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# Verreaux's coua

Verreaux's coua (Coua verreauxi) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. According to a BBC documentary, it is found only near a salt lake in the southern part of the island. The lake is 16 km long but only a couple of metres deep. The area has been drying out for the last 40,000 years and the organisms living here have become adapted to conserve water.
The bird's name commemorates French ornithologist and collector Jules Verreaux.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. The birds are found in southern part of the spiny forest zone. They live in coastal euphorbia scrub, and are most active at dawn and dusk. Birders listen for its descending series of loud contact calls, "corick-corick-corick-corick". A sympatric species is the crested coua, C. cristata.

## Identification

The species is described thus: "A small, greyish arboreal coua. Overall mid-grey, whitish on lower breast and belly, and darker on flight-feathers. Tail dark greyish, long and tipped whitish on outer feathers. Head with long, dark-tipped crest, pale blue bare skin around eye and black bill."

## Distribution and habitat

Verreaux's coua is endemic to the southwestern tip of Madagascar within the spiny forest zone. Its typical habitat is thick scrub on coral rag but it also occurs in other habitat types including within degraded areas.

## Behaviour

The bird forages for invertebrates among trees and bushes and on the ground. It also eats Cassia fruit. It occurs from sea-level to 100 metres (330 ft). Little is known of its reproductive habits but males are sometimes seen singing from the tops of trees in November suggesting that this is the breeding season.

## Status

The IUCN has rated Verreaux's coua as being "Least Concern". It has a small range and is threatened by habitat loss. The main threat it faces is the cutting of trees in the scrubland where it lives to make charcoal which happens especially alongside roads and near towns. Nevertheless, it is quite common in suitable habitats.
# Verre églomisé

Verre églomisé is a French term referring to the process of applying both a design and gilding onto the rear face of glass to produce a mirror finish. The name is derived from the 18th-century French decorator and art-dealer Jean-Baptiste Glomy (1711–1786), who was responsible for its revival.
Glomy's technique was a relatively simple one of applying decorative designs in a combination of plain colour and gilding, usually to glass picture frames. However, over time it has come to be used to describe nearly any process involving back-painted and gilded glass, however elaborate.
The technique of back-painting glass actually dates back to pre-Roman eras. One of the key historical periods of the art was in Italy during the 13th to 16th centuries. Small panels of glass with designs formed by engraved gilding were applied to reliquaries and portable altars. The method used is described by Cennino Cennini. Other practitioners include Jonas Zeuner and Hans Jakob Sprungli (1559–1637).
It has also been used throughout Europe since the 15th century, appearing in paintings, furniture, drinking glasses and similar vessels, and jewellery. It is also often seen in the form of decorative panels of mirrors, clock faces, and in more recent history, as window signs and advertising mirrors.
The technique was explored by the Blue Rider group of artists in the 1920s who turned what had been a folk art into fine art. Indeed, artists of the caliber of Kandinsky, Marc, Klee and Gabriele Münter produced glass paintings. there are very few artists using the technique as a fine art - the Irish artist Yanny Petters is one of them. However, as part of the renaissance in traditional techniques, there are various commercial artists who use this technique.
In the gilding process, the silver, gold or other metal leaf is fixed using a gelatin adhesive which, after steaming, results in a mirror-like, reflective finish. The design can be applied by various techniques, often by reverse painting prior to gilding, or by engraving the design into the gilded layer, or even into the glass. When painting an elaborate design such as a flower, the artist's natural methodology is reversed, with highlights applied first and the background applied last.
The metal leaf may also be applied using oil-based adhesives (goldsize varnish) to achieve a matte finish. It is to be distinguished from "sandwiched" gold glass where gold leaf is glued to a piece of glass, and often then scraped off to form a design, and a further layer of hot glass is then applied on top and fused to seal the gold inside.
In recent years, the term Verre Églomisé has also been used to describe gilded and distressed mirrors which have no actual design or pattern applied, but this is taking it a further step away from its source. A better term for these would be "Distressed Hand-Gilded Mirror".
# Via Hadriana

The Via Hadriana was an ancient Roman road established by the emperor Hadrian, which stretched from Antinoöpolis on the River Nile to the Red Sea at Berenice Troglodytica (Berenike). Hadrian had founded Antinoöpolis in memory of his presumed lover, the youth Antinous, who had drowned in the Nile. The Via Hadriana was finished in 137 AD. Traces of the road line were noted by Couyat (1910) and Murray (1925).
# Victoria Cross railway station

Victoria Cross railway station is an underground Sydney Metro station located beneath the central business district of North Sydney, Australia. The station is served by the Metro North West & Bankstown Line. It opened on 19 August 2024.

