about boxing throughout his life.
Career
He joined the Northern Territory Police Force on 29 March 1936. He first worked in Darwin and was involved in a number of violent incidents during that time.
In January 1937 he was posted to Tennant Creek, where he met and married Nancy Gwennyth Collins on 26 February 1938.
Mannion enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 7 August 1940 in Adelaide, South Australia, serving in both the Middle East and New Guinea as part of the 2/27th Battalion. He was honourably discharged on 5 October 1944.
After World War II, Mannion returned to work in Tennant Creek and Katherine. He received the George Medal for his work at a fire at Campbell's Store in Tennant Creek on 3 December 1956. He entered the burning building to clear any remaining occupants. In another notable incident, Mannion was shot in the leg when responding to the shooting of Constable Bill Condon in Katherine. The incident was turned into a cartoon which was published in The Eagle magazine in 1962.
Mannion later worked at the Police and Citizens Boys Club in Darwin as a boxing trainer. In 1964, he became the founding editor of police magazine Citation. Mannion was awarded a Police Long Service Medal and a Good Conduct Medal in March 1965. Mannion died on 18 September 1968 while still serving.
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Aptenoperissus is a genus of extinct wasp with eight described species, placed into the monotypic family Aptenoperissidae. The type species Aptenoperissus burmanicus resembles a mix between a grasshopper, an ant, and a wasp. It was described by a group of researchers from Oregon State University in a paper released online in October 2016. The piece of 100 million year old Burmese amber that it was preserved in was found in the Hukawng Valley of Myanmar in Southern Asia. A new family, Aptenoperissidae, was described to accommodate this insect. Species of Aptenoperissus were wingless, with a strong stinger. The creature had long legs making it capable of jumping higher than most insects. Subsequently additional species were described from the Myanmar amber: A. amabilis, A. delicatus, A. formosus, A. etius, A. magnifemoris, A. pusillus and A. zonalis. Initially placed in Ceraphronoidea, later studies placed it in Stephanoidea.
References
Ceraphronoidea
Prehistoric insects of Asia
Fossil taxa described in 2017
Burmese amber
Fossils of Myanmar
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From a legal point of view, a contract is an institutional arrangement for the way in which resources flow, which defines the various relationships between the parties to a transaction or limits the rights and obligations of the parties.
From an economic perspective, contract theory studies how economic actors can and do construct contractual arrangements, generally in the presence of information asymmetry. Because of its connections with both agency and incentives, contract theory is often categorized within a field known as law and economics. One prominent application of it is the design of optimal schemes of managerial compensation. In the field of economics, the first formal treatment of this topic was given by Kenneth Arrow in the 1960s. In 2016, Oliver Hart and Bengt R. Holmström both received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on contract theory, covering many topics from CEO pay to privatizations. Holmström focused more on the connection between incentives and risk, while Hart on the unpredictability of the future that creates holes in contracts.
A standard practice in the microeconomics of contract theory is to represent the behaviour of a decision maker under certain numerical utility structures, and then apply an optimization algorithm to identify optimal decisions. Such a procedure has been used in the contract theory framework to several typical situations, labeled moral hazard, adverse selection and signalling. The spirit of these models lies in finding theoretical ways to motivate agents to take appropriate actions, even under an insurance contract. The main results achieved through this family of models involve: mathematical properties of the utility structure of the principal and the agent, relaxation of assumptions, and variations of the time structure of the contract relationship, among others. It is customary to model people as maximizers of some von Neumann–Morgenstern utility functions, as stated by expected utility
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The Indian Ocean coastal belt is one of the nine recognised biomes of South Africa. They are described in terms of their vegetation and climatic variations.
Location and description
The Indian Ocean coastal belt is a region of coastal dunes and coastal grassy plains in KwaZuluNatal and the Eastern Cape, from sea level to an altitude of about 600 m Mean annual rainfall ranges from 819 to 1,272 mm, and falls throughout the year, peaking in summer. The mean annual temperature ranges from 19.1 °C near the Mbhashe River in the southwest to 22 °C in the north east near the Mozambican border, with hot summers and mild, frost-free winters. The belt is about 800 km long and narrow, with a maximum width of about 35 km in the north to less than 10 km in parts of the wild coast, and the total area is relatively small.
The relief of the region varies between flat in Maputaland, rolling hills with deeply incised valleys between Richards Bay and Port Edward
in KwaZulu-Natal and further south as far as the Great Kei River mouth. The Pondoland coast and other areas with sandstone geology have elevated plateaus with deep gorges.
Flora
The dominant forest cover is interrupted by areas of grassland, with part of the belt comprising dense savanna vegetation, with scattered areas of forest and grassland. Most of the coastal belt outside the remaining patches of forest has been changed considerably.
The following vegetation units have been identified:
Maputaland Coastal Belt
Maputaland Wooded Grassland
KwaZulu-Natal Coastal Belt
Pondoland-Ugu Sandstone Coastal Sourveld, which is characterised by grassland species, with some scattered low shrubs and small trees.
Transkei Coastal Belt
Fauna
Economic value
The region provides water supplies and fodder for livestock grazing.
Threats and preservation
The biome is fairly well protected relative to the other South African biomes in that about 45% of the 20-year target is protected.
Climate change impacts
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Parlatoria is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae. It just contains one species, Parlatoria cakiloidea
Description
It is an annual, growing up tall, with a stem that is glabrous (smooth) or with short simple hairs.
It has basal leaves that are ovate-cordate shaped, with acute teeth. The cauline (stem) leaves are petiolate (have a leaf stalk) or subsessile. They are ovate-lanceolate shaped with acute teeth on margin. The leaves when crushed smell of garlic.
It blooms between April and May, with long white flowers. The petals are 4-5 mm long and 1.5-2 mm wide with a broad oblong-obovate blade and narrow claw (section near the stem or petiole).
The fruiting pedicels (flower stalks) are as thick as basal part of fruit and 3-7 mm horizontally spreading.
The fruit (or seed capsule) is 10-15 mm long and 2-2.5 mm wide with straight or slightly curved beak (end projection). It contain 1 or 2 seeds, that are 5 mm long.
Taxonomy
The genus Parlatoria originally consisted of three species, including P. cakiloidea, the type species (Iran, Iraq, Turkey), the Iranian endemic P. rostrata Boiss., and P. taurica (from Azerbaijan, Georgia). Parlatoria taurica was later found to be a synonym of Alliaria taurica Also Parlatoria rostrata Boiss. & Hohen. was worked out to be a synonym of Lysakia rostrata
The genus name of Parlatoria is in honour of Filippo Parlatore (1816–1877), an Italian botanist, who originally studied medicine. The Latin specific epithet of cakiloidea refers to a resemblance to the genus Cakile.
Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., séries 2, Vol.17 on page 72 in 1842.
Range and habitat
It is native to Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey.
It is found on rocky slopes at altitudes of above sea level.
References
Other sources
Al-Shehbaz, I.A. 2012. A generic and tribal synopsis of Brassicaceae (Cruciferae). Taxon 61(5): 931–954. DOI: 10.1002/tax.615002 JSTOR Referen
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Cambell Crawford Nalder (20 December 1937 – 14 March 1987) was an Australian politician who served as a National Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1986 to 1987, representing the seat of Narrogin.
The son of Crawford Nalder, who later served as the state's Deputy Premier, Nalder was born in Wagin, a small town in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. Like his father, he went on to board at Wesley College, Perth, graduating in 1954. Nalder was elected to parliament at the 1986 state election, but died of cancer in March 1987, aged 49, having served just over a year. His death necessitated a by-election, which was won by National Party candidate Bob Wiese. Nalder's son, Dean Nalder, was elected as the Liberal Party member for Alfred Cove and later member for Bateman, while his niece, Karen Middleton, is the chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper.
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1937 births
1987 deaths
Australian people of English descent
Deaths from cancer in Western Australia
Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
People educated at Wesley College, Perth
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National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Western Australia
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The flag of North Western Province, was adopted for the North Western Province of Sri Lanka in 1987.
Symbolism
The flag of the North Western Province is of a brown Lion with a sun and moon symbol on a white background. On the background there 15 small eight-pointed cross-stars. The whole flag is surrounded by a green and brown woven border.
See also
Flag of Sri Lanka
List of Sri Lankan flags
References
External links
Chief Secretariat of North Western Province
Flagspot
Sri Lanka.Asia
North Western Province
North Western Province
North Western Province, Sri Lanka
North Western Province
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Self-medication is a human behavior in which an individual uses unprescribed drugs to treat untreated and/or undiagnosed ailments.
