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# Palamedes Palamedesz. (I)

Palamedes Palamedesz. (I), Palamedes Palamedesz. the Elder or Palamedes Palamedesz. Stevers (bapt. 6 August 1605, Leith – buried 26 March 1638, Delft), was a Dutch painter, and younger brother of Anthonie Palamedesz. He is known mainly for his battle scenes and equestrian portraits.

## Life

He was born in Leith, Scotland as the son of Palamedes Willemsz. Stevens and Marie Arsene (in Dutch, called Maeijken van Naerssen) and was baptized on 6 August 1605. His father was a sculptor, stone cutter and court artist who was likely Flemish. His father carved semi-precious stone such as jasper, porphyry, and agate into vases and practised other decorative arts. He was in the service of the Scottish King James VI and possibly traveled with the King to London when he was crowned King of England as James I of England.
His father had married Maeijken van Naerssen in Leith on 6 June 1601. The couple had three children: Guilliaem (or William) (1601-1688), who became a tailor, Anthonie (1602-1673), who became a painter, and Palamedes. After Palamedes was born, the family left Scotland and established themselves in Delft in the Dutch Republic where the boys grew up. The early biographer Arnold Houbraken mentions that he was so talented that he became a master without having had a master, and only practised by copying the works of Esaias van de Velde, which he did so well that he became very well known. Contrary to this story, it is more likely that he was taught by his older brother Anthonie. He entered the Delft Guild of St. Luke in 1627. When Palamedes and his brother Anthonie were registered with the Guild, they received the discounted entry fee reserved for residents of the city, which suggests that their father had lived in Delft before leaving for Scotland, possibly as a Protestant fugitive from the Spanish Inquisition in his native Flanders.
His brother became a respected portrait and genre painter. Palamedes was described as short, hunchbacked and ugly. He married Maria Ewouts van Schravesande in Delft on 19 January 1630 (died 1695). His wife was the daughter of a wealthy family. The pair were the parents of Palamedes Palamedesz. (III) (1631-1683) who was a painter.
He spent time in Antwerp in 1631 and returned to Delft in 1632. His motto was "nog eerst te zullen beginnen" ("yet to start first"). He died at age 33 and was buried on 26 March 1638 in Delft.

## Work

Palamedesz. primarily painted battle scenes of cavalry engagements and soldiers in military camps. He may have painted some equestrian portraits and genre scenes.
# Mably

Mably may refer to:
* Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709–1785), French philosopher and politician
* Luke Mably (born 1976), British actor
* Mably, Loire, a commune in the Loire département in France
# Macrobrachium banjarae

Macrobrachium banjarae is a species of freshwater shrimp that was first described in 1958. Macrobrachium banjarae belongs to the family Palaemonidae. It is an endemic prawn found India, in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and West Bengal.
# MV Lairds Loch

MV Lairds Loch was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Irish Sea crossing.

## History

Built in 1944 for Burns & Laird Line, MV Lairds Loch operated from Glasgow, initially to Derry and later to Dublin.
In 1969 she was sold to Israeli owners, and on 16 November 1969 was attacked by Arab frogmen and beached near Eilat. Repaired and returned to service, she ran aground on 7 September 1970 in the Gulf of Aqaba and was a total loss.

## Service

MV Lairds Loch was primarily employed on the Glasgow to Derry service, though she later worked on the Glasgow to Dublin route.

## Footnotes

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* 1 2 3 4 5 "Lairds Loch". Ardrossan Ships. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
# Maen Huail

Maen Huail is a stone block at St Peter's Square, in the centre of Ruthin, Denbighshire, North Wales. A circular plaque next to it states "Maen Huail on which tradition states, King Arthur beheaded Huail, brother of Gildas the historian". The stone was recorded in 1699 as being in the middle of the road, and now stands on a concrete plinth against the half-timbered wall of the Barclays Bank building, a 20th-century copy of the now mainly destroyed Exmewe Hall.
The legend probably originated as an oral tradition, and is first recorded in the Chronicle of Six Ages of the World by Elis Gruffydd, dating to around 1550. The stone itself is thought more likely to be a market or civic stone, or a preaching stone. It is a craggy and heavily weathered limestone boulder, measuring 1.2 metres (3.9 ft) long, and some 0.6 metres (2.0 ft) high and wide.
# Palais d'Hiver

