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# William C. Bryan

William C. Bryan (September 9, 1852 – March 27, 1933) was a United States Army soldier and athlete who received the Medal of Honor. His award came for gallantry during the American Indian Wars. He was also a professional baseball player, sprinter, and coach.

## Biography

Bryan was born on September 9, 1852, in Zanesville, Ohio. He enlisted into the United States Army at St. Louis in 1874, and was made a Hospital Steward. Bryan was assigned to the Department of the Platte, commanded by Brigadier General George Crook. In February 1876 he was attached to the Medical Company of the Big Horn Expedition under the direction of Assistant Surgeon Curtis E. Munn.
Bryan accompanied the expedition into Montana Territory during March 1876. On the seventeenth, he was riding with Company K of the 2nd United States Cavalry when the troop was ordered by Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds to charge and capture an encampment of Northern Cheyenne and Lakota Sioux. In the opening actions of the Battle of Powder River, Bryan's horse was killed under him. He continued to fight on foot, carrying two wounded soldiers to safety, inevitably saving them from capture. For these actions, Hospital Steward William C. Bryan was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1899.
Bryan was discharged from the army in 1878. He later re-enlisted in a volunteer regiment from Illinois for service in the Spanish-American War and was eventually promoted to the rank of captain. He retired from the Army in 1901.
Following his first tour of service Bryan began a career as a professional athlete. He was a member of organized baseball and sprinting teams that toured the west including the Bates hose team, a fire department squad in Denver composed of professional sprinters.
In 1890 he was employed by industrialist Francis Ley to coach the Derby Baseball Club in England in a professional baseball league organized by Ley and Albert Spalding.
He returned to America in 1894 to coach the athletics department at the University of Pennsylvania and later Northwestern University.
He married Lucy B. Wetzel (1873-1945) in 1888. Captain William C. Bryan died on March 27, 1933, in Santa Monica, California. He was buried in Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, Colorado.

## Medal of Honor citation

Rank and organization: Hospital Steward, Medical Company. Place and date: At Powder River, Montana, March 17, 1876. Entered service at: St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Born: September 9, 1852, Zanesville, Ohio. Date of issue: June 15, 1899.
Citation:
"Hospital Steward Bryan accompanied a detachment of cavalry in a charge on a village of hostile Indians and fought through the engagements, having his horse killed under him. He continued to fight on foot, and under severe fire and without assistance conveyed two wounded comrades to places of safety, saving them from capture."
# Abdollah Shahbazi

Abdollah Shahbazi (Persian: عبدالله شهبازی; born 1955 in Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian historian.

## Background

Shahbazi graduated from the department of Social Sciences at The University of Tehran and became active in areas of political and historical research during the 1980s. He founded The Political Studies and Research Institute in 1988, and for a decade was in charge of its research activities. In 1995, he reorganized the document center of Iran's "Bonyad" into a professional historical institute, The Institute for Iranian Contemporary Historical Studies.
Shahbazi's father, Habibollah Khan Shahbazi, was the leader of the Sorkhi tribes of Kuhmarre Sorkhi region of Fars Province and led Iran's 1962-1963 tribal rebellion against the Pahlavi dynasty. He was executed together with other dignitaries of southern Iranian Tribes on October 5, 1964.

## Publications

Shahbazi has published numerous books and articles about Iranian pastoral nomads (Ilat va Ashayer), contemporary history of Iran and political thought.
Most famous are:
* The Forgotten Tribe: A Study of the Sorkhi Tribe of Fars Province (1987).
* An Introduction to the Study of Nomads of Persia (1990).
* The Rise and Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty (1991). The first volume of this two-volume set contains the controversial memoirs of General Hossein Fardoust, head of Mohammad Reza Shah's Special Intelligence Office. The second volume is a collection of monographs by Shahbazi regarding historical events and important characters of Pahlavi era based on the period's classified documents. The Rise and Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty has been a bestseller in Iran and many films and TV series have been made based on it.
* Jewish and Parsi Plutocrats: British Imperialism and Iran (1999-2004) in 5 volumes. By "Parsi" Shahbazi means the wealthy Parsi (Zoroastrian) families of Bombay and western India during the 19th and 20th centuries.
He compiled and edited the memoirs of the leaders of The Tudeh Party of Iran (Iranian Communist Party), Noureddin Kianouri (1992) and Iraj Eskandari (1993).
# Awad bin Mohammed al-Qarni

Dr. Awad ibn Muhammed al-Qarni (Arabic: عوض بن محمد القرني, also spelt al-Qarnee and Quranī, born 1959), is a Saudi Islamic Muslim scholar, author, and activist. He is known for his criticism of secularism and modernity and advocacy of conservative Islamic views. He was arrested in 2017 on charges of Promoting extremist ideas. In January 2023, it was announced that Saudi prosecutors were seeking the death penalty in his case.