Self-medication may also refer to:
Self Medication (album), a 2008 album by the Slackers
"Self-Medication" (The Venture Bros.), an episode of The Venture Bros
Zoopharmacognosy, self-medication in animals
See also
Self Medicated, a 2005 film by Monty Lapica
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The N.K. Boswell Ranch is one of the oldest ranches on the edge of the Laramie Plains along the Big Laramie River in Albany County, Wyoming, USA. The ranch was established in the early 1870s, possibly by a man named C.T. Waldron. The ranch is significant for its association with Nathaniel K. Boswell, who was Albany County Sheriff at a time when the county extended from Colorado to Montana.
Description
The ranch lies in a valley on the east side of the Medicine Bow Mountains, with of deeded land and of leased land. The historical portion of the ranch headquarters comprises a -story log ranch house, a log shed, three log cabins, two wood-frame sheds and a series of log corrals. The ranch house dates to about 1873, and one log cabin is dated to 1894.. Across the access road are a series of log and frame ranch buildings, including barns, a bunkhouse, a workshop, several sheds and two privies.
History
Established in the 1870s by an obscure series of settlers, the ranch is a representative example of a moderate-sized working ranch. It was also a stopping point on the North Park-Laramie Plains Road. In 1886 Nathaniel K. Boswell acquired a part-interest in the ranch. Boswell was a prominent citizen in southeastern Wyoming during the late 19th century. Boswell, originally from New Hampshire, was established in Cheyenne by 1867, and in 1868 he is described as working in law enforcement in an "unofficial capacity." His activities on a vigilance committee led to more formal employment, and he became Albany County Sheriff in 1869. Bowell also acted as a private detective, and in 1873 was the first warden of the Wyoming Territorial Penitentiary. In 1903 Boswell rode over the Laramie Mountains with Theodore Roosevelt. He was also a friend of writer Bill Nye. Boswell died in 1921. The ranch changed hands several times after his death.
The N.K. Bowell Ranch was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 21, 1977.
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N.K.Boswell Ranch at
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The 801 was an experimental central processing unit (CPU) design developed by IBM during the 1970s. It is considered to be the first modern RISC design, relying on processor registers for all computations and eliminating the many variant addressing modes found in CISC designs. Originally developed as the processor for a telephone switch, it was later used as the basis for a minicomputer and a number of products for their mainframe line. The initial design was a 24-bit processor; that was soon replaced by 32-bit implementations of the same concepts and the original 24-bit 801 was used only into the early 1980s.
The 801 was extremely influential in the computer market. Armed with huge amounts of performance data, IBM was able to demonstrate that the simple design was able to easily outperform even the most powerful classic CPU designs, while at the same time producing machine code that was only marginally larger than the heavily optimized CISC instructions. Applying these same techniques even to existing processors like the System/370 generally doubled the performance of those systems as well. This demonstrated the value of the RISC concept, and all of IBM's future systems were based on the principles developed during the 801 project.
For his work on the 801, John Cocke was recognized with several awards and medals, including the Turing Award in 1987, National Medal of Technology in 1991, and the National Medal of Science in 1994.
History
Original concept
In 1974, IBM began examining the possibility of constructing a telephone switch to handle one million calls an hour, or about 300 calls per second. They calculated that each call would require 20,000 instructions to complete, and when one added timing overhead and other considerations, such a machine required performance of about 12 MIPS. This would require a significant advance in performance; their current top-of-the-line machine, the IBM System/370 Model 168 of late 1972, offered about 3 MIPS.
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Home composting is the process of using household waste to make compost at home. Composting is the biological decomposition of organic waste by recycling food and other organic materials into compost. Home composting can be practiced within households for various environmental advantages, such as increasing soil fertility, reduce landfill and methane contribution, and limit food waste.
History
While composting was cultivated during the Neolithic Age in Scotland, home composting experienced a much later start. Indoor composting, also known as home composting, was discovered in 1905 by Albert Howard who went on to develop the practice for the next 30 years.
J.I. Rodale, considered the pioneer of the organic method in America, continued Howard's work and further developed indoor composting from 1942 on. Since then, various methods of composting have been adapted. Indoor composting aided in organic gardening and farming and the development of modern composting. It originally entailed a layering method, where materials are stacked in alternating layers and the stack is turned at least twice.
Fundamentals
Aerobic vs. Anaerobic
Two ways to home compost are through the aerobic and anaerobic method. Aerobic composting involves the decomposition of organic materials using oxygen and is the recommended method for home composting. There are several benefits of aerobic (with oxygen) composting over anaerobic (without oxygen) composting such as less harmful byproducts. While aerobic composting does produce some carbon dioxide, anaerobic composting releases methane, which is a greenhouse gas significantly more harmful than carbon dioxide. Aerobic compost is a faster process due to availability of oxygen allowing for growth of composting microorganisms. Aerobic composting calls for larger bins, oxygen, moisture, and turning (only if without worms).
Organic Waste
There are various types of organic waste that can be used to compost at home. Composting requires two types of o
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In computer hardware, a word mark or flag is a bit in each memory location on some variable word length computers (e.g., IBM 1401, 1410, 1620) used to mark the end of a word. Sometimes the actual bit used as a word mark on a given machine is not called word mark, but has a different name (e.g., flag on the IBM 1620, because on this machine it is multipurpose).
The term word mark should not be confused with group mark or with record mark, which are distinct characters.
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Computing terminology
Early computers
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The Carta dominica is an apocryphal text of the New Testament. Although it was widely copied as a kind of chain letter, and hence details change between individual manuscripts, the text largely purports to be a letter written by Jesus emphasising the importance of Sunday as the day of Sabbath for Christians. It was written before 600 CE, but a more specific date – like the text's original language – is not known.
Description and contents
The Carta dominica is an apocryphal text for the New Testament that has been widely copied and translated into several languages and scripts, including Syriac, the Garšūnī script for Arabic, and Geʽez. The original language of the text is unknown, but it may have been written in Greek. It was written before 600 CE (a bishop in Spain condemned the text around 584), though a more precise date is not known. All variants of the text descend from one original, which has not been preserved. It has circulated widely due to its chain letter-like qualities; the letter requests its readers to circulate the text and always possess a copy. If they do not, the letter claims, they will face various challenges in their lives. Use of the text was challenged as heretical by a Lateran Council in the mid-700s, and it was condemned in Charlemagne's Admonitio generalis in 789. There is evidence of its circulation within England during the Middle Ages.
Various forms of the letter circulated in modern times. Voltaire reproduced a booklet, printed in Bourges in 1771, giving a version which purportedly descended from the sky at Paimpol. The distribution of variants of the Letter persisted in France until around 1852, when book peddling disappeared. Father Hippolyte Delehaye, president of the Bollandist Society, saw in the words attributed to Our Lady of La Salette an avatar of the Letter of Jesus Christ on Sunday.
The text is one of very few that claim direct authorship from Jesus, albeit post-resurrection. Its wide circulation has led to several varian
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Charles George Wynch (24 July 1833 – 21 May 1876) was an English cricketer. Wynch was a right-handed batsman, though his bowling style is unknown. He was born at Calcutta in the British Raj and was educated at Rugby School and Haileybury and Imperial Service College.
Wynch made his first-class debut for Sussex against Kent in 1852 at the Higher Common Ground, Tunbridge Wells. He made a further first-class appearance for the county in that year in the return fixture between the sides at the Royal Brunswick Ground, Hove. A journeyman first-class cricketer, Wynch turned out for a number of teams besides Sussex. In 1853, he played for the Gentlemen of England against the Gentlemen of Kent, immediately following this game up with an appearance for the Gentlemen of England against the Gentlemen of the Marylebone Cricket Club, with both matches played at Lord's. In that same year, he played for the Gentlemen against the Players, as well as making a single appearance for Sussex against England. In 1854, he made two first-class appearances, one for the Gentlemen of England against the Gentlemen of Kent, as well as playing for the Gentlemen against the Players at Lord's.
