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# Patrick N'Guema N'Dong

Patrick N'Guema N'Dong (1957 – 23 December 2021) was a French-Gabonese journalist on Gabon's Africa N°1 radio station, which is transmitted through French Africa and France. He was known for his two programs devoted to the occult sciences, parapsychology, and traditional African religions.

## Early life and education

N'Dong was born in Royat, France in 1957. His mother was French and his father Gabonese. He attended high school at the Lycée Léon M'Ba à Libreville (the Léon M'Ba Lycée at Libreville). He received a degree in Letters at the Academy of Clermont-Ferrand and an English licentiate from Omar Bongo University in 1978, after which he attended the University of Indiana, where he received a Master of Comparative Literature in 1982. It was during this time in the United States that he became interested in parapsychology.

## Radio career

N'Dong hosted "Triangle" with Bruce Walker Mapoma, a program which tackles various subjects related to the occult sciences, and answers questions from listeners.
N'Dong also hosted "L’Aventure mystérieuse" ("The mysterious adventure") (every Sunday starting at 9:10 PM Paris time) which has been in production for nearly 20 years. The program presents fictional stories in which mystery plays a great part, with some recurring characters, such as the wizard Fifian Ribana, the general Mangani Mangwa, or the professor Eubénézer Euthanazief, and often in the imaginary city of Bangos.

## Writing

His book Rêves de serpent (Snake Dreams) is divided into two parts. In the first part, N'Dong interprets twenty dreams, all involving snakes, and explains the significance of snakes in African mysticism. In the second part, the appearance of snakes in literature and other traditions is described, with pieces written by guest authors.

## Personal life and death

N'Dong died on 23 December 2021, at the age of 64.
# Christopher Ré

Christopher Ré is an American computer scientist. He is currently employed by Stanford University, where he is an associate professor. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015. Ré specializes in big data analysis. He co-founded Lattice.io, a data mining and machine learning company that was acquired by Apple in May 2017.
# Gerry Fairhead

Arthur Gerald "Gerry" Fairhead (March 23, 1923 – July 5, 2019) was a Canadian sailor. He placed eighth in the Star class at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
# Barun-Khemchiksky District

Barun-Khemchiksky District (Russian: Бару́н-Хемчи́кский кожуун; Tuvan: Барыын-Хемчик кожуун, Barıın-Xemçik kojuun) is an administrative and municipal district (raion, or kozhuun), one of the seventeen in the Tuva Republic, Russia. It is located in the west of the republic. The area of the district is 6,290 square kilometers (2,430 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Kyzyl-Mazhalyk. Population: 12,847 (2010 Census); 12,683 (2002 Census); 31,421 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Kyzyl-Mazhalyk accounts for 39.5% of the district's total population.
# Zhang Xinfeng

Zhang Xinfeng (simplified Chinese: 张新枫; traditional Chinese: 張新楓; pinyin: Zhāng Xīnfēng; born 28 August 1952) is a Chinese police and security official, serving since 2016 as the Special Anti-terrorism Officer of the government of the People's Republic of China. Previously he served as Assistant to the Minister and Deputy Minister of Public Security.

## Biography

Zhang was born in Tieling, Liaoning in August 1952.
In September 1968, Zhang was sent to Bei'an to work in May Seventh Cadre School after the Cultural Revolution was launched by Mao Zedong. In March 1976, at the close of Cultural Revolution, Zhang joined the Chinese Communist Party. He graduated from the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party.
Zhang got involved in politics in 1980. In 1990 he was promoted to become the deputy director of Heilongjiang Public Security Department, a position he held until 2003. In April 2003, Zhang was promoted to become the Assistant to the Minister of Public Security. In March 2005, Zhang was elevated to the Deputy Minister of Public Security. In January 2013, Zhang was elevated to head of the Anti-Terrorism Executive Commission of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
In January 2016, he was named Special Officer in charge of anti-terrorism (vice-minister level). His appointment was notable due to his having long passed the age of 60, the retirement age for vice-minister level officials. This 'rule-breaking' appointment was seen as an indication that anti-terrorism work was of extremely high importance to the Chinese government.
# USS Gertrude

USS Gertrude was the British blockade-running steamship Gertrude captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was placed in service by the Navy as a gunboat and assigned to patrol the southern coast of the United States for ships attempting to run the Union blockade of Southern ports. She was later the American merchant ship Gussie Telfair until wrecked in 1880.

