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# Joseph Browne (provost)

Joseph Browne D.D. (1700–1767) was an English clergyman and academic, Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford, from 1756.

## Life

Browne was the son of George Browne, and was born at a place called the Tongue in Watermillock, Cumberland, England. He was educated at Barton school, and admitted commoner of Queen's College, Oxford, on 21 March 1717, his education being supported by a private benefactor. He was elected tabarder on the foundation of his college, and, having graduated M.A. on 4 November 1724, became a chaplain there. In 1726 he published an edition of the Latin poems of Maffeo Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII.
Joseph Browne was elected Fellow 1 April 1731, and became a successful tutor; took the degree of D.D. 9 July 1743, and was presented by the college with the living of Bramshot, Hampshire, in 1746. In that year, he was appointed Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy and held that office until his death. He was instituted prebendary of Hereford Cathedral on 9 June of the same year (he was later called into residence), and on 13 February 1752 was collated to the chancellorship of the cathedral.
On 3 December 1756, Browne was elected Provost of Queen's College. From 1759 to 1765 he held the office of Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. He had a severe stroke of palsy 25 March 1765, and died on 17 June 1767.

## Works

He edited Maphaei S. R. E. Card. Barberini postea Urbani PP. VIII. Poemata, Oxonii, E Typographeo Clarendoniano, MDCCXXVI. [1726] (https://books.google.com/books?id=7KBWAAAAcAAJ/)
# Joseph De la Penha

Joseph De la Penha was a Dutch merchant who was granted most of Labrador (between 54° and 60° latitude) by King William III in 1697.

## History of the grant

Ownership was passed on to his offspring and reconfirmed in 1732 and 1768. Dutch traders in Labrador in the early 1700s asked and received permission for trading with the indigenous population, probably both Inuit and Innu, and paid taxes to the De La Penha family. Descendants of the family are now found in the Netherlands, the USA the United Kingdom and Canada, and in all branches the ownership of the Labrador claim is part of their oral history. At least four cases over the ownership of Labrador were brought to court by the end of the 19th century.
Simon Appleboom, an English non-observant Jewish man of Sephardic/Dutch descent from Spitalfields in the City of London began a legal action in New York in 1931 to look into his claim to his lineage to Rachel Penha. This claim was later lost in the need to focus on getting through WW2 without drawing too much attention to his ancestry and to integrate fully into English society. The solicitors involved were said to have kept his substantial investments. His descendants from London still hold a retainer from King William of Orange along with his British army service medals, but adhere to his philosophy that it should all belong to the British crown.
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# Sir Thomas Mostyn, 6th Baronet

Sir Thomas Mostyn, 6th Baronet (20 October 1776 – 17 April 1831) of Mostyn Hall, Flintshire and Gloddaeth Hall, Caernarvonshire, was a Welsh Member of Parliament.
He was the only son of Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He succeeded his father to the baronetcy in 1796.
He was MP for Flintshire from 1796 to 1797 and again from 1799 to 1831. He was appointed High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire for 1798–99 and High Sheriff of Merionethshire for 1799–1800.
He died unmarried in 1831 and the baronetcy became extinct. His main estates passed to his sister Elizabeth and her husband, Sir Edward Pryce Lloyd, who was created Baron Mostyn later that year. The Baron's son adopted the additional name of Mostyn.
# Joseph Hunt

Joseph Hunt may refer to:
* Joseph Hunt (priest), English Anglican priest and master of Balliol College, Oxford
* Joseph Hunt (MP) (1762-1816) senior employee of the Admiralty forced to resign as an MP
* Joseph J. Hunt, American labor union leader
* J. McVicker Hunt, American educational psychologist and author
* Joe Hunt (1919–1945), American tennis player and naval aviator
* Jody Hunt (born 1961), American lawyer and U.S. Department of Justice official
* Joseph Hunt (engineer) (born 1956), American engineer, NASA mission manager and flight director
* Joey Hunt, American football center
# Joseph Hunter (British politician)

Joseph Hunter (24 December 1875 – 24 July 1935) was a politician in the United Kingdom, and member of parliament (MP) from 1929 until his death.
In 1927 he had taken up a new post as Director of the Liberal Campaign Department centrally, a pivotal position during the run-up to the 1929 general election campaign when he was one of the party's national organisers.
At the 1929 general election, in his first parliamentary candidacy, he stood as the Liberal Party candidate for Dumfriesshire, winning the seat from the Conservative MP John Charteris. Hunter was re-elected in 1931 as a Liberal, but when the party split later that year over participation in the Conservative-dominated National Government, he joined the breakaway Liberal National Party.
Hunter died in office in July 1935, aged 59.
# Sir Haydock Morres, 2nd Baronet

Sir Haydock Evans Morres, 2nd Baronet (1743 – 18 December 1776) was an Anglo-Irish politician.

