Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
The Sao Paulo leaf frog (Phyllomedusa distincta) is a frog that lives in Brazil.

References

Frogs of South America
Mute R. Kelly (also styled as #MuteRKelly) is an American movement. It wants contemporary R&B, soul and gospel singer and recording artist R. Kelly convicted (meaning found guilty) of sexual abuse, child pornography, kidnapping and obstruction of justice. The movement also wants Kelly to stop receiving money with his singing career.

Founding
The movement was founded by Kenyette Barnes and Oronike Odeleye in 2017. The latter said: "#MuteRKelly continues until the Black community has fully financially divested from the man and his music and we tackle the overwhelming issue of sexual abuse". Odeleye was an African American Arts Administrator from Atlanta, Georgia. Barnes is a lobbyist and activist. She also sought to lobby elected officials. She wanted to mobilize activists around the world to encourage users of music streaming platforms to #ThumbItDown, when R. Kelly's music plays. This was in order to change the algorithm of his songs until they are no longer playing.
Accusations
During a period of two to three decades, Kelly was accused of sexual abuse of children and adolescents. One example was getting married to then fifteen-year-old R&B and pop singer Aaliyah on August 31, 1994 in Cook County, Illinois. The marriage was dissolved just over five months later at orders from from Aaliyah's family. Aaliyah later admitted she had lied to people about her age. She was really fifteen-years-old when she and Kelly married each other.

Related pages
 Me Too movement
 Harvey Weinstein
 Sexual harassment

References

Sexual abuse
Feminism
Controversies
Companies based in Atlanta
2017 establishments in the United States
The black-winged stilt or pied stilt (Himantopus himantopus) is a bird in the family Recurvirostridae. It lives in many places in the world: Australia, South America, Central America, Africa, southern Asia, some of North America, some of Europe, the Philippines, New Zealand, New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Solomon Islands.

Appearance
This bird has black and white feathers. Its legs are long and orange. Its bill is straight and black. The irises of its eyes are red. They have gray feathers on their heads. The gray part gets bigger as the bird gets older.

Habitat and food

This bird lives in mudflats, marshes, and the shores of lakes and rivers.
This bird wades. It walks through shallow water on its long legs. It uses its beak to catch small animals with no spines off the top of the water. It can swim and put its head under the water to catch food, but it does not do this often. It eats insects, mollusks, and crustaceans. It can look for food in large flocks, groups of birds. The birds in the flock do not all have to be black-winged stilts. The black-winged stilt will look for food with banded stilts and red-necked avocets too.

Breeding 

Many pairs of black-winged stilts build nests near each other. This is called a colony. But each pair will fight other birds if they come too close to their nest. The birds either dig a small hole in the ground or put pieces of plants on the ground to make the nest. Both the male and female stilt sit on the eggs.

References

Charadriiformes
Pheichom (Pheijom) or Feichom (Feijom) is a traditional Meitei loincloth, worn by men. It is mainly made of cotton or silk in gold, saffron or white colours. The Khamen Chatpa is the most popular and highly revered pheijom known to the Meitei cultural world.
The Pheijom (Feijom) of Manipur is slightly equivalent to the Dhoti, worn by men of mainland India.

There are many types of Pheichom (Pheijom), out of which some are the following:

References

Other websites
 Pheijom - lower garments for men

Meitei clothing
The 2016 Witney by-election was a by-election for the UK Parliament constituency of Witney. It happened on the 20 October 2016. This was the same day as the Batley and Spen by-election.

The by-election happened after because current Conservative MP, David Cameron, decided he didn't want to be MP anymore. This was after Cameron also decided he didn't want to be Prime Minister anymore. Conservative Robert Courts won. Courts won with 5,702 votes more than the Liberal Democrats, who came in second.

References 

2016 elections in the United Kingdom
Oxfordshire
Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Saalih ibn Muhammad ibn Sulayman ibn Abd Al Rahman Al Uthaymeen Al Tamimi (1929–2001), was born in Unaiza, in Quasim region (Saudi Arabia) in 1929. He memorized the Holy Quran during his childhood, pursued rigorous religious education in hadith, tafseer, fiqh, theology and Arabic language under the tutelage of renowned Saudi Ulema (Islamic scholars) and graduated from the College of Sharia in Riyadh.

Al-Uthaymeen’s deep knowledge of Islam, disseminated through his many publications and teachings, as well as his outstanding qualities as a dedicated and profoundly faithful Muslim, have won him the respect and admiration of Muslims everywhere.

References 

1929 births
2001 deaths
Saudi Arabian writers
Imams
Magan (also Makkan) was an ancient nation. It is mentioned in Sumerian cuneiform texts of around 2300 BC. It lasted to 550 BC as a source of copper and diorite for Mesopotamia.

Location

Historians were not always sure where Magan was.  Some historians thought Magan could be in part of Yemen called Ma'in in the south of Upper Egypt, in Nubia or the Sudan, and others as part of today's Iran or Pakistan.

With the disappearance of trade from the Indus region, the copper from Magan was later replaced by copper imports from ancient Cyprus.

History
History 

The earliest Sumerian text that talks about Magan (Sumerian 𒈣𒃶 Magan, Akkadian Makkan) was written during the Umm al-Nar period (2600–2000 BCE). It also says "the Lords of Magan." Sumerian texts also talk about "Tilmun," which historians think was in what is Bahrain today, and about "Meluhha," which could be the Indus Valley. The Akkadians fought the Magans in the twenty-third century BCE. This could be why the people built forts. For example, the writers Naram-Sin and Manishtusu, wrote of fighting wars against "32 lords of Magan."

