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# New York–Pennsylvania League (1923–1937)

The New York–Pennsylvania League of 1923 through 1937 was an American minor league baseball circuit, the forerunner to the modern Double-A Eastern League.

## History

The New York–Pennsylvania League (NY–PL) began in 1923 as Class B circuit and operated at that level through 1932. It then upgraded to Class A for the final five seasons of its existence. When Hartford, Connecticut, entered the loop in 1938, the NY–PL adopted the Eastern League name, and has used that identity since (except for 2021, when it was known as the Double-A Northeast). Previous editions of the Eastern League had existed from 1883–1886, 1892–1911 and 1916–1932. The second incarnation of the Eastern League changed its name in 1912 to the current International League.
The NY–PL's longest-tenured franchises during the 1923–1937 period included Binghamton, a New York Yankees affiliate, Elmira, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Williamsport, all of which were members for the league's 15-year existence.
The NY–PL of 1923–1937 was the second of three leagues to bear the name:
* The original New York–Pennsylvania League played for one season, 1891.
* In 1957, the Pennsylvania–Ontario–New York League (PONY League) changed its name to the New York–Penn League and operated under that identity until folding in 2020, beginning as a Class D loop and ending as a Class A Short Season league.
# John Larkin Jr.

John Larkin Jr. (October 3, 1804 - July 22, 1896) was an American businessman, banker and politician from Pennsylvania who served as the first mayor of Chester, Pennsylvania.

## Early life

Larkin was born in Concord Township to John and Martha Larkin. As a young adult he worked on the family farm in the summer and taught school in the winter.

## Career

In 1826, Larkin began his business career by establishing a country store in Upper Chichester Township.
In 1832, Larkin purchased a freight vessel and established a shipping line on the Delaware River between Marcus Hook and Philadelphia until 1839 when he sold the vessel, wharf and business interest.
In 1840, Larkin was elected Sheriff of Delaware County.
From 1844 to 1846, Larkin represented Delaware County in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
In 1848, Larkin built two vessels and established a daily shipping line delivering goods between Chester and Philadelphia.
In 1849, Larkin formed a partnership with William Booth which they named Larkin & Booth. The partners established the daily shipment of coal and lumber between Chester and Philadelphia. The firm was prosperous but was dissolved in 1852.
In 1850, Larkin entered the real estate business and over the following twenty years was instrumental in developing multiple sections of Chester and nearby Marcus Hook for housing and business. He purchased an eighty-three acre lot from John Cochran just north of the old borough of Chester and laid out streets and building lots. Larkin built over 500 buildings including mills, stores and dwellings in this section of Chester which became known as "Larkintown".
In 1857, Larkin was elected Chief Burgess of Chester and became the president of the Chester Gas Company.
In 1866, Larkin was elected the first mayor of Chester. He was re-elected in 1869. He refused to accept any salary for his service as mayor.
Larkin was one of the founders and president of the Chester Mutual Insurance Company.
In 1871, Larkin became the president of the First National Bank in Chester.

## Philanthropy

In 1879, Larkin donated two acres of land adjacent to the St. Martin's Church in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania for use as a cemetery.
Larkin was one of the originators of the Chester Rural Cemetery in Chester, Pennsylvania and served as president of the organization for many years.

## Personal life

In 1827, Larkin married Charlotte Morton. Together they had eight children including a daughter Caroline who married U.S. Representative John Martin Broomall. Charlotte died in 1847 and Larkin was married again to Mary Baggs. Together they had two children. Larkin is interred at Chester Rural Cemetery.

