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# Alonzo Sessions

Alonzo Sessions (August 4, 1810 – July 3, 1886) was an American politician from the U. S. state of Michigan.

## Biography

Sessions was born to Amasa and Pheobe (Smith) Sessions in Marcellus, New York acquired and early education and taught school. In 1831 he moved to Bennington and worked in a store as a clerk for two years receiving $10 a month and board.
In 1833, Sessions left New York and traveled to Michigan mostly on foot. After traveling all over Michigan, he wound up in White Pigeon where the U. S. land office was and entered his land. The next winter he taught school in Dayton, Ohio until 1835 when he bought a team and came through his land on the south side of the Grand River. He also built the first log cabin in the Township of Berlin and managed an 800-acre (3.2 km$^2$) farm. In 1837 he married Celia Dexter and had thirteen children together. He served as the first supervisor of Berlin; first chairman of the board of supervisors for Ionia County; justice of the peace for eight years; and sheriff from 1841-42.
In 1856, Sessions was elected as a Republican from Ionia County (2nd district) to the Michigan House of Representatives and served from 1857-62. He co-founded and served as director and president of the First National Bank of Ionia. In 1872 he served as a Presidential Elector for Michigan casting his vote for incumbent U. S. President Ulysses S. Grant.
In 1876 and 1878, Sessions was elected as the 21st lieutenant governor of Michigan and served under Governor Charles Croswell from 1877–1881. Sessions was also a member of The Grange. He died five years after leaving office.
# George Coe (Michigan politician)

George Alonzo Coe (August 16, 1811 – October 21, 1869) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He served as the 11th lieutenant governor of Michigan.

## Early life

Coe was born in Rush, New York and moved to Illinois at a young age. He was raised on his father's farm until the age of fourteen and then attended school and taught school. He studied law with Judge Pratt in Rochester, New York and began the practice of law in Coldwater, Michigan in 1839. In 1856, Coe became a law partner with future Congressman Charles Upson.

## Political career

Coe held various political positions in Michigan, and was elected as a Whig candidate to the Michigan House of Representatives in 1840. In 1846 he was elected to the Michigan Senate to represent the 4th District, and in 1847 he was elected to the State Senate to represent the 3rd District. Coe was elected as the first Republican to serve as the 11th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan. He served as Lieutenant Governor from 1855 to 1859 under Michigan Governor Kinsley Bingham.
Coe was also a delegate to the 1856 Republican National Convention from Michigan, which nominated John C. Fremont for U. S. President, however Fremont lost to James Buchanan in the general election. Coe left office in 1859 at the age of fifty-eight, and resumed his legal practice.
He died in Coldwater, Michigan on October 21, 1869, ten years after leaving office. He is interred in Oak Grove Cemetery in Coldwater.
# The Haunting (Mahy novel)

The Haunting is a low fantasy novel for children written by Margaret Mahy of New Zealand and published in 1982, including a U.K. edition by J. M. Dent. Atheneum published the first U.S. edition in 1983.
Mahy won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.
The Haunting of Barney Palmer, a New Zealand movie based on the book, was released in 1987.

## Plot introduction

Barney Palmer, a shy eight-year-old boy, discovers that one person in each generation of his family has had supernatural gifts – and this generation it seems to be him. He believes he is haunted by the ghost of an uncle he never met, and is oppressed by his fate. However, his sister Tabitha is determined to help him.

## Essays

* Symposium papers including: "Some Operations of Truth: A personal response to Margaret Mahy's The Haunting" by John McKenzie, a paper presented at a Margaret Mahy Symposium in Christchurch in 2006.
* "Feminism, Freud and the Fairytale: Reading Margaret Mahy's The Haunting" by C. Marquis, Landfall, No. 162, 1987 pp. 186–205.
# William W. Wheaton

William W. Wheaton (April 5, 1833 – November 11, 1891) was a wholesale grocer, mayor of Detroit, Michigan, chair of the Michigan Democratic State Convention, and state representative.