## Early life, education, and career

al-Qarni was born in 1957 (1376 AH) in the al Qarn governate of the Asir region. He received a PhD in Islamic law from the Imam Muhammed ibn Saud University. He later worked as a professor at the Abha branch of the university and at the King Khalid University. al Qarni is also a trainer in neuro-linguistic programming and a member of the International Federation of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Dr. Wyatt Woodsmall, the president of the International Federation of Neuro-Linguistic Programming converted to Islam as a result of conversations with al Qarni.

## Views

al Qarni is most well known for his criticism of secularism in modernity, most notably in his book "Modernity in the Balance of Islam." This book was highly influential on the Sahwa movement which included other Saudi scholars such as Safar al Hawali.
He was one of 26 signatories of a statement calling for jihad against the American-led occupation of Iraq during the Iraq war. He argued that the global war on terror was "fabricated" by the West to colonize Muslim countries and destroy their way of life.

## His Views on Women's Rights

In Al-Qarni's Words "I'm Committed to fighting the unveiling and immodesty called for by Westernizers and pledged to demand the veil, purity, chastity and jealousy."

## Criticism and controversy

Saudi state-backed media has described al Qarni as a "preacher of hate" and accused him of using TV interviews to "glorify terrorism, spread conspiracy theories and launch tirades against the West."
At one point, he was involved in a public argument with a prominent Houthi figure who accused him of plotting to assassinate the Saudi king.

## Arrest and prosecution

In 2017, al Qarni was banned by a Saudi court from using Twitter, where he had more than 2 million followers. He was arrested later that year on charges of using social media to spread materials subversive to the Saudi government. Riyadh's Specialised Criminal Court convicted him for spreading content on Twitter which "could jeopardise public order and provoke public opinion" and "could affect the relationship of the people with the leadership, and the relationship of Saudi Arabia with other countries."
His son, Nasser al Qarni, fled to the UK in the aftermath of his father's arrest. al Qarni's son described his arrest in 2017 as especially violent, with more than 100 armed officers surrounding his house.

## Written works

* Human Rights in Islam
* Modernity in the Balance of Islam
* Provisions of Freedom in Islam
* Provisions of Testimony in Islam
* The Issue of Palestine in the Balance of Islam
# Gornja Rženica

Gornja Ržanica (Serbian Cyrillic: Горња Ржaница; Albanian: Zhanica) is a village in the municipality of Plav, Montenegro.

## Demographics

According to the 2011 census, its population was 248.
Ethnicity in 2011 :
| Ethnicity | Number | Percentage |
| Serbs | 203 | 81.9% |
| Montenegrins | 24 | 9.7% |
| Albanians | 18 | 7.3% |
| other/undeclared | 3 | 1.2% |
| Total | 248 | 100% |
# Norman W. Ressler

Norman W. Ressler (May 27, 1873 – September 29, 1914) was a corporal serving in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War who received the Medal of Honor for bravery.

## Biography

Ressler was born May 27, 1873, in Dalmatia, Pennsylvania and entered the army from St. Louis, Missouri in October 1895. He was sent to fight in the Spanish–American War with Company D, 17th U.S. Infantry as a corporal where he received the Medal of Honor for his actions. He was discharged in October 1900, and rejoined the army in January 1902.
Ressler died on September 29, 1914.

