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Karimpur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Overview
In line with the Delimitation Commission, No. 77 Karimpur Assembly constituency is composed of Karimpur I community development block and Dhoradaha I, Dhoradaha II, Murutia, Natidanga I, Natidanga II and Rahamatpur gram panchayats of Karimpur II CD Block.
Karimpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 11 Murshidabad Lok Sabha constituency.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
Election results
1951–1972
Arabinda Mandal of Congress won in 1972. Samarendra Nath Sanyal of CPI(M) won in 1971. Nalinaksha Sanyal of Bangla Congress / Congress won in 1969 and 1967. Samarjit Bandopadhyay of Congress won in 1962. Bijoy Lal Chattopadhyay of Congress won in 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951, Haripada Chatterjee of KMPP won the Karimpur seat.
1977-2006
In the 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections, Prafulla Kumar Bhowmick of CPI(M) won the Karimpur assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Arabinda Mondal of Congress and Chira Ranjan Mandal of Trinamool Congress respectively. Contests in most years were multi-cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Chitta Ranjan Biswas of CPI(M) defeated Chira Ranjan Mandal of Congress in 1996 and 1991, and Arabinda Mandal of Congress in 1987 and 1982. Samarendra Nath Sanyal of CPI(M) defeated Arabinda Mandal of Congress in 1977.
2011
In the 2011 election, Samarendranath Ghosh of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) defeated his nearest rival Dr. Ramen Sarkar of All India Trinamool Congress
Rajib Sekh, contesting as an independent candidate, was a rebel Congress candidate.
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
2016
2019
Due to Mahua Moitra resignation as MLA, By poll was held. Bimalendu Sinha Roy won by 24,119 votes
2021
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Politics of Nadia district
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Cyril VII (1775-1872) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1855 to 1860.
His predecessor Anthimus VI was unpopular in the church and the Holy Synod formally petitioned the Ottoman government to depose him; the government agreed and choose the new Patriarch. As such, Cyril ascended the Ecumenical throne on October 2, 1855.
He came to power during the Crimean War and witnessed the signing of Sultan Abdulmejid I's Ottoman Reform Edict of 1856 which promised equality in education and justice to everyone, regardless of their religious beliefs.
He was not a well-educated or an energetic person. Nonetheless, he did much for His Church and people. He did his best to raise funds for the victims of an earthquake in the diocese of Prusa. He issued instructions in the sphere of marriage and family life.
Due to the politics of the war, Cyril had a lot of enemies. He eventually resigned as Patriarch and spent the rest of his life in prayer and solitude in Halki.
He is buried at Hagia Triada Church in Istanbul.
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19th-century Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constantinople
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Ibrahim Kura Mohammed was elected Senator for the Kano Central constituency of Kano State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the People's Democratic Party (PDP) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999.
Kura Mohammed attended New York University in the USA where he earned a degree in political science in 1970.
He was first Secretary in the Nigerian High Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (1972–1973), Executive Secretary of the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations (1974–1976), Director of the Nigeria Tourist Association (1978–1979) and Chairman of Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro (1979–1983).
After taking his seat in the Senate Kura was appointed to committees on Solid Minerals, Communications, State & Local Government, Federal Character and Information.
He decided not to seek reelection in 2003.
After leaving office he became a director of First Fund, a subsidiary of First Bank of Nigeria, chairman of Spotless Apt and director / vice chairman of Clearline International. He became chairman of Expatcare Health Services in January 2007.
In late 2007 he became FCT Chairman of the campaign organisation for former Ebonyi governor Sam Egwu, who was running for chairman of the PDP.
Speaking in January 2008 he expressed confidence that Egwu would take his seat at the next party convention.
He died aged 65 on 6 May 2009 in Abuja and was buried in Kano.
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Politicians from Kano State
Peoples Democratic Party members of the Senate (Nigeria)
2009 deaths
Year of birth missing
New York University alumni
Burials in Kano State
20th-century births
20th-century Nigerian politicians
21st-century Nigerian politicians
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Norwich is an unincorporated community in western McHenry County, North Dakota, United States. It lies along U.S. Route 2 southwest of the city of Towner, the county seat of McHenry County. Norwich's elevation is 1,549 feet (472 m). It is unincorporated, and had a post office with the ZIP code of 58768. Though the post office closed May 4, 1996, the ZIP code is still valid for use.
Norwich was founded in 1901 and named after Norwich, England in an effort to please Great Northern Railway stockholders from England. It was one of several sites along the Great Northern's transcontinental route between Devils Lake and Minot that were named after places in England (the others were Berwick, Leeds, Penn, Rugby, Surrey, Tunbridge, and York).
The community is part of the Minot Micropolitan Statistical Area.
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Unincorporated communities in McHenry County, North Dakota
Unincorporated communities in North Dakota
Minot, North Dakota micropolitan area
Populated places established in 1901
1901 establishments in North Dakota
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Marengo is a town in and the county seat of Iowa County, Iowa, United States. It has served as the county seat since August 1845, even though it was not incorporated until July 1859. The population was 2,435 in the 2020 census, a decline from 2,535 in 2000.
History
Marengo was laid out in 1845 and platted in 1847. The city's name commemorates the Battle of Marengo, where Napoleon defeated the Austrian army.
The Iowa County Courthouse, built in 1893, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Underground Railroad
In 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a group of escaped slaves from Missouri to Michigan. On February 20, the group stayed at the Draper B. Reynolds Farm 1.5 miles south of Marengo.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water.
The Iowa River passes north of town.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 2,528 people, 1,059 households, and 648 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 1,154 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 97.3% White, 0.6% African American, 0.6% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 0.4% from other races, and 0.7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.8% of the population.
There were 1,059 households, of which 30.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.2% were married couples living together, 10.3% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.7% had a male householder with no wife present, and 38.8% were non-families. 34.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 17.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.31 and the average family size was 2.94.
The median age in the city was 41 years. 24.9% of residents were under the age of 18; 6.9% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 24% were from 25 to 44; 26.2% were from 45 to 64; and 18.1% were 65 years of age or older. Th
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McClung is a ghost town in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States. McClung was south of Leslie. McClung appeared on USGS maps as late as 1935. McClung still exists today but was renamed Orient Hill after the Baptist Church. The McClung post office was across Rt.20 from the church and run by the Tony Williams family. The majority of that town is down a street labeled, Ball diamond RD.
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Geography of Greenbrier County, West Virginia
Ghost towns in West Virginia
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Excalibur is a wooden roller coaster at Funtown Splashtown USA in Saco, Maine. It is the tallest and longest roller coaster in Northern New England. The ride runs with a single 2-bench Philadelphia Toboggan Company train. The ride's name is based on King Arthur's sword (Excalibur).
Excalibur is the only wooden roller coaster in the state of Maine, and the first wooden coaster in Maine in 50 years when it first opened.
The ride has been retracked by Martin & Vleminckx.
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Roller coasters in Maine
Roller coasters introduced in 1998
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"Son of David" is a song performed by American contemporary worship musician Ryan Ellis featuring Brandon Lake. It was released as the seventh track on Ellis' third studio album, Ryan Ellis, on July 15, 2022. Ellis co-wrote the song with Brandon Lake, Joshua Silverberg, and Tedd Tjornhom. Tedd Tjornhom and Joshua Silverberg produced the song.
"Son of David" peaked at No. 18 on the US Hot Christian Songs chart.
Composition
"Son of David" is composed in the key of E minor with a tempo of 79 beats per minute and a musical time signature of .
Critical reception
Katie Clinebell of Air1 said the song "infuses the rocking sound that it creates with a unique sense of purpose and drive, evoking a feeling of perseverance and strength. This song provides a worship anthem for when you need to push through a difficult situation and lean on God's mercy to get through it."
Commercial performance
"Son of David" made its debut at number 46 on the US Christian Airplay chart dated November 12, 2022.
"Son of David" debuted at number 49 on the US Hot Christian Songs chart dated December 10, 2022,
Music video
Ryan Ellis released the official lyric video of "Son of David" featuring Brandon Lake through his YouTube channel on July 15, 2022.
Charts
References
External links
2022 songs
Brandon Lake songs
Songs written by Brandon Lake
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Sigrid Maria Fredrika Gillner-Ringenson (1891-1975) was a Swedish politician of the Social Democratic Party.
She was MP of the Second Chamber of the Parliament of Sweden from 1932 to 1936.
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The 2021–22 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team represented Indiana State University in the 2021–22 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Sycamores, led by first-year head coach Josh Schertz, played their home games at the Hulman Center in Terre Haute, Indiana as members of the Missouri Valley Conference.
Previous season
In a season limited due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Sycamores finished the 2020–21 season 15–10, 11–7 in MVC play to finish in fourth place. They defeated Evansville in the quarterfinals of the MVC tournament before losing to Loyola in the semifinals.
Offseason
Coaching changes
On March 7, 2021, Indiana State announced that head coach Greg Lansing's contract would not be renewed, thereby ending his 11-year tenure at the school. On March 17, the Sycamores hired Josh Schertz, former head coach at Division II Lincoln Memorial, as Lansing's replacement.
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Indiana State Sycamores
Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball
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Stephana de Quinzanis (variant spellings include Stephanie, Stefana; also, Quinzani) (1457 – 2 January 1530) was an Italian sister of the Third Order of St. Dominic, stigmatic and mystic.
Life
She was born in 1457 in Brescia, Italy, to Lorenzo de Quinzanis and his wife, who were a poor and pious couple. Her father became a member of the Third Order of St. Dominic while Stephana was very young. While accompanying him on visits to the Dominican monastery in nearby Soncino, she met the stigmatic friar, Matthew Carrieri, O.P., who instructed her in the catechism. Carrieri told her that she would be his spiritual heiress, a statement she did not understand for many years. She began receiving visions of Dominican saints from age seven, at which point she made vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. In a subsequent miraculous experience in 1464, Christ appeared to her, accompanied by Mary and Dominican saints Dominic, Thomas Aquinas, and Catherine of Siena, presenting her with a wedding ring, signifying her mystical marriage. Carrieri died when Stephana was 14 years old; soon after he appeared to her in a vision, and she herself received the stigmata.
De Quinzanis started to work as a servant for her living, but she continued in her formation in the Third Order, and at age 15 made her profession at the Dominican priory in Soncino. Her devotion to the poor and sick led her to found a community of Third Order Sisters there. She served as its first prioress.
Her counsel was sought by many, including Angela Merici, foundress of the Ursulines, also Augustine Fangi, as well as her fellow Dominican tertiary and mystic, Osanna of Mantua. She participated in various stages of the passion of Jesus Christ, which was attested to by 21 witnesses in 1497 in a still extant account, written in the vernacular, and entitled Relazione dell'Estasi della Passione. Sources state that although Stephana was "ugly", she had magnificent hair. Grudging herself this one beauty, she pulled it out
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Marasmius munyozii is a species of fungus in the large agaric genus Marasmius. It is found in Chile, where it grows on dead grass leaves. The cap is white, with a pale cinnamon-ochraceous colored center and a slightly grooved margin. The fungus was described as new to science in 1969 by mycologist Rolf Singer.
See also
List of Marasmius species
References
External links
munyozii
Fungi described in 1969
Fungi of Chile
Taxa named by Rolf Singer
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Hermann Gossler (born 21 August 1802 in Hamburg, died 10 May 1877 in Hamburg) was a Hamburg lawyer, senator (1842–77) and First Mayor and President of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (i.e. the city republic's head of state and head of government) in 1874. He was Second Mayor in 1870, 1871 and 1873. During much of his tenure as senator and his first term as Second Mayor, Hamburg was a fully sovereign country, while after 1871, the First Mayor as head of state of republican Hamburg was equal to the federal princes (Bundesfürsten) within the German Empire. As a senator, he also served as Lord of Police (Polizeiherr), the equivalent of a Minister of Police.
He belonged to the Hanseatic Berenberg-Gossler banking dynasty and was a son of the banker and senator Johann Heinrich Gossler (1775–1842), co-owner of Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co, and the grandson of Johann Hinrich Gossler. His side of the family was stripped out of their Bank stock and sent to exile to Latin America.
Hermann Gossler studied law at the University of Heidelberg, and worked as a lawyer in Hamburg from 1826 to 1837. He became Senate Secretary (roughly comparable to Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State) in 1837. From 1838 to 1842, he was Secretarius of the High Court. In 1842 he was elected Senator.
He was the father of Emilie (Emmy) Helene Gossler (1838–1910), married to banker Georg Heinrich Kaemmerer.
Literature
Deutsches Geschlechterbuch Band 19, (Hamburgischer Band 2), Hamburg 1911, S.29
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Mayors of Hamburg
Senators of Hamburg (before 1919)
Hermann
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Henry Shipton Drayton (1840–1923) was an American physician and phrenologist. He defended the now obsolete theories that one could predict the personality of human beings based on cranial features and that some humans had a sixth sense.
Early life and career
He worked for an unknown period of time in the Fowler & Wells' phrenological cabinet in New York City with Orson Squire Fowler, Lorenzo Niles Fowler, Samuel Wells and Nelson Sizer, who were American leaders in the phrenology business. The phrenological cabinet produced personalized phrenological profiles of clients in which, based on the size of the cranium, the personality of the client was deduced.
The profiles were handed to the client so it is difficult to determine how many have been made by Henry Shipton Drayton. Only one of them is currently known to have been preserved, that of a man named Horace Wheaton Turner. From 1880 to 1883, he published 4 books relating to phrenology. It is also during this period that he acquired the title of M.D. In his earliest book on phrenology, he explains how to detect character traits based on the observation of the face of people and defends the thesis that the mind is embodied in the brain. His influences were George Combe, the Edinburgh Phrenological Society, Franz Joseph Gall and Johann Spurzheim.
