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# Frederick David Mocatta

Frederick David Mocatta (1828–1905), also known as Frederic David Mocatta, was an English financier and philanthropist from a notable Anglo-Jewish family.

## Life

Mocatta was a partner of the London bullion broker, Mocatta & Goldsmid (established in 1684) and directed it from 1857 to 1874. After he had retired from the business in 1874 he devoted himself to works of public and private benevolence, especially in the deprived East End of London. Besides this he was a patron of learning and himself an author of historical works, the chief of which was The Jews of Spain & Portugal and the Inquisition. On the occasion of his 70th birthday, he was presented with a testimonial from more than 200 philanthropic and literary institutions.
The Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition (1887) owed its inception to Mocatta. He bequeathed his fine library to the Jewish Historical Society of England, of which he was at one time president. This library formed the basis of the collections which are now included in the Mocatta Library, founded in his memory, and located at the University of London (University College, Gower Street). A fountain was erected to his memory by the people of East London, outside St Botolph's Church, Aldgate.
A man of letters, Mocatta had vast correspondences with the great and the good of his era. In matters of religion, he was observant and belonged not only to two Orthodox synagogues but also to the West London Synagogue, a Reform congregation that his family had played a prominent part in founding in London.

## Death

He died on 16 January 1905 and is buried at Balls Pond Road Cemetery.
# Vadim Sokolov

Vadim Vadimovich Sokolov (Russian: Вадим Вадимович Соколов; born 9 December 1971) is a retired Russian professional footballer who last worked as a manager of FC Gazprom transgaz Stavropol Ryzdvyany.
He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League B in 1991 for FC Signal Izobilny.
# Billy Marek

Billy Marek (born c. 1954) is a former American football running back. He played college football for the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1972 to 1975.
In his high school football career at St. Rita of Cascia High School in Illinois, Marek was named the MVP (most valuable player) of the 1972 Chicago Prep Bowl, a game in which St. Rita defeated Morgan Park High School.
Playing for the Wisconsin Badgers football team from 1972 to 1975, Marek gained more than 1,200 rushing yards for three consecutive years from 1973 to 1975. He concluded his college football career with 740 yards and 13 touchdowns in the final three games of the 1974 season, including a Wisconsin Badgers football record 304 rushing yards against Minnesota. Of course this didn't actually 'conclude his career' since he played the whole next season yet. He also set Wisconsin career records with 3,709 rushing yards and 277 points scored, led the country with 114 points in 1974, and was named the State of Wisconsin's "Sports Personality of the Year" in 1974. He was inducted into the University of Wisconsin Hall of Fame in 1994.
Marek did not have a substantial professional career but did briefly play for the Chicago Fire of the minor league American Football Association in 1981.
# Gordon Beck

Gordon James Beck (16 September 1935 – 6 November 2011) was an English jazz pianist and composer. At the time of his death, 26 albums had been released under his name.

## Early life

Beck was born in Brixton, London, and attended Pinner County Grammar School – the school Reg Dwight (Elton John) and Simon Le Bon later attended. He had a sister, Judy. He studied piano in his youth, but decided to pursue a career as an engineering technical draughtsman and moved to Canada in 1957 for this reason.

## Career

Largely self-taught, he returned to music after returning from Canada in 1958, where he had been exposed to the works of George Shearing and Dave Brubeck.
Beck became a professional musician in 1960. That year, he played with saxophonist Don Byas in Monte Carlo. Beck joined the Tubby Hayes group in 1962 back in England. He led his own bands from 1965, including Gyroscope, from 1968, a trio with bassist Jeff Clyne and drummer Tony Oxley.
In 1967, the Gordon Beck Quartet recorded the album Experiments with Pops which was released on Major Minor MMLP 21 in 1968. The sessions were recorded at London's Lansdowne Studios in August the previous year. In the spring of 1968, the Gordon Beck Quartet recorded some songs with Joy Marshall. Thirteen of the tracks with Marshall would appear on an album, When Sunny Gets Blue (Spring '68 Sessions) decades later.
Beck first played with vocalist Helen Merrill in 1969 and continued the relationship into the 1990s when she toured Europe. From 1969 to 1972 he toured with saxophonist Phil Woods's European Rhythm Machine. Beck recorded ten albums with Woods.
In the 1960s and 1970s he was a house pianist at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. Beck also played "experimental funk in the Swiss musician George Gruntz's six-keyboard group Piano Conclave (1973-75), and free jazz with [...] British improv drummer John Stevens (1977, 1982)." Beck was a member of Nucleus between 1973 and 1974.

