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JAMA Dermatology is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association. It covers the effectiveness of diagnosis and treatment in medical and surgical dermatology, pediatric and geriatric dermatology, and oncologic and aesthetic dermatologic surgery.
The journal was established in 1960 as the Archives of Dermatology, obtaining its current name in January 2013. According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 11.816, ranking it 2nd out of 69 journals in the category "Dermatology". The editor-in-chief is Kanade Shinkai (University of California, San Francisco).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed.
See also
List of American Medical Association journals
References
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Dermatology journals
Monthly journals
English-language journals
American Medical Association academic journals
Academic journals established in 1960
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Shantilal Shah Engineering College is approved by and affiliated to the Gujarat Technological University. It is accredited by All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi and Government of Gujarat. The institute started functioning from the academic year 1983–84.
Academics
Research activities are carried out in the areas of Technology.
Branches
Information Technology
Electronics And Communication
Electrical
Instrumentation And Control
Civil
Mechanical
Production
References
External links
Shantilal Shah Engineering College Gallery, Sidsar Campus, Bhavnagar
Education in Bhavnagar
Engineering colleges in Gujarat
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Sekolah HighScope Indonesia is a national-plus school based in Jakarta, Indonesia, established in 1996. The director is Antarina S.F. Amir. The school is based on the HighScope Research Foundation Development curriculum, of which the institute itself is located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Sekolah HighScope Indonesia's first location is in Pondok Indah, South Jakarta. At first, the school only included the early childhood program, and during its first days of operation, HighScope Indonesia only had 8 students. A second campus is located on the Aston Jakarta hotel, located somewhere in Kuningan, South Jakarta. A third campus, now closed, had previously occupied a house that was only a walk away from Pondok Indah Mall. In 2000, HighScope Indonesia opened the Elementary program, which was previously located in a house in Cilandak, South Jakarta. They started with only one classroom, which doubled to three classrooms prior to moving to a new campus in Jl. TB Simatupang, West Cilandak, Jakarta Selatan, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta, in June 2002. In 2005, the Middle School program was opened, allowing 5th grade students to promote to 6th grade, without even having to leave the school. The latest was the High School program, located on the 5th floor on the second building of the campus.
School Program & Curriculum
Compared to other schools in which classes are grouped according to their grades, Sekolah HighScope Indonesia uses the multiage system, in which classes are grouped according to the student's age. For example, a 6th grade class is mixed with 7th grade students, which ranges from students aged 11–14 years old, and 8th grade students mixed with 9th grade students, ages ranges from 13 to 16. Since 2003, the school has issued a dual language curriculum, which includes Indonesian and English languages.
Sekolah HighScope Indonesia issues a multi-lesson program, notably notified as the "Integrated Studies" program. The program alternates English and Indonesian as a provis
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The Turbo-Union RB199 is a turbofan jet engine designed and built in the early 1970s by Turbo-Union, a joint venture between Rolls-Royce, MTU and Aeritalia. The only production application was the Panavia Tornado.
Design and development
The RB199 originated with a requirement, in 1969, to power a new European multirole combat aircraft (MRCA) called the Panavia MRCA. The engine requirements to meet the Panavia MRCA specification were significant advances over current engines in thrust-to-weight ratio, fuel consumption and size. The final selection of the engine for the MRCA was made between a new European collaboration, Turbo Union, with the RB199, and Pratt & Whitney who proposed the JTF16. The Panavia MRCA would later be called the Panavia Tornado.
Advanced engine studies at Bristol Siddeley had already been done to support the BAC/Dassault AFVG and were based on the Pegasus two-spool arrangement. At Rolls-Royce, where the three-shaft RB211 engine was in development, three shafts were considered better. Rolls-Royce took over Bristol Siddeley in 1967 so the configuration for the RB199 was decided jointly, a three-shaft engine.
The overall design concept for the international collaborative program, three shafts and a bypass ratio (BPR) of about 1.2, was decided by Rolls-Royce. The bypass ratio was chosen for long-range, with low fuel consumption, particularly when throttled back. The selected BPR also gave a higher reheat boost than with smaller values used on similar engines. The design of the individual modules was shared between Rolls-Royce, MTU and Fiat according to their existing expertise. Rolls-Royce designed the fan using scaled-down Pegasus knowledge, the combustor, the high pressure (HP) turbine and the reheat. The reheat used cold air combustion techniques, described by Sotheran and which were derived from their experience with ramjets and plenum chamber burning (PCB) in Pegasus front nozzles. Fiat had built turbines for the Viper so designed the low p
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Alexander von Winiwarter (22 April 1848 – 31 October 1917) was an Austrian-Belgian surgeon who was a native of Vienna. He was the brother of physician Felix von Winiwarter (1852-1931).
Alexander Winiwarter obtained his medical doctorate in 1870 at the University of Vienna, and worked as a surgical assistant at the Vienna University Clinic under Theodor Billroth, a pioneer in the field of modern surgical practices. Later, he became head of the surgical department at the Kronprinz-Rudolf-Kinderspitals (Crown Prince Rudolf Children's Hospital), and in 1878 relocated to Belgium, where he became a professor of surgery at the University of Liège. Subsequently, he acquired Belgian citizenship.
In the latter part of the 19th century, Winiwarter introduced specialized massage and compression procedures to treat lymphedema, a disease that causes swollen arms and legs due to fluid retention in the lymphatic system. In 1932, Danish physiotherapist Emil Vodder refined and improved Winiwarter's technique to treat lymphedema. Vodder's treatment was to become known as manual lymphatic drainage.
Selected writings
Untersuchungen über die Gehörschnecke der Säugethiere (Studies on the cochlea in mammals), 1870.
Zur pathologischen Anatomie der Leber (On the pathological anatomy of the liver), 1872.
Das maligne Lymphom und das Lymphosarkom (Malignant lymphoma and lymphosarcoma) in Langenbeck's Archive, 1874.
Beiträge zur Statistik der Carcinome (Contributions involving statistics of carcinoma), 1878.
Zur Chirurgie der Gallenwege (On the surgery of bile ducts), Commemorative publication in honor of Billroth, 1892.
Die chirurgischen Krankheiten der Haut und des Unterhautzellgewebes (Surgical diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue), 1893.
Die Lehre von den chirurgischen Operationen und den chirurgischen Verbänden, 1895
References
This article is based on a translation of the equivalent article from the German Wikipedia.
Winiwarter, Alexander von
Winiwarter, Alexander v
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Donald Peterson may refer to:
Donald H. Peterson (1933–2018), United States Air Force officer and astronaut
Donald R. Peterson (1923–2007), professor of psychology at Rutgers University
C. Donald Peterson (1918–1987), American jurist and politician
Don Peterson, American business executive
Don Peterson (American football) (1928–2010), American football player
See also
Donald Paterson (disambiguation)
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Japanese settlement in New Caledonia dates back to the 19th century when male indentured labourers were brought to the island and worked in the nickel mines. Some of whom settled down in New Caledonia, and often intermarried with women of other ethnicities. After the Second World War, most of the island's Japanese were repatriated back to Japan, although a small minority remained behind.
History
The first Japanese who arrived on New Caledonia consisted of 600 Japanese labourers who were contracted to work at a nickel mine at Thio in January 1892. Another 500 Japanese were brought to New Caledonia the following year to meet with the growing world demand for nickel. Japanese miners frequently reported of tough working conditions and the majority returned to Japan upon the expiration of their contracts, and took up long-term or permanent residence in New Caledonia. The colonial government stopped the inflow of Japanese miners in 1919 as the demand for nickel from New Caledonia declined. Most Japanese settlers lived around Nouméa, and established commercial farms while the rest became retail traders. Japanese influence in the commercial retail sectors increased in the 1920s and 1930s, which was supported by the presence of Japanese businesses that had invested in the island's iron and nickel ores. Some Japanese also came to settle in New Caledonia during this period, although they faced tightening immigration rules as Western suspicion of Japan's militarism intensified. In the late 1930s, Japanese enterprises in New Caledonia came under Australian clandestine surveillance, although they faced little restrictions in most commercial activities. Japanese residents in New Caledonia were relocated to internment camps in Australia after the Attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. After the war, the Japanese populace in the islands were repatriated, although a small resident population remained behind.
Demographics
Official statistics showed some 6,880 Japanese miners that
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The Temenos Academy Review is a journal published in London by the Temenos Academy since 1998. As per the academy, "The Review comprises a mixture of papers given at the Academy and new work, including poetry, art, and reviews." Its predecessor, Temenos, was published from 1981 to 1992 and inspired The Prince of Wales to sponsor the creation of the Temenos Academy in 1990.
History
Temenos launched in 1980, with first publication in 1981. Temenos was cofounded by Kathleen Raine, Philip Sherrard, Keith Critchlow and Brian Keeble, and was produced for thirteen volumes, with Raine becoming the sole editor by the fourth issue. The word "temenos" means "sacred place" or "sacred enclosure". The journal had an objective of "The affirmation, at the highest level of scholarship and talent, and in terms of the contemporary situation, of the Sacred." The Prince of Wales was sufficiently impressed by the journal to sponsor a school based "on truth, beauty and goodness", and this led to the creation of the Temenos Academy in 1990. Henri Corbin's L'Universite de St Jean de Jerusaleme school founded in Paris in 1974, was an inspiration for the founding of Temenos Academy. But while Corbin's school held to an Abrahamic tradition, the new teaching organisation also looked to the teaching of Buddhism and Hinduism. The thirteenth and last issue of Temenos appeared in 1992.
By 1998, the journal reappeared as the Temenos Academy Review and three more volumes were edited by Kathleen Raine. Grevel Lindop was editor for the review from 2000 to 2003; and volume 7, the Kathleen Raine Memorial Issue, was edited by Brian Keeble. , there have been 18 volumes. Contributing authors include Wendell Berry, Prince Charles, Karan Singh and Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
The headquarters of Temenos Academy Review are in Ashford, Kent.
References
External links
Official website
1998 establishments in England
Annual magazines published in the United Kingdom
Visual arts magazines published in the United
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"The Matchmaker" is the third episode of the second season of American sitcom Frasier. The episode aired on October 4, 1994 on NBC. It is noteworthy in being Joe Keenan's first episode produced on the show, after which he became a regular writer and eventually executive producer on the show. It won a GLAAD Media Award for its lighthearted satire of the various stereotypes surrounding gay men. It was also a breakthrough performance for Eric Lutes, leading to his casting as a regular on Caroline in the City.
Plot outline
After a late-night false fire alarm, caused by Daphne smoking a cigarette in her room, she confesses that she's been feeling depressed and lonely. The next day at the cafe, Frasier makes the mistake of telling Roz, who immediately offers to set Daphne up with one of her many ex-boyfriends. Frasier is unable to conceal his low opinion of Roz's taste in men, and she storms out, insulted.
While trying to apologize to her, he explains that he is looking for a man who's not just handsome, but also intelligent and successful. At this point, the station's new manager, Tom Duran, appears, having caught only the last part of Frasier's comments. Tom recently returned from a long stay in the UK and ended a relationship. After a few minutes of conversation, Frasier invites Tom to dinner at his apartment. Unbeknownst to Frasier, Tom is gay and assumes that Frasier is hitting on him. He tells Roz that word of his sexuality must have spread and reached the gay members of the staff. Roz, who is still angry with Frasier, does not enlighten him.
When Tom arrives for dinner, Daphne is pleased, but over the course of the evening, almost everything Frasier says is misinterpreted by Tom:
When Tom mentions how nice the view from his apartment is, Frasier mentions that it's better from the bedroom.
When Tom asks if it gets awkward having Martin around when he brings dates home, Frasier says his only problem is Martin trying to steal them.
Niles joins the party and
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Arne Agnar Jensen (15 November 1954 – 29 December 2020) was a Norwegian media and corporate executive. He was born in Bergen, Norway. From 1989 to 1993, he was the chief executive of BSB Bates Group. He then became chief executive of TV 2, and then chief executive of the airline Braathens from 1999 until 2001.
He then became chief executive of Merkantildata, later Ementor, from 2001 to 2004.
Jensen died on 29 December 2020 at the age of 66.
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1954 births
2020 deaths
Norwegian businesspeople
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When oil is produced to surface temperature and pressure it is usual for some natural gas to come out of solution. The gas/oil ratio (GOR) is the ratio of the volume of gas ("scf") that comes out of solution to the volume of oil — at standard conditions.
In reservoir simulation gas/oil ratio is usually abbreviated .
A point to check is whether the volume of oil is measured before or after the gas comes out of solution, since the remaining oil volume will decrease when the gas comes out.
In fact, gas dissolution and oil volume shrinkage will happen at many stages during the path of the hydrocarbon stream from reservoir through the wellbore and processing plant to export. For light oils and rich gas condensates the ultimate GOR of export streams is strongly influenced by the efficiency with which the processing plant strips liquids from the gas phase. Reported GORs may be calculated from export volumes, which may not be at standard conditions.
The GOR is a dimensionless ratio (volume per volume) in metric units, but in field units, it is usually measured in cubic feet of gas per barrel of oil or condensate.
In the states of Texas and Pennsylvania, the statutory definition of a gas well is one where the GOR is greater than 100,000 ft3/bbl or 100 Kcf/bbl.
The state of New Mexico also designates a gas well as having over 100 MCFG per barrel.
The Oklahoma Geological Survey in 2015 published a map that displays gas wells with greater than 20 MCFG per barrel of oil. They go on to display oil wells with GOR of less than 5 MCFG/BBL and oil and gas wells between these limits.
The EPA's 2016 Information Collection Request for Oil and Gas Facilities (EPA ICR No. 2548.01, OMB Control No. 2060-NEW) divided well types into five categories:
1. Heavy Oil (GOR ≤ 300 scf/bbl)
2. Light Oil (GOR 300 < GOR ≤ 100,000 scf/bbl)
3. Wet Gas (100,000 < GOR ≤1,000,000 scf/bbl)
4. Dry Gas (GOR > 1,000,000 scf/bbl)
5. Coal Bed Methane.
References
Bibliography
Ratios
Petroleum
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Cornelius Johannes Sanders (7 January 1966 – 23 September 2012) was a South African professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2008. He won the WBO heavyweight title in 2003 after knocking out Wladimir Klitschko in two rounds, which was considered one of the biggest upsets in heavyweight boxing history; The Ring magazine named it the Upset of the Year. In 2004, having vacated the WBO title, Sanders faced Wladimir's brother Vitali Klitschko in an unsuccessful challenge for the vacant WBC and Ring heavyweight titles. He also held the WBU heavyweight title from 1997 until 2000 and the South Africa national heavyweight title in 1991.
Nicknamed "The Sniper", Sanders was a southpaw with a long reach, and was known for carrying formidable knockout power in his straight left hand. He died in a hospital in the early hours of 23 September 2012 after being shot during an armed robbery.
Early life and amateur career
Sanders grew up in Brits, South Africa. He had two siblings and was of Afrikaner descent. In his youth, he played rugby, cricket, and golf. Having been introduced to boxing by his uncle, Sanders finished his amateur career in the late 1980s with 180 wins and 11 losses. He won the amateur South African heavyweight title four times from 1985-1988.
Professional career
Sanders made his professional debut in 1989 with a first-round knockout of King Kong Dyubele on 2 April 1989. He went on to win his next 22 bouts, 14 by knockout. Among the fighters he defeated during that streak were Steve Zouski, Art Card, future WBO cruiserweight champion Johnny Nelson, and future world title challenger Bert Cooper. In his 24th bout, on 21 May 1994, Sanders suffered his first defeat, to Nate Tubbs via a second-round knockout.
He fought 12 more times over the next five years, including a first-round knockout over former world cruiserweight champion Carlos De León and a second-round knockout over another former world champion, Bobby Czyz. He lost by seventh-round stoppage in a slug
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A Kangaroo was a Canadian armoured personnel carrier (APC) during the Second World War which was created by converting a tank chassis. Kangaroos were created as an expedient measure "in the field" by the Canadian Army, and were so successful that they were used by other Commonwealth forces, including the British Army.
Their ability to manoeuvre in the field with tanks was a major advantage over earlier designs, and led to the dedicated APC designs that were introduced by almost all armies immediately after the war.
