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# Yves Leopold Germain Gaston

Yves Leopold Germain Gaston was the patriarch of a large family with roots in the City of Silay, in the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines.

## Origin in France

The real and legal surname of Yves Leopold was in fact Germain. He was born in Lisieux, France, the twenty third of the month of Brumaire, Year twelve of the French Republic at six o’clock evening. (November 15 1803 in Gregorian calendar). Son of Pierre Germain, National Gendarme professional, and Marie Anne Logre married. Later on, he adopted the very French-sounding name of Gaston, certainly because for a Frenchman, the surname Germain created too many problems and confusion. The Name Gaston was retained by the following generations as their surname.

## Settlement in Philippines

He settled in the Philippines, where he is credited as the first to commercially produce cane sugar, the primary product of the province.
Gaston first moved to Calatagan, Batangas in 1837 to help Domingo Róxas, a prominent businessman and ancestor of the Zóbel de Ayala family, set up his sugar business. It was there that Gaston met Prudencia Fernandez, who later became his wife. When his partner's business did not prosper, the Frenchman decided to try his prospects first in Iloilo and from there, he ventured to Negros. He arrived at the port city of Silay in 1840, where he found the soil conducive to planting sugarcane. He brought in an iron mill or "horno economico", which at that time was virtually unheard of.
The iron mill allowed him to begin commercial production of export-quality sugar. The Spaniards endorsed his residence in the Philippines due to the impact of his technology on the economy. He had become a sugar baron and was exporting the product alongside Nicholas Loney, the first British vice-consul in the country who, because of his efforts to promote sugar, became known as the "Father of the Sugar Industry." Gaston later decided to bring his family to back to France. However, on the way, he fell ill and eventually died. His wife and three children, not knowing a word of French, returned to Silay and permanently settled there, continuing the family business. The sugar industry soon peaked, and sugarcane became the staple crop throughout Negros Occidental.

## House of Gaston

The house of Gaston's eldest son is now a museum open to the public and is fondly called the Balay Negrense (Hiligaynon, "The Negrense House").
José Gaston, grandson of Yves Leopold Germain Gaston, built another house called the Hacienda Rosalia in Manapla, Negros Occidental, also open to the public.
# Samuel Ngoyo

Samuel Ngoyo (born 16 January 1963) is a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
# Verdura Plantation

Verdura Plantation was a large slave plantation growing cotton on 9,440 acres (3,820 ha) in eastern Leon County, Florida, United States established by Benjamin Chaires.

## History

Benjamin Chaires Sr. was an early arrival in Leon County and one of its wealthiest land owners. His brothers Green H. and Thomas P. established Evergreen Hills Plantation and Woodlawn Plantation, respectively, in Leon County.
Benjamin bought 500 acres (200 ha) 10 miles east of Tallahassee in 1832 and built a brick plantation house in Greek Revival style there. It had three floors and 15 rooms, each with a fireplace. Partitions downstairs could be removed to create an 80-foot long ballroom. Verandas supported by Tuscan columns flanked it on it sides, rather than across the front. Its bricks were made handmade by forced labor on the plantation. The house stood on a hill partially surrounded by a stream. On a clear day the Gulf of Mexico was visible from the attic. It burned in 1885.
This was the nucleus of Chaires' holdings and he added to the plantation throughout the 1830s, including in 1836 when he added a forced-labor farm of 800 acres and 57 enslaved people to his holdings. He died in 1838 and tax records in 1839 show his estate to consist of 9,440 acres (3,820 ha) and 80 enslaved humans. His son Joseph Chaires managed the plantation that year. The estate continued to grow after his death and in 1842, before it had been divided among his heirs, it foreclosed on land and yet more enslaved people valued at $35,570.
Chaires bequeathed the house, 500 acres surrounding it, and 10% of his personal property to his wife. Chaires had ten children, five of whom were minors, and in 1845 the county court authorized the division of the estate among them, including about 10,000 acres (4,000 ha), enslaved people, provisions, livestock, and equipment.
Each child's share of the Verdura plantation was still among the largest plantations in Leon County. While some planters were heavily in debt at their deaths, Chaires was not. His heirs continued to maintain large holdings and were not involved in lawsuits with banks over debts. The 1860 US Census recorded that 63 forced laborers at Verdura had produced 160 bales of cotton and 25,000 US bushels (880,000 L; 200,000 US dry gal; 190,000 imp gal) of corn. The loss of forced labor after the Civil War and a depression in the cotton market began its ruin. It was abandoned after the main house burned in 1885. It was sold by the Chaires family in 1948.
# Evelyne Nganga