## Service history

The iron-hulled steamer Gertrude was built in Whiteinch, Glasgow, Scotland as Yard No.100 at the Clydeholm yard of Barclay, Curle & Company as an American Civil War blockade runner and launched on 25 November 1862. Along with her sistership Emma, she was built for Thomas Stirling Begbie, a London shipowner and merchant. Gertrude was measured as 278grt and 191nrt, with dimensions 164.4 feet length overall, 21.2 feet beam and 12.2 feet depth. She was powered by 2-cylinder oscillating engine of 100nhp, made by John Scott's Greenock Foundry Company, Greenock. Gertrude made her first run of the blockade from Nassau, Bahamas to Charleston, South Carolina, arriving 16 March 1863, and returned safely with 820 bales of cotton. On her next trip, Gertrude had barely left Nassau when she was chased and captured on 16 April 1863 by the gunboat USS Vanderbilt off Eleuthera Island, Bahamas.
Purchased from the New York City Prize Court by the United States Navy on 4 June 1863, Gertrude was fitted out at New York Navy Yard and commissioned there on 22 July 1863, Acting Master Walter K. Cressy in command. Assigned to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron under Rear Admiral David Farragut, Gertrude arrived off Mobile, Alabama, in early August and on 16 August captured the Confederate blockade runner Warrior following a 9-hour chase. After taking her prize to New Orleans, Louisiana, Gertrude was assigned to blockade duty off that port. She served as a blockading ship, alternating between New Orleans and Mobile, until May 1864, and was credited with the capture of schooner Ellen on 16 January 1864. During this period she also spent short periods at Ship Island, Mississippi, and New Orleans for repairs.
Beginning in May 1864, Gertrude was assigned to blockade the Texas coast, and spent most of the next year off Galveston, Texas. She visited blockading stations off Sabine Pass and Velasco, Texas, and took blockade runner Eco off Galveston 19 February 1865. Gertrude also captured over 50 bales of cotton 19 April 1865 which were thrown overboard by famous Confederate blockade runner Denbigh during her escape from the blockading fleet. Gertrude decommissioned 11 August 1865 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and was sold 30 November at New York City to George Wright. She was redocumented Gussie Telfair in 1866 and sailed as a merchantman until 1878.
# The Child (poem)

"The Child" is an English poem written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1930. It was his only poem originally written in English. Later, he translated it in Bengali as "Sishutirtha". It was one of Tagore's most outstanding poem in his poetic career. It was originally written in a single night.

## Theme

The poem deals with the values of spirituality and humanism. It says that the journey of every man depends on his hope, faith and duty.

## Comments and criticisms

By the interpretation of Tanusree Sankar, a famous Bengali dancer, the poem is depicted as "a flowing, rhythmic, spiritual journey of Man through the ages, from the bondage of ignorance, ultimately to the freedom of enlightenment and self realization. At the same time, it may also be considered a celebration of the mother – the feminine principle in the universe."
# Glen Campbell (curler)

Glen Miller Campbell (September 23, 1916 – February 1, 2005) was a Canadian curler. He played as second on a team consisting of 3 of his brothers, winning the 1955 Brier.
# Thistletown (band)

Thistletown were a British psychedelic folk band from Falmouth, Cornwall, England.
They came to public attention through a The Guardian column by Will Hodgkinson, concerning his year-long project to start a record label, after he saw them playing in The Jacobs Ladder pub in Falmouth. The band lived together on a boat, and formed due to a collective love of obscure 1970s folk bands such as Heron and Trees. They recorded an album, Rosemarie, named after their boat, in the garden of a Cornish cottage with Circulus main man, Michael Tyack, and Benet Walsh producing. The album was well received by the press, receiving four stars from The Times, along with Mojo magazine, Record Collector and others.
The band played at Green Man Festival in 2007, and Radio 1 DJ Rob Da Bank afterward declared them the "Kings and Queens of the Green Man", announcing, "They're so folky it hurts".
The group disbanded in 2008. They briefly reformed in 2010.