## Biography

William W. Wheaton was born in New Haven, Connecticut on April 5, 1833, the son of John and Orit Johnson Wheaton. His father died in 1844, leaving the younger Wheaton to care for his mother. He attended school in New Haven and Hartford, Connecticut, and at the age of 16 began working at the wholesale establishment of Charles H. Northam & Co.
After gaining some experience at Northam & Co. and rising to the position of bookkeeper and confidential clerk, Wheaton moved to Detroit in 1853 and joined Moore, Foote, and Co., wholesale grocers. In 1855, he became the junior partner in Farrand & Wheaton, wholesale grocer and druggist, and in 1859 when Farrand & Wheaton was dissolved, he struck out on his own and formed Wheaton & Co. Over the next few years, Wheaton took on different partners, becoming Wheaton & Peek in 1862, Wheaton, Leonard, and Burr in 1863, and Wheaton & Poppleton in 1869. In 1873, he became treasurer of the Marquette & Pacific Rolling Mill Company.
In 1866, Wheaton ran for state Senate, and lost by only 12 votes. He later ran for mayor of Detroit, and was elected twice, serving two two-year terms from 1868 - 1871. He also served as chairman of the Democratic State Convention, although the nomination of Horace Greeley for president later soured him on politics. However, Wheaton returned to politics, and was elected state representative in 1889.
Wheaton married Maria Lavinia Ackerman; the couple had two daughters: Ida (born 1856) and Maria (born 1859).
William W. Wheaton died at Harper Hospital on November 11, 1891.
# Sony E 35mm F1.8 OSS

The Sony E 35mm F1.8 OSS is a standard prime lens for the Sony E-mount, released by Sony on September 12, 2012.

## Build quality

The lens has a black plastic exterior in a high quality finish. Its autofocus is fast and silent.

## Image quality

Wide open the sharpness of the lens is about average in the corners and good in the center but stopping down sharpness increases reaching its sweet-spot at f/5.6.
Distortion is very low (barrel shaped), vignetting mild wide open. Chromatic aberrations are visible especially when shooting against the sun.
Bokeh is soft especially wide open. Colour rendition is neutral.
# Luther E. Grice

Luther Etherton Grice (June 23, 1881 - June 4, 1953) was an attorney and a Democratic member of the Mississippi Senate, representing the state's 11th senatorial district from 1940 to 1944.

## Biography

Luther Etherton Grice was born on June 23, 1881, in Lawrence County, Mississippi. He graduated from Millsaps College. He practiced law in Crystal Springs for 26 years. He was a member of the Mississippi Senate, representing the state's 11th senatorial district (Copiah County) as a Democrat, from 1940 to 1944. He died on June 4, 1953, in Crystal Springs, Mississippi.
# Zbigniew Myga

Zbigniew Myga (born 12 November 1939) is a Polish former football manager and player.
He earned one cap for the Poland national team in 1966.

## Honours
### Player

Zagłębie Sosnowiec
* II liga South: 1959
* Polish Cup: 1961–62, 1962–63

### Manager

Polonia Bytom
* II liga, group II: 1979–80
Krisbut Myszków
* III liga, group I: 1993–94
# Zbigniew Paradowski

Zbigniew Paradowski (born 4 July 1932) is a Polish rower. He competed in the men's coxless four event at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
# Zbigniew Pierzynka

Zbigniew Pierzynka (born October 21, 1951, in Kraków, Małopolskie) is a former long-distance runner from Poland, who represented his native country at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. He set his personal best (2:12:21) in the classic distance in 1986.

## Achievements

| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
| Representing Poland ||||||
| 1980 | Olympic Games | Moscow, Soviet Union | 26th | Marathon | 2:20:03 |
| 1982 | Warsaw Marathon | Warsaw, Poland | 1st | Marathon | 2:24:09 |
# Zbigniew Żarnowiecki

Zbigniew Żarnowiecki (born 15 April 1927) is a Polish former rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.
# Daisy Kessler Biermann

Daisy Edith Kessler Biermann (August 24, 1874 – September 21, 1963) was an American magazine and newspaper writer, a painter, and a pianist.

## Early life

Daisy Edith Kessler was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 24, 1874, the daughter of Philip L. Kessler and Sarah Hall.

## Career

For twenty-five years Daisy Kessler Biermann was the editor of the Women's Section and music and art critic of the San Diego Union.
She was actively identified with art and musical development of the city, authoring a large number of published short stories and magazine articles.
She was a member of: American Pen Women (San Diego Branch), San Diego Fine Arts Society, Art Guild, Wednesday Club, San Diego Woman's Press Club, Amphion Club.