Career as a writer
Henry Shipton Drayton became editor of the Phrenological journal for an unknown period. He presents his method on how to measure the physical aspects of the face and study phrenology and physiognomy in Heads and faces, and how to study them, which was edited in 1885 and 1896. He became interested in hypnosis and was influenced by the writings of Jean-Martin Charcot of the Salpêtrière school of hypnosis and Franz Mesmer. He published a book about human magnetism in 1889. Throughout his career, he mostly published his books with the Fowler & Wells Company. After the death of Lorenzo Niles Fowler, he published with the Grafton Press Publishers and Field &
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Zelus luridus, also known as the pale green assassin bug, is a species of assassin bug native to North America. It is the most common Zelus species in the eastern United States. The size ranges from long. On average, adult females are long, while males are long. Though the base color is pale green, markings on the back can range from dark brown or red to bright yellow. Nymphs are generally more solid green, wingless, and with narrower bodies than adults. The most reliable feature to distinguish this species from others is the pair of spines on the rear corners of the pronotum. These spines are long on the lighter colored individuals and shorter on ones that are darker. It can also be distinguished by dark bands on the distal ends of the femurs, but these can often be too light to be easily seen. The egg masses, which are laid from late June to August, are conical in shape with a flat top. They are laid on leaves in groups of twenty to fifty and held together with a sticky, brownish material. Their bite is extremely painful.
Like many other assassin bugs, Zelus luridus preys on other insects. It will often wait on leaves to ambush passing insects, but occasionally it also actively hunts. For this, it uses sticky traps, a common predation strategy to species within the genus Zelus. The sticky material is produced by a gland on the leg. This gland develops in the second instar. During the first instar, the nymphs use secretions deposited over the egg batch by the female as the source of their sticky material.
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Reduviidae
Hemiptera of North America
Insects described in 1862
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Malfa is a comune (municipality) on the island of Salina, one of the Aeolian Islands, in the Metropolitan City of Messina, Sicily, southern Italy. It is located about northeast of Palermo and about northwest of Messina.
Malfa derived its name from Amalfi. In the 12th century some families established their lives in Malfa on the island of Salina.
The island of Salina is one of seven Eolian islands. Salina is the greenest of the seven. The main economic activities are agriculture, tourism and fishing. Cultivated products are grapes, capers, olives, figs and pricklypears.
Malfa is famous for producing and exporting the sweet white wine, Malvasia. The fertile soil produces tons of capers for export.
Malfa celebrates the festival of San Lorenzo (Patron Saint of Malfa) on 10 August each year, with a street parade, music and fireworks.
During the 20th century, many Malfitani migrated to Australia and to a lesser number to the United States. The Italian and Australian flags can be seen waving in the wind at the Malfa Municipal Office.
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The IBSA European Judo Championships is an event organized by the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA). It is a paralympic judo competition, that is judo for visually impaired athletes. Organised biennially, the competition is not run during years when the IBSA World Judo Championships or the Summer Paralympics are contested.
Championships
Classification
B1 - Athletes who are legally blind.
B2 - Athletes who are visually impaired.
B3 - Athletes who have partial vision.
See also
Judo at the Summer Paralympics
IBSA World Judo Championships
References
European
Parasports competitions
Judo in Europe
Recurring sporting events established in 1989
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Mount Salem is a Dispersed Rural Community and unincorporated place in the municipal township of Malahide, Elgin County in southwestern Ontario, Canada. The community is in geographic Malahide Township at the intersection of Elgin County Road 40 (Springfield Road) and Elgin County Road 45 (Calton Line), southeast of the community of Aylmer.
The community has two churches, Sommerfeld Mennonite Church and Mount Salem Evangelical Mennonite Church, and Mount Salem Christian School, a JK–12 primary and secondary interdenominational Christian school that uses the facilities of the aforementioned two churches.
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Communities in Elgin County
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Close Supervision Centres were established by UK Prison Service in 1998, as a means to segregate the most violent or disruptive prisoners. As of 2021, there were 52 inmates held in the restrictive regime which involves solitary confinement. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and Amnesty International has raised concerns about the centres.
Usage
Close Supervision Centres (CSCs) were established in the UK in 1998, as a means to segregate the most violent or disruptive prisoners detained in His Majesty's Prison Service. Under this restrictive regime, prisoners are kept in solitary confinement and are allowed one hour per day of recreation; they cannot speak with other inmates and are limited to two visits of thirty minutes per month.
As of 2015, there were 50 prisoners held in CSCs, with the annual cost to hold each prisoner estimated to be £100,000. The Guardian newspaper reported in 2021 that the total was 52. Nils Melzer, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment found the conditions in CSCs to be "comparable to solitary detention" and was particularly concerned by the case of Kevan Thakrar, who had been held in CSCs for 11 years. Amnesty International stated the regime was "cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment".
Prisons with CSCs include HM Prison Woodhill and HM Prison Whitemoor. In 2022, Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab announced that the government would spend £6 million to expand the CSC regime.
See also
Article 41-bis prison regime
FIES
Supermax prison
References
Further reading
Prisons in the United Kingdom
1998 establishments in the United Kingdom
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Arctic Springs is a neighborhood of Jeffersonville, Indiana, one mile east of downtown Jeffersonville, and directly across from Louisville's famed Water Tower. It was established as a resort area full of summer cottages. The Jeffersonville Elks Club ran a popular outdoor dance hall in the 1920s.
After its height as a resort area, it served as a water supply for the rest of Jeffersonville, as it had an aquifer from which wells could obtain water.
References
Kleber, John E. Encyclopedia of Louisville. (University Press of Kentucky). pg.444.
Jeffersonville, Indiana
Geography of Clark County, Indiana
Neighborhoods in Indiana
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Sergeant George Frederick Findlater VC (16 February 1872 – 4 March 1942) was a Scottish soldier in the British Army, who was awarded the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest award for gallantry, for his role in the Tirah Campaign. On 20 October 1897, Findlater, then a junior piper in the Gordon Highlanders, was shot in the ankles during an advance against opposing defences at the Battle of the Dargai Heights; unable to walk, and exposed to enemy fire, he continued playing, to encourage the battalion's advance. The event was widely covered in the press, making Findlater a public hero.
After receiving the Victoria Cross, Findlater supplemented his Army pension by performing at music halls, much to the outrage of the military establishment, but after growing scandal he retired to take up farming in Banffshire in 1899. In 1914, he re-enlisted in the Gordon Highlanders for the First World War; he served as the senior piper for the 9th Battalion until the end of 1915, when he returned home because of ill health. Active in a local pipe band, he continued to farm until his death in 1942, aged 70.
Early life
Findlater was born in 1872 at Turriff, Aberdeenshire, one of eleven children of Alexander Findlater, a miller, and his wife, Mary Ann Clark. He attended the school in Turriff but left at a young age to work as a farm labourer; under the law then in force, children were permitted to leave school at thirteen. Two months after his sixteenth birthday, on 7 April 1888, he travelled to Aberdeen and enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. The battalion was posted to Ceylon, where in 1891 he transferred to the 1st Battalion, then serving on the North-West Frontier of British India, now part of Pakistan. He first saw active combat there in March 1895, at the Malakand Pass, where he was hit but not wounded; later in the year, he served with the relief force in the Chitral Expedition.
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The Lafayette Artillery Company was founded in Peterborough, New Hampshire, in 1804 as the Artillery Company of the 22nd Regiment. It was part of the State of New Hampshire's artillery system, a forerunner to the National Guard. The group has continued to operate continuously since its founding, and since 1833 it has been headquartered at Lyndeborough, New Hampshire. Since the 1980s, it has been primarily an educational service organization, and participates in Civil War reenactments throughout the northeastern United States.
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Formation and early history
In 1804, in the wake of the reorganization of New Hampshire's state militia system, several new artillery companies were founded around New Hampshire. These included units in Somersworth, Walpole, Keene, Fitzwilliam, and Peterborough. Peterborough's artillery unit belonged to the Twenty-Second Regiment, a unit consisting of infantry companies from New Ipswich, Sharon, Mason, Temple, Wilton, and Peterborough. James Wilson, a lawyer and state legislator, served as the group's first captain. At the time, military service was compulsory, and being a member of the artillery was an honor—or at least it was more prestigious than being a member of the infantry. Little else is known about the artillery's early years except that, in response to the British Navy's blockade of New England during the War of 1812, several of its members served in the defense of Portsmouth in 1814.
In the 1820s, the artillery faced a decade of instability and change. Between 1804 and 1820, the organization had been led by only three captains, but from 1820 to 1832, five captains served an average of 28.8 months each. Artillery membership also began to change; as Peterborough industrialized, its residents were less inclined to join the organization, and membership from Wilton and Lyndeborough (which was annexed to the Twenty-Second Regiment some years earlier) increased. By 1833, the organization was headed by Eleazer Putnam of
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Judiciary Square station is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., on the Red Line. It is located in the Judiciary Square neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of the city, with entrances at 4th and D Street and 5th and F Street. It serves the many courthouses and municipal buildings in the area. The 5th and F Street entrance is located in the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, which incorporates the escalators and elevators into its architecture.
History
Service began on March 27, 1976. This station is also the birthplace of the Metro, as the initial groundbreaking was held here on December 9, 1969.
During a September 2012 refurbishment of the station, new signage was installed. Similar signage can be found at the Gallery Place, NoMa–Gallaudet U, Morgan Boulevard, Grosvenor-Strathmore, and Largo Town Center stations. It is the only station with two-sided platforms with elevators between each platform and street.
From March 26 to June 28, 2020, this station was closed due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
Between January 15 to January 21, 2021, this station was closed because of security concerns due to the 2021 Inauguration.
Station layout
The station has two tracks with two side platforms and a mezzanine on either end. Each mezzanine has fare gates and escalators reaching the street level. At the northwest end of the platforms, a pair of elevators directly serve the platforms, each with a single fare gate and ticket machine.
Notable places nearby
Federal courthouses: United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse, United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, United States Tax Court
Municipal buildings: H. Carl Moultrie Courthouse, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and One Judiciary Square
United States Department of Labor
Fraternal Order of Police Headquarters
Government Accountability Office
Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington Field Office
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Léopold Durand OSB (1666–1746) was a French architect.
Bibliography
Dom Durand was born in Saint-Mihiel (Lorraine) in 1666. He studied law and architecture, after which he went te become a member of the order of Saint Benedict (1702).
Works
Traité historique des eaux et baines de Plombières (1748)
Recueil sur l'architecture
Plans de diverses églises
Description des temples de Chine
Termes de l'art et architecture militaires
De la construction des voûtes
Jeux et combats des Grecs
Recueil sur les théatres des Anciens
1666 births
1746 deaths
People from Lorraine
French Benedictines
17th-century French architects
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Doris Stevens (born Dora Caroline Stevens; October 26, 1888 – March 22, 1963) was an American suffragist, woman's legal rights advocate and author. She was the first female member of the American Institute of International Law and first chair of the Inter-American Commission of Women.
Born in 1888 in Omaha, Nebraska, Stevens became involved in the fight for suffrage while a college student at Oberlin College. After graduating with a degree in sociology in 1911, she taught briefly before becoming a paid regional organizer for the National American Woman Suffrage Association's Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (CUWS). When the CUWS broke from the parent organization in 1914, Stevens became the national strategist. She was in charge of coordinating the women's congress, held at the Panama Pacific Exposition in 1915. When the CUWS became the National Woman's Party (NWP) in 1916, Stevens organized party delegates for each of the 435 Congressional Districts in an effort to attain national women's enfranchisement and defeat candidates who were opposed to women's rights. Between 1917 and 1919, Stevens was a prominent participant in the Silent Sentinels vigil at Woodrow Wilson's White House to urge the passage of a constitutional amendment for women's voting rights and was arrested several times for her involvement. After the 19th Amendment secured women's right to vote, she wrote a book, titled Jailed for Freedom (1920), which recounted the sentinel's ordeals.
Once the right to vote was secured, Stevens turned her attention to women's legal status. She supported passage of the Equal Rights Amendment and worked with Alice Paul from 1927 to 1933 on a volume of work comparing varying impact on law for women and men. The goal in compiling the data was to obtain an international law protecting women's right of citizenship. The research was completed with the help of feminists in 90 countries and evaluated laws controlling women's nationality from every country. Gaining ap
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The 1924 Copa del Rey Final was the 24th final of the Spanish cup competition, the Copa del Rey. The final was played at Atotxa Stadium, in San Sebastián, on 4 May 1924. Real Unión beat Real Madrid 1–0, winning their second title (third title counting the trophy won by Racing de Irun in 1913). The only goal was scored by José Echeveste.
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1924
1923–24 in Spanish football
Real Unión matches
Real Madrid CF matches
May 1924 sports events
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Sir Henry Northcote, 5th Baronet (1710 – 28 May 1743), of Hayne in the parish of Newton St Cyres near Crediton in Devon, later of Pynes in the parish of Upton Pyne, Devon, was a Member of Parliament for Exeter from 1735 until his death in 1743.
Origins
He was the only son and heir of Sir Henry Northcote, 4th Baronet (1655–1730) of Hayne and of Corfe in the parish of Tawstock in North Devon, by his wife Penelope Lovett, a daughter and co-heiress of Edward Lovett (1627–1702) of Corfe in the parish of Tawstock in North Devon, and of Liscombe in Buckinghamshire, long the seat of the Lovett family. Edward Lovett's wife was Joane Hearle (1642–1709), daughter & heiress of James Hearle of Corfe, Tawstock.
Early origins
The family of Northcote (originally de Northcote) originated at the Domesday Book manor of Northcote in the parish of East Down in North Devon. The Heraldic Visitations of Devon lists the founder of the family as Galfridus de Northcote, Miles ("knight"), living in 1103. In the 16th century the family made its fortune as cloth merchants at Crediton.
Marriage and children
In 1732 Northcote married Bridget Maria Stafford, only daughter and sole heiress of the wealthy Hugh Stafford of Pynes. After his marriage Northcote abandoned the family seat of Hayne, which sank to the status of a farmhouse, and moved to the Stafford seat of Pynes House, inherited by his wife, where his descendants remained until the 1990s. Amongst the lands he inherited from his wife was the manor of Iddesleigh in Devon, from which in 1885 the statesman Sir Stafford Northcote, 8th Baronet took his title. Bridget Maria Stafford survived her husband and in 1754 remarried to Richard Madan of Westminster., a brother of Colonel Martin Madan. By his wife Northcote had children as follows:
Sir Stafford Northcote, 6th Baronet (1736–1770), eldest son and heir.
