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# J. C. Strauss

Julius Caesar Strauss (July 1857 - 1924), known professionally as J. C. Strauss, was an American photographer who was active in St. Louis, Missouri, at the turn of the 20th century.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a poor Bavarian-born tailor, he left home and sneaked into St. Louis in 1876 and opened a photography studio in 1879. By the 1890s, he had built a gallery. Although he was willing to experiment with different lighting and backgrounds, he insisted upon rigidly posed portraits.
Photographer Alfred Stieglitz from New York City eventually took over the style and reputation of Strauss who continued to create pictures that looked more like paintings. From the time of the St. Louis World's Fair until his death, Strauss' studio was a local tourist attraction.
# Wilhelm Rettich

Wilhelm Rettich (Leipzig, 3 July 1892 - Sinzheim, 27 December 1988) was a German Jewish, later naturalized Dutch, composer and conductor.
# Modillion

A modillion is an ornate bracket, more horizontal in shape and less imposing than a corbel. They are often seen underneath a cornice which helps to support them. Modillions are more elaborate than dentils (literally translated as small teeth). All three are selectively used as adjectival historic past participles (corbelled, modillioned, dentillated) as to what co-supports or simply adorns any high structure of a building, such as a terrace of a roof (a flat area of a roof), parapet, pediment/entablature, balcony, cornice band or roof cornice. Modillions occur classically under a Corinthian or a Composite cornice but may support any type of eaves cornice. They may be carved or plain.
# Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder

Charles Nicolas Cochin the Elder (29 April 1688 – 5 July 1754) was a French line-engraver.
He was born in Paris in 1688. His father, Charles Cochin, was a painter, and Charles Nicolas followed the same profession until he was twenty-two years of age, when he abandoned painting and devoted himself entirely to engraving. In 1731 he became an Academician, and on the occasion of his reception engraved the portraits of Jacques Sarrazin and Eustache Le Sueur. He then turned his attention to the fancy subjects of Watteau, Lancret, and Chardin, after whom he executed several fine works. He also assisted his son, Charles Nicolas Cochin, with the plates of the ceremonies at the marriage of the Dauphin with the Infanta of Spain in 1745. He died in Paris in 1754, having engraved about one hundred plates, among which are many vignettes for the 'Virgil' of 1742 and other books. The undermentioned are his best works:
* La Mariée de Village; after Watteau.
* Decoration du Bal paré; after C. N. Cochin, Fils. 1745.
* Decoration du Bal masque; after the same. 1745.
* Decoration et Dessein du Jeu tenu par le Roy et la Reine, 1747; after the same.
* Le Jeu du Pied-de-boeuf; after De Troy.
* Le Jeu de Colin-Maillard; after Lancret.
* Fuyez Iris; after the same.
* L'Amant sans gêne; after the same.
* La Blanchisseuse: La Fontaine; after Chardin.
* L'Ecureuse : Le Garçon Cabaretier; after the same.
* The Funeral of the Queen of Sardinia, 1735; after Perault and Slodtz.
Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels, the wife of Cochin, likewise practised engraving. She was born in Paris in 1686, and married in 1713. Among the plates which she executed two of the best are 'La Charmante Catin' and 'Le Chanteur de Cantiques,' which form part of the set of the 'Charges des Rues de Paris,' designed by her son. She also completed his large plate of the 'Feu d'artifice ' at Rome, which greeted the birth of the Dauphin in 1729, and often assisted him in other works. She died in Paris in 1767.
Further details respecting Cochin and his works are to be found in MM. Portalis and Béraldi's 'Graveurs da dix-huitième siècle,' i. 492–502.
# Dagmar Dyck

Dagmar Vaikalafi Dyck (born 1972) is a New Zealand artist of Tongan and German descent. Dyck's prints and paintings are often inspired by her cultural heritage and explore textile practices of Tonga. In 2012, Dyck was co-curator of No'o fakataha, a group exhibition of Tongan artists. Dyck's inspirations come from Tonga’s textiles arts, which includes bark cloth, mats, baskets and clothes.

## Education

Dyck completed a Bachelor for Fine Arts through Elam School of Fine Arts in 1994 and a Post-Graduate Diploma of Fine Arts in 1995. She was the first women of Tongan descent to do so. In 2009, Dyck graduated with a Graduate Diploma in teaching (Primary) from Victoria University of Wellington. She teaches art at Sylvia Park School in Mt Wellington, Auckland.