## Biography

Morres was the son of Sir William Morres, 1st Baronet and Margaret Haydock. In 1766 he served a term as Mayor of Kilkenny. Morres was the Member of Parliament for Kilkenny City in the Irish House of Commons between 1768 and his death in 1776.
On 11 October 1774 he succeeded to his father's baronetcy. He had married Frances Jane Gorges Gore on 23 July 1772, but died without issue. Morres' title was inherited by his younger half-brother, William.
# Joseph Harper (actor)

Joseph Harper (1759-February 27, 1811) was an English-born and early American actor and theatre manager.
Harper was from Norwich, England. He came to the United States and was engaged in the Old American Company, where he was active for several years and considered a capable actor within 'light comedy' until he left the company after the death of his wife in 1791.
He managed the illegal Board Alley Theatre in Boston, until Governor John Hancock forced it to close sometime in June 1793.
He managed the Theatre in Providence, Rhode Island which opened in 1794. He also managed the Old American Company for a time. He also worked with Charles Tubbs, husband of Eliza Poe, to co-manage the Assembly Room in Portsmouth.
He also acted one season in Montreal. He was active in Freemasonry, having become a member of St. John's Lodge No. 2, now St. John's Lodge No. 1 A.Y.M. in New York, NY while performing at the nearby John Street Theatre.
Harper died in Charleston, South Carolina on February 27, 1811, and buried at the Unitarian Church Cemetery. His tombstone inscription reads:
    "A Native of the City of Norwich, England. But for several years manager of the Theatre, Providence, R.I. Who died in this City on the 27th February, 1811. Aged 52 Years. He preserved through life the Character of a mild, temperate, and truly Honest Man."
He was married and his wife, known only as "Mrs. Harper", was a popular actress and highly regarded in the Old American Company for her roles as old women until her death in 1791, after which she was replaced by 'Mrs. Rankin'.
# Joseph Fitzpatrick

Joseph or Joe Fitzpatrick may refer to:
* Joe FitzPatrick (born 1967), Scottish politician
* Joe Fitzpatrick (boxer) (born 1994), Irish boxer
* Joe Fitzpatrick (footballer) (born 1997), English footballer
* Joe Fitzpatrick (hurler) (born 1984), Irish hurler
* Joseph F. Fitzpatrick, American politician active in the 1920s
* Joseph F. Fitzpatrick Jr. (1932–2002), American carcinologist
* Joseph T. Fitzpatrick (1929–2006), American politician
# Joseph Ignaz Appiani

Joseph Ignaz Appiani (October 16, 1706 – August 19, 1785) was a South-German painter of the late Baroque era. He was the son of plasterer Pietro Francesco Appiani from Porto Ceresio, and Maria Sophia from Fürstenfeldbruck. His uncle was the plasterer Jacopo Appiani (1687–1742).

## Works
### Germany
#### Bavaria

* Ceiling painting in the "White Hall" of Schloss Seehof in Memmelsdorf near Bamberg (1751–1752)
* Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (1763 / 1764–1769)
* Jesuit Church St. Michael in Würzburg (after 1770)
* Triefenstein Monastery (from 1784)
* High altar fresco in the old parish church of St. Jakobus in Bad Kissingen, "Jakobus heals the sick on the way to his execution", signed "Appiani" on the Great Dane's collar on the left edge of the picture (from 1775)
* Heidenfeld Monastery Church (1783/1784)

#### Baden-Württemberg

* Collegiate Church of the Assumption in Lindau (1749)
* Refectory in the Marchtal Abbey
* Neues Schloss (frescoes in the stairwell vault and in the hall of mirrors) and Chapel of St. Karl Borromeo of the Meersburg seminary (1761–1762)
* Fresco in the stairwell vault of the New Castle in MeersburgSt. Michael, former church of the Deutschordenskommende Altshausen (approx. 1758 and approx. 1766/1767)
* Holy Cross Chapel in Oberdorf near Konstanz (1748)
* Catholic parish church St. Afra in Obernheim (Zollernalb district) (1751–1754)
* Stadtpfarrkirche St. Blasius, Ehingen (Danube), ceiling painting with the Last Supper (1763–1766)

#### Upper Palatinate

* Waldsassen Abbey Church (1727)

#### Rheinland-Pfalz

* St. Peter's Church, Mainz (1755/1756)

#### Hesse

* Bolongaropalast in Höchst (Frankfurt am Main) (1774)
* Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul in Bad Camberg (1778–1779)

### Switzerland

* Herrliberg (1732)
* Zürich (1732?)
* Arlesheim Cathedral (1759–1760)
# Joseph Kangki Nabuai

Joseph Kangaki Nabuai is a Papua New Guinean politician from the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. He is a member of the Bougainville House of Representatives.