Evelyne Wambui Nganga (born 4 April 1986) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specializes in the 10,000 metres.
In 2006, she won the silver medal in the 10,000 metres at the Commonwealth Games in March. In April she participated at the World Cross Country Championships, where she finished eighth in the long race and won a silver medal in the team competition. In the next year she finished 19th at the 2007 World Championships.
Her personal best times are 8:49.39 minutes in the 3000 metres, achieved in October 2006 in Fukuroi; 15:06.74 minutes in the 5000 metres, achieved in October 2005 in Kobe; and 31:14.08 minutes in the 10,000 metres, achieved in September 2008 in Tendo.
# Faith Ogallo

Faith Ogallo (born 3 February 1994) is a Kenyan taekwondo practitioner. She represented Kenya at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan after qualifying at the African Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Rabat, Morocco.

## Career

She previously competed in basketball but was recommended to switch to taekwondo by her Kibabii University taekwondo coach.
In 2019, she represented Kenya at the African Games held in Rabat, Morocco, and won the silver medal in the women's +73 kg event.
In 2021, she competed in the women's +67 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
In November 2021, she participated in the Queen's Baton Relay ahead of the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

## Achievements

| Year | Tournament | Place | Weight class |
| 2019 | African Games | 2nd | +73 kg |
| 2021 | African Championships | 3rd | +73 kg |
# Elizabeth Rumokol

Elizabeth Chepkwana Rumokol (born 26 June 1983) is a Kenyan long-distance runner, who began as a cross country runner before moving into road running, including the marathon. She twice represented her country at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships.
Rumokol made her international debut for Kenya at the 1999 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, finishing twelfth in the junior race. At the 2003 World Cross Country Championships she finished sixth in the long race, while the Kenyan team, of which Rumokol was a part, won the silver medal in the team competition. She was the 2005 winner at the Oeiras International Cross Country. She struggled to reach the top of the national cross country running scene and began taking part in road races, winning the second edition of the Tegla Loroupe Peace Race in 2004. She took a three-year break from the sport from December 2005 to mid 2008.
She enjoyed an undefeated streak for the whole of 2017, spanning five marathons. She topped the podium at the Madrid Marathon, Kuala Lumpur Marathon, Bali Marathon, Borobudur Marathon and Milo Marathon. She had almost managed the same feat in the 2015, with wins at the Zheng-Kai International Marathon, Bali Marathon and Nairobi Marathon, though she was beaten into the runner-up spot by Caroline Komen Chemutai at the São Paulo Marathon. At the 2015 Nairobi race she ran a personal best of 2:29:32 hours.

## Personal bests

* 3000 metres - 9:00.0 min (2000)
* 10,000 metres - 33:20.1 min (2003)
* Half marathon – 1:11:12 (2009)
* Marathon – 2:29:32 (2015)
# Sylvana Lorenz

Sylvana Lorenz (born February 14, 1953) is a French art dealer, and writer.
Lorenz opened her first art gallery in 1981 where she began to make a name for herself by supporting young artists. In 1983, Pierre Cardin came into Lorenz's art gallery to purchase an artwork. After this meeting, Lorenz would begin a long association with Cardin until his death in 2020.
Lorenz would go on to manage communications between 1998 and 2015 for the Espace Cardin [fr], a cinema, art gallery and multipurpose hall in the Champs-Elysées district, 8th arrondissement, Paris.
In 2021, she published Madame Cardin, a book about her life in Cardin's orbit.
# Thomas Hussey (died by 1576)

Thomas Hussey (c. 1520 – by 1576) was an English gentleman and landowner, serving from time to time as a member of the Parliament of England.
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Peterborough in 1558, St Ives in 1559, Weymouth in 1571 and Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in 1572.
# Ștefan Grasu

Ștefan Grasu is a Romanian professional basketball player for Dinamo București of the Liga Națională.

