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# Joseph Taylor (Medal of Honor)

Joseph Taylor (September 22, 1837 – February 16, 1912) was an English soldier who fought for the Union Army in the United States during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor for valor.

## Biography

Taylor served in the American Civil War in the 7th Rhode Island Infantry. He received the Medal of Honor on July 20, 1897 for his actions at the Battle of Globe Tavern on August 18, 1864.
He is buried at Edson Cemetery in Lowell, Massachusetts

## Medal of Honor citation

Rank and organization: Private, Company E, 7th Rhode Island Infantry. Place and date: At Weldon Railroad, VA., 18 August 1865. Entered service at: Burrillville, RI. Birth: England. Date of Issue: 20 July 1897.
Citation:
   While acting as an orderly to a general officer on the field and alone, encountered a picket of 3 of the enemy and compelled their surrender.
# Elefthero Prosfygon

Elefthero Prosfygon (Greek: Ελεύθερο Προσφύγων) is a village of the Grevena municipality. Before the 1997 local government reform it was a part of the community of Elefthero. The 2021 census recorded 134 residents in the village.
# Andreas Ziartides

Andreas Ziartides (Greek: Ανδρέας Ζιαρτίδης; 1919–1997) was a Cypriot trade unionist and politician.
He was a Member of Parliament from 1960 to 1991, being elected as a candidate of the left wing AKEL party.
He was Secretary General of the Pancyprian Federation of Labour (PEO) from 1943 to 1986. His contribution to the development of labour relations and labour legislation in Cyprus has been crucial and many consider him the person with the most significant role in shaping the trade union movement on the island. Legislations such as the Social Security Law of Cyprus in 1956 (Πρώτος Νόμος Περί Κοινωνικών Ασφαλίσεων, Νόμος Αρ. 31 του 1956), the introduction of the Cost of Living Allowance, the eight-hour working day and the forty hour working week, legislation on unfair dismissal and the labour disputes tribunals, the shaping of the collective agreements in many sectors of economic activity as well as the tripartite cooperation between trade unions, employers’ organisations and government all bear his mark.
He first joined the outlawed Communist Party of Cyprus in 1939 and became a member of left wing AKEL party in 1941 upon its foundation. He was Secretary General of the Pancyprian Trade Union Committee, the first coordinating body of trade unions in Cyprus and the precursor of PEO. He was accused along with all the Committee members for sedition and insurrection against the Colonial order and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment in 1946. This was a major political trial of the colonial era and his address to the court was a memorable anti-colonial statement.
Andreas Ziartides participated as the Cypriot representative at the World Trade Union Conference held in 1945 in London. He served on the General Council and the Executive Committee of the WFTU for many years and was its Vice President for a while.
In the early nineties he, along with others in the AKEL leadership, disagreed with the line followed by the Party and was dismissed from his leadership position. This led to his and others’ departure from AKEL and the formation of ADESOK, in Greek: ΑΔΗΣΟΚ (Ανανεωτικό Δημοκρατικό Σοσιαλιστικό Κόμμα), a reformist leftist party. ADESOK was later merged with Free Democrats Movement (founded by former President of Cyprus George Vassiliou) and formed a new party named United Democrats.
A form of interview/biography of Andreas Ziartides was authored by Panikos Paionides in his book "Ανδρέας Ζιαρτίδης: Χωρίς φόβο και πάθος"
Television interviews of Andreas Ziartides were documented by journalist Pavlos Pavlou (Greek: Παύλος Παύλου) in his book Dimosia Katathesi (Greek: Δημόσια Κατάθεση). One of the television interviews given to journalist Spyros Kettiros (Greek: Σπύρος Κέττηρος) (12 January 1994) in his TV programme "En Lefko" ("Εν Λευκώ"), is available from the CyBC archive Digital Herodotus.
* Special Identity Card of Andreas Ziartides, issued by the House of Representatives on 23/10/1967 (outside).
* Business card of Andreas A. Ziartides, as Member of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Cyprus.
# Respect to Mehmetçik Monument

The Respect to Mehmetçik Memorial (Turkish: Mehmetçiğe Saygı Anıtı) is a monument in the Gallipoli peninsula, Çanakkale Province, Turkey. It is located in the Eceabat district of Çanakkale Province in the southern end of Albayrak heights within the Gallipoli Peninsula Historical Site which is facing the Anzac Cove. Mehmetçik is a common name given to soldiers in a war, akin to G.I. in the US.

