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# Thomas H. Leonard

Thomas Hoskyns Leonard (24 March 1948 – 18 December 2023) was a British statistician. He obtained a doctorate in Statistics at the University of London and worked at the University of Warwick and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, before taking up the Chair of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh in 1995.
In 1972, Leonard co-founded the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick. During Leonard's tenure (1980–1995) at the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he worked on improving the Bayesian components of both the teaching and research programs, alongside Kam Wah Tsui and Michael Newton.
Leonard published on the Bayesian approach to categorical data analysis, as well as on function smoothing and prior informative density estimation, conditional Laplacian approximations for marginal inference and prediction, and the statistical modelling of log covariance matrices. He also worked on the applications of Bayesian methodology in geophysics, medicine, and psychometrics. He was one of the founders, in 1992, of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, alongside Arnold Zellner and Gordon Kaufman.
Leonard's books include A Course in Categorical Data Analysis and Bayesian Methods: An Analysis for Statisticians and Interdisciplinary Researchers, the latter co-authored with his former doctoral student, John S. J. Hsu, At the University of Edinburgh, Leonard collaborated with Ian Main, Orestis Papasouliotis and others on publications in geophysics. He was also active during this period in the field of family medicine, contributing to articles on prevention of substance use disorders.
Alongside academic publications, he also appeared as an expert witness on statistics in multiple U.S. legal cases.$^{:i}$
Leonard retired in 2001. He died on 18 December 2023.
# Thomas Whorwood of Holton

Thomas Whorwood of Holton (1718–1771) was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire.

## Biography

Thomas was born in 1718. He was educated at John Roysse's Free School in Abingdon, (now Abingdon School) (1730–1735) and later Wadham College, Oxford.
In 1744, Thomas was appointed High Sheriff of Oxfordshire.
Following the death of his father, Thomas Whorwood senior, in 1736, he was Lord of the Manors of Headington and Holton in Oxfordshire. He married (Ann) Penelope Schutz of Shotover in Westminster in 1746, but they had no children. He died in 1771.
Political offices :
| Preceded byRowland Lacy of Pudlicot | High Sheriff of Oxfordshire 1744-45 | Succeeded byJohn Raine of Badgmore |
# Thomas Widdrington

Sir Thomas Widdrington SL (died 13 May 1664) was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1664. He was the speaker of the House of Commons in 1656.

## Life

Widdrington was the son of Lewis Mauntlaine, alias Widdrington of Cheeseburn Grange, near Stamfordham, Northumberland. He was a student at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1617 and was awarded BA in 1621. He entered Gray's Inn in 1619 and was called to the bar in 1625. He succeeded to the estate of his father in 1630. He was Recorder of Berwick from 1631 to 1658 and Recorder of York from 1638 to 1658. He was knighted at York on 1 April 1639.
In April 1640 Widdrington was elected Member of Parliament for Berwick in the Short Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Berwick for the Long Parliament in November 1640. As a barrister, his legal knowledge was useful during the English Civil War. In 1651 he was chosen as a member of the Council of State, although he had declined to have any share in the trial of the king. He was elected MP for York in 1654 for the First Protectorate Parliament. In 1656 he was elected MP for Northumberland in the Second Protectorate Parliament and was chosen as Speaker in September 1656, and in June 1658, he was appointed Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. In 1659 and again in 1660, he was a member of the Council of State, and on three occasions he was one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal. He lost some of his offices when Charles II was restored. In 1660, he was elected MP for York in the Convention Parliament. He was elected MP for Berwick again in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament.
Widdrington founded a school at Stamfordham, Northumberland, He wrote Analecta Eboracensia; some Remaynes of the city of York which was not published until 1877, when it was edited with introduction and notes by the Rev. Caesar Caine.
Widdrington died in 1664.

## Family

Widdrington married Frances Fairfax, a daughter of Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron and had five daughters, including Ursula, who married Thomas Hickman-Windsor, 1st Earl of Plymouth, and a son. However, his son Thomas died in 1660 when MP for Morpeth. The estate at Cheeseburn Grange passed briefly to Widdrington's brother Henry and then to their brother Ralph.
# Thomas William Wilkinson

Thomas William Wilkinson may refer to:
* Thomas Wilkinson (bishop of Hexham and Newcastle) (1825–1909), English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
* Thomas Wilkinson (sculptor) (1875–1950), British sculptor
# Thordisa

Thordisa is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Discodorididae.

