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HMS Colchester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at King's Yard in Harwich by John Barnard according to the dimensions specified in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 14 August 1744.
Shipwreck
After being commissioned under Captain Frederick Cornewall, Colchester took aboard a pilot to guide the ship out of the Nore anchorage and on to the Downs. Sailing on Sunday 21 October 1744, the ship ran aground between Long Sand and the Kentish Knock, and became stuck in weather that was 'not at all tempestuous.' A boat was sent back to the shore the following morning for help, and whilst the crew waited for it to return, another ship from the Nore arrived to offer assistance, having heard Colchester's cannons being fired in a signal of distress. The would-be rescuer was however kept from the stricken ship by the wind.
In the afternoon of Monday 22 October, the fore and mizzen masts were cut away in an effort to prevent the ship working herself to pieces. This was deemed insufficient, for Captain Cornewall had the ship scuttled. That evening the main mast was also cut away as it was feared the ship might overset. With water now filling the ship, the crew were crammed onto the weather decks and bowsprit; on Tuesday morning lots were drawn to decide who could use the ship's longboat to get to safety. In spite of this, the ship's surgeon and 30 others took the longboat whilst the crew were drawing their lots; the boat subsequently sank, drowning 13. Four others who had jumped for the boat but missed were also drowned.
The boat Colchester had sent away in the morning of 22 October returned with six fishing vessels on 23 October, but they were unable to come to the ship's aid until the following morning when the sea, which had worked up a little overnight, had calmed again. The captain and 365 men were saved; approximately 40 men and one lieutenant were lost in total.
The court-martial for the loss of Colchester was h
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Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe is a former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, having been appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009. (She was the first ambassador following the referent UN body changing from the predecessor United Nations Commission on Human Rights.) After serving her term as ambassador, Donahoe was appointed as Director of Global Affairs for Human Rights Watch. In 2014, she was also appointed to the board of International Service for Human Rights. She is also an affiliate of Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation, a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Executive Director of the Global Digital Policy Incubator at the Freeman Spogli Institute's Cyber Policy Center working at the intersection of governance, technology and human rights.
Education
Donahoe holds a bachelor's degree in American Studies from Dartmouth College, and she received her JD and master's degree in East Asian Studies from Stanford. She also earned a master's degree in Theological Studies from Harvard University, and a PhD in Ethics and Social Theory from the Graduate Theological Union, an affiliate of University of California, Berkeley.
Career
Donahoe's professional career began in litigation, with the law firm Fenwick & West in Silicon Valley, where she worked as a technology litigator. For a time, she served as a law clerk for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and Judge William H. Orrick Jr.
In 2006 she published her PhD dissertation on the topic of Humanitarian Military Intervention. The dissertation addressed conflicting moral imperatives versus the rule of law justifications associated with military intervention during humanitarian crises.
Other areas of interest for her research include the connection between US foreign policy and human rights for The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First), and stra
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A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented secondary school.
The original purpose of medieval grammar schools was the teaching of Latin. Over time the curriculum was broadened, first to include Ancient Greek, and later English and other European languages, natural sciences, mathematics, history, geography, art and other subjects. In the late Victorian era grammar schools were reorganised to provide secondary education throughout England and Wales; Scotland had developed a different system. Grammar schools of these types were also established in British territories overseas, where they have evolved in different ways.
Grammar schools became one of the three tiers of the Tripartite System of state-funded secondary education operating in England and Wales from the mid-1940s to the late 1960s, and continue as such in Northern Ireland. After most Local Education Authorities moved to non-selective comprehensive schools in the 1960s and 1970s, some grammar schools became fully independent schools and charged fees, while most others were abolished or became comprehensive (or sometimes merged with a secondary modern to form a new comprehensive school). In both cases, some of these schools kept "grammar school" in their names. More recently, a number of state grammar schools still retaining their selective intake gained academy status, meaning that they are independent of the Local Education Authority (LEA). Some parts of England retain forms of the Tripartite System, and a few grammar schools survive in otherwise comprehensive areas. Some of the remaining grammar schools can trace their histories to before the 15th century.
History
Medieval grammar schools
Although the term scolae grammaticales was not widely used until the 14th century, the earliest such schools appeared from the sixth c
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Citioica is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae.
Species
The genus includes the following species:
Citioica anthonilis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854) — Ecuador, Mexico
Citioica guyaensis Brechlin & Meister, 2011
Citioica homonea (Rothschild, 1907) — Ecuador
Citioica rubrocanescens Brechlin & Meister, 2011
References
Citioica at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Ceratocampinae
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Nitroethane is an organic compound having the chemical formula C2H5NO2. Similar in many regards to nitromethane, nitroethane is an oily liquid at standard temperature and pressure. Pure nitroethane is colorless and has a fruity odor.
Preparation
Nitroethane is produced industrially by treating propane with nitric acid at 350–450 °C. This exothermic reaction produces four industrially significant nitroalkanes: nitromethane, nitroethane, 1-nitropropane, and 2-nitropropane. The reaction involves free radicals, such as CH3CH2CH2O., which arise via homolysis of the corresponding nitrite ester. These alkoxy radicals are susceptible to C—C fragmentation reactions, which explains the formation of a mixture of products.
Alternatively, nitroethane can be produced by the Victor Meyer reaction of haloethanes such as chloroethane, bromoethane, or iodoethane with silver nitrite in diethyl ether or THF. The Kornblum modification of this reaction uses sodium nitrite in either a dimethyl sulfoxide or dimethylformamide solvent.
Uses
Via condensations like the Henry reaction, nitroethane converts to several compounds of commercial interest. Condensation with 3,4-dimethoxybenzaldehyde affords the precursor to the antihypertensive drug methyldopa; condensation with unsubstituted benzaldehyde yields phenyl-2-nitropropene, a precursor for amphetamine drugs. Nitroethane condenses with two equivalents of formaldehyde to give, after hydrogenation, 2-amino-2-methyl-1,3-propanediol, which in turn condenses with oleic acid to give an oxazoline, which protonates to give a cationic surfactant.
Like some other nitrated organic compounds, nitroethane is also used as a fuel additive and a precursor to Rocket propellants.
Nitroethane is a useful solvent for polymers such as polystyrene and is particularly useful for dissolving cyanoacrylate adhesives. In cosmetics applications, it has been used as a component in artificial nail remover and in overhead ceiling sealant sprays.
Nitroethane
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Henry Einspruch (born Khaim-Yekhiel Aynshprukh in Tarnów, Galicia, 27 December 1892 – 4 January 1977), was a Galician-born Jew who converted to Lutheranism, becoming a Messianic missionary affiliated with the Hebrew Christian movement. Einspruch translated Christian literature into Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish, Russian, and English. His most notable work was a translation of the Christian New Testament into Yiddish.
Early life
His father Mendel was a scholar, an iron merchant, and a Santser Hassid. His mother Mirl was the daughter of the cantor of the main synagogue in the city of Jarosław. As a teenager, Einspruch was drawn to Christianity. Raised in a Yiddish-speaking home, he was a yeshiva student who studied under the rabbi of Barnov. Einspruch attended a Baron Hirsch School and the Tarnów High School. Along with other Jewish socialists, Einspruch was active in the Poale Zion movement and helped organize a strike of clerks, tailors, and teachers at religious elementary schools. He began his literary career in 1908-1909, working as the Tarnów correspondent for Poale Zion's magazine Der Yidisher Arbeyter (The Jewish Worker). In 1909, at the age of 17, he made aliyah to Ottoman Palestine and worked at Merhavia, a moshav in Galilee. In 1911, he immigrated to the Khedivate of Egypt. After living in Egypt, he returned to Poland and converted to Christianity under the guidance of the Jewish-born Messianic missionary Khayem (Lucky) Yedidiah Pollak. By 1913, he had immigrated to the United States and lived in Cleveland and New York City, working at a restaurant and an iron factory. Moving to Chicago, he studied at Moody Bible Institute and graduated in 1916; he also studied at McCormick Theological Seminary. He moved to Baltimore in 1920 and studied at Johns Hopkins University.
Career as Christian missionary
in 1923, Einspruch founded the Salem Hebrew Lutheran Mission in East Baltimore, located at the intersection of South Caroline and East Baltimore streets in Baltimore'
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This is a list of seasons completed by the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. It documents the team's season-by-season records, including postseason records, and also includes year-end awards won by the team's players and/or coaches.
With seventeen NBA Championships, the Celtics are tied with the Los Angeles Lakers for the most amongst all NBA franchises, while the 1959-to-1966 domination of the NBA Championship, with eight straight titles, is the longest consecutive championship winning streak of any major professional sport team to date. Following this, the Celtics had two major periods of success separated by quite poor seasons during rebuilding. Between 1971–72 and 1975–76 the Celtics, led by Dave Cowens and John Havlicek, won 294 of 410 regular season games and reached the conference finals in each of those five seasons, winning two more NBA championships, whilst between 1979–80 and 1987–88 led by the frontcourt of Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish the Celtics won 550 of 742 regular season games and reached every Conference Final except for 1982–83 when they were swept in the conference semifinals by the Milwaukee Bucks. The Celtics have had 13 separate seasons where they won 60 or more regular season contests, the highest number for any franchise.
Between 1993–94 and 2006–07 the Celtics had their single sustained period of failure, with an overall win percent of and only twice getting beyond the first playoff round. With the acquisition of Kevin Garnett for 2007–08, the Celtics achieved a record single-season rise in win percentage to claim their first title in twenty-two seasons, in the process achieving the best average point differential between the 1995–96 Bulls and the 2015–16 Warriors. The team remained a power until after the 2011 lockout, but lost to the Warriors in their most recent Finals appearance.
The Celtics are 27–9 all-time in seventh games of playoff series, and 7–1 in Game 7 of the NBA Finals.
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Chauncey Thomas Kirby (October 15, 1871 – October 23, 1950) was a Canadian ice hockey player in the 1890s for the Ottawa Hockey Club of the Ontario Hockey Association and Amateur Hockey Association of Canada (AHAC). He was a member of the three-time Ottawa champions from 1891 to 1893. He played in the original Stanley Cup playoff Final in 1894, and scored the contest's first goal. His brother Halder also played for the club. He was part of two Stanley Cups with the Ottawa club in 1903 and 1904 as a Director.
Personal life
Kirby was born in Ottawa in 1871, the second-youngest of seven children born to Thomas Halder and Mary Kirby (née Graham), British/Irish immigrants to Canada. There were four boys, Chauncey, Halder, Richmond and Lincoln (died in infancy) and three girls, Elizabeth, Emma and Laura. Thomas is listed in the 1872 census as a bank manager, and in the 1881 census as a city foreman.
Career
Chauncey Kirby joined the Ottawa HC in 1890 and played six seasons for the club, and was elected captain for the 1895–96 season. He played again for the club in 1898-99 before retiring. He became a referee after retiring. He would be the referee of record for the 1908 Stanley Cup challenge between the Winnipeg Maple Leafs and the Montreal Wanderers.
See also
1903 CAHL season
1904 CAHL season
References
Ottawa Senators (original) players
Ice hockey people from Ottawa
1871 births
1950 deaths
Canadian ice hockey forwards
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The Literary and Historical Society of Quebec (LHSQ) was the first historical society, and one of the first learned societies, in Canada. It was founded in 1824 by George Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie, governor of British North America. Its headquarters are still located in Quebec City.
After several moves and two fires, the Society settled into the northern wing of Quebec City's Morrin College in 1868. The College closed at the turn of the 20th century but the Society stayed on, eventually taking over the entire building in 2004.
The Society's original aims were encyclopaedic, being founded in the infancy of Canada's cultural and intellectual development. The Society gathered historical documents about Canada and republished many rare manuscripts. Research in all fields of knowledge was actively encouraged. Talks were held in the Society's reading room, the best of which were published regularly in a quasi-annual series of Transactions from 1824 to 1924.
Over the years, the Society played a part in creating public institutions that would take over many of its traditional roles. For instance, it fostered the foundation of the Public Archives of Canada (today's Library and Archives Canada) in 1872. It was also active in the preservation of Canada's built and natural heritage, helping to save the Plains of Abraham from developers and eventually fostering the creation of the Historic Sites and Monuments board of Canada.
With the growth of national public institutions, the Society's activities gradually became centred on the services of its private lending library, providing access to English-language books in a largely French-speaking city.
In the 1990s, the Society reassessed its mission and sought to expand its cultural services to Quebec City's small English-speaking community. In 2000, it took on the Morrin Centre project, which restored the 200-year-old historic site it is housed in to create an English-language cultural centre in Quebec City.
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Spring Grove is a town in Wayne Township, Wayne County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 344 at the 2010 census.
Geography
Spring Grove is located at (39.847281, -84.890433).
According to the 2010 census, Spring Grove has a total area of , of which (or 99.69%) is land and (or 0.31%) is water.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 344 people, 117 households, and 77 families living in the town. The population density was . There were 133 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 89.2% White, 5.5% African American, 1.2% Asian, and 4.1% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.9% of the population.
There were 117 households, of which 24.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.3% were married couples living together, 12.0% had a female householder with no husband present, 2.6% had a male householder with no wife present, and 34.2% were non-families. 30.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.17 and the average family size was 2.70.
The median age in the town was 58.4 years. 15.4% of residents were under the age of 18; 3.8% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 15.5% were from 25 to 44; 24.7% were from 45 to 64; and 40.7% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the town was 42.4% male and 57.6% female.
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 386 people, 132 households, and 86 families living in the town. The population density was . There were 137 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 94.82% White, 2.85% African American, 1.55% Asian, 0.26% from other races, and 0.52% from two or more races.
There were 132 households, out of which 18.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.3% were married couples living together, 8.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and
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"So Fine" is a 1982 soul/dance single by Howard Johnson, former lead singer of Niteflyte. The single made it to number one on the dance charts for one week. "So Fine" peaked at number six on the soul singles chart, but failed to make the Hot 100. Fonzi Thornton provided vocals on the single. A music video for the single featured dancers that also appeared on Soul Train and Solid Gold.
