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# Quirke (series)

The Quirke series of crime novels, written by Irish novelist John Banville, centres on the titular character, a pathologist in 1950s Dublin. The first seven volumes in the series (published 2007–2016) appeared under the pen name Benjamin Black: subsequent volumes have appeared under Banville's own name.
The series is published by Henry Holt & Co. in the US. The first novel, Christine Falls, was first released by Picador in the UK in 2006; it was published in the US a year later.
Banville has stated that he drew from his experiences when he first moved to Dublin to inform the Quirke series:
   Quirke lives in the apartment in Dublin which I inherited from my aunt and he moves around in that area where I was when I first moved to Dublin. He's better off than we were in those days, but yes, it's soaked in my recollections. It is more connected to the circumstances of my life than my Banville books.
The eighth and ninth novels in the series, April in Spain and The Lock-Up, feature investigator St. John Strafford, a "Big House" Protestant, who is also a character in other Banville works, including Snow (2020) and The Secret Guests (2022).

## Television adaptation

A three-part miniseries based on the novels stars Gabriel Byrne as Quirke. The series first aired on RTÉ One in Ireland in early 2014, and later that year on BBC One in the UK.

## Books

* Christine Falls (2007)
* The Silver Swan (2008)
* Elegy for April (2010)
* A Death in Summer (2011)
* Vengeance (2012)
* Holy Orders (2013)
* Even the Dead (2016)
* April in Spain (2021)
* The Lock-Up (2023)
* The Drowned (2024)
# Catch as Cats Can

Catch as Cats Can is a 1947 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated cartoon directed by Arthur Davis. The short was released on December 6, 1947, and stars Sylvester.

## Plot

An emaciated canary, singing like Frank Sinatra and attracting the attention of all the admiring chicks, is getting on the nerves of a pipe-puffing parrot, who speaks like Bing Crosby. The parrot spots Sylvester (who in this cartoon speaks differently in a more dopey voice and without a lisp while speaking), foraging through the trash. Telling Sylvester he needs more vitamins (which the canary has been swallowing in bulk), he lures Sylvester inside to snare the canary.
The straightforward approach fails (the canary hits him in the left eye turning it violet). Helped by the parrot's encouragement, he carves a female canary from soap and lures Frankie there; the birds slide down a greased counter, into the sink, and down the drain, but only the soap bird goes through the pipe and down Sylvester's throat. A trail of birdseed into the garage seems to work, but Frankie jacks the cat's mouth open. Sylvester laces the vitamins with buckshot, but the magnet attracts everything metal in sight except his prey. The canary turns Sylvester's vacuum cleaner against him, with a crash in the fireplace giving Sylvester a hot-stomach; as he buries his head in the sink, the bird adds Foamo-Seltzer to the water; the cat rockets off, crashing into a wall.
Sylvester finally realizes the portly parrot is a better meal; he is later shown sitting on the parrot's perch, imitating his mannerisms.
# Vagn Hovard

Vagn Eichner Hovard (14 July 1914 – 6 September 1998) was a Danish field hockey player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics and in the 1948 Summer Olympics. He was born in Frederiksberg.
In 1936 he was a member of the Danish team which was eliminated in the group stage of the Olympic tournament. He played one match as halfback. Twelve years later he was eliminated with the Danish team in the first round of the 1948 Olympic tournament. He played one match as halfback.
# USS Chaffinch (AM-81)

USS Chaffinch (AM-81) was a minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing.

## Career

Chaffinch was built in 1928 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Quincy, Massachusetts, as Trimont; purchased by the Navy 29 November 1940, and commissioned 16 July 1941.
Assigned to the 3d Naval District, Chaffinch arrived at New York City 10 August 1941. For the next year and a half, alert to the mounting German submarine menace, she swept for mines and patrolled waters off New York and New London, Connecticut. From 13 February 1943 until 8 January 1944, she performed similar duty off Newport, Rhode Island, under the 1st Naval District.
Continuing her essential support to the movement both of coastwise convoys, and those bound for distant ports, Chaffinch again served at New York Harbor until 1 August 1945, when she cleared for Charleston, South Carolina. There she was decommissioned 12 December 1945, and transferred to the Maritime Commission 23 September 1946.
# Greg Albritton

Greg Albritton (born March 18, 1952) is an American politician who has served in the Alabama Senate from the 22nd district since 2014. He previously served in the Alabama House of Representatives from the 64th district from 2002 to 2006.