## Species

Species in the genus Thordisa include:
* Thordisa aculeata Ortea & Valdés, 1995
* Thordisa albomacula Chan & Gosliner, 2007
* Thordisa aurea Pruvot-Fol, 1951
* Thordisa azmanii Cervera & García-Gómez, 1989
* Thordisa bimaculata Lance, 1966
* Thordisa burnupi Eliot, 1910
* Thordisa diuda Marcus Er., 1955
* Thordisa filix Pruvot-Fol, 1951
* Thordisa harrisi Chan & Gosliner, 2006
* Thordisa hilaris Bergh, 1905
* Thordisa ladislavii (Ihering, 1886)
* Thordisa lurca (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967)
* Thordisa luteola Chan & Gosliner, 2007
* Thordisa nieseni Chan & Gosliner, 2007
* Thordisa oliva Chan & Gosliner, 2007
* Thordisa pallida Bergh, 1884
* Thordisa poplei Edmunds, 2011
* Thordisa rubescens Behrens & Henderson, 1981
* Thordisa sanguinea Baba, 1955
* Thordisa tahala Chan & Gosliner, 2007
* Thordisa verrucosa (Crosse in Angas, 1864)
* Thordisa villosa (Alder & Hancock, 1864)

### Species brought into synonymy

* Thordisa crosslandi Eliot, 1903 : synonym of Sebadoris nubilosa (Pease, 1871)
* Thordisa parva Baba, 1938 : synonym of Jorunna parva (Baba, 1938)
* Thordisa sabulosa Burn, 1957 : synonym of Thordisa verrucosa (Crosse in Angas, 1864)
# Vakhtang I, Prince of Mukhrani

Vakhtang I (Georgian: ვახტანგ I მუხრანბატონი, Vakhtang I Mukhranbatoni) (1511 – 1 October 1580) was a Georgian tavadi ("prince") of the House of Mukhrani, a collateral branch of the royal Bagrationi dynasty of Kartli, and Prince (batoni) of Mukhrani from 1539 until his death. At the same time, he was an ex officio commander of the Banner of Shida Kartli. In the absence of his relative, King Simon I of Kartli, in the captivity in Safavid Iran, Vakhtang was installed by the nobility as a regent in opposition to the pro-Safavid regime of Daud-Khan from 1569 to 1579.

## Family background

Vakhtang was born around 1510, and was the son of Prince Bagrat, the founder of the House of Mukhrani and a younger son of Constantine II, the last de jure king of a unified Georgia. while his mother is apparently a princess named Elene (whose origins are unknown).
In 1539, his father abdicated to enter monastic orders under the name of Barnabas. He died some time later (around 1540), but his eldest son had already succeeded him. He inherits a principality which was created in 1512 as a buffer zone between the Kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti, which were on the brink of war. During his reign, he suffered several attacks from Muslim invaders. In 1554, the Safavid invasion forced Vakhtang and his family into a temporary exile to Samtskhe. One of brothers, Archil, was captured by the Iranian military in 1557 and another, Ashotan, was killed when the mountaineers of Pkhovi raided Mukhrani in 1561.

## Regent of Kartli

In 1569, the Safavid forces made Simon I of Kartli prisoner and the shah Tahmasp I placed Simon's Islamized brother David (Daud-Khan) on the throne of Kartli. David's authority was limited to the areas tightly controlled by the Iranian military as most of the Christian nobles of Kartli refused to recognize a Muslim overlord and made Vakhtang a regent of Kartli. In 1578, Kartli once again became a battleground of the Ottoman–Safavid war. After Daud-Khan burned down his capital, Tbilisi, before abandoning it to the Ottoman army under Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha, Vakhtang, as a regent of Kartli, sent Bardzim, Prince Amilakhvari, and Elizbar, Duke of Ksani, to come to common terms with the victor, saving, as the 18th-century historian Prince Vakhushti put it, "the people from annihilation".
In October 1578, Simon I, released by the shah from captivity, returned to Kartli and struck at the Ottoman garrisons as well as his old foes. One of them, Bardzim Amilakhvari, was arrested and, as Vakhtang tried to intercede, he too was imprisoned by Simon at the castle of Kekhvi. Simon's wife, Nestan-Darejan, moderated the king's anger and Vakhtang was soon released. He died shortly thereafter, in 1580, being succeeded as Prince of Mukhrani by his son, Teimuraz I, under the regency of Vakhtang's nephew Erekle I.

