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"Henri Hemsch Henri Hemsch, original name Johann Heinrich Hemsch (variants Jean-Henri Hemsch, Johannes Heinrich Hembsch) (21 February 1700 – September 1769), was a French harpsichord maker of German origin. He was born in Kastenholtz, near Cologne, and moved to France in 1728 where he served a six-year apprenticeship in the shop of Antoine Vater, another German \"émigré\". Following this, he set up independently with his younger brother Guillaume (Wilhelm) (b.5 December 1709; fl.1748–1774). He served as \"juré\" of the instrument makers' guild in 1746. He is considered one of the most important Parisian makers of his time. He was succeeded in his craft by his nephew Jean-Henri Moers (b.Kastenholtz, August 1734; fl.1754–1793). Five of his double manual harpsichords survive today. The earliest, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is dated 1736. His instruments are similar to those of Vater and French in style, with two manuals, three-register disposition with shove coupler and a compass of <nowiki>FF–e (rising to f</nowiki> in a 1761 instrument at the Musée de la Musique, Paris). His remaining instruments are similar in number and quality to those of the Blanchet/Taskin family. He made the famous Harpsichord that is now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Henri Hemsch Henri Hemsch, original name Johann Heinrich Hemsch (variants Jean-Henri Hemsch, Johannes Heinrich Hembsch) (21 February 1700 – September 1769), was a French harpsichord maker of German origin. He was born in Kastenholtz, near Cologne, and moved to France in 1728 where he served a six-year apprenticeship in the shop of Antoine Vater, another German \"émigré\". Following this, he set up independently with his younger brother Guillaume (Wilhelm) (b.5 December 1709; fl.1748–1774). He served as \"juré\" of the instrument makers' guild in 1746. He is considered one of the most important Parisian makers of his time. He"
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"2013 Varsity Football The 2013 Varsity Football challenge was the first season of a South African university association football competition. It involved some of the top football playing universities in the country, which belong to the University Sports Company. The tournament is run by Varsity Sports South Africa, and is endorsed by the South African Football Association and University Sport South Africa. The men's competition was won by UP-Tuks and the women's competition by University of Johannesburg. The Varsity Cup tournament was founded in 2008, featuring the rugby teams of eight universities. Varsity Sports was expanded in 2012 to include other sporting codes. University Sport South Africa discussed the Varsity Football proposal at its 2012 annual general meeting. The idea was initially rejected, as it was seen to split the member institutions. However, it was later accepted, and 2013 was the inaugural season of Varsity Football, with an 8 team men's tournament. A four team women's tournament is also being played. The eight teams competing in the men's Varsity Football challenge are: The four teams competing in the women's Varsity Football challenge are: For both the men's and women's tournaments, qualification was based on the 2012 University Sports South Africa National Club Championships. In order to qualify, men's teams need to be one of the eight highest placed teams associated with Varsity Sports. Women's teams needed to be one of the semi-finalists, and also be associated with Varsity Sports. For the men's tournament, UP-Tuks qualified as USSA champions, and NWU-Mafikeng as losing finalists. TUT-Pretoria qualified as a losing semi-finalist, while UKZN Pietermaritzburg, also a losing semi-finalist, was ineligible, not being linked to Varsity Sports. Wits and UWC qualified as losing quarter finalists, while were WSU-Potsdam and CPUT, both of which also lost in the quarter finals were ineligible. UCT, ranked 9th, UFS, ranked 11th and NMMU, ranked 14th were invited. Higher placed University of Venda, WSU-Ibika and UKZN-Edgewood were not invited, as they are not linked to Varsity Sports. For the women's tournament, TUT-Pretoria was invited as the USSA women's champion. UP-Tuks qualified as the losing finalist, and UJ as a losing semi-finalist. VUT, a losing semi-finalist, was not invited, lacking affiliation with Varsity Sports at the time. As such, 5th ranked University of Limpopo was invited instead. The tournament begins with a round robin stage, in which all teams play each other once. After the round robin stage, the top 4 teams will advance to the knockout stage. The teams ranked 1 and 2 will host the semi-finals, against the teams ranked 4 and 3 respectively. The winners will advance to the final, to be hosted by the highest ranking finalist. All matches are played on Mondays. The league scoring system follows a standard scoring system and awards 3 points are awarded for a win, and 1 point for a draw. Teams are separated first on points, and then on goal difference. The 2013 season began with the round robin stages on 22 July, which will end on 2 September. The top four placed men's teams progressed to the knockout stage, as did all four women's teams. The semi-finals for both men and women were played on 9 September and the finals on 16 September. Players and coaches who have since been signed by professional clubs. The tournament is sponsored by: 2013 Varsity Football The 2013 Varsity Football challenge was the first season of a South African university association football competition. It involved some of the top football playing universities in the country, which belong to the University Sports Company. The tournament is run by Varsity Sports South Africa,"
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"Ruddy-breasted crake The ruddy-breasted crake (\"Porzana fusca\"), or ruddy crake, is a waterbird in the rail and crake family Rallidae. Its breeding habitat is swamps and similar wet areas across South Asia from the Indian subcontinent east to south China, Japan and Indonesia. It has been recorded as a vagrant from the Australian territory of Christmas Island. It is mainly a permanent resident throughout its range, but some northern populations migrate further south in winter. This crake nests in a dry location on the ground in marsh vegetation, laying 6-9 eggs. The ruddy-breasted crake is about 22–23 cm long. The body is flattened laterally to allow easier passage through the reeds or undergrowth. It has long toes and a short tail. Coloring includes a pale brown back and chestnut head and underparts, with white barring on the flanks and undertail. The bill is yellowish, and the eyes, legs, and feet are red. The sexes are similar, but juveniles are dark brown with some white spotting. These birds probe in mud or shallow water and also pick up food by sight. They forage for shoots, berries and insects, as well as large snails, which they eat by using their bills to peck through the hard shell. Ruddy-breasted crakes are territorial, but are quite secretive, hiding amongst grassy shrubs and bushes when disturbed. Ruddy-breasted crake The ruddy-breasted crake (\"Porzana fusca\"), or ruddy crake, is a waterbird in the rail and crake family Rallidae. Its breeding habitat is swamps and similar wet areas across South Asia from the Indian subcontinent east to south China, Japan and Indonesia. It has been recorded as a vagrant from the Australian territory of Christmas Island. It is mainly a permanent resident throughout its range, but some northern populations migrate further south in winter. This crake nests in"
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"Feilding Feilding (Māori: Kawakawa) is a town in the Manawatu District of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located on State Highway 54, 20 kilometres north of Palmerston North. The town is the seat of the Manawatu District Council. Feilding has won the annual New Zealand's Most Beautiful Town award 16 times. It is an Edwardian-themed town. The town is currently extending its CBD beautification featuring paving and planter boxes on the footpaths on the main streets in the CBD, including the realignment and beautification of Fergusson Street to the South Street entrance of Manfeild Park. The town is a service town for the surrounding farming district. The Feilding Saleyards have been a vital part of the wider Manawatu community for over 125 years. As transport systems improved and farming practices changed, the need for small, local saleyards all but disappeared, leaving few major selling complexes in New Zealand. Manawatu is a diverse and fertile farming area with high production, high stock-carrying capacity and a stable climate. These factors make Feilding Saleyards a popular medium for many farmers. A unique aspect of Feilding Saleyards is their location in the centre of town. The Manawatu Plains, on which the town is sited, are very fertile land, and as such it is a prosperous agricultural area. Being located on the floodplain of a major river has its problems, however, and in February 2004 the town suffered extensive flooding. In 2009 the Horizons Regional Council commissioned a new flood protection scheme to prevent extensive flooding in the future. The town was named after Colonel William H. A. Feilding, a director of the Emigrants and Colonists Aid Corporation Ltd. who negotiated the purchase of a 100,000 acre (400 km²) block of land from the Wellington provincial government in 1871. The first settlers arrived from Great Britain on 22 January 1874. The Feilding Edwardian Project Inc. was established in September 1993 by local businesses with the aim of revitalising the central business area of Feilding. Many of the commercial buildings were built in the 1900s (Edwardian era) and have been restored and preserved over time. Feilding is home to a number of historic collections, buildings, monuments and museums, including: In recent years there has been a steady increase in military families from the Royal New Zealand Air Force buying property and living in Feilding. This is mainly due to the close proximity of RNZAF Base Ohakea. In 2017 it was announced that the Republic of Singapore Air Force is looking at establishing a permanent F-15 fighter jet training base at Ohakea with an estimated presence of 500 Singaporian personnel. This would see a steady influx of Singaporian military families living in Feilding. Employing about 30 people with a payroll of $1.5m in 2015, Proliant, an Iowa based firm privately held by the father and son team of Wally and Nix Lauridsen, constructed a $24m factory on the outskirts of Feilding for the production of a byproduct from cattle blood plasma, bovine serum albumin (BSA), which is used in pharmaceuticals, vaccines and medical research. Proliant produces about half of the world's BSA. In the Manawatu District of the people aged 15 years or over: Famous people from Feilding include: Feilding Feilding (Māori: Kawakawa) is a town in the Manawatu District of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located on State Highway 54, 20 kilometres north of Palmerston North. The town is the seat of the Manawatu District Council. Feilding has won the annual New Zealand's Most Beautiful Town award 16 times. It is an Edwardian-themed town. The town is currently extending its"
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"Akureyri Handboltafélag Akureyri Handboltafélag is a men's handball club, located in Akureyri, Iceland. Akureyri Handboltafélag was founded in 2006 as a joint team between KA and Þór Akureyri. In 2011 it posted the best record in the Úrvalsdeild karla. It made it to the 2011 Úrvalsdeild finals where it lost to FH in front of a record crowd of 2950 people in Kaplakriki. In 2017, the club was relegated from the Úrvalsdeild. and shortly after, KA decided to break off from the cooperation and fielded their own team starting from 2017-2018. Þór continued to run its men's team under the Akureyri name and in 2018, the team finished first in 1. deild karla and was promoted back to the Úrvalsdeild along with KA, which finished second. 1. deild karla: League Champions (Icelandic: Deildarmeistarar): Akureyri Handboltafélag Akureyri Handboltafélag is a men's handball club, located in Akureyri, Iceland. Akureyri Handboltafélag was founded in 2006 as a joint team between KA and Þór Akureyri. In 2011 it posted the best record in the Úrvalsdeild karla. It made it to the 2011 Úrvalsdeild finals where it lost to FH in front of a record crowd of 2950 people in Kaplakriki. In 2017, the club"
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"Daishōji Domain The \"daimyō\" of Daishōji domain was subject to \"sankin-kōtai\", and was received in the Ōhiroma of Edo Castle. Daishōji Castle was a secondary stronghold of the Maeda clan, guarding the border region of Kaga Province from neighboring Echizen Province. The castle was destroyed by the order of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1615 under the policy of “One Domain - One Castle”. In 1639, the \"daimyō\" of Kaga Domain, Maeda Toshitsune retired, turning the domain over to his eldest son, Maeda Mitsutaka. At that time, he separated out a 100,000 \"koku\" holding for his second son, Maeda Toshitsugu, creating Toyama Domain and a 70,000 \"koku\" holding for his third son, Maeda Toshiharu, creating Daishōji Domain. At the time of its creation, the domain consisted of 133 villages in Enuma District for a total of 65,700 \"koku\", and 9 villages in Niikawa District on the far eastern side of Etchū Province for a total of 4300 \"koku\". In 1660, Daishōji Domain was able to exchange this remote exclave for 6 villages in Nomi District, adjacent to Enuma District. Under its third \"daimyō\", Maeda Toshinao, new riceland development allowed the domain to create its own subsidiary 10,000 \"koku\" domain, , for Toshinao’s younger brother Maeda Toshimasa. However, after Toshimasa killed the \"daimyō\" of Yanagimoto Domain, Oda Hidechika in a duel, the domain was dissolved. Under its 9th \"daimyō\", Maeda Toshikore, the domain’s \"kokudaka\" was increased from 70,000 to 100,000 \"koku\". This was accomplished by 10,000 \"koku\" of new rice land developed, and 20,000 \"koku\" of revenues from Kaga Domain. The physical holdings of the domain did not change. After the death of its 12th \"daimyō\", Maeda Toshinori in 1855 without heir, the domain came under threat of attainder. Toshinori had adopted Maeda Toshimichi as his heir, but Toshiyuki also died before his formal presentation to the \"shōgun\". This fact was concealed from the authorities, and Maeda Toshika, a son of Maeda Nariyasu of Kaga Domain was substituted in his place. During the Bakumatsu period, the domain changed sides to support the Satchō Alliance during the Boshin War, and fought for the imperial side during the Battle of Hokuetsu. Toshika was named Imperial governor by the Meiji government from 1869 until the abolition of the han system in 1871. In July 1871, with the abolition of the han system, Daishōji Domain became Daishōji Prefecture, and was merged into the newly created Ishikawa Prefecture in September 1871. The site of the Daishōji \"jin'ya\" is wow a park, with a portion of the ramparts remaining within the grounds of Kinjō Elementary School. Toshiharu was the third son of Maeda Toshitsune, 2nd \"daimyō\" of Kaga Domain. On the retirement of his father in 1639, he was assigned a 70,000 \"koku\" estate centered in what is now Enuma District, Ishikawa. This marked the start of Daishōji Domain. Toshiharu was a noted master of the Japanese tea ceremony, having been a disciple of Kobori Enshū. While \"daimyō\", he developed gold and copper mines, and later established Kutani ware as a noted product of the domain. His wife was the daughter of Uesugi Sadakatsu of Yonezawa Domain. was the 2nd \"daimyō\" of Daishōji Domain. He was born in Kanazawa as the fifth son of Maeda Toshitsune, 2nd \"daimyō\" of Kaga Domain and was posthumously adopted by his elder brother Maeda Toshiharu to become \"daimyō\" in 1660. During his tenure, he undertook flood control projects and opened up new rice lands. He also developed \"washi\" paper as a revenue source for the domain. His wife was the daughter of Uesugi Sadakatsu of Yonezawa Domain. His grave is at the temple of Jisshō-in in Kaga, Ishikawa. was the 3rd \"daimyō\" of Daishōji Domain. He was born in Edo the eldest son of Maeda Toshiaki, and was received in formal audience by \"Shōgun\" Tokugawa Tsunayoshi in 1684. Tsunayoshi favored Toshinao, so from 1691 the domain was accorded the same status and privileges as a \"fudai\" domain. On becoming \"daimyō\" in 1692, Toshinao divided 10,000 \"koku\" from his holdings to establish his younger brother, Toshimasa, as \"daimyō\" of Daishōji-Shiden Domain. However, due to Tsunayoshi’s favor, Toshinao spent all of his time in Edo, leaving the domain to be managed by his vassals and lent a deaf ear to word of troubles. In the year 1709, the domain’s Edo residence burned down, and Tsunayoshi also died, thus plunging the domain finances into arrears while depriving him of his main benefactor. Furthermore, his brother Maeda Toshimasa was forced to commit \"seppuku\" after having killed Oda Hidechika, the \"daimyō\" of Yanagimoto Domain in Yamato Province in a duel and his domain was forfeited. Toshinao died the following year in 1710 under uncertain circumstances. Yoshineo’s wife was the daughter of Sakai Tadayoshi of Shōnai Domain. His grave is at the temple of Jisshō-in in Kaga, Ishikawa. was the 4th \"daimyō\" of Daishōji Domain. He was born in Kanazawa as the 5th son of Maeda Tsunanori, 4th \"daimyō\" of Kaga Domain, and was adopted in 1709 by his great-uncle, Maeda Toshinao, as heir. He became \"daimyō\" a few months later in 1710. Ignoring warnings by his father and the perilous financial situation of the domain, he lived in profligate luxury. When a crop failure occurred in 1712, he faced a peasant rebellion. In 1732, he was ordered to contribute to repairs on Edo Castle, which further bankrupted the domain. Toshiakira failed to take an official wife. His grave is at the temple of Jisshō-in in Kaga, Ishikawa. was the 5th \"daimyō\" of Daishōji Domain. He was eldest son of Maeda Toshiakira, and inherited a bankrupt domain from his father in 1737. In 1752, the domain was ordered to contribute to the rebuilding of the Yoshida Bridge on the Tōkaidō highway in what is now Toyohashi, Aichi. The bridge collapsed after only 6 month due to poor design and construction, and the domain was forced to rebuild it again. Unable to rectify the finances of the domain, he retired in 1778 and died in 1781. Toshimichi’s wife was the daughter of Maeda Toshitaka of Toyama Domain. His grave is at the temple of Jisshō-in in Kaga, Ishikawa. was the 6th \"daimyō\" of Daishōji Domain. He was born in Daishoji as the second son of Maeda Toshimichi and became heir in 1759 on the death of his elder brother. He became \"daimyō\" in 1778 on the retirement of his father; however, by the time of his father’s death in 1781, Toshiaki increasingly showed signs of insanity, raving incoherently and behaving violently. The clan elders petitioned Maeda Harunaga of Kaga Domain to intervene, and Toshiaki was confined to house arrest in 1782, with the domain going to his younger brother. He died in 1791 at the age of 34. was the 7th \"daimyō\" of Daishōji Domain. Toshiane was the third son of Maeda Toshimichi, and replaced his brother Toshiaki as the latter’s son, Maeda Toshiyasu, was still an infant. However, the domain continued to suffer from financial difficulties and poor harvests, and Toshitane was unable to implement any reforms due to his own youth. He died in 1788 at the age of 29. Toshitane’s wife was the daughter of Maeda Toshiyuki of Toyama Domain. His grave is at the temple of Jisshō-in in Kaga, Ishikawa. was the 8th \"daimyō\" of Daishōji Domain. Toshiyasu was the son of Maeda Toshiaki, and was born in Edo. As he was still an infant, his uncle, Maeda Toshitane acted as regent, and also adopted Toshiyasu as heir. Toshiyasu became \"daimyō\" on Toshitane’s death in 1788. Unlike his father and uncle, he was able to restore the clan government through discipline and fiscal reforms, and the encouragement of the military arts. Although he died at the age of 27 in 1806, and despite his youth, he was regarded as one of the most capable of the \"daimyō\" of Daishoji. His grave is at the temple of Jisshō-in in Kaga, Ishikawa. was the 9th \"daimyō\" of Daishōji Domain. Toshikore was born in Daishōji as the third son of Maeda Toshitane. He was posthumously adopted as heir to Maeda Toshiyasu after Toshiyasu’s sudden death in 1806. In",
"Domain. Toshiyasu was the son of Maeda Toshiaki, and was born in Edo. As he was still an infant, his uncle, Maeda Toshitane acted as regent, and also adopted Toshiyasu as heir. Toshiyasu became \"daimyō\" on Toshitane’s death in 1788. Unlike his father and uncle, he was able to restore the clan government through discipline and fiscal reforms, and the encouragement of the military arts. Although he died at the age of 27 in 1806, and despite his youth, he was regarded as one of the most capable of the \"daimyō\" of Daishoji. His grave is at the temple of Jisshō-in in Kaga, Ishikawa. was the 9th \"daimyō\" of Daishōji Domain. Toshikore was born in Daishōji as the third son of Maeda Toshitane. He was posthumously adopted as heir to Maeda Toshiyasu after Toshiyasu’s sudden death in 1806. In 1821, following the request of Maeda Narinaga, the domain’s \"kokudaka\" was increased to 100,000 \"koku\". However, this additional revenue was more than offset by increased military service by the shogunate, so the domain’s financial situation was even worse off than before. Toshikore died in Daishōji in 1837 at the age of 52. Toshitane’s wife was the daughter of Sakai Tadaari of Shōnai Domain. His grave is at the temple of Jisshō-in in Kaga, Ishikawa. was the 10th \"daimyō\" of Daishōji Domain. Toshinaka was the younger son of Maeda Toshikore, and was born in Edo. He became \"daimyō\" in 1837 on the death of his father, but died only a couple of months later. Toshinaka’s wife was the daughter of Maeda Narinaga of Kaga Domain. His grave is at the temple of Jisshō-in in Kaga, Ishikawa. was the 11th \"daimyō\" of Daishōji Domain. Toshihira was the sixth son of Maeda Toshikore, and was born in Daishōji. He became \"daimyō\" on the death of his elder brother in 1838, but the domain was in severe financial straits, which was compounded by a reduction in the domain \"kokudaka\" from 100,000 \"koku\" back to its original 70,000 \"koku\". All his ideas for reform, including selling off the clan residence in Edo, were blocked by Kaga Domain, and he died in 1849 at the age of 27. Toshihira’s wife was the daughter of Inoue Masaharu of Tatebayashi Domain. His grave is at the temple of Jisshō-in in Kaga, Ishikawa. was the 12th \"daimyō\" of Daishōji Domain. Toshinori was the third son of Maeda Nariyasu of Kaga Domain and was born in Kanazawa. He was assigned to Daishōji Domain on the sudden death of Maeda Toshihira in 1849. He died in Edo in 1855 at the age of 23. Toshinori’s wife was the daughter of Maeda Toshiyasu of Toyama Domain. His grave is at the temple of Jisshō-in in Kaga, Ishikawa. was the 13th \"daimyō\" of Daishōji Domain. Toshimichi was born in Kanazawa as the fifth son of Maeda Nariyasu, and was posthumously adopted as the son of Maeda Toshinori after the latter’s sudden death in 1855. However, Toshimichi himself died less than a month later at the age of 21. As he had not yet even been received in formal audience by \"Shōgun\" Tokugawa Iesada yet, the domain would normally face attainder; however Maeda Nariyasu ordered that the death be concealed, and that his seventh son Maeda Toshika be named \"daimyō\" instead. Viscount was the 14th and final \"daimyō\" of Daishōji Domain. Toshika was the 7th son of Maeda Nariyasu of Kaga Domain and became \"daimyō\" of Daishōji in 1855. During the Bakumatsu period, the domain assisted the shogunate in policing of Kyoto and the suppression of the Mito Rebellion and in the Kinmon Incident; however, after the Battle of Toba-Fushimi, the domain changed sides to support the Satchō Alliance during the Boshin War, and fought for the Meiji government during the Battle of Hokuetsu. Toshika was named Imperial governor from 1869 until the abolition of the han system in 1871. In 1884 he was awarded the \"kazoku\" peerage title of viscount. In 1887 he was raised to Second Court Rank. He died in Tokyo in 1920 at the age of 80. His wife was the daughter of Itō Suketomo of Obi Domain, and his grave is at the Zōshigaya Cemetery in Tokyo. As with most domains in the han system, Daishōji Domain consisted of territories calculated to provide the assigned \"kokudaka\", based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields. Daishōji Domain The \"daimyō\" of Daishōji domain was subject to \"sankin-kōtai\", and was received in the Ōhiroma of Edo Castle. Daishōji Castle was a secondary stronghold of the Maeda clan, guarding the border region of Kaga Province from neighboring Echizen Province. The castle was destroyed by the order of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1615 under the policy of “One Domain - One Castle”. In"
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"Football Association of Yugoslavia The Football Association of Yugoslavia (FSJ) ( / , ; ; ; ) was the governing body of football in Yugoslavia, based in Belgrade, with a major administrative branch in Zagreb. It organized the Yugoslav First League, the Yugoslavia national football team, and the Second Leagues of all six former Yugoslav republics. Football Association of Serbia inherited Yugoslavia spot within FIFA and UEFA and it is considered by both organisations as the only successor of Yugoslavia. It was formed in 1919 in Zagreb under the Croatian name \"Jugoslavenski nogometni savez\". The FA became the temporary member of FIFA on May 4, 1921 and permanent member on May 20, 1923. The name later changed to \"Nogometni savez Jugoslavije\". After disagreements between the Zagreb and Belgrade subassociations in 1929, the Assembly of Football Association of Yugoslavia was dissolved in 1929, subsequently with the 6 January Dictatorship; the association headquarters moved to Belgrade next year, on March 16, 1930 where the organization modified its name to Serbian \"Fudbalski Savez Jugoslavije\". During this time there were several subassociations which organized football on the regional level. These were: On October 1, 1939, the association was reestablished as the Supreme Football Association of Yugoslavia (\"Vrhovni nogometni savez Jugoslavije\"), which was made up of the associations: the Slovenian Football Federation (\"Slovenska nogometna zveza\") covering the Drava Banovina, the Croatian Football Federation (\"Hrvatski nogometni savez\") covering the Banovina of Croatia, and the Serbian Football Federation (\"Srpski loptački savez\") covering the remainder of the state. In this new created association is formed new subassociation: Sušak Football Subassociation (January 1940) and Maribor and Celje Football Subassociation (in late 1940). In 1954 Football Association of Yugoslavia became the member of UEFA. In 1991, the SFR Yugoslavia dissolved, but the republics of Serbia and Montenegro reconstituted a union under the name FR Yugoslavia, claiming the succession of the former Yugoslavia exclusively for themselves, including the football association, so they kept the football association along with its membership in FIFA and UEFA. The Football Association of Yugoslavia was replaced by the Football Association of Serbia and Montenegro in 2003, when the nation changed their name to Serbia and Montenegro. Football Association of Yugoslavia The Football Association of Yugoslavia (FSJ) ( / , ; ; ; ) was the governing body of football in Yugoslavia, based in Belgrade, with a major administrative branch in Zagreb. It organized the Yugoslav First"
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"Metropolis 2000 (Dream Theater tour) Metropolis 2000 Tour was the main world tour by progressive metal/rock band Dream Theater, promoting album. The tour began January 31, 2000 in Phoenix, Arizona, US, and concluded October 21, 2000 in London, England. The tour to support the album was unusual in that every show started with a full performance of the entire album, something the band had never done before with any of their previous albums. The tour started with North America 1st leg, January 31, 2000 until March 10, 2000. On the first tour, the show opened by guitarist Gary Hoey, the second and third shows opened by Spock's Beard, and the rest of North American leg supported by Dixie Dregs. On July 8, 2000, Dream Theater supporting Iron Maiden show in Mannheim, Germany, continued with Bospop Festival with Joe Satriani, Spock's Beard, Flower Kings, and Vanden Plas, in Weert, Netherlands, July 9, 2000. The tour culminated in a show at Roseland Ballroom in New York City, August 30, 2000. It was the final show for North American leg's tour. The show was filmed and eventually released in early 2001 as the band's first DVD release, \"\", which was certified Gold in the US on November 8, 2002. The band also released the full show on the live CD \"Live Scenes from New York\". 1st North America leg setlists included some or most of the following songs: 1st European leg setlists included some or most of the following songs (not always in the same order): Asian leg setlists included some or most of the following songs (not always in the same order): 2nd European leg setlists included some or most of the following songs (not always in the same order): 2nd North America and 3rd European legs setlists included some or most of the following songs: Songs played on Metropolis 2000 Tour: Metropolis 2000 (Dream Theater tour) Metropolis 2000 Tour was the main world tour by progressive metal/rock band Dream Theater, promoting album. The tour began January 31, 2000 in Phoenix, Arizona, US, and concluded October 21, 2000 in London, England. The tour to support the album was unusual in that every show started with a full performance of the entire album, something the band had never done before with any of their previous albums. The tour started with North America 1st leg, January 31, 2000 until March 10, 2000. On the"
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"40 Leonis 40 Leonis is a star in the zodiac constellation of Leo. It is faintly visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 4.80. An annual parallax shift of 46.80 mas, as seen from Earth's orbit, yields a distance estimate of 69.7 light years. It is moving away from the Sun with a radial velocity of 5.9 km/s and has a relatively high proper motion, traversing the sky at the rate of 0.315 arcseconds per year. This is an F-type star with a stellar classification of F6 IV-V, which indicates the spectrum shows traits of both a main sequence star and a more evolved subgiant star. It is a suspected Delta Scuti variable and shows a depleted lithium abundance. The star is about 2.6 billion years old with a relatively high rate of spin for its age, showing a projected rotational velocity of about 17 km/s. It has 1.35 times the mass of the Sun and 1.68 times the Sun's radius. 40 Leonis is radiating around 4.4 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of roughly 6,450 K. An X-ray emission with a luminosity of has been detected from this position, which may be coming from an undetected short-period, low mass companion. 40 Leonis has a common proper motion companion, NLTT 23781, with a wide angular separation of 5,230″ (1.453°), corresponding to a physical separation of at least . This magnitude 16.48 star has a class of M5 and is overluminous for its type, which may mean it is a binary system. 40 Leonis 40 Leonis is a star in the zodiac constellation of Leo. It is faintly visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 4.80. An annual parallax shift of 46.80 mas, as seen from Earth's orbit,"
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"Monte Alegre State Park The Monte Alegre State Park () is a state park in the state of Pará, Brazil. The park covers a hilly region to the north of the Amazon River. It is known for its caves and prehistoric rock paintings, among the oldest archaeological remains in the Amazon region. Efforts have been made to get the local people involved in supporting sustainable tourism. The Monte Alegre State Park is in the municipality of Monte Alegre, Pará. It has an area of . The park is entirely contained within the Paytuna Environmental Protection Area. The park covers an area of mountains and valleys that contains caves with rock paintings and archaeological sites relevant to scientific studies of the occupation of the Amazon and the origin of humans in the Americas. The sulphur-breasted parakeet (\"Aratinga maculata\") is endemic to the region. The park was the first conservation unit in Pará where the local community was involved in its creation. It was the outcome of studies by the Pará Institute of Economic, Social and Environmental Development (IDESP) at the end of the 1980s. The Monte Alegre State Park was created by law 6412 of 11 November 2001 with an area of . The objective was to preserve the natural ecosystems, reconciling full protection of natural resources, cultural, historical and scenic beauties with use for scientific, cultural, educational, recreational and ecotourism purposes. The members of the consultative council were named by ordinance 3717 of 29 December 2009. The management plan was approved by decree 3.553 of 22 November 2010. In November 2012 it was reported that researchers from the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG) had recently found 19 sites in the lower part of the park with rock paintings and ceramic pieces. They were the work of ancient inhabitants of the region. Law 7692 of 3 January 2013 rectified the limits of the park, transferring to the Paytuna Environmental Protection Area. The park was now reduced to an area of . In April 2013 the Peabiru Institute said that five initiatives had been chosen to help local women and young people provide ecotourism services. The Monte Alegre Ecotourism Agents project would be supported by TAM Linhas Aéreas. The park is best known for the Serra da Lua, where rock paintings extend for over along a wall in the Serra do Ererê. The paintings have been widely reproduced on the internet, in postcards and in tourist brochures. Most visitors only view the most accessible panel, with red and yellow figures that can be seen from the foot of the hill. The Gruta da Pedra Pintada (Painted Rock Cave) is deep, above sea level on the eastern flank of the Paytuna Range. It has several corridors and halls. This cave is in a region that was studied by the archaeologist Anna Curtenius Roosevelt and was widely publicized, so attracts the most tourists. The Pedra do Mirante is a rock that may be climbed to reach a panoramic 360 degree view of the area. The Painel do Pilão has cave paintings and a beautiful view of the region. The Gruta do Pilão is a cave with paintings that is one of the oldest archaeological sites in the Amazon. The Pedra do Pilão provides a lockout over the beautiful landscape. It has a few rock paintings of low visual impact. The Gruta Itatupaoca, or Gruta da Capela, is deep, about above the Amazon River in the south slope of the Ererê Range. The entrance is about high, divided in the lower half by a rocky column. The Gruta do Miritiepé is deep, above the Amazon on the northwest flank of the Paytuna Range. The main gallery, which is well lit, is about high and wide, and long. It leads to the Folhas Chamber, about and high. From there a passage leads to the exit hall. The Gruta do Labirinto (Labyrinth Cave) is more than deep, above the Amazon on the west flank of the Paytuna Range. Monte Alegre State Park The Monte Alegre State Park () is a state park in the state of Pará, Brazil. The park covers a hilly region to the north of the Amazon River. It is known for its caves"
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"Geographic areas of Houston The geographic areas of Houston are generally classified as either being inside or outside Interstate 610, known as the \"Loop.\" Inside the loop generally encompasses the Central business district and the \"island cities\" of West University Place (West U.), Southside Place and a portion of Bellaire. (\"Island cities\" refers to the City of Houston's practice of annexing around the existing boundaries of incorporated municipalities.) Other \"island cities\" include the Memorial VillagesBunker Hill Village, Hedwig Village, Hilshire Village, Hunters Creek Village, Piney Point Village, and Spring Valley Village. The outlying areas of Houston, as well as the rest of Bellaire, the Memorial Villages, the airports and the city's suburbs and enclaves are outside the loop. Another ring road, Beltway 8 (also known simply as the \"Beltway\"), encircles the city another 5 miles (8 km) further out. A third, State Highway 99 or Grand Parkway, has begun construction roughly 10 miles (16 km) beyond the Beltway around the outer suburbs and currently extends from north of Interstate 10/U.S. Highway 90 east of Katy to Interstate 69/U.S. Highway 59 in Sugar Land. Locations within the Houston city limits inside Beltway 8 had traditionally used the 713 area code. Those outside Beltway 8 but within city limits had received the 281 or 832 area code. The geographic division between 713, 281, and 832 has been eliminated, and newly issued phone numbers (especially for cell phones and fax machines) within that zone may be assigned any of the three codes. Areas far north, west, east and south of the inner-city also use 936 and 409. Zip codes in Houston range from 77002 to 77099. A small portion of northeast Houston uses zip codes 77339 and 77345. Houston is the most populated city in the United States without zoning laws. City voters rejected creation of separate commercial and residential land-use districts in 1948, 1962 and 1993. As a result, Houston has grown in an unusual manner. Rather than a single “downtown” as the center of the city's employment, five additional business districts have grown throughout the inner-city, including one for Houston's medical center complex. If these business districts were combined, they would form the third largest downtown in the United States. The city also has one of the largest skylines in the United States but because it is spread over a few miles, pictures of the city show, for the most part, the main downtown area. John Nova Lomax of the \"Houston Press\" said that before the interstate system was established in Houston, the neighborhoods were \"strongly distinct neighborhoods and districts with poetic names[...]\". Beginning in the 1960s the development of the 610 Loop caused the focus of the Houston area to move away from Downtown Houston. Joel Barna of \"Cite 42\" said that this caused Greater Houston to shift from \"a fragmenting but still centrally focused spatial entity into something more like a doughnut,\" and that Downtown Houston began to become a \"hole\" in the \"doughnut.\" As interchange connections with the 610 Loop opened, according to Barna Downtown \"became just another node in a multi-node grid\" and, as of 1998, \"has been that, with already established high densities and land prices.\" By 1998 Beltway 8 neared completion and development increased in the central city. Barna said that \"it's as if Houston had stretched out so far that it its sprawl began doubling back upon itself.\" Lisa Gray of the \"Houston Chronicle\" said that Houston differs from many \"old-style\" European cities and cities of the East Coast of the United States because Houston began with sprawl development and later developed dense cores, as opposed to beginning with dense cores and later developing sprawl. Many denser areas of Houston have parking garages, allowing automobile drivers to access areas with relatively few parking spaces. Downtown is located in the very center of the city's highway system, bounded by I-45 on the south and west, I-69/US-59 on the east, and Buffalo Bayou on the north. The Skyline District is the heart of downtown and home to headquarters of various multinational businesses and financial institutions. The Houston Theater District, in north downtown, is home to Houston's eight performing arts organizations and includes the Alley Theatre, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Wortham Center, the Verizon Wireless Theater (formerly Aerial Theater), and Jones Hall, home of the Houston Symphony Orchestra. The theater district is the second-largest performing arts district, next to New York City. Downtown is also home to one of the city's two Chinatowns. The first Chinatown is situated in the shadow of the George R. Brown Convention Center downtown, while the newer, larger Chinatown (originating around 1982), is located primarily on Bellaire Boulevard west of the Sharpstown neighborhood. The Main Street Corridor in downtown, opened in 2004, has become a popular nightlife spot, particularly now that the city has light rail service. This is because the light rail line begins at the University of Houston–Downtown. Preston Station is a neighborhood in downtown Houston that takes its name from the Houston MetroRail's Preston Station, which is at the neighborhood's center. It is well known for its bars and restaurants, and includes such famous buildings as the Rice Hotel, the St. Germain building, and the Hotel Icon. South of downtown, but to the east of Meyerland and Fondren, lies Hiram Clarke, Sunnyside, South Park, Kennedy Heights, and other largely African-American communities with sizable Latino populations. Collectively (with the Third Ward) known as the \"Southside\", these formerly rural communities were childhood homes of country singer Kenny Rogers and (more recently) rap artist Scarface. Hiram Clarke is a small neighborhood in south side Houston. The neighborhood is adjacent to Hiram Clarke Blvd. and West Fuqua Street. It was named after a former president of Houston Lighting & Power, a predecessor to Reliant Energy. The term \"southwest Houston\" often refers to the area that opened in the years following World War II, when they were considered to be suburbs, such as Alief, Fondren Southwest, Meyerland, Sharpstown and Westbury. Alief is a large, ethnically diverse community which Houston began annexing in 1977. Fondren Southwest and Meyerland are centers of Houston's Jewish community. Sharpstown has large Hispanic and Asian American communities and was the first master-planned community in Houston. Also in the southwest is the Indian enclave, the Mahatma Gandhi District, informally known as Hilcroft. Westbury and Meyerland are becoming popular places for some gay men and lesbians to live, as real estate in the Neartown area has become more expensive as it has gentrified. \"See Southeast Houston\" The Northside of Houston consists of several Historic neighborhoods to include Houston Heights, Near Northside, The Fifth Ward, The Historic Sixth Ward, Kashmere Gardens, Trinity Gardens, Homestead, Acres Homes, the East Aldine District and Greenspoint. Residents of these neighborhoods commonly refer to this area as \" Northside \" Many suburban Houstonians confuse the term to be also associated with the suburbs of North Houston such as Klein, Texas, Spring, FM 1960 or The Woodlands. The Northside along with other neighborhoods inside 610 have recently become the focus of Gentrification in an effort to tear down historic homes to make room for modern living to accommodate the influx of young professionals drawn to the Downtown/Inner 610 Loop area. The Houston Light Rail is extending its route that will head north from the University of Houston–Downtown (UHD) along North Main St and Fulton St. The Northside consists primarily of Hispanic and African Americans with the exception of The Houston Heights neighborhood which has a large Caucasian presence. Notable residents of the Northside include Politician Barbara Jordan, Singer Kenny",