In September 1982, the single reached number 45 in the UK Singles Chart. It remained on the chart for 6 weeks.
Track listing
12" vinyl
US: A&M / SP-12048
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
1982 singles
1982 songs
Songs written by Kashif (musician)
A&M Records singles
Songs written by Paul Laurence
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Fairport is an unincorporated community in northeastern DeKalb County, Missouri, United States. The community is part of the St. Joseph, MO–KS Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Fairport is located at the intersection of Missouri Routes A and E approximately nine miles north of Maysville.
A post office called Fairport was established in 1869, and remained in operation until 1965. The community was named for the fair surroundings of the original town site.
References
Unincorporated communities in DeKalb County, Missouri
St. Joseph, Missouri metropolitan area
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
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Southside High School is a 5A public high school in the Southside Independent School District of San Antonio, Texas (United States). Southside High School serves the far south side of the city of San Antonio. In 2015, the school was rated "Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency.
Athletics
The Southside Cardinals compete in the following sports:
Baseball
Basketball
Cross Country
Football
Golf
Powerlifting
Soccer
Softball
Track and Field
Volleyball
The golf team have won consecutive district titles. The boys won in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, and 2012. The girls won in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013.
Activities
Band
The Southside marching band, also known as the Mighty Cardinal Band, has around 100 members. It was also one of the featured bands for Battle of the Bands 2014 for its 2013-2014 show "Conquistador".
References
External links
Southside ISD
Educational institutions established in 1950
High schools in San Antonio
Public high schools in Bexar County, Texas
1950 establishments in Texas
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Quesnelia augustocoburgii is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae, endemic to Brazil (the states of Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro). It was first described by Heinrich Wawra von Fernsee in 1880. It is found in the Atlantic Forest ecoregion of southeastern Brazil. The name is sometimes spelt with a hyphen as Quesnelia augusto-coburgii.
See also
References
augustocoburgii
Endemic flora of Brazil
Flora of the Atlantic Forest
Flora of Minas Gerais
Flora of Rio de Janeiro (state)
Plants described in 1880
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The Chur–Arosa railway line, also called the Arosabahn, Arosalinie, Aroserbahn or Aroserlinie (all meaning Arosa railway or line), is a Swiss metre-gauge railway line, which is owned and operated by the Rhaetian Railway (; RhB). It was built in 1914 by the Chur-Arosa-Bahn (; ChA) to connect the Grisons capital, Chur, with the spa town of Arosa. Since 1942, it has been integrated into the network of the Rhaetian Railway. The name of the former company is still used as a name for the line.
Route description
The branch line starts on the forecourt of Chur station, where the trains to Arosa use tracks 1 and 2, each adjoining an outside platform. A rail track connects to the Landquart–Thusis railway, although this is only used for the movement of rolling stock to and from the main Landquart workshop.
The railway traverses the urban area of Chur, initially on two tracks. This section is similar to a tramway and consists of grooved rails. At one point the line runs across a roundabout. After about half a kilometre, the line becomes single-track before crossing Grabenstrasse. Soon after, it reaches the right bank of the Plessur and a little later Chur Altstadt near the historic centre, which is now the only station on the line classified as a halt. Shortly before leaving Chur, the Sand depot and workshop is located on the left in the suburb of Sand. Today, it is used to store the vehicles of a track construction company, but part of it can still be used as a crossing loop.
The line leaves the roadway about 1.6 km later. For a few hundred metres, it now runs to the right of the road on Vignoles rails, until the line reaches the former halt of Chur-Sassal, which was abandoned in 2001. Immediately afterwards, the line crosses the Churs city limits from which the railway runs completely independently of the road as a mountain railway up the Schanfigg valley.
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Long Plain Cemetery is a historic cemetery at 19 Depot Road in Leverett, Massachusetts. The cemetery is located on the south side of the street about west of Leverett center. The cemetery, whose oldest documented burials date to 1781, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. Its burials include some of the town's early residents, and it remains in active use.
Description and history
Long Plain Cemetery (also known as Hillsboro Cemetery) is located about west of the Leverett Center, the town's main village center, on the south side of Depot Road east of its junction with Long Plain Road. The cemetery is roughly rectangular, with a picket fence around it. There is a vehicle gate near the western end of the cemetery, with a single lane providing access into its interior. Gravestones are generally set in rows, with the stones facing west. There are larger family plots near the cemetery's edges, and its oldest marked graves are on the eastern side.
Marked graves date from 1781 to the 2010s, and the cemetery continues in active use. Leverett was separated from Sunderland in 1774, and its establishment appears to date from that period. The oldest marked grave is that of Jonathan Field, one of the area's early settlers; it is possible that there are older unmarked graves as well. Significant burials, in addition to those of other early area settlers, include those of six of the town's Congregational ministers, and veterans of numerous military conflicts. The cemetery is presently owned and managed by the Leverett Cemetery Association, founded in 1910 to manage several of the town's older cemeteries.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Massachusetts
References
External links
Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Cemeteries in Franklin County, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Massachusetts
Leverett, Massachusetts
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2014–15 WBFAL was the third edition of Women Basketball Friendship Adriatic League. Participated five teams from three countries, champion became the team of Ragusa Dubrovnik.
Team information
Regular season
Final
External links
Season 2014-15 at eurobasket.com
2014–15
2014–15 in European women's basketball leagues
2014–15 in Bosnia and Herzegovina basketball
2014–15 in Croatian basketball
2014–15 in Montenegrin basketball
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Glazed carrots or candied carrots are a vegetable side dish in Europe and the United States made with carrots caramelized in butter and brown sugar, sometimes with the addition of an acidic ingredient like orange juice. It is considered a traditional food, similar to scalloped potatoes or dinner rolls. Some families in the United States serve it as a side for baked ham on Easter.
There are many ways to make glazed carrots. Most recipes for glazed carrots will begin by gently pre-cooking the carrots, either by steaming or some other method. For the classic recipe, the carrots are cooked in a thin butter and sugar syrup. In Europe this version is one of the popular vegetable sides for roasted poultry and game meats. In the United States, glazed carrots are often served with roast meats of any kind, especially Thanksgiving turkey.
Substitutions in the classic recipe can be made to reduce the saturated fat content, or trying different types of sugars, and additional flavors like citrus, mint or cinnamon. Longer cooking of carrots helps to caramelize their natural sugars and convert starches to dextrin. One method skips the added sugar by reducing the cooking liquid to a naturally sweet starch-thickened glaze.
Glazed carrots are not as common as they once were. Slate.com wrote of them: "Glazed carrots have a slightly fusty, mid-century vibe about them, as though they'd feel right at home sitting on a table next to meatloaf and Jell-O salad ... But they're hardly obsolete". Some scholars have noted that foods like "glazed carrots" and "scalloped potatoes" are frequently served at informal meals as vegetable sides for foods, such as "Hungarian goulash", that remain attached to certain ethnic identities while also part of American cuisine.
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Thanksgiving food
Carrot dishes
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The Poeciliini is a tribe of killifishes from the "livebearer" family Poeciliidae, consisting of six genera and just over 100 species.
Genera
The genera classified in this tribe are:
Limia Poey, 1854
Micropoecilia Hubbs, 1926
Pamphorichthys Regan, 1913
Phallichthys Hubbs, 1924
Poecilia Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Xiphophorus Heckel, 1848
References
Poeciliidae
Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte
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Cindy Wright is an artist who was born in Herentals, Belgium on November 29, 1972. She earned a Master in the Visual Arts (painting) from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) in 1996 and a laureate at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Antwerp in 2006. She currently lives and works in Antwerp.
She is best known for her large-scale paintings with a macabre twist, often described as photorealism. Untitled (Self-portrait) from 2008, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, demonstrates the artist's gritty, non-idealized style. The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation (Los Angeles), the Het Museum van Elsene (Brussels, Belgium), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Las Vegas Art Museum, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (Madison, Wisconsin), the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (California), and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) are among the public collections holding work by Cindy Wright.
Bibliography
Lumpkin, Libby, Cindy Wright, Paintings 2004-2006, Las Vegas Art Museum, 2006.
Mark Moore Gallery, Cindy Wright, Antwerp, Mark Moore Gallery, 2009.
Footnotes
External links
Cindy Wright in AskArt.com
1972 births
American women painters
Photorealist artists
People from Herentals
Living people
20th-century American painters
20th-century Belgian painters
20th-century American women artists
21st-century American painters
21st-century Belgian painters
21st-century American women artists
Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) alumni
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Diego Cabeza de Vaca (died 1625) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Crotone (1623–1625).
Biography
A native of the diocese of Seville (Hispalis) in Spain, he was a doctor of theology and a Canon of the cathedral Chapter of Tuy (Tudensis) in Spain. He served as Visitor General of the bishop of Segovia. Cabeza de Vaca was a follower of Cardinal Antonio Zapata y Cisneros, who was Viceroy of Naples from 1620 to 1622.
On 20 November 1623, Diego Cabeza de Vaca was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Crotone.
On 4 February 1624, he was consecrated bishop by Giovanni Garzia Mellini, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati, with Alessandro di Sangro, Archbishop of Benevento, and Agostino Morosini, Titular Archbishop of Damascus, serving as co-consecrators.
He served as Bishop of Crotone until his death in December 1625.
References
External links and additional sources
(for Chronology of Bishops)
(for Chronology of Bishops)
17th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
Bishops appointed by Pope Urban VIII
1625 deaths
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Quixey was a company located in Mountain View, California. Quixey search, which it called "functional", allowed apps to be searched for by the actions the app can perform instead of requiring the user to know the name of the app. In 2015, Quixey raised a $60 million investment round at a valuation of approximately $600 million. Quixey shut down in February 2017.
History
Quixey was co-founded in 2009 by Chief Strategy Officer (and former CEO) Tomer Kagan and Chief Science Officer Liron Shapira. The company spent a year and a half building the product.
On December 4, 2012, Quixey partnered with the federated search engine, Ask.com. A month later, the company claimed that it was powering nearly 100 million queries per month. On June 27, 2013, the company announced sponsored results, its first attempt at monetization.
In February 2016, several executives reportedly left Quixey as the company missed revenue targets.
The company shut down in February 2017.
Funding
At the same time as its private launch, Quixey announced its $400,000 seed round funding, led by Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors. In August 2011, the company closed its Series A round of funding, led by U.S. Venture Partners and WI Harper Group, with participation from Webb Investment Network and Innovation Endeavors. Between August 2011 and June 2012, when Quixey announced its Series B round of $20 million, the company grew from six employees to 30.
Partners
Quixey's partners included Ask.com, a federated search engine that in 2012 was reported to get 3% of all U.S.-based query volume. The company began powering Ask.com's app search on December 4, 2012. Quixey powered app search for Sprint on two products: Sprint Digital Lounge and Sprint Zone.
Quixey Challenge
Early on, Quixey built a coding challenge called Quixey Challenge to attract engineering talent. The contest asked participants to solve a bug in under one minute to win $100 and a Quixey t-shirt. In December 2011, the contest yielded 38 wi
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The 2014–15 Idaho State Bengals women's basketball team represented Idaho State University during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Bengals, led by seventh year head coach Seton Sobolewski, played ten of their home games at Reed Gym. They were members of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 13–17, 8–10 in Big Sky play to finish in a tie for eighth place. They failed to qualify for the Big Sky women's tournament.
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See also
2014–15 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team
References
Idaho State Bengals women's basketball seasons
Idaho State
Idaho State Bengals
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Bulgaria competed at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, Switzerland from 9 to 22 January 2020.
Medalists
Alpine skiing
Boys
Girls
Biathlon
Boys
Girls
Mixed
Cross-country skiing
Boys
Figure skating
Singles
Ice hockey
Mixed NOC 3x3 tournament
Boys
Nino Tomov
Girls
Maria Runevska
Luge
Boys
Short track speed skating
Boys
Snowboarding
Snowboard cross
Halfpipe, Slopestyle, & Big Air
See also
Bulgaria at the 2020 Summer Olympics
References
2020 in Bulgarian sport
Nations at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Bulgaria at the Youth Olympics
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Mickael Korvin is a Franco-American author and translator. He is the creator of a French spelling reform called "nouvofrancet", an extremely simplified orthography for French.
Works
Fluent in the English and French languages, Korvin has alternated between writing novels in French and English, and translating foreign texts into French. His early work, Le boucher du Vaccarès (1990) and Je, Toro (1991) revisited the nouveau roman in an attempt to break what Korvin saw as the reigning nostalgia in contemporary French letters. Korvin's translations include Iggy Pop's I Need More and 19th-century American anarchist Lysander Spooner's Vices Are Not Crimes. Korvin formerly worked in advertising and journalism, but subsequently became a full-time writer and linguist. He is also a dealer in antique toys and art brut from his stall in the les Puces flea-market in Saint-Ouen, northern Paris.
Spelling reform
In early 2012, Korvin published a novel, Journal d'une cause perdue, which formed part of his campaign (which he called 'korvinism') to abolish accents, capital letters and all punctuation from written language, specifically the French language. His campaign gained notoriety in France as a result of a promotional video Korvin filmed with Franco-Algerian rapper Morsay, during which the rapper threatened to sexually violate grammarian and member of the Académie française Érik Orsenna. During the video, Korvin called Orsenna a "dictator of grammar" who is "killing the French language." The video was filmed in Les Puces, a flea-market in the Saint-Ouen area of Paris. An article on the website of French culture magazine L'Express called Korvin's intervention "fleas against the Académie française" (Les puces contre L'Académie française), while the same article compared Korvin's stance in Journal d'une cause perdue to Queneau, Apollinaire, Perec and Tristan Tzara. An article in le Nouvel Observateur compared Korvin's stance on punctuation with those of Georges Perec, Mathias É
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The Conservatório Dramático e Musical de São Paulo (Musical and Dramatic Conservatory of São Paulo) was a conservatory for students of music in São Paulo, Brazil.