## Discography

* Rosemarie (2008, Big Bertha Records)

## Band members until 2008

* Andrew Jarvis - Trumpet, Drums, Harmonium, Accordion.
* Lydia Thistle - Vocals, percussion.
* Tiffany Bryant - Vocals, percussion, Flute.
* Ben Tweddell - Guitar.
* Matthew Bennett - Drums and Percussion.
* Al Davies - Bass.
* Michael Tyack - Saz, Lute, Cittern, electric guitar.
* Benet Walsh - Bass, Mandolin, Clarinet.
* Mikey the dog - Vibes.
# Matteo Bogani

Matteo Bogani (born 2 May 1982) is a former Italian footballer. He started his career as a forward but was later also deployed as a midfielder.

## Career

Born in Como, Lombardy, 45 km north of Milan, Bogani started his career at F.C. Internazionale Milano. He played with the Primavera U20 youth team during the 2000–01 season, and in September 2001, he was loaned to Fidelis Andria along with teammate Roberto Capetti. Co-currently, he was sold to A.C. Milan in exchange with Paolo Ginestra, which created a "profit" of €3.5million, but the sell of Bogani's profit was in terms of Ginestra's registration rights. Milan and Inter had done the deals to gain false profit in 1999 to 2001, and 2003 (include Bogani's youth team teammate Marco Varaldi, Giuseppe Ticli, Salvatore Ferraro and Alessandro Livi). The two clubs finally fined in 2008. and 5 other clubs were also fined.
After spending a season at Andria, he moved to Sassuolo on loan along with Ginestra. In January 2003, he returned to AC Milan and joined Legnano.
Since the 2003–04 and 2004–05 seasons, he played for Tolentino, where he played 50 league matches in the last seasons.
# Zhao Yingying

Zhao Yingying (born 15 February 1986) is a Chinese pole vaulter.
She won the silver medal at the 2004 World Junior Championships and the bronze medal at the 2006 Asian Games. She also competed at the 2004 Olympic Games, the 2005 World Championships and the 2006 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final round.
Her personal best jump is 4.245 metres (indoor), achieved in February 2005 in Madrid.
# USS Lioness

Built in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in 1857, the steam ship Lioness was purchased by the War Department and converted to a ram ship for Colonel Charles Ellet, Jr.'s United States Ram Fleet. Commissioned in 1862, Lieutenant Warren D. Crandall in command, she joined the Union Mississippi River Squadron on the western rivers.

## Service

After fitting out at Pittsburgh in April 1862, Lioness departed New Albany for Cairo, Illinois 12 May. Scouting Fort Pillow with other rams on 1 June, she participated on 6 June in the First Battle of Memphis, a one-sided, Union victory. Lioness then joined other rams and three gunboats, convoying and covering army troops under Colonel Woods in a joint expedition from Helena to the Yazoo River, capturing the USS Fairplay, and destroying newly constructed Confederate batteries 20 miles up the Yazoo. The expedition also dispersed Confederate troops at Greenville, Mississippi, before retiring 27 August.
In December, Lioness was at Mound City, Illinois, preparing for further efforts against Vicksburg. On 6 February, she formed part of the expedition to Yazoo Pass and Greenville, operating there until 12 April. Then she and three other rams supported Colonel Charles R. Ellet's marine brigade in the Tennessee.
After Southern naval power on the rivers had been wiped out, Lioness was laid up at Mound City until sold in 1865. She served American commerce until sold abroad in 1873.
# U.S. Virgin Islands Davis Cup team

The United States Virgin Islands Davis Cup team represents the United States Virgin Islands in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Virgin Islands Tennis Association. They have not competed since 2012.
Their best finish is seventh in Group III.

## History

The US Virgin Islands competed in its first Davis Cup in 1998.