## Awards and honors

In 2017 Dyck was selected for inclusion in an artist research role in the Ancient Futures Marsden Project to Europe in 2018.
In 2014 Dyck received the Contemporary Artist Award at the Creative New Zealand Arts Pasifika Awards.
In 2002 Dyck was a finalist for the Wallace Art Awards.

## Selected exhibitions

* 2017 un/trained thoughts, Warwick Henderson Gallery, Newmarket Auckland
* 2014 Tonga 'i Onopooni: Tonga Contemporary, Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua Wellington
* 2013. Pacific Voices II, Orexart Auckland.
* 2013. To Be Pacific, Tairawhiti Museum + Art Gallery Gisborne.
* 2013 Pacifica: Patterns of Exchange. Flagstaff Gallery Auckland with Sheyne Tuffery
* 2013 Made in Oceania, Tapa Art + Landscapes, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne
* 2013 Between the Lines, Solander Gallery Wellington,
* 2012. Made in New Zealand: An exhibition of Fine Art from New Zealand. Agora Gallery, New York, USA.
# Boris Aronov

Boris Aronov (born March 13, 1963) is a computer scientist, currently a professor at the Tandon School of Engineering, New York University. His main area of research is computational geometry. He is a Sloan Research Fellow.
Aronov earned his B.A. in computer science and mathematics in 1984 from Queens College, City University of New York. He went on to graduate studies at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, where he received his M.S. in 1986 and Ph.D. in 1989, under the supervision of Micha Sharir.
# P.L. Chaturvedi

P.L. Chaturvedi was an Indian academic who served as Chancellor of Central University of Haryana. He was previously the Vice Chancellor of Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University Ajmer University.
He was the father of Arun Chaturvedi who is the Social Justice and Empowerment Minister in Rajasthan. And Sanjay Chaturvedi Senior Hospitality professional.his is worked with Tata Sons, Marriott, Oakwood, Claridges Hilton, Hyatt group of hotels. He died on 19 December 2020 in the age of 86. P.L. Chaturvedi had nearly five decades of teaching experience in various colleges in Rajasthan. He was also the National Vice President of All India Universities and Colleges Federation, President of Rajasthan University and College Educational Association, National Vice President of Education Board of India, President of Vidya Bharati Rajasthan and Chairman of Control and Fee Fixation Committee. He also served as the President of Madhya Pradesh Professional College for three years.
# Leland Barrows

Leland Judd Barrows (October 27, 1906 – March 3, 1988) was an American ambassador to Cameroon and Togo. He was born in Hutchinson, Kansas. He married Mabel Irene Conley on March 21, 1935.
He served various diplomatic positions including a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; Phi Beta Kappa and foreign service officer; along with his ambassadorships; as well as a Newspaper reporter and radio broadcaster outside of the State Department. He died in 1988.
His parents were Eugene Barrows and Florence Emma (Judd) Barrows.

## Education

He graduated from the University of Kansas with a master's degree in political science.

## Career

Narrows has had a varied career in government. While Harry Truman was president, he served in the Office of Price Administration, the Federal Public Housing Authority, and the Department of State, 1944–48; Executive Assistant to the Special, Representative in Europe, Economic Cooperation Administration, 1948–53; Director, Mission to Greece, Foreign Operations Agency, 1952–54; and Mission to Vietnam, 1949–1958.

## Personal life

Barrows was married to Irene Conley Barrows, with whom he had two children. His son, Leland C. Barrows, was a graduate of Columbia University and served as a history professor at Voorhees College.
# Jill Adelaide Neville

Jill Adelaide Neville (29 May 1932 – 11 June 1997) was an Australian novelist, playwright and poet.

## Biography

Neville was born in Sydney, Australia, her younger brother was Richard Neville. She grew up in the Blue Mountains area, becoming involved in the Sydney bohemian scene at the age 17. She attended Osborne Ladies' College, and left Australia for London in 1951.
In 1966, Neville published her first novel, Fall-Girl, which was based on her relationships with the poets Peter Porter and Robert Lowell. The novel received acclaim from contemporary critics.
She was married three times: to Peter Duval-Smith in 1960, David Leitch in 1970, and Lewis Wolpert in 1993.
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1995.

