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This page lists nationwide public opinion polls that have been conducted relating to the 2003 presidential elections in the Czech Republic.
Lawmakers poll
SC&C made in February 2002 a poll among lawmakers to find out who has the highest chance to be elected. Václav Klaus (ODS) had support of 90% Civic Democratic Party lawmakers and 20% of Social democratic lawmakers. He was acceptable for 29% of Social democrats, 14% of Communists and 17% of Four-Coalition lawmakers. Petr Pithart (KDU-ČSL) polled second. He was supported by 67% of Four-Coalition lawmakers. He was acceptable for 50% of Social democrats, 20% of Communists and 12% of Civic Democrats. Miloš Zeman (ČSSD) had strong support in Czech Social Democratic Party and was acceptable for a large part of Civic Democrats and Communists. Independent candidates such as Václav Fischer had no chance according to the poll.
Voting preference
Polls conducted in 2003
Polls conducted in 2002
Polls conducted in 2001
Polls conducted in 2000
Media Surveys
Acceptability of candidates
Direct or indirect election preference
References
Opinion polling for presidential elections in the Czech Republic
2003 Czech presidential election
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MerchantCircle is a Walnut Creek, California-based digital company which helps small and midsize businesses network with other local businesses and reach local customers through free marketing tools and social media features.
History
MerchantCircle was co-founded in 2004 by former CEO Ben T. Smith IV, and announced in June 2006. It was named "Newcomer of the Year" by AlwaysOn Media in 2007 and was ranked as the fifth-largest local directory site and one of the top 160 sites in the U.S. by a Quantcast study in 2009. MerchantCircle received just over $4 million in early stage funding from venture capital firms Rustic Canyon Partners, Scale Venture Partners, and Steamboat Ventures. In November 2007, the company received an additional investment of $10 million from IAC, Square 1 Bank, and all three previous investors. Ron Conway was also an early investor.
In 2010, MerchantCircle acquired online meeting scheduler TimeBridge to enable merchants and consumers to schedule appointments and calls online. That same year, the company also took over management of RSS feed company Bloglines, through which it plans to deliver local and industry-specific targeted content to member merchants and local deals and information to Bloglines account holders. The MerchantCircle network signed on its one-millionth member merchant in early 2010, and expanded internationally to Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.
On May 26, 2011, Reply! Inc. announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MerchantCircle for $60 million in cash and stock. The transaction was completed in 2011. Reply! founder and CEO, Payam Zamani, is the CEO of the combined companies, now known as One Planet.
One Planet maintained its directory listing at its core.
Service
MerchantCircle is an online business directory, social business network and marketing platform. It combines features from traditional Internet yellow pages sites such as Yellowpages.com, Citysearch and Yelp, with community-o
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This article contains notable highlights from the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China.
Calendar
September 6
Opening Ceremony
Day 1: September 7
The first gold medal of the Beijing Paralympics went to Slovakia's Veronika Vadovicova in shooting, in the 10 metre air rifle competition.
In swimming, Natalie du Toit of South Africa won gold in the 100 metre butterfly event. The United States won four of the sixteen gold medals available in swimming on day one, more than any other country.
After a strong performance at the Olympics, Great Britain won gold in all three of the first day events it had entered in cycling, with Simon Richardson, Darren Kenny, and the duo of Aileen McGlynn and Ellen Hunter.
Of the four gold medals available for the first day in judo, the two women's went to China (Guo Huaping and Cui Na) and the two men's to Algeria (Mouloud Noura and Sidali Lamri), with all four wins being reported as unexpected.
Day 2: September 8
The women's T54 5000 metre race in athletics was marred by a spectacular crash just before the final lap, when six athletes collided in a pile-up, several of them damaging their wheelchairs in the process and thus being left unable to complete the race. The crash was reported to have been caused by Swiss athlete Edith Hunkeler colliding with fellow Swiss athlete Sandra Graf, whereupon athletes behind them piled up over them. Hunkeler suffered a broken collarbone in the accident. Reaching the 50 metre mark, remaining competitors were then impeded by officials running across the track to assist fallen athletes. The race was won by Canada's Diane Roy, and the medal ceremony was completed, before IPC officials announced that they had ruled in favour of an appeal lodged by three countries, and cancelled the results. Medallists were asked to relinquish their medals, and the race was rescheduled for September 12 (with Hunkeler being disqualified), amidst significant controversy.
13-year-old Eleanor Simmonds of Great Britain
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Sir Ronald Stanley Russell FRSA (29 May 1904 – 6 April 1974) was a British journalist, author and Conservative politician.
Early life
Russell was born on 29 May 1904, the son of J Stanley Russell of Seahouses, Northumberland. He was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He began a career in journalism in 1929 at the Newcastle Chronicle, moving to Reuters in 1931.
In 1935, he became a lecturer on the economics of the coal industry. During the Second World War he served as an officer in the Royal Artillery and as a staff officer.
Parliamentary career
At the 1935 general election he unsuccessfully contested the Glasgow constituency of Shettleston. At the 1945 general election Russell stood for parliament at Coatbridge, again without success. In the following year he was elected to the London County Council to represent Norwood.
He became a Member of Parliament on his third attempt in 1950, winning the seat of Wembley South. He held the seat until the constituency was abolished by boundary changes at the February 1974 general election. He acted as Private Parliamentary Secretary to Duncan Sandys, Minister of Supply, from 1951 to 1955.
The honorary secretary of the Animal Welfare Group, he piloted the Pet Animals Act 1951 through parliament. He also put pressure on the Board of Trade to ban the importation of tortoises as pets and promoted a private members bill to stop live cattle, sheep and pigs being exported for slaughter.
Russell died, aged 69, less than two months after the election.
Personal life
In 1933, Russell married Ena Glendenning Forrester of Middlesbrough, and they had two children, Ronald Charles and Jillian Margaret.
Honours
Russell was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. As part of the 1964 New Year Honours, he was knighted "for political and public services".
References
External links
1904 births
1974 deaths
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1950–1951
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Saint-Georges Aerodrome is a general aviation aerodrome located west-southwest of Saint-Georges, Quebec, Canada, near the border with Maine. The airport has a long, paved runway, suitable for use by jets.
The airport is classified as an airport of entry by Nav Canada and is staffed by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). CBSA officers at this airport can handle general aviation aircraft only, with no more than 15 passengers.
References
Saint-Georges, Quebec
Registered aerodromes in Chaudière-Appalaches
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Praline can refer to
Praline (nut confection), a caramelised sugar heated to 160°C and combined with a roasted nut combination. Commonly made with sugar, corn syrup, milk, butter, and nut halves.
Chocolate praline, chocolates with a soft filling.
The praline's origins may date back as far as the early 17th century. It's believed the praline was created by Chef Clement Lassagne, who worked for French diplomat César duc de Choiseul, Comte du Plessis-Praslin. Chef Lassagne's original praline combined almonds and a caramelized coating.
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General elections were held in Mauritius on 5 May 2010. The coalition comprising Mauritius Labour Party under Navin Ramgoolam, the Militant Socialist Movement under Pravind Jugnauth and the Mauritian Social Democrat Party under Xavier Luc Duval, won a majority with 41 seats in the parliament. The Mauritian Militant Movement-led coalition under Paul Berenger finished second with 18 seats. The Mauritian Solidarity Front won one seat and the Rodrigues Movement won the two remaining seats. The elections were the ninth to be held since independence from the United Kingdom in 1968.
The Mauritius Labour Party, the Mauritian Social Democrat Party (PMSD) and the Militant Socialist Movement (MSM) formed an electoral coalition called Alliance de L'Avenir for this election. Ramgoolam, the alliance leader, allotted 35 seats to his own party to compete for the 60 seats on the island, whereas the MSM was given 18 and the PMSD 7. Before the election, it appeared that Berenger might gain back the PM's post that he held from 2003 to 2005; he was the first prime minister since independence that was not of South Asian origin. Berenger led his own alliance of parties, known as the Alliance du Coeur (), a reference to the official logo of the Mauritian Militant Movement, by far the biggest party in that alliance. Parties based in Rodrigues compete for the two remaining seats, with the Rodrigues People's Organisation and the Rodrigues Movement being the main parties there.
During the election, 62 seats in the National Assembly of Mauritius were contested with a further 8 seats to be designated by the electoral commission under a complex formula designed to keep a balance of ethnic groups in the parliament. The candidates must declare which ethnic group (Hindu, Muslim, Chinese or "general population") they belong to in order to run for a seat. In 2010, 104 of the candidates refused to do so, resulting in them being disqualified, leaving 529 candidates for the seats. Around 130 foreign
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The 2020 Bett1Hulks Indoors is a ATP tournament organised for male professional tennis players, held in Cologne, Germany, in mid-October 2020 on indoor hard courts. It was primarily organised due to the cancellation of many tournaments during the 2020 season, because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It is the first edition of the tournament and took place at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany, from October 12 through 18, 2020.
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
Rankings are as of September 28, 2020.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
Daniel Altmaier
Andy Murray
Mischa Zverev
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Lloyd Harris
Henri Laaksonen
Oscar Otte
Emil Ruusuvuori
The following players received entry as a lucky loser:
Marc Polmans
Marcos Giron
Withdrawals
Before the tournament
Aljaž Bedene → replaced by Marc Polmans
Ričardas Berankis → replaced by Marcos Giron
Gaël Monfils → replaced by Dennis Novak
Yoshihito Nishioka → replaced by Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
Doubles main-draw entrants
Seeds
Rankings are as of September 28, 2020
Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
Daniel Masur / Rudolf Molleker
Alexander Zverev / Mischa Zverev
Withdrawals
During the tournament
Ričardas Berankis
Champions
All dates and times are CEST (UTC+2)
Singles
Alexander Zverev def. Félix Auger-Aliassime, 6–3, 6–3
Doubles
Pierre-Hugues Herbert / Nicolas Mahut def. Łukasz Kubot / Marcelo Melo, 6–4, 6–4
See also
2020 Bett1Hulks Championship
References
External links
Official website
2020 in German tennis
2020 ATP Tour
October 2020 sports events in Germany
Sports competitions in Cologne
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The seventh season of the American television comedy series How I Met Your Mother was announced in March 2011, along with confirmation of an eighth season. The seventh season premiered on CBS on September 19, 2011, with two episodes airing back to back, and concluded on May 14, 2012.
Cast
Main cast
Josh Radnor as Ted Mosby
Jason Segel as Marshall Eriksen
Cobie Smulders as Robin Scherbatsky
Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson
Alyson Hannigan as Lily Aldrin
Bob Saget (uncredited) as future Ted Mosby (voice only)
Recurring cast
Kal Penn as Kevin
Lyndsy Fonseca as Penny, Ted's Daughter
David Henrie as Luke, Ted's Son
Becki Newton as Quinn Garvey
Nazanin Boniadi as Nora
Chris Elliott as Mickey Aldrin, Lily's father
Ellen D. Williams as Patrice
Ashley Williams as Victoria
Alexis Denisof as Sandy Rivers
Vicki Lewis as Dr. Sonya
Martin Short as Garrison Cootes, Marshall's boss
Frances Conroy as Loretta Stinson
Wayne Brady as James Stinson
Bill Fagerbakke as Marvin Eriksen Sr.
Ray Wise as Robin Scherbatsky Sr., Robin's father
Suzie Plakson as Judy Eriksen
Cristine Rose as Virginia Mosby
Joe Nieves as Carl
Chris Romano as Punchy
Marshall Manesh as Ranjit
Guest cast
Jimmi Simpson as Pete Durkenson
Jeff Probst as himself
"Weird Al" Yankovic as himself
Katie Holmes as Naomi/Slutty Pumpkin
Christina Pickles as Lily's grandmother
Teresa Castillo as Maya
Jerry Minor as King Charles
Ernie Hudson as himself
Will Sasso as Doug Martin
Lindsey Morgan as Lauren
Rachel Bloom as Wanda
Conan O'Brien as a background bar patron (uncredited)
Francesca Capaldi as Young Lily
Rob Huebel as Mr. Flanagan
Ratings
, the 7th season was averaging a 5.3 rating / 14% share among adults 18–49, ranking as the 5th highest rated comedy series among adults 18–49.
On April 8, 2012, the New York Times stated that the 7th season ratings had reached a series high, marking a 20% increase in ratings among adults 18–49.
Reception
Season seven of How I Met Your Mother
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The Population, Resources and Environment Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference is one of ten special committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, China's top political advisory body and a central part of the Chinese Communist Party's united front system.
History
The Population, Resources and Environment Committee was created in March 1998 during the 8th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
List of chairpersons
References
Special committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Organizations established in 1998
1998 establishments in China
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General Vance may refer to:
Jack Vance (general) (1933–2013), Canadian Army lieutenant general
Jamil Rahmat Vance (fl. 2010s), Pakistan Army major general
Jonathan Vance (born 1964), Canadian Army general
Joseph Vance (Ohio politician) (1786–1852), Ohio State Militia major general
Robert B. Vance (1828–1899), Confederate States Army brigadier general
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In physics, a Super Bloch oscillation describes a certain type of motion of a particle in a lattice potential under external periodic driving. The term super refers to the fact that the amplitude in position space of such an oscillation is several orders of magnitude larger than for 'normal' Bloch oscillations.
Bloch oscillations vs. Super Bloch oscillations
Normal Bloch oscillations and Super Bloch oscillations are closely connected. In general, Bloch oscillations are a consequence of the periodic structure of the lattice potential and the existence of a maximum value of the Bloch wave vector . A constant force results in the acceleration of the particle until the edge of the first Brillouin zone is reached. The following sudden change in velocity from to can be interpreted as a Bragg scattering of the particle by the lattice potential. As a result, the velocity of the particle never exceeds but oscillates in a saw-tooth like manner with a corresponding periodic oscillation in position space. Surprisingly, despite of the constant acceleration the particle does not translate, but just moves over very few lattice sites.
Super Bloch oscillations arise when an additional periodic driving force is added to , resulting in:
The details of the motion depend on the ratio between the driving frequency and the Bloch frequency . A small detuning results in a beat between the Bloch cycle and the drive, with a drastic change of the particle motion. On top of the Bloch oscillation, the motion shows a much larger oscillation in position space that extends over hundreds of lattice sites. Those Super Bloch oscillations directly correspond to the motion of normal Bloch oscillations, just rescaled in space and time.
A quantum mechanical description of the rescaling can be found here. An experimental realization is demonstrated in these.
A theoretical analysis of the properties of Super-Bloch Oscillations, including dependence on the phase of the driving field is found here.
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Ion Marin Sadoveanu (born Iancu-Leonte Marinescu; June 15, 1893 – February 2, 1964) was a Romanian playwright.