His next appearance in first-class cricket didn't come until 1859, when he played for the Marylebone Cricket Club against the Surrey Club at The Oval. He made further first-class appearances in 1859, for the Gentlemen of the South against the Gentlemen of the North, as well as for the Surrey Club against the Marylebone Cricket Club. He also made two appearances for Sussex, both against Kent. The following year he made three appearances in first-class cricket, for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Cambridge University at Fenner's, for the Gentlemen against the Players and for the Gentlemen of the South against the Gentlemen of the North. In 1861, he played two matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Cambridge University and Sussex, as well as a single match for the Gentlemen of the South against th
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Fireman's Hall is a historic fire hall located at Alfred in Allegany County, New York. It was built in 1890-1891 by volunteer firemen as the first home of the A.E. Crandall Hook & Ladder Co. It is a massive three story brick and sandstone structure that features an imposing bell / clock tower. The clock, designed by Seth Thomas, was donated by the Samuel Stillman family after the Village ran out of funds for the hall. The weather vane atop depicts a firefighter on a ladder. The building has housed village offices since the 1970s, as well as village court, police station and meeting hall today.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
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Fire stations on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Fire stations completed in 1891
Buildings and structures in Allegany County, New York
1891 establishments in New York (state)
Defunct fire stations in New York (state)
National Register of Historic Places in Allegany County, New York
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Carl Hårleman (23 June 1886 – 20 August 1948) was a Swedish gymnast and track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics. In 1908 he was part of the Swedish gymnastics team that won the all-around gold medal. Four years later he finished twelfth in the pole vault competition.
In 1913 Hårleman placed second in the pole vault at the British AAA championships. In 1917 he won the Swedish pole vault title, and set a national record that stood until 1921.
Hårleman was born in a noble family. He worked in insurance; served in the Swedish Army, reaching the rank of captain, and acted as secretary-general of several sports associations.
See also
Dual sport and multi-sport Olympians
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1886 births
1948 deaths
Swedish male artistic gymnasts
Swedish male pole vaulters
Olympic gymnasts for Sweden
Olympic athletes for Sweden
Gymnasts at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics
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Olympic medalists in gymnastics
Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
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Orville Wayne Rollins (1912–1991) is the co-founder, with his younger brother John W. Rollins, of Rollins Inc., the US's largest pest control conglomerate.
Early life
Rollins was born in Ringgold, Georgia, in 1912, the son of John William Rollins and Claudia Nance Rollins, a farmer father and a schoolteacher mother. He graduated from Ringgold High School in 1930.
Career
Rollins worked for Standard-Coosa-Thatcher, a textile mill in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for 15 years, then for the Hercules Power Company as a TNT supervisor.
He returned to Ringgold in 1945, and with his wife and younger brother began to rebuild a mineral springs resort. He then started a radio station to provide cheaper advertising for his brother's Virginia automobile dealership. Rollins Broadcasting was formed in 1948, and grew to control ten radio and four television stations.
In 1964, with company annual revenues of $9 million, he borrowed $60 million in the first leveraged buyout in the US to buy Orkin from its family owners, and move into the pest control business.
In 1982, Rollins received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. In 1986, he received a Horatio Alger Award for his "rags-to-riches" life story.
Personal life
He was married to Grace Crum Rollins. She was born on September 20, 1910, and died on August 8, 2009, aged 98.
He had two sons, Gary Rollins and Randall Rollins.
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1991 deaths
American chief executives
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Pabellón de Arteaga is a municipality of 11 municipalities in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes and located in the central part of it, its capital is the city of Pabellón de Arteaga with a population of 47,646 inhabitants in 2020.
References
Other websites
Ayuntamiento de Pabellón de Arteaga Official website
Aguascalientes state government (in Spanish)
Municipalities of Mexico
1965 establishments in North America
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Jøssingfjorden is a fjord in Sokndal municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The long fjord is narrow and deep and is surrounded by mountains. It sits about southeast of the municipal centre of Hauge. There is some settlement on the southeastern side of the fjord: the villages of Li, Vinterstø, and Bu. There is a road that runs along the southeast coast of the fjord, with sharp hairpin turns leading down from the mountains to the shore of the fjord both heading north and south from the fjord.
The Tellnes mine, one of Norway's largest titanium mines, is located in the mountains about northeast of the fjord. The mine is run by a company called Titania, and the fjord is used as the shipping port for the company. The Nedre Helleren Power Plant is located at the head of the fjord. The electricity is generated by water from lakes located high in the mountains and the water is piped down to the sea level power plant the force of the falling water produces the electricity.
At the head of the fjord is the small Helleren farm which is now abandoned. It sits in a narrow valley with steep rock cliffs on two sides, a rock scree on the third side, and the fjord on the fourth side. The base of one of the rock cliffs stops about above the ground forming a rock shelter, or heller (hence the name of the farm). The farm is preserved and is now owned by the Dalane folk museum.
Jøssingfjord is a place of iconic importance in the history of Norwegian anti-fascism.
Media gallery
History
The fjord is well known as the location of the World War II-era Altmark incident. On 16 February 1940, the British destroyer managed to free prisoners taken by the from the .
After this incident in the Jøssingfjorden, the term Jøssing came to mean a Norwegian patriot, the opposite of a Quisling (or traitor). The Norwegian collaborator government tried to neutralize their nickname Quislings by using the Jøssingfjord event to coin a derogatory term Jøssing, referring to "anti-nazis".
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The Mitsubishi Electric Koalas are a basketball team based in Nagoya, Aichi, playing in the Women's Japan Basketball League.
Notable players
Teresa Edwards
Maki Eguchi
Michiko Miyamoto
Risa Nishioka
Asako O
Chika Sakuragi
Asami Tanaka
Coaches
Hiroko Tanabe
Practice facilities
Mitsubishi Electric Nagoya Gymnasium
References
External links
Official website
Basketball teams in Japan
Basketball teams established in 1956
1956 establishments in Japan
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The Machaa ( in short Macha, Amharic: ሜጫ) are a subgroup of the Oromo people in western and Central Oromia . They live south of the Blue Nile (Abbai) in the northwestern part of the region of Oromia and in parts of West Shewa Zone, South West Shewa Zone, Oromia Special Zone Surrounding Finfinnee, West Welega Zone, East Welega Zone, Jimma, Jimma Zone, Illubabor Zone, Kelam Welega Zone and Horo Guduru. A small group of them lives in the area north of the Blue Nile Wambara in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region.
The area of Macha is a high plateau with undulating hills and some of the higher mountain ranges. Traditionally Macha hardly move below 1500 meters above sea level, since there is a risk of sleeping sickness and malaria would exist.
History
The Macha came in the second half of the 16th Century as part of the general expansion of the Oromo in the area south of the Blue Nile. The Ethiopian monk Bahrey most important chronicler of the Oromo hikes called the Macha and Tulama as subgroups of the Borana and mentions various clans and lineages of Macha .
The establishment of Macha in their present territory seems to be done in small groups and not by larger segments, so that the same clan names are present on a number of places in the area. The existing Omotic and Nilo-Saharan speaking population has been subjected to as gabaro (also gabbaro or Gabar, Oromo for "those who serve") called and gradually assimilated and added to the clan structures of Macha.
The Macha originally had a common Gadaa system with Tulama whose center (chaffe) was south of present-day Addis Ababa. But in the late 16th century, Macha established their own Gadaa with chaffe in Odaa Bilii / Tute Bisil upper Gibe Valley. A man named Makkoo Bilii called there, the independent Gadaa of Macha. In their lore, and Macha Tulama make mutually responsible for this break.
In 1963
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The Brodie Lee Celebration of Life was a professional wrestling memorial event and television special produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). The event took place on December 30, 2020, at Daily's Place in Jacksonville, Florida and was broadcast on TNT as a special episode of Dynamite. It paid tribute to AEW wrestler Brodie Lee following his death four days prior.
Production
Background
On December 26, 2020, Jonathan Huber died at the age of 41 of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (initially revealed as a "non-COVID lung issue") at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. He had been hospitalized in the intensive care unit since late October 2020. Better known by his ring name "Mr. Brodie Lee", Huber debuted in All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as "The Exalted One" and the leader of The Dark Order on March 18, 2020. The March 18 episode of Dynamite was originally scheduled to take place at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, New York, Huber's hometown. It was in turn the first episode to be held behind closed doors at Daily's Place in Jacksonville due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is where the majority of AEW's shows over the following year had to be held, although in August, AEW began holding shows with fans at 10–15% capacity of the venue.
On December 28, AEW President and Chief Executive Officer Tony Khan announced that the December 30 episode of Dynamite would be a memorial event, titled "Brodie Lee Celebration of Life". Four days before his death, Huber's oldest son, Brodie, appeared on the December 22 episode of Dark at ringside with a mask as "-1", a member of The Dark Order. It was later revealed that Brodie signed an AEW contract.
AEW had previously announced that the December 30, 2020, and January 6, 2021, episodes of Dynamite would host the two-part New Year's Smash event. However, it was postponed to January 6 and January 13 to allow AEW to hold Huber's memorial event.
