OpenLLM-France/wikimedia huggingface dataset:
# Kedir

Kedir is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Haile Micael Kedir (born 1944), Ethiopian cyclist
* Mohamed Kedir (born 1954), Ethiopian runner
* Muktar Kedir (fl. 1999–present), Ethiopian politician
# USS ARD-17

USS ARD-17 was an ARD-12-class floating dry dock built for the U.S. Navy during World War II as an Auxiliary floating drydock. Like most of the ships of her class, she was not named but known only by her designation.

## History

ARD-17 was built at Pacific Bridge Company in Alameda, California and delivered to the Navy in early 1944.
In July and August 1944, ARD-17 served a support role in the liberation of Guam.
In late September 1944, USS Zuni (ATF-95) towed ARD-17 from Guam to Palau. On 30 November 1944 ARD-17 was damaged by a near miss from a Japanese bomber while anchored at Naval Base Kossol Roads, Palau.
In February 1945, ARD-17 and sister ship ARD-16 were at Leyte Gulf servicing ships returning from Iwo Jima and preparing for Okinawa.
After the war, she eventually was returned to the United States, and for a time was laid up as part of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Naval Shipyard at Boston, Massachusetts.
On 1 December 1977, ARD-17 was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register, and sold the same day to Ecuador under the Security Assistance Program. Renamed Amazonas (DF-81), her current fate is unknown.

## Commanding Officers

* LCDR. Anderson, Anton from 18 February 1944 to December 1945
* LCDR. Wilson, Earnest C.from December 1945 to April 1946
* LT. Barger, Lucian from April 1946 to 1 July 1946
# Acropoma heemstrai

Acropoma heemstrai is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Acropoma. A small sample was found in South Africa and Mozambique.

## Description

They measure between 53.1–121 mm (2.09–4.76 in). Its set apart from others due to its luminous gland being shaped like a Y and a distinctive lower jaw that appears somewhat pointed.

## Size

This species reaches a length of 12.1 cm (4.8 in).

## Etymology

The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist Phillip C. Heemstra (1941-2019), of the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, because of his contributions to the studiy of percoid fshes from the western Indian Ocean.
# Ken Merckx

Ken Merckx (born June 24, 1964) is an American voice and screen actor who is also known as Ken Merchx and Ken Ring. He has done voicework for various Power Rangers series, but is perhaps best known for his role of Count Dregon in the short-lived Saban Masked Rider series, as well as his role as the voice of the Org General Nayzor in Power Rangers: Wild Force. He has also appeared on-screen as Dr. Michael Zaskin, a recurring role in Power Rangers: Time Force.
Merckx is also a stage combat instructor and fight choreographer who has taught at AMDA College of the Performing Arts in Los Angeles and staged scenes for a number of theater productions.

## Filmography
### Live action/television roles

* Masked Rider - Count Dregon, Dregonator (voice) (credited as Ken Ring)
* Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - Count Dregon, Repellator (voices, uncredited)
* Almost Perfect - Waiter (ep. Dating for Ratings)
* JAG - Jogger (ep. Jagathon)
* Big Bad Beetleborgs - Ben (ep. 18), Phantom (Ep. 35)
* Power Rangers Turbo - Shadow Chromite, Translucitor (voices, uncredited)
* Power Rangers in Space - Waspicable, Lionizer (voices, uncredited)
* Becker - Waiter (ep. Point of Contract)
* Power Rangers Lost Galaxy - Hardtochoke (1st voice)
* 18 Wheels of Justice - Angelo (ep. A Prize Possession)
* Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue - Ghouligan, Moleman (voices)
* Power Rangers Time Force - Dr. Michael Zaskin
* Power Rangers Wild Force - Nayzor/Super Nayzor (voice)
* Veronica Mars - Paparazzi (ep. Lord of the Bling)

### Movie roles

* Vice Academy Part 3 - Officer #1
* Mind, Body & Soul - Police Officer
* The Boys of Cellblock Q - Boss
* Out of the Darkness - Cop #2
* Orgazmo - Original Orgazmo
* Without Limits - Eugene Register reporter
* Breathing Hard - Danny
* The Tomorrow Man - Dom
* Outta Time - Patrolman
* Hunter: Back in Force - Robber #1
# 1948–49 Yugoslav Second League

The 1948–49 Yugoslav Second League season was the 3rd season of the Second Federal League (Serbo-Croatian: Druga savezna liga), the second level association football competition of SFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946.

