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# The Poorhouse Fair

The Poorhouse Fair (1959) was the first novel by the American author John Updike. A second edition (New York : Knopf, 1977) included an introduction by the author and was slightly revised.

## Plot

The residents of the Diamond County Home for the Aged prepare for their annual fair, a summer celebration at which they sell their crafts and produce to the people of the nearby town. The fair is at first rained out, and the young prefect, Conner, turns the "inmates" against him by arguing with the noble Hook (94 years old, a former teacher with strong religious beliefs). After the rain clears, some residents fling small stones at Conner. The novel examines the political and religious dialectics that exist among its characters and their respective generations.

## Critical reception

The novel has been overshadowed by Updike's more popular works, and reviews have been mixed. As examples, Donald Barr of The New York Times deemed it "a work of intellectual imagination and great charity," while Commentary called it a "hearty but not very successful try at a first novel."
Author and dramatist Richard Gilman acknowledges the “deficiencies in some central qualities” of the novel advanced by critics and offers this caveat:
   The Poorhouse Fair was a novel of great imaginative accuracy, a delicate ranging of the immediately felt against abstraction, ideology and mechanical ordering of existence…inconclusiveness was precisely what it depended on for the truth of its vision. Humility of this kind is so rare in fiction that some critics...were baffled and disgruntled by Updike’s refusal to do more than keep a fertile space open.
Literary critic Whitney Balliet provides this appraisal of The Poorhouse Fair:
   John Updike, the poet and short-story writer, has done a startling thing in his first novel…producing, with almost academic precision, a classic, if not flawless, example of one…
Balliet adds:
   The Poorhouse Fair couldn’t be farther from the thinly veiled, self-purgative catalog of an author’s adolescence that constitutes the usual first novel. Indeed, it seeks to enter into the minds of people ranging from their seventies well into their nineties, and, within the book’s purposes succeeds - no mean feat for a novelist born in 1932.

## Theme

   “The Poorhouse Fair squarely addresses the selfsame that have continued to interest Updike throughout his career: the past as source of strength, the importance of religious faith, the primacy of the individual, and the essential emptiness that seems to be descending on the American spirit.” —Literary critic George J. Searles in The Poorhouse Fair: Updike’s Thesis Statement (1982)
Literary critic Joyce Markle identifies the thematic center of the novel:
   In The Poorhouse Fair, an old people’s home becomes a sociological cosmos in which the principal fact is death. But though the poorhouse is, by definition, a place to die, it is important to notice that physical death is not the cause of dread for the inmates…this death consciousness is a mark of their intelligence and independence.
# Tuparro River

Tuparro River is a river of Colombia found in Vichada Department. It gives its name to El Tuparro National Natural Park. Tuparro is part of the Orinoco River basin.
# The Night (The Animals song)

"The Night" is a song by the Animals. It was released as the first single from their 1983 Ark reunion effort.
It is the band's first and only Billboard Hot 100 entry since 1968, peaking at No. 48. It is also their only entry on the Billboard Mainstream Rock, peaking at No. 34.

## Background

Eric Burdon wrote this song with John Sterling, who gave it to him after he wrote the initial music and lyrics about his wife Eva who was visiting her family in Sweden. John talked with her on the phone every night during her absence.
The video clip for MTV was shot on July 21, 1983. The complete line-up is featured there.

## Chart performance

| Chart (1983) | Peak position |
| US Billboard Hot 100 | 48 |
| US Billboard Top Rock Tracks | 34 |
# Spofford

Spofford may refer to:
* Spofford, New Hampshire
** Spofford Lake
* Spofford Juvenile Center, New York City
* Spofford, Texas
* Spofford (play), a 1967 play

## People with the surname

* Ainsworth Rand Spofford (1825–1908), Librarian of Congress, 1864–1897
* Charles Spofford (1902–1991), lawyer
* Edward Spofford, American professor of literature
* Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1835–1921), American writer
* Henry M. Spofford (1821–1880), 19th-century Louisiana politician
* Sally Hoyt Spofford (1914–2002), American ornithologist
* William B. Spofford (1921–2013), Episcopal bishop
# Statue of Paschal Baylón

