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# Darryl Middleton

Darryl Bryan Middleton (born July 21, 1966) is an American former professional basketball player and current assistant coach for Girona of the Liga ACB. Standing at 6'8" (2.03 m), he played at the power forward position. He holds the record for being the oldest player to ever play a game in the history of the Spanish ACB League. He also holds a Spanish passport.

## College career

Middleton played college basketball with the Baylor Bears.

## Professional career

After college, Middleton was selected by the Atlanta Hawks in the 3rd round (68th overall) of the 1988 NBA draft. However, he never played in the NBA. He did however, have a prosperous basketball career in Europe, with teams such as: Çukurova Sanayi, Aresium Milan, Girona, FC Barcelona, Joventut Badalona, Caja San Fernando, Panathinaikos, and Dynamo Saint Petersburg.
He won three Spanish League Most Valuable Player awards (1992, 1993, 2000). He also won two Spanish League championships (1995, 1996), while playing with FC Barcelona. From 2000 to 2005, Middleton played with Panathinaikos, and with them he won four Greek League championships (2001, 2003, 2004, 2005), two Greek Cups (2003, 2005), and the 2001–02 Euroleague championship. In 2007, Middleton won the FIBA EuroCup, while playing with Girona.
He then continued to play with Girona, as part of the re-founded Sant Josep. In March 2011, he signed a contract with Valencia Basket.
After Girona, he signed with CB Lucentum Alicante. Lucentum Alicante, despite having finished in 6th place in the Liga ACB, and having earned the right to play in European-wide league, sold their place in the top Spanish League, and played instead in the Spanish 2nd Division LEB Oro, during the 2012–13 season. This was due to financial issues. Middleton was a part of the team during that season, and he helped them to finish in 3rd place in the Spanish 2nd Division, and after winning in the league's playoffs, they earned a return to the top-tier level Liga ACB.
In October 2013, at the age of 47, Middleton signed with Servigroup Benidorm of the Liga EBA, the Spanish fourth division league.

## Coaching career

In June 2014, Middleton was appointed as an assistant coach for Dimitrios Itoudis in the Russian team CSKA Moscow.
# Vavuniya railway station

Vavuniya railway station (Tamil: வவுனியா தொடருந்து நிலையம் Vavuṉiyā toṭaruntu nilaiyam) is a railway station in the city of Vavuniya in northern Sri Lanka. Owned by Sri Lanka Railways, the state-owned railway operator, the station is part of the Northern Line which links the north with the capital Colombo. The popular Yarl Devi service calls at the station and the also popular service Rajarata Rejini terminates at the station, which starts at Matara in down south. No services operated north of Vavuniya after 1990 due to the civil war. Reconstruction of this section of the line commenced following the end of the civil war in 2009. Currently services operate up to KKS.
# Podophyllum resin

Podophyllum resin, also known as podophyllum or podophyllin, is a resin made from the roots of the American mandrake. It is used as a medication to treat genital warts and plantar warts, including in people with HIV/AIDS. It is not recommended in HPV infections without external warts. Application by a healthcare provider to the skin is recommended.
Common side effects include redness, itchiness, and pain at the site of use. Severe side effects may include vomiting, abdominal pain, confusion, bone marrow suppression, and diarrhea. It is not recommended for more than a small area at a time. Use during pregnancy is known to be dangerous to the baby. It works mostly via podophyllotoxin which stops cell division.
Podophyllin resin has been used to treat warts since at least 1820. It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. A formulation known as podophyllotoxin with less side effects is also available.
# Hugo Dittberner

Hugo Dittberner (born on 16 November 1944 in Gieboldehausen) is a German writer.

## Early years

Hugo Dittberner is the son of an accountant. Between 1956 and 1965 Dittberner attended a boarding school in Bad Nenndorf. After successfully completing his schooling he moved on to Göttingen University where he studied German literature and linguistics, history and philosophy, graduating in 1972. He taught briefly at Karlsruhe University before settling to the life of a freelance writer.