## History

A station at Victoria Cross was proposed in 2001 as part of Co-ordinator General of Rail Ron Christie's Strategic Plan for Rail, as a stop for trains travelling to the north-west, Northern Beaches, Cronulla and Macarthur. The new station, a block away from the existing station in Blue Street, was designed to take pressure off the constrained interchange, which dates from 1932. The Government of New South Wales incorporated many of Christie's ideas in its Metropolitan Rail Expansion Program (MREP) in 2005, including Victoria Cross station as part of a future Redfern to Chatswood railway line. When the MREP was cancelled in 2008, the idea of a station at Victoria Cross was dropped as well.
The concept of a Redfern to Chatswood line was partially revived by the NSW Government as part of the Sydney's Rail Future plan in 2012, this time as a metro stop. A detailed concept plan, including a station at Victoria Cross, went on public exhibition in 2015. The station entrance is on the eastern side of Miller Street between Berry and Mount Streets.
In June 2017, changes were announced, including an additional station entrance on McLaren Street. The second entrance is notable for being the first lift-only entrance to a passenger train station in Australia, and consists of four lifts capable of carrying 27 people each.
The station opened on 19 August 2024.

## Platforms and services

| Platform | Line | Stopping pattern | Notes |
| 1 | M1 | Services to Sydenham | |
| 2 | M1 | Services to Tallawong | |
* Platforms
* Concourse
* Walkway
# Victrix

Victrix is a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae described by Otto Staudinger in 1879. It may be synonymous with the genus Moureia.

## Species

Subgenus Victrix
* Victrix karsiana Staudinger, 1879 Armenia, north-eastern Turkey, Asia Minor
* Victrix gracilis (Wagner, 1931) Turkey
* Victrix agenjoi (Fernández, 1931) Spain
* Victrix artaxias Varga & Ronkay, 1989 Armenia
* Victrix pinkeri Hacker & Lödl, 1989
* Victrix marmorata (Warren, 1914) Qinghai
Subgenus Rasihia
* Victrix acronictoides Han & Kononenko, 2017 Yunnan
* Victrix boursini (Draudt, 1936) Turkey
* Victrix chloroxantha (Boursin, 1957) Afghanistan
* Victrix commixta (Warren, 1909) northern Afghanistan
* Victrix confucii (Alphéraky, 1892) Tibet
* Victrix conspersa (Christoph, 1893) Turkmenistan
* Victrix diadela (Hampson, 1908) western Turkestan
* Victrix duelduelica (Osthelder, 1932) Turkey
* Victrix gracilior (Draudt, 1950)
* Victrix hackeri Varga & Ronkay, 1991
* Victrix illustris Varga & Ronkay, 1991 Afghanistan
* Victrix klapperichi Hacker, 2001
* Victrix lichenodes Boursin, 1969 Afghanistan
* Victrix macrosema (Boursin, 1957) northern Iran
* Victrix marginelota (Joannis, 1888) Syria, Transcaspia
* Victrix nanata (Draudt, 1950) Yunnan
* Victrix octogesima (Boursin, 1960) Afghanistan
* Victrix precisa (Warren, 1909) Morocco, Algeria
* Victrix sassanica Wiltshire, 1961 Iran
* Victrix superior (Draudt, 1950) Yunnan
* Victrix tabora (Staudinger, [1892]) Syria, Turkey
* Victrix tristis (Rungs, 1945) western Sahara
Subgenus Chytobrya
* Victrix albida (Draudt, 1950) Sichuan
* Victrix bryophiloides (Draudt, 1950) Yunnan
* Victrix fraudatrix (Draudt, 1950) Sichuan, Yunnan
* Victrix perlopsis (Draudt, 1950) Sichuan
Subgenus Poliobrya
* Victrix patula (Püngeler, 1906) eastern Turkestan, Xinjiang
* Victrix umovii (Eversmann, 1846) Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, western Kazakhstan, Urals, south-western Siberia
* Victrix svetlanae Koshkin & Pekarsky, 2020 south-eastern Siberia
* Victrix fabiani Varga & Ronkay, 1989 Mongolia
* Victrix frigidalis Varga & Ronkay, 1991
* Victrix akbet Volynkin, Titov & Cernila, 2019 north-easter Kazakhstan
Subgenus Micromima Matov, Fibiger & Ronkay, 2009
* Victrix bogdoana Matov, Fibiger & Ronkay, 2009
* Victrix bioculalis (Caradja, 1934) Mongolia, northern China
* Victrix sinensis Han, Kononenko & Behounek, 2011 Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shaanxi
* Victrix tripuncta (Draudt, 1950) Shanxi
# Videostroboscopy