Henry Northcote (born 1738), second son, who married twice, firstly to Philipa Searle, daughter of Edward Searle of Plympton, secondly to a
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Sir Richard Sutton, 4th Baronet (21 October 1821 – 3 October 1878) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
Life
The son of Sir Richard Sutton, 2nd Baronet and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Burton, he was born in October 1821 at Sudbrooke, Lincolnshire.
He purchased a commission in the British Army in May 1839 as an ensign in the 97th Regiment of Foot. He later purchased the rank of lieutenant in the 1st Regiment of Life Guards in July 1847. He later served as a deputy lieutenant for Nottinghamshire and succeeded his brother, Sir John Sutton, as the 4th Baronet upon his death in June 1873. Sutton died at Ryde on the Isle of Wight in October 1878, at which point he was succeeded as the 5th Baronet by his son, Sir Richard Sutton.
Cricket
Sutton played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1850–51, making three appearances against Cambridge University and a single appearance against Oxford University. He made a fifth appearance in first-class cricket in 1857, appearing for the Gentlemen of Kent and Sussex against the Gentlemen of England.
Family
Sutton married firstly Anna Houson (died 8 July 1846), daughter of Reverend H. Houson, of Brant Broughton, in 1845. He married secondly Harriet Anne Burton in 1851.
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1821 births
1878 deaths
People from West Lindsey District
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment soldiers
British Life Guards officers
English cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Gentlemen of Kent and Sussex cricketers
Deputy Lieutenants of Nottinghamshire
Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain
Military personnel from Lincolnshire
Cricketers from Lincolnshire
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Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes is a non-governmental, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization with a mission to promote environmentally sound landscaping practices and preserve biodiversity.
As of November 2021, it has 64 chapters across 23 states in the U.S. to engage in environmental education and advocacy activities.
History
Wild Ones was founded in 1977 by nine people after attending a natural landscaping lecture by Lorrie Otto at the Schlitz Audubon Center.
In 2008, through grant assistance from the Fox River/Green Bay Natural Resource Trustee Council and the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund, Wild Ones established its new headquarters in Neenah, Wisconsin called WILD Center (Wild Ones Institute of Learning and Development).
Publications
A quarterly publication called Wild Ones Journal is available for dues-paying members.
A New Member Handbook for native landscaping is in its 5th edition as of 2010; the 4th edition from 2004 is archived at the EPA.
Programs
Chapter programs include plant rescues, plant sales, garden tours, seed gathering and exchanges, and various outdoor learning projects.
The Lorrie Otto Seeds For Education Grant Program (SFE) provides grants to purchase native seeds and plants and develop outdoor learning centers for youth grades Preschool-12.
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Ecology organizations
Non-profit organizations based in the United States
Native plant societies based in the United States
Environmental organizations based in Wisconsin
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The metabotropic glutamate receptors, or mGluRs, are a type of glutamate receptor that are active through an indirect metabotropic process. They are members of the group C family of G-protein-coupled receptors, or GPCRs. Like all glutamate receptors, mGluRs bind with glutamate, an amino acid that functions as an excitatory neurotransmitter.
Function and structure
The mGluRs perform a variety of functions in the central and peripheral nervous systems: For example, they are involved in learning, memory, anxiety, and the perception of pain. They are found in pre- and postsynaptic neurons in synapses of the hippocampus, cerebellum, and the cerebral cortex, as well as other parts of the brain and in peripheral tissues.
Like other metabotropic receptors, mGluRs have seven transmembrane domains that span the cell membrane. Unlike ionotropic receptors, metabotropic glutamate receptors are not ion channels. Instead, they activate biochemical cascades, leading to the modification of other proteins, such as ion channels. This can lead to changes in the synapse's excitability, for example by presynaptic inhibition of neurotransmission, or modulation and even induction of postsynaptic responses.
A dimeric organization of mGluRs is required for signaling induced by agonists.
Classification
Eight different types of mGluRs, labeled mGluR1 to mGluR8 ( to ), are divided into groups I, II, and III. Receptor types are grouped based on receptor structure and physiological activity. The mGluRs are further divided into subtypes, such as mGluR7a and mGluR7b.
Overview
Group I
The mGluRs in group I, including mGluR1 and mGluR5, are stimulated most strongly by the excitatory amino acid analog L-quisqualic acid. Stimulating the receptors causes the associated enzyme phospholipase C to hydrolyze phosphoinositide phospholipids in the cell's plasma membrane. This leads to the formation of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) and diacyl glycerol. Due to its hydrophilic character, IP3 can
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Science Fiction Adventures in Mutation is a theme anthology of science fiction stories edited by American anthologist Groff Conklin, published in hardcover by Vanguard Press in 1955. An abridged paperback edition was issued by Berkley Books in 1965.
Contents
"Introduction", Groff Conklin
"Chain of Command", Stephen Arr (Galaxy 1954)
"Battle of the Unborn", James Blish (Future 1950)
"The Hungry Guinea Pig", Miles J. Breuer (Amazing 1930)
"Keep Out", Fredric Brown (Amazing 1954)
"The Small World of M-75", Ed M. Clinton, Jr. (IF 1954)
"Limiting Factor", Theodore R. Cogswell (Galaxy 1954)
"The Lysenko Maze", Donald A. Wollheim (F&SF 1954)
"The Patient", E. Mayne Hull (Unknown 1943)
"Cold War", Henry Kuttner (Thrilling Wonder Stories 1949)
"Skag with the Queer Head", Murray Leinster (Marvel Science Fiction 1951)
"Veiled Island", Emmett McDowell (Astounding 1946)
"Experimental Station", Kris Neville (Super Science Stories 1950)
"Family Resemblance", Alan E. Nourse (Astounding 1953)
"And Thou Beside Me", Mack Reynolds (F&SF 1954)
"This One's on Me", Eric Frank Russell (Nebula 1953)
"The Age of Prophecy", Margaret St. Clair (Future 1951)
"Love of Heaven", Theodore Sturgeon (Astounding 1948)
"The Impossible Voyage Home", Floyd L. Wallace (Galaxy 1954)
"The Conspirators", James White (New Worlds 1954)
"The Better Choice", S. Fowler Wright
"Bibliography of Mutation Stories"
"The Lysenko Maze" appeared under the "David Grinnell" pseudonym. "Experimental Station" was originally published as "The First".
Reception
J. Francis McComas, writing in The New York Times'', found the volume to be less successful than Conklin's four previous theme anthologies, because the chosen theme was "too narrow," but praised Conklin's story notes as "entertaining and effective."
References
Science fiction anthologies
Groff Conklin anthologies
Fictional mutants
1955 anthologies
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A missile strike on two residential buildings in Chasiv Yar was carried out by the Russian army at 21:17 local time on 9 July 2022, during the war between Russia and Ukraine. At least 48 people were killed. Due to the impact, a five-story residential building partially collapsed. Two entrances were completely destroyed.
Course of events
Chasiv Yar has a population of about 12,000 people and is located about southeast of Kramatorsk on the western side of the city of Bakhmut.
The strike was alleged, including by Donetsk Oblast governor Pavlo Kyrylenko, to have been performed with "Uragan", a self-propelled 220 mm multiple rocket launcher designed in the Soviet Union. The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that they destroyed a "temporary deployment point" of a Ukrainian territorial defence unit.
As of 10 July, 67 rescue workers of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine were trying to help the victims and more than 20 people were still feared to be trapped under the rubble.
Rescue and search operations continued until the morning of July 14, 2022. Rescuers dismantled about 525 tons of destroyed elements of the building. 323 employees of the State Emergency Service and 9 units of equipment were involved.
Victims
As of 13 July, 48 dead were found under the rubble of the building, and nine wounded were rescued as of 12 July. A local resident told the New York Times that there were 10 elderly civilians in the buildings, but that members of the military had come to lodge there two days earlier. He had tried to persuade his grandmother to move to a safe place, but she had refused. Two soldiers who probably took turns sleeping in the building after being on duty were among the dead.
At least eleven of the victims were soldiers originally from Ternopil Oblast.
Reactions
Andriy Yermak, the chief of staff to Ukraine's president, said that the strike was "another terrorist attack" and that Russia should be designated a "state sponsor of terrorism" as a result. Russian milit
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Lost River State Park is a state park located in Hardy County, West Virginia near the community of Mathias. The park encompasses managed by the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources. Despite the name of the park, it does not abut the Lost River; it lies about west of the river.
The park features a selection of twenty-six vacation cabins. It also provides hiking trails, horses, a swimming pool, and other sports facilities that include tennis, badminton, volleyball, and archery. Lost River State Park includes the historic Lighthorse Harry Lee Cabin (c. 1800), which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The park is located near the site of the 1756 Battle of the Trough, a skirmish between Virginia militia and a band of French and Indian warriors, during the French and Indian War.
See also
List of West Virginia state parks
References
External links
State parks of West Virginia
Protected areas of Hardy County, West Virginia
Protected areas established in 1934
National Register of Historic Places in Hardy County, West Virginia
Historic districts in Hardy County, West Virginia
Parks on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
IUCN Category III
Swimming venues in West Virginia
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The women's doubles tournament at the 1972 French Open was held from 22 May to 4 June 1972 on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The fourth-seeded team of Billie Jean King and Betty Stöve won the title, defeating the unseeded pair of Winnie Shaw and Nell Truman in the final in straight sets.
Seeds
Draw
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
References
External links
Main draw
1972 French Open – Women's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation
Women's Doubles
French Open by year – Women's doubles
1972 in women's tennis
1972 in French women's sport
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The Fort Independence Indian Community of Paiute Indians of the Fort Independence Reservation is a federally recognized tribe of Mono and Timbisha in the Owens Valley, in Inyo County, eastern California. As of the 2010 Census the population was 93.
Government
The Fort Independence Indian Community of Paiute Indians is headquartered in the town of Independence. The tribe is governed by a democratically elected tribal council. The current tribal administration is as follows.
Chairman: Carl Dahlberg
Vice Chairman: Alisa Lee
Secretary Treasurer: Jack Bracken
Gaming Commission: Wendy Stine, Chair, Daniel Miller, Vice & Carl Dahlberg, Compliance Officer.
Tribal Administrator: Carl Dahlberg
Assistant Tribal Administrator: Cheyenne Stone
Fiscal Manager: Anissa Eaton
Fiscal Assistant: Brianne Bent
Office Assistant: Jesseca Tsosie
Enrollment into the tribe is based on the original allottees at the time, 1999, when the tribe's Article of Association where adopted and all living descendants of the original allottees who have a minimum of Indian blood quantum, who are not enrolled in other tribes.
Reservation
The Fort Independence Reservation in Independence, is a federally recognized Indian reservation with a total area of in Inyo County. It was established in 1915. In 1990, the reservation was large with a population of 38 Indians.
Education
The reservation is served by the Owens Valley Unified School District.
See also
Indigenous peoples of California
Fort Independence (California)
Notes
References
Pritzker, Barry M. A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
External links
Fort Independence Indian Reservation, official website
Fort Independence Articles of Association, National Indian Law Library
"Fort Independence Reservation Reduces Waste by 26% through Recycling," US Environmental Protection Agency
Native American tribes in California
Paiute
Shoshone
Inyo County, California
Owens Va
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The A135 is a road in England, running from Stockton-on-Tees through Eaglescliffe to Yarm on the A67, on the boundary with the River Tees. It is also known as Yarm Road, and was the A19 before the dual carriageway was built.
In the 19th century, a stagecoach raced along Yarm Road against Locomotion Number One which ran alongside on the Stockton to Darlington railway line. There is no record as to which won the race.
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Roads in England
Roads in Yorkshire
Transport in County Durham
Transport in North Yorkshire
Transport in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees
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Evangelista Latino Enrico Vanni OFMCap (28 December 1878 – 9 May 1962) was an Italian Bishop and missionary who served as the Apostolic Vicar of Arabia from 1916 to 1927 and the Archbishop of Agra from 1937 to 1955. He also served as the Titular Archbishop of Tenedus from 1916 to 1955 and Titular bishop of Bizya from 1955 until his death.
Life
Evangelista Latino Enrico Vanni was born in Usella, a hamlet of Cantagallo, on 28 December 1878, from a poor and very religious family; Vanni knew from a very young age his determination to enter the seminary.
Priestly Ministry
On 15 March 1894, he took his first vows and received his Alb in the convent of Cortona. A year later, he made his simple profession and the solemn one on 8 December 1898.
On 21 June 1901, he was ordained a priest. He then taught for three years in the Seraphic College of Montevarchi, dedicating himself to preaching at the same time.
However, his greatest desire was to go on a mission. On 8 October 1905, the General Minister of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin sent him to India, to the Archdiocese of Agra. First opened by the Jesuits in 1579 and then entrusted to the Capuchins in the beginning of the 19th century, subsequently transformed into an Apostolic Vicariate, Agra then had been elevated to an archdiocese by Pope Leo XIII in 1886. That was a time of significant transformation, from a missionary point of view. In the general chapter of 9 May 1884, it was announced that each mission should be entrusted to a Capuchin province. Between 1890 and 1891, the General Curia of the order began negotiations with the Tuscan Province to entrust it with the care of the mission in Agra; a vast territory with 20 million inhabitants, of which about 12000 are Catholics. Vanni arrived in 1905, already 35 Tuscan Capuchins were on a mission. The extraordinary abilities of the young Capuchin emerged immediately. He was the vice-rector of St. Peter's College in Agra, an assistant chaplain in Bareilly, superior
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The Blessing of the Fleet is a tradition that began centuries ago in Mediterranean fishing communities. The practice began predominantly Catholic, but is now practiced by all Christians as a blessing from the local priest and pastors that is meant to ensure a safe and bountiful season.
In most ports, the event was brought by immigrants who held strongly to their Christian religious beliefs. The events that are part of the ritual vary by community and range from a simple ceremony to a multi-day festival including a church service, parades, Pageantry, dancing, feasting, and contests.
History
The tradition of blessing ships is very old and has been performed both at the launching of new vessels ("christening") as well as a regular practice to ensure protection of the ship and its crew. The origin of the practice is grounded among other in Jesus' calling of the fishermen to be his apostles as well as in the miraculous catch of fish through the intervention of Jesus.