History
The earliest iterations of the Kangaroo were created from M3 and M5 Stuart light tanks to serve as artillery tractors in North Africa campaign in circumstances where Universal Carriers were unavailable. They were effective in their role, but attempts by soldiers to use them as improvised APCs proved ill-advised due to the Stuart's very light armour.
In July 1944, Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar's First Canadian Army was concerned by manpower shortages due to combat losses. While the British and Canadian forces had received some American M3 Half-track APCs, the supply was heavily reduced by this point due to the Americans' own need for them, and Universal Carriers were individually insufficient despite the enormous numbers. However, self-propelled artillery and tanks were currently oversupplied, with a significant number sitting idle not being used. Lieutenant-General Guy Simonds, commander of II Canadian Corps, devised Kangaroos as a field-expedient alternative to purpose-built APCs.
The original Kangaroos were converted from 72 M7 Priest self-propelled guns of three field artillery regiments of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. The Priests were "defrocked" at the Advanced Workshop
Depot under the codename "Kangeroo", removing their 105mm guns and ammunition stowage, and separating the driver's compartment from the rest of the vehicle. Priests with machine gun turrets retained them, and some that did not already have machine gun mounts had
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The Fall released many recordings following their inception in 1976. The band's debut on vinyl came in June 1978 when "Stepping Out" and "Last Orders" were released by Virgin Records on Short Circuit: Live at the Electric Circus, a compilation of live recordings made at the Manchester venue The Electric Circus in October 1977 just before it was closed. Their first actual release as a group was the EP Bingo-Master's Break Out! (1978), and they released a studio album at a rate of almost one a year from their debut Live at the Witch Trials in 1979 to their final album New Facts Emerge in 2017.
Albums
Studio albums
Part studio, part live albums
Live albums
Compilation albums
Box sets
Video albums
EPs
Singles
See also
Mark E. Smith discography
Notes
References
External links
Discography at the Fall online formerly: The Official Fall Website (1998 – Feb 2006); The Unofficial Fall Website (February 2006 – October 2007)
Discographies of British artists
Fall, The
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Gdynia Chylonia railway station is a railway station serving the city of Gdynia, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The station opened in 1870 and is located in the Chylonia district on the Gdańsk–Stargard railway and the parallel Gdańsk Śródmieście–Rumia railway. The train services are operated by Przewozy Regionalne and SKM Tricity.
There is a memorial plaque to Polish General Antoni Heda at the station.
Modernisation
The platforms used by PR services were modernised in 2014.
Train services
The station is served by the following services:
Regional services (R) Tczew — Gdynia Chylonia
Regional services (R) Tczew — Słupsk
Regional services (R) Malbork — Słupsk
Regional services (R) Malbork — Gdynia Chylonia
Regional services (R) Elbląg — Gdynia Chylonia
Regional services (R) Elbląg — Słupsk
Regional services (R) Gdynia Chylonia — Olsztyn Główny
Regional services (R) Gdynia Chylonia — Smętowo
Regional services (R) Gdynia Chylonia — Laskowice Pomorskie
Regional services (R) Gdynia Chylonia — Bydgoszcz Główna
Regional services (R) Słupsk — Bydgoszcz Główna
Regional services (R) Gdynia Chylonia — Pruszcz Gdański
Regional services (R) Władysławowo - Reda - Gdynia Główna
Regional services (R) Hel - Władysławowo - Reda - Gdynia Główna
Regional services (R) Luzino — Gdynia Główna
Regional services (R) Słupsk — Gdynia Główna
Pomorska Kolej Metropolitalna services (R) Gdynia Główna — Gdańsk Osowa — Gdańsk Port Lotniczy (Airport) — Gdańsk Wrzeszcz
Szybka Kolej Miejska services (SKM) (Lębork -) Wejherowo - Reda - Rumia - Gdynia - Sopot - Gdansk
References
External links
Railway stations in Poland opened in 1870
Railway stations served by Szybka Kolej Miejska (Tricity)
Railway stations served by Przewozy Regionalne InterRegio
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In the ticketing system of the British rail network, a Permit to Travel provisionally allows passengers to travel on a train when they have not purchased a ticket in advance and the ticket office of the station they are travelling from is closed, without incurring a penalty fare.
Because some rail passengers may travel without having their tickets checked at any point of their journey, particularly at off-peak times when stations are less likely to be staffed, the obligation to possess a Permit to Travel allows the collection of at least some revenue from passengers who would otherwise travel for free. Most train operating companies (TOCs) have altered their penalty fare policies and have removed many permit to travel machines. PERTIS machines at larger stations have also in recent years given way to more sophisticated self-service ticket machines.
History
The system, known officially as PERTIS (Permit to Travel Issuing System ), was first introduced by Network SouthEast in November 1988 on the LTS route between London Fenchurch Street and Shoeburyness. The machines, which closely resemble those found in pay and display car parks, were manufactured by Almex Control Systems. Machines were given the designation AS-9 (wall-mounted) or AS-88 (mounted on a metal base), but internal workings and tickets were identical in each case.
Penalty fare schemes spread across Network SouthEast in subsequent years, with AS-88 machines being used exclusively. Railway stations in the West Midlands and West Yorkshire passenger transport executive areas subsequently had schemes put in place, and machines were installed accordingly.
Use and operation
The front panel of the machine has two LCD displays; one shows the current time, while the other displays the amount paid when coins have been fed in. A button is pressed to print the permit, which shows a serial number, the station name, the date and time. The passenger is supposed to insert coins as near to the value of the fare as po
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In Arabia We'd All Be Kings is a dramatic play set in New York City, written by Stephen Adly Guirgis. It chronicles the demise of a group of individuals living in New York's Hell's Kitchen around the time before Rudy Giuliani's efforts to clean up the city. Out of work and strapped for money, the lives of these individuals revolve around a local bar and their misguided hopes and dreams. The play deals primarily with issues of commercialism, hope, and friendship.
Plot
Lenny is a recently released ex-convict. Despite his imposing size, he was gang raped repeatedly while incarcerated and struggles to find his manhood on the outside. Daisy, his alcoholic girlfriend, craves a "real" life with a "real" man and abandons him at a seedy bar in pursuit of some cheap Chinese takeout. At the bar is Skank, a former failed actor turned junkie, who is trying to outlast the rain storm and get a buyback from the long-missing Irish bartender as he begins to go through withdrawals. Also at the bar is Sammy, an old, dying guilt-ridden drunk who exists somewhere between reality and the afterlife. DeMaris, a seventeen-year-old gun-brandishing single mother, wants to learn to turn tricks. She enlists the aid of Chickie, Skank's girlfriend, a young crackhead hooker who plays Go Fish with the simple-minded day bartender Charlie, who thinks he's a Jedi warrior and who buys meals for Chickie because he loves her and because he lives for the day they can go out someday, "just as friends." The owner of the bar is Jake. The place was his father's before him, and after thirty years, he longs for the chance to leave "this sewer" for a re-invented life in Florida. The real-estate boom, "gentrification" and the emergence of Disney in Times Square affords him that opportunity. Unaware that their last piece of home is about to be pulled out from under them, the bar patrons struggle on. Their sense of humor, their misguided hopes and dreams, and their lack of self-pity are badges that are tattooed to
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Rho utilisation site, also known by the acronym rut, is a sequence of RNA in bacteria upstream of the terminator region which serves as a binding site for the protein known as rho factor. This sequence is necessary in rho-dependent termination of DNA transcription in bacteria. The common feature of the rut site is an abundance of cytosine and paucity of guanine residues, although these sequences vary widely in different genes with little homology.
A few algorithms have been developed to predict such sites.
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Wahlberg may refer to:
Wahlberg (surname), including a list of people with the name
Wahlberg's cormorant (bank cormorant, Phalacrocorax neglectus), a medium-sized cormorant
Wahlberg's eagle (Aquila wahlbergi), a medium-sized raptor named after the Swedish naturalist Johan August Wahlberg
Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus wahlbergi), a species of bat in the family Pteropodidae
Wahlberg's honeybird (Prodotiscus regulus), a species of bird
Wahlberg's Kalahari gecko (Pachydactylus wahlbergii), a species of reptile
Wahlberg's velvet gecko (Homopholis wahlbergii), a species of reptile
See also
Walburg (disambiguation)
St. Walburg (disambiguation)
Walberg, surname
Wallburg (disambiguation)
Wallberg (disambiguation)
Wahlsburg, municipality in Germany
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The Étoile Civique (Civic Star) was created by the Académie française in order to reward dedication to people and honor behavior and actions which attest this.
History
Created in 1930 and named Mérite Civique (Civic Merit), it became Étoile Civique by the Journal Officiel de la République Française n° 292, page 11672 of 12 December 1968. It awards bravery and dedication to people and honor behavior and actions which attest this.
Distinguishing those who contribute to the enrichment of the community, improvement of social life, progress of Humanity, it is particularly interested in those whose lives are all of hard work, selflessness, sacrifice and will remain confined in anonymity without this award.
The Étoile Civique has three main goals:
Improving the lives of individuals, whatever their age, nationality, color, social condition, taking into account their moral and material interests, as part of the human family ;
The defense of human rights, respect for the duties of citizens, by express reference to the Universal Declaration that defines them ;
To showcase the French national prestige.
Classes and insignia
This distinction has four levels : bronze, silver, gold and silver-gilt.
The medal contains the following: « Honorer les vertus civiques – Servir le prestige national » (To honor the civic virtues – Serving national prestige). On the reverse, it is written : « l'Étoile Civique en reconnaissance à ... Promotion ... » (The Civic Star in recognition of ... Promotion ...). Degree with the same registration is also awarded.
Notable recipients
Maryse Bastié, French aviator ;
Pierre Chevalier, caver and mountaineer from France ;
Jean-Michel Dubois, French politician and a member of the far-right FN.
Emile Garabiol, French engineer
Bernard Pinet, French actor
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Awards established in 1930
Civil awards and decorations of France
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Schalkse Ruiters, translated as "Roguish Horsemen", was a Flemish humoristic TV talk and game show, broadcast on the TV channel Eén between late 1996 and early 1998. The program was a cross between a comedy show, a talk show, a game show and a mockumentary. Hosted by Bart De Pauw and Tom Lenaerts viewers were shown three video reports about three different topics. The people in the studio and viewers at home had to vote whether they believed each individual video to be real or staged. In between these reports hidden camera segments and comedy sketches were shown.
At the time Schalkse Ruiters was notorious for their sensational reports, unpredictable atmosphere and enjoyable comedy. The final episode of the first season, when managing director of the Vlaamse Radio-en Televisieomroep (Flemish Public Radio and Television) Bert De Graeve was their guest, was watched by 2.166 million people. A ratings record that stood for decades, until it was surpassed by De Slimste Mens ter Wereld in 2012. The second season continued the high ratings. Schalkse Ruiters made Bart De Pauw, Tom Lenaerts, Michiel Devlieger, and the comedy character de Man van Melle (The Man from Melle) famous to a huge audience.
Concept
The show also started with images of De Pauw and Lenaerts riding horses through a green field while soundtrack music from the film Flight of the Intruder by Basil Poledouris was playing. As they enter a peasant's village they are cheered as heroes. In the second season a similar intro was used, but set at the beach.
Schalkse Ruiters worked from the principle that viewers shouldn't always believe everything they see on television to be real. That's why each episode showed three reports about which their special guest, the studio audience and the viewers at home had to guess whether they were real or fake. The studio audience (named Klein Vlaanderen (Small Flanders) by them always received a few seconds time to vote. When the time was up the hosts instantly checked how ma
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Sandra is a fiction podcast by Gimlet Media starring Alia Shawkat. The show follows Helen as she starts a new job at a tech giant that developed a virtual assistant called Sandra.
Background
The podcast is produced by Gimlet Media. Sandra is the second fiction podcast by Gimlet. Alia Shawkat stars as the protagonist of the show named Helen. Sandra is the fictional equivalent of Amazon Alexa. All seven episodes were released on April 18, 2018. The show was written by Kevin Moffett and Matthew Derby. Sandra is powered by humans instead of AI. Helen starts working at a tech giant as a Sandra operator. The tech giant that developed Sandra is called Orbital Teledynamics. The company is based in her hometown of Guymon, Oklahoma. The rights to adapt the podcast into a television series were acquired by Wiip—the independent studio owned by Paul Lee. The show was adapted for Mexico and Brazil. The show has been compared to Black Mirror.
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2018 podcast debuts
2018 podcast endings
Audio podcasts
Science fiction podcasts
Scripted podcasts
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No. 246 Squadron RAF was a squadron of the Royal Air Force.
History
First World War
The squadron was formed at the former Royal Naval Air Station Seaton Carew, England on 18 August 1918 to provide coastal patrols. It was the only RAF squadron to operate the Blackburn Kangaroo. The base closed and the squadron was disbanded, in May 1919 as some sources claim, while others have 15 March 1919 or 24 March 1919.
Second World War
The squadron reformed on 1 September 1942 at Bowmore on Islay to operate Short Sunderland flying boats. It began patrols in December 1942 but was disbanded on 30 April 1943.
Post-war
On 11 October 1944 it reformed at RAF Lyneham as a transport squadron flying the Consolidated Liberator, moving to RAF Holmsley South in December. The Handley Page Halifax was also used for experimental and conversion duties. In December 1944 the squadron began to convert to the Avro York. In February 1945 the squadron absorbed the VVIP Flight and the Metropolitan Communications Squadron RAF at RAF Northolt. In November 1945 the Halifax aircraft were retired and the Douglas Skymaster introduced. In 1945 the squadron standardised on the Avro York and operated scheduled services to India and the Middle East until it merged with 511 Squadron on 15 October 1946.
Aircraft operated
See also
List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons
References
Citations
Bibliography
Halley, J. J. The Squadrons of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth, 1918–1988. Tonbridge, UK: Air Britain (Historians)., 1988. .
Jefford, C. G. RAF Squadrons: A Comprehensive Record of the Movement and Equipment of All RAF Squadrons and Their Antecedents Since 1912, Shrewsbury, UK: Airlife Publishing, 1988. . (second revised edition 2001. .)
Rawlings, J. D. R. Coastal, Support and Special Squadrons of the RAF and their Aircraft. London, UK: Jane's Publishing Company., 1982. .
External links
Rafweb.org, Squadron histories of nos. 246–250 sqn
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Maritime patrol aircraft units and formations
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BBC Two of the British Broadcasting Corporation is a television network in the United Kingdom.
BBC2 may also refer to:
Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation or BBC2 in the Philippines.
BBC Radio 2, British radio station of the British Broadcasting Corporation
BBC II! (BBC Three Online), a British online service operating between the closure and revival of the BBC Three channel
See also
BBC (disambiguation)
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The French destroyer Frondeur was one of 14 s built for the French Navy during the 1920s.
Design and description
The L'Adroit class was a slightly enlarged and improved version of the preceding Bourrasque class. The ships had an overall length of , a beam of , and a draft of . The ships displaced at standard load and at deep load. They were powered by two geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by three du Temple boilers. The turbines were designed to produce , which would propel the ships at . The ships carried of fuel oil which gave them a range of at .
The main armament of the L'Adroit-class ships consisted of four Canon de 130 mm Modèle 1924 guns in single mounts, one superfiring pair each fore and aft of the superstructure. Their anti-aircraft armament consisted of a pair of Canon de 37 mm Modèle 1925 guns. The ships carried two above-water triple sets of torpedo tubes. A pair of depth charge chutes were built into their stern; these housed a total of sixteen depth charges. In addition two depth charge throwers were fitted for which six depth charges were carried.
Construction and career
Frondeur was laid down on 9 November 1927, launched on 20 June 1929 and completed on 20 October 1931.
After France surrendered to Germany in June 1940 during World War II, Frondeur served with the naval force of Vichy France. She was at Casablanca, French Morocco, when Allied forces invaded French North Africa in Operation Torch in November 1942. Resisting the invasion, she was sunk by gunfire from United States Navy ships off Casablanca during the Naval Battle of Casablanca.