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The Brodie Lee Celebration of Life featured professional wrestling matches and seg
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Claude Richard Beresford also known as Claude Richard de la Poer Beresford (9 March 1888 – 19 September 1945) was a journalist in South Australia. He wrote more than 2,000 pieces of topical verse for The News and The Mail under the pen name "Seebee".
History
Beresford was a son of Richard de la Poer Beresford, a descendant of an old Irish family, and Sydney Julia Beresford, née Acraman, of Barton Terrace, North Adelaide.
He was wharf manager at Port Adelaide for the Melbourne Steamship Co., and in his spare moments wrote verse and topical pieces for the Adelaide press.
In 1923 he joined the staff of News Ltd., and remained with the company for 22 years, writing many articles on shipping and the early history of the colony, of which he was a recognised authority.
Though not a sea traveller, he amassed a valuable collection of paintings of sailing ships.
Family
Beresford married Marion Beaven ( – ) in 1915; their family included:
Sydney May Beresford (1917 ) married Leonard Arthur Ranson Evans on 23 September 1937
(Molly) Clodagh Beresford (1920 – ) married Lieut. Harold de Vall Amphlett of Victoria, British Columbia on 23 December 1940.
Ben R(ichard) Beresford (1927 – ) married Janet Marcia Grime
Donald Charles Beresford (1933 – )
They had a home at Martin Avenue, Fitzroy.
Each of the children was also known as "de la Poer Beresford".
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1888 births
1945 deaths
20th-century Australian journalists
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Väyrynen is a surname originating in Finland.
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 92.3% of all known bearers of the surname Väyrynen were residents of Finland.
In Finland, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:1,875) in the following regions:
1. Kainuu (1:251)
2. Northern Ostrobothnia (1:581)
3. North Karelia (1:593)
4. Lapland (1:1,409)
5. Northern Savonia (1:1,647)
6. South Karelia (1:1,856)
People
Notable people with the surname include:
Mika Väyrynen (born 1981), Finnish footballer
Mika Väyrynen (accordionist) (born 1967), Finnish accordionist
Paavo Väyrynen (born 1946), Finnish politician
Tim Väyrynen (born 1993), Finnish footballer
References
Finnish-language surnames
Surnames of Finnish origin
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Lime Rock is a village and historic district (listed as Lime Rock Historic District) in the town of Salisbury, Connecticut, United States, situated on the Salmon Kill. The village center and the historic district are substantially similar. The surrounding area is also generally referred to as Lime Rock.
History
Formerly known as "The Hollow", Lime Rock became a center of the iron industry with the establishment by Thomas Lamb of a forge in the village around 1734. As the iron industry expanded, Lime Rock later became the home of the Barnum and Richardson Company, which made it the capital of the historic iron industry of the upper Housatonic Valley. U.S. Senator William Henry Barnum, the chief executive of Barnum and Richardson and longest serving Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, resided in Lime Rock, and was the founder of Trinity Episcopal Church Trinity Lime Rock. He, along with many other personages of the area's historic iron industry, is buried in the Lime Rock Cemetery.
By 1923, Barnum and Richardson had closed its eastern works, which went bankrupt. Initially the village was largely abandoned, but by 1927 it had become the home of an artist colony, the Lime Rock Artists Association, which hosted major exhibits in the village in each of the nine years from 1927 through 1935. The original historic village is still largely intact.
In 1946, Alfred Korzybski moved the Institute of General Semantics from Chicago to the former Richardson mansion in Lime Rock where he directed it until his death in 1950. The Institute remained in Lime Rock until 1981 when it moved elsewhere.
Today Lime Rock is best known as the location of the automobile racing course at Lime Rock Park.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Litchfield County, Connecticut
References
Historic districts in Litchfield County, Connecticut
Queen Anne architecture in Connecticut
Salisbury, Connecticut
Villages in Connecticut
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Vieru may refer to:
Igor Vieru (1923 – 1988), Moldovan painter
Anatol Vieru (1926 – 1998), Romanian composer
Grigore Vieru (1935 – 2009), Moldovan poet
Andrei Vieru (born 1958), pianist, writer and philosopher (son of Anatol)
Valerian Ciobanu-Vieru (born 1958), Moldovan writer
Ioan Vieru (poet) (born 1962), a Romanian poet
Ioan Vieru (born 1979), Romanian sprinter
Natalia Vieru (born 1989), Moldavian-born Russian basketball player
Vieru, a village in Putineiu Commune, Giurgiu County, Romania
Romanian-language surnames
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St. James' Episcopal Church, or St. James' in-the-City, as it is commonly called, to distinguish it from the St. James' Episcopal Church in South Pasadena, is a historic Episcopal church, located in the Wilshire Center area of Los Angeles, California, between Koreatown and Hancock Park. St. James' in-the-City Episcopal Church is part of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.
History
The first services at St. James' were held in 1908. The St James' parish was established in 1912. The Rev. Noel Porter was the first rector. The first church was located 1.5 miles southeast of the current building, at Pico and Ardmore Boulevards.
In 1914, Los Angeles Boy Scout Troop 10, the oldest continuously-sponsored Boy Scout troop in the United States, was founded under the parish's auspices and remains under its sponsorship today.
In 1916, the congregation moved to a larger building farther north, at the corner of Western Avenue and Monette Place. The early parish boundaries stretched from Western Avenue to the Pacific Ocean but moved inland later when new Episcopal parishes were founded in Beverly Hills, Westwood and the Pacific Palisades.
The current church building was designed by Benjamin McDougall, a renowned San Francisco Bay area architect, in Gothic Revival style, and built in 1925-26 on a lot on Wilshire Boulevard, bought originally by The Rev. Ray Miller. The building is constructed of reinforced concrete with a stucco overlay.
The roof of the church is 60 feet high at its highest point; the bell tower is 100 feet high. The ceiling of the church is structured with redwood beams and trusses to resemble the inside of a ship's hull. The floor is paved with ceramic tiles that bear the same Celtic cross motif as the floors of the nearby Immanuel Presbyterian Church.
The building's richly colored stained glass windows were created by Judson Studios over many years, from 1932 to the present. Besides traditional religious scenes of saints and biblical figures, the windows
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The 1988 Atlantic hurricane season was an event in the annual Atlantic hurricane season in the north Atlantic Ocean. It was an active season during which twelve tropical cyclones formed. The season officially began on June 1, 1988 and ended November 30, 1988. These dates, adopted by convention, historically describe the period in each year when most systems form.
Of this season's 12 named storms, 5 attained hurricane status, of which 3 became a major hurricanea storm that ranks as a Category 3 or higher on the Saffir–Simpson scale. The most notable storm in 1988 was Hurricane Gilbert, which was at the time the most intense hurricane in the Atlantic on record. Hurricane Gilbert caused about $5 billion in damage and 300 fatalities. The other notable storm was Hurricane Joan, which struck Nicaragua as a category 4 hurricane, and caused about $2 billion in damage and about 200 fatalities. Joan crossed into the Pacific and was renamed Miriam. As a result of their intensity, the names Gilbert and Joan were subsequently retired from reuse in the North Atlantic by the World Meteorological Organization.
This timeline documents tropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. It includes information that was not released throughout the season, meaning that data from post-storm reviews by the National Hurricane Center, such as a storm that was not initially warned upon, has been included.
By convention, meteorologists one time zone when issuing forecasts and making observations: Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), and also use the 24-hour clock (where 00:00 = midnight UTC). In this time line, all information is listed by UTC first with the respective local time included in parentheses.
Timeline
May
May 30
18:00 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression One forms about south of Isla de la Juventud, Cuba.
June
June 1
The 1988 Atlantic hurricane season official begins.
18:00 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT)
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Magnesium salicylate is a common analgesic and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) used to treat mild to moderate musculoskeletal pain such as in tendons and muscles. It is also used to treat joint pain like arthritis, general back pain, and headaches.
It is found in a variety of over-the-counter (OTC) medications, most notably the brand Doan's Pills, as an anti-inflammatory, primarily for back-pain relief. Magnesium salicylate can be an effective OTC alternative to prescription NSAIDs, with both anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving effects.
Controversy
While magnesium salicylate is sold as an alternative for pain relief, it is still a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug and, like others in this class, can cause stomach ulcers, without any proven superiority to other over-the-counter pain relievers.