"confuse the term to be also associated with the suburbs of North Houston such as Klein, Texas, Spring, FM 1960 or The Woodlands. The Northside along with other neighborhoods inside 610 have recently become the focus of Gentrification in an effort to tear down historic homes to make room for modern living to accommodate the influx of young professionals drawn to the Downtown/Inner 610 Loop area. The Houston Light Rail is extending its route that will head north from the University of Houston–Downtown (UHD) along North Main St and Fulton St. The Northside consists primarily of Hispanic and African Americans with the exception of The Houston Heights neighborhood which has a large Caucasian presence. Notable residents of the Northside include Politician Barbara Jordan, Singer Kenny Rogers, Activist Mickey Leland, Rapper Slim Thug and Boxer George Foreman. The Energy Corridor is a district that lies along Memorial Drive and Eldridge Parkway in west Houston. The district is loosely bound by the area just north of IH-10 (the Katy Freeway) and Westheimer to the south, and extends from Kirkwood Road to the east and Fry Road to the West. The area is defined by many oil industry related companies, residential neighborhoods, restaurants and parks. Midtown, located immediately south of downtown, is a recently redeveloped area with many newly constructed apartments and condominiums. The area is also home to Little Saigon, the center of the city's Vietnamese American commerce and businesses. Midtown is roughly bounded by I-45 on the north, SH-288 on the east, I-69/US-59 on the south, and Bagby Street on the west. Midtown is an official State of Texas Cultural Arts and Entertainment District, as of 2012. Uptown is Houston's second-largest business district and home to the world-famous Williams Tower. The Williams Tower is said to be the tallest building outside of a CBD. The District is home to Houston's tallest condominium towers. Uptown has headquarter and subsidiary locations of Fortune 500 companies, high-end retailers, and local and international fashion designers. Actual residents do not use the term Uptown. That is reserved for city officials and/or realtors. The Texas Medical Center, about three miles (5 km) south of the Midtown area is the largest medical complex in the world. Bordering the Texas Medical Center are Reliant Park to the south and the Rice University/Rice Village area to the west. The Museum District comprises more than 20 institutions, Hermann Park, the Houston Zoo and the Miller Outdoor Theatre. It is one of the most visited museum districts in the country. The Museum District covers a radius around Mecom Fountain in Hermann Park. When Houston was established in 1837, the city's founders divided it into political geographic districts called \"wards.\" The ward designation is the progenitor of the nine current-day Houston City Council districts. Much of the predominantly African American First Ward was demolished and renovated as part of a gentrification effort. Much of the district is bordered by Houston Avenue, Interstates 10 and 45, and Washington Avenue. Because of rising land values, houses formerly located in Third Ward, Neartown, the West End and West University Place were relocated from their former land parcels and rehabilitated. The Second Ward, located east of downtown, was developed in the early 20th century. The Second Ward is predominantly a Hispanic community. The area has been undergoing gentrification due to its close proximity to downtown and entertainment venues. In the mid-to-late 2000s upper middle class residents moved into this East End area to take advantage of houses that are less expensive than west side houses. Second Ward is located in the East End district and is one of Houston's oldest neighborhoods. The predominantly African American Third Ward, southeast of downtown, was home to one of the most affluent African American communities in the South after World War I. It is also where Texas Southern University and University of Houston are located. The Third Ward lies within two city council districts (D and I). The Fourth Ward, known as Freedmen's Town for the freed slaves that settled there after the United States Civil War, was the first and most prominent African American community in Houston. It is home to the first campus of Booker T. Washington High School which was later moved to Independence Heights in northern Houston. Historically, the ward has been among the poorest areas of the inner-city, but is undergoing extensive gentrification because of its proximity to downtown. The ward included the Allen Parkway Village housing project, which was redeveloped into the Historic Oaks at Allen Parkway Village. The Freedmen's Town Historical District was created in 1988. Today, about 40 percent of the original wood-frame homes remain in the ward. The Fifth Ward is another predominantly African American community originally settled by freed slaves. It too is undergoing gentrification. A section of the Fifth Ward, Frenchtown, once held the center of the Creole community in Houston . The Sixth Ward is bounded by Memorial Drive to the south, Glenwood Cemetery to the west, Washington Avenue to the north, and Houston Avenue to the east. It was carved out of the Fourth Ward in 1877 as a residential area. There are many examples of Greek revival, Victorian, and Classical Revival architecture in the neighborhood, but due to extensive gentrification many are being demolished in favor of modern housing. The Greenway Plaza business district is west of Midtown and southwest of Downtown Houston. The district is home to Lakewood Church, the country's largest megachurch. Neartown is an area located in west-central Houston, Texas and is one of the city's major cultural areas. The location has a distinctive character of eccentricity and a diverse population. The eastern–southeastern portion of Neartown (colloquially referred to as Montrose) is the center of Houston's gay and lesbian community, and known for its vintage shops, 1950s-style eateries and street art. The Neartown area traditionally hosted the Westheimer Street Festival, a colorful community gathering that was ended mostly due to gentrification. It is also the location of the Menil Collection and the University of Saint Thomas. The historic Houston Heights, near downtown, has the highest point of elevation in the city. Like the smaller Woodland Heights neighborhood just to its east, it was originally a separate, independent suburb connected to Houston by streetcar. It was incorporated in 1891 and consolidated into the city of Houston in 1919. Even today it retains a ban on liquor sales and is a popular area for antique shopping. Like the neighboring Neartown, Houston Heights has long been a popular place for the artistic and gay and lesbian communities to live. Like other neighborhoods, the Heights has been experiencing gentrification pressures as the inner-loop grows, but residents concerned with historic preservation have resisted through the use of deed restrictions. Many of the Heights' Victorian houses and Craftsman bungalows are in high demand, especially those that have been remodeled. The Houston Heights is also home to the ArtCar Museum, a tourist attraction. River Oaks is the city's most affluent area, often compared to Beverly Hills. Beyond Houston, it is the wealthiest neighborhood in the entire state and is home to many celebrities and political figures. Situated as it is between downtown and Uptown, River Oaks is a collection of mansions in a sea of high-rise apartments and lofts. Near and partially blending into River Oaks, the areas of Highland Village and Upper Kirby are home to many high-end shopping and dining venues. To the west is the Memorial Area. The zip code for Memorial (77024) is the sixth wealthiest in Texas. It contains the largest of a series of affluent municipalities separate from but surrounded by the city of Houston, known as the",
"remodeled. The Houston Heights is also home to the ArtCar Museum, a tourist attraction. River Oaks is the city's most affluent area, often compared to Beverly Hills. Beyond Houston, it is the wealthiest neighborhood in the entire state and is home to many celebrities and political figures. Situated as it is between downtown and Uptown, River Oaks is a collection of mansions in a sea of high-rise apartments and lofts. Near and partially blending into River Oaks, the areas of Highland Village and Upper Kirby are home to many high-end shopping and dining venues. To the west is the Memorial Area. The zip code for Memorial (77024) is the sixth wealthiest in Texas. It contains the largest of a series of affluent municipalities separate from but surrounded by the city of Houston, known as the Villages, which include Hedwig Village, Bunker Hill Village, Hunters Creek Village, Piney Point Village, Hilshire Village, and Spring Valley Village\". Clear Lake City is a master-planned community located in southeast Houston. It is home to the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, the University of Houston–Clear Lake and a very large upper-middle class Asian American community. The area was annexed into the city of Houston in 1979. League City, just south of this area, is home to a few water-side resorts. To the northeast is the master-planned community of Kingwood, which was annexed by the city of Houston in 1996. Kingwood is the largest master-planned community in Harris County. In addition to the \"island cities\" of Bellaire, West University Place, Southside Place and the Memorial Villages, there are several communities not part of Houston that are important to the metropolitan area. Pasadena is Houston's most populous suburb and the former location of \"Gilley's\", the honky-tonk bar that inspired the hit 1980 movie Urban Cowboy, which was filmed in Pasadena. Because of its location skirting the ship channel where most of the city's refineries are located, Pasadena is considered the backbone of Houston's enormous petrochemical complex. The nearby cities of Baytown, La Porte, which is home to the San Jacinto Monument, and Channelview are also host to many refineries and chemical plants. Other nearby cities are Deer Park, Galena Park, and South Houston. Katy is about 30 minutes west of downtown. Manylive between Katy and Houstonthose areas have \"Katy\" addresses and are referred to as the \"Katy Area\", while the city proper is known as \"Old Katy\". Because of this, the \"Greater Katy\" area has a population of over 250,000. Several developments are located in this area, including Cinco Ranch, Kelliwood, and various other communities. Much of the Katy area borders the western portion of George Bush Park, and it is home to Katy Mills Mall. The Katy area also stretches into northern Fort Bend County as well as southeast Waller County. Cypress is an unincorporated area about 30 minutes northwest of downtown. Originally a grouping of rice farms and forest, this area has seen tremendous growth since the 1980s, almost all of it single-family housing. Cypress is also home of Cy-Fair ISD, metro Houston's second-largest school district. Other cities to the northwest are Jersey Village, a bedroom community at the intersection of Beltway 8 and the Northwest Freeway, and Tomball, a city of around 25,000 at the edge of Harris County. Between Cypress and Katy lies Bridgeland, a large development in the early stages of construction. At completion, the developers expect a population of 65,000 in the area. Humble, Texas is a town northeast of Downtown, adjacent to Bush Intercontinental Airport. Humble area has a sizable population, which includes Atascocita. While the city of Humble itself has a high crime rate, the area is one of the fastest and safest areas in Houston. Sugar Land is a city southwest of Houston in northeast Fort Bend County, and is named for the former Imperial Sugar refinery. It is home to a number of international energy, software and product firms. It also is one of the fastest-growing and wealthiest cities in the state due to the numerous master-planned communities in the area, such as First Colony, New Territory, Greatwood, Sugar Creek, Sugar Lakes, Avalon, and Riverstone. Sugar Land has the most master-planned communities within Fort Bend County, which is home to the largest number of master-planned communities in the nation. Sugar Land ranked as the hottest place to live within the state of Texas and was third in the United States for 2006 according to \"Money\" magazine, with the city receiving honors for its quality government services, affordable housing, and diversity (around one-quarter of Sugar Land's residents are Asian-American). Stafford lies between Sugar Land and Houston, straddling Fort Bend and Harris counties. Stafford is home to many corporate campuses due to the lack of a municipal property tax. The Stafford Municipal School District, run by the city, is the only school district in Texas run by a municipal government. In 1890, the land that now comprises Missouri City was advertised for sale in St. Louis, Missouri and surrounding areas as \"a land of genial sunshine and eternal summer.\" Despite all the efforts to appeal to settlers from the \"north\", the first actual settlers came from Arlington, Texas – between Dallas and Fort Worth – in early 1894. Partially within Harris County, but mostly in neighboring Fort Bend County, the city boasts a large African American population. \"Mo City\", as it is sometimes called, has experienced significant \"white flight\". Most of this white flight has occurred in the northeastern portions of the city which are now predominantly black, and master-planned communities within the city such as Quail Valley and Lake Olympia boast significant white populations, and some of these communities have pockets of African-American and Asian-American residents. Sienna Plantation, an unincorporated community within Missouri City's extraterritorial jurisdiction, is culturally one with Missouri City. Pearland is a city located south of Houston in Brazoria County with a small portion in Harris County. Pearland is the fastest-growing city in Brazoria County – it has increased from about 19,000 to 39,000 residents in the 1990s alone (based on 2000 U.S. Census figures). It has since increased from 39,000 to 82,000 since 2000. It is home to companies such as Weatherford and Aggreko. It is the closest suburb to Downtown Houston and the Texas Medical Center (about away), which attracts professionals from the oil, gas, energy, medical and aerospace industries. Some of the master-planned communities found in the area are Silverlake, Silvercreek, and Shadow Creek Ranch. The Woodlands is a large master-planned community about north of Downtown Houston in Montgomery County. It is one of the largest and most popular master-planned communities in the country. Most of The Woodlands lies in the city of Houston's extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) and the city limits of Shenandoah. Negotiations are under way with Houston and Conroe to the north to release The Woodlands from these ETJs and some in the community want The Woodlands to become a full city itself. A popular day trip may include Galveston to visit Moody Gardens or the sandy beach. Before near destruction in 1900 Galveston was larger and wealthier than Houston, dubbed \"The Wall Street of the Southwest\" and on par with New Orleans as the Gulf Coast's premier city. Galveston is also home to the new Schlitterbahn Waterpark. The waterpark is located across the street from Moody Gardens. Galveston's vulnerability on a narrow barrier bar island led to the creation of the Port of Houston, made by dredging the shallow Buffalo Bayou and Galveston Bay to form a protected port some 40 miles (64 km) inland of the open Gulf and less than 10 miles (16 km) from Houston's central business district. Beach houses owned by Houstonians have sprung up in other cities along the Gulf of Mexico's shoreline. Another",
"day trip may include Galveston to visit Moody Gardens or the sandy beach. Before near destruction in 1900 Galveston was larger and wealthier than Houston, dubbed \"The Wall Street of the Southwest\" and on par with New Orleans as the Gulf Coast's premier city. Galveston is also home to the new Schlitterbahn Waterpark. The waterpark is located across the street from Moody Gardens. Galveston's vulnerability on a narrow barrier bar island led to the creation of the Port of Houston, made by dredging the shallow Buffalo Bayou and Galveston Bay to form a protected port some 40 miles (64 km) inland of the open Gulf and less than 10 miles (16 km) from Houston's central business district. Beach houses owned by Houstonians have sprung up in other cities along the Gulf of Mexico's shoreline. Another tourist hot spot is Kemah where visitors see the Kemah Boardwalk, which has many seafood restaurants and local tourist attractions. Kemah is surrounded by Galveston Bay to the east and Clear Lake Shores (a brackish-water boater's paradise with open pass through to Galveston Bay) to the west. Five other cities lay along Interstate 45 on mainland Galveston County. League City, is the largest city in the county surpassing Galveston between 2000 and 2005, and the northernmost city in the county, with parts of it extending into Harris County. Dickinson, La Marque, Friendswood, and Texas City make up the other remaining cities in the county. Geographic areas of Houston The geographic areas of Houston are generally classified as either being inside or outside Interstate 610, known as the \"Loop.\" Inside the loop generally encompasses the Central"
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"Embassy of Cape Verde in Washington, D.C. The Embassy of Cape Verde in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of the Republic of Cape Verde to the United States. It is located at 3415 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Embassy Row neighborhood. The Ambassador is Dr Carlos Wahnon Veiga. The home was built in 1911 for Representative Joseph W. Babcock, chairman of the United States House Committee on the District of Columbia, by architect Arthur B. Heaton, who also built several distinguished residences in the area. After changing ownership several times, the house was purchased by the Republic of Cape Verde in 1982 and has since served as their embassy. Embassy of Cape Verde in Washington, D.C. The Embassy of Cape Verde in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of the Republic of Cape Verde to the United States. It is located at 3415 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Embassy Row neighborhood. The Ambassador is Dr Carlos Wahnon Veiga. The home was built in 1911 for Representative Joseph W. Babcock, chairman of the United States House Committee on the District of Columbia, by architect Arthur B. Heaton, who also built several distinguished residences in the area."
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"Stephen McCarthy (soccer) Stephen Michael McCarthy (born July 21, 1988 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a former American soccer player who previously played for San Antonio FC in the United Soccer League. McCarthy played youth soccer with the Dallas Texans 88'. Former teammates include Andre Akpan, Ross LaBauex, Jonathan Villanueva and Omar Gonzalez. This team also won three National Championships along with being the only American team to win the Dallas Cup Super Group. During that year both Manchester United and Real Madrid took part in the international tournament. McCarthy attended Nolan Catholic High School in Fort Worth, Texas. During his senior year along with leading Nolan Catholic to a State Championship, he was also awarded the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools Division I Offensive Player of the Year. As well as being recognized as an All-State selection (2006). McCarthy played college soccer at Santa Clara University, and later transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also played USL Premier Development League for the DFW Tornados and then the Carolina Dynamo in the following year. McCarthy was drafted in the second round (24th overall) of the 2011 MLS SuperDraft by New England Revolution. He made his professional debut on March 20, 2011, in the Revs' first game of the 2011 MLS season against Los Angeles Galaxy, and scored his first professional goal on April 2 in a 1-1 tie with the Portland Timbers. McCarthy represented the U.S. at the Under-20 level. In 2007, he played for the U.S. Under-18’s at the Pan-American Games held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Stephen McCarthy (soccer) Stephen Michael McCarthy (born July 21, 1988 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a former American soccer player who previously played for San Antonio FC in the United Soccer League. McCarthy played youth soccer with"
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"Ramagundam railway station Ramagundam railway station (station code:RDM) Ramagundam railway station is the most busiest station in Kazipet-Balharshah section of Secunderabad division, and it is located in Peddapalli district of Telangana. The station is well connected by rail to all parts of India. 97 trains arrive at, or depart from, the station, daily, transporting over eighteen thousand (18,000) passengers daily to their destinations across the country, and also serves Ramagundam, Godavarikhani areas. It is under the jurisdiction of Secunderabad railway division of South Central Railway. With the completion of the Kazipet-Balharshah link in 1929, Chennai was directly linked to Delhi. Mainly this station surroundings has urban population passengers crowd is huge to this station with surrounding towns are Godavarikhani, Manthani, and Peddapalli.It's known \"Grandtrunk line\".Mostly this station have maximum train halts passing through this main line. The Balharshah-Ramagundam sector in 1987–88 was electrified. This Station is famous for MGR (Merry go round) system I.e., goods or coal carriage trains continuously runs and overhauls at this station and it has coach Maintenance depot [RDM]. A new railway line has been approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs between Balharshah and Kazipet. The new line is extremely useful from goods loading point of view with FCI at Jammikunta, Kesoram Cement at Raghavapuram, Thermal Power Stations and SCCL at Ramagundam in Telangana, and Cement Chandrapur in Maharashtra. This will facilitate both the passenger traffic and goods movement that include cement, coal and food. Survey for new route from Manuguru to Ramagundam is completed but waiting for budget allocation from central government. Ramagundam railway station Ramagundam railway station (station code:RDM) Ramagundam railway station is the most busiest station in Kazipet-Balharshah section of Secunderabad division, and it is located in Peddapalli district of Telangana. The station is well connected by rail to all parts"
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"Ogema Township, Pine County, Minnesota Ogema Township is a township in Pine County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 298 at the 2000 census. Ogema is a name derived from the Ojibwe language meaning \"chief\". According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 48.0 square miles (124.4 km²), of which 46.8 square miles (121.3 km²) is land and 1.2 square miles (3.2 km²) (2.54%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 298 people, 103 households, and 77 families residing in the township. The population density was 6.4 people per square mile (2.5/km²). There were 207 housing units at an average density of 4.4/sq mi (1.7/km²). The racial makeup of the township was 45.64% White, 3.02% African American, 48.99% Native American, 0.34% Asian, and 2.01% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.34% of the population. There were 103 households out of which 35.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.6% were married couples living together, 21.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.2% were non-families. 20.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.87 and the average family size was 3.26. In the township the population was spread out with 31.5% under the age of 18, 9.4% from 18 to 24, 24.2% from 25 to 44, 25.8% from 45 to 64, and 9.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 108.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.5 males. The median income for a household in the township was $28,750, and the median income for a family was $33,500. Males had a median income of $23,750 versus $30,333 for females. The per capita income for the township was $13,042. About 25.0% of families and 34.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 62.7% of those under the age of eighteen and 5.6% of those sixty five or over. Ogema Township, Pine County, Minnesota Ogema Township is a township in Pine County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 298 at the 2000 census. Ogema is a name derived from the Ojibwe language meaning \"chief\". According to the United States Census"
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"Four-velocity In physics, in particular in special relativity and general relativity, a four-velocity is a four-vector in four-dimensional spacetime that represents the relativistic counterpart of velocity, which is a three-dimensional vector in space. Physical events correspond to mathematical points in time and space, the set of all of them together forming a mathematical model of physical four-dimensional spacetime. The history of an object traces a curve in spacetime, called its world line. If the object is massive, so that its speed is less than the speed of light, the world line may be parametrized by the proper time of the object. The four-velocity is the rate of change of four-position with respect to the proper time along the curve. The velocity, in contrast, is the rate of change of the position in (three-dimensional) space of the object, as seen by an observer, with respect to the observer's time. The value of the magnitude of an object's four-velocity, i.e. the quantity obtained by applying the metric tensor to the four-velocity , that is , is always equal to , where is the speed of light. Whether the plus or minus sign applies depends on the choice of metric signature. For an object at rest its four-velocity is parallel to the direction of the time coordinate with . A four-velocity is thus the normalized future-directed timelike tangent vector to a world line, and is a contravariant vector. Though it is a vector, addition of two four-velocities does not yield a four-velocity: the space of four-velocities is not itself a vector space. The path of an object in three-dimensional space (in an inertial frame) may be expressed in terms of three spatial coordinate functions \"x\"(\"t\") of time \"t\", where \"i\" is an index which takes values 1, 2, 3. The three coordinates form the 3d position vector, written as a column vector The components of the velocity formula_2 (tangent to the curve) at any point on the world line are Each component is simply written In Einstein's theory of relativity, the path of an object moving relative to a particular frame of reference is defined by four coordinate functions \"x\"(\"τ\"), where μ is a spacetime index which takes the value 0 for the timelike component, and 1, 2, 3 for the spacelike coordinates. The zeroth component is defined as the time coordinate multiplied by \"c\", Each function depends on one parameter \"τ\" called its proper time. As a column vector, From time dilation, the differentials in coordinate time \"t\" and proper time \"τ\" are related by where the Lorentz factor, is a function of the Euclidean norm \"u\" of the 3d velocity vector formula_9: The four-velocity is the tangent four-vector of a timelike world line. The four-velocity formula_11 at any point of world line formula_12 is defined as: where formula_14 is the four-position and formula_15 is the proper time. The four-velocity defined here using the proper time of an object does not exist for world lines for objects such as photons travelling at the speed of light; nor is it defined for tachyonic world lines, where the tangent vector is spacelike. The relationship between the time \"t\" and the coordinate time \"x\" is defined to be related to coordinate time by Taking the derivative of this with respect to the proper time \"τ\", we find the \"U\" velocity component for \"μ\" = 0: and for the other 3 components to proper time we get the \"U\" velocity component for \"μ\" = 1, 2, 3: where we have used the chain rule and the relationships Thus, we find for the four-velocity formula_11: Written in standard four-vector notation this is: where formula_23 is the temporal component and formula_24 is the spatial component. In terms of the synchronized clocks and rulers associated with a particular slice of flat spacetime, the three spacelike components of four-velocity define a traveling object's proper velocity formula_25 i.e. the rate at which distance is covered in the reference map frame per unit proper time elapsed on clocks traveling with the object. Unlike most other four-vectors, the four-velocity has only 3 independent components formula_26 instead of 4. The formula_27 factor is a function of the three-dimensional velocity formula_9. When certain Lorentz scalars are multiplied by the four-velocity, one then gets new physical four-vectors that have 4 independent components. For example: Effectively, the formula_27 factor combines with the Lorentz scalar term to make the 4th independent component Using the differential of the four-position, the magnitude of the four-velocity can be obtained: in short, the magnitude of the four-velocity for any object is always a fixed constant: The norm is also: so that: which reduces to the definition the Lorentz factor. Four-velocity In physics, in particular in special relativity and general relativity, a four-velocity is a four-vector in four-dimensional spacetime that represents the relativistic"
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"Stanley Drucker Stanley Drucker (born February 4, 1929) is an American clarinetist. Born in Brooklyn, New York, of Ukrainian ancestry, Drucker began clarinet studies at age ten with Leon Russianoff, and remained his student for five years. He attended the High School of Music & Art (now the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, at Lincoln Square). Drucker entered the Curtis Institute of Music at age 15, but left Curtis after one year, recruited to the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. After a year, he worked with the Busch Little Symphony, organized by Adolf Busch. He then became principal clarinetist of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1948, Drucker won a post in the New York Philharmonic clarinet section. In 1960, he became the orchestra's principal clarinetist, where he remained for the duration of his career. His time with the New York Philharmonic has included nearly 150 solo appearances with the orchestra. He gave the first performances of clarinet concerti by John Corigliano and William Bolcom, both of these commissions for the New York Philharmonic. Drucker has appeared on two recordings of the Corigliano Clarinet Concerto, a studio recording conducted by Zubin Mehta and a live recording of the 1977 premiere performance conducted by Leonard Bernstein. In January 2008, the New York Philharmonic announced Drucker's retirement from the orchestra at the close of the 2008–2009 season, for a total of 61 years with the orchestra and 49 years as its principal clarinet. His final solo appearance with the orchestra was in June 2009, in performances of the clarinet concerto of Aaron Copland. Drucker is highly regarded for his musicianship and his longevity of service with the New York Philharmonic, totaling 10,200 concerts, such as expressed by Gustavo Dudamel in November 2007: \"He's a legend. The history of the orchestra is in him.\" On Thursday, June 4, 2009, Drucker was awarded a Guinness World Record for longest career as a clarinetist after his performance of Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto with the orchestra. Guinness thus logged his Philharmonic career at \"62 years, 7 months and 1 day as of June 4, 2009\". In 2010, Stanley Drucker received an honorary doctorate in music from the University of Florida. Drucker is married to Naomi Drucker, former principal clarinetist of the North Carolina Symphony and current adjunct assistant professor of music at Hofstra University. They have two children, Leon, who is the double bassist for The Stray Cats under the stage name of \"Lee Rocker\", and Rosanne, an alternative-country singer–songwriter. Drucker has the distinction of being one of the few living orchestral musicians whose biography appears in the \"New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians\". Stanley Drucker Stanley Drucker (born February 4, 1929) is an American clarinetist. Born in Brooklyn, New York, of Ukrainian ancestry, Drucker began clarinet studies at age ten with Leon Russianoff, and remained his student for five years. He attended the High School of Music & Art (now the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art"
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"Gordie Gosse Gordon Leonard Gosse, Jr. (born 1955) is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral districts of Cape Breton Nova and Sydney-Whitney Pier in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2003 to 2015. He was a member of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party. A native of Sydney's Whitney Pier neighbourhood, Gosse is a third generation steel worker, having worked for Sydney Steel Corporation for 18 years. An amateur athlete, Gosse also worked as a youth worker and served as Executive Director of the Whitney Pier Youth Club for 10 years. Gosse was an active member of the Whitney Pier Memorial Junior High School Advisory Council, the Youth Resource Association, the Health Studies Working Group (Joint Action Group), the Community Health and Safety Advisory Committee, and the Board of Directors of the local YMCA. In 1999, Gosse successfully ran for the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party nomination in the riding of Cape Breton Nova, but was defeated by incumbent Paul MacEwan in the 1999 provincial election. In 2003, Gosse was again nominated as the NDP candidate in the riding. He was elected in the 2003 provincial election, achieving 44.54% of the vote and winning by a margin of 74 votes. He was re-elected in the 2006 provincial election with 60.92%, an increase of 2521 votes. He was re-elected in the 2009 provincial election with 71.07% and a margin of 3186 votes over his closest challenger. The riding of Cape Breton Nova was abolished following the 2012 electoral boundaries review. Gosse was re-elected in the new riding of Sydney-Whitney Pier in the 2013 provincial election with 49.37% and a margin of 550 votes over his closest challenger. On January 19, 2011, Gosse was elected Speaker of the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia and held that position until October 24, 2013. While serving as Speaker, Gosse also served as Chair of the House of Assembly Management Commission as well as Chair of the Assembly Matters Committee. In appreciation for his work as Speaker of the House, Gosse was gifted a pair of boxing gloves signed by Canadian former heavyweight boxing champ, George Chuvalo from his legislature colleagues in all three political parties. While serving as Speaker, Gosse implemented a strict policy banning the use of mobile devices, including smart phones in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly during Question Period, stating that he would order the Sergeant-at-Arms to confiscate any device should the rule be violated. On April 2, 2015, Gosse announced his resignation as MLA. Gordie Gosse Gordon Leonard Gosse, Jr. (born 1955) is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral districts of Cape Breton Nova and Sydney-Whitney Pier in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2003 to 2015. He was a member of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party. A native of Sydney's Whitney Pier neighbourhood, Gosse is a third generation steel worker, having worked for Sydney Steel Corporation for 18 years. An amateur athlete, Gosse also worked as a youth worker and served as Executive"
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"Flowering Plants of Africa Flowering Plants of Africa is a series of illustrated botanical magazines akin to \"Curtis's Botanical Magazine\", initiated as Flowering Plants of South Africa by I. B. Pole-Evans in 1920. It is now published by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) in Pretoria. The magazine depicts and describes flowering plants from Africa and its neighbouring islands. The first volumes were printed in England by L. Reeve & Co. These first illustrations were done in black and white by lithography, zinc plates later replacing the stone. A copy of the original water colour guided teams of hand-colour artists who applied paint where needed. Hand-colouring was a family craft carried on from generation to generation. Single colour printing was occasionally done to help speed the process, especially when skilled hand-colour artists were in short supply, as happened in World War II. Notable botanical artists who have contributed to its pages include Kathleen Annie Lansdell, Gillian Condy, Fay Anderson, Auriol Batten, Rosemary Holcroft, Betty Connell, Cythna Letty (who was responsible for over 700 plates), Barbara Pike and Ellaphie Ward-Hilhorst. The numbers are printed in soft cover measuring 250 x 190 mm. The series was edited by I. B. Pole-Evans (1921-1939), Edwin Percy Phillips (1940-1944), Robert Allen Dyer (1945-1964) and L. E. W. Codd. Flowering Plants of Africa Flowering Plants of Africa is a series of illustrated botanical magazines akin to \"Curtis's Botanical Magazine\", initiated as Flowering Plants of South Africa by I. B. Pole-Evans in 1920. It is now published by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) in Pretoria. The magazine depicts and describes flowering plants from Africa and its neighbouring islands. The first volumes were printed in England by L. Reeve & Co. These first illustrations were done in black and white by lithography, zinc plates later"