Biography
Born in Bucharest, he started his education at a grammar school in Constanța, where his father practiced medicine. He continued at the Mircea cel Bătrân Gymnasium, from which he graduated in 1908. He continued his education at the Saint Sava National College of Bucharest (1908–1912). He then studied philosophy in Bucharest and Paris. In 1926, he was appointed inspector of the theaters, being subsequently promoted to inspector general and in 1933 director general of the theaters and operas. Demoted in 1940, he worked as editor at the Timpul newspaper (1941–1942) and playwright of the National Theatre Bucharest until 1944. He then was editor of Universul. In 1956, he was appointed director of the National Theatre Bucharest. From 1958, he was also a member of the National Commission for UNESCO. He died in Bucharest in 1964, age 70, and was buried in the city's Bellu Cemetery.
References
Dicționarul Enciclopedic Român, ed. Politică, București, 1962–1966
Dicționar de literatură română contemporană, ed. Albatros, București, 1977
1893 births
1964 deaths
Writers from Bucharest
Mircea cel Bătrân National College (Constanța) alumni
Romanian newspaper editors
Romanian male novelists
Male dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Romanian novelists
20th-century Romanian dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Romanian male writers
Burials at Bellu Cemetery
Chairpersons of the National Theatre Bucharest
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Christianity in France is the largest religion in the country. France is home to The Taizé Community, an ecumenical Christian monastic fraternity in Taizé, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy. With a focus on youth, it has become one of the world's most important sites of Christian pilgrimage with over 100,000 young people from around the world converging each year for prayer, Bible study, sharing, and communal work.
Demographics
According to a survey held by Institut français d'opinion publique (Ifop) for the Institut Montaigne think-tank, 51.1% of the total population of France was Christian in 2016. The following year, a survey by Ipsos focused on Protestants and based on 31,155 interviews found that 57.5% of the total population of France declared to be Catholic and 3.1% declared to be Protestant.
In 2016, Ipsos Global Trends, a multi-nation survey held by Ipsos and based on approximately 1,000 interviews, found that Christianity is the religion of 45% of the working-age, internet connected population of France; 42% stated they were Catholic, 2% stated that they were Protestants, and 1% declared to belong to any Orthodox church.
In 2015 the Eurobarometer, a survey funded by the European Union, found that Christianity was the religion of 54.3% of the French, with Catholicism being the main denomination with 47.8%.
Denominations
Catholicism
Early Christianity was already present among the Gauls by the 2nd century; Irenaeus, bishop of Lugdunum (Lyon), detailed the deaths of ninety-year-old bishop Pothinus and other martyrs during the persecution in Lyon which took place in 177. The Gaulish church was soon established in communion with the bishop of Rome. In 380, the emperor Theodosius I issued the Edict of Thessalonica, which made Christianity, specifically Nicene Christianity, the official religion of the Roman Empire. With the Migration Period of the Germanic peoples, the Gauls were invaded by the Franks, who at first practised Frankish paganism. Their tribes were uni
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Douglas Behl Fairbairn (December 20, 1926 – October 2, 1997) was an American author who mainly wrote about South Florida. He wrote novels and a memoir.
Early life
Born Douglas Behl in Elmira, New York, to Jean Melissa "Missy" (née Fairbairn) and Martin E. Behl. His father was born in Westphalen, Germany, and came to America as a toddler. His mother was born in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada. After marrying in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1918, is parents relocated frequently, living in Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey. His parents got a divorce when he was a child and he never saw his father again. (His father moved back to New York City and later died in Santa Barbara, California, in 1967.) His mother later remarried, to Wesley Hibbard Bunce, and they moved to Coconut Grove, Florida in 1938. After going by Douglas Bunce for a time, although not officially, he legally changed his last name to his mother's maiden name in 1955.
He attended but did not graduate from Harvard College, where he was editor of the Harvard Lampoon. He returned to the Miami area where he would live out the rest of his life.
Publications
Novels
A Man's World (1956)
A Squirrel of One's Own (1971)
Shoot (1973)
A Squirrel Forever (1975)
Street 8 (1977)
Memoirs
Down and Out in Cambridge (1982)
Filmography
His screen credits include the television episode "A Man's World" (based on his novel of the same title) for Studio One in Hollywood, the episode "The Voice of Charlie Pont" on Alcoa Premiere (1962), and a 1976 feature film adapted from his 1973 novel of the same name.
References
External links
New York Times review of Fairbairn's memoirs
1926 births
1997 deaths
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American memoirists
The Harvard Lampoon alumni
Harvard College alumni
American male novelists
20th-century American male writers
American male non-fiction writers
Memoirists from Florida
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The Colony was a restaurant in New York City known as a meeting place of café society. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph L. Pani, who later sold it to a group of employees. It closed in 1971.
History
Located on Sixty-first Street off Madison Avenue, The Colony was founded in 1919 by Joseph Pani, who sold it to employees Ernest Cerutti, Alfred Hartmann, and Gene Cavallero, Sr in 1922. At first, it was known for attracting playboys trolling for dates. The club featured a lesser known upstairs gambling club where men would often meet their mistresses; however, after Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt discovered it, the room became the fashionable haunt of New York high society. Mayor Jimmy Walker's victory celebration was held at the Colony in 1925.
The Colony served liquor during prohibition, serving it in cups rather than glasses, and keeping its liquor in a service elevator where it could easily be moved, though Mayor Walker protected the restaurant from raids. It was the first restaurant in New York to have air conditioning, which was installed in the late 1920s. The Colony became the first establishment in the U.S. to serve Dom Pérignon champagne. Sirio Maccioni was the bar captain at the Colony from 1960 to 1970.
Competitors of the Colony included the 21 Club, Delmonico's, Le Pavillon, Restaurant LaRue, and later the Four Seasons.
Patrons
Among its noted customers were Groucho Marx, Dick Cavett, the Vanderbilts, Preston Sturges, Mike Todd, Fulco di Verdura, Hattie Carnegie, Carmel Snow, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Elsie de Wolfe, Mrs. Irving Berlin, Millicent Rogers, Barbara Hutton, Doris Duke, Betsey Whitney, George Vanderbilt, Samuel Newhouse, Marlene Dietrich, Lucius Beebe, Rosalind Russell, Gary Cooper, Carol Channing, Richard Nixon, C.Z. Guest, Ernest Hemingway, Luis Miguel Dominguin, Walter Wanger, John Ringling North, Frank Sinatra, Aristotle Onassis, the Duke of Windsor, the Duchess of Windsor, Merle Oberon, Vincent Astor, Elsa Maxwell, Rex Harrison, Richard Widm
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Juan Ossio Acuña has been the Peruvian Minister of Culture under President Alan García since September 2010. He studied at the National University of San Marcos, and at Linacre College, Oxford. Prior to that, he was a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
References
1943 births
Living people
Politicians from Lima
National University of San Marcos alumni
Harvard University faculty
Government ministers of Peru
Alumni of Linacre College, Oxford
Academic staff of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
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The Dartmouth Steam Railway, formerly known as the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway, is a heritage railway on the former Great Western Railway branch line between and in Devon, England. Much of the railway's business is from summer tourists from the resorts of Torbay, who travel to Kingswear, where the Dartmouth Passenger Ferry takes them across the River Dart to Dartmouth.
The line is owned and operated by Dart Valley Railway Limited. This company also owns Dart Pleasure Craft Limited, which operates the Dartmouth Passenger Ferry as well as river and coastal cruises. The railway and connecting boat and bus services are jointly promoted as the Dartmouth Steam Railway and River Boat Company.
Unusually amongst heritage railways, it is a commercial operation which does not rely on volunteer labour or charitable donations, although a few volunteers help at Churston railway station.
History
Kingswear branch
The line was built by the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway, opening to Brixham Road station on 14 March 1861 and on to Kingswear on 10 August 1864. The Dartmouth and Torbay Railway was always operated by the South Devon Railway and was amalgamated with it on 1 January 1872. This was only short-lived as the South Devon Railway was in turn amalgamated into the Great Western Railway on 1 February 1876. Brixham Road became a junction and was renamed "Churston" on 1 January 1868 when the independent Torbay and Brixham Railway opened its short line. There were level crossings at Sands Road, Paignton, Tanners Road, Goodrington and on the approach to the Dartmouth Higher Ferry.
A new halt, less than one coach long, was opened on 18 October 1877 at the level crossing leading to the Dartmouth Higher Ferry, named Kingswear Crossing Halt, or later, Britannia Halt, for the Prince of Wales to bring his sons to enter the naval college based on HMS Britannia, which was moored close by on the river. In later years, the halt was used mainly by workers travelling to the Philip
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Richard Verney, 13th Baron Willoughby de Broke and de jure 21st Baron Latimer (1693 – 11 August 1752) was a peer in the peerage of England.
Richard Verney was born in 1693, the second son of George Verney, 12th Baron Willoughby de Broke (1659–1728), and Margaret Heath, daughter of Sir Thomas Heath at the Verney family seat at Compton Verney House in Warwickshire He inherited the title 13th Baron Willoughby de Broke and 21st Baron Latimer on the death of his father in 1728, his elder brother Thomas having died in 1710. He married twice but his only son died in infancy. Upon his death, on 11 August 1752, the title passed to his nephew John Peyto-Verney who was the son of his younger brother John.
References
ThePeerage
External links
Compton Verney House website
1693 births
1752 deaths
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Grayson is primarily a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
People with the given name "Grayson" include
Grayson Allen (born 1995), American basketball player
Grayson Barber (born 2000), American soccer player
Grayson Bell (born 1997), Australian swimmer
Grayson Boucher (born 1984), American streetball player
Grayson Bourne, British canoeist
Grayson Capps (born 1967), American singer-songwriter
Grayson Davey (born 2001), American sport shooter
Grayson Dolan (born 1999), American YouTube personality
Grayson Dupont (born 1998), American soccer player
Grayson Earle (born 1987), American artist
Grayson Garvin (born 1989), American baseball player
Grayson Gilbert (born 1990), American entrepreneur
Grayson Greiner (born 1992), American baseball player
Grayson Hajash (1925–2015), American football player
Grayson Hall (1922–1985), American actress
Grayson Hart (born 1988), New Zealand rugby union footballer
Grayson Hoffman (born 1984), American photographer
Grayson Hugh (born 1960), American singer-songwriter
Grayson L. Kirk (1903–1997), American academic administrator
Grayson Lookner, American politician
Grayson McCall (born 2000), American football player
Grayson McCouch (born 1968), American actor
Grayson Moore, Canadian filmmaker
Grayson Murphy (disambiguation), multiple people
Grayson Murray (born 1993), American golfer
Grayson Perry (born 1960), British artist
Grayson Rodriguez (born 1999), American baseball player
Grayson Russell (born 1998), American actor
Grayson Shillingford (1944–2009), West Indian cricketer
Grayson Waller (born 1990), Australian professional wrestler
Fictional characters
Grayson Sinclair, a character on the British soap opera Emmerdale
See also
Greyson, given name and surname
Given names
English masculine given names
Masculine given names
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Clan Jardine is a Scottish clan of the Scottish Lowlands.
History
Origins of the clan
The surname Jardine is derived from jardin which is French for garden or orchard. However the genealogist, Black, has suggested that this does not mean that they were gardeners, but that they resided near to a garden.
The du Jardon family came over to England in 1066 with William the Conqueror. The name is first found in Scotland in charters to Kelso Abbey and Arbroath Abbey prior to 1153, when Wmfredus de Jardin appears as a witness. In about 1178 Humphrey de Jardin witnessed a charter by Robert Bruce to Arbroath Abbey.
The name Jardine is also found in the form of de Gardinus and Patrick de Gardinus was chaplain to the Bishop of Glasgow during the early thirteenth century. Sir Humphrey de Gardino witnessed a registration of the lands of Annandale in 1245.
Another variant of the name is found in the Ragman Rolls of 1296 where Jorden del Orchard appears rendering homage for his lands in Linlithgow to Edward I of England.
The chiefly line of the Clan Jardine appears to have been established by the fourteenth century at Applegirth on the River Annan in Dumfriesshire. Their first stronghold was Spedlings Tower which was abandoned in the late seventeenth century. From there the family moved across the river to Jardine Hall. This was allegedly to escape the ghost of a miller who had been left to starve to death in the tower's dungeon.
Y-DNA analysis informs us that the Clan Graham and the Clan Jardine share a male line ancestor, shortly before the two male lines got their Clan name. Both Jordan and Jardine surnames descent from the Jardine line. Since the closest Y-DNA matches are in the Middle East, another scenario for the etymology is possible: "du Jourdain" (from the Jordan river); "from" is used common in a relation to a recognizable city or river (see e.g. the Companions of William the Conqueror), less in relation to a common word like "garden".
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A cofferdam is an enclosure built within a body of water to allow the enclosed area to be pumped out or drained. This pumping creates a dry working environment so that the work can be carried out safely. Cofferdams are commonly used for construction or repair of permanent dams, oil platforms, bridge piers, etc., built within water.
These cofferdams are usually welded steel structures, with components consisting of sheet piles, wales, and cross braces. Such structures are usually dismantled after the construction work is completed.
The origin of the word comes from coffer (originally from Latin cophinus meaning "basket") and dam from Proto-Germanic * meaning "barrier across a stream of water to obstruct its flow and raise its level").
Uses
For dam construction, two cofferdams are usually built, one upstream and one downstream of the proposed dam, after an alternative diversion tunnel or channel has been provided for the river flow to bypass the foundation area of the dam. These cofferdams are typically a conventional embankment dam of both earth- and rock-fill, but concrete or some sheet piling also may be used. Usually, upon completion of the dam and associated structures, the downstream coffer is removed and the upstream coffer is flooded as the diversion is closed and the reservoir begins to fill. Depending on the geography of a dam site, in some applications, a "U"-shaped cofferdam is used in the construction of one half of a dam. When complete, the cofferdam is removed and a similar one is created on the opposite side of the river for the construction of the dam's other half.
Cofferdams are used in ship husbandry to allow dry access to underwater equipment and to close underwater openings while work is done on the fittings inside the ship. This is more common in naval vessels where a cofferdam may fit several vessels of a class.
The cofferdam is also used on occasion in the shipbuilding and ship repair industry, when it is not practical to put a ship in d
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The year 1994 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.
Archaeology and paleontology
March 31 – The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull, significant in the study of human evolution.
December 18 – Chauvet Cave discovered by Jean-Marie Chauvet and other speleologists near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc in the Ardèche department of southern France, containing some of the earliest known cave paintings of animals, as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life.
The Australopithecus skeleton "Little Foot" is identified in South Africa.
Astronomy and space exploration
July 16–22 – The fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 impact the planet Jupiter.
July 21 – R. Ibata, M. Irwin, and G. Gilmore discover the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, considered the closest galaxy to the Milky Way until 2003.
October 12 – NASA loses contact with the Magellan spacecraft after a successful mission. The probe crashes into Venus shortly after.
Asteroid 7484 Dogo Onsesn is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa.
14032 Mego is discovered.
8C 1435+63 is discovered and at z=4.25 becomes the most distant known galaxy.
Biology and medicine
September 10 – Wollemia (the 'Wollemi Pine'), previously known only from fossils, is discovered living in remote rainforest gorges in the Wollemi National Park of New South Wales by David Noble.