The Conservatory was founded on February 15, 1906, and inaugurated officially on March 12 of that year. In 1909 it moved to its last location on Avenida São João, downtown. Between 1981 and 1983 the building was renovated.
One of many post-secondary music schools in São Paulo, the Conservatory i
was known chiefly for its library of musical and dramatic scholarship, and its most famous alumnus, poet and musicologist Mário de Andrade, who studied piano and taught there for much of his life.
In 2009, due to many financial problems, the conservatory was closed. Its building will be a part of a new construction, the "Praça das Artes" (Art Square), which will be occupied by the artistic bodies of the Municipal Theater, its Schools of Music and Ballet, its museum and its technical center.
External links
Official website
Drama schools in Brazil
Music schools in Brazil
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is a Japanese athlete. She competed in the women's marathon event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, Qatar. She finished in 11th place. She also competed in the 2017 Tokyo Marathon and the 2018 Tokyo Marathon held in Tokyo, Japan.
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External links
1991 births
Living people
Japanese female long-distance runners
Japanese female marathon runners
Sportspeople from Osaka Prefecture
World Athletics Championships athletes for Japan
21st-century Japanese women
21st-century Japanese people
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The Utsubo Tennis Center is a tennis complex situated in the Utsubo Park, Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan. The complex was the host of the HP Open (WTA International tournaments) from 2009 through 2014. The stadium court has a capacity of 5,000 people, second court has a capacity of 500 people.
External links
Utsubo Tennis Center, wikimapia
List of tennis stadiums by capacity
[Utsubo Tennis Center] (Official page in Japanese language)
Tennis venues in Japan
Sports venues in Osaka
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Medhurst Green is a hamlet in Cheshire, England that forms part of the civil parish of Brereton. It consists mainly of two farms, Upper and Lower Medhurst Green Farm, which were also known as Meadowsgreen Farm and Lower Meadowsgreen Farm. The former is located on the A534 road about west of Congleton where a minor road towards the latter branches off in a northerly direction. The hamlet is served by a bus stop near Upper Medhurst Green Farm.
References
Villages in Cheshire
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Magna may refer to:
Companies
Magna (bicycle company)
Magna Corporation, an American public company
Magna Entertainment Corp., gaming and horse racing company
Magna Home Entertainment, entertainment distributor also known as Magna Pacific
Magna International, Canadian automotive supplier
Magna Publishing Group, American publisher of pornography
Magna Steyr, automobile manufacturer in Graz, Austria
Ancient Rome
Magnis (Carvoran), a now ruined Roman fort, also known as Magna, at Carvoran, Northumberland, UK
Leptis Magna, ancient Roman city in Libya
Plancia Magna (fl. 1st century CE), prominent woman from Anatolia during the Roman Empire
Other
Magna (moth), genus of the family Erebidae
Magna (paint), brand name of an acrylic resin paint
Magna, Utah
Mitsubishi Magna, automobile
Honda Magna, motorcycle
Magna cum laude, distinction with which an academic degree is earned
Magna Defender, character from the Power Rangers Lost Galaxy TV series
Marcus Magna (born 1988), French professional footballer
Magna Science Adventure Centre, educational visitor attraction in Rotherham, England
Magna (The Walking Dead), a fictional character from The Walking Dead
See also
MAGNA awards, Australian museum awards
Magnum (disambiguation)
Magnus (disambiguation)
Magnis (disambiguation)
Magna Carta (disambiguation)
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The Bangkok Art Biennale is a biennial contemporary art exhibition held in Bangkok, Thailand, following the biennale format. The event was first held in 2018, and features exhibits by local and international artists spread across multiple venues including temples, shopping malls and public spaces, held over a period of four months. It is directed by Apinan Poshyananda and sponsored mostly by private enterprises.
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Art biennials
Arts festivals in Thailand
Events in Bangkok
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Channelized in a telecommunications environment means that the line that communications have been transmitted over contains more than one message thread, separated in some fashion.
Typical channelization methods include packetizing, frequency-division multiplexing, and time-division multiplexing.
See also Channel (communications)
Communication circuits
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"I Thought About You" is a 1939 popular song composed by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
Background
It was one of three collaborations Van Heusen and Mercer wrote for the Mercer-Morris publishing company started by Mercer and former Warner Bros. publisher Buddy Morris. The other two were called "Blue Rain" and "Make with the Kisses". "I Thought About You" was by far the most popular of the songs.
The lyrics were inspired by Mercer's train trip to Chicago. The first line is literally: "I took a trip on a train." Mercer said about the song:
"I can remember the afternoon that we wrote it. He [Van Heusen] played me the melody. I didn't have any idea, but I had to go to Chicago that night. I think I was on the Benny Goodman program. And I got to thinking about it on the train. I was awake, I couldn't sleep. The tune was running through my mind, and that's when I wrote the song. On the train, really going to Chicago."
Mercer wrote other songs about trains, including "Blues in the Night" (1940) and "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (1946).
Recordings
Bob Berg – In the Shadows
Kenny Burrell with Coleman Hawkins – Bluesy Burrell (1962)
Uri Caine – Live at the Village Vanguard (2003)
Miles Davis – Someday My Prince Will Come (1961)
Stan Getz with Kenny Barron – Voyage
Benny Goodman with Mildred Bailey – 1939
Johnny Hartman - And I Thought About You (1959)
Billie Holiday with Bobby Tucker – Recital (1954)
Shirley Horn - I Thought About You (1987)
Branford Marsalis with Kenny Kirkland – Random Abstract
Carmen McRae – The Great American Songbook (1972)
Diane Schuur and Johnny Smith
Frank Sinatra – Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (1956)
David Bowie – "I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship" from Heathen (2002)
References
See also
List of 1930s jazz standards
1939 songs
1930s jazz standards
Songs with lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Songs with music by Jimmy Van Heusen
Mildred Bailey songs
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Colorvision may refer to:
Color vision, the ability of an organism or machine to distinguish objects based on the wavelengths (or frequencies) of the light they reflect, emit, or transmit.
Color Visión, a television network based in the Dominican Republic
Romtec Colorvision, an tabletop/handheld video game console from 1984
Color Vision, a 2020 album by Max Schneider
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The Australian–American Memorial is in Canberra, the national capital of Australia, and commemorates the help given by the United States during the Pacific War.
Background
In 1948 the Australian-American Association proposed "to establish a Memorial in Canberra in the form of a monument or statue, to perpetuate the services and sacrifices of the United States forces in Australia and to symbolise Australian-American comradeship in arms". After an appeal for finances by then Prime Minister of Australia, Sir Robert Menzies, the Australian people subscribed more than the eventual cost of £100,000, then a vast sum of money for such a public memorial (), indicating the gratitude of the nation. Additional memorials were constructed in Brisbane and Adelaide that used the surplus funds.
A committee, which included Richard Casey (then Minister for External Affairs and a former Australian Ambassador to the United States) and Sir Keith Murdoch, was formed to examine designs for the monument. Sydney architect, and World War 2 veteran, Richard M. Ure won the design following a nationwide competition. Work commenced in December 1952 and took just over a year.
As Vice President, Richard Nixon visited the site in the early stages of construction. It was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II on 16 February 1954. Among subsequent inspections by dignitaries, the completed memorial was viewed in October 1966 by President Johnson, during the first official tour of Australia by a sitting U.S. president.
Description
The memorial is a hollow, octagonal, tapered column with a steel framework sheeted with aluminium panels that were sandblasted to give the appearance of stone. Two murals feature at the base, one relating the story of American combat in the Pacific and the other a profile map of the United States in copper. The column is surrounded by a water-filled moat about wide. Under the dedication is a bronze wreath, carved by Walter Langcake, where floral wreaths are often laid on officia
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Weinmannia tomentosa, the encenillo, is a tree native of the highlands of the Andean region of Colombia, which belongs to the family Cunoniaceae. A synonym for Weinmannia tomentosa is Windmannia tomentosa.
Description
It is a large tree, with small light green leaves (), with white backside, and raquis with small wings of rhomboidal shape. alternated palmatilobulated (hand-shaped) leaves. The terminal branches are divided with thick nodes with similar shape to the human metacarpus. The flowers are small spicas (4–6 cm) creamy-white colored. Common names: encenillo, cáscaro, pelotillo.
Environmental position
Encenillo is one of the best adapted trees of the sub-páramo, growing between 2500–3300 meters of altitude. It is often associated with Dendropanax colombianus, Miconia spp., Macleania rupestris, Cavendishia cordifolia, Myrsine spp. and Clusia multiflora. Before the colonial period, encenillo tree was one of the dominant species in the andean forests.
Some similar species are: Bogotan encenillo (Weinmannia bogotensis), wide-leaved encenillo (Weinmannia karsteniana), thick-leaved encenillo (Weinmannia auriculifera), round-leaved encenillo (Weinmannia rollotii) and mirth encenillo (Weinmannia myrtifolia).
Uses
The encenillo tree is used as source of tanning substances for the leather industry, giving to the leather a beautiful reddish color. The wood is very appreciated in the timber industry and is used for cooking in the traditional preparation of the cheese arepas.
References
External links
secretariadeambiente.gov: Ecosystem restoration Flora
tomentosa
Endemic flora of Colombia
Flora of the Andes
Trees of Colombia
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"Active class" may refer to:
, a class of eight fifth-rate frigates operated by the British Royal Navy from 1780 to 1830
Active-class schooner, a class of six schooners operated by the United States Revenue Cutter Service from 1867 to 1874
, a class of three scout cruisers operated by the British Royal Navy from 1911 to 1920
, a class of 32 patrol boats operated by the United States Coast Guard from 1927 to 1978
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Discoid meniscus is a rare human anatomic variant that usually affects the lateral meniscus of the knee. Usually a person with this anomaly has no complaints; however, it may present as pain, swelling, or a snapping sound heard from the affected knee. Strong suggestive findings on magnetic resonance imaging includes a thickened meniscal body seen on more than two contiguous sagittal slices.
Description
The Watanabe classification of discoid lateral meniscus is: (A) Incomplete, (B) Complete, and C) Wrisberg-ligament variant Normally, the meniscus is a thin crescent-shaped piece of cartilage that lies between the weight bearing joint surfaces of the femur and the tibia. It is attached to the lining of the knee joint along its periphery and serves to absorb about a third of the impact load that the joint cartilage surface sees and also provides some degree of stabilization for the knee. There are two menisci in the knee joint, with one on the outside (away from midline) being the lateral meniscus and the inner one (towards midline) the medial meniscus. A discoid meniscus is a congenital anomaly of the knee found in 3% of the population (up to 15% in Asia). It typically affects the lateral meniscus and may be found bilaterally (20%). Instead of the narrow crescent shape, as seen in a normal meniscus above, a discoid meniscus is thickened, and has a fuller crescent shape. In addition, a discoid meniscus does not taper as much towards the center of the joint and is shaped like a disc. The thickness of the meniscus, its diminished vascular blood supply, and in some instances, weak capsular attachment, makes it more prone to tears compared to a normal meniscus. The anomaly in itself is asymptomatic; however, a tear of the meniscus can result in pain, swelling, and snapping in the affected knee. The orthopedic classification of discoid menisci includes: complete, incomplete or Wrisberg-ligament types as depicted here. Coverage of the lateral tibial plateau determines the
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Gleichen was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1905 to 1963.
History
Gleichen was one of the original 25 electoral districts contested in the 1905 Alberta general election upon Alberta joining Confederation in September 1905. The electoral district was merged with Drumheller prior to the 1963 Alberta general election to form the short lived Drumheller-Gleichen electoral district.
The district was named after the town of Gleichen, Alberta, that is situated north of Siksika Nation.
Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)
Election results
1905 general election
1906 by-election
1909 general election
1910 by-election
1911 by-election
1913 general election
1917 general election
1921 general election
1926 general election
1930 general election
1935 general election
1940 general election
1944 general election
1948 general election
1952 general election
1955 general election
1959 general election
Plebiscite results
1948 Electrification Plebiscite
District results from the first province wide plebiscite on electricity regulation.
1957 liquor plebiscite
On October 30, 1957 a stand-alone plebiscite was held province wide in all 50 of the then current provincial electoral districts in Alberta. The government decided to consult Alberta voters to decide on liquor sales and mixed drinking after a divisive debate in the Legislature. The plebiscite was intended to deal with the growing demand for reforming antiquated liquor control laws.
The plebiscite was conducted in two parts. Question A asked in all districts, asked the voters if the sale of liquor should be expanded in Alberta, while Question B asked in a handful of districts within the corporate limits of Calgary and Edmonton asked if men and woman were allowed to drink together in establishments. Question B was slightly modified depending on which city the voters were in.
Province wide Question A of th
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The Guts and Glory series is a four-book series written by Ben Thompson between 2014 and 2017. The series is written to appeal to children between the ages of eight and twelve, and focuses on violent and dramatic events. The books are all illustrated by C.M. Butzer.
Guts & Glory: The American Civil War
On October 28, 2014, Thompson came out with the first book of the series, entitled Guts & Glory: The American Civil War. In the book's 372 pages, he covers the whole war, in an unbiased perspective, highlighting the acts of bravery, the crazy moments, and crazy people.
School Library Journal said the book "ably covers major battles... in a roughly chronological order," Booklist points out its lack of bias by saying, "While each chapter covers a battle...this endeavor is not a greatest-hits recap," and Publishers Weekly says the "narrative effectively sketches the major causes of the conflict" and "brings to life" the various issues of the day.
Awards
A 2015 International Literacy Association Teachers' Choice
A 2015 National Parenting Publications Silver Winner
An Amazon Best Book of the Month
Guts & Glory: The Vikings
On June 9, 2015, Thompson came out with the second book: Guts & Glory: The Vikings. The book tells about the Viking way of life, their beliefs, their wars, and their pillaging. It also tells the reader about the heroes and villains of theses wars, from the man who stopped an army single-handedly to a cruel queen who burned people alive.
