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# Syrian National Symphony Orchestra

The Syrian National Symphony Orchestra (Arabic: الفرقة السيمفونية الوطنية السورية, al-firqah as-sīmfūniyyah al-waṭaniyyah as-sūriyyah) is the national symphony orchestra of Syria. Its home venue is the Damascus Opera House, and many of its members have been educated at the Higher Institute for Music in the same cultural complex on Umayyad Square in a central location of Damascus.

## History and musical activities

The orchestra was founded by Iraqi-born composer and musician Solhi al-Wadi, its first conductor as well as the director of the Higher Institute for Music in Damascus, and gave its first public concert in 1993. On 4 September 1998, the orchestra performed in the United States, at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. The orchestra has its permanent home in the Damascus Opera House, and its principal conductor is the Syrian-Armenian maestro Missak Baghboudarian, who received his academic training in Italy.
The orchestra's repertoire includes both Western classical music, as well as works by contemporary Syrian composers, including Maias Alyamani, Malek Jandali, or Zaid Jabri. - A charity concert by the orchestra on 3 February 2009 raised $110,000 for an UNRWA campaign for the children of Gaza.
Apart from the symphony orchestra, there is also a Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music performing classical Arabic music, with musicians like Syrian oud virtuoso Issam Rafea, trained in this musical tradition of the Middle East.
Due to the ongoing civil war in Syria, many musicians have left the country for exile in Europe, the US or other countries, but still, the musical audience in Damascus, as well as the authorities and remaining musicians, continue with concerts and other musical activities. In July 2020, the SNSO participated with an online performance from Damascus of Beethoven's Eroica symphony in a series of friendship concerts, where Italian conductor Riccardo Muti conducted his Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra with Syrian guest musicians in Ravenna, Italy. In January 2024, Baghboudarian spoke about the ways the SNSO has adapted to the difficult social situation. Citing the continued great interest of the audience for classical music in Damascus, he mentioned selecting music with a dramatic expression, such as Beethoven's fifth and third symphonies or Mahler's Songs on the Death of Children. Reaching out to young audiences, he talked about a project under the title "Discover Music", directed towards children living in shelters, organized in cooperation with the Syria Trust for Development. In this project the SNSO invited children to attend the orchestra's training sessions, in order to experience live classical music and to learn about musical instruments. During one cold winter, the orchestra only asked visitors to bring along warm clothes for needy children, instead of buying a ticket.
# Lancair Propjet

The Lancair Propjet is a four-seat, pressurized, composite aircraft powered by a 750-hp Walter M601E turboprop engine. The aircraft is based on Lancair's successful kit-plane, the Lancair IV. Like its piston-powered predecessor, the Propjet is noted for its performance, with a typical cruise speed of 325 knots at 24,000 feet and a climb performance of 4,000 feet per minute.
Production of the aircraft kit was ended in 2012.

## Specifications

General characteristics
* Crew: one
* Capacity: 3 passengers and 1,500 lb (682 kg) useful load
* Length: 26 ft 0 in (7.92 m)
* Wingspan: 30 ft 3 in (10.49 m)
* Wing area: 98 sq ft (9.10 m$^2$)
* Empty weight: 2,300 lb (1,045 kg)
* Max takeoff weight: 3,800 lb (1,727 kg)
* Aspect Ratio: 9:1
* Propeller: 3 blade, constant speed
* Fuel Capacity: 125 gallons (standard); 145 gallons (extended)
* Baggage Capacity: 150 lb (68 kg)
* Cabin Width: 46 in (front); 43 in (rear)
* Height: 48 in
* Powerplant: 1 × Walter M601E-11 turbine , 750 hp (559 kW) at sea level
Performance
* Cruise speed: 325 kn (370 mph, 600 km/h) at 24,000 ft (7,317 m)
* Stall speed: 64 kn (74 mph, 120 km/h)
* Range: 1,216 nmi (1,400 mi, 2,270 km) with reserves
* Rate of climb: 7,000 ft/min (36 m/s) (solo); 4,000 ft/min (20 m/s) (gross)
* Wing loading: 39 lb/sq ft (190.7 kg/m$^2$)
* Power/mass: .2 hp/lb
* Takeoff Roll: 1,200 ft (gross at sea level)
* Landing Roll: 1,400 ft
* Cross Wind Landing: 21 mph component
* Fuel Consumption: 33 gal/h (330 hp 0.67 Sfc)
* G Loading: +3.8, -1.9 g (normal)
# Sophia Ripley

Sophia Willard Dana Ripley (1803–1861), wife of George Ripley, was a 19th-century feminist associated with Transcendentalism and the Brook Farm community.

