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# Riyaq

Rayaq - Haouch Hala (Arabic: رياق), also romanized Rayak, is a Lebanese town in the Beqaa Governorate near the city of Zahlé. In the early 20th century and up to the 1975 outbreak of the civil war, it was Lebanon's most important railway center, where the 1.05-m Beirut–Damascus line met the standard-gauge line north to Baalbek, Homs, and Aleppo. It now has an air base and a hospital. Rayak Air Base was bombed by the Israeli Air Force during the 2006 Lebanon War. The landing strip was severely damaged as a result.

## Archaeology

Rayaq North is a Shepherd Neolithic archaeological site located on either side of the main road, 500 metres (0.31 mi) north of Rayaq. Flint tools were found there by Lorraine Copeland and Frank Skeels during a survey of 1965. Along with the Shepherd Neolithic series of blade-butts and end-scrapers, another series of large cores and flakes were found that Henri Fleisch considered similar to materials found at Serain and Fleywe. They are thought to be Mousterian, Levalloiso-Mousterian or Heavy Neolithic.

## History

In 1838, Eli Smith noted both Reyak and Haush Hala as Christian villages in the Baalbek area.
Prior to 1914 there was a broad-gauge railway from Aleppo through Hama and Homs which reached the Beirut to Damascus narrow-gauge line at Riyaq. Both railways were built and owned by French companies.
During the First World War, the military airport was built by German troops. In 1918, the British army bombed the railway station and destroyed it.
On August 7, 1933, two French aviators (Maurice Rossi and Paul Codos), aboard a Blériot 110, broke the world record for straight-line distance. They landed in Rayak after covering a distance of 9,104 km without stopping, in 55 hours, from New York.
During the Syria campaign in July 1941, the British bombed the French base and Rayak depots held by Vichy regime troops.
The first Free French fighter squadron (Alsace Fighter Group) was created there on September 15, 1941.
In September 1942, General de Gaulle visited the pilots at the Rayak base, and the No. 3 Normandie Fighter Group (the future Normandie-Niémen) was established there the following month.
On October 10, 1943, the 3/3 Ardennes Fighter Squadron was born there. The Lebanese Air Force was created on June 1, 1949.
A French M10 Wolverine tank destroyer from the 3rd Squadron of the Colonial Tank Hunter Regiment (RCCC) was named Rayak during the Second World War.
The Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to 1990 interrupted all railway traffic. In 2002, an attempt to restore the Rayak-Damascus link failed.

## Notable People

* Charles Elachi, director of the American Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 2001 to 2016
* Romain Gary, French novelist
* Elie Maakaroun, writer and poet
* Jean Tulasne, aviator
* Jean Makaron, Lebanese diplomat
* Raymond Baaklini, Lebanese diplomat
# Cisy, Malbork County

Cisy is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Malbork, within Malbork County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) west of Malbork and 43 km (27 mi) south-east of the regional capital Gdańsk.
Before 1772 the area was part of Kingdom of Poland, in 1772-1919 and 1939-1945 to Prussia and Germany, and in 1920-1939 to Free City of Danzig. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.
# Beigo language

Beigo (Baygo, Baigo, Bego, Beko, Béogé, Beygo) is an extinct Daju language once spoken in Sudan by the Baygo people, numbering some 850 in the late twentieth century. Similar to Darfur Daju, it is classified as part of the Western Daju family of languages.
# Henry Lloyd Finch

Henry Lloyd Finch was a Democratic member of the Mississippi legislature in the early-to-mid 20th century.

## Biography

Henry Lloyd Finch was born on March 10, 1883, in Polkville, Mississippi. He was the son of Christopher Finch and Mary Elizabeth (Evans) Finch. Finch was educated in the Mississippi Conference Training School. For four years, he taught in the public schools of Jasper County, Mississippi. He graduated from the Law Department of Millsaps College in 1907 with a L. L. B. degree. He began practicing law the same year in Paulding, Mississippi. He moved to Heidelberg, Mississippi, in 1912 and continued practicing law there. In December 1915, he was elected to represent Jasper County as a Democrat in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1916 to 1920. He was re-elected to serve from 1920 to 1924. He then represented Mississippi's 2nd senatorial district in the Mississippi State Senate from 1944 to 1948.
# Surya (disambiguation)

Surya is the chief solar deity in Hinduism. It is also a common name given for people of South Asia.