## Personal life

Daisy Kessler moved to California in 1898 with her family and lived at El Cajon, California. The J. P. R. Hall and Phil Kessler families ran the Hall & Kessler lumberyard.
In 1913, Kessler married her colleague at The Sacramento Union, Francis Xavier Joseph Biermann, a political reporter.
Biermann died on September 21, 1963.
# Zdobysław Stawczyk

Zdobysław Stawczyk (1 June 1923 – 1 September 2005) was a Polish sprinter. He competed in the men's 200 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
# Zdzisław Lesiński

Zdzisław Lesiński (19 September 1921 – 22 August 2000) was a Polish gymnast. He competed in eight events at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
# Zdzisław Skrzeczkowski

Zdzisław Skrzeczkowski (23 November 1930 – 29 March 2024) was a Polish basketball player.

## Biography

Born in Lubanie on 23 November 1930, Skrzeczkowski played for Legia Warsaw, ŁKS Łódź, and Społem Łódź [pl]. He played for the Polish national team during EuroBasket 1957, where he averaged 2.2 points per game.
Skrzeczkowski died on 29 March 2024, at the age of 93.
# Zygfryd Kuchta

Zygfryd Kuchta (born 5 January 1944 in Diepholz, Germany) is a former Polish handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
In 1972 he was part of the Polish team which finished tenth. He played all five matches and scored seven goals.
Four years later he won the bronze medal with the Polish team. He played all five matches and scored five goals.
# Zygmunt Konieczny (bobsleigh)

Zygmunt Konieczny (19 April 1927 – 7 July 2003) was a Polish bobsledder who competed in the 1956 Winter Olympics. He was born in Leszno.
# Rivière du Castor

The rivière du Castor (French pronunciation:, River of the Beaver) is a tributary of Rivière à l'Ours, flowing successively in the municipalities of Sainte-Hedwidge and Saint-Prime, in the Le Domaine-du-Roy Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, in the province of Quebec, in Canada.
The Beaver River valley is served by the 3rd range road, the Marcel-Auclair road and the 6th range road.
Forestry and agriculture are the main economic activities in this valley.
The surface of the Beaver River is usually frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March, except the rapids areas; however, safe traffic on the ice is generally from mid-December to mid-March.

## Geography

The Beaver River originates at the confluence of two forest streams (altitude: 260 m (850 ft)), in Sainte-Hedwidge. This source is located at:
* 1.6 km (0.99 mi) west of a curve of the Rivière aux Iroquois;
* 12.3 km (7.6 mi) south-east of downtown Saint-Félicien;
* 8.9 km (5.5 mi) north-west of downtown Sainte-Hedwidge;
* 9.5 km (5.9 mi) south-east of the mouth of the Beaver river.
From its source, the Beaver river flows over 13 km (8.1 mi) with a drop of 150 m (490 ft) especially in forest areas, according to the following segments:
* 4.6 km (2.9 mi) towards the north by entering Saint-Prime, forming a hook towards the east, up to the chemin du 6e rang;
* 3.9 km (2.4 mi) towards the north, forming a big S, first in the forest zone, then agricultural, until the Marcel-Auclair road;
* 4.5 km (2.8 mi) towards the north in the agricultural zone, bending towards the northwest, forming a 0.4 km (0.25 mi) loop on the northeast side of the 3rd range road, then more or less along this last road by the southwest side, by crossing the Talbot road, to its mouth.
The Beaver river flows into a bend on the south bank of the Rivière à l'Ours, on the southwest side of the 3rd range road. This confluence is located at:
* 3.2 km (2.0 mi) south-east of downtown Saint-Félicien;
* 7.6 km (4.7 mi) west of downtown Sainte-Hedwidge;
* 3.8 km (2.4 mi) south-west of the mouth of the Beaver river.
From the mouth of the Beaver river, the current successively descends the course of the Rivière à l'Ours on 2.3 km (1.4 mi) toward the North-east; the Ashuapmushuan River towards the south-east on 7.3 km (4.5 mi); then crosses lake Saint-Jean east on 41.1 km (25.5 mi) (ie its full length), follows the course of the Saguenay River via the Petite Décharge on 172.3 km (107.1 mi) east to Tadoussac where it merges with the Saint Lawrence Estuary.
# Mark Harris (Idaho politician)

Mark Harris is an American politician serving as a member of the Idaho Senate from the 32nd district. He assumed office on July 22, 2015.

## Early life and education

Harris earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Utah State University.

## Career

When John Tippets resigned his seat for an appointment as director of the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, the Legislative District 32 Republican Central Committee met to fill the vacancy in the Senate seat, sending three names in order of preference to Governor Butch Otter: Harris, Larry Oja of Malad City, and R. Scott Workman of Preston. Governor Otter appointed Harris to serve the remainder of Tippet's term.