## Legacy

The Larkin School in Chester, erected in 1894, was named in his honor.
# Nangal Maja

Nangal Majja (or Nangal Majja) is a village in Kapurthala, Punjab, India. Nangal Majja is near the city of Phagwara. According to the 2011 census it has a population of 1015 living in 1038 households. Its main agriculture product is wheat growing.
# Robert English

Robert English may refer to:
* Robert D. English (born 1958), American historian
* Robert Henry English (1888–1943), American admiral
* Robert English (actor) (1878–1941), British actor
* Robert English Coast, a portion of the coast of Antarctica
# Stefan Marković

Stefan or Stevan Marković may refer to:
* Stefan Marković (politician) (1804–1864), Serbian politician
* Stefan Marković (basketball) (born 1988), Serbian basketball player
* Stefan Marković (footballer) (born 1993), Serbian football player
* Stevan Marković (bodyguard) (1937–1968), murdered Serbian bodyguard of movie star Alain Delon
* Stevan Marković (footballer) (born 1988), Montenegrin football player
# Pleasant Township, Monroe County, Iowa

Pleasant Township is a township in Monroe County, Iowa, USA.
# Skitten Broch

58°29′31″N 3°09′44″W﻿ / ﻿58.491873°N 3.162328°W﻿ / 58.491873; -3.162328
Skitten Broch was an Iron Age broch located between the villages of Killimster and North Killimster in Caithness, Scotland (grid reference ND32345655).

## Location

The RAF Skitten base was built on the remains of Skitten Broch.

## Description

Skitten broch was destroyed in the 1940s during the building of the nearby Killimster aerodrome, from which Operation Freshman departed.

## History

Sir Francis Tress Barry partially excavated Skitten broch in 1904. Ahead of its destruction in 1940, a second excavation was carried out by Charles S. T. Calder in 1940.
# Mihály Babák

Mihály Babák (born 12 November 1947) is a Hungarian politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) between 1998 and 2014.

## Biography

He was born in Szarvas on 12 November 1947. He acquired building industry technician's qualifications in Veres István Building Industrial Secondary Technical School in Szeged in 1966. In 1978 he passed the master's qualification examination in the trades of carpentry and masonry. In 1983 he graduated from the College of Public Administration of Budapest as an administration manager, then obtained a diploma in finance administration management in 1989. He was a student in the specialist economist programme of the College of Trade and Catering in 1992. He graduated as a community management engineer from Debrecen University of Agriculture in 1998. He worked as a draftsman planner for the Bács-Kiskun County Planning Institute from 1966 to 1969. He was the technical manager of the Szarvas Building Industrial Cooperative from 1969 to 1975. He worked as technical manager of the Szarvas Budget Unit from 1975, then held the position of deputy managing director of the City Management Ltd. and was the head of the communal city management branch.
He was elected a local representative in Szarvas in October 1990 and has been on the body of representatives since. He joined Fidesz in 1993. He has presided over the Szarvas local party branch since 1994 and has been deputy president of the party's Békés County organisation since 1996. He was a candidate in the 1994 parliamentary elections. In the 1998 parliamentary elections he was third on the Békés County list of Fidesz, which secured him the position of MP. He was elected mayor of Szarvas in 1998. In 2002 he was awarded the title of Mayor of the Year. In the national elections of April 2002 he was again elected from the Békés County party list. He has served on the Budget and Finance Committee since May of the same year. In the local elections on 20 October 2002 he was elected incumbent mayor of Szarvas and member of the local body of representatives.
He was elected MP from Békés county regional list in 2006 and 2010 elections. He was a member of Committee on Budget, Finance and Audit Office. After incompatibility law came into force, he decided not to run for another parliamentary term and chose his mayoral position. He was elected mayor of Szarvas for a fifth term in October 2014.

## Personal life

He is married and has a daughter, Petra Mária Babák.
# USS Mary (SP-462)

USS Mary (SP-462) was the proposed name and designation for a motorboat that the United States Navy considered for World War I naval service as a patrol vessel but never acquired.
Mary was built as the private motorboat Dida in 1907 or 1908 by the Charles L. Seabury Company at Morris Heights, the Bronx, New York. She later may have been renamed Boston, and eventually was renamed Mary.
Mary was the property of H. L. Jones when the U.S. Navy surveyed her in 1917 for possible naval use during World War I, stating that she was "strong and well built in good condition but not able to keep sea in heavy weather". The Navy assigned her the section patrol number SP-462 and scheduled her to be taken over from Jones on 12 January 1918. However, the Navy never took control of her, and she saw no naval service.
# New Castle Presbytery