The tradition of blessing boats seems to have been particularly common in the Mediterranean and blessings for boats from 15th century Italy survive. The blessing was often performed on specific days under the guardianship of different saints such as St. Peter in Gruissan in Occitanie and Birżebbuġa in Malta, St. Vito in Mazara del Vallo in Sicily or the Virgin of Carmel in various places in Spain such as Cartagena, La Savina and Ibiza. The tradition of putting the celebration under the patronage of the Virgin of Carmel in Spain was introduced by Antonio Barceló in the 18th century and therefore the celebrations often take place on the 16th of July (the saint's day) and include an image of the Virgin being carried by one of the boats.
The practice was, however, also known in Northern Europe. Before the reformation, the priests of Yarmouth would bless the fishing ships yearly and the priests would afterwards preach a fishing sermon. In the 19th century Hebrides, additionally to blessing new vessels, every
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The continent-ocean boundary (COB) or continent-ocean transition is the boundary between continental crust and oceanic crust on a passive margin. The identification of continent-ocean boundaries is important in the definition of plate boundaries at the time of break-up when trying to reconstruct the geometry and position of ancient continents e.g. in the reconstruction of Pangaea.
Techniques used in identification
Gravity data inversion - Moho depth can be derived by the inversion of satellite gravity data and thereby crustal thickness
Magnetic stripe data - Most areas of oceanic crust show characteristic stripes due to periodic magnetic reversals during formation at a mid-oceanic ridge. The continental crust is by contrast typically magnetically quiet.
Wide-angle seismic refraction and reflection data - These data give a precise location for the COB by determining the P-wave velocities along a profile. The two types of crust have distinct P-wave velocities.
Economic importance
As hydrocarbon exploration moves further offshore to look for the remaining potential on passive margins, understanding the location of the COB is critical to predicting possible hydrocarbon occurrence. This is both from the likely location of source and reservoir rocks and the need to model the thermal effects of break-up in basin modelling
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Structure of the Earth
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Jugoexport was an import–export firm established in 1953 in Belgrade, then capital of Yugoslavia. The firm established a retail business selling imported items and with time became a leading firm of such type in Yugoslavia. Its designers chose items by worldwide creators to be imported into the country, until they were joined by the fashion designer Mirjana Marić in 1970, who began the firm's own line of locally manufactured clothing for export. These collections were then realized in the largest and best clothing houses of the SFRY.
In 1990, Jugoexport began the My way project, headed by Gorica Popesko Pešić. In 1992, the company was hit with economic sanctions as a result of the Yugoslav Wars and the ongoing breakup of Yugoslavia. Business conditions became more difficult, which had a negative impact on the work of Jugoexport, and thus their influence on the Serbian fashion scene disappeared.
The company went bankrupt in 2001 and the Belgrade-based building was left to the state, which was unable to sell it until 2016 due to poor technical condition, obsolescence and high operating costs.
It used to be present in all large cities of former Yugoslavia, but the only remnant of the company in modern times is the former subsidiary of Jugoexport Stil based in Skopje, North Macedonia.
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1953 establishments in Serbia
2001 disestablishments in Serbia
Companies established in 1953
Companies based in Belgrade
Companies of Yugoslavia
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Wassand railway station was a railway station that served the villages of Wassand and Goxhill in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was on the Hull and Hornsea Railway.
It opened in 1865, and was originally named "Goxhill". It was renamed "Wassand" (to avoid confusion with Goxhill in Lincolnshire) on 1 October 1904, and closed on 21 September 1953.
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Wassand station on navigable 1947 O. S. map
Disused railway stations in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Former North Eastern Railway (UK) stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1865
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1953
Hull and Hornsea Railway
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Carol Partoș (also Charles Partos; 10 August 1936 — 2015) was a Romanian and Swiss chess International Master (1975), Romanian Chess Championship winner (1972).
Biography
From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, Carol Partoș was one of the leading Romanian chess players. Three times he won medals of Romanian Chess Championships: gold (1972), silver (1966) and bronze (1965).
Carol Partoș achieved several successes in international chess tournaments: shared 3rd place in Bucharest (1975), 1st place (1978) and shared 3rd place (1979) in Biel Chess Festival.
Carol Partoș emigrated to the Switzerland in the mid-1970s. In 1975, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title.
Carol Partoș played for Romania and Switzerland in the Chess Olympiads:
In 1972, at second reserve board in the 20th Chess Olympiad in Skopje (+5, =3, -2),
In 1974, at first reserve board in the 21st Chess Olympiad in Nice (+4, =4, -3),
In 1982, at fourth board in the 25th Chess Olympiad in Lucerne (+5, =2, -4),
In 1986, at fourth board in the 27th Chess Olympiad in Dubai (+2, =4, -3).
Carol Partoș played for Romania in the World Student Team Chess Championship:
In 1958, at second reserve board in the 5th World Student Team Chess Championship in Varna (+3, =2, -0) and won individual gold medal,
In 1965, at fourth board in the 12th World Student Team Chess Championship in Sinaia (+5, =3, -1).
Carol Partoș played for Romania in the Men's Chess Balkaniads:
In 1972, at fifth board in the 4th Men's Chess Balkaniad in Sofia (+2, =0, -2) and won team bronze and individual bronze medals,
In 1973, at fourth board in the 5th Men's Chess Balkaniad in Poiana Brașov (+3, =1, -0) and won team silver and individual gold medal,
In 1974, at third board in the 6th Men's Chess Balkaniad in Poreč (+0, =1, -1) and won team silver and individual bronze medal,
In 1975, at fifth board in the 7th Men's Chess Balkaniad in Istanbul (+1, =3, -0) and won team bronze and individual bronze medal.
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The German orthography reform of 1996 was a change to German spelling and punctuation that was intended to simplify German orthography and thus to make it easier to learn, without substantially changing the rules familiar to users of the language.
The reform was based on an international agreement signed in Vienna in July 1996 by the governments of the German-speaking countries—Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. Luxembourg did not participate despite having German as one of its three official languages: it regards itself "as a non-German-speaking country not to be a contributory determinant upon the German system of spelling", though it did eventually adopt the reform.
The reformed orthography became obligatory in schools and in public administration. However, there was a campaign against the reform, and in the resulting public debate the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany was called upon to delineate the extent of reform. In 1998 the court stated that because there was no law governing orthography, outside the schools people could spell as they liked, including the use of traditional spelling. In March 2006, the Council for German Orthography agreed unanimously to remove the most controversial changes from the reform; this was largely, though not completely, accepted by media organizations such as the that had previously opposed the reform.
The rules of the new spelling concern the following areas: correspondence between sounds and written letters (this includes rules for spelling loan words), capitalisation, joined and separate words, hyphenated spellings, punctuation, and hyphenation at the end of a line. Place names and family names were excluded from the reform.
New rules
Sounds and letters
The reform aimed to systematise the correspondence between sounds (phonemes) and letters (graphemes), and to strengthen the principle that derived forms should follow the spelling of the root form.
ß and ss: In reformed orthography the grapheme
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Howl of the Werewolf is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Jonathan Green and illustrated by Martin McKenna. It was published in 2007 by Wizard Books. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series. It is the 29th in the Wizard series. It is the first completely original Fighting Fantasy gamebook published by Wizard (Eye of the Dragon is an extended version of the adventure from Ian Livingstone's earlier book Dicing with Dragons). The book is made up of 515 references rather than the usual 400.
Howl of the Werewolf was voted the best gamebook in the series in a 2011 poll in Fighting Fantazine.
Story
To find the cure for their lycanthropy, the player must travel through oppressed towns to reach Castle Wulfen. On the way they may find several important items that they will use in your final battle against Count Varcolac.
Setting
The book's setting of Lupravia is another of the principalities of Mauristatia, like Mortvania which featured in the previous Fighting Fantasy book Vault of the Vampire. Lupravia is an exclusive location for this book. It is a highly gothic setting that includes many vampiric monsters such as werewolves.
Creation
Green had conceived the idea of Howl of the Werewolf before the cancellation of the series by Puffin Books. Green came up with the premise, the name of the book, the beginning of the story and the very end, along with a few background details at this earlier time, but came up with the majority of the ideas in the book when he began plotting it in 2006.
In writing the book, Green wanted to create an adventure that drew on the mythology and folklore surrounding werewolves, having found that their previous appearances in Fighting Fantasy took the form of shallow side-encounters. Green has stated that he took the criticisms of his previous work on the official Fighting Fantasy website forums into account when writing Howl of the Werewolf. The procedure for creating a character in Howl
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The 2021 Women's Asian Champions Trophy was the sixth edition of the Women's Asian Champions Trophy, a biennial field hockey tournament for the six best Asian women's national teams organized by the Asian Hockey Federation.
The tournament was held at the Donghae City Sunrise Stadium in Donghae, South Korea and it was originally scheduled from 14 to 21 June 2020. South Korea were the defending champions.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the tournament was postponed on 26 March 2020. In September 2020 the new dates were announced and the tournament would be held from 31 March to 6 April 2021. In January 2021 the tournament was postponed again and in October was postponed further to 5 to 12 December 2021.
Teams
The following four teams will be participating in the tournament. Malaysia could not play their first two matches of the tournament and eventually had to withdraw due to Covid-related issues. On 9 December India also had to withdraw from the tournament due to the same reason.
Notes
Results
All times are local, KST (UTC+9).
First round
Classification round
Third place game
Final
Statistics
Final standings
Goalscorers
See also
2021 Men's Asian Champions Trophy
References
Asian Champions Trophy
Women's Asian Champions Trophy
International women's field hockey competitions hosted by South Korea
Donghae City
Sport in Gangwon Province, South Korea
Champions Trophy
Asian Champions Trophy
Asian Champions Trophy
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John Henry Chamberlain, William Martin, and Frederick Martin were architects in Victorian Birmingham, England. Their names are attributed singly or pairs to many red brick and terracotta buildings, particularly 41 of the forty-odd Birmingham board schools made necessary by the Elementary Education Act 1870.
John Henry Chamberlain (1831–1883)
Settled in Birmingham in 1856 and went into partnership with William Martin in 1864. He was the innovative designer in the partnership. The grade I listed Birmingham School of Art, Margaret Street was one of his last commissions. It was finished by William Martin after Chamberlain's death.
William Martin (1829–1900)
Was the Birmingham public works architect when J. H. Chamberlain joined him. He continued to work under the name of Martin & Chamberlain after Chamberlain's death. He later went into partnership with his son, Frederick Martin.
Frederick Martin
Son of William Martin, designed the grade I listed former Bell Edison Telephone Building: 17 & 19 Newhall Street.
Martin & Chamberlain were responsible for the Birmingham board schools, being made architects to the new Schools Board in 1871 and building 30 schools between 1871 and 1883, using Chamberlain's gothic design and bold visible ironwork. They were the surveyors for the new Corporation Street from 1878.
They designed police stations, public baths and waterworks. Historic England have designated their Pumping Station, Whitacre Waterworks as a Grade II* listed building, being amongst the very best structures by these architects.
In 1871 Martin & Chamberlain were responsible for St Nicolas' Church, Hockley, St Stephen's Church, Selly Park, St Barnabas church in the Franche area of Kidderminster. St John's Church, Sparkhill, built in 1888 is a further example of their work.
See also
John Henry Chamberlain
William Martin
Elementary Education Act 1870
Birmingham board schools
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The Victorian Society in Birmingham (Three City Trails, Victorian Architects of
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Fidel Castro Smith (born 17 April 1963), also known as Slugger O'Toole, is a British former boxer who was British super middleweight champion between 1991 and 1992 and fought for the Commonwealth and European titles.
Career
Born in Nottingham in 1963, Smith was named after Cuban leader Fidel Castro, whom his father admired. Previously a kickboxer, Smith made his professional début in April 1987 initially fighting under the name Slugger O'Toole, and won five of his first six fights before gaining his first title in February 1988 when he stopped Ian Bayliss in the sixth round to take the Central Area middleweight title. In September 1991 he fought Ian Strudwick for the vacant British super middleweight title, stopping Strudwick in the sixth round to become British champion. He successfully defended the title in February 1992 against Lou Gent.
In September 1992 he faced Henry Wharton in Leeds with his British title and the Commonwealth title at stake; Wharton took the titles on points.
Three months later Smith faced Vincenzo Nardiello for the vacant European super middleweight title, and again lost on points.
Returning in August 1993 with a win over Karl Barwise, his next fight was another challenge for the British super middleweight title that had been vacated by Wharton; James Cook took the title on points. After defeat to Sam Storey in May 1994, Smith got another shot at the British title in January 1995, but this time lost to Ali Forbes in what would prove to be Smith's final fight.
References
External links
Career record at boxrec.com
1963 births
Living people
Boxers from Nottingham
English male boxers
Middleweight boxers
Super-middleweight boxers
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The River Brit is a river in west Dorset in south-west England, which rises just to the north of Beaminster. It then flows south to Netherbury and Bridport, where it is joined by tributaries: the River Simene and River Asker. South of Bridport, it reaches Lyme Bay on the English Channel coast, at West Bay. The Brit has a length of .
Name
The river takes its name from the town of Bridport, which in turn derives from the River Bride, the neighbouring drainage basin to the east, which has connections with Bridport's early history. Before the establishment of Bridport, the Brit was named the River Wooth. This is still reflected in the names of settlements, such as Wooth Manor and Camesworth.
Natural history
The river has Indian balsam plants on its banks. It was previously polluted by the local hemp and flax industries and by sewage discharges, but the environment of the river has improved in recent years. Fish species found include the stone loach, brown trout and minnows. These in turn support wildlife such as kingfishers and otters. Conditions are healthy enough to support the parr of salmon and sea trout, which live in the river for two to five years before turning into smolt and returning to the sea; fish passes have been installed to facilitate this.
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Video of paddling up the River Brit Retrieved 22 May 2017.