Videostroboscopy is a high-speed medical imaging method used to visualize the dynamics of human vocal fold vibration.
When stimulated by the pressure of breath exhaled from the lungs, the two vocal folds (also known as vocal cords) open and close rapidly. This process is called phonation and produces the sound of the human voice.
During phonation, the vocal folds open and close too rapidly for the unassisted eye to observe their movement. This poses a problem to clinicians because abnormalities in these movements are often indicative of a voice disorder. Videostroboscopy is one method by which this problem is overcome.
The clinician uses an endoscope containing an embedded video camera and stroboscope, which is passed through the nasal passage and into the pharynx of the subject, who then initiates phonation and vocalizes while the vocal folds are recorded. In the resulting stroboscopic video recording, the vocal folds appear slow enough to observe the precise nature of the movement, enabling the diagnosis of a range of problems.
# Viktor Dmitryevich Baranov

Viktor Dmitryevich Baranov (30 January 1928 – 14 August 2005) was a Soviet cross-country skier. He competed in the men's 50 kilometre event at the 1956 Winter Olympics.
# Lucien Emerson

Lucien Parker Emerson (May 5, 1890 – March 1, 1980) was a basketball coach, football referee, and baseball club secretary. He coached high school basketball in the 1920s, including Hume-Fogg High School's girls' basketball team, and won a state title coaching men's basketball at Montgomery Bell Academy. Emerson coached Sewanee basketball from 1928 to 1930, posting a record of 17–28 (.378). He was secretary of the Nashville Vols baseball club from 1926 to 1928, and for the Chattanooga team afterwards.
# List of ambassadors of Turkey to Iran

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkey to Iran is the official representative of the President and the Government of Turkey to the President and the Government of Iran.
The ambassador and their staff work at large in the Embassy of Turkey in Tehran. There are Consulate Generals in Mashad, Urmia and Tabriz.
The post of Turkish Ambassador to Iran is currently held by Derya Örs.
# Gettysburg and Petersburg Turnpike

Gettysburg and Petersburg Turnpike, in addition to the original turnpike road, may refer to:
* Baltimore Pike (Adams County, Pennsylvania), the designation for the remaining unnumbered portion of the Gettysburg and Petersburg Turnpike.
* Gettysburg and Petersburg Turnpike Company, the corporation that built and operated the turnpike.
* Pennsylvania Route 97 (Adams County), which is the southern portion of the former Gettysburg and Petersburg Turnpike.
* U.S. Route 140, a former US Highway designation—the northern portion of which had been the Gettysburg and Petersburg Turnpike.
# DDX10

Probable ATP-dependent RNA helicase DDX10 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the DDX10 gene.
DEAD box proteins, characterized by the conserved motif Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp (DEAD), are putative RNA helicases. They are implicated in a number of cellular processes involving alteration of RNA secondary structure such as translation initiation, nuclear and mitochondrial splicing, and ribosome and spliceosome assembly. Based on their distribution patterns, some members of this family are believed to be involved in embryogenesis, spermatogenesis, and cellular growth and division. This gene encodes a DEAD box protein, and it may be involved in ribosome assembly. Fusion of this gene and the nucleoporin gene, NUP98, by inversion 11 (p15q22) chromosome translocation is found in the patients with de novo or therapy-related myeloid malignancies.
# How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped

"How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped" is a 1912 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in Rhythm in September 1912 under the pen name of Lili Heron. It was republished in Something Childish and Other Stories (1924).

## Plot summary

Pearl Button is playing outside whilst her mother is ironing clothes. Two Māori women go up to her and ask her to come with them. After a long walk they arrive at a Māori settlement, where the little girl is given a fruit to eat. Then they drive towards the seaside. Pearl has never seen the sea; they play about. Suddenly, a crowd of policemen runs toward them to take Pearl away again.