## Notable people

* Surya Bahadur Thapa (born 1928), Prime Minister of Nepal five times, under three different kings
* Surya Bonaly (born 1973), French-American professional figure skater
* Suryavarman, was King of the Khmer Empire
* Surya Das (born 1950), American Buddhist lama
* Surya Rau Bahadur, was Maharajah of Pithapuram
* Suriya (born 1975), an Indian Tamil actor
* Surya was an alias of Indrajit Gupta
* Surya (Telugu actor), an Indian Telugu actor known for his villainous roles
* Suryadeva Yajvan, 12th-13th century writer

## Other

* Surya (2004 film), an Indian Bengali film
* Surya (2023 film), an Indian Marathi-language action drama film
* Surya (river), a river in Perm Krai, Russia
* Surya TV, a Malayalam-language Indian television channel
* Surya Siddhanta, a treatise of Indian astronomy
* Surya (missile), an intercontinental ballistic missile
* Suryaraopeta, a census town in East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh
* Surya, a brand of clove cigarette (kretek) by Gudang Garam
# Tallinn trams named after musicians

Twelve of Tallinn's tram fleet are named after influential figures in Estonian music. The namings were announced and took place between September 2018 and July 2019.
Tallin's transport company, Tallinna Linnatranspordi AS, decided to rename twelve of Tallinn's newly-refurbished KT-6 tram units at a cost of 10.8 million euros. As they believed music had brought Estonia more fame than other industries and exports, they decided to name them after musicians.
Each tram has the musician's first name (or the band's full name) on the side of the first car, and an information poster both inside and outside the tram with some brief information for the public to read.

## Timeline of introduction

This section lists the dates on which each named tram entered service, and whom they are named after:
* 10 September 2018 – Neeme – conductor Neeme Järvi
* 2 November 2018 – Anne – singer Anne Veski
* 30 November 2018 – Smilers – the band Smilers
* 18 January 2019 – Heino – melodeon maker and player Heino Tartes [et]
* 22 February 2019 – Alo – composer Alo Mattiisen
* 21 March 2019 – Georg – singer Georg Ots
* 17 April 2019 – Raimond – composer and musician Raimond Valgre
* 3 May 2019 – Jaak – singer Jaak Joala
* 14 May 2019 – Peeter – conductor Peeter Saul [et]
* 7 June 2019 – Eri – conductor Eri Klas
* 18 June 2019 – Ellerhein – Ellerhein children's choir
* 3 July 2019 – Gustav – choir director and composer Gustav Ernesaks

## Concerts and Performances

Various concerts have been performed in these trams, the most notable being the concerts held on International Music Day 2019.
On 5 December 2019, there was also a set of impromptu acting performances in the trams, called TRAMWARM, where students from the Estonian Academy of Arts set up regular household scenes in tram cars using household furniture and items, in a bid to encourage passengers to view their tram journeys differently.
# Cerro Tacarcuna

Cerro Tacarcuna is a mountain located in the Darién Province of Panama, very close to the Colombia–Panama border. With a height of 1,875 m (6,152 ft) above sea level, it is the highest point in the Serranía del Darién.

## Overview

The tropical forests of Cerro Tacarcuna are recognized for their extremely high biodiversity and for presenting a large number of endemisms. They are protected by the Darién National Park and the Los Katíos National Park in Colombia and Panama respectively.
According to Kuna mythology, this ethnic group considers that the Cerro Tacarcuna, or Dakarkunyala in the Tule language, is the original place of origin and that from there they spread throughout the Darién and the San Blas archipelago (Caribbean Sea, in Panama); the hill is 1,875 meters above sea level.
# Poshtrud Rural District

Poshtrud Rural District (Persian: دهستان پشت رود) is in the Central District of Narmashir County, Kerman province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Qasemabad.

## Demographics
### Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district's population (as a part of the former Narmashir District of Bam County) was 15,051 in 3,601 households. There were 17,918 inhabitants in 4,579 households at the following census of 2011, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Narmashir County. The rural district was transferred to the new Central District. The 2016 census measured the population of the rural district as 14,642 in 4,460 households. The most populous of its 94 villages was Qaleh Shahid, with 1,923 people.
# Myrna Casas

Myrna Casas (January 2, 1934 – November 9, 2022) was a Puerto Rican experimental playwright, director, actress, and theatre scholar. She was the co-founder and artistic director of the company Producciones Cisne.