### Committee assignments

* Heath and Welfare Committee
* Transportation Committee
Harris previously served on the Agriculture Affairs Committee in 2016.

## Elections

District 32 Senate - Bear Lake, Caribou, Franklin, Oneida, and Teton Counties and part of Bonneville County. :
| Year | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Candidate | Votes | Pct |
| 2016 Primary | Mark Harris (incumbent) | 6,709 | 100% | | | |
| 2016 General | Mark Harris (incumbent) | 16,168 | 79.6% | Bob Fitzgerald | 4,139 | 20.4% |
# Adi Prag

Adi Prag (עדי פרג; born December 15, 1957) is an Israeli former Olympic swimmer.

## Swimming career

He competed for Israel at the 1974 Asian Games in Tehran, Iran, in swimming in the 100 m and 200 m butterfly (coming in 4th in both), in the 200 m freestyle (coming in 5th), in the 100 m freestyle (coming in 6th), and in the 200 m individual medley.
Prag represented Israel at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in swimming, at the age of 18. He was the youngest Israeli competitor at the 1976 Games. He competed in the Men's 100 metre butterfly, and came in 6th in Heat 1. He also competed in the Men's 200 metre butterfly, and came in 5th in Heat 2.
# Rivière à la Chasse (lac Saint-Jean)

The Rivière à la Chasse (French pronunciation:, lit. 'Hunting river') is a tributary of lac Saint-Jean, flowing the municipality of Sainte-Hedwidge and Saint-Prime, in the Le Domaine-du-Roy Regional County Municipality in the administrative region of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, in the province of Quebec, in Canada.
The upper part of the Rivière à la Chasse valley is served by the 5th range road; the intermediate part, by the 4th row road and the 3rd row road; the lower part via Principale Street.
Forestry is the main economic activity in the upper half of this valley; agriculture, in the lower part.
The surface of the Rivière à la Chasse is usually frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March, except the rapids; however, traffic on the ice is generally safe from mid-December to mid-March.

## Geography

The Rivière à la Chasse originates at the confluence of several forest streams (altitude: 270 m (890 ft)) in Sainte-Hedwidge. This source is located at:
* 1.8 km (1.1 mi) west of the course of the Ouiatchouaniche River;
* 3.6 km (2.2 mi) north-west of the village center of Sainte-Hedwidge;
* 10.0 km (6.2 mi) south-west of the mouth of the "rivière à la Chasse".
From its source, the Rivière à la Chasse flows over 12.3 km (7.6 mi) with a drop of 169 m (554 ft), according to the following segments:
* 8.4 km (5.2 mi) towards the north first in the forest zone, then agricultural, to a bend in the river;
* 3.9 km (2.4 mi) towards the northeast in the agricultural zone by crossing the route 169 (rue Principale), collecting the stream at Tanis (coming from the southeast ), and cutting the railroad at the end of the segment, until its mouth.
The Rivière à la Chasse flows on the southwest bank of lac Saint-Jean. This confluence is located between the villages of Saint-Prime and Pointe-Bleue, either:
* 4.9 km (3.0 mi) west of the center of the village of Pointe-Bleue;
* 2.9 km (1.8 mi) east of the village center of Saint-Prime;
* 9.6 km (6.0 mi) northwest of downtown Roberval.
From the mouth of Rivière à la Chasse, the current crosses Lac Saint-Jean to the east for 39.5 km (24.5 mi) to the northeast, follows the course of the Saguenay River via the Petite Décharge on 172.3 km (107.1 mi) eastwards to Tadoussac where it merges with the Estuary of Saint Lawrence.

## Toponymy

The toponym "rivière à la Chasse" was formalized on December 5, 1968, at the Place Names Bank of the Commission de toponymie du Québec.
# Avraham Melamed (swimmer)

Avraham Melamed (born 29 May 1944) is an Israeli former swimmer. He competed for Israel at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics. Representing Israel at the 1966 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand, he won silver medals in the 100 m butterfly and the 4 × 100 m medley relay. He studied at the West Liberty University and was inducted into their swimming Hall of Fame in 1995.
# Baruch Hagai

Baruch Hagai (Hebrew: ברוך חגאי; born 1944) is an Israeli paralympic champion.

## Early life

Hagai was born in Tripoli, Libya, to a Jewish family of 13. At the age of two he contracted polio, and five years later his family made aliyah to Israel. The family settled in Tel Aviv, where Hagai was treated for polio in Israel for the first time. Hagai was trained as a technician, and in the years 1960-2000 he worked as a technician and project manager for a bus-manufacturing factory.