Guts & Glory: World War II
The third book, Guts & Glory: World War II came out on March 1, 2016. Starting from the Defense of Sihang Warehouse, the book tells about the major battles like Operation Barbarossa and D-day, while also telling the stories of the escape from the Sobibor death camp and Nancy Wake, besides others.
Guts & Glory: The American Revolution
The final book of the series came out on May 15, 2017, under the name Guts & Glory: The American Revolution. The book tells all about the American Revolut
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The Postal and Telecommunications Workers' Union was a trade union representing communication workers in Ireland.
The union was founded in 1923 when the Irish Postal Union merged with the Irish Postal Workers' Union and the Irish Post Office Engineering Union (IPOEU), and was initially named the United Postal Union. The union immediately affiliated with the Irish Trades Union Congress, and from the start worked closely with the British Union of Post Office Workers. The IPOEU was unhappy with the merger arrangements, and so it withdrew early on, to continue an independent existence. The union was soon renamed as the Post Office Workers' Union (POWU).
From 1924 to 1957, the union was led by William Norton, who for much of this time also served as leader of the Labour Party. Under his leadership, the union steadily grew, from 4,000 members in 1930, to 7,302 in 1960. The small Transferred Officers' Protection Association amalgamated with the union in 1930, and the Post Office Clerical Association joined in 1958.
The union became the Postal Telecommunications Workers' Union in 1984. In 1989, it merged into the Communications Union of Ireland, which renamed itself as the Communication Workers' Union.
General Secretaries
1924: William Norton
1957: William Bell
1966: Maurice Cosgrave
1973: Terry Quinlan
1985: David Begg
References
Trade unions established in 1923
Trade unions disestablished in 1989
Defunct trade unions of Ireland
Communications trade unions
1923 establishments in Ireland
1989 disestablishments in Ireland
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Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company was a British engineering company based on the River Tyne at Wallsend, North East England.
History
Charles Algernon Parsons founded the company in 1897 with £500,000 of capital. It specialised in building the steam turbine engines that he had invented for marine use. The first vessel powered by a Parsons turbine was Turbinia, launched in 1894. The successful demonstration of this vessel led to the creation of the company and the building of engines for the first two turbine-powered destroyers for the Royal Navy, and , launched in 1899. Although both these vessels came to grief, the new engines were not to blame, and the Admiralty was convinced. Parsons' son became a director in the company and was replaced during the First World War by his daughter Rachel Parsons.
Parsons turbines powered the Royal Navy's first turbine powered battleship, , and the world's first turbine ocean liners, and Virginian. Parsons turbines powered the Cunard express ocean liners and .
All early marine turbines drove their propellers directly. Parsons developed helical reduction gearing for marine turbines, and in 1908 converted the cargo ship to turbine propulsion with reduction gearing.
Four direct-drive Parsons turbines powered battleship . They were designed to produce a total of , but achieved only in Arizonas sea trials, when she met her designed speed of .
The Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Australian Navy used Parsons turbines on their destroyers. The s all used Parsons propulsion systems.
In 1944, Parsons was one of 19 companies which formed the 'Parsons and Marine Engineering Turbine Research and Development Association', usually known as Pametrada.
The destroyer , launched in 1964, had a Parsons propulsion system.
The Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth 2, launched in 1969, had Pametrada turbines.
The company was absorbed into C. A. Parsons and Company and survives in Heaton, Newcastle as part of Siemens, a German industria
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Diederimyces is a genus of fungi in the family Verrucariaceae. A monotypic genus, it contains the single species Diederimyces fuscideae.
The genus name of Diederimyces is in honour of Paul Diederich (b.1959) Luxemburg born mathematician and botanist (Mycology and Lichenology).
The genus was circumscribed by Javier Etayo Salazar in Nova Hedwigia Vol.61 (1-2) on page 190 in 1995.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
Verrucariales
Monotypic Ascomycota genera
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Magda Rurac (née Berescu;11 July 1918 – 9 May 1995) was a Romanian tennis player in the 1940s and 1950s.
Rurac was ranked in the top 10 in unofficial world rankings in 1948 and 1949. For that reason, she is considered by many to be one of the best female players to come out of Romania. She played for Romania's Federation Cup team. Despite being Romanian, she was ranked in the U.S. Top Ten during her stay in the country. She was ranked No. 9 in 1951.
At the tennis tournament in Cincinnati, Rurac reached seven finals: four in doubles and three in singles. She won the singles title in 1949 and was a finalist in 1950 and 1951. She won three titles in her four doubles finals appearances, with titles coming in 1948 (with Dorothy Head), 1949 (with Nancy Morrison) and 1950 (with Beverly Baker Fleitz). Her other doubles finals appearance was in 1951 (with Sue Herr).
She won the singles title at the U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships in 1948 and 1949.
Magda was married to Vinnie Rurac, who served as the tennis pro at the Concord Resort Hotel in Kiamesha Lake (in the upstate New York Catskill Mountains "Borscht Belt") during the 1970s.
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1918 births
1995 deaths
Romanian female tennis players
Romanian emigrants to the United States
Sportspeople from Oradea
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Becker's sign, or Becker's phenomenon, is the presence of visible (through an ophthalmoscope) pulsation of retinal arteries, found in patients with aortic insufficiency or Graves' disease.
The sign was named after Otto Heinrich Enoch Becker.
See also
Corrigan's pulse
De Musset's sign
Muller's sign
Quincke's sign
Traube's sign
Duroziez's sign
Hill's sign
Mayne's sign
References
Medical signs
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Pattukkottai Kalyanasundaram (13 April 1930 – 8 October 1959) also known as Pattukottaiyar was an Indian Tamil poet and lyricist. Considered to be one of the most popular Tamil lyricist of the 1950s. He is particularly remembered for the philosophy-tinged lyrics he penned for M. G. Ramachandran's movies.
Early life
He was born on 13 April 1930 in an agricultural family at Sengapaduthankadu village near the town of Pattukkottai. His parents were Arunachalam Pillai and Visalakshi Ammal. Arunachalam Pillai was a Tamil scholar and a folk poet. PKS had an elder brother, Ganapathisundaram, and a sister, Vedhanayaki. PKS never went to school, but had an in-born talent for poetry.
Career
PKS worked for Kuyil, a magazine run by Bharathidasan. He first wrote lyrics for a Tamil movie Paditha Penn. However, he achieved success as lyricist even before the release of Paditha Penn (which was released on 20 April 1956) when Maheswari, a film for which he penned five songs were released ahead on 13 November 1955. The music director for this movie was G. Ramanathan; C. V. Sridhar wrote the script and dialogue. The Kalyanasundaram–Sridhar combination proved to be successful again with the movie Kalyana Parisu. As detailed by director Sridhar's remembrance PKS wrote eight lyrics for this love triangle plot, all of which were successful.
PKS was very active and successful in the Tamil film industry during the years 1954–1959 and wrote around 250 songs , including several songs for two leading Tamil movie stars of that period – MGR and Sivaji Ganesan. List of movies, which feature PKS lyrics for the two actors:
MGR: 7 movies; Chakravarthi Thirumagal (1957), Mahadhevi (1957), Nadodi Mannan (1958), Arasilangkumari (1961), Thirudadhe (1961), Vikramaadhithan (1962) and Kalai Arasi (1963).
Sivaji Ganesan: 11 movies; Rangoon Radha (1956), Ambikapathi (1957), Pudhaiyal (1957), Makkalai Petra Magarasi (1957), Uthama Puthiran (1958), Padhi Bhakti (1958), Aval Yar ? (1959), Bhaaga Pirivinai
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Laughlin is an unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California. It is located on the Northwestern Pacific Railroad west-southwest of Potter Valley, at an elevation of 863 feet (263 m).
A post office operated at Laughlin for a time in 1892, and from 1903 to 1911. The name honors James H. Laughlin, Jr., a landowner.
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Unincorporated communities in California
Unincorporated communities in Mendocino County, California
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The Britannia class was the Cunard Line's initial fleet of wooden paddlers that established the first year round scheduled Atlantic steamship service in 1840. By 1845, steamships carried half of the transatlantic saloon passengers and Cunard dominated this trade. While the units of the Britannia class were solid performers, they were not superior to many of the other steamers being placed on the Atlantic at that time. What made the Britannia class successful is that it was the first homogeneous class of transatlantic steamships to provide a frequent and uniform service. , Acadia and Caledonia entered service in 1840 and Columbia in 1841 enabling Cunard to provide the dependable schedule of sailings required under his mail contracts with the Admiralty. It was these mail contracts that enabled Cunard to survive when all of his early competitors failed.
Cunard's ships were reduced versions of and only carried 115 passengers in conditions that Charles Dickens unfavourably likened to a "gigantic hearse". Mean 1840 – 1841 Liverpool - Halifax times for the quartette were 13 days, 6 hours westbound and 11 days, 3 hours eastbound. The initial four units were insufficient to meet the contracted sailings, and an enhanced unit, the Hibernia entered service in 1843. When Columbia was wrecked in 1843 without loss of life, Cambria was ordered to replace her.
In 1849 and 1850, the surviving original units along with Hibernia were sold to foreign navies after completing forty round trips for Cunard. Cambria remained in the Cunard fleet for another decade.
History and design
In his initial negotiations with Admiral Parry, Samuel Cunard contemplated a fortnightly service from Liverpool to Halifax and onto Boston using three steamers. This was 40% smaller than Great Western, which had just entered service from Bristol to New York. When completed, Cunard's ships grew to 1,150 GRT but were still 15% smaller than Great Western. The other steamships under construction for
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Ramkrishna Biswas (16 January 1910 – 4 August 1931) was an Indian revolutionary and martyr. He was an active member of Surya Sen's revolutionary group.
Early life
Biswas was born in Saroatali, Chittagong in British India. His father's name was Durga Kripa Biswas. In 1928, Biswas came first in an entrance examination among the district, later joining the revolutionary independence movement led by Master Da Surya Sen. In 1930, he was seriously wounded while preparing bombs.
Revolutionary activities and death
Surya Sen and his followers decided to assassinate one Mr. Craig, the Inspector General of Police for Chittagong. Biswas and Kalipada Chakrabarty were assigned to this task. On 1 December 1930, they went to Chandpur station, but mistakenly killed a rail inspector, Tarini Mukherjee, instead of Craig. Biswas and Chakravarty were arrested on 2 December 1930. Biswas's family and friends lacked the funds required to travel from Chittagong to Kolkata and visit him in Alipore Jail, Kolkata. At that time, another revolutionary nationalist Pritilata Waddedar was staying in Kolkata and was asked to meet Biswas. She was successful in pretending to be his sister, in order to gain access. Biswas' martyrdom later inspired Pritilata.
Biswas was sentenced to death after his trial. In the morning of 4 August 1931, he was executed at Alipore Central Jail. His accomplice, Kalipada Chakrabarty, was transported to the Cellular Jail on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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1931 deaths
Revolutionary movement for Indian independence
20th-century executions by the United Kingdom
Indian people convicted of murder
Executed Indian revolutionaries
People executed by British India by hanging
Indian independence activists from Bengal
People from Chittagong
1910 births
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Telax Hosted Call Center, is the trading name of Telax Voice Solutions Inc., formerly Telax Systems Inc. A privately held application service provider delivering automatic call distribution (ACD), self-service IVR, business intelligence tools and VoIP services, to a network of enterprises, government organizations, ISPs and other service providers across North America. Telax deploys its products based on the software as a service (SaaS) model, providing on-demand service generally priced by per-seat license. Telax is also a GSA Multiple Award Schedule contractor providing indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity IDIQ through the IT Schedule 70.
Telax's flagship product and namesake, Telax Hosted Call Center, is a cloud-based call center software application offering call management, virtual queuing, unified messaging, screen pops, call recording and other functionalities such as platform neutral Metaswitch and CRM services, Microsoft Lync, and Microsoft Dynamics integration. Telax is the first Certified Metaswitch Partner to offer a call center platform with social media integration. The add-on delivers Facebook Fan page messages, Instant Messaging, and Twitter replies through skills-based routing (SBR) using the Telax Call Center Agent software. Skype support allows users of the Telax platform to route and manage incoming calls received from Skype IDs.
History
Telax Voice Solutions Inc. was founded as Telax Systems Inc. by Mario Perez in 1997. In its early years, the company consulted on call center solutions for companies such as RBC, AT&T and Yak Communications Inc.
In April 2004, Telax Voice Solutions Inc. released Telax Hosted Call Center, a web-based call management solution targeted for private and public sector call center operators. Telax secured a contract with Industry Canada in 2005 and Health Canada in 2007. In July 2009, the U.S. General Services Administration renewed a contract with Telax for its Fleet Management Division.
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013NEWS is a South African provincial online newspaper, published by Mfiso Media in Mpumalanga. It was founded on 1 August 2016 to focus on Mpumalanga news, politics, government, local lifestyle and business. The site is developed by the Southern Sons Group.
The paper was named 2020's best Mpumalanga newspaper by MEA Markets during their African Excellence Awards
References
External links
Official website
013News Mpumalanga - Portfolio
Daily newspapers published in South Africa
South African companies established in 2016
Mass media companies of South Africa
Mass media companies established in 2016
Mass media in Mpumalanga
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The Mail, known as The Madras Mail till 1928, was an English-language daily evening newspaper published in the Madras Presidency (later Madras State, and then, Tamil Nadu) from 1868 to 1981. It was the first evening newspaper in India which is now operating as a news and media website.
History
The Madras Mail was started by two journalists, Charles Lawson and Henry Cornish on 14 December 1868. Lawson and Cornish had earlier served as editors in The Madras Times before resigning from editorship after a tiff-off with Gantz & Sons which owned the newspaper. Soon, the Madras Mail emerged as a formidable rival to both The Madras Times as well as The Hindu.