Gudea talks about the devotions to his Temple: "Magan and Meluhha will come down from their mountains to attend." The words Magan (𒈣𒃶) and Meluhha (𒈨𒈛𒄩) appear vertically in the first column on the right.

Naram-Sin gave the Akkadian title Malek to the defeated Ruler of Magan, a title which survives in the Arabic for king, malek.
The Magans built good ships and could sail well for the time.  King Sargon of Agade (2371–2316 BCE) wrote that ships Tilmun, Magan, and Meluhha came to his ports. His successor, Naram-Sin, conquered Magan but he honored the Magan King Manium by naming the city of Manium-Ki in Mesopotamia after him. Trade between the Indus Valley and Sumer went through Magan.  However, that trade might have stopped at one time. Ur-Nammu (2113–2096 BCE) said he had "brought back the ships of Magan."

Commerce 
Archaeological finds from this time show trade not only with the Indus Valley and Sumer but also with Iran and Bactria. They might also show the earliest case of the disease poliomyelitis in the skeleton of a woman from Tell Abraq. The skeleton was found in modern Umm Al Quwain.

Trade was common between Magan and Ur before the reigns of the Gutian kings over Ur. After they were deposed, Ur-Nammu of Ur restored the roads and trade resumed between the two nations (c. 2100 BC).
Literature 
Magan Civilization and Magan territory has also been mentioned in the fantasy book, MAGA - The Untold Legend (ISBN: 978-1777903404) and has a very close relationship with the Mayan Civilization, two mother civilizations of ancient world on earth established by MAGA and MAYA, respectively.

References

Ancient history by country
History of the Middle East
Phanek or Fanek is a traditional Meitei sarong, indigenously worn by womenfolk, predominantly in Manipur (Kangleipak).
One ancient design is the lotus and the bee bordering the phanek fabric.
The Phanek Mayek Naibi, one of the most popular phaneks, is one such lower garment, which has stripes at its bottom. It is worn when one goes to office works and in marriage ceremonies. It is worn like a wraparound. Its bottom is adorned with heavy embroidery in different designs.
According to Meitei culture, the phaneks are untouchable to the menfolk.

Other websites
 Phanek - Meitei traditional attire

References

Meitei clothing
Folsom Lake College is a public community college in Folsom, California. It is part of the California Community Colleges system and the Los Rios Community College District. It was opened in 2004 and has two educational centers: The El Dorado Center in Placerville, California, and the Rancho Cordova Center in Rancho Cordova, California.
It also has a Visual Performing Arts Center which is one of the most well-known centers of art, music, and entertainment in the Sacramento area. The current president is Art Pimental who began in January 2023.

History 
Folsom Lake College first opened in 1993 as a center of Consumnes River College. At that time, it consisted of mostly portable buildings. The first permanent building, Aspen Hall, which currently houses the admission office and student services center, opened in 2001. Folsom Lake College was established on January 9, 2004.
In 2005, the college expanded with the addition of the school library in Aspen Hall and the addition of Buckeye Hall and Cypress Hall. Cypress Hall houses science labs and the reading and writing center. The school cafeteria, Falcons Roost, opened in 2006 and currently includes the bookstore and career center. Both Dogwood and Lilac Halls, the former which houses a music lab and practice rooms and an early childhood education lab, opened in 2007.

In 2009, the physical education building, located near the Falcon's Roost, opened. 

In 2011, the Visual Performing Arts building, then known as Three Stages, opened. It includes an 850-seat main theater, a 200-seat city stage, and a 100-seat recital hall. A year later, the center was renamed the Harris Center in honor of Brice Harris, former chancellor of the Los Rios Community College District. Meanwhile, the recital hall was named after Thelma Scott-Skillman, founding president of Folsom Lake College.
In 2013, the athletic complex expanded to include a soccer field, baseball and softball stadiums, tennis courts, a track and field complex, and a cross country course. The portable buildings on the main Folsom campus were demolished and replaced with a gymnasium, which opened in 2015.

In October 2015, the Rancho Cordova Center opened.

In 2016, the DSPS center relocated to a space in Aspen Hall just across from the library. It was originally located next to the admission office.

In 2018, the innovation center opened in Aspen Hall.

In 2010, the college began its own Athletic program with Men's and Women's golf and Men's and Women's tennis. Women's Soccer was added in fall 2013, followed by Men's Soccer in fall 2014, Men's Baseball in spring 2015, Women's Softball in spring 2016, Women's Volleyball in fall 2016, and Men's and Women's Basketball in fall 2017.

Presidents
Presidents 

 Thelma Scott Skillman (2001 - 2012)
 Rachael Rosenthal (2012 - December 2016, August 2022 - December 2022 as interim)
 Kathleen Kirklin (January 2017 - September 2017 as interim)
 Whitney Yamamura (September 2017 - August 2022)
 Art Pimental (2023 - present)

References

Sacramento County, California
California Community Colleges
Machiko Hasegawa (, January 30, 1920 – May 27, 1992) was a Japanese manga artist and one of the first female manga artists. Hasegawa's most popular comic is Sazae-San. Her comics are still very popular and well-known. She won the People's Honor Award.  She was the first manga artist to win the People’s Honor Award. Hasegawa also has two museums named after her.