## Early life

Casas was born in San Juan to Carmen Busó Carrasquillo and Sixto Casas Semidei. She studied Drama at Vassar College, graduating in 1954, and earned a master's degree in acting at Boston University College of Fine Arts in 1961. She went on to study at New York University where she obtained a doctorate in Theatre education in 1974.

## Career

A member of the sixties generation, Casas's work addressed Puerto Rican national identity through both absurdist and realist plays. She also explored the themes of women in patriarchal societies, as in her play Eugenia Victoria Herrera. Her 1988 play The Great Ukrainian Circus (El gran circo Ucraniano) has been performed regularly and examined by scholars.
Casas for many years taught at the University of Puerto Rico in the drama department, which she also directed for several years. She acted in the 1950s and served in the San Juan municipal assembly from 1996 to 2000.
In June 2022, the Columbia University Libraries acquired Casas's papers, including her original annotated manuscripts of all plays written since 1960, as part of its Latino Art and Activism Archives. She has been compared to other Puerto Rican women in theatre, such as Victoria Espinosa and Gilda Navarra.

## Personal life and death

Casas died on a November 9, 2022, at the age of 88. She was buried at the Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery.

## Works

Casas wrote more than 30 plays, including:
* Cristal roto en el tiempo (A Glass Broken in Time) – 1960
* Eugenia Victoria Herrera – 1964
* Absurdos en soledad – 1964
* La trampa (The Trap) – 1974
* No todas lo tienen (They Don't All Have It) – 1975
* Al garete
* Cuarenta años después (Forty Years Later) – 1976
* Crónicas de obsesión
* Tres noches tropicales (Three Tropical Nights)
* Juegos de obsesión
* Las reinas del Chantecler
* El gran circo Ucraniano (The Great Ukrainian Circus) – 1988 (winner of the National Dramaturgy award of the Circle of Puerto Rican Drama Critics)
* Este país no existe (This Country Doesn't Exist) – 1993
Casas also wrote an opera libretto, El mensajero de plata.

## Honors

Casas received honors from the Center for Advanced Studies on Puerto Rico and the Caribbean (2013), Ateneo Puertorriqueño (2005), the University of Tennessee (2006), the Puerto Rican Senate (2004), and SOGEM (Sociedad de Escritores de México) (1990).
In 2019 the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón dedicated the celebration of World Theatre Day to Casas.
# William C. Lankford

William Chester Lankford (December 7, 1877 – December 10, 1964) was an American politician, judge and lawyer.
Lankford was born in the Camp Creek Community of Clinch County, Georgia in 1874 and graduated from the Jasper Normal Institute in Jasper, Florida, in 1897 and the Georgia Normal College and Business Institute in Abbeville, Georgia, in 1900. He then studied law at the University of Georgia School of Law and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree in 1901.
After moving to Douglas, Georgia, in 1901, Lankford began the practice of law. In 1906, he was elected Mayor of Douglas and became a member of the city Board of Education the following year. He remained on the board until 1918. On January 1, 1908, Lankford became a judge of the city court. He resigned that post on May 1, 1916, to run an unsuccessful campaign that year for the United States House of Representatives. Lankford ran again for the 66th United States Congress in 1918 and was elected as a Democrat to represent Georgia's 11th congressional district. He won reelection to that seat six additional terms before losing in 1932.
Following his congressional service, Lankford returned to practicing law. He worked in the General Accounting Office in Washington, D.C. from January 1935 through October 1942. On December 10, 1964, he died in Twin Lakes, Georgia, and was buried in Douglas Cemetery in the city of Douglas.
# Ferchensee

Ferchensee is a lake in Oberbayern, Bavaria, Germany, located at an elevation of 1060 metres. It is currently ranked #2 of 15 things to do in Mittenwald on TripAdvisor.
# Joseph A. Baker

Joseph Atkins Baker (November 7, 1883 – March 15, 1959) was a Democratic member of the Mississippi State Senate, representing Mississippi's 12th senatorial district, from 1916 to 1920.