In 1921, the newspaper was purchased by European businessman John Oakshott Robinson who added it to his business conglomerate. In 1945, the newspaper was purchased by Indian business magnate S. Anantharamakrishnan and the paper was owned by Anantharamakrishnan and his family till its liquidation in 1981.
References
Further reading
English-language newspapers published in India
Defunct newspapers published in India
Mass media in Chennai
Madras Presidency
1868 establishments in India
1981 disestablishments in India
Newspapers established in 1868
Publications disestablished in 1981
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The Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Sierra Madre, California is an historic church that was built in 1888. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It is site #7 on Sierra Madre designated historical landmarks list. There are forty-eight properties listed on Sierra Madre's Designated Historical Properties List.
Current use
The Episcopal Church of the Ascension is still an active parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.
History
The Original 1885 Wooden Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Sierra Madre was destroyed by a windstorm in October 1887.
The church was used as a location in John Carpenter's 1980 horror movie The Fog.
See also
Episcopal Church of the Ascension (disambiguation)
Old North Church in Sierra Madre, California
References
External links
Church of the Ascension, Sierra Madre — website
Churches in Los Angeles County, California
Sierra Madre, California
Episcopal church buildings in California
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in California
Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles County, California
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The New York Metropolitans were a Major League Baseball team that played in New York City. They played in the American Association from 1883 through 1887. During their time as a Major League team, the Metropolitans employed five different managers. The duties of the team manager include team strategy and leadership on and off the field.
The Metropolitans' first manager was Jim Mutrie, also known as "Truthful Jim". Mutrie managed the team in 1883 and led them to a record of 54 wins and 42 losses. Mutrie also managed the Metropolitans for the 1884 season. In their second season, Mutrie led the Metropolitans to a record of 75 wins and 32 losses, which garnered them the American Association league title. The team went on to face the Providence Grays in the 1884 World Series, and lost three game to zero. The 19th century World Series was considered an exhibition contest between the champion of the National League and the champion of the American Association. After the 1884 season, Mutrie left to manage the New York Giants of the National League.
The Metropolitans' second manager was Jim Gifford. He joined the team for their third season in the American Association after having managed a portion of the 1884 Indianapolis Hoosiers, also of the American Association. In 1885, Gifford led the team to a record of 44 wins and 64 losses. Gifford continued to manage the Metropolitans for the 1886 season. But, after 17 games, and a 5 win and 12 loss start, Gifford was replaced with veteran manager Bob Ferguson. Ferguson became the team's third manager during their fourth season, and they were his eighth and last team he managed. Ferguson led the team to a record 48 win and 70 loss finish in 1886. Ferguson stayed with the team for the 1887 season, their fifth season as a franchise, but after a 6 win and 24 loss start, he was replaced with the teams' first baseman, Dave Orr, who became the player-manager. However, after eight games, and a record of 3 wins and 5 losses, he was al
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Nellie A. Goodhue (September 20, 1869 – July 19, 1957) made pioneering contributions to the education of handicapped and exceptional children. Working with the University of Washington Goodhue participated in studies to evaluate the background and educational abilities of children with special needs and conducted clinics to assist in the development of special classes.
Early life
Goodhue was born on September 20, 1869, in Northfield, Minnesota, the daughter of Daniel Goodhue (1832–1902) and Ellen E. Stanton Goodhue (1844–1909).
Career
She was director of the Child Study Department for the Seattle public schools and instructor for the Normal School.
In 1910 she taught the first class for Seattle students with mental disability. In 1912, working with the University of Washington, the Seattle Board of Education and the Cascade School, Goodhue participated in an extensive study on handicapped children evaluating their backgrounds, health status, learning abilities, motor skills, and other factors. Running extensive testing, the program was designed to develop training programs for disabled children and establish benchmarks for ongoing assessment. In an effort to share their information, Goodhue presented seminars to assist in the development of special education classes.
The needs of misfit pupils always interested her and when the Child Study Department of the Seattle public schools was organized, she became its first director in 1914. From 1916 to 1925 Goodhue led an unsuccessful campaign to establish a Western Washington Institution for the Feeble-minded. Because the Seattle School Board had a policy of excluding disabled students from public education, Goodhue campaigned for their inclusion and won the battle to include all students with IQs above 50. The department served 6,970 pupils during 1926–1927.
She was on the Board of Directors of the Local Chapter of the American Red Cross.
She was a member of the Soroptimist Club, State Association of the Executive
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The 23rd Dáil was elected at the February 1982 general election on 18 February 1982 and met on 9 March 1982. The members of Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas (legislature), of Ireland are known as TDs. On 4 November 1982, President Patrick Hillery dissolved the Dáil at the request of the Taoiseach Charles Haughey after the loss of a vote of confidence. The 23rd Dáil is the third shortest Dáil in history, lasting days.
Composition of the 23rd Dáil
Fianna Fáil, which formed the 18th Government of Ireland, is marked with a bullet ().
Graphical representation
This is a graphical comparison of party strengths in the 23rd Dáil from March 1982. This was not the official seating plan.
Ceann Comhairle
On the meeting of the Dáil, John O'Connell (Ind), who had served as Ceann Comhairle in the previous Dáil, was proposed by Neil Blaney (IFF) and seconded by Garret FitzGerald (FG) for the position. He was elected without a vote.
TDs by constituency
The list of the 166 TDs elected is given in alphabetical order by Dáil constituency.
Changes
See also
Members of the 16th Seanad
References
External links
Houses of the Oireachtas: Debates: 23rd Dáil
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The Olivetti company, an Italian manufacturer of computers, tablets, smartphones, printers and other such business products as calculators and fax machines, was founded as a typewriter manufacturer by Camillo Olivetti in 1908 in the Turin commune of Ivrea, Italy.
Olivetti was a pioneer in computer development, starting with the mainframe systems in the 1950s, and continuing into the 1990s with PC-compatible laptops and desktops.
History
1950–1960s
Between 1955 and 1964 Olivetti developed some of the first transistorized mainframe computer systems, such as the Elea 9003. Although 40 large commercial 9003 and over 100 smaller 6001 scientific machines were completed and leased to customers to 1964, low sales, loss of two key managers and financial instability caused Olivetti to withdraw from the field in 1964.
In 1965, Olivetti released the Programma 101, considered one of the first commercial desktop programmable calculators. It was saved from the sale of the computer division to GE thanks to an employee, Gastone Garziera, who spent successive nights changing the internal categorization of the product from "computer" to "calculator", so leaving the small team in Olivetti and creating some awkward situations in the office, since that space was now owned by GE.
1970s
In 1974, the firm released the TC800, an intelligent terminal designed to be attached to a mainframe and used in the finance sector. It was followed in 1977 by the TC1800.
1980s
Olivetti's first modern personal computer, the M20, featuring a Zilog Z8000 CPU, was released in 1982.
The M20 was followed in 1983 by the M24, a clone of the IBM PC using DOS and the Intel 8086 processor (at 8 MHz) instead of the Intel 8088 used by IBM (at 4.77 MHz). The M24 was sold in North America as the AT&T 6300. Olivetti also manufactured the AT&T 6300 Plus, which could run both DOS and Unix. The M24 was also sold as Xerox 6060 in the US, and as LogAbax PERSONA 1600 in France. The Olivetti M28 was the firm's first PC
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Duranbah Beach ( ), officially known as Flagstaff Beach, is the northernmost beach in New South Wales. Located in the Tweed Shire, Duranbah Beach is situated between the mouth of the Tweed River and the rocky headland Point Danger which also marks the Queensland-New South Wales border. The beach is 350 meters in length with vegetated dunes running along 200 metres.
The southern end of the beach features BBQs, sheltered picnic areas including a block of toilets and shower just behind it.
Duranbah Beach is well known by surfers for its surf break and large swell. It is recognised both nationally and internationally as having a powerful, high-quality surf break for both surfers and boogs (a boog getting a barrel shown in the image). Big surfing events have been staged there including the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast, the professional surfing contest which was held in conjunction with Snapper Rocks and the state, national and international bodyboarding contests.
Surf conditions
Duranbah Beach is popular for its surf conditions. The beach faces east, which exposes it to high wave energy and high longshore rates. The waves are predominantly from the south-easterly side; however, they can come from all seaward directions. The waves are on average 1.3 metres and have reached six metres in height during a king tide. There are often persistent rips and strong tidal currents which make the beach a potentially hazardous place to swim.
Local Beach History
In 1956 Jack Evans built the Snapper Rocks Sea Baths, with an adjacent shark pool for public viewing. The pools moved to the adjacent Tweed River mouth in 1961.
See also
List of beaches
Surfing in Australia
References
External links
Beaches of New South Wales
Tweed Heads, New South Wales
Surfing locations in New South Wales
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Coleophora fuscocuprella is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It is found from Fennoscandia to the Pyrenees, Italy, Albania and Romania and from Ireland to Russia.
The wingspan is . The head is shining dark bronzy-fuscous, and the antennae are dark fuscous; apical half white with dark fuscous rings, indistinct towards apex. The forewings are dark bronzy-fuscous, and the hindwings are dark grey.
There is one generation per year with adults on wing from mid-May to late June.
The larvae feed on alder (Alnus species), silver birch (Betula pendula), downy birch (Betula pubescens), European hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) and hazel (Corylus avellana). They create a lobe case with many small leaf fragments attached to it. The larvae are attached to the leaf underside, where they make a large number of relatively small fleck mines. Full-grown cases can be found in August and October. Pupation takes place in the case, usually attached to a trunk just above ground level.
References
External links
Coleophora fuscocuprella at UKMoths
fuscocuprella
Moths described in 1855
Moths of Europe
Taxa named by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer
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Vidin-Progresul is a neighborhood located in the NNE of Brăila, Romania roughly between "Calea Galaţi" (eastern boundary) and Izlaz (southern boundary).
History
Vidin-Progresul is a new area built over the existing neighborhood in the mid-to-late 1970s. Old houses have been demolished and new buildings, block-houses, have been erected instead. The large majority of the new inhabitants used to work on "Progresul" (nowadays called "Promex") industrial plant. Not all the old neighborhood was demolished, part of it still exists today near the main road "Calea Galati".
Population
Many of the people living here are old inhabitants, newcomers are in large majority peasants that were trained in professional schools to cope with industrial working requirements. The newcomers used to commute from their villages to Braila to get to work, but settled here as soon as the new block-houses have been finished.
Economic life
The major factory which resides into this area boundaries was "Progresul" ("The Progress" in English), it used to provide jobs for over 13.000 workers, man and women as well. The neighborhood prospered in the communist regime (new houses were built, new jobs were created, tram lines were introduced), then experienced a major fallback in the 1990s ("Progresul" plant was almost closed, producing thousands of unemployers), currently, after 2004, the economical life improved (a supermarket was opened, a small church was built, banks opened agencies, "Progresul" plant was split into parts and sold out creating few but new jobs).
Others
Schools:
Day nursery: 1
Kindergarten: 2
General school: School no. 11, "George Coşbuc" School (formerly known as no. 20), School no. 33
Highschool: "Constantin Brâncoveanu" High School (formerly "Progresul" Highschool)
Disambiguation: there are voices that argue that there is no Vidin-Progresul neighborhood, but two distinct neighborhoods, Vidin and Progresul.
References and notes
Brăila
Neighbourhoods in Romania
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Doman is a surname. It is of English Origin and means "doom-man" or judge.
Notable people with the surname include:
Amanda Doman (born 1977), Australian softball player
Brandon Doman (born 1976), American college football quarterback, coach and offensive coordinator
David Doman, American engineer
Cătălin Doman (born 1988), Romanian footballer
Jim Doman (1949–1992), American poker player
John Doman (born 1945), American actor
Willem Doman (born 1950), South African politician
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Giulio Masetti (died 2 September 1592) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Reggio Emilia (1585–1592).
Biography
On 7 October 1585, Giulio Masetti was appointed during the papacy of Pope Sixtus V as Bishop of Reggio Emilia.
On 13 October 1585, he was consecrated bishop by Giulio Antonio Santorio, Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all'Isola. He served as Bishop of Reggio Emilia until his death on 2 September 1592.
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Girolamo Bernerio, Bishop of Ascoli Piceno.
References
External links and additional sources
(for Chronology of Bishops)
(for Chronology of Bishops)
16th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
Bishops appointed by Pope Sixtus V
1592 deaths
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The Car of the Century (COTC) was an international award given to the most important car of the Twentieth Century. The election was run by the Global Automotive Elections Foundation. The winner was the Ford Model T. It was announced at an awards event on 18 December 1999 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The final results
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Automobiles
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Cibea is one of 54 parishes in Cangas del Narcea, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.
Villages
L'Abechera
Ḷḷamera
La Riela de Cibea
La Reguera'l Cabu
Sigueiru
Sonande
Surrodiles
Vaḷḷáu
Viḷḷar de los Indianos
Viḷḷeirín
References
Parishes in Cangas del Narcea
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Blocked is a 2009 puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod Touch made by Joel Rosenberg.
Development
The game was based on the puzzle game Rush Hour.
Game description
The player maneuvers around gray blocks until a blue rock can escape. Blocks can only move left and right or up and down. The game has 100 challenges in 20 levels: easy, medium, hard, harder, and hardest.
Reception
James Savager of Macworld noted that Blocked is the perfect puzzle game for those quick moments during the day when you've got some time to kill and need a puzzle to solve. Lew Reed of Slide To Play pointed to the game's simplicity as being crucial to its success.
References
Puzzle video games
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Andersons Primary School is a state run Primary school serving the town of Forres, Scotland.
History
In 1814 a local man by the name of Jonathan Anderson founded Anderson's Free School on the site of Forres House Community Centre. This later became Anderson's Institute, then Forres Academy before being converted to a Primary School in 1971. In 1926 the main teaching block of 13 Classrooms were built to supplement the original hall/gymnasium and 2 general purpose rooms.