## Biography

Nabuai was elected as a member of the Bougainville House of Representatives from Lule in 2013 and re-elected in 2015. He is the first priest to be elected to the Bougainville House of Representatives.
# Sirindhornia (plant)

Sirindhornia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Orchidaceae native to China and Indochina. It contains three known species.
* Sirindhornia mirabilis H.A.Pedersen & Suksathan - Thailand
* Sirindhornia monophylla (Collett & Hemsl.) H.A.Pedersen & Suksathan - Yunnan, Thailand, Myanmar
* Sirindhornia pulchella H.A.Pedersen & Indham. - Thailand
# Singapore at the 2011 Asian Winter Games

Singapore participated in the 2011 Asian Winter Games in Almaty and Astana, Kazakhstan from January 30, 2011 to February 6, 2011. This marks Singapore's debut at a major winter sporting event. The nation sent only one athlete.

## Short track speed skating
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Lucas Ng | 500 | 50.124 | 3 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Lucas Ng | 1000m | 1:40.220 | 4 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
# Sinister Hands

Sinister Hands is a 1932 American pre-Code film directed by Armand Schaefer.

## Plot

A millionaire is murdered at a séance at a fortune-teller's home. Detective Capt Herbert Devlin and Detective Watkins investigate the crime only to discover all attendees have a motive.

## Cast

* Jack Mulhall as Detective Capt. Herbert Devlin
* Phyllis Barrington as Ruth Frazer
* Crauford Kent as Judge David McLeod
* Mischa Auer as Swami Yomurda
* Louis Natheaux as Nick Genna
* Gertrude Messinger as Betty Lang
* Lloyd Ingraham as John Frazer
* James P. Burtis as Detective Watkins
* Phillips Smalley as Richard Lang
* Helen Foster as Vivian Rogers
* Lillian West as Mrs. Lang
* Fletcher Norton as Monroe, the Butler
* Bess Flowers as Mary Browne
# Joseph W. Gallaher

Joseph Wesley Gallaher (23 August 1826 – 31 May 1892) was a successful businessman of Moundsville, West Virginia, who held prominence in affairs of state and local politics and government.

## Early life

Gallaher was born in Ohio County, Virginia to John and Rachel (Hurst) Gallaher, natives of Ireland and Maryland, respectively.
In 1834, Mr. Gallaher came to Moundsville, and was educated in the common schools and the academy of Revs. Nicholas Murray and Irwin Carson.

## Business

He embarked in business on his own account in 1848 and was still running the business in 1890. The business sold wool and grain. He had a reputation for strength of character and integrity and his business made him prosperous.

## Political life

The same qualities, added to an unfailing tact in dealing with men, and fluency as a public speaker, brought him to great prominence in the political life of West Virginia. His first public office was serving as a member in the county court of Virginia for six years. He later became the mayor of Moundsville, and in 1856, was on the ticket of Millard Fillmore as a candidate for presidential elector for the Fifteenth District of Virginia. After the American Civil War he was among the first who resolved upon the reorganization of the Democratic Party of West Virginia as a controlling influence in the state.
He also served as a member, secretary, and treasurer of the first state executive committee for ten to twelve years, and he was a power in the organization of his party. In 1868, he was a delegate and vice president from Virginia to the Democratic National Convention that nominated Horatio Seymour, and in 1872, with Judge A. F. Haymond, represented the second senatorial district in the constitutional convention of West Virginia, which framed the present constitution of the state. He served on the committees on taxation, finance, corporations, education and schedule. In 1876 he was appointed one of the committee of three to equalize the state assessment of lands by Governor John J. Jacob.
Gallaher served as president of the board of directors of the West Virginia penitentiary for ten years. His readiness and tact as a speaker was frequently called upon; in 1869, he was called to visit Columbus, Ohio to present Judge Thurman with a fine goldheaded cane. Mr. Gallaher also was socially popular. He married Emily J., daughter of Col. John Thompson of Belmont County, Ohio, in November, 1866 and had two children: John T. and Joseph W.