Sazae-san 
Sazae-san was a popular postwar comic strip depicting the life of Sazae-san, a fictional Japanese housewife. The manga was first drawn in 1946. It also depicts women and men equally. Sazae-San became nationally popular because of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. Sazae-San was turned into a radio series in 1955. It has 45 paper volumes. It was also translated into English. It started appearing on TV in 1969. Sazae-San is still airing today.

References

Other websites 
 長谷川町子 - Kotobank

1920 births
1992 deaths
Japanese manga artists
Los Rios Community College District is a public community college district headquartered in Sacramento, California. It has four colleges and several education centers serving approximately 70,000 students. The chancellor is Brian King.

Colleges

American River College (opened 1955)
Consumnes River College (opened 1970)
Folsom Lake College (opened 2004)
Sacramento City College (opened 1916)

References

1965 establishments in California
California Community Colleges
Solution can be:

 Solution (chemistry), a mixture where one substance is dissolved in another
 Solution (equation), in mathematics
 Numerical solution, in numerical analysis, approximate solutions within specified error bounds
 Solution, in problem solving
 Solution, in solution selling

Other uses
 V-STOL Solution, an ultralight aircraft
 Solution (band), a Dutch rock band
 Solution (Solution album), 1971
 Solution A.D., an American rock band
 Solution (Cui Jian album), 1991
 Solutions (album), a 2019 album by K.Flay

Related pages
 The Solution (disambiguation)
Anna Andreyevna Gorenko ( – 5 March 1966), better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a Russian poet. In 1965 she was on the shortlist for the Nobel Prize,

Nikolay Gumilyov was his husband.

Related pages
List of Russian language poets
Sources
Akhmatova, Anna, Trans. Kunitz, Staney and Hayward, Max (1973)  Poems of Akhmatova. Houghton Mifflin; 
Akhmatova, Anna, Trans. Kunitz, Staney and Hayward, Max (1998)  Poems of Akhmatova. Houghton Mifflin; 
Akhmatova, Anna (1989) Trans. Mayhew and McNaughton. Poem Without a Hero & Selected Poems. Oberlin College Press; 
Akhmatova, Anna (1992) Trans. Judith Hemschemeyer  The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova. Ed. R. Reeder, Boston: Zephyr Press; (2000); 
Feinstein, Elaine. (2005) Anna of all the Russias: A life of Anna Akhmatova. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; ; Alfred A. Knopf, (2006) 
Harrington, Alexandra (2006) The poetry of Anna Akhmatova: living in different mirrors. Anthem Press; 
Martin, Eden (2007)  Collecting Anna Akhmatova, The Caxtonian, Vol. 4 April 2007 Journal of the Caxton Club; accessed 31 May 2010
Monas, Sidney; Krupala, Jennifer Greene; Punin, Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich (1999), The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904-1953, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint Series, University of Texas Press; 
Polivanov, Konstantin (1994) Anna Akhmatova and Her Circle, University of Arkansas Press; 
Reeder, Roberta. (1994) Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet. New York: Picador; 
Reeder, Roberta. (1997) Anna Akhmatova: The Stalin Years Journal article by Roberta Reeder; New England Review, Vol. 18, 1997
Wells, David (1996) Anna Akhmatova: Her Poetry Berg Publishers;
Notes

References

Other websites

Profile and poems at Academy of American Poets
Anna Akhmatova poetry at Stihipoeta (rus)
Profile and poems at Poetry Foundation
Poetic translations

 
 

Russian poets
1889 births
1966 deaths
The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation ( (SCJN) is the Mexican federal high court and in charge of the judiciary part of the Mexican Federal Government. It has eleven magistrates, known as ministers of the court.

Judges of the SCJN are appointed for 15 years. Members are confirmed by the Senate and are nominated by the President of the Republic.

References

Mexico
Organizations based in Mexico
Crimson Peak is a 2015  gothic romance movie directed by Guillermo del Toro and written by del Toro and Matthew Robbins. 

The movie stars Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, Charlie Hunnam, and Jim Beaver.

References

2015 romance movies
American romance movies
Universal Pictures movies
Movies directed by Guillermo del Toro
Blue Peter is a British children's television show created by John Hunter Blair. Blue Peter is the longest-running children's TV show in the world, having been broadcast since October 1958. It is currently shown live on the CBBC television channel on Thursdays.

References

British children's television series
1958 television series debuts
Nele Hertling née Schröder (born 23 February 1934) is a German theatre manager. She worked for the Academy of Arts, Berlin, from 1962. She also founded the Pantomime-Musik-Tanz-Theater in 1970 and the Tanz im August festival in 1988. She managed the program for Berlin as the European City of Culture.

References

1934 births
Living people
People from Berlin
German theatre directors
Clark Todd Scully (September 13, 1948 – September 6, 2021) was an American racewalker. He competed in the men's 20 kilometres walk at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He was born in Princeton, New Jersey.

Scully died on September 6, 2021 in a car crash in Big Island, Virginia at the age of 72.

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1948 births
2021 deaths
American track and field athletes
Racewalkers
Sportspeople from New Jersey
People from Princeton, New Jersey
Big Island is a census-designated place (CDP) in northern Bedford County, Virginia, United States. The population as of the 2010 Census was 303.