Listed Status
The front block of Anderson Primary School which faces the high street has been a category B listed building since 1983
References
Primary schools in Moray
Forres
Listed schools in Scotland
Category B listed buildings in Moray
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Toivola Township is a township in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. At the 2010 census, the population was 170. Toivola is a name Finnish in origin.
Saint Louis County Highway 5 (CR 5) serves as a main route in Toivola Township.
CR 5 runs north–south through the middle of the township.
County Road 52 (Arkola Road) also passes through the eastern portion of the township.
The unincorporated community of Toivola is located within Toivola Township.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of ; is land and , or 0.38%, is water.
The Saint Louis River runs north–south through the middle of the township.
Sand Creek flows through the northwest portion of Toivola Township.
Adjacent townships, cities, and communities
The following are adjacent to Toivola Township :
Kelsey Township (east)
Meadowlands Township (southeast)
The city of Meadowlands (southeast)
Elmer Township (south)
Cedar Valley Township (west and southwest)
Janette Lake Unorganized Territory (northwest)
The unincorporated community of Silica (northwest)
Lavell Township (north)
McDavitt Township (northeast)
Unincorporated communities
Toivola
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 196 people, 75 households, and 54 families living in the township. The population density was 2.7 people per square mile (1.1/km). There were 95 housing units at an average density of 1.3/sq mi (0.5/km). The racial makeup of the township was 95.92% White, 1.02% Asian, 0.51% from other races, and 2.55% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.04% of the population.
There were 75 households, out of which 18.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.0% were married couples living together, 5.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.0% were non-families. 22.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household s
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A rhombic antenna is made of four sections of wire suspended parallel to the ground in a diamond or "rhombus" shape. Each of the four sides is the same length – about a quarter-wavelength to one wavelength per section – converging but not touching at an angle of about 42° at the fed end and at the far end. The length is not critical, typically from one to two wavelengths (λ), but there is an optimum angle for any given length and frequency. A horizontal rhombic antenna radiates horizontally polarized radio waves at a low elevation angle off the pointy ends of the antenna.
If the sections are joined by a resistor at either of the acute (pointy) ends, then the antenna will receive from and transmit to only the direction the end with the resistor points at. Its principal advantages over other types of antenna are its simplicity, high forward gain, wide bandwidth, and the ability to operate over a wide range of frequencies.
Description
A rhombic antenna consists of one to several parallel wires suspended above the ground in a "rhombus" (diamond) shape. Long versions are typically supported by a pole or tower at each vertex to which the wires are attached by insulators. Each of the four sides is the same length. The length is not critical, typically from one to two wavelengths (λ) end-to-end, but for any given length and frequency, there is an optimum acute angle at which the sections should meet.
A horizontal rhombic antenna radiates horizontally polarized radio waves at a low elevation angle off the acute end of the antenna opposite the feedline. Its principal advantages over other types of antenna are its simplicity, high forward gain and wide bandwidth, the ability to operate over a wide range of frequencies.
It is typically fed at one of the two acute (sharper angle) vertices through a balanced transmission line, or alternatively a coaxial cable with a balun transformer. The end of the wires meeting at the opposite vertex is either left open (unconnected), or
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Kral Turkey Music Awards (previously known as Kral TV Video Music Awards between 1995 and 2009, Kral Music Awards between 2009 and 2012, and Turkey Music Awards between 2013 and 2016) were the annual music awards in Turkey. The first awards were given in 1995. Award ceremony was held in Haliç Congress Center in last two years.
History
"Kral TV Video Music Awards" were first awarded in 1995. Until the mid-2000s it is considered one of the most prestigious awards of music in Turkey. After the mid-2000s it lost its popularity. In 2006 new categories announced such as Best poem or Best myth song for such attempt. But they were awarded one year only. In 2007 awards lost their prestige when news emerged about some of the winners changed in favor of some others.
After Kral group has been sold to Doğuş Media Group in 2008, the awards have gone under some refreshments. In 2009, its name was changed to "Kral Music Awards" and 7th Mü-yap Music Awards, IFPI Turkish branch, were given together. Starting from 2009 award categories changed to be more work-based like songs or albums, in the past years awards were mostly artist-specific. Such that 10 awards were awarded for songs or albums in 2013 while only 5 were awarded to artists or groups, In 1995 this was 12 artist/group awards and only 3 song/album awards.
In 2013 the awards changed as "Turkey Music Awards".
Categories
Best album
Best song
Best male artist
Best female artist
Best group
Best music video
Best project
Best remix song
Best new artist
Best TV series song
Best film song
Best duet
Best instrumental album
Best single
Best cover
Special awards:
Yekta Okur Award
Jury special award
Kral TV special award
Kral FM special award
Past awards:
In the past, there were categories for female/male artists for genres as Pop, Arabesque, THM, TSM, rock and protest. Now only Female/Male artists are awarded.
Best lyrics
Best compose
Best poem
References
External links
Kral TV
Turkish music awards
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The Bodstedter Bodden is a lagoon, of the type known as a bodden, that is part of the Darss-Zingst Bodden Chain and the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park in northeastern Germany. It lies south of the peninsula of Fischland-Darß-Zingst on the coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The heavily indented, reed fringed shoreline forms a picturesque landscape with the result that the villages near the shore are popular tourist destinations.
The western boundary of the bodden with the Koppelstrom forms the so-called Borner Bülten (Bulte i.e. small swampy, islands of reed). The Koppelstrom is the transition to another lagoon, the Saaler Bodden. To the east the Bodstedter Bodden is separated from the Barther Bodden and Zingster Strom by the Meiningen Narrows. To the south of the bodden is the lake of Redensee and the village of Fuhlendorf. To the northeast, the Prerower Strom, a former estuary, empties into the bodden. The deepest point of the bodden (10 metres in depth) lies just in front of the Meininger Bülten, the small reed islands by Meiningen. The rest of the bodden is only rarely deeper than 3 metres.
Villages on the Bodstedter Bodden
Born a. Darß
Fuhlendorf and the village of Bodstedt that gives the bodden its name.
Wieck a. Darß
External links
Darss-Zingst Bodden Chain
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Francesco Rondinelli (4 October 1589 – 30 January 1665) was a Florentine scholar and academic of the Seicento.
Biography
Francesco Rondinelli was born in Florence on October 4, 1589 to Raffaello and Ortensia Rondinelli. He studied at the University of Pisa. Rondinelli was a prominent member of the Accademia Fiorentina and of the Accademia della Crusca. He participated in the drafting of the third edition of the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca (Vocabulary of the Members of the Accademia della Crusca, 1691). Rondinelli was also a member of the Accademia degli Svogliati, founded in Florence by Jacopo Gaddi, and of the Accademia degli Apatisti. In 1635, Ferdinando II de' Medici awarded him the position of Librarian of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and appointed him tutor to the future Grand Duchess, Vittoria della Rovere. Rondinelli was a close friend of Alessandro Adimari, Gabriello Chiabrera, Fulvio Testi, Carlo Roberto Dati and Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger. He devised the programme for Pietro da Cortona's fresco cycle in the so-called Planetary Rooms at Palazzo Pitti.
Works
Rondinelli's masterpiece is the Relazione del Contagio Stato in Firenze l'anno 1630 e 1633, an account of the epidemic that struck Florence in the early 1630s. The work was commissioned to Rondinelli by the Grand Duke Ferdinando II and is based official records and interviews with survivors. A carefully crafted narrative written in an elegant Italian prose, the Relazione was first published in 1634 and reissued in 1714. The second edition contained additional material on all the major epidemics which had occurred throughout the world. The Preface of this later edition contains a brief biography of Rondinelli.
Rondinelli wrote a biography of the Florentine humanist Bernardo Davanzati, published at Florence in 1638 and reissued several times thereafter.
List of works
Notes
Bibliography
1589 births
1665 deaths
People from Florence
Italian Baroque people
Italian libr
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Governor Williams may refer to:
Abraham J. Williams (1781–1839), 3rd Governor of Missouri
Arnold Williams (American politician) (1898–1970), 21st Governor of Idaho
Benjamin Williams (1751–1814), 11th Governor of North Carolina
Charles K. Williams (1782–1853), 20th Governor of Vermont
David Rogerson Williams (1776–1830), 45th Governor of South Carolina
David Williams (Royal Navy officer) (1921–2012), Governor of Gibraltar from 1982 to 1985
Fenwick Williams (1800–1883), Governor of Gibraltar from 1870 to 1876
G. Mennen Williams (1911–1988), 41st Governor of Michigan
Jack Williams (American politician) (1909–1998), 13th Governor of Arizona
James D. Williams (1808–1880), 17th Governor of Indiana
Jared W. Williams (1796–1864), 21st Governor of New Hampshire
John Bell Williams (1918–1983), 55th Governor of Mississippi
Joseph H. Williams (1814–1896), 27th Governor of Maine
Martin Williams (diplomat) (born 1941), Governor of the Pitcairn Islands from 1998 to 2001
Philip Williams (United States Navy) (1869–1942), military governor of the United States Virgin Islands
Ralph Champneys Williams (1848–1927), Governor of the Windward Islands from 1906 to 1909 and Dominion Governor of Newfoundland from 1909 to 1913
Ransome Judson Williams (1892–1970), 102nd Governor of South Carolina
Robert Williams (Mississippi politician) (1773–1836), Governor of the Mississippi Territory from 1805 to 1809
Robert L. Williams (1868–1948), 3rd Governor of Oklahoma
Roger Williams (1603–1683), "Governor for Life" of Aquidneck Island and Conanicut Island
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The Brunswick and Pensacola Railroad was a logging line established in 1894. Owned by the Suwannee Canal Company, the railroad ran from Folkston, Georgia, to the Suwanee Canal on the East edge of the Okefenokee Swamp near Camp Cornelia, Georgia.
Logging railroads in the United States
Defunct Georgia (U.S. state) railroads
American companies established in 1894
Railway companies established in 1894
1894 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
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The American Henley Regatta was a popular and inclusive regatta for the sport of rowing in the United States. Unlike the national championship regattas of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen, which focussed primarily on boat clubs as participants, the American Henley included, in addition to boat clubs, colleges and secondary schools. The first regatta was held in 1903 in Philadelphia, and was meant to be equivalent to the Henley Royal Regatta in the United Kingdom. The regatta was alternately held in Philadelphia and Boston. It was run by the American Rowing Association. The distance was one mile, 550 yards (2,112 m), the same as that of the Henley Royal.
In 1970, the ARA moved the regatta to Lake George. An American Henley Regatta was reported in the New York Times as late as 1979, when it was held at Orchard Beach Lagoon. Sagamore Rowing Association held an American Henley Regatta in Oyster Bay in 2017, but the 2018 regatta was cancelled.
References
Rowing competitions in the United States
National rowing championships
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Asio is a genus of typical owls, or true owls, in the family Strigidae. This group has representatives over most of the planet, and the short-eared owl is one of the most widespread of all bird species, breeding in Europe, Asia, North and South America, the Caribbean, Hawaii and the Galápagos Islands. Its geographic range extends to all continents except Antarctica and Australia.
These are medium-sized owls, in length with wingspans. They are long-winged and have the characteristic facial disc. The two northern species are partially migratory, moving south in winter from the northern parts of their range, or wandering nomadically in poor vole years in search of better food supplies. Tropical Asio owls are largely sedentary. These owls hunt over open fields or grasslands, taking mainly rodents, other small mammals and some birds.
Asio owls are mainly nocturnal, but short-eared owls are also crepuscular. Most species nest on the ground, but the long-eared owl (Asio otus) nests in the old stick nests of crows, ravens and magpies (family Corvidae) and various hawks.
Taxonomy
The genus Asio was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the long-eared owl (Asio otus) as the type species. The genus name is from asiō, the Latin name used by Pliny the Younger for a type of horned owl, the feather tufts on the head of these owls give the appearance of "ears" which is a defining characteristic.
Species
The genus contains the following nine species:
Jamaican owl, Asio grammicus (formerly placed in Pseudoscops)
Striped owl, Asio clamator (formerly placed in Pseudoscops or Rhinoptynx)
Long-eared owl, Asio otus
Abyssinian owl, Asio abyssinicus
Madagascar owl, Asio madagascariensis
Stygian owl, Asio stygius
Short-eared owl, Asio flammeus
Marsh owl, Asio capensis
Fearful owl, Asio solomonensis
Three fossil species are recognized:
Asio brevipes (Glenns Ferry Late Pliocene of Hagerman, USA)
Asio priscus (Late Pleistocene of San Miguel Is
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Tall Khosrow (, also Romanized as Tal-e Khosrow; also known as Tal-e Khosravī, Tall-e Khosrow-ye Soflá, and Tall Khosravī Pā'īn) was a village in Sarrud-e Jonubi Rural District of the Central District of Boyer-Ahmad County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, Iran.
At the 2006 National Census, its population was 1,822 in 366 households. The following census in 2011 counted 3,169 people in 793 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 4,534 people in 1,200 households.
After the census, the city of Madavan and the villages of Balahzar, Jadval-e Ghureh-ye Mehrian, Madavan-e Sofla, Mehrian, Sarab-e Taveh, Servak, and Tall Khosrow merged with the city of Yasuj.
References
Boyer-Ahmad County
Populated places in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province
Populated places in Boyer-Ahmad County
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Naupactus leucoloma is a species of broad-nosed weevil in the beetle family Curculionidae.
Description
The adult of Naupactus leucoloma is dark grey in colour with two lighter-coloured bands running longitudinally down its thorax and head. They are between 8-12mm long, and 4mm wide at the abdomen. The body of N. leucoloma is covered with hairs that are longer on the forewing. Wings of N. leucoloma vary greatly in size between individual specimens, but the forewings are fused, thus making the adults unable to fly.. Males are not known to exist with N. leucoloma outside of their native range, and all individuals are females in the naturalised range. Reproduction is through parthenogenesis. Males of N. leucoloma are rare and only occur in the native range of South America, but also may be extinct.
