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# John James (writer)

David John James (30 November 1923 – 2 October 1993) was a Welsh author of historical novels.

## Life and work

John James was born in Aberavon. His family were poor and his father was a steelworker who had left school at 13 to work in the tin works. John was largely self-taught, reading the entire works of Shakespeare under his bedclothes with a torch before he was 8 years old. He studied philosophy at St David's University College, Lampeter, and also read and completed BA (converted to an MA) in psychology at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He became a psychologist for the Ministry of Defence, lecturing on the selection and training of air crews for the RAF at Brampton. Writing was a hobby.
He is known for writing four historical novels set in Roman and early medieval Britain and Europe. Some of these novels, including Votan and Not For All The Gold In Ireland, feature characters from Norse and Celtic mythology. Neil Gaiman is an admirer of James, especially his novel Votan, which provided one model for American Gods, calling it “I think probably the best book ever done about the Norse”. James's skilful evocation of life and myths of Dark Age Europe also won him the admiration of neo-pagan authors John and Caitlin Matthews. The British writer Byron Rogers said that whereas "other historical novelists cheat" by putting people with modern opinions and sensitivities into the past, John James "had a man from the past as his hero"; James "knew how such a man would have dressed and what he would have eaten, and, what is far more important, he knew what went on in his head".
John James died in Cambridge in 1993 and is buried in the graveyard at Strata Florida Abbey in Wales.
# Agonopterix liesella

Agonopterix liesella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Viette in 1987. It is found in Madagascar.
# Jennifer Saint

Jennifer Saint is a British novelist known for retelling the stories of female figures from Greek mythology.
In the Chicago Review of Books, Elektra has "brought fascinating women from Greek myth to life". In Paste, her novel Atalanta was described as "feels like such a breath of fresh air".

## Publications

* Ariadne, Wildfire, 2021 ISBN 9781472273901
* Elektra, Wildfire, 2023 ISBN 9781472273956
* Atalanta, Headline, 2023 ISBN 9781472292155
* Hera, Wildfire, 2024 ISBN 9781250855602
# Conferticium

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# Kate McLean

Catherine McLean known as Kate McLean and later Kate Beaton (6 January 1879 – 21 October 1960) was a British trade unionist and councillor in Glasgow. She led the National Federation of Women Workers (NFWW) and several disputes including the six-month-long networkers strike in Kilbirnie in 1913.

## Life

McLean was born in Glasgow in 1879. She was the fourth of six children and she attended school until the age of twelve. She began her association with socialist causes when she joined the Women's Labour League. The following year she was in the National Federation of Women Workers (NFWW). She was one of their delegates to the important Glasgow Trades Council. In 1911 she was one of the first six women to attend the Scottish Trades Union Congress in Dundee as delegates (rather than wives). She was involved with the STUC until 1914 when she married.
The cotton-thread workers of Neilston struck on 25 May 1910 and McLean and Esther Dick quickly signed up the strikers into the NFWW. The strike grew as the employers were unwilling to talk to the NFWW and by June it was a lock-out with hundreds of new (striking) NFWW members. The strike was important as it was the first time that the workers had moved away from paternalistic employers towards a union to support them.
She was again involved when the NFWW supported the 1911 strike at the Vale of Leven dyeworks at the United Turkey Red Company. This was a major dispute for this Alexandria company and there was some violence. The NFWW were already active there but they attracted many more members. By January they had 600 members and by February 1911 there were 2,000. The NFWW's policy was to try and steer these new members into existing unions where they would be accepted. These high numbers allowed the NFWW to apply pressure to the National Amalgamated Society of Dyers, Bleachers, Finishers and Kindred Trade and the women were accepted as members.
She was a leader too at the 1913 networkers' strike in Kilbirnie which was agreed at an NFWW meeting in late March. It lasted from April to September 1913 and it was the longest recorded strike of women workers at that time. The strike enjoyed community support and in May there was a meeting in Kilbirnie where 10,000 supporters were present. The NFWW welcomed the attention and McLean signed up 200 new members at the nearby Nobels’ dynamite factory in Ardeer, North Ayrshire. The networkers dispute was resolved on 2 September 1913. McLean gave the closing speech and noted that it was the union who had improved wages and working conditions.
She married in 1914 and it was as Kate Beaton that she was elected unopposed for the Hutchisontown ward as a Glasgow councillor. She kept that position until 1949 when she retired from the position.
McLean died in 1960 in Glasgow.
# Academic grading in Svalbard