## History

The monument, which was created by the Turkish sculptor Tankut Öktem (1941–2007) in 1997, is a sculpture of a Turkish soldier carrying an Australian officer. The sculpture is based on an event in the Gallipoli campaign of World War I in which an Ottoman soldier, after raising a white flag, carried a wounded Australian officer to Australian lines and returned to his lines before fighting resumed. There is also an inscription of a statement made by Lord Richard Casey, then a lieutenant and the staff captain with the 3rd Brigade in the Australian army, during a visit to Turkey about his respect for the Turkish army.
The inscription at the bottom reads: “We left the Gallipoli Peninsula fighting against the Turks and losing thousands of people but with a great admiration and appreciation for the Turkish nation and its unmatched love for its country. All Australians love Mehmetcik as if they are their own sons. Their bravery, love for its country and people, their irresistible majesty and courage in the trenches, and their love for their country is admired by all Anzacs and those are traits which should be taken as an example by all humanity. With gratitude and respect to Mehmetçik…. Australian Governor General Lord Casey 1967”.
# Agal

Agal or AGAL may refer to:
* Agal (accessory), an Arab men's clothing accessory
* Agal, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
* AGAL (association), (Galician: Associaçom Galega da Língua), a reintegrationist association that seeks full normalization of Galician language
* Adobe Graphics Assembly Language, a programming language for GPU shaders in Adobe Flash
# Vasily Gabashvili

Vasily Gabashvili (Georgian: ვასილ გაბაშვილი), also known by his Russified name Vasily Davidovich Gabayev (Russian: Василий Давидович Габаев) (1853–1933) was a Georgian military commander in the service of the Russian Empire and the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
Of a noble family, Gabashvili served as an officer in the Imperial Russian army and took part in the 1877-78 war with the Ottoman Empire. He then fought in World War I and was promoted to lieutenant general in 1916. He served as a military commandant of Tiflis from 1916 until 1917 when he was appointed commander of the newly created Georgian Army Corps which provided a basis for a future national Georgian army. He retained a top military post during Georgia's short-lived independence (1918-1921), but retired after the Soviet takeover in 1921.
# Pišra d-Ainia

Šafta ḏ-Pišra ḏ-Ainia (Classical Mandaic: ࡔࡀࡐࡕࡀ ࡖࡐࡉࡔࡓࡀ ࡖࡀࡉࡍࡉࡀ, "Exorcism of the Evil Eyes") is a Mandaean text used to protect against the evil eye.

## Manuscripts

There are at least 4 or 5 extant manuscripts of Pišra ḏ-Ainia.
* Drower Collection (DC) manuscripts held at the Bodleian Library
** DC 21 was copied by Sheikh Faraj (Adam br Iahia br Adam Zihrun) for E. S. Drower in December 1935 and contains 803 lines. It was published by Drower in JRAS No. 4 (Oct. 1937). Erica Hunter published an analysis in 2013.
** DC 29 was purchased by Drower from Shaikhs Nejm and Yahia in November 1937. (Full transliterated text from the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon)
* Rbai Rafid Collection (RRC) manuscripts held in Nijmegen, Netherlands
** RRC 1E
** RRC 3K was copied at Shushtar in 1080 A.H. (1669-70 A.D.). It is the oldest surviving Mandaic magical manuscript currently known to international scholars.
* MS Berlin
# Soltanabad, Yazd

Soltanabad (Persian: سلطان اباد, romanized: Solţānābād) is a village in Aliabad Rural District, in the Central District of Taft County, Yazd Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 65, in 22 families.
# Mordechai Piron

Mordechai Piron (Hebrew: מרדכי פירון; born Egon Pisk; 28 December 1921 – 28 May 2014) was the second chief military rabbi in the history of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), after his predecessor, Rabbi Shlomo Goren, created the position in 1948. Rabbi Piron served in the position from 1969 to 1980, with a rank of general. Upon his retirement from his IDF position, he relocated to Zürich, to serve till 1992 as rabbi of the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich (ICZ), the biggest Jewish congregation in Switzerland.
Rabbi Piron has published several books on Jewish philosophy and theology and was the head of the Sapir Center for Jewish Education and Culture in Jerusalem. He was an advocate of interfaith dialogue among world religions, chaired The Israel Jewish Council for Interreligious Relations (IJCIR), and sat on the board of world religious leaders for The Elijah Interfaith Institute.