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L'Adroit-class destroyers
World War II destroyers of France
1929 ships
Maritime incidents in November 1942
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Werner Karl Dahm (February 16, 1917 in Lindenthal, Germany – January 17, 2008 in Huntsville, Alabama) was an early spaceflight scientist of the Peenemünde Future Projects Office who emigrated to the US under Operation Paperclip and was the Marshall Space Flight Center Chief Aerodynamicist.
Life
Werner Karl Dahm was born on Feb. 16, 1917 in Lindenthal near Köln, Germany, the son of Anton Dahm and Maria Morkramer. The family moved to Bonn later that year. His father was the first engineer in a long line of merchants. After graduating from the Beethoven School in Bonn in 1936, he studied aerodynamics and aircraft design at the Technical University in Aachen, and later in Munich when the Nazis had closed other technical universities. In Munich he was one of just four students, out of several hundred, who refused to join the Nazi student club. He said he first simply pretended not to find it, and then since it was formally listed as a dueling club he avoided it by claiming religious objections. For this he was denied access to certain advanced aircraft courses, so he focused on courses relevant to rocketry. Before completing his degree he was drafted at the end of 1939, and sent with a signal corps unit to France and then to Czechoslovakia. In between, he was granted a one-semester break to complete the major part of his aerodynamics degree.
As a result of his technical background, in late 1941 he was assigned to the German rocket development effort at Peenemünde, led by Wernher von Braun. There, as the youngest member of the rocket team, he worked in the future projects division, a group composed mainly of physicists who needed a specialist in aerodynamics. At the time, theoretical understanding of high-speed aerodynamics was still in its infancy. He was one of a group that conducted pioneering experiments in a small supersonic wind tunnel to obtain essential insights and data to support designs for proposed new rockets. Among these was the A9/A10 rocket,
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Arthur Sanders Way (13 February 1847 – 25 September 1930), was a classical scholar, translator and headmaster of Wesley College, Melbourne, Australia.
Arthur Way, son of the Rev. William Way and his wife Matilda, née Francis, was born at Dorking, England. He was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, and graduated M.A. at University of London. From 1870 to 1876 he was classical lecturer at Queen's College, Taunton, vice-master of Kingswood School, 1876 to 1881, and in 1882 became headmaster of Wesley College, Melbourne. He had already published his translation of the Odyssey of Homer, and while at Wesley brought out his translation of the Iliad. (See English translations of Homer#WayIl.)
At Wesley he fostered the teaching of natural science, and also brought in the teaching of commercial principles for boys likely to pursue a business career, but the number of students went down during his period, largely because of the financial depression which began in 1889. He resigned in 1892 and spent most of the rest of his life in translating from the classics. The list of his translations in Miller's Australian Literature includes the Odyssey; the Iliad; works of Euripides, Aeschylus, and Sophocles; the Epodes of Horace; Vergil's Georgics; the Nibelungenlied; the Chanson de Roland; works of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus; the New Testament Biblical letters of Paul and Hebrews entitled, The Letters of St. Paul to Seven Churches and Three Friends with The Letter to the Hebrews; works of Aristophanes, Hesiod, Lucretius, and others. Way was also the author of Homer (1913), Greek through English (1926), and Sons of the Violet-Crowned, a Tale of Ancient Athens (1929).
Way had been president of the Melbourne Shakespeare Society and a councillor of the Royal Society of Victoria.
Way died at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, on 25 September 1930.
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Sources
External links
1847 births
1930 deaths
English classical scholars
People educated at Kingswood School, Bath
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Palsa Hazel Ecological Reserve is an ecological reserve located in Grass River Provincial Park, Manitoba, Canada. It was established in 1997 under the Manitoba Ecological Reserves Act. It is in size.
See also
List of ecological reserves in Manitoba
List of protected areas of Manitoba
References
External links
iNaturalist: Palsa Hazel Ecological Reserve
Protected areas established in 1997
Ecological reserves of Manitoba
Nature reserves in Manitoba
Protected areas of Manitoba
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The Mount Royal College Cougars were a junior "A" ice hockey team in the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
History
The Mount Royal College Cougars joined the AJHL for the 1970–71 season. The team played two seasons in the league before moving to the Alberta Colleges Athletics Conference following 1971–72 season.
Season-by-season record
Note: GP = games played, W = wins, L = losses, OTL = overtime losses, Pts = points, GF = goals for, GA = goals against, PIM = penalties in minutes
See also
List of ice hockey teams in Alberta
References
External links
Alberta Junior Hockey League
Defunct Alberta Junior Hockey League teams
Defunct ice hockey teams in Alberta
Defunct junior ice hockey teams in Canada
Ice hockey clubs established in 1970
1970 establishments in Alberta
1972 disestablishments in Alberta
Ice hockey clubs disestablished in 1972
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John Clark (1835 – July 27, 1896) was a Scottish-born farmer and political figure in Ontario, Canada. He was elected to represent Grey North in the House of Commons of Canada in 1896 as a Liberal, but died before the opening of the first session.
Early life and career
He was born in Aberdeenshire. Clark married Jane Menzies. He was reeve of Keppel Township from 1891 to 1895 and had been deputy reeve from 1880 to 1890. He was warden for Grey County in 1888. Clark ran unsuccessfully for the Grey East seat in the House of Commons in 1891. He died of typhoid fever and peritonitis in 1896.
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Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
1835 births
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The House Mill is a major Grade I listed building on the River Lea in Mill Meads, and part of the Three Mills complex. The original tidal mills at this site date back to the Domesday book of 1086, and the present structure of the House Mill was built in 1776 by Daniel Bisson. It was damaged by fire in 1802, and then rebuilt by Philip Metcalfe.
It is one of only four Grade I listed buildings in the London Borough of Newham. The House Mill remains the "largest tidal mill standing in Britain", although the water wheels are not in operation.
The south facade of the House Mill displays a coat of arms dated 1776 and the initials "D S B" (which could be Daniel and Sarah Bisson), with forty cast iron wall plates which tie the ends of the floor beams.
The Miller's House was rebuilt in 1995 with a modern interior, but retaining the original facade. The Miller's House and a house on the other side of the House Mill were originally built for the Miller and his family. A Second World War bomb landed on a nearby bonded warehouse and damaged both houses on 15 October 1940 which were later demolished. The Mill stopped operating and was used as a warehouse.
Publications
The following are research papers published by the House Mill (River Lea Tidal Mill Trust Ltd).
The Three Mills Distillery in the Georgian era by Keith Fairclough (2003)
The LeFevre family and distilling along the Lower Lea by Keith Fairclough (2003)
Owners of the Three Mills (1539–1728) by Keith Fairclough (2003)
Philip Metcalfe (1733–1818), the MP and industrialist who built the Clock Mill by Keith Fairclough (2003)
The Bisson Family of Three Mills by Keith Fairclough and Brian Strong (2003)
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External links
House Mill website
History of the London Borough of Newham
Grade I listed buildings in the London Borough of Newham
Watermills in London
Grade I listed industrial buildings
Geography of the London Borough of Newham
Mill museums in England
Museums in the London Borough of Newham
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Sir William Samuel Stephenson (23 January 1897 – 31 January 1989), born William Samuel Clouston Stanger, was a Canadian soldier, fighter pilot, businessman and spymaster who served as the senior representative of the British Security Coordination (BSC) for the western allies during World War II. He is best known by his wartime intelligence code name, Intrepid. Many people consider him to be one of the real-life inspirations for James Bond. Ian Fleming himself once wrote, "James Bond is a highly romanticised version of a true spy. The real thing is... William Stephenson."
As head of the BSC, Stephenson handed British scientific secrets over to Franklin D. Roosevelt and relayed American secrets back to Winston Churchill. In addition, Stephenson has been credited with changing American public opinion from an isolationist stance to a supportive tendency regarding the United States' entry into World War II.
Early life
Stephenson was born William Samuel Clouston Stanger on 23 January 1897, in Point Douglas, Winnipeg, Manitoba. His mother was Icelandic, and his father was Scottish from the Orkney Islands. He was adopted early by an Icelandic family after his parents could no longer care for him, and given his foster parents' name, Stephenson. Water street in Winnipeg was renamed in his honour to William Stephenson Way.
He left school at a young age and worked as a telegrapher. In January 1916, during World War I, he volunteered for service in the 101st Overseas Battalion (Winnipeg Light Infantry), Canadian Expeditionary Force. He left for England on RMS Olympic on 29 June 1916, arriving on 6 July 1916. The 101st Battalion was broken up in England, and he was transferred to the 17th Reserve Battalion in East Sandling, Kent. On 17 July, he was transferred to the Canadian Engineer Training Depot. He was attached to the Sub Staff, Canadian Training Depot Headquarters, in Shorncliffe, and was promoted to Sergeant (with pay of Clerk) in May 1917. In June 1917 he was "on co
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Marian Bronisław Tomaszewski (13 August 1922 – 5 June 2020) was a Polish scout leader. He was an officer of the 2nd Polish Corps and a tank commander in the 6th Armoured Regiment "Children of Lwów" during World War II.
After the war he spent nearly 45 years in exile in Italy and the United Kingdom. He was one of the leaders of the Polish community in Manchester.
Tomaszewski died on 5 June 2020 in Bury, England at the age of 97.
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1922 births
2020 deaths
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The battle of Marinka is an ongoing battle in the city of Marinka between the Armed Forces of Russia and the separatist Donetsk People's Republic against the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Shelling of the town intensified between 17 February and 22 February 2022, when Russia recognized the DPR as independent, and fighting began in the town on 17 March. By November 2022, much of the town was destroyed, with no civilians remaining and few buildings left standing from the fighting.
In June 2015, Marinka had been the site of a one-day battle near Marinka, the first serious conflict after the February signing of Minsk II, in which Ukrainian forces held back a DPR attack.
Prelude
Initial shelling of Marinka began on 17 February, when DPR forces injured an aid worker. Shelling began around 9:30 AM, and ended at 2:30 PM, with around 20 explosions total. Shelling intensified in the days leading up to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, killing two Ukrainian soldiers and injuring four more.
Battle
On 30-31 March, Ukrainian emergency services extinguished "dozens of fires" that had started in the town because of white phosphorus munitions from Russian forces.
In mid-April, during the beginning of the battle of Donbas, Russian and DPR forces ramped up offensive operations, launching multiple attacks on Marinka. On 17 April, two people were killed and four were injured after Russian forces shelled the city. Two days later on 19 April, Ukrainian forces regained full control of Marinka after a failed Russian assault the day prior. Ukrainian forces repelled Russian attacks on the town on the 23, 25, and 26 of April.
Following the end of the siege of Mariupol, the ISW reported on 20 May that Russian and DPR forces refocused their efforts towards Marinka, allocating more forces following the end of the siege of Mariupol. Throughout May, southern Marinka shifted between Ukrainian and Russian control as fighting intensified. Further Russian assaults on 25 June were repelled by Uk
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Bemolanga is a large oil sands deposit in the onshore Morondava Basin of Madagascar. The deposit was discovered in the early 1900s but was known to locals for centuries. The field is located north of the Tsimiroro heavy oil field and east of the town of Morafenobe. The field is at depth and about from the coast.
Madagascar Oil is a license holder of the Bemolanga field with 40% stake belonging to Total S.A. Madagascar Oil describes the field as being a giant bitumen field of 8-13ºAPI low sulphur (<1%) and low vanadium ultra heavy oil. According to DeGolyer and MacNaughton, the field has of oil in place (P-50) and of recoverable oil (2P+3P). In July 2018, Grynberg Petroleum, a US based company, started considering the acquiring of some interest in the Bemolanga field.
The source rocks for the Bemolanga oil is believed to be the Karoo formation of the Middle Sakamena Shale. The field was lifted to its present near surface location due to the renewed uplifting and seaward tilting of the island of Madagascar, which started in Late Cretaceous (Turonian) and continued throughout the Cenozoic era.
Thirteen wells and over 500 core-holes were drilled from the 1950s to the early 1980s. The hydrocarbons are found in the Isalo and Amboloando formations over an area of approximately . The prospective surface mining area is defined by wherever there is less than depth to top oil sand. The average overburden thickness in the surface mining area is around (considerably less than average overburden thickness in Canada) and oil saturation is up to 12%.
In September 2008, Total S.A. acquired a 60% interest and operatorship of Bemolanga. It agreed a 2-year program to drill 130 additional core wells at a cost of US$200 million. Total began its own field work in mid 2009, with the start-up of commercial production planned for 2018. If development of the field is successful, it is expected that of recoverable resources will be developed to produce of oil for more than 30 yea
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Destination Hotels is a privately held lodging management company headquartered in Englewood, Colorado. It is the United States' largest independent hospitality management company, representing 40 luxury and upscale hotels, resorts and golf clubs internationally.
The collection includes a mix of mountain, beach and city properties across the United States and Scotland.
History
Destination Hotels began in 1972 (as Destination Hotels & Resorts) with the opening of The Gant in Aspen, one of the first condominium resort properties in the United States to offer contemporary hotel services such as concierge and front desk.
Destination Hotels was a subsidiary of Lowe Hospitality Group (LHG), which is owned by Lowe Enterprises, a privately held national real estate investment, management and development firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California until October 2018. The company partners with affiliate Lowe Destination Development, also an LHG subsidiary, to development hospitality projects including both hotels and resort residential communities. LDD hotel and resort projects are managed by Destination Hotels upon completion.
In January, 2016, Destination Hotels merged with Commune Hotels.
In October, 2018, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts purchased Two Road Hospitality which owned Destination Hotels at the time.
Locations and properties
The company's portfolio features 21 golf courses, 20 full-service spas, six IACC certified conference centers, and 110 bars and restaurants located in key states. On 5th October 2022, a new addition was announced, the first property outside of the US, in the Scottish Borders. The properties include:
Arizona
Tempe Mission Palms Hotel & Conference Center - Tempe, AZ
The Scottsdale Resort at McCormick Ranch - Scottsdale, AZ
California
Terranea Resort (opened 2009, redeveloped from Marineland of the Pacific, 1954–1987) - Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Miramonte Resort & Spa -Indian Wells, CA
L'Auberge Del Mar Resort & Spa - Del Mar, CA
Paradise Point
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Rod Peate is a poker player from Portland, Oregon
In the 1983 World Series of Poker, Peate finished runner-up to Tom McEvoy in the Main Event for $216,000. Since then, Peate has cashed in the Main Event four times: 1987, 1990, 1997, and 1998.
In 1995, Peate won a World Series of Poker bracelet in Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo. Peate still participates in tournaments, although a majority of his tournament cashes came in the 1980s and 1990s.
He also cashed in the Legends of Poker tournament at the Bicycle Casino during the fourth season of the World Poker Tour.
As of 2016, his total live tournament winnings exceed $880,000.
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Living people
World Series of Poker bracelet winners
Sportspeople from Portland, Oregon
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Qadiyat or Qaziyat (alternative spellings: Kadiyat or Kaziyat) in Islam is a territorial division associated with a qadi; in some cases subordinate to the mufti and muftiate. In analogy to Christianity, a qadiyat would be considered a diocese.
As Sunni Islam does not prescribe any formal hierarchy or priesthood, qadiyats are primarily found in European- and Central Asian Islamic organizations, particularly in south-eastern Europe and countries deriving from the former Soviet Union.
In Russia and in other parts of the former Soviet Union, a muhtasibat is directly subordinate to a qadiyat.
The Ottoman empire had a similar territorial division called a kadiluk, which was more concerned with justice and taxation than religion.
See also
Qadi
Mufti
Muftiate
Muhtasibat
Mahallah
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John Jordan Gore (April 28, 1878 – February 21, 1939) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.
Education and career
Born on April 28, 1878, in Gainesboro, Tennessee, Gore received his education at Montpelier Academy in Gainesboro, Bellwood Academy in Macon County and Fall's Business School in Nashville, Tennessee. He read law in the office of Judge Bancroft Murray in Gainesboro in 1899. He entered private practice in partnership with Cordell Hull in Jackson, Tennessee in 1899, the law firm named Hull & Gore, despite the fact that Hull was a Democratic and Gore was a Republican. During the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt, Gore was Postmaster of Gainesboro and Collector of Customs for the Port of Nashville, both federal patronage positions. He was a member of the Tennessee Senate from 1915 to 1916. Gore was Chairman of the Republican Executive Committee for the State of Tennessee in 1920.