The New Castle Presbytery is a presbytery of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Its geographic area is the entire state of Delaware and the Maryland Eastern Shore. In 2022, it reported 49 congregations, 108 ministers, and 5,736 members.
The Presbytery was formed in 1717 after the division of the Presbytery of Philadelphia into three presbyteries, which were subordinate to the newly formed Synod of Philadelphia.
# John MacFarlane (New South Wales politician)

John MacFarlane (31 July 1813 – 6 July 1873) was a Scottish-born Australian physician and politician.
He was born in Glasgow and studied medicine at Glasgow University, qualifying in 1837. MacFarlane was the first to describe desmoid tumours. He worked as a ship's doctor until 1840, when he settled in Sydney and opened a practice. In 1847 he married Agnes Grace Johnstone. He was honorary physician at Sydney Infirmary from 1847 to 1869 and an examiner for the University of Sydney in 1856; he was also awarded an honorary degree from the University of Melbourne. In 1860 he was president of the Australian Medical Association. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1858 to 1861 and from 1861 to 1870.
He died in Sydney on 6 July 1873(1873-07-06) (aged 59), survived by his wife Agnes, two daughters and three sons.
# Natalie Kononenko

Natalie Kononenko is a professor of folklore currently with the University of Alberta. Kononenko is a major contributor to the study of Ukrainian Blind Minstrels as well as in the area of witchcraft in Slavic cultures. She currently holds the Peter and Doris Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography and is the head of the Slavic and East European section of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies. She attended Radcliffe College and Harvard University.

## Publications
### Books

* Kononenko, N. (1990) The Turkish Minstrel Tale Tradition. Garland Publishing Inc. ISBN 978-0-8240-2673-8
* Kononenko, N. (1997) Ukrainian Minstrels: And the Blind Shall Sing. M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-7656-0144-5
* Suwyn, B. (1997) The Magic Egg and Other Tales from Ukraine. Edited and with an introduction by N. Kononenko. Libraries Unlimited, Inc. ISBN 1-56308-425-2
* Kononenko, N. (2007) Slavic Folklore: A Handbook. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-33610-2
* Holloway, P., & Kukharenko, S. (2012). The Paths of Folklore: Essays in Honor of Natalie Kononeko. ISBN 978-0893573935
* Kononenko, N. (2019). Ukrainian Epic and Historical Song: Folklore in Context. University of Toronto Press.ISBN 978-1487502638
* Kononenko, N. (2023). Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies: Growing a Ukrainian Canadian Identity. ISBN 978-0228016816

### Journals and Periodicals

* Natalie Kononenko; The Politics of innocence: Soviet and Post-Soviet Animation on Folklore topics. Journal of American Folklore 1 October 2011; 124 (494): 272–294. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.124.494.0272
# The Water Knife

The Water Knife is a 2015 science fiction novel by Paolo Bacigalupi. It is Bacigalupi's sixth novel, and is based on his short story, The Tamarisk Hunter, first published in the news magazine High Country News. It takes place in the near future, where drought brought on by climate change has devastated the Southwestern United States.

## Central characters

* Angel Velasquez is a "water knife", someone who sabotages and destroys the water supplies of rival states.
* Lucy Monroe is a journalist.
* Maria Villarosa is a young Texas refugee.

## Reception

In a review published by NPR, Hugo Award winning writer Jason Heller says "Bacigalupi plays on a grand scale, but he does so with a keen eye for detail. His big triumph, though, is never forgetting that The Water Knife is a thriller at its pounding heart. Even amid reams of deeply researched information about the economy, geology, history and politics of water rights and usage in the United States, he keeps the plot taut and the dialogue slashing".
In his review for The Denver Post, Dave Burdick says the novel a has a "rich" and "gritty" world, and comments that Bacigalupi knows the American Southwest well.
American crime novelist and editor Denise Hamilton, writing in the Los Angeles Times, compares the novel to the film Chinatown, and says that while "one is set in the past and the other in a dystopian future, both are neo-noir tales with jaded antiheroes and ruthless kingpins who wield water as lethal weapons to control life - and mete out death".
# Stefano Ruffini

Stefano Ruffini (14 June 1963 in Rome – 7 December 2006 in Naples) was an Italian singer and voice actor.