## Current team (2024)

* Tomas del Olmo
* Jan Neuburger
* Finlay Miller
* Imani Beharry
* Yared Alfred (Junior Player)
* Luca del Olmo (Captain)
# Thomas Howard (1651–1701)

Sir Thomas Howard (1651–1701) was the only surviving son of Sir Robert Howard of Ashtead, Surrey.
He served as a Teller of the Exchequer from 1689 until his death, a post that provided him with a house at Westminster. He was Member of Parliament for Castle Rising from 1685 to 1689 and from 1698 until his death, his father having the seat before him and in the intervening period. He sat for Bletchingley in the two periods between sitting for Castle Rising.
He married Lady Diana, daughter of Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford in 1683, by whom he had three sons and a daughter. Only one son survived him, dying the year after him aged 14. His daughter Diana married (in 1703) Edward Ward, 8th Baron Dudley and 3rd Baron Ward, who died in 1704, leaving her pregnant with a posthumous son, who succeeded his father in the Dudley estates, but died in 1731 without issue.
His grave in Ashtead church is by William Stanton.
# Robert Holden (photographer)

Robert Holden is a photographer, journeyer, and environmentalist. His work revolves around the humanistic idea of travel. The journey and the encounter are his main themes. His photographic approach is subjective and emotional. Many of his projects are based on reality but often combine a personal narrative, and are "symbolic of today's evolutionary development, straddling between reportage photography and art with a social message."
In 2011, his series, The Treehouse, was installed as a non-profit exhibition of large-scale prints on building façades in DUMBO, Brooklyn, curated by Vamos Architects in conjunction with the New York Photo Festival.
He contributes regularly, with his editorial work, to select international publications.

## Travel photography

Since 2007, Holden's style has evolved from documenting specific editorial assignments to photographing his travel experience through an intuitive, non-descriptive, and narrative style. This is most present in the freehand photographic editorials for Air France Magazine when he traveled with French writers such as Elisabeth Barillé, Stephane Audeguy, François Simon, and Marc Lambron.
His photographic style—along with that of a few other photographers—has led to a visual redefinition of travel photography in France "… allowing us to soar in thought. They are heirs of Saul Leiter and Wong Kar-wai, the offspring of still and moving image, and are born out of poetry and disillusionment."
# Gordon McTavish

Gordon Blaine McTavish (1925 – February 21, 2019) was a Canadian curler and judge. He was a 1965 World Men's silver medallist.
He wasn't a 1965 Brier champion like his other teammates, as he replaced Ron Braunstein at second position, who was a medical student at the time and had to miss the World championships that year.
In 1960–1961 he was a president of Granite Curling Club in Winnipeg.

## Personal life

The Honourable Gordon McTavish served as a provincial court judge in Manitoba from 1971 to 1999. He was married to Milly Johnson and had two children. In addition to curling, he was involved in horse racing as an owner and judge. He graduated from Manitoba Law School and was called to the bar in 1961. He worked for the law firm Keith and Westbury before entering private practise. In 1965 he was appointed as justice of the peace for Fort Garry.

## Teams

| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Events |
| 1964–65 | Terry Braunstein | Don Duguid | Gordon McTavish | Ray Turnbull | WCC 1965 |
# Thomas Comber (dean of Carlisle)

Thomas Comber (1575 – 28 February 1653) was an English linguist. He was the Dean of Carlisle and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
He was born at Shermanbury, Sussex about the end of the sixteenth century, the 12th child of Sir Richard Comber, the Clarenceux King of Arms at the Herald Court. He was educated at Horsham and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was an expert linguist fluent in Greek and Latin, and familiar with several other languages. In 1623 on his return from travels on the continent, he was elected King's Chaplain and soon afterwards Dean of Carlisle. In 1631, he was elected Master of Trinity College and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. At the outbreak of the English Civil War, he sided with the royalists and was hounded by the Puritans, who imprisoned him in 1642 until his death on 28 February 1653.
Comber married Susan, a widow and daughter of Freston of Norwich. After Comber's death she married Thomas Sclater.
# Macomades

Macomades was a Carthaginian and Roman city in North Africa. It was located near present-day Oum-El-Bouaghi, Algeria

## History

Macomades was established as an inland Punic trading post under the name MQMʾ (Punic: 𐤌𐤒𐤌𐤀, "Place"). It was about 64 kilometers (40 mi) from Cirta. It issued its own bronze coins with an Egyptian-style god's head obverse and a reverse bearing either a hog and galloping horse or a disk in a crescent, a symbol of the Punic goddess Tanit.
It was a town in the Roman province of Numidia.
It was overrun by the Umayyad Caliphate during the 7th-century Muslim invasion.