## Middle years

Dittberner has produced a number of volumes of poetry along with numerous novels and short stories. His colloquial poetry style marked him as part of the "New Subjectivity" movement in the 1970s. Both his poetry and his prose works deal with issues of daily life, frequently reflecting the interpersonal problems and relationship issues affecting members of the "'68 generation"
Between 1974 and 2000 Dittberner was a member of the Verband deutscher Schriftsteller (VS/ German Writers' Union). He is a member of the German section of PEN International and of the Mainz based Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur.
In 1979 he was the recipient of the Award of the Cultural Committee of German Industry. This was followed in 1981 by a Villa Massimo stipendium.
In 1984 he won the Niedersachsenpreis for journalism and in 1994 the Berlin Literature prize. In 1997 Dittberner was awarded a Worpswede Artistic Stipendium, and in 2001 a Cultural Stipendium from the Cultural Centre in Edenkoben. Further awards and prizes followed.

## Official recognition

In 2005 the state government honoured him with the Order of Merit

## Works

* Donnervogel, Göttingen 1973 (together with Jens Wilke)
* Pasjes, Bergen, Holland 1973
* Rutschbahn, Kassel 1973
* Die frühen Romane Heinrich Manns, Göttingen 1974
* Heinrich Mann, Frankfurt am Main 1974
* Das Internat, Darmstadt [u. a.] 1974
* Der Biß ins Gras, Köln 1976
* Kurzurlaub, Darmstadt [u. a.] 1976
* Draußen im Dorf, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1978
* Jacobs Sieg, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1979
* Ruhe hinter Gardinen, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1980
* Die gebratenen Tauben, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1981
* Drei Tage Unordnung, Bielefeld 1983
* Der Tisch unter den Wolken, Göttingen 1986
* Wie man Provinzen erobert, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1986
* Die Wörter, der Wind, Bergen, Holland 1988
* Geschichte einiger Leser, Zürich 1990
* Im Lehm, Bergen, Holland 1992
* Das letzte fliegende Weiß, Bergen 1992
* Über Wohltäter, Zürich 1992
* Das letzte fliegende Weiß, Cologne 1994
* Wolken und Vögel und Menschentränen, Göttingen 1995
* Was ich sagen könnte, Stuttgart 1996
* Wasser-Elegien, zu Klampen Verlag, Springe 1997
* Arche nova, Göttingen 1998
* Versuch zu rühmen, Darmstadt 1999
* Vor den Pferdeweiden, Bergen, Holland 1999
* Morgenübungen, München 2000
* Das älteste Testament, zu Klampen Verlag, Springe 2007
* Das Seevokabularium. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0631-8
# John Darrow

John Darrow (born Harry Simpson; 17 July 1907 – 24 February 1980) was an American actor of the late silent and early talking film eras. He is the uncle of actress Barbara Darrow.

## Biography

Born in Leonia, New Jersey in 1907, Darrow began acting in theater with a stock company, right after graduating high school. Shortly after, he would begin his film career with a featured role in the 1927 silent film, High School Hero. After several films with featured roles, he was cast as the lead in 1931's The Lady Refuses, which co-stars Betty Compson and was directed by George Archainbaud. He would spend the next five years in leading man or featured roles, before retiring from acting in 1935. He would appear in five films that year, although four of them were produced in 1934. His final screen appearance would be in a supporting role in Annapolis Farewell.
Although he retired from acting, he did not leave the film industry and instead continued on to become a very successful agent. From the 1930s to the early 1950s, he was in a relationship with (future) film director Charles Walters.

## Filmography

(Per AFI database)
* Long Pants (1927) - Minor Role
* The High School Hero (1927) - Bill Merrill
* Avalanche (1928) - Verde
* Prep and Pep (1928) - Flash Wells
* The Racket (1928) - Dave Ames
* The Argyle Case (1929) - Bruce Argyle
* Girls Gone Wild (1929) - Speed Wade
* Cheer Up and Smile (1930) - Tom
* Hell's Angels (1930) - Karl Armstedt
* Primrose Path (1931) - Buck Randall
* Ten Nights in a Bar Room (1931) - Frank Slade
* The Lady Refuses (1931) - Russell Courtney
* Everything's Rosie (1931) - Billy Lowe
* Fanny Foley Herself (1931) - Teddy
* The Bargain (1931) - Roderick White
* Alias Mary Smith (1932) - Robert Hayes
* The Midnight Lady (1932) - Bert
* Probation (1932) - Nick Jarrett
* Forbidden Company (1932) - Jerry Grant
* The All American (1932) - Bob King
* Maizie (1933) - Boyd Kenton
* Midshipman Jack (1933) - Clark Simpson
* The Big Chance (1933) - Knockout Frankie "Rocky" Morgan
* The Big Race (1933) - Bob Hamilton
* Strange People (1933) - Jimmy Allen
* Monte Carlo Nights (1934) - Larry Sturgis
* Flirtation Walk (1934) - Chase
* I Like It That Way (1934) - Harry Rogers
* The Curtain Falls (1934) - Allan Scorsby
* I Give My Love (1934) - Alex Blair
* Square Shooter (1935) - Johnny Lloyd
* Symphony of Living (1935) - Richard Grieg
* A Notorious Gentleman (1935) - Terry Bradford
* Eight Bells (1935) - Carl
* Annapolis Farewell (1935) - Porter
# Alfred Haines (RAF officer)