## Novels

* Neville, Jill (1995). The day we cut the lavender. Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin Books Australia. ISBN 0-14-024823-4. OCLC 34651724.
* Neville, Jill (1993). Swimming the channel. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 0-7475-1558-1. OCLC 29353282.
* Neville, Jill (1984). Last ferry to Manly. Ringwood, Vic., Australia. ISBN 0-14-007068-0. OCLC 12011209.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
* Neville, Jill (1969). The love-germ : a novel. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 9780297179238. OCLC 1280860403.
* Fall-Girl (1966)
# Randi Stene

Randi Stene (born 12 April 1963) is a Norwegian opera singer and contralto from Trondheim.
After her studies in Trondheim, Oslo and København, her international breakthrough came as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose) at the Opéra Bastille in Paris in 1993. She had the same success with this role in London. Her interpretation of Silla in Hans Pfitzner's opera Palestrina at Covent Garden rocketed her to the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
As a soloist, Randi Stene has performed at BBC Proms with Esa-Pekka Salonen and at the Salzburg Festival with Philippe Herreweghe. She is also a frequent guest soloist with the symphony orchestras in the Nordic capitals. Given her base in Copenhagen and her key role within Danish opera, she was an obvious choice as a soloist at the inauguration of the new opera house in Copenhagen in the new production of Verdi's Aida. Her recordings includes songs by Hugo Alfvén, John Dowland, Edvard Grieg, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger and Jean Sibelius.
In 2004 Stene was named Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog, and in 2007 she received the Norwegian-Finnish Sibelius Award.
# Torsten Nielsen

Torsten Nielsen (born 5 March 1967) is a Danish politician and former real estate agent. He was mayor of Viborg Municipality for the Conservative People's Party from 3 September 2014 to 31 December 2017. Nielsen worked as a licensed real estate agent between 1992 and 2021, and he was elected to the Viborg Municipality city council in 2009, where he was re-elected in 2013. Nielsen succeeded the former mayor, Søren Pape Poulsen, when he was appointed as the new leader of the Conservative People's Party in 2017.

## Civil career

Nielsen is a licensed real estate agent and started running his own business in 1992, first in his hometown Sparkjær, before moving to Stoholm in 2012. In 2021, he sold his real estate agency to focus full-time on his job in the Viborg city council.

## Political career

Nielsen ventured into local politics during discussions surrounding school closures. He was first elected to the Viborg City Council in 2009 and subsequently re-elected in both 2013 and 2017. Following the 2013 election, he assumed the role of chairman of the Municipality's Climate and Environment Committee. On 3 September 2014, he took over as mayor following the departure of Søren Pape Poulsen, who became the new leader of the Conservative People's Party, while Social Democrat Flemming Lund assumed Nielsen's former position as chairman of the Climate and Environment Committee. However, Nielsen faced defeat by fellow Venstre candidate Ulrik Wilbek in the contest for the mayor's position in Viborg during the 2017 Danish local elections.
# Andrzej Krzysztof Wróblewski

Andrzej Krzysztof Wróblewski (born as Andrzej Krzysztof Fejgin 2 July 1935 – 13 January 2012) was a Polish journalist.
Born into a Jewish family. Wróblewski worked for many years at Polityka, which he left in 1982, and for the Trójka radio station. After the end of the Martial law in Poland, he was editor of Gazeta Bankowa. He returned to Polityka in 1996.
Wróblewski retired in 2004.
# Mats Strandberg

Mats Olof Erling Strandberg (born 1976) is a Swedish author.
Strandberg has been a columnist in Aftonbladet. His debut novel was Jaktsäsong, published in 2006. His young adult fantasy novel Cirkeln, the first book in the Engelsfors trilogy written together with Sara Bergmark Elfgren and published in 2011, was an August Prize nominee in the youth literature category.
Strandberg has also written horror novels. In 2015, his novel Färjan, which is set on board a Baltic Sea cruiseferry, was published. It was translated into English as Blood Cruise and published in the UK by Jo Fletcher Books. Hemmet, about a residential care home haunted by ghosts, was published in 2017; Slutet, a preapocalyptic young adult novel about the final few weeks of life on Earth before a comet destroys all life, was released in 2018 and received very positive reviews in Dagens Nyheter and SVT. Konferensen, a horror novel about a corporate conference the site of a rampaging slasher, released in 2021 and was film adapted in 2023.
Strandberg is married to the actor Johan Ehn.
# Patrick Ekwall

Patrick Ekwall (born 16 July 1965) is a Swedish sports journalist.

## Biography

He grew up with his mother in Landskrona. His parents got divorced.
Ekwall is a reporter and commentator for TV4 sports department. He covers athletics events, and he also makes the channels sports reviews for the late sportnews. He presents the sports shows "Fotbollskanalen Europa" and "Ekwall vs Lundh".
He participated in the celebrity dance show Let's Dance 2007 which was broadcast on TV4, dancing with Carin da Silva.
Ekwall has written a book about the footballer Martin Dahlin. He has also released detective fiction.
# Folke Rydén

Folke Rydén, born 17 September 1958 in Uppsala, Sweden is a Swedish journalist and filmmaker.
Rydén has won numerous international awards and his documentaries have been shown all over the world. In 1993, he was awarded the Bonnier Grand Prize in journalism – the most prestigious journalism award in Sweden.
His productions have garnered dozens of international awards.