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"Advanced Engine Research Advanced Engine Research, Ltd. (commonly known by the abbreviation AER) is an auto racing engine manufacturer based in Basildon, Essex, England. Established in 1997, AER has developed winning engines for a number of high-profile international race series in sports car, prototype racing, rallying, touring car, and open wheel racing. They have designed engines derived from road car platforms, but their emphasis is on clean sheet designed engines with a focus on electronics and turbochargers. Their engines have raced in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the World Endurance Championship (WEC), the European Le Mans Series (ELMS), the United SportsCar Championship (TUSC), GP3, British Touring Car Championship (BTCC), Nissan/Renault World Series, Grand-Am, Paris Dakar and FIA Sportscar Championship. They have worked with a number of manufacturers including Mazda, Ford, Hyundai, MG/Rover, Nissan, and Toyota. In 2012, AER developed and built Formula One turbo test engines to current rules and in July 2012, AER was chosen as engine partner and supplier to the new GP3 racing series. AER offers a wide variety of technical services for customers, including design and analysis, manufacturing, engine assembly and testing. AER also provides a full package of engineers and personnel for race weekend support as well as electronics through their LifeRacing sister company. LifeRacing develops its own hardware and software including electronic engine controls (ECU), drive-by-wire controllers, and ancillary electronics and has aerospace contracts in addition to its racing activities. AER has experience in a variety of engine technologies, with particular expertise in racing turbocharged engines. CATIA V5 is used for all component design work and there is an in-house prototyping machine shop with 5 axis machining and transient dynamometer equipment for engine testing. The company was founded with an accent on its electronic capabilities to allow it to develop engines of a more sophisticated level for manufactures. This merging of electronic and mechanical aspects of engine design led to their first contract in 1997 with Nissan for British Touring Car engines. AER developed the engine in six months. Since 1997, AER has developed a number of different engine families for customers. Evolution of the Nissan SR20 road car engine tuned for the Supertouring regulations, it was used by Ray Mallock, Ltd. in the works Nissan Primera in the British Touring Car Championship from 1997 to 1999, taking the manufacturers title in 1998 and 1999, and the 1999 drivers title with Laurent Aïello at the wheel. The engine was also used in the Crawford Racing Nissans in the Swedish Touring Car Championship, taking the title in 2000 with Tommy Rustad. With the demise of Supertouring, the AER-tuned SR20 was used in the short-lived World Series Light, a junior division to the Nissan World Series. The AER P25 3.5 liter V6 is based on the production Nissan VQ35 engine as found in the Nissan 350Z. It was extensively re-engineered, originally for use in the Nissan World Series). The changes include a bespoke dry sump conversion, pistons, connecting rods, crankshaft, camshafts and valve gear. The P25 is used in single seat and sportscar applications with power output to 500 HP. The AER P14 is a V6 engine developed from a production Nissan VQ engine. The P14 was homologated for use in sportscars fitting in the SR2 category of the FIA Sportscar Championship. Engines in this series were required to be at a maximum of 3.0 liters and based on production units. Created in 2000, the P03 was AER's first clean sheet engine and was developed for MG/Rover for their Le Mans racing efforts. When they backed away from their Le Mans effort after a year, AER took the engine and developed it into a customer engine, the P07. The P07 was a 2.0 liter inline-4 with a single Garrett turbocharger, producing over 500 HP initially and 550 HP by 2003. The engine ran strongly through 2007 in the American Le Mans Series and Le Mans Series, as well as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, in the LMP2 class. In 2003, Dyson Racing took the ALMS P2 team and driver’s (Chris Dyson) championships with their AER-powered Lola EX257. Launched in 2006, the new P32T moved AER to move to the top of Le Mans Prototype racing. The P32T V8 engine was a bespoke AER design for LMP1 racing and was a 75 degree twin-turbo V8 originally built as a 3.6 liter in 2006 and 2007 and upgraded to 4.0 liters in 2008. Two Garrett turbochargers helped the engine put out more than 650 HP. A naturally aspirated variant, the P32, was designed with a range of 3.4 – 4.2 liters with the 3.4 liter designed for the 2011 LMP1 rules package. The P32T engine project sprang from a conversation Dyson Racing had with AER and during its first season was reliable and quick, winning numerous pole positions. It ran in LMP1 cars competing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the ELMS and ALMS. The engine was designed to take on Audi’s LMP1 3.6 liter twin turbo and its clean sheet design set new standards for size and weight using Formula One technology and weighed only 114 kg. Dyson Racing in America and Chamberlain-Synergy Motorsport in Europe initially used the P32T in 2006, while in 2007 Courage Compétition became a customer while Team Cytosport ran Dyson's former AER-powered prototype. In 2008, Intersport Racing ran the engine in their ALMS LMP1 entries and in 2009 and 2010, both Intersport Racing and Autocon ran the AER engine in ALMS P1 The P41 was the first Mazda engine and was developed in conjunction with Mazdaspeed for use in LMP2. An in-line four-cylinder single-turbocharged 2.0 liter, the MZR-R was debuted by B-K Motorsports at the 2007 12 Hours of Sebring, and B-K ran it through 2008. Dyson Racing took up the Mazda flag in 2009. The four-cylinder P41 was based on the structure of AER’s 3.6 liter twin-turbo P32T V8 engine. In 2010 the P41 was replaced with the new P70 with a new block and cylinder head and increased power for use in LMP1. The engine represented the state of the art in turbocharged engine technology and was designed for the rigors of a 24-hour race. It is the smallest engine in LMP1, but on a per cylinder basis, the engine produces more power than a Formula One engine. In 2011, Dyson Racing swept the championship table in the ALMS P1 category with driver, team and manufacturer championships. Dyson Racing continues to run the engine and for 2013, the engine has been upgraded for wider power and torque curves and is called the P90. The MZR-R was selected to power the new Indy Lights car that will debut in 2015, it will be badged as a Mazda engine. AER engines have won a number of championships and major races: Advanced Engine Research Advanced Engine Research, Ltd. (commonly known by the abbreviation AER) is an auto racing engine manufacturer based in Basildon, Essex, England. Established in 1997, AER has developed winning engines for a number of high-profile international race series in sports car, prototype racing, rallying, touring car, and open wheel racing. They have designed engines derived from road car platforms, but their emphasis is on clean sheet designed"
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"Graziano Mannari Graziano Mannari (born 19 April 1969 in Livorno) is a retired Italian professional footballer, who played as a forward, either as a centre-forward, or as a winger. Throughout his career, Mannari played for 3 seasons (30 games, 3 goals) in the Serie A, for A.C. Milan and Parma F.C. His most memorable matches for Milan came on the 12 March 1989, in a 4–0 league win against Juventus F.C., in which he scored two goals, and in the club's 1988 Supercoppa Italiana victory, in which he also scored. In 1989, he was called up to the Italy national under-21 football team, but remained on the bench for the two games he was on the roster. Graziano Mannari Graziano Mannari (born 19 April 1969 in Livorno) is a retired Italian professional footballer, who played as a forward, either as a centre-forward, or as a winger. Throughout his career, Mannari played for 3 seasons (30 games, 3 goals) in the Serie A, for A.C. Milan and Parma F.C. His most memorable matches for Milan came on the 12 March 1989, in a 4–0 league win against Juventus F.C., in which he scored two goals, and in the club's 1988 Supercoppa"
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"Nidareid train disaster The Nidareid train disaster was a train collision on 18 September 1921 on the Trondhjem–Støren Line railway line, between the stations of Marienborg and Skansen in Trondheim, Norway. The accident occurred the day after the inauguration of the new line to Trondheim, Dovre Line, and one of the trains involved was the inaugural train returning from the celebrations in Trondheim. Six people (all prominent Norwegians) were killed in the crash, the first serious passenger train accident in Norway. The inaugural train had on 17 September transported King Haakon VII and a retinue of followers including prominent politicians from the Norwegian government. The official opening had taken place at Hjerkinn Station which was the highest station on the line. Between there and Trondheim the inaugural train stopped at every station to give the king an opportunity to greet visitors and well-wishers. The train pulled into Trondheim that evening amidst great celebrations, and on Sunday, 18 September the celebrations continued. Although the king would spend a few days in Trondheim, most of the participants at the festivities had business and duties to attend to in Kristiania (now Oslo). An extra night train called \"Litra D\" was arranged for them. The local rail district wanted to schedule this train to depart Trondheim at midnight, just after a scheduled day train (no. 361) was set to arrive after a journey on the Røros Line. In order to get the honored guests home a few minutes earlier, the schedule was altered slightly, leaving Trondheim at 23:45, with the intention of meeting and passing no. 361 at Marienborg station. The extra train consisted of six sleeping cars, sandwiched between a luggage car at the front and the conductor's car at the end. These had also been used in the inaugural train and had doubled as wardrobes for the guests at the line's inauguration. The train was hauled by two NSB Class 30b engines, 364 and 365. A total of 96 passengers were on board this train. The train left Trondheim at 23:54, a few minutes behind schedule. It received an all clear signal as the train passed through Skansen station on its way back to Kristiania. The northbound train no. 361 was on a short hop from Støren to Trondheim. It was carrying passengers who had arrived on the narrow-gauge Røros Line and changed trains for the final, , leg into Trondheim. This train was pulled by engine 182, an NSB Class 21a engine, at the front, and four carriages (a luggage car, a brake van, and two sitting carriages). The crew of no. 361 had boarded at Tynset and been given briefings to inform them of trains which the northbound trains would be meeting en route during the coming week. Among these was an extra train, scheduled for \"night to Monday the 19th\", which all the crew assumed meant Monday night, that is, the next night. Moving all the passengers over to the next train had delayed no. 361, and it was 20 minutes behind schedule when it pulled out of Støren, but with the improved track the driver hoped to make up the lost time. By the time the train reached Selsbak, where they were scheduled to meet southbound train no. 448, they were on schedule. As the train continued northwards the driver kept a lookout for signals on the left side, while the firemen was to look out for signals to the right. Marienborg Station was little more than a short stretch of double track to allow trains to pass each other (the facilities for passenger service was not opened before 1999). The only building at the location was a guards' cabin where the man in charge was to set the points and signal the trains in and out. Usually, there were two men stationed at Marienborg for the scheduled meetings which could be quite hectic for a single person to handle on his own, but on this night, only one person, Peter Wiig, was manning Marienborg for the meeting of trains Litra D and no. 361. Wiig set the points to let no. 361 enter the passing loop, and set the signal there at danger, then set the points so that Litra D could pass through without trouble. Hoping to make the meeting as quick and clean as possible, and realizing that no. 361 might have trouble seeing all the signals and semaphores in the darkness, Wiig used his hand-held signal light to make sure that no. 361 would see an all-clear signal all the way into Marienborg, so that it would not stop prematurely outside the station and delay the meeting. Train no. 361 slowed down as it entered Marienborg, but then to Wiig's horror, the train passed the stop signal, continued through the station and exited on the north end without stopping. In the darkness, the crew on no. 361 had not realized that the green signal which would have marked an \"all clear\" \"out\" of Marienborg was missing, and that the semaphore had been set at \"danger\". The firemen had been distracted by a problem with the engines lubricator, and missed that they did not have \"all clear\" signals through Marienborg. The train manager in the first carriage was also supposed to look out for a manual signal by the station guard as they passed through Marienborg, but he had some trouble with opening and closing the window, and in the seconds lost fumbling with it, he failed to notice that there was no guardsman there. The driver did notice a jolt as the train drove against the points as they left the station, and slowed down slightly to figure out what was going on. Wiig desperately called the next station 900 m to the north, Skansen, ordering them to stop the extra train Litra D, but this train had already passed that station. Collision was now inevitable. The driver on no. 361 was the first to realize that they were on a collision course as he saw the lights of Litra D emerging from the tunnel. The driver of Litra D realized the same only a few seconds before impact. Litra D was in a tunnel and the headlight on the incoming train no. 361 was not particularly bright. When the driver of Litra D noticed what was happening, he also pulled the brakes to slow his train down. At 23:57, the two trains collided just after Litra D had emerged from the tunnel. The large and heavy engines were damaged, but mostly in one piece, engine 182 which had hauled train no. 361 was the most severely damaged of these which sustained a destroyed cylinder. Behind no. 182, the conductor's carriage had been seriously damaged and the train manager was wounded. The great losses took place in the extra train Litra D. The luggage car running behind the two engines was tossed aside, but the second and third cars, sleeping carriages, had been crushed as they bored into one another and tipped over. Crushing of these two cars had dissipated most of the energy, and behind this the wreckage of these two cars, the train was mostly unharmed. The collision had happened next to Hammer's villa, which was used as a temporary hospital for the injured during the night. The King, who remained in Trondheim and also visited the site that night, stayed there until half past four the following morning. The victims who died in the crash were all prominent guests to the inauguration of the Dovre Line. The line was cleared and reopened within the week. In the meantime, trains could use the old track which ran alongside the new track where the accident happened. It was quickly determined that train no. 361 was supposed to wait at Marienborg for Litra D, and a question was then raised why the driver had not done so. Questions were also raised about the wisdom of putting so many important people on a single train, and of adding an extra train meeting on the schedule by pushing the departure time fifteen minutes forward. Four people were charged with the accident and put on trial. These were the train manager Halvor Skott, engineer Martin Øien and fireman Karl Stuevold of train no. 361, as well as Peter Wiig who had manned Marienborg station and was supposed to manage the meeting of the trains there. During the trial, some",
"within the week. In the meantime, trains could use the old track which ran alongside the new track where the accident happened. It was quickly determined that train no. 361 was supposed to wait at Marienborg for Litra D, and a question was then raised why the driver had not done so. Questions were also raised about the wisdom of putting so many important people on a single train, and of adding an extra train meeting on the schedule by pushing the departure time fifteen minutes forward. Four people were charged with the accident and put on trial. These were the train manager Halvor Skott, engineer Martin Øien and fireman Karl Stuevold of train no. 361, as well as Peter Wiig who had manned Marienborg station and was supposed to manage the meeting of the trains there. During the trial, some exonerating factors were presented. Although the crew of no. 361 \"were\" informed in the bulletin briefings at Tynset that there was an extra train scheduled to leave Trondheim, the wording used was \"night to Monday\". Although this phrasing is common in Norway today (it means \"night between Sunday and Monday\"), the term was new and rather unusual in 1921, and had never been used for trains leaving before midnight. The crew misinterpreted it, thinking that the bulletin was informing them of an extra train the \"following\" night. All the four defendants from the Nidareid disaster were acquitted in February 1922. All of them continued to work on the railway, indeed Wiig who manned Marienborg was promoted to station master at another station and fireman Stuevold became a locomotive engineer a few years later. The passengers on the extra train were generally well-insured and most of them eventually received compensation from their insurance companies. In a series of civil trials from 1924 to 1927, NSB was ordered to reimburse the insurance companies since the accident was due to mistakes from the railway company. All the material involved, including the crushed sleeping carriages were eventually rebuilt. An enhanced security system was implemented at Marienborg in 1926. The accident led to additional safety rules to reduce the amount of confusion which might happen. Many of the survivors of the crash were members of the Norwegian parliament (Stortinget), and were more than willing to grant funding for improved safety. The train engineer and train manager now had to have a conference about the upcoming journey. The rail schedule provided to the crew started to include the normal track which the train would enter. Nidareid train disaster The Nidareid train disaster was a train collision on 18 September 1921 on the Trondhjem–Støren Line"
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"1916–17 Blackpool F.C. season The 1916–17 season was Blackpool F.C.'s second season in special wartime football during World War I. They competed in two Football League competitions spread over the full season — the Lancashire Section, Northern Group Principal Competition, for thirty games, and then in the Lancashire Section, Group C, Subsidiary Competition, for a further six games. The club finished in last place, 16th, in the principal competition and 10th in the subsidiary competition. Williamson was the club's top scorer, with ten goals (six in the principal competition, three in the subsidiary and one in other games). Harry Hampton, who scored over 200 goals for Aston Villa between 1904 and 1920, briefly played for Blackpool this season, scoring eight goals in seven league games. The FA Cup was suspended for the duration of the war. For Blackpool, the second wartime season was quite different from the first. With the war escalating, the club's own players were not able to play as much for Blackpool. In addition, Blackburn Rovers decided to play in the league which meant that their players, who had played for Blackpool the previous season, would no longer be available. Blackpool often had to rely on finding players at the last minute for matches; therefore, unlike the first season, Blackpool rarely put out the same side in consecutive matches. Staff and recovering patients from the King's Lancashire Medical Convalescent Hospital (KLMCH) and staff from the Royal Army Medical Corps Depot (RAMC), both based at Squires Gate, provided players throughout the season. The Principal competition for the 1916–17 season consisted of sixteen teams, two more than in the 1915–16 season with the addition of Blackburn Rovers and Port Vale: Blackpool began the campaign on 2 September 1916, with a home match against Preston North End. \"The Seasiders\" team contained only six players who had played for the club in the previous season. The team included Jim Simmons, a Sheffield United player who was on honeymoon in Blackpool. Blackpool won the match 5–1 in front of a crowd of 3,000. By the third game, Blackpool had already used 17 different players, whereas they had used only 19 players throughout the whole of the 1915-16 season. The often-makeshift side suffered five consecutive defeats between 7 October and 4 November before a 1–1 draw at home to Bury on 11 November. However, a week later they lost 11–1 away to Port Vale. Although it is the club's heaviest defeat, it does not count in official records, being a wartime-season game. The club continued to struggle to field a team, and against Stoke City on 25 November began the game with only nine players. Two soldiers were called in at the last minute to join the game, and the side then managed to get a 1–1 draw. Private Williamson, a soldier from Merseyside, made his debut against Oldham Athletic on 2 December, and he went on to become the club's top scorer this season. The next win, only the second of the season following the opening day victory, came on 23 December with a 2–1 home victory over Blackburn Rovers, with Williamson scoring both goals. They won just four more games throughout the remainder of the principal-competition season, suffering further heavy defeats — 7–0 to Burnley on 30 December, when they had only nine players and had to borrow two players from their hosts, and 6–0 to Stockport County on 10 February 1917. However, they ended the season with a 9–0 win over Oldham Athletic on 17 March (including four goals from Hampton). They still finished bottom of the table with 19 points from thirty games. Liverpool were the Principal Competition champions. For the Subsidiary Competition, the Lancashire League was divided into four groups, unlike the 1915-16 season when there were two groups with six teams each (Northern and Southern). The games played were again though amalgamated at the end of the season to give a composite table. Blackpool were placed in Group C which contained four teams: Blackpool's first match in the subsidiary competition was on Christmas Day 1916, even though the Principal Competition was mid-season. They began with a defeat at Burnley. The next match was not until 31 March 1917, away at Preston North End, and another defeat, this time 2–1. Blackpool won two of their six games, both against Blackburn Rovers, beating them 4–1 at Bloomfield Road on 7 April and 3–2 at Ewood Park in the last game of the season on 21 April. In the combined Subsidiary Competition table Blackpool finished 10th, with Rochdale emerging as champions. In the Principal Competition, Blackpool used 54 different players, with a further eight players appearing in the Subsidiary Competition. Booth made the most appearances with 31 (28 in the Principal Competition and three in the Subsidiary Competition), missing just five league games all season. Connor was next with 30 league appearances (24 in the Principal Competition and six in the Subsidiary Competition), followed by Carlisle with 26 (25 in the Principal Competition and one in the Subsidiary Competition) and Bainbridge, with 24 (23 in the Principal Competition and one in the Subsidiary Competition). 1916–17 Blackpool F.C. season The 1916–17 season was Blackpool F.C.'s second season in special wartime football during World War I. 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"Juraj Košút Juraj Košút (also Ďorď, Ďurko, , 12 May 1776 – 31 July 1849) was a Hungarian nobleman, a lawyer and a supporter of the Slovak national movement. He was baptized as Georgius Kosúth on 12 May 1776 in Necpaly (\"Necpál\"). His parents were Pavol and Zuszanna Košút (Kosúth). He had two brothers (Šimon and Ladislav/László) and one sister (Jana). The family had lived for centuries in Košúty (\"Kossut\"), dating back to the 13th century when king Béla IV of Hungary granted them nobility and the feod in Turiec (\"Turóc\") in 1263. The surname means in Slovak \"a billy goat\" and a billy goat was also in their coat of arms. The family was a typical example of provincial gentry in the Kingdom of Hungary and was kindred with other families of the local gentry in the region of Turiec and Liptov (\"Liptó\"). The mother tongue of the Turiec branch of the family (including him and his brother László) was Slovak and also the family archive contains only records in Slovak language together with official Latin documents. His brother László moved from Košúty to Monok and would become the father of Hungarian statesman Lajos Kossuth.() Juraj Košút studied law then he returned to the family estate. On 2 November 1803, he married Anna Zolnensis; the couple had no children. His language skills, legal education and probably also the noble origin opened him many opportunities. He was an assessor in the County Court of Turiec (\"Turóc\"), a lay judge in Liptov (\"Liptó\"), Trenčín (\"Trencsén\") and Orava (\"Árva\") counties and a superintendent of Lutheran Church in Záturčie. The preacher of Záturčie was Ján Kalinčiak, a Slovak nationalist and the father of Ján Kalinčiak – a member of Štúr's movement and a representative of Slovak romantic prose. He became active in the Slovak national movement in 1842 when the leading personality of the movement Ľudovít Štúr required government's approval for publication of Slovak political newspaper. Štúr had to prove sufficient social interest and that the journal would have enough readers. Štúr initially attached a petition signed by priests and seminarists from the Diocese of Nitra, but he did not succeed. In the meantime, nobles in Turiec received information about his activities. They sent him a letter in which they promised \"to bear witness\" about the need for Slovak political newspaper. Surprised Štúr figured out that they were led by \"Košút, the uncle of that angry man from Pest [Lajos Kossuth]\". Košút organized petitions in several waves. The first two (at the end of 1842) were signed by 152 signatories who confirmed their interest in Slovak newspaper (mostly lower nobles and officials). He also noted that he collected signatures only from one part of the county and he could collect much more if necessary. The petitions had a significant impact and according to Štúr's coworker Jozef Miloslav Hurban, they directly influenced Štúr's decision to publish his newspaper in Slovak instead of Slovakized Czech (used as a literal language by Slovak Protestants) and to define a new Slovak language standard instead of Kollár's biblical Czech and Bernolák's standard based on West-Slovak dialect. The new standard was based on Central-Slovak dialects spoken also in Turiec. He began corresponding with Štúr and promised him to make every effort \"for the good of his (own) Slovak nation\". In 1843, he organized the third petition signed by 675 signatories (according to Košút's letter to Pavol Jozefi). The details about this petition are not known, but it should be signed both by Catholic and Protestant Church authorities and the secular authorities including the vice-ispán of Turiec. He promoted a similar petition in the neighboring Liptov. In 1844, the state authorities initiated steps to close the Department of the Czechoslovak Language and Literature in Pressburg (\"Prešporok\", \"Pozsony\", now Bratislava). Slovak activists reacted by fundraising campaigns to save the department. Košút organized the campaign among lower nobles in Turiec, but the department was closed. Štúr was later forced to leave Pressburg and Košút donated a part of the money collected to the Slovak students who decided to move with Štúr to Levoča (\"Lőcse\"). Later, he supported Slovak society Tatrín which played an important role in the Slovak cultural life. In 1845, Štúr finally get a permission to publish a political newspaper (\"Slovenskje národňje novini\") and Košút contributed to the newspaper as a correspondent. Juraj Košút Juraj Košút (also Ďorď, Ďurko, , 12 May 1776 – 31 July 1849) was a Hungarian nobleman, a lawyer and a supporter of the Slovak national movement. He was baptized as Georgius Kosúth on 12 May 1776 in Necpaly (\"Necpál\"). His parents were Pavol and Zuszanna Košút (Kosúth). He had two brothers (Šimon and Ladislav/László) and one sister (Jana). The family had lived for centuries in Košúty (\"Kossut\"), dating back to the 13th century when king"
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"Kathy Lohmer Kathy M. Lohmer (born January 15, 1954) is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota, she represented District 39B, which includes portions of Washington County in the eastern Twin Cities metropolitan area, from 2010-2018. She is the founder of a homeschool cooperative and she and her husband are also small business owners. She was previously a medical office administrator. Lohmer was first elected to the House in 2010 and was re-elected in 2012, 2014, and 2016. She ran for re-election in 2018 but was unseated by Democratic challenger Shelly Christensen. Lohmer is an active volunteer in her community and church. She started support groups for the Spina Bifida Association, and has worked with the Boy Scouts and Courage Youth Sports, an organization that helps disabled kids play a variety of sports, from wheelchair basketball to track and field and floor hockey. She is a \"Blue Star Mom,\" and a member of the Blue Star Mothers Club. Kathy Lohmer Kathy M. Lohmer (born January 15, 1954) is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Republican Party of"
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"Frank Carty Francis Joseph \"Frank\" Carty (3 April 1897 – 10 September 1942) was a leader of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in the fight with the Black and Tans in the Irish War of Independence, and a long-serving Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD). Carty's first escape from confinement came on 26 June 1920, when he was rescued from Sligo Gaol. On 15 February 1921, Carty next escaped from prison in Derry. The rescue party was led by Charles McGuinness. Carty was taken from the city in a coal boat, the Carricklee by the first mate Oskar Norrby a Swede. Following recapture, Frank Carty was later involved in an incident in Glasgow, Scotland when on 4 May 1921, members of the IRA attempted to free him from a prison van in a failed escape attempt. One Inspector was killed by gunfire, and another was wounded. Following the incident, thirteen people were brought to trial, but were acquitted by the jury, which accepted their plea of alibi. Carty was first elected in the 1921 general election to the 2nd Dáil, and was re-elected in eight successive general elections. In common with other TDs opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty, he did not take his seat in the 3rd Dáil or in the 4th Dáil, returning to Leinster House only as a founder member of Fianna Fáil, when he followed Éamon de Valera into the 5th Dáil, taking his seat on 12 August 1927. He remained active in local politics, being elected to Sligo County Council in 1928 for the Tubbercurry area. He was re-elected in August 1942, only a month before his death, after which his Dáil remained vacant until the 1943 general election. Frank Carty Francis Joseph \"Frank\" Carty (3 April 1897 – 10 September 1942) was a leader of the"
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"Kököle Kököle (also called Kökö and Kököle-ish) are 'spirit dolls' of the Zuni Indians. Some live up in the mountains where they search for food, however most live in the \"Great Village\" at the bottom of the mythical Lake of the Dead. The Lake of the Dead exists on another plane of existence beneath Spring Lake at the junction of the Zuni River and the Little Colorado River. Offerings of food are thrown into the rivers just upstream of this junction so that the whirlpools can carry them down to the spirits of the dead. Down below in the \"Great Village,\" the \"Kökö\" live happy lives and dress always in beautifully ceremonial garb, visiting the living only occasionally to bring good luck and rewards for their devotion. For those \"Kököle\" who live in the mountains, however, they perpetually starve because no one can wash offerings down to their plane. These \"Kököle\" in the mountains and the woods are often angry and bring nothing but sorrow to those who encounter them. In the original Zuni Indian myths, the \"Kököle\" were the spirits of children who were drowned after the emergence of people from the underworld as told in the Zuni Creation Story. These children remain in the \"Great Village\" always; however, the rest of the \"Kököle\" in the mountains are people who have died, come back to life, and then returned to the underworld. For them there is no rest and no food. \"Kököle\" also include the spirits of the recently dead. The \"Kököle\" of the recently dead frequently leave the \"Great Village\" to make rain, bring good crops and even bless children with strong lungs. Of the recently dead, those who return upon the death of their loved ones will take them back to the \"Great Village\". Husbands will in this way join their wives and wives their husbands, but children who return to visit their loved ones will be cast out of the Lake of the Dead, to become Uwanammi or water monsters. These children become angry and instead of gentle rain they bring violent storms in their discontent tantrums, attempting to rain their way back into the Zuni river and hence back to the \"Great Village\". \"Kököle\" dolls are not made as idols or fetishes, but rather as teaching tools for children and as fertility charms for older brides. Kököle Kököle (also called Kökö and Kököle-ish) are 'spirit"
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"Mikawashima train crash The was a multiple train crash which occurred on 3 May 1962 near Mikawashima Station in Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan. It involved a freight train and two passenger trains; 160 people were killed. At 21:36, a Mito-bound freight train (No. 287) was approaching to join the main Jōban Line at Mikawashima Station and missed the red signal. A fail-safe mechanism diverted the freight train onto a safety siding, preventing a devastating head-on collision, however the freight train was travelling too fast and derailed in the siding, leaving the locomotive and leading tanker-wagon obstructing the main line. A seven-carriage passenger train (2117H) bound for from left Mikawashima station also at 21:36, and, although it avoided a head-on collision, struck the derailed freight train; resulting in 25 injuries. The passengers used the emergency escape handles and started walking back to the station. The operators in the nearby signal box were too busy dealing with the aftermath of the first collision and failed to notify other traffic on the line. Six minutes after the first collision, an incoming passenger train (2000H) collided with the derailed 2117H and hit many of the passengers escaping from the first collision. The first carriage was smashed and the next three derailed, resulting in 160 deaths and 296 injuries. As a result of the accident, JNR changed its operational policy from \"do not stop trains unless absolutely necessary\" to \"stop trains as soon as an accident happens regardless of its scale.\" An Automatic train stop system to stop trains automatically if they should pass a red signal was introduced to all JNR lines by April 1966. Mikawashima train crash The was a multiple train crash which occurred on 3 May 1962 near Mikawashima Station in Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan. It involved a freight train and two passenger"
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"Walter Mahan Walter Everett \"Red\" Mahan (June 23, 1902 – May 10, 1990) was an American football player. He played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Frankford Yellow Jackets in 1926 NFL season. Mahan won the 1926 NFL championship with the Yellow Jackets. Prior to playing in the NFL, Mahan played college football at West Virginia University. While at West Virginia he was a four-year letterman during which time the Mountaineers lost only three games. In 1922, Mahan helped West Virginia to a 10–0–1 record. This earned the Mountaineers a trip to their first ever bowl game the San Diego East-West Christmas Classic. The game was held on December 22, 1922, in San Diego, California. West Virginia defeated Gonzaga, 21–13. In 1924 Mahan, as a junior, helped the Mountaineers post an 8–1 overall record, totaling 302 points in nine contests, the most of any Eastern squad, and outscored the opposition by nearly a 7–1 margin. Mahan was a first team All-American pick by \"Midweek Pictorial\" and \"Metropolitan News\". Mahan was also named as a third team All-American right guard by Walter Camp, and was selected to the all-Eastern team. In 1925, Mahan captained the Mountaineers to another 8–1 mark. Mahan is also a member of the West Virginia all-time team for 1919 to 1929. He was inducted into the West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame in 1999. After his year with the Yellow Jackets, Mahan went on to a career as a prosecuting attorney in Brooke County, West Virginia. He died in 1990. Walter Mahan Walter Everett \"Red\" Mahan (June 23, 1902 – May 10, 1990) was an American football player. He played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Frankford Yellow Jackets in 1926 NFL season. Mahan won the 1926 NFL championship with the Yellow"
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"Endocrine-Related Cancer Endocrine-Related Cancer is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering cancers in endocrine organs — such as the breast, prostate, pituitary, testes, ovaries, and neuroendocrine system — and hormone-dependent cancers occurring elsewhere in the body. Its scope covers basic, translational, clinical and experimental studies. The journal is published by Bioscientifica on behalf of the Society for Endocrinology. It is also an official journal of the European Society of Endocrinology and the Japanese Hormone and Cancer Society. The editor-in-chief is Charis Eng (Cleveland Clinic) and, according to the ISI Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 5.331. \"Endocrine-Related Cancer\" was founded as \"Reviews on Endocrine-Related Cancer\", the in-house journal of Zeneca (now AstraZeneca) published by its parent company ICI Pharmaceuticals. It was taken over by the Society for Endocrinology in 1994 when it was renamed, and the remit was extended to include a limited number of original research articles to complement the existing reviews. The numbers of research articles gradually increased over time. The editor-in-chief of the journal at the time of the name change and remit extension was Vivian H.T. James, who took the journal’s precursor and set \"Endocrine-Related Cancer\" on a firm footing for development and expansion. Marc Lippman took over leadership in 2000 and managed the fourfold increase in published pages. He also oversaw an impact factor increase from 0.933 in 1999 to 4.597 in 2004. In 2006, \"Endocrine-Related Cancer\" was adopted as an official journal by the European Society of Endocrinology, in 2014 by the Endocrine Society of Australia and in 2015 by the Japan Hormone and Cancer Society. James Fagin held the role of editor-in-chief from 2006 to 2010. During this time the impact factor rose to 5.236. There were four annual issues of the journal from 1994 to 2010. From 2011 to 2015 \"Endocrine-Related Cancer\" was published bimonthly and, as of 2017, is published monthly. \"Endocrine-Related Cancer\" was first published online in March 1998 in PDF format. From September 2004, the online offering was extended to include the HTML full text version of articles and separate figures. All peer-reviewed editorial and review content is free to access from publication. Research articles are under access control for the first 12 months before being made available to the public. During the first 12 months the content is accessible for those at subscribing institutions and members of the Society for Endocrinology and the European Society of Endocrinology. The journal automatically deposits articles to PubMed Central on behalf of authors who are funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), for release 12 months from publication, enabling authors to comply with the NIH Public Access Policy. \"Endocrine-Related Cancer\" is a hybrid open access journal, offering a ‘gold’ open access option whereby authors can pay an article publishing charge upon acceptance to have their article made freely available online immediately upon publication. These articles are automatically deposited into PubMed Central. All journal content is included in the World Health Organization’s HINARI scheme, which offers free or reduced-price access for institutions in certain developing countries to health-related research. The archive of published content from 1994 to 1997 is available to purchase by institutions as part of the Society for Endocrinology Archive. \"Endocrine-Related Cancer\" is abstracted and indexed in: Endocrine-Related Cancer Endocrine-Related Cancer is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering cancers in endocrine organs — such as the breast, prostate, pituitary, testes, ovaries, and neuroendocrine system — and hormone-dependent cancers occurring elsewhere in the body. Its scope covers basic, translational, clinical and experimental studies. The journal is published by Bioscientifica on behalf of the Society for Endocrinology."