## Religion

No later than AD 256, the town was the seat of a Christian bishop. The diocese was in abeyance after the Muslim conquest of the region until it was restored by the Roman Catholic Church in 1933 as a titular bishopric (diocesis Macomadensis).

### List of bishops

* Cassius, at the council of Carthage called in 256 by Saint Cyprianus to discuss the 'lapsed' Christians who preferred forced idolatry to martyrdom
* Donatus, mentioned after 406, praised by Saint Augustine of Hippo in Contra Cresconium for abjuring the heresy Donatism
* Aurelius participated in the 411 council of Carthage (where both Catholic and heretical bishops were invited) as well as his Donatist counterpart from Macomades, Sallustius
* Pardalius was exiled after participating in the 484 synod of Carthage, called by the Vandal king Huneric, an Arian; in 487 he parttook, probably as Numidian delegate, in Pope Felix III's Lateran Council.
* Florentino Armas Lerena (8 April 1967 – 25 November 1979), while first Bishop-Prelate of Territorial Prelature of Chota and still on emeritate
* Ricardo Watty Urquidi (27 May 1980 – 6 November 1989), as Auxiliary Bishop of Mexico City, later Bishop of Nuevo Laredo, Bishop of Tepic
* Francisco Clavel Gil (from 27 June 2001), emeritus as former Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Mexico City
# Zhao Yong

Zhao Yong is the atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of various Chinese names.
It may refer to:
* Zhao Yong (king) (趙雍; d. 295 BC), a king of Zhao, posthumously known as its Wuling King
* Zhao Yong (painter) (趙雍; 1289 – c. 1360), a painter during the Yuan dynasty
* Zhao Yong (general) (赵庸), a general during the Ming dynasty
* Zhao Yong (politician) (赵勇; b. 1963), a politician in Hebei, China
# Edmund Calamy IV

Edmund Calamy IV (c. 1697 in London – 1755) was an English dissenting minister, the eldest son of the historian Edmund Calamy (1671–1732) by his first wife, Mary Watts. He was known as "a gentleman remarkable for his humanity, and ever employed in works of beneficence and charity."

## Career

After passing through Westminster School, Calamy, with Oxford and Cambridge being closed to Dissenters, entered the Edinburgh University in 1714. He graduated M.A. on 15 June 1717, eight years after the University had awarded its first-ever DD to his father. From Edinburgh he went to Leiden University, where he entered 29 September 1717. For some time he assisted his father at Westminster, but in 1726 he was chosen to succeed Clark Oldisworth, as assistant to the pastor of the presbyterian congregation in Crosby Square, Benjamin Grosvenor. He was a member of the presbyterian board (1739–48), and a trustee of Dr. Williams's Foundations from 1740 till his death. In 1749 Grosvenor resigned his charge, owing to advancing years, and simultaneously Calamy retired from the ministry. He died on 13 June 1755, and was buried on 17 June in the chancel of St Mary Aldermanbury. Three years later his library was sold at the Exeter Exchange.

## Family

His son Edmund (b. 18 May 1743 - d. 12 May 1816), who entered Warrington Academy in 1761 as a divinity student, removed to Cambridge in 1763, and became a barrister of Lincoln's Inn. He was a member of the presbyterian board, and a Williams' trustee (1784–1812). Thomas Emlyn of London, barrister (grandson of Thomas Emlyn, whose unitarian views E. Calamy, D.D., had controverted), by will dated 20 July 1796 left lands at Syddan, County Meath, to ‘Edmond Calamy, Esq., senior.’ In 1812 the barrister left London and died four years later at Alphington, near Exeter, aged seventy-three.