## Biography

She was born Sophia Willard Dana in 1803. Her father traveled abroad often and left his daughters to fend for themselves. In 1823, during one of his trips, the Dana sisters decided to earn their own living by teaching. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, they established a girls' school; Sophia Dana served as the principal teacher.
She first met George Ripley during his final year as a student at the Harvard Divinity School in 1825. In 1826, they became engaged, though Ripley did not tell his parents right away. He asked his sister Marianne to inform them, assuring them that their relationship was not based on "any romantic or sudden passion" but on "intellectual power, moral worth, deep and true Christian piety, and refinement and dignity of character". They were officially married on 22 August 1827, in a ceremony presided over by Abiel Holmes.
Mrs. Ripley became a friend of Margaret Fuller and was one of the women to attend Fuller's first series of "conversations". Fuller explained to Ripley her goals: "It is to pass in review the departments of thought and knowledge, and endeavor to place them in due relation to one another in our mind. To systemize thought and give precision and clearness in which our sex are so deficient, chiefly, I think, because they have so few inducements to test and classify what they receive. To ascertain what pursuits are best suited to us". Ripley was also among the few regular women guests of the male-dominated Transcendental Club in the 1830s, and she published an essay on women in The Dial. In July 1841,The Dial published a letter from Ripley called "Letter from Zoar", an account of her experience visiting a communistic society of "Separatists" in Zoar, Ohio in 1837.
In the 1840s, she co-founded an experimental Utopian community called Brook Farm along with her husband and was one of the experiment's major supporters in its early years. The Brook Farm was based on a ranch in the countryside of present-day West Roxbury, Boston. Along with her sister-in-law Marianne Ripley, she oversaw Brook Farm's primary school using a progressive child-centered pedagogy that has been compared to the later reforms of John Dewey. When Brook Farm adapted itself into a Charles Fourier-inspired phalanstère, she did not share her husband's enthusiasm. Influenced in part by Orestes Brownson, she converted to Catholicism in 1846 and became a dedicated member of the church, leading her to eventually become a well-known nun; her husband never converted. Their relationship became strained by the 1850s. She died in 1861. Her home on Baker Street is a site on the Boston Women's Heritage Trail.
# Ron Adair

Ron Adair (born 2 June 1931) is an Australian former association footballer.

## Playing career
### Club career

Adair played his junior football for Victoria Park in Western Australia before joining North Perth in 1952. After playing two season for North Perth he joined Maccabeans for a season before transferring to Azzurri. In 1956 Adair played for North Shore in New South Wales before returning to WA to play for Swan Athletic.

### State career

Adair played 23 times for Western Australia, captaining the state 11 times.

### International career

Adair played three full international matches for the Australia national association football team between 1954 and 1958, scoring one goal. Adair captained Australia in two B-internationals - against Rapid Vienna in 1955 and Heart of Midlothian in 1959.

## Honours
### Individual

* Football Federation Australia - Football Hall of Fame Inductee: 1999
* Western Australian State League Best and Fairest: 1953, 1954, 1955
* Football Hall of Fame Western Australia Inductee: 2005
# Felice Darioli

Felice Darioli (born 10 February 1947) is an Italian cross-country skier.
Darioli was born in Bognanco. Together with Willy Bertin and Lino Zanon he finished fourth in the 1971, and second in the 1973 Trofeo Mezzalama, and as a non-commissioned officer in a team with Bertin and Fabrizio Pedranzini, he placed third in the military team category in the 1975 edition of the same competition, which was carried out as the first World Championship of Skimountaineering. He lives in Domodossola. He also won a Bronze medal in the relay event of the international CISM championships in Lebanon.

## Selected cross-country skiing results

* 1971:
** 2nd, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, relay
** 3rd, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 50 km
* 1972:
** 1st, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, relay, together with Willy Bertin, Serafino Guadagnini and Renzo Chiocchetti
** 3rd, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 30 km
# Chien Kok-ching

Chien Kok-ching (Chinese: 錢國楨; pinyin: Qián Guózhēn; born c. 1934) is a Taiwanese former basketball player. He competed as part of the Republic of China's squad at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
# Loivo

Loivo Ivan Johann (born 24 January 1945), simply known as Loivo, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a left winger.

## Career

Goal-scoring left winger, Loivo started his career at Floriano, now Novo Hamburgo. He played for Grêmio from 1967 to 1975, making 427 appearances and scoring 77 goals. He also played for Inter de Lages and Atlético Carazinho.