A statue of Paschal Baylón (sometimes called San Pascual Bailón) is a sculpture by Ramiz Barquet, installed along Puerto Vallarta's Malecón, in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
# Searight

Searight is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Benjamin F. Searight (1873–1937), American football player and coach
* Kenneth Searight (1883–1957), British language creator
* Robert Searight (born c. 1976), American drummer
* Theresa Clay Searight (1911–1995), English entomologist
# Archibald Maclaine (British Army officer)

Archibald McLaine (13 January 1777, Isle of Mull - 9 March 1861, London) was a Scottish soldier who served in the British Army.
Early in his military career he was a Captain in the 94th Regiment of Foot. During the Siege of Cadiz he led a detachment of 155 men who held back Marshal Soult with a force of 8,000 men. Maclaine was knighted for this exploit and promoted to Major. After serving in the 87th Regiment of Foot, he joined the 7th West India Regiment with the rank of lieutenant-Colonel.
From 1847 until his death in 1861 he commanded the 52nd Regiment of Foot. He is buried in Highgate Cemetery, London.
# Thomas Palm

Thomas Palm is a German lightweight rower. He won a gold medal at the 1987 World Rowing Championships in Copenhagen with the lightweight men's four.
# Mona coqui

The Mona coqui, coquí de la Mona or coquí de Mona (Eleutherodactylus monensis), is a species of frog in the family Eleutherodactylidae endemic to Mona, Puerto Rico. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
# The Poor Soldier

The Poor Soldier is a 1783 British pasticcio opera with music by William Shield and a text by John O'Keeffe. It was a comedy set around Irish soldiers returning home after fighting in the British army in the American War of Independence, which formally ended that year with the Peace of Paris. One of the redcoats must fight for the love of Norah with the urbane Captain Fitzroy. The events are set entirely in a small Irish village called Carton, a few miles from Dublin, although several versions refer to it only as "a country village".
The Poor Soldier was an altered version, as an afterpiece, of the earlier The Shamrock, or The Anniversary of St Patrick, first performed as a comic opera on 16 April 1777 at Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, followed by a London performance on 7 April 1783 at Covent Garden. The first performance of The Poor Soldier took place on 4 November 1783 at Covent Garden.
The work enjoyed widespread popularity in the newly independent United States, and was a favourite of George Washington.
The music by Shield was mostly based on Irish traditional tunes, which had been sung to Shield by the Irishman O'Keeffe, as in many other examples of the collaboration between Shield and O'Keeffe. One exception was the Scottish tune "Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad", used for the song "Since love is the plan, I'll love if I can". The song "How Happy the Soldier" also featured in the opera.
In 1786, O'Keeffe wrote a sequel Love in a Camp, when the characters have joined the Prussian army.
# Méchante

"Méchante" is a song by the French-Malian singer Aya Nakamura. It was released on 16 June 2022.

## Compositions

The song was written by Aya Nakamura and produced by twinsmanic.

## Charts

Chart performance for "Méchante" :
| Chart (2022) | Peak position |
| France (SNEP) | 27 |
| Netherlands (Single Tip) | 14 |
# Saraburi

Saraburi City (thesaban mueang) is the provincial capital of Saraburi Province in central Thailand. In 2020, it had a population of 60,809 people, and covers the complete tambon Pak Phriao of the Mueang Saraburi district.

## Location

Saraburi sits on the banks of the Pa Sak River, around 60 km upstream from the confluence with the Chao Phraya River and around 60 km downstream from the Pasak Chonlasit Dam.
The city is around 100 km northeast of Bangkok, 40 km northeast of Phra Nakhon Sri Ayutthaya, and 50 km west of Khao Yai National Park.

## History

Saraburi was founded in 1549 as a base for troop recruitment by King Maha Chakkraphat due to the threat of the growing Burmese Toungoo Dynasty.
In 1624, Wat Phra Phutthabat was built by King Songtham of Ayutthaya on the city.
The royal decree established the Saraburi Municipality on 10 December 1835 with an area of 5 square kilometers.