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Haskin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Byron Haskin (1899–1984), American director
Dewitt Clinton Haskin (c. 1824 – 1900), American engineer
Grant Haskin (born 1968), South African politician
John B. Haskin (1821–1895), American politician
Joseph A. Haskin (1818–1874), United States Army officer
Marvin Haskin (1930–2009), American physician and professor
Scott Haskin (born 1970), American basketball player
Steve Haskin (born 1947), American journalist and writer
William L. Haskin (1841–1931), United States Army officer
See also
Haskins (surname)
Hoskin, surname
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Cleremont Farm is a historic home and farm located near Upperville, Loudoun County, Virginia. The original section of the house was built in two stages between about 1820 and 1835, and added onto subsequently in the 1870s. 1940s. and 1980s. It consists of a stone portion, a log portion, and a stone kitchen wing. It has a five bay, two-story, gable-roofed center section in the Federal style. A one-bay, one-story Colonial Revival-style pedimented entrance portico was built in the early 1940s. Also on the property are the contributing original -story, stuccoed stone dwelling (1761); a stone kitchen from the late 19th or early 20th century; a stuccoed frame tenant house built about 1940; a stone carriage mount; and a series of five stone walls.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Federal architecture in Virginia
Colonial Revival architecture in Virginia
Houses completed in 1820
Houses in Loudoun County, Virginia
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Valaichenai Hindu College (), Batticaloa, was established in 1926, by Mr. Costhappa Kandaiya. Valaichenai Hindu College is a Navodaya School, which provides primary and secondary education. The school has a student population exceeding 1800 across 13 grades from primary to secondary classes. The school resides in Valaichenai. The academic staff of more than 70 is led by Principal Mr. A Jeyajeevan.
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Educational institutions established in 1926
Provincial schools in Sri Lanka
Schools in Batticaloa District
1926 establishments in Ceylon
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Athippatta Sivaraman Nair, better known as A. S. Nair or simply A. S., was a painter, illustrator and cartoonist from Kerala, India. He was born in Karalmanna village of Palakkad district and had his training from Madras School of Arts.
He began his career in Jayakerala and Mathrubhumi, where he worked till his last. Most of Nair's works were original illustrations for novels and short stories, most of them published in Mathrubhumi weekly. Illustrations for the Malayalam translation of V. S. Khandekar's Marathi novel Yayati was one of his most noted works. He was known to be the master of illustration in Kerala and has 115 original works, including illustrations and a few paintings to his credit. He died on 30 June 1988, aged just 57.
Chitrangal A.S. (Current Books), edited by R. J. Prasad, collects Nair's writings, illustrations and covers.
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Sources
Sketches by A. S. Nair and other Kerala illustrators
20th-century Indian painters
Painters from Kerala
People from Palakkad district
Year of birth missing
1988 deaths
Indian editorial cartoonists
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The Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging is a research institute which develops magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for both cognitive neuroscience and medical diagnosis and treatment.
History
It was founded in July 2005 by the University Duisburg-Essen (Germany) and the Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands).
It is located on the grounds of the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Zollverein in the Northeast of the city of Essen, Germany.
The industrial complex Zollverein is a former coal mine and coke processing plant which represents an industry which dominated the industrialization of the Ruhr area in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries.
The institute is named after Erwin L. Hahn, a physicist who has made innumerable contributions to the field of magnetic resonance.
The centerpiece of the institute is a 7 Tesla whole-body magnet resonance imager from Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany. In contrast to the magnetic resonance imagers used in hospitals and clinics throughout the world, which commonly operate at a magnetic field strength of 1.5 Tesla, the ultra high magnetic field strength of this imager provides significantly higher sensitivity for structural and functional measurements of the human body.
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Medical research institutes in Germany
Magnetic resonance imaging
Medical imaging organizations
Research institutes established in 2005
Medical and health organisations based in North Rhine-Westphalia
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Tiong Bahru Park is a public park between Henderson, Bukit Merah and Lower Delta Road in Singapore. First developed around 1967, it combined with a nursery site in 1977 and in 2000, it was redeveloped.
See also
List of Parks in Singapore
National Parks Board
References
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Tiong Bahru Park at National Parks Board website
Parks in Singapore
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Joseph-Arthur Dufresne (1861-1933) was a local politician in Shawinigan, Quebec. He was the second mayor of Shawinigan.
He was born in 1861 in Trois-Rivières, Mauricie and married to Georgiana Larouche, from Blind River, ON Famille directe. He moved to Shawinigan after he was offered a job by the Shawinigan Water & Power Company.
He served as a council member in 1901 and 1902 and became mayor of the city in 1902.
He left Shawinigan and moved back to Trois-Rivières in 1903. He became the owner of two hotels in Trois-Rivières QC. The first one (before the huge fire of June 1908 was on the "rue du Fleuve", the second one on the corner of the "rue des Forges" at "rue Royale" He died in 1933.
Footnotes
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Mayors of Shawinigan
Mauricie
Shawinigan, Quebec
1861 births
1933 deaths
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The Algeria–Mali border is 1,359 km (844 m) in length and runs from the tripoint with Mauritania in the north-west to the tripoint with Niger in the south-east.
Description
The border begins in the west at the tripoint with Mauritania, and is a continuation of the NW-SE straight line that forms the Algeria–Mauritania border. This straight line runs for circa 752 km (467 m). Just north of the 21st parallel north the border shifts southwards, proceeding to the south-east via a series of irregular lines and the Tin-Zaouatene and I-n-Akantarer wadis, before turning to the north-east where a straight line connects up to the tripoint with Niger. The border lies entirely within the Sahara desert.
History
In the French conquest of Algeria, most of northern Algeria was taken by France, during the period 1830-47, incorporating it as an integral part of France. The 1880s saw an intense competition between the European powers for territories in Africa, a process known as the Scramble for Africa. The process culminated in the Berlin Conference of 1884, in which the European nations concerned agreed upon their respective territorial claims and the rules of engagements going forward. As a result of this. France gained control of the upper valley of the Niger River (roughly equivalent to the areas of modern Mali and Niger). France occupied this area in 1900; Mali (then referred to as French Sudan) was originally included, along with modern Niger and Burkina Faso, within the Upper Senegal and Niger colony, however it was later split off and became a constituent of the federal colony of French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, abbreviated AOF).
In the meantime the French had been pushing south from the Algerian littoral, conquering much of the Algerian Sahara in 1902. A boundary between French West Africa and French Algeria (i.e. Algeria's modern borders with Mauritania, Mali and Niger) was agreed on 7 June 1905 by the Commandant of Upper Senegal and Niger and the Milita
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Gems & Gemology is a quarterly scientific journal published by the Gemological Institute of America. Each issue is devoted to research on diamonds, gemstones, and pearls. Topics include geographic sources, imitations and synthetics, treatments, and identification techniques. Established in January 1934, Gems & Gemology is geared toward jewelry professionals and gemologists.
Issues contain research articles, updates from the GIA Laboratory and international gemology news. Gems & Gemology is abstracted and indexed by the Science Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2016 impact factor is 0.793, ranking it 24th out of 29 journals in the category "Mineralogy".
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Gemology
Mineralogy
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The New Jersey Southern Railroad was a railroad that started in 1854. It would continue under this name until the 1870s as a separate company and the lines that it had constructed or run continued to be run in the New Jersey Southern name until the early 2000s.
Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad
The New Jersey Southern Railroad (NJS) began life as the Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad Company (R&DB), in March 1854. The R&DB was chartered to construct a railroad from the Raritan Bay to Cape Island (Cape May), near the outlet of the Delaware Bay. It was to form part of a rail and water route from the New York City area to the Norfolk, Virginia area. The man behind it was William A Torrey, who owned in the area of present-day Lakehurst.
Construction began in 1858 from Port Monmouth on Raritan Bay. The first segment opened in June 1860 ran south via Red Bank as far as Eatontown and then by a branch running east to the resort town of Long Branch on the shore. It was the first railroad to reach Long Branch. Summer service in the first year was three train and boat trips per day in each direction. This first section included what would remain the two largest engineering works on the line: the long pier at Port Monmouth and the Navesink River bridge at Red Bank.
Later in 1860 the main line was opened as far as Lakewood. As construction continued, instead of turning southeast at Lakehurst to Toms River and parallel to the shore to Cape May, the main line continued southwest, opening to Whiting (Manchester Township) and Atsion (now in Wharton State Forest) in 1862. The route passed through the center of the lightly populated Pine Barrens, and was connected to towns on Barnegat Bay only by stages running on public roads. A branch to Toms River was opened later, in 1866, and extended to Waretown in 1872.
The reason for the Pine Barrens routing soon became clear. In September 1862, the R&DB and the Camden and Atlantic Railroad began operating a through service b
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is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsukasa Hojo. It was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1981 to 1985, and collected into 18 tankōbon by Shueisha. The story follows the adventures of the three Kisugi sisters, Hitomi, Rui and Ai, who are art thieves trying to collect all the works belonging to their missing father.
Cat's Eye was adapted into an anime series by Tokyo Movie Shinsha and directed by Yoshio Takeuchi. thirty-six episodes were broadcast between July 11, 1983 until March 26, 1984. The opening theme "Cat's Eye" and the ending theme "Dancing with the Sunshine" were both sung by Anri.
A second series was later produced that ran for thirty-seven episodes from October 8, 1984 until July 8, 1985. The opening and the ending themes were by Mariko Tone.
For the 30th anniversary of the anime, the series was released in Japan on Blu-ray format from a new transfer. Two boxsets, one for each series were published by King Records on March 13, 2013. The boxset for the second series came with a DVD-ROM of animation artwork.
On April 16, 2007, ImaginAsian announced that they would broadcast the first season of Cat's Eye on ImaginAsian TV, and would thereafter give the series its first North American home video release, which happened in September 2007. The show began broadcasting in June of that year, with the first DVD released later that September. As of August 2008, it is currently unavailable. However, ImaginAsian still hold the license and is working to someday re-release the series. At Anime Expo 2013, Right Stuf Inc. announced that they had licensed the series and will release it on DVD under their Nozomi label. In November 2015 the series was added to the Crunchyroll streaming service. On December 13, 2021, Discotek Media announced that they have licensed Cat's Eye for Blu-ray release in North America. with the complete first season being released on April 26, 2022.
Series 1
Series 2
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Cat's Eye
fr:Signé Cat's Eyes#
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Bovalino is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria, located about southwest of Catanzaro and about east of Reggio Calabria. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 8,406 and an area of .
The municipality of Bovalino contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Bosco S. Ippolito (), Belloro, Russellina, Bricà, S. Nicola, Pozzo, Bovalino Superiore, Biviera, Rosa, and Cipparello.
Bovalino borders the following municipalities: Ardore, Benestare, Casignana, San Luca.
Bovalino was also the birthplace of the Blessed Camillus Costanzo.
Demographic evolution
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www.comune.bovalino.rc.it/
Cities and towns in Calabria
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The Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust ran Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Honeylands Children's Centre (for specialist assessment and support for children with special needs and their families), the Exeter Mobility Centre (providing orthotics, prosthetics, wheelchairs and special seating), and the Mardon Neuro-Rehabilitation Centre. The trust's application for NHS Foundation Trust status was approved in December 2003, which became effective on 1 April 2004.
The trust took over the management of Castle Place Practice with 15,000 patients in Tiverton in 2018. It also now runs a number of community services including inpatient beds in Tiverton, Sidmouth and Exmouth.
It merged with the Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust in April 2022 to form the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, chaired by Dame Shan Morgan.
Performance
In October 2014, it was reported that the Trust was not meeting the government target for 85% of cancer patients to be treated within 62 days of being referred by their GP. The trust said it was due to increasing demand for complex surgery, and that treatment was only delayed if "clinically appropriate".
In May 2015, the trust reported an end-of-year deficit of £11.2million – an increase of £8.1M compared with the previous financial year.
It expects a deficit of £20.2M for 2015/6.
Developments
In 2018, the trust announced that it was to implement a single Epic Systems electronic patient record systems in place of the 15 systems it has been using. It will cost £42M. The trust say "Patients will be able to access their patient records, medical history, and test results, and they will get instant confirmation of when appointments are booked rather than having to wait for letters to arrive."
In 2021 the trust bought the site of its local Nightingale Hospital, on an industrial estate outside the city, which will be used for several types of elective care. It plans to lease two modular operating theatres on the site
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William Carl Doyle (July 30, 1912 – September 4, 1951) was an American professional baseball pitcher who appeared in 51 games in four seasons in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics (1935–1936), Brooklyn Dodgers (1939–1940) and St. Louis Cardinals (1940). A right-hander, he was listed as tall and .
Doyle's pro career lasted eight seasons (1935–1941, 1943). In his 51 MLB games pitched, he posted a 6–15 won–lost record and a poor 6.95 earned run average, surrendering 277 hits, 155 bases on balls, and 172 earned runs in 222 innings pitched; he fanned 101. Notably, he was one of four players that Brooklyn traded to the Cardinals on June 12, 1940, in their blockbuster acquisition of slugger Joe Medwick. He managed the Morristown Red Sox of the Mountain States League in 1950.
Doyle died in the city of his birth, Knoxville, Tennessee, of a pulmonary infarction in 1951 at age 39.
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1951 deaths
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Brooklyn Dodgers players
Houston Buffaloes players
Knoxville Smokies players
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Memphis Chickasaws players
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Sir Samuel Gluckstein (28 September 1880 – 19 August 1958) was a British solicitor and politician.
Early life
He was the son of Isidore Gluckstein (1851-1920), son of one of the founders of J. Lyons and Co. (Samuel Gluckstein), and his wife Rose (née Cohen). Gluckstein was educated at the City of London School and privately.
Career
He subsequently studied law and became a partner in the Bartlett & Gluckstein, solicitors.
In 1906, he entered local politics when he was elected to Westminster City Council as a Municipal Reform Party councillor. The Municipal Reformers were allied to the parliamentary Conservative Party. He was Mayor of Westminster in 1920-21 and became an alderman in 1924. In 1953 he was made an honorary freeman of Westminster.
In 1929 he became a member of the London County Council, sitting as a councillor representing Westminster, Abbey until 1949.
He was chairman of the council's finance committee in 1932-34 and Deputy Chairman of the County Council in 1939-40.