## Personal life

After retiring, he dedicated himself to the family business, specializing in the transportation and distribution of food. His brother, Rosalvo Antonio Johann, was president of EC Novo Hamburgo.

## Honours
### Grêmio

* Campeonato Gaúcho: 1967, 1968
* Copa Río de La Plata: 1968
* Taça do Atlântico: 1971
# Brandon Robinson-Thompson

Brandon Robinson-Thompson (born 25 August 1992) is an English professional golfer. In 2023, he won the Northern Ireland Open and the Irish Challenge.

## Early life and college career

Robinson-Thompson was born in Totland Bay, Isle of Wight in 1992, and educated at Carisbrooke College. He attended Morningside College for two years, where he won six tournaments and was individual Great Plains Athletic Conference champion. He transferred to the University of South Carolina Aiken where he was first-team All-American and Peach Belt Conference Player of the Year in 2015. He finished top-10 in the NCAA Division II Championship individually.

## Professional career

Robinson-Thompson turned professional in 2017 and joined the 2018 PGA Tour Latinoamérica. In 2021, he joined the PGA EuroPro Tour where he won the 2022 Worcestershire Masters and finished 7th in the rankings, narrowly missing out on promotion to the Challenge Tour.
In 2023, he won an event in Egypt on the MENA Tour and the Northern Ireland Open, which earned him a start at the ISPS Handa World Invitational. He made it through Final Qualifying at Royal Porthcawl in Wales to join the 2023 Open Championship at Hoylake, where he finished solo 59th. The week after he was invited to the Irish Challenge which he won, securing membership of the Challenge Tour, where he finished the season ranked 22nd, missing out on graduation to the European Tour by one place, earning category 19 exemption.
Robinson-Thompson earned a spot at the 2024 U.S. Open at Pinehurst Resort in the Walton Heath qualifier, and ultimately missed the cut by a single stroke.

## Amateur wins

* 2014 Saint Leo Invitational
Source:

## Professional wins (7)
### Challenge Tour wins (2)

| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
| 1 | 30 Jul 2023 | Irish Challenge | −12 (69-64-72-67=272) | 2 strokes | Will Enefer, Jordan Gumberg |
| 2 | 11 Aug 2024 | Farmfoods Scottish Challenge | −22 (67-67-62-66=262) | 8 strokes | Hamish Brown |

### Clutch Pro Tour wins (3)

| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
| 1 | 1 Jun 2023 | Galvin Green Championship | −4 (68-68=136) | 1 stroke | Curtis Knipes |
| 2 | 22 Jun 2023 | Northern Ireland Open | −9 (63-69-69=201) | 3 strokes | Daniel Smith |
| 3 | 30 Jun 2023 | Machynys | −12 (68-66-70=204) | 2 strokes | Jake Ayres, Sam Broadhurst, Jake Burnage |

### PGA EuroPro Tour wins (1)

| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runners-up |
| 1 | 24 Jul 2022 | Glal.uk Worcestershire Masters | −7 (70-66-73=209) | 2 strokes | James Allan, Joe Brooks, Jeff Wright |

### MENA Tour wins (1)

| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
| 1 | 7 Feb 2023 | Egyptian Swing 2 | −11 (65-67-67=199) | 4 strokes | Jacopo Vecchi Fossa |

## Results in major championships

| Tournament | 2023 | 2024 |
| Masters Tournament | | |
| PGA Championship | | |
| U.S. Open | | CUT |
| The Open Championship | 59 | |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
# Lois McIvor

Lois Rayma McIvor (22 October 1930 – 11 June 2017) was a New Zealand artist.

## Career

McIvor studied at the Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, and later under the tutelage of Colin McCahon.
She was predominantly a landscape painter, often using glowing pastel colours; her landscapes were inspired by Manukau Harbour and Titirangi, where she lived for many years.
McIvor was one of the founding members of the Association of Women Artists.
Sylvia Marsters was under tutelage of Lois McIvor in the beginning of Marsters' arts career.
Paintings by McIvor are held in public and private collections in New Zealand and overseas, including the Remuera Gallery and The Arts House Trust. There are major retrospective exhibitions on Lois McIvor, including: Collection Classics: Lois McIvor in Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, and a retrospective in Northart.

### Exhibitions

Notable exhibitions by McIvor include:
* with The Group in 1962 and 1968
* a retrospective exhibition of her work from 1956 to 2001 held in 2001 at Northart
* Making the World Look New, in 2013 at the Remuera Gallery
* 2017, Collection Classics: Lois McIvor in Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery.
# Ross Reynolds (rugby union)

Ross John Reynolds (born 27 September 1958 in Orange) is a former Australian rugby union player, coach and businessman.