## Characters

* Pearl Button
* two Māori women
* more Māori people
* family[mom]*
* police*

## Major themes

* Māori culture : the story is written from the child's perspective, who takes to Māori culture right away. However, she is scared by the white men coming to pick her up.

## Literary significance

The text is written in the modernist mode, without a set structure, and with many shifts in the narrative.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Katherine Mansfield, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics, explanatory notes
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# Five-cent coin

A five-cent coin or five-cent piece is a small-value coin minted for various decimal currencies using the cent as their hundredth subdivision.
Examples include:
* the United States five-cent coin, better known as the US nickel
* the Canadian five-cent coin, better known as the Canadian nickel
* the Australian five-cent coin
* the New Zealand five-cent coin (withdrawn in 2006 due to low monetary value)
* the Hong Kong five-cent coin (withdrawn in 1989 due to low monetary value)
* the Singapore five-cent coin
* the Brunei five-cent coin
* the five-cent coin of the decimal Dutch guilder (Netherlands), also called stuiver (withdrawn in 2001 due to introduction of the euro)
* the 5 cent euro coin used in several European countries known as the eurozone
* the five-cent coin of the South African rand
# Imre Péter

Imre Péter (born 1 April 1970) is a Hungarian water polo player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
# In the Dawn

In the Dawn is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1901 as his Op.41, No.1.
The words are from a poem in the book of verse The Professor and other poems by Arthur Christopher Benson.
At about the same time Elgar wrote a song Speak, Music!, as his Op.41, No.2, with words from the same poem.
The two songs were first performed in the Queen's Hall on 26 October 1901. The cover of the song, published by Boosey & Co, indicates that it was sung by John Coates (tenor), who recorded the song in 1915.

## Lyrics

    Some souls have quickened, eye to eye,
       And heart to heart, and hand in hand;
    The swift fire leaps, and instantly
       They understand.
    Henceforth they can be cold no more;
       Woes there may be, ay, tears and blood,
    But not the numbness, as before
       They understood.
    Henceforth, though ages roll
       Across wild wastes of sand and brine,
    Whate’er betide, one human soul
       Is knit with mine.
    Whatever joy be dearly bought,
       Whatever hope my bosom stirs,
    The straitest cell of secret thought
       Is wholly hers.
    Ay, were I parted, life would be
       A helpless, heartless flight along
    Blind tracks in vales of misery
       And sloughs of wrong.
    Nay, God forgive me!
       Life would roll like some dim moon thro’ cloudy bars;
    But to have loved her sets my soul
       Among the stars.

## Recordings

* An early recording, probably the first, was made on 14 April 1915 by John Coates for the Gramophone Company 02583 (matrix HO 751ac).
* Songs and Piano Music by Edward Elgar has "In the Dawn" performed by Mark Wilde (tenor), with David Owen Norris (piano).
* Elgar: Complete Songs for Voice & Piano Amanda Roocroft (soprano), Reinild Mees (piano)
* The Songs of Edward Elgar SOMM CD 220 Neil Mackie (tenor) with Malcolm Martineau (piano), at Southlands College, London, April 1999
# Thomas Becket School

Thomas Becket School may refer to one of the following British schools named after St Thomas Becket:
* Thomas Becket Catholic School, a secondary school in Northampton, Northamptonshire.
* Thomas A Becket Middle School, a middle school in Worthing, West Sussex.
* St Thomas à Becket Catholic Comprehensive School, secondary school in Wakefield, West Yorkshire
# Thomas Mason (priest)

Thomas Mason (1580–1619?) was an English clergyman and writer.

## Life

On his own account, his father was the heir of Sir John Mason. Mason was admitted at Magdalen College, Oxford, on 29 November 1594, matriculated on 7 January 1595. He may not have graduated; there is possible confusion with another Thomas Mason at Magdalen of the period.
From 1614 to 1619, Mason held the vicarage of Odiham in Hampshire, and probably died around 1620. On 13 April 1621 his widow, Helen Mason, obtained a licence for twenty-one years to reprint his version of Foxe's Book of Martyrs for the benefit of herself and her children. Its dedications to George Abbot and Sir Edward Coke probably proved their value in getting this protection, for a book that reflected typical political prejudices of the time after the Gunpowder Plot. About ten years later Helen Mason's attempt to stretch the monopoly to cover a new abridgement of Foxe's work ran into a legal rebuff.