Federal judicial service
Gore was nominated by President Warren G. Harding on February 28, 1923, to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, to a new seat authorized by 42 Stat. 837. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 2, 1923, and received his commission the same day. His service terminated on February 21, 1939, due to his death of heart failure at his residence at the Hermitage Hotel in Nashville. He was interred two days later at the cemetery at his family's farm in Gainesboro. Gore never married.
Family
Gore was related to the Gore political family of Tennessee, whose most noted member is former Vice President Al Gore.
References
Sources
Time Magazine, Milestones Section, March 6, 1939
External links
Official website of the town of Gainesboro, Tennessee
1878 births
1939 deaths
John J.
People from Gainesboro, Tennessee
Tennessee lawyers
Tennessee state senators
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Geophis godmani, also known commonly as Godman's earth snake, the yellow-bellied earth snake, and la culebra minadora de Godman in American Spanish, is a species of snake in the Family Colubridae. The species is native to Central America.
Etymology
The specific name, godmani, is in honor of British naturalist Frederick DuCane Godman.
Geographic range
G. godmani is found in Costa Rica and Panama.
Habitat
The preferred natural habitat of G. godmani is forest, at altitudes of , but is also found in forest clearings used as pasture.
Description
G. godmani is brownish black dorsally, and yellow ventrally. It may attain a total length of , which includes a tail long. Its dorsal scales are completely smooth, and they are arranged in 15 rows at midbody.
Behavior
G. godmani is terrestrial and secretive, hiding under rocks and logs.
Reproduction
G. godmani is oviparous.
References
Further reading
Amaral A (1929). "Estudos sobre ophídios neotropicos, XVIII – Lista remissiva dos ophídios da região neotropica". Memórias do Istituto Butantan (São Paulo) 4: 126–271. (Catastoma godmani, new combination, p. 192). (in Portuguese).
Boulenger GA (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I–XX. (Geophis godmani, new species, p. 322 + Plate XVI, figure 4, three views of head).
Santamaría Martínez, Jerson Arturo; Mora, José Manuel; Alpízar Rodríguez, Jorge; Rodríguez Rojas, Emmanuel; Ramírez Alvarado, Jasdiel; Torres Medina, Ruth (2021). "Albinism in a Yellow-bellied Earth Snake (Geophis godmani Boulenger, 1894) (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from Central Costa Rica". Caribbean Journal of Science 51 (1): 14–19.
Savage JM (2002). The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna between Two Continents, between Two Seas. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. xx + 945
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George Alfred Caldwell (October 18, 1814 – September 17, 1866) was a United States representative from Kentucky's 4th Congressional district from 1843 to 1845 and 1849 to 1851. He also served in the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1839 to 1840.
Early life
George Caldwell was born in Columbia, Kentucky, where he attended the common schools. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1837 and commenced practice in Adair County, Kentucky.
Career
Caldwell was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1839 and 1840. He was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845). During his term, he served as chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Twenty-eighth Congress).
At the outbreak of the Mexican–American War, Caldwell was commissioned major and quartermaster of volunteers on June 26, 1846. He was promoted on several occasions including to Major of Infantry March 3, 1847, and Major of Voltigeurs on April 9, 1847. He was made a brevetted lieutenant colonel September 13, 1847, for service in the Battle of Chapultepec, Mexico and honorably mustered out August 25, 1848.
Caldwell was elected to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1851) where he again served the chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Thirty-first Congress). He was not a candidate for reelection to the Thirty-second Congress.
After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law in Louisville, Kentucky with his brother Isaac Caldwell. He was a delegate to the Union National Convention at Philadelphia in 1866.
Personal life
Caldwell died in Louisville, Kentucky, on September 17, 1866. He was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.
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1866 deaths
Democratic Party members of the Kentucky House of Representatives
American military personnel of the Mexican–American War
Quartermasters
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Ke Hobe Banglar Kotipoti (transliterated: Kē kabē bānlāra kōṭipati), KHBK or KBC Bangla, is one of the 9 Indian versions for Bengali-speaking peoples based on the original British game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. It premiered on 4 June 2011, on Mahuaa Bangla channel hosted by Sourav Ganguly. In 2018, this show returned to air with new host Prosenjit Chatterjee. This version is the only Indian version, where the questions are only in the local language and the answers are not asked again in English.
Lifelines
Audience Poll:- If any contestant would use this lifeline, the host would repeat the question to the audience. The studio audience would get 10 seconds to answer the question. Audience members would use touchpads to give the answer what they believe. After the audience would have chosen their choices, their choices would be displayed to the contestant in percentages in bar-graph format and also shown on the monitors screens of the host and contestant, as well as the TV viewers.
50:50 (Fifty-fifty):- If the contestant would use this lifeline, the host would ask the computer to remove two of the wrong answers. This would remain one right answer and one wrong answer. This would help a contestant giving 50% chance of answering the correct answer.
Phone A Friend:- If the contestant would use this lifeline, the contestant would be allowed to call one of the three pre-arranged friends, who all have to provide their phone numbers in advance. The host would usually be started off by talking to the contestant's friend and introduces him/her to the viewers. After the introduction, the host would hand the phone call over to the contestant, who then immediately had 30 seconds to ask and hope for a reply from their friend.
Rules
In season 1, every contestant had a time limit: 30 seconds for questions 1-5, and 45 seconds for questions 6-10. On questions 11-15, it goes away, giving the contestant as much time as they need to answer the questions. But in season
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Redcar East is a railway station on the Tees Valley Line, which runs between and via . The station, situated east of Middlesbrough, serves the seaside town of Redcar, Redcar and Cleveland in North Yorkshire, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
Facilities
The station is unmanned, so passengers wishing to travel must buy tickets before boarding or on the train. In 2014, the station facilities were improved. The package for this station included new fully lit waiting shelters, renewed station signage, digital CIS displays and the installation of CCTV. The long-line Public Address system (PA) has been renewed and upgraded with pre-recorded train announcements.
Services
As of the May 2021 timetable change, the station is served by two trains per hour between Saltburn and Darlington via Middlesbrough, with one train per hour extending to Bishop Auckland. An hourly service operates between Saltburn and Bishop Auckland on Sunday. All services are operated by Northern Trains.
Rolling stock used: Class 156 Super Sprinter and Class 158 Express Sprinter
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Railway stations in Redcar and Cleveland
DfT Category F1 stations
Former London and North Eastern Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1929
Northern franchise railway stations
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Halcyon Castle (now called The Kovalam Palace) was built in 1932 in the princely state of Travancore, in the modern-day state of Kerala, India. It was constructed by M.R.Ry Sri Rama Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran, the consort of Maharani Sethu Lakshmi Bayi, as a retreat for their family. In 1964 Valiya Koil Thampuran sold the entire property to the Government of India; since then it has been a luxury hotel. A dispute arose when the India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC), which was running the hotel, sold it to a private hotel resort group. It has since then been taken under The Raviz Hotels and Resorts and been renovated and restored to its former glory.
Status
Ravi Pillai owns the hotel and the entire adjoining land area measuring around 65 acres; he has contracted with the Leela Hotel Group to manage the 5-Star hotel. It is a heritage palace that has been completely refurbished to maintain its original charm and is now available for guests.
Suites
The Palace has 4 suites named after the royal family and the goddesses after whom the queens were named. The four uber luxurious suites are coloured red, rusty orange, blue and green with a view of The Arabian sea from each of the rooms. The renovated palace has Murano Chandeliers and Mantellassi furnishings and has state of the art automation.
References
Hotels in Thiruvananthapuram
Palaces in Thiruvananthapuram
Buildings and structures completed in 1932
1932 establishments in India
20th-century architecture in India
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The Sumathi Jury Special Award is presented annually in Sri Lanka by the Sumathi Group of Campany associated with many commercial brands to uplift the talent of Sri Lankan artists of all genre who provided their enormous contribution to the television screen. The award is given by the vote of the Jury panel, which consists of 5 to 6 senior artists.
The award was first given in 2000. Following is a list of the winners of this prestigious title since then.
References
Awards established in 2000
Sumathi Awards
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4-Bromophenylacetic acid, also known as p-bromophenylacetic acid, is an organic compound. It is a derivative of phenylacetic acid containing a bromine atom in the para position.
Preparation
4-Bromophenylacetic acid may be prepared by the addition of a bromine atom to phenylacetic acid through electrophilic aromatic substitution. It was first prepared in the laboratory by treatment of phenylacetic acid with bromine and mercuric oxide; a mixture of the 2- and 4- isomers is made, and the 4- isomer is isolated by fractional crystallization.
It can also be made by condensing 4-bromobenzylbromide with sodium cyanide in ethanol, and the hydrolising the nitrile with sodium hydroxide.
Reactions
Methyl 2-(4-bromophenyl)acetate is made from 4-bromophenylacetic acid by refluxing it with methanol acidified with sulfuric acid.
An ethyl ester can be made in an analogous way.
A hydrazone derivative, 2-(4-bromophenyl)acetohydrazide, is made by refluxing the methyl ester with hydrazine. Further hydrazone derivatives of 4-bromophenylacetic acid are made by condensing the simple hydrazone with aldehydes, forming a double bond with the second nitrogen. At least 19 of these hydrazones are known.
4-Bromophenylacetic acid is a chemical that can be purchased.
Plant protoplasts conjugate aspartic acid with 4-bromophenylacetic acid to form 4-bromophenylacetyl-L-aspartic acid.
4-Bromophenylacetic acid reacts with sodium tetraphenylborate to form felbinac which can be further converted to xenbucin.
Properties
The ionic conductance has been measured.
See also
Phenylacetic acid
References
Phenylacetic acids
Bromoarenes
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Manasa is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency came into existence in 1951 as one of the 79 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Madhya Bharat state.
Overview
Manasa (constituency number 228) is one of the 3 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Neemuch district. This constituency covers the entire Manasa tehsil of the district.
Manasa is part of Mandsour Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Neemuch and Jawad in this district, Jaora in Ratlam district and Mandsour, Malhargarh, Suwasra and Garoth in Mandsaur district.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
As a constituency of Madhya Bharat state:
1951: Ram Lal, Indian National Congress
As a constituency of Madhya Pradesh state:
1957: Sunder Lal Patwa, Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1962: Sundarlal Patwa, Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1967: Nandram Das (Balkavi Bairagi), Indian National Congress (defeated Jana Sangh's Patwa)
1972: Surajbhai Tugnawat, Indian National Congress (defeated Jana Sangh's Patwa)
1977: Ramchandra Basar, Janata Party
1980: Nand Ram Das (Bal Kavi Bairagi), Indian National Congress (I)
1985: Narendra Bhanwarlal Nahta, Indian National Congress. Defeated Sunder Lal Patwa.
1990: Radhe Shyam Ladha, Bharatiya Janata Party
1993: Narendra Bhanwarlal Nahta, Indian National Congress
1998: Narendra Bhanwarlal Nahta (Congress), defeated Mangal Patwa of BJP
2003: Kailash Chawla, Bharatiya Janata Party
2008: Vijendra Singh Malaheda, Indian National Congress
2013: Kailash Chawla, Bharatiya Janata Party
Election results
1957 Vidhan Sabha
Sunderlal (BJS) : 12,437 votes
Ramlal (INC) : 9,733
2003 Vidhan Sabha
Kailash Chawala (BJP) : 67,193 votes
Narendra Nahata (INC) : 41,836
2008 Vidhan Sabha
Vijendrasingh Malaheda (Vijju Banna) (INC) : 38,632 votes
Aniruddha Rameshawar (Madhav Maru) (BJSH / Probably BJP Rebel or ally) : 33,197
2018
References
Neemuch district
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Portugal returned at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway after missed in 1992.
A single competitor participated in one sport -- alpine skiing -- but no medal was gained.
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
Alpine skiing
Men
References
Nations at the 1994 Winter Olympics
1994 Winter Olympics
1994 in Portuguese sport
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Beta Ursae Majoris (β Ursae Majoris, abbreviated Beta UMa, β UMa), formally named Merak , is a star in the northern constellation of Ursa Major.
The apparent visual magnitude of this star is +2.37, which means it is readily visible to the naked eye. It is more familiar to northern hemisphere observers as one of the "pointer stars" in the Big Dipper, or the Plough (UK), which is a prominent asterism of seven stars that forms part of the larger constellation. Extending an imaginary straight line from this star through the nearby Alpha Ursae Majoris (Dubhe) extends to Polaris, the north star.
Spectral classification
In 1943, β Ursae Majoris was listed as a spectral standard for the class of A1 V. When improved instruments made it possible to identify subgiant luminosity classes for early A-class stars, β Ursae Majoris was assigned that class A0 IV. This was later revised to A1 IV. It is considered to be a mild Am star, a type of chemically peculiar star with unusually strong lines of certain metallic elements.
Properties
Based upon parallax measurements, β Ursae Majoris is located at a distance of from the Sun. It is a subgiant, a star that has exhausted the hydrogen in its core and is now cooling as it generates energy through the thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen in a shell outside the core. The effective temperature of the outer envelope is about 9,225 K, giving it a white-hued glow that is typical for A-type stars. It is larger than the Sun, with about 2.7 times the mass and 2.84 times the solar radius. If they were viewed from the same distance, Beta Ursae Majoris would appear much brighter than the Sun, as it is radiating 68 times the Sun's luminosity.
Observation of the star in the infrared reveal an excess emission that suggests the presence of a circumstellar debris disk of orbiting dust, much like those discovered around Fomalhaut and Vega. The mean temperature of this disk is 120 K, indicating that it is centered at a radius of 47 AU from the host star.
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TUR European Airways was a charter airline from Turkey that operated from 1988 until 1994.
History
TUR was set up in 1988 and began operations using two Boeing 727-200 for charter operations mostly from Germany flying German tourists and expatriate Turks to Turkey.
In the beginning things went pretty well due to a booming tourist market in Turkey, so much so that in 1991 a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 was added, followed by a second MD-83 a year later. With the additional aircraft, the charter routes were expanded to include Belgium, Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and other northern European countries. Since no other MD-83 were available to for lease, more B727-200s were acquired.
In 1992 TUR entered the Turkish domestic market with flights from its base in Istanbul to Ankara, İzmir and other domestic destinations. The economic problems due to the Gulf War brought a decline in the tourist market and two B727s were sold and flights reduced. By 1993 the losses had mounted and as a result all scheduled flights were given up to concentrate on the charter business. But as losses continued, operations were suddenly halted in 1994 and the airline was liquidated.
Fleet
4 Boeing 727-230 (all ex-Condor aircraft)
1 Boeing 727-076
1 Boeing 737-2M8
2 McDonnell Douglas MD-83
References
External links
Fleet and code information
Defunct airlines of Turkey
Airlines established in 1988
Airlines disestablished in 1994
Defunct charter airlines of Turkey
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The Dog House may refer to:
Doghouse, a small shed commonly built in the shape of a little house intended for a dog
The Dog House (TV series), a 2019 UK observational documentary television series
Dog House (TV series), a Canadian comedy television series broadcast in the 1990–91 season
The Dog House (film), a 1952 Tom and Jerry short
The Dog House (talk show), a program that has been on the air in San Francisco, New York & Las Vegas
Oil well dog house, a general-purpose shelter adjacent to the rig floor, during drilling activities
Dog House radar, the NATO name for the Russian Dunay-3M radar
See also
Doghouse (disambiguation)
In the Doghouse (disambiguation)
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This is a tentative list of butterflies found in Odisha, a state in India.