References

Census-designated places in Virginia
Gérard Farison (15 March 1944 – 8 September 2021) was a French footballer. He played as a defender. Farison was born in Saint-Étienne, France. His playing career lasted from 1968 until 1983. He played for the national team in 1976.

Farison died on 8 September 2021 in Saint-Raphaël, France at the age of 77.

References

Other websites
federation official site 
Profile

1944 births
2021 deaths
Footballers from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
French football managers
People from Saint-Étienne‎
Franco Graziosi (10 July 1929 – 8 September 2021) was an Italian actor. He was born in Macerata, Italy. He began his career in 1960. He was best known for his roles in The Terrorist, Duck, You Sucker! and We Have a Pope.

Graziosi died on 8 September 2021 in Rome at the age of 92.

References

Other websites
 

1929 births
2021 deaths
Italian movie actors
Italian television actors
Italian stage actors
Italian voice actors
Uno Loop (31 May 1930 – 8 September 2021) or Loobi Unn was an Estonian singer, musician, athlete, actor, and educator. Loop's career as a musician and singer began in the early 1950s. He was born in Tallinn, Estonia. He was awarded the Order of the White Star in 2001. 

From 1975 until 1992, Loop taught guitar, song, and music at the Georg Ots Tallinn Music School. In 1980, he returned to studies at Tallinn Pedagogical University.

Loop died at a nursing home in Keila, Estonia on 8 September 2021, from problems caused by Alzheimer's disease, aged 91.

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1930 births
2021 deaths
Competitors in athletics
Estonian sportspeople
Estonian educators
Estonian movie actors
Estonian television actors
Estonian stage actors
Boxers
Keila () is a town and an urban municipality in Harju County in north-western Estonia. It is about 25 km southwest of Tallinn.

References

Settlements in Estonia
Camarines Sur (; ) is a province in the Philippines located in the Bicol Region in Luzon. Its capital is Pili.

References

Provinces of the Philippines
, officially the  (, Rinconada Bikol: Banwāan ka Pili, ) is a city of the Philippines and capital of the province of Camarines Sur.

References

Cities in the Philippines
Jordi Rebellón López (15 February 1957 – 8 September 2021) was a Spanish actor. He was known for his role as Rodolfo Vilches in popular television series Hospital Central. Rebellón was born in Barcelona, Spain. His career began in 1988.

Rebellón died on 8 September 2021 in Madrid, Spain of a stroke, aged 64.

References

Other websites

1957 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Spanish movie actors
Spanish television actors
Spanish stage actors
Spanish voice actors
Actors from Madrid
Entertainers from Barcelona
Luis Robredo Villafuerte Sr. (August 29, 1935 – September 8, 2021) was a Filipino politician. She was Governor of Camarines Sur from 1986 until 1992 and again from 1995 until 2004. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 2004 to 2013. He was also the Minister of Trade from 1979 until 1981. Villafuerte was born in Taguig, Philippines.

Villafuerte died on September 8, 2021 in Taguig at the age of 86.

References

1935 births
2021 deaths
Filipino politicians
Yevgeny Nikolayevich Zinichev (Russian: Евге́ний Никола́евич Зи́ничев; 18 August 1966 – 8 September 2021) was a Russian politician and military officer. He was the Minister of Emergency Situations from 2018 until his death. He was also a member of the Security Council of Russia. In 2016, he was the acting Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast. He was ranked General of the Army. Zinichev was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union.

Zinichev died on 8 September 2021 in Norilsk, Russia after accidentally falling of a cliff at the age of 55.

References

1966 births
2021 deaths
Politicians from Saint Petersburg
Russian generals
Enugu ( ; ) is the capital of Enugu State in Nigeria. It is located in southeastern Nigeria. The city had a population of 722,664 in 2006.

References

Cities in Nigeria
The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal or CSICOP is an organization formed to encourage open minded, critical investigation of paranormal and fringe science claims from a responsible, scientific point of view.

Scientific organizations based in the United States
Skepticism
Proton Bus Simulator is a bus simulator game developed by Marcos Elias Picão for Microsoft Windows and Android. It is powered by Unity and was released in 2017. Another version, from the same series, is titled Proton Bus Road, coach bus version, in 2018. In September 2021, it was downloaded 1 million times.

Gameplay 
The game features four maps, including Aricanduva, representing a large urban cluster. As this is the first map, it is proposed to have more errors and less rendered areas. Aricanduva includes high traffic vehicles and many noble neighborhoods. In addition to this map, there are areas such as Uipe (industrial city region), Fiktivdorf based on European cities and the Longeee rural map.

The game does not have licensed vehicles, but it has similar versions and vehicle mod support.

As of April 2021, the game was still in testing, with the publicly available beta.
Updates 
Version v246 brought a fictional map of the Europe, Fiktivdorf, and downloadable changes only for the authors, as well as fixes for PC and Android. Then the v247 version brought another Uipe map, a mountain chain map.

After v251, users will be able to create or place a map mods, to facilitate the addition of vehicles in the game, and consolidate the unique ones.

Version v255/257 brought free support for cheap computer booklets, which made it easier to change the direction of the bus later. V258 support for the Aricanduva HD card has arrived, only for powerful PCs.