## Early life

Ștefan was born to Nicoleta and Costel Grasu, both discus throwers for Romania at the Summer Olympics.
He went to school in Vatra Luminoasă (Northeast Bucharest).
When he was 9 years old, he was already a champion in his age group in discus throw. Yet, soon thereafter he started basketball.

## Club career

At age 12, he scored 75 points in a youth game, an unmatched record in Romanian basketball.
As a youth player he was with CS Dinamo București. In 2019, he signed with U-BT Cluj-Napoca.
In April 2022, Grasu played at the national U-20 tournament in the BTarena. He played alongside Toma Lungoci, Luca Colceag, David Lăpuște and Alexandu Pașca who all have capped for Cluj’s senior team. U-BT Cluj-Napoca became the tournament champion after beating CS Dinamo București 88-76 in the final. Ștefan Grasu was named MVP of the final match where he scored 31 points and recorded 15 rebounds.

## National team

Stefan Grasu played for Romania's under-16 national team on several occasions.

## Player profile

Ever since his childhood, Grasu was noticed not only for his immense size and wingspan but also for his shooting, dribbling and ball-handling ability.
# Paul Torday

Paul Torday (/ˈtɔːrdeɪ/; 1 August 1946 – 18 December 2013) was a British writer and the author of the comic novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. The book was the winner of the 2007 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing and was serialised on BBC Radio 4. It won the Waverton Good Read Award in 2008. It was made into feature film in 2011, starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt.

## Life

Born in 1946 in Croxdale, County Durham, and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle and Pembroke College, Oxford, Torday turned to fiction writing only later in life, and his first novel was published at the age of 59. Prior to that he was a successful businessman living in Northumberland. The inspiration for the novel stemmed from Torday's interest in both fly fishing and the Middle East. From these two strands, he weaves a political satire that centres on the world of political spin management.
His second novel, The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce (titled Bordeaux in the United States), is about a man who drinks himself to death.
In 2008, he was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Galaxy British Book Awards.
Torday's third book The Girl on the Landing was published in 2009. This novel deals principally with themes of schizophrenia and racism.
His son Piers Torday is a children's writer.
# Burkina Faso Rugby Federation

The Burkina Faso Rugby Federation (French: Fédération Burkinabè de Rugby) is the governing body for rugby union in Burkina Faso. It was founded in 1992 and organises and oversees local and international rugby involving Burkina Faso. The Burkina Faso Rugby Federation became affiliated to Rugby Africa in 2006. It became an associate member of World Rugby in 2018 and was voted a full member in 2020.

## Notable former players

* Steffen Williams
# Luis del Mármol Carvajal

Luis del Marmol Carvajal (Granada, Spain, 1524 - Velez Malaga, Spain, 1600) was a Spanish chronicler living many years among the formerly Moorish Granada kingdom morisco's inhabitants and in the North African regions in the mid 16th century.
Carvajal was born in Anatolia. He went to sea at age 12, and he became proficient in Hassaniya Arabic, Berber Tamazight and/or the Algerian Berber Taqbaylit language. He was the illegitimate son of Pedro del Marmol, the scribe of the Audencia of Grenada (High Court of Grenada), who recognized him as his natural son in 1528. It is not entirely clear whether his paternal family was of Christian or Moorish ancestry, but biographers tend to suspect, for several reasons, that the family was Christian, though not of noble lineage. Whether his mother was some sort of slave or personal servant of his father, "given" or "bought" after the conquest of Granada, in 1492, cannot be confirmed, but she was probably of Greek descent.
In 1535, he accompanied Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain to Tunis. Around 1545, he was captured by the Turks and transported as a slave to Africa and the Middle East, going as far as Guinea. He spent seven years and eight months in captivity and during this time he learned Arabic and Berber. He was ransomed by an unidentified religious order in 1554, but he stayed in Africa to explore and study the continent, even travelling to Egypt and Ethiopia. In 1557, he returned to Spain and then fought in Italy for the army of the Duke of Alba. In 1571, he settled near the city of Vélez-Málaga and began his work on the African continent, named Descripción general de África. In 1579, he was supposed to be appointed the Spanish ambassador to Morocco, but King Philip II of Spain chose someone of lesser merits because, unlike Mármol, he was of illustrious birth. In 1599, he published the second part of his Descripción general de África, while his final work, Rebelión, in which Mármol speaks of his concept on the role of history, a concept influenced by Classicism and the Renaissance Humanism, was published in 1600.
Luis del Mármol y Carvajal's history is a very valuable reference for it covers a period longer by a further 50 years, than that of the other Andalusian chronicler, the diplomat and author of Description of Africa, known as Joannes Leo Africanus, or al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, (ar: حسن ابن محمد الوزان الفاسي) (c. 1494 – c. 1554?).
# Nathair Facula