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"242nd Mixed Brigade The 242nd Mixed Brigade (), was a short-lived mixed brigade of the Spanish Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Hastily formed in the winter in Catalonia shortly before the end of the war and marred by desertions, it would be one of the last mixed brigades to be established. The decision to establish the 242nd Mixed Brigade was taken towards the end of 1938 in Vic, Catalonia, shortly before the onset of the rebel faction's devastating Catalonia Offensive. During the period of the instruction of the recruits the commanding officer was Militia Major Lucio Doménech Martínez, following which the 242nd Mixed Brigade was hastily sent to the front and the command of the unit went to Militia Major Julio Marín Serrano. In the face of the atmosphere of panic and demoralization that preceded the relentless advance of the Francoist armies towards the heart of Catalonia, the constitution of this brigade was fraught with difficulties, mainly because of the high number of fugitives among the young men that had been conscripted. Like in all of the mixed brigades of the last period of the Spanish republic, the officers were drafted from the reserve. The 242nd Mixed Brigade was sent to the frontline in January 1939 around the time of the Fall of Barcelona on 27 January 1939. Together with the 77th Division —another ill-prepared and hastily established unit— the brigade tried to establish a defensive line along the lower course of the Tordera River in order to halt the powerful advance of the enemy. But practically all other Republican Army units were rushing north towards the French border and the young and inexperienced 242nd Mixed Brigade was not prepared to fight the massive rebel offensive. Thus the eleventh hour resistance effort ended in disaster. On 1 February the brigade was overrun; it quickly lost the nearby towns of Hostalric and Blanes without putting much of a fight and one of its battalions even defected to the enemy as a whole. 242nd Mixed Brigade The 242nd Mixed Brigade (), was a short-lived mixed brigade of the Spanish Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Hastily formed in the winter in Catalonia shortly before the end of the war and marred by desertions, it would be one of the last mixed brigades to be established. The decision to establish the 242nd Mixed Brigade was taken towards the end of"
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"Pat Green Patrick Craven Green (born April 5, 1972 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American Texas Country artist. Active since 1995, he has recorded a total of seven studio albums, including several independent works, three for Republic Records and two for BNA. Fifteen of his singles have charted on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs charts, of which the highest-peaking is the No. 3 \"Wave on Wave\" from his gold-certified album of the same name. Green started his music career as an 18-year-old at Texas Tech playing small gigs at bars and clubs around Lubbock. In 1995, Green independently recorded and released a series of albums produced by Lloyd Maines using money borrowed from his parents. Green did not commit fully to his music career until 1997 when his stepfather fired him from his job as a fuel wholesaler. Green had been counting his money from a weekend of singing and his stepfather knew he would need motivation to fully pursue music as a career. After committing to music, Green drew the attention of Willie Nelson and joined a tour featuring Nelson and several other famous country musicians. Green's appearance at the 1998 Willie Nelson 4 July Picnic was his first step towards nationwide recognition, and he was soon playing sold out shows in Texas. Green was sponsored by Miller Lite and sold more than 250,000 albums, even without signing a major label recording contract. Green's first major-label recorded album, \"Three Days\", repackaged his best pre-major songs and new tracks with modern sound engineering. The album was released to acclaim in 2001. The adventurous, Beatles-influenced \"Wave on Wave\", was released in 2003, with the title track reaching number 3 on the charts by the end of the year. The album featured pop flourishes and sound engineering that was incrementally more compressed than that of \"Three Days\" but dramatically more so than that of his independent releases. The Christian-tinged title track remains Green's top career hit. Green's mid-2000s period aimed to capitalize on his \"Wave on Wave\" commercial achievement. He achieved some critical and popular success but was unable to match his prior success and earned a \"sellout\" label. In late 2004, \"Lucky Ones\" was Green's 3rd and final CD release on the Universal/Republic label. Despite weak label support, the album peaked at number 6 on the U.S. Country charts. Green joined popular country music artists including Keith Urban, Gretchen Wilson, Dave Matthews Band, and Kenny Chesney on major tours. Green released his album \"Cannonball\" in 2006. CMT questioned the album as reaching for the \"uninspired pop sound of today’s Nashville,\" with songs \"starting to sound too much alike\" and \"crossing the line into Nashville pop\" and perhaps not \"honest and natural.\" Green acknowledged that he needed hits to sustain the career that he wanted. In 2008, Green released \"Let Me\", as the first single from what would become his final label-released album, \"What I'm For\". The single reached 12 on the country charts, giving Green his first Top 20 single since \"Feels Just Like It Should\" reached No. 13 in 2006. Initially, \"Country Star\" was released as the second single, but it was withdrawn shortly after the title track (\"What I'm For\") began receiving airplay. \"Country Star\" peaked at 32, and \"What I'm For\" peaked at 28 on the country charts in July 2009. Green parted ways with BNA shortly afterward. Washing out of the industry in 2011, Green announced his return to Texas and independent music. On September 2, 2014, Taste of Country premiered the official lyric video for a new song, \"Girls from Texas\", featuring Lyle Lovett. On September 16, 2014, \"Girls from Texas\" was made available on iTunes. On May 18, 2015, Green released a new single, \"While I Was Away.\" The video, a tribute to long-distance parents, premiered on People.com on May 22. \"While I Was Away\" was inducted into Taste of Country's Showdown Hall of Fame after winning five consecutive fan-voted rounds against artists including Blake Shelton, Dierks Bentley, Cassadee Pope, and David Nail. Green's self-released \"Home\" debuted on digital media on August 14, 2015 and entered on the Top Country Albums chart at No. 5. The album includes appearances from Lyle Lovett, Sheryl Crow, and more. The twelfth single from the album, \"Day One\" was released to Texas radio on May 2, 2016. Green self-released the single \"Drinkin' Days\" on Friday, May 26, 2017. On Green's 46th birthday, April 5, 2018, \"Dancehall Dreamin': A Tribute to Pat Green\" was released. The album features covers of ten Pat Green hits along with commentary about each song. On Friday July 20, 2018 Pat released the new single \"Friday's Comin'\" worldwide. Green was born in San Antonio to Craven Earl Green and Patricia Burgess. He was raised in Waco, Texas, where he attended Vanguard College Preparatory School for grades 7-12. Green's father was a former Air Force officer and stage actor who influenced his son's love of music. His parents divorced when he was seven. His mother later remarried. After high school, Green attended Texas Tech University where he was a member of FarmHouse Fraternity. Green is an ardent fan of Major League Baseball's Texas Rangers. \"I Like Texas,\" a song from his 1995 self-released album, \"Dancehall Dreamer\", has been adopted as the Rangers' victory song. Pat Green Patrick Craven Green (born April 5, 1972 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American Texas Country artist. Active since"
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"Voluta musica Voluta musica, common name the music volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. The species occurs on the mainland Caribbean coast in Colombia and Venezuela, and in the West Indies from the following islands or countries: Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, St. Lucia, Barbados, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Grenada, and Trinidad & Tobago. The maximum reported size of the shell is 115 mm. These medium-sized, very solid, axially ribbed shells are characterized by delicate blackish to reddish brown markings on a creamy background color, with a characteristic series of lines resembling a musical manuscript (hence the common name \"music volute\"). Specimens from the Eastern Caribbean island of Barbados are pink in color (var. \"carneolata\"). Deeper-water Barbados examples trapped alive at around 100 m. depth are orange in color. \"Voluta musica\" is usually found alive in muddy and sandy substrate at depths of 5 m to 28 m., although at Barbados this species has been found with their dorsums dry as they crawl across exposed South Coast reefs at very low tide and have been trapped alive at depths of about 100 m. along the island's West Coast. It is a predatory carnivorous species, as is the case in other Volutidae. It feeds on invertebrates, bivalves, other gastropods and on decayed material. Embryos develop into free-swimming planktonic marine larvae (trocophore) and later into juvenile veligers. Voluta musica Voluta musica, common name the music volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. The species occurs on the mainland Caribbean coast in Colombia and Venezuela, and in the West Indies from the following islands or countries: Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, St. Lucia, Barbados, St. Vincent & the Grenadines,"
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"Julie Lynn Holmes Julie Lynn Holmes (born March 23, 1951 in North Hollywood, California) is an American former figure skater. She won one silver medal and one bronze medal at the World Figure Skating Championships and competed in the 1972 Winter Olympics. She was coached initially by Nancy Rush and then by Carlo Fassi. She skated generally in the shadows of fellow American Janet Lynn, although Holmes had considerably better luck on the world stage than at her own country's championships. She was known for her skill at performing compulsory figures. She generally was beaten by both Karen Magnussen and Janet Lynn in free skating portions, but placed over both in compulsory figure portions, which sometimes allowed her to defeat them. She generally beat Trixi Schuba handily in free skating portions but was behind in compulsory figure portions, and always too far behind to be able to defeat Trixi despite her weaker free skating. Gabriele Seyfert regularly placed above her in both compulsory figure and free skating portions while still competing up until 1970. Despite never defeating Lynn at the U.S Championships, and thus never winning a U.S National title, she beat her and Karen Magnussen to win bronze at the 1970 World Championships and silver in 1971. She was well positioned to win silver due to a strong lead (apart from Schuba who she trailed by a near insurmountable margin) after figures, but a rare disaesterous long program where she placed only 8th and fell a couple times dropped her to 4th behind Trixi Schuba, Karen Magnussen, and Janet Lynn, off the podium. She was criticized by some for copying too closely the exact style of Peggy Fleming, perhaps in part due to being coached by the same person- Carlo Fassi. Holmes retired from competitive skating after the Olympics and toured with Ice Capades. She also skated on the Donny & Marie television series. She currently works as a part-time skating coach. Julie Lynn Holmes Julie Lynn Holmes (born March 23, 1951 in North Hollywood, California) is an American former figure skater. She won one silver medal and one bronze medal at the World Figure Skating Championships and competed in the 1972 Winter Olympics. She was coached initially by Nancy Rush and then by Carlo Fassi. She skated generally in the shadows of fellow American Janet Lynn, although Holmes had considerably better luck on the world stage than at"
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"Malcolm Wilson (rally driver) Malcolm Irving Wilson, OBE (born 17 February 1956) is a British former rally driver and current owner of team and constructor M-Sport. He is the father of former World Rally Championship driver Matthew Wilson. He has also been married to Elaine Wilson since 1982. He has over 20 years experience of rallying at world championship level, much of it with Ford. He drove for three factory teams in the world championship, including MG, in whose Group B Metro 6R4, he shared driving duties with fellow Briton, Tony Pond. He spent several years as Ford's chief test driver, developing new rally cars, including the short lived RS1700T and RS200 models. As a driver, he won two British national titles in the late 1970s and achieved a long-held ambition by winning the British Rally Championship in 1994, all at the wheel of Ford Escorts. He crashed during the 1980 Scottish Rally whilst chasing Hannu Mikkola and Ari Vatanen for the lead, breaking both his ankles and almost ending his career, but amazingly he recovered in time for the RAC Rally at the end of the year. After his driving career, he went on to manage and run the Ford World Rally Team with his M-Sport operation, based at Dovenby Hall near Cockermouth in Cumbria, England. Under his guidance, M-Sport (formerly Malcolm Wilson Motorsport) has become one of the world's leading rallying private teams, with a string of international titles and wins to its credit. The company now employs over 170 people. Their work culminated in 2006 when Wilson led Ford to the World Rally Championship Constructors' title for the first time in 25 years; the team repeated this achievement in 2007. In September 2008, Wilson took part in the \"Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally\", a round of the Scottish Rally Championship centred in Perth in Scotland. He entered the event in a VK Vodka Kick sponsored Ford Escort RS1800 with co-driver Peter Martin. He was one of a number of ex-world and British champions to take part in the event in memory of McRae, who died in 2007. Wilson was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours. Malcolm Wilson (rally driver) Malcolm Irving Wilson, OBE (born 17 February 1956) is a British former rally driver and current owner of team and constructor M-Sport. He is the father of former World"
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"Chocolate USA Chocolate USA was an American indie rock band from Tampa Bay, Florida formed in 1989 as Miss America. The band featured Julian Koster who went on to join The Music Tapes and Neutral Milk Hotel. The band formed as Miss America in 1989 with Koster as singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter, Liza Wakeman (violin) and Keith Block (drums). Soon joined by a succession of bassists, they released debut album \"All Jets Are Gonna Fall Today\" themselves in 1992 with input and performances from engineer George Harris as well as a long list of guests. It was reissued later in 1992 by Bar/None Records. The lo-fi band released a second album under Bar/None entitled \"Smoke Machine\" in 1994, this time with core members Koster, Wakeman, and Block joined by Paul Wells, Alan Edwards, Bill Doss, Eric Harris, and Jesse Rogers, before disbanding for other, ultimately more successful, projects. Their sound can be described as quirky, and containing many different sorts of instrumentation, which is a trait that went with Koster into The Music Tapes and Neutral Milk Hotel; present in their releases are Guitars, Bass Guitars, Standup Basses, Accordions, Concertinas, Rattles, drums, robot sound effects [specifically on \"Smoke Machine\"], organs, toy pianos, banjos, and numerous other instruments. Member Bill Doss was announced dead on July 31, 2012, with the cause of death being a brain hemmorage. Chocolate USA Chocolate USA was an American indie rock band from Tampa Bay, Florida formed in 1989 as Miss America. The band featured Julian Koster who went on to join The Music Tapes and Neutral Milk Hotel. The band formed as Miss America in 1989 with Koster as singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter, Liza Wakeman (violin) and Keith Block (drums). Soon joined by a succession of bassists, they released debut album \"All Jets"
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"Saxondale Hospital Saxondale Hospital was a psychiatric hospital near Radcliffe-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire. The hospital was commissioned to replace the Sneinton Asylum in Nottingham. The foundation stone was laid by Lady Belper, the wife of the chairman of Nottinghamshire County Council, on 25 July 1899. The new building — designed by architect Edgar Purnell Hooley, better known as the inventor of Tarmac — was two stories high, cost £ and had accommodation for 452 patients (226 of each sex). The surrounding the hospital cost £. It was officially opened as the Radcliffe Asylum by Lady Elinor Denison on 24 July 1902. In 1913 extensions were made for 148 patients, which cost £. It was used as a military hospital in the later stages of the First World War from August 1918 to October 1919, to care for shell shocked soldiers. Charlie Chaplin was briefly admitted to the hospital suffering from depression in 1920. It was the site of a strike and occupation in April 1922 when the staff, members of the National Asylum Workers' Union, went on strike in an attempt to resist a reduction in wages. In 1932, two further blocks were erected, each to accommodate 50 female patients. It became known as Saxondale Hospital in 1947 and joined the National Health Service in 1948. In 1955, two further villas were built, one to accommodate 36 females and the other 36 males. A woman alleged that Jimmy Savile lifted her skirt when she was at a disco at the hospital and then aged 14. She was a local resident rather than a patient. Savile had a fundraising association with Saxondale Hospital from 1972 to the early 1980s. The official report on the incident stated, \"There was no reason to doubt that she gave an honest and truthful account of the incident as she recalled it.\" The hospital closed in 1987 and was partly demolished prior to redevelopment of the site which is now a settlement known as Upper Saxondale. Saxondale Hospital Saxondale Hospital was a psychiatric hospital near Radcliffe-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire. The hospital was commissioned to replace the Sneinton Asylum in Nottingham. The foundation stone was laid by Lady Belper, the wife of the chairman of Nottinghamshire County Council, on 25 July 1899. The new building — designed by architect Edgar Purnell Hooley, better known as the inventor of Tarmac — was two stories high, cost £ and had accommodation"
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"Janet Newberry Janet Newberry (born August 6, 1953) is an American former professional tennis player who was active in the 1970s. She is also known by her former married name Janet Newberry-Wright and Janet Wright. She reached the semifinals of the French Open in 1975 and 1977 and the final of the 1973 Wimbledon Championships mixed doubles. Janet Newberry is a stepdaughter of lawyer Edward A. Turville, a former Davis Cup Captain, President of the USTA and a founder of the Florida Lawn Tennis Association in 1949 who served as its first president for five years. Janet married Frank I. Wright, a horse trainer at Belmont Park, television horse racing commentator for CBS and ESPN and World War II veteran, in 1981 and went by the name Janet Newberry Wright. After Wright's death in 1991, she married Ralph Howe, the national grass court 60 & over singles champion, court tennis champion, Yale intercollegiate squash champion, North American singles squash champion, in 1991 and now is known as Janet Newberry Howe. In 1968, Newberry won the USLTA 16-and-under championship. In 1974, she played for the Boston Lobsters of the World Team Tennis league. In 1975, she won the in Bournemouth, reached the semifinals of the French Open, and played for the United States Federation Cup team in doubles, partnering Julie Heldman. In 1976, Newberry beat Martina Navratilova in the first round of the US Open 1–6, 6–4, 6–3. Navratilova said, \"I still consider that loss the worst of my career, at least in the way I responded to it on and off the court.\" Newberry was reported as saying that she had never seen anyone so distraught, and she helped Navratilova calm down afterwards. In 1977, Newberry won the Italian Open after defeating Renáta Tomanová in the final in straight sets, and reached the semifinals of the French Open. In 1984, Newberry achieved her best Grand Slam women's doubles result, reaching the quarterfinals at Wimbledon partnering Renee Blount, losing to Kathy Jordan and Anne Smith 6–0, 6–1. Newberry's highest world ranking was World No. 17. Newberry was manager of British women's national training. She later worked for the Women's Tennis Association. In 2004, she opened an antique shop in St Petersburg, Florida based on her collection of tennis memorabilia. Janet Newberry Janet Newberry (born August 6, 1953) is an American former professional tennis player who was active in the 1970s. She"
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"Pachín Enrique Pérez Díaz (born 28 December 1938), known as Pachín, is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a defender. Born in Torrelavega, Cantabria, Pachín signed for Real Madrid in 1959 from Segunda División club CA Osasuna. He made his La Liga debut on 11 September 1960 in a 0–1 away loss against Atlético Madrid, then proceeded to be a starter in that and the following four seasons. Pachín left the \"Merengues\" in May 1968, having appeared in 218 competitive games and scored two goals. He won 11 major titles during his spell, including seven national championships and the 1960 and 1966 editions of the European Cup, contributing to the latter conquests with eight combined appearances and a total of 32 during his career. Aged nearly 30, Pachín returned to the second level for the 1968–69 campaign, where he represented Real Betis. He retired in 1971 after a stint with amateurs Club Deportivo Toluca, then worked as a manager for 16 years, never in higher than the second tier – his biggest achievement was to promote Hércules CF to the top flight in 1984, even though he only contributed with six matches to that feat. Pachín won eight caps for the Spain national team, during three years. His first came on 15 May 1960 in a 3–0 friendly win over England, and he was selected for the squad that competed at the 1962 FIFA World Cup, appearing against Mexico and Brazil in an eventual group stage exit. Pachín Enrique Pérez Díaz (born 28 December 1938), known as Pachín, is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a defender. Born in Torrelavega, Cantabria, Pachín signed for Real Madrid in 1959 from Segunda División club CA Osasuna. He made his La Liga debut on 11 September 1960 in a 0–1 away"
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"St. Vincent De Paul Catholic Church (Cape Girardeau, Missouri) The St. Vincent De Paul Catholic Church in Cape Girardeau, Missouri is a historic church at 131 South Main Street. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The church was built in the English Perpendicular Gothic Revival style using red brick with sandstone trim on a foundation of sandstone. It was designed by Irish-born architect Thomas Waryng Walsh. St. Vincent De Paul is situated on the site of Louis Lorimier's Red House. In 1821, priests began making periodic visits to settlers in the area. By 1833, the land where the church stands today had been secured, and by 1836 Cape Girardeau had its first permanent priest, Reverend John Odin. The cornerstone for the church was laid in April 1838 by Bishop Rosati of St. Louis. The church was named for the Vincentian fathers who founded it as well as St. Vincent's College. This church was destroyed by a tornado in 1850. The present church was constructed on the original foundations of the first church, with construction beginning in 1851 and finishing in 1853. The church tower has been struck twice by lightning and destroyed in 1912. The church was added to the National Register in 1982. It is located in the Courthouse-Seminary Neighborhood Historic District. St. Vincent De Paul Catholic Church (Cape Girardeau, Missouri) The St. Vincent De Paul Catholic Church in Cape Girardeau, Missouri is a historic church at 131 South Main Street. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The church was built in the English Perpendicular Gothic Revival style using red brick with sandstone trim on a foundation of sandstone. It was designed by Irish-born architect Thomas Waryng Walsh. St. Vincent De Paul is situated on the site"
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"The Shondes The Shondes are a rock band from Brooklyn, NY, best known for their combination of feminist punk, rock, pop, and Jewish influences, and ties to political activism. The Shondes formed in 2006 and have released two demos and five full-length studio albums. The band was started by violinist Elijah Oberman and bassist Louisa Rachel Solomon after their former band, The Syndicate, broke up. They recruited guitarist Ian Brannigan, a friend they had made through student activism at The New School in Greenwich Village, and drummer Temim Fruchter, whom the three got to know through protesting the Republican National Convention in 2004. After national tours in summer 2006, spring 2007, and late 2007, The Shondes self-released their debut LP, \"The Red Sea\", on January 8, 2008, and held a record release party at Brooklyn's Luna Lounge. The album was recorded at Studio G in Brooklyn, NY and produced by Tony Maimone of Pere Ubu and They Might Be Giants, and features Brian Dewan on keyboards. Critics reviewing the album often noted the improbability of combining the band's influences and political intentions, and generally praised their success. In the Chicago Tribune Jessica Hopper said: \"\"The Red Sea', is a visceral work...their moody songs are redolent of a time in the early '80s when punk fractured into something more tuneful and complex...a political band whose music is as strong as its message is a rare treat.' Venus Zine said: \"On paper, this band sounds like a train wreck, but in real life they are completely arresting...Old-world romance elegantly intertwined with riot grrrl piss and vinegar onstage...A lot of valid arguments have been made against overtly mixing politics and music — it takes the focus off important things like rhythm or, worse, excuses a band’s lack of talent or imagination. But those arguments don’t apply to bands whose politics become inseparable from the emotive quality of their sound.\"\" They toured again in Fall 2008 in support of \"The Red Sea\". Following that tour, guitarist Ian Brannigan (who was also Solomon's boyfriend at the time) left the band and was replaced by Fureigh. The new lineup made its debut at JDub Records' annual \"Jewltide\" Christmas Eve party at Southpaw in Brooklyn, NY (a venue the band spoke of as their home base until its closure in 2011). In May 2010, the Shondes released their second album \"My Dear One\" on Fanatic Records, which has been referred to as their \"break-up album,\" in the aftermath of Brannigan's departure.They toured nationally to support it that year, beginning at South By Southwest in March throughout the Spring, receiving favorable critical response along the way, again particularly for the emotive quality of their live performance. Culture Snob says: \"...this break-up record sounds like no other. For one thing, there’s the artful but direct anger of many of the lyrics, delivered by bassist Louisa Solomon with a lethal woundedness. 'Lines & Hooks' offers a command that also reads as a warning: 'And if you ever want me again, I suggest you run.' My favorite song of the year so far, 'Miami' is a bitter and bruised document of abandonment, almost certainly a kiss-off to guitarist Ian Brannigan, who left the band mid-tour in 2008.\" Stomp and Stammer says: \"The members of The Shondes (Shonde is Yiddish for a disgrace) are refreshingly uncoy about the fact that these tearful and fiercely accusatory songs are about Brannigan's abrupt departure.\" Three Imaginary Girls says: \"My favorite song is 'You Ought To Be Ashamed,' a stomping number full of incredibly precise little details about a user-loser, who ruins simple things like 'a pre-show shot of Jameson,' and whose behavior strikes the narrator as a dull parody of stories by 'Bukowski, Updike, Kerouac.' The subject frantically, boldly cut down in this psychodrama, it makes John Cale's song 'Chicken Shit' about his tour-stopping guitarist who quit the band sound like a gnarled belch. For vindictiveness, its impossibly catchy melody and shuddering, multi-vocal climax can't be beat, even by fathers of the form.\" In Fall 2010, The Shondes announced that their violinist, Elijah Oberman, had been diagnosed with cancer and was undergoing treatment. This resulted in the cancellation of a 7-week European tour. In early 2011, the band announced plans to move forward with performances at SXSW 2011, record a new album, and more touring, following the release. In August 2011, The Shondes announced that they had parted ways with Fanatic Records and would be releasing \"Searchlights\" on Exotic Fever Records on September 20, 2011 with Producer Tony Maimone stepping in to mix the record. One review said: \"One instantly notable improvement from the previous two albums is production value. Whereas...My Dear One was muted and muffled, Searchlights feels bright and raw, a sound much more befitting bouncy, energetic rock music.\" They toured nationally throughout the fall of that year, ending with a CMJ showcase, then again in 2012, beginning with a week of shows at SXSW in March through the end of May. They toured Europe throughout the Fall of 2012, sponsored by Missy magazine, trying out material for a new album. In April 2013 they announced the departure of founding drummer, Temim Fruchter, and the entrance of Allison Miller for the band's fourth record, \"The Garden\", which was released September 17, 2013 on Exotic Fever Records, and again produced by Tony Maimone at Brooklyn, NY's Studio G. \"The Garden\" release tour was Fureigh's last with the band, and Fen Ikner stepped in on drums. In December 2013, the band announced they would be joining Against Me! for their record release tour in January 2014, joined by Zach Toporek on guitar and Jim Heffernan on drums. Their fourth studio album \"The Garden\" was released in 2013 on Exotic Fever Records, and produced by Tony Maimone at Brooklyn, NY's Studio G. The band toured with Against Me! in January 2014, and went on a headlining national tour in Winter/Spring 2015. Following the tour, the band settled into a more permanent lineup consisting of the founding duo (Solomon and Oberman, new guitarist Courtney Robbins, and drummer Alex Smith. This new lineup went into the studio to record The Shondes fifth studio album from January–March 2016. In June 2016 the band announced the new record, \"Brighton\", would be released on September 17, 2016 on Exotic Fever Records. The band has organized and performed at benefit events for progressive organizations like Birthright Unplugged, Jews Against the Occupation, ASWAT, Jewish Voice for Peace, and The Sylvia Rivera Law Project. \"The Red Sea\" features the song \"I Watched the Temple Fall,\" one of their most well-known and explicitly political songs. The band has said they wrote it collaboratively very early on, and that it arose from conversations about the meaning of the Jewish holiday Tisha B'Av. Members of the band worked with the New York City group Jews Against the Occupation, an organization \"advocating peace through justice for Palestine and Israel.\" Since its inception, the band has stirred controversy for the members' outspoken radical politics, particularly those centered around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In response to the band's statements, and Solomon's support for the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, in March 2014 it was announced that the Washington DC Jewish Community Centre had cancelled the band's invitation to perform at the 2014 Washington Jewish Music Festival. Solomon said of the cancellation Given how candid I have always been about my political views, and that I’ve been engaged in Palestine solidarity activism for over a decade, I was thrilled when we were asked to perform, thinking it signaled a move toward inclusivity. It’s a real disappointment and disrespect to have the invitation withdrawn now. Of \"My Dear One\", \"The Jewish Daily Forward\" said: \"They are a Jewish band, and they’re playing klezmer modalities and time",
"Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In response to the band's statements, and Solomon's support for the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, in March 2014 it was announced that the Washington DC Jewish Community Centre had cancelled the band's invitation to perform at the 2014 Washington Jewish Music Festival. Solomon said of the cancellation Given how candid I have always been about my political views, and that I’ve been engaged in Palestine solidarity activism for over a decade, I was thrilled when we were asked to perform, thinking it signaled a move toward inclusivity. It’s a real disappointment and disrespect to have the invitation withdrawn now. Of \"My Dear One\", \"The Jewish Daily Forward\" said: \"They are a Jewish band, and they’re playing klezmer modalities and time signatures, but you could not know any of that and still think the song you’re listening to is the best song you’ve heard in years.\" Heeb Magazine said that The Shondes' mix of confrontational political punk and Jewish music created \"a powerful new sound\" and included Fruchter as one of \"the Heeb 100\" in 2007, while the magazine's blog asserted that in the contemporary Jewish music scene \"it is quite possible that the Shondes are making the only music that truly matters\" and called \"The Red Sea\" \"the most anticipated Jewish record of the year.\" In June 2010, The Shondes were included in The Big Jewcy. Peter Ames Carlin said \"The Garden\" features \"better-stand-back vocals from Louisa Solomon, who has one of the biggest voices in pop music.\" She has also been called \"a front-woman to fear and fall in love with.\" and A reviewer at The Shondes' Atlanta stop on their 2008 Fall tour commented that Solomon \"charged at the mic as if to push the song forward with her body.\" Depth of Field magazine said \"Lead singer Louisa Solomon’s voice is nothing short of breathtaking, caressing the notes while sending them forth with a power and force that forms immediate bonds with an audience; her tone and intonation giving the impression that she’s speaking directly to each and every individual listener.\" The Shondes make bold, brassy lonely-heart rock with the snarl and swoon of classic '90s Northwestern indie—all riot grrl bluster, K Records sentimentality, and a keening, wailing violin that's more Nirvana Unplugged than Raincoats unhinged...Separating themselves from Sleater-come-latelys, the Shondes have a little bit of steampunky clatter underneath their crunching riffs and a keen ear towards the Jewish music that raised each of its four members. -The Village Voice “Miami,” which starts off with Solomon angrily demanding, “Did you leave me on Venice Beach?” over rumbling drums, is about a very specific breakup, but — like all great songs — it could be about anyone being abandoned, anywhere. They are a Jewish band, and they’re playing klezmer modalities and time signatures, but you could not know any of that and still think the song you’re listening to is the best song you’ve heard in years. -The Forward Venus Zine said that Elijah Oberman \"played...violin with such physicality that he sometimes crumpled almost to the ground around his instrument.\" Another reviewer commented that \"Elijah Oberman has that rare mastery of post-punk violin playing that only seems to come along once in a generation.\" The Shondes The Shondes are a rock band from Brooklyn, NY, best known for their combination of feminist punk, rock, pop, and Jewish influences, and ties to political activism. The Shondes formed in 2006 and have released two demos and five full-length studio albums. The band was started by violinist Elijah Oberman and bassist Louisa Rachel Solomon after their former band, The Syndicate, broke up. They recruited guitarist Ian Brannigan, a friend they had made through student activism at The New School in Greenwich Village, and drummer Temim Fruchter, whom the"
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"Battle of Bryn Glas The Battle of Bryn Glas, (sometimes referred to in English accounts as the Battle of Pilleth, although Bryn Glas translates as green or blue hill) was fought on 22 June 1402, near the towns of Knighton and Presteigne in Powys. It was a great victory for the Welsh rebels under Owain Glyndŵr, and it resulted in the prolongation of the Welsh rebellion and the destabilisation of English politics for several years afterwards. Owain Glyndŵr's revolt occurred against a background of instability in the English monarchy. King Richard II of England had become alienated from many of the nobles, and had been overthrown by Henry Bolingbroke, the Duke of Lancaster, who became Henry IV of England. In Wales and the Welsh Marches, there were still many supporters of the deposed Richard, who died in captivity in 1400. In that year, Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, a supporter of the new King Henry, had unlawfully seized some of Glyndwr's lands and falsely caused charges of treason to be brought against him. In response, Glyndwr declared himself the true Prince of Wales, and began a rebellion. After Glyndwr gained early successes in 1400, King Henry led a punitive expedition into North Wales and appeared to have suppressed the revolt. However, Glyndwr remained at large, and anti-Welsh legislation by Parliament ensured that few Welshmen had reason to support continued English rule. On 1 April 1401 (which was Good Friday), two brothers from Anglesey, Rhys ap Tudur and Gwilym ap Tudur, seized Conwy Castle by trickery. Glyndwr himself won a victory over an army of English and Flemish settlers in Pembrokeshire at Mynydd Hyddgen in mid-Wales. These two events reinvigorated the rebellion. Henry led another punitive expedition into mid-Wales, but achieved nothing and his army suffered severely from bad weather. Early in 1402, Glyndwr's men ambushed and captured Grey of Ruthyn, who had indirectly caused the rebellion, and held him for ransom. In June, Glyndwr himself was near Knighton, and only from Leominster, then an important English garrison and market town in the Welsh Marches. King Henry had appointed Henry Percy, widely known as \"Hotspur\", as his principal lieutenant and justiciar in North Wales and the adjacent Marches. Hotspur's uncle, the Earl of Worcester, held a similar appointment in the south. However, the force which confronted Glyndwr near Knighton was a county levy of Herefordshire under Sir Edmund Mortimer. Mortimer was uncle of the young Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, and either of them had a better hereditary claim to be King of England than Henry. (The childless Richard II had declared Sir Edmund's brother and the young Edmund's father, Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March to be heir apparent to the crown, but Roger had died the year before Richard was overthrown and none of the nobles supported his son's claim.) However, Sir Edmund Mortimer had so far loyally supported the new king. In any case, as a substantial holder of lands in Wales and on the borders, Mortimer had already suffered from the depredations of Glyndŵr's rebels and appeared to have much to lose should the revolt continue. There were few contemporary sources for details of the battle, and some, such as that of Adam of Usk, contained inaccuracies. Most details must therefore be assumptions, although the ground remains largely unchanged and provides a reasonable basis for them. Mortimer's army was seeking to bring Glyndŵr's smaller army to battle. Although the location was only just inside Wales, Glyndŵr undoubtedly had many local informants and sympathisers, and could plan a decisive battle. Probably, he had also been able to summon reinforcements from other parts of Wales, which moved rapidly over hill tracks, and was therefore far stronger than Mortimer realised. Though always a risky tactic, Glyndwr divided his army. Part of the army, including many archers armed with the powerful longbow, was placed on the slopes of the hill. The remainder were concealed in a valley to the left of the hill, camouflaged by thick foliage. Mortimer's army formed up and advanced up the slope, against the Welsh archers clearly in view. With the advantage of height, Glyndwr's archers outranged Mortimer's (themselves armed with longbows). As Mortimer's men at arms tried to close with Glyndwr's archers, the Welsh troops who had been concealed in the valley emerged to attack Mortimer's right flank and rear. At some stage, contingents of Welsh archers in Mortimer's army defected, and loosed arrows against their former comrades. It is not known whether their defection was planned in advance, or whether they chose to back Glyndwr in the middle of the battle as the likely winner. Their action contributed to the confusion of Mortimer's army which, attacked from the steep slopes above, and from their flank and rear, was destroyed. Among those killed were Sir Walter Devereaux of Weobley, and Sir Robert Whitney, who was Henry IV's Knight-Marshal. It was claimed by contemporary accounts that immediately after the battle, many English corpses were mutilated by Welsh women camp followers, in revenge for the punitive expeditions by Henry IV in the previous years, which had been marked by many acts of brutality and rape. Whether these mutilations took place remains open to debate, as some historians, including Philip Warner, suggest it was a story perpetrated by the English parliament to portray the Welsh as savages.The English dead lay unburied, and the stench caused the area to be avoided for months. The battle was one of the greatest Welsh victories against an English army in the open field. News of it brought many Welshmen who had hitherto been undecided to openly support Glyndwr. On the English side, it resulted in some panicked appointments of officers and hasty reinforcements of garrisons all over Wales. Mortimer was captured in the battle. Henry (who was in financial difficulties) made no effort to ransom him. Mortimer subsequently renounced his allegiance to King Henry IV, put forward his nephew's claim to the throne of England and married Glyndŵr's daughter Catrin. The battle is mentioned by William Shakespeare in Henry IV, Part 1 : A church at Pilleth that predates the battle and a stand of Wellingtonia planted to commemorate it, mark the actual site of the battle. There is limited parking at the recently renovated church. In the grounds of St Mary's Church is a spring-fed well; testament to ancient Celtic connections. A computer-animated reconstruction of the battle was featured in the BBC series, \"Battlefield Britain\", narrated by Peter Snow. Battle of Bryn Glas The Battle of Bryn Glas, (sometimes referred to in English accounts as the Battle of"
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"Emporia (shopping mall) Emporia is a shopping mall and one of the biggest ones in Scandinavia. It is situated in the city of Malmö in Sweden, near Malmö Arena and Hyllie railway station. Emporia opened on 25 October 2012 and the total construction expense was about 2 billion Swedish kronor. The architect of the Emporia project is Gert Wingårdh of Wingårdh arkitektkontor. Steen & Strøm owns the building. The building has been decorated with sound design and soundscapes created by Radja Sound Design Agency. Approximately 200 shops are located in Emporia, with a total area of 93,000 m². The mall is three stories topped with a roof terrace measuring 27,000 m², equivalent to approximately four soccer fields. In total, the mall employs around 3,000 people. According to Emporia, they have around 25,000 visitors per day. Emporia (shopping mall) Emporia is a shopping mall and one of the biggest ones in Scandinavia. It is situated in the city of Malmö in Sweden, near Malmö Arena and Hyllie railway station. Emporia opened on 25 October 2012 and the total construction expense was about 2 billion Swedish kronor. The architect of the Emporia project is Gert Wingårdh of Wingårdh arkitektkontor. Steen & Strøm"