## Works

He published:
* Christ's Victorie over Sathan's Tyrannie, London, 1615; a condensed version of John Foxe's ‘Book of Martyrs,’ with extracts from other works. The running title is ‘The Acts of the Church.’ An enlarged edition appeared in 1747–8 in 2 vols., edited by "Rev. Mr. Bateman, Rector of St. Bartholomew the Great", i.e. Richard Thomas Bateman.
* A Revelation of the Revelation … whereby the Pope is most plainly declared and proved to be Anti-Christ, London, 1619.

## Family

Mason's widow Helen married Stephen Bachiler, as his second wife, or third wife, in 1627. Richard Dummer married Thomas and Helen's daughter (Mary) Jane.
# Thomas Massey (politician)

Thomas William Massey (1830 - 15 January 1914) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from June 1902 to April 1903, representing the electorate of Selby.
Massey was elected to the House of Assembly unopposed in 1902 following the mid-term death of MP Frank Archer. He was aligned with the opposition to Premier Elliott Lewis and with the Reform League. The Selby seat was abolished in a redistribution in 1903, and Massey was defeated for the new seat of North Esk.
Massey was a member and chairman of the Invermay Town Board (to 1907), a justice of the peace, a member of the Licensing Bench and from 1895 to 1909 an Anglican parish church warden. He opposed the 1907 amalgamation of the Invermay Board with the Launceston municipality, but was outvoted and resigned.
# Incremental update

Incremental update may refer to:
* Incremental backup
* Incremental computing
* Incremental data loading, a technique which ca be based on change data capture
# Imre Demhardt

Imre Josef Demhardt is a historian of cartography and Garrett professor at the University of Texas at Arlington.
# Independence Cup (Morocco)

The Independence Cup (Morocco) is a football competition organized by the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) in partnership with the Youth and Sports Service (SJS) under the authority of the Moroccan Football League Association (LMFA), it brought together the 64 clubs of the 4 divisions (of the Moroccan Championship) from November 19, 1956 until December 9, 1956.
The final edition was won by Wydad AC, who defeated ASTP Maroc in the final by a score of 1–0.

## Winners

| Season | Winner | Final Score | Runner-up | Venue | Date |
| 1956 | Wydad AC | 1–0 | ASTP Maroc | Rabat | December 9, 1956 |
# Thomas Prickett

Air Chief Marshal Sir Thomas Öther Prickett, KCB, DSO, DFC (31 July 1913 – 23 January 2010) was a Royal Air Force bomber pilot in the Second World War and a senior commander in the 1950s and 1960s. He was chief of staff to the air commander, Air Marshal Denis Barnett, for Operation Musketeer (the Anglo-French-Israeli plan for the invasion of Egypt to capture the Suez Canal during the Suez Crisis).

## RAF career

Educated at Haileybury, Prickett initially worked on sugar estates in India before deciding to join the Royal Air Force in 1937. He served in the Second World War initially as a pilot with No. 148 Squadron flying Wellington bombers and latterly as a flight commander with No. 103 Squadron flying Lancaster bombers. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order following a very successful bombing raid on the Peenemünde Army Research Center.
After the war he was made Station Commander at RAF Tangmere before joining the Air Staff at Headquarters Middle East Air Force in 1951 and then becoming Station Commander at RAF Jever in Germany in 1954. With the Suez Crisis unfolding in autumn 1956, he was appointed Chief of Staff for Operation Musketeer. The planning for the operation was undertaken in great secrecy over a three-month period in a basement office at the Air Ministry.
Returning to the UK he became Director of Air Staff Briefing at the Air Ministry in December 1956, Director of Policy at the Air Ministry early in 1958 and then Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters No. 1 Group in May 1958. He went on to be Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Operations) in 1960, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Policy & Planning) in 1963 and Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Near East Air Force (including responsibility for British Forces Cyprus and Administration of the Sovereign Base Areas) in 1964. He was knighted KCB in the 1965 Birthday Honours. His final appointments were as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Transport Command (subsequently renamed Support Command) in 1967 and as Air Member for Supply and Organisation in 1968 before he retired in 1970.
In retirement he assisted the Duke of Richmond to redevelop the Goodwood estate.

## Family

In 1942 he married Betty, an American woman; they had a son and a daughter. Following the death of his first wife, he married Shirley Westerman in 1985; she died in 2023.