October – First public demonstration of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
December 15 – Publication of the "Fukuda" clinical description of chronic fatigue syndrome.
The Dingiso or tree-kangaroo of Western New Guinea is first seen by scientists.
Gilbert's potoroo is rediscovered in Australia having been thought extinct.
Flora of China begins publication.
The first gene linked to Alzheimer's disease is discovered. No new linked genes would be found until 2009.
The BRCA1 gene is cloned by scientists at University of Uta
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This is a complete list of past and present members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines whose last names begin with the letter N.
This list also includes members of the Philippine Assembly (1907–1916), the Commonwealth National Assembly (1935–1941), the Second Republic National Assembly (1943–1944) and the Batasang Pambansa (1978–1986).
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Antonio Nachura, member for Samar's 2nd district (1998–2004)
Julio Nalundasan, member for Ilocos Norte's 2nd district (1934–1935)
Mariano Nalupta Jr., member for Ilocos Norte's 2nd district (1987–1992)
Rafael Nantes, member for Quezon's 1st district (1998–2007)
Narciso Nario, member for Region III (1978–1984)
Teodulo Natividad, member for Bulacan's 1st district (1961–1972, 1992–1997), Region III (1978–1984), and Bulacan (1984–1986)
Maricel Natividad-Nagaño, member for Nueva Ecija's 4th district (2019–2022)
Catalino Nava, member for Guimaras (1995)
Joaquin Carlos Rahman Nava, member for Guimaras (2007–2016)
Maria Lucille Nava, member for Guimaras (2016–present)
Miguel Nava, member for Cagayan's 2nd district (1916–1919), and Cagayan's 1st district (1919–1922)
Pablo Nava III, member for APPEND party-list (2013–2016)
Constantino Navarro Sr., member for Surigao del Norte (1965–1972, 1984–1986), Region X (1978–1984), and Surigao del Norte's 2nd district (1987–1992)
Constantino Navarro Jr., member for Surigao del Norte's 1st district (1995–2001)
Mauro Navarro, member for Pangasinan's 1st district (1922–1925)
Ricardo Navarro, member for Surigao (1934–1935, 1938–1941, 1945–1949)
Dominador Nazareno Jr., member for Cavite's 1st district (1992–1995)
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Francisco Nepomuceno, member for Pampanga's 1st district (1957–1961)
Francis Nepomuceno, member for Pampanga's 1st district (1998–2007)
Juanita Nepomuceno, member for Pampanga's 1st district (1961–1969), and Pampanga (1984–1986)
Ricardo Nepomuceno, member for Marinduque (1922–1931)
Jose Paul Neri, member for Camiguin (1969–1972, 1984–1986)
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The Rapid Fire Arena is a skating facility located in Moriches, New York. It is the home of the Suffolk Sting of the Professional Inline Hockey Association Pro Division (PIHA Pro) and the Professional Inline Hockey Association Minor League (PIHAML).
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Rapid Fire Arena official site
Brookhaven, New York
Sports venues in Suffolk County, New York
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Gertrude of Comburg (died 1130/1131) was the first queen consort of Conrad III of Germany. She was a daughter of Henry, Count of Rothenburg, and Gepa of Mergentheim.
Marriage
Her marriage to Conrad of Swabia is estimated to have occurred c. 1115. Her new husband was the second son of Frederick I, Duke of Swabia and Agnes of Germany. He was a younger brother of Frederick II, Duke of Swabia.
In 1115, Conrad was appointed Duke of Franconia by his maternal uncle Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor. Henry V died on 23 May 1125, and Conrad was an eligible candidate for the throne. However, Conrad supported his older brother Frederick II in the election for the new King of the Romans. The election was instead won by Lothair III.
Conrad and Frederick II had inherited the private lands of their deceased maternal uncle Henry V, but also pressed a claim to lands gained by the crown during his reign. Lothair III also claimed the lands as the new King. Their conflict resulted in Conrad being elected King of Germany in opposition to Lothair in 1127. Gertrud became his Queen consort. The conflict was still ongoing at the time of her death.
Children
Gertrud and Conrad III had at least two daughters whose names are; Bertha (recorded as abbess of Erstein in 1153) and Gertrud. Another daughter (probably named Agnes), who died in 1151, married Iziaslav II of Kiev.
Conrad III had other children: two by his second wife Gertrude of Sulzbach (Heinrich-Berengar and Friedrich IV of Swabia) and five with a mistress called Gerberga (Leopold, Konstantin von Lochgarten, Giselbert von Hotingen, Sophia, who married Konrad von Pfitzingen, and Ludmilla von Vellberg).
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11th-century births
1130s deaths
Year of birth unknown
Year of death uncertain
Hohenstaufen
Queens of the Romans
12th-century German women
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Servia was a town in Adams County, Washington. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place.
When the Milwaukee Railway was built through Servia, the officials named the station after the Kingdom of Serbia. Consequently, the community derived its name from Serbia.
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Ghost towns in Adams County, Washington
Ghost towns in Washington (state)
Geography of Adams County, Washington
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Wasserzug Étienne Bronislaw (born 1 August 1860 in Motol; died 1888) was a French biologist of Polish origin.
Biography
1863-1870 after the defeat of the Polish uprising against Russia, his father was sentenced to death. He managed to escape with one of their children-Etienne. He finds refuge in Neuchâtel (Switzerland), and then hides in le-Saunier (Jura, France).
During the 1870-1871 conflict with Prussia, his father enlisted as a medical officer in the French army. After the war, disillusioned with the attitude of the French administration, he entrusted his son to a woman and leaves him to go to America. .
1877-1879 Etienne went and lived in Budapest (Hungary), where he accepted a position as tutor in a wealthy Hungarian family.
1879-1880 returning to France he has become a master in teaching high school in Besançon, and then in college Salins (Jura). Preparing to receive a Bachelor of Arts and is preparing for the competition "Ecole Normale Supérieure".
In 1881, he is a teacher at the Lycée Saint-Louis (Paris).
1882 he receives a bachelor's degree and passes an entrance exam for the "Ecole Normale". He learns history at the Ecole Normale section.
In the years 1885-1888, as an assistant coach of the laboratory of Louis Pasteur in the "Ecole Normale" he is working on the production of «Invertin» of some fungi, morphology and physiology of bacteria and fungi. He's working on a rabies treatment.
In 1888, he died in Paris of scarlet fever. Louis Pasteur made a speech at his funeral.
Personal life
After escaping with his father, Etienne did not see the rest of his family. After his father went to America (Argentina), he was alone.
He was fluent in several languages including Latin, Anglo-Saxon and Slavic.
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Bibliography
19th-century biologists
Polish biologists
1860 births
1888 deaths
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Emigrants from the Russian Empire
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Ernst Heeger (1783, Perchtoldsdorf1866, Laxenburg), was an Austrian amateur entomologist. He was a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, a "Privatcadet" in the Napoleonic Wars, and from 1816 an employee of the Magistrat (administrative authority) of Vienna Later he founded a school of languages and drawing in Mödling. As an entomologist, he was particularly interested in the biology of insects and in the benefits and damage caused by insects. He collaborated with Vincenz Kollar.He published a series of entomology works entitled Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Insecten and he was a pioneer of micrography publishing Album microscopisch-photographischer Darstellungen aus dem Gebiete der Zoologie between 1861 and 1863.
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Zobodat
Wikisource de
Gaedike, R.; Groll, E. K. & Taeger, A. 2012: Bibliography of the entomological literature from the beginning until 1863 : online database – version 1.0 – Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut.
1866 deaths
1783 births
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Eunice do Monte Lima Katunda (Catunda) (14 March 1915 – 3 August 1990) was a Brazilian pianist, music educator and composer.
Life
Katunda was born in Rio de Janeiro and studied piano with Oscar Guanabarino and Marieta Lion, composition with Furio Franceschini, Camargo Guarnieri and Hans-Joachim Koellreutter. Beginning in 1944, she worked as a concert pianist and was a member of the Música Viva ensemble founded by Koellreutter. In 1948, together with students of Koellreutter, Katunda travels to Italy, where she will study conducting with Hermann Scherchen. From this year, Eunice approaches the aesthetic socialist guidelines. In 1950 she began the study of Brazilian folk music with Pierre Verger. Katunda taught musicology at the University of Brasília and composition at the Rio de Janeiro Conservatory. She died in São José dos Campos.
Works
Katunda often combined folk element with 12-note technique. Selected compositions include:
A Flauta (in Duas líricas gregas)
Anunciação (in Canções à maneira de época) (Text: Vinícius de Moraes)
Aóion (in Duas líricas gregas)
Assim como as folhas (in Canções à maneira de época) (Text: Vinícius de Moraes)
Bom Jesus do Calvário (in Duas devoções nordestinas)
Consciência de ser (in Estro Romântico) (Text: Eunice Katunda)
Dialética (in Estro Romântico) (Text: Vinícius de Moraes)
Encomenda de Almas (in Duas devoções nordestinas)
Estro africano n.2 (Águas de Oxalá) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Incelença das Ave-Marias (in Quatro Incelenças (Quatro cantigas de velório))
Incelenças do anjo do céu (in Quatro Incelenças (Quatro cantigas de velório))
Incelenças do anjo-Serafim (in Quatro Incelenças (Quatro cantigas de velório))
Incelenças dos cravos e rosas (in Quatro Incelenças (Quatro cantigas de velório))
Louvor de Oxum (in Estro africano n.1 (Duas cantigas das águas)) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Louvor de Yemanjá (in Estro africano n.1 (Duas cantigas das águas)) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
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HD 70642 b is an exoplanet orbiting the star HD 70642 at a distance of 3.23 AU, taking 5.66 years to complete an orbit. This planet may have systems of moons like Jupiter. This planet was discovered on July 3, 2003. It is located about 95 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. In 2023, the inclination and true mass of HD 70642 b were determined via astrometry.
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55 Cancri d
Gliese 777 b
HD 28185 b
Mu Arae e
Pi Mensae b
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Puppis
Exoplanets discovered in 2003
Giant planets
Exoplanets detected by radial velocity
Exoplanets detected by astrometry
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Wilson Dam is a dam on the Tennessee River between Lauderdale and Colbert counties in Alabama. Completed in 1924 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, it impounds Wilson Lake, and is one of nine Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dams on the Tennessee River. It was declared a National Historic Landmark on November 13, 1966, for its role as the first dam to come under the TVA's administration. The dam is named for Woodrow Wilson.
Description
Wilson Dam is located at river mile 259.4 of the Tennessee River, spanning the river in a roughly north–south orientation between Florence and Muscle Shoals in northern Alabama. The dam is high and long. The dam cost almost $47 million (equivalent to $ in ). The main lock at Wilson Dam is wide by long. The lock lift is . It is the highest single lift lock east of the Rocky Mountains. An auxiliary lock has two wide by long chambers that operate in tandem. Over 3,700 vessels pass through Wilson Dam's locks each year.
The net dependable capacity of Wilson Dam is 663 megawatts of electricity.
History
The origins of the dam lie in the treacherous Muscle Shoals section of the Tennessee River, an area of dangerous shallows and turbulent currents, impeding commerce and navigation. The expansion of steamboat travel and plantation agriculture along the Tennessee Valley inspired many largely unsuccessful efforts in the late 19th century to tame the shoals, including a canal around the area. This final effort to tame the Muscle Shoals was spurred on by the possibility of US entry into the First World War. US Officials feared that the German Navy could disrupt the supply of nitrates, used in the manufacturing of explosives, which were primarily imported in the form of bat or bird guano from Chile. The National Defense Act of 1916 mandated the construction of two nitrate plants, powered by an adjacent hydroelectric plant in order to create a domestic supply of this vital resource. Federal Engineers decided on Muscle Shoals aft
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The 1932–33 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 1932–33 NCAA men's basketball season and were members of the Pacific Coast Conference. The Bruins were led by 12th year head coach Caddy Works. They finished the regular season with a record of 10–11 and were fourth in the southern division with a record of 1–10.
Previous season
The Bruins finished the regular season with a record of 9–6 and were third in the southern division with a record of 4–5.
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Petunia Peak is a mountain summit located in Jefferson County of Washington state.
Description
Petunia Peak is set in the northeastern Olympic Mountains, and is situated on the boundary shared by Olympic National Park with the Buckhorn Wilderness, on land partially managed by the Olympic National Forest. Precipitation runoff from Petunia Peak drains into tributaries of the Dungeness River, and topographic relief is significant as the east aspect rises 3,750 feet (1,143 m) above the river in approximately 1.7 mile, and the west aspect rises 2,000 feet above Royal Basin in less than one mile. Old-growth forests of Douglas fir, western hemlock, and western redcedar grow on the lower slopes surrounding the peak. Like the town of Sequim 17 miles to the north, Petunia Peak lies in the rain shadow of the Olympic Mountains. It is also called "Petunia Peaks", as a higher summit known as North Petunia Peak (6,998 ft) rises 0.6 mile (1 km) to the north. This landform's name has not been officially adopted by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, so the mountain is not labeled on USGS maps.
Climate
Petunia Peak is located in the marine west coast climate zone of western North America. Most weather fronts originate in the Pacific Ocean, and travel east toward the Olympic Mountains. As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks of the Olympic Range, causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall (Orographic lift). As a result, the Olympics experience high precipitation, especially during the winter months in the form of snowfall. During winter months, weather is usually cloudy, but due to high pressure systems over the Pacific Ocean that intensify during summer months, there is often little or no cloud cover during the summer. The months July through September offer the most favorable weather for viewing or climbing this peak.
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Geology of the Pacific Northwest
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Petunia Peak photo: Flickr
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Klosterbräu Bamberg is the oldest brewery in Bamberg, Upper Franconia, Germany. It is located in the so-called Mühlenviertel near the river Regnitz. The annual output is about 4,000 hectoliters.
History
Klosterbräu was named after the nearby Franciscan monastery of Bamberg and was founded as a Prince-Bishopric's dark beer house in 1533. The house was first mentioned as a brewery in 1333. Until 1790, the Bierhaus was owned by the archbishops.
See also
List of oldest companies
References
Article contains translated text from Klosterbräu Bamberg on the German Wikipedia retrieved on 25 February 2017.
External links
Homepage in German
Facebook page
Restaurants in Germany
Bamberg
Companies established in the 16th century
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The Burnley and District Weavers', Winders' and Beamers' Association was a trade union representing workers in the cotton industry in the Burnley area of Lancashire, in England. As cotton manufacturing dominated the town's economy, the trade union played an important role in the town, and several union officials became prominent national figures.
History
A union of weavers had existed in Burnley from the 1840s until about 1863, while a second was formed in 1866, but both collapsed, following opposition from employers. This concerned the North East Lancashire Amalgamated Weavers' Association, which saw an opportunity to organise in the town, and it began recruiting local weavers to the Chorley Weavers' Association, one of its affiliates.
By 1870, the Chorley union had enough members in Burnley that they were able to form their own, independent, union, the Burnley and District Weavers' Winders' and Beamers' Association. The end of the decade saw a downturn in the trade and the new union organised industrial action. It struggled to keep going, but did survive, and in 1884 it affiliated to the new Amalgamated Weavers' Association (AWA). By 1892, the union had 10,043 members, and this grew to a peak of 27,000 in 1920. It was the largest union affiliated to the AWA.