Family Lycaenidae
Common Pierrot (Castalius rosimon)
Rounded Pierrot (Tarucus extricatus) Butler, 1886
Family Nymphalidae
Tawny coaster (Acraea terpsicore) Linnaeus, 1758
Plain tiger (Danaus chrysippus) Linnaeus, 1758
White tiger (Danaus melanippus) Cramer, 1777
Common crow (Euploea core) Cramer, 1780
Peacock pansy (Junonia almana) Linnaeus, 1758
Yellow pansy (Junonia hierta)
Blue pansy (Junonia orithya) Linnaeus, 1758
Common leopard (Phalanta phalantha) Drury, 1773
Family Pieridae
Mottled emigrant (Catopsilia pyranthe) Linnaeus, 1758
White Arab (Colotis vestalis) Butler, 1876
Common grass yellow (Eurema hecabe) Linnaeus, 1758
Cabbage white (Pieris rapae) (Linnaeus, 1758)
Family Papilionidae
Crimson rose (Pachliopta hector) (Linnaeus, 1758)
See also
Butterfly
List of butterflies of India
Fauna of India
Flora of India
Odisha
Environment of Odisha
Butterflies
Odisha
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Irene is a name derived from εἰρήνη (eirēnē), the Greek for "peace".
Irene, and related names, may refer to:
Irene (given name)
Places
Irene, Gauteng, South Africa
Irene, South Dakota, United States
Irene, Texas, United States
Irene, West Virginia, United States
Irene Lake, Quebec, Canada
Lake Irene, a small lake in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, United States
Lake Irene, a lake in Minnesota, United States
Irene River (Opawica River tributary), a tributary of the Opawica River in Quebec, Canada
Irene River (New Zealand), a river of New Zealand
Eirini metro station, an Athens metro station in Ano Maroussi, Greece
Storms and hurricanes
Tropical Storm Irene (1947)
Tropical Storm Irene (1959)
Hurricane Irene–Olivia (1971)
Hurricane Irene (1981), part of the 1981 Atlantic hurricane season
Hurricane Irene (1999)
Hurricane Irene (2005)
Hurricane Irene (2011)
Arts and entertainment
Films and anime
Irene (1926 film), an American silent film
Irene (1940 film), an American film
Irene (2002 film), a French film
Irene (2009 film), a French film
Irina Jelavić, a character in the manga and anime Assassination Classroom
Eirene, a character in the anime SoltyRei
Irene, the female protagonist of the 2011 movie Drive
Irene Belserion, a character in the manga Fairy Tail
Irene Moffat, a character in the 1987 American fantasy comedy movie Harry and the Hendersons
Literature
Irene (play), a play written by Samuel Johnson between 1726 and 1749
Irène (tragedy), a 1778 play by Voltaire
"Irene", an 1831 poem by Edgar Allan Poe, also known as "The Sleeper"
Irene Adler, a character in the Sherlock Holmes story "A Scandal in Bohemia"
Destiny (Irene Adler), a Marvel Comics character
Irene Redfield, a character in the novel Passing, by Nella Larsen
Irene Forsyte, a character in The Forsyte Saga
Irene Pollock, a character in the 44 Scotland Street series
Irene Van de Kamp, a character in the Good Girls (comics) series
Irene Kennedy, a character i
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Spondon Cricket Club is an amateur cricket club based in Spondon, Derbyshire, England. The club has a history dating back to the late 19th century.
Ground
The home ground is located on Locko Road in Spondon, Derbyshire and has two pitches, an all-weather pitch and a two lane, all-weather net facility. The 1st and 2nd XI teams use the pitch directly in front of the pavilion, rated by the DCCL as a Grade A+ ground, and the 3rd and 4th XI use the pitch in the field beyond the 1st pitch, rated a Grade B ground.
History
The earliest known record of Spondon Cricket Club dates back to 1883 when the local village boys were invited to join with the pupils of Spondon House School for Sons of Gentlemen. The school was housed in a Georgian mansion that was a secondary seat of the Drury Lowes, on the Locko estate. A pre match photograph survives from the period, showing the boys team on the school grounds. Both the school and the village team officially amalgamated in 1903 and set up a ground on Royal Hill Road. The club purchased the ground in 1924, and managed to pay the debt in full by 1945. The club had a 'golden age' in the 1960s with 16 trophies returning to Royal Hill Road between 1962 and 1972. The ground was further improved as a new pavilion was opened in 1970 by Brian Clough and a match between Derby County football team and Spondon CC. The club continued to thrive but eventually outgrew Royal Hill Road which was not big enough to play premier league cricket, or house the growing junior section and 3rd and 4th teams. In 2006 the Club sold the Royal Hill Road ground and moved to a ground on Locko Road. Their new Pavilion was officially opened by Councillor Roy Webb, Mayor of Derby 8 March 2006. The following year, the 1st XI won their first Premier League Championship.
The club currently has 4 senior teams competing in the Derbyshire County Cricket League, a Sunday 1st XI in the Mansfield and District Cricket League, an expanding girls' section which has developed i
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The following is a list of squads for each national team which competed at the 2020 AFC U-23 Championship. The tournament took place in Thailand, between 8–26 January 2020. It was the fourth U-23 age group competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation. As the tournament was not held during the FIFA International Match Calendar, clubs were not obligated to release the players.
The sixteen national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of minimum 18 and maximum 23 players, minimum three of whom must be goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 24.1 and 24.2). Only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 1997 were eligible to compete in the tournament. AFC published the final lists with squad numbers on their website on 2 January 2020.
The full squad listings are below. The age listed for each player is on 8 January 2020, the first day of the tournament. The nationality for each club reflects the national association (not the league) to which the club is affiliated. A flag is included for coaches who are of a different nationality than their own national team. Players in boldface have been capped at full international level at some point in their career.
Group A
Thailand
Coach: Akira Nishino
The preliminary squad was announced on 23 December 2019. The final squad was announced on 30 December 2019.
Iraq
Coach: Abdul-Ghani Shahad
The final squad was announced on 1 January 2020.
Australia
Coach: Graham Arnold
The final squad was announced on 30 December 2019. On 1 January 2020, it was announced that Daniel Margush replaced Tom Heward-Belle who was ruled out due to injury.
Bahrain
Coach: Samir Chammam
The final squad was announced on 28 December 2019.
Group B
Qatar
Coach: Félix Sánchez Bas
The preliminary squad was announced on 29 December 2019.
Japan
Coach: Hajime Moriyasu
The final squad was announced on 29 December 2019.
Saudi Arabia
Coach: Saad A
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The Sacred Heart Pioneers men's ice hockey team is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college ice hockey program that represents Sacred Heart University. The Pioneers are a member of Atlantic Hockey. They play at the Martire Family Arena in Fairfield, Connecticut. From 1993-2016, the Pioneers home arena was the Milford Ice Pavilion in Milford, Connecticut.
History
Division III
Sacred Heart began sponsoring men's ice hockey as a varsity sport in 1993. The team was placed in the South Division of ECAC North/South/Central and because they were not able to schedule all of their ECAC South opponents twice the Pioneers played half a conference schedule in their inaugural year. With a full conference slate the following year, Sacred Heart greatly improved their record which continued in year three.
For the 1996–97 season Shaun Hannah was brought in as head coach and the Pioneers finished with their first winning record and 2nd in the division, narrowly missing the conference postseason.
In the late 1990s the MAAC was mandated to form an ice hockey conference. Two of the ECAC South programs would have to promote themselves to Division I and soon after they were joined by Sacred Heart. With an eye for their new conference, Hannah began offering scholarships to incoming students, a violation of Division III rules, which caused the Pioneers (along with two other ECAC South teams) to be ruled ineligible for any postseason play. Additionally all of their conference games would not be counted in the standings, through they would still be able to play the matches and count the results towards their overall standings.
MAAC
Despite the influx of scholarship athletes, Sacred Heart finished 7th in the first year of MAAC conference play. The team rebounded in the second year, doubling their win total and finishing with a winning record. Postseason success was a little slower in coming with the Pioneers unable to win a playoff game until year 4 of D-I pl
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Embedded journalism refers to news reporters being attached to military units involved in armed conflicts. While the term could be applied to many historical interactions between journalists and military personnel, it first came to be used in the media coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The United States military responded to pressure from the country's news media who were disappointed by the level of access granted during the 1991 Gulf War and the 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.
Journalists who instead opted to cover the war on the battlefield but unattached to any military force came to be called "unilaterals." Journalists chose to act as unilaterals to avoid the restrictions imposed on them by the military, and sometimes embed restrictions, which required embeds to stay with assigned units. Or they out of concern that being under the constant protection of troops on the battlefield would bias their judgement in favor of coalition forces. The military would often regard unilateral journalists as sources of trouble on the battlefield and refuse to talk to them or not recognize unilateral journalists as "official" media.
The practice has been criticized as being part of a propaganda campaign whereby embedded journalists accompanied the invading forces as cheerleaders and media relations representatives.
== 2003 invasion of Iraq ==
At the start of the war in March 2003, as many as 775 reporters and photographers were traveling as embedded journalists. These reporters signed contracts with the military promising not to report information that could compromise unit position, future missions, classified weapons, and information they might find. Joint training for war correspondents started in November 2002 in advance of start of the war. When asked why the military decided to embed journalists with the troops, Lt. Col. Rick Long of the U.S. Marine Corps replied, "Frankly, our job is to win the war. Part of that is information warfare. So we are going to atte
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The Hispaniolan slider (Trachemys decorata) or Haitian slider is a species of turtle in the family Emydidae found on the island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
Habitat
The Hispaniolan slider is a freshwater turtle. They can live on land and water, but prefer to be near freshwater.
Conservation
These sliders are not on the endangered list, but are considered vulnerable.
Diet
They have a particular diet that consists of insects (crickets), fish, vegetation, etc. When kept in captivity, they can eat all of the same foods that they would eat normally, as well as turtle pellets, carrots, tomatoes, peeled grapes, and spinach.
Appearance
Unlike red-eared sliders, they do not have red patches on their heads. They have distinct light and dark stripes on their necks, feet, and tails. The tops of their shells are brown and the bottoms are yellow.
References
"World Chelonian Trust - Trachemys Gallery.", World Chelonian Trust - Turtle and Tortoise Conservation and Care. Web. 5 March (2010).
Trachemys
Endemic fauna of Hispaniola
Reptiles of the Dominican Republic
Reptiles of Haiti
Reptiles described in 1940
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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Bernhard IV, Lord of Lippe ( in Brake – June 1275) was a ruling Lord of Lippe.
Life
He was the eldest son of Bernard III and his wife, Sofie of Cuijck-Arnsberg.
In 1254, he took up grovenment of Rheda and in 1265, he succeeded his father as ruler of Lippe. His brother Herman III inherited the city of Lippstadt.
With his uncle, Bishop Simon I of Paderborn, he fought in the Battle of Zülpich of 1267 against the Duchy of Jülich. Simon was captured. In 1269, Bernard IV paid a large ransom to secure Simon's release. He had to borrow the money, causing the House of Lippe to be burdened by debt.
At different times during his reign, he was regent of Ravensberg, had a dispute with the city of Lippstadt, which had joined the Rhenish League of Cities, and was liege lord of Vehmic court in Wesenfort.
He died in 1275, and was buried in Marienfeld Abbey.
Marriage and issue
In 1260, Bernard married Agnes ( – ), a daughter of Count Dietrich V of Cleves and Hedwig of Meißen. Agnes and Bernard had the following children:
Simon I ( – 10 August 1344), married Countess Adelaide of Waldeck and had issue
Elisabeth (b. ), married Count Henry III of Solms-Braunfels and had issue
Footnotes
Lords of Lippe
Lords of Rheda
1230s births
1275 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
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Shades of Black is the debut EP by recording artist Solomon, released on August 11, 2009.
Background
After releasing two hip-hop mixtapes, Solomon began working on the third mixtape. During the creation he began instead playing with more pop sounds. He has stated, "I'm actually in the studio right now working on my new EP. It's a five track EP titled, "Shades of Black". I started more as a full on rapper, releasing mixtapes, doing remixes and stuff. I was featured on Eminem's Shade45 Sirius Radio, did the whole XXL, hip hop magazines and stuff and next thing you know I was thrown into this category that didn't fully reflect me."
Promotion
Along with the release, a remix for "Break My Heart" without gay rapper, Bry'Nt was released as a free bonus track.
Track listing
References
2009 debut EPs
Hip hop EPs
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USS Poole (DE-151) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1947. She was scrapped in 1974.
Namesake
Minor Butler Poole was born on 2 February 1920, in Brandon, Mississippi. He enlisted in the United States Navy on 15 February 1938. During the Battle of Cape Esperance at Guadalcanal, Poole was in charge of the Forward Magazine Flooding Control Station aboard . He died in an attempt to reach the flooding panel through overpowering gas fumes on 12 October 1942. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.
History
Poole was laid down by the Consolidated Steel Co., Orange, Texas, 13 February 1943; launched 8 May 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Minor Herndon Poole, mother of Minor Butler Poole. Poole's mother used a bottle filled with water from Liberty Creek in Mississippi to christen the ship instead of the traditional Champagne. She used it because her son learned to swim in the waters of the creek. Poole was commissioned 29 September 1943.
Battle of the Atlantic
Following shakedown off Bermuda, Poole took on coastwise escort duties, and toward the end of the year extended her escort services to transatlantic runs. She departed New York to escort a convoy to Casablanca, arriving 11 January 1944. Returning to New York 5 February, she shifted to the North Atlantic sea lanes and for the next 15 months escorted high speed convoys (tankers and transports) to ports in the United Kingdom and, after June 1944, on the European Continent.
Pacific War
On 4 June 1945, Escort Division 22, led by Poole, departed New York for the Pacific theater. Arriving at Pearl Harbor 14 July, she conducted patrols there for the remainder of the war. On 4 September she departed Pearl Harbor and proceeded to Saipan, thence to Honshū, where she joined the occupation forces.
Decommissioning and fate
After a month of occupation patrol duty off Wakayama, Japan, Poole was underway 29 October for San Diego, California, whence she steamed to the East Coast, rea
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Greenbacks were emergency paper currency issued by the United States during the American Civil War that were printed in green on the back. They were in two forms: Demand Notes, issued in 1861–1862, and United States Notes, issued in 1862–1865. A form of fiat money, the notes were legal tender for most purposes and carried varying promises of eventual payment in coin but were not backed by existing gold or silver reserves.
History
Background
Before the Civil War, the United States used gold and silver coins as its official currency. Paper currency in the form of banknotes was issued by privately owned banks, the notes being redeemable for specie at the bank's office. Such notes had value only if the bank could be counted on to redeem them; if a bank failed, its notes became worthless. The federal government sometimes issued Treasury Notes to borrow money during periods of economic distress, but proposals for a federal paper currency were politically contentious and recalled the experience of the Continental dollars issued during the American Revolution. These were nominally payable in silver, but rapidly depreciated due to British counterfeiting and the Continental Congress's difficulty in collecting money from the states.
The Buchanan administration had run chronic deficits as the country weathered the Panic of 1857. The southern secession movement worsened the situation, as the government lost substantial tax revenue. It continued to operate during the presidential transition on private bank loans at rates up to 12 percent, with some banks asking as much as 36. Salmon P. Chase, as the Treasury secretary of the incoming Lincoln administration, found the banks more receptive but struggled to keep enough coins in the Treasury to meet expenditures.
Demand Notes
The first measure to finance the war occurred in July 1861, when Congress authorized $50,000,000 (~$ in ) in Demand Notes. They bore no interest but could be redeemed for specie "on demand." Unlike state an
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USS Mohawk was a U.S. Navy frigate that fought on the Great Lakes during the War of 1812.
Mohawk, a 42-gun frigate, was laid down 8 May 1814 by shipbuilder Henry Eckford at Sackets Harbor, New York, launched on 11 June 1814, and acquired by the U.S. Navy and placed in service shortly thereafter with Captain Jacob Jones in command. She was built very quickly, having been on the ways only 34 days when she was launched, and was large for her class of warship.
One of the large warships built under the direction of Commodore Isaac Chauncey for service against the British on Lake Ontario, Mohawk departed Sackets Harbor on 31 July 1814 in Chauncey's squadron to challenge the British squadron of Captain Sir James Yeo, Royal Navy, for control of the lake during the crucial Niagara campaign of 1814. Sailing up to the head of the lake seeking the British squadron, the American ships found the enemy had retired to Kingston, Ontario.