## Life and military career

Born in Vienna, Austria, Piron was the only child of Viennese religious Jewish parents of Eastern European origins. He grew up in the Leopoldstadt, and first went to a religious Jewish school and later to the Sperlgymnasium. He left Vienna for Palestine on 28 October 1938 with the Youth Aliyah and joined its agricultural school Mikveh Yisrael. After a year and a half, he enrolled in Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav Kook, studying under rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook. In 1946 he married Ahuva Gardi and settled in Jerusalem. In 1952 he was ordained as a rabbi.
Piron served in the IDF since 1948, becoming second-in-command to chief military rabbi Shlomo Goren and succeeding him in 1969. He died in Jerusalem on 28 May 2014.

## Controversy

Rabbi Piron officiated at the wedding of Chanoch Langer. The disputed legitimacy of this wedding was settled in 1972 with "The Brother and Sister verdict" of Rabbi Goren as chief rabbi of Tel Aviv, a years-long case that made front-page headlines in Israel.
# Northwestern Switzerland

Northwestern Switzerland (German: Nordwestschweiz, French: Suisse du Nord-Ouest, Italian: Svizzera nordoccidentale), as defined by the Federal Statistical Office for statistical purposes, is a NUTS-2 region of Switzerland. As it encompasses the entire cantons of Basel-Stadt, Basel-Landschaft, and Aargau, it does not cover the same area as the traditional region of the same name (Nordwestschweiz in German), which also includes Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft, but also certain northern parts of the canton of Solothurn and only parts of the canton of Aargau.
# Krasninsky District, Lipetsk Oblast

Krasninsky District (Russian: Кра́снинский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the eighteen in Lipetsk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the oblast. The area of the district is 980 square kilometers (380 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Krasnoye. Population: 13,374 (2021 Census); 13,498 (2010 Census); 15,728 (2002 Census); 16,335 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Krasnoye accounts for 27.2% of the district's total population.
# Maghuiyeh-ye Sofla

Maghuiyeh-ye Sofla (Persian: مغوئيه سفلي, also Romanized as Maghū’īyeh-ye Soflá; also known as Moghūeeyeh-ye Soflá) is a village in Kiskan Rural District, in the Central District of Baft County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 239, in 56 families.
# Attachai Anantameak

Attachai Anantameak (Thai: อรรถชัย อนันตเมฆ; born April 22, 1965, in Narathiwat) is a Thai actor and political activist and a member of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD).

## Political career

Attachai's acting career came to an abrupt halt following his appearance on a UDD stage. He has stated he won't re-enter the entertainment industry as long as patronage networks continue to dominate it at the expense of "truly talented" actors like himself.
Attachai became attached to the Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's secretariat. He has nevertheless criticised the Pheu Thai government for its indulging the military, which he believes need to be offset by a separate service akin to the US National Guards.
In addition to lambasting the Thai "capitalist class" for its parasitic nature, Attachai has also expressed anti-American opinions, which ranged from his assertion that the CIA helped instigate the Thammasat University massacre by following its own example in staging the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat to his belief that Greece's recent economic crisis was caused by the IMF.

## In exile

Because of the 2014 Thai coup d'état Attachai went exile in Denmark. He went to Cambodia in exile around 2017 - 2018.
# Melville Monument (Greenland)

Melville Monument (Greenlandic: Usuussarsuaq) is an island in the Avannaata municipality, NW Greenland.
It was named "Melville Monument" by Arctic explorer Sir John Ross in July 1818.
The island is located in Melville Bay, separated from the coast by a narrow sound. It is a peaked island, familiar to Arctic navigators, similar to Kullorsuaq further south, but smaller.

## Literature

* Clements R. Markham, Life of Admiral Sir Leopold McClintock,
* T. C. Chamberlin, Glacial Studies in Greenland. III. Coast Glaciers between Disco Island and Inglefield Gulf
# Di mo

The dimo (Chinese: 笛膜; pinyin: dímó; lit. 'di membrane') is a special membrane applied to the transverse Chinese flute called dizi (or di), giving the instrument its characteristic buzzing timbre.
Dimo, made from the tissue-thin membrane from the interior of a specific variety of bamboo, are supplied as tubular sleeves. Only a small rectangle is needed at a time, so for application, a small section is cut off the end of the di mo sleeve, and that small tube is cut open to make a rough rectangle of flat membrane.
The Korean transverse bamboo flute called daegeum has a similar buzzing membrane. The Korean sogeum and junggeum, Vietnamese sáo, and the Thai khlui also once had membranes, but these are not used today.