References

Other websites 
  

2017 video games
Android (operating system) games
Single-player video games
Windows games
Khudei or Khoodei () is a daily traditional Meitei loincloth wear, worn by menfolk. It is also used as a cotton towel in some cases. It is a wraparound linen cloth.
This short woven cloth covers the body from the waist up to the knee portion. Generally, it measures around 3' x 8'.
Sometimes, it is folded and carried on the shoulders by aged men. It is worn like in the dhoti style.

Other websites
 Khudei - long unstitched cloth

References

Meitei clothing
Star Pravah is an Indian pay television GEC that was launched on 24 November 2008 by Star India and wholly owned by The Walt Disney Company India. On 1 May 2016, the high-definition feed of the channel named Star Pravah HD was launched.

Programming

Fiction series

Non-fiction show

Former Programming 
 Rang Majha Vegla
 Sahakutumb Sahaparivar
 Phulala Sugandh Maticha
 Mulgi Zali Ho
 Sang Tu Aahes Ka?
 Swabhiman - Shodh Astitvacha

References 

Television channels in India
2008 establishments in Asia
2000s establishments in India
Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm is a game that is part of the Oceanhorn series. It is an adventure game, and is supported only on Switch and all Apple devices excluding the Apple Watch. It is part of Apple Arcade. It is set 1000 years before the first game, on the same world called Gaia.

References

Adventure games
A wooden toy train is a toy train that runs on a wooden track system with grooves to guide the wheels of the rolling stock. While the trains, tracks and scenery accessories are made mainly of wood, the engines and cars connect to each other using metal hooks or small magnets, and some use plastic wheels mounted on metal axles. Some trains are made to resemble anthropomorphical, fictional, and prototypical railroad equipment.

Wooden toy train have sets of usually rails, bridges, tunnels, buildings rail stations, level crossings, trees, and more.

There are many manufactors of wooden toy trains, such as BRIO, IKEA, Micki, and Melissa & Doug.

Toys
Trains
Lanmei Thanbi () or Langmei Thanbi () is a spirit that appeared in the form of a light flickering over the marshes in Meitei mythology and folklore of Ancient Manipur (Antique Kangleipak). Legend says that it leads people to astray if it chases them. It is sometimes regarded as parallel to the Will o' the wisp, Jack-o'-lantern and Ignis Fatuus of the European folklore.

In ancient times, people used to say:
"Lanmei Thanbi toi toi! 
Hangen Poura kit!" 
It is roughly translated as:
"Come Lanmei Thanbi, come, if you dare. We will nab you with hangen (bamboo skeleton used for stretching fishing nets) and poura (bamboo pole on which hangen is attached or tied)."

Other websites
 Lanmei Thanbi (2008 film)

References

Meitei folklore
Meitei mythology
The starry leaf frog (Phyllomedusa coelestis) is a frog that lives in Peru and Colombia.  Scientists think it may live in many more places than we think.  Scientists have seen this frog between 200 and 1000 meters above sea level.

This frog is 53.3 to 64.8 mm long from nose to rear end. This frog is green in color with some white or orange spots.  Its belly is orange.  The pupils in its eyes go up and down and open side to side.  It has small disks on its toes for climbing.

People usually see this frog at night.  It does not live near ponds.  Most of the frogs scientists have seen were in secondary forest many streams and dense undergrowth: There were many bushes and other small plants under the trees.  Scientists have only seen the female frog lay eggs one time.  She laid them in a folded leaf hanging over the water.

References

Frogs of South America
Medusa with the Head of Perseus is a sculpture.  Argentine artist Luciano Garbati made it in 2008.  It is famous because people in the Me Too movement talked about it.  The media called the statue an "icon of justice" for people who survived sexual assault. That happened several years after the statue was made.

Myth

Medusa is a Greek myth.  In the story, Perseus kills Medusa, not the other way around: Medusa is a monster with a face so terrible that anyone who sees her turns to stone.  Medusa lives on an island.  The hero Perseus comes to the island to kill Medusa.  He cuts off her head and puts it in a bag.  He later uses the head to turn his enemies to stone.  Perseus then gives Medusa's dead head to the gods.  Zeus puts Medusa's head on his shield so it will frighten his enemies.
At some point in history, no later than the Roman poet Ovid, another part was added to the myth: Medusa starts as a human priestess and not a monster.  She works for the goddess Athena in her temple.  She is raped by the god Poseidon in Athena's temple.  To the people telling the myth, Medusa, not Poseidon, was the one who had done something bad.  Athena punishes Medusa by turning her into an ugly monster: Her hair turns into snakes.  Her face becomes terrifying.  Only then does Medusa go to the island where Perseus will later kill her.

Making

In the 1500s, Benvenuto Cellini made a sculpture called Perseus with the Head of Medusa. In that sculpture, a nearly naked Perseus holds up Medusa's head.  Garbati wanted to make that statue in reverse.  Garbati did not think he was making feminist art.  He only want to "flip the script" of the story of Perseus and Medusa.  He only wanted to show the sculpture the opposite way.
Garbati started with clay.  He used the clay model to make another sculpture out of resin and fiberglass.  Then, he could use the resin sculpture to make copies out of bronze.  The sculpture is almost 7 feet tall (about 2 meters).  It shows a naked Medusa with a sword in her left hand.  She holds a man's head by the hair in her right hand.  She stares down and ahead.  She looks like a woman and not a monster.  Garbati used his own face for Perseus.

Garbati offered to sell the original resin sculpture for US$35,000 and bronze copies for US$60,000, depending on who made the bronze copy.