Palais d'Hiver (English: "Winter Palace") was a music hall located in Lyon, France. It was the largest music hall in Europe from 1963 until its destruction in 1988. Over the years it hosted many notable performers such as The Beatles, Thin Lizzy, Fernandel, Josephine Baker, Jacques Brel, Johnny Hallyday and Santana.
# La vecindad

La vecindad may refer to:
* the setting of El Chavo del Ocho
* La vecindad (telenovela)
# Canterbury (field hockey team)

The Canterbury women's field hockey team are an amateur sports team based in New Zealand. The team competes annually in the Ford National Hockey League (NHL).

## History

In total, Canterbury have won the Women's NHL a total of 3 times.
Canterbury are the most recent champions, having defeated North Harbour 3–2 in the final of the 2016 Tournament.

## Team Roster

The following is the Canterbury team roster for the 2017 Ford NHL:
Head coaches: Sue & Andy Innes
* Jessie Anderson
* Margot Willis
* Libby Bird
* Jordy Grant
* Sophie Cocks
* Georgie Mackay-Stewart
* Jenny Storey (C)
* Pippa Hayward
* Rachel McCann
* Leah butt
* Emily Wium
* Charlotte Symes
* Kirsty Nation (GK)
* Iona Young (GK)
* Bridget Kiddle
* Sian Fremaux
* Millie Calder
* Sarah Rutherford
# Lung Sheung (constituency)

Lung Sheung is one of the 25 constituencies of the Wong Tai Sin District Council. The seat elects one member of the council every four years. The boundary is loosely based on the area of Upper Wong Tai Sin Estate.

## Councillors represented

| Election | Member | Party |
| 1999 | Lam Man-fai | DAB/FTU |
| 2011 | Chan Yuen-han | FTU |
| 2015 | Lam Man-fai | FTU |
| 2019 | Chan Chun-yue→Vacant | Independent |

## Election results
### 2010s

Wong Tai Sin District Council Election, 2019: Lung Sheung :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Independent | Chan Chun-yue | 4,460 | 55.47 | |
| | FTU | Lam Man-fai | 3,581 | 44.53 | −17.97 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 879 | 10.94 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 8,096 | 65.13 | |
| | Independent gain from FTU | Independent gain from FTU | Swing | | |
Wong Tai Sin District Council Election, 2015: Lung Sheung :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | FTU | Lam Man-fai | 2,798 | 62.5 | –7.5 |
| | Democratic | Lam Wai-kei | 1,478 | 33.0 | +11.9 |
| | Independent | Chow Lai-cheong | 204 | 4.6 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 1,320 | 29.5 | –24.3 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 4,548 | 39.3 | |
| | FTU hold | FTU hold | Swing | –9.7 | |
Wong Tai Sin District Council Election, 2011: Lung Sheung :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | FTU | Chan Yuen-han | 3,456 | 70.02 |
| | Democratic | Lam Wai-kei | 1,039 | 21.05 |
| | People Power | Edward Yum Liang-hsien | 441 | 8.93 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 2,417 | 53.77 |
| | FTU hold | FTU hold | Swing | |

### 2000s

Wong Tai Sin District Council Election, 2007: Lung Sheung :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | DAB | Lam Man-fai | uncontested | | |
| | DAB hold | DAB hold | Swing | | |
Wong Tai Sin District Council Election, 2003: Lung Sheung :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | DAB | Lam Man-fai | 2,478 | 62.21 |
| | Frontier | Lau Shan-ching | 1,505 | 37.79 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 1,937 | 24.43 |
| | DAB hold | DAB hold | Swing | |

### 1990s

Wong Tai Sin District Council Election, 1999: Lung Sheung :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | DAB | Lam Man-fai | 2,190 | 72.13 | |
| | Nonpartisan | Chan Yim-kwong | 846 | 27.87 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 1,344 | 44.27 | |
| | DAB win (new seat) | DAB win (new seat) | DAB win (new seat) | DAB win (new seat) | DAB win (new seat) |
# Provocator

Provocator is a shoot 'em up video game developed for the Acorn Archimedes range of computers. It was the first game by Network 23 and was published in the summer of 1991 by C.T.S. (Computer Tutorial Services) to critical acclaim.
The game requires the player to protect a massive convoy of space craft as they pass through 32 waves of alien occupied territory. It combines similar game mechanics to Defender with a setting reminiscent of late-1970s TV show Battlestar Galactica.