## Legislation

In May 2019, he voted to make abortion a crime at any stage in a pregnancy, with no exceptions for cases of rape or incest.

## Congressional race

In November 2023, Albritton announced his candidacy to represent Alabama's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is running as Republican in the March 5, 2024, primary election.
# Purbach am Neusiedlersee

Purbach am Neusiedlersee (Hungarian: Feketeváros), which is sometimes written as Purbach am Neusiedler See or Purbach am See, is a town in the Austrian state of Burgenland known for its viticulture. It lies in the Eisenstadt-Umgebung district.
Purbach is located at the western shores of Neusiedler See, the only steppe lake in Central Europe, and the only lake without natural outflow in Europe.

## Names

Purbach am Neusiedlersee, literally Purbach on Lake Neusiedl, is often referred to solely as Purbach. It was Feketeváros, Sopron, Hungary prior to the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
It was known as Porpuh in Croatian.

## History

Settlement in Purbach can be traced to the 6th century BCE.
During Roman times, it lay on the famous amber trade route.
The first documented mention of the town occurred in 1270.
In 1918, the city changed from Feketeváros, Sopron, Hungary to present day Purbach am Neusiedlersee, Burgenland, Austria.
# Siu-Wai Chan

Siu-Wai Chan (born 27 February 1958) is a Hong Kong engineer based in the United States. She is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics A 2003 Guggenheim Fellow and 2018 Fellow of the American Physical Society, she studies ceramic engineering.

## Biography

She was born on 27 February 1958 in British Hong Kong. A member of Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi, she studied at the Columbia Engineering (where she got her Bachelor of Science degree in materials science and metallurgy in 1980) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (where she got her Doctor of Science degree in 1985); her doctoral dissertation Crystallite rotations driven by the variation of grain boundary energy with misorientation (1985) was supervised by Robert Balluffi.
After working for Bell Labs and Bellcore in New Jersey in the late-1980s, she returned to Columbia Engineering in 1990 and became associate professor, before being promoted to professor of materials science and engineering in 2002. She also co-chaired Columbia Engineering's Materials Science and Engineering Program and Committee from 1997 until 1999 and Solid State Program from 2001 until 2005.
As an academic, Chan focuses on the size-dependent mechanical properties of the ceramic nanoparticle and the properties behind the electrical workings of device interfaces. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 "for a study of new methods of preparing grain-boundary junctions of high temperature superconductors"; she also used this fellowship for work she did as a visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego. She was elected Fellow of the American Ceramic Society in 2008. She was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2018 "for observing and understanding the grain boundary dislocation motion in materials, providing a seminal impact on superconducting thin film boundary devices, and inventing a novel ecological synthesis technique of nano-crystals oxides for catalysis applications."
# Piraúba

Piraúba is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Minas Gerais. The city belongs to the mesoregion of Zona da Mata and to the microregion of Ubá. As of 2020, the estimated population was 10,759.
# Gerrit Hulsman

Gerrit Hulsman (18 February 1900 – 23 November 1964) was a Dutch footballer. He played in four matches for the Netherlands national football team from 1921 to 1923.
# 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's high jump

The women's high jump event at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 2 March at 19:05 (qualification) and 5 March at 10:20 (final) local time.

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships :
| World record | Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) | 2.08 | Arnstadt, Germany | 4 February 2006 |
| European record | Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) | 2.08 | Arnstadt, Germany | 4 February 2006 |
| Championship record | Tia Hellebaut (BEL) | 2.05 | Birmingham, United Kingdom | 3 March 2007 |
| World Leading | Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR) | 2.02 | Metz, France | 11 February 2023 |
| European Leading | Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR) | 2.02 | Metz, France | 11 February 2023 |