Novartis, the company (formerly known as Ciba or Ciba-Geigy Corp.) that produces Doan's Pills, has claimed that the product is superior in providing back pain relief. In June 1996, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charged the company with violating federal law with its unsubstantiated claim. In March 1998, the court ruled in favor of the FTC, but there was no stipulation about how the company should or would have to amend its advertising/packaging. Thus, Doan's was able to continue marketing as a "superior treatment for back pain". In May 1999, the FTC released a statement summarizing the proceedings and announced the commission's decision after a 4–0 vote imposing a penalty on Doan's and its marketer, Novartis, to "run ads to correct misbeliefs resulting from their unsubstantiated claim that Doan's Pills are superior to other over-the-counter analgesics for treating back pain" and to modify packaging to include the statement "Although Doan's is an effective pain reliever, there is no evidence that Doan's is more effective than other pain relievers for back pain." The ads were required to run for a period of one year.
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Hagan is an originally Irish surname related linguistically to Hogan (see details on that page).
Notable people with the surname include:
Alexandra Hagan (born 1991), Australian rower
Alfie Hagan (1895–1980), English footballer
Art Hagan (1863–1936), American baseball player
Barry Hagan (1957–1993), American figure skater
Bill Hagan (born 1931), Canadian ice hockey player
Billy Hagan (disambiguation), multiple people
Bo Hagan (1925–2002), American football and baseball player
Bob Hagan (born 1949), American politician
Bob Hagan (rugby league) (born 1940), Australian rugby league footballer
Brian Hagan, American artist
Charles Hagan (born 2001), English footballer
Chris Hagan (born 1989), American basketball player
Christina Hagan (born 1988), American politician
Cliff Hagan (born 1931), American basketball player
Cliona Hagan (born 1989), Irish singer
Darian Hagan (born 1970), American football player
David Hagan, American business executive
David Hagan (cricketer) (born 1966), English cricketer
Derek Hagan (born 1984), American football player
Ebenezer Hagan (born 1975), Ghanaian footballer
Edward Hagan (disambiguation), multiple people
Ellen Hagan, Ghanaian entrepreneur
Emmanuel Hagan (born 2000), Ghanaian footballer
Fred Hagan (1918–2003), Canadian artist
George Hagan (disambiguation), multiple people
Glenn Hagan (born 1955), American basketball player
Helen Eugenia Hagan (1891–1964), American pianist
Helene Hagan (born 1939), American anthropologist
Holly Hagan (born 1992), British television personality
Holly Hagan (epidemiologist), American epidemiologist
Jacqueline Hagan (born 1954), American sociologist
James Hagan (disambiguation), multiple people
Javon Hagan (born 1997), American football player
Jean Hagen (1923–1977), American actress
Jim Hagan (born 1956), Northern Irish footballer
Jim Hagan (basketball) (1938–2021), American basketball player
Jimmy Hagan (1918–1998), English footballer
John Hagan (disambiguation), multiple people
Joseph Essilfie Haga
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Eskdale Drive is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network, in the district of Broxtowe and suburb of Chilwell. It is situated on reserved track adjacent to Eskdale Drive, and has side platforms flanking the track. Trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day.
Eskdale Drive stop opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
References
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Nottingham Express Transit stops
Transport in the Borough of Broxtowe
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Danbury High School is a public high school in Danbury, Connecticut, with approximately 3000 students. It is part of the Danbury Public Schools district. Despite Danbury's population of 86,518 (as of 2020), there is only one public high school, along with several small private schools, and one vocational high school in the city. The school is located in a suburban, residential neighborhood atop a hill that overlooks most of the city.
Danbury High School is supplemented by a magnet program called the Alternative Center for Excellence. This program provides a Danbury High School diploma but exhibits additional criteria not required by most local institutions.
In 2013, Danbury High School was awarded $100,000 after winning the State Farm Insurance "Celebrate My Drive" campaign. The "Celebrate My Drive" campaign encourages teens to make positive choices as they start driving.
Danbury High School was awarded a total of $40,000 after 2 student's projects won the statewide contest Voice4Change. These projects were to contribute to the water fountains and teacher's faculty lounge furniture at DHS.
History
In 1927, a new high school was built on 181 White Street in Danbury. This building served as the city's main high school, until a rapid increase in Danbury's population compelled a major school construction program. In 1965, a new Danbury High School was dedicated on Clapboard Ridge. This campus is still the current location of the school today. On October 11, 1967 rock band The Doors performed live at the school.
Academic progress and school improvement
Beginning next fall, freshmen students entering Danbury High School will have an opportunity to earn an associate degree simultaneously with their high school diploma. As part of the Early College Opportunity program, 80 to 100 incoming freshmen students will begin their journey toward an associate degree in information technology issued by Naugatuck Valley Community College.
Stadium
Constructed in 2002, Danbury High
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Luxembourg competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Eight competitors, all men, took part in seven events in four sports.
Athletics
Men's High Jump
Marc Romersa
Qualification — 2.05m (→ did not advance)
Men's 20 km Race Walk
Lucien Faber — 1:36:21 (→ 28th place)
Cycling
Two cyclists represented Luxembourg in 1976.
Individual road race
Lucien Didier — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Marcel Thull — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Fencing
Two fencers represented Luxembourg in 1976.
Men's épée
Roger Menghi
Robert Schiel
Shooting
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Nations at the 1976 Summer Olympics
1976 Summer Olympics
1976 in Luxembourgian sport
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On July 24, 2022, a mass shooting took place at the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, leaving three people dead and three others injured, including the assailant. The attacker, identified as Chao-Tiao Yumol, successfully targeted former Mayor Rose Furigay of Lamitan, Basilan, who was at the university to attend her daughter's graduation.
Background
About an hour before the attack, a graduation ceremony was scheduled to be conducted for students of the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law. The perpetrator was able to enter the campus through a GrabTaxi with his weapons left unchecked despite the imposition of a gun ban as part of the heightened security for Philippine President Bongbong Marcos's State of the Nation Address the following day. He later blended with the crowd and waited for his target to appear.
While homicide rates are high in the Philippines, mass shootings – particularly school shootings – are not common. However, politically-motivated crimes are prevalent. Federico Pascual Jr., a columnist at The Philippine Star, opined that "the Ateneo incident could be described as a mass shooting" but the Quezon City police said that the gunman "was targeting Furigay, with other victims presumably just collateral damage."
Details
Shooting
At around 3:30 p.m. (UTC+08:00), on July 24, 2022, the gunman opened fire outside the university's Areté building, the venue for the graduation ceremony. Rosita Furigay was the main target of the perpetrator. She was killed along with a security guard, Jeneven Bandiala, who was attempting to thwart the gunman, and Victor George Capistrano, Furigay's executive assistant.
Chase and arrest
In an aftermath video, students and university officials were seen fleeing and screaming while others took care of the victims. The assailant escaped the crime scene by threatening a certain Mr. Palma and taking possession of his vehicle. After making it to Aurora Boulevard and crashing through se
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Ulhasnagar is a city located, just 26 km from Thane City in Thane district, Maharashtra, India. This city is a part of Mumbai Metropolitan Region managed by MMRDA. It had an estimated population of 506,098 at the 2011 Census. Ulhasnagar is a municipal city and the headquarters of the Tahsil bearing the same name. It has a suburban station on the Central line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway.
History
A suburban railway station was built in 1955. In January 1960, Ulhasnagar Municipality was formed, with Arjun K. Ballani as first chief, and a municipal council was nominated. In 1965, elections were first held in this council. In the late 1970s, Ulhasnagar was a town settled mainly by Sindhi Hindu refugees. Now this 28 square kilometre area has 389,000 people of Sindhi descent, the largest enclave of Sindhis in India. The town lies outside Mumbai city but within the Mumbai Conurbation. In 2010, the estimated population of Sindhi Hindus in Ulhasnagar was 400,000.
There are a number of criminal gangs in town working under the patronage of political parties. Also for many illegal building projects in 1990s, politicians started to charge money to look the other way.
Economy
The town covers an area of 13 square kilometers and is divided into 285 blocks. It is a centre for the production of rayon silk, dyes, ready-made garments, electrical / electronic appliances and confectionaries. The total length of roads and streets in the town is 352 kilometres. The town is served by underground and open-surface drainage, night soil being disposed of by septic tank latrines. The town has a protected water supply through MIDC. Sanctioned Water Quota at various tapping points is 112 MLD. Fire-fighting service is also available in the town. There are sixty private hospitals with a total bed-strength of 840 beds, three government hospitals with total bed-strength of 356 beds, 255 dispensaries / clinics, 100 RMP and a family planning centre.
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The Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan is a federally recognized tribe of Potawatomi people in Michigan named for a 19th-century Ojibwe chief. They were formerly known as the Gun Lake Band of Grand River Ottawa Indians, the United Nation of Chippewa, Ottawa and Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan, Inc., and the Gun Lake Tribe or Gun Lake Band.
They are headquartered in Bradley, Michigan.