In mid-July, Mohawk, in company with the full-rigged ships USS Superior, USS General Pike, and USS Madison, began a blockade of the Canadian port, remaining there for 45 days, providing valuable support for the army of Major General Jacob Brown in his campaign against the British posts along the Niagara frontier. On 21 September 1814 the frigate helped transport General Izard and 3,000 men from Sackets Harbor to the Genesee River and then resumed her blockade of Kingston until the end of the month. As winter began to close in, the American squadron retired to Sackets Harbor.
The War of 1812 ended 28 December 1814, long before the ice on the Great Lakes melted to allow further operations. Mohawk was then laid up in ordinary at Sackets Harbor.
Mohawk was reported unfit for repairs in 1821 and soon after sold and broken up.
Notes
References
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Jampoler, Andrew C. A. "Who Was Henry Eckford?" Naval History, December 2007, Pages 38–45.
Sailing frigates of the United States Navy
War of 1812 ships of the United States
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Paul Eugene Lehner (July 1, 1920 – December 27, 1967) was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball, playing mainly as a center fielder for five American League teams from 1946 through 1952. A native of Dolomite, Alabama, Lehner batted and threw left-handed. Listed at tall and , he was nicknamed "Peanuts" or "Gulliver." He worked in the region's coal mines as a young man.
Biography
Lehner's professional baseball career began when he was 25, after World War II service in the United States Army Air Forces. He was one of a few big leaguers to play for four different teams in a single season. He reached the majors in 1946 with the St. Louis Browns, spending four years with them before moving to the Philadelphia Athletics in 1950. He started 1951 with Philadelphia, then was part of successive trades between the Athletics, Chicago White Sox, Browns, and Cleveland Indians. His most productive season came in 1950 with Philadelphia, when he posted career-highs in batting average (.309), home runs (9), and RBI (52) in 114 games. He also played briefly for the Boston Red Sox in 1952, his last major league season.
When playing with the Browns, Lehner believed that he could not hit safely if he played on a Sunday. He would approach the Browns' trainer with an alleged ailment that would keep him out of the line-up for a Sunday game. When Lehner finally admitted to the trainer of his problem, the trainer said that he had some new pills that could help him. Lehner took the pills before a Sunday double-header, hit a home run in the first game, and never tried to be excused from Sunday games again.
In a seven-season career, Lehner was a .257 hitter with 22 home runs and 197 RBI in 540 games. Lehner died in Birmingham, Alabama, at the age of 47. He was buried in Bessemer's Highland Memorial Gardens.
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Baseball Library
Retrosheet
Nowlin, Bill, Paul Lehner. Society for American Baseball Research Biography Project
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Catarrh is an inflammation of mucous membranes in one of the airways or cavities of the body. It can result in a thick exudate of mucus and white blood cells.
Catarrh or catarrhal may also refer to:
Catarrh, South Carolina, United States, a settlement
Spring catarrh, a seasonal, warm-weather type of conjunctivitis (pink eye)
Malignant catarrhal fever, a disease of cattle, sheep and other ruminants
Catarrhal Noise, an Italian thrash metal band
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The Royal Mile is a succession of streets forming the main thoroughfare of the Old Town of the city of Edinburgh in Scotland.
Royal Mile or The Royal Mile may also refer to:
"The Royal Mile", track on The 1984 Suite album by Mike Oldfield
"The Royal Mile (Sweet Darlin')", song on the 1980 Snakes and Ladders (Gerry Rafferty album)
The Royal Mile, 2013 republished version of Love's Pirate by Mary Daheim
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Honora Denny (died 1614) was an English courtier.
She was the daughter of Edward, Lord Denny and Mary Cecil, a daughter of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter. Some sources use the name "Honoria" or "Honor".
She married a prominent Scottish-born courtier James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle. Their marriage was celebrated by Lord Hay's Masque written by Thomas Campion and staged on 6 January 1607. The Spanish ambassador gave her a jewel worth 6000 crowns.
She was a favourite of Anne of Denmark. They enjoyed the company of a Venetian diplomat and musician Giulio Muscorno. Muscorno argued with the ambassador Antonio Foscarini. A third Venetian diplomat, Giovanni Rizzardo investigated their quarrel and found that the queen and Lady Hay had promoted Muscorno's cause. During subsequent hearings in Venice about Foscarini's conduct, doubt was cast on Rizzardo's story, and it was suggested Lady Hay was not a lady of the court, or the queen's servant, and did not frequently visit her.
Honora was supposedly unfaithful and Hay was jealous. He broke open her cabinets in search of love letters and threatened her servants. After her death, Lady Mary Wroth alluded to their troubles in Urania and satirised Hay as Sirelius. Wroth criticised Lord Denny for taking Hay's part against his daughter. Denny responded in verse.
Joseph Hall addressed an epistle her on the subject of baptism after she lost a child.
In 1614 she was returning from a masque at court late at night in a coach and a thief reached in and stole a valuable jewel which she was wearing on her forehead. She died soon after, suffering a miscarriage, and was buried on 16 August 1614 at Waltham Abbey.
She had a daughter, Anne Hay, and a son, James Hay, 2nd Earl of Carlisle, who married Margaret Russell, a daughter of Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford.
Richard Niccols dedicated two volumes to her memory, The Furies or Vertues Encomium. Or the Image of Honour and Monodia, or Waltham's Complaint upon the death of the Lady Ho
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The Jabroudian culture is a cultural phase of the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant. It broadly belongs to the Mousterian culture, and shows connections with the European facies La Quina.
One of the most noticeable elements is the so-called Amoudian elements, that are the first known stone blades ever. Nevertheless, the connection of this Amoudian innovations with later Upper Paleolithic blades is most likely null.
Etymology
German prehistoric archaeologist, Alfred Rust, named the period after Yabroud (spelled as Jabrud in German) in Syria, where caves carved into the cliffs of the wadi (valley) of Skifta found near it.
Tools
The thick layers of Jabroudian consist mainly in heavy scratchers and hand axes. The proportion of the first type of tools tends to increase as time passes, while the axes show a decrease even totally disappearing in the upper layer of some Jabroudian sites.
Amoudian blades
A most interesting facet of Jabroudian culture are the so-called Amoudian blade tools. This is the earliest known stone blade industry ever and it's always found inserted in Jabroudian sites, with both "cultures" being inseparable. As with the hand axes, the proportion of stone blades decreases with time, until it finally vanishes with the end of Yabrudian culture.
There is a gap of c. 10,000 years between the end of this blade tradition and the appearance of Upper Paleolithic technology, based precisely on stone blades.
Human remains
The only human remain associated with this culture is a skull found in the cave of Zuttiyeh, in the Galilee region of Israel, that belongs to a Neanderthal.
Hunting
There is evidence that the Jabroudian people hunted a wide array of animals: elephants, rhinoceros, antelopes and small animals are all found in their sites.
End of Jabroudian
The end of this culture is associated to the introduction of other (also Mousterian) cultural trends, of Levalloisian tradition, that were widely distributed through Western and Central Asia
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General elections were due to be held for the Legislative Council in Nyasaland on 28 April 1964, and would have been the first in the country under universal suffrage. However, there were no opposition candidates to either the Malawi Congress Party in the general roll seats (the Nyasaland Asian Convention had dissolved itself and declared its support for the MCP), or the Nyasaland Constitutional Party in the special roll seats, resulting in all 53 candidates winning without votes being cast.
MCP leader Hastings Banda remained as Prime Minister, leading the country to independence on 6 July that year.
Background
The elections were announced on Radio Malawi on 17 November 1963. The constituency borders were finalised on 11 March. Candidates were nominated on 6 April.
Electoral system
There were two voter rolls; the initial plan was for Africans and mixed-race people identifying as African to be on a general roll and for non-Africans and mixed-race people not identifying as African to be on a special roll. All people over the age of 21 who had been in Nyasaland for at least two years were given the vote, except Africans who were not from Nyasland or one of the neighbouring countries (Northern Rhodesia, Portuguese East Africa or Tanganyika). The general roll was to elect 50 members and the special roll five. The special roll created some controversy; the Nyasaland Constitutional Party opposed the inclusion of Asians on the special roll, as they would outnumber the Europeans. In late December the debate shifted to whether the special roll seats should exist at all. Ultimately the decision was made to have a general roll for Africans, Asians and mixed-race people, and a special roll for Europeans.
However, as no census had been taken since 1946, there were no reliable estimates of population and the figure had to be extrapolated from the number of taxpayers, with the number of taxpayers (which was limited to men over the age of 25) was doubled and another 25% added to
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Alice Bertha Kroeger (May 2, 1864 – October 31, 1909) was an American librarian and educator. Kroeger was a student of Melvil Dewey. She founded the library science program at Drexel University in 1892 and directed the program until her death in 1909.
Kroeger was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Adolph Ernst Kroeger, a journalist, philosopher, and translator, and Eliza Bertha Curren. After graduating from St. Louis public schools in 1881 she took a job as a clerk in the St. Louis Public Library. She worked for the St. Louis Public Library from 1882 to 1889 under Frederick M. Crunden. At the 1889 meeting of the American Library Association in St. Louis, Kroeger was recognized by noted librarian Charles Ammi Cutter. She enrolled in the New York State Library School at Albany, where she studied under Melvil Dewey.
In 1891 Kroeger became librarian of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry when it opened in Philadelphia. In November 1892 she launched the library school at Drexel. Drexel was the fourth library school to open in the United States. She lectured at the University of Pennsylvania.
Publications
Study and Use of Reference Books (1908)
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WorldCat
1864 births
1909 deaths
American librarians
American women librarians
New York State Library School alumni
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Eggers & Higgins was a New York architectural firm partnered by Otto Reinhold Eggers (August 4, 1882 – April 23, 1964) and Daniel Paul Higgins (September 12, 1886 – December 26, 1953). The architects were responsible for the construction phase of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial beginning in 1939, two years after the death of its original architect, John Russell Pope, despite protests that their appointment had been undemocratic and therefore "un-Jeffersonian". Critics argued a competition should have been held to choose Pope's successor. In 1941, they also completed construction of Pope's other famous design, the West Building of the National Gallery of Art, also in Washington, D.C.
The pair were longtime associates of Pope in the firm he founded in 1903 as the Office of John Russell Pope, Architect. Eggers was a brilliant designer and renderer who served as Pope's right hand for almost thirty years. They changed the name of the firm to Eggers & Higgins in 1937, soon after Pope's death. In 1958, it ranked as the fourth-largest architecture firm in the United States. The firm was renamed The Eggers Partnership in 1970, and then as The Eggers Group, PC when it became a professional corporation in 1976. It eventually merged into what is now RMJM, a large architectural firm with offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Asia.
Eggers & Higgins also designed the Brooklyn War Memorial, a classical stone building in Cadman Plaza dedicated to Brooklynites who fought in World War II. At the same time, they also designed the Vanderbilt Law School Building, now Vanderbilt Hall of the New York University School of Law. For the 1939 New York World's Fair they designed the Railroads Building, the largest at the Fair, and the Schaefer center, a restaurant seating 1600 with a long open-air bar. In Lincoln Center the firm developed Damrosch Park, an outdoor amphitheater with a bowl-style stage known as the Guggenheim Band Shell.
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Acronychia littoralis, commonly known as the scented acronychia, is a species of small tree that is endemic to eastern coastal Australia. It has simple, glabrous, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, small groups of yellow flowers and egg-shaped to more or less spherical creamy-yellow fruit.
Description
Acronychia littoralis is a tree that typically grows to a height of and has a straight, grey, cylindrical trunk. The leaves are glabrous, arranged in opposite pairs, broadly elliptical to broadly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, mostly long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are mainly arranged in leaf axils in cymes long, each flower on a pedicel long. The four sepals are wide, the four petals yellow and long and the eight stamens alternate in length. Flowering occurs from February to March and the fruit is a fleshy creamy yellow, egg-shaped to more or less spherical drupe long with four lobes separated by shallow fissures.
Taxonomy
Acronychia littoralis was first formally described in 1984 by Thomas Hartley and J.B. Williams in the journal Brunonia from specimens collected by J.B. Williams near Brunswick Heads in 1979.
Distribution and habitat
Scented acronychia grows in rainforest within of the coast between Fraser Island in Queensland and Iluka in New South Wales.
Conservation status
This acronchyia is classified as "endangered" under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, the New South Wales Government Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 and the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992. The main threats to the species include inappropriate use of four-wheel drive vehicles, weed invasion and salt burn at exposed sites.
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littoralis
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Queensland
Plants described in 1984
Taxa named by Thomas Gordon Hartley
Taxa named by John Beaumont Williams
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In mathematics, specifically in commutative algebra, the elementary symmetric polynomials are one type of basic building block for symmetric polynomials, in the sense that any symmetric polynomial can be expressed as a polynomial in elementary symmetric polynomials. That is, any symmetric polynomial is given by an expression involving only additions and multiplication of constants and elementary symmetric polynomials. There is one elementary symmetric polynomial of degree in variables for each positive integer , and it is formed by adding together all distinct products of distinct variables.
Definition
The elementary symmetric polynomials in variables , written for , are defined by
and so forth, ending with
In general, for we define
so that if .
(Sometimes, is included among the elementary symmetric polynomials, but excluding it allows generally simpler formulation of results and properties.)
Thus, for each positive integer less than or equal to there exists exactly one elementary symmetric polynomial of degree in variables. To form the one that has degree , we take the sum of all products of -subsets of the variables. (By contrast, if one performs the same operation using multisets of variables, that is, taking variables with repetition, one arrives at the complete homogeneous symmetric polynomials.)
Given an integer partition (that is, a finite non-increasing sequence of positive integers) , one defines the symmetric polynomial , also called an elementary symmetric polynomial, by
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Sometimes the notation is used instead of .
Examples
The following lists the elementary symmetric polynomials for the first four positive values of .
For :
For :
For :
For :
Properties
The elementary symmetric polynomials appear when we expand a linear factorization of a monic polynomial: we have the identity
That is, when we substitute numerical values for the variables , we obtain the monic univariate polynomial (with variable ) whose roots are
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The Winnisook Club is a private club located in Big Indian, New York, and has been in operation since 1886. The club is named after Chief Winnisook, a Native American from area folklore. The club is situated on man-made Winnisook Lake with a number of private homes surrounding the lake. The club also consists of a lodge and dining facilities and employees a full-time caretaker as well as staff for the dining facilities. The club is situated on private property and membership is by invitation only.
Notes
In 1988, two young men from China, Wenbo Huang, and Kexiang Wu, were hired by the general manager John Magnuson and started to work here as servers, cooks, housekeepers, babysitters, painters, carpenters. They cut the tree branches blocking the view to the Winnisook lake. They cut the blueberries from the fern. Now they become professors majored in hospitality management. They miss Winnisook Club.
References
Catskill Archive, taken from http://www.catskillarchive.com/tc/tc-15.htm on 07-20-08.
External links
http://www.catskillarchive.com/tc/tc-15.htm
1886 establishments in New York (state)
Clubs and societies in the United States
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Ulster County, New York
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A list of Roman villas in England confirmed by archaeology.
Bedfordshire
Berkshire
Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire
Cheshire
Cornwall
Derbyshire
Devon
Dorset
Essex
Gloucestershire
Greater London
Hampshire
Herefordshire
Hertfordshire
Isle of Wight
Kent
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Norfolk
Northamptonshire
Nottinghamshire
Oxfordshire
Rutland
Shropshire
Somerset
Staffordshire
Suffolk
Surrey
Sussex
East Sussex
West Sussex
Warwickshire
Wiltshire
Worcestershire
Yorkshire
East Riding of Yorkshire
North Yorkshire
South Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
See also
List of Roman villas in Wales
References
Villas, England
Roman villas
Villas in England
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Land of Kings is a music and arts festival that took place at various locations throughout the London Borough of Hackney from 2009 to 2015. The festival occurred in May, with live music and interactive art across indoor and outdoor locations in Dalston. The ticket price was equal to one wristband allowing attendees access to all the participating venues, along with a map of the festival site.
Origins
The festival was established in 2009 by Nick Griffiths and Connie Harrison. The festival included record labels, arts organisations, and curators local to East London. Land of Kings used a mix of clubs, bars, arts venues and temporary event spaces, with the layout changing each year. The festival artwork was by Hackney-based artist Colin Henderson.