## Biography

Joseph Atkins Baker was born on November 7, 1883, in Sharon, Madison County, Mississippi. He was the son of William Jackson Baker and Almyra Atkins. Baker attended the public schools of Madison County, Mississippi, and Shreveport High School. He graduated from Millsaps College with B. S. and Ph. B. degrees in 1906. He took a law course in Millsaps from 1908 to 1909 and received a Bachelor of Laws degree. He moved to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1910 and began practicing law there. In 1915, he was elected to represent Mississippi's 12th senatorial district as a Democrat in the Mississippi State Senate for the 1916-1920 term. Baker served in the U. S. Army in World War I as a First Lieutenant. He died on March 15, 1959.
# John H. Marshall (politician)

John Henry Marshall (January 19, 1841 – December 23, 1913) was an American politician from Pennsylvania. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing Chester County from 1895 to 1898.

## Early life

John Henry Marshall was born on January 19, 1841, in East Marlborough Township, Pennsylvania. He attended Millersville Normal School (later Millersville University of Pennsylvania) and Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and Kennett Square in Unionville and Ercildoun Academies in Pennsylvania. His teacher at Ercildoun was Smedley Darlington.

## Career

At the age of 18, Marshall started farming. In 1864, he took over his father's 150 acres (61 ha) farm in East Marlborough Township. Later in life, he retired in Unionville. He was also a dry goods and grocery merchant. He was elected president of the West Chester, Unionville, and Western Electric Railway Company on May 10, 1892.
Marshall was a Republican. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing Chester County from 1895 to 1898. He withdrew himself from consideration for the following election.

## Personal life

Marshall died on December 23, 1913, at his home in Kennett Square. He was interred at Unionville Cemetery.
# Lisa Boscola

Lisa M. Boscola (born April 6, 1962) is an American politician from Pennsylvania currently serving as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate, representing the 18th Senate District which includes portions of Lehigh and Northampton.
Boscola was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to Richard and Anna Stofko. She is a graduate of Bethlehem's Freedom High School and Villanova University, from which she holds both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in political science.
After college, she worked briefly as a court clerk before entering politics. From 1987 to 1993, Boscola was a Northampton County deputy court administrator. She first won a seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1994 and served two terms. In 1998, she won a seat in the state senate and was re-elected in 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, and 2022.
On June 21, 2023, Boscola along with fellow State Senator Anthony H. Williams announced they were affiliating with Andrew Yang's Forward Party, though they were not dropping their membership of the Democratic Party and the State Senate's Democratic caucus.

## Committee assignments

* Banking & Insurance Committee
* Consumer Protection & Professional Licensure Committee
** Minority Chair
* Community, Economic & Recreational Development Committee
* Environmental Resources and Energy
* Urban Affairs and Housing
# Richard M. Dellinger

Richard M. Dellinger (February 18, 1936 – September 6, 2023) was an American politician. He served as a Republican member of the Indiana House of Representatives.

## Life and career

Richard M. Dellinger was born in Elwood, Indiana. He attended Ball State University and Butler University.
Dellinger was a teacher at Noblesville High School.
Dellinger served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 1972 to 1992.
Richard M. Dellinger died on September 6, 2023, at the age of 87.
# Riley J. Wilson

Riley Joseph Wilson (November 12, 1871 – February 23, 1946) was a Louisiana educator, attorney and legislator in the first half of the late 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. A Democrat, Wilson served in the United States House of Representatives from 1915 until 1937.

## Biography

Wilson was born near Goldonna in Winn Parish, La. on November 12, 1871. He graduated from Iuka Normal Institute in 1894 and became the principal of Harrisonburg High School in Harrisonburg, Louisiana, serving from 1895-1897. Mr. Wilson later studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1898 and began practicing in Harrisonburg, La.

### Career

Riley J. Wilson served as a district attorney, judge, member of the State house of Representatives, and a US Congressman. He represented Louisiana in the U.S. House of Representatives for a total of 11 terms from 1915 to 1937. He was defeated for renomination in 1936 by Newt V. Mills.

### Death and burial

He died on February 23, 1946 in Ruston, La. at the age of 74.
He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery.
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# Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem

Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (published in the United States as The Trial of Elizabeth Cree) is a 1994 novel by the English author Peter Ackroyd. It is a murder mystery framed within a story featuring real historical characters, and set in a recreation of Victorian London.