## Demographics

Since 2005, the population of Saraburi has been fluctuating up and down, however, the city's population in 2005 is greater than what it is as of 2020.
| Estimation date | 31 Dec 2005 | 31 Dec 2010 | 31 Dec 2015 | 31 Dec 2019 |
| Population | 61,900 | 63,554 | 61,840 | 60,809 |
# NGC 280

NGC 280 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered on December 5, 1785 by William Herschel.
# Gerald Bell

Gerald Bell may refer to:
* Gerald Gordon Bell (1890–1970), Canadian flying ace
* Gerald Bell (American football) (born 1959), American football player
# Silvia Lawson Johnston

Silvia Lawson Johnston née Roigt (born 1940) is the founder of the first short term housing rental agency in London, England, where she has lived since 1959. The daughter of author, journalist and Argentine diplomat Don Honorio Roigt, on moving to Great Britain she married the fine art dealer Arthur Charles St John Lawson Johnston, later Lord Luke.

## Early and personal life

Silvia (née Roigt) was born in Buenos Aires. In her early years she emigrated to the United States, where her father was working with the United Nations as a diplomat before his later work as the Argentinian ambassador to Yugoslavia and The Netherlands. She was educated at the International School of Geneva (Ecolint) and came to England in 1959 to be married to the Hon Arthur Charles St John Lawson Johnston. They had three children: Rachel, Ian James and Sophie.

## Career

Silvia and Arthur divorced in 1970, after which Silvia entered the London residential property market as sales negotiator for Robert Bruce and partners. In 1980 she joined Brian D'Arcy-Clark and Owen Inskip, the founders of Chesterfields Estate Agents in Chelsea. In 1984 Silvia co founded People and Property, a relocation service specializing in the field of international banking. In 1990 she launched A Place Like Home, a letting agency offering international visitors to London the opportunity to short let properties in Knightsbridge, Belgravia, Chelsea and Kensington. Today in excess of forty thousand visitors have used A Place Like Home's services.
# Sabana de Nisibón

Sabana de Nisibón is a small town in the Dominican Republic.
# Michele Hutchison

Michele Hutchison (born 1972) is a British writer and translator, mainly of Dutch-language literature. She won the 2020 International Booker Prize for her translation of The Discomfort of Evening by Lucas Rijneveld, which according to the Booker website her "striking translation captures in all its wild, violent beauty." She was also awarded the Vondel Prize 2019 for her translation of Stage Four by Sander Kollaard.

## Biography

Hutchison was born in the United Kingdom and educated at the University of East Anglia, University of Cambridge, and University of Lyon. A former commissioning editor at various publishing houses, she has translated more than twenty books from Dutch and one from French. Her translations include poetry, graphic novels, children’s books, short stories, literary non-fiction and novels by Lucas Rijneveld, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Esther Gerritsen, Sander Kollaard, Pierre Bayard, and Sasja Janssen. She has lived in Amsterdam since 2004.
She is the co-author (with Rina Mae Acosta) of the parenting book The Happiest Kids in the World: What We Can Learn from Dutch Parents.

## Selection of translated titles

* Lucas Rijneveld: The Discomfort of Evening
* Annejet van der Zijl: An American Princess
* Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer: La Superba and Rupert: A Confession
* Joris Luyendijk: People Like Us: The Truth About Reporting the Middle East
* Brecht Evens: The Making Of, The Wrong Place, and Panther (graphic novels, with Laura Watkinson)
* Simone van der Vlugt: Safe as Houses, The Reunion, and Shadow Sister
* Tom Lanoye: Fortunate Slaves
* Pierre Bayard: How to Talk About Places You’ve Never Been
* translations and articles in journals and anthologies including Words Without Borders, The High Window, The Loch Raven Review, The Enchanted Verses, The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories, and Swallows and Floating Horses
# Tolbaños

Tolbaños is a municipality located in the province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 111 inhabitants.