Past Line-Ups
2009
Allez Allez, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, Ben Westbeech, Chrome Hoof DJs, ColouringIN, Crystal Vision, David E. Sugar, Drums of Death (musician), Erol Alkan, Fimber Bravo, Fuck Buttons DJs, Get The Blessing, Greco Roman Soundsystem, Hot Coins (Red Rack'em), Ian Woods & The Psychologist, Idjut Boys, Johnno, Kathy Diamond, Leggo Beast, Liamski & Beccy Grierson (SpaceBass), Living in A Disco, Lou and Nova, Newfamily, Oriole, Quiet Village, Rory Phillips, Ross Allen, Soft Rocks, Sonny Akpan, Sportsday Megaphone, Tayo Popoola, Three Uninvited, Todd Hart (Dalston Oxfam Shop), Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Unnamed Project
2010
Arne Blackman, Bill Brewster, Cheatah DJs, Clancy, Cocknbullkid DJ set, Deep Teknologi, Detachments (British band), Dignan Porch, Dollop DJs, Faze Action, Feeding Time, Firas, Girlcore, Gyratory System, Jonny Rock, Kindness DJ set, Lovers & Gamblers, Lovvers DJs, Magnets, Matty J & Ben Terry, Nadia Ksaiba, Night Angles, Raf Daddy, Ronojoy Dam, Rory Phillips, Savage Beach, Sexbeat, Simon A. Carr, Soft Rocks, Sound of Rum, Speakers Corner Quartet, Spectral Empire, Spin Spin the Dogs, The Horrors DJs, Thomas Bullock, Transparent DJs, Wet Paint DJs, Yuck (band)
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Burhan Kuzu (1 January 1955 – 1 November 2020) was a Turkish politician of the Justice and Development Party who served as a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for Istanbul in the 22nd to 24th and 26th parliaments.
Early life
Burhan Kuzu was born to Ali Rıza Kuzu and his wife Cahide at Şıhlı village of Develi district in Kayseri Province on 1 January 1955. The family had nine children. His father, a farmer and village imam died when he was in the primary school, and his mother died when he was in the junior high school.
During his high school years, he was interested in theatre. He studied law at Istanbul University.
After graduation, he took exams for the profession of judge and district governor. He started an internship for district governor in Tekirdağ Province. He preferred a career as an academic when he received an assistant post at the university in 1976. He earned his Master of Laws and Doctor of Law titles from Faculty of Law at Istanbul University. His field of study was Constitutional law. Between 1980 and 1982, he conducted research at Faculty of Law in Paris-Sorbonne University upon a scholarship given by the European Council.
Academic career
In 1996, Kuzu was appointed full professor of the Chair of Constitutional Law at Faculty of Law in Istanbul University. He published papers and books in the field of law. He taught law at the Police College. He was also an academic member of the Faculty of Social Science at Beykent University in Istanbul. He was a guest professor at Zirve University in Gaziantep.
Politician career
Kuzu entered politics as a co-founder of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in 2001. He served as the first chairman of the party's arbitration committee for democracy. At the 2002 general election, he won a seat in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey as a deputy of Istanbul from the AK Party. He kept his seat in the parliament at the 2007 and 2011 general elections. The rule of his party not allowing a pa
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Thomas Resetarits (born Tome Rešetarić, 25 November 1939 – 18 May 2022) was an Austrian sculptor, who created art in public spaces, especially in and around churches, including the Eisenstadt Cathedral.
Life
Tome Rešetarić was born in Stinatz, Austria, the son of Franjo and Justina Tome Rešetarić, who belonged to the Croatian minority in Burgenland. He began carving wood sculptures as a school pupil. He trained to be a stonemason in Graz from 1955, completing his training in 1957. He worked in Vienna and later for a stone industry firm in Salzburg. In 1964, he passed the master's examination in Vienna. He studied from 1965 at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien.
Resetarits married elementary school teacher Herta Flasch in 1966 and began working as a freelance sculptor. He travelled to Rome, Hungary, Croatia, Germany, Mexico, the U.S., India, New Guinea, South America, South Africa, and China to gain inspiration for his work. He became a member of the association Friedhof und Denkmal (cemetery and monument) in Kassel.
Resetarits worked mostly in stone, wood, and bronze. From 1970, he received many commissions from the Diocese of Eisenstadt to design altars, altar areas, and Stations of the Cross. From 1974 to 1976, he also worked as an instructor in a prison in Eisenstadt. He created Kontakt, a tall bronze sculpture, for a panoramic rest area near Bernstein on the (B 50) in 1987. In addition, he designed stained glass windows from 1990, received commissions for public spaces, and worked as a book illustrator.
Resetarits lived and worked in Wörterberg, Burgenland. He died at the age of 82 after a prolonged illness.
Works in public space
1971: Altar relief (oak), Glashütten, Burgenland
1974: Altar area (marble), , Burgenland
1976: Altar area, Krankenhauskapelle in Güssing, Burgenland
1980: Virgin of Mercy, portal of the Eisenstadt Cathedral, Burgenland
1981: Flügelaltar (linden), Oberschützen, Burgenland
1983: 15 Stations of the Cross, Woppendorf, B
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The Dean of Ross is based at the Cathedral Church of St. Fachtna in Rosscarbery in the Diocese of Ross within the united bishopric of Cork, Cloyne and Ross of the Church of Ireland.
The incumbent is Cliff Jeffers.
List of deans (Church of Ireland; incomplete)
1591 Robert Sturton
1615–1630 Hugh Persevall
1630/1 William Bolton
1637–1639 George Horley or Horsey
1639 John Chappel
1639–1661 Mark Pagett
1663/4 John Everleigh
1678/9-1710 Rowland Davies
1710–1717 Richard Griffith
1717–1732 Valentine French
1733–1743 Jemmett Browne (afterwards Bishop of Killaloe, 1743)
1743–1772 Arthur St George
1772–1813 Wensley Bond
1813–1829 James Forward Bond
1830–1876 James Stannus
1876–?1905 Isaac Morgan Reeves (died 1905)
c.1907–1914 John Halahan (died 1920)
1914–>1925 Harry Becher (died 1929)
c.1933 Charles Webster
<1954–>1965 Raymond Beresford-Poer (died 1983)
1968–1978 Arthur Gordon
John Fleming
1995–1998 Richard Henderson (afterwards Bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achonry, 1998)
1998–2021 Christopher Peters
2022–present Cliff Jeffers
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Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross
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An automatic watch, also known as a self-winding watch or simply an automatic, is a mechanical watch where the natural motion of the wearer provides energy to wind the mainspring, making manual winding unnecessary if worn enough. It is distinguished from a manual watch in that a manual watch must have its mainspring wound by hand at regular intervals.
Operation
In a mechanical watch the watch's gears are turned by a spiral spring called a mainspring. In a manual watch, energy is stored in the mainspring by turning a knob, the crown, on the side of the watch. Then the energy from the mainspring powers the watch movement until it runs down, requiring the spring to be wound again.
A self-winding watch movement has a mechanism which winds the mainspring using the natural motions of the wearer's body. The watch contains an oscillating weight that turns on a pivot. The normal movements of the watch in the user's pocket (for a pocketwatch) or on the user's arm (for a wristwatch) cause the rotor to pivot on its staff, which is attached to a ratcheted winding mechanism. The motion of the watch is thereby translated into circular motion of the weight which, through a series of reverser and reducing gears, eventually winds the mainspring. There are many different designs for modern self-winding mechanisms. Some designs allow winding of the watch to take place while the weight swings in only one direction while other, more advanced, mechanisms have two ratchets and wind the mainspring during both clockwise and anti-clockwise weight motions.
The fully wound mainspring in a typical watch can store enough energy reserve for roughly two days, allowing the watch to keep running through the night while stationary. In many cases automatic wristwatches can also be wound manually by turning the crown, so the watch can be kept running when not worn, and in case the wearer's wrist motions are not sufficient to keep it wound automatically.
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Miss Malawi is a national beauty pageant in Malawi. It began in the 1970s in Malawi and was later suspended, commencing again in 2001.
List of Miss Malawi winners (since 2001)
Management
After reviving in 2001 the pageant continued to crown a Miss Malawi until 2012. It was managed by Carver Bhima's company Events Management. Since 2016, the contest has been managed by Nation Publications and Zodiak Broadcasting Station.
Controversies
At the 2012 Miss World, Susan Mtegha pushed Miss New Zealand, Collette Lochore, during the opening headshot of the pageant, claiming that Miss New Zealand was in her space. This action caused a stir throughout the media.
Titleholders represented at Miss World
References
http://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00029518.html
http://mmalawi.blogspot.com/2008/12/miss-malawi-2009-joyce-mphande.html
http://mmalawi.blogspot.com/2008/06/perth-msiska-miss-malawi-information.html
Malawi
Recurring events established in 2001
Beauty pageants in Malawi
Malawian awards
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Gainesville is a city and the county seat of Hall County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 42,296. Because of its large number of poultry processing plants, it has been called the "Poultry Capital of the World." Gainesville is the principal city of the Gainesville, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Gainesville, Georgia Combined Statistical Area.
History
Gainesville was established as "Mule Camp Springs" by European-American settlers in the early 1800s. Less than three years after the organization of Hall County on December 15, 1818, Mule Camp Springs was renamed "Gainesville" on April 21, 1821. It was named in honor of General Edmund P. Gaines, a hero of the War of 1812 and a noted military surveyor and road-builder. Gainesville was selected to be the county seat and chartered by the Georgia General Assembly on November 30, 1821.
A gold rush that began in nearby Lumpkin County in the 1830s resulted in an increase in the number of settlers and the beginning of a business community. In the middle of the 19th century, Gainesville had two important events. In 1849, it became established as a resort center, with people attracted to the springs. In 1851, much of the small city was destroyed by fire.
After the Civil War, Gainesville began to grow from 1870. In 1871 The Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway, later re-organized into The Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad, began to stop in Gainesville, increasing its ties to other markets and stimulating business and population. It grew from 1,000 in 1870, to over 5,000 by 1900.
By 1898, textile mills had become the primary driver of the economy, with the railroad integral to delivering raw cotton and carrying away the mills' products. With the revenues generated by the mills, in 1902, Gainesville became the first city south of Baltimore to install street lamps. On March 1, 1905, free mail delivery began in Gainesville, and
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In Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory, the Vapnik–Chervonenkis (VC) dimension is a measure of the capacity (complexity, expressive power, richness, or flexibility) of a set of functions that can be learned by a statistical binary classification algorithm. It is defined as the cardinality of the largest set of points that the algorithm can shatter, which means the algorithm can always learn a perfect classifier for any labeling of at least one configuration of those data points. It was originally defined by Vladimir Vapnik and Alexey Chervonenkis.
Informally, the capacity of a classification model is related to how complicated it can be. For example, consider the thresholding of a high-degree polynomial: if the polynomial evaluates above zero, that point is classified as positive, otherwise as negative. A high-degree polynomial can be wiggly, so it can fit a given set of training points well. But one can expect that the classifier will make errors on other points, because it is too wiggly. Such a polynomial has a high capacity. A much simpler alternative is to threshold a linear function. This function may not fit the training set well, because it has a low capacity. This notion of capacity is made rigorous below.
Definitions
VC dimension of a set-family
Let be a set family (a set of sets) and a set. Their intersection is defined as the following set family:
We say that a set is shattered by if contains all the subsets of , i.e.:
The VC dimension of is the largest cardinality of a set that is shattered by . If arbitrarily large sets can be shattered, the VC dimension is .
VC dimension of a classification model
A binary classification model with some parameter vector is said to shatter a set of generally positioned data points if, for every assignment of labels to those points, there exists a such that the model makes no errors when evaluating that set of data points.
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The Dacian Wars (101–102, 105–106) were two military campaigns fought between the Roman Empire and Dacia during Emperor Trajan's rule. The conflicts were triggered by the constant Dacian threat on the Danubian province of Moesia and also by the increasing need for resources of the economy of the Empire.
Trajan turned his attention to Dacia, an area north of Macedonia, Greece and east of the Danube that had been on the Roman agenda since before the days of Caesar when the Dacians defeated a Roman army at the Battle of Histria. In AD 85, the Dacians swarmed over the Danube and pillaged Moesia and initially defeated the army that Emperor Domitian sent against them. The Romans were defeated in the Battle of Tapae in 88 and a truce was established.
Emperor Trajan recommenced hostilities against Dacia and, following an uncertain number of battles, defeated the Dacian king Decebalus in the Second Battle of Tapae in 101. With Trajan's troops pressing towards the Dacian capital Sarmizegetusa Regia, Decebalus once more sought terms. Decebalus rebuilt his power over the following years and attacked Roman garrisons again in 105. In response Trajan again marched into Dacia, besieging the Dacian capital in the siege of Sarmizegetusa, and razing it. With Dacia quelled, Trajan subsequently invaded the Parthian empire to the east, his conquests expanding the Roman Empire to its greatest extent. Rome's borders in the east were indirectly governed through a system of client states for some time, leading to less direct campaigning than in the west in this period.
Early clashes
Since the reign of Burebista, widely considered the greatest Dacian king—who ruled between 82 BC and 44 BC—the Dacians had represented a threat for the Roman Empire. Caesar himself had drawn up a plan to launch a campaign against Dacia. The threat was reduced when dynastic struggles in Dacia led to a division into four (or five, depending on the source) separately governed tribal states after Burebista's dea
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Avenida Revolución (Spanish for "Revolution Avenue") is the tourist center in Tijuana, Baja California, México. It is a main thoroughfare of the historic downtown of Tijuana, officially called the Zona Centro, which forms part of the Delegación Centro or Central Borough of Tijuana.
History
Avenida Revolución was the first road in Tijuana to be paved, near the beginning of the twentieth century. Originally called Avenida Olvera, it was from its earliest days a popular destination for American tourists who crossed the border from California. The avenue's most remarkable development was during the Prohibition Era of 1920-33, when it was visited by American tourists seeking legal alcohol. The Caesar salad was invented on Avenida Revolución during this period by Caesar Cardini, the Italian-American proprietor of the Hotel Caesar and its restaurant Caesar's.
During this period the name of the avenue changed several times in line with political developments in Mexico. In 1920 it became Avenida A. In the late 1920s it became Avenida Álvaro Obregón and subsequently Avenida Libertad. In 1932 it received its current name.
Avenida Revolución has experienced many changes, and is known as the business card of Tijuana, "The most visited city in the world". It was known for its famous cantinas, including "La Ballena", the largest bar in the world when it was open. The city was popular with American Navy sailors until the United States Navy prohibited sailors from visiting Tijuana. From 1989 to 1994 the Avenida's Baby Rock discothèque was the claimed to be #1 club in the world based on gross revenues, before becoming in 2012 the Onixeus.
Points of interest
Intersections north to south:
Attractions
The long avenue is home to several distinct attractions, from cantinas and table dance bars to numerous dance clubs and art galleries.
A popular tourist attraction is taking a picture with a zonkey, a donkey painted to look like a zebra.
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The British Academy Television Craft Awards is an accolade presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), a charitable organisation established in 1947, which: "supports, promotes and develops the art forms of the moving image – film, television and video games – by identifying and rewarding excellence, inspiring practitioners and benefiting the public."
Having previously been handed out with the British Academy Television Awards, the awards were established in 2000 as a way to spotlight technical achievements, without being overshadowed by the production categories.
Rules
To be eligible for nomination, programmes must be: broadcast in the UK between the eligibility period, on terrestrial, cable, satellite or digital channels; both a financial and creative contribution in the case of an international programme, and have its first broadcast in the UK; an entry for the television awards first (not previously entered for the film or children's awards). The top six programmes and/or individuals in each category are chosen by television voting members and Chapter members in three rounds, to make up the jury shortlist. The shortlist then goes forward to a jury, who decides the top four final nominees and the winners.
Ceremonies
In the following table, the years correspond to the year the ceremony took place, and are held for achievements of the previous year (e.g. the 2000 awards are celebrated for television productions of 1999).