## Religion

In regard to religion, he was an attendant of the Episcopal Church, of which his wife was a member and he, a vestryman.
# Josh Silverman

Joshua Gordon Silverman (born January 14, 1969) is an American entrepreneur and technology executive who is chief executive officer of Etsy. He is known for co-founding the invitation website Evite and being CEO of Skype (2008–10) and shopping.com (2006–08).

## Early life and education

Silverman grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he attended Community High School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in public policy from Brown University in 1991, after which he spent two years working for New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley. In 1995 he enrolled at the Stanford Graduate School of Business; he earned his MBA from Stanford in 1997.

## Career

In November 1998, Silverman quit his job at ADAC Laboratories to work full time on building what would become Evite. Evite was acquired by Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp in 2001. In 2006, Silverman became CEO of Shopping.com, a comparison-shopping engine owned by eBay. In February 2008, he was named CEO of Skype. He left Skype in 2010 to join Greylock Partners as an executive-in-residence, before moving on to an executive role at American Express.
Silverman joined the board of Etsy in November, 2016. After an activist investor took a stake in the company and called for it sale, Etsy's board ousted longtime CEO Chad Dickerson and installed Silverman as chief executive officer.

## Personal life

Silverman is married and has two children.
# Sinusoidal model

In statistics, signal processing, and time series analysis, a sinusoidal model is used to approximate a sequence Y$_i$ to a sine function:
    $Y_{i}=C+\alpha \sin(\omega T_{i}+\phi )+E_{i}$
where C is constant defining a mean level, α is an amplitude for the sine, ω is the angular frequency, T$_i$ is a time variable, φ is the phase-shift, and E$_i$ is the error sequence.
This sinusoidal model can be fit using nonlinear least squares; to obtain a good fit, routines may require good starting values for the unknown parameters. Fitting a model with a single sinusoid is a special case of spectral density estimation and least-squares spectral analysis.

## Good starting values
### Good starting value for the mean

A good starting value for C can be obtained by calculating the mean of the data. If the data show a trend, i.e., the assumption of constant location is violated, one can replace C with a linear or quadratic least squares fit. That is, the model becomes
    $Y_{i}=(B_{0}+B_{1}T_{i})+\alpha \sin(2\pi \omega T_{i}+\phi )+E_{i}$
or
    $Y_{i}=(B_{0}+B_{1}T_{i}+B_{2}T_{i}^{2})+\alpha \sin(2\pi \omega T_{i}+\phi )+E_{i}$

### Good starting value for frequency

The starting value for the frequency can be obtained from the dominant frequency in a periodogram. A complex demodulation phase plot can be used to refine this initial estimate for the frequency.

### Good starting values for amplitude

The root mean square of the detrended data can be scaled by the square root of two to obtain an estimate of the sinusoid amplitude. A complex demodulation amplitude plot can be used to find a good starting value for the amplitude. In addition, this plot can indicate whether or not the amplitude is constant over the entire range of the data or if it varies. If the plot is essentially flat, i.e., zero slope, then it is reasonable to assume a constant amplitude in the non-linear model. However, if the slope varies over the range of the plot, one may need to adjust the model to be:
    $Y_{i}=C+(B_{0}+B_{1}T_{i})\sin(2\pi \omega T_{i}+\phi )+E_{i}$
That is, one may replace α with a function of time. A linear fit is specified in the model above, but this can be replaced with a more elaborate function if needed.

## Model validation

As with any statistical model, the fit should be subjected to graphical and quantitative techniques of model validation. For example, a run sequence plot to check for significant shifts in location, scale, start-up effects and outliers. A lag plot can be used to verify the residuals are independent. The outliers also appear in the lag plot, and a histogram and normal probability plot to check for skewness or other non-normality in the residuals.

## Extensions

A different method consists in transforming the non-linear regression to a linear regression thanks to a convenient integral equation. Then, there is no need for initial guess and no need for iterative process : the fitting is directly obtained.
# Sivella

Sivella is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Durgellinae of the family Helicarionidae.