Academic grading in Svalbard is performed at the University Centre in Svalbard and at the Longyearbyen School.
The University Center of Svalbard use the same university grading system as in mainland Norway:
| Symbol | Description | General, qualitative description of valuation criteria |
| A | Excellent | An excellent performance, clearly outstanding. The candidate demonstrates excellent judgement and a high degree of independent thinking. |
| B | Very good | A very good performance. The candidate demonstrates sound judgement and a very good degree of independent thinking. |
| C | Good | A good performance in most areas. The candidate demonstrates a reasonable degree of judgement and independent thinking in the most important areas. |
| D | Satisfactory | A satisfactory performance, but with significant shortcomings. The candidate demonstrates a limited degree of judgement and independent thinking. |
| E | Sufficient | A performance that meets the minimum criteria, but no more. The candidate demonstrates a very limited degree of judgement and independent thinking. |
| F | Fail | A performance that does not meet the minimum academic criteria. The candidate demonstrates an absence of both judgement and independent thinking. |
There are no universities in the Russian-speaking areas of Svalbard.
# Rogosi-Mikita

Rogosi-Mikita is a village in Rõuge Parish, Võru County in Estonia.
# Cuprite Hills

The Cuprite Hills are a mountain range in Esmeralda County, Nevada, United States.
# John Lockwood (priest)

John Lockwood (born about 1555; executed at York, 13 April 1642) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.

## Life

He was the eldest son of Christopher Lockwood, of Sowerby, Yorkshire, by Clare, eldest daughter of Christopher Lascelles, of Sowerby and Brackenborough Castle, Yorkshire. With the second son, Francis, he arrived at Reims on 4 November 1579 and was sent to Douai College to study philosophy. It is also recorded that before going to the seminary his father had offered him a large sum of money to choose another way of life.
Francis was ordained in 1587, but John entered the English College, Rome, on 4 October 1595, and was ordained priest on 26 January 1597. He was sent on the English mission, on 20 April 1598. He worked in the area of Sowerby disguised as a gardener.
After suffering imprisonment he was banished in 1610, but returned to work until he was finally captured again 32 years later in 1642 and arrested at Wood End, Gatenby, the residence of Bridget Gatenby. Now 87 years of age, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at York with Blessed Edmund Catherick.
# John Read (surgeon)

John Read (fl. 1587-1588) was an English surgeon and medical writer.

## Life

In Gloucester in 1587, Read was instrumental in having a Flemish quack practitioner prosecuted. He came to London about that time, and in 1588 was licensed to practise there as a surgeon.

## Works

He belonged to the group of Elizabethan surgeons who set themselves to improve the position of English surgery. They wrote in English, and sought to demarcate surgeons from quacks. Others of a like mind were John Banester, William Clowes, Thomas Gale, and John Halle.
In 1588 Read published a composite work, based on a translation from a surgical text of Franciscus Arceus (Francisco Arceo, 1494–1575). There are other elements. Prefixed to the translation is A Complaint of the Abuses of the Noble Art of Chirurgerie, written in verse by Read. There is a work on fistula by John Arderne, and a version of the Hippocratic oath. There are additions of Read's own.
Read dedicated his book to Banester, Clowes, and William Pickering. The work contained aspirations, that "the Barbers craft ought to be a distinct mistery from chirurgery", and "chirurgians ought to be seene in physicke", that in the British context were delayed until 1745, and 1868, respectively.

## Family

Read married, on 24 June 1588, John Banester's daughter Cicily.
# Afghan cricket team in the United Arab Emirates in 2014–15

The Afghanistan national cricket team toured the United Arab Emirates from 28 November to 4 December 2014. The tour consisted of four One Day International matches between UAE and Afghanistan. The United Arab Emirates won the series 3–1.