Nathair Facula is a bright region on the surface of Mercury, located at 36° N, 295.5° W. It was named by the IAU in 2018. Nathair is the Irish and Scottish Gaelic word for snake.
In the center of the region is an irregular depression with crisp topography, surrounded by a region of subdued features. It is interpreted to be the site of explosive volcanic eruptions. Hollows have formed within the depression. The facula is approximately 270 km wide, although the edges are diffuse.
Nathair Facula is located in the Hokusai quadrangle, northeast of the prominent Rachmaninoff crater, west of Copland crater, and east of the smaller Neidr Facula.

## Views

* Approximate color image
* Oblique view
* Closeup of center of Nathair Facula
* Very high-resolution image of the northern rim, showing gullies and evidence of the formation of hollows
# Australian and New Zealand Society of Biomechanics

Australian and New Zealand Society of Biomechanics (ANZSB) is an affiliate society of the International Society of Biomechanics and it was founded in February 1996 to be a forum for biomechanists, of all disciplines, within Australia and New Zealand.

## About

The main objectives of the society are to:
* Facilitate communication
* Provide a forum
* Promote the dissemination and application of information
Membership of the society is open to all people that have a professional and/or scientific interest in biomechanics; including students.

## Regular events

* Every two years the society hosts the Australasian Biomechanics Conference (ABC).
* Annually they promote National Biomechanics Day (5 April), which started in the United States, in the region.
* In Australia they host a nationwide Biomechanics and Research Innovation Challenge which engages high school aged girls with early to mid-career female biomechanists to complete a 100-day research and/or innovation project. The project is led by Celeste Coltman from the University of Canberra.
# Guam women's national under-15 and under-16 basketball team

The Guam women's national under-15 and under-16 basketball team is the girls' national basketball team of Guam, administered by the Guam Basketball Confederation. It represents the country in women's international under-15 and under-16 basketball competitions.

## FIBA U15 Women's Oceania Cup participations

| Year | Result |
| 2022 | 4th |
| 2024 | 5th |

## FIBA Under-16 Women's Asia Cup participations

| Year | Result in Division B |
| 2023 | 7th |
# Walter W. Austin

Walter Wolcott Austin (September 22, 1880 – July 12, 1951) was an American Republican politician from California.

## Early life

Austin was born 1880 in Kendall, Wisconsin, and moved to Chicago, Illinois, with his family, where he was a newsboy at age 7, and to Aberdeen, South Dakota. In 1912, he moved to San Diego, California.
In San Diego Austin started out as employee of the H. D. Field Safe Co., which he later purchased half-interest then full interest and renamed it Austin Safe and Desk Company. Austin sold the business, and the company later specialised in office furniture then interior design. Austin entered the real estate and insurance business around 1931, and vice president of Fraser Mortgage Co.

## Politics

Austin was elected mayor of San Diego in 1931 as a young reformer. The main issue was the $8.5 million spent for water projects, such as Lake Hodges Dam, with little to show for it. Austin served as mayor until 1932. In 1940, he supported construction of San Vicente Dam and extending the water system.
While mayor, the city sold unemployment bonds to increase jobs locally. Funds were spent on projects such as building pedestrian tunnels near schools. Austin also backed establishing a school traffic patrol system.
Austin was the first mayor under a new city charter, approved in the same election that elected him mayor. The charter specified a "weak mayor" or council-manager government. A city manager appointed by the city council managed day-to-day business and the mayor presided over the Council meetings, with no veto power. The motivation was to help stem police corruption, under the idea that an appointed city manager is less subject to bribes and campaign contribution favors than an elected strong Mayor. Council-manager government originated with the Progressive movement in Staunton, Virginia. This form survived until 2006 when it was replaced by a strong mayor city government.
Austin was a long time Republican and was chairman of the Willkie Committee for San Diego in 1940. Austin was founder and president of the Executives Association of San Diego and the San Diego Business Men's Art Club. Austin also was a director of various charities.

