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# John R. Thurman

John Richardson Thurman (October 6, 1814 – July 24, 1854) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Born in New York City, Thurman graduated from Columbia University in 1835. He moved to Chestertown, Warren County and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was also involved in several businesses, including serving as a Director of the Sacket's Harbor and Saratoga Railroad. He also speculated in land, as evidenced by the fact that his widow and children sold some of their holdings to the Delaware and Hudson Railroad during its construction.
He held several local offices, including Associate Judge of the Warren County Court.
Thurman was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1851). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1850. After leaving Congress Thurman returned to managing his farm and other interests.
He died at his home near Friends Lake in Chestertown on July 24, 1854. He was originally interred in the family cemetery, before being reinterred in Oakwood Cemetery, Troy, New York.
# John McKeon

John McKeon (March 29, 1808, Albany, New York – November 22, 1883, New York City) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. From 1835 to 1837, and 1841 to 1843, he served two non-consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives as Jacksonian.

## Life

He was the son of Capt. James McKeon who fought in the War of 1812. He graduated from the law department of Columbia College in 1828, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in New York City.

### Political career

McKeon was a representative in the New York State Assembly from 1832 to 1834.

### Congress

He was elected as a Jacksonian to the 24th United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1835, to March 3, 1837, but was defeated for re-election. He was elected as a Democrat to the 27th United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1841, to March 3, 1843, but was again defeated for re-election.

### Later career

In February 1846, he was appointed New York County District Attorney and, when the office became elective under the State Constitution of 1846, was elected in May 1847 to succeed himself. He remained in office until the end of 1850 when his term expired. In this office, he secured the conviction of Madame Restell.
He was appointed by President Franklin Pierce United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and served from July 10, 1854, to January 7, 1858. While holding this office, he prosecuted a number of important cases. Among them were the attempt to enlist men to serve in the British Army during the Crimean War, and the seizure of the filibustering ship "Northern Light."
He was again New York County D.A. from 1882 until his death in office.

### Death

He died at his residence at 44, West 37th Street, and was buried in a family vault under the old St. Patrick's Cathedral on Mott Street in New York City.
# Amastra conica

Amastra conica is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Amastridae.

## Subspecies

* Amastra conica conica Baldwin, 1906
* Amastra conica gentilis C. M. Cooke, 1917
* Amastra conica gyrans Hyatt, 1911
* Amastra conica kohalensis Hyatt & Pilsbry, 1911

## Description

The length of the shell attains 15.5 mm, its diameter 8 mm.
(Later supplemental description by Hyatt, A. & Pilsbry, H. A.) The shell is a fossil specimen. It is dextral and minutely perforated, with a thin, elongately conical shape and an acute apex. Its surface is delicately sculpted with fine growth lines, while the apical whorls exhibit radiating sulcations. The original coloration of the living shell remains unknown. Comprising seven convex whorls, the shell features a well-defined suture. The aperture is oblique and oval, framed by a simple, very thin peristome. The columella ends in a subtly developed fold.
The species was discovered within deposits of fossilized shells at a location known as Mana. The likelihood of living specimens of this species persisting to the present day or within any recent period is exceedingly low.

## Distribution

This species is endemic to Hawaii, occurring on the Lanai island.
# John A. Searing

John Alexander Searing (May 14, 1805 – May 6, 1876) was an American politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1857 to 1859.

## Biography

Born in North Hempstead, New York, Searing completed preparatory studies. He was the sheriff of Queens County, New York from 1843 to 1846. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Queens Co.) in 1854.

### Congress

Searing was elected as a Democrat to the 35th United States Congress (March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859). He served as chairman of the Committee on Accounts (Thirty-fifth Congress). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1858.

### Death and burial

He died in Mineola, New York on May 6, 1876. He was interred in Greenfield Cemetery in Uniondale, New York.

## Sources

* United States Congress. "John A. Searing (id: S000209)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
# Dudley Selden

Dudley Selden (1794 – November 7, 1855 Paris, France) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. From 1833 to 1834, he served part of one term in the U.S. House of Representatives.