## Gameplay

Several ships in the convoy have forest domes that supply the fleet with food and oxygen. The player is tasked with protecting these domes from alien squadrons that launch increasingly frequent attacks on them. When a dome is under attack, a warning sound alerts the player to the threat and if it isn't met within 15 seconds, the dome is permanently destroyed. If all the forest domes are destroyed, the fate of the convoy is sealed and the game ends.
The game grants the player freedom to move around the convoy at will, but collision with any part of the fleet results in the loss of a life. Familiarity with the convoy layout is paramount to protecting it.
Upon completion of a level the player is instructed to carefully dock with the largest ship in the fleet to re-fuel. Once successfully docked, bonus points are awarded for every dome left intact.
A radar at the top of the screen shows the fleet in its entirety, allowing the player to track alien movement and help navigate.
The game's 32 levels are split into 3 acts (or 'phases') Once a phase has been completed, the player is rewarded with a still postcard style snapshot of a ship in the fleet.
The player's ship (which is highly reminiscent of a Colonial Viper) features a turbo thrust and spits out two laser bolts with each press of the fire button, resulting in extremely rapid fire. The convoy ships are shielded against the player's lasers and dissolve them upon impact with an electric particle effect.
Certain alien types escort power-up orbs that when shot upgrade the player's weapon systems.

## Technical information

Provocator runs at a consistent 50 frames per second on all Archimedes platforms. The convoy glides over a deep parallax star field. It is 32 screens in width, 2 in height and wrapped as the player passed from one end to another.
# Provocator (gastropod)

Provocator is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.

## Species

Species within the genus Provocator include:
* Provocator alabastrina (Watson, 1882)
* Provocator mirabilis (Finlay, 1926)
* Provocator corderoi Carcelles, 1947
* Provocator palliata (Kaiser, 1977)
* Provocator pulcher Watson, 1882
# Brian Snowdon

Bryan Victor Snowdon (listed in some sources as Brian Snowden and also as Bryan, 1 January 1935 – 1 August 2023) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Blackpool, Portsmouth, Millwall and Crystal Palace as a defender. He also played non-league football for Margate and Brentwood and had a spell towards the end of his career with Detroit Cougars.

## Career

Brian Snowdon was born in Bishop Auckland and began his youth career with Bishop Auckland BC before signing for Blackpool of the First Division in 1955. Between then and 1960 he made 18 appearances scoring the only goal of his senior professional career. In 1960, he moved to Portsmouth who had just been relegated from the First Division. At Portsmouth, his first-team opportunities improved, making 114 league appearances over the next four seasons but without scoring. In 1964, he moved to Millwall, making 128 appearances in three years and captaining the side in two promotion seasons before moving into non-league football with Margate, in 1967. At Margate he was made club captain, despite being on a short-term contract due to an already impending move to Detroit Cougars which took place in December 1967.
Snowdon then spent a year with Detroit Cougars making 27 appearances in the 1968 season before returning to the UK, signing a short-term contract with Crystal Palace in February 1969. He made five appearances (four as a substitute) in the latter half of the 1968–69 season at the end of which Palace won promotion to the top tier for the first time. He was released at the end of the season, returning to non-league football with Brentwood. He subsequently played for Chelmsford City, in 1970–71, after they merged with Brentwood.

## Personal life and death

Outside of football, Snowdon worked as a PE teacher and also ran a service station. He died on 1 August 2023, at the age of 88.
# Manuel Moral y Vega

Manuel Moral da Veiga (16 March 1865 - 7 November 1913) was a Portuguese photographer and publisher active in early twentieth-century Peru. He was involved in the publication of Variedades (a weekly launched 10 March 1908) and previously Prisma (1905 - June 1907), and later La Crónica.
# Marcjanka

Marcjanka may refer to the following places in Poland:
* Marcjanka, Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland)
* Marcjanka, Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland)
# Propodilobus

Propodilobus is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. It contains the single species Propodilobus pingorum, known only from two localities on Borneo, Sarawak, Malaysia.
# Marc Van Montagu