## Personal life

Austin was one of the first to build a house at Borrego Springs where he spent much time during retirement. He also built a three-story house in Bankers Hill, a San Diego area just north of downtown, in the 1920s. The Bankers Hill house still includes stained glass that was handmade by Austin.
Austin died on July 12, 1951, at Mercy Hospital in San Diego from complications of appendicitis. He initially fell ill at his Idyllwild, California residence in Riverside County. His children are Genevieve Irene, Virginia Lucille, Warren Wolcott, Gladys Viola, and Edgar Owen.
# Kialagvik Formation

The Kialagvik Formation is a geologic formation in Alaska. It preserves fossils dating back to the Jurassic period.
# Nelli Neumann

Nelli Neumann (3 January 1886 – July 1942) was a German mathematician who worked in synthetic geometry. She was one of the first women to obtain a doctorate in mathematics at a German university.

## Biography

Nelli Neumann was born in Breslau, Prussia, the only child of Jewish parents Max and Sophie Neumann. Her father was a judicial officer, while her mother died when Nelli was two years old. After ten years in the private Höhere Töchterschule in Breslau, Neumann attended grammar courses and graduated from the König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium boys' school in 1905. Her father promoted her mathematical talent by arranging private mathematics lessons given by Richard Courant. The two went on to study together at the Universities of Breslau and Zürich. Neumann would return to Breslau for her doctorate, for which she completed her thesis in 1909 under the supervision of Rudolf Sturm. After Courant received his post-doctoral degree at Göttingen University, they married in the summer of 1912.
Turning down a post-doctoral position at the University of Breslau, Neumann then took courses that qualified her to become a secondary school teacher. She also worked in the career counselling centre for female students at Göttingen, which had been set up by the Frauenbildung-Frauenstudium association.
Nelli's marriage became increasingly difficult, and she and Courant divorced on 16 February 1916. After the First World War she moved to Essen, where she taught mathematics, physics and chemistry at the Luisenschule [de]. Soon after the Nazis took power, on 27 September 1933, she lost her position under the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. She was deported to the Minsk Ghetto on 10 November 1941, and was executed there the following year.
# Przemysław Porębski

Przemysław Porębski (born 30 June 1998) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for IV liga Lesser Poland club Orzeł Ryczów.
# Burma VJ

Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country (Danish: Burma VJ - reporter i et lukket land; Burmese: ဘားမား ဗီဂျေ, romanized: bharrmarr begyaay) is a 2008 Danish documentary film directed by Anders Østergaard. It follows the Saffron Revolution against the military regime in Burma. The "VJ" in the title stands for "video journalists." Some of it was filmed on hand-held cameras. The footage was smuggled out of the country, physically or over the Internet. Other parts of it were reconstructed, which caused controversy.

## Reception
### Critical response

Burma VJ has an approval rating of 97% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 62 reviews, and an average rating of 7.69/10. The website's critical consensus states, "A powerfully visceral docu-drama highlighting the evils of censorship and the essential need for freedom of speech". It also has a score of 82 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on 13 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".

### Awards and nominations

The film won awards, especially at European film festivals, e.g. it won the Golden Apricot at the 2009 Yerevan International Film Festival, Armenia, for Best Documentary Film. It won the World Cinema Documentary Film Editing Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Burma VJ was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

## Box office

The film was released to one theater on 20 May 2009 and grossed $5,554 in the opening weekend. Its widest release was in three theaters. As of 1 May 2010, the total gross stands at $123,477.

## DVD features

The DVD includes a message from Buddhist actor Richard Gere comparing the situation in Burma to that in Tibet.