History
Ancestors of this mixed band belonged to the Ojibwe (Chippewa), Ottawa, and Pottawatomi peoples, who lived around the Great Lakes in what became Canada and the United States. The tribes tended to be highly decentralized, with most people living in bands. Under pressure and encroachment by Europeans, there were substantial population losses among the tribes, and some of their people moved west into Minnesota. Others remained in rural areas of Michigan and Wisconsin.
They all spoke Algonquian languages, part of a large language family extending from the Atlantic Coast and around the Great Lakes, and had some cultural similarities. Original members of the Gun Lake Band were survivors of these three tribes who gathered together in community near Gun Lake, Michigan.
Government
The Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians were recognized as a sovereign nation by the United States' federal government in 1988. It has a written constitution and elected democratic government, consisting of several tribal council members.
The current (3/6/23) Tribal Council is as follows:
Bob Peters, Tribal Chairman (Bradley District)
Jodie Palmer, Vice Chair (at-large District)
Jeff Martin, Secretary (Salem District)
Nicole Overbeck, Treasurer (Bradley District)
Phyllis Davis, Council Member (at-large District)
Ben Brenner, Council Member (Salem District)
Virginia Sprague-Vanderband (Bradley District)
Membership
The tribal council voted on rules for enrollment or membership in the tribe. As of 2009, the tribe's enrollment is open only to babies born to curr
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Ezzatollah Sahabi (9 May 1930 – 31 May 2011) was an Iranian politician and journalist. He was a parliament member from 1980 to 1984.
Early life
Sahabi was born on 9 May 1930 in Tehran, Iran. His father, Yadollah Sahabi, was an influential figure in the 1979 Iranian revolution. His brother, Fereydun Sahabi, was the first president of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and the second in the administration of President of Iran.
He studied mechanical engineering at the Faculty of Engineering Tehran University.
Political career
He was appointed as a member of Council of Islamic Revolution by Ruhollah Khomeini on 12 February 1979. Mehdi Bazargan, then Prime Minister of Iran, named Sahabi as Head of National Budget Center. He was elected as a member of Parliament in election of 1980.
In later years Sahabi was managing editor of the journal Iran-e Farda (The Iran of Tomorrow), which was banned by the Islamic government, and participated in the 2000 'Iran After the Elections' Conference held in Berlin, for which he was sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment. He was well known as the leader of the Iran's Nationalist-Religious political alliance.
Sahabi spent a total of 15 years in prison both before and after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Personal life
Sahabi was married to Zarrindokht Ataei, whose maternal uncle was Mehdi Bazargan. They had a son and a daughter. In April 2011, he was hospitalized in Persian Hospital. On 1 May 2011, Sahabi went into a coma after a stroke. On 31 May 2011, he died at age 81 in Modarres Hospital and his funeral was held the next day.
Funeral
Sahabi's funeral was reportedly marred by the removal of his body by plain clothes authorities, the death of his daughter, Haleh Sahabi, from cardiac arrest after being beaten by the plain clothes for holding a photograph of her father. Also the plain clothes heated and arrest of several mourners. According to an unnamed journalist present at the funeral, a "large group" of plainclothes an
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The Second Treatise of the Great Seth is a Gnostic text. It is the second tractate in Codex VII of the Nag Hammadi library. The Coptic papyrus, translated from a Greek original, is entirely preserved and written clearly. The text likely was written near Alexandria c. 200 AD. Seth is not mentioned in the text; instead the title "may be understood to be the second speech or message delivered by Jesus, the manifestation of heavenly Seth," based on Sethian beliefs. Like the Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter, the text takes a docetic view of the crucifixion of Jesus with the statement that Jesus "did not die in reality but in appearance." Although the heresiologist Irenaeus criticized the supposed Gnostic belief that Simon of Cyrene was a substitute who was crucified instead of Jesus, the text of Second Treatise of the Great Seth, in context, says, "It was another, their father, who drank the gall and the vinegar; it was not I. They struck me with the reed; it was another, Simon, who bore the cross on his shoulder. It was another upon whom they placed the crown of thorns." The text also encourages unity among Gnostics, assuring them that Jesus will help them overcome the false rulers and their followers.
Summary
The text is written from the perspective of Jesus. In it, Jesus reflects on the nature of reality and the existence of a perfect deity, who is at rest in the truth and ineffable light. He speaks about the word of the deity, the thought of the imperishable spirit, and the idea of dying with Christ. He visits a bodily dwelling and reveals himself to be a stranger from above the heavens, causing the rulers of the earthly area to become troubled. Some are persuaded by the wonders he accomplishes, while others flee and bring punishment upon him. The rulers are unable to recognize the true father of truth and the human of greatness, but instead, they take the name out of ignorance. Jesus died because of those who offered praise, but not really, because the archangel was vac
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Yung-Ping Chen (November 24, 1930 – May 10, 2022) was an American economist and gerontologist of Chinese origin. He pioneered the concept of home equity conversion (reverse mortgages) in the United States and developed innovative approaches to the funding of Social Security benefits and long-term care. His scholarship contributed to a better understanding of the economic, political, and social implications and challenges created by the "mass aging" phenomenon—the ongoing and unprecedented shift to an increasingly elder-populated society.
Biography
Born in Jingjiang, Jiangsu Province, China, Chen went to the United States for graduate school in 1955 and remained there to teach economics and gerontology for 50 years. He retired in 2009. He was married and had three children and six grandchildren. A graduate of National Taiwan University in Taipei, he received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Washington, Seattle. He was professor emeritus of gerontology and a fellow in the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he was the first holder of the Frank J. Manning Eminent Scholar's Chair in Gerontology, a professorship established by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1988, and where he participated in launching the Ph.D. program in gerontology. Previously he was professor of economics and the first holder of the Frank M. Engle Distinguished Chair in Economic Security Research at the American College, Bryn Mawr, PA. Prior to that he taught at UCLA, Seattle Pacific College (now University), and the University of Washington. He served as delegate and/or consultant to four consecutive White House Conferences on Aging (1971 to 2005) and as delegate to the 1998 White House Conference on Social Security. A founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, he was a fellow in both the Gerontological Society of America and the World Demographic Association. He received the Actuarial Foundation's John E. Hanson M
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Jedburgh railway station served the town of Jedburgh, Scottish Borders, Scotland from 1856 to 1964 on the Jedburgh Railway.
History
The station opened on 17 July 1856 by the Jedburgh Railway Company. To the east was a locomotive shed and to the north was a goods yard. To the northeast was the signal box. The station closed for passengers on 13 August 1948 and closed to goods on 10 August 1964. Nothing remains.
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Disused railway stations in the Scottish Borders
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1856
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1948
1856 establishments in Scotland
1948 disestablishments in Scotland
Former North British Railway stations
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There are annual world championship events in the sport of motorcycle speedway for individual riders - the Speedway Grand Prix - and for national teams - the Speedway World Cup. Each has a counterpart for riders under 21: the Speedway World Under 21 Championship and the Team Speedway Junior World Championship. A pairs event, the Speedway World Pairs Championship, ran until 1993.
In addition there are two Ice Speedway World Championships for individuals and teams. The first Ice World Championships were held in 1966.
Another form of speedway on larger tracks takes place called Longtrack and there is a World Championship called the Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship. Since 1998 it has been a combination of grasstrack and longtrack
References
Speedway Champions
World
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The James Pass Arboretum was established by the City of Syracuse, New York through the philanthropy of Adelaide Salisbury Pass and family with the guidance and cooperation of the State College of Forestry (now SUNY-ESF) to be a classic arboretum in the tradition of the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts, that is, a museum of woody plants designed for education and horticultural display.
History
On March 22, 1925, Syracuse Mayor John Henry Walrath announced the gift of land consisting of 12.1 acres, adjacent to Burnet Park by Adelaide Pass and family. The land would be used as a municipal arboretum and named for Mrs. Pass' late husband James Pass.
Development would be conducted by the City of Syracuse, New York with the cooperation of the State College of Forestry in Syracuse, today called State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. From statements made by Mayor Walrath, F. Franklin Moon, Dean of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and Adelaide Pass there was agreement that the James Pass Arboretum would be a classic arboretum in the tradition of the Arnold Arboretum in Boston MA. and Highland Park in Rochester NY. It would be an outdoor museum of woody plants displayed for educational and horticultural purposes, to serve as a demonstration ground for students, homeowners, commercial growers, and horticulturalists.
That objective was confirmed by Mayor Charles Hanna in 1927 when he stated that "it was expected that the arboretum would be used by the forestry and landscapes departments of the Forestry College and by public school classes".