In 1892, the union declared itself in support of socialism, and that it politically and financially support efforts to form an independent socialist party. A member of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF) was elected as vice-president in 1895, and this led the SDF's leader, H. M. Hyndman, to unsuccessfully contest the Burnley constituency at the 1895 UK general election. The following year, Liberal-Labour members of the union, such as president David Holmes, overturned the socialist policies, leading SDF supporters to form a small breakaway union. This survived for several years, but did not grow, and was eventually dissolved.
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Ashdown Radio is a community radio station in East Sussex, broadcasting from transmitters in Uckfield and Crowborough. It is owned by Ashdown Radio Limited.
The station began as Uckfield FM in 2003 and operated under 28-day restricted service licences (RSLs) each year from 2003 to 2009. It then returned to the air under a full-time licence in 2010. After expanding to Crowborough, the station rebranded as Ashdown Radio in 2022.
History
RSL broadcasts
Uckfield FM first launched at 8:00am on Monday, 7 July 2003. The station was founded by Gary King, Mike Skinner, Alan French and the late Paddy Rea.
A temporary studio was situated within a storage and office area at the Picture House Cinema in Uckfield High Street. The station broadcast on 87.9 FM and online; subsequent temporary broadcasts took place on the same frequency. It broadcast each summer in support of the Uckfield Festival by way of a 28-day restricted service licence until 2009.
During the station's time at the Picture House, presenters were live 24 hours a day, to allow for access when the cinema was closed; this was also necessary as the playout system didn't support broadcast automation.
Uckfield Community Radio Limited was formed in late 2006 by Gary King and Mike Skinner. The station moved to its current premises at Bird In Eye Farm in early 2007. Summer broadcasts resumed from the new location that year. Additional-21 day broadcasts took place during December 2007 and 2008, to support Uckfield's late-night shopping event.
Full-time broadcasting
An application was submitted to Ofcom in November 2008 for a community radio licence to begin full-time broadcasting, which was awarded on 22 July 2009, just after the final restricted service licence broadcast ended. Uckfield FM returned to the air on a full-time basis on 105.0 MHz at 1:05 p.m. on Thursday, 1 July 2010.
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North American Cold Storage Co. v. Chicago, 211 U.S. 306 (1908), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that no hearing was necessary prior to the seizure, condemnation, and destruction of food which was unwholesome and unfit for use.
Facts
A Chicago ordinance allowed inspectors to inspect cold storage facilities for rotten food and summarily destroy unfit food. Chicago inspectors ordered the destruction of plaintiff's poultry. The Company refused the order and sought an injunction.
Issue
Whether the provisions in the cold storage ordinances of Chicago for destruction of unsafe and unwholesome food are unconstitutional as depriving persons of property without due process of law because they do not provide for notice and opportunity to be heard before such destruction.
Holding
Under its police power, the state has the right to seize and destroy food which is unwholesome and unfit to use, and, in exercising such a power, due process of law, within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment, does not require previous notice and an opportunity to be heard; the party whose property is destroyed has a right of action after the act which is not affected by the ex parte condemnation of the state officers.
Where, under the police power of the state, the legislature may enact laws for the destruction of articles prejudicial to public health, it is, to a great extent, within its discretion as to whether any notice and hearing shall be given, and the fact that the articles might be kept for a period does not give the owners a right to notice and hearing.
Importance
Wrongful loss of a property interest can always be made whole, unlike a liberty interest.
See also
Justice Rufus Wheeler Peckham
List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 211
Chicago - the defendant
North American Cold Storage - the plaintiff
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United States Supreme Court cases
United States Supreme Court cases of the Fuller Court
United States administrative
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The GE 477L Nuclear Detection and Reporting System (NUDETS, NUDETS 477L, Program 477L) was a Cold War "Nuclear Detonation and Radioactive Fall-out Reporting System" for the National Military Command System. Planning/development began "by September 1, 1959, when NORAD had taken over responsibility from CONAD." In February 1961, General Electric and the sensor subcontractor Dresser agreed on a "team proposal" to the USAF. GE's oral proposal to the USAF was on October 18 1961, and in early November the GE/Dresser team was selected from 13 proposals. The contract was completed February 5 1962; specifications were approved June 1962; and the "target cost" and "target fee" amounts were $1,709,755 and $95,000. Lt Col Elmer Jones was the program chief at the System Program Office.
Deuces Wild/Thirsty Camel
Phase I of NUDETS deployed under the code names Deuces Wild and Thirsty Camel and was a prototype system "in operation in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. area and reported data to the NORAD COC for about 20 months (l July 1964 to 27 February 1966)--Chidlaw Building Combined Operations Center in Colorado Springs until Cheyenne Mountain Complex became operational in 1965-6. The "regional data processing center" was at Benton Air Force Station, and the sensors were at sensors located at Benton; Thomas, West Virginia; Manassas, Virginia, and Hermanville, Maryland (RP-54A/Z-227A, ). Phase I testing "showed that the data it gave was not reliable" and by May 1965, NUDETS was planned to be cancelled. NUDETS was combined with the Army's Improved Biological and Chemical Detection Warning System to form the NORAD Nuclear Biological Chemical (NBC) Warning and Reporting System effective 1 January 1966 by NORAD Operation Order 303N-66, 26 November 1965.
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1966 disestablishments in the United States
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The Thomas Coram Foundation for Children is a large children's charity in London which uses the working name Coram (formerly Coram Family).
It originated as part of England's oldest children's charity, the Foundling Hospital, established by royal charter in 1739.
Activities
Coram is structured as an umbrella group of charities working with vulnerable children in different areas.
Coram's headquarters are at Brunswick Square in London, but they work with children and young people across the UK and beyond.
Adoption and care
Coram Adoption is an independent adoption service working in London, the East Midlands and Cambridgeshire.
They also work in partnership with local authorities. Their partnership with the London Borough of Harrow was the first use of the model.
Coram were also one of the pioneers of 'concurrent planning' (also known as 'foster to adopt'), and received government funding to become a 'National Centre of Excellence in Early Years Permanence' in 2012.
In 2015 the British Association for Adoption and Fostering went into administration. Coram took over many of the services in England, offering a total of £40,000 and taking on 50 of the 135 employees. The membership, training and research organisation became CoramBAAF. The Independent Review Mechanism (England) was taken over by Coram Children's Legal Centre. The National Adoption Register for England is now run by First4Adoption (jointly run by Coram and Adoption UK).
Coram also provides sheltered housing and support for care leavers.
Creative Therapies
Coram provides creative therapies (art and music) for children, either in the new centre in London or in school and community settings in London, Kent, Cambridgeshire and the East Midlands.
Education
Coram Life Education runs programmes in schools to educate children about health, wellbeing and drugs. It was formed in 2009 as an amalgamation between Coram and Life Education. Coram was already working with families affected by drug and alcohol ab
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Cora accipiter is a species of basidiolichen in the family Hygrophoraceae. It was formally described as a new species in 2016 by Bibiana Moncada, Santiago Madriñán, and Robert Lücking. The specific epithet, which refers to hawks of the genus Accipiter, alludes to the wing-shaped lobes of the lichen, and also honours mycologist David Leslie Hawksworth. The lichen is found in South America, where it grows in the wet páramo regions of the northern Andes. Closely related species include C. cyphellifera and C. arachnoidea.
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accipiter
Lichen species
Lichens described in 2016
Lichens of South America
Taxa named by Robert Lücking
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The Ron and Fez Show was an American talk radio show hosted by Ron Bennington and Fez Whatley, which aired from August 1998 to April 2015.
After a run in Tampa, Florida as part of The Ron and Ron Show, and then several other stints in Daytona Beach, Florida, New York City, and Washington, D.C., and on Sirius XM Radio.
History
Formation
In 1987, stand-up comedian Ron Bennington joined Ron Diaz to create a wildly popular and raunchy morning radio program, The Ron and Ron Show at Tampa Bay's WYNF-FM, 95ynf (now WWRM). On December 21, 1994, Ron Diaz announced that his wife Debbie was diagnosed with AIDS, and Diaz began periodically missing broadcasts to care for her. Debbie died on November 13, 1995. Diaz announced his departure on-air from The Ron & Ron Show in early 1997, and on September 29, 1997, after a successful 11-year run, the show ended. Fez Whatley, a producer at the time, became Bennington's new co-host.
1998–2000: WKRO Daytona Beach
On August 24, 1998, The Ron and Fez Show debuted on WKRO-FM in Daytona Beach in the morning drive-time slot. Just a few months earlier, on May 22, 1998, The Monsters in the Morning (then known as The Monsters of the Midday), briefly reunited several regulars from the cancelled Ron and Ron Show, including Bennington, Whatley, Billy "The Phone Freak," and Paul O, where on-air Ron and Fez announced their return to radio. Using the formula they helped develop in Tampa, Ron and Fez recruited new employees, interns and characters for the new show. They were on WKRO until January 2000, when they left for New York.
2000–2003: WNEW-FM New York
The Ron and Fez show debuted on WNEW in New York City on February 21, 2000, and within one month their program was syndicated to Washington, D.C.'s WJFK.
New York's WNEW-FM was converted from a long-respected rock station to all-talk in 1999, with afternoon drive show Opie and Anthony as the focal point. Ron and Fez signed on to host an overnight talk show named Ron and Fez Dot Com, beginnin
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Martin Charles Rushent (11 July 1948 – 4 June 2011) was an English record producer, best known for his work with the Human League, the Stranglers and Buzzcocks.
Early life
Rushent was born on 11 July 1948 in Enfield, Middlesex. His father was a car salesman. Rushent attended Minchenden Grammar School in Southgate, Middlesex.
Career
Early career
Rushent's first experience in a recording studio was at EMI House in London's Manchester Square, when his school band (of which he was the lead singer) had the opportunity to record a demo. After leaving school, Rushent, who had already experimented with his father's 4-track recorder, worked at a chemical factory before working for his father while applying for studio jobs. After numerous rejections, Rushent was employed by Advision Studios as a 35mm film projectionist. After approximately three months, Rushent began working in the audio department as a tape operator alongside Tony Visconti. He worked on sessions for Fleetwood Mac, T.Rex, Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Petula Clark, Jerry Lee Lewis and Osibisa. Rushent stated that while at Advision, Jerry Lee Lewis threw a tantrum as Yes had been booked into the studio when he was not ready to leave, and chased the studio staff around the complex until they locked themselves in a different studio.
Rushent progressed to senior assistant engineer, staff engineer, and eventually head engineer. He then began working freelance, where he built his reputation and was employed by United Artists (UA). While with UA, Rushent recorded sessions alongside Martin Davies, recording artists such as Shirley Bassey and Buzzcocks, as well as convincing the company to sign the Stranglers provided that he produced the band's material. Rushent produced the group's Rattus Norvegicus, No More Heroes and Black and White albums and recorded demos for Joy Division, before tiring of his commute to London and leaving UA at the end of the 1970s.
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Rushent expressed a desire to move away
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Francisco Pérez de Burgos (1558-1617) was a Spanish jurist, military man, merchant and politician, who had a preponderant role during the colonial period of Argentina, where he worked as a public and government notary of the city of Buenos Aires.
He was appointed Escribano Real for his Majesty Felipe II de España, and held various honorary posts in the territories of the Viceroyalty of Peru, including as Mayor of Buenos Aires and Corrientes, Notary public, and Regidor of the Cabildo of Buenos Aires.
Biography
He was born in Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Spain, the son of Diego Pérez de Burgos and Beatriz Martínez de Tremal, belonging to a distinguished Andalusian family. He possibly did his studies in Seville, and arrival in the Río de La Plata from Cádiz in 1581. He lived in Asunción and settled in Buenos Aires in 1583, where he married Juana de Aguilar y Salvatierra, daughter of Leonor de Zamora and her first husband Andrés Gil, natives of Ronda.
Burgos was the successor of Antón García Caro, in the position of notary of Buenos Aires. He served as notary public and of Cabildo until 1606, being replaced by Manuel Martin. In 1606, Burgos presented before the City Council, his title of Royal Notary of the Spanish Indies, signed on February 11, 1581 by the King Philip II of Spain.
He had an active participation as a government notary in the Río de la Plata. In 1584 he officiated the notarial deed in the interrogation conducted by Conquistador Don Juan de Torres de Vera y Aragón, against three English pirates, who had been persecuted by the Charruas Indians in the territory of Santa Fe Province. One of these pirates was John Drake, the nephew of Francis Drake.
Burgos belonged to the second contingent of settlers established in the city of Buenos Aires. He also living in the provinces of San Miguel de Tucumán, Santa Fe and Corrientes. In 1596, he was appointed by Juan Ramírez de Velasco, to exercise the position of Alcalde and Justicia Mayor of Corrientes.
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is a Japanese web manga series written and illustrated by Nanashi, also known as 774. The web manga began running in Magazine Pocket, an online and app-based web manga magazine published by Kodansha, in November 2017. An anime television series adaptation produced by Telecom Animation Film aired from April to June 2021. A second season produced by OLM aired from January to March 2023.
Plot
Naoto Hachiouji, an introverted second-year student at Kazehaya High School, prefers to avoid social interactions and draw manga in his spare time. However, first-year girl Hayase Nagatoro - who is secretly head-over-heels in love with him - inadvertently discovers the manga, calls him "Senpai", and teases him to the point of crying. She frequents the Art Club room where he hangs out, and continues to bully him for his timid personality and otaku interests, sometimes in a sexually suggestive fashion, calling him lewd. Initially, Senpai really doesn't like Nagatoro at all, and desperately tries to stay as far away from her and her antics as he possibly can. But as she continues to push him to become more assertive, he slowly realizes he is also falling in love with her, and gradually comes out of his shell and involves himself in her life.
Senpai meets Nagatoro's friends, Gamo, Yosshii and Sakura, who at first appear to be cruel and shallow high school girls who only seek to torment Senpai, but they catch on to Senpai and Nagatoro's oblivious mutual crush and they become supportive friends who scheme to bring the two closer together. The Art Club's semi-retired president Sana Sunomiya appears and tries to shut down the club, but after a contest challenge during the culture festival, allows it to continue. During the next school year, the president's younger cousin Hana Sunomiya enrolls in the high school and joins the Art Club, whereas Nagatoro joins the Judo Club. Hana quickly understands what's happening between Senpai and Nagatoro and makes her mission to help them.
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Peter Filatreu Cross (October 6, 1815 – October 13, 1862) was an assistant engraver to James B. Longacre at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Early life
Cross was born in New York City to William Cross (a ship captain, missing at sea September 1815, his last letter home before going missing still exists) and Elizabeth A. Cross, and despite Mint records stating that he died in 1856, he appears in the 1860 U.S. Census in Philadelphia. He married Harriet Amelia Chapin and had five children, Anna Maria Cross (later Willard, 1843–1917), Hannah Elizabeth (later Marple, 1845-1902), William Edward (1847-1875), Chapin Filatreau (1854-1857) and Edmond Filatreau (1859-1861).