The larvae of N. leucoloma are about 12mm long, and occur in the soil. They have no legs similar to other species of weevils, their heads are partially retracted into the thorax, and they are yellowish white in colour, with black mandibles protruding from the head.
Distribution
Naupactus leucoloma is native to much of Argentina, from the Jujay and Salta provinces northwest, right down to the southeast in the Chubut province. It is also native to Uruguay and southern Brazil. Outside the native range, N. leucoloma has also been introduced through anthropological means to the United States, South Africa, Chile, Peru, Australia and New Zealand where it is well established
New Zealand Distribution
Naupactus leucoloma was first found in New Zealand in 1944 and is now well established through most of the North Island. It has since been recorded in several parts of the South Island as well, including Nelson, Blenheim, Christchurch and Ashburton.
Habitat Preferences
Naupactus leucoloma is a pest in its non-native range and feeds on 385 different plant species including beans, clover, potatoes and many more. The larval stage of N. leucoloma feeds on the roots of the host plants; t
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Loewen is a spelling variant of the word Löwen which means "lions" in German. This spelling is uncommon in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (as in the most common German language dialects ö is used usually instead of oe, while in English ö and oe are the same thing) and a surname with this spelling is usually used by Mennonites or by Americans who Americanized their Löwen to Loewen. Notable people with the name include:
Adam Loewen (born 1984), Canadian-American baseball player
Bill Loewen (born 1930), Canadian entrepreneur, philanthropist, political activist and politician
Chuck Loewen (born 1957), American football player
Cynthia Loewen (born 1993), Canadian beauty pageant and 2014 Miss Earth Canada
Darcy Loewen (born 1969), Canadian-American hockey player
Gregory Loewen (born 1966), Canadian social philosopher
James W. Loewen (born 1942), American sociologist
Jocelyne Loewen (born 1976), Canadian voice actress
John Loewen (born 1949), Canadian politician in Manitoba
Raymond Loewen (born 1940), Canadian politician and business owner in British Columbia
Rochelle Loewen (born 1979), Canadian broadcaster, glamour model and professional wrestler
Royden Loewen (born 1954), Canadian History Professor and Chair in Mennonite Studies at the University of Winnipeg
Todd Loewen (born 1966), Canadian politician in Alberta
See also
Löwen (disambiguation)
Low German surnames
Russian Mennonite surnames
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Kim Yoon-ok, also called Kim Yun-ok, (, born 26 March 1947) is the wife of Lee Myung-bak, President of the Republic of Korea .
Her family runs a construction company in Daegu. She and her husband Lee Myung-bak met at the College of Health Education at Ewha Womans University.
On December 19, 1970, after graduation from the University, Kim was engaged to Lee Myung-bak against her family's will. Lee was then director of the Hyundai Engineering Corporation. They have 1 son and 3 daughters together. Kim Yoon-ok enjoys cooking.
1947 births
First Ladies of South Korea
Living people
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Maurice Jay is a radio and television personality in Northern Ireland. He is currently the Programme Controller for U105, a Belfast-based radio station that is part of the Wireless Group. Jay played lead roles in over 100 UK-wide performances of West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein. He was included in the Sound of 2008 and 2011 panels at the BBC.
Education
Jay was born in Holywood, Northern Ireland and attended Sullivan Upper School there. He was awarded a diploma in Sound Technology & Music Business from New York University .
Music
In the mid-1980s Jay began club DJing and held down various residencies and regular guest appearances in venues around the country which included Radio Top Shop and a weekly residency at The Bronx (nite club), one of the country's leading dance music venues, where he was a local pioneer of Chicago House. In 1989 he was a Northern Ireland finalist in the DMC World DJ Championships and was one of the first DJ's to employ samplers and sequencers, making live real-time remixes of tracks during DJing sets.
In 1990, Jay started as a professional sound engineer at Sonopista Studios in Almería, Spain, one of the country's first all digital recording studios. He also worked as a live touring front of house (FOH) engineer for the company's PA hire division, working with Chick Corea on his 1990 Inside Out Tour. From there, he moved to New York, working at Jonathan Elias Associates Recording Studios. Jay returned to Northern Ireland in the mid-1990s to take up the post of resident FOH engineer at The Empire Music Hall. His live engineering work has included mixing radio sessions for artists such as the Grammy Award-winning Amy Winehouse, former Marillion frontman Fish, Brit Award nominee Nerina Pallot, and the multi-million album selling bands T'Pau and Hue & Cry to name but a few.
Jay worked as a music columnist for The Irish News, citing meeting Prince at his Paisley Park Studios in Minneapolis as a highlight. During his time running record la
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Kansas's 34th Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Kansas Senate. It has been represented by Republican Ed Berger since 2017; Berger was defeated in the 2020 Republican primary by Mark Steffen.
Geography
District 34 covers all of Reno County and parts of Kingman County to the west of Wichita, including the communities of Hutchinson, Kingman, South Hutchinson, Buhler, Haven, and Nickerson.
The district is located largely within Kansas's 1st congressional district, with a small part extending into the 4th district. It overlaps with the 101st, 102nd, 104th, and 114th districts of the Kansas House of Representatives.
Recent election results
2020
2016
2012
Federal and statewide results in District 34
References
34
Kingman County, Kansas
Reno County, Kansas
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Sphegina angustata is a species of hoverfly in the family Syrphidae found in Nepal. It's similar to S. abbreviata, though it's differentiated by having only a dorsal sublobe posteriorly on the male superior lobe instead of both dorsal and ventral, and by having the dorsal sublobe be long and pointed instead of apically short and truncate.
Etymology
The name comes form Latin 'angustata', meaning 'narrowed', referring to the unusually narrow abdomen.
Description
In male specimens, the body length is 5.2 to 5.4 millimeters and the wing length is 4.9 to 5.2 millimeters. The face is concave with a very strongly developed frontal prominence. The occiput is brown with soft, light yellow hairs; the face is dull dark brown, ventral half light-brown to yellow; gena and mouth edge yellow; antenna dark brown, with black setae dorsally on scape and pedicel; thorax dark brown; scutellum dark brown and subtriangular; the metaleg is dark brown with yellow; metafemur dark brown on basal 2/5, weakly incrassate; metatibia club shaped, black and yellow biannulate, without apicoventral dens. A subtriangular area posterior of lunula is non-pollinose and shiny. The wings are glossy and translucent, covered entirely in small hairs, and have yellowish stigma. The basal flagellomere is oval and the arista is short and relatively thick, covered in long, soft hairs, about 2.0–2.5 times as long as basal flagellomere.
Female specimens are much the same except for normal sexual dimorphism; they have a body length of 4.8 to 5.2 millimeters and wing length of 5.0 to 5.5 millimeters. The metafemur is slender, only very slightly incrassate, and the basal flagellomere is round to slightly oval. The arista is short and relatively thick, covered in long, soft hairs, about 2.5 times as long as the basal flagellomere.
References
Brachyopini
Insects described in 2018
Diptera of Asia
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Ophryotrocha craigsmithi is a species of polychaete worm. O. craigsmithi is named after Craig R. Smith. This species is similar to Palpiphitime lipovskyae and O. Platykephale, among others, in having branchial structures dorsally and ventrally. It differs from O. platykephale in the shape of its prostomium and parapodia. Palpiphitime lipovskyae has jaws of both P- and K-type, while no specimens of O. craigsmithi have been found with K-type jaws thus far. Ophryotrocha craigsmithi differs from P. lipovskyae genetically, but also by the presence of a prominent ventral chaetal lobe with a bulging simple chaeta in the former.
Description
It has a pale red or transparent colour, with red branchial structures on its dorsal and ventral sides. It has an elongated body, tapering at its posterior end. Its prostomium has digitiform paired antennae inserted dorsally. Its palps are papilliform and with palpophores, inserted laterally on its prostomium. It possesses no eyes, its mandibles being L-shaped, counting with anterior serration. Its maxillae exhibits 7 free denticles. It also counts with two peristomial segments without setae. Its parapodia has dorsal ventral cirri, with simple supraacicular chaetae and compound subacicular chaetae with serrated blades. Its pygidium has a terminal anus and two pygidial cirri.
Distribution
It was first found in a minke whale carcass at a depth of in the Koster area in Sweden, and from sediment between beneath a fish farm in Hardangerfjord in Norway.
References
Further reading
Taboada, Sergi, et al. "Two new Antarctic Ophryotrocha (Annelida: Dorvilleidae) described from shallow-water whale bones." Polar biology 36.7 (2013): 1031–1045.
Murray, H. M., et al. "Histology and mucous histochemistry of the integument and body wall of a marine polychaete worm, Ophryotrocha n. sp.(Annelida: Dorvilleidae) associated with steelhead trout cage sites on the south coast of Newfoundland." Journal of Marine Biology 2012 (2012).
Paxton, Hannelore,
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The 2018–19 Richmond Spiders women's basketball team represents the University of Richmond during the 2018–19 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Spiders, led by fourteenth year head coach Michael Shafer, play their home games at the Robins Center and were members of the Atlantic 10 Conference. They finished the season 9–21, 6–10 in A-10 play to finish in eleventh place. They lost in the first round of the A-10 women's tournament to Saint Louis.
It was announced that on March 10 that Shafer would not return, ending his 14-year coaching tenure at Richmond. Shafer leaves as the all-time winningest coach of the program with 223 wins, but never led the Spiders to the NCAA tournament during his time.
2018–19 media
All Spiders games are broadcast on WTVR 6.3 with Robert Fish on the call. The games are also streamed on Spider TV .
Roster
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2018–19 NCAA Division I women's basketball rankings
See also
2018–19 Richmond Spiders men's basketball team
References
Richmond Spiders women's basketball seasons
Richmond
Richmond Spiders women's basketball
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General Sir James Willcocks, (1 April 1857 – 18 December 1926) was a British Army officer who spent most of his career in India and Africa and held high command during the First World War.
Early life and education
Willcocks was born in Baraut, Meerut District, British India, the son of an officer in the East India Company's army. He was educated in England and passed out from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in January 1878 (having only got in on the third attempt), being commissioned into the 100th Foot in the Punjab.
Military career as a company and field officer
In late 1879, shortly after being promoted lieutenant, Willcocks persuaded his superiors to send him to the Second Afghan War (although his regiment was not engaged there), where he served as a transport officer. In 1881 he again served as a transport officer in the Mahsud Waziri expedition, rejoining his regiment the following year. In 1884 he was seconded to the newly formed Army Transport Department and posted to Assam. He was promoted captain in what was by now the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment in August 1884. He served in the Sudan in 1885–1886 and then returned to Assam before serving in Burma in 1886, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). In December 1887 he was offered a permanent transfer to the Commissariat and Transport Department, but declined in favour of the adjutantcy of the 1st Battalion of his regiment.
In 1889 Willcocks served as an intelligence officer in the Chin-Lushai expedition and in 1891 in the Manipur expedition. In June 1897 he was appointed assistant adjutant-general of the Baluchistan field force, and in November 1897 second-in-command of the new West African Frontier Force as a temporary lieutenant-colonel, under the command of Frederick Lugard. He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1899 New Year Honours. In November 1899 he was promoted substantive lieutenant-colonel (having received his bre
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The House of Catargiu is the name of an old and influential Moldavian noble family of the Tupilați region, whose members played important political role in the history of Wallachia, Moldavia and Romania.
Notable members
Alexandru Ștefan Catargiu (18251897), a Romanian politician
Barbu Catargiu (18071862), a conservative Romanian journalist and politician
Lascăr Catargiu (18231899), a Romanian conservative statesman from Moldavia
Nicolae Calimachi-Catargiu (18301882), a conservative Romanian politician
Elena Maria Catargiu-Obrenović (; 18311879), mother of King Milan I of Serbia
See also
Catargiu River, a tributary of the Jijioara River in Romania
References
Moldavian families
Romanian families
Romanian-language surnames
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Towaninny is a locality in the Victoria, Australia, located approximately 35 km from Wycheproof, Victoria.
Towaninnie (sic) Post Office opened on 1 October 1864 and closed in 1953. The pastoral run here was known as Towaninnie, but when the area was surveyed and gazetted as a parish in 1871 the spelling was Towaninny.
See also
List of places in Victoria (Australia) named from pastoral runs
References
Towns in Victoria (state)
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1808 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
March 13 – Frederick VI becomes king of Denmark. The next day, Denmark declares war on Sweden.
March 19 – Charles IV of Spain leaves the throne for his son, Ferdinand VII.
November 15 – Mahmud II (1808–1839) succeeds Mustafa IV (1807–1808) as sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy is published.
Barium, calcium, magnesium and strontium are isolated by Humphry Davy in England.
December 29 – Andrew Johnson
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MSC Armonia is a Lirica-class cruise ship owned and operated by MSC Cruises. Originally built in 2001 for the now defunct Festival Cruises as MS European Vision, she has operated for MSC since 2004. At 58,600 gross tons, she can accommodate 2,065 passengers in 783 cabins and 760 crew members.
History
European Vision
As European Vision, she was chartered for the 27th G8 summit in Genoa, Italy as a secure location to house world leaders. Terrorism fears were high in advance of the 11 September 2001 attacks and Al Qaeda was believed to be considering Genoa as a target. Although the ship was protected by a phalanx of anti-terrorism units including helicopters and missile launchers, U.S. President George W. Bush stayed instead at a dockside hotel.
Operational career
MSC Armonia has cruised around the Mediterranean Sea and ports within the Eastern Atlantic. She was homeported in Havana until December 2018, when she re-positioned to Miami to begin offering cruises to Cuba, and later, to the Caribbean. In November 2020, she was originally scheduled to homeport in Tampa, Florida for the first time, sailing to the Caribbean. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic forcing fleet redeployments, MSC Armonia is scheduled to continue sailing from Miami through 2021.