Gluckstein made three unsuccessful attempts to win parliamentary seats for the Conservatives: at Plymouth, Devonport in 1924 and 1929, and at Hammersmith North in 1926.
He was a member of the Court of the University of London, by whom he was awarded an honorary degree in law.
He was knighted in 1933 "for political and public services in Westminster".
Personal life
In 1909 he married Julia, daughter of Samuel Joseph. The couple had no children.
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Members of Westminster Metropolitan Borough Council
Members of London County Council
Mayors of places in Greater London
People educated at the City of London School
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The women's 400 metres hurdles at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 23, 24 and 26 August.
Summary
Zuzana Hejnová of the Czech Republic entered the competition as the defending champion.
Through these championships Cassandra Tate had been the #1 qualifier in the heats and #2 in the semi-finals, earning her a center lane position next to #1 qualifier, the defending champion Hejnová. The world leader coming into the event was World Junior Champion Shamier Little. While Little had been almost mechanical in winning the NCAA Championships, the US Championships and the Pan American Games over a long season, in this championship she struggled through the rounds, the slowest qualifier in both. Her slow time in the semi relegated her to the inside lane, lane 2 on Beijing's 9 lane track.
In the finals, those were the players, with Hejnová in a clear lead by the final turn, with Little and Tate chasing. Hejnová just continued to build her lead unchallenged to the finish, as Little struggled over hurdle 8, stretching to 9 and again awkward at 10. Still Little's strength was able to beat Tate to the line for silver. Sara Petersen made a late rush at Tate coming into the 10th hurdle, but Tate carried her momentum better into the finish to claim bronze.
Records
Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
Qualification standards
Schedule
Results
Heats
Qualification: Best 4 (Q) and next 4 fastest (q) qualify for the next round.
Semifinals
Qualification: Best 2 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the next round.
Final
The final was started at 20:10.
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400 metres hurdles
400 metres hurdles at the World Athletics Championships
2015 in women's athletics
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György Rehus-Uzor (10 July 1946 – 20 August 2020) was a Hungarian weightlifter. He competed in the men's middle heavyweight event at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He finished in fourth place. He was born in Budapest.
Rehus-Uzor died on 20 August 2020 in Budapest, aged 74.
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2020 deaths
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The natural resource consumption tax is a kind of tax which is aimed to help ensure long run sustainability by increasing awareness of natural resource consumption.
International water
The popular conception of international waters is that there is no owner of them, so anyone can take advantage of them. Some propose that instead international waters are to be seen as owned by all the people of the planet. Hence, any particular person exploiting the natural resources of international waters should be taxed by the United Nations, any proxy of it, or some other international agency.
Sovereignty territory
At present, property laws govern this issue. Natural resources are bound to the land and offshore natural resources are deemed to be owned by the state. Generally speaking, there is no tax on the consumption of natural resources. It might be difficult to implement such a tax.
Stumpage System
The stumpage fee can also be deemed as a kind of natural resources consumption tax.
See also
Consumption tax
Ecotax
Land value tax
Severance tax
Tax shift
Environmental tax
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Rosario La Spina is an Australian operatic tenor who has had an active international career since the early 2000s. He has worked with many leading opera houses and orchestras, singing under such conductors as Renato Palumbo, Bruno Bartoletti, Gary Bertini, Daniele Callegari and Richard Hickox. Since 2005, he has been particularly active with Opera Australia.
Early life
Rosario La Spina is of Sicilian descent. He was born and raised in Brisbane, Queensland. He first became a bricklayer in his family's business until a work accident at the age of 23 gave him time to take singing lessons.
Career
La Spina began singing lessons with Brisbane vocal tutor Leonard Lee. Three years later, Lee suggested La Spina attend the local music Conservatorium to gain the necessary stage experience. La Spina studied voice at the Queensland Conservatorium where he won the Elizabeth Muir Memorial Prize in 1994. After earning his degree, he pursued graduate work in voice at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England under Joseph Ward, OBE. During his training, he performed Handel's Messiah, Dvořák's Stabat Mater and Orff's Carmina Burana and made guest appearances as Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Stadttheater Bern and as soloist in operatic galas with the Ulster Orchestra, Belfast and the Cairo Symphony Orchestra, Egypt. He appeared with the SBS Radio and Television Youth Orchestra and was a member of the Ten Tenors.
In 2000, he won first prize in tenor competition at L'Accademia di La Scala. The competition win enabled him to study for two years in La Scala's young artist program under Luciana Serra and Leyla Gencer, and led to his La Scala debut as the Messenger in Camille Saint-Saëns's Samson and Delilah with Plácido Domingo and Olga Borodina in the title roles.
In 2002, La Spina took first prize in the Mario Del Monaco International Opera Competition. That same year he returned to La Scala for his first principal role at the house as Riccardo in Giuseppe Ver
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The 18th Asian Table Tennis Championships 2007 were held in Yangzhou, China, from 17 to 23 September 2007. It was organised by the Chinese Table Tennis Association under the authority of Asian Table Tennis Union (ATTU) and International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).
Medal summary
Medal table
Events
References
Asian Table Tennis Championships
Asian Table Tennis Championships
Table Tennis Championships
Table tennis competitions in China
Asian Table Tennis Championships
Asian Table Tennis Championships
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The Gela river is located in Sicily. It originates from the Disueri lake and, after about 59 kilometers, flows into the Strait of Sicily of the Mediterranean Sea, near the town Gela.
Overview
The extension of the basin of the river is about 569 square kilometers.
Giozzo and Maroglio are its main tributary rivers.
The name Gela (Γέλα) may come from the Greek verb γελάω "I smile/laugh".
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Rivers of the Province of Caltanissetta
Rivers of Sicily
Gela
Rivers of Italy
European drainage basins of the Mediterranean Sea
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The women's 4×200 metre freestyle relay event at the 2015 African Games took place on 6 September 2015 at Kintele Aquatic Complex.
Schedule
All times are Congo Standard Time (UTC+01:00)
Records
Results
Final
References
External links
Official website
Swimming at the 2015 African Games
2015 in women's swimming
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James Ridout Winchester (May 17, 1944 – April 11, 2014) known as Jesse Winchester, was an American musician and songwriter. He was known for being a Vietnam War activist. To avoid going to the war, he moved to Canada. He became a Canadian citizen in 1973, gained amnesty in the U.S. in 1977 and resettled there in the U.S. in 2002.
He recorded many songs with many musical artists. Some of them included Patti Page, Elvis Costello, Jimmy Buffett, Joan Baez, Anne Murray, Reba McEntire, The Everly Brothers and Emmylou Harris.
Winchester died at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia from bladder cancer, aged 69.
References
Other websites
radio interview at WRN
HOTSEAT- Southern gent? Folk legend moves to town
Fame & Fortune: Jesse Winchester
1944 births
2014 deaths
American activists
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American folk musicians
American guitarists
American songwriters
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Deaths from bladder cancer
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Harcharan Singh may refer to:
Harcharan Singh Brar (1922–2009), ex-chief minister of Punjab, India
Hercharn Singh (born 1986), first Sikh officer to be commissioned in the Pakistan Army
Harcharan Singh (cricketer) (1938-2019), Indian cricketer
Harcharan Singh (field hockey) (born 1950), Indian field hockey player
Harcharan Singh (writer) (1914–2006), Punjabi dramatist and writer
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Donhead St Andrew is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, on the River Nadder. It lies east of the Dorset market town of Shaftesbury. The parish includes the hamlets of West End, Milkwell and (on the A30) Brook Waters.
Ferne House, on the site of a former manor house, is within the parish.
History
Donhead St Andrew and its neighbour Donhead St Mary were once part of a single Donhead estate. By c. 1200 Donhead St Andrew had a church, and the 'St Andrew' suffix was in use in 1240.
The Wardour estate occupies the northeast of the parish. Wardour Castle, built in the 1390s and now known as Old Wardour Castle, straddles the boundary with Tisbury parish. South of the castle stands Old Wardour House, built for the Arundells in the 17th century after the partial destruction of the castle in the Civil War. New Wardour Castle, a large country house begun in 1769, is nearby in Tisbury parish.
The ridgeway which enters the parish from the east at White Sheet Hill (not to be confused with Whitesheet Hill north of Mere) became part of the Salisbury-Exeter road, following the route of the present A30 towards Shaftesbury. By 1788 the present lower-level route was in use instead of the ridgeway.
A school was built near the church in 1835 and became a National School, then was rebuilt on the same site in 1880, to provide places for 100 children. The school closed in 1970.
Population of the parish peaked around the time of the 1841 census when 900 were recorded, then fell steadily until stabilising at around half that number in the mid-20th century.
Church
The Anglican Church of St Andrew has 12th-century origins and was extended and remodelled in the 14th, 15th and 17th. Victorian restoration included the rebuilding of the chancel and tower. The tower has four bells, the oldest from the 15th century.
The poet William Lisle Bowles was a curate at the church until 1792. A wall tablet is a memorial to Captain John Cooke, a naval officer killed at the Battle of Tr
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The Wyss Foundation is a charitable organization based in Washington, D.C., that was founded by philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss. Established in 1998, the foundation has provided funding to conservation, environmental journalism, education, museums and progressive political advocacy.
Overview
The Wyss Foundation, based in Washington, D.C., was established by Hansjörg Wyss in 1998. The organization has offices in Washington, D.C., and Durango, Colorado. Molly McUsic is the president of the foundation. The organization has donated to the conservation of public lands in the western United States, as well as in North America more broadly, South America, Australia, Europe, and Africa. As of 2018, Hansjörg Wyss and the Wyss Foundation had donated more than $450 million to help conserve approximately 40 million acres of public lands and oceans.
Assets and grantmaking activities
As of 2015, the Wyss Foundation had more than $2 billion in assets.
In 2014, the organization donated $83.6 million, according to the Foundation Center. That was followed by $35.3 million in grants in 2015.
Conservation
Between 2006 and 2010, Wyss contributed $2.5 million to retire oil and gas leases that covered 110,000 acres of public land around the Rocky Mountain Front. In 2008, the foundation donated $12.5 million to The Nature Conservancy, and during 2009–2010, an additional $35 million in support of The Nature Conservancy's "Montana Legacy Project" to preserve 310,000 acres of timberland. During the late 2000s, the organization provided a $7 million bridge loan to the Western Rivers Conservancy. In 2013, that resulted in the establishment of Oregon's Cottonwood Canyon State Park. During 2011–2013 the organization donated approximately $4.5 million to the Conservation Lands Foundation, where Hansjörg Wyss served as a founding board member.
In 2012, the foundation contributed $4.5 million to The Trust for Public Land campaign to retire oil and natural gas leases covering 58,000 acres of the
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Long tail is a consumer demographic in business.
Long tail or Longtail may also refer to:
The Long Tail (book), a popular book about the effect of Long Tail on the web media
Power law's long tail, a statistics term describing certain kinds of distribution
Long-tail boat, a type of watercraft native to Southeast Asia
Long-tail distribution, a probability distribution that assigns relatively high probabilities to regions far from the mean or median
Long-tail traffic, telecommunication traffic that exhibits a long-tail distribution
Long-tailed macaque, also called the crab-eating macaque
Longtail (bicycle), type of bicycle with a longer than usual frame wheelbase
Longtail (rat), euphemism used to denote a rat on the Isle of Man
Longtail Studios, Canadian video game company
White-tailed tropicbird, or longtail in Bermuda, a type of bird
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Paradentiscutata baiana is a species of fungus. It is characterised by introverted ornamentations on the spore wall; the spore wall structure and germ shield morphology. It was first isolated in northeast Brazil, and can be distinguished by the projections on the outer spore surface.
References
Further reading
Silva, Gladstone Alves da, Leonor Costa Maia, and Fritz Oehl. "Phylogenetic systematics of the Gigasporales." Mycotaxon 122.1 (2013): 207–220.
Marinho, Frederico, et al. "Bulbospora minima, a new genus and a new species in the Glomeromycetes from semi-arid Northeast Brazil." Sydowia66.2 (2014): 313–323.
Lima, Ruy Anderson Araújo de. "Dinâmica sazonal de fungos micorrízicos arbusculares (Glomeromycota) em cerradão e brejo de altitude na Chapada do Araripe, CE." (2013).
External links
MycoBank
Glomeromycota
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The Penalty Law of the People's Republic of China, as amended in 1997, provides for a penalty of death, or imprisonment for life or no less than 10 years, for "killing with intent." However, the penalty for "minor killing with intent" is imprisonment for no less than 3 years. In practice, "killing with indignation" (killing someone who is obviously very harmful to the society) and killings committed in excessive defense are considered "minor."
See also
List of murder laws by country
References
China, People's Republic of
Chinese law
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A presentation copy is a copy of a book that has been presented, usually by the author or someone associated with the book's production, to another individual. The copy usually contains a presentation inscription identifying it as a presentation copy, such as an author's signature. A simple Latin inscription is ex dono authoris ("from the author's gift"). In manuscripts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, a presentation copy often contained a presentation miniature, a small painting depicting the author giving a copy to a recipient.
There are three types of presentation copy. The first and most common is that given by the author or someone associated with the book's production, such as the printer or illustrator. The second includes special presentation copies prepared for prominent individuals, such as kings. A small number of presentation copies are associated neither with the book's producers nor famous individuals and are notable only for the usually fine details of binding or printing. Unqualified, the term "presentation copy" always suggests a copy gifted by the author.
A dedication copy is a copy presented to the dedicatee. They rank highly among presentation copies in collectors' estimations. An inscribed copy is not a presentaion copy, but is signed by the author at the book owner's request. Presentation copies are generally more valuable and rarer than inscribed copies. Even presentation copies vary in value depending on their closeness to the author. The most valuable are those that have the author's dated autograph from the time of publication.
Examples of presentation copies
Plays, Never Before Printed (1668), signed by Margaret Cavendish at the Folger Shakespeare Library
An Account of the Abipones (1784), presentation copy from John Carter Brown to John R. Bartlett at the John Hay Library, Brown University
A Study in Scarlet (1887), signed "With the Author's Compliments" by Arthur Conan Doyle at the Beinecke Library, Yale University
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Marta Tufet Bayona is a British and Spanish biologist and public health resource coordinator with a specialty in malaria. She is executive director of the UK Collaborative on Development Research.