Career
He is best known for his work on the reverse of the 1849 one dollar ($1) gold coin. The value of gold required the coin to be so small — in diameter) — that too many people were losing them, so it had to be redesigned (In spending power, the dollar of 1849 is equal to $ today, but even that value is far exceeded by the collector value as well as by the present value of the gold content). He also designed medals of the period, including a medal of Commander Duncan Ingraham.
Death
Cross died on October 13, 1862, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is buried at Lawnview Cemetery in Rockledge, Pennsylvania. He was disinterred from the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Philadelphia when that cemetery was removed to make way for the Raymond Rosen housing project, which itself was demolished in 1995 as part of an urban renewal program.
On March 14, 2013, Cross was mentioned by full name in the Jump Start comic strip, written by Robb Armstrong, a native of Philadelphia, in an arc about coin collecting.
References
American engravers
1815 births
1862 deaths
Artists from New York City
Burials at Lawnview Memorial Park
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Aberglasslyn is a rapidly expanding suburb of Maitland, located in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales Australia.
Description and history
The traditional owners and custodians of the Maitland area are the Wonnarua people.
Once known as "The Country Estate", Aberglasslyn was surrounded by paddocks and bushland which have now been developed into numerous sub-divisions such as "The Sanctuary" and "Weblands Wonderland". Aberglasslyn provides views of the hills of Maitland Vale and Rosebrook, situated near the Hunter River. It still retains some bushland which has been listed as a nature reserve.
Aberglasslyn House (circa 1840), a private residence, looks over a bend in the Hunter River and is built completely out of sandstone. Aberglasslyn House is one of the most important early Colonial homes in Australia. With its vast cellars, this early stone mansion has the potential to become the only "chateau style" boutique vineyard in the Hunter. It was built by George Hobler, and designed by John Verge who was born in Christchurch, Dorset, England.
The name is said to be a combination of "Aberdeen" and "Glasgow", though it is more likely to be from the place in Wales so called - Aberglaslyn, spelt Aberglasslyn by English writers in the 1800s. This Welsh name means the "mouth of the river Glaslyn" (aber = river mouth). See Afon Glaslyn. The Glaslyn used to enter Cardigan Bay at this point (it is now at some distance from the sea after land reclamation). "Glaslyn" is "blue lake", and is the name of the lake from which the river flows down to the sea and from which it has taken its name.
Heritage listings
Aberglasslyn has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
Aberglasslyn Road: Aberglasslyn House
References
Suburbs of Maitland, New South Wales
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The Quarry Lane School is a private, college-preparatory and International Baccalaureate school in California that offers education for students from preschool to twelfth grade. The School was founded by Sabri Arac, who is the current Head of School.
History
The Quarry Lane School was founded in 1991 by Dr. Sabri Arac as an infant/toddler preschool. It added an elementary school at its original Pleasanton, California campus. In 2000, Arac opened a campus in Dublin, California to accommodate the elementary school. The Pleasanton campus served only preschoolers.
In 2004, Arac opened the second Pleasanton preschool campus, the Pleasanton West campus. In 2005, the Dublin Campus expanded to include a middle school and high school. Its first class graduated in 2010.
A fourth campus, the Dublin West campus, was opened in fall 2022.
The Quarry Lane School offers college preparatory, honors, and AP classes. It offers the East Bay's only International Baccalaureate (IB) Program in a private setting and offers both IB Diploma and Certificate Programs.
Extracurricular activities
Clubs and activities
Some current Upper School clubs include Jazz Band, Chess, Drama, Photography, Journalism, Environmental, Red Cross, and Current Events.
Lower School students also take enrichment courses outside core subjects, which include Engineering, Visual/Fine Art, Computer Science, Spanish or Mandarin Chinese, Physical Education, and Music.
Robotics
Quarry Lane Robotics is offered after school for elementary through high school students. Elementary and middle school students compete in the FIRST Tech Challenge, whereas high school students compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition.
Competitive sports
As of the 2021-22 school year, the following athletics teams were available for high school students:
Girls' volleyball
Boys' volleyball
Co-ed soccer
Co-ed cross country
Girls' basketball
Boys' basketball
Co-ed track and field
Co-ed badminton
As of the 2021-22 school year,
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The name Ada was used for two tropical cyclones, one each in the South-West Indian Ocean and in the Southwest Pacific Ocean.
In the South-West Indian Ocean:
Tropical Cyclone Ada (1961), made landfall in Madagascar
In the Southwest Pacific Ocean:
Cyclone Ada (1970), a category 3 severe tropical cyclone that made landfall in Queensland
The name Ada was retired from use in the Australian region after the 1969–70 season.
Australian region cyclone set index articles
South-West Indian Ocean cyclone set index articles
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The Anders and Johanna Olsson Farm is a historic farmstead at 354 West Road in New Sweden, Maine, United States. It includes surviving elements of both a log house and log barn built in the late 19th century by Anders Olsson, a Swedish immigrant. The barn is the only known surviving barn in Maine to have been built during the wave of Swedish immigration in the later decades of the 19th century. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
Description and history
The Olsson Farm is a property located on the west side of West Road, a rural north-south road on the west side of New Sweden in northern Aroostook County, Maine. The farmstead consists of a connected series of structures, beginning with a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure that has a front-facing gable roof. A single-story hip-roofed porch extends across the east-facing front and wraps around to the south side, and there are a pair of sash windows in the gable end. A shed-roof addition extends across the north of this main block, with a shed-roof dormer in the main roof above. Behind this main block is attached a 1-1/2 log structure with a gable roof at a lower height but with the ridge in the same east-west orientation. A frame porch is attached to its south side, and there is a gabled dormer in the south-facing roof. The interior of this space has exposed log walls. A modern log breezeway joins this section to the log barn, forming the entire complex into an L shape. The barn has a log section that is , with a total length of due to a later frame extension. The barn has a gambrel roof, a c. 1915 replacement of the original gable roof.
In order to counteract the decline in its rural population due to westward migration, in 1861 the state of Maine embarked on an initiative to promote immigration to the rural northern part of the state. This led to an influx of primarily Swedish settlers, the first group arriving in 1870. Anders Olsson arrived in 1871, his wife
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The Berlin-Boylston Regional School District consists of one school serving grades 6-12: Tahanto Regional Middle/High School. The school is physically situated in Boylston, Massachusetts, adjacent to the Wachusett Reservoir. The towns of Berlin and Boylston, both located in Worcester County, are the member communities of the district.
Both towns maintain their own K-5 school districts, separate from the regional district. This means there are three legal districts serving the two towns. The towns have a superintendency union agreement by which the three districts share one school superintendent and district-level administration (such as Financial Director and Director of Pupil Personnel Services).
Administration
Superintendent of Schools: Carol Lynn Costello
Tahanto Regional Middle/High School
Principal: Diane Tucceri
References
External links
2011 Newsweek Ranking of Best American High Schools
Berlin-Boylston Regional School District
Massachusetts DOE Profile - Tahanto Regional Middle/High School
Boston Globe Annual MCAS Rankings for Berlin-Boylston Regional Schools (Tahanto) 2009
School districts in Worcester County, Massachusetts
Boylston, Massachusetts
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is a railway station on the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) Osaka Loop Line in Jōtō-ku, Osaka, Japan. The station name translates as Osaka Castle Park.
The station was designed to reflect the architecture of Ōsakajō (Ōsaka Castle), for which the station gets its name. This could be seen in the black and white coloured contrast of the walls, and the green-coloured roofs (representing the iconic colour of corroded copper roofs that Ōsakajō is well known for having).
Layout
There are two side platforms with two tracks on the ground level.
Surroundings
Osaka Castle
Osaka-jo Hall
Osaka Business Park
Osaka Suijō Bus Ōsakajō Pier
Stations next to Osakajō-kōen
History
Ōsakajō-kōen Station opened on 1 October 1983.
Station numbering was introduced in March 2018 with Teradacho being assigned station number JR-O07.
References
Osaka Castle
Chūō-ku, Osaka
Jōtō-ku, Osaka
Railway stations in Osaka
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1983
Stations of West Japan Railway Company
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Arabis macdonaldiana is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common name MacDonald's rockcress. It is native to northern California and Oregon, where it grows on newly exposed, barren serpentine soils in openings in temperate coniferous forest habitat. It is a rare and endangered plant known from several sites in California and approximately two occurrences in Oregon, where it is threatened mainly by mining, particularly of nickel, which is one of several metals plentiful in the serpentine. On September 29, 1978, this was the second plant to be federally listed as an endangered species.
Description
This is a perennial herb growing one or more slender stems from a small, branching caudex, reaching 10 to 30 centimeters tall. There is a basal patch of leaves with edges lined in small, widely spaced teeth which are sometimes tipped with spines. The leaves may lack teeth and have wavy margins. There may also be a few smaller leaves along the stem. The top of the stem forms an inflorescence of a few flowers, each with four bright rose-purple petals. The fruit is a flat, straight silique about 3 centimeters long which contains several oblong little seeds.
See also
List of Arabis species
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
USDA Plants Profile
The Nature Conservancy
Photo gallery
macdonaldiana
Flora of Oregon
Plants described in 1903
NatureServe imperiled species
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Utricularia quelchii is a small perennial, epiphyte or terrestrial carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia. U. quelchii is endemic to the Guyana Highland region of Guyana and Venezuela with one collection from Brazil. It was originally published and described by N. E. Brown in 1901. It grows on wet, mossy rocks or banks in swamps and around low tree trunks and branches and sometimes in the water-filled leaf axils of the bromeliad Brocchinia species. It is typically found at altitudes around , but has been recorded from altitudes of to , the highest collections representing specimens from Roraima.
See also
List of Utricularia species
References
Carnivorous plants of South America
Epiphytes
Flora of Brazil
Flora of Guyana
Flora of Venezuela
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William Alfred Robinson (12 July 1905 – 15 November 1957) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Penetanguishene, Ontario.
He studied in Toronto at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto after which he became a barrister. Robinson became Mayor of Midland, Ontario in 1945.
Robinson was first elected to Parliament at the Simcoe East riding in the 1945 general election then re-elected for successive terms in 1949 and 1953. He was Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons during the 22nd Canadian Parliament from 1953 to 1957, and also served as Chairman of the Committees of the Whole. After this term of office, Robinson was defeated by Philip Bernard Rynard of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1957 election.
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1905 births
1957 deaths
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Mayors of places in Ontario
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
Lawyers in Ontario
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WOW for the Children includes twelve songs on a single CD. The tracks are a mix of top gospel, CCM and CWM songs. It was compiled especially for the charitable organization Feed the Children. The album was not available commercially but was only given as a gift to donors.
Track listing
Crazy Times - Jars of Clay
Revive Us (urban mix) - Anointed
Can't Live A Day - Avalon
Jesus, Lover Of My Soul - Darlene Zschech
Butterfly Kisses - Bob Carlisle
I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever - Delirious?
Jesus Is All (Remix) - Fred Hammond & Radical For Christ
Show You Love - Jaci Velasquez
The Great Adventure - Steven Curtis Chapman
A Little More - Jennifer Knapp
Come, Now Is The Time To Worship - Vineyard
Never Seen The Righteous - Donald Lawrence & The Tri-City Singers
References
External links
Feed The Children official site
WOW series albums
2000 compilation albums
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The University of Florida College of Education is the teacher's college, or normal school, of the University of Florida. The College of Education is located on the eastern portion of the university's Gainesville, Florida, campus in Norman Hall, and offers specializations in special education, higher education, educational policy, elementary education, counseling, teaching, and other educational programs. It is consistently ranked one of the top schools of education in the nation. The college was officially founded in 1906. In fiscal year 2020, the College of Education generated $102.8 million in research funding.
National rankings: US News & World Report (2023)
College - #1 in Online Graduate Education
College - #14 in the Nation among Public Institutions
College - #23 in Best Education Schools in the Nation (Public and Private)
Special Education - #5 in Specialty Area
Counselor Education - #6 in Specialty Area
Curriculum and Instruction - #16 in Specialty Area
Elementary Teacher Education - #22 in Specialty Area
Schools and program areas
The College of Education is organized into the following three schools and program areas:
School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education (HDOSE)
Marriage and Family Counseling
Mental Health Counseling
Counselor Education
Educational Leadership
Higher Education
Student Personnel in Higher Education
Research and Evaluation Methodology (REM)
School of Special Education, School Psychology and Early Childhood Studies (SESPECS)
Special Education
School Psychology
Early Childhood Education
School of Teaching and Learning (STL)
Anatomical Science Education Certificate
Computer Science Education
Education Technology
Elementary Education
English Education
ESOL/Bilingual Education
Mathematics Education
Reading and Literacy Education
Science or Mathematics Teaching Certificate
SITE: Alternative Certification ' Social Studies Education
Social Studies Education
Teacher Leadership
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is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Minya Hiraga. It was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine from July to November 2021, with its chapters collected into three tankōbon volumes as of February 2022.
Plot
Neruma Isami is a young man who is passionate about martial arts. Unsure of what he wants to do in life aside from train in martial arts, he meets Akebi Haiba, who takes him to Amato High School, an academy which is made up of students who study martial arts.
Characters
Neruma Isami
A practicing martial artist, who was raised solely by his grandfather. He is nicknamed Neru by his classmates.
Akebi Haiba
A martial artist who takes an interest in Neru.
Toriichi Hartori
A practicing martial artist. Though not physically gifted, he is very academic.
Publication
The series is written and illustrated by Minya Hiraga. It was serialized on the Weekly Shōnen Jump website in September 2020, before beginning full serialization in the main Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on July 5, 2021. It ended serialization on November 15, 2021. Shueisha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on November 4, 2021. As of February 4, 2022, three volumes have been released.
Viz Media and Manga Plus are publishing chapters of the series simultaneously with the Japanese release.
Volume list
Reception
Steven Blackburn from Screen Rant criticized the series due to its similarities to Naruto. Contrary to Blackburn, Jacob Parker-Dalton from Otaquest offered the first chapter praise for it setting up the plot well.
Notes
References
External links
Martial arts anime and manga
Shōnen manga
Shueisha manga
Viz Media manga
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The Wade–Davis Bill of 1864 was a bill "to guarantee to certain States whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a republican form of government," proposed for the Reconstruction of the South. In opposition to President Abraham Lincoln's more lenient ten percent plan, the bill made re-admittance to the Union for former Confederate states contingent on a majority in each ex-Confederate state to take the Ironclad Oath to the effect they had never in the past supported the Confederacy. The bill passed both houses of Congress on July 2, 1864, but was pocket vetoed by Lincoln and never took effect. The Radical Republicans were outraged that Lincoln did not sign the bill. Lincoln wanted to mend the Union by carrying out the ten percent plan. He believed it would be too difficult to repair all of the ties within the Union if the Wade–Davis bill passed.