## Biography

Educated at the Mitchell College, in whose rugby union team he played for four years, after the graduation in economy, Reynolds joined Gordon RFC, the club where he spent most of his amateur career, while he worked in the constructions sector.
He debuted for the Wallabies in 1984, in Suva against Fiji and then, took part at the 1984 tour of Britain, where Australia won its Grand Slam. He ended his international career during the 1987 Rugby World Cup, taking part only in the match against Japan, in the pool stage.
After retiring as player, Reynolds started his coaching career, after being assistant coach for Gordon RFC, he was appointed as coach for Australia Sevens, and then in 2001, he led University of Sydney team to its Shute Shield victory after 29 years; later moving to Europe, coaching the Orrell RFC, with which he won the Powergen Cup in 2003; in the following season, Reynolds coached Rotherham RFC, from which he resigned at the end of the season.
Returning in Australia, he was first lineout coach, and then, assistant coach of the Wallabies; a year later, he was appointed by the Brumbies from Canberra to fulfill the same role, which he held until the 2007 Super 14 season, before being replaced by Owen Finegan.
He founded and directs Reynolds Direct, a job searching company specialised in the constructions field.
# Felice De Nicolò

Felice De Nicolò (22 March 1942 – 4 October 2023) was an Italian alpine skier. He finished 25th in the downhill at the 1960 Winter Olympics and 28th in the giant slalom at the 1964 Winter Olympics. In 1964 he won the downhill and slalom events at the Three Cableways Cup. De Nicolò died on 4 October 2023, at the age of 81.
# Paradidyma conica

Paradidyma conica is a species of bristle fly in the family Tachinidae.

## Distribution

United States.
# Saigon Central Post Office

The Saigon Central Post Office (Vietnamese: Bưu điện Trung tâm Sài Gòn, French: Poste centrale de Saïgon), is a post office in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, near Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica, the city's cathedral.

## History

The building was constructed when Vietnam was part of French Indochina in the late 19th century. It counts with Gothic, Renaissance and French influences. It was constructed between 1886 and 1891 and is now a tourist attraction.
It was designed by Alfred Foulhoux, but is often erroneously credited as being the work of Gustave Eiffel or a collaboration between Foulhoux and Hanoi-based Auguste Henri Vildieu. As translated by the historian Tim Doling, the journal Architecte constructeur: Revue du monde architectural et artistique of 15 September 1891 commented: “The inauguration the new Saigon Post Office, which was held on July 14, had been postponed until the return of the Governor General. This monument, adorned with a most artistic façade, is particularly well laid out and well equipped for the different services to which it is intended; it does the greatest honour to the skill and talent of the distinguished Chief Architect of the Colony, M. Foulhoux.”
On the outside wall of the post office there are several plaques commemorating important scientists and engineers, who contributed to the development of the communication technologies of the time. These include Morse, Ampere, Volta, Ohm, and Faraday.
Inside the Saigon Central Post office of special note are two painted maps that were created just after the post office was built, the first one located on the left side of the building is a map of Southern Vietnam and Cambodia titled Lignes telegraphiques du Sud Vietnam et Cambodge 1892 ("Telegraphic lines of Southern Vietnam and Cambodia 1892").
The second map of greater Saigon is titled Saigon et ses environs 1892 ("Saigon and its surroundings 1892").
Dương Văn Ngộ, known for being the last public letter writer in Vietnam, worked at the office from 1990 to 2021.

## Gallery

* Front view of the Saigon Central Post Office
* Interior view of the Saigon Central Post Office
# .222 Remington

The .222 Remington or 5.7×43mm (C.I.P), also known as the triple deuce, triple two, and treble two, is a centerfire rifle cartridge. Introduced in 1950, it was the first commercial rimless .22 (5.56 mm) cartridge made in the United States. As such, it was an entirely new design, without a parent case. The .222 Remington was a popular target cartridge from its introduction until the mid-1970s and still enjoys a reputation for accuracy. It remains a popular vermin or "varmint" cartridge at short and medium ranges with preferred bullet weights of 40–55 grains and muzzle velocities from 3,000 to 3,500 ft/s (915–1,067 m/s).