James and Adelaide Pass
In 1884 James Pass succeeded his father Richard Pass as superintendent and eventually president of the Onondaga Pottery Company which ultimately became Syracuse China.
In 1890 he formed a partnership with A. P. Seymour, Pass & Seymour which manufactured porcelain and electric supplies. He served as president of the
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Bhavani Narayanrao Krishnamurti Sharma (9 June 1909 – 2 July 2005), commonly known as B. N. K. Sharma or B. N. Krishnamurti Sharma, was an Indian writer, scholar, professor, and Indologist. Sharma was a professor and Head of the Department of Sanskrit in Ruparel College, Bombay from (1953–1969). Sharma was one of the foremost exponents of Madhvacharya's school of Dvaita Vedanta. B. N. K. Sharma learned the art of debates under Satyadhyana Tirtha of Uttaradi Math. Sharma travelled along with Satyadhyana Tirtha from (1930 - 1944), learned all philosophical knowledge from him and also used to rectify his doubts from Satyadhyana Tirtha.
Born in a Brahmin family of scholars and court pandits, Sharma authored more than 25 classical works and over 150 research papers on Vedanta in general and Dvaita Vedanta in particular. He attained international renown and recognition for his scholarly contribution to the Dvaita Vedanta literary treasure. His History of Dvaita School Of Vedanta And Its Literature is a monumental work which brought him the highest national literary distinction of the Sahitya Academy Award in 1963. Sharma was awarded the honorary D.Litt. in Sanskrit by the Mumbai University in 1968. Sharma was also the recipient of the President of India's Award for Eminent Sanskrit Scholars in 1992 and the Government of Maharashtra's Award for Sanskrit in 1993.
Sharma is one of the eminent scholars who wrote the critical appreciations of prominent Haridasa saints such as Purandara Dasa, Kanaka Dasa and others.
B. N. K. Sharma's students included such scholars as K. T. Pandurangi, a winner of Rashtrapati Award; C. S. Venkateshan,a scholar and professor; D. N. Shanbhag, author and scholar; and S. K. Bhavani (his son).
Life and career
Early life
B.N.K. Sharma was born on 9 June 1909 in a Kannada-speaking Deshastha Brahmin family of Madhva tradition in Salem, Madras Presidency (present-day Tamil Nadu in a family of Sanskrit Scholars of the former Cochin State of Keral
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The Vought XF2U was a prototype biplane fighter aircraft evaluated by the United States Navy at the end of the 1920s, but was already outclassed by competing designs and never put into production.
Development and design
Vought's O2U Corsair, first delivered in 1927, was a successful design that set several speed and altitude record in that year. To compete for the Bureau of Aeronautics requirement for a two-seat carrier-based fighter, Vought adapted this design, but progress was slow. Ordered on 30 June 1927, the aircraft was not completed until June 1929. It was no longer state-of-the-art; in particular Curtiss' F8C Falcon was further along.
The aircraft was constructed of welded steel tubing, covered in fabric. The wings were made of wood and fabric covered. The prototype first flew on 21 June 1929, and was tested on a simulated carrier deck in Norfolk, Virginia. It was found satisfactory, allaying concerns about problems due to the rather long cowling over the engine. The aircraft then went to the Naval Aircraft Factory, who operated it until 6 March 1931, when it was lost in a crash landing.
Specifications
References
Further reading
External links
Vought page on the XF2U
F02U
Vought F02U
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
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The Anglican Church of St Vigor in Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Somerset, England, dates from the 12th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. Saint Vigor was a French bishop and Christian missionary. After the Norman conquest of England, his cult moved from France to England. This church is one of only two English churches dedicated to him, the other being at Fulbourn in Cambridgeshire.
The original Norman church was founded by Geoffrey de Montbray the Bishop of Coutances after he became the lord of the manor following the Norman Conquest. Only the doorway on the south side of the church, the chancel arch and font remain from this period. The pulpit dates from the 14th century along with the chancel.
The stained glass windows contain fragments dating from medieval times, which were incorporated into the more recent windows after damage which may have occurred during the English Civil War.
The Long chapel, named after the benefactors, the Long family, was built in 1782.
The churchyard contains a war grave of a Somerset Light Infantry soldier of World War II.
St. Vigor's Church forms a joint benefice with St. John's in nearby Chilcompton, and falls within the archdeaconry of Bath.
See also
List of Grade I listed buildings in Mendip
List of towers in Somerset
List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells
References
Grade I listed churches in Somerset
Church of England church buildings in Mendip District
12th-century church buildings in England
Grade I listed buildings in Mendip District
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Puig de Pastuira is a mountain of Catalonia, Spain. It can be found to the north-west of the village of Setcases in the eastern Pyrenees.
Its exact location and summit is identified differently by different maps and sources.
Some sources state that it is an alternative name for the mountain Les Borregues. This summit reaches an elevation of 2,692 m, and is located at .
Other sources and maps identify the summit as a point on the south-eastern spur of Les Borregues. This top has a height of between 2349m and 2373m, and is located at approximately . The Riu de Pastuira, or Torrent de Pastuira, is a stream which starts below this summit and runs south-east, joining the Ter south of Setcases.
See also
Mountains of Catalonia
References
Mountains of Catalonia
Mountains of the Pyrenees
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The Mather School is the oldest public elementary school in North America. It is located in the Dorchester region of Boston, Massachusetts and was named after Richard Mather. Mather was an English-born American Congregational minister who emigrated to Boston and settled in Dorchester in 1635.
On The Dorchester Town Records reads the following:
"It is ordered that the 20th of May 1639, that there shalbe a rent paid of 20ls yeerely foreur imposed upon Tomsons Iland to bee payd p euy p'son that hat p'prtie in the said Iland according to the p'portion that any such p'son shall fro tyme to tyem injoy and posesse there, and this towards the mayntenance of a schoole in Dorchestr this rent of 20ls yeerlyl to bee payd to such a schoolemaster as shall undertake to teach english latin and other tongues and also writing...."
The first building was a one room schoolhouse and was located on what had been known as "Settlers' Street," near the corner of the present Pleasant and Cottage Streets. It served until 1694 when a contract was made with John Trescot to build a house twenty feet long and nineteen feet wide, with a ground floor, a chamber above, with a flight of stairs, and a chimney. The contract required the building to be boarded and clapboarded; to be filled up between the studs; to be fully covered with boards and shingles. The site of this building is supposed to be the hill near the meeting-house, on what is now known as Winter Street.
The successor of this first school is the Mather School located at Meeting House Hill, the second building of that name. The previous building, erected in 1856, was located on the same site where the fire station is now. It was renamed the Edward Southworth School when the new Mather School was built in 1905, and has since been demolished.
The Mather School, located on Parish Street just a few yards away from the original location, is operating for students of the Dorchester district spanning grades K–5. The school's mission is pro
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Arthur Tracy Lee (June 26, 1814 – December 29, 1879) served as an officer in the regular army before and during the American Civil War. He was also an author, painter, musician, and an architect.
Early life and career
Lee was born in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, to James Lee and Catharine Shriner. As a youth, he studied art in Philadelphia, supposedly under Thomas Sully. On October 3, 1838, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 5th United States Infantry Regiment, mostly through the influence of Simon Cameron. Less than a month later, on November 1, he was transferred to the 8th United States Infantry Regiment. He assisted in the 1840 removal of Winnebago Indians from Wisconsin and later participated in the Seminole War. While in Florida, he met Margaret Wenthworth Spafford, whom he married on July 27, 1844, at St. Augustine. They had five children, only one of whom survived childhood.
Mexican–American War
On March 4, 1845, Lee was promoted to 1st lieutenant. His unit was transferred to Texas in September of that year and placed under General Zachary Taylor. At the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, he commanded a company of the regiment, serving alongside 1st Lieutenant James Longstreet. He wrote a poem about both of these battles.
Other assignments
In September 1846, Lee was dispatched to Rochester, New York, to act as a recruiter. During this time, on January 27, 1848, he was promoted to captain. He finished his recruiting duty that July and in the fall, he helped with the removal of Winnebago Indians in Minnesota. Late that year, he returned to Texas and his command of Company C. In October 1849, Lee, along with his company, moved to Fort Croghan to protect white settlers who were intruding on Indian territory. Four different times, from 1849 to 1851, he served as the commander here. His company, along with four other companies of the 8th US Infantry, established Fort McKavett in 1852, to protect west Texas settlers and to act as a rest
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Bonnaya is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Linderniaceae.
Its native range is Eastern Tropical Africa, Madagascar, Tropical and Subtropical Asia to Northern Australia. .