Marc, Baron Van Montagu (born 10 November 1933 in Ghent) is a Belgian molecular biologist. He was full professor and director of the Laboratory of Genetics at the faculty of Sciences at Ghent University (Belgium) and scientific director of the genetics department of the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB). Together with Jozef Schell he founded the biotech company Plant Genetic Systems Inc. (Belgium) in 1982, of which he was scientific director and member of the board of directors. Van Montagu was also involved in founding the biotech company CropDesign, of which he was a board member from 1998 to 2004. He is president of the Public Research and Regulation Initiative (PRRI).
Van Montagu and his colleagues were credited with the discovery of the Ti plasmid. They described the gene transfer mechanism between Agrobacterium and plants, which resulted in the development of methods to alter Agrobacterium into an efficient delivery system for gene engineering and to create transgenic plants. They developed plant molecular genetics, in particular molecular mechanisms for cell proliferation and differentiation and response to abiotic stresses (high light, ozone, cold, salt and drought) and constructed transgenic crops (tobacco, rape seed, corn) resistant to insect pest and tolerant to novel herbicides. His work with poplar trees resulted in engineering of trees with improved pulping qualities.
After his retirement as director of the Laboratory of Genetics at Ghent University, Marc Van Montagu created IPBO - International Plant Biotechnology Outreach, VIB-Ghent University, with the mission to foster biotechnological solutions to global agriculture. In 2015 IPBO launched the “Marc and Nora Van Montagu (MNVM) Fund” with focus on sustainable agriculture and agro-industry to the African continent.

## Honors

Van Montagu has been a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences since 1986, the agricultural Academy of Russia and France, the Academy of Engineering of Sweden, the Italian Academy of Sciences dei X, the Brazilian Academy of Science, and the Third World Academy of Sciences. He holds eight Doctor Honoris Causa Degrees. In 1990 he was granted the title of Baron by Baudouin of Belgium. His awards include:
* 1987: Rank Prize for Nutrition (UK)
* 1988: IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize (France)
* 1990: Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer from the French Academy of Sciences
* 1990: Dr. A. de Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart Prize (five yearly Prize of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research)
* 1998: Japan Prize for Biotechnology in Agriculture Sciences (Japan)
* 1999: Theodor Bücher Medal (FEBS)
* 2009: Genome Valley Excellence Award 2009 (BioAsia, India)
* 2013: World Food Prize laureate.
* 2015: Iran Agriculture Golden Medal
# Brierfield Swifts F.C.

Brierfield Swifts Football Club was an English association football club based in Brierfield, Lancashire. The team entered the FA Cup, the major English cup competition, for the first time in the 1907–08 but were knocked out in the preliminary round, losing 1–7 away at Rossendale United. In the next two years, Brierfield were beaten at the same stage by Darwen and Nelson. The team's furthest progression in the tournament occurred during their last entry into the Cup in 1910–11, when they defeated Padiham before losing to Haslingden in the first qualifying round.

## FA Cup results

| Date | Round | Opponents | H/A | Result |
| 21 September 1907 | Preliminary Round | Rossendale United | Away | 1–7 |
| 19 September 1908 | Preliminary Round | Darwen | Away | 1–4 |
| 18 September 1909 | Preliminary Round | Nelson | Home | 2–3 |
| 17 September 1910 | Preliminary Round | Padiham | Home | 2–1 |
| 1 October 1910 | First Qualifying Round | Haslingden | Home | 1–5 |
# Mapondera (cicada)

Mapondera is a genus of cicadas in the family Cicadidae. There are at least two described species in Mapondera.

## Species

These two species belong to the genus Mapondera:
* Mapondera capicola Kirkaldy, 1909$^{cg}$
* Mapondera hottentota Kirkaldy, 1909$^{cg}$
Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net
# Middletown School District

Middletown School District can refer to the following public school districts in the United States:
* Enlarged City School District of Middletown in Middletown, New York
* Middletown Area School District in Middletown, Pennsylvania
* Middletown City School District in Middletown, Ohio
* Middletown Township Public School District in Middletown Township, New Jersey
* Middletown Unified School District in Lake County, California
* Middletown Public Schools (Rhode Island)
# Midhisho

Midhisho, also referred to as Medheshi or Medishe, is a small town in Erigavo District of the Sanaag region of Somaliland.