## Marriage and children

Vakhtang was married to a certain Khvaramze and had three sons: Teimuraz I, Prince of Mukhrani (died 1 July 1625), Kaikhosro (died 3 October 1629), and Bagrat (born 16 July 1572). The historian Cyril Toumanoff considers Teimuraz and Bagrat to have been the same person.
# High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Act 2017

The High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) Act 2017 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom which authorises the construction of Phase One of High Speed 2, a high-speed railway between London and Birmingham. The Act was introduced to Parliament as a Hybrid Bill on 25 November 2013, and received royal assent on 23 February 2017.

## Committee

The High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill Select Committee was a select committee of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Committee was established in 2016 with a remit to provide persons and bodies directly affected by the Act the opportunity to object to specific provisions of the bill.

### Membership

As of 31 March 2019, the members of the committee are as follows:
| Member | Party |
| Rt. Hon. Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe PC | Crossbench |
| Rt. Hon. Lord Brabazon of Tara PC DL | Conservative |
| Lord Elder | Labour |
| Rt. Hon. Lord Freeman PC | Conservative |
| Rt. Hon. Lord Jones of Cheltenham | Liberal Democrat |
| Rt. Hon. Baroness O'Cathain OBE | Conservative |
| Lord Young of Norwood Green | Labour |
# Not Afraid of Life

Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far is a memoir written by Bristol Palin and Nancy French. The book was released in June 2011.

## Background

In Not Afraid of Life, Bristol Palin discusses her personal life, including tensions with the McCain family, and losing her virginity.

## Reception

The book received mixed reviews. Some commentators criticised Palin for releasing a memoir at the age of 20.
In July 2011, Not Afraid of Life reached #21 on The New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover nonfiction.

### Controversy

Soon after the book's release, comedian and television host Bill Maher joked that Not Afraid of Life had the working title "Whoops, There's a Dick in Me".
# Schiffweiler

Schiffweiler is a municipality in the district of Neunkirchen, in Saarland, Germany. It is situated approximately 5 km northwest of Neunkirchen, and 20 km northeast of Saarbrücken.

## People from Schiffweiler

* Konrad Grebe (1907–1972), German mining engineer and inventor of coal plow
# Schömerich

Schömerich is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

## History

From 18 July 1946 to 6 June 1947 Schömerich, in its then municipal boundary, formed part of the Saar Protectorate.
# USS Kiowa (ID-1842)

The second USS Kiowa (ID-1842) was a cargo ship that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919.

## Construction, acquisition, and commissioning

Kiowa was built as the commercial cargo ship SS Kiowa and launched in 1917 by the American Shipbuilding Company at Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio. Her design, which included an unusual rig, was based on a Norwegian design known as the Fredrickstad. She was one of the first of what became a large group of standard-type cargo ships constructed on the Great Lakes during World War I.
On 13 or 26 February 1918, the U.S. Navy took control of Kiowa from her owners, Agwilines Inc, for use during World War I and assigned her the naval registry identification number (Id. No.) 1842. She was commissioned on 26 February 1918 as USS Kiowa (ID-1842).

## U.S. Navy career

Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, Kiowa arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, on 25 March 1918 to transport coal along the United States East Coast. She carried a cargo of coal from Norfolk to Boston, Massachusetts.
Kiowa returned to Norfolk during April 1918 to load naval mines and minelaying equipment for the squadron engaged in laying the North Sea Mine Barrage. She departed Norfolk on 30 April 1918 and arrived at Oban, Scotland, in the United Kingdom on 20 May 1918, after which she delivered mines and minelaying equipment to several ports in Scotland. She made two additional transatlantic voyages carrying naval mines and minelaying equipment to North Sea ports in July and September 1918.
Kiowa carried a load of coal from Norfolk to Charleston, South Carolina, in November 1918, then cleared Norfolk on 6 December 1918 with a cargo of coal for Bermuda. She returned to Norfolk on 22 December 1918 and decommissioned there on 16 January 1919 for simultaneous transfer to the United States Shipping Board and return to her owners.