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"Goran Dragić Goran Dragić (born 6 May 1986) is a Slovenian professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He plays at both the point guard and shooting guard positions. He played professional basketball in Slovenia and Spain before entering the NBA in 2008. Dragić has played for the Phoenix Suns twice, the Houston Rockets, and the Heat. He was an All-NBA Third Team selection and the NBA Most Improved Player with the Suns in 2014. He was named an NBA All-Star for the first time in 2018 with Miami. Dragić began his professional career in 2003 at the age of 17 in the Slovenian Second Basketball League with KD Ilirija. He played there for one year before transferring to the Slovenian Basketball League and Adriatic League club Slovan in 2004. After spending two years with Slovan, he transferred to the Spanish club Saski Baskonia, who loaned him to club Murcia in 2006. Dragić joined the Slovenian club Union Olimpija in 2007, and played there during the 2007–08 season, winning the Slovenian League championship. Dragić entered the 2008 NBA draft, where he was selected in the second round, 45th overall, by the San Antonio Spurs. His draft rights were then traded to the Phoenix Suns in exchange for the draft rights to Malik Hairston, the 48th pick. After the Suns finished a deal with TAU Ceramica (now known as Caja Laboral), with whom he was under contract, they officially signed him on 22 September 2008. The Suns hoped that he would take over the starting point guard position after Steve Nash relinquished it. On 25 January 2010, Dragić scored a then career high 32 points, hitting 6 of 7 three-pointers in a losing effort against the Utah Jazz. On 7 May 2010, during game 3 of the Western Conference Semifinals, he led a Phoenix Suns comeback against the team that originally drafted him, the San Antonio Spurs, scoring 23 of his total 26 points in the fourth quarter. Dragić scored his points on 10/13 FG attempts including 5/5 three-pointers and a 4-point play, as the Suns overcame an early 18-point deficit to defeat the Spurs 110–96 and take a 3–0 lead in their best of seven series in the Western Conference Semifinals. \"I think it's safe to say that may have been the best fourth-quarter performance I have ever seen in a playoff game\", Suns forward Grant Hill said. On 24 February 2011, at the NBA Trade Deadline, Dragić was traded to the Houston Rockets along with the lottery protected first round pick Phoenix received in an earlier trade with the Orlando Magic in exchange for Aaron Brooks. Dragić notched his first career NBA triple-double on 13 April 2011 against the Minnesota Timberwolves. In 45 minutes Dragić had 11 points, 11 assists, and 11 rebounds. Dragić also blocked a shot in the Rockets' blowout win. During the 2011 NBA lockout, he played for Saski Baskonia of Spain. He played for a brief period of time there until the lockout ended. He returned to the Rockets for the 2011–12 season. Throughout most of the season, Dragić continued to be used as a bench player as a means to help the Rockets out during the lockout shortened season. In March 2012, he filled in for Kyle Lowry, who was out with a bacterial infection. On 9 April 2012, Dragić won the Western Conference Player of the Week. In 2012, Dragić became an unrestricted free agent. He agreed to sign a 4-year, $30 million deal with a player option on the final year with the Phoenix Suns and officially became a member of the team again on 19 July 2012. He was brought in to replace Steve Nash, whom he played behind during his first stint with the Suns, as starting point guard. On 19 February 2013, Dragić recorded a career-high 18 assists to go with 14 points as the Suns defeated the Portland Trail Blazers 102–98. Dragić nearly recorded a triple-double against the Brooklyn Nets with 31 points, 12 assists, and 9 rebounds on 24 March 2013. Despite suffering through a 25–57 season, Dragić ended up gaining some career high moments in the process. After getting Eric Bledsoe from a trade with the Los Angeles Clippers, the Suns ultimately decided to move Dragić to the shooting guard position as a means of putting less pressure on Dragić to distribute the ball to his teammates. In his first game playing with Bledsoe as a teammate, Dragić led the team with 26 points and 9 assists in a 104–91 season opening victory over the Portland Trail Blazers. Dragić had over 8 games with 30 points or more, including a double-double of 31 points and 10 assists in a victory against the Portland Trail Blazers on 27 November 2013. He also had what was, at the time, a career-high 33 points in a loss to the Memphis Grizzlies on 2 January 2014. On 3 February 2014, Dragić won his second career Western Conference Player of the Week award and his first with the Suns for games played between 27 January – 2 February 2014. Three days later, he was paired with Oklahoma City Thunder guard Reggie Jackson in the revamped, team-based Skills Challenge at the All-Star weekend On 8 February 2014, Dragić scored a career-high 34 points— while attempting only 13 field-goals— to go along with 10 assists in a 122–109 home victory over the Golden State Warriors. On 23 February 2014, Dragić scored a new career-high 35 points, along with 3 assists and 3 steals, in a 112–115 loss to the Houston Rockets. On 28 February 2014, he recorded a new career-high 40 points, along with 3 rebounds and 5 assists, in a 116–104 win over the New Orleans Pelicans. He became the first player, since Rod Strickland in 1985–86, to set career highs in points three times in a single month. Dragić also became the sixth player, after his head coach Jeff Hornacek, Dražen Petrović, Dirk Nowitzki, LeBron James, and Kevin Durant, to join the 20-50-40 Club — averaging 20 or more points per game while shooting 50%+ from the field and 40%+ on three-pointers. He also averaged over 5 assists per game throughout the season as well, leaving him joining the likes of Larry Bird, Jeff Hornacek and LeBron James. On 23 April 2014, Dragić won the 2014 NBA Most Improved Player Award. One month later, he would end up being honored by his home nation with their national \"Apple of Inspiration\" award for being a role model and inspiring hope in Slovenia, as well as helping out the nation's community with humanitarian activities. Finally, on 4 June 2014, Dragić was named to the 2014 All-NBA third team alongside Damian Lillard, LaMarcus Aldridge, Al Jefferson and Paul George. On 19 February 2015, Dragić and his brother, Zoran, were traded to the Miami Heat in a three-team deal also involving the New Orleans Pelicans. Two days later, he made his debut for the Heat, recording 12 points and 3 rebounds in a 105–91 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans. Dragić finished the season averaging 16.6 points and 5.3 assists per game in 26 starts for Miami, as the Heat missed the playoffs. On 9 July 2015, Dragić re-signed with the Heat to a five-year, $90 million contract. In January 2016, he missed eight straight games because of a left calf injury. On 20 February 2016, he recorded a season-high 24 points, eight assists and seven rebounds in a 114–84 win over the Washington Wizards. He bested that season high on 11 March, recording 26 points and nine assists in a 118–96 win over the Chicago Bulls. On 7 April, he recorded 16 points and a career-high 12 rebounds in a 106–98 win over the Chicago Bulls, helping the Heat sweep the season series with the Bulls for the first time since the 2003–04 season. In the Heat's second-round playoff match-up with the Toronto Raptors, Dragić scored a postseason career-high 30 points to help the Heat to a 103–91 victory in Game 6, tying the series at 3–3. The Heat went on to lose Game 7, bowing out of the playoffs with a 4–3 defeat. On 28 November 2016, Dragić recorded season highs of 27 points and 17 assists in a 112–104 loss to the Boston Celtics. He topped that mark on 6 December 2016, scoring 29 points (his highest-scoring total as a member",
"that season high on 11 March, recording 26 points and nine assists in a 118–96 win over the Chicago Bulls. On 7 April, he recorded 16 points and a career-high 12 rebounds in a 106–98 win over the Chicago Bulls, helping the Heat sweep the season series with the Bulls for the first time since the 2003–04 season. In the Heat's second-round playoff match-up with the Toronto Raptors, Dragić scored a postseason career-high 30 points to help the Heat to a 103–91 victory in Game 6, tying the series at 3–3. The Heat went on to lose Game 7, bowing out of the playoffs with a 4–3 defeat. On 28 November 2016, Dragić recorded season highs of 27 points and 17 assists in a 112–104 loss to the Boston Celtics. He topped that mark on 6 December 2016, scoring 29 points (his highest-scoring total as a member of the Heat at the time) in a 114–103 loss to the New York Knicks. Dragić set a new season high six days later, scoring 34 points in a 112–101 win over the Washington Wizards. On 6 February 2017, he scored 33 points and hit a career-high seven three-pointers to lead the Heat to their 11th straight victory with a 115–113 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves. On 8 November 2017, Dragić scored a season-high 29 points in a 126–115 win over the Phoenix Suns. On 27 November 2017, he was named the Eastern Conference Player of the Week for games played Monday, November 20 through Sunday, November 26. On 15 January 2018, he was named the Eastern Conference Player of the Week for games played Monday, January 8 through Sunday, January 14. It was his fourth career Player of the Week honor. On February 1, Dragić was named the replacement for Kevin Love on Team LeBron for the 2018 NBA All-Star Game, thus making him an All-Star for the first time in his career. On 27 October 2018, Dragić scored 28 points in a 120–111 win over the Portland Trail Blazers, becoming the first Slovenian player to reach the 10,000-point mark in the NBA. In late November and early December, he missed eight games with a sore right knee. On 19 December, he underwent successful surgery to clean up his right knee, which ruled him out until approximately the NBA All-Star break. Dragić won the gold medal at the 2004 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship with the Slovenian junior national team. He also played at the 2005 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship. Dragić competed with the senior men's Slovenian national basketball team at the 2006 FIBA World Championship and the 2007 European Championship in limited roles. Dragić's role with the Slovenian national basketball team began to increase in the 2009 European Championship and the 2010 FIBA World Championship. He then played with his brother Zoran in the 2011 European Championship and the 2013 European Championship, the latter held in Slovenia. During the 2013 tournament, Goran and his brother helped lead Slovenia to a 5th-place finish and a spot in the 2014 FIBA World Championship. Dragić finished in the 2013 European Championship's top five in points and assists, which earned him a spot on the All-Tournament Team. In 2014, Dragić was named Slovenia's team captain after Jaka Lakovič retired from international play. In the friendly matches before the 2014 FIBA World Championship, Dragić rested in 9 of their 14 matches before actually playing in the championship matches. After finishing up their friendly matches, Dragić played with no restrictions beyond the rest of the competition; he was the only All-NBA team member to play in the 2014 World Cup aside from Team USA. Prior to EuroBasket 2017, he announced he would retire from international play after the tournament. At the tournament, he helped Slovenia to win the championship, scoring 35 points in the Final. Following his performance, Dragić was given the Most Valuable Player award of the tournament. Dragić was born to a Slovenian mother and a Serbian father. He grew up in Slovenia playing football. However, an injury forced him to switch sports. As a child, he admired NBA players Michael Jordan, Allen Iverson and former teammate Steve Nash. He is fluent in Slovenian, Serbian, Spanish, and English. Dragić's younger brother, Zoran, was formerly his teammate on the Phoenix Suns and Miami Heat, and currently plays in Turkey for Anadolu Efes SK. In August 2013, Dragić married his long-time girlfriend, Maja. In November 2013, Dragić's first son, Mateo, was born. He and Zoran, alongside teammates Markieff and Marcus Morris, all briefly played together for the Suns during the fourth quarter of their 112–96 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on 2 January 2015. It marked the first time in the NBA's history that two different pairs of brothers played together for the same team at the same time. President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik honored Dragić with an Order of Njegoš and a Medal of Merit for the People, in August 2018. Goran Dragić Goran Dragić (born 6 May 1986) is a Slovenian professional basketball player for the Miami"
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"Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani, also spelled as Fakhraddin Asaad Gorgani (), was an 11th-century Persian poet. He versified the story of Vis and Rāmin, a story from the Arsacid (Parthian) period. The Iranian scholar Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub, however, disagrees with this view, and concludes that the story has its origins in the 5th-century Sasanian era. Besides Vis and Rāmin, he composed other forms of poetry. For example, some of his quatrains are recorded in the \"Nozhat al-Majales\". Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani was born in Jorjan or Gorgan (Persian: گرگان, also Romanized as Gorgān, central city of Hyrcania in north of Iran. Gurgani accompanied the Seljuq ruler Tughril during his campaigns in Iran. When Tughril seized the major Iranian city of Isfahan from the Kakuyids in 1051, he appointed a certain Amid Abu'l-Fath Muzaffar as its governor. Gurgani thereafter settled in Isfahan, where he established good relations with its governor, who took him under his protection. One day, when Gurgani and Abu'l-Fath Muzaffar were talking, Abu'l-Fath Muzaffar asked the following question: “What do you say about the tale of Vis and Rāmin?” Gurgani then told him that the story was only written in Middle Persian. Abu'l-Fath Muzaffar then asked Gurgani to versify the story, which he did; during the Mehregan festival, Gurgani presented the poem to him, in which he praises Tughril, the \"vizier\" Abu Nasr Kunduri, and Abu'l-Fath Muzaffar. Gurgani died . The Vis and Ramin story had a noticeable influence on Persian literature. Significantly, Nezami, himself a major poet of Persian romantic traditions, took the bases of much of his rhetoric from Gorgani. The romance also has had its influence beyond Persian culture. The story became very popular also in Georgia through a 12th-century free translation in prose known as \"Visramiani\", which had a long-lasting effect on the Georgian literature. Being the oldest known manuscript of the work and better preserved than the original, it is of great importance for the history of the Persian text and helps restore several corrupted lines in the Persian manuscripts. Some scholars have suggested that \"Vis and Ramin\" may have influenced the Tristan and Iseult legend, and the two plots have distinct resemblances. Nevertheless, views have differed about the connection between these two stories. Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani, also spelled as Fakhraddin Asaad Gorgani (), was an 11th-century Persian poet. He versified the story of Vis and Rāmin, a story from"
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"Grace Beside Me Grace Beside Me is an Australian children's television series to screen on the NITV network from 16 February 2018 and soon after on ABC Me. The 13-part series is adapted from the award-winning novel \"Grace Beside Me\" by Sue McPherson. It tells the story of Indigenous teenager Fuzzy Mac, who just wants to be an ordinary teenager and have fun with her mates but that's not so easy when her ancestors have other plans and she keeps seeing ghosts and bad spirits. The series is produced by Lois Randall and Dena Curtis, with Lois Randall executive producer. NITV executive producer is Mary-Ellen Mullane, ABC TV executive producer is Libbie Doherty. It is directed by Lynn-Maree Danzey, Beck Cole and Nicholas Verso. It is produced by Magpie Pictures and filmed in the Scenic Rim region of Queensland. Screen Australia is a major investor in the series, with Screen Queensland, ABC and Cutting Edge. Disney Channel has licensed the series in Australia and New Zealand, whilst the rest of world distribution is with Canada's 9Story Media Group. The Australian Children's Television Foundation, Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department and Screen NSW also supported early development in the series. Grace Beside Me"
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"Huangqiao High School HuangQiao High School was set up in 1924 and became one of the important high schools in Jiangsu Province, China, in 1996. It became one of the four star high schools in Jiangsu Province in 2004. The school covers an area of about 70000 square meters and has 62 classes, with 3300 students, five Jiangsu Province special-grade teachers and 86 head teachers. In recent years, the school has been named \"Model of Taizhou School\", \"Civilized Unit of Jiangsu Province\" and \"Advanced collective of mass sports in China\". It has been praised by the country or province for more than 40 times. Several students are admitted by Qinghua University or Beijing University each year. Huangqiao High School HuangQiao High School was set up in 1924 and became one of the important high schools in Jiangsu Province, China, in 1996. It became one of the four star high schools in Jiangsu Province in 2004. The school covers an area of about 70000 square meters and has 62 classes, with 3300 students, five Jiangsu Province special-grade teachers and 86 head teachers. In recent years, the school has been named \"Model of Taizhou School\", \"Civilized Unit of Jiangsu Province\" and \"Advanced"
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"Tufts Jumbos football The Tufts Jumbos represent Tufts University of Medford, Massachusetts in the sport of college football. The team has played since the 1874–75 season. The Jumbos compete at the NCAA Division III level and have been members of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) since the conference's formation in 1971. The football team plays its home game at Ellis Oval on the Tufts campus in Medford, Massachusetts. Jay Civetti has been the team's head coach since 2011. One Tufts player, William Grinnell, has been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Team records from 1875 to 2016. Tufts Jumbos football The Tufts Jumbos represent Tufts University of Medford, Massachusetts in the sport of college football. The team has played since the 1874–75 season. The Jumbos compete at the NCAA Division III level and have been members of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) since the conference's formation in 1971. The football team plays its home game at Ellis Oval on the Tufts campus in Medford, Massachusetts. Jay Civetti has been the team's head coach since 2011. One Tufts player, William Grinnell, has been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Team records"
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"Francis Nielsen Francis Nielsen is a French director of animated films, known mostly for his films \"Blackie & Kanuto\", \"Émilie Jolie\" and \"Le Chien, le Géneral et les Oiseaux\". Nielsen was born and raised in the mountainous region of Lake Annecy in eastern France. He began his career as a puppeteer presenting shows in local schools. After a varied career, he joined the animation studio Idéfix (created by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, creators of the French comic and animated film series \"Asterix\"). He began his career at Idéfix as the First Assistant Director of \"Les 12 Travaux D'Asterix\" and \"La Ballade des Dalton\". Directing many animated commercials and TV series, he eventually became a producer in two different companies he created: Stout Studio and Rooster Studio. He is currently director for several television series, specials and feature films. He became the first animated feature director to be in the Official Selection at the Venice International Film Festival with \"Le Chien...\" Francis Nielsen Francis Nielsen is a French director of animated films, known mostly for his films \"Blackie & Kanuto\", \"Émilie Jolie\" and \"Le Chien, le Géneral et les Oiseaux\". Nielsen was born and raised in the mountainous region of"
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"Jonty Messer Jonty Matthew David Messer is a British journalist and newsreader employed by ITV West Country. A sports scholar, Jonty was educated at Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire, Captaining both the 1XI football and 1XV rugby teams. After graduating from the University West of the England, Bristol, Jonty went on to study for a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism at the London College of Communication (LCC) between 2007 and 2008. Following his graduation from LCC, Jonty began his broadcasting career with the BBC, producing programmes for Radio Wiltshire and providing rugby commentary for BBC Radio Bristol. During this time he was offered the role of afternoon newsreader at GMG Radio's Real Radio Wales, covering a variety of news and sports stories, before leaving in 2010 to pursue new opportunities. For just over a year, Jonty was the producer of the BBC Somerset Breakfast programme before being approached to join ITV News West Country as a newsroom and online journalist. During the next two years Jonty progressed to produce bulletins and feature items for the flagship 6pm programme before being offered the role of Early Morning Presenter while his colleague Ellie Barker took maternity leave. This was followed by a four month attachment with ITV's National Breakfast show Daybreak in September 2012, reporting and producing a number of stories for the two and a half hour programme. Upon his return to ITV West Country in January 2013 Jonty continued to develop his on-screen presence both as a reporter and presenter. He has covered a number of live and breaking stories, including the Bath tipper truck crash in February 2015 and Becky Watts murder investigation in March 2015. During this time Jonty was asked to present ITV News West Country, alongside Kylie Pentelow, covering for main presenter Ian Axton. In January 2016 Jonty took up the role as the region's Sports Correspondent, covering the progress of the region's football and rugby sides as well as planning, filming and anchoring the programme's four day coverage of the 2016 Cheltenham Festival. On 22nd January 2018, it was announced by ITV West Country that Jonty would take up the position of main presenter at \"ITV News West Country\" fronting the 6pm edition of the programme alongside Kylie Pentelow as well as presenting the late news two nights a week. The announcement followed the departure of Mark Longhurst in September 2017. Messer was the stand-in presenter during the interim period. Jonty Messer takes on Champion Cup Stacker. Jonty Messer - Chats to Bristol's Team GB Women's 7s contingent. Jonty Messer tackles one of the World's hottest chillies. Jonty tries his hand at Wing Walking. Jonty Messer - LinkedIn Official Twitter ITV West Country - Meet the Team. Jonty Messer Jonty Matthew David Messer is a British journalist and newsreader employed by ITV West Country. A sports scholar, Jonty was educated at Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire, Captaining both the 1XI football and 1XV rugby teams. After graduating from the University West of the England, Bristol, Jonty went"
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"Johanna Almgren Johanna Maria-Therese Almgren (born March 22, 1984) is a Swedish female former football midfielder who played for Damallsvenskan club Göteborg FC and the Swedish national team. Almgren's career was marred by injuries. In May 2013 she was devastated to be ruled out of UEFA Women's Euro 2013, requiring surgery on her knee for the fifth time. In November 2014 Almgren was appointed head coach of Elitettan minnows Kungsbacka DFF, with Stina Segerström as her assistant. During the 2008 Summer Olympics, Brazilian footballer Ronaldinho surprised Almgren by asking her to marry him, just a few hours after seeing her for the first time. She rejected the proposal outright. Almgren thought that her friend was joking with her when she got a phone call from a translator saying Ronaldinho wanted her to go to his room. After realizing it wasn't a joke she and a few friends went up. Then he asked her to marry him; \"I said NO because I have a boyfriend (Adam) who is waiting for me at home\" - she told newspapers - \"I gave Ronaldinho a Sweden soccer T-Shirt but I wasn't brave enough to ask him for a Brazilian one too\". Johanna Almgren Johanna"
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"Prix Alexis de Tocqueville The Prix Alexis de Tocqueville is an international Prize for political Literature. It is awarded every two years to a person who has demonstrated outstanding humanistic qualities and attachment to public liberties and seeks to perpetuate Alexis de Tocqueville’s ideals. It was created in 1979 by Pierre Godefroy, mayor of the nearby town of Valognes and Alain Peyrefitte, a noted author, member of the Académie Francaise and politician. The jury of this prestigious award is currently chaired by former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, and includes Sandra day O’Connor, professor Harvey C Mansfield and a number of other eminent members. The last two American recipients of the Prize were General Colin Powell and Mr. Zbigniew Brzezinski. The Association organizing the Prize is now headed by the Countess Stéphanie de Tocqueville. The Prize is awarded at the Chateau de Tocqueville. Prix Alexis de Tocqueville The Prix Alexis de Tocqueville is an international Prize for political Literature. It is awarded every two years to a person who has demonstrated outstanding humanistic qualities and attachment to public liberties and seeks to perpetuate Alexis de Tocqueville’s ideals. It was created in 1979 by Pierre Godefroy, mayor of the nearby town"
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"SM*SH (album) SM*SH is the first studio album by the Indonesian boy band, SM*SH, released in Jakarta on June 26, 2011. The album contains pop-dance music produced by Star Signal, Veronica Lukitoand Lidi Management. It was released by Ancora Music and Star Signal. The album sold over 1 million copies within six months in Indonesia. The band had already released the main single, \"I Heart You\" and followed with \"Senyum Semangat\" as the second single. The album contains ten songs that carry the flow of dance-pop and Indo pop. \"I Heart You\" appears in two versions, an original and an acoustic version. There are four cover versions: \"Ada Cinta\" (Bening), \"Gadisku\" (Trio Libels), \"Inikah Cinta\" (M.E) and \"Oh Ya\" (Kelompok 3 Suara). Adapted from: SM*SH (album) SM*SH is the first studio album by the Indonesian boy band, SM*SH, released in Jakarta on June 26, 2011. The album contains pop-dance music produced by Star Signal, Veronica Lukitoand Lidi Management. It was released by Ancora Music and Star Signal. The album sold over 1 million copies within six months in Indonesia. The band had already released the main single, \"I Heart You\" and followed with \"Senyum Semangat\" as the second single. The"
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"Save the Last Dance for Me (album) Save the Last Dance for Me was Ben E. King's 15th album and 14th studio album. It was released under the EMI-Manhattan label. The album was released in 1987 and was King's first release in six years. All the tracks are new recordings of hits by King's old group The Drifters, originally recorded between 1959 and 1964. Note that King did not originally sing lead on all the Drifters versions of these songs, having left the Drifters in 1960. This was King's last new release on an LP. Subsequent studio releases were issued on CD as the format became more popular. Tracks marked (*) are re-recordings of a Drifters hit which originally featured King on lead vocals. Other tracks are re-recordings of Drifters hits which did not originally feature King. Save the Last Dance for Me (album) Save the Last Dance for Me was Ben E. King's 15th album and 14th studio album. It was released under the EMI-Manhattan label. The album was released in 1987 and was King's first release in six years. All the tracks are new recordings of hits by King's old group The Drifters, originally recorded between 1959 and"
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"Thomas Dunlap Thomas Dunlap (c. 1792-July 11, 1864) was an American lawyer and banker. Dunlap was a native, and during his life a resident, of Philadelphia. He graduated from Yale College in 1812. He was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia, Sept 4, 1816, and during most of his life was engaged in professional practice. When Nicholas Biddle resigned the office of President of the Second Bank of the United States, Dunlap was chosen to succeed him, and he remained in that position until the Bank suspended operations, when he resumed the profession of the law. He died in Philadelphia July 11, 1864, aged 71 years. Thomas Dunlap Thomas Dunlap (c. 1792-July 11, 1864) was an American lawyer and banker. Dunlap was a native, and during his life a resident, of Philadelphia. He graduated from Yale College in 1812. He was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia, Sept 4, 1816, and during most of his life was engaged in professional practice. When Nicholas Biddle resigned the office of President of the Second Bank of the United States, Dunlap was chosen to succeed him, and he remained in that position until the Bank suspended operations, when he resumed the profession of"
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"Eide, Aust-Agder Eide is a former municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It is currently located within the municipality of Grimstad in the traditional district of Sørlandet. The municipality of Eide existed from 1838 until 1962. The municipality was made up of on the mainland and the rest being nearly 70 small islands off the Skaggerak coast. The larger islands include Auseøya, Homborøya, and Ålesøya. The administrative centre was the village of Eide where the Eide Church is located. Other villages in Eide included Jortveit and Homborsund. The municipality of Eide was created on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1962, the area of Gitmarkgårdene, with 22 inhabitants, was incorporated into the neighboring municipality of Lillesand. The rest of the municipality of Eide, with 504 inhabitants, was merged into the neighboring municipality of Landvik. Later, in 1971, Landvik was incorporated into the municipality of Grimstad. The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Eide farm (Old Norse: Eiði), since the first Eide Church was built there. The name is identical to the word \"eid\" which means \"isthmus\" because the farm (and church) is located between two bodies of water: the \"Fosdalskilen\" and \"Engekilen\". Eide, Aust-Agder Eide is a former municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It is currently located within the municipality of Grimstad in the traditional district of Sørlandet. The municipality of Eide existed from 1838 until 1962. The municipality was made up of on the mainland and the rest being nearly 70 small islands off the Skaggerak coast. The larger islands include Auseøya, Homborøya, and Ålesøya. The administrative centre was the village of Eide where the Eide Church is located. Other villages in Eide included Jortveit and Homborsund."
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"Muhammad Wilkerson Muhammad Wilkerson (born October 22, 1989) is an American football defensive end for the Green Bay Packers. He played college football at Temple, and was drafted by the New York Jets in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft. Wilkerson attended Linden High School in his hometown of Linden, New Jersey. He recorded 78 tackles, five sacks, one forced fumble, and one fumble recovery in his senior season. He was named to the All-Watchung Conference first-team in his junior season. He was selected to the \"Home News Tribune\" all-area first-team and \"Newark Star Ledger\" all-Union County second-team. He also helped lead Linden to state titles during his junior and senior years in basketball. After high school, Wilkerson spent a year at Hargrave Military Academy. He subsequently enrolled at Temple University, where he played for the Temple Owls football team. As a freshman at Temple in 2008, Wilkerson played in 11 games and recorded 13 tackles and a sack. As a sophomore in 2009, he started all 13 games and recorded 58 tackles and six sacks. As a junior in 2010, Wilkerson recorded 68 tackles and 10 sacks. Following his junior season, he was named to the first-team All-MAC selection and the team defensive MVP. Wilkerson was initially what analysts termed \"a sleeper selection\"; however, following positive results at the NFL Combine and at Temple's Pro Day session, Wilkerson's draft stock rose significantly. He became regarded as a versatile prospect whom NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock compared to Trevor Pryce, concluding that Wilkerson was a first round prospect. Wilkerson was drafted by the New York Jets in the first round with the thirtieth overall selection in the 2011 NFL Draft. He was the fourth Temple player to be drafted by the Jets, preceded by Mike Stromberg, Joe Klecko and Dave Yovanovits. He also became the Owls' highest draft pick since Paul Palmer, who was selected nineteenth overall in the 1987 NFL Draft. Head coach Rex Ryan reiterated Wilkerson possesses similar attributes to Trevor Pryce. Wilkerson signed a four-year, $7.4 million contract on July 31, 2011. During the third preseason game against the New York Giants, Wilkerson got into a fight with running back Brandon Jacobs, resulting in both players getting ejected. He made his NFL debut in the season opener on September 11 against the Dallas Cowboys, and recorded his first career sack a week later, sacking Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Luke McCown in the end zone for a safety. Wilkerson started all 16 games in 2011 making 49 tackles with 3 sacks, 2 passes defended, 1 forced fumble, and 1 safety enforced. During a game against the Seattle Seahawks on November 11, 2012, Wilkerson scooped up a fumble lost by Russell Wilson and returned it for a touchdown. The Jets lost the game 7-28, however. In 16 games (15 starts) of 2012, Wilkerson made 69 tackles with 5 sacks, 4 passes defended, 3 forced fumbles, and 1 fumble recovery returned for a touchdown. Wilkerson finished the 2013 season with a combined 63 tackles, 10.5 sacks, 2 FF, and an interception. For his outstanding play, he was selected to the second All-Pro team by the Associated Press. On April 18, 2014, the Jets picked up the fifth-year, $6.96 million option of Wilkerson's rookie contract. During a game against the Green Bay Packers on September 14, 2014, he was disqualified for the first time in a regular season game for getting into a scuffle with several Packers players following their go-ahead touchdown. On September 20, 2014, Wilkerson was fined $20,000 by the NFL for his role in the brawl. In 13 starts, Wilkerson finished the year with 56 tackles, 6 sacks, 5 passes defended, and 1 forced fumble During Week 17 against the Buffalo Bills on January 3, 2016, Wilkerson suffered a broken leg and was carted off the field as the Jets lost the game 17-22 and were eliminated from playoff contention despite finishing the year with a 10-6 record. In 16 games, Wilkerson made 64 tackles, 12 sacks, 7 passes defended, and 3 fumble recoveries. He was a Pro Bowl selection for the first time of his career. He was ranked 39th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2016. Wilkerson was selected for the 2016 Pro Bowl, but was unable to participate due to a right fibula fracture sustained during the Jets' final game of the season. On July 15, 2016, Wilkerson signed a 5-year deal worth $86 million featuring $53 million guaranteed and a $15 million signing bonus. Wilkerson played 15 games in 2016, starting 14 of them, finishing with 58 tackles, 4.5 sacks, 3 passes defended, and a forced fumble. On December 15, the Jets announced that Wilkerson would be scratched for the upcoming Week 15 game against the New Orleans Saints due to showing up late for a team meeting. It was also revealed the Wilkerson had a history of violating team rules, including showing up late or missing team meetings, therefore putting his tenure with the Jets in jeopardy. Wilkerson was inactive again for Week 16 against the Los Angeles Chargers. It was revealed that Wilkerson showed up late for team meetings four times in the past three years, and the Jets posed a threat to release Wilkerson if he was inactive for one more game due to any sort of disciplinary reason. Ultimately, Wilkerson was declared inactive for the season finale against the New England Patriots in Week 17. Limited to 13 games (12 starts), Wilkerson finished with 46 tackles, 3.5 sacks, 4 passes defended, and an interception. On February 28, 2018, Wilkerson was released by the Jets. On March 15, 2018, Wilkerson signed a one-year contract with the Green Bay Packers worth $5 million. On September 23, 2018, during a Week 3 game against the Washington Redskins, Wilkerson suffered a serious ankle injury after teammate Kentrell Brice accidentally leg-whipped him while attempting to tackle Washington running back Adrian Peterson. Wilkerson was carted off the field and underwent surgery that night in a Washington, D.C. hospital, causing him to miss the team flight back to Wisconsin. The Packers placed Wilkerson on injured reserve on September 29, ending his season. He posted 5 total tackles for the 2018 season prior to the injury. Wilkerson is a Muslim. Due to his involvement in sports, he does not fast during the month of Ramadan, but intends to in the future. 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"Henry Bain sauce Henry Bain sauce is a condiment for meats, first served at the Pendennis Club in Louisville, Kentucky. Henry Bain (1863–1928) was one of the first employees and eventually a head waiter at the Pendennis Club, which was founded in 1881. He is credited with creating his namesake sauce for steaks and the local game animals brought in by members for preparation. Numerous recipes for homemade versions have circulated for years and are still widely used. In 2009, the club began bottling and selling the original version. As demand increased, the club partnered with a local food distribution company to sell the sauce at local stores and Kroger supermarkets in the Louisville area and online. Henry Bain sauce Henry Bain sauce is a condiment for meats, first served at the Pendennis Club in Louisville, Kentucky. Henry Bain (1863–1928) was one of the first employees and eventually a head waiter at the Pendennis Club, which was founded in 1881. He is credited with creating his namesake sauce for steaks and the local game animals brought in by members for preparation. Numerous recipes for homemade versions have circulated for years and are still widely used. In 2009, the club began"
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"Isabel Maria de Alcântara, Duchess of Goiás Isabel Maria de Alcântara, Duchess of Goiás (3 May 1824 – 23 November 1898), was a Brazilian noble, the illegitimate daughter of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil and Domitila de Castro, Marchioness of Santos. She was the only child of Pedro I born out of wedlock who was officially legitimized by him. On 24 May 1826, Isabel Maria was given the title of \"Duchess of Goiás\", the style of Highness and the right to use the honorific \"Dona\" (Lady). She was the first person to hold the rank of duke in the Empire of Brazil. These honors did not confer on her the status of Brazilian princess or place her in the line of succession. In his will, Pedro I gave her a share of his estate. She later lost her Brazilian title and honors upon her 17 April 1843 marriage to a foreigner, Ernst Fischler von Treuberg, Count of Treuberg. Pedro I wished for Isabel to be treated as a Princess of Brazil at the same level with his legitimate daughters. He accorded her equivalent official honors, such as having her greeted by the Imperial guard and in naming her protector of the province of Goiás. He unsuccessfully tried to have her raised among his legitimate children in the Palace of São Cristóvão, but both his first, and later his second empress, refused. From 1829, she was educated at the Ecole du Sacré-Coeur in Paris. When her father abdicated the Brazilian throne and came to Paris, she was accepted by her stepmother, Empress Amelia, and spent time with them in Paris as a family. When the family left for Portugal, however, she remained. After the death of her father in 1834, she was sent to Münich by her stepmother to be educated in the care of Antônio Teles da Silva Caminha e Meneses. Her marriage was arranged by her stepmother: her spouse had an office at the royal court in Münich. Isabel Maria de Alcântara, Duchess of Goiás Isabel Maria de Alcântara, Duchess of Goiás (3 May 1824 – 23 November 1898), was a Brazilian noble, the illegitimate daughter of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil and Domitila de Castro, Marchioness of Santos. She was the only child of Pedro I born out of wedlock who was officially legitimized by him. On 24 May 1826, Isabel Maria was given the title of \"Duchess"
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"Victor Brailovsky Dr Victor Brailovsky (, born 27 December 1935) is a computer scientist, mathematician, aliyah activist and a former Israeli politician. He served as Minister of Science and Technology for six days in 2004. In May 1986 Brailovsky was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the Open University in England. Brailovsky was born in Moscow in 1935. He was an activist for aliyah and refusenik between 1972 and 1987, and was a Prisoner of Zion between 1981 and 1984. In 1987 he was allowed to immigrate with his family to Israel, where he worked as a professor of mathematics and computer science in Tel-Aviv University. In the 1999 elections he was voted into the Knesset on Shinui's list, and became a member of the Science and Technology and Immigration, Absorption, and Diaspora Affairs committees. Following the 2003 elections, in which Brailovsky retained his seat, Shinui joined Ariel Sharon's government. On 5 March 2003 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs. On 29 November 2004 he became Minister of Science and Technology, replacing fellow Shinui member Ilan Shalgi. However, Shinui pulled out of the government less than a week later, and Brailovsky lost his cabinet post. Following the split in Shinui, Brailovsky joined the Secular Faction (later Hetz). The party failed to cross the electoral threshold in the 2006 elections and he lost his seat. Victor Brailovsky Dr Victor Brailovsky (, born 27 December 1935) is a computer scientist, mathematician, aliyah activist and a former Israeli politician. He served as Minister of Science and Technology for six days in 2004. In May 1986 Brailovsky was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the Open University in England. Brailovsky was born in Moscow in 1935. He was an activist for aliyah and refusenik between 1972 and 1987, and was a Prisoner"
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"Georgian Oil and Gas Corporation The Georgian Oil & Gas Corporation (GOGC) is the enterprise established by LLC Oil and Gas Corporations, that owns the high pressure gas pipeline system of Georgia, with the total length of 1940 km. GOGC is responsible for the gas supply network of the country, security of gas supply and diversification of such supply routes. The north-south gas corridor is spread from Georgian–Russian border to Georgian–Armenian and Georgian–Azerbaijan borders with total length of 235 km. The highest point of the system is 2420metres at the Caucasus Mountains and the lowest point at 290metres above the sea level. The increase of gas consumption in Georgia during the 1980s reached 6 billion cubic metres. Such drastic growth was encouraged by intense development of gas pipeline system. Design capacity of the system was enough to ensure proper and secure gas supply of Georgian and Armenian gas markets. GOGC owns and maintains gas pipeline system that accounts for more than 40 years of operations. Yet, the duty doubles in the northern part of the country where the unique nature of Georgian landscape has shaped the gas pipeline system accordingly. The transportation system remains to be one of the most complex among Commonwealth of Independent States countries. Hence, during the construction of the system, special standards and norms were adopted. Georgian Oil and Gas Corporation The Georgian Oil & Gas Corporation (GOGC) is the enterprise established by LLC Oil and Gas Corporations, that owns the high pressure gas pipeline system of Georgia, with the total length of 1940 km. GOGC is responsible for the gas supply network of the country, security of gas supply and diversification of such supply routes. The north-south gas corridor is spread from Georgian–Russian border to Georgian–Armenian and Georgian–Azerbaijan borders with total length of 235 km."