## Squads

Squads :
| UAE | Afghanistan |
| Khurram Khan (C) Ahmed Raza Amjad Ali Amjad Javed Andri Berenger Faizan Asif Fayyaz Ahmed Manjula Guruge Kamran Shazad Krishna Chandran Mohammad Naveed Mohammad Shahzad Mohammad Tauqir Nasir Aziz Swapnil Patil (WK) Rohan Mustafa Saqib Ali Saqlain Haider (WK) Shaiman Anwar Salman Farooq | Mohammad Nabi (C) Nawroz Mangal (VC) Afsar Zazai Asghar Stanikzai Dawlat Ahmadzai Gulbadin Naib Javed Ahmadi Mirwais Ashraf Najibullah Zadran Nasir Jamal Samiullah Shenwari Shafiqullah (WK) Shapoor Zadran Sharafuddin Ashraf Usman Ghani Aftab Alam Farid Malik Hamid Hassan Izatullah Dawlatzai |

## ODI series
### 1st ODI

* 28 November 2014 Scorecard
| Afghanistan 248/6 (50 overs) | v | UAE 249/5 (48.4 overs) |
| Afsar Zazai 60 (109) Krishna Chandran 2/37 (7 overs) | | Amjad Ali 67 (79) Mohammad Nabi 2/41 (10 overs) |
* United Arab Emirates won by 5 wickets ICC Academy, United Arab Emirates Umpires: Johan Cloete (South Africa) and Richard Kettleborough (England) Player of the match: Amjad Ali (UAE)
* Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat.
* Afsar Zazai (Afghanistan) and Andri Berenger (UAE) made their ODI debuts.

### 2nd ODI

* 30 November 2014 Scorecard
| Afghanistan 280/8 (50 overs) | v | UAE 282/4 (48.2 overs) |
| Nawroz Mangal 129 (123) Krishna Chandran 3/45 (9 overs) | | Khurram Khan 132* (138) Dawlat Zadran 2/45 (10 overs) |
* United Arab Emirates won by 6 wickets ICC Academy, United Arab Emirates Umpires: Johan Cloete (South Africa) and Richard Kettleborough (England) Player of the match: Khurram Khan (UAE)
* UAE won the toss and elected to field.
* Salman Farooq (UAE) made his ODI debut.

### 3rd ODI

* 2 December 2014 Scorecard
| UAE 273/5 (50 overs) | v | Afghanistan 276/8 (49.4 overs) |
| Khurram Khan 85* (80) Dawlat Zadran 2/51 (10 overs) | | Javed Ahmadi 67 (45) Rohan Mustafa 2/33 (10 overs) |
* Afghanistan won by 2 wickets ICC Academy, United Arab Emirates Umpires: Richard Kettleborough (England) and Sarika Prasad (Singapore) Player of the match: Mirwais Ashraf (Afghanistan)
* Afghanistan won the toss and elected to field.
* Farid Malik (Afghanistan), Nasir Aziz and Saqlain Haider (both UAE) made their ODI debuts.

### 4th ODI

* 4 December 2014 Scorecard
| UAE 258/9 (50 overs) | v | Afghanistan 228 (49.3 overs) |
| Andri Berenger 66 (72) Hamid Hassan 5/45 (10 overs) | | Nawroz Mangal 48 (47) Kamran Shazad 3/45 (10 overs) |
* United Arab Emirates won by 30 runs ICC Academy, United Arab Emirates Umpires: Johan Cloete (South Africa) and Richard Kettleborough (England)
* Afghanistan won the toss and elected to field.
# Afghan flying squirrel

The Afghan flying squirrel (Eoglaucomys fimbriatus baberi) is a subspecies of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to Afghanistan.

## Biology

The Afghan flying squirrel is not considered to be threatened to become an endangered species because it is widely distributed, it has a large population, and the population is not declining fast enough. The only threats that affect the Afghan flying squirrel are selective logging, modernization, hunting for the fur trade. It has a generation time of approximately 4 to 5 years, and it has up to two litters annually. It usually has 2 to 4 young.

## Location

The Afghan flying squirrel is known to be found in montane coniferous forests. The Afghan flying squirrel is native to the following countries:
* Afghanistan
* India
* Pakistan
# John Sieburth

John McNeill Sieburth (2 September 1927 – 7 December 2006) was a Canadian-born biologist. Sieburth spent his early career studying birds, then turned his attention to marine microorganisms.
Sieburth was born on 2 September 1927 in Calgary, Alberta, and was raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. He graduated from University of British Columbia in 1949, subsequently earning a master's degree from Washington State University two years later, followed by a doctorate at the University of Minnesota in 1955, after which he began his teaching career at Virginia Tech within the school's veterinary department. In completing his Ph.D., Sieburth studied turkeys. His research interest later turned to penguins, then microorganisms. Sieburth left Virginia Tech in 1960 to accept a professorship in oceanography and microbiology at the University of Rhode Island, where he retired in 1991.
Sieburth met Janice Fae Boston while she was studying nutrition at Washington State. The couple married in 1950 and had five children, including chemist Scott Sieburth. John Sieburth died on 7 December 2006 in West Kingston, Rhode Island, from dementia complications. Janice Sieburth earned a master's in library science from the University of Rhode Island in 1972, and worked at the Pell Marine Sciences Library at the Narragansett Bay Campus from 1987 to 1996. She authored Online Search Services in the Academic Library in 1988. She died in 2019.