## Life
### Family

He was a son of Joseph Dudley Selden (1764–1837) and Ethelinda Colt (1771–1864). He married Mary Augusta Packard (1803–1868), and had a daughter Maria Louisa Selden who married William Rogers Morgan.

### Early career

Selden graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York, in 1819. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of his profession in New York City in 1831.

### Political career

He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1831.

#### Congress

Selden was elected as a Jacksonian to the 23rd United States Congress and served from March 4, 1833, to July 1, 1834, when he resigned.

### Death and burial

He died on November 7, 1855, in Paris, France and was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

## Sources

* United States Congress. "Dudley Selden (id: S000233)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
* Selden Ancestry: A Family History, by Seophie Selden Rogers, Elizabeth Selden Lane, and Edwin Van Deusen Selden. Published Oil City, PA by E. Van D Selden.
* Samuel Colt: Arms, Art, and Invention by Herbert G. Houze, Carolyn C. Cooper, Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser (Yale University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-300-11133-9, ISBN 978-0-300-11133-0 ; page 246) [gives birthyear 1794, but shows Joseph Dudley Selden in a place which suggests his marriage to another Ethelinda of the next generation]
# Henry P. Alexander

Henry Porteous Alexander (September 13, 1801 – February 22, 1867) was a Bank President, and American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York.

## Biography

Born in Little Falls, New York, Alexander was the son of William and Catherine Mary Porteous Alexander and attended the public schools.

## Career

Alexander engaged in mercantile pursuits as well as banking. He served as president of the village of Little Falls in 1834 and 1835. Becoming president of the Herkimer County Bank at Little Falls in 1839, he served in that capacity until his death. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1846 to the Thirtieth Congress.
Elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress, Alexander represented the seventeenth district of New York from March 4, 1849, to March 3, 1851. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress, and resumed his former business pursuits.

## Death

Alexander died in Little Falls, New York, on February 22, 1867 (age 65 years, 162 days). He is interred at Church Street Cemetery, Little Falls, New York.
# Harmon S. Conger

Harmon Sweatland Conger (April 9, 1816 – October 22, 1882) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

## Life and career

Born in Freetown, New York, Conger attended the local academy at Cortland in 1833. He studied law with Horatio Ballard, was admitted to the bar in 1844 and commenced practice in Cortland, New York.
Conger was also editor and owner of a newspaper, the Cortland County Whig, from 1840 to 1845.
He was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses, serving from March 4, 1847 to March 3, 1851. After his term in Congress, Conger resumed the practice of law in Cortland.
He moved to Janesville, Wisconsin in 1855 and continued the practice of law. By now a Republican, Conger was elected Judge of the Wisconsin Circuit Court in 1870. He was reelected in 1876 and served until his death.

### Electoral history

New York's 25th congressional district election, 1846 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Whig | Harmon Conger | 6,253 | 47.73 |
| | Democratic | William Shankland | 6,036 | 46.08 |
| | Liberty | John S. Boyd | 811 | 6.19 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 13,100 | 100.00 |
| | Whig gain from Democratic | Whig gain from Democratic | Whig gain from Democratic | Whig gain from Democratic |
New York's 25th congressional district election, 1848 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Whig | Harmon Conger (incumbent) | 6,732 | 46.88 |
| | Free Soil | Horatio Ballard | 5,747 | 40.02 |
| | Democratic | Frederick Hyde | 1,870 | 13.02 |
| | Liberty | Samuel R. Ward | 10 | 0.07 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 14,359 | 100.00 |
| | Whig hold | Whig hold | Whig hold | Whig hold |

## Death and burial

Conger died in Janesville October 22, 1882. He was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery.
# Thaïs (1917 Italian film)

Thaïs is a 1917 Italian silent film directed by Anton Giulio Bragaglia. The movie is the sole surviving Italian Futurist film, and currently kept at the Cinémathèque Française. It is not based on the novel of the same name by Anatole France.

## Plot

The plot is fairly conventional and refers to the love stories of turbid "diva-film" typical of the period.
The beautiful Slavic countess Vera Preobrajenska (played by Thaïs Galitzy