## Medal of Honor citation

Rank and organization: Corporal, Company D, 17th U.S. Infantry. Place and date: At El Caney, Cuba, 1 July 1898. Entered service at: Dalmatia, Pa. Birth: Dalmatia, Pa. Date of issue: 21 August 1899.
Citation:
   Gallantly assisted in the rescue of the wounded from in front of the lines and under heavy fire of the enemy.
# Imad al-Din Mahmud Junabadi

Imad al-Din Mahmud Junabadi (Persian: عمادالدین محمود جنابادی; 2 January 1415 – 1450s) was an Iranian bureaucrat, who served as a financial officer and vizier under the Timurid Empire. The son of Sayyid Zayn al-Abidin Junabadi, he belonged to a sayyid family from the town of Junabad in Quhistan, where they also owned land.
After the death of his father in 1425/6, Imad al-Din entered the service of Shah Rukh (r. 1405–1447), and in 1443 was appointed the financial accountant of the city of Balkh by the latter's powerful amir Jalal al-Din Firuzshah. Informed of embezzlement by the deputies of Balkh, Shah Rukh secretly selected Imad al-Din to investigate the situation.
With the help of Shah Rukh's son Muhammad Juki (who had access to the matters of the deputies), Imad al-Din successfully exposed the misappropriation of the revenues, and in 1444 presented the matter to Shah Rukh. After the death of Shah Rukh in 1447, Imad al-Din entered the service of the latter's son and successor Ulugh Beg (r. 1447–1449), eventually becoming his vizier in 1448. Imad al-Din is later recorded as one of the divanian (high-ranking officials) of Abdal-Latif Mirza (r. 1449–1450) and Abul-Qasim Babur Mirza (r. 1449–1449, 1450–1457). According to the historian Sayf al-Din Uqayli, he also served Mirza Sultan Sanjar during the reign of Abul-Qasim Babur Mirza, but soon died afterwards.
# Talkhari

Talkhari or Tall Khari (Persian: تل خاري) may refer to:
* Talkhari-ye Abbas-e Deligerdu
* Talkhari-ye Bandar-e Deligerdu
* Talkhari-ye Dam-e Deligerdu
# Wooden toys of Hrvatsko Zagorje

Wooden toys of Hrvatsko Zagorje (Croatian: Drvene igračke Hrvatskog zagorja) are traditional wooden toys made in the region of Zagorje in Croatia. The method of production, from starting with raw wood to finishing applications of paint, has been passed down from generation to generation, with families continuing to use traditional techniques even in modern times.

## History

The technique for crafting wooden toys dates back to the 19th century, when several villages along the traveling path to the religious pilgrimage site Marija Bistrica began carving wood to make trinkets and toys. Local wood such as maple, willow, beech, and lime were used to carve into various shapes using special tools to achieve precise cuts. After the men created the toys, the women would hand paint unique designs and motifs using bright colors of red, yellow, and blue.
In 2009 the custom was inscribed as part of UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
# James B. Weaver House

The James B. Weaver House is a historic house at 102 Weaver Road (United States Route 63) in Bloomfield, Iowa. Built in 1865, it was the home of James Weaver (1833-1912) until 1890. Weaver, a populist and anti-monopolist, was the Greenback candidate for president in 1880 and the Populist candidate in 1892. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975.

## Description and history

The Weaver House is located north of downtown Bloomfield, on the east side of Weaver Road just north of its junction with North Street. It is a two-story L-shaped brick structure, with a gabled roof, five corbelled chimneys, and a single-story ell to the rear. A two-story porch is set in the crook of the L. The most prominent feature of the exterior is the windows of its principal elevations, which are set in arched openings framed by dentillated brick hoods.
The house was built in 1865 for James B. Weaver, an Ohio native who settled in newly formed Bloomfield in 1847. Politically active, he helped organize Iowa's Republican Party, and served in the Union Army in the American Civil War. A champion of the rural farm electorate, he ran for President of the United States on the Greenback Party ticket in 1880, and the populist People's Party in 1892, having helped form the party out of a group of reform-oriented organizations the previous year.
Weaver lived in this house until 1890, when he moved to Des Moines. After passing through several private owners, it was acquired by the Davis County Chautauqua Association, which operated it for a time as a historic house museum. It was eventually returned to private ownership.
# Nikola Lazić

Nikola Lazić (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Лазић; born 26 May 1999) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2020 to 2022 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party. Twenty-one years old at the time of his inauguration, he is currently the youngest member of the Serbian parliament. On May 1, 2024, he was elected again as a deputy in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, after the withdrawal of the previous deputies, as 132 on the list "Aleksandar Vučić - Serbia must not stop".