Garbati decided not to copy Cellini's statue exactly.  Cellini shows Perseus holding Medusa's head high and smiling.  He stands lightly on one foot.  Garbati shows Medusa holding Perseus' head low and staring straight ahead.  She stands heavily on both feet.  Garbati said this was because Perseus coming to attack Medusa meant different things to Perseus and Medusa:
"I was thinking of Perseus, this man with all his gadgets, going there and having this victory. This difference between a masculine victory and a feminine one, that was central to my work. The representations of Perseus, he's always showing the fact that he won, showing the head…if you look at my Medusas…she is determined, she had to do what she did because she was defending herself. It’s quite a tragic moment."

As survivor icon

During the #MeToo Movement, thousands of women wrote to Garbati saying what the statue meant to them.  They said Medusa was a woman who had been raped who fought back.

Criticism
Criticism

Some people said that black women started the #MeToo Movement, so it was not good to have a statue made by a male artist as its symbol.  Garbati answered that he liked that people liked his statue.  He also said he'd learned more about patriarchy.  Other people asked Garbati why he made Medusa naked and beautiful when she is ugly in the myth.  He answered that artists have been showing Medusa as beautiful since the 400s b.c.e.  Other people asked why Medusa was holding the head of Perseus and not of the god who raped her, Poseidon.  This was because Garbati had not meant to make the statue about rape survivors.  He had only meant to do Cellini's statue backwards.

Location
For a long time, the statue stayed in Garbati's own art studio in Buenos Aires.
In 2020, the statue was shown in New York's Collect Pond Park near the court of criminal justice.  This was where Harvey Weinstein stood trial for his crimes.  Garbati and helpers started selling small copies of the statue.  They gave 10% of the money to the National Women's Law Center.

References

Other websites
Official website
Medusa with the Head Project

Statues
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Zhiar Ali is a Kurdish person from Iraq who is a human rights activist, animal rights activist and journalist based in Sulaymaniyah. He is known for his work for LGBT rights in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Ali was the former media and communications officer at Rasan, he later founded Yeksani, a movement advocating for LGBT rights in the Iraqi Kurdistan. He had also co-founded the first pro-vegan animal rights organization Kurdistan Vegans. He has freelanced for news organizations, focusing on music journalism and political and social issues.

Ali was attacked by the media in a campaign, the campaign was bigger and was against the LGBT community in 2020. After these attacks, he was threatened with murder and assault. The attacks started happening more after Ali did a Global Pride speech on June 27, 2020, organized by InterPride.
He criticized Asayish and the Kurdistan Regional Government for an operation which detained LGBT people in Sulaymaniyah. The campaign took place after Asaiysh (local security forces) thought all gay people are sex workers, Ali tried talk about this mistake in a Middle East Eye interview. Denying that all members of the LGBT community in the Kurdistan region were sex workers, he blamed the government for forcing some into sex work and said that "prostitution is the last choice to earn a living".

Personal life 
Ali is the youngest of five brothers and sisters. He said in a makanati.net interview that he came out to his mother and older sister in 2017 when he founded Lava Foundation, an unregistered organization working on raising awareness of LGBT issues.
Like the vast majority of society, my family approached [sexuality] close-mindedly without having any information, they would insult [those who were gay]. When I would spend time with them, sometimes, they would engage in aggressive conversations and hurl insults towards LGBT people. [...] I would leave the room silently because I felt like those insults were directed at me. [...] I tried repeatedly to change and undergo a "curative treatment" to no avail. I got to the conclusion that this is me, accepted myself, and moved on. – Ali, on his experiences with his family and sexuality.

In an interview with Queer Film Festival Utrecht, Ali talked about his relationship with his family, reporting that he was disowned and kicked out of the family house when he came out publicly, and receieved death threats from his brother.
Ali has a plant-based lifestyle and co-founded Kurdistan Vegans in 2018, one of Iraq's first vegan organizations which focused on environmentalism as well as raising awareness about "a healthy lifestyle" at the same time as raising awareness about a vegan lifestyle. A vegan for five years, he had discussed the difficulties of the lifestyle in Iraq; vegan products are scarce, difficult to find, and often overpriced. During an interview, he claimed that before their work at Kurdistan Vegans, there were no dedicated vegan restaurants, but after their advocasy, one was announced in his region.

Career

Activism
Career

Activism 

Ali began his activism in 2017 with Lava Foundation which did not last for a long time, and was hired by Rasan in late 2019; Lava Foundation activities were then carried out in Rasan. After more than a year with Rasan, Ali left the organization and founded Yeksani. Ali's activism focuses on raising awareness of regional LGBT community issues, letting the public know about the community's needs and wants and international actors to encourage action, and normalizing the community in Kurdish society. He emphasizes that LGBT+ living conditions in Kurdistan are poor due to a lack of public awareness.

Gay people should be protected by law and not discriminated against, [homosexuality] is a natural human desire, not an illness. Every workplace should be legally forced to be inclusive to LGBT people in job oppertunities, and even the local security forces need to treat them better. – Ali to Kurdish news outlet Peregraf in an interview.
Ali mostly uses social media for his activism. He regularly raises awareness about the legal laws used to put LGBT people in jail, and said in a BBC Persian interview that Articles 393, 394, 400, and 401 of Iraqi law are used to illegally detain LGBT people. Ali was also an animal rights activist and a former project manager of Kurdistan Vegans, where he arranged and coordinated World Vegan Day events for two years in a row.