## Biography

He studied singing with Edda Dell'Orso and acting with Silvia Luzi.
During his military service in the air force, he organized music evenings for the non-commissioned officers' club. One of these shows was filmed by Rai 3 and was seen by Grazia Di Michele, who noticed Ruffini's vocal talents.
Di Michele wrote a number of songs for Ruffini, including "Canto bolero" and "Si chiama Hélène", which he performed at the Sanremo Music Festival 1988 and 1989, respectively.
# Pleasant Valley (CDP), New York

Pleasant Valley is a census-designated place (CDP) in the southwestern part of the town of Pleasant Valley in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The population was 1,145 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area.

## Geography

Pleasant Valley CDP is located in the southwestern part of the town of Pleasant Valley at 41°44′42″N 73°49′24″W﻿ / ﻿41.74500°N 73.82333°W﻿ / 41.74500; -73.82333 (41.745205, -73.823395). Wappinger Creek, a tributary of the Hudson River, flows through the center of the community.
U.S. Route 44 passes through the CDP as Main Street and leads southwest 7 miles (11 km) to Poughkeepsie and northeast 8 miles (13 km) to Millbrook.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the Pleasant Valley CDP has a total area of 0.96 square miles (2.48 km$^2$), of which 0.93 square miles (2.42 km$^2$) is land and 0.02 square miles (0.06 km$^2$), or 2.56%, is water.

## Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 1,839 people, 753 households, and 502 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 1,172.7 inhabitants per square mile (452.8/km$^2$). There were 775 housing units at an average density of 494.2 per square mile (190.8/km$^2$). The racial makeup of the CDP was 94.13% White, 3.15% Black or African American, 0.05% Native American, 1.09% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 0.82% from other races, and 0.71% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.61% of the population.
There were 753 households, out of which 33.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.1% were married couples living together, 7.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.3% were non-families. 27.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.44 and the average family size was 3.00.
In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 24.5% under the age of 18, 6.0% from 18 to 24, 31.7% from 25 to 44, 24.6% from 45 to 64, and 13.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.2 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $50,353, and the median income for a family was $57,888. Males had a median income of $41,992 versus $32,436 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $24,598. About 2.7% of families and 2.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.0% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.

## Education

It is in the Arlington Central School District, which operates Arlington High School.
# Joseph Tucker (Royal Navy official)

Joseph Tucker (c. 1760 – 1838) was joint Surveyor of the Navy alongside Robert Seppings from 1813 until his retirement in 1831.

## Biography

Tucker was the son of Benjamin Tucker, of Crediton, Devon by his wife Rachel (née Lyne, of that family of Liskeard, and a cousin of Stephens Lyne-Stephens, considered at one time to be England's richest commoner) and brother of another Benjamin Tucker (1762-1829), of Trematon Castle, who served as Surveyor General for Cornwall and Second Secretary to the Admiralty, having previously served as secretary to the Earl St Vincent throughout his service in the Mediterranean. The Tucker family can be traced back to John Tucker, of Tavistock, Devon, who was living in the reign of Edward IV; his son and heir, Stephen, was subject to physical infirmities, and was accordingly granted by Henry VII, in a formal declaration, the right to wear his hat in the King's presence.
Tucker was appointed master shipwright of the Plymouth Dockyard in 1802. Having been appointed a Commissioner, in 1814, alongside Sir George Wood of the Royal Engineers and Admiral T. B. Martin, Tucker went to Antwerp to superintend the partition of the fleet and naval stores of the arsenal established there.
In 1809, Tucker designed a 170-gun ship with five tiers of guns, to be called the Duke of Kent; it was however never constructed. The National Maritime Museum states this was how he was best known.
Tucker married Jane A'Court; their third son, John Scott Tucker, married Unity Isabella, daughter of Lt Henry Hire, R.N., who served in the Mediterranean and commanded the convict ship at Bermuda, and one of their five daughters, Jane A'Court Tucker, married Robert Willis, of Mecklenburgh Square, London. One of their sons was Sir William Willis, Accountant-General of the Navy; William's second son, John Willis, was Bishop of Uganda from 1912 to 1934.
Tucker died in Mecklenburgh Square, London, on 23 November 1838.
# Mike Roselle