### Later period

From middle age, Beck played predominantly in mainland Europe. He also recorded albums with Allan Holdsworth, Henri Texier, Didier Lockwood and others. He often played solo from the 1980s and started teaching music at the same point. He toured Japan with Holdsworth in 1985. Beck stopped performing around 2005 because of poor health. He died in Ely, Cambridgeshire, on 6 November 2011.

## Playing style

Describing Beck, in his obituary for The Guardian, jazz critic John Fordham said: "He hardly ever played a cliche; he struck notes with a steely precision or a glistening delicacy depending on the mood, and his solos developed in constantly changing phrase lengths and rhythms that never sounded glib or routine."
# Ivan Fyodorov (pilot)

Ivan Vasilyevich Fyodorov (Russian: Иван Васильевич Фёдоров; 21 September 1920 — 28 August 2000) was one of the top Soviet fighter pilots during World War II, credited with around 37 solo shootdowns.
# Gerald Coles

Gerald Anthony Coles (1929–2004) was an English painter, printmaker, and stained glass designer.
Born in Luton, Bedfordshire, he was trained at the Luton School of Art (1943–45) before working for the Harper and Hendra Studios in Harpenden and then for Hugh Ray Easton (1945–47). He attended the Slade School of Fine Art in London (1951–54) during which time he won the Steer Painting Prize (1953).
From 1954 to 1958, he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and travelled widely throughout Europe.
In 1959, he was awarded a French Government Travelling Scholarship to study stained glass design in France, and was awarded the Seguret Scholarship by the Cite Universitaire de Paris.
In 1960-61, he was awarded the Sir Arthur Evans Travelling Scholarship by the Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass to travel and study in Germany and Austria.
In 1975, he was elected Associate of the British Society of Master Glass Painters and in 1979 he was awarded a prize in The Steering Committee of Stained Glass Design, Tokyo.
During his career, Coles assisted Hugh Easton on many stained glass commissions, including the Battle of Britain memorial window in Westminster Abbey. Other commissions took him overseas to the United States, South Africa, India and Australia.
In addition to his skills as a stained glass designer, Coles produced numerous oil paintings, prints in the form of woodcuts and monotypes, watercolours and drawings.
He has exhibited at many places, including the Roland, Browse and Delbanco Gallery, the O’Hana Gallery, and, earlier, at the Maison Internationale, the Cité Université de Paris.
A number of his works are retained by the British Museum.
# Zirab District

Zirab District (Persian: بخش زیرآب) is in Savadkuh County, Mazandaran province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Zirab.

## History

After the 2011 National Census, Kaseliyan and Sorkhkola Rural Districts, and the city of Zirab, were separated from the Central District in the formation of Zirab District.

## Demographics
### Population

At the time of the 2016 census, the district's population was 21,376 inhabitants in 7,125 households.

### Administrative divisions

Zirab District Population :
| Administrative Divisions | 2016 |
| Kaseliyan RD | 4,217 |
| Sorkhkola RD | 968 |
| Zirab (city) | 16,191 |
| Total | 21,376 |
| RD = Rural District ||
# Su Gavaber

Su Gavaber or Su Gavabor (Persian: سوگوابر) may refer to:
* Su Gavaber, Langarud
* Su Gavabor, Rudsar
# Jamie Masada

Jamie Masada (Persian: جمی ماسادا; born in Iran) is a Persian American businessman and comedian. He is the founder of the Laugh Factory, a chain of comedy clubs in several states.

## Early years

Masada is a Persian Jewish immigrant from Iran who had arrived in America as a teenager. Despite the fact that he was living in a garage and barely spoke English, he combined Persian and Hebrew and soon was working with professional comedians like Richard Pryor, Jay Leno, David Letterman and Redd Foxx.

## Career
### Laugh Factory

In 1979, Masada used a loan from Neal Israel to open the Laugh Factory on Sunset Boulevard. While other comedy club owners in Los Angeles were not paying the comedians, his goal was to create a venue where comedians could perform and earn money by "splitting the door".

### The Laugh Factory Presents

The Laugh Factory Presents is an online stand-up comedy series, which Masada created for up-and-coming comedians to spread their material to a wider audience via YouTube and Amazon.com. Masada's plan is to film comedians' shows on the Laugh Factory stage and allow them to keep 80% of the profits made from the specials. With the help of Laugh Factory New Media, Masada produced two The Laugh Factory Presents specials, The Laugh Factory Presents Tim Gaither Live from Las Vegas and The Laugh Factory Presents Raj Sharma Live from Las Vegas.