He was a journalist with Spee Media, a local independent news outlet. He was focusing there on music journalism, and most of his work featured Wild Fire. He also wrote about conflict in the Middle East, LGBT+ rights in Iraq, and social and civic issues.
Asayish operation 
On April 1, 2021, news said that Asayish set checkpoints around Sulaymaniyah and detained some people they thought were gay. Although a lot of people expressed anger on social media at the operation, seventeen members of Sulaimaniyah's Provincial Council signed a petition supporting the arrests. Ali led Take Action, an online campaign through Yeksani which received broad global support, and helped bring the issue to the attention of Amnesty International, the US Consulate in Erbil, Human Rights Watch, ILGA Asia, and other international, national, and local groups. The decision to conduct the operation was influenced by conservative groups in the region, especially the Kurdistan Justice Group.
According to Ali, 15 individuals (some underage) were apprehended by the operation and security checkpoints were set up in places thought to be popular with LGBT people. He said that Asaiysh did not differentiate between LGBT sex workers and other community members or later focused their operation on prostitution to avoid international backlash. Ali highlighted security forces' "tests" on suspects to determine if they had sexual contact before their arrests, calling the tests criminal and humiliating. He told Middle East Eye that "even if people resorted to sex working, it's the government's fault since it's their last choice of livelihood."
Ali repeatedly told the media that community lives were in danger, and he was afraid to be caught at one of the checkpoints since he is openly gay. After local and international pressure from civil-rights organizations and activists, Asayish stopped the operation, released the detainees, and published a statement that they were investigating reports of prostitution in the region and did not "target any specific groups of society."

Due to discrimination, followed by the operation, Ali reported that many LGBT people (including himself) felt excluded from Kurdish society. Many others also called the operation dehumanizing and criminal. Ali critisized other NGOs that claim to work on LGBT rights, and said "while they are getting massive funds, they take no action in reality", and recognized them as symbolic entities.

Rasan lawsuit
Rasan lawsuit 

On February 22, 2021, it was announced that a lawsuit had been filed against Rasan by an Islamist Kurdistan Justice Group MP because the organization advocated for local LGBT+ rights and this was "against the values of the Kurdish culture." In response to the accusation, Rasan said they would defend themselves against the lawsuit in court and they work for everyone equally. Ali spoke against the MP during a live Rudaw interview, defending the LGBT+ community and saying that the MP's comments were "baseless and not based on any scientific evidence."

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Mithali Dorai Raj (born 3 December 1982) is an Indian cricketer. She is the Test and ODI captain of women's national cricket team. She is a right-handed opening batswoman and sometimes right-arm leg break bowler. Raj is the highest run-scorer in women’s international cricket.

She is the highest run-scorer in women's international cricket and the only female cricketer to surpass the 7,000 run mark in Women's One Day International matches. she is the first player to score seven consecutive 50s in ODIs. Raj also holds the record for most half-centuries in WODIs. In June 2018 during the 2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup, she became the first player from India to score 2000 runs in T20Is, and also became the first woman cricketer to reach 2002 WT20I runs.
In 2005, she became the captain of the side. Raj is the only player (female) to have captained India in more than one ICC ODI World Cup final, doing so twice in 2005 and 2017. On 1 February 2019, during India's series against New Zealand Women, Raj became the first woman to play in 200 ODI matches. In September 2019, she announced her retirement from T20Is to focus on ODI cricket. In 2019, she became the first woman to complete 20 years in international cricket.

She is the recipient of several national and international awards, including the Wisden Leading Woman Cricketer in the World in 2017, Arjuna Award in 2003, and the Padma Shri in 2015, both by the Government of India.

In July 2021, in the third WODI match against England, Raj became the leading run-scorer in women's international cricket. She went past Charlotte Edwards' previous record of 10,273 runs.
Early life 
Mithali Raj was born on 3 December 1982 in a Tamil family in Jodhpur, Rajasthan.  Her father is Dorai Raj, who was an Airman (Warrant Officer) in the Indian Air Force, and mother is Leela Raj. Raj started to play cricket at age of 10. She lives in Hyderabad, Telangana. She attended Keyes High School for Girls in Hyderabad. She attended Kasturba Gandhi Junior College for Women in Secunderabad for her intermediate studies. She began cricket coaching in her school days along with her elder brother.

Youth and domestic career 
While playing for Railways in domestic competition, Raj began her career by playing with stars like Purnima Rau, Anjum Chopra and Anju Jain for Air India.
International career 
Mithali has played all three cricket formats for India, Test, One Day and T20.  She was named among the probables in the 1997 Women's Cricket World Cup when she was just 14, but couldn't make it to the final squad. She made her One Day International debut in 1999 against Ireland at Milton Keynes and scored unbeaten 114 runs. She made her Test debut in the 2001–02 season against South Africa at Lucknow. On 17 August 2002, at the age of 19, in her third Test, she broke Karen Rolton's record of world's highest individual Test score of 209*, scoring a new high of 214 against England in the second and final Test at County Ground, Taunton. The record has since been surpassed by Kiran Baluch of Pakistan who scored 242 against West Indies in March 2004.