Early life and education
Tufet is from the United Kingdom. She is half Ecuadorian.
Tufet received a BSc in biology from Imperial College London. She remained there for her doctoral degree, where she specialised in parasitology and studied rhoptry proteins. In 2006, Tufet earned a PhD in cellular and molecular biology from the Faculty of Life Sciences at Imperial College London. Her thesis was titled "Search for Novel Rhoptry Proteins in Plasmodium Berghei".
Career
From 2002 to 2005, Tufet worked as a research assistant at both Imperial College London and Leiden University Medical Center. From 2006 to 2009, Tufet was a scientific copy editor at Nature Publishing.
From 2008 to 2009, she was a scientific grants writer at the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador. It was whilst working at the Charles Darwin Foundation that she first became concerned about the challenges that face scientific researchers in the developing world. She lived in the Galápagos Islands and became involved with the Galapagos Conservation Trust.
From 2009 to 2017, Tufet worked in various positions at Wellcome Trust in London. In her position as science portfolio adviser, she coordinated grant funding in the areas of animal health, bacteriology and immunology. This involved coordination of projects for the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme (a partnership with the Kenya Medical Research Institute), the UK Biobank, the Insect Pollinators Initiative and the Bloomsbury Centre for Tropical Medicine. As international activities adviser, she worked to support educational research as part of the African Institutions Initiative. She worked on the Global Health Trials Initiative, DELTAS Africa programme, and on the Ebola Research Funding Initiative.
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Wendjebauendjed was an ancient Egyptian general, high dignitary and high priest during the reign of pharaoh Psusennes I of the 21st Dynasty. He is mainly known for his intact tomb found by Pierre Montet inside the royal necropolis of Tanis (NRT III).
Biography
Nothing is known about his life other than his occupations: Wendjebauendjed held an impressive list of military, administrative and religious titles, such as Hereditary prince, count, Seal-bearer of the King of Lower Egypt, God's father, General and Army leader, High steward (later High priest) of Khonsu, Priest of "Osiris lord of Mendes", Superintendent of the Prophets of all the gods and Superintendent of the Sole Friend.
The fact that Wendjebauendjed held such important offices granted him the great honor to be buried in the royal necropolis even though he was not a royal personage. According to one of his titles, it is possible that he was a native of Mendes (Djedet). His mummified remains shows that he was perhaps of Nubian descent and that he died around his fifties.
Discovery
The name Wendjebauendjed was initially found by Pierre Montet and Georges Goyon in 1939 carved on some statuettes and ushabtis found inside the newly discovered burial chamber of Shoshenq II. A year later, Montet discovered the burial chamber of Psusennes I where he found a golden hilt which belonged to Wendjebauendjed, placed on the king's sarcophagus.
After World War II, Montet and Goyon resumed the excavations and on 13 February 1946 they discovered a new, undisturbed burial chamber inside the same necropolis. A reused granite anthropoid sarcophagus, originally belonging to a Third priest of Amun called Amenhotep and datable to the 19th Dynasty, was found inside. The new owner was the same Wendjebauendjed named on the objects recovered from the nearby tombs before the war. For him the sarcophagus was covered by gold leaf, and inside it was a painted and gilded wooden coffin which in turn contained a silver coffin, both poor
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John Singleton Copley (July 3, 1738 – September 9, 1815) was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was probably born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. After becoming well-established as a portrait painter of the wealthy in colonial New England, he moved to London in 1774, never returning to America. In London, he met considerable success as a portraitist for the next two decades, and also painted a number of large history paintings, which were innovative in their readiness to depict modern subjects and modern dress. His later years were less successful, and he died heavily in debt. He was father of John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst.
Biography
Early life
Copley's mother owned a tobacco shop on Long Wharf. The parents, who, according to the artist's granddaughter Martha Babcock Amory, had come to Boston in 1736, were "engaged in trade, like almost all the inhabitants of the North American colonies at that time". His father was from Limerick; his mother, of the Singletons of County Clare, a family of Lancashire origin. Letters from John Singleton, Mrs. Copley's father, are in the Copley-Pelham collection. Richard Copley, described as a tobacconist, is said by several biographers to have arrived in Boston in ill health and to have gone, about the time of John's birth, to the West Indies, where he died. William H. Whitmore gives his death as of 1748, the year of Mrs. Copley's remarriage. James Bernard Cullen says: "Richard Copley was in poor health on his arrival in America and went to the West Indies to improve his failing strength. He died there in 1737." No contemporary evidence has been located for either year.
Except for a family tradition that speaks of his precocity in drawing, nothing is known of Copley's schooling or of the other activities of his boyhood. His letters, the earliest of which is dated September 30, 1762, reveal a fairly well-educated man. He
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USS Shelikof (AVP-52) was a United States Navy Barnegat-class small seaplane tender in commission from 1944 to 1947 and from 1952 to 1954.
Construction, commissioning, and shakedown
Shelikof was laid down on 20 September 1942 by Lake Washington Shipyard at Houghton, Washington. She was launched on 31 January 1943, sponsored by Mrs. F. D. Wagner, and commissioned on 17 April 1944.
Upon completion of fitting out, Shelikof departed for Alameda, California, on 8 May 1944 and loaded aircraft spares. She then moved to San Diego, for shakedown and to San Pedro, California, for a yard period.
World War II operations 1944-1945
Eniwetok
On 30 June 1944, Shelikof departed San Pedro for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. On 9 July 1944, she was underway from Pearl Harbor with a convoy bound for Eniwetok. While at Eniwetok from 18 July to 1 August, Shelikof had her aviation machine shop and carpenter shop converted into combination aircraft and aircraft radar maintenance facilities.
The Mariana Islands and Ulithi Atoll
Shelikofs next port of call was Tanapag Harbor, a former Japanese seaplane base on Saipan. Her personnel went ashore daily to clear debris from the hangars and the surrounding area in order to make the base operable, thereby relieving the congestion at aircraft tenders. When Shelikof departed on 3 December 1944, Naval Air Base Saipan, was being used as a supply depot and a major overhaul facility.
Shelikof spent the next three months shuttling spare parts and supplies between Guam, Ulithi Atoll, and Saipan.
Supporting the Okinawa invasion
Shelikof sailed from Saipan with Task Unit 51.20 on 23 March 1945 for the invasion of the Ryukyu Islands. The seaplane group moved into the anchorage at Kerama Retto on 28 March 1945 as United States Army units were still battling to secure those small rocky islands before the major assault on Okinawa began on 1 April 1945. Shelikof laid eight seaplane mooring buoys on 28 March 1945 and three of them were put into use on 29 March 1
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Glassglue is a British experimental pop group, formed in London in 2003, by German singer, Marcel Stoetzler, and British multi-instrumentalist, Matthew Karas. After writing and arranging some material and performing as a duo, they recruited Andrea Ughetto to play bass and Ravi Low-Beer to play drums. Andrea, who was involved as a favour to Marcel, was replaced by Gianluca Galetti in 2004. Ravi Low-Beer was replaced by Emyr Tomos in 2005, but returned to the group in 2009.
Primarily, Glassglue are a live act, who have made few recordings, believing that their music was hard to capture on record. When they were founded, all the members lived in or near Hackney, and many of their early performances were there, and they were included in the Hackney Bohemian Library. However, they became well-known on the underground alt-rock and punk circuits in London, including Anti-folk events. They have also attracted the attention of the art scene, having been chosen to play at the Tate Britain for a "Late at the Tate" event in August 2008, and having done several live sessions on Arts Council funded radio station Resonance FM. They were also included in the Subscuta Arts Festival in Portugal in June 2006.
They have been involved in significant events of more established acts in underground music, notably at the re-release event of "Kip of the Serenes", the Joe Boyd produced debut album of Irish psychedelic group Dr. Strangely Strange and a benefit for "Climate of Change" with Tymon Dogg. Their music does not espouse politics, but they have performed several shows in squatted venues, and at benefit shows for the RampART Social Centre in Whitechapel.
In 2010 they recorded their debut album, Fantods, at Faust Studios in Germany, with original Faust keyboard player, Hans-Joachim Irmler, as producer and Andreas Schmid, bass player in The Nightingales as engineer. The album was released by Klangbad Records in 2013, and chosen as one of the five best releases of 2013 by Mudkiss.
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The ventrolateral preoptic nucleus (VLPO), also known as the intermediate nucleus of the preoptic area (IPA), is a small cluster of neurons situated in the anterior hypothalamus, sitting just above and to the side of the optic chiasm in the brain of humans and other animals. The brain's sleep-promoting nuclei (e.g., the VLPO, parafacial zone, nucleus accumbens core, and lateral hypothalamic MCH neurons), together with the ascending arousal system which includes components in the brainstem, hypothalamus and basal forebrain, are the interconnected neural systems which control states of arousal, sleep, and transitions between these two states. The VLPO is active during sleep, particularly during non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREM sleep), and releases inhibitory neurotransmitters, mainly GABA and galanin, which inhibit neurons of the ascending arousal system that are involved in wakefulness and arousal. The VLPO is in turn innervated by neurons from several components of the ascending arousal system. The VLPO is activated by the endogenous sleep-promoting substances adenosine and prostaglandin D2. The VLPO is inhibited during wakefulness by the arousal-inducing neurotransmitters norepinephrine and acetylcholine. The role of the VLPO in sleep and wakefulness, and its association with sleep disorders – particularly insomnia and narcolepsy – is a growing area of neuroscience research.
Structure
At least 80% of neurons in the VLPO that project to the ascending arousal system are GABAergic (neurons that produce GABA).
In vitro studies in rats have shown that many neurons in the VLPO that are inhibited by norepinephrine or acetylcholine are multipolar triangular shaped cells with low threshold spikes. These triangular multipolar neurons exist in two sub-populations in the VLPO:
Type 1 – inhibited by serotonin.
Type 2 – excited by serotonin and adenosine.
As adenosine accumulates during wakefulness it is likely that type 2 cells play a role in sleep induction.
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In financial mathematics, a deviation risk measure is a function to quantify financial risk (and not necessarily downside risk) in a different method than a general risk measure. Deviation risk measures generalize the concept of standard deviation.
Mathematical definition
A function , where is the L2 space of random variables (random portfolio returns), is a deviation risk measure if
Shift-invariant: for any
Normalization:
Positively homogeneous: for any and
Sublinearity: for any
Positivity: for all nonconstant X, and for any constant X.
Relation to risk measure
There is a one-to-one relationship between a deviation risk measure D and an expectation-bounded risk measure R where for any
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R is expectation bounded if for any nonconstant X and for any constant X.
If for every X (where is the essential infimum), then there is a relationship between D and a coherent risk measure.
Examples
The most well-known examples of risk deviation measures are:
Standard deviation ;
Average absolute deviation ;
Lower and upper semideviations and , where and ;
Range-based deviations, for example, and ;
Conditional value-at-risk (CVaR) deviation, defined for any by , where is Expected shortfall.
See also
Unitized risk
References
Financial risk modeling
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Apotomis sauciana, the Sutherland long-cloak or Greville's marble, is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in most of Europe, east to the eastern part of the Palearctic realm.
The wingspan is 13–16 mm. Adults are on wing from June to August. They fly during the afternoon and evening.
The larvae feed on Vaccinium myrtillus and Arctostaphylos species. They feed in spun shoots.
Subspecies
Apotomis sauciana sauciana
Apotomis sauciana grevillana (Scotland)
External links
UKmoths
Fauna Europaea
Tortricidae of Europe
Moths of Asia
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Raja Yong Sofia binti Almarhum Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah Al-Maghfur-lah (born 24 June 1961) is the fifth child of the Sultan of Perak, Sultan Azlan Shah. She holds a master's degree in Administration from International University in London. She worked for Bank Bumiputra.
Biography
Wedding
She married at Kuala Kangsar, on 5 December 1987, Y.M. Tunku Dato' Sri Kamil bin Tunku Rijaludin (of Kedah, born in 1952).
He is son of Tunku Rijaludin bin Tunku Muhammad (of Kedah), a first cousin of the late Sultan Abdul Halim of Kedah, and his first wife, Raja Nur Azian binti Raja Harun Al-Rashid (of Perak), daughter of Raja Haji Harun al-Rashid of Perak, Raja Kechil Sulong, himself son of Sultan Sultan Idris Shah I of Perak, who is also Raja Yong Sofia's ancestor.
Childhood
Raja Yong Sofia was born at Penang, Malaya, 24 June 1961 as the fifth child of late Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yussuff Izzuddin Shah Ghafarullahu-lah, later Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak, and his wife Tuanku Bainun Binti Mohd Ali (herself a member of the Royal House of Perak and much fifth granddaughter of her husband's father Sultan Yussuff Izzuddin Shah of Perak)
Her siblings are :
brother Raja Nazrin Shah (born 27 November 1956)
sister Raja Azureen (born 9 December 1957)
brother Raja Ashman Shah (born 28 December 1958 died 30 March 2012)
sister Raja Eleena (born 3 April 1960)
Descent
She has one son :
Tunku Aznal Shahabudin bin Tunku Kamil (of Kedah).
Family link of the spouses
Kamil of Kedah and Sultan Azlan of Perak (Yong Sofia's father) are second cousins :
Sultan Sir Idris Murshid al-Azzam Shah GCMG, GCVO (1887–1916) -- Marhum Rahmatu'llah , né Y.A.M. Raja Idris [Dris], Raja Muda.
Sultan 'Abdu'l Jalil Nasir ud-din Muhtaram KCMG, OBE ( – 20 January 1916 - November 1918) -- Marhum Radziallah
H.R.H. Sultan Yusuf Izz ud-din Rathiu'llah KCMG (15 January 1890 – 29 March 1948 – 4 January 1963) -- Marhum Ghafarullah.
H.R.H. Sultan 'Azlan Muhib ud-din Shah GCB,
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Kenda is a village, with a police station, in the Manbazar I CD block in the Manbazar subdivision of the Purulia district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Geography
Location
Kenda is located at .