## Species

* Sivella albofilosa (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1909)
* Sivella bagoensis (Hidalgo, 1890)
* Sivella billeana (Mörch, 1872)
* Sivella bintuanensis (Hidalgo, 1890)
* Sivella castra (Benson, 1852)
* Sivella cerea (Möllendorff, 1898)
* Sivella costellifera (Möllendorff, 1890)
* Sivella crossei (Hidalgo, 1890)
* Sivella decipiens (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1898)
* Sivella galerus (Benson, 1856)
* Sivella granulosa (Möllendorff, 1888)
* Sivella heptogyra (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1894)
* Sivella hyptiocyclos (Benson, 1863)
* Sivella latior (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1909)
* Sivella loocensis (Hidalgo, 1887)
* Sivella luteobrunnea (Möllendorff, 1890)
* Sivella mindoroana (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1895)
* Sivella montana (Möllendorff, 1901)
* Sivella platysma (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1896)
* Sivella pseudosericina (Möllendorff, 1898)
* Sivella rufa (Möllendorff, 1888)
* Sivella sericata (Möllendorff, 1898)
* Sivella sericina (Möllendorff, 1893)
* Sivella splendens (C. Semper, 1873)
* Sivella splendidula (Möllendorff, 1890)
* Sivella subtaeniata (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1896)
* Sivella suturalis (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1894)

### Synonym

* Sivella paviei (Morlet, 1885): synonuym of Trochomorpha paviei (Morlet, 1885)
# Joseph Defaux

Joseph Defaux (Gaurain-Ramecroix, 20 April 1860 – 28 June 1931) was a Belgian politician, a member of the Chamber of Representatives and mayor. He entered parliament in 1918.

## Biography

He was born in Gaurain-Ramecroix, Tournai, on April 20, 1860. Defaux was first a stonemason and soon became involved in trade union activity, trying to organize the working class. For this reason, he had a hard time dealing with the local employers and had to look for another job, which he found during the construction of the Edingen-Ronse-Vloesberg railway.
He nevertheless became the first permanent secretary of the stonemasons' union in Tournai and remained so until 1918.
In his native village he became a municipal councilor (1904), alderman (1908) and mayor (1912–1920). He was also a provincial councilor for Hainaut (1912–1918).
In 1918 he succeeded Émile Royer, who died during the World War I, as a socialist representative for the Tournai – Aat district. He then exercised this mandate until his death. He remained unmarried.
In Gaurain-Ramecroix a monument was erected in his memory and there is a Résidence Joseph Defaux.
# Josie Muscat

Josie Muscat (born 31 July 1943) is a Maltese politician, a former Nationalist MP (1966–87), an independent local councillor in Marsascala (2006–09) and co-founder of Azzjoni Nazzjonali (AN) (2007). He is a qualified doctor of medicine.
Muscat was leader of the PN youth section from 1967 to 1973 and later headed its workers' section.
He formed the Freedom Fighters Front after the 1981 election when Labour was re-elected with a majority of seats despite not getting the majority of votes. The grouping was a form of resistance action against Labour's authoritarian elements but its members were seen by many as sympathisers of European fascism. He broke from the party by voting against the constitutional amendments which preceded the 1987 elections, which he did not contest.
After 1987 he took a hiatus from political life and made a name for himself in the medical sector, setting up St James Capua Hospital. After the general elections of 2008, Josie Muscat resigned as leader of Azzjoni Nazzjonali after he and his party failed to win any seats.
Just two months after he resigned, he was persuaded to retain his post as Party Leader as no other party member contested his seat.
In 2012, he argued that domestic violence was a "reaction to provocation”.
In 2017, Josie Muscat contested the general election on behalf of the Nationalist Party, more than 30 years after he fell out with the party leadership. In a surprise move, the PN approved his candidature on the second district, a Labour Party stronghold.
# Sir Matthew Deane, 3rd Baronet

Sir Matthew Deane, 3rd Baronet (c. 1680 – 11 March 1747) was an Irish baronet and politician.
He was the son of Sir Robert Deane, 2nd Baronet of Muskerry and Springfield Castle, County Limerick by his wife Anne Brettridge, one of the three daughters and co-heiresses of Captain Roger Brettridge (1630-1683) of Castles Brettridge, Cope and Magner, County Cork and his wife Jane Hakby. Another source has his wife as Anne Bettridge, daughter of Colonel William Bettridge. He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1712.
He served as High Sheriff of County Cork for 1714 and sat in the Irish House of Commons for Charleville from 1713 to 1715. He was again a Member of Parliament (MP) for County Cork from 1728 until his death in 1747.
Deane married Jane Sharpe, only daughter of Reverend William Sharpe. They had three daughters and three sons. Deane was succeeded in the baronetcy by his oldest son Matthew. On the latter's death in 1751 the title devolved to the third son Robert.