## Introduction

The .222 Remington was developed by Mike Walker, an engineer at Remington, who shot it in a benchrest competition in 1950 at the Johnstown, New York, gun club. It was introduced with the Remington Model 722 bolt-action rifle. The accuracy and flat trajectory of the bullet resulted in the adoption of the round for varmint and benchrest rifles. The faster .220 Swift and .22-250 Remington provided more reach than the .222 Remington. These larger cartridges have roughly 50% more power than the .222, but also cause more muzzle blast and barrel erosion.

## Legacy

The .222 Remington was eventually eclipsed in benchrest competition by the 6mm PPC.
When the US military was looking for a new smallbore rifle cartridge, Remington started with the .222 Remington, and stretched it to increase powder capacity by about 20% in 1958 to make the .222 Remington Magnum. The greater powder capacity put the velocities between the standard .222 Remington and the .22-250. The cartridge was not accepted by the military, but it was introduced commercially. In 1963, the .222 Remington Special, also based on a stretched .222 case, was adopted along with the new M16 rifle as the .223 Remington / 5.56mm NATO. The NATO cartridge had a capacity only 5% less than the Magnum. Given the close performance to other cartridges and military acceptance, both the .222 Remington and the .222 Magnum faded quickly into obsolescence, being replaced by the .223 Remington.
While the .222 Remington is rarely found in current production in America, its derivative cartridges are among the most popular in the world. In addition to the .222 Magnum and .223 Remington, the .222 has also served as the parent case for the .221 Fireball, the fastest production handgun cartridge.
The .222 Remington is still fairly popular in Europe, where producers like Anschütz, Sako & Tikka, Steyr, Sauer and Weihrauch chamber rifles for this caliber. Firearms that are usually chambered for the .223 Remington/5.56×45mm NATO caliber are often rechambered for the .222 Remington for sale in countries where regulations restrict or forbid civilian ownership of "military calibers". Examples of countries with such legislation include Spain and (formerly) France.
# Hoo Cha-pen

Hoo Cha-pen (Chinese: 霍劍平; pinyin: Huò Jiànpíng; c. 1924 – 17 April 2004) was a Taiwanese basketball player and coach. He was born in Hubei, China and graduated from the Department of Education of Anhui University. He competed as part of the Republic of China's squad at the 1956 Summer Olympics, and later served as head coach of the Republic of China men's basketball team.
# Gregor Main

Gregor Main (born July 5, 1989) is an American professional golfer.
Main was born in Berkeley, California. He played college golf at UCLA, turning pro after his junior year. He earned medalist honors qualifying for the 2011 U.S. Amateur.
Main qualified for the 2016 U.S. Open through sectional qualifying. After posting 66 at the morning round at the Olympic Club, Ocean Course and 68 at Lake Merced Golf Club for a cumulative 134, he finished T2 just behind Miguel Tabuena at 132.

## Amateur wins (1)

* 2009 Southern Amateur
Source:

## Professional wins

* 2016 Northern California Open

## Results in major championships

| Tournament | 2016 |
| U.S. Open | CUT |
CUT = missed the half-way cut Note: Main only played in the U.S. Open.
# Russell Boaden

Russell Boaden OAM (born 15 December 1969) is a Paralympic sailor from Australia. He won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, and a won a gold medal in the Mixed Three Person Sonar the 2016 Rio Paralympics.

## Personal

Boaden was born on 15 December 1969. His brachial plexus was damaged as a result of a motorbike accident.

## Career

He won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Games in the Mixed Three Person Sonar event. At the 2013 IFDS World Championships in Kinsale, Ireland, he teamed with Jonathan Harris and Colin Harrison to win the bronze medal in the Sonar Class. In October 2013, the trio were named Yachting Australia's Sailors of the Year with a Disability. At the 2014 IFDS World Championships in Halifax, Canada, Boaden teamed with Harrison and Harris to win the bronze medal in the Sonar Class. In November 2014, Boaden shared the Yachting Australia Sailor of the Year with a Disability award with Daniel Fitzgibbon, Liesl Tesch, Colin Harrison, Jonathan Harris and Matthew Bugg. The Australian team of six sailors beat Great Britain by one point at the IFDS World Championship.
At the 2015 IFDS Championships in Australia, he teamed with Colin Harrison and Jonathan Harris to win the silver medal behind the Great Britain crew. Their score was 37.0 to Great Britain's 36.0. Boaden, Harris and Harrison won the bronze medal in the Mixed Three Person Sonar class at the 2016 World Championships held in Medemblik, Netherlands. They won the gold medal in the Mixed Three Person Sonar class at 2016 Summer Paralympics. During the event they had three first placings and four second placings. He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 2017.