## Later commercial service

Once again SS Kiowa, the ship resumed commercial service. She had a long commercial career, serving as SS Valka, as the Latvian SS Kurzeme, and as SS Elizebete.
Elizabete was scrapped in England in 1960.
# Schafner Point Lighthouse

Schafner Point Lighthouse is located in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, on the north side of the Annapolis Basin facing Goat Island. It was built in 1885. It is known locally as the Port Royal lighthouse. It is a wooden construction with a square plan and tapered sides, supporting a gallery and octagonal iron lantern housing. It is protected by the Heritage Lighthouse Protection Act.
# Schöneck

Schöneck may refer to:
* Schöneck, Hesse, town in Germany
* Schöneck, Saxony, town in Germany
* Schœneck, municipality in Lorraine, France
* Skarszewy (former German: Schöneck), Poland
* Schönig or Schöneck, German Renaissance printing family
# Scott Higgins

Scott Higgins (born 9 June 1976) is an Australian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. His career saw him play in three different continents, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East.

## Football career
### Club career

He started his professional footballing career in the NSL with Canberra Cosmos and later returning to Queensland with Brisbane Strikers.
In the relaunched A-League, he secured a deal with Queensland Roar in 2005, before moving to Europe in June 2006 to join Scottish Premier League club Falkirk. A difference of opinion with Falkirk boss John Hughes ended his stay in Scotland with the "Bairns" in a good position at sixth in the SPL and through to the semi-finals of the League Cup. Before departing Scotland Higgins stated it was a boyhood dream to play against his much loved Glasgow Celtic at Parkhead on 23 December 2006. Higgins played a key role at keeping Celtic at bay and was a standout for the Bairns, saying after the game "no one can take that away from me, I loved every minute of it and knowing my family was here and my best mate Barry who is a mad hoops fan was sitting watching back in Australia makes me very proud"; however, they eventually went down one–nil. He departed Scotland on 24 January 2007 to join Israeli side Maccabi Herzliya.

### Herzliya

When Higgins joined Herzliya, he became the first Australian in Israeli football. With some stellar performances he led his club to the Toto Cup final, a first ever for the club, where they defeated Hapoel Kfar Saba 2–1 at the Ramat Gan Stadium in Tel Aviv District.
Unfortunately, despite helping Herzliya to lift the Toto Cup and avoid relegation from the Israeli Premier League, Higgins left the club in late May 2007 as the club moved to secure the Macedonian national team keeper, Jane Nikolovski, as a replacement in a deal that ultimately fell through.

### A-League

On returning to Australia, he was signed by Adelaide United on a short-term contract as cover for injured goalkeeper Daniel Beltrame for the start of the 2007–08 season.
In December 2008, Higgins signed a four-game contract with the Wellington Phoenix as cover for Mark Paston. He has not yet made an appearance for the Phoenix. He was released halfway through his contract, as Paston became match-fit earlier than expected. He never got any game time with the Phoenix.
Miron Bleiberg, football director of new A-League club Gold Coast United has announced that Higgins will be signed by the club for the 2009–10 season. On 30 September 2008, he was announced along with goalkeeper Jess Vanstrattan as Gold Coast United's inaugural signings.

### Coaching

At the conclusion of the 2010–11 A-League season Higgins retired and joined the staff at GCU as goalkeeping coach.

## Politics

Higgins was an unsuccessful candidate for the 2013 federal election in the Australian Senate representing Queensland for the Palmer United Party.
# Schönau an der Triesting

Schönau an der Triesting is a town in the district of Baden in Lower Austria in Austria.
# USS Eastport

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Eastport:
* USS Eastport (1862), was a partially completed ironclad, captured from the Confederates on 7 February 1862 and scuttled on 26 April 1864.
* USS Eastport (ID-3342), was commissioned 18 October 1918, transported cargo during World War I and was decommissioned 19 June 1919.
# Scolopax anthonyi

Scolopax anthonyi is a prehistoric species of woodcock in the family Scolopacidae that was once endemic to the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico.

## Taxonomy

Its fossil remains were initially identified as belonging to a snipe of the genus Gallinago, but a re-analysis of the bones in 1976 indicated that they belonged to a woodcock. It has more osteological similarities to the Eurasian woodcock than the American woodcock, a trait it shares with the also extinct Scolopax brachycarpa of Hispaniola. Both of these species may have belonged to a distinct insular radiation in the Caribbean, which are now extinct.