## Gallery

* View of Tolbaños town, in the municipality of Tolbaños.
* The Mediana River for Tolbaños.
* Sahornil Church from the road of Escalonilla.
* Livestock at Sahornil, Tolbaños.
* Typical house for Escalonilla, Tolbaños.
* View of the Venta de San Vicente Church, in Tolbaños.
* View of the Venta de San Vicente Church.
* View of Venta de San Vicente from the road of San Esteban de los Patos.
# Setaria basiclada

Setaria basiclada, synonym Paspalidium basicladum, is a species of grass in the family Poaceae native to Australia, first described by Dorothy Kate Hughes in 1923. It is an annual and is found in desert and dry shrublands. Australian authorities accept the name as Paspalidium basicladum, but other authorities consider the accepted name to be Setaria basiclada.
# Melting the Crown

Professional ratings :
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| RapReviews | 7/10 |
Melting the Crown is the eighteenth studio album by American rapper Z-Ro. It was released on February 24, 2015 through One Deep Entertainment and J. Prince Entertainment. Recording sessions took place at The Cold Chamber Studios and at Hoover Sound Studio in Houston. The album features guest appearances from Kirko Bangz, Lil' Keke, Mike D and Rick Ross.

## Personnel

* Joseph Wayne McVey IV – primary artist
* William Leonard Roberts II – featured artist (track 2)
* Marcus Lakee Edwards – featured artist (track 7)
* Michael Dixon – featured artist (track 9)
* Kirk Jerel Randle – featured artist (track 12)
* Mickaël Zibi – additional vocals (track 13), mixing (tracks: 1-6, 8-9, 11-14), recording (tracks: 1, 3-6, 9, 11-13), artwork, design, photography
* Jonathan Zibi – guitar (track 5), producer (tracks: 1, 3, 6, 9, 13)
* Donald Johnson, Jr. – producer (tracks: 2, 11, 12)
* Kenneth Roy – producer (tracks: 2, 11, 12)
* Sean Jemison – producer (tracks: 4, 7)
* Roderick Tillman – producer (track 5)
* Flaco The Great – producer (track 8)
* Cory Moore – producer & mixing (track 10)
* Leroy Williams, Jr. – producer (track 14)
* James Hoover – mixing (track 7), recording (tracks: 2, 7)
* Nick Rush – mastering

## Charts

| Chart (2015) | Peak position |
| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) | 16 |
| US Top Rap Albums (Billboard) | 9 |
| US Independent Albums (Billboard) | 20 |
# Turricula barreti

Turricula barreti is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.

## Description

The length of the shell attains 29 mm, its diameter 8.5 mm.
(Original description in French) The elongated, ventricose shell contains eight to ten whorls. The protoconch, which is broken on the holotype, is obtuse and has the form of a proboscis.
The following whorls are moderately convex and separated by a shallow, but wide open suture. At their upper part, they carry a slightly accentuated sloping ramp surmounted, near the suture, by two cords. The first whorls are adorned with nodular tubercles which soon fade and even disappear on the body whorl which only bears a kind of obtuse chain located on the angle which limits the ramp. This one is covered with very tight and wavy cords.
Between the ramp and the lower suture, the tubercles which, except on the first whorls, stop at this ramp, are cut by three undulating decurrent cords, the first of which occupies the angle. Between these are distinguished small, very thin, very tight, very undulating coronets, similar to those of the ramp. The base of the shell bears similar ornamentation. The main cords are about fifteen in number and stop at a certain distance from the end of the siphonal canal which then only carries secondary cords.
The body whorl is very large in proportion. It has a fairly narrow opening, terminating in a long, narrow, barely twisted siphonal canal. The sinuses are wide and deep . The convex outer lip is very prominent.

## Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Eocene strata in Ile-de-France, France
# NGC 279

NGC 279 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on October 1, 1785 by William Herschel.
# Silver Arcade

Silver Arcade is a Grade II listed building in the centre of Leicester, England. A former shopping arcade, Silver Arcade was built by Amos Hall in 1889. The top floor was closed off in 2000, leaving the units on the ground floor occupied by a number of independent retailers. In 2008, the centre was the focus of a campaign by the Leicester Civic Society to reopen it.
In 2010, plans were announced to reopen the top floors. Later plans in 2019 were announced to convert two floors of the building into office space.
# Alfred Cecil Herring

Major Alfred Cecil Herring VC (26 October 1888 – 10 August 1966) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

## Early life

Alfred Cecil Herring was educated at Tottenham County School where he was captain of the school at cricket and football.