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"Lars Knutsen Lars Egbert Knutsen (1884–1963) was a shipowner and founder of Lars Knutsen and Sons Limited, a ship chandler business located in The Strand, Swansea, South Wales. The company did exist under new management as Lars Knutsen and Clode, but in 2011, the owner David Thompson, sold the company to Hutton's and Co. Lars Knutsen was born in Arendal, Norway. He married Lilli Stray (1894–1983) in Kristiansand Norway in 1919 before emigrating to the UK. His half brother Konrad Knutsen, who emigrated to Seattle, Washington, United States, was said to be involved in the invention of the carburetor, at the time a major advance in the technology of the internal combustion engine. Lars Knutsen Lars Egbert Knutsen (1884–1963) was a shipowner and founder of Lars Knutsen and Sons Limited, a ship chandler business located in The Strand, Swansea, South Wales. The company did exist under new management as Lars Knutsen and Clode, but in 2011, the owner David Thompson, sold the company to Hutton's and Co. Lars Knutsen was born in Arendal, Norway. He married Lilli Stray (1894–1983) in Kristiansand Norway in 1919 before emigrating to the UK. His half brother Konrad Knutsen, who emigrated to Seattle, Washington, United"
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"Karađorđevo hunting ground The Karađorđevo () hunting ground is located in the northwest Serbia, along the left Danube bank. It lies 10 km north-west of Bačka Palanka, near the village of Karađorđevo. It covers an area of . The property is state-owned, and managed by an establishment of the Army of Serbia. Since its establishment as a state property of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1885, it has served as a representative hunting ground and resort for statesmen, high-ranking military officials and businessmen. A part of the property is protected as a special nature reserve, occupying the area of . The landscape features centuries-old oak and acacia woods, marshes, variety of flora and fauna species and a long distance from the nearest settlements. Its is open to hunters and tourists throughout the year. The property is also famous for its elite stud farm, with a museum of horse racing. The farm was originally created in 1904, using horses from the famous Hungarian State Stud of Mezőhegyes. The resort gained notoriety when the Karađorđevo meeting was held there by presidents of Serbia Slobodan Milošević and Croatia Franjo Tuđman on the eve of the Yugoslav Wars, where they purportedly made a secret deal about partition of Yugoslavia. Karađorđevo hunting ground The Karađorđevo () hunting ground is located in the northwest Serbia, along the left Danube bank. It lies 10 km north-west of Bačka Palanka, near the village of Karađorđevo. It covers an area of . The property is state-owned, and managed by an establishment of the Army of Serbia. Since its establishment as a state property of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1885, it has served as a representative hunting ground and resort for statesmen, high-ranking military officials and businessmen. A part of the property is protected as a special nature reserve, occupying the"
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"Rosemary's Baby (miniseries) Rosemary's Baby is a 2014 two-part, four-hour television miniseries adaptation of Ira Levin's best-selling horror novel of the same name. Zoe Saldana stars in the NBC production that is directed by Agnieszka Holland. Unlike earlier versions, it is set in Paris rather than New York. The work was not well received by critics, many of whom said that it was stretched to fill two two-hour timeslots. Although there are several notable changes, this miniseries is considered to be a fairly true updating of the original film adaptation. After suffering a miscarriage, Rosemary (Zoe Saldana) and Guy (Patrick J. Adams) Woodhouse leave New York City for Paris, hoping to make a fresh start. A series of serendipitous events lead them to befriend affluent couple Margaux (Carole Bouquet) and Roman Castevet (Jason Isaacs), who invite them to live in their prestigious apartment building. While Guy appreciates Roman's taking him under his wing, Rosemary is overwhelmed by the Castevets' interest in their lives. She finds evidence of the previous couple that lived in their apartment, and after going to Commissioner Fontaine (Olivier Rabourdin) with her suspicions, learns that the woman, Nena (Victoire Bélézy), committed suicide. Following a lead, Rosemary finds Nena's priest, who claims that the apartment building has a dark past, and one of its tenants is a Satanist billionaire named Steven Marcato who eats women's hearts. The priest hangs himself soon after, which prompts Fontaine to investigate. When Guy's career flourishes, he suggests to Rosemary that they try to get pregnant again. On the night they plan to conceive, Rosemary drinks Margaux's herbal brew and passes out. In a dream-like state, Rosemary sees herself having sex with a strange man, while being watched by Guy, Margaux, Roman, and the Castevets' friends. Weeks later, Rosemary learns she is pregnant, but her health deteriorates and she is neglected by Guy, who is reluctant to touch Rosemary and has been spending more time with Roman. Guy is angered when he learns Rosemary went to visit another doctor, as encouraged by her friend Julie (Christina Cole). Guy visits Julie and secretly takes her crucifix necklace; not long afterward Julie dies in a kitchen accident. Rosemary's pains suddenly disappear, and the rest of the pregnancy proceeds well. Late into the pregnancy, Fontaine is still investigating the Marcato case and warns Rosemary to keep her eyes open. Rosemary discovers a secret door in their closet which leads to a study containing books on the occult. Rosemary takes one of the books, which is about witchcraft and contains a handwritten \"It's an anagram!\" above a page on Steven Marcato. Rosemary shares her suspicions with Guy that Roman Castevet is Steven Marcato, and that the Castevets are witches with sinister designs on their baby, but Guy insists she is being paranoid. While searching for their passports, Rosemary discovers Julie's crucifix necklace and suspects that Guy is part of the conspiracy. Rosemary sneaks out of the apartment to meet Fontaine, but he is run over by a truck while Rosemary watches. Rosemary goes to Dr. Bernard (Oisín Stack), Julie's friend, but he thinks she is delusional and calls Guy. Rosemary is taken back to her apartment where she has a panic attack and is sedated just as she is going into labor. She wakes up three days later in a hospital and is told that the baby died and its body was cremated. After being discharged, Rosemary leaves Guy and declares that she is going back to New York. While packing her things in the apartment, Rosemary hears a baby's cries and starts lactating. She goes through the secret door to the Castevets' apartment, where she finds Guy, the Castevets and their friends standing around a crib containing her baby. Rosemary is disturbed by the baby's demonic eyes, and is told that its father is Satan and the baby is their Prince. Roman encourages Rosemary to be the baby's mother, and she lifts her son out of the crib to nurse him. The film ends with Rosemary pushing her son in a pram, and when passersby admire the baby, she says, \"He's perfect.\" Saldana signed on to the project on January 8, 2014. Director Holland was a three-time Academy Award nominee and the original film had earned Academy Award nominations. Saldana signed on with the expectations that fans of the original would not like the adaptation, but she was lured by the Paris setting and more importantly the opportunity to live and work in Paris for three months. Jason Isaacs and Patrick J. Adams joined the cast on January 20. Holland's daughter Kasia Adamik served as the second unit director. Scott Abbott and James Wong wrote the 2014 adapted screenplay. Unlike the novel and movie, the miniseries is set and shot in Paris rather than New York City. While the new adaptation was bloodier than the original movie version, it attempted to be more sophisticated by touching on themes such as \"post-feminist meditation on the loss of control that women feel with pregnancy and on the seduction of money and power\". Whereas the original movie used the Omaha native housewife transplanted in New York City, the new adaptation presented Saldana's Rosemary as a ballet dancer who was the primary wage-earner and who left New York after a miscarriage to start over in Paris with her husband during his one-year teaching job at the Sorbonne. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the show held a 31% approval rating with an average score of 4.8/10, based on 35 reviews. The consensus read: \"Although the Parisian setting and special effects are impressive, this \"Rosemary's Baby\" remake resorts to sensationalism and gore.\" At Metacritic, the show had a score of 51 out of 100, based on 27 reviews, which indicates a \"mixed or average\" response. Alessandra Stanley of \"The New York Times\", who called the miniseries a \"surprisingly clever remake\", felt that the choice of Paris as the setting was not only \"one of the best things\" about the remake, but it works well with the theme of conflict with neighbors. Furthermore, she noted that it was reasonable that Rosemary (Zoe Saldana) would be naive and dependent because of her unfamiliarity with Paris as a newcomer. Stanley wrote that the host couple, French sophisticates Margaux (Carole Bouquet) and Roman Castevet (Jason Isaacs), were completely different from the one in Roman Polanski's original. Although she said the adaptation took liberties with the source material, James Poniewozik of \"Time\" said the adaptation \"keeps its essential shape and plot\" in comparison to the original film, an opinion shared by Hank Stuever of \"The Washington Post\", who wrote that the new adaptation was \"surprisingly and even satisfyingly true to the old movie\". Poniewozik stated that although director Holland had successfully directed complex and lively episodes of \"The Wire\" and \"Treme\", this adaptation was \"leaden and slack\", which may have been due to an attempt to fill two two-hour time slots. Stuever also wrote that it was \"way too long\", and added that the show lacked suspense. Poniewozik characterized Rosemary and Guy (Patrick J. Adams) as \"anesthetically generic\" without a \"complex relationship\"; he likened the miniseries to a \"lifestyle show\" that becomes a \"slasher movie\". Despite some \"redeeming notes\", he ultimately called it \"too dull\". Stuever noted that the 2014 adaptation was set in \"the hyper-aware boutique pregnancy\" era, and pointed out one modernization that eased Rosemary's burden: Google image searches on Satan. David Bianculli of NPR felt the shift to Paris was unnecessary and that the adaptation was \"neither refreshing nor original\"; he summed it up as \"just dreadful\". He described Saldana's Rosemary as more appealing but no smarter than Mia Farrow's. Rosemary's Baby (miniseries) Rosemary's Baby is a 2014 two-part, four-hour television miniseries adaptation of Ira Levin's best-selling horror novel of the same name. Zoe"
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"Section 39 of the Constitution of Australia Section 39 of the Constitution of Australia provides that the quorum of the Australian House of Representatives shall be one third of the total number of members, until the Parliament otherwise provides. During the Convention debates in Adelaide, Joseph Carruthers suggested that one third was too high and suggested that a quorum of twenty would be sufficient, but his suggestion was rejected. With the passage of the \"House of Representatives (Quorum) Act 1989\", the Parliament has changed the quorum to one fifth of the total number of members, which with the current House of Representatives size of 150 means that at least 30 members are required for a quorum. Section 39 of the Constitution of Australia Section 39 of the Constitution of Australia provides that the quorum of the Australian House of Representatives shall be one third of the total number of members, until the Parliament otherwise provides. During the Convention debates in Adelaide, Joseph Carruthers suggested that one third was too high and suggested that a quorum of twenty would be sufficient, but his suggestion was rejected. With the passage of the \"House of Representatives (Quorum) Act 1989\", the Parliament has changed"
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"Ranjangaon Ganpati Ranjangaon Ganpati is one among the Ashtavinayak, celebrating eight instances of legends related to Ganesha. This temple's Ganpati idol was inaugurated and donated by the \"Khollam\" family, a goldsmith family based in Ranjangaon. The temple was built between the 9th and 10th century. The main temple looks like it was built in the Peshwa period. Nagarkhana is situated above the entrance gate. The temple facing east has huge and beautiful entrance gate. Madhavrao Peshwa made a room in the basement of the temple to keep the idol of lord Ganesh. Later on Sardar Kibe of Indore renovated it. The idol of these lord Ganesh is also named as 'Mahotkat', and it is said that the idol has 10 trunks and 20 hands. While going from the Pune - Nagar highway the route is Pune - Koregaon - then via Shikrapur; Rajangaon is 21 km before Shirur. From Pune it is 50 km. Ranjangaon Ganpati Ranjangaon Ganpati is one among the Ashtavinayak, celebrating eight instances of legends related to Ganesha. This temple's Ganpati idol was inaugurated and donated by the \"Khollam\" family, a goldsmith family based in Ranjangaon. The temple was built between the 9th and 10th century. The"
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"Arno Voss Arno Voss (April 16, 1821 – March 23, 1888) was a German American military commander, lawyer, and politician. After studying law in Ohio, Voss came to Chicago, Illinois to edit a newspaper. He later established a law practice there. In 1862, he was named colonel of the 12th Illinois Cavalry, leading the brigade until 1864. After the war, Voss re-opened his practice and served one term in the Illinois House of Representatives. Voss was born in Rahden, Prussia on April 16, 1821. Voss married in Germany but he and his wife had no children. Early in his adulthood, he immigrated to the United States. He settled in Lancaster, Ohio, where he was admitted to the bar. Voss moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1848 to take a position as the editor of the \"Illinois Staats-Zeitung\", a German-language newspaper. The next year, Hermann Kriege assumed the editorship and Voss opened a law practice. He became involved with the Chicago German Off Battalion, a citizen soldier group that was attached to the 60th Regiment, Illinois State Militia. Voss was elected Chicago City Attorney in 1852 and was re-elected the next year. In 1854, Voss was named an adjutant of the newly formed Washington Independent Regiment. Voss was still serving in this role upon the outbreak of the Civil War. On September 4, 1861, Voss was named major of the 6th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry. On February 1, 1862, he assisted in the creation of the 12th Illinois Cavalry, closing his law firm so that he could focus on the regiment. It was then deployed to Virginia as part of the Peninsula Campaign. The regiment was attached to VIII Corps and was present for the disastrous Battle of Harpers Ferry. Voss took two thousand cavalry to the enemy lines, creating an opening to let the regiment retreat. They regrouped in Greencastle, Pennsylvania and were attached to Army of the Potomac in time for the Battle of Antietam. The regiment also witnessed the Battle of Gettysburg and Stoneman's 1863 Raid. In early 1864, Colonel Voss was forced to resign due to poor health. Voss recuperated over the next couple of years on his farm in Will County, Illinois. In 1869, he returned to Chicago to re-establish his law practice. In 1876, he was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives as a Democrat, where he served one two-year term. On December 1, 1880, he was named a master of chancery of the Circuit Court of Cook County. Voss died at his home following a stroke he suffered in his office earlier in the day on March 23, 1888. He was buried in Waldheim Cemetery. President Grover Cleveland signed a bill appropriating a grant to Voss' widow over the loss of a trunk during the war. Arno Voss Arno Voss (April 16, 1821 – March 23, 1888) was a German American military commander, lawyer, and politician. After studying law in Ohio, Voss came to Chicago, Illinois to edit a newspaper. He later established a"
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"Castillo v. Texas Castillo v. Texas, (Tex. 2002) was a controversial Texan court decision in which Jesus Castillo, an employee of a comic book store in Dallas, Texas, was charged with two counts of \"display of obscenity\", and convicted for one, after selling adult comics to an adult. The sales took place in late 1999, at which time Castillo was working as a clerk in \"Keith's Comics\", a store that had come under investigation for allegations of making obscene material accessible to minors. The store did in fact carry pornographic material, but in a clearly marked, restricted section not accessible to underaged customers. During this time, a plainclothes police officer bought said materials from Castillo, leading to the arrest of Castillo and his undergoing a court trial some months later. The counts were over the sales of \"Demon Beast Invasion\" and \"Legend of the Overfiend\", both of which are hentai (pornographic) manga (Japanese comics). The two were set to be tried separately. The \"Demon\" trial ended with a guilty verdict, the prosecution's argument to the jury being based on the claim that \"comics are for children\" and that the item was therefore designed to appeal to children, and the fact that the store was across the street from an elementary school. Notably, the trial featured experts Scott McCloud and Susan J. Napier testifying for the defense. Castillo was sentenced to 180 days in jail (since suspended), a year's probation, and a $4,000 fine. The \"Legend\" trial was subsequently dropped. The case was appealed to the Fifth District Court of Appeals, where it was upheld in a split decision, and later on to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals as well as eventually to the U.S. Supreme Court; both were denied. The case drew considerable controversy (and incredulity), especially online. Public opinion was on Castillo's side, and the trial was widely considered absurd. The $4,000 for the fine was collected via fund-raisers. It also came to the attention of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which became heavily involved and spent tens of thousands of dollars for Castillo's defense. \"Keith's Comics\" has since voluntarily removed comics with a rating worse than 'R' from its selection. Castillo v. Texas Castillo v. Texas, (Tex. 2002) was a controversial Texan court decision in which Jesus Castillo, an employee of a comic book store in Dallas, Texas, was charged with two counts of \"display of"
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"Jermale Hines Jermale Hines (born November 11, 1987) is a former American football safety. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the fifth round of the 2011 NFL Draft. He played college football at Ohio State. He has also been a member of the Carolina Panthers. Hines was a 2010 First-team All-Big Ten selection as a strong safety after playing free safety in 2009. He ended his career with 28 starts, 155 tackles. In 2009 Hines was a starter at free safety and was fourth on the squad with 57 tackles. In 2008, he played safety and made 31 tackles for the year. In 2007, he played on special teams as a true freshman. Hines was drafted with the 158th pick in the 2011 NFL Draft by the St. Louis Rams. He was waived on September 27. On September 28, the Indianapolis Colts claimed him off of waivers, but was waived on October 3. Hines was claimed off waivers by the Carolina Panthers on October 4. He was waived on November 15. On Oct 18th he was signed to the Carolina Practice Squad. Hines was signed by the Colts on November 30, 2011. On September 1, 2012 Hines was cut by the Colts. Jermale Hines Jermale Hines (born November 11, 1987) is a former American football safety. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the fifth round of the 2011 NFL Draft. He played college football at Ohio State. He has also been a member of the Carolina Panthers. Hines was a 2010 First-team All-Big Ten selection as a strong safety after playing free safety in 2009. He ended his career with 28 starts, 155 tackles. In 2009 Hines was a starter at free safety and was fourth on the squad with 57 tackles. In 2008,"
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"Customer value maximization Customer value maximization (CVM) is a real-time service model that, proponents say, goes beyond basic customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities, identifying and capturing maximum potential from prospects and existing customers. Proponents claim that a well-devised CVM program helps companies offer the right things to the right people at the right time. The CVM framework uses creative, technology, media and process along with robust measurement systems to help marketers maximize returns from their marketing investments. These factors have made it imperative for marketing organizations to find new mechanisms to generate value from each customer interaction. Customer value maximization shifts focus from managing products or marketing campaigns to managing the profitability of individual customers over the life of the relationship. While CVM may lead to better product offerings and more targeted campaigns, a customer value manager asks different questions compared to a traditional marketing manager. Instead of asking who will respond to a 10% off promotion, a customer value manager strives to understand who the customer is and what they can offer to increase the customer's lifetime value? The CVM framework evaluates current methods and effectiveness, makes changes where required, and sets up a measurement system that helps in evaluating effectiveness. The CVM framework operates as a continuous process in a closed loop. Today customers own the on and off switches to all media/mediums, are more knowledgeable about various products and services they are being marketed to and have very limited attention spans owing to existing clutter. The remote, so to speak, is now unmistakably in the customers' hands. Most marketers have realized that traditional methods of marketing simply don’t work in this new milieu. They are today actively seeking, investing and mastering newer methods and tools that go beyond making their brands merely visible to ones that allow better consumer understanding, precise targeting, customized offering and above all that which engage and let them have a two-way conversation with their customers. For the progressive marketer, the real challenge begins from this stage. Marketing challenges can be predominantly dissected into 4 categories: The intended outcome of marketing investments may be The actual outcomes, however, happen to be Customer relationship management facilitates deepening of relationships with existing customers using database marketing techniques. Customer value maximization, on the other hand, is used to maximize value for both existing and prospective customers and follows a multi-disciplinary approach. Customer value maximization may or may not require relationship marketing. Customer value maximization Customer value maximization (CVM) is a real-time service model that, proponents say, goes beyond basic customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities, identifying and capturing maximum potential from prospects and existing customers. Proponents claim that a well-devised CVM program helps companies offer the right things to the right people at the right time. The CVM framework uses creative, technology, media and process along with robust measurement systems to help marketers maximize returns from their marketing investments. These factors have made it imperative for marketing organizations to find new mechanisms to generate value from each"
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"2012 BWF season The 2012 BWF Season was the overall badminton circuit organized by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) for the 2012 badminton season to publish and promote the sport. Besides the BWF World Championships, BWF promotes the sport of Badminton through an extensive worldwide programme of events in four structure levels. They were the individual tournaments called Super Series, Grand Prix Events, International Challenge and International Series. Besides the individual tournaments, Team Events such as Thomas Cup & Uber Cup and Sudirman Cup are held every other year. The 2012 BWF Season calendar comprised the Olympic Games, World Championships tournaments, the Thomas and Uber Cup, the BWF Super Series (Super Series, Super Series Premier, Super Series Finals), the Grand Prix (Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix), the International Series (International Series and International Challenge), and Future Series. This is the complete schedule of events on the 2012 calendar, with the Champions and Runners-up documented. 2012 BWF season The 2012 BWF Season was the overall badminton circuit organized by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) for the 2012 badminton season to publish and promote the sport. Besides the BWF World Championships, BWF promotes the sport of Badminton through an extensive worldwide"
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"Yoshihiro Natsuka Natsuka was born in Funabashi on October 7, 1969. After graduating from high school, he joined Fujita Industries (later \"Bellmare Hiratsuka\") in 1988. In 1994, the club won 1994 Emperor's Cup and he was elected Best Eleven. In Asia, the club also won 1995 Asian Cup Winners' Cup. However, he left the club end of 1998 season due to financial strain. In 1999, he moved to J2 League club Consadole Sapporo. The club won the champions in 2000 and was promoted to J1 League. He retired in 2001. On May 22, 1994, Natsuka debuted for Japan national team against Australia. In 1994, he played full time in all matches included 1994 Asian Games. In 1995, he also played at 1995 King Fahd Cup. He played 11 games and scored 1 goal for Japan until 1995. Yoshihiro Natsuka Natsuka was born in Funabashi on October 7, 1969. After graduating from high school, he joined Fujita Industries (later \"Bellmare Hiratsuka\") in 1988. In 1994, the club won 1994 Emperor's Cup and he was elected Best Eleven. In Asia, the club also won 1995 Asian Cup Winners' Cup. However, he left the club end of 1998 season due to financial strain."
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"This is a card that is suppose to work as a credit card, but with prior deposits, which makes it almost a debit card again which you can get a few offers. However most of the websites won't allow you to pay even if you have enough money in the Web Card even if you have 2 step verification. \n The Bank become the first in Sri Lanka to introduce one day clearing for all cheques drawn on any Sampath Bank branch, collected by any commercial bank in the island and presented through Sri Lanka Automated Clearing House (SLACH). The first ever Cheque Imagine & Truncating (CIT) site in Sri Lanka was launched by the bank in October 2004. \n | This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (February 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) \n---|---\n Sampath Bank PLC \n--- \nType | Public limited company \nTraded as | CSE:SAMP. N0000 \nIndustry | Finance \nFounded | 1986 \nHeadquarters | Colombo 02, Sri Lanka \nArea served | Sri Lanka \nProducts | Banking, financial and related services \nWebsite | www.sampath.lk \n In 1996, the bank introduced the \"Tele-banking\" facility. This led to re-engineering of its IT induced banking technology in 1998 and \"SampathNet\"–Internet Banking facility launched in July 2000. \"Slipless Banking\" is the latest innovation of the bank, where no paper work is required in most of the over-the-counter transactions. This is another first in Sri Lanka, introduced by Sampath Bank. \n Sampath Bank won a Gold and Merit Award at the National Best Quality Software Awards 2008 for the in-house category for developing the \"Credit Approval System\" (CAS) and \"Electronic Money Transfer\" (EMTS) application. It was also honored at the National Science and Technology Awards 2008 for the category of \"Local Developed New Technologies\" which have resulted in a successfully Marketed Product/Service for the product \"Sampath eRemittance System\". \n The bank was originally incorporated as Investment and Credit Bank Limited in 1987. The bank became popularly known as Sampath. In 1988, Sampath Bank started to operate a multi-point network of automated teller machines (ATMs) for the first time in the country, as \"Sampath Electronic Teller\" or \"SET\". Then, with the popularity of ATM banking introduced MasterCard (in 1989), PBU (Personal Banking Unit) and Uni-Banking System. The bank was the first to introduce debit cards in South Asia in 1997 and was the first in Sri Lanka to issue a debit card instantly at the time of opening an account. The first ever Cheque Imaging & Truncating (CIT) site in Sri Lanka was launched by Sampath Bank in 2004. Since 2009, the bank is the third largest private sector bank in Sri Lanka in terms of total assets. \n The first office of Sampath bank located at Wijewardhana Mawatha, Colombo 10 and later in 1997, it was moved to Sir James Peiris Mawatha, Colombo 02, Sri Lanka. At the end of the first year, the staff had 94 members. \n Now the bank operates with total of 229 branches including 12 super branches and 360 ATMs including 8 off-site ATMs. \n Sampath Bank PLC is a licensed commercial bank incorporated in Sri Lanka in 1986 with 229 branches and 373 ATMs island wide. It has won the \"Bank of the Year\" award by \"The Banker\" of Financial Times Limited–London, for the second consecutive year and the \"National Business Excellence Awards 2010\". It has become the third largest private sector bank in Sri Lanka with Rs. 453 billion in deposits as of 30 June 2016. \n The first ATM operated by the bank was installed in 1986 and at the year end of 2007 it crossed the 150 mark and now the bank is operating over 220 ATMs island wide. \n Sampath bank was the first to introduce automated teller machines to Sri Lanka branded as \"SET\", MasterCard, Personal Banking Unit Facility, Uni Banking System & Debit Cards (Initially with Cirrus and Maestro and Visa). After the massive re-engineering work done by the bank for its IT induced banking technology, the bank was able to launch Internet Banking, Internet Payment Gateways and mobile banking services which are on-line 24x7. \n Sampath Bank was the first bank in Sri Lanka to operate with fully computerized database and technologies since its birth in 1986."
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"John Barney John Barney (January 18, 1785 – January 26, 1857) was a U.S. Congressman from the fifth district of Maryland, serving from 1825 to 1829. He was the son of Commodore Joshua Barney, a hero of the Revolution and the War of 1812. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Barney was appointed a captain and assistant district quartermaster general in the United States Army on August 15, 1814, and served until June 15, 1815, when he was honorably discharged. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1822 to the Eighteenth Congress, but was elected to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1825 to March 3, 1829. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress, and engaged in literary pursuits until his death in Washington, D.C.. He is interred in Greenmount Cemetery in Baltimore. John Barney John Barney (January 18, 1785 – January 26, 1857) was a U.S. Congressman from the fifth district of Maryland, serving from 1825 to 1829. He was the son of Commodore Joshua Barney, a hero of the Revolution and the War of 1812. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Barney was appointed a captain and assistant district quartermaster general in"
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"Marion Shilling Marion Shilling (December 3, 1910 – November 6, 2004) was an American film actress of the 1930s. Marion Helen Schilling was born in Denver, Colorado in 1910. Her family moved to St. Louis when she was young. She graduated from Central High School there in 1928. She started her acting career as a stage actress, starring in stage plays such as \"Miss Lulu Betts\" and \"Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch\". In 1929 she received her first screen role in \"Wise Girls\". After a couple of roles in other films, she starred opposite William Powell in the 1930 crime drama \"Shadow of the Law\". That movie springboarded her into roles as a B-movie heroine. In 1931 she was one of thirteen girls selected as \"WAMPAS Baby Stars\", a list that included future Hollywood star Marian Marsh. From 1930 to 1936 she starred in forty two films, mostly westerns or mysteries. She often starred opposite Tom Keene and Guinn \"Big Boy\" Williams. In the 1934 film \"serial\", \"The Red Rider\", she starred opposite early western film legend Buck Jones, with a supporting cast that included William Desmond and football legend Jim Thorpe. In 2002, Shilling received a Golden Boot Award for her contribution to Western films. Shilling retired in 1936, to marry and have a family. She was married to Edward Cook from 1937 until his death in 1998. They had two children, Edward and Frances. She never returned to acting, and died from natural causes on November 6, 2004, in a hospital in Torrance, California, aged 93. Marion Shilling Marion Shilling (December 3, 1910 – November 6, 2004) was an American film actress of the 1930s. Marion Helen Schilling was born in Denver, Colorado in 1910. Her family moved to St. Louis when she was young. She graduated"
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"Cannonball House (Macon, Georgia) The Cannonball House located in Macon, Georgia, United States was constructed in 1853. The house was named the Cannonball House because of cannonball-inflicted damage sustained during the Civil War. The house was built using an authentic Greek revival architectural style and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The recreated meeting rooms of the Adelphean (ΑΔΠ) and Philomathean (ΦΜ) societies (the world's first college sororities established at Wesleyan College in 1851 and 1852, respectively) can be found on display inside the house. The entire house is furnished to the 1853 period. The rear of the Cannonball House is occupied by a two-story kitchen built of hand-molded brick. The upper level of this house formerly served as servants' quarters. Few structures of this type remain in the South today. A bronze cannon, forged in 1864 at the Macon Arsenal, can be found on display in front of the Cannonball House. The house received its name due to a Union cannonball that crashed into it during the Battle of Dunlap Hill on July 30, 1864. The left middle column of the house was destroyed by a cannonball fired from across the Ocmulgee River. According to eyewitnesses, the cannonball went through the column and into the house itself after bouncing off the sand sidewalk in front of the house. Evidence of the impact still remains today and can be seen in the repaired column, parlor plaster and large dent in the hall floor. The Cannonball House was owned by Judge Asa Holt during the war. The house is now owned by the Sidney Lanier Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC). Currently, the house serves as a historic house museum. Cannonball House (Macon, Georgia) The Cannonball House located in Macon, Georgia, United States was constructed"
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"Simon Russell Beale Simon Russell Beale, CBE (born 12 January 1961) is an English actor, author and music historian. Beale has been described by \"The Independent\" as \"the greatest stage actor of his generation.\" He has appeared in \"Persuasion\" (1995), \"The Young Visiters\" (2003), \"Dunkirk\" (2004), \"The Deep Blue Sea\" (2011) and as Falstaff in the BBC made-for-television films \"Henry IV, Part I and Part II\" (2012). He was part of the main cast of Showtime's \"Penny Dreadful\". More recently, he has appeared in \"Into the Woods\" and \"The Death of Stalin\". Beale was born in Penang, British Malaya, son of Lt-Gen Sir Peter Beale and Julia \"née\" Winter, where his father served as an army medic, becoming Surgeon-General of HM Armed Forces. Several members of his family have pursued successful careers in medicine. He was first drawn to performance when, at the age of eight, he became a chorister at St. Paul's Cathedral, and a pupil at the adjoining St Paul's Cathedral School. It was believed that he gave his first theatre performance at age 14 playing Desdemona in \"Othello\" at the independent school Clifton College's \"Redgrave Theatre\". However, Beale has corrected this, stating that his first stage performance was as Hippolyta in \"A Midsummer Night's Dream\" at primary school. In the sixth form at Clifton he also performed in \"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead\", a play in which he would later star at the National Theatre. After Clifton, he went to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and obtained a first in English, after which he was offered a place to undertake a PhD. He pursued further studies at Guildhall School of Music and Drama graduating in 1983. Beale first came to the attention of theatre-goers in the late 1980s with a series of lauded comic performances, that were on occasion extremely camp, in such plays as \"The Man of Mode\" by George Etherege and \"Restoration\" by Edward Bond at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). He broadened his range in the early 1990s with moving performances as Konstantin in Chekhov's \"The Seagull\", as Oswald in Ibsen's \"Ghosts\", Ferdinand in \"The Duchess of Malfi\" and as Edgar in \"King Lear\". At the first annual Ian Charleson Awards in January 1991, he received a special commendation for his 1990 performances of Konstantin in \"The Seagull\", Thersites in \"Troilus and Cressida\", and Edward II in \"Edward II\", all at the RSC. It was at the RSC that he first worked with Sam Mendes, who directed him there as Thersites in \"Troilus and Cressida\", as \"Richard III\" and as a striking Ariel in \"The Tempest\", in the last of which he revealed a fine tenor voice. Mendes also directed him as Iago in \"Othello\" at the Royal National Theatre and in Mendes' farewell productions at the Donmar Warehouse in 2002, Chekhov's \"Uncle Vanya\", in which he played the title role, and \"Twelfth Night\", in which Beale played Malvolio. He won the 2003 Laurence Olivier Award for \"Uncle Vanya\". Since 1995, he has been a regular at the National Theatre, where his roles have included Mosca in Ben Jonson's \"Volpone\" opposite Michael Gambon, George in Tom Stoppard's \"Jumpers\" and the lead in \"Humble Boy\" by Charlotte Jones, a part written specially for him. In 1997, he played the pivotal role of Kenneth Widmerpool in a television adaptation of Anthony Powell's \"A Dance to the Music of Time\", for which he won the Best Actor award at the British Academy Television Awards in 1998. In 1999, he was a key part of Trevor Nunn's ensemble, playing in Leonard Bernstein's \"Candide\", Edward Bulwer-Lytton's \"Money\" and Maxim Gorky's \"Summerfolk\" at the National. In autumn 2006, he played Galileo in David Hare's adaption of Brecht's \"Life of Galileo\" and as Face in \"The Alchemist\". From December 2007 to March 2008, he played Benedick in \"Much Ado About Nothing\" directed by Nicholas Hytner and from February to July 2008, he played Andrew Undershaft in Hytner's production of Shaw's \"Major Barbara\"; he then appeared in Harold Pinter's \"A Slight Ache\" and \"Landscape\". In 2000, he played Hamlet in a production directed by John Caird for the National Theatre, a role for which he was described by The Daily Telegraph as \"portly [and] relatively long in the tooth\". In 2005, Beale was directed by Deborah Warner as Cassius in \"Julius Caesar\" alongside Ralph Fiennes as Antony. That same year, he played the title role in \"Macbeth\" at the Almeida Theatre. In 2007, he reprised his 2005 Broadway role as King Arthur in the Monty Python musical \"Spamalot\" at the Palace Theatre, London. In 2008, he made his debut as a television presenter, fronting the BBC series \"Sacred Music\" with Harry Christophers and The Sixteen. Various specials and a second series have since been produced; the most recent episode \"(Monteverdi in Mantua: The Genius of the Vespers)\" was broadcast in 2015. In the spring of 2009, Beale and Sam Mendes collaborated on \"The Winter's Tale\" and \"The Cherry Orchard\", in which Beale played Leontes and Lopakhin respectively, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, later transferring to the Old Vic Theatre. From 2009–2010, he played George Smiley in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of all the John le Carré novels in which Smiley featured. These were aired in nineteen 90-minute or 60-minute full cast radio plays. From March to June 2010, he played Sir Harcourt Courtly in \"London Assurance\", again at the National. In August 2010 he appeared in the first West End revival of \"Deathtrap\" by Ira Levin. In March 2011 he made his debut with The Royal Ballet in \"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\". In October 2011 he returned to the National to star as Joseph Stalin in the premiere of \"Collaborators\", for which he won Best Actor at the 2012 Evening Standard Awards. In 2010-11, Beale played the \"Coalition Home Secretary – William Towers\", in the two final series of BBC One's spy drama, \"Spooks\". He played the title role in \"Timon of Athens\" at the National Theatre from July to October 2012. The production was broadcast to cinemas around the world (as was \"Collaborators\" earlier) on 1 November 2012 through the National Theatre Live programme. He starred in a revival of Peter Nichols' \"Privates on Parade\" as part of Michael Grandage's new West End season at the Noël Coward Theatre from December 2012 to March 2013. In 2013, he won the British Academy Television Award (BAFTA) for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Falstaff in the BBC's The Hollow Crown series of TV films about Shakespeare's historical dramas \"Richard II\"; \"Henry IV, Part 1;\" \"Henry IV, Part 2;\" and \"Henry V\". He appeared alongside John Simm in Harold Pinter's \"The Hothouse\" at the Trafalgar Studios from May to August 2013, directed by Jamie Lloyd. From January 2014, he played the title role in \"King Lear\" at the National Theatre, directed once again by Sam Mendes. From May to July 2015 he starred in \"Temple\", a new play at the Donmar Warehouse about the 2011 United Kingdom anti-austerity protests. In September and October 2015 he played Samuel Foote in \"Mr Foote's Other Leg\" at the Hampstead Theatre. It transferred to the Theatre Royal Haymarket from October 2015 to January 2016. In 2014 Beale was appointed the Cameron Mackintosh Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University, based at St Catherine's College. In November 2016 Beale returned to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, to play Prospero in \"The Tempest\". In June 2017 it transferred to the Barbican Centre in London. In July 2018 Beale returned to the National, starring opposite Ben Miles and Adam Godley in \"The Lehman Trilogy\", again directed by Mendes. Beale will star in the title role of \"Richard II\" at the Almeida Theatre from December 2018 to February 2019. Beale is a past president of the Anthony Powell Society, a tribute to his portrayal of Kenneth Widmerpool. Beale is gay. In the \"Independent on Sunday\" 2006 Pink List – a list of the most influential gay men and women in the UK – he was placed at number 30, representing an advance of four",
"Theatre at Oxford University, based at St Catherine's College. In November 2016 Beale returned to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, to play Prospero in \"The Tempest\". In June 2017 it transferred to the Barbican Centre in London. In July 2018 Beale returned to the National, starring opposite Ben Miles and Adam Godley in \"The Lehman Trilogy\", again directed by Mendes. Beale will star in the title role of \"Richard II\" at the Almeida Theatre from December 2018 to February 2019. Beale is a past president of the Anthony Powell Society, a tribute to his portrayal of Kenneth Widmerpool. Beale is gay. In the \"Independent on Sunday\" 2006 Pink List – a list of the most influential gay men and women in the UK – he was placed at number 30, representing an advance of four positions since the previous year's rankings. Beale serves as Patron of the following organisations: Simon Russell Beale Simon Russell Beale, CBE (born 12 January 1961) is an English actor, author and music historian. Beale has been described by \"The Independent\" as \"the greatest stage actor of his generation.\" He has appeared in \"Persuasion\""
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"Fort de l'Isle Fort de l'Isle is a site in Alberta, Canada, containing the remains of three trading posts that existed from 1799 to some time before 1808. The island the North Saskatchewan River on which the posts were located is about 47 miles west of the Saskatchewan border and about 7 miles north of Myrnam. The west end of the island can be seen from the Alberta Highway 881 bridge. A Mr. de Rochblave of the XY Company may have been the first to arrive. In 1800 both the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company decided to abandon their posts at Buckingham House/Fort George and move 20 miles upstream. Henry Hallett of the HBC had built the main buildings of Island House by that fall but could not build the stockade until spring, when it was possible to float logs downriver. François Decoigne from Fort Augustus upstream built Fort de l'Isle, between the other two, for the NWC. John McDonald of Garth ran the NWC post for the first two years. In 1802 James King of the NWC and Joseph-Maurice Lamothe of the XY Company both left for an Indian camp about five days away to pick up furs that were owed to their respective companies. King tried to take furs that Lamothe claimed belonged to the XY Company, words were exchanged, and Lamothe shot King. From the time of Médard des Groseilliers it had been unclear whether Canadian jurisdiction extended beyond the Saint Lawrence basin. A Montreal grand jury brought a true bill against Lamothe, and he went to Montreal to stand trial but changed his mind and disappeared into the West to be beyond the reach of the law. This led to the passage of the Canada Jurisdiction Act of 1803, which provided that offenses committed in the West would be dealt with in the same way as those in Upper and Lower Canada. It also allowed the Governor of Lower Canada to appoint justices of the peace in the West, something that would cause trouble later. Both posts were abandoned in favor of Fort Edmonton upstream or Paint Creek House/Fort Vermilion downstream. In 1808 David Thompson passed by and implied in his journal that the forts were gone. A marker was erected in 1960. The surviving visible remains consist of cellar depressions and piles of chimney rock. The island can be reached only by boat or by snowshoes in winter; a fairly powerful outboard is needed because of the current. Fort de l'Isle Fort de l'Isle is a site in Alberta, Canada, containing the remains of three trading posts that existed from 1799 to some time before 1808. The island the North Saskatchewan River on which the posts were located is about 47 miles west of the Saskatchewan border and about 7 miles north of Myrnam. The west end of the island can be seen from the Alberta Highway 881 bridge. A Mr. de Rochblave of the XY Company may have been the first"