Area overview
Purulia district forms the lowest step of the Chota Nagpur Plateau. The general scenario is undulating land with scattered hills. Manbazar subdivision, shown in the map alongside, is located in the eastern part of the district. It is an overwhelmingly rural subdivision with 96.32% of the population living in the rural areas and 3.68% living in the urban areas. There are 3 census towns in the subdivision. The map shows the Kangsabati Project Reservoir. The Mukutmanipur Dam is in Bankura district but the upper portion of the reservoir is in Manbazar subdivision. The remnants of old temples and deities are found in the subdivision also, as in other parts of the district. The subdivision has a very high proportion of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Bandwan CD block has 51.86% ST population, Manbazar II CD block has 48.97% ST population. Manbazar I CD block has 22.03% ST and 22.44% SC. Puncha CD block has 24.74% ST and 14.54 SC. Writing in 1911, H. Coupland, ICS, speaks of the aboriginal races largely predominating in the old Manbhum district. He particularly mentions the Kurmis, Santhals, Bhumij and Bauri.
Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
Demographics
According to the 2011 Census of India, Kenda had a total population of 3,803 of which 1,922 (51%) were males and 1,881 (49%) were females. There were 477 persons in the age range of 0–6 years. The total number of literates persons in Kenda was 2,312 (69.51% of the population over 6 years).
Civic administration
Police station
Kenda police station has jurisdiction over parts of the Manbazar I, Puncha and Purulia I CD blocks. The area covered is 352.81 km2 and the population covered i
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The moon-eyed people are a legendary group of short, bearded white-skinned people who are said to have lived in Appalachia until the Cherokee expelled them. Stories about them, attributed to Cherokee tradition, are mentioned by early European settlers in America. In a 1797 book, Benjamin Smith Barton explains they are called "moon-eyed" because they saw poorly during the day. Some stories claim they created the area's pre-Columbian ruins, and they disappeared from the area. Barton cited as his source a conversation with Colonel Leonard Marbury (c. 1749 – 1796), an early settler of Georgia. Marbury, a Revolutionary War officer and a Congressman in the Second Provincial Congress of Georgia (1775), acted as intermediary between Native American Indians in the state of Georgia and the United States government.
Description
Published accounts of an ancient moon-eyed people who lived in the southern Appalachian region of the United States before the Cherokee came into the area have appeared in America since the late 18th century. Sources disagree as to the accuracy of the stories, whether or not the stories are an authentic part of Cherokee oral tradition; whether the people existed or were mythical; whether they were indigenous peoples or early European explorers; and whether or not they built certain prehistoric structures found in the region.
Different ideas about the people have appeared in letters, newspapers, and books for over two hundred years. Stories about the era before widespread European settlement were published by early European settlers of America, who became interested in the native people and old ruins in America. Among the earliest people to mention the legend are Benjamin Smith Barton, who wrote that he had heard a story from Leonard Marbury, about ancient moon-eyed people; and John Sevier, who told of an ancient white race, according to later published sources who mention Sevier's letters. Barton, Marbury, and Sevier lived during the era when the lo
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English Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) located in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is also the name of a nearby stream.
Demographics
As of the 2020 United States census, the population of the area was 3,364.
References
Census-designated places in Atlantic County, New Jersey
Census-designated places in New Jersey
Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey
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Karl Benjamin Spooner (June 23, 1931 – April 10, 1984) was an American professional baseball player, a left-handed pitcher who took the mound in 31 games in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the – Brooklyn Dodgers. After a meteoric debut during which he set an MLB record for most strikeouts by a pitcher in his first game, his promising athletic career was cut short by an injury to his throwing arm.
Baseball career
Early years
Spooner was born in Oriskany Falls, New York, where he graduated from high school. The , southpaw was signed by the Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1951.
Spooner's early minor-league career was promising, but erratic. He made his way through the Dodgers' minor league system, compiling a fairly unimpressive 26–34 record during his first three seasons. Walks were frequently a problem, as Spooner averaged a walk per inning in his first two minor league seasons. However, he threw hard, led two leagues in strikeouts — the Pennsylvania–Ontario–New York League (1951) and Western League — and showed flashes of brilliance.
Spooner had a breakout year in 1954 when he won 21 games with 262 strikeouts in 238 innings for the Fort Worth Cats of the Texas League. His successful performance earned him a promotion to the Dodgers with one week left in the 1954 season.
Record-setting debut
Spooner made his major league debut with the Dodgers on September 22, 1954 at the age of 23. He shut out the pennant-bound New York Giants 3–0, allowed only three hits, all singles, and struck out 15 batters, setting an MLB record for most strikeouts by a pitcher in his debut. In the process, he broke the record of 13 strikeouts set by the Giants' Cliff Melton on April 25, . J. R. Richard tied the record in his major league debut in . Spooner also set another record for pitching debuts by recording six consecutive strikeouts, striking out the side in both the seventh and eighth innings. Pete Richert (1962) is the only other pitcher to strike out six consecutive batte
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Events from the year 1825 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Monarch – Frederick VI
Prime minister – Otto Joachim
Events
11 July – The Danish schooner Vigilant captures the Spanish privateering schooner Adolpho north of Colibra in the West Indies.
Undated
- A storm penetrates the narrow land mass, Agger Tange, separating Northern Jutland from the mainland Jutland for the first time since the 12th century.
The Copenhagen Art Society is founded by a circle of the most influential figures of the Danish art world during the Danish Golden Age.
Culture
Art
Martinus Rørbye paints the View from the Artist's Window in his parents' home at Amaliegade 45.
Births
JanuaryMarch
28 January – Moses Melchior, businessman (died 1912)
AprilJune
16 April – Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup, politician, prime minister of Denmark (died 1913)
10 May – Heinrich Tønnies, photographer (died 1903)
20 May Carl Christian Amussen, Utah's first jeweler /died 1902)
OctoberDecember
19 November – Jacob Kornerup, archeologist (died 1913)
30 November – Julius Exner, painter (died 1910)
Deaths
4 January Johan Peter Wleugel, naval officer and cartographer (born 1736 in Norway)
16 February – Georg Gerson, composer and banker (born 1790)
8 April – Carl Ferdinand Degen, mathematician (born 1766 in Germany)
19 May – Peter Hersleb Classen, statesman (born 1738 in Norway)
30 December – Peter Grønland, composer (born 1761)
References
1820s in Denmark
Denmark
Years of the 19th century in Denmark
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In computer networking, a wildcard certificate is a public key certificate which can be used with multiple sub-domains of a domain. The principal use is for securing web sites with HTTPS, but there are also applications in many other fields. Compared with conventional certificates, a wildcard certificate can be cheaper and more convenient than a certificate for each sub-domain. Multi-domain wildcard certificates further simplify the complexity and reduce costs by securing multiple domains and their sub-domains.
Example
A single wildcard certificate for will secure all these subdomains on the domain:
Instead of getting separate certificates for subdomains, you can use a single certificate for all main domains and subdomains and reduce cost.
Because the wildcard only covers one level of subdomains (the asterisk doesn't match full stops), these domains would not be valid for the certificate:
The "naked" domain is valid when added separately as a Subject Alternative Name ():
Note possible exceptions by CAs, for example wildcard-plus cert by DigiCert contains an automatic "Plus" property for the naked domain .
Type of wildcard certificates
Wildcard certificates are categorized on the basis of validation level, number of domain and number of servers it can be used with. Likewise they are named as domain validation wildcard certificate, organisation validation wildcard certificate and extended validation wildcard certificate when we categorize them according to validation level. The name Multi-domain wildcard certificates and Multi-server wildcard certificates are given according to number of domain and number of server. All types of wildcard certificates signed by popular CAs are categorized and listed internet. Therefore there are types of wildcard which can secure multiple domains, multiple servers and provide different levels of validation.
Limitations
Only a single level of subdomain matching is supported in accordance with .
It is not possibl
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Julius Gius (December 31, 1911 – October 18, 1996) was an editor of the Ventura County Star-Free Press. He expanded the paper's circulation during this time. He was also the editorial director for the San Diego-based Scripps Newspapers. He then took over a weekly newspaper in Thousand Oaks, made it a daily and increased its circulation. He retired in 1987.
He was inducted into the California Newspaper Hall of Fame
in 1999.
In 1980 he founded the charitable "Bellringer" program, which every Christmas collects donations from the community which is given to local Salvation Army groups to help people in need.
He died in Ventura, California, aged 84, in 1996.
References
1911 births
1996 deaths
American newspaper editors
American publishers (people)
Businesspeople from San Diego
People from Ventura, California
Place of birth missing
Journalists from California
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American journalists
American male journalists
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Koganebashi Dam is a gravity dam located in Miyazaki Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation and power production. The catchment area of the dam is 281 km2. The dam impounds about 12 ha of land when full and can store 1381 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1953 and completed in 1958.
See also
List of dams in Japan
References
Dams in Miyazaki Prefecture
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XXVII World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Baku the capital of Azerbaijan, 3–10 October 2005 at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Exhibition Complex.
Medal winners
* reserve gymnast
Individual
Qualifications
Team All-Around
Individual All-Around
Individual Rope
Individual Ball
Individual Clubs
Individual Ribbon
Groups
Group compositions
Group All-Around
Groups Final 5 Ribbons
Groups Final 3 Hoops + 2 Clubs
Medal table
References
Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships
Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
Sports competitions in Baku
2005 in Azerbaijani sport
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Šose (; 17 January 1629 - 12 January 1655) was Hong Taiji's fifth son and the first bearer of the Prince Chengze title. In 1655, the peerage was renamed to Prince Zhuang of the First Rank. In 1778, the Prince Chengze of the First Rank peerage was granted iron-cap status, which meant that each successive bearer could pass the title without degradation.
Life
Family background
Shuose was born on 17 January 1629 in the Qingning palace of the Forbidden City in Mukden, residence of Qing dynasty emperor at that time. His mother, lady Yehe-Nara was a secondary consort of Hong Taiji. Lady Yehe Nara's father, Anabu (阿纳布) was a cousin of Yangginu, the father of Empress Xiaocigao, Monggo Jerjer. Before entry to the imperial household, lady Yehe Nara had been married to Karkama, a leader of Ula valley. After giving birth to Shuose, lady Yehe Nara married minister Zhan Tuxietu. Lady Yehe Nara became a victim of domestic violence shortly after the marriage. The fairly abusive behavior of Zhan Tuxietu led her to the fourth marriage with Darhu (达尔琥), a member of the Hada Nara clan of the Bordered Yellow Banner. Shuose was raised in the Qingning palace together with Bomubogor and Fulin, the future Shunzhi Emperor.
Political career
Although Shuose was born to the high-ranking consort, he had no chances to succeed the throne. In June 1644, Shuose married lady Nara, daughter of Feiyanggu and was subsequently granted a title of Prince Chengze of the Second Rank. During transition from Ming to Qing, Shuose followed Dodo, Prince Yu in Shaanzhou. In 1645, he conquered Henan together with Dodo. He captured Li Zicheng's generals Zhang Youseng and Liu Fangliang, later retrieved by the peasant . In the battle of Shanhai Pass, Shuose killed Ma Shiyao (马世尧). When Dodo made Khalkha Mongols vassals, Shuose conquered Datong together with Ajige.
After the death of Dorgon, Shuose was promoted to Prince Chengze of the First Rank in 1651 and served as one of the regents together with Wakeda, Daiš
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Sertifera is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae, native to northwestern South America.
The following species are recognized as of June 2014:
Sertifera aurantiaca C.Schweinf. - Colombia, Venezuela
Sertifera colombiana Schltr. - Colombia, Venezuela
Sertifera grandifolia L.O.Williams - Colombia
Sertifera lehmanniana (Kraenzl.) Garay - Ecuador
Sertifera major Schltr. - Colombia, Ecuador
Sertifera parviflora Schltr. - Colombia, Ecuador
Sertifera purpurea Lindl. & Rchb.f. - Colombia, Ecuador
See also
List of Orchidaceae genera
References
Sobralieae
Sobralieae genera
Orchids of South America
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Carl Abegg known as Carl Abegg-Arter (; April 10, 1836 – August 23, 1912) was a Swiss industrialist, silk merchant and banker. He was the founder of Abegg & Co in 1885, a leading silk trading house. He was also a co-founder of Zurich Insurance Group, Chemins de fer Orientaux (railways). Most prominently, he served as the chairman of Schweizerische Kreditanstalt (today Credit Suisse), between 1883 and 1911. Abegg has been widely considered the richest Swiss citizen at the time.
Early life and education
Abegg was born April 10, 1836, to cloth merchant Hans Caspar and Anna Regula (née Bleuler) Abegg. His father was the mayor of Küsnacht. His maternal grandfather served a term as mayor as well and was the president of the local guild court.
He completed the Industrial School of Zürich, where he completed his Matura. Between 1852 and 1855, he was sent to Milan, Italian Empire, where he learned the silk trading business in an apprenticeship at the company Heinrich Fierz-Etzweiler. After his return he briefly worked at the silk factory Salomon Rütschi & Compagnie in Hottingen.
Career
In 1857, aged 21, he was sent to New York City to represent his employer Salomon Rütschi & Compagnie. In 1861, he and August Rübel, whom he met in the United States, formed Abegg & Rübel, which was primarily active in silk, commodities and banking, and can be seen as predecessor company of today's Abegg & Co. This company was turned into the current partnership in 1885.
Since 1868, Abegg was a member of the Schweizerische Kreditanstalt (Credit Suisse), and served as president/chairman between 1883 and 1911. He was the vice-president and co-founder of Zurich Insurance Group, a board member of Gotthard railway in 1890, a board member of the Silk Weavery Höngg in 1890. Between 1895 and 1911, Abegg was also the president of Elektrobank/Elektrowatt and in 1910 briefly a member of Chemins de fer Orientaux (railways) Abegg was also a long-term member of the Zurich Court of Commerce.
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John Becker may refer to:
John J. Becker (1886–1961), American composer
John Becker (writer), writer based in the Washington, D.C. area
John Becker (basketball) (born 1968), head coach of the University of Vermont men's basketball team
John Becker (politician), member of the Ohio House of Representatives
John Becker, fictional character from the TV series Becker
Johnnie Becker, American football player, played in the NFL (1926–1929)
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