## Application

The di mo is applied to the membrane hole (or Mo kong) of the dizi using a special, traditional glue called Ejiao. One of the advantages of ejiao is that the glue is water-soluble, so that it can be wetted again to re-adjust the di mo.
After applying the glue around the mo kong, the di mo is applied, and then adjusted while the glue is still wet so that many creases form in a sequence along the length of the hole. Each crease should be parallel to the one before, crossing the hole horizontally, so that together they form a sort of pleat or corrugation.
If Ejiao is not available, a substitute can be improvised by simply crushing garlic into a fine, relatively dry paste, and applying as normal. It should be used quickly.
Although the purpose of applying di mo is simply to make the dizi operational, the application technique is considered to be an art in itself.
# Saw bang

The Saw bang (Thai: ซอบั้ง) is a bowed musical instrument. It differs from a related Saw by using only bamboo for its sound box and skull fiddle (กะโหลกซอ). The bamboo is called " Mị̂ ku (ไม้กุ) ". It is sun-dried and then the bark is taken off. Holes are made and strings are stretched with the knob which are made from two pieces of wood wedge.
The other side of the cylinder has a piece of small wood called " H̄ỳxng (หย่อง)" that raises two cord lines made from bicycle brake cables. The Saw bang has two strings. The first one is called " S̄āy lị̀ s̄eīyng (สายไล่เสียง) "or Audio line out, it’s acted as the main cord and the other string called" S̄āy kl̀xm s̄eīyng (สายกล่องเสียง) " which produces higher pitch.
Each string makes a sound in conjunction with "Khæn (แคน)" and "Pī̀ (ปี่)". Saw bang has a characteristic soft tone.
In Vietnam, the similar instrument is xi xa lo or xò lò of Tai Dón people, Nghe An province.
# Lipaxus

Lipaxus or Lipaxos (Ancient Greek: Λίπαξος) was an ancient Greek polis (city-state) in the Chalcidice, ancient Macedonia. It is cited by Herodotus as one of the cities—together with Combreia, Lisaea, Gigonus, Campsa, Smila, Aeneia—located in the vicinity of the Thermaic Gulf, in a region called Crusis near the peninsula of Pallene, where Xerxes recruited troops in his expedition of the year 480 BCE against Greece.
Its site is unlocated.
# Ardara, Sardinia

Ardara (Sardinian: Àldara) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Sassari in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 160 kilometres (99 mi) north of Cagliari and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) southeast of Sassari.
It was one of the capitals of Giudicato di Torres. The village houses the ruins of the Castle of the Giudicato of Torres (11th century), the medieval walls, and the Romanesque Basilica of Santa Maria del Regno.
Ardara borders the municipalities of Chiaramonti, Mores, Ozieri, Ploaghe and Siligo.
Ardara is the birthplace of the singer Roberto Meloni, who represented Latvia at the 2007 and 2008 Eurovision Song Contest with Bonaparti.lv and Pirates of the Sea bands.
# Than Tawan

Than Tawan (Thai: ทานตะวัน) is a village and tambon (subdistrict) of Phan District, in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand. In 2005 it had a total population of 6,518 people. The tambon contains 11 villages.
# Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences

The Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences (Swedish: Kungliga Krigsvetenskapsakademien) is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden and was founded on 12 November 1796 by Gustaf Wilhelm af Tibell. The academy is an independent organization and a forum for military (army and air force) and defense studies as well as national security issues. Membership is limited to 160 chairs under the age of 62.

## Presidents

* 1799–1800: Per Ulrik Lilliehorn
* 1805–1806: Salomon von Rajalin
* 1815–????: Anders Fredrik Skjöldebrand
* 1904–1906: Richard Berg
* ????–????: Gustaf Uggla
* ????–????: Herman Wrangel
* 1922–1923: Hugo Jungstedt
* ????–????: Gustaf Dyrssen
* 1927–1929: Henning von Krusenstierna
* 1929–1931: Bror Munck
* 1931–1933: Carl Gustaf Hammarskjöld
* 1933–1935: Fredrik Riben
* 1935–1937: Ludvig Hammarskiöld
* 1937–1939: Oscar Nygren
* 1939–1941: Otto Lybeck
* 1941–1943: Lennart Lilliehöök
* 1943–1945: Erik Testrup
* 1945–1947: Archibald Douglas
* 1948–1949: Bengt Nordenskiöld
* 1949–1951: Helge Strömbäck
* 1951–1953: Birger Hedqvist
* 1953–1955: Stig H:son Ericson
* 1955–1957: Axel Ljungdahl
* 1957–1959: Ivar Gewert
* 1959–1961: Erik Samuelson
* 1961–1963: Rudolf Kolmodin
* 1963–1965: Bert Carpelan
* 1965–1967: Lage Thunberg
* 1967–1969: Åke Lindemalm
* 1969–1971: Carl Eric Almgren
* 1971–1973: Stig Norén
* 1973–1975: Bengt Lundvall
* 1975–1977: Ove Ljung
* 1977–1979: Dick Stenberg
* 1979–1982: Gunnar Thyresson
* 1982–1985: Gunnar Eklund
* 1985–1988: Per Sköld
* 1988–1991: Sven-Olof Olson
* 1991–1996: Carl-Olof Ternryd
* 1996–1999: Peter Nordbeck
* 1999–2002: Jörn Beckmann
* 2002–2006: Erik Norberg
* 2007–2010: Bo Huldt
* 2010–2014: Frank Rosenius
* 2014–2018: Mikael Odenberg
* 2018–2022: Sverker Göranson
* 2022–present: Björn von Sydow