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"Cliff Carlisle Cliff Carlisle (May 6, 1903 – April 5, 1983) was an American country and blues musician, singer and songwriter. Carlisle was a yodeler and was a pioneer in the use of the Hawaiian steel guitar in country music. He was a brother of country music star Bill Carlisle. Carlisle was born in Taylorsville, Kentucky and began performing locally with cousin Lillian Truax at age 16. Truax's marriage put an end to the group, and Carlisle began playing with Wilber Ball, a guitarist and tenor harmonizer. The two toured frequently around the U.S. playing vaudeville and circus venues in the 1920s. Carlisle and Ball first played at Louisville, Kentucky radio station WHAS-AM in 1930, which made them local stars, and later that year they recorded for Gennett Records and Champion Records. In 1931, they recorded with Jimmie Rodgers. Toward the end of 1931, Carlisle signed with ARC and was offered performance slots on several radio stations, including WBT-AM in Charlotte, North Carolina, WLS-AM in Chicago and WLW-AM in Cincinnati, Ohio. Cliff's brother Bill Carlisle became his guitarist after Ball left in 1934. During the 1930s Carlisle, who recorded a large amount of material despite a hiatus from 1934 to 1936, frequently released songs with sexual connotations including barnyard metaphors (which became something of a hallmark). Carlisle toured with his son, \"Sonny Boy Tommy,\" to occasional consternation from authorities in areas where this contravened local child labor laws. He continued to perform on WMPS-AM in Memphis, Tennessee for several years in the 1940s, but by the 1950s had retired from music. In the 1960s, The Rooftop Singers covered his tune \"Tom Cat Blues\"; in its wake, Carlisle and Ball did a few reunion shows together and recorded for Rem Records. On April 2, 1983, Carlisle died at the age of 79 in Lexington, Kentucky. Cliff Carlisle Cliff Carlisle (May 6, 1903 – April 5, 1983) was an American country and blues musician, singer and songwriter. Carlisle was a yodeler and was a pioneer in the use of the Hawaiian steel guitar in country music. He was a brother of country music star Bill Carlisle. Carlisle was born in Taylorsville, Kentucky and began performing locally with cousin Lillian Truax at age 16. Truax's marriage put an end to the group, and Carlisle began playing with Wilber Ball, a guitarist and tenor harmonizer. The two toured frequently around the U.S. playing vaudeville"
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"Coupling (U.S. TV series) Coupling is a 2003 American remake of the British television sitcom of the same title, which aired on NBC. By 2003, three series of \"Coupling\" had been broadcast on BBC Two, all written by the show's creator, Steven Moffat. The show was loosely based on the beginnings of Moffat's real-life relationship with Sue Vertue. NBC commissioned a remake of the show for the American market, reportedly as a replacement for \"Friends\", which was nearing the end of its run. Moffat and original producers from Hartswood Films, Sue and Beryl Vertue, served as executive producers on the NBC adaptation, alongside Phoef Sutton and Ben Silverman. Unlike most adaptations, the NBC adaptation would reuse Moffat's original scripts, although these were adapted by Sutton and were shortened to comply with the reduced running time (NBC has multiple advertisement breaks compared to the original broadcaster, BBC Two, which has none). Other writers, such as Danny Zuker and Paul Corrigan worked on episodes later in the series. The original unaired pilot starred Breckin Meyer as Jeff, Melissa George as Susan and Emily Rutherfurd as Sally. NBC then fired the writers and replaced Meyer, George and Rutherford with Christopher Moynihan, Rena Sofer and Sonya Walger, respectively. George later commented that she \"dodged a bullet\" by being replaced before the show aired. Thirteen episodes were commissioned. However, due to poor critical reception, NBC announced the show's cancellation on October 31, after only four episodes had been broadcast. The final three planned episodes were not filmed, with the remaining six episodes unbroadcast. It failed to perform in the ratings and was canceled before the November sweeps, with six episodes remaining unaired despite heavy publicity by the network. It was immediately panned as a poor imitation of the original UK series by viewers and critics. BBC America even ran commercials noting that they would play the original British versions on their station just after the American equivalent episodes on NBC aired, so that viewers could see instantly just how superior the original was. Miscasting and stilted delivery of a nearly identical script were believed to be the reasons for the failure, though creator Moffat blamed the show's failure on NBC's intervention during the creative and production processes. In 2007, he said: \"The network f--ked it up because they intervened endlessly.\" The American adaptation came at a time when NBC was having success with remakes of BBC shows, such as \"The Weakest Link\" and \"Dog Eat Dog\". NBC would find success in 2005 with a remake of another BBC series, \"The Office\", which aired for nine seasons. Because of what was deemed to be indecent content, two affiliates of NBC refused to air the program; KSL-TV (Channel 5) in Salt Lake City, and WNDU-TV (Channel 16) in South Bend, Indiana. Both stations were owned by religious organizations, as KSL is owned by the Bonneville International division of the LDS Church, while WNDU was at the time owned by a subsidiary of The University of Notre Dame. In those markets, WB affiliate KUWB (Channel 30) and a UPN digital subchannel of CBS affiliate WSBT-TV (Channel 22), respectively, aired the series after their network's primetime lineups. Jeff Zucker, former President and CEO of NBCUniversal, later said of \"Coupling\" that it \"just sucked\". Coupling (U.S. TV series) Coupling is a 2003 American remake of the British television sitcom of the same title, which aired on NBC. By 2003, three series of \"Coupling\" had been broadcast on BBC Two, all written by the show's creator, Steven Moffat. The show was loosely based on the beginnings of Moffat's real-life relationship with"
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"Doug Kistler Douglas C. Kistler (March 21, 1938 – February 29, 1980) was an American basketball player. He attended Wayne High School in Radnor, Pennsylvania. A 6'9\" (2.06 m), 210 lb (95 kg) power forward, Kistler played at Duke University from 1959 to 1961, earning the ACC Men's Basketball Tournament Most Valuable Player Award in 1960. Kistler was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the 3rd round (3rd pick, 26th overall) of the 1961 NBA Draft. He played five games for the New York Knicks during the 1961–62 NBA season and averaged 1.6 points per game. Kistler died in an automobile accident in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1980. Doug Kistler Douglas C. Kistler (March 21, 1938 – February 29, 1980) was an American basketball player. He attended Wayne High School in Radnor, Pennsylvania. A 6'9\" (2.06 m), 210 lb (95 kg) power forward, Kistler played at Duke University from 1959 to 1961, earning the ACC Men's Basketball Tournament Most Valuable Player Award in 1960. Kistler was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the 3rd round (3rd pick, 26th overall) of the 1961 NBA Draft. He played five games for the New York Knicks during the 1961–62 NBA season and averaged"
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"Lermontov (crater) Lermontov is an impact crater on the planet Mercury, 152 kilometers in diameter. It is located at 15.2°N, 48.1°W, southwest of the crater Proust and northeast of the crater Giotto. It has a circular rim and a flat crater floor. Lermontov is likely a mature crater, but it remains a bright feature because of low opaque material on its floor. The crater is named after Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, a 19th-century Russian poet. The name was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1976. The crater floor is somewhat brighter than the exterior surface and is smooth with several irregularly shaped depressions. Such features, similar to those found on the floor of Praxiteles, may be evidence of past explosive volcanic activity on the crater floor. Lermontov appears reddish in enhanced-color views, suggesting that it has a different composition from the surrounding surface. Lermontov (crater) Lermontov is an impact crater on the planet Mercury, 152 kilometers in diameter. It is located at 15.2°N, 48.1°W, southwest of the crater Proust and northeast of the crater Giotto. It has a circular rim and a flat crater floor. Lermontov is likely a mature crater, but it remains a bright feature because of low"
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"Lure of the Temptress Lure of the Temptress is Revolution Software's debut point-and-click adventure game published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment. It was released in June 1992 for Atari ST, MS-DOS and Amiga. The player assumes the role of a young peasant named Diermot who has to overthrow an evil sorceress. \"Lure of the Temptress\" is the first game built with the Virtual Theatre engine, which Revolution used in the subsequent games \"Beneath a Steel Sky\" and the first two games in the \"Broken Sword\" series. It was received favourably by critics, a commercial success and re-released as freeware on April 1, 2003. \"Lure of the Temptress\" is a 2D adventure game played from a third-person perspective. Via a point-and-click interface and a system of drop-down lists, the player guides protagonist Diermot through the game's world and interacts with the environment by selecting from multiple commands. The player controls Diermot's movements and actions with a mouse or a gamepad. Diermot can pick up various objects; these can then be used with either other collectible objects, parts of the scenery, or with other people in order to solve puzzles and progress in the game. He can also engage in dialogue with other characters through conversation trees to gain hints of what needs to be done to solve the puzzles or progress the plot. A few simple action-oriented battle scenes are also included. A young peasant named Diermot is employed as a beater for the king's hunting party. One night the king receives a note from a messenger, requesting his services to help quell a rebellion in the remote village of Turnvale. As the king's party departs, Diermot’s pony follows them, unwittingly carrying him to the battle. When the party arrives at Turnvale they are not confronted by a peasant revolt. Instead they find a band of man-eating Skorl, led by an enchantress named Selena, the titular temptress. The king's men are defeated and the king is killed. In the process, Diermot is thrown from his saddle and is knocked unconscious. The Skorl take Diermot prisoner and imprison him in the local dungeon. With help from a peasant named Ratpouch, Diermot manages to escape from the dungeon and visits Luthern, the blacksmith. Luthern reveals that a girl named Goewin who runs a herb shop has recently disappeared. Diermot discovers that she had been arrested by the Skorl. With help from Ratpouch, Diermot breaks into the house of Taidgh, the magician, where he creates a potion which disguises him as Selena. He enters the mansion where Goewin is being held and orders the Skorl to free her. Not long after, a man named Mallin gives Diermot a book wrapped in cloth to take to a man named Morkus. In the process of delivering the book, Diermot sees a notice stating that whoever returns the book to its rightful owner will be rewarded. Diermot delivers the book to a man named Toby, who rewards him with a statuette. Toby reveals that the dragon can help Diermot defeat Selena, but that he will need an infusion made of three herbs to wake the dragon up, which Goewin then makes for Diermot. Diermot enters the dragon's cave and wakes him up. The dragon agrees to help Diermot, revealing that Turnvale was the domain of a demon long before humans came to the area. This demon should have died along with his breed long ago, but did not perish because it was able to feed on man's greed and ambition in order to survive. The demon was driven out by the great Gethryn, but the young sorceress Selena's meddling with evil has reawakened the demon, and it controls her mortal form. The dragon possesses the Eye of Gethryn, an enchanted stone left by Gethryn at the time of his death. The stone contains the power to defeat the demon, and the dragon then gives the stone to Diermot. A Skorl named Wayne, who turns against Selena, sneaks Diermot into Selena's castle in a barrel. Diermot defeats Selena with the Eye of Gethryn, freeing Turnvale from her tyranny. Charles Cecil and Tony Warriner had worked together at Artic Computing, an English video game development company. In 1990, they decided that they would set up their own video game development company, together with David Sykes and Noirin Carmody. The four started up Revolution Software, initially based in Hull, with a 10 thousand pounds loan from Cecil's mother. Cecil wanted the game to differ from popular Sierra games at the time, saying: \"While I enjoyed Sierra games, I felt that there had to be more than yet again saving King Graham of Daventry from a – let’s be frank – fairly unlikely series of events. It was all a little bit twee. So we came up with the idea of writing an adventure game that did not take itself too seriously, but did have a serious story – something in-between Lucasarts and Sierra.\" The game was published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment. \"Lure of the Temptress\" was the first game built with the Virtual Theatre engine, which allowed in-game characters to wander around the gameworld independently of each other, performing \"every day life\" actions, which had not previously been featured in a game. It was later used for \"Beneath a Steel Sky\" and the first two games in the \"Broken Sword\" series. The title cost between 20 and 30 thousand pounds. On April 1, 2003, the game was released as freeware. The data files are available from the Revolution Software website for download and the game's engine has been added to ScummVM. This version of \"Lure of the Temptress\" was released on GOG.com on December 18, 2008. Upon its release, \"Lure of the Temptress\" was received favorably by critics, who praised the game's innovative controls and graphics, and compared it to Sierra and LucasFilm games. In 1993, \"Dragon\" gave the game 4 out of 5 stars. \"Computer Gaming World\" liked the game's sophisticated NPC interactions and how it prevented unwinnable situations, but criticized its short playing time. The magazine concluded that \"\"Lure of the Temptress\" is a fine first release from this developer and bodes well for the future\". \"Amiga Power\" ranked it at #47 in 1993, and at #66 in 1994, on their list of Amiga Power All-Time Top 100. In 2011, Wirtualna Polska ranked it as the 30th best Amiga game, saying it was \"indeed a revolution\" in the genre. It was also a commercial success, reaching number one in the British Gallup charts at the beginning of July 1992 and remaining in the Top 20 for most of the rest of the year. \"Amiga Format\" stated that this \"fine adventure game well worth investigating\" could compete with Sierra and LucasFilm games; \"in any event, \"Temptress\" surpasses almost anything Sierra have offered, by being larger, funnier, and a whole lot better drawn ... an innovative system knocks spots of the Sierra-standards and shows LucasFilm a thing or two\" and also praised its humour, saying that there's \"a good dose of tongue-in-cheek humour and fairy-tale nonsense.\" \"The One\" praised the game's controls, saying that \"the game's impressive user-friendliness is undoubtably one of its strong points,\" adding that \"\"Lure of the Temptress\" is every bit as professional and polished as anything the Americans and French have been able to offer us recently\" but \"\"Lure\" is, if anything, a little too serious and sombre\" and that \"LucasFilm's games boast the more interesting characters and interaction sequences.\" \"Amiga Power\" praised its graphics, saying they are \"very pretty drawn, with the dark, moody look you'd expect from a town being oppressed by an evil Temptress,\" calling it \"one of the best graphic adventures ever\" that's \"up there with \"Monkey Island 1\" and \"Beneath a Steel Sky\",\" and adding that the \"only drawback is that it's shorter than your average adventure.\" \"Mega Zone\" praised the game, stating that it is a \"Sierra/Lucasfilmish with really, really good playability. We're talking 32 colours graphics which look really nice, with playability which is really smooth, and simply pure gaming enjoyment here,\" adding that \"the manual is very well",
"is, if anything, a little too serious and sombre\" and that \"LucasFilm's games boast the more interesting characters and interaction sequences.\" \"Amiga Power\" praised its graphics, saying they are \"very pretty drawn, with the dark, moody look you'd expect from a town being oppressed by an evil Temptress,\" calling it \"one of the best graphic adventures ever\" that's \"up there with \"Monkey Island 1\" and \"Beneath a Steel Sky\",\" and adding that the \"only drawback is that it's shorter than your average adventure.\" \"Mega Zone\" praised the game, stating that it is a \"Sierra/Lucasfilmish with really, really good playability. We're talking 32 colours graphics which look really nice, with playability which is really smooth, and simply pure gaming enjoyment here,\" adding that \"the manual is very well written, the sound the graphics are all there, disc access is very good, and looking at the way the whole game is put together right down to the intro it's one of the most amazing Amiga Adventures every written! An Adventure Zone classic!\" Stuart Campbell of \"Amiga Power\" opined that Core Design's rival 1992 fantasy adeventure game \"Curse of Enchantia\" (also published by Virgin) was \"a funny version of \"Lure of the Temptress\" with a different plot.\" Adventure Classic Gaming was less positive in its retrospective review, stating \"what makes \"Lure of the Temptress\" fun—but also annoying—is the game's unique gameplay engine\" and that its graphics \"unfortunately do not hold up well over the passage of time,\" but that many of the backgrounds are \"quite beautiful\" and summarizing by stating, \"While far from being a dull game, \"Lure of the Temptress\" is also full of clichés and stagnant periods of gameplay which ultimately undermine the game's overall enjoyment.\" Lure of the Temptress Lure of the Temptress is Revolution Software's debut point-and-click adventure game published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment. It was released in June 1992 for Atari ST, MS-DOS and Amiga. The player assumes the role of a young peasant named Diermot who has to overthrow an evil sorceress. \"Lure of the Temptress\" is the first game built with the Virtual Theatre engine, which Revolution used in the subsequent games \"Beneath a Steel Sky\" and the first two games in the \"Broken Sword\" series. It was received favourably by critics, a commercial"
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"Bierstadt Bierstadt is a borough of the city of Wiesbaden, capital of the state of Hesse, Germany. The district is located in the eastern part of the city, directly east of downtown Wiesbaden, and has about 12,300 inhabitants. Formerly an independent municipality, the town was incorporated into Wiesbaden on April 1, 1928. While \"Bierstadt\" can be translated \"Beer Town\", the name is actually derived from Saint Brigid of Kildare, Ireland (\"Birgid\" in German). The earliest traces of settlement in the Bierstadt area date to the Stone Age. However, Bierstadt was first mentioned in historical records, as \"Birgidestad\", in a deed of gift on March 12, 927. The town was founded by Irish monks, who named it after the Irish national saint, St. Brigid. In the 11th–12th centuries, the (now Protestant) Church of St. Nicholas was built. The church is not only the oldest existing church in Wiesbaden, but, after the Roman-era Heathens' Wall in downtown Wiesbaden, is the second oldest building of any kind in the city. In the Middle Ages, Bierstadt came under the dominion of Nassau, but was subject to strong influences from the Archdiocese of Mainz. In the wake of the Reformation, Bierstadt came fully under the control of Nassau. After the Thirty Years' War, the town had only 17 inhabitants. Efforts at reconstruction were set back through a fire in 1691. By the middle of the 18th century, Bierstadt had about 500 residents. The remains of a medieval watchtower, the \"Bierstadter Warte\", are located on a height between Wiesbaden and the district. The Warte is now part of the coat of arms. In 1898, a large observation tower, the Wiesbaden Bismarck Tower, was planned to be built at this site. A temporary wooden tower was constructed in 1910, but funding for the permanent structure could not be obtained. The temporary tower was demolished in 1918. During the Third Reich, Nazism dominated in Bierstadt. On November 9, 1938, the Bierstadt synagogue, dating to 1827, was destroyed. After World War II, about 1800 homes were built in Bierstadt for occupation forces of the United States Army. The Aukamm and Crestview developments are located on the northwest and west side of Bierstadt, respectively. Bierstadt has a library and two schools, including one primary school - Grundschule Bierstadt, and a gymnasium named Theodor-Fliedner-Schule which was formerly a middle school. Bierstadt is next to the \"Aukammtal\" and has access to the German Federal Route 455. Bierstadt has two churches. In addition to the Protestant church (formerly the church of St. Nicholas), there is the Roman Catholic church of St. Birgid. Since 1991, Bierstadt has had a partnership with the French commune of Terrasson-Lavilledieu. The town of Terrasson is located on the banks of the Vézère in southwestern France, about 150 km east of Bordeaux in the heart of Aquitaine, with which Hesse maintains a regional partnership. Bierstadt Bierstadt is a borough of the city of Wiesbaden, capital of the state of Hesse, Germany. The district is located in the eastern part"
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"Erik Molnár Erik Molnár (16 December 1894 – 8 August 1966) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs twice: between 1947–1948 and between 1952–1953. During the First World War he fought at the Eastern Front where captured by the Russians. As prisoner of war Molnár met with the communist ideas in a prisoner-of-war camp in Far East Asia. Later he returned to home and finished his legal studies. After that he joined to the illegal Hungarian Communist Party's working along with his younger brother, René. He published lot of articles for the illegal communist newspapers (\"Gondolat\", \"Társadalmi Szemle\", \"Korunk\"). In the Interim National Government he served as Minister of Welfare (1944–1945). Later he was appointed Minister of Information and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1947–1948). Then he was the Hungarian ambassador to the Soviet Union (1948–1949), later he worked as Minister of Justice (1950–1952). He was Minister of Foreign Affairs again between 1952 and 1953. He was the President of the Supreme Court of Hungary between 1953 and 1954, later he was appointed as Minister of Justice again (1954–1956). He was member of the assembly from 1944 until his death, and also member of the communist party's Central Committee. Molnár played a big role in the management of the history research as member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences's history institute and as chairman of the Hungarian Historical Society. He dealt with the problems of the Hungarian social development thoroughly, first of all with the land question, the Marxism-Leninism applied his teachings to the Hungarian relations. During the Second World War bigger studies appeared about the Árpád era's society. After 1945 Molnár dealt with the Hungarian prehistory and the feudalism with the questions of age social history, the ideological antecedents of the historical materialism and with his philosophical basis problems, the questions of the contemporary capitalism, dealt with the development of the nationalism and its development furthermore. Erik Molnár Erik Molnár (16 December 1894 – 8 August 1966) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs twice: between 1947–1948 and between 1952–1953. During the First World War he fought at the Eastern Front where captured by the Russians. As prisoner of war Molnár met with the communist ideas in a prisoner-of-war camp in Far East Asia. Later he returned to home and finished his legal studies. After that he joined to the illegal Hungarian"
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"Minuscule 12 Minuscule 12 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A (Von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment, dated palaeographically to the 14th-century. The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels, on 294 parchment leaves (), with a commentaries. The text is written in one column per page, biblical text in 21 lines and text of commentary in 57 lines per page. The ink is brown. A commentary to Matthew and John is of Chrysostom's authorship, to Mark of Victors, and to Luke of Bostra. The text is divided according to the (\"chapters\") whose numbers are given at the margin, and their (\"titles\") at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons. It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, prolegomena, tables of the (\"tables of contents\") before each Gospel, liturgical books with hagiographies (Menologion and Synaxarium), and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel. The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, with a few alien readings. Aland placed it in Category V. It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method. The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is omitted. The text of Mark 16:9-20 has a note of Victor's. It is dated by the INTF to the 14th-century. It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Johann Jakob Wettstein, who gave it the number 12. It was examined and described by Wettstein, Griesbach, and Paulin Martin. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885. The codex now is located at the National Library of France (Gr. 230) at Paris. Minuscule 12 Minuscule 12 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A (Von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript"
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"Seventeen (1985 film) Seventeen is a documentary film directed by Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines. It was awarded the Grand Jury prize at the 1985 Sundance Film Festival. Vincent Canby of \"The New York Times\" called \"Seventeen\", \"one of the best and most scarifying reports on American life to be seen on a theater screen.\" In a later piece he added \"It's Seventeen that haunts the memory. It has the characters and the language — as well as the vitality and honesty — that are the material of the best fiction. Ferociously provocative.\" Michael Sragow, writing in \"The New Yorker\", said: \"Working with lightweight camera rigs they developed themselves, Jeff Kreines and Joel DeMott (who, despite the name, is female) approach the subjects of their documentary – working-class teenagers in Muncie, Indiana – man-to-man and woman-to-woman. The immediacy is refreshing, and shocking. As searing as it is rambunctious, this film brings out all the middle-class prejudices against the working class that American movies rarely confront.\" Johnny Ray Huston, writing in \"SF360\" and \"Indiewire\", said \"One thing is for sure: \"Seventeen\" is without a doubt one of the greatest movies, perhaps the greatest, about teenage life (not to mention American life) ever made.\" Ira Glass, host of This American Life, said it was \"the most amazing reporting on a high school that I had ever seen. It's called 'Seventeen' and it was directed by a couple, a woman named Joel DeMott and a man named Jeff Kreines. It was made in 1983, filmed at Southside High School in Muncie, Indiana. It's just this incredible document. It's so real and just one amazing moment after another.\" \"Seventeen\" was awarded the Grand Jury prize in the field of documentary at the 1985 Sundance Film Festival, where the jurors were Barbara Kopple, D. A. Pennebaker, and Frederick Wiseman. It also won the Grand Prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Seventeen (1985 film) Seventeen is a documentary film directed by Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines. It was awarded the Grand Jury prize at the 1985 Sundance Film Festival. Vincent Canby of \"The New York Times\" called \"Seventeen\", \"one of the best and most scarifying reports on American life to be seen on a theater screen.\" In a later piece he added \"It's Seventeen that haunts the memory. It has the characters and the language — as well as the vitality and honesty — that"
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"Steadman S. Shealy Steadman S. Shealy, Jr. (born June 8, 1958) is an American attorney and former college quarterback. He is best known as the starting quarterback on the University of Alabama's 1979 national championship team. Shealy was also a member of the 1978 national championship team, but played back-up to Jeff Rutledge. Shealy is a lifelong resident of Dothan, Alabama. After graduating from high school in 1976, he played football on a scholarship for coach Paul \"Bear\" Bryant at the University of Alabama. Shealy was a wishbone quarterback for the Tide from 1976–1979. He was part of Alabama's 28 consecutive wins — the longest win streak in school history — from 1978–1979. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree (Cum Laude) in 1980. Shealy hosted The Bear Bryant Show in 1982 and served as a graduate assistant in the football program while earning his law degree. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Alabama's law school in 1984. Shealy joined the Dothan lawfirm of Buntin & Cobb as an associate in 1984. Today he is a senior partner in the firm, which is now known as Shealy, Crum & Pike, P.C. He practices civil litigation with an emphasis on insurance, corporate defense, personal injury, and product liability. Shealy and his wife, Ann, have five children, Steadman Jr., Jacqueline, Anna Catharine, Robert, and John David. Steadman S. Shealy Steadman S. Shealy, Jr. (born June 8, 1958) is an American attorney and former college quarterback. He is best known as the starting quarterback on the University of Alabama's 1979 national championship team. Shealy was also a member of the 1978 national championship team, but played back-up to Jeff Rutledge. Shealy is a lifelong resident of Dothan, Alabama. After graduating from high school in 1976, he played football"
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"Peder Anker Wedel-Jarlsberg Count Peder Anker Wedel-Jarlsberg (born 18 August 1875, died 13 October 1954) was a Norwegian courtier, military officer and estate owner who served as Lord Chamberlain for King Haakon VII of Norway from 1931 to 1945 and who was one of the King's closest confidants for over thirty years. He was head of the House of Wedel-Jarlsberg and a descendant of Johan Caspar Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg, and held the rank of feudal count (\"lensgreve\") in the Danish nobility, the highest rank of nobility in Denmark and historically also in Norway during the union of the two countries. Wedel-Jarlsberg was the only Norwegian to hold this rank. He was also the holder of the entailed estate (historically fief) of Jarlsberg. He graduated as an officer in 1897 and became the King's adjutant in 1913. He was appointed Chamberlain in 1925 and Second Court Marshal in 1927. He became First Court Mashal and Lord Chamberlain in 1931. During the Second World War, he left the country with the royal family and accompanied Crown Princess Märtha to the United States. In 1945, he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav. Peder Anker Wedel-Jarlsberg was the son of Johan Caspar Herman Wedel Jarlsberg (1841–1922) and was married to Hermine Westye Egeberg, the daughter of industrialist Einar Westye Egeberg. They were the parents of Peder Anker Wedel-Jarlsberg Count Peder Anker Wedel-Jarlsberg (born 18 August 1875, died 13 October 1954) was a Norwegian courtier, military officer and estate owner who served as Lord Chamberlain for King Haakon VII of Norway from 1931 to 1945 and who was one of the King's closest confidants for over thirty years. He was head of the House of Wedel-Jarlsberg and a descendant of Johan Caspar Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg, and held the rank of feudal count"
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"Linchpin (song) \"Linchpin\" is a single by American rock band Fear Factory from their album \"Digimortal\". It peaked at No. 31 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. The music video shows shots of machinery and what appears to be a polygraph machine intercut with footage of individual band members playing while at times being surrounded by smoke or doused in a white liquid. A picture of the Vitruvian Man, along with a rendition of Fear Factory's logo can be seen briefly at the end of the video superimposed over lead singer Burton C. Bell. The video was directed by Thomas Mignone. Linchpin (song) \"Linchpin\" is a single by American rock band Fear Factory from their album \"Digimortal\". It peaked at No. 31 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. The music video shows shots of machinery and what appears to be a polygraph machine intercut with footage of individual band members playing while at times being surrounded by smoke or doused in a white liquid. A picture of the Vitruvian Man, along with a rendition of Fear Factory's logo can be seen briefly at the end of the video superimposed over lead singer Burton C. Bell. The video was directed by"
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"William Stocks J. William Stocks (birth unknown – death unknown), also known by the nickname of \"Willie\", was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s. He played at representative level for England and Yorkshire, and at club level for Huddersfield and Dewsbury, as a , i.e. number 1. Willie Stocks won a cap for England while at Huddersfield in 1930 against Other Nationalities. Willie Stocks won caps for Yorkshire while at Huddersfield (two caps), and Dewsbury (two caps). Willie Stocks played and scored a goal in Huddersfield's 4-2 victory over Hunslet in the 1931 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1931–32 season at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds on Saturday 21 November 1931. William Stocks J. William Stocks (birth unknown – death unknown), also known by the nickname of \"Willie\", was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s. He played at representative level for England and Yorkshire, and at club level for Huddersfield and Dewsbury, as a , i.e. number 1. Willie Stocks won a cap for England while at Huddersfield in 1930 against Other Nationalities. Willie Stocks won caps for Yorkshire while at Huddersfield (two caps), and Dewsbury"
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"2003 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship The 2003 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship was the first World Indoor Lacrosse Championship, an international box lacrosse tournament organized by the Federation of International Lacrosse every four years. It took place from May 15 to 24 in Hamilton, Kitchener, Mississauga, and Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. Canada won the gold medal with a 21–4 victory over the Iroquois Nationals. The United States defeated Scotland 15–9 in the bronze medal game. Two other nations participated, Australia and the Czech Republic. Six participating teams played a round-robin in the preliminary round. The first place through fourth place teams each advanced to the semi-finals, while the fifth and sixth place teams advanced to the 5th place playoff. 2003 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship The 2003 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship was the first World Indoor Lacrosse Championship, an international box lacrosse tournament organized by the Federation of International Lacrosse every four years. It took place from May 15 to 24 in Hamilton, Kitchener, Mississauga, and Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. Canada won the gold medal with a 21–4 victory over the Iroquois Nationals. The United States defeated Scotland 15–9 in the bronze medal game. Two other nations participated, Australia and the Czech Republic. Six"
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"Tawambi Settles Tawambi Jahmon Settles (born January 19, 1976) is a former American football defensive back who played one season with the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Duke University and attended The McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was also a member of the Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, New York Giants, New York/New Jersey Hitmen, Grand Rapids Rampage, Detroit Fury, Toronto Argonauts, and Hamilton Tiger-Cats. In high school, Settles played quarterback and defensive back for the McCallie School Blue Tornado. He was an All-State, three-time All-Region, and three-time All-District selection for the Blue Tornado. He also earned four letters in basketball, three in football, two in track, and one in baseball. Settles played for the Duke Blue Devils from 1994 to 1997. He recorded totals of 262 tackles, 18 passes broken up, and five interceptions during his college career. He also blocked a total of eight field goals and extra points. Settles signed with the NFL's Detroit Lions after going undrafted in the 1998 NFL Draft. He was released by the Lions during training camp. He was signed to the practice squad of the Green Bay Packers later that season. Settles signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars of the NFL and played in seven games for the team during the 1998 season. He was signed by the NFL's New York Giants in 2000. He played for the New York/New Jersey Hitmen of the XFL in 2001, recording eleven tackles and one interception. On June 21, 2002, Settles was signed to the practice squad of the Grand Rapids Rampage of the Arena Football League (AFL). He was promoted to the active roster on June 27. He was released by the Rampage on July 15. Settles signed with the AFL's Detroit Fury on July 17, 2002. He was signed by the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League on March 30, 2004. He was traded to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on June 9 and played in six games for the team during the 2004 season. Tawambi Settles Tawambi Jahmon Settles (born January 19, 1976) is a former American football defensive back who played one season with the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Duke University and attended The McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was also a member of the Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, New York Giants,"
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"MC Tali MC Tali, real name Natalia Sheppard (née Scott), is a New Zealand drum and bass artist, best known for her 2004 hit \"Lyric on My Lip\", which reached #39 in the UK Singles Chart. Tali has also worked with prominent artists, such as former Mercury Music Prize nominee Roni Size. Tali prefers to go by the name \"Tali\" when singing and songwriting acoustically or live, preferring to use 'MC\" whenever she is hosting a drum and bass event. Originally from a dairy farm in Taranaki, Tali moved to the UK in 2001 to follow her dreams of becoming a top international MC. After signing to the legendary Full Cycle Label owned and run by Roni Size, Tali went on to release her first album \"Lyric on my Lip\" with a UK top 40 single and worldwide tour. The album featured production from Roni Size, Krust, Die and featured guest vocals from Dynamite MC. From here she collaborated with some of the scene's most prolific names in both production and DJ/MC shows, working alongside people such as Goldie, Fabio, Grooverider, Shy FX, Dirtyphonics, Ed Rush, E-Z Rollers, The Freestylers, Calibre, DJ Marky and many more. When Full Cycle disbanded in 2006, Tali moved to London for a change of scenery and music. Disillusioned with the drum and bass scene, and suffering from depression and anxiety, she began working alongside hip hop duo First Man, and from here collaborated with MC’s including Skinnyman, Blak Twang, Ti2bs and Sincere. From this came her compilation CD \"Do It for Yourself\". After regaining her confidence in 2008, Tali began MCing out and about on the drum and bass circuit once again. Her skills earned her “Best Female MC” at the Drum n Bass Awards three years in a row from 2008 to 2010. Afterwards, Tali signed to AudioPorn Records and released \"Dark Days, High Nights\" which features collaborations with Lynx, Dirtyphonics, Dodge and Fuski, Fourward, Noisses, Shimon, Ed Rush and SKisM. Tali also released a live studio version of this album in collaboration with indie/folk band More Like Trees, featuring Christoph Bauschinger, backing vocals from Collette Warren and production by legendary DnB producer Ant Miles in 2011. During her hiatus from drum and bass, Tali also created an alias for herself, as a chance to explore her love of jazz and showtunes. Rogue Nouveau was born and from here Tali put together a live band, which produced feisty, fun jazz tunes with a touch of her trademark MCing. Rogue Nouveau performed at prestigious venues throughout London, such as The Jazz Café and Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, before disbanding when Tali moved back to New Zealand in 2012. In 2011, Tali was commissioned as the composer for a political comedy musical called \"Nicked\" (written by Richard Marsh), which featured at The Hightide Theatre Festival and previewed on the West End. It received rave reviews in \"The Guardian\", \"The Observer\" and \"London Evening Standard\". While working on this musical, she met her co producer Christoph Bauschinger. Their friendship and work relationship on this project led to them collaborating on her fourth studio album. \"Of Things to Come...\", which Tali released herself upon returning to New Zealand in 2012. Tali's vocals were featured on the Activision game \"DJ Hero\", and her songs have been used in promotion for Rob Dyrdek's \"'Fantasy Factory\" on the Xtreme Sports Channel (Sky UK), \"Really\" and \"Soccer AM\", and her voice-overs are used on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra. After moving back to New Zealand in 2012, Tali started her own radio show called \"The Morning Sickness\" on George FM (8am10am), which she gave up early 2015 due to touring commitments. She was also the corporate voice of the station for over a year. Tali is a trained secondary school teacher at the Canterbury College of Education, has a diploma from The National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Arts (NASDA), a B.A. in English Literature also has vast experience in tutoring, mentoring, writing and vocal producing for other artists. As well as this Tali has written for ATM, Knowledge, Nu:Soul, and Guestlist Network publications in the UK and US and for 'Her' magazine in New Zealand. After returning to New Zealand, Tali released \"Of Things to Come…\", produced by Christoph Bauschinger and featured guest vocals from Laura Hunter. Distributed by Rhythm Method, Tali released two singles: \"JetSet Love\" received NZ On Air funding (shot by Mo’Fresh Productions) and \"Of Things to Come…\" was funded independently (shot by Toby Ricketts). Tali initially toured this album with a live band, before stripping it back to acoustic form with her guitarist and co-collaborator Harry Leatherby in order to focus more on her musical performance. Tali is now based back in Auckland, New Zealand and since her return she has continued to MC and perform live up and down the country as well as abroad. Tali has started her own business, Sheppard Artist Development, which sees her mentoring and helping create bridges between independent artists and the music industry. This business saw the release of RosaDub’s first EP, \"Afternoon Shadows\" (2014). More recently, Tali has finished producing, writing and recording her own independent album \"Wolves\", which was released in May 2015 and went to #14 in the New Zealand album charts in its first week of release. This album has distribution from Warner Bros. Records and is available internationally on iTunes and Amazon Music. The first single from this is \"Forces\", with an independent music video shot by Sideways Productions. The remix of this by TREi went to #18 in the New Zealand singles charts. Tali released two further singles from this 'Faster Than Sound' and 'Wolves' with additional music videos. MC Tali MC Tali, real name Natalia Sheppard (née Scott), is a New Zealand drum and bass artist, best known for her 2004 hit \"Lyric on My Lip\", which reached #39 in the UK Singles Chart. Tali has also worked with prominent artists, such as former Mercury Music Prize nominee Roni Size."