## Teams

A total of ten teams contested the league, including four sides from the 1947–48 season, three clubs relegated from the 1947–48 Yugoslav First League and three sides promoted from the third tier leagues played in the 1947–48 season. The league was contested in a double round robin format, with each club playing every other club twice, for a total of 18 rounds. Two points were awarded for a win and one point for draws.
Sarajevo and Spartak Subotica were relegated from the 1947–48 Yugoslav First League after finishing in the bottom two places of the league table, while Vardar lost to Naša Krila Zemun in the relegation play-offs. The three clubs promoted to the second level were Dinamo Skopje, Podrinje Šabac and Proleter Osijek.
| Team | Location | Federal subject | Position in 1947–48 |
| Dinamo Pančevo | Pančevo | SAP Vojvodina | 0066th |
| Dinamo Skopje | Skopje | SR Macedonia | — |
| Metalac Zagreb | Zagreb | SR Croatia | 0044th |
| Mornar Split | Split | SR Croatia | 0055th |
| Odred Ljubljana | Ljubljana | SR Slovenia | 0077th |
| Podrinje Šabac | Šabac | SR Serbia | — |
| Proleter Osijek | Osijek | SR Croatia | — |
| Sarajevo | Sarajevo | SR Bosnia and Herzegovina | — |
| Spartak Subotica | Subotica | SAP Vojvodina | — |
| Vardar | Skopje | SR Macedonia | — |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Sarajevo (C, P) | 18 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 27 | 14 | 1.929 | 27 | Promotion to Yugoslav First League |
| 2 | Mornar Split | 18 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 43 | 17 | 2.529 | 22 | Promotion to Yugoslav First League |
| 3 | Spartak Subotica (P) | 18 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 33 | 27 | 1.222 | 19 | |
| 4 | Metalac Zagreb | 18 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 25 | 24 | 1.042 | 19 | |
| 5 | Podrinje Šabac | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 21 | 25 | 0.840 | 17 | |
| 6 | Odred | 18 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 19 | 23 | 0.826 | 17 | |
| 7 | Vardar | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 28 | 34 | 0.824 | 17 | |
| 8 | Proleter Osijek | 18 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 22 | 29 | 0.759 | 17 | |
| 9 | Dinamo Pančevo (R) | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 25 | 34 | 0.735 | 14 | Relegation to Third Level |
| 10 | Dinamo Skopje (R) | 18 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 33 | 0.515 | 11 | Relegation to Third Level |
* ↑ Mornar Split were disbanded by the authorities at the end of the season so Spartak Subotica were promoted instead.
# Tony Acquaviva

Anthony Acquaviva (May 10, 1925 – September 27, 1986) was an American composer, conductor and string instrumentalist, and the founder of the New York Pops Symphony Orchestra.
Acquaviva was a graduate of the United States Military Academy and served in the Army's orchestral division from 1944 to 1948. As a struggling young musician in New York City, he roomed with singer Guy Mitchell, sleeping on the floor for lack of furniture and once admitted to the press that the refrigerator there contained only one jar of mustard.
He married Joni James in 1956 at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City and served as her manager and conductor.
He recorded for MGM Records.
Acquaviva later fell into poor health, and Joni James retired from performing to care for him (and their two children, adopted from Italy) for the last 18 years of his life.
In recent years several authors have confused Tony Acquaviva with his younger brother Nick, who is the cowriter of "My Love, My Love" and numerous other Joni James hits. Tony Acquaviva did not compose songs which Joni James recorded, however, uncredited, he reportedly (according to Joni James) did write the bridge for the English version of the standard "That's All," a song he also successfully recorded.
# Helen Bowater

Helen Bowater (b. 16 Nov 1952) is a New Zealand composer. She was born in Wellington into a musical family, and studied piano and violin with Gwyneth Brown. In 1982 she graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in music history and ethnomusicology from Victoria University of Wellington. She continued her studies in electroacoustic music with Ross Harris and in composition with Jack Body.
Bowater played in the Gamelan Padhang Moncar at Victoria University and her composition Tembang Matjapat (1999) is scored for gamelan and western strings and percussion instruments.
After completing her studies, Bowater worked as a singer, pianist and violinist with ensembles and choirs, and also worked in rock bands Extra Virgin Orchestra and pHonk and with the Victoria University Gamelan Padhang Moncar. She completed residencies at the Nelson School of Music in 1992 and at Otago University in 1993, and was composer-in-residence with the Auckland Philharmonia in 1994 and at the New Zealand School of Music, Victoria University, in 2008-09.
Bowater has published professional articles in journals including Music in New Zealand. Her music has been performed internationally.