## Selected productions

* United States of Guns (1993)
* Björn Borg - The Saga (1997)
* Laredo & the Law (1999)
* Murder in Malexander (2001)
* The Yassier Arafat Story (2002)
* The Boy With No Face (2003)
* The Tsunami Generation (2005)
* Expedition Linné (2007)
* From Bill to Barack (2008)
* For Cod´s Sake (2009)
* The Prize of Gold (2012)
* The Second Wave (2013)
# Jerónimo Lagos Lisboa

Jerónimo Lagos Lisboa (1883–1958) was a Chilean poet.
He was born in San Javier de Loncomilla, Linares Province, Maule Region, Chile, in 1883. He was a president of the Chilean Writers Society. He was awarded several poetry prizes, among them the Municipality of Santiago Poetry Award for his works "Tiempo Ausente" (1937) and "La pequeña Lumbre" (1945). He died in 1958.
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# Hesperia florinda

Hesperia florinda is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae (Hesperiinae). It is found in the East Palearctic in Transbaikalia to Korea, Amur, Ussuri and Japan. The larva feeds on Carex. There is a single broods. The egg hibernates. Hesperia florinda was previously a subspecies of Hesperia comma.

## Subspecies

* Hesperia florinda florinda
* Hesperia florinda rozhkovi Kurentzov, 1970 (Transbaikalia)
# Chikkarampalayam

Chikkarampalayam is a village in Mettupalayam taluk, Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu, India. As of the 2011 Census of India, it had a population of 10,242 across 2,957 households. There were 5,059 males and 5,183 females.
# Werner Aspenström

Karl Werner Aspenström (13 November 1918 – 25 January 1997) was a Swedish poet.
Born at Norrbärke, he was a member of the Swedish Academy, where he held Seat 12 from 1981 to 1997. Following his breakthrough in 1949 with Snölegend ("Snow legend") he was considered one of the leading 20th-century Swedish poets, and his poetry has often been compared to the works of the Nobel Prize laureates Harry Martinson and Tomas Tranströmer. Aspenström claimed that his motivation for writing was "writing for his cat".
He was a friend of Stig Dagerman. His widow died in 2015.

## Selected works

* Förberedelse (1943)
* Oändligt är vårt äventyr (prose, 1945)
* Skriket och tystnaden (1946)
* Snölegend (1949)
* Litania (1952)
* Förebud (1953)
* Hundarna (1954)
* Dikter under träden (1956)
* Bäcken (prose, 1958)
* Motsägelser (essays, 1961)
* Om dagen om natten (1961)
* Trappan (1964)
* Sommar (prose, 1968)
* Inre (1969)
* Under tiden (1972)
* Tidigt en morgon, sent på jorden (1980)
* Sorl (1983)
* Det röda molnet (1986)
* Varelser (1988)
* Enskilt och allmänt (1991)
* Ty (1993)
* Israpport (1997)
* Öva Sitt Eget (2004) (posthumous, co-written with Signe Lund-Aspenström)
* Samlade dikter 1943-1997 (Collected poems 1943-1997, 2014)
# Max Lundgren

Max Lundgren (22 March 1937 – 27 May 2005) was a Swedish author of children's books. He debuted in 1962 with the book Hunden som äntligen visslade, and wrote over 50 books. Some of his books have become TV series, among other Pojken med guldbyxorna and his books about fictional Swedish football club Åshöjdens BK.
# 2016 in Latvia
## Incumbents

| Position | Person | Remarks |
| President of Latvia | Raimonds Vējonis | |
| Prime Minister of Latvia | Laimdota Straujuma (till February 11) | Second Straujuma cabinet |
| Prime Minister of Latvia | Māris Kučinskis (from February 11) | Kučinskis cabinet |
| Speaker of the Saeima | Ināra Mūrniece | |

## Events
### January

* January 20 — Heart surgery was performed to President of Latvia Raimonds Vējonis

### August

* August 5–21 - Latvia competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

### December

* December 3–11 — 2016 Men's World Floorball Championships took place in Latvia.