## Selected publications

* Sieburth, John McNeill (1975). Microbial Seascapes. A Pictorial Essay on Marine Microorganisms and Their Environment. University Park Press. ISBN 9780839108023.
* Sieburth, John McNeill (1979). Sea Microbes. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195024197.
# List of storms named Susang

The name Susang has been used to name six tropical cyclones in the Philippine Area of Responsibility in the Western Pacific Ocean, all named by the PAGASA. The name Susang replaced Sening after the latter was retired because of a 1970 typhoon:
* Typhoon Bess (1974) (T7423, 27W, Susang) – a minimal typhoon which nevertheless brought heavy rainfall to Luzon, Hainan, and Vietnam, resulting in 26 fatalities and 3 missing people; the name Bess was retired after this storm.
* Tropical Depression Susang (1978) – a weak system which affected Palau, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
* Typhoon Judy (1982) (T8218, 19W, Susang) – a Category 2-equivalent typhoon that made landfall in Japan, causing 26 fatalities and 8 missing people.
* Tropical Depression Susang (1986) – a weak tropical depression which was only recognized by PAGASA.
* Tropical Depression Susang (1990) – another short-lived tropical depression that was only monitored by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and PAGASA.
* Typhoon Fred (1994) (T9419, 19W, Susang) – a strong Category 4-equivalent typhoon which skirted Japan and Taiwan before making a devastating and deadly landfall in China, where it caused 3,063 deaths.
After the 2000 Pacific typhoon season, the PAGASA revised their naming lists and excluded Susang from their new lists.
# Robert Kerns

Robert Kerns may refer to:
* Robert Kerns (baritone), American baritone
* Robert Kerns (academic), American clinical psychologist, academic and author
* Bob Kerns, American politician, member of the Nevada Assembly
# Robert Kernan

Robert Peebles Kernan (July 18, 1881 – January 1, 1955) was an American football player and businessman.
Kernan was born in Utica, New York in 1881 and raised in Brooklyn. He attended the Brooklyn Polytechnic School before enrolling at Harvard College. He played college football for the Harvard Crimson football team as a halfback and punter in 1901 and 1902. He was selected as a consensus All-American in 1901 and was the captain of Harvard's 1902 football team. A newspaper story in 1902 called Kernan "one of the most remarkable college athletes in the world," and added the following about his gridiron talent:
   He is of ideal build for a plunging half-back, and the force with which he plunges into and tears through the center of the line is only little less dangerous to an opposing team than the speed with which he goes around the end. . . . He is the kicker of the university and in a game can punt from fifty to seventy yards.
Kernan also played four years for Harvard's baseball team, playing as both a pitcher and catcher. He was also a high jumper for the track team and, in 1903, won the intercollegiate championship with a high jump of six feet and one inch. Kernan received a total of seven varsity letters and was later inducted into Harvard's Varsity Club Hall of Fame as an all-around athlete.
After graduating from Harvard in 1903, Kernan received a law degree from Columbia University and was admitted to the bar in 1906. He practiced law in New York for several years. In 1910, he became an assistant football coach at Harvard with responsibility for training the punters.
In 1911, Kernan was involved in the formation of the Donnacona Paper Company in Quebec. He was the vice president and general manager of that company until 1932. He became the company's president in 1932 and later also served as the company's chairman.
Kernan was married twice. In 1917, he married Louise Adams Beardsley; she died in 1920. In 1923, he married Alice Fitzpatrick. She died in 1954. Kernan died on January 1, 1955, in Montreal at age 73.
# Cistanche deserticola

Cistanche deserticola is a holoparasitic member of the plant family Orobanchaceae, commonly known as desert-broomrape.
The plant lacks chlorophyll and obtains its nutrients and water in a parasitic fashion from the black saxaul (Haloxylon ammodendron) and white saxaul (Haloxylon persicum).

## Description

Cistanche deserticola is a perennial hardy, shrub-like herb 40–160 centimetres (1 ft 4 in – 5 ft 3 in) tall. It is shaped somewhat like a cross between a pine cone and a pineapple, with thick, fleshy stems and large, yellow flowers that grow smaller at the plant's apex.