## Results
### Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying performance 1.94 (Q) or at least 8 best performers (q) advance to the Final.
| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | 1.76 | 1.82 | 1.87 | 1.91 | Result | Note |
| 1 | Yuliia Levchenko | Ukraine | – | o | o | o | 1.91 | q |
| 2 | Yaroslava Mahuchikh | Ukraine | – | – | xx- | o | 1.91 | q |
| 3 | Christina Honsel | Germany | o | o | o | xo | 1.91 | q |
| 3 | Daniela Stanciu | Romania | o | o | o | xo | 1.91 | q |
| 3 | Angelina Topić | Serbia | o | o | o | xo | 1.91 | q |
| 6 | Kateryna Tabashnyk | Ukraine | o | xo | o | xo | 1.91 | q |
| 6 | Britt Weerman | Netherlands | – | xo | o | xo | 1.91 | q |
| 8 | Morgan Lake | Great Britain | – | o | o | xxo | 1.91 | q |
| 9 | Solène Gicquel | France | o | o | o | xxx | 1.87 | |
| 10 | Marija Vuković | Montenegro | – | o | xo | xxx | 1.87 | |
| 11 | Nawal Meniker | France | o | xo | xo | xxx | 1.87 | |
| 12 | Karmen Bruus | Estonia | o | o | xxo | xxx | 1.87 | SB |
| 13 | Lia Apostolovski | Slovenia | o | o | xxx | | 1.82 | |
| 13 | Heta Tuuri | Finland | o | o | xxx | | 1.82 | |
| 15 | Urtė Baikštytė | Lithuania | o | xo | xxx | | 1.82 | |
| 15 | Elena Vallortigara | Italy | o | xo | xxx | | 1.82 | |
| | Sini Lällä | Finland | | | | | DNS | |

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | 1.80 | 1.86 | 1.91 | 1.94 | 1.96 | 1.98 | 2.03 | Result | Note |
| | Yaroslava Mahuchikh | Ukraine | – | – | o | o | o | o | xxx | 1.98 | |
| | Britt Weerman | Netherlands | o | o | o | o | o | xxx | | 1.96 | =NR |
| | Kateryna Tabashnyk | Ukraine | o | o | xo | o | xxx | | | 1.94 | |
| 4 | Angelina Topić | Serbia | o | xo | xo | o | xxx | | | 1.94 | =NR WU20L |
| 5 | Yuliia Levchenko | Ukraine | o | o | o | xxo | xxx | | | 1.94 | |
| 6 | Christina Honsel | Germany | o | o | o | xxx | | | | 1.91 | |
| 7 | Morgan Lake | Great Britain | – | o | xxx | | | | | 1.86 | |
| 7 | Daniela Stanciu | Romania | o | o | xxx | | | | | 1.86 | |
# The Gay Anties

The Gay Anties is a 1947 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon short directed by Friz Freleng and written by Michael Maltese and Tedd Pierce. The short was released on February 15, 1947. The title is a play on words for the "Gay Nineties", a phrase that references the 1890s United States.

## Plot

A colony of ants surreptitiously invade a young couple's park picnic in the 1890s and contrive to steal their food. The gags include a scene in which the ants, frustrated three times in their efforts to make off with a sandwich, spread mustard on the back of the girlfriend's hand and trick the boyfriend into biting it, and one in which a female ant sings an overly melodramatic song ("Time Waits for No One") which gets the other ants to run for cover.

## Releases

The Gay Anties was released on the laserdisc title The Golden Age of Looney Tunes in 1993. The short began streaming in HD on HBO Max in 2020.
# Villy Kragh

Villy Kragh (31 August 1936 – 12 December 2000) was a Danish footballer. He played in three matches for the Denmark national football team from 1959 to 1962.
# JDS Chikugo

JDS Chikugo (DE-215) was the lead ship of Chikugo-class destroyer escort of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

## Development and design

The Chikugo class was designed as a modified variant of the Isuzu class, the preceding destroyer escort class. The main anti-submarine weapon was changed from the M/50 375 mm (14.8 in) ASW rocket launcher to the ASROC Anti-submarine missile. The octuple launcher for ASROC was stationed at the mid-deck, and the entire ship design was prescribed by this stationing.