## Plot summary

As Elizabeth Cree sits every day in a courtroom, on trial for the murder of her husband, the story moves from courthouse to music hall to the back alleys of Limehouse, a notorious district of Victorian London, teeming with the poorest of the poor, the most violent of criminals and helpless preyed-upon immigrants, following the trail of slaughter laid by the Golem, an almost mythical predecessor of Jack the Ripper. Fact and fiction blend as Dan Leno, king of the music-hall comedians, is dragged unwittingly into the investigation of some of London's most notorious murders. Karl Marx and George Gissing are connected to the same crimes.

## Reception

A review in The Independent on Sunday declared that "Ackroyd has pulled off the greatest coup of all, a foursquare crime novel as aesthetically pleasing as it is morally shocking". A review in The Observer called the novel "a flawlessly good read".

## Adaptations

In 2015, it was announced that The Limehouse Golem, a film adaptation based on the book was planned, starring Olivia Cooke, Bill Nighy and Douglas Booth, with a script written by Jane Goldman, to be directed by Juan Carlos Medina. The film was released in September 2017.
The opera Elizabeth Cree by Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell, based on the novel, was given its world premiere by Opera Philadelphia in September 2017.
# Walter J. Mahoney

Walter J. Mahoney (March 10, 1908 in Buffalo, New York – March 1, 1982) was an American lawyer and politician.

## Life

He graduated from Canisius College in 1930, and from the University at Buffalo Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1934, and practiced law in Buffalo. While studying law, he was a reporter for the Buffalo Times.
He attended on October 2, 1932, in a vacant storefront in the old Gerron's Building in Buffalo, the first meeting of the Association of New York State Young Republican Clubs. The association was incorporated in 1934 and in 1935 Mahoney was elected president, a post he resigned after he was elected to the New York State Senate.
He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1937 to 1964, sitting in the 160th, 161st, 162nd, 163rd, 164th, 165th, 166th, 167th, 168th, 169th, 170th, 171st, 172nd, 173rd and 174th New York State Legislatures; and was Temporary President of the State Senate from 1954 to 1964. He was also Acting Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1954.
He was a delegate to the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Republican National Conventions.
In 1965 he was appointed by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller to the New York State Thruway Authority. In 1967, he was elected as a justice of the New York Supreme Court (8th D.), and in 1974 he was designated to the Appellate Division (4th Dept.). He retired in 1977, and resumed his private practice in Buffalo.
The Walter J. Mahoney State Office Building at 65 Court Street, in his hometown Buffalo, was named after him.

## Sources

* Walter J. Mahoney (1908-1982) at the Historical Society of the New York Courts
New York State Senate :
| Preceded byDavid E. Doyle | New York State Senate 48th District 1937–1944 | Succeeded byEarle S. Warner |
| Preceded bynew district | New York State Senate 53rd District 1945–1954 | Succeeded byAustin W. Erwin |
| Preceded byJohn H. Cooke | New York State Senate 55th District 1955–1964 | Succeeded byJohn H. Doerr |
| Political offices |||
| Preceded byArthur H. Wicks Acting | Lieutenant Governor of New York Acting 1954 | Succeeded byGeorge DeLuca |
| Preceded byArthur H. Wicks | Temporary President of the State Senate 1954–1964 | Succeeded byJoseph Zaretzki |
# Claude E. Hill

Claude E. Hill (1885/1886 - May 12, 1947) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician. He was a member of the Mississippi State Senate, representing the 42nd district, from 1917 to 1920.

## Early life

Claude E. Hill was born in 1885 or 1886. He was the son of N. C. Hill, a judge. He moved to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1898. He graduated from high school as the valedictorian of his class in May 1903. He attended the University of Mississippi from September 1903 to June 1907, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He then was an assistant law clerk for two years before taking a two-year course at the University of Mississippi School of Law, finishing the course in only one year.

## Career

He began practicing law in July 1909. He was elected the attorney of the county Board of Supervisors in January 1910 and unanimously re-elected in January 1911. Then, Hill served two terms as Forrest County's county attorney, ending in 1915. In January 1917, Hill announced his candidacy to represent the newly created 42nd district in the Mississippi State Senate for the latter half of the 1916-1920 legislature. He was elected as he was the only candidate running. He served in the legislature's 1917 and 1918 sessions. In January 1944, Hill became Mississippi's assistant Attorney General.
He died in Hattiesburg while still holding that position on May 12, 1947.