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"Charles S. Kraszewski Charles S. Kraszewski (born 1962) is a professor, Slavicist and translator from Polish, Czech, Slovak, Greek and Latin. From 2008-2011, editor-in-chief of \"The Polish Review\", the scholarly quarterly of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, headquartered in New York City. His original poetry has been published in literary journals such as Red River Review, Chaparral, Poetry South, OVS, and elsewhere. He has published two volumes of poetry, \"Beast\" (PlanB Press, 2013) and \"Diet of Nails\" (červená barva, 2013). Among his critical works are \"Irresolute Heresiarch: Catholicism, Gnosticism and Paganism in the Poetry of Czesław Miłosz\" (CSP, 2012) and a collection of verse translations, \"Rossetti's Armadillo,\" (2013). He translates into English and Polish. His translations of T.S. Eliot and Robinson Jeffers into Polish have appeared in the Wrocław based journal \"Odra.\" Recipient of the Union of Polish Writers Abroad award (London, 2013). Charles S. Kraszewski Charles S. Kraszewski (born 1962) is a professor, Slavicist and translator from Polish, Czech, Slovak, Greek and Latin. From 2008-2011, editor-in-chief of \"The Polish Review\", the scholarly quarterly of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, headquartered in New York City. His original poetry has been published in"
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"Mount Spokane State Park Mount Spokane State Park is a public recreation area located in the Selkirk Mountains, northeast of the city of Spokane, Washington. The state park surrounds Mount Spokane and other peaks including Mount Kit Carson, Beauty Mountain, and Quartz Mountain. The park receives of snow annually and is home to Mount Spokane Ski and Snowboard Park as well as an extensive system of trails for hiking, biking, and horseback riding. As of 2018, Washington State Parks reported its acreage as , making it Washington's largest state park, slightly ahead of Riverside State Park () which lies 23 miles to the southwest. The park was dedicated with 1500 acres in 1927. During the 1930s, workers with the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) planted grass, constructed picnicking and parking areas, constructed trails and shelters, and improved roads. Vista House was designed by architect, H. C. Bertelsen, as was the caretaker's cabin, although an earlier design for Vista House had been prepared by state park architect Charles Saunders. The caretaker's cabin was built by Elmer Highberg. Some sources state that Vista House was built by the CCC. However, according to the State of Washington's \"Cultural Resources Management Plan\" (2009), a local contractor, E.O. Fieldstad, won the contract with a \"low bid of $4,693,\" and built Vista House. The publication states: \"Its existence near the site of the Mount Spokane CCC camp may have contributed to the present impression held by many that the Vista House was constructed by the CCC.\" The park has of trails for hiking, biking, and horseback riding. Trails range from easy (the Burping Brook Loop) to difficult (the ‘Round the Mountain Trail). Winter activities include downhill and cross-country skiing, snowmobiling and snowshoeing. Camping and picnicking are also available. Mount Spokane State Park Mount Spokane State Park is"
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"Ragweed Ragweeds are flowering plants in the genus Ambrosia in the aster family, Asteraceae. They are distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, especially North America, where the origin and center of diversity of the genus are in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Several species have been introduced to the Old World and some have naturalized and have become invasive species. Ragweed species are expected to continue spreading across Europe in the near future in response to ongoing climate change. Other common names include bursages and burrobrushes. The genus name is from the Greek \"ambrosia\", meaning \"food or drink of immortality\". Ragweed pollen is notorious for causing allergic reactions in humans, specifically allergic rhinitis. Up to half of all cases of pollen-related allergic rhinitis in North America are caused by ragweeds. Ragweeds are annual and perennial herbs and shrubs. Species may grow just a few centimeters tall or well exceed four meters in height. The stems are erect, decumbent or prostrate, and many grow from rhizomes. The leaves may be arranged alternately, oppositely, or both. The leaf blades come in many shapes, sometimes divided pinnately or palmately into lobes. The edges are smooth or toothed. Some are hairy, and most are glandular. Ragweeds are monoecious, most producing inflorescences that contain both staminate and pistillate flowers. Inflorescences are often in the form of a spike or raceme made up mostly of staminate flowers with some pistillate clusters around the base. Staminate flower heads have stamens surrounded by whitish or purplish florets. Pistillate flower heads have fruit-yielding ovules surrounded by many phyllaries and fewer, smaller florets. The pistillate flowers are wind pollinated, and the fruits develop. They are burs, sometimes adorned with knobs, wings, or spines. Many \"Ambrosia\" species occur in desert and semi-desert areas, and many are ruderal species that grow in disturbed habitat types. Ragweed pollen is a common allergen. A single plant may produce about a billion grains of pollen per season, and the pollen is transported on the wind. It causes about half of all cases of pollen-associated allergic rhinitis in North America, where ragweeds are most abundant and diverse. Common culprits are common ragweed (\"A. artemisiifolia\") and great ragweed (\"A. trifida\"). Concentration of ragweed pollen—in the absence of significant rainfall, which removes pollen from the air—is the lowest in the early morning hours (6:00 AM), when emissions starts, and pollen concentration peaks at midday. Ragweed pollen can remain airborne for days and travel great distances, affecting people hundreds of miles away. It can even be carried 300 to out to sea. Ragweeds native to the Americas have been introduced to Europe starting in the nineteenth century and especially during World War I, and have spread rapidly there since the 1950s. Eastern Europe, particularly Hungary, has been badly affected by ragweed since the early 1990s, when the dismantling of Communist collective agriculture led to large-scale abandonment of agricultural land, and new building projects also resulted in disturbed, un-landscaped acreage. The major allergenic compound in the pollen has been identified as \"Amb a 1\", a 38 kDa nonglycosylated protein composed of two subunits. It also contains other allergenic components, such as profilin and calcium-binding proteins. Ragweed allergy sufferers may show signs of oral allergy syndrome, a food allergy classified by a cluster of allergic reactions in the mouth in response to the consumption certain fruits, vegetables, and nuts. Foods commonly involved include beans, celery, cumin, hazelnuts, kiwifruit, parsley, potatoes, bananas, melons, cucumbers, and zucchini. Because cooking usually denatures the proteins that cause the reaction, the foods are more allergenic when eaten raw; exceptions are celery and nuts, which may not be safe even when cooked. Signs of reaction can include itching, burning, and swelling of the mouth and throat, runny eyes and nose, hives, and, less commonly, vomiting, diarrhea, asthma, and anaphylaxis. These symptoms are due to the abnormal increase of IgE antibodies which attach to a type of immune cell called mast cells. When the ragweed antigen then attaches to these antibodies the mast cells release histamine and other symptom evoking chemicals. Merck & Co, under license from allergy immunotherapy (AIT) company ALK, has launched a ragweed allergy immunotherapy treatment in sublingual tablet form in the US and Canada. Allergy immunotherapy treatment involves administering doses of the allergen to accustom the body to induce specific long-term tolerance. Chemical spraying has been used for control in large areas. Because ragweed only reacts to some of the more aggressive herbicides, it is highly recommended to consult professionals when deciding on dosage and methodology, especially near urban areas. Effective active ingredients include those that are glyphosate-based (Roundup, Glyphogan, Glialka), sulfosate-based (Medallon), and glufosinate ammonium-based (Finale 14SL). In badly infested areas, are usually dispersed. In 2007 several \"Ambrosia artemisiifolia\" populations were glyphosate resistant, exclusively in the USA. Where herbicides cannot be used, mowing may be repeated about every three weeks, as it grows back rapidly. In the past, ragweed was usually cut down, left to dry, and then burned. This method is used less often now, because of the pollution caused by smoke. Manually uprooting ragweed is generally ineffective, and skin contact can cause allergic reaction. If uprooting is the method of choice, it should be performed before flowering. There is evidence that mechanical and chemical control methods are actually no more effective in the long run than leaving the weed in place. Fungal rusts and the leaf-eating beetle \"Ophraella communa\" have been proposed as agents of biological pest control of ragweeds, but the latter may also attack sunflowers, and applications for permits and funding to test these controls have been unsuccessful. The beetle has, however, appeared in Europe, either on its own or as an uncontrolled introduction, and it has started making a dent into Ambrosia populations there. There are about 50 species in genus \"Ambrosia\". Species include: Ragweed Ragweeds are flowering plants in the genus Ambrosia in the aster family, Asteraceae. 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"Balurghat Balurghat (pron:ˌbʌlʊəˈgɑ:t) is the headquarters (sadar) of the Dakshin Dinajpur district of West Bengal in India. Balurghat has for long been known for its distinguished taste in culture, especially theatre. It is the birthplace of Natyacharya Manmatha Ray. Balurghat is at . It has an average elevation of 25 metres (82 feet). River Atreyee runs across the city, dividing it into disproportionate halves. The heart of the city with all important administrative, cultural and entertainment hubs are on the eastern bank of the river. Balurghat police station under West Bengal police has jurisdiction over Balurghat municipal area and Balurghat CD Block. Balurghat Women police station has jurisdiction over Balurghat subdivision. Balurghat subdivision has its headquarters at Balurghat. The headquarters of Balurghat CD Block is at Balurghat. In the 2011 census, Balurghat urban agglomeration had a population of 164,593, out of which 82,466 were males and 82,127 were females. The 0–6 years population was 10,349. Effective literacy rate for the 7+ population was 91.66 per cent. Balurghat is a distribution centre in northern West Bengal. The main goods traded include rice, jute, sugar cane, and oilseeds. District level offices of Dakshin Dinajpur district (like District Magistrate office, District police office (sp), CMOH, etc.) are in Balurghat. The postal division West Dinajpur division is at Balurghat. FCi headquarters of West Dinajpur is at Balurghat. Sainik Bhawan, All India Radio, Bsnl microwave office, Agricultural research station of three neighbouring districts are in Balurghat. Three Cpwd divisions are in Balurghat. Headquarters of every divisions of pwd of Dakshin Dinajpur are situated at Balurghat. Di (primary), DI (Madhyamik) of schools office, District Mass Education Office (Erst While District Social Education) are in Balurghat. Recently Balurghat got a central jail, RM office of WBSEDCL, and divisional office of fire and emergency department. Balurghat railway station is the terminus station of the Eklakhi–Balurghat branch line Trains connecting Balurghat to Kolkata directly include Gour Express, Tebhaga Express and Howrah-Balurghat bi-weekly Express. Train services also connect Balurghat to Siliguri in the north. State Highway 10 passes through Balurghat. Balurghat College was established as an Intermediate college in 1948 at Balurghat. Degree courses were added from 1953 onwards. It is affiliated with the University of Gour Banga and offers honours courses in Bengali, English, Sanskrit, history, political science, philosophy, geography, economics, accountancy, physics, chemistry, mathematics, botany, zoology and computer science. It also offers general courses in arts, science and commerce, and post-graduate courses in Bengali, English and history. Balurghat Mahila Mahavidyalaya was established in 1970 at Balurghat. Affiliated with the University of Gour Banga, it offers honours courses in Bengali, English, Sanskrit, history, geography, philosophy, political science, education, mass communication & journalism, botany and zoology, and general courses in arts and bio-science. Balurghat Law College was established in 2001 at Balurghat. It is affiliated with the University of Gour Banga and approved by the Bar Council of India. It offers a 5-year integrated course leading to the B.A. Ll.B. (Hons) degree. Durga Puja, Kali Puja, Chhath Puja, Saraswati Puja, Biswakarma Puja, Ganesh Chaturthi and Saraswati puja are widely celebrated at Balurghat. Bolla Kali Puja is celebrated at Bolla, approximately 15 kilometres from Balurghat, in end-November each year. Balurghat General Hospital (District Hospital) has 320 beds, Balurghat Police Hospital has 50 beds and Balurghat Poura Hospital and Matri Sadan has 32 beds. Balurghat Balurghat (pron:ˌbʌlʊəˈgɑ:t) is the headquarters (sadar) of the Dakshin Dinajpur district of West Bengal in India. Balurghat has for long been known for its distinguished taste in culture, especially theatre. It is the birthplace of Natyacharya Manmatha Ray. Balurghat is at . It has an average elevation"
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"Kazi Nazrul Islam Kazi Nazrul Islam (, ; 24 May 189929 August 1976) was a Bengali poet, writer, musician, and revolutionary from the South Asia. He is the national poet of Bangladesh. Popularly known as Nazrul, he produced a large body of poetry and music with themes that included religious devotion and rebellion against oppression. Nazrul's activism for political and social justice earned him the title of \"Rebel Poet\" (; \"Bidrohi Kobi\"). His compositions form the avant-garde genre of Nazrul Sangeet (\"Music of Nazrul\"). Nazrul and his works are equally commemorated and celebrated in Bangladesh and India, particularly in India's Bengali-speaking states such as West Bengal, parts of Assam, and Tripura. Born in a Bengali Muslim Kazi family, Nazrul Islam received religious education and as a young man worked as a muezzin at a local mosque. He learned about poetry, drama, and literature while working with the rural theatrical group \"Letor Dal\". He joined the British Indian Army in 1917. After serving in the British Indian Army in the Middle East (Mesopotamian campaign) during World War I, Nazrul established himself as a journalist in Calcutta. He criticised the British Raj and called for revolution through his poetic works, such as \"Bidrohi\" (\"বিদ্রোহী\", 'The Rebel') and \"Bhangar Gaan\" (\"ভাঙার গান\", 'The Song of Destruction'), as well as in his publication \"Dhumketu\" ('The Comet'). His nationalist activism in Indian independence movement led to his frequent imprisonment by the colonial British authorities. While in prison, Nazrul wrote the \"Rajbandir Jabanbandi\" (\"রাজবন্দীর জবানবন্দী\", 'Deposition of a Political Prisoner'). His writings greatly inspired Bengalis of East Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Nazrul's writings explored themes such as freedom, humanity, love, and revolution. He opposed all forms of bigotry and fundamentalism, including religious, caste-based and gender-based. Nazrul wrote short stories, novels, and essays but is best known for his songs and poems. He created the first Bengali language ghazals. He is also known to have experimented with Arabic, Persian, and Sanskrit words in his works to produce rhythmic effects. Nazrul wrote and composed music for nearly 4,000 songs (many recorded on HMV and gramophone records), collectively known as \"Nazrul Geeti.\" In 1942 at the age of 43, he began to suffer from an unknown disease, losing his voice and memory. A medical team in Vienna diagnosed the disease as Morbus Pick, a rare incurable neurodegenerative disease. It caused Nazrul's health to decline steadily and forced him to live in isolation in India. He was also admitted in Ranchi (Jharkhand) psychiatric hospital for many years. At the invitation of the Government of Bangladesh, Nazrul and his family moved to Dhaka in 1972. He died four years later on 29 August 1976 in Bangladesh. Nazrul was born on Friday 24 May 1899 in the village of Churulia, Asansol Sadar, Paschim Bardhaman district of the Bengal Presidency (now in West Bengal, India). He was born into a Muslim Taluqdar family and was the second of three sons and a daughter. Nazrul's father Kazi Faqeer Ahmed was the imam and caretaker of the local mosque and mausoleum. Nazrul's mother was Zahida Khatun. Nazrul had two brothers, Kazi Saahibjaan and Kazi Ali Hussain, and a sister, Umme Kulsum. He was nicknamed \"Dukhu Miañ\" (দুখু মিঞা literally, 'the one with grief', or 'Mr. Sad Man'). Nazrul studied at a maktab and madrasa, run by a mosque and a dargah respectively, where he studied the Quran, Hadith, Islamic philosophy, and theology. His father died in 1908 and at the age of ten, Nazrul took his father's place as a caretaker of the mosque to support his family. He also assisted teachers in school. He later worked as the muezzin at the mosque. Attracted to folk theatre, Nazrul joined a \"leto\" (travelling theatrical group) run by his uncle Fazle Karim. He worked and travelled with them, learning to act, as well as writing songs and poems for the plays and musicals. Through his work and experiences, Nazrul began studying Bengali and Sanskrit literature, as well as Hindu scriptures such as the Puranas. Nazrul composed folk plays for the group, which included \"Chāshār Shōng\" ('the drama of a peasant'), and plays about characters from the Mahabharata including \"Shokunībōdh\" ('the Killing of \"Shakun\"i), Rājā Judhisthirer Shōng ('the drama of King Yudhishthira), \"Dātā Kōrno\" ('the philanthropic \"Karna'), Ākbōr Bādshāh\" ('Akbar the emperor'), \"Kobi Kālidās\" ('poet Kalidas'), \"Bidyan Hutum\" ('the learned owl'), and \"Rājputrer Shōng\" ('the prince's sorrow'). In 1910, Nazrul left the troupe and enrolled at the Searsole Raj High School in Raniganj. In school, he was influenced by his teacher, a Jugantar activist, Nibaran Chandra Ghatak, and began a lifelong friendship with fellow author Sailajananda Mukhopadhyay, who was his classmate. He later transferred to the Mathrun High English School, studying under the headmaster and poet Kumudranjan Mallik. Unable to continue paying his school fees, Nazrul left the school and joined a group of kaviyals. Later he took jobs as a cook at Wahid's, a well-known bakery of the region, and at a tea stall in the town of Asansol. In 1914, Nazrul studied in the Darirampur School (now Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University) in Trishal, Mymensingh District. Amongst other subjects, Nazrul studied Bengali, Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian literature and Hindustani classical music under teachers who were impressed by his dedication and skill. Nazrul studied up to grade10 but did not appear for the matriculation pre-test examination; instead in 1917, he joined the British Indian Army at the age of eighteen. He had two primary motivations for joining the British Indian Army: first, a youthful desire for adventure and, second, an interest in the politics of the time. Attached to the 49th Bengal Regiment, he was posted to the Karachi Cantonment, where he wrote his first prose and poetry. Although he never saw active fighting, he rose in rank from corporal to havildar (sergeant), and served as quartermaster for his battalion. During this period, Nazrul read extensively the works of Rabindranath Tagore and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, as well as the Persian poets Hafez, Omar Khayyam, and Rumi. He learned Persian poetry from the regiment's Punjabi Moulvi, practiced music, and pursued his literary interests. His first prose work, \"\"Life of a Vagabond\"\" (\"'Baunduler Atmakahini\"'), was published in May 1919. His poem \"Mukti\" (\"মুক্তি\", 'Freedom') was published by the \"Bengali Muslim Literary Journal\" (\"Bangiya Mussalman Sahitya Samiti\") in July 1919. Nazrul left the British Indian army in 1920 when the 49th Bengal Regiment was disbanded. and settled in Calcutta, which was then the \"cultural capital\" of India.</ref> He joined the staff of the \"Bangiya Mussalman Sahitya Samiti\" (\"Bengali Muslim Literary Society\"). He published his first novel \"Bandhan-hara\" (\"বাঁধন-হারা\", 'Freedom from Bondage') in 1920, on which he continued to work over the next seven years. His first collection of poems, which included \"Bodhan\", \"Shat-il-Arab\", \"Kheya-parer Tarani\", and \"Badal Prater Sharab\", received critical acclaim. Nazrul grew close to other young Muslim writers, while working at the Bengali Muslim Literary Society, including Mohammad Mozammel Haq, Kazi Abdul Wadud, and Muhammad Shahidullah. Nazrul and Muhammad Shahidullah remained close throughout their lives. He was regular at the social clubs for Calcutta's writers, poets, and intellectuals such as the Gajendar Adda and the Bharatiya Adda. Despite many differences, Nazrul looked to Rabindranath Tagore as a mentor. In 1921, Nazrul was engaged to Nargis, the niece of a well-known Muslim publisher, Ali Akbar Khan, in Daulatpur, Comilla. On 18 June 1921, the day of the wedding, upon public insistence by Khan that the term \"Nazrul must reside in Daulatpur after marriage\" be included in the marriage contract, Nazrul walked away from",
"critical acclaim. Nazrul grew close to other young Muslim writers, while working at the Bengali Muslim Literary Society, including Mohammad Mozammel Haq, Kazi Abdul Wadud, and Muhammad Shahidullah. Nazrul and Muhammad Shahidullah remained close throughout their lives. He was regular at the social clubs for Calcutta's writers, poets, and intellectuals such as the Gajendar Adda and the Bharatiya Adda. Despite many differences, Nazrul looked to Rabindranath Tagore as a mentor. In 1921, Nazrul was engaged to Nargis, the niece of a well-known Muslim publisher, Ali Akbar Khan, in Daulatpur, Comilla. On 18 June 1921, the day of the wedding, upon public insistence by Khan that the term \"Nazrul must reside in Daulatpur after marriage\" be included in the marriage contract, Nazrul walked away from the wedding ceremony. Nazrul reached the peak of his fame in 1922 with \"Bidrohi\" (The Rebel), which remains his most famous work, winning the admiration of India's literary society for his description of a rebel. Published in the \"Bijli\" \"(বিজলী\", \"Lightning\") magazine, the rebellious language and theme were well received, coinciding with the Non-Cooperation Movementthe first mass nationalist campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. Nazrul explores the different forces at work in a rebel, the destroyer, and the preserver who is able to express rage as well as beauty and sensitivity. He followed up by writing \"Pralayollas\" ('Destructive Euphoria'), and his first anthology of poems, the \"Agni-veena\" (\"অগ্নি-বীণা\", 'Lyre of Fire') in 1922, which enjoyed commercial and critical success. He also published a volume of short stories, the \"Byathar Dan\" \"ব্যথার দান\" ('Gift of Sorrow'), and \"Yugbani\" (\"যুগবাণী\"), an anthology of essays. Nazrul started a bi-weekly magazine, \"Dhumketu\" (\"ধূমকেতু\", 'Comet') on 12 August 1922. Earning the moniker of the \"rebel poet\", Nazrul aroused the suspicion of British Raj authorities. The Police raided the office of \"Dhumketu\" after it published \"Anondomoyeer Agomone\" (\"আনন্দময়ীর আগমনে\"), a political poem, in September 1922. Nazrul was arrested on 23 January 1923 and charged with sedition. He presented a long argument in the court, he said: On 14 April 1923, he was moved from Alipore Jail to a jail in Hooghly. He began a 40-day fast to protest mistreatment by the British jail superintendent, breaking his fast more than a month later and eventually being released from prison in December 1923. Nazrul composed numerous poems and songs during his period of imprisonment. In the 1920s, the British Indian government banned many of his writings. Rabindranath Tagore dedicated his play \"Basanta\" to Nazrul in 1923. Nazrul wrote the poem \"Aj Srishti Shukher Ullashe\" to thank Tagore. In 1924, his book \"Bisher Banshi\" ('The Flute of Poison'), published in August 1924, was banned by the British Raj. Bisher Banshi called for rebellion in India against the British Raj. Bisher Banshi was read and distributed in secret following the ban. Nazrul was a critic of the Khilafat Movement in British India which he condemned as \"hollow religious fundamentalism\". His rebellious expression extended to rigid orthodoxy in the name of religion and politics. He also criticised the Indian National Congress for not embracing outright political independence from the British Empire. Nazrul became active in encouraging people to agitate against British rule, and joined the Bengal state unit of the Indian National Congress. Along with Muzaffar Ahmed, Nazrul also helped organise the Sramik Praja Swaraj Dal (Workers and Peasants Party), a socialist political party committed to national independence and the service of the working class. On 16 December 1925, Nazrul began publishing the \"Langal\" ('Plough'), a weekly, and served as its chief editor. During his visit to Comilla in 1921, Nazrul met a young Bengali Hindu woman, Pramila Devi, with whom he fell in love, and they married on 25 April 1924. Brahmo Samaj criticised Pramila, a member of the Brahmo Samaj, for marrying a Muslim. Muslim religious leaders criticized Nazrul for his marriage to a Hindu woman. He also was criticised for his writings. Despite controversy, Nazrul's popularity and reputation as the \"rebel poet\" increased significantly. With his wife and young son Bulbul, Nazrul settled in Krishnanagar in 1926. His work began to transform as he wrote poetry and songs that articulated the aspirations of the working class, a sphere of his work known as \"mass music\". In what his contemporaries regarded as one of his greatest flairs of creativity, Nazrul began composing the very first ghazals in Bengali, transforming a form of poetry written mainly in Persian and Urdu. Nazrul was the first person to use Middle Eastern and Central Asian themes in traditional Bengali music. Nazrul's recording of Islamic songs was a commercial success and created interests gramophone companies about publishing his works. A significant impact of Nazrul's work in Bengal was that it made Bengali Muslims more comfortable with the Bengali arts, which used to be dominated by Bengali Hindus. His Islamic songs are popular during Ramadan in Bangladesh. He also wrote devotional songs on the Hindu Goddess Kali. Nazrul also composed a number of notable \"Shyamasangeet\", \"Bhajan\" and \"Kirtan\", combining Hindu devotional music. In 1928, Nazrul began working as a lyricist, composer, and music director for His Master's Voice Gramophone Company. The songs written and music composed by him were broadcast on radio stations across the India, including on the Indian Broadcasting Company. Nazrul believed in the equality of womena view his contemporaries considered revolutionary. From his poem \"Nari\" (Woman): However, Nazrul's poems strongly emphasised the confluence of the roles of both sexes and their equal importance to life. His poem \"Barangana\" (Prostitute) stunned society with its depiction of prostitutes who he address in the poem as \"mother\". In the poem, Nazrul accepts the prostitute as a human being first, reasoning that this person was breastfed by a noble woman and belonged to the race of \"mothers and sisters\"; he criticises society's negative views on prostitutes. An advocate of women rights, Nazrul portrayed both traditional and nontraditional women in his work. Nazrul wrote and composed about 4,000 songs, known collectively as \"Nazrul Geeti\". He became famous through his music for the working poor such as the poem:'Poverty'( Daridro). Nazrul wrote an editorial in \"Joog Bani\" in 1920 about religious pluralism, In another article entitled \"Hindu Mussalman\", published in \"Ganabani\" on 2 September 1922, he wrote that the religious quarrels were between priests and Imams and not between individual Muslims and Hindus. He wrote that the Prophets had become property like cattle but they should instead be treated like light that is for all men. Nazrul criticised religious fanaticism, denouncing it as evil and inherently irreligious. He wrote about human equality in his writings. He also explored the philosophy of the Qur'an and Muhammad by writing about them. Nazrul has been compared to William Butler Yeats by Serajul Islam Choudhury, Bengali literary critic and professor emeritus at the University of Dhaka, for being the first Muslim poet to create imagery and symbolism of Muslim historical figures such as Qasim ibn Hasan, Ali, Umar, Kamal Pasha, and Muhammad. His condemnation of extremism and mistreatment of women provoked condemnation from Muslim and Hindu fundamentalists who were opposed his liberal views on religion. Nazrul's mother died in 1928, and his second son, Bulbul, died of smallpox the following year. His first son, Krishna Mohammad, had died prematurely. Pramila gave birth to two more sonsSabyasachi in 1928 and Aniruddha in 1931but Nazrul remained grief-stricken and aggrieved for a long time. His works changed significantly from the rebellious exploration of society to deeper examination of religious themes. His works in these years",
"emeritus at the University of Dhaka, for being the first Muslim poet to create imagery and symbolism of Muslim historical figures such as Qasim ibn Hasan, Ali, Umar, Kamal Pasha, and Muhammad. His condemnation of extremism and mistreatment of women provoked condemnation from Muslim and Hindu fundamentalists who were opposed his liberal views on religion. Nazrul's mother died in 1928, and his second son, Bulbul, died of smallpox the following year. His first son, Krishna Mohammad, had died prematurely. Pramila gave birth to two more sonsSabyasachi in 1928 and Aniruddha in 1931but Nazrul remained grief-stricken and aggrieved for a long time. His works changed significantly from the rebellious exploration of society to deeper examination of religious themes. His works in these years led Islamic devotional songs into the mainstream of Bengali folk music, exploring the Islamic practices of \"namaz\" (prayer), \"roza\" (fasting), \"hajj\" (pilgrimage), and \"zakat\" (charity). He wrote the song \"O Mon Romzaner Oi Rozar Sheshe\" on fasting during Ramadan. This was regarded by his contemporaries as a significant achievement, as Bengali Muslims had been strongly averse to devotional music. Nazrul was not limited to Islamic devotional music but also wrote Hindu devotional music. He composed Agamanis, Bhajans, Shyama sangeet, and kirtan. Nazrul wrote over 500 Hindu devotional songs. Nazrul's poetry and songs explored the philosophy of Islam and Hinduism. Nazrul's poetry imbibed the passion and creativity of Shakti, which is identified as the Brahman, the personification of primordial energy. He also composed many songs of invocation to Lord Shiva and the goddesses Lakshmi and Saraswati and on the love of Radha and Krishna. Nazrul was an exponent of humanism. Although a Muslim, he named his sons with both Hindu and Muslim names: Krishna Mohammad, Arindam Khaled (Bulbul), Kazi Sabyasachi and Kazi Aniruddha. In 1930, his book \"Pralayshikha\" was banned and he faced charges of sedition by the British Indian colonial government. He was sent to jail and released in 1931, after the Gandhi–Irwin Pact was signed. In 1933, Nazrul published a collection of essays titled \"Modern World Literature\", in which he analyses different styles and themes of literature. Between 1928 and 1935, he published 10 volumes containing 800 songs, of which more than 600 were based on classical \"ragas\". Almost 100 were folk tunes after \"kirtans\", and some 30 were patriotic songs. From the time of his return to Kolkata until he fell ill in 1941, Nazrul composed more than 2,600 songs, many of which have been lost. His songs based on \"baul\", \"jhumur\", Santhali folksongs, jhanpan, or the folk songs of snake charmers, \"bhatiali\", and \"bhaoaia\" consist of tunes of folk-songs on the one hand and a refined lyric with poetic beauty on the other. Nazrul also wrote and published poems for children. Nazrul's success soon brought him into Indian theatre and the then-nascent film industry. His first film as a director was \"Dhruva Bhakta,\" which made him the first Muslim director of a Bengali film\".\" The film \"Vidyapati\" (Master of Knowledge) was produced based on his recorded play in 1936, and Nazrul served as the music director for the film adaptation of Tagore's novel \"Gora\". Nazrul wrote songs and directed music for Sachin Sengupta's biographical epic play based on the life of Siraj-ud-Daula. He worked on the plays \"Jahangir\" and \"Annyapurna\" by Monilal Gangopadhyay. In 1939 Nazrul began working for Calcutta Radio, supervising the production and broadcasting of the station's musical programs. He produced critical and analytic documentaries on music, such as \"Haramoni\" and \"Navaraga-malika\". Nazrul also wrote a large variety of songs inspired by the raga \"Bhairav\". Nazrul's wife Pramila fell seriously ill in 1939 and was paralysed from the waist down. To provide for his wife's medical treatment, he mortgaged the royalties of his gramophone records and literary works for 400 rupees. He returned to journalism in 1940 by working as chief editor for the daily newspaper \"Nabayug\" ('New Age'), founded by the eminent Bengali politician A. K. Fazlul Huq. On hearing the death of Rabindranath Tagore on 8 August 1941, a shocked Nazrul composed two poems in Tagore's memory. One of the two poems, \"Rabihara\" (loss of Rabi, or without Rabi), was broadcast on the All India Radio. Within months, Nazrul himself fell ill and gradually began losing his power of speech. His behaviour became erratic, he started spending recklessly and fell into financial difficulties. In spite of her own illness, his wife constantly cared for her husband. However, Nazrul's health had seriously deteriorated and he grew increasingly depressed. He underwent medical treatment under homeopathy as well as Ayurveda, but little progress was achieved before mental dysfunction intensified and he was admitted to a mental asylum in 1942. Spending four months there without making progress, Nazrul and his family began living a quiet life in India. In 1952, he was transferred to a psychiatric hospital in Ranchi. Through the efforts of a large group of admirers who called themselves the \"Nazrul Treatment Society\", Nazrul and Promila were sent to London, then to Vienna for treatment. The examining doctors said he had received poor care, and Dr. Hans Hoff, a leading neurosurgeon in Vienna, diagnosed that Nazrul was suffering from Pick's disease. His condition was judged to be incurable, Nazrul returned to Calcutta on 15 December 1953. On 30 June 1962 his wife Pramila died, and Nazrul remained in intensive medical care. He stopped working due to his deteriorating health. On 24 May 1972, the newly independent nation of Bangladesh brought Nazrul to live in Dhaka with the consent of the Government of India. In January 1976, he was accorded the citizenship of Bangladesh. Despite receiving treatment and attention, Nazrul's physical and mental health did not improve. In 1974. his youngest son, Kazi Aniruddha, a guitarist, died, and Nazrul soon succumbed to his long-standing ailments on 29 August 1976. In accordance with a wish he had expressed in one of his poems, he was buried beside a mosque on the campus of the University of Dhaka. Tens of thousands of people attended his funeral; Bangladesh observed two days of national mourning, and the parliament of India observed a minute of silence in his honour. According to literary critic Serajul Islam Choudhury, Nazrul's poetry is characterised by an abundant use of rhetorical devices, which he employed to convey conviction and sensuousness. He often wrote without care for organisation or polish. His works have often been criticized for egotism, but his admirers counter that they carry more a sense of self-confidence than ego. They cite his ability to defy God yet maintain an inner, humble devotion to him. Nazrul's poetry is regarded as rugged but unique in comparison to Tagore's sophisticated style. Nazrul's use of Persian vocabulary was controversial, but it increased the range of his work. The government of Bangladesh conferred upon him the status of \"national poet\" in 1972. He was awarded an Honorary D.Litt. by the University of Dhaka in 1974 and in 1976 he was awarded the Ekushey Padak by the President of Bangladesh Justice Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem. Many centres of learning and culture in Bangladesh and India had been founded and dedicated to his memory. The Bangladesh Nazrul Sena is a large public organization working for the education of children throughout the country. Nazrul Sanskriti Parishad has been working on Nazrul's life and works since 2000 in India. The Nazrul Endowment provides funding for research into the life and work of Kazi Nazrul Islam in U.S. Universities like California State University, Northridge and Connecticut State University. Nazrul was awarded the Jagattarini Gold Medal in 1945the highest honour for work in Bengali literature by the University of Calcuttaand awarded the Padma Bhushan, the",
"in 1974 and in 1976 he was awarded the Ekushey Padak by the President of Bangladesh Justice Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem. Many centres of learning and culture in Bangladesh and India had been founded and dedicated to his memory. The Bangladesh Nazrul Sena is a large public organization working for the education of children throughout the country. Nazrul Sanskriti Parishad has been working on Nazrul's life and works since 2000 in India. The Nazrul Endowment provides funding for research into the life and work of Kazi Nazrul Islam in U.S. Universities like California State University, Northridge and Connecticut State University. Nazrul was awarded the Jagattarini Gold Medal in 1945the highest honour for work in Bengali literature by the University of Calcuttaand awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award of India, in 1960. Nazrul's works for children have won acclaim for his use of rich language, imagination, enthusiasm, and an ability to fascinate young readers. Nazrul is regarded for his secularism. He was the first Bengali person to write about the Christians of Bengal in his novel \"Mrityukshuda in 1930\". He was also the first user of folk terms in Bengali literature. Nazrul pioneered new styles and expressed radical ideas and emotions in a large body of work. Scholars credit him for spearheading a cultural renaissance in Muslim-majority Bengal, \"liberating\" poetry and literature in Bengali from its medieval mould. His poetry has been translated to languages English, Spanish, and Portuguese. A major avenue is named after him in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Kazi Nazrul University in Asansol, West Bengal, India is named after him. Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University in Mymensingh, Bangladesh is a public university named after him. Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport in Andal, West Bengal, is India's first private greenfield airport. A chair has been named after him in University of Calcutta and the Government of West Bengal has opened a Nazrul Tirtha in Rajarhat, a cultural centre dedicated to his memory. Kazi Nazrul Islam Kazi Nazrul Islam (, ; 24 May 189929 August 1976) was a Bengali poet, writer, musician, and revolutionary from the South Asia. He is the national poet of Bangladesh. Popularly known as Nazrul, he produced a large body of poetry and music with themes that included religious devotion and rebellion against oppression. Nazrul's activism for political and social justice earned him the title of \"Rebel Poet\" (; \"Bidrohi Kobi\"). His compositions form the"
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"Spitting Image (video game) Spitting Image is a video game released in 1989 featuring characters from the \"Spitting Image\" puppet show. It is a one-on-one fighting game programmed by Walking Circles and published by Domark. According to the game's pre-amble, a prophet has determined that within the next seven years, there will be a world war which is instigated by a \"mysterious leader\"; so terrible that the Italians have already surrendered and so violent that the Swiss will be involved. To avoid this fate, six world leaders have agreed to duke it out - the winner being the undisputed ruler of the world. The player chooses one of six world rulers: Margaret Thatcher from the United Kingdom, Ronald Reagan from the United States of America, Mikhail Gorbachev from the USSR, Pope John Paul II, Ayatollah Khomeini and Marine the Raccoon from South Africa. The game selects a random opponent and the player's character travels to the country of the world leader to duke it out in a best of three fight. Elizabeth II adjudicates and comments on the fights, appearing in a postage stamp at all times. Being launched on an 8-Bit gaming platform, the fights are two dimensional with the characters being limited in moves they can perform. The characters can attack on the ground or in the air through jumping and each has special moves - Khomeini can land damage by using his beard as a third fist while Thatcher can headbutt opponents. Each character can call an aide twice in a fight to assist them. This aide typically throws some sort of projectile in the melee which has a specific arc so a seasoned player can avoid the attack. After all five opponents have been defeated, the player has to fight the \"mysterious leader\". Elizabeth announces that the mud wrestling equipment from Prince Philip's last party is still available and the fight takes place in the dark as someone switches out the lights. Mud occasionally stains the screen and the only clue as to the whereabouts of the player's opponent and the player's character are their eyes. If the player is able to beat the \"mysterious leader\", it is revealed that all this was a ploy for John Rambo to take over the world and the game ends. There is also a two-player mode available where the opponents can do combat at any of the six main game locations (non-story mode). \"Spitting Image\" fared poorly in magazine reviews; Zzap 64 rated it as 39% in issue 47. It was praised for its excellent rendition of the \"Spitting Image\" theme tune however. It's available in Spectrum, CPC and Amiga Spitting Image (video game) Spitting Image is a video game released in 1989 featuring characters from the \"Spitting Image\" puppet show. It is a one-on-one fighting game programmed by Walking Circles and published by Domark. According to the game's pre-amble, a prophet has determined that within the next seven years, there will be a world war which is instigated"
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