Species:
Bonnaya aculeata
Bonnaya antipoda
Bonnaya cephalantha
Bonnaya ciliata
Bonnaya cowiei
Bonnaya milindii
Bonnaya multiflora
Bonnaya oppositifolia
Bonnaya peduncularis
Bonnaya ruellioides
Bonnaya sanpabloensis
Bonnaya succosa
Bonnaya tenuifolia
Bonnaya veronicifolia
Bonnaya zanzibarica
References
Linderniaceae
Lamiales genera
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Reiner Hanschke (9 December 1940 – 30 June 2015) was a German field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
1940 births
2015 deaths
German male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for the United Team of Germany
Field hockey players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
People from Köthen (Anhalt)
Sportspeople from Saxony-Anhalt
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USS Jarvis (DD-799) was a of the United States Navy, the third Navy ship named for Midshipman James C. Jarvis (1787–1800), who was killed at the age of 13 during the historic engagement between the famed frigate and the French frigate La Vengeance.
Jarvis was laid down by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Seattle, Washington; 7 June 1943; launched 14 February 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Harold Burkit, daughter of Rufus C. Holman, U.S. Senator from Oregon; and commissioned 3 June 1944.
Service history
World War II
After shakedown off the California coast, Jarvis departed Seattle 25 August for Pearl Harbor as escort for the battleship . Arriving 31 August, she proceeded independently 3 September to Adak, Alaska, to join the North Pacific Force, engaged in operations against the Kurile Islands. Operating out of Adak and Attu, Jarvis battled stormy seas and prolonged bad weather to conduct eight raids on shipping and shore installations from Paramushiru to Matsuwa. After returning to Adak 15 August 1945 from her last raid, she steamed to Aomori, Honshū, to support occupation operations. Arriving Aomori 8 September, she plied the Sea of Japan, assisting occupation landings and destroying military installations on Honshū and Hokkaidō. Jarvis departed Yokosuka, Honshū, 19 November for the United States. Arriving Pearl Harbor 29 November, she joined the "Magic Carpet" fleet and sailed 1 December for the East Coast via San Diego and the Panama Canal, returning veterans of the Pacific War. She reached Charleston, South Carolina, 22 December; deactivated as a unit of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet 11 April 1946; and decommissioned 29 June.
1951 – 1960
With the development and enlargement of the Korean War, Jarvis recommissioned 8 February 1951. She operated in the Atlantic out of Charleston and Norfolk, Va. for more than a year before departing Norfolk 15 May 1952 for deployment to Korea. Steaming via Panama, the West Coast, and Japan, she arrived off Korea's eastern c
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Ouvrage Col des Banquettes is a lesser work (petit ouvrage) of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also called the "Little Maginot Line". The ouvrage consists of two entry blocks and one infantry block facing Italy at the top of the Col des Banquettes, 2 km northwest of Saint-Agnès. The position controlled the pass of the same name and was covered by Ouvrage Sainte-Agnès and the positions at Pic-de-Garuche.
Description
The Ouvrage Col des Banquettes was manned in 1940 by 74 soldiers of the 86th Brigade Alpin de Forteresse (DBAF) under Lieutenant Vernet. The underground portion consists of one short gallery connecting all three blocks and a shorter parallel gallery at Block 2.
Block 1 (entry): One machine gun embrasure.
Block 2 (emergency exit): No armament.
Block 3 (emergency exit): one machine gun turret and two twin machine gun embrasures.
See also
List of Alpine Line ouvrages
References
Bibliography
Allcorn, William. The Maginot Line 1928-45. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2003.
Kaufmann, J.E. and Kaufmann, H.W. Fortress France: The Maginot Line and French Defenses in World War II, Stackpole Books, 2006.
Kaufmann, J.E., Kaufmann, H.W., Jancovič-Potočnik, A. and Lang, P. The Maginot Line: History and Guide, Pen and Sword, 2011.
Mary, Jean-Yves; Hohnadel, Alain; Sicard, Jacques. Hommes et Ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot, Tome 1. Paris, Histoire & Collections, 2001.
Mary, Jean-Yves; Hohnadel, Alain; Sicard, Jacques. Hommes et Ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot, Tome 4 - La fortification alpine. Paris, Histoire & Collections, 2009.
Mary, Jean-Yves; Hohnadel, Alain; Sicard, Jacques. Hommes et Ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot, Tome 5. Paris, Histoire & Collections, 2009.
External links
Col des Banquettes (petit ouvrage) at fortiff.be
COLG
Maginot Line
Alpine Line
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László Menyhárth (30 May 1849 – 16 November 1897 in Boroma, South Africa) was a Hungarian missionary and botanical collector.
He studied theology and philosophy in Innsbruck, later serving as a gymnasium teacher in Kalocsa. Here he conducted investigations of the local flora. From around 1890, he worked as a missionary in southern Africa, from where he also performed meteorological observations and collected botanical specimens. Plants collected in Africa were sent to Swiss botanist Hans Schinz for further examination.
Published works
Kolocsa vidékének növénytenyészete, 1877 – Botany of the Kolocsa environs.
Meteorologische Beobachtungen, angestellt zu Boroma in Süd-Afrika im Jahre 1891 und 1892 (with Julius Fényi), 1896 – Meteorological observations, from Boroma, South Africa 1891/1892.
Meteorologische Beobachtungen zu Boroma und Zumbo in Südafrika in den Jahren 1893–1897 (with Julius Fényi), 1905 – Meteorological observations, from Boroma and Zumbo, South Africa 1893–97.
Plantae Menyharthianae : ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Flora des unteren Sambesi (with Hans Schinz), 1905 – "Plantae Menyhartianae", a contribution to the knowledge of flora of the lower Zambezi area.
References
1849 births
1897 deaths
19th-century Hungarian botanists
Hungarian Christian missionaries
Christian missionaries in South Africa
Hungarian expatriates
Missionary botanists
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The White Earth River is a tributary of the Wild Rice River of northwestern Minnesota in the United States. Via the Wild Rice River, the Red River of the North, Lake Winnipeg, and the Nelson River, it is part of the Hudson Bay watershed. It rises at the outlet of White Earth Lake and flows northwest through Mahnomen County, joining the Wild Rice River just east of the city of Mahnomen.
See also
List of rivers of Minnesota
References
Minnesota Watersheds
USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Minnesota (1974)
Rivers of Minnesota
Tributaries of Hudson Bay
Rivers of Mahnomen County, Minnesota
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Kaithamukku is a neighbourhood in the city of Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), India. Kaithamukku is home of the Trivandrum Passport Office.
Kaithamukku is a busy residential and commercial area in Thiruvananthapuram. It is bordered by Pulimoodu on the east, Fort on the south, Pettah on the north, and Palkulangara on the west. It is around 1.5 km from Trivandrum Central railway station and KSRTC bus stand, and 1.0 km from East Fort and 2 km from Statue Junction. The international airport is 3 km away. The Trivandrum Passport Office (Old) and Karalkada, Ideal home appliances are the major landmarks. A district court, police station, and collectorate are within 500 metres.
Suburbs of Thiruvananthapuram
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A Night with the Jersey Devil is a song by the American rock singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen.
The song was released as a download-only single, accompanied by a video, on October 31, 2008, as a "Halloween treat" on the artist's website. This release featured a handwritten note by Springsteen:
Dear Friends and Fans, if you grew up in central or south Jersey, you grew up with the "Jersey Devil." Here's a little musical Halloween treat. Have fun! - Bruce Springsteen
The video is included the deluxe edition DVD of Springsteen's Working on a Dream album, released in 2009. It is a blues tune with bullet mic vocals, including portions of the Gene Vincent 1958 song "Baby Blue" (specifically, one verse – featured here as the last verse), and therefore Springsteen shares the song's writing credits with the two co-writers of "Baby Blue", Robert Jones and Gene Vincent.
Springsteen's lyrics tell the story of a legendary creature known as the "Jersey Devil"; in 1735 a woman called "Mother Leeds" gave birth to her 13th child, who metamorphosed into an evil creature with bat wings, forked feet and a horse's head; because of this, his parents threw him in a river where he drowned and now haunts the Pine Barrens in New Jersey.
The song was released on 7" vinyl along with "What Love Can Do" on April 18, 2009, as part of the Record Store Day promotion.
References
External links
A Night With The Jersey Devil Lyrics
Gene Vincent singing "Baby Blue"
Official Robert Jones website
Official Bruce Springsteen website
Bruce Springsteen songs
Songs written by Bruce Springsteen
2008 songs
Jersey Devil in fiction
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