Background
The Wade–Davis Bill emerged from a plan introduced in the Senate by Ira Harris of New York in February, 1863.
It was written by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland, and proposed to base the Reconstruction of the South on the federal government's power to guarantee a republican form of government. The Bill was also important for national and congressional power. Although federally imposed conditions of reconstruction retrospectively seem logical, there was a widespread belief that southern Unionism would return the seceded states to the Union after the Confederacy's military power was broken. This belief was not fully abandoned until later in 1863. The provisions, critics complained, were virtually impossible to meet, thus making it likely there would be permanent national control over the states formerly in rebellion.
Legislative history
House of Representatives
The bill was formally introduced February 15, 1864, as . The final vote of the house was 73–59.
Senate voting
Lincoln's veto
One of Lincoln's objections was to the idea th
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Cunninghamhead is a hamlet on the Annick Water in the Parish of Dreghorn, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The area was part of the old Cunninghamhead estate, and once contained several watermills.
Cunninghamhead and the mills on the Annick Water
The area is recorded as far back as Pont's / Blaeu's map of 1654 where it is listed as Kunghamhead with a water mill situated nearby. The mill appears on Armstrong's map of 1775. This relatively large mill still exists today as a private house. One of the millers here was a cousin of the Smiths of Coldstream Mill and he taught them the milling craft (Griffith 2004). A track from the mill ran to Byres Farm and thus to the main road (Bartholomew 1912). The leat for the mill ran from a dam on the other side of the 'river loop', then behind the miller's dwelling to finally run under the road to enter the mill site. It is said locally that the dam was removed, after the closure of the mill, by the anglers, who lost salmon to poachers gaffing them as they leapt over it. The leat has been filled in. The course of the lane has changed, once running directly in front of the miller's house. The miller's house is particularly well constructed and ornamented, being owned, like the mill, by the Cunninghamhead Estate until sold after the death of the Kerr sisters.
Just across the Annick Bridge is located a dwelling called 'Tail' on Aitken's 1829 map and Roys map of 1745 - 47. The 1850s OS map shows a dwelling known as Hallgate existing in the middle of the first field on the right after crossing Cunnighamhead Bridge. The only remains are the entrance drive as well as ground depressions and hummocks on the satellite views. Tail and Hallgate appear to be in the same location. An area of well established and biodiverse woodland is present nearby, containing a very large specimen of a Black Poplar (2009), a rare tree in Ayrshire.
Evidence suggests that the name Cunninghame was originally produced as 'Kinikim' and in the 18th century Cunninghamh
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Tecnophilus croceicollis is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in Central America and North America.
Subspecies
These two subspecies belong to the species Tecnophilus croceicollis:
Tecnophilus croceicollis croceicollis (Ménétriés, 1843)
Tecnophilus croceicollis peigani Larson, 1969
References
Further reading
Harpalinae
Articles created by Qbugbot
Beetles described in 1843
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The women's 400 metres at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held at the Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, U.S. from 17 to 22 July 2022.
Summary
In the absence of defending champion, #3 all time Salwa Eid Naser due to a succession of missed drug tests, #7 and double Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo and Marileidy Paulino were among the handful of athletes who had broken 50 seconds in 2022. Those two were the only ones to achieve the feat in the semis, though all auto qualifiers were under 50.2.
Adorned with green hair, Miller-Uibo quickly shortened the stagger between herself and Fiordaliza Cofil and then Candice McLeod to her outside. On the far outside, Lieke Klaver, Sada Williams and Paulino were doing the best to hold their position against Miller-Uibo. Williams accelerated slightly through the final turn, coming off in second place, slightly ahead of Paulino. The final 100m is Paulino's territory. Se separated from Williams but was unable to make up any ground on Miller-Uibo.
Miller-Uibo's 49.11 became the new world leader for the year. Williams became the first female medalist for Barbados, improving on her own National Record.
Records
Before the competition records were as follows:
Qualification standard
The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 51.35.
Schedule
The event schedule, in local time (UTC−7), was as follows:
Results
Heats
The first 3 athletes in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualify for the heats.
Semi-finals
The semifinals started on 20 July at 18:45.
Final
References
400
400 metres at the World Athletics Championships
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Erechthias stilbella is a species of moth in the family Tineidae. It was described by Edward Doubleday in 1843. This species is endemic to New Zealand.
References
External links
Image of type specimen of Erechthias stilbella
Moths described in 1843
Erechthiinae
Moths of New Zealand
Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Taxa named by Edward Doubleday
Endemic moths of New Zealand
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Pinyahan, sometimes spelled Piñahan, is a barangay of Quezon City, the Philippines.
History
Barangay Pinyahan was previously part of Central District Diliman. Central District Diliman was divided into two separate entities, namely Barangay Central and Pinyahan.
Etymology
Pinyahan means "a place where pineapple is grown" in Tagalog. Prior to its subdivision by the People's Homesite and Housing Corporation, the land which occupies present-day Pinyahan was a popular place for cultivating pineapples since the 1930s, thus the name of the barangay.
Health
Several hospitals are based in Pinyahan including Lung Center of the Philippines, National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI), Urology Center of the Philippines and the Armed Forces of the Philippines Medical Center along V. Luna Avenue.
Education
Pinyahan Elementary School and Flora A. Ylagan High School are public schools based in Pinyahan. The AFP Medical Service School, is located within the Armed Forces of the Philippines Medical Center.
Culture
The barangay celebrates its fiesta every May 15. The barangay patron saint is San Isidro Labrador.
Law
The barangay is also the main mailing address of the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG), which is the largest and most prestigious human rights legal network in the country.
References
Quezon City
Barangays of Quezon City
Barangays of Metro Manila
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Climate First is an unregistered political party in New Zealand. The party is focused on highlighting and addressing the threat of climate change. It also supports a universal basic income.
The party ran a single candidate in the 2017 election, in the Auckland Central electorate. The candidate, Leslie Jones received 55 votes and came seventh.
The party did not apply for a broadcasting allocation for the 2020 election.
See also
Climate change in New Zealand
References
External links
Political parties established in 2017
2017 establishments in New Zealand
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Milestone is BoA's first DVD single (31st overall) which was released on December 7, 2011 to commemorate her 10th anniversary in Japan. The song is written and composed by STY who was requested by Avex to write a song for BoA's 10th anniversary. The song was first performed at Audio Technica's 50th-anniversary live party, and later a 7-second snippet of the song live performance at J-Wave Live: Autumn was leaked.
The DVD consists 30 minutes' worth of videos, including the music video, making of and short documentary and interview videos.
Information
The single consists of one new song, "Milestone", and two previously released songs: "I See Me" and "Meri Kuri ~Best & USA Version~". BoA stated that "Meri Kuri ~Best & USA Version~" was also included because the release was around Christmas time. "I See Me", however, had previously been unreleased.
Music Video was released on MTV Japan on November 22, 2011. It was later released by Avex on YouTube on December 4. The video was identified as the short version but it's actually the normal version.
Promotions
BoA performed Milestone in various events like Audio Technica 50th Anniversary Live Party, J-Wave Live: Autumn, and Soul Member Meeting Vol. 5: BoA 10th Anniversary & Birthday Party. Some TV Performances alongside the normal version of "Meri Kuri" were performed. BoA also performed a trio performance alongside Mai Kuraki and Kana Nishino. The trio sang a medley of their hits "Kimi tte", "Strong Heart" and "Meri Kuri" at Live FNS Music Party.
"Milestone" was used in Audio Technica 50th-anniversary products CM. Both "I See Me" and "Meri Kuri ~Best & USA Version~" were also used in Audio Technica commercials.
Track list
CD
Milestone
I See Me
Meri Kuri ~Best & USA Version~
Milestone (Inst.)
I See Me (Inst.)
Meri Kuri ~Best & USA Version~ (Inst.)
DVD
Milestone (Music Video)
Milestone (Making)
BoA 10th film: From the Past to the Present
Charts
References
BoA songs
2011 singles
2011 songs
Avex Trax singles
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Jenner is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within Special Area No. 2. It is located approximately northeast of Highway 1 and northeast of Brooks. Previously an incorporated community, Jenner dissolved from village status on June 25, 1943.
Climate
Jenner has a semi-arid, continental climate (Köppen climate classification BSk), with cold, dry winters and warm to hot summers.
Demographics
The population of Jenner according to Alberta Transportation's Basic Municipal Transportation Grant funding program is 15.
Notable people
Landon Liboiron, actor
See also
List of communities in Alberta
List of former urban municipalities in Alberta
List of hamlets in Alberta
References
Hamlets in Alberta
Former villages in Alberta
Special Area No. 2
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WBIV-LP was a low-power television station in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands transmitting over analog channel 38. The station was owned by Virgin Islands Telecommunications Ventures, LLC.
The station was founded in 1992, and its transmitter covered the entire island of St. Thomas and parts of St. John.
The station's license was canceled by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on October 1, 2012.
External links
FCCinfo.com
TVRadioWorld.com
BIV-LP
Defunct television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 1992
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2012
1992 establishments in the United States Virgin Islands
2012 disestablishments in the United States Virgin Islands
BIV-LP
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Class 624 and class 634 are types of diesel multiple unit, originally operated by Deutsche Bahn.
Development
Whereas during the first years after World War II the focus of the Deutsche Bundesbahn was on repairs of rolling stock, lines and buildings, with the beginning of the 1950s attention shifted to renewal of the trains. For passenger services on not electrified lines, the first prototypes of main line diesel locomotives such as the class 220 were commissioned in 1953. Subsequently, DB ordered the rail industry to develop new DMUs in order to replace pre-war classes and steam traction.
In 1961 MAN and Waggonfabrik Uerdingen both delivered two prototypes each. Even though they were quite similar, they can be distinguished easily by the different front design. DB put the prototypes into service as class VT 23.5 (MAN) and class VT 24.5 (Uerdingen). After the new numbering scheme the prototypes were listed as class 624 together with the regular units. The prototypes underwent intensive tests, including comparison to conventional push/pull trains with DB Class V 100.
The regular trainsets were delivered from 1964 to 1968 and were produced jointly by both manufacturers. Only minor changes were made to the prototype design. A total of 80 front cars and 55 middle cars were delivered, allowing the use of 40 three-part or two-part trainsets. Starting in 1968, a number of units were equipped with pneumatic shock absorption and passive tilting systems. These units were listed as class 634 and approved for a higher speed of 140 km/h. As the tilting system turned out to be of limited use, clearance allowing only very limited tilting, in 1979 the tilting system was removed.
In 1970 a number of trainsets derived from class 624 were delivered to Yugoslavia (Slovenia) as SŽ series 711. They are still in use by Slovenian Railways.
Service
Upon entering service the new class 624 units were often used for fast regional and express trains in various parts of Germany. This cha
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Liz Young (March 29, 1958 – December 22, 2020) was a Los Angeles-based artist known for diverse work investigating body- and nature-focused themes, such as loss, beauty, the inevitability of decay, and the fragility of life. She produced sculpture, installation, performance, painting, drawing and video incorporating fabricated and recontextualized found objects, organic materials, and processes from industrial metalworking to handicrafts, taxidermy and traditional art practices. Young exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, including solo shows at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), and alternative spaces such as Hallwalls, Randolph Street Gallery (Chicago) and New Langton Arts (San Francisco); she participated in group shows at Exit Art, Art in the Anchorage, and Armory Center for the Arts, among others. Her art was discussed in ARTnews, Artforum, Frieze, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Village Voice, and is included in the LACMA permanent collection. Critic Peter Frank wrote that her work "reflects both on life's relentless erosion of body and spirit, and on our indomitable struggle against these nagging cruelties." Artillery Magazine critic Ezrha Jean Black called her 2017 installation a "mordant yet elegiac show" in which "craft bears out the work's consciousness." In 2016, Young received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship; she was recognized with awards from the Getty Trust and Andy Warhol Foundation, among others. Young lived and worked in Los Angeles from 1981.
Life and career
Young was born in Minot, North Dakota in 1958. She spent her childhood moving throughout the American West and Europe due to her father's work. Drawn to handicrafts, she learned carpentry from her father, knitting, weaving and crocheting from her grandmother, and mechanics in her youth. One month after beginning college in 1976, Young was involved in a catastrophic car accident that left her permanently
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Interactive is defined as:
Interactivity, acting with each other, two interactive systems
Interactive computing, responding to the user
Companies
IAC/InterActiveCorp, an Internet company
Interactive Systems Corporation (ISC), a defunct software company
Music
"Interactive", song by Prince Crystal Ball (box set)
Interactive (band), an electronic music group
See also
Interact (disambiguation)
Interaction (disambiguation)
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is a legendary cow from the Aizu region of Japan, who inspired a traditional toy. In legend, Akabeko the cow was present at the building the Enzō-ji temple of Yanaizu in the ninth century, and became a permanent fixture there, with some stories saying that the animal was turned to stone.
The toy is made out of two pieces of papier-mâché-covered wood, shaped and painted to look like a red cow or ox. One piece represents the cow's head and neck and the other its body. The head and neck hangs from a string and fits into the hollow body. When the toy is moved, the head thus bobs up and down and side to side. The earliest akabeko toys were created in the late 16th or early 17th century.
Over time, people came to believe that the toys could ward off smallpox and other illnesses. Akabeko has become one of Fukushima Prefecture's most famous crafts and a symbol of the Aizu region. It has also been recognized as a symbol of the larger Tōhoku region, of which Fukushima Prefecture is a part.
Origin of the legend
According to an Aizu-area legend recorded by Thomas Madden, akabeko toys are based upon a real cow that lived in 807 CE. At that time, a monk named Tokuichi was supervising the construction of Enzō-ji, a temple in Yanaizu, Fukushima. Upon the temple's completion, the akabeko gave its spirit to a Buddha, and its flesh immediately turned to stone.
Another version of the tale claims that the cow instead refused to leave the temple grounds after construction had been completed and became a permanent fixture there. The red cow was called and became a symbol of zealous devotion to the Buddha.
After Toyotomi Hideyoshi had solidified his power over Japan, his representative, Gamō Ujisato, was sent to be the lord of the Aizu region in 1590. At his new post, Ujisato heard the story of akabeko and ordered his court artisans, who had accompanied him from Kyoto, to create a toy based on the red cow. These early papier-mâché akabeko introduced most of the basic elements for whi
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Battleford—Kindersley was a federal electoral district (riding) n Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1968 to 1979.
This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Kindersley, The Battlefords and Rosetown—Biggar ridings.
It was abolished in 1976 when it was redistributed into Kindersley—Lloydminster and The Battlefords—Meadow Lake ridings.
Election results
See also
List of Canadian federal electoral districts
Historical federal electoral districts of Canada
Sources
Former federal electoral districts of Saskatchewan
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Providence St. Patrick Hospital, is a health care facility in Missoula, Montana.
Overview
Providence St. Patrick Hospital is the only level II trauma center in western Montana, northern Idaho, and Southwest Montana. The hospital employs more than 1,600 people and is the second largest employer in the Missoula area. It has 237 beds, and is the only hospital in western Montana other than Community Medical Center that has helicopter facilities.