## Details

He was 29 years old, and a temporary second lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps, British Army, attached to 6th (S) Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
On 23/24 March 1918 at Montagne Bridge, France, the enemy had gained a position on the south bank of the canal and Second Lieutenant Herring's post was surrounded, but he immediately counter-attacked and recaptured the position, together with 20 prisoners and six machine-guns. During the night the post was continually attacked, but all attacks were beaten off, largely because Lieutenant Herring was frequently visiting his men and cheering them up. It was owing to his bravery and magnificent handling of his troops that the enemy advance was held up for 11 hours at a very critical period.

## Further information

He was born in Tottenham, north London. He later achieved the rank of major. He was a Chartered Accountant by profession
In 2006, a new pub on Green Lanes, Palmers Green, in north London, run by the Wetherspoons chain, was named after him.

## The medal

His Victoria Cross is displayed at the New Royal Logistic Corps Museum, RHQ The RLC, Building 204, Worthy Down Barracks, Winchester. SO21 2RG. (date 2021) signed KMB
# Micronoctua

Micronoctua is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae. Its only species, Micronoctua karsholti, is known from southern Turkey, Cyprus, the islands of south-east Greece, and the northern Levant (including Lebanon, Syria and Israel). Both the genus and the species were first described by Michael Fibiger in 1997.
It is the smallest of all species of the superfamily Noctuoidea.
The wingspan is 6–9 mm.

## Former species

* Micronoctua occi is now Parens occi (Fibiger & Kononenko, 2008)
# Tom Lowe (radio)

Thomas Edward Lowe (born 21 August 1975 in Bexley, London) is a radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom. Tom currently presents on BBC Radio Gloucestershire.
Tom started working for radio stations operating under a Restricted Service Licence, or RSL, including Thanet Local Radio (now KMFM Thanet), which was based in Ramsgate, Kent.
In 1998, Tom joined the team at European Klassik Rock, a Pan-European satellite radio station broadcasting via the Astra 1C satellite from The Maidstone Studios in Kent, and presented the Friday evening show. Tom then presented on Radio Caroline, also at the time on Astra 1C and from The Maidstone Studios, in 1999, with a Saturday evening show that was also simulcast on 88.4FM The Breeze to the French and Italian Rivieras. He also appeared on WBCQ in America under the Radio Caroline banner with a pre recorded programme in 2000.
In the summer of 2001, Tom was heard presenting on 107.7 WFM in Weston-super-Mare (now Star 107.7).
Tom joined Star 107.5 in Cheltenham, in 2001 (broadcasting then as 107.5 Cat FM), presenting the weekday drivetime show. In addition, he also presented the Saturday breakfast show. In late 2003, Tom briefly took over the mid morning show for a year but, in late 2004, he returned to the drivetime show. During this time Tom also presented a weekday evening show on Star 107.7 and various shows on Star 107.9.
Tom presented on BBC Radio Gloucestershire on Saturdays until December 2011.
# Setaria faberi

Setaria faberi, the Japanese bristlegrass, nodding bristle-grass, Chinese foxtail, Chinese millet, giant bristlegrass, giant foxtail or nodding foxtail, is an Asian grass. It is a summer annual, with plants emerging from seeds in the spring, and setting seeds in the late summer or fall.
Giant foxtails prefer compacted soils, high in nitrogen and phosphorus. The plant gains a competitive edge on crops as the soil pH increases.

## As a weed

Giant foxtail has been introduced to North America, where it is a widespread weed. It is a significant pest of maize/corn, reducing crop yields by 13–14% at average plant distributions. Mechanical control of giant foxtails by night tillage, rotary hoeing, or flaming is very difficult. Crop rotation with two years of alfalfa effectively reduces giant foxtail populations. Herbicides can effectively control the plant when it is growing amongst broadleaf crops, but are less effective when it is infesting maize/corn because they are both Poaceae.