## Private career

Lazić lives in Belgrade. He was recognized as a physiotherapeutic technician after graduating from a specialized high school program and is a student at the Faculty of Media and Communications at Megatrend University. His mother, Verica Lazić, has been an advisor to Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić on social and health issues since 2017. Nikola also founded the largest festival for young people, the Balkan Youth Fest, which took place in Belgrade in August 2023 and gathered over 20,000 young people.

## Politician

Lazić received the 160th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children electoral list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a landslide majority with 188 out of 250 mandates. He is now a member of the assembly committee on the rights of the child; a deputy member of the committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society; a deputy member of the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues; a member of the subcommittee on youth and sports; the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Uganda; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Cuba, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Montenegro, Spain, and Turkey.
# Alliance of Democrats (Lesotho)

The Alliance of Democrats (AD; Sotho: Lekhotla la Kopano ea Sechaba) is a political party in Lesotho.

## History

The party was established in December 2016 by Kabelo Gilbert Mafura and Monyane Moleleki after both were suspended by the Democratic Congress party following a failed leadership challenge against party leader and Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili. As well as Moleleki, several other MPs including Tjoetsane Seoka, Rethabile Marumo, Maboiketlo Maliehe, Refiloe Litjobo, Jobo Sekautu, Mokhele Moletsane, Tieho 'Mamasiane, Mokoto Hloaele, Ndiwuhleli Ndlopo se and Kotiti Liholo defected from the Democratic Congress. The party supported a motion of no confidence in Mosisili in March 2017, which led to early elections in June. The AD received 7.3% of the vote, winning nine seats and becoming the fourth largest party in parliament. The party subsequently joined a coalition government led by Tom Thabane of the All Basotho Convention. Following the 2022 election the AD reached an agreement with the newly formed Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) and with the Movement for Economic Change to form a government led by RFP's leader Sam Matekane.

## Election results

| Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Status |
| 2017 | 42,686 | 7.34 | 9 / 120 | New | Opposition |
| 2022 | 20,798 | 4.04 | 5 / 120 | 4 | Coalition |
# Rijeka Orthodox Synagogue

The Rijeka Orthodox Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue, located on Ivan Filipović Street, formerly Galvani Street (opposite the Faculty of Economics), in Rijeka in Croatia. The synagogue was built in a Rationalist style in 1931 (when Rijeka was part of Italy). It is one of the very few synagogues in Croatian territory to have survived the destruction of the Nazi period.

## History

The small orthodox synagogue of Rijeka was completed in 1931 to meet the needs of the Orthodox Jews who were in the minority in Rijeka compared to the large Jewish community, which met in the majestic Great Synagogue of Rijeka (built in 1903 and destroyed by the Nazis in 1944).
The project was entrusted to the architects Győzo Angyal and Pietro Fabbro. Together with the synagogue of Genoa, it is one of only two examples of a modern-style synagogue built in Italy during the Fascist period.
The synagogue has a simple tripartite façade with a central body in red brick and stone slabs with two doors (one of which under a portico leads directly to the women's gallery) and two small windows with an ornamental reference to the Star of David. The interior has a single room with the raised balcony of the women's gallery overlooking the entrance. The Italian-style marble tabernacle containing the holy ark with the books of the Torah was a gift in 1934 from the Jews of Trieste to the Fiuman confreres (until then it adorned the Schola grande in Piazza delle Scuole israelitiche in Trieste).
The Orthodox synagogue in Rijeka is one of the very few synagogues in Croatian territory that survived the destruction of the Holocaust. The temple remained standing, because during the Nazi occupation it was used as an ammunition depot, while the large synagogue in Rijeka was destroyed on January 25, 1944. After the war, the small Orthodox synagogue was thus able to house the few surviving Rijeka Jews of that which until a few years earlier was a thriving community of over 2,000 members.
The Orthodox synagogue became nationalized property on December 5, 1956. In 1996 it was declared a monument of historical and cultural interest of the city. In 2005–2008 it underwent major restoration works. The small Rijeka community (now reduced to a hundred members) uses it today for major holidays with the assistance of the neighboring communities of Trieste and Zagreb.
# Railway Workers' Union (Finland)