## Honors and awards

* Auckland Philharmonia Graduate Composer Workshops 1992
* Mozart Fellowship at Otago University 1993
* Auckland Philharmonia Composer in Residence 1994
* CANZ Trust Fund Award 1997
* SOUNZ Contemporary Award 1999
* SOUNZ Community Commission 2001
* NZSO-SOUNZ Readings 2003
* NZSO-SOUNZ Readings 2006
* Creative New Zealand/Jack C Richards Composer Residency, New Zealand School of Music 2008

## Works

Selected works include:
* Banshee for two violins, cello and piano
* He does not come, setting of 5 poems for soprano and ensemble
* Ixion's Wheel for B flat clarinet and piano
* Lautari for solo violin
* New Year Fanfare for orchestra
* River of Ocean for full orchestra
* Urwachst for orchestra
* Wire Dogs for solo piano
* Nekhbet for solo piano
* Monkey for Chinese sheng, Gamelan Padhang Moncar, singer, and string quartet
# Platon Zhukovich

Platon Zhukovich (Russian: Плато́н Никола́евич Жуко́вич; 1857–1919) was an Imperial Russian historian and theologian.

## Biography

Born to a family of Russian Orthodox church official (protoiereus), in 1881 he graduated from the Saint Petersburg Theological Academy. He worked as a teacher at the Polotsk Theological School before moving to Vilna where he taught history of the Orthodox church at the local theological school.
In 1891 he returned to his alma mater as head of the historical faculty and in 1901 became an ordinary professor. In 1914 he joined the Imperial Russian Historical Society. During the Russian Revolution he was an active member of the 1917–18 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church. He died in 1919.
* This article about a Russian historian or genealogist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
* v
* t
* e
# Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism

The Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism (Arabic: دائرة الثقافة والسياحة) is an agency of the Government of Abu Dhabi established in February 2012 by Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu Dhabi, to replace Abu Dhabi's two main tourism and culture agencies, the Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority and the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage.

## About

The new authority's objective is to preserve and manage the art and cultural heritage of the emirate and develop tourism and future museum projects such as Zayed National Museum, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and Louvre Abu Dhabi Museums.
In September 2017, Sheikh Khalifa issued a decree to reshape the Executive Council of Abu Dhabi, which included renaming the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority to Department of Culture and Tourism.

## Merger

The authority is a merge between three, Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage; an institution which was responsible of preservation of cultural heritage, Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority and cultural department of Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC); one of the private developers in culture tourism in the emirate.
The merge was ordered by executive council and Sultan bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan was appointed as chairman to oversees the emergence of the new authority leveraging his experience as chairman of former TDIC’s Cultural Department.

## Partnerships and integrations

Abu Dhabi Gaming was integrated into Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism to develop gaming and esports industries. This integration was done in November 2023.
# Gardner Read

Gardner Read (January 2, 1913 in Evanston, Illinois – November 10, 2005 in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts) was an American composer and musical scholar.
His first musical studies were in piano and organ, and he also took lessons in counterpoint and composition at the School of Music at Northwestern University. In 1932 he was awarded a four-year scholarship to the Eastman School of Music (B.M. and M.M.), where he studied with Bernard Rogers and Howard Hanson. In the late 1930s he also studied briefly with Ildebrando Pizzetti, and Aaron Copland.
After heading the composition departments of the St. Louis Institute of Music, the Kansas City Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music, Read became Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Composition at the School of Music at Boston University. He remained in this post until his retirement in 1978.
His Symphony No. 1, op. 30 (1937, premiered by Sir John Barbirolli) won first prize at the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society's American Composers' Contest, while his second symphony (op. 45, 1943) won first prize in the Paderewski Fund Competition. Another first prize came in the 1986 National Association of Teachers of Singing Art Song Competition, won by his Nocturnal Visions, op. 145. He wrote one opera, Villon, in 1967.
His book Music Notation: A Manual of Modern Practice (1969/1979) attempted to catalogue the rapidly changing landscape of notation for contemporary western art music.
# Eleanor Hovda