Lieutenant Alfred John Haines DFC (1898 – 10 August 1918) was a British World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories.

## Military service

Haines joined the Royal Flying Corps as a cadet, was appointed a temporary second lieutenant (on probation) on 14 July 1917, and confirmed in his rank on 26 September.
He was assigned to No. 45 Squadron in Italy, flying the Sopwith Camel. He gained his first victory on 4 February 1918, destroying an Albatros D.V over Susegana. His next did not come until 7 June, when he set two Albatros D.IIIs afire over Arsiera. He then destroyed an Aviatik over Grigno on 23 July; and finally, on the 29th, destroyed two Austro-Hungarian Phönix D.Is over Prata di Pordenone. On 10 August 1918, he was flying at 10,000 feet and took a direct hit from anti-aircraft cannon. His body fell into "no man's land". The Austro-Hungarians returned his body under flag of truce.
He is buried in Montecchio Precalcino Communal Cemetery Extension, Montecchio Precalcino.
Haines was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, which was gazetted posthumously on 21 September 1918. His citation read:
    Lieutenant Alfred John Haines.
       During the past three months this very gallant pilot has destroyed five enemy machines, and earlier in the year he crashed another. He was killed in action on 10 August 1918.
# 598 BC

The year 598 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 156 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 598 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

## Events

* Jehoiachin succeeds Jehoiakim as king of Judah.
* The traditional date for the foundation of Kamarina by settlers from Syracuse.

## Births

* The birth of Ma'add ibn Adnan an ancestor of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.

## Deaths

* Jehoiakim, king of Judah
# David López-Zubero

David López-Zubero Purcell (born 11 February 1959), also known as David Zubero, is a former competitive swimmer who represented Spain at three Summer Olympics and won an Olympic bronze medal in 1980. Zubero was born in the United States, swam in international competition for Spain, and holds dual Spanish-American citizenship.
Zubero was born in Syracuse, New York. He attended the Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida, where he swam for the Bolles high school swim team. He graduated from the Bolles School in 1977.
Zubero attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he swam for coach Randy Reese's Florida Gators swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) competition from 1977 to 1981. He competed in the championship finals of the 200-yard individual medley all four years. Zubero swam on the Gators 800-yard freestyle relay team that set an American record and tied the NCAA record, while winning the national title in that event in 1979. He also swam on another national championship 800-yard freestyle relay in 1981. During his four years as a Gator swimmer, Zubero received fourteen All-American honors.
Zubero graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in microbiology and cell science in 1983, and was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 2002.
David Zubero is the older brother of the 1992 Olympic champion in the 200-meter backstroke, Martin López-Zubero. The younger Zubero also attended the University of Florida and competed for Spain internationally.
Zubero represented Spain in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1976. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, he placed third in the 100-meter butterfly. He also swam in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, tying for twelfth in the 100-meter butterfly and also swimming for the eleventh-place Spanish men's team in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay.
Zubero served as an assistant coach under Ralph Crocker and Gary Butts for the Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in the 1990s. He earned a master's degree in science education from Nova Southeastern University in Broward County, Florida.
# Jaime Ardila Casamitjana