## Deaths

* January 4 — Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds, computer scientist and mathematician (b. 1942)
* April 9 — Juris Ekmanis, President of Latvian Academy of Sciences (b. 1941)
* April 22 — Ojārs Grīnbergs, singer (b. 1942)
* August 22 — Jānis Reinis, actor (b. 1960)
* November 29 — Ruta Šaca-Marjaša, lawyer, writer, poet, and politician (b. 1927)
# Alfred Jonas Dowuona-Hammond

Alfred Jonas Dowuona-Hammond was a Ghanaian politician and a state minister in the first republic. He served as Minister of Education and Social Welfare and Minister of Communications in the Nkrumah government.

## Early life and education

Dowuona-Hammond was born on 17 June 1920 at Pampanso; a village in the Eastern Region to Hansen Dowuona-Hammond and Madam Beatrice Nettey.
He had his early education at Sempe Government Junior Boys' School and Rowe Road Government Senior Boys' School in Accra. He had his secondary education at Mfantsipim School, the Accra Academy and O'Reilly Educational Institute where he obtained his Cambridge School Certificate with exemption from the London Matriculation Examination in 1940.

## Career

After completing his secondary school education in 1940, Alfred joined the staff of the O'Reilly Educational Institute rising to the position of assistant head master in his two-year tenure as a staff of the school. In 1942 he was employed by the United Africa Company (UAC) as probationer manager. He served in the company for five years working in Koforidua, Accra and Sekondi. He joined the staff of CPP's national schools in 1947. He founded the Winneba Secondary School in 1949 and in 1950 he served the government as an inspector of cooperatives.

## Politics

In 1950, CPP leaders were arrested and the CPP national schools were consequently closed down, however, in 1951, he was called to the movement's headquarters in Winneba when the CPP won the general election that year. In 1954, he was elected member of the legislative assembly representing the Awutu constituency; where his mother's hometown is situated. He won the seat in the subsequent elections that took place in the first republic. In 1956, he was appointed parliamentary secretary to the ministry of Labour and Co-operatives. He was promoted as Minister of Education when Ghana became a republic in July 1960. He served in this capacity for four years. In 1964 he was appointed Minister of Communications. He remained in this position until February 1966 when the Nkrumah government was overthrown by the NLC.

## Personal life

His hobbies included gardening, football, athletics and music.
# Kurt Hockerup

Kurt Hockerup (December 18, 1944 – March 29, 2010) was a Danish politician, who served as mayor of Vallensbæk Municipality from 1994 until his death, elected for Conservative People's Party.
He was elected to the municipal first time in 1966. He was in many years chairman of the municipality's technical committee, and became mayor in 1994. In 2004 he demanded that the municipality remained independent in the forthcoming local government, which the majority of voters in a referendum backed up on. Vallensbæk got a cooperation agreement with Ishøj Municipality and remained thus independent.
Kurt Hockerup died on March 29, 2010, from cardiac arrest. After his death, Henrik Rasmussen was elected as new mayor.
# Saint-Pons-de-Thomières Cathedral

Saint-Pons-de-Thomières Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Pons de Saint-Pons-de-Thomières) is a former Roman Catholic church located in Saint-Pons-de-Thomières, France. It is a national monument.
It was formerly the seat of the Bishopric of Saint-Pons, founded like a number of bishoprics in the region in the aftermath of the suppression of the Albigensians. By a Papal bull dated 18 February 1318, Pope John XXII created the see by elevating the abbey of Saint-Pons, which had been here since its foundation in 936 by Raymond, Count of Toulouse. The bishopric was abolished by the Concordat of 1801 and merged into the Diocese of Montpellier.
The Romanesque abbey church became the present cathedral. It takes its dedication, like the town and the abbey, from Saint Pontius of Cimiez. It is particularly known for the carvings on and around the portals. During the French Wars of Religion the choir was destroyed; it was replaced with the present neo-classical east front.
# Dlapkin Dol

Dlapkin Dol (Macedonian: Длапкин Дол, Albanian: Llapkidoll) is a village in the municipality of Kičevo, North Macedonia. It used to be part of the former Zajas Municipality.

## History

During the period of 1912-1913, members the Serbian army massacred committed a massacre in the village. The Hajro, Meti, Qerimi families were eradicated, as well as 18 other inhabitants of the village. After the capture of the village by Partisan forces, 11 Albanian men were executed by the incoming communist forces.

## Demographics

The village is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kırçova. The village had a total of 7 houses, excluding bachelors (mucerred).
According to the 1942 Albanian census, Dlapkin Dol was inhabited by a total of 345 Muslim Albanians.
As of the 2021 census, Dlapkin Dol had 388 residents with the following ethnic composition:
* Albanians 368
* Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 20
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 636 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:
* Albanians – 633
* Macedonians – 1
* Others – 2