Eleanor Hovda (March 27, 1940 – November 12, 2009) was a composer and dancer from the United States of America. She was born in Duluth, Minnesota and died in Springdale, Arkansas.
She received her Bachelor of Arts in music at American University in Washington, D.C., and her MFA in dance at Sarah Lawrence College. Her music has been performed extensively in the U.S. and abroad by ensembles including the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, KlangForum (Vienna), the Cassatt and Kronos Quartets, Zeitgeist, Bang on a Can All-Stars, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Boston Musica Viva, The California Ear Unit, the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet and the St. Louis Symphony. Performance venues have included Ozawa Hall (Tanglewood), Alice Tully, Carnegie Hall Weill, Miller, Walter Reade and Merkin Concert Halls; The Kitchen, Bang on a Can Festival and The Alternative Museum (NYC) the Purcell Room (London), The American Academy (Rome), the American Center (Paris), the WDR (Cologne), Cervantino Festival (Mexico), New Music Forum (Mexico City), Holland Festival (Amsterdam), Vienna, Madrid, Barcelona, Tokyo and Asahikawa (Japan); colleges and universities including Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Swarthmore; The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and New Music America. Remote, a collaboration with Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project, toured nationally and made its NYC premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1997.
Hovda held appointments as full professor/composer-in-residence on the music faculties of Princeton and Yale universities, and Bard College. Music and dance appointments include residencies at Sarah Lawrence College, Wesleyan University, the College of St. Scholastica and the American Dance Festival.
Her music has been recorded by the ensemble Relâche. Two CDs devoted exclusively to her compositions have been released on OO Discs: Coastal Traces and Ariadne Music. In early 2012, Innova released the four-CD set, "The Eleanor Hovda Collection," comprising "Ariadne Music," "Coastal Traces," "Sound Around The Sound," and "Excavations."
# Sam Raphling

Sam Raphling (March 19, 1910, Fort Worth, Texas - January 8, 1988, New York City) was an American composer and pianist. He studied under Artur Schnabel at the University of Michigan. He wrote in a variety of musical genres, including orchestral works Concerto pour trompette et orchestre à cordes, chamber pieces, and vocal art songs; the latter of which remain his most notable legacy. Also of note is his orchestral suite Dance of the Chassidic and his piano arrangements of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and The Firebird, and Prokofiev's Scythian Suite. He wrote two children's operas with librettist James V. Hatch. As a pianist he made a number of recording on the RCA Victor label.
# Feather Christmas tree

A feather Christmas tree is a type of artificial Christmas tree that is generally considered one of the first artificial trees used as a Christmas tree. They originated in Germany in the late 19th century and became popular in the United States during the early 20th century.

## History

Feather Christmas trees were first created in Germany in the 1880s or 1890s and are regarded as one of the first types of artificial Christmas trees. These first artificial trees were, in part, a response to growing environmental concerns in the late 19th century concerning deforestation associated with the harvest of Christmas trees in Germany. The tradition of feather Christmas trees was brought to the United States by German immigrants in places such as Pennsylvania and Texas.
Feather Christmas trees became popular during the early 20th century, and were sold by department stores in the United States. Benefits touted for feather trees included the elimination of a trip to the tree lot and the lack of shed needles. Today, feather Christmas trees are valued as a collectible antique. One 90-centimeter (36-inch) German tree sold at auction in 2008 for $230.

## Design

Feather trees were initially made of green-dyed goose feathers which were attached to wire branches. The feathers were split and then secured with wire to form the branches. These wire branches were then wrapped around a central dowel which acted as the trunk. The branches were widely spaced to keep the candles from starting a fire, which allowed ample space for ornamentation. Feather Christmas trees ranged widely in size, from a small 5-centimeter (2-inch) tree to a large 2.5-meter (98-inch) tree sold in department stores during the 1920s. Often, the tree branches were tipped with artificial red berries which acted as candle holders.
# Richard Cameron-Wolfe

Richard Cameron-Wolfe is an American composer and pianist.