Jaime Ardila Casamitjana (12 January 1919 – 30 January 2019) was a Colombian writer. He was born in Zapatoca, and graduated from the Colegio de San Pedro Claver in 1936, going on to a journalistic career. He was known for his novels Babel (1945) and Las manzanas del paraiso (1960). In 1965, he founded the tabloid El Espacio. He was the father of the politician Pablo Ardila Sierra. He died on 30 January 2019 in Barcelona, at the age of 100.
# Ángel Villar

Ángel Villar Varela (born 16 September 1949) is a Spanish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1960s. He was eliminated in the repechages of the K-4 1000 m event at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
# Grand Central Hotel Belfast

The name Grand Central Hotel Belfast refers to two separate hotels at different locations in the city. The first opened in 1893 and was converted to a military barracks in 1972, before being demolished in the late 1980s. The second is a converted office building nearby, previously known as Windsor House, which was converted to a hotel and opened on 20 June 2018.

## First Grand Central Hotel

The first Grand Central Hotel was located on Royal Avenue in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and opened in 1893. The hotel contained around 200 guest bedrooms and hosted many famous guests, including the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the 1960s.
The hotel was taken over by the British Army in 1972 for use as a military base from which to patrol the city centre during the height of the Troubles. The troops based there were protected by anti-rocket screens constructed around the front of the building on the main street to repel everything from bricks and bottles to paint and blast bombs. One of the most bombarded hotels in the world it was attacked more than 150 times by the Provisional IRA and other groups.
In the late 1980s, the hotel was no longer required as a military base. It was acquired by developers and demolished, along with a neighbouring building, to make way for the CastleCourt shopping centre which was completed in 1990.

## Second Grand Central Hotel

The second Grand Central Hotel was originally constructed as Windsor House (officially known as 9-15 Bedford Street), a 23-storey, 80 m high-rise building on Bedford Street in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Following a £30m refurbishment beginning in 2016, the new hotel opened on 20 June 2018 as the Grand Central Hotel.
# Nicholas Kralev

Nicholas Kralev is a Bulgarian American author, journalist, analyst, speaker and entrepreneur specializing in international affairs and global travel. He has been particularly recognized for his work on American diplomacy and the U.S. Foreign Service. He is currently the executive director of the Washington International Diplomatic Academy, an independent executive education center for diplomats, other government officials, and business leaders.

## Biography
### Early years

He was born in 1974 in Burgas, Bulgaria as Nikolay Kralev, where he graduated from the English Language High School. Later, he studied in journalism at Sofia University. He began his career as a journalist at the Bulgarian National Radio, then became a reporter at the Bulgarian National Television. In 1996 he emigrated to the USA.

### Career

Previously, he led Kralev International LLC, a consulting and training firm in the fields of international affairs, communications, and global travel. He also served as host and executive producer of the TV series on diplomacy "Conversations with Nicholas Kralev." He often speaks at conferences and other events around the world. His work has taken him to almost 100 countries.
From 2001 until 2010, he was a diplomatic correspondent for the Washington Times and accompanied three United States Secretary of States (Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell) on foreign travel. He also wrote the weekly business travel column "On the Fly."
Prior to that, he was a special correspondent for the weekend edition of the Financial Times. Among his interviewees were Madeleine Albright, Denzel Washington, Sharon Stone, John Malkovich, Kevin Costner, Larry King, and Walter Cronkite.
He is the author of America's Other Army: The U.S. Foreign Service and 21st-Century Diplomacy and Decoding Air Travel: A Guide to Saving on Airfare and Flying in Luxury. He is a contributor to The Atlantic, Foreign Policy magazine, and The Huffington Post, and has appeared on NPR, CNN, BBC, PBS, Fox News, C-SPAN, and other U.S. and foreign stations.
He holds a master's degree in public policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government
As of 2019, Kralev was on the board of directors of the Bulgarian-American Society.
# Sandra Kauffman

Sandra Kauffman is a former American Republican politician who served in the Missouri House of Representatives.
Born in Anselmo, Nebraska, she attended University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
# New Passage Pier railway station