St. Patrick Hospital also hosts the International Heart Institute. The hospital served as one of four original Ebola containment units in the United States, withdrawing from the program in December 2014, at which time there were 35 other such facilities. St. Patrick Hospital is located in the Downtown Missoula district; Missoula a thriving city, and college town that has around 70,000 people in its primary city and around 111,000 people in Missoula County, Montana.
The present facility opened in 1984, and is the fourth on the property, which sits above the Clark Fork River. The name was officially changed from St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center to St. Patrick Hospital in July 2011.
Broadway Building
Connected to the south end of St. Patrick Hospital is the Broadway Building, which is a six-floor medical building, with two underground parking lots. It was completed in March 2002 and has stood as one of the tallest buildings in Western Montana since its completion. The building replaced the old Broadway Building, and the new building obtained the same name.
The first floor is occupied by The Learning Center medical library, Broadway Pharmacy, a conference center and a Wellness Center.
The second floor includes Broadway Imaging and Lab, Western Montana Clinic Lab and Montana Cancer Center.
The third floor includes a walk way from the hospital at the International Heart Institute of Montana and the floor also offers outpatient services including Providence Medical Group's Women's Care Center, Bariatric Services
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George Archibald is a Canadian politician. He represented the constituency of Kings North in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1984 to 1999. He sat as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.
Archibald was first elected in 1984, was re-elected in 1988, 1993 and 1998. He did not re-offer in 1999.
Archibald served in the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Minister of Transportation, and Minister of Agriculture.
References
Living people
Canadian people of Ulster-Scottish descent
Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia MLAs
People from Kings County, Nova Scotia
Members of the Executive Council of Nova Scotia
1946 births
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The Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey team is the college ice hockey team that represents Boston University. They played their first game in 1918 and have won five national championships, while making 22 appearances in the Frozen Four.
BU has won 12 major conference tournament championships as well as 31 titles in the historic Beanpot tournament featuring the four major Boston collegiate hockey teams.
BU played in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) from 1961 to 1984, winning five tournament championships; and has since competed in the Hockey East Association, winning seven tournament titles. Ice hockey is the most popular sport at Boston University and has a large fan base on campus and among BU alumni nationwide.
Season-by-season results
National Championships
The Terriers have won five national championships, and are the only eastern team to win back-to-back NCAA titles. They won their first title in 1971 and repeated in 1972, with both titles won under head coach Jack Kelley. BU won their other three titles under head coach Jack Parker, in 1978, 1995, and 2009. In 1972, 1995, and 2009, BU won the "triple crown," consisting of the Beanpot, conference tournament and NCAA championships. In 1995 and 2009, the Terriers also won the Hockey East regular season title, giving the team four major trophies in a single season.
The Terriers have appeared in the Frozen Four 22 times and were the runners-up on five occasions. BU has made it to the NCAA Tournament an additional ten times without advancing to the Frozen Four, in 1984, 1986, 1992, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007,2012, and 2015.
Runners-up in 1950, 1967, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2015
ECAC Conference Championships
BU competed in the ECAC from 1961 to 1984, winning six regular-season titles and five tournament championships.
Hockey East Conference Championships
BU has competed in the Hockey East conference since the 1984–85 season, winning nine ten-season titles and eight tournament cham
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The TECHART 997 Carrera, known also as the TECHART Coupe and TECHART Cabrio, depending on the body style, is a tuning program for Porsche 997 models including the Carrera, Carrera Cabriolet, Carrera 4, Carrera 4 Cabriolet, Carrera S, Carrera S Cabriolet, Carrera 4S, and Carrera 4S Cabriolet. As with other TechArt products, the kit includes the customer's choice of options, including a body kit, engine upgrades, interior refitment, and custom wheels.
Design and features
The TECHART Coupe/Cabriolet features a bodykit with high-downforce front and rear spoilers, a rear diffuser, side skirts, and mirror and headlight housings. The car is fitted with TECHART Formula alloy wheels ranging from 18 to 20 inches, and ContiSportContact 2 VMax tires. A full range of interior customizations are available and tailored to customer taste. To aid the car's performance, a range of suspension kits, depending on the wheel and tire combinations, can be installed. The basic kit lowers the car by , while the most advanced kit, the TechArt Vario sport suspension, uses Bilstein adjustable rebound shock absorbers and variable ride height control which can lower the car up to . The engine upgrades utilize custom exhaust, reprogrammed ECU chips, and performance air cleaners to add to either the basic 3.6L Carrera engine or the larger 3.8L Carrera S engine, resulting in final outputs of and , respectively.
Police car
It was based on 911 Carrera S.
The vehicle was unveiled in 2005 TUNE IT! SAFE!.
References
External links
TechArt official 997 Carrera tuning page
Coupés
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
All-wheel-drive vehicles
TechArt vehicles
Cars powered by boxer engines
Rear-engined vehicles
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Henry Douglas (17 July 1882 – 30 December 1954) was a British sports shooter. He competed in the 600 m free rifle event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
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External links
1882 births
1954 deaths
British male sport shooters
Olympic shooters for Great Britain
Shooters at the 1924 Summer Olympics
People from Matlock, Derbyshire
Sportspeople from Derbyshire
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Billbergia brasiliensis is a species of flowering plant in the genus Billbergia. This species is native to Bolivia and Brazil.
Cultivars
Billbergia 'Desert Ripple'
Billbergia 'Happy Days'
Billbergia 'Hazy Purple'
Billbergia 'Silversmith'
Billbergia 'Silverson'
Billbergia 'Titan'
Billbergia 'Venesil'
× Billmea 'Dolly'
References
BSI Cultivar Registry Retrieved 11 October 2009
brasiliensis
Flora of Bolivia
Flora of Brazil
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Gundagai is an Australian Geographical Indication for a wine region centred on the town of Gundagai in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is part of the Southern New South Wales zone. The region includes Tumut on the northwestern slopes of the Snowy Mountains, Cootamundra in its north and extends west to Junee and almost to Wagga Wagga. Junee is on the boundary to the Riverina wine region (which also includes Wagga Wagga). Gundagai is also bounded on the northeast by Hilltops, the east by Canberra District and the south by Tumbarumba.
The Gundagai region has a range of altitude, temperature and rainfall in the three key areas surrounding the towns of Tumut, Junee and Cootamundra. The altitude ranges from at Junee to at Cootamundra while growing season rainfall ranges from at Junee to at Tumut. Tumut is much cooler and the harvest is later than the rest of the region.
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Wine regions of New South Wales
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Nakamura may refer to:
Nakamura (surname), a list of people with the surname
Nakamura, Kōchi, a former city in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan
Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, a ward in Nagoya city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Nakamura stable, a stable of sumo wrestlers
Nakamura Station, a railway station in Shimanto, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan
See also
Namakura language, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu
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Lemuel Whitman (June 8, 1780 – November 13, 1841) was a United States representative from Connecticut. He was born in Farmington, Connecticut where he completed preparatory studies. He graduated from Yale College in 1800 and taught in a seminary in Bermuda in 1801. Later, he studied law and was graduated from the Litchfield Law School. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Farmington.
Whitman was appointed judge of the superior court in 1818. associate judge of the Hartford County Court 1819-1821, and chief judge 1821-1823. He was one of a committee of three to prepare a revision of the statutes of the Connecticut in 1821. He was a member of the Connecticut Senate in 1822 and elected as an Adams-Clay Republican candidate to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825). After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law and served as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1831 and 1832. He died in Farmington, Connecticut in 1841.
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1780 births
1841 deaths
Litchfield Law School alumni
Yale College alumni
Members of the Connecticut House of Representatives
Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut
19th-century American politicians
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Condominial sewerage is the application of simplified sewerage coupled with consultations and ongoing interactions between users and agencies during planning and implementation. The term is used primarily in Latin America, particularly in Brazil, and is derived from the term condominio, which means housing block.
From a pure engineering perspective there is no difference between designing a regular sewage system and a condominial one. However, bureaucratically a condominial system includes the participation of the individuals and owners who will be served and can often result in lower costs due to shorter runs of piping. This is achieved by local concentration of sewage from a single "housing block". Thus a number of dwellings are grouped into a "block" known as a condominium. The condominium may share no other aspects of ownership or relation except geographic proximity. In addition, individuals and owners may share a role in the maintenance of the sewers at the block level.
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Sewerage
Environmental engineering
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Dacom, Inc. was founded in 1966 by two ex-Lockheed engineers, Daniel Hochman, President, and Don Weber, Vice President, building on their pioneering work on digital image compression invented for satellite communications. Their work resulted in the first commercial digital fax machine and later the first sub-minute facsimile transmission over a single standard phone line. In 1973 Dacom was recipient of the IR-100 Award (the name was later changed to the R&D 100 Awards) for the most significant new product in Information Technology. The patents and technology developed by Dacom have become the foundation of the modern desktop fax machine.
History
From the late 1950s Daniel Hochman, a pioneer in digital electronics, was head of a division of Lockheed Missiles & Space Company in Sunnyvale, California. In 1959 Hochman's team at Lockheed unveiled a 9-pound miniature television system that could transmit pictures from as far as 1000 miles in space, and in the early 1960s was working to develop a high-speed communications system for the transmission of images from space.
The team faced two related problems: the density of data of a high-resolution photograph, and the low-power, low-capacity transmitters on board satellites. To address these problems, Hochman brought in Donald Weber to work on the problem of data compression - to achieve a higher rate of data transmitted with the same low-power equipment.
In 1966 Hochman and Weber realized the potential application of the technology they had invented to create a digital facsimile machine, capable of transmitting images over a standard phone line in considerably less time than the then-current state-of-the-art analog facsimile machines offered by Xerox, Magnavox, and Stewart Warner. They left Lockheed to form their own company: Dacom (which stood for Data Compression).
The first systems were models DFC-10 and the Dacom 111, which came to market in the late 1960s. Hochman and Weber presented Dacom's data compression tech
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Władysław Jędrzejewski (11 February 1863–1940) was a General of the Polish Army, who was probably murdered by the NKVD in Lwów, in March 1940. He fought in several conflicts, including World War I and the Invasion of Poland.
Jędrzejewski was born on 11 February 1863 in his family's real estate Nowiny, located near Lepiel, Russian Empire (current Belarus). In 1884, after graduation from a Cadet School in Polotsk, he joined the 93rd Irkutsk Infantry Regiment of the Imperial Russian Army. As a professional Russian soldier, he fought in the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. In 1916, Jedrzejewski was promoted to major general.
In December 1918 in Warsaw, he joined the newly created Polish Army. In March 1919, Jędrzejewski was transferred to Lwów, where he commanded the defence of the city in the Polish-Ukrainian War. In August 1919, he became commandant of the 5th Lwow Infantry Division, and on 21 April 1920 was promoted to colonel general. In May - August 1920, during the Polish–Soviet War, Jędrzejewski commanded the Polish First Army. In August - September 1920, he commanded the Polish Sixth Army, and then the Sixth Army Operational Group.
In September 1921, Jędrzejewski was transferred back to Lwów, becoming commandant of the Sixth Military District. On 3 March 1922 he was promoted to generał dywizji, and on 30 June 1924 was retired. Jędrzejewski settled in Lwów, and was named manager of the Association of Care of Heroes' Graves.
During the 1939 Invasion of Poland, Jędrzejewski, at age 76, volunteered to the army, and formed the Citizens Guard in Lwów. On 4 October 1939 he was arrested by the NKVD, and was shot either in late 1939 or in March 1940 (at the latter date he was aged 77). In 2012, he was reburied at the Polish Military Cemetery in Kiev. His son, Captain Tadeusz Jędrzejewski, was killed in action during the Siege of Warsaw (1939).
Awards
Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari (1921),
Commander Cross of the Polonia Restituta (2 May 1923)
Cross of
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Magnolia × loebneri Kache is a hybrid of two Magnolia species, the Japanese Magnolia kobus and M. stellata. crossed by Garteninspektor Max Löbner of Pillnitz, Germany, shortly before World War I; it first flowered in 1917. The deciduous, elegant and compact multi-stemmed small flowering tree or large shrub, slowly attaining a height of and somewhat wider at maturity, is hardy to USDA Zone 4. Its fragrant late flowers, following its stellata parent by a couple of weeks, escape unexpected late spring frosts, but appear on the bare branches, to great effect. The deep pink buds open in informal strap-like tepals with pale shell pink upper surfaces and darker pink-purple lower ones. Like most magnolias, it thrives best on acid soils.
The selection, 'Leonard Messel' was a chance hybrid that was developed at Messel's garden in Sussex, Nymans. This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Also on the market are white 'Ballerina' and the late-flowering white 'Merrill' that extend the loebneri season. The 'White Rose' cultivar is characterized by an upright flower form whose petals not become floppy and firm tepals that drop only after the blooms have faded. 'White Rose' was an open pollinated seedling of 'Ballerina.'
Magnolia × loebneri are susceptible to magnolia scale, just like other saucer, star, and lily magnolias. But it is possible to grow healthy specimens with proper cultivation techniques, and by checking that plants are disease free when received.
Gallery
References
External links
Magnolia × loebneri images in the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University Plant Image Database
Gapinsky, Andrew. "A magnolia with an Arboretum pedigree." Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University website, 24 April 2014. Accessed 27 April 2020.
loebneri
Ornamental trees
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Phillip Jeffrey McKellar is an Australian record producer and audio engineer. At the ARIA Music Awards McKellar has received nine nominations in the categories of either Producer of the Year or Engineer of the Year. These include You Am I's "Good Mornin'", "Tuesday" and Spiderbait's Ivy and the Big Apples (1997, engineer), The Cruel Sea's "Hard Times" (1998, producer), Spiderbait's Grand Slam (1999, engineer, producer), Grinspoon's New Detention (2002, engineer, producer), Sunk Loto's Between Birth and Death (2004, producer), and Something with Numbers' Perfect Distraction (2007, producer).
Biography
In the late 1970s Phil McKellar worked at the Australian Broadcasting Commission (later renamed as Australian Broadcasting Corporation). In 1978 a fellow worker, Steve Adam, invited him to join an experimental music outfit, the Informatics, alongside Ramesh Ayar, Valek Sadovchikoff and Michael Trudgeon. Trudgeon explained their stance "We were driven by a love of the possibilities of what synthesizers and sequencers could do... Quite often the songs were shaped by the textures and rhythms that this new and exciting technology could generate. I think we were more interested in what we could experiment with rather than compete with well-established genres. The future looked exciting." In August 1982 McKellar issued a solo track, "Some Good Things to Do", which was compiled on a give-away cassette, Fast Forward 12, with Fast Forward Magazine.
From 1990 to 2000 McKellar worked as live music producer for national youth radio station, Triple J. McKellar later recalled "I'd been recording a lot of stuff for Triple J – Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Red Hot Chili Peppers." In April 1994 a demo version of "Tomorrow" by Newcastle teen band, Silverchair, won the Pick Me competition. McKellar produced the group's debut single at the Triple J studios in Sydney, he remembered "It sounded amazing and it was a strong song and as it got whittled down [from its original seven minutes] it fo
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West Fork San Juan River is a tributary of the San Juan River in Minerala and Archuleta counties in Colorado, United States. The stream flows from a source near South River Peak in Mineral County to a confluence with the East Fork San Juan River in Archuleta County that forms the San Juan River.