## Demographics

The Midhisho Valley is predominantly inhabited by the Habar Yoonis sub-division of the Garhajis Isaaq as well as the Naleye Ahmed sub-sub section of the Ugadhyahan-Mohamoud Garad branch of the Dhulbahante.
* Somaliland portal
# Michel Pereira (disambiguation)

Michel Pereira may refer to:
* Michel Pereira (born 1993), Brazilian mixed martial artist
* Michel Garbini Pereira (born 1981), Brazilian footballer
* Michell Pereira (born 1982), Sri Lankan cricketer
# Luis Medina Cantalejo

Luis Medina Cantalejo (born 1 March 1964) is a Spanish former football referee.
He was one of the few officials allowed to officiate the domestic clashes between Real Madrid and Barcelona. His first experience as an international referee came on 4 September 2004, between Turkey and Georgia, in a preliminary qualifier for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

## Career

On 21 August 2005, Medina Cantalejo referred the Russian Premier League match between CSKA Moscow and Zenit St.Petersburg.
He was selected to officiate the playoff between Uruguay and Australia for the final spot in the World Cup on 16 November 2005.
He was promoted at the last minute to officiate matches at the finals of the 2006 FIFA World Cup after assistants of two other referees failed to meet the FIFA standards. He subsequently officiated three matches at the 2006 FIFA World Cup: Germany v. Poland, Netherlands v. Argentina, and Italy v. Australia. In the round of 16 match between Italy and Australia, he made some controversial decisions, including showing Italy's Marco Materazzi a straight red card for a challenge on Australia's Mark Bresciano, and later awarded an injury time penalty to Italy after adjudging Australian defender Lucas Neill to have fouled Italian full back Fabio Grosso in the penalty area; Francesco Totti converted the ensuing spot kick to score and give the Italians a 1–0 victory.
Two days after the Australia–Italy game FIFA announced that Medina was one of the twelve referees retained for the remainder of the tournament. He refereed the quarter-final between Brazil and France on 1 July.
Medina Cantalejo was appointed as fourth official for the FIFA World Cup Final between Italy and France and was involved in another important decision during the final, as none of the three officials on the field saw Zinedine Zidane headbutting Marco Materazzi. He informed referee Horacio Elizondo what had happened via headset. The French captain was then shown the red card.
Medina Cantalejo was chosen to officiate the 2008 UEFA European Championship qualifying match between England and Russia.
On 20 May 2009, Medina refereed the UEFA Cup Final between Shakhtar Donetsk and Werder Bremen.

## Personal life

Professionally, Medina Cantalejo is a sports assessor who lives in Tomares, west of Seville.
# Luppino family

Luppino family may refer to:
* Luppino crime family, an Italian-Canadian crime family
* Lupino family, a British theatre family
# Lurch/Butterfly Love

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Lurch/Butterfly Love is a compilation album by Steel Pole Bath Tub, released in 1990 by Boner Records.

## Track listing

All tracks are written by Steel Pole Bath Tub, except "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath

## Personnel

Adapted from the Butterfly Love liner notes.
# Henry Verey

Sir Henry William Verey (29 December 1836 – 4 December 1920) was a British barrister. He was Official Referee of the Supreme Court of Judicature, and The Times noted that the number of times his judgements were reversed on appeal "can be counted on one's fingers".

## Biography

Born on 29 December 1836, Henry Verey was educated at Bedford School, between 1847 and 1855, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was an Exhibitioner and graduated in Mathematics in 1859. He was called to the Bar in 1865 as a member of Inner Temple. In 1876, when the office of Official Referee of the Supreme Court of Judicature was created, Verey was appointed by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Cairns. He was attacked in Parliament and the press as being unsuitable, as were the three other Official Referees.
He held the office for 44 years, until 1920, described by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Birkenhead, as probably a record in the annals of judicial appointments.
Sir Henry Verey was invested as a Knight Bachelor in 1920. He died on 4 December 1920, aged 84, at his home, Bridge House, in Twyford in Berkshire.
He was the grandfather of the actor Dennis Price, through his only daughter, Dorothy Patience, who married Thomas Rose Caradoc Price.