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New Passage Pier was the original terminus of the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway, located on the south bank of the River Severn at New Passage, South Gloucestershire, England. At New Passage, passengers would disembark from trains and use a boat across the Severn.
New Passage had been the site of a ferry from England to Wales including the use by mail and passenger coaches between Bristol and Portskewett in south Wales. In 1825 the New Passage Association formed, using the 30-ton steamboat "St Pierre". However, the sponsorship by the Dukes of Beaufort of the Aust route, with faster boats and a pier, meant that by 1830 mail coaches were diverted there, and the New Passage declined.
Construction of the new railway started in 1858 and the single-track 7 ft (2,134 mm) broad gauge line opened from South Wales Junction, half a mile east of Bristol Temple Meads, as far as the landward end of New Passage Pier on 8 September 1863, a distance of 11 miles (18 km). The distance by rail between Bristol and Cardiff was reduced from 94 miles (151 km) to 38 miles (61 km). The Bristol and South Wales Union Railway built new piers for the ferry, with the one at New Passage being 546 yards (499 m) long.
A steam ferry, the Saint Pierre had been built by Pride and Williams for the New Passage crossing in 1825 and it worked there until 1831. The B&SWUR bought a new steamer, the Gem in 1863 but it proved unsuitable and was soon replaced by the Relief. John Bland, a carrier and shareholder in the railway, was contracted to operate the ferry. The next vessel purchased was the Dragon Fly, this had been used by the contractors to build the piers but was too small to work as the ferry. Instead, two paddle tugs, the Ajax and the Atlas were hired in to cover for the Relief.
A new paddle steamer arrived in June 1864, named Christopher Thomas after the chairman of the B&SWUR, it had been built for the company by Henderson, Coulborn and Company at Renfrew in Scotland. A slightly larger vessel named the Chepstow arrived from the same shipyard on 11 February 1875. These two continued in service until the Severn Tunnel was opened in 1886. They were sold to WS Ogden at Cardiff in 1880, the Chepstow being renamed the Rover. The funnels were generally painted black with a red band.
The station became redundant in 1886 following the construction of the Severn Tunnel, and was subsequently closed. The pier was demolished by 1888. A plaque now marks the site, and although the building of new piling for flood defences and new concrete castings means there is little to no trace of the railway on the land side, at low water, some remains of wooden piling can be seen below the plaque site.
# JDS Ikazuchi (DE-202)

JDS Ikazuchi (DE-202) is the lead ship of Ikazuchi-class destroyer escort of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

## Development and design

In the FY1953, the Japanese government ordered three destroyer escorts, JDS Akebono and this class. These vessels were the first indigenous post-World War II Japanese destroyer escorts, but their propulsion systems were different because the JMSDF tried to find the best way in the propulsion systems of future surface combatants. Akebono was a steam-powered vessel, but this class was diesel-powered vessels.
So equipment of this class were almost the same as those of Akebono, with two American 3"/50 caliber Mark 21 guns (or Type 54, the Japanese version) with two Mark 22 single mounts controlled by Mark 51 director each, four Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft guns with two dual mounts, a Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar and eight K-gun depth charge throwers. And in 1959, all Mark 21 guns were replaced by Mark 22 rapid-fire guns with Mark 34 single mounts and Mark 63 GFCS was introduced in exchange of the reduction of Bofors 40 mm guns.

## Construction and career

Ikazuchi was laid down on 18 December 1954 at Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kobe and launched on 6 September 1955. She's commissioned on 29 May 1956. She was put into service and was incorporated into the Kure District Force.
On 1 August 1956, the 7th Escort Corps was newly formed under the 1st Escort Corps group and was incorporated together with JDS Akebono and JDS Inazuma.
A special refurbishment work was carried out at Kawasaki Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard between 11 December 1958 and 25 March 1959, and the 54 type 50 caliber 3 inch single gun was replaced with the Mk.34 50 caliber 3 inch single quick-firing gun. The front 40mm twin gun was removed, the fire control system on the bridge was changed from Mk.51 to Mk.63, and the Mk.34 shooting radar was also installed. In addition, air conditioners were installed in the battle compartment rooms.
On 10 December 1964, the 7th Escort Corps was reorganized under the 3rd Escort Corps group.
On 15 March 1969, the 7th Escort Corps was reorganized under the Kure District Force.
On 31 March 1976, she was changed to a storage ship, and the ship registration number was changed to YAC-30. It was moored at the 1st Service School of the Maritime Self-Defense Force at Etajima and used as a berthing training ship.
She was stricken on 30 March 1983.
# Blombach

Blombach is a small river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is 3.6 km long and flows into the Wupper near Wuppertal.