## Description

Scolopax anthonyi had reduced wings compared to other species in the genus, indicating that it may have had a more terrestrial lifestyle or even may have been flightless. It likely lived in a forested habitat, like extant members of the genus. Little is known about the cause for its extinction.
# Scrobipalpa extensa

Scrobipalpa extensa is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Povolný in 1969. It is found in Afghanistan.
The length of the forewings is about 5.5 mm (0.22 in). The forewings are covered by mixed light brownish and darkened scales. The hindwings are grey.
# Scott Wastney

Scott Wastney (born 1970) is a New Zealand chess player who holds the title of FIDE Master (FM).

## Chess career

Wastney has represented New Zealand in four Chess Olympiads between 1996 and 2002. His best result was at the 34th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul 2000 when he scored 6/9, finishing in 10th place on the 2nd reserve board.
Wastney won the New Zealand Chess Championship in Waitakere City 2000/01, in Wellington 2013 and in 2017.
Wastney scored 5.5/9, finishing 5th, in the Oceania Zonal Chess Championship on the Gold Coast, Queensland in 2001, and was awarded the FIDE Master (FM) title for his result.

## Notable games

* Paul Garbett vs Scott Wastney, 109th NZ Championship, Christchurch (2001/02), Grünfeld Defense: Three Knights Variation, (D91), 0-1
# Scythris malawica

Scythris malawica is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Bengt Å. Bengtsson in 2014. It is found in Malawi.
# Scythris lobella

Scythris lobella is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by K. Nupponen in 2013. It is found in southern Spain. The habitat consists of xerotermic slopes with sparse vegetation.
# Scythris lushotensis

Scythris lushotensis is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Bengt Å. Bengtsson in 2014. It is found in Tanzania.
# The History of Rome

The History of Rome can refer to:
* History of Rome (Livy) (Ab urbe condita, "From the Founding of the City"), a 1st century BCE work by Livy
* The History of Rome (Mommsen) (Römische Geschichte), an 1854–1856 multi-volume work by historian Theodor Mommsen
* The History of Rome (podcast), a 2007–2012 podcast created by Mike Duncan
# Qahab (disambiguation)

Qahab is a village and municipality in the Babek Rayon of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan.
Qahab may also refer to:
* Lashkar-e-Qahab, an Islamist militant group responsible for the 2006 Varanasi bombings
* Al Qahab, a village in the sub-governorate of Bariq in the province of Asir, Saudi Arabia
* Qahab, a village in Zanjanrud-e Pain Rural District, Zanjanrud District, Zanjan County, Zanjan Province, Iran
* Qahab-e Shomali Rural District, a rural district (dehestan) in the Central District of Isfahan County, Isfahan Province, Iran
* Qahab-e Jonubi Rural District, a rural district (dehestan) in the Central District of Isfahan County, Isfahan Province, Iran
# Éplessier

Éplessier (French pronunciation:) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

## Geography

Éplessier is situated on the D189 road, some 29 km (18 mi) west-southwest of Amiens.
# Thordisa azmanii

Thordisa azmanii is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod molluscs in the family Discodorididae.
# Uzu Hotel

Uzu Hotel or Ozoo or Ouzou Hotel is a hotel in Benghazi, Libya, overlooking the 23 July Lake of the inner harbour. It contains 184 rooms (or 262 according to two other sources) and is served by the Jasmine Cafe. The hotel was once nearly destroyed by a missile.
# St. Sargis Church (Channab)

St. Sargis Church was an Armenian church located in Çənnəb village (Ordubad district) of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. It was located in the southeastern part of the village, near Karmunji Hraparak (Bridge Square).

## History

The church was founded in 13–14th centuries, it was renovated in the 17th century and was repaired by S. Saghatelian in 1890.

## Architectural characteristics

The church was a single-nave structure with a semicircular apse and entrances in the north and west. The church had Armenian inscriptions inside, on the northern, southern, and western walls.

## Destruction

The church was still standing and intact as of February 3, 2000 and was destroyed between February 2000 and August 13, 2009, as documented by the investigation of the Caucasus Heritage Watch.
# Novena (disambiguation)

A novena is a nine-day devotional worship in Christianity.
Novena may also refer to:
* Novena, Singapore, a planning area
** Novena MRT station
* Novena University, in Ogume, Delta State, Nigeria
* Novena (computing platform), an open-source computing hardware project
* Novena (album), by Slapshock, 2004
* The Novena, a 2005 Canadian film
# Pristimantis condor

Pristimantis condor is a species of frog in the family Strabomantidae. It is found in Ecuador and Peru. Its natural habitat is tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.