Raj was ill with a strain of typhoid during the CricInfo Women's World Cup in 2002, hindering India's progress. However, she then led them to their first World Cup final in 2005, in South Africa, where they met Australia who proved too strong.
In August 2006, she led the side to their first ever Test and Series victory in England and wrapped up the year winning the Asia Cup – the second time in 12 months – without dropping a single game.

She led the Indian team to the finals in the 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup where the team lost to Australia. She is a part-time leg-break bowler as well. She is a recipient of the Arjuna award for the year 2003. She currently tops the batting table with 703 ratings. In addition to her ability with the bat, Raj rolls her arm over bowling leg-spinners and providing variety to the attack.

At the 2013 Women's World Cup, Raj was the No.1 Cricketer in the ODI chart among women. She scored 100s: 1 and 50s: 4 in Test cricket, 100s: 5 and 50s: 50 with best bowling of 3/4 in ODIs and 50s: 10 in T20s.

In February 2017, she became the second player to score 5,500 runs in WODIs.
Raj is the first player to captain most matches for India in ODI and T20I.
In July 2017, she became the first player to score 6,000 runs in WODIs. She led the Indian team to the final of the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup where the team lost to England by nine runs.

In December 2017, she was named as one of the players in the ICC Women's ODI Team of the Year.

In October 2018, she was named in India's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.

In September 2019, Raj retired from T20I Cricket. She dreams to bring the World Cup to her country by 2021. "After representing India in T20 internationals since 2006, I wish to retire from T20Is to focus my energies on readying myself for the 2021 one-day World Cup," she said in a BCCI press statement.

In November 2020, Raj was nominated for the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for ICC Female Cricketer of the Decade, and the award for women's ODI cricketer of the decade.

In May 2021, she was named as the captain of India's Test squad for their one-off match against the England women's cricket team.
Coaching career 
Raj was appointed as the batting consultant for India women's national cricket team, and had played as a player-coach.

Records 

 Mithali is nicknamed "Lady Tendulkar of Indian Women's cricket", as she is currently the all-time leading run-scorer for India in all formats, including Tests, ODIs and T20Is.
 During the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup, Raj scored her seventh consecutive half-century and made a record for most consecutive fifties by a player.
 Mithali is the 1st Indian and 5th woman cricketer overall to score over 1,000 World Cup runs.
 She holds the record for playing the most consecutive Women's One Day Internationals for a team (109).
Her relationship with the T20 team's captain Harmanpreet Kaur is also said to be strained.

However after reappointment of Ramesh Powar as Head coach of Indian womens' cricket team in May 2021 , the two have reconciled.  Mithali and Harmanpreet also confirmed no bad blood against each other across various interviews.

Awards

Outside cricket

Personal life and interests 
Raj is a Bharatanatyam dancer.

In popular culture 
After the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup, Viacom 18 Motion Pictures acquired the rights to make a feature film on Raj's life. She said "Hoping that this movie inspires more people, especially young girls to take up sports as a career."
The biopic is in planning and the shoot is scheduled to start in 2019. Raj said "I think Priyanka Chopra will be a great choice (to play me in the biopic). Our personalities match a lot. I am not a movie buff, so I'd love the experts to do their job." However, it was decided that Taapsee Pannu will play the role of Mithali Raj in the biopic named Shabaash Mithu. It will be directed by Rahul Dholakia in 2020.

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Davis Ansah Opoku (b. 13 September 1984) is a Ghanaian politician. In January 2021. He became a member of Parliament for Mpraeso Constituency in the Eastern Region of Ghana. He serves as the Deputy Ranking Member of the Public Accounts Committee and a member of the works & Housing Committee of Parliament

Early life 
On Thursday, 13th September 1984, Davis was born in Accra to Sampson Opoku of Kwahu Asakraka and Helena Opoku of Obomeng Kwahu

Education 
Davis is an old student of Nkwatia Secondary School and later to the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, where he aquired a degree in Laboratory Technology and  is training as a Solicitor in England & Wales at the University of Laws, London, UK.  He has also studied media and Public Relations at Leicester University. U.K. Davis is a graduate from the prestigious University of London, UK, where he studied Law and holds a certificate in Strategic Political Communication from the International Academy for Leadership (IAF), Germany.
Career 
Davis started his career as a public relations consultant and a public interest advocate and has more than a decade of agency, corporate, nonprofit and startup experience. He is also the  founder and CEO of Siri Communications, an I.T., Public Relations and Media Management Services firm, Which he has assisted clients both large and small, in industries as varied as technology and healthcare to Agribusiness and publishing.

He's worked with the National Health Insurance Authority as Deputy Director (Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive) and assisited in the implementation of the NHIS Mobile Renewal code. The code is a convenient method to renew NHIS policy by dialling dedicated NHIS short-code *929# and can be accessed from all networks.
Politics 
As an advocate with public interest, Davis has served as Director of Communications, then later as Director of Operations for the Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG). The role of the group was to expose some alleged rots during the NDC term in office.

During the 2008 elections Davis served as the President of the Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON), the New Patriotic Party's intelligential wing (NPP), He Stimulated the students of the University of Cape Coast to various community engagements, where they worked with the then party Chairman Duncan Smith and some NPP Regional Executives . Prior to the 2008 General elections, during one of the biggest rally to present then Candidate Nana Akufo Addo, he was given the opportunity to speak to some sections of Ghana's Youth his delivery caught the Eye of some top executives of the party. OPK as he is called by some of his colleague is Known for his dedication and loyalty to the NPP Party.