Mike Roselle (born 1954) is an American environmental activist and author who is a prominent member of the radical environmentalism movement. Roselle is one of the co-founders of the radical environmental organization Earth First!, as well as of Rainforest Action Network, the Ruckus Society, and Climate Ground Zero.

## Early life

Roselle grew up in Louisville, Kentucky and moved to Los Angeles, California as a child in 1968. During his youth and after his relocation to California, Roselle became more interested in politics.

## Career

Earth First! was founded in 1980 by Mike Roselle, Dave Foreman, Howie Wolke, Bart Koehler, and Ron Kezar. Rainforest Action Network was founded in San Francisco in 1985 by Roselle and Randy Hayes. Roselle states that he has been arrested about 50 times in his career; he says that "it's hard to remember them all anymore." He participated the Washington A16, 2000 protest, alongside environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill and United Steelworkers of America president George Becker.
Roselle is the co-author of his biography, Tree Spiker: From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action (2009).
# USS Martin H. Ray

USS Martin H. Ray (DE-338) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys.

## Namesake

Martin H. Ray Jr. was born on 9 August 1913, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was educated in Yonkers, New York. After one year at New York University he entered the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating with the class of 1934. Following five years service on the battleship USS Pennsylvania, he received orders to USS Hammann in 1939.
While assisting the stricken USS Yorktown in the last stages of the Battle of Midway on 6 June 1942, Hammann was hit by an Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo. Lieutenant Ray as engineering officer died attempting to save the rapidly sinking vessel and evacuate the space below decks. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.

## Construction and commissioning

She was laid down 27 October 1943 by Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Texas; launched 23 December 1943; sponsored by Mrs. M. H. Ray, Jr., widow of Lt. Ray, and commissioned 28 February 1944.

## World War II North Atlantic operations

After a month's shakedown cruise to Bermuda, Martin H. Ray spent 3 weeks at Norfolk, Virginia, training prospective destroyer escort crews. June 1944 marked the beginning of a 12-month period in which not one ship was lost by the 14 convoys she escorted. Coastal assignments yielded to transatlantic voyages when she sailed from Norfolk, 1 July, bound for Naples, Italy. After two voyages to Italy she departed New York 20 October on the first of five voyages to the British Isles and France. Besides depth charging every probable submarine contact Martin H. Ray and the other escorts honed their professional effectiveness by additional training periods at the conclusion of each of these passages.

## Transfer to the Pacific Fleet

Following Nazi Germany's collapse, new orders directed the ship to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for training before joining the Pacific Fleet. She transited the Panama Canal. 2 August 1945, and was at Pearl Harbor when the conflict ceased. All abbreviated Operation Magic Carpet voyage terminated at San Diego, California, 11 September, with the debarkation of 58 military passengers.

## Post-War Decommissioning

Two days later she sailed to the Philadelphia Navy Yard to prepare for assignment to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. Martin H. Ray decommissioned in March 1946, at Green Cove Springs, Florida, and was struck from the Navy list 1 May 1966. The following September she was scrapped.
# Narva mandal

Narva is a Mandal in Narayanpet district, Telangana.

## Villages

The villages in Narwa mandal include:
* Bekkarapalle
* Chandragad
* Eklaspur
* Eerladinne
* Jakkannapalle
* Jangamreddipalle
* Kalwal
* Kanmanoor
* Kothapalli
* Kumarlingampally
* Lankal
* Mittanandimalla
* Nagalkadumur
* Narwa
* Patherched
* Peddakadmoor
* Raikode
* Rampur
* Seepur
* Undekode
* Yamki
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