Categories
Current awards
As of 2021, the awards include twenty-one competitive categories:
Costume Design
Director: Factual
Director: Fiction
Director: Multi-Camera
Editing: Factual
Editing: Fiction
Emerging Talent: Factual
Emerging Talent: Fiction
Entertainment Craft Team
Make-Up & Hair Design
Original Music
Photography: Factual
Photography & Lighting: Fiction
Production Design
Scripted Casting
Sound: Factual
Sound: Fiction
Special, Visual & Graphic Effects
Titles & Graphic Identity
Writer: Com
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Acta Chemica Scandinavica was a peer-reviewed Nordic scientific journal in the fields of chemistry. The journal was established in 1947 and was jointly managed during 53 years from beginning of 1947 until end of 1999 by the chemical societies in Denmark (The Danish Chemical Society), Finland (Finnish Chemical Societies), Norway (The Norwegian Chemical Society) and Sweden (The Swedish Chemical Society). The journal was jointly owned by the four chemical societies through the Publishing Association Acta Chemica Scandinavica. The Swedish Chemical Society managed the administration of the Publishing Association at their Secretariat in Stockholm.
When making citations or references to articles in Acta Chemica Scandinavica the abbreviation Acta Chem. Scand. is used.
Background
During the turbulent years after World War II, it was difficult for Nordic scientists to publish results from fundamental chemical research in magazines with international recognition. The two Danish societies Danish Chemical Society and the Danish Society for Analytical Chemistry, where the latter society at that time was an independent society, were planning to establish a journal Acta Chemica Danica. This was never realised, but when the Swedish Chemical Society during 1946 sent out an enquiry to the other Nordic countries for a co-operation in publishing a new scientific journal, the Danes were well prepared and immediately positive. Thus, the first issue of Acta Chemica Scandinavica was published in January 1947. Gradually, the magazine became an internationally recognized scientific journal in the fields of physical, inorganic and organic chemistry and also in biochemistry.
Publication coverage
The journal was published as one volume per year starting with Volume 1 in 1947. Thus, the last volume for 1999 became Volume 53. During the first 27 years 1947-1973 each volume consisted of 10 issues.
Following from the growing appreciation of the journal and the growing number of articles receiv
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The Mathematical Correspondent was the first American "specialized scientific journal" and the first American mathematics journal, established in 1804, under the editorial guidance of George Baron. The journal published an essay by Robert Adrian which was the first to introduce Diophantine analysis in the United States. In 1807, Adrian, a main contributor to the journal, became editor for one year.
References
Publications established in 1804
Mathematics journals
Defunct journals of the United States
Publications with year of disestablishment missing
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Engracia Cruz-Reyes (April 16, 1892 — July 6, 1975) was a Filipino chef and entrepreneur. She was an active promoter of Filipino cuisine, especially through the restaurant chain she founded, The Aristocrat.
Early life
She was born to a poor family in Navotas in April 16, 1892. Her mother was a street peddler who sold food sauces and fruits, and who later managed a small neighborhood eatery popularly known in the Philippines as carinderias . She developed her cooking skills at a young age, having to prepare the meals for her five younger siblings while her parents were out working for a living. She was able to complete only four years of primary education.
In 1912, she married a young lawyer from her hometown, Alexander Reyes, who in 1948 would be appointed as an Associate Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court.
The Aristocrat restaurant
To augment her family's income as her husband struggled to establish his legal practice, Cruz-Reyes set up in 1928 a small carinderia at Calle de Marques de Comillas in Ermita, Manila. She named her eatery Lapu-Lapu (after the Mactan chieftain who defeated Ferdinand Magellan in battle), adopted a native motif as interior decor, and served primarily Filipino fare. These nationalistic manifestations especially stood out considering that the Philippines was then under American colonial rule.
By the 1930s, Cruz-Reyes was selling adobo sandwiches at the Luneta out of a car loaned to her by a future son-in-law. Her reputation as a cook had also grown due to the home dinners she had cooked for many of the leading political figures of the day, friends of her now-prominent husband.
By 1936, Cruz-Reyes operated a rolling store — a mobile restaurant featuring a menu stacked with traditional Filipino dishes — which she named "The Aristocrat". The first Aristocrat operated out a Studebaker van.
Within two years, Cruz-Reyes opened a permanent restaurant at Dewey Boulevard in Manila. It is one of the oldest restaurants in Manila. The choi
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Maine Central Railroad began operating diesel locomotives in 1935, and had retired all steam locomotives by 1954. That time interval was a joint operating period with the Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M). This article describes diesel locomotives owned by Maine Central through the period of joint operation and later independent operation prior to Guilford Rail System control in 1981.
Locomotive purchasing history
Maine Central made annual purchases of new steam locomotives from 1899 through 1920. Changing economic climate following World War I terminated routine annual purchases. Economic restructuring in the early 1920s included purchasing a few modern steam locomotives in 1923 and 1924 while eliminating subsidiary branch lines serving Bridgton, Belfast and Franklin County. J. G. Brill Company Model 55 gasoline-powered baggage-mail motor car number 700 was purchased in 1922 and scrapped in 1930. Attempts to offer passenger service enticing people off Maine roads included the purchase of the last two new steam locomotives in 1930 followed by joint purchase of the Budd Company Flying Yankee streamliner in 1935. Two gasoline-powered switchers were purchased while exploring options to decrease operating costs through the Great Depression. Maine Central number 1 was Whitcomb Locomotive Works builders number 12981 built in 1929, acquired in 1932 and sold to National Fireworks Company in 1941. Number 2 was Plymouth Locomotive Works builders number 3957 built in 1938 and sold to New England Shipbuilding Corporation in 1942.
Maine Central's first wholly owned diesel-electric locomotive was an Ingersoll Rand railcar built as demonstrator OE-600 in 1933. The rear of the railcar included the railway post office and baggage compartments. The railcar became Maine Central number 901 in 1935; and pulled a coach or two over the eastern division between Bangor, Maine and Vanceboro, Maine until 1947. It then spent two years pulling Rumford Branch passenger trains before conversion
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Hanul of Riga also Hennecke, Hannike, Hans, Hanco, Hanulo (date of birth unknown – died between February 25, 1417 and December 12, 1418 in Kraków) was a merchant from Riga of German origin, a burgess of Vilnius. In 1382–87, he was namiestnik (mayor) of Vilnius. In 1382, during the Lithuanian Civil War (1381–84) between Jogaila and Kęstutis, Hanul led the city residents and surrendered Vilnius to Jogaila, who was soon to be crowned as King of Poland. He was later the trusted advisor of Jogaila and Skirgaila and participated in many diplomatic missions. He also contributed to the establishment of trade relations between Lithuania and Poland.
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14th-century births
1410s deaths
Businesspeople from Riga
Mayors of Vilnius
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Puffing Billy may refer to:
Puffing Billy Railway, a narrow-gauge heritage tourist railway near Melbourne, Australia
Puffing Billy (locomotive), an early steam locomotive
Puffing Billy Tournament, a board game convention focusing on train games
Puffin' Billy, a famous piece of light music by Edward White
Puffing Billy, military jargon for the M67 Immersion Heater
Puffing Billy, a short lived comic strip in The Beano about a fat boy called Billy
Puffing Billy, a vacuum cleaner constructed by Hubert Cecil Booth.
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The 2013–14 Rotor Volgograd season was the 3rd season that the club played in the Russian National Football League.
Squad
(captain)
Transfers
Summer
In:
Out:
Winter
In:
Out:
Competitions
Friendlies
Russian National Football League
Results
Table
Russian Cup
Notes:
Note 1: 20 December 2013 at a meeting of the RFU Control and Disciplinary committee of the decided to deduct FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk defeat with the score 0–3 in the 23 match Russian National Football League Rotor Volgograd – Khimik Dzerzhinsk, which ended 2–0. The reason for this decision was the appearance on the field Ukrainian forward Oleksandr Kasyan, who had no right to do so.
Note 2: Salyut Belgorod and Alania Vladikavkaz got defeated by a score of 0–3, due to withdraw from the competition due to financial problems.
Squad Statistics in League
Minutes Played
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Team statistics
Home attendance
Note: bold type font are the highest attendance in round.
General Statistics
References
FC Rotor Volgograd seasons
Rotor
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The Convention of London of 1840 was a treaty with the title of Convention for the Pacification of the Levant, signed on 15 July 1840 between the Great Powers of United Kingdom, Austria, Prussia, Russia on one hand and the Ottoman Empire on the other. The Convention lent some support to the Ottoman Empire, which was having difficulties with the rebellious Wali of Egypt.
Because Muhammad Ali of Egypt did not accept the terms of the convention, the Oriental Crisis of 1840 resulted. Thus, Muhammad Ali finally had to accept the convention on 27 November 1840.
Negotiations
The treaty summarized recent agreements concerning the Ottoman Empire under Abdulmecid I, and its second war with Muhammad Ali's Egypt Eyalet. It was brought about by the Great Powers' fear of the destabilizing effect an Ottoman collapse would have on Europe.
The Ottomans agreed to declare the Dardanelles closed to all non-Ottoman warships in peacetime. Muhammad Ali was to withdraw immediately his forces from Arabia, the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, Crete, and the district of Adana, all within the Ottoman Empire. In return, the signatories offered to Muhammad Ali and his heirs permanent control over Egypt and the Eyalet of Acre if those territories would remain part of the Ottoman Empire. If he did not agree to withdrawal of his forces within ten days, he should lose the offer in Southern Syria; if he delayed acceptance more than 20 days, he should forfeit everything offered. He also had to return the Ottoman fleet that had defected to Egypt and was in Alexandria.
Oriental Crisis of 1840
The European powers agreed to use all possible means of persuasion to effect this agreement, but Muhammad Ali, backed by France, refused to accept its terms in the time given. That led to the Oriental Crisis of 1840, and British and Austrian forces attacked Acre, defeating his troops late in 1840. Muhammad Ali's forces faced increasing military pressure from Europe and the Ottoman Empire, fought a losing battl
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Pycnacantha is a genus of African orb-weaver spiders first described by John Blackwall in 1865.
Species
it contains four species:
Pycnacantha dinteri Meise, 1932 – Namibia
Pycnacantha echinotes Meise, 1932 – Cameroon
Pycnacantha fuscosa Simon, 1903 – Madagascar
Pycnacantha tribulus (Fabricius, 1781) (type) – Central, South Africa
References
Araneidae
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of Africa
Taxa named by John Blackwall
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Lesbia Thorpe (in private life Lee Baldwin) (1919–2009) was an Australian artist, possibly best known for her printmaking.
From 1931 to 1937 Thorpe studied under Dattilo Rubbo, and was elected in 1937 to the Painter-Etchers Society and in 1943 to the Royal Art Society.
Known as Lee Thorpe when working for the ABC, Thorpe was a freelance interviewer and host for ABC's Women's Session radio in the 1950s. Thorpe also travelled to Malta in 1955 to perform a radio show for the BBC in 1955. Interested in theatre, Thorpe performed for a couple of years with Doris Fitton at the Independent Theatre. From 1941, Thorpe executed murals and theatre sets for the Independent Theatre and the Theatre Royal in 1944 with William Constable, as well as executing murals for the Stage Door Canteen, Sydney.
In 1953 she studied printmaking with Gertrude Hermes at the Central School of Art and Design in London. In 1954 she was elected an associate member of the Society of Wood Engravers of Great Britain. While in 1960, on a second visit to London, she was elected a member of the Royal Graphic Art Society.
In the Summer Olympics of 1956 held in Melbourne, Thorpe exhibited in the Olympic Fine Arts Exhibition under the Drawings and Prints category with the lino-cut Emu Chicks which was bought by the Art Gallery of Western Australia in the same year.
In a long life of making art, Thorpe also illustrated books ("People of the Dreamtime", "The Cruise of the Roebuck"), and made theatre sets and was still holding exhibitions in 1994.
She won the Maud Vizard Wholoham Print Prize in 1958 and 1964. She was a finalist in the 1938 Archibald Prize, with two works: Mrs Havelock Southwick and Miss Rose Broit.
Collections
Works by Thorpe are held in the National Gallery of Australia (131 works), the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery of UWA, the National Gallery of Victoria (7 works), and in the John Passmore Museum of Art (Wrobel Art Collection).
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External links
NGV: Lesbia Thorpe. (Images
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The Corpus Christi Public Libraries serve as the municipal library system of the city of Corpus Christi, Texas, US.
Overview
The Corpus Christi Public Libraries serve library patrons through the La Retama Central Library and five branch Libraries. The library collection includes over 375,400 items in a variety of formats, including books, audio compact discs, books-on-CD, downloadable audio books, DVDs, videocassettes, audiocassettes, large print books, electronic books, and over 200 magazine and newspaper subscriptions. Library patrons can also access a large suite of electronic databases from the TexShare consortium.
The La Retama Central Library is the designated Major Resource Center for the South Texas Library System.
Branches
Dr. Clotilde P. Garcia Public Library
Ben F. McDonald Public Library
Janet F. Harte Public Library
Anita & W.T. Neyland Public Library (formerly Parkdale Branch Library)
Owen R. Hopkins Public Library
References
External links
Corpus Christi Public Libraries
South Texas Library System
Public libraries in Texas
Education in Corpus Christi, Texas
Libraries participating in TexShare
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In biological taxonomy, circumscription is the content of a taxon, that is, the delimitation of which subordinate taxa are parts of that taxon. If we determine that species X, Y, and Z belong in Genus A, and species T, U, V, and W belong in Genus B, those are our circumscriptions of those two genera. Another systematist might determine that T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z all belong in genus A. Agreement on circumscriptions is not governed by the Codes of Zoological or Botanical Nomenclature, and must be reached by scientific consensus.
A goal of biological taxonomy is to achieve a stable circumscription for every taxon. This goal conflicts, at times, with the goal of achieving a natural classification that reflects the evolutionary history of divergence of groups of organisms. Balancing these two goals is a work in progress, and the circumscriptions of many taxa that had been regarded as stable for decades are in upheaval in the light of rapid developments in molecular phylogenetics. New evidence may suggest that a traditional circumscription should be revised, particularly if the old circumscription is shown to be paraphyletic (a group containing some but not all of the descendants of the common ancestor).
For example, the family Pongidae contained orangutans (Pongo), chimpanzees (Pan) and gorillas (Gorilla), but not humans (Homo), which are placed in Hominidae. Once molecular phylogenetic data showed that chimpanzees were more closely related to humans than to gorillas or orangutans, it became clear that Pongidae is a paraphyletic group, and the circumscription of Hominidae was changed to include all four extant genera of great apes.
Sometimes, systematists propose novel circumscriptions that do not address paraphyly. For example, the broadly circumscribed monophyletic moth superfamily Pyraloidea can be split into two families, Pyralidae and Crambidae, which are reciprocally monophyletic sister taxa.
An example of a botanical group with unstable circumscription
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The 1996 Texas Terror season was the first season for the Texas Terror. They finished the 1996 Arena Football League season 1–13 and were one of four teams in the National Conference to miss the playoffs.
Regular season
Schedule
Standings
References
Houston Thunderbears seasons
1996 Arena Football League season
Texas Terror Season, 1996
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The 2011–12 Liechtenstein Cup was the sixty-seventh season of Liechtenstein's annual cup competition. Seven clubs competed with a total of sixteen teams for one spot in the first qualifying round of the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League. Defending champions were Vaduz, who have won the cup continuously since 1998 and won their 40th Liechtenstein Cup last season. USV Eschen/Mauren won the cup, beating FC Vaduz on penalties in the final, becoming the first team other than FC Vaduz to win the cup since 1997 (and also the last as of 2022).
First round
The First Round featured eight teams. In this round entered seven of the reserve clubs participating in the competition, along with FC Triesen. These matches took place on 16 and 17 August 2011.
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Second round
The four winners of the First Round, along with FC Schaan, FC Ruggell, FC Schaan Azzurri and FC Balzers II competed in the Second Round. The games were played on 14 September 2011.
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Quarterfinals
The four winners of the Second Round entered the Quarterfinals, along with the semifinalists from last season's competitions: FC Vaduz, USV Eschen/Mauren, FC Balzers and FC Triesenberg.
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The four winners of the Quarterfinals will compete in the Semifinals.
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