## Honors and awards

In recognition of all his hard work, Masada is the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the ACLU Freedom of Speech Award and the NAACP Freedom Award. In 2011, Masada received an award from Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services for being a Comedy Innovator and Humanitarian and for offering comics a listening ear to deal with their personal demons.

## Philanthropy

In an effort to support under-privileged children, Masada created the Laugh Factory's Comedy Camp for children in 1985. Through this camp, he has worked with over a thousand children, using comedy as a way to build their self confidence.
Since 1979, Masada has hosted free Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners at The Laugh Factory for the homeless, the poor, or anyone who doesn't want to be alone for the holidays, with over 5000 attending in 2008.
The Laugh Factory also hosts free services during the High Holy Days of Judaism.
# Tanga (currency)

The tanga (Tajik: танга) was a unit of currency in Tajikistan between 10 May 1995 and 29 October 2000 and was worth one hundredth of a Tajik rouble. No coins or banknotes were ever issued denominated in tanga.
In January 1997 the exchange rate was 350 Tajik roubles per US dollar, making one tanga worth just under 0.003 US cents.
# NK Rudar Trbovlje

Nogometni klub Rudar Trbovlje (English: Rudar Trbovlje Football Club) or simply NK Rudar Trbovlje is a Slovenian football club from Trbovlje that competes in the Slovenian Third League, the third tier of the Slovenian football system. The club have a long-standing local rivalry with NK Zagorje, which is known as the Zasavje Derby.

## History

The history of football in Trbovlje dates back to 1922, when ŠK Zora was established. In the same year, the club aroused a lot of interest in this sport among youth working class. In 1924, the club was banned after a political clash with Orjuna. Some former members then founded DSK Svoboda, which renamed as SK Amater in 1927.
In 1972, on the 50th anniversary of the club, they won the Slovenian Republic League for the first time. A successful period lasted until 1980, as Rudar won the Republic titles two more times between 1974 and 1979.
With the collapse of Yugoslavia and the independence of Slovenia, all Slovenian teams returned from the federal leagues. Some of the key players left the club and Rudar was relegated from the newly established Slovenian PrvaLiga in the inaugural 1991–92 season. They never returned to the first division.

## Honours

* Slovenian Republic League (third tier in Yugoslavia)
** Winners: 1971–72, 1973–74, 1978–79
* Ljubljana Regional League (fourth tier in Slovenia)
** Winners: 2011–12, 2023–24
* Slovenian Republic Cup
** Winners: 1952
* MNZ Ljubljana Cup
** Winners: 1993
# Belokamenny

Belokamenny (Russian: Белокаменный; masculine), Belokamennaya (Белокаменная; feminine), or Belokamennoye (Белокаменное; neuter) is the name of several rural localities in Russia.

## Modern localities

* Belokamenny (Rural locality), a rural locality (a settlement) under the administrative jurisdiction of the Town of Asbest in Sverdlovsk Oblast

## Historical localities

* Belokamennaya, a colony included in Alexandrovskaya Volost of Alexandrovsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate of the Russian SFSR upon its establishment in 1920

## Other

* Belokamennaya (Moscow Central Circle), a train station on the Moscow Central Circle
# Pir Sara

Pir Sara (Persian: پيرسرا) may refer to:
* Pir Sara, Masal
* Pir Sara, Shanderman, Masal County
* Pir Sara, Rudbar
* Pir Sara, Sowme'eh Sara
# Al-Amthal

al-Amthal (Arabic: أَمْثَال) is a literary term used to describe Arabic proverbs. Ancient Arab scholars wrote books of compilations of proverbs, called "Kitab al-Amthal". The most famous collection of medieval Arabic proverbs is Mjm’a Al’amthal by Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Maydani.

## Examples

| Proverbs | English Translation |
| اطلب من العلوم علماً ينفعك ينفي الأذى والعيب ثم يرفعك. | Ask the sciences for knowledge that will benefit you, negate harm and defect, and then elevate you. |
| العلم يرفع بيتاً لا عماد له والجهل يهدم بيت العز والشرف. | Knowledge raises a house without pillars, and ignorance destroys the house of glory and honor. |
| أعلمه الرماية كل يوم فلما اشتد ساعده رماني. | I taught him archery every day, and when he got good at it, he threw an arrow at me. |
| تجري الرياح بما لا تشتهي السفن. | Winds blow counter to what ships desire. |
| أرسل حكيماً ولا توصه. | Send a wise man and do not advise him. |
| السكوت علامة الرضا. | Silence is the sign of approval. |
| خير الكلام ما قل ودل. | Good brevity makes sense. |
| هذا الشبل من ذاك الأسد. | This cub is from that lion. |
| إذا قصرت يدك على المكافأة، فاطل لسانك بالشكر. | If you’re unable to reward, then make sure to thank. |
| أرى كل إنسان يرى عيب غيره ويعمى عن العيب الذي هو فيه. | Everyone is critical of the flaws of others, but blind to their own. |
# Alexander Sergeev (physicist)

Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Sergeyev (Russian: Александр Михайлович Сергеев; born 2 August 1955) is a Russian physicist. In 2017-2022 he was the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Sergeev was born in Buturlino, Gorky Oblast and studied physics at Gorky State University, graduating in 1977. After the graduation, he worked as a researcher at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Gorky, currently Nizhny Novgorod. He received his PhD (Cand. Sci.) in 1982, and spent his whole scientific career at the same institute. In 2015, he became the director of the institute.
The main research interest of Sergeev is nonlinear phenomena in physics including plasma physics and physics of femtosecond lasers. Specifically, he guided development of petawatt-class laser in the Institute of Applied Physics RAS.
# Altansükhiin Erdenebayar

Altansükhiin Erdenebayar (Mongolian: Алтансүхийн Эрдэнэбаяр; born 13 January 1981) is a Mongolian international footballer. He made his first appearance for the Mongolia national football team in 2011.
# Clifford Hildreth

Clifford George Hildreth (December 8, 1917 – August 15, 1995) was an American econometrician. He was a head of the Department of Economics at Michigan State University.
A native of McPherson, Kansas, Hildreth earned his bachelor's from the University of Kansas before entering Iowa State University for graduate studies. After years at University of Chicago and North Carolina State University, he joined the faculty at Michigan State, before going to the University of Minnesota in 1964 where he held joint appointments in the Department of Economics, the School of Statistics and the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics. He retired in 1988. His most notable contribution was a procedure for estimating a linear model in the presence of autocorrelated error terms, known as Hildreth–Lu estimation.
In 1960 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. He was President of the American Statistical Association in 1973, and the editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association from 1960 to 1965. He was also a fellow of the Econometric Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
# Kandovan

Kandovan or Kandavan (Persian: كندوان) may refer to:
* Kandovan, Meyaneh, East Azerbaijan Province
* Kandovan, Osku, East Azerbaijan Province
* Kandovan, Sarab, East Azerbaijan Province
* Kandovan, Ardabil, Ardabil Province
* Kandovan District, in East Azerbaijan Province
* Kandovan Rural District, in East Azerbaijan Province
# Mergen Orazov

Mergen Orazov (Russian: Мерген Оразов) is a Turkmenistani football manager who manages the Turkmenistan national team.

## Career
### Early years

Orazov was born in Bekrewe, now part of Ashgabat. Orazov began playing football at an early age and at seven years of age, he was enrolled in the Ak Guş football team. At 16, he joined the youth team of Ashgabat's FC Nisa. Soon he began to be involved in the game and for the main team of the club. After graduating from high school, however, he enrolled at the Pennsylvania State University and went to the United States.

### Playing career

In 2005, Orazow joined Penn State Nittany Lions in the United States.

### Futsal playing career

Upon his return to Turkmenistan, Orazow took up professional futsal. As a member of the club Arvana Ashgabat he became the champion of Turkmenistan five times.

#### International career

Five times he played for the Turkmenistan national futsal team in the final tournaments of the AFC Futsal Championship.

### Futsal managerial career

At the end of his professional career as a futsal player, he twice led the futsal club Kopetdag to the title of Turkmenistan's champion as head coach. In 2020, he was named the best futsal coach in Turkmenistan.

### Soccer managerial career

In 2021, he was appointed manager of Ahal, helping them win the league, their first league title. Ahal also won the Turkmenistan Cup and the Football Federation of Turkmenistan Cup. He was named the best coach of Turkmenistan in 2022.
In 2023, he was appointed manager of Turkmenistan.

## Honours

Ahal
* Ýokary Liga: 2022
* Turkmenistan Cup: 2022
* Turkmenistan Football Federation Cup: 2022

## Personal life

Graduated from Pennsylvania State University (US) with a degree in Business Management.
# Kulsary

Kulsary (Kazakh: Құлсары, Qūlsary) is a town and the center of the Zhylyoi District in the Atyrau Region of western Kazakhstan. Population: 51,097 (2009 Census results); 38,518 (1999 Census results).
The city is located 11 kilometers from the Emba River, and 230 kilometers from the city of Atyrau, the center of the Atyrau Region. The railroad station is on the Makat-Beyneu line.
The city is home to the mining of petroleum and a scrap metal processing plant. It also has a most remarkable cemetery made up of domed chambers large enough to be houses.