The Railway Workers' Union (Finnish: Rautatieläisten Liitto, RAUTL) was a trade union representing workers in the railway industry in Finland.
The union was founded in 1930, following the banning of its immediate forerunner. It affiliated to the Finnish Federation of Trade Unions (SAK), and by 1955, it had 12,063 members.
In 1969, the SAK merged into the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions. The Railway Workers affiliated to the Joint Organisation of State Employees (VTY), which in turn affiliated to the new federation. This arrangement survived until 1996, when the Railway Workers left the VTY, and affiliated directly to the federation.
By 1998, the union had 17,330 members. At the start of 2012, it merged into the Public and Welfare Services Union (JHL). The JHL created a Railway Professionals section, bringing together former RAUTL members with those working on tramways.
# Vesna Nedović

Vesna Nedović (Serbian Cyrillic: Весна Недовић; born 3 September 1966) is a Serbian politician. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2020 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

## Private career

Nedović has a master's degree as an engineer in management.

## Politician
### Municipal politics

Nedović received the forty-second position on the Progressive Party's electoral list for the Zemun municipal assembly in Belgrade in the 2009 Serbian local elections. The list won a plurality victory with twenty-three seats and Nedović was subsequently selected for a mandate. (Prior to an electoral reform in 2011, mandates were distributed to list candidates at the discretion of successful parties or coalitions, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order.) She did not seek re-election in 2013.
In 2016, Nedović was appointed as a citizen member of the Zemun municipal committee for budget and finance.

### Parliamentarian

Nedović was given the 150th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a landslide majority with 188 out of 250 mandates. She is a member of the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality; a deputy member of the committee on constitutional and legislative issues and the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues; and a member of Serbia's parliamentary friendship groups with China, Greece, Russia, and Turkey.
# Mir Zahid Harawi

Mīr Muḥammad Zāhid Harawī (Persian: میر محمد زاهد هروی; died 1689) was an Islamic scholar, historian, and chronicler. He is considered to be one of the authors of the historic Dars-i Nizami curriculum.

## Early life

Zahid was born in Hindustan. His father, Qadi Muhammad Aslam (d. 1651), was from Herat in and migrated to Lahore during the reign of the Mughal emperor Jahangir. The emperor was impressed with Aslam's piety and religiosity and offered him a position as the Qadi (judge) of Kabul and later of the army. The next Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, reinstated his position as Qadi and declared Aslam as his Imam-e-Khas.
Zahid's education began with his father. He studied under Mullah Muhammad Fazil Badakhshani and Mullah Sadiq Halwai in Kabul. After that, he went to Turan, where he studied under Mirza Muhammad Jan Shirazi . He studied hikmah under Shirazi's student Mullah Yusuf. Sometime after, Zahid returned to Lahore, where he studied with Mullah Jamal.

## Career

In Ramadan 1054 AH (July 1654), Shah Jahan appointed him as the chronicler of Kabul. Zahid remained in this position during the reign of Aurangzeb. In 1666, he was appointed as the accountant for the Mughal army. Aurangzeb later appointed him to the presidency of Kabul. While serving as the army accountant in Akbarabad, Zahid continued to teach Islamic studies. He taught the science of rationality to Shah Abdur Rahim. Towards the end of his life, Zahid started to focus more on teaching and retired from his imperial employment. Some of his students travelled from faraway places, such as Muhammad Salih of Bengal.
Harawi was a relative of Masum Sirhindi (son of Ahmad Sirhindi) of the Naqshbandi order and was one of his successors (Khalifa). Shah Waliullah Dehlawi praised Harawi for his piety in his work Anfas-ul-Arifin. ' Abd al-Haqq al-Dehlawi notes that Harawi had great confidence in the wisdom of Waliullah's father Shah Abdur Rahim on matters of jurisprudence.

## Works

Harawi wrote several hashiyas(glossary) such as Hashiya Sharh Muwaqif, Hashiya Sharh Tahzeeb Allama Dwani, Hashiya Risala Qutbuddin Razi, and Hashiya Sharh Hayakal.

## Death

Harawi died in 1101 AH (1689-1690 CE) in Kabul.