See also
List of rivers of Colorado
List of tributaries of the Colorado River
References
External links
Rivers of Colorado
Rivers of Archuleta County, Colorado
Rivers of Mineral County, Colorado
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Belonophora coffeoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in Tropical Africa. It is the type species of the genus Belonophora.
Subspecies
Two subspecies are widely accepted as of April 2014:
Belonophora coffeoides subsp. coffeoides - São Tomé (not seen since 1861, possibly extinct)
Belonophora coffeoides subsp. hypoglauca (Welw. ex Hiern) S.E.Dawson & Cheek - Benin, Ghana, Guinée, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Angola, Zambia
References
External links
World Checklist of Rubiaceae
coffeoides
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Flora of West-Central Tropical Africa
Flora of São Tomé Island
Flora of Angola
Flora of Cameroon
Flora of Chad
Flora of Gabon
Flora of Liberia
Flora of Sudan
Flora of Togo
Flora of Uganda
Flora of Zambia
Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker
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John Melvin Preston (July 8, 1945 – June 2, 2008) was a con artist, American dog handler, and former state trooper from Pennsylvania who testified for the prosecution in criminal cases across the U.S. in the early 1980s. Preston falsely claimed that his dog (named Harass II or 2) could perform feats of forensic detection far beyond the abilities of other investigative dogs.
As an expert, Preston was paid $300 per day; in his previous job as a Pennsylvania state trooper, he was paid $20,000 per year. Brevard County, Florida, paid Preston $37,429 in the first half of 1984 alone.
Claimed abilities of his dog
Preston claimed that his dog could smell human traces years or months after a suspect walked over the ground, on heavily trafficked streets, or both. He claimed that his dog could smell underwater, and, in a case against a man who was eventually freed on DNA evidence, Preston claimed that his dog could track a human scent even after hurricanes. Tracking dog experts say these feats are impossible.
Preston's dog would sometimes urinate on the evidence while Preston claimed it was working.
Repudiated testimony
Preston's testimony was repudiated by the Kings County District Attorney in New York and the Arizona Supreme Court, who called him a "charlatan". A U.S. Postal Service investigation in 1983 claimed Preston led Harass II to the results requested by investigators, which Preston requested before using the dog.
When tested by Judge Gilbert Goshorn during a 1984 trial in Brevard, Florida, Harass II failed to track a scent much simpler, fresher, and shorter in length than those it supposedly tracked in other cases. Goshorn offered Preston another chance at the test the next day, but Preston left town instead. He did not return to Brevard to testify again.
In a 2008 affidavit, Goshorn said:
It is my belief that the only way Preston could achieve the results he achieved in numerous other cases was having obtained information about the case prior to the scent tra
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The Pocasset River is a small tidal river and estuary on the eastern shore of Buzzards Bay, in Bourne, Massachusetts, United States. It is located between the villages of Monument Beach and Pocasset along the western coast of Cape Cod. The river flows westward through a series of small ponds and wetlands, with a total length of about 2 miles (3.2 km).
The river's Mill and Shop Ponds were historically used by the Pocasset Iron Foundry (1822–81) and Tahanto Art Works (1882–1900), which made use of the native bog iron. In 1980 the Pocasset River was listed as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Alewife spawn during April and May, and the river contains bluefish, flounder, scup, striped bass, blue crab, lobster,softshell clams,and huge 14' sharks.
See also
Back River
References
External links
The Coalition for Buzzards Bay
Buzzards Bay National Estuary Program
Massachusetts Estuaries Project
Massachusetts Area of Critical Environmental Concern
Rivers of Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Rivers of Massachusetts
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In molecular biology, the FLYWCH zinc finger is a zinc finger domain. It is found in a number of eukaryotic proteins. FLYWCH is a C2H2-type zinc finger characterised by five conserved hydrophobic residues, containing the conserved sequence motif:
F/Y-X(n)-L-X(n)-F/Y-X(n)-WXCX(6-12)CX(17-22)HXH where X indicates any amino acid. This domain was first characterised in Drosophila modifier of mdg4 proteins, Mod(mgd4), putative chromatin modulators involved in higher order chromatin domains. Mod(mdg4) proteins share a common N-terminal BTB/POZ domain, but differ in their C-terminal region, most containing C-terminal FLYWCH zinc finger motifs. The FLYWCH domain in Mod(mdg4) proteins has a putative role in protein-protein interactions; for example, Mod(mdg4)-67.2 interacts with DNA-binding protein Su(Hw) via its FLYWCH domain.
FLYWCH domains have been described in other proteins as well, including suppressor of killer of prune, Su(Kpn), which contains 4 terminal FLYWCH zinc finger motifs in a tandem array and a C-terminal glutathione S-transferase (GST) domain.
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Protein domains
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Francis Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg (born: 9 April 1604; died: 26 November 1658) was a Prince of Saxe-Lauenburg
Life
Francis Henry, was the ninth and youngest son of Duke Francis II of Saxe-Lauenburg (1547–1619) from his second marriage to Maria (1566–1626), daughter of Duke Julius of Brunswick and Lunenburg, Prince of Wolfenbüttel. King Henry IV of France was his godfather. In a contract of inheritance dated 1619, Francis Henry recognized his elder brother Augustus as sovereign, in exchange for an annual appanage of 2500 thaler.
When King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden landed in Peenemünde in 1630, Francis Henry entered his service and earned his affection. He fought as colonel and regiment commander under general Johan Banér and was victorious in the Battle of Wittstock in 1636. Gustav Adolf gave Francis Henry the estates of the nunnery of Marienfließ Abbey in Pomerania. On 28 June 1643 Gustav Adolf's daughter, Christina of Sweden, leased Marienfließ to Francis Henry for 10 years, after which it reverted to the new ruler of Pomerania, Frederick William, the Great elector, on 12 December 1653, rewarding Francis Henry's improvements to the estate.
After his mother's death in 1635, he received Franzhagen in a division of her property among her sons. When his brother Augustus died, Francis Henry received Wangelau and Rothenbeck (a part of today's Grande) in addition. While in Swedish service and thereafter he spent a lot of time with Sophia of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (1579–1658), dowager of Philip II, Duke of Pomerania. Sophia's and Francis Henry's fathers were cousins. It was at her dower in Treptow upon Rega, a former nunnery which she had converted into a castle, where Francis Henry and Marie Juliane of Nassau-Siegen (1612–1665) married on 13 December 1637. Their first child was born in Treptow in 1640.
Francis Henry also served Sophia as administrator of the estates pertaining to her dower. Francis Henry and his brother Francis Charles objected the planned
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Theodore John Conrad (July 10, 1949 – May 18, 2021) was a bank teller who stole $215,000 (equivalent to $ million in ) in cash from the vault of a Cleveland bank in July 1969. He admitted to the crime but was never apprehended or convicted. He assumed the name of Thomas Randele and lived in Massachusetts for most of his life after the theft. Conrad avoided capture for more than five decades. Shortly after his death, his identity was discovered by the son of one of the original investigators using details from the obituary of Thomas Randele.
Early life
Conrad was born in Denver, Colorado, the son of Edward and Ruthabeth Conrad. His parents divorced while Conrad was in elementary school. He moved with his mother and sister to Lakewood, Ohio after the divorce and attended Lakewood High School, graduating in 1967. He was popular in high school and was elected to the student council, and was very bright, with an IQ of 135. He went on to attend New England College, where his father, a retired captain in the Navy, was an assistant professor of political science. He left the college after one semester and attended Cuyahoga Community College.
Theft and flight
In early 1969, Conrad went to work at the Society National Bank headquarters at 127 Public Square in Cleveland. He worked in the cash vault as a teller, and his job involved "packaging money to be delivered to Society branches around town. It was a position for a trusted employee." According to a summary report compiled years later by the U.S. Marshals Service, "To all appearances, Conrad was that All-American boy whose character was not questioned and seemed to be a model of responsibility during a turbulent time."
On Friday, July 11, 1969, Conrad, then 20 years old, went to the vault and stuffed $215,000 in cash (equivalent to $ million in ) into a paper bag and walked off with it. The loss was discovered only the following Monday, giving him a two-day head start to flee and hide. There was little security at th
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The Trustee Investments Act 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. 62) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that covers where trustees can invest trust funds. Given the royal assent on 3 August 1961, it removed the "Statutory Lists" system and replaced it with sets of specific investment areas. The Act was heavily criticised for the way it set these areas out, particularly the requirement that trusts trying to invest in multiple areas would need to be permanently divided. A 1997 Law Commission paper called its terms "overly cautious and restrictive", suggesting that some trusts were underperforming as a result. The passing of the Trustee Act 2000 effectively nullified the 1961 Act's terms in relation to trustee investment, and the 2000 Act is now the principal piece of legislation in this area.
Background
Prior to the 1961 Act, the areas trustees could invest in were based on the Trustee Act 1925, which set up a "Statutory Lists" system. The list contained only those investments available at the Post Office, along with land. It did not take into account the deprecation of currency or inflation, meaning that if the trustees invested in stocks and shares they were at risk of losing money simply because of the falling value of the pound sterling. As a result, even though the income from a trust might remain nominally constant, the real value of that income could be much reduced over the lifetime of the trust. This was recognised by lawyers, who had been advising their clients to structure trusts in such a way as to allow their trustees to invest in wider areas than the Statutory Lists. In 1952 the report of the Nathan Committee advocated reform, and the government published a White Paper on "Government Policy on Charitable Trusts in England and Wales" in 1955, which proposed a reform of the Statutory Lists system. This came about under the Variation of Trusts Act 1958, which allowed trustees to apply to the courts to widen their investment powers, a process that was
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Brachiacantha tau, the t-marked larkspur lady beetle, is a species of lady beetle in the family Coccinellidae. In the Brachiacantha genus, the oval-shaped shiny beetles are usually about 2-3 mm in length. The larvae are not usually encountered because they feed on scale insects within ant colonies. Adults are sometimes found on flowers or hunting within foliage in North America.
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Coccinellidae
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Beetles described in 1859
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Ridgecrest is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. The population was 2,558 at the 2010 census.
Geography
Ridgecrest is located at (27.895767, -82.804786).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.5 km (0.6 mi2), of which 1.5 km (0.6 mi2) is land and 1.75% is water.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,453 people, 781 households, and 623 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 1,691.3/km (4,354.6/mi2). There were 862 housing units at an average density of 594.3/km (1,530.2/mi2). The racial makeup of the CDP was 16.23% White, 80.64% African American, 0.08% Native American, 0.16% Asian, 0.98% from other races, and 1.92% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.18% of the population.
There were 781 households, out of which 39.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 32.5% were married couples living together, 41.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 20.2% were non-families. 15.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.13 and the average family size was 3.51.
In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 36.9% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 24.8% from 25 to 44, 20.3% from 45 to 64, and 9.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 29 years. For every 100 females, there were 80.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 69.4 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $32,535, and the median income for a family was $26,591. Males had a median income of $26,850 versus $20,664 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $13,290. About 20.1% of families and 22.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 35.4% of those under age 18 and 11.0% of those age 65 or over.
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Unincorporated communities in Pinellas Count
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Reginald John Tubby (1924 – 14 October 2015) was an Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1975 to 1989, representing the seat of Greenough.
Tubby was born in Geraldton, Western Australia, to Constance Edith (née Jones) and John William Tubby. He was raised on his father's farm at Gutha, a locality south-east of Geraldton. Tubby enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in January 1943, and served in the Northern Territory during the war. After his discharge in 1946, he returned to Gutha, taking over an abandoned farm. Becoming prominent in agricultural circles, Tubby was elected to the Morawa Roads Board (later the Shire of Morawa) in 1953, and would serve on the council until 1976, including nine years as shire president.
Tubby entered parliament at the 1975 Greenough by-election, which had been caused by the resignation of Sir David Brand, a former premier. He was re-elected at the 1977, 1980, 1983, and 1986 state elections, and served as deputy chairman of committees in the Legislative Assembly from 1980 to 1983. In his final term in parliament, he was joined by his son, Fred Tubby, who had been elected to the seat of Dale at a 1988 by-election. Tubby left parliament at the 1989 state election, and retired to Perth. He died there in October 2015, aged 91.
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Cheshire Hall Plantation was a sisal and cotton plantation in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, owned by the British Loyalist Thomas Stubbs from the late 1700s until 1810 and afterwards by his brother Wade Stubbs. A portion of the former plantation is currently owned and managed as a historical site by the Turks and Caicos National Trust.
Background
Cheshire Hall is located on a hilltop near the downtown area of Providenciales, Turks and Caicos.
As part of the end of the American Revolutionary War, the 1783 Treaty of Paris transferred Great Britain's possession of Florida to Spain in return for ownership of the Bahamas, which at the time included Turks and Caicos. Many of the Loyalist settlers in Florida did not want to live under Spanish rule and received compensatory land in Turks and Caicos. Wade Stubbs was one of the Loyalists who received land in North Caicos and developed a cotton plantation known as Bellefield and then later as Wade's Green.
Thomas Stubbs was encouraged by his brother, Wade, to move from England and become a planter. The Stubbs family were salt producers in Cheshire, England. Stubbs named the plantation after his home county and began to grow sisal and sea island cotton. The buildings on the site were built from locally cut limestone. At its peak of operations, Cheshire Hall consisted of approximately 5,000 acres and was worked by hundreds of slaves. The house and estate were the largest on the island at the time. However, low water availability and pest infestations diminished the plantation and Thomas eventually sold the land to his brother in 1810.
Preservation of historical site
The site was left unprotected over the years and fell victim to theft and vandalism. Many of the outlying buildings, the burial grounds and field walls were destroyed or built over. In the 1990s, a project was initiated to preserve the site and improve access. The remaining buildings include the remnants of the main house and the cotton press bale. A
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The Bahi Rock-Art Sites or Bahi rock paintings are rock art located at three sites in the Dodoma region of Tanzania. These white paintings are believed to be products of the Wamia people, who occupied the region before the Wagogo people (the current residents). The paintings, which depict cattle, human figures, stools, gourds, a bird, and an arrow, among other symbols, were supposedly executed during important occasions such as funerals. The Wagogo people, though not fully aware of the original significance of the paintings to the Wamia, have continued to use the sites as sacred locations for rain-making ceremonies. The Bahi paintings are estimated to be at least 340 years old based on the genealogy of the Bahi chief in 1929, which revealed the estimated time of his ancestor Kimanchambogo's arrival in the area. The white painting method is generally associated with Bantu-speaking farming populations.
See also
Kondoa Rock-Art Sites
National Historic Sites in Tanzania
References
Archaeological sites in Tanzania
Rock art in Africa
Geography of Dodoma Region
Archaeological sites of Eastern Africa
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