## Climate

Kulsary has a cold desert climate (Köppen climate classification: BWk).
Climate data for Kulsary (1991–2020) :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −4.2 (24.4) | −2.6 (27.3) | 6.5 (43.7) | 18.5 (65.3) | 26.5 (79.7) | 32.6 (90.7) | 34.8 (94.6) | 33.4 (92.1) | 25.8 (78.4) | 16.7 (62.1) | 5.3 (41.5) | −2.0 (28.4) | 15.9 (60.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −7.9 (17.8) | −7.0 (19.4) | 1.2 (34.2) | 11.7 (53.1) | 19.5 (67.1) | 25.5 (77.9) | 27.9 (82.2) | 26.0 (78.8) | 18.6 (65.5) | 10.0 (50.0) | 0.8 (33.4) | −5.6 (21.9) | 10.1 (50.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −10.9 (12.4) | −10.6 (12.9) | −2.7 (27.1) | 6.4 (43.5) | 13.7 (56.7) | 19.2 (66.6) | 21.6 (70.9) | 19.5 (67.1) | 12.5 (54.5) | 4.7 (40.5) | −2.6 (27.3) | −8.6 (16.5) | 5.2 (41.4) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 11.3 (0.44) | 9.8 (0.39) | 14.0 (0.55) | 21.3 (0.84) | 22.1 (0.87) | 20.7 (0.81) | 11.8 (0.46) | 5.6 (0.22) | 6.9 (0.27) | 11.1 (0.44) | 15.5 (0.61) | 16.2 (0.64) | 166.5 (6.56) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 3.4 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 2.5 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 3.1 | 4.4 | 33.2 |
| Source: NOAA ||||||||||||||

## Notable people

* Vadim Mișin (1945–2016), Moldovan politician
# Krnov Synagogue

The Krnov Synagogue (Czech: Synagoga v Krnově) is a former Jewish synagogue, located on Soukenická Street in Krnov, in the Czech Republic. Completed in 1871, the former synagogue is one of only three surviving synagogue buildings in the Moravian-Silesian Region (the others are at Nový Jičín and Český Těšín).
Whilst the synagogue building remains, since 2003 it has been used as an exhibition and concert hall and was substantially restored by 2014.

## History

The first recorded settlement of Jews in Krnov was in the 14th century. Jews were expelled from the town during the reign of Georg Hohenzollern. A small number of Jewish families returned during the 17th and 18th century, and they required a special permit in order to live in the town. The Jewish community was restored in 1848. The congregation constructed the synagogue in 1871.
The exterior of the building with twin towers and round-arched windows is in an eclectic, round-arched, Rundbogenstil Romanesque Revival style. The interior is Moorish Revival, especially the wooden carved coffered ceiling (painted in reddish brown) and the arcade of the women's galleries.

### During World War II

The Krnov Synagogue ceased to be used for religious services in the autumn of 1938, when the Sudetenland was incorporated into Nazi Germany. Not long afterwards, on 9 November 1938, almost all synagogues in the surrounding towns – as anywhere in Nazi Germany – were destroyed during the Reichskristallnacht prosecution.
In late October 1938, the mayor of Krnov, Oskar König, received a secret order from Berlin to destroy and burn down the Krnov Synagogue on 9 November. Unwilling to comply, König summoned a meeting of the councillors and informed them about the order received. The Sudeten councillors unanimously accepted a proposal from Franz Irblich, a local builder, to remove all symbols of the Jewish religion from the building and change it into a town market hall, reporting to Berlin that there was no synagogue in Jägerndorf which could be destroyed. The synagogue was saved and used until the end of World War II in 1945.

### After World War II

The German population of Krnov was expelled after the war and the former synagogue building was used first as a warehouse, then as a regional archive. The building was damaged during the 1997 Central European flood and, in 1999, the building was returned to the Jewish community. However, as there was no Jewish community in Krnov, the Olomouc community accepted ownership. Between 2003 and 2014 the building was thoroughly renovated. Pews from the former synagogue in Olomouc and from the former Protestant Church in Krnov have been restored and are located in the former synagogue.
Franz Irblich is considered by the Czech town of Krnov as a savior of the synagogue. In 1946, Irblich received a ten-year sentence by a Czechoslovak extraordinary court after accusations of being a Nazi.

## Gallery

* The gallery
* Old Copper Dome. The copper domes have been replaced
* View from scaffolding erected while the synagogue was being restored
* One of the towers
* Interior of the synagogue
* Stairs leading to the gallery