## Early life and education

Cameron-Wolfe was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied at Oberlin College and Indiana University with Joseph Battista and Menahem Pressler (piano) and Bernard Heiden, Iannis Xenakis, Juan Orrego-Salas, and John Eaton (composition).

## Career

Before moving to New York City, he taught at Indiana University, Radford College (Virginia), and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In New York he performed and composed for several major ballet and modern dance companies, including the Joffrey Ballet and the Jose Limon Company. He then taught music theory and history, composition, and music resources for choreographers at Purchase College, State University of New York from 1978-2002. His ideas on the intersection between choreography and music are cited in Oxford's volume Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance. He composed the libretto or the opera Los Caminos del Paxos with Arturio Arias.
Since 1989 Cameron-Wolfe has been a frequent guest of music schools and festivals in Russia and former Soviet nations and a promoter of the exchange of musical ideas, scores and performances between those the countries and the US. He has also acted as co-editor of FULCRAM: an annual of poetry and aesthetics.
As a pianist, Cameron-Wolfe frequently performs the music of Dane Rudhyar in the United States, Sweden, Finland, The Netherlands, Russia, Azerbaijan, and Bulgaria. Unusually, he has given four uninterrupted solo performances of Satie’s 24-hour Vexations." Cameron-Wolfe also performs the works of lesser-played composers of the early 20th century who provided the transition from late Romanticism into post-World War II “sound art”. His current repertoire includes works by Leo Ornstein, his mentor Dane Rudhyar, and Charles Ives.

## Compositions

* as he seemed to appear to the beast in the distance … (activities for percussionist)
* ARQ: Region III Refuge - piano 4-hands, violin
* Code of Unsilence: A Prayer - piano
* Heretic (Micro Opera for Guitarist)
* Kyrie (Mantra) - flute trio
* Labyrinths - high voice, cello, piano
* Lapis Lazuli - fl/alto flute; piano
* Le Pont des Ames - piano, string orchestra
* Lilith - violin, piano
* Lonesome Dove - a true story (for saxophone, dancer, and stagehand)
* A Measure of Love and Silence
* MeMarie (micro-opera for soprano alone)
* Reconciliation - ob/eng hn, Bb/Eb cl, bsn, hn, tbn, 2 vln, vla, 2 vcl,
* Roerich Rhapsody—Liaison - cello, piano
* Sacre-Lege - fl, cl, vln, vcl, perc
* A Song Built from Fire (for singing pianist)
* Time Refracted - cello, piano
* Variations and Liebestod - unaccompanied clarinet

## Discography

* Burning Questions
* Paris-X
# Ray Cramer

Ray E. Cramer (born 28 June 1940) is an American band conductor.

## Education

Cramer has degrees from Western Illinois University and the University of Iowa. In December 1991, he received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from his alma mater of Western Illinois University.

## Career

Cramer began his career as the band director at Harlan High School in Harlan, Iowa. From 1968 to 1969 he served as director of bands at Parma Senior High School in the Cleveland area of Ohio. He joined the faculty at Indiana University School of Music in the fall of 1969, and served as director of the Indiana University Marching Hundred from 1972 to 1982. In 1982, Cramer was appointed director of bands in the School of Music. He was a professor of music history, literature and wind conducting, retiring in 2005. He is the emeritus director of bands at Indiana University.
Cramer is a member of ABA, WASBE and IBA. He is affiliated with Phi Mu Alpha, Kappa Kappa Psi, Tau Beta Sigma, Phi Kappa Delta and Phi Beta Mu.
He was a guest conductor on the faculty of the Musashino Academy of Music in Tokyo, Japan in the fall of 1990, the summer of 1992 and 1995. Cramer was also the guest conductor for the Indiana Bandmasters Association All-State Honor Band in 1983, 1995, 2001, and 2012.

## Honors

Mr. Cramer is a recipient of the Student Alumni Council Senior Faculty Award (1983), The Kappa Kappa Psi Distinguished Service to Music Medal (1988), the CIDA Director of the Year Award (1988), Outstanding Bandmaster Award (1988) and the Kappa Kappa Psi Bohumil Makovsky Memorial Award (1991). He is a past national president of the College Band Directors National Association and has served as president of the Indiana Bandmasters Association, and the Big Ten Band Directors Association.