## Notable members

* Karl Amundson
* Magnus Ranstorp
* Mertil Melin
* Michael Moore
* Frederik Due (honorary member)
* Anders Tegnell
# Qarah Sufi

Qarah Sufi (Persian: قره صوفي, also Romanized as Qarah Şūfī) is a village in Charuymaq-e Jonubegharbi Rural District, in the Central District of Charuymaq County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 94, in 21 families.
# The Haitian Times

The Haitian Times is an online newspaper based in Brooklyn for the Haitian diaspora living in the wider area of New York City.

## History

The Haitian Times was founded in 1999 in Brooklyn, New York as a daily newspaper printed in English, as opposed to French or Haitian Creole. It had published its first issue on 27 October 1999. The newspaper's launch was also put into the Congressional records when Representative Carrie Meek (D-FL) paid tribute to its founders.
It circulated 30,000 newspapers per week, 18,000 circulating in Brooklyn, 6,000 in Queens, 4,000 in Long Island, 1,000 in New Jersey, and 1,000 beyond the greater metropolitan New York City area. The newspaper also covered news out of Haiti in the tradition of mainstream American journalism.
Garry Pierre-Pierre, a reporter with the New York Times and Miami Herald reporter Yves Colon founded The Haitian Times. Colon, who served as an editor, left the publication after two months. Pierre-Pierre assumed the editorship in addition to his role as publisher.
From 1999 to 2012, most Haitian churches in the city subscribed to the paper, providing stacks of copies to its congregations at the doors.

### Patrick Dorismond

The Haitian Times covered the Patrick Dorismond shooting, a Haitian-American security guard who was shot by an undercover police officer near Madison Square Garden. The story placed the paper at the forefront and its reporting was quoted and followed by mainstream news publications from the Los Angeles Times to the New York Times.

### 2010 Haiti Earthquake

The newspaper again commanded center stage when the Haiti earthquake devastated much of Port-au-Prince and towns miles away. The staff was one of the earliest set of journalists to arrive in Haiti. Reporters and photographers spent months on the ground, chronicling the destruction and the rescue, clean up and eventual rebuilding.

## Awards

New York Press Association award; New York Community Media Alliance award
# New Mexico State Aggies women's basketball

The New Mexico State Aggies women's basketball team represents New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States. They are a member of Conference USA.

## History

New Mexico State began play in 1973. They were members of the Intermountain Athletic Conference from 1974 to 1982, the High County Athletic Conference from 1983 to 1990, the Big West Conference from 1991 to 2000, the Sun Belt Conference from 2001 to 2005, the Western Athletic Conference from 2005 to 2023 before joining Conference USA in 2023. They lost in the conference tournament championship game in 2006, 2007, and 2008 before winning the WAC title in 2015 and 2016. The Aggies have won regular season titles in 1987 (shared), 1988, 1995, 2003 (West Division, shared), 2015, and 2016. They made the WNIT in 1994 and 2010. They have lost in the first game of all four NCAA Tournaments they have played in (with a second round appearance in 1988 due to a bye). As of the end of the 2015–16 season, they have an all-time record of 662–572.

## NCAA tournament results

| Year | Seed | Round | Opponent | Result |
| 1987 | #9 | First Round | #8 Washington | L 73−86 |
| 1988 | #6 | Second Round | #3 Washington | L 74−99 |
| 2015 | #16 | First Round | #1 Maryland | L 57−75 |
| 2016 | #15 | First Round | #2 Arizona State | L 52−74 |
| 2017 | #15 | First Round | #2 Stanford | L 64−72 |
| 2019 | #14 | First Round | #3 Iowa State | L 61−97 |