## Construction and career

Chikugo was laid down on 9 December 1968 at Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding, Tamano, and launched on 13 January 1970. She commissioned on 31 July 1971.
On 26 August 1971, the 34th Escort Corps was newly commissioned under the Sasebo District Force, and was incorporated with JDS Mikuma commissioned on the same day.
Removed from the register on 15 April 1995. Since commissioning, she consistently belonged to the Sasebo District Force for about 26 years, and had a total range of 503,405 nautical miles.
# Cynthia Almond

Cynthia Lee Almond is an American attorney and politician serving as a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from the 63rd district. She assumed office on October 20, 2021.

## Education

Almond earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and Spanish from the University of Alabama and a Juris Doctor from the University of Alabama School of Law.

## Career

Almond has operated an independent law firm since 2008. From 2005 to 2021, she served as a member of the Tuscaloosa City Council from the first district. Almond later worked as a dean of the University of Alabama School of Law. She was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 2021, succeeding Bill Poole.
In 2023, Almond was the sole Republican "nay" for an anti-ESG bill that passed in a 74-27 vote.
# Lindsay Cross

Lindsay Cross is an American politician and environmental scientist serving as a member of the Florida House of Representatives for the 60th district. She assumed office on November 8, 2022.

## Education

Cross earned a Bachelor of Science degree in environmental health from Colorado State University in 2000 and a Master of Science in environmental science and policy from the University of South Florida in 2005.

## Career

From 2002 to 2016, Cross worked for the Tampa Bay Estuary Program as a technical assistant, environmental scientist, and environmental science and policy manager. From 2016 to 2018, she was the executive director of the Florida Wildlife Corridor. She joined Florida Conservation Voters in 2019, working as a public lands advocate and government relations director. Cross was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in November 2022.
# Marlon van der Sander

Marlon Ricardo van der Sander (born 2 October 1961) is a Dutch former professional footballer.

## Career

Having played for South China, van der Sander signed for Hong Kong First Division side Golden in August 1994.
While in Hong Kong, he also was selected in a Hong Kong League XI team, composed of Hong Kong First Division League players in exhibition matches. On 26 May 1996, he played for Hong Kong XI against England in a 0-1 loss for Hong Kong XI.
# Pahlavi Psalter

The Pahlavi Psalter is the name given to a 12-page non-contiguous section of a Middle Persian translation of a Syriac version of the Book of Psalms.
The Pahlavi Psalter was discovered in 1905 by the second German Turpan expedition under Albert von Le Coq. Together with a mass of other fragmentary Christian manuscripts discovered in the ruins of the library of Shui-pang at Bulayïq (near Turpan, in what is today the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China), the documents were sent to Berlin for analysis, where the fragments remain today.
The Pahlavi Psalter is the oldest surviving example of Pahlavi literature, that is, literature composed using the Pahlavi writing system. The surviving fragments probably date to the 6th or 7th century CE. The translation itself dates to not before the mid-6th century since it reflects liturgical additions to the Syriac original by Mar Aba I, who was Patriarch of the Church of the East c. 540–552. MaDINna, a 6th-century East Syriac metropolitan of Pars and a noted Pahlavi writer, is generally attributed with the translation of the Pahlavi Psalter.
The script of the psalter, like that of all other examples of Pahlavi literature, is also an Aramaic-derived script (see Pahlavi for details). However, unlike Book Pahlavi script, which is a later but more common form of the consonantary and has 12 or 13 graphemes, the script of the psalms has 5 symbols more. The variant of the script used for the psalter was for almost a century the only evidence of that specific variant, which consequently came to be referred to as Psalter Pahlavi script. More recently however, another sample of the writing was discovered in the inscriptions on a bronze processional cross found at Herat (in present-day Afghanistan). Due to the dearth of comparable material, some words and phrases in both sources remain undeciphered.
# Visconde do Rio Branco, Minas Gerais

Visconde do Rio Branco is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Minas Gerais. As of 2020 its population is estimated to be 42,965.