## Basketball and table tennis career

He was one of the first to join the Israel Sports Center for the Disabled, in 1960, and was active in wheelchair basketball and in table tennis. Over the years he took part in 224 international basketball games on behalf of the Israeli national team and 66 international games on behalf of the Center. In table tennis he won four consecutive gold medals at the Paralympic Games.
Following his retirement, Hagai joined the Sports Center as head coach.

## Awards

In 1986, Hagai was declared as a "Man of Peace" on behalf of the International Olympic Committee.
In 2001, he was awarded with the Israel Prize, for sports, in recognition of his long years of excellence in disabled sports.
# Benny Tabak

Benny Tabak (Hebrew: בני טבק; born 7 June 1956) is an Israeli coach and former footballer who is now coaching Hapoel Herzliya.

## Personal life

His father was Israeli Olympic runner David Tabak. He is Jewish.
# Maria Baez

Maria Baez is a Democrat from New York City who was a member of the New York City Council. She was elected to represent Fordham, Kingsbridge, Morris Heights, and the West Bronx, which are all neighborhoods in the 14th district of The Bronx.

## Personal life and early career

Her first involvement in politics before her election to the City Council was when she was forming the local community organization, 2300 Tenants Block Association, which helped with voter registration and after-school care for local children. She also worked with Jose Rivera, the Assemblyman as his chief of staff, and later on become the first Hispanic woman to be appointed to head the Bronx Board of Elections.

## Political career and failed 2009 re-election bid

Baez was first elected to the New York City Council in the first of January 2002 and was reelected later on. Her term expired on December 31, 2009. On October 23, 2009 Baez voted to extend term limits for the mayor and the City Council. Baez had the support of the Speaker of the New York City Council, Christine Quinn, who said of her: "She's been a great friend to her district, a great friend to the Bronx, and a great and loyal friend to me." The race itself, between Baez, Fernando Cabrera, and Yudelka Tapia has been described by The New York Times as a challenge to the power of local Democratic Party boss Carl Heastie. However Baez was defeated in her re-election bid by 75 votes by Fernando Cabrera, who had only just days before changed his affiliation from Republican to Democrat

### Committee on Aging

She was the first woman to chair the Committee on State and Federal Legislation and after her service there she became the Chair of the Committee on Aging, which administers the public services for aging people throughout New York City.

### Allegations of pro-landlordism

She came under criticism in some sources when she was allegedly accused of supposedly sponsoring a bill that was allegedly "pro-landlord" and, according to some critics, over-funding some programs.

### Poor attendance record

She was also further criticized because of her low attendance record, which according to the records was at 47% attendance rate

### Allegations of discretionary fund misuse

Another issue that unfolded was her use of her discretionary funds for groups that the City Council had previously refused to fund. Some of the money that Baez conferred has been frozen pending an inquiry by the New York City Department of Investigation.
# David Tannor

David Joshua Tannor (Hebrew: דוד טנור; born 1958) is a theoretical chemist, who is the Hermann Mayer Professorial Chair in the department of chemical physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

## Biography

Tannor has a BA from Columbia University (1978), and a PhD with Eric Heller from UCLA (1983). He did his post-doc work with Stuart Rice and David W. Oxtoby at the University of Chicago. He is a black belt in karate.
Tannor is a theoretical chemist. He studies the effects of quantum mechanics on how molecules move. He worked from 1986 to 1989 as an assistant professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, from 1989 to 1995 as an assistant and associate professor at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, from 1992 to 1993 as a visiting professor at Columbia University, and from 1995 to 2000 as an associate professor and since 2000 as a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.
He is the Hermann Mayer Professorial Chair in the department of chemical physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Tannor is the author of Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (2018). He has also published or co-published over 120 scientific articles and reviews.
# Jeff Rabkin

Jeff Rabkin (born 1958 in South Africa) is a former Israel international bowls player.

## Bowls career

Born in South Africa he started playing aged 18 and after emigrating to Israel in 1985 he won the Israeli national title seven times and the masters sixteen times and in February 2000 he reached a career high ranking of world number one.
He has won three medals in the singles event at consecutive World Bowls Championships; he won a bronze medal in 1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing followed by a silver medal at the 1996 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Adelaide and a bronze medal at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Johannesburg.
In 1993, he won the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic pairs title with Cecil Bransky.