Incidents
2018 collision
On 10 April 2018, MSC Armonia struck a dock at the port in Roatán. Damage to the ship was minor and after repairs were made to the ship, Honduran Port State Control authorities cleared the ship to continue her journey to Belize. No injuries to the passengers and crew on board were reported.
COVID-19 pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC reported, as early as 22 April 2020, that at least one person who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 was symptomatic while on board.
References
External links
Armonia
2000 ships
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The 2022 Women's EuroHockey Club Trophy will be the 45th edition of the women's Women's EuroHockey Club Trophy, Europe's secondary club field hockey tournament organized by the EHF. It will be held from 15 to 18 April 2022 at HC Argentia in Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy.
Teams
The following seven teams will compete for the title:
Dragons
East Grinstead
Lille
Mannheimer
Argentia
Olten
Sumchanka
HC Victoria of Belarus qualified for the tournament, however the were excluded by the European Hockey Federation as a result of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Results
Preliminary round
Pool A
Pool B
Classification round
Fifth and sixth place
Third and fourth place
Final
Awards
Statistics
Final standings
Top Goalscorers
References
External links
European Hockey Federation
EHF Results Portal
Club Trophy Women
EuroHockey Club Trophy
International women's field hockey competitions hosted by Italy
Women's EuroHockey Club Trophy
EuroHockey Club Trophy
Sport in Lombardy
EuroHockey Club Trophy
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Paweł Kubisz (12 May 1907 – 19 August 1968) was a Polish poet, writer, journalist, and activist. He was one of the most important poets from the Trans-Olza region of Cieszyn Silesia.
Biography
Kubisz was born to a poor worker's family in the village of Końska. He attended pedagogic schools in Cieszyn-Bobrek and Ostrzeszów but didn't finish either, the latter due to the poems written about school's pedagogues. Young Kubisz was influenced mostly by the work of Stefan Żeromski and his works about poor masses. As a student he published his works in various press in Poland. Compiled together they were published as his debut poetry collection Kajdany i róże (Shackles and Roses) in 1927 in Fryštát.
On 17 April 1928 he was arrested by Czech authorities in his parents' house in Końska and on 6 November 1928 sentenced for 13 months in jail for alleged transport of illegal literature to Slovakia and conspiring against the Czechoslovak Republic. The arrest during the time of investigation of his case was included in those 13 months. He spent his sentence in jail in Olomouc. After his release he cooperated with Zaranie Śląskie magazine published in Cieszyn and became a secretary of the Polish People's Party in Czechoslovakia (Stronnictwo Ludowe). In 1937 he became a chairman of newly founded Śląski Związek Literacko-Artystyczny (Silesian Literary-Artistic Association) and founded Sztorcem magazine, of which only three issues appeared. Sztorcem was published in Czeski Cieszyn and adopted critical stances against the Czechoslovak government and the communist movement. Kubisz worked also as a correspondent and spent three years in East Prussia, Lithuania and Latvia.
In 1937 Kubisz published his most important work Przednówek, poetry collection written in Cieszyn Silesian dialect with illustrations by artist Franciszek Świder. It was immediately labelled as a literary sensation and was reviewed more than 100 times by literary critics in Poland and Czechoslovakia, even German and
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The broad ligament of the uterus is the wide fold of peritoneum that connects the sides of the uterus to the walls and floor of the pelvis.
Structure
Subdivisions
Contents
The contents of the broad ligament include the following:
Reproductive
uterine tubes (or Fallopian tube)
ovary (some sources consider the ovary to be on the broad ligament, but not in it.)
vessels
ovarian artery (in the suspensory ligament)
uterine artery (in reality, travels in the cardinal ligament)
ligaments
ovarian ligament
round ligament of uterus
suspensory ligament of the ovary (Some sources consider it a part of the broad ligament, while other sources just consider it a "termination" of the ligament.)
Relations
The peritoneum surrounds the uterus like a flat sheet that folds over its fundus, covering it anteriorly and posteriorly; on the sides of the uterus, this sheet of peritoneum comes in direct contact with itself, forming the double layer of peritoneum known as the broad ligament of the uterus.
The part where this peritoneal sheet is folded (i.e. the free edge) has the uterine tubes running between the two layers; this part is known as the mesosalpinx.
Function
The broad ligament serves as a mesentery for the uterus, ovaries, and the uterine tubes. It helps in maintaining the uterus in its position, but it is not a major contributing factor.
Clinical significance
Broad ligament hernias are rare. Due to their vague clinical presentation they are difficult to distinguish from other types of internal hernias, which can cause small bowel obstruction.
Additional images
See also
Cardinal ligament
Pelvic diaphragm
Parametrium
References
External links
- Mammal, female overview (Gross, Medium)"
Diagram at med.mun.ca
Ligaments
Mammal female reproductive system
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Kamarajar Road is an arterial road in city of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. This road connects Singanallur and Hope College.It acts as a major link between Avinashi Road and Trichy Road,the two major arterial roads in Coimbatore city.
Alignment
The road is a two lane road from Hope College to Singanallur.
Bus terminals
The Singanallur Bus Terminus,one of the intercity bus terminals of Coimbatore city is located along the road.
Places transversed
Hope College
Gandhipudur
Uppilipalayam
ESI
Varadharajapuram
Singanallur
Major Landmarks on Kamarajar Road
Singanallur Bus Terminus
ESIC Medical College
Major Hotels
O by Tamara
Hotel Park Avenue Suites
Fab Hotels Theejas
Cinemas
Manis Theatre
Major Restaurants
Hotel Dindigul Thalapakkati
Hotel RHR
Renuga Cafe
Kovai Royal Biriyani
Biriyani Crush
Hotel Sooryas
Shri Laxmi Narayana
Its Shawarma and Lazzi In
Hotel Dharun Chettinadu
Buhari Biriyani
Kovai Grill
Educational institutions
ESIC Medical College
VIBGYOR School
Gandhi Cenetary Memorial School
KSG College of Arts and Science
JK College of Nursing and Pharmaceuticals
Thiyagi NGR Matric.Hr.Sec.School
Shopping
D Mart,Varadharajapuram
Robin's Hypermarket
Farm corner
Museum
Kasthuribhai Gandhi Museum
Temple
Sri Ulagalandha Perumal temple
Sri Varadharaja Perumal Temple
Mariyamman Temple
Mahalakshmi Temple
References
Central business districts in India
Roads in Coimbatore
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Nationalarenan, currently known as Friends Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a retractable roof multi-purpose stadium in Stockholm, Sweden. Located next to the lake Råstasjön in Solna, just north of the City Centre, it is the largest stadium in Scandinavia. Since its opening, the venue has served as Sweden's national stadium for men's football, hence the name Nationalarenan. The main tenants of the stadium are Sweden's men's national football team and Allsvenskan football club AIK; both relocated from their previous home at the Råsunda Stadium. The venue has a total capacity of 65,000 at concerts and 50,000 seated at football matches, but the stadium can be scaled down to provide for smaller events with approximately 20,000 guests.
History
Initially there were plans to build a new national stadium close to the indoor venue Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, but on 1 April 2006 the Swedish Football Association (SvFF) made the decision to build the new stadium in Solna. It was calculated to cost around 1.9 billion kronor (202 million euro) to complete. The estimated cost before construction had begun was 2.3 billion kronor. It replaced Råsunda Stadium, Sweden's former national arena for football. Råsunda was torn down and replaced by some 700 flats and office buildings.
Swedbank acquired the naming rights to the stadium in a 153 million kronor (about 20.5 million euro) deal that will last until 2023. While the arena was originally to be known as Swedbank Arena, Swedbank announced in 2012 that it would donate its naming rights to Friends, a nonprofit organization against school bullying of which Swedbank is a sponsor. Consequently, the stadium was renamed Friends Arena.
Structure and facilities
The stadium has a retractable roof, enabling events to take place during the winter season and to host indoor entertainment shows. The facade of the arena can be lit up in 17 million different color schemes. For example, the stadium is lit up in blue and yellow when Sweden's nat
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Douglas Noel Sargent (1907–1979) was the third Bishop of Selby.
Biography
Sargent was born near London, and educated at Watford Grammar School for Boys, King's College, Cambridge and the London College of Divinity; and ordained in 1932. His first post was as Curate at Willian, Hertfordshire. Subsequently, he embarked on a long spell as a missionary in Sichuan Province at West China Union University, where he worked as a lecturer. During his stay in Sichuan, he became chaplain to Bishop C. T. Song and assistant secretary for the Church Missionary Society. In 1942 he married Imogene Ward, the daughter of American Methodist missionaries. From 1947 to 1948 he studied at Union Theological Seminary, New York. From 1961 until 1962 he was principal of the Church Missionary Society when he was elevated to the episcopate, a post he held until his retirement to York.
See also
Anglicanism in Sichuan
Notes
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1979 deaths
People educated at Watford Grammar School for Boys
Anglican missionaries in Sichuan
Bishops of Selby
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
Alumni of the London College of Divinity
Academic staff of West China Union University
Union Theological Seminary (New York City) alumni
20th-century Church of England bishops
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Credner Glacier is on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, on the northwest slope of the peak and is a remnant of an icecap which once crowned the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. The glacier is situated at an elevation of between . Credner Glacier is one of the largest glaciers on the mountain and descends from the Northern Ice Field. Credner is rapidly retreating due to its high exposure point on the northwest slope of Mount Kilimanjaro. A report published in 2013 indicated that in another decade the glacier may no longer exist.
Gallery
See also
Retreat of glaciers since 1850
List of glaciers in Africa
References
Glaciers of Tanzania
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Manydeng is a boma in Baidit payam, Bor West County, Jonglei State, South Sudan, about 30 kilometers north of Bor. The village is located at the southern extent of the sudd, South Sudan's vast central wetlands.
Education
Some of the most prominent schools in Jonglei State are based in Mach-Deng. Mach Deng primary school is one of the oldest in the region and it's believed that Abel Alier started school from there according to the locals.
Baidit Primary school is one of the two primary schools in Mach Deng, it's located few km from the heart of the town called Dingruot.
Most state performers from the state National examination come from this school.
Notable residents
akon changkou, South Sudanese Australian model
Abel Alier Former South Sudanese politician
Demographics
According to the Fifth Population and Housing Census of Sudan, conducted in April 2008, Manydeng boma had a population of 13,308 people, composed of 6,774 male and 6,534 female residents.
Notes
References
Populated places in Jonglei State
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James Arthur Hadfield (1882–1967) was a pioneer of psychodynamic psychotherapy in Britain, who became an influential figure at the interwar Tavistock Clinic.
He is perhaps best known as being the analyst of W. R. Bion, while Bion was analysing Samuel Beckett.
Technique
Coming from an academic background, Hadfield was influenced in his psychological approach by both Carl Jung and William McDougall. Causally, Hadfield favoured lack of parental protection rather than the repression of sexual love as the source of childhood disturbances.
His writings were repeatedly criticised by Ernest Jones for their lack of Freudianism; while his analytic technique has been seen as a reductive attempt to uncover childhood trauma, at the expense of the use of the analytic relationship, and the exploration of transference and countertransference.
Psychical research
Hadfield was also interested in psychical research. He was a believer in life after death and telepathy. He wrote the chapter "The Mind and the Brain" for the book Immortality: An Essay in Discovery Co-Ordinating Scientific, Psychical, and Biblical Research (London: Macmillan, 1917).
Publications
Among his many publications were:
Psychology and Morals (1923)
Psychology of Power (1933)
Psychology and Modern Problems (1935)
Psychology and Morals: An Analysis of Character (1944)
Dream and Nightmares (1954)
Childhood and Adolescence (1962)
See also
War neurosis
W. H. R. Rivers
Wilfred Trotter
References
External links
J. A. Hadfield - Open Library
1882 births
1967 deaths
British psychoanalysts
Oneirologists
British parapsychologists
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Cosmopterix pentachorda is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is known from Ecuador and Peru.
Adults have been recorded in June and August.
Description
Male, female. Forewing length 3.8-4.2 mm. Head: frons shining ochreous-white with reddish reflection, vertex and neck tufts shining greyish brown with reddish gloss, laterally and medially lined white, lateral lines narrow, collar shining greyish brown; labial palpus first segment very short, white, second segment three-quarters of the length of third, dark brown with white longitudinal lines laterally and ventrally, third segment white, lined brown laterally, extreme apex white; scape dorsally shining dark brown with a white anterior line, ventrally shining white, antenna shining dark brown with a short white line from base changing to an interrupted section to two-fifths, followed towards apex by approximately six dark brown segments, seven more or less white, two dark brown, two white, six dark brown, three white and two dark brown segments at apex. Thorax and tegulae shining greyish brown with reddish gloss, thorax with a white median line, tegulae lined white inwardly. Legs: shining dark greyish brown, foreleg with a white line on tibia and tarsal segments, interrupted on segment three and base of segment four, femora of midleg and hindleg shining ochreous-white, tibia of midleg with white oblique basal and medial lines and a white apical ring, tarsal segments one, two and four with whitish apical rings, segment five entirely white, tibia of hindleg with a very oblique white line from base to two-thirds and a white apical ring, tarsi similar to midleg, spurs white dorsally, brown ventrally. Forewing shining greyish brown with reddish gloss, four narrow white lines in the basal area, a subcostal, nearly at costa, from base to just before one-half, slightly bending from costa, a medial from base and slightly longer than the costal, a slightly oblique subdorsal from one-sixth to near the transverse fascia,
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Elzira de Fátima Borges Tavares Barros (born May 13, 1980 in Benguela), is a former Angolan handball player. Elzira represented Angola at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, where Angola finished 9th. She also participated in the 2009 World Women's Handball Championship in Beijing. She participated at the 2011 World Women's Handball Championship in Brazil.
She is married to Angolan basketball player Mílton Barros.
She last played for Angolan side Primeiro de Agosto.
References
External links
1980 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Benguela
Angolan female handball players
Olympic handball players for Angola
Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
African Games gold medalists for Angola
African Games medalists in handball
Competitors at the 2011 All-Africa Games
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