## History

The Purian languages, now extinct, were formerly spoken in and around what is now Visconde do Rio Branco.
Visconde do Rio Branco was founded in 1810 and had been called by the name "São João". The little village was growing up till 1839 when it finally was recognized as a true village. At 1881 was elevated to City and subordinate to Ubá (the most industrial city of the micro-region) and it received the name Visconde do Rio Branco.
# Rom

Rom, or ROM may refer to:

## Biomechanics and medicine

* Risk of mortality, a medical classification to estimate the likelihood of death for a patient
* Rupture of membranes, a term used during pregnancy to describe a rupture of the amniotic sac
* Range of motion, e.g. of joints in physiotherapy

## Computers and mathematics

* Android ROM, a file containing executable instructions of an Android OS
* Read-only memory, a type of storage media that is used in computers and other electronic devices
** ROM cartridge, a portable form of read-only memory
** ROM image, a computer file which contains a copy of the data from a read-only memory chip
* ROM (MUD), a popular MUD codebase
* Request Of Maintainer, a request by the maintainer of a software package

## Engineering

* Range of motion, the distance that a movable object may normally travel while properly attached to another object
* RFID on metal, radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags which perform a specific function when attached to metal objects
* Rough order of magnitude, a type of cost estimation

## Fiction and entertainment

* Ethan Rom, one of the Others in the TV series Lost
* Rom (comics), a Marvel Comics superhero based on the Parker Brothers toy of the same name
* Rom (Star Trek), a Ferengi character in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
* Rom, a fictional character in Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2
* Runes of Magic, a popular MMORPG
* Rom, a boss in the videogame Bloodborne
* Read-Only Memory (publisher), a British publisher of art books related to the Britsoft era of video game development
* Rom (album)

## Places and structures

* River Rom, England
* Rom (river), Switzerland and Italy
* Rom, Afghanistan, a village in Sar-e Pol province, Afghanistan
* Rom, Deux-Sèvres, a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France
* Rom (Mecklenburg), a community in the district of Parchim, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
* Rom, a district of Morsbach in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
* Rom, Iran, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran
* Royal Ontario Museum, a museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
* The Rom, skatepark in Hornchurch, East London, England
* Romania, UNDP code and former IOC code

## Society

* Rom (plural Roma), one of the ethnic designations used by the Romani people
** rom, Romani language, language code ISO 639 alpha-2
* Rom or ROM, system of Indigenous Australian customary law
** ROM ceremony, a Yolngu ceremonial practice

## Other uses

* Return on margin, a judge of performance based on the net gain or net loss compared to the perceived risk
* Refuel On the Move, a DoD logistic action
* Epistle to the Romans, a book of the Bible commonly abbreviated Rom.
# Sphecosoma gracilis

Sphecosoma gracilis is a moth in the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Peter Jörgensen in 1932. It is found in Paraguay.
# Napoleon Bracy Jr.

Napoleon Bracy Jr. (born 1976 or 1977) is an American politician. He serves as a Democratic member of the Alabama House of Representatives, representing Mobile County, Alabama. In May 2017, he opposed the bill for the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act, which would make it harder to remove Confederate monuments in Alabama; he argued, "People that sponsor bills like this don't care about me."

## Congressional race

In November 2023, Bracy announced his candidacy to represent Alabama's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is running as a Democrat in the March 5, 2024, primary election.
# Li Tiantian (snowboarder)

Li Tiantian is a Chinese snowboarder. She competed at the 2022 Winter Paralympics, winning a bronze medal.
Li won the bronze medal in the women's banked slalom SB-LL2 event. She also competed in the women's snowboard cross SB-LL2 event.
# Maurice van Ham

Maurice van Ham (born 25 April 1966) is a Dutch former footballer who played as a midfielder.

## Early life

Van Ham was born in 1966 in the Netherlands. He is a native of North Holland, the Netherlands.

## Career

Van Ham started his career with Dutch side AZ. He was regarded as a fan favorite while playing for the club. In 1990, he signed for Belgian side KSK Beveren. In 1995, he was sent on loan to Greek side PAOK. In 1997, he signed for Belgian side Charleroi. In 1999, he signed for Luxembourgish side Wiltz. In 2002, he signed for Dutch side AFC '34.

## Personal life

Van Ham was nicknamed the "white Brazilian" by Netherlands international Johan Boskamp. He is the cousin of Netherlands international Jaap Stam.