## Distribution

Cistanche deserticola is widely distributed in China's deserts including the provinces of Gansu, Shaanxi, and Qinghai, and the Autonomous Regions of Xinjiang, Ningxia, and Inner Mongolia.

## Traditional uses

Along with other members of the genus Cistanche, Cistanche deserticola is a noted source of the Chinese herbal medicine cistanche (Chinese: 肉苁蓉; pinyin: ròucōngróng), commonly called Rou Cong Rong. Pharmaceutical materials, known in Chinese as suosuo dayuan (Chinese: 索索大元), are produced by slicing the stems of the plant. Inner Mongolia is the top native-producing area of the species; annual production is about 70 tons. The stems are gathered in the spring, when the sprouts have not come out of the ground or have just come up, dried in the sun and cut into slices for medicinal use. Cistanche deserticola has been placed on CITES Appendix 2, a list of endangered species not banned from trade but requiring monitoring. With increased consumption of cistanche, the population of the species has decreased and its area of distribution has shrunk. Aside from over-collection or indiscriminate collection, an important factor in the diminished supply of cistanche is a loss of the saxaul host, which is widely used for firewood.
# Aega

Aega may refer to:
* Aega (mythology), several mythological Greek characters
* Aega (mayor of the palace) (died 641), the name of a mayor of the palace of Neustria
* Aega (crustacean), a genus of isopod crustaceans
* Aega (Achaea), a town of ancient Achaea, Greece
# Robert Davenport (Royal Navy officer)

Vice-Admiral Robert Clutterbuck Davenport CB (13 April 1882 – 15 June 1965) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Scotland.

## Naval career

Educated on HMS Britannia, Davenport joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1896. He was confirmed as a sub-lieutenant on 15 April 1901, served in the Second Boer War and World War I. He became Commanding Officer of the cruiser HMS Despatch in 1924 and the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth in 1930 and went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Scotland in 1935. He retired in 1938 but was recalled to serve in World War II as Commodore of Convoys from 1939 and then on the Selection Board for Temporary Commissions in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve from 1941 until his final retirement in 1946.

## Family

In 1917 he married Gwladwys Mabel Halahan (née Gwatkin-Williams).
# Robert Davenport (cricketer)

Robert Noel Davenport (26 November 1852 – 22 December 1934) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played two first-class matches for Otago, one in each of the 1881–82 and 1883–84 seasons.
Robert Noel Davenport was born at Adelaide in 1852. He was the son of Robert Davenport, a pioneer and politician in the early days of the Colony of South Australia. His uncle, Samuel Davenport, was also an early pioneer, the brothers having arrived in Australia in 1843. Davenport was educated at St Peter's College in Adelaide and then in England at Mill Hill School. He worked for the National Bank of Australasia before farming in Queensland.
As a young man, Davenport was considered a "brilliant athlete" and a "well-known cricketer". He played against a touring English side led by WG Grace at Melbourne and played club cricket in New Zealand for Phoenix Cricket Club in Dunedin. He was described in January 1882 by the Otago Daily Times as a "high order" batsman with "the strongest defence" who was also "an excellent field". The paper went on to suggest that "as an all-round player, in short, he cannot be far off being the best man in the Southern Province". He played for an Otago XI against a visiting English team led by Alfred Shaw later in the month and in February played the first of his two first-class matches, playing against Canterbury in Otago's only first-class match of the season. He played again for the province in February 1884, this time against a touring Tasmanian side. He scored a total of 54 first-class runs, with a highest score of 38 not out scored against Tasmania.
Davenport lived at Port Elliot with his wife in a home which had been established by his father. The couple had no children. He died in 1934 aged 82.
# John Rattenbury

John Rattenbury can refer to:
* Jack Rattenbury (1806–1844), Devon smuggler
* John Ernest Rattenbury (1870–1963), Methodist Minister
* John Rattenbury (architect) (1928-2021), principal architect and planner for Taliesin Architects
# Aeromonas popoffii

Aeromonas popoffii is a Gram-negative bacterium of the genus Aeromonas isolated from drinking water production plants and reservoirs in Oelegem, Belgium, and in Scotland.
# Robert Openshawe

Robert Openshawe (before 1575 – 1627) was a priest in Ireland.
Openshawe was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1575 and held the living at Benacre. He was Dean of Clogher from 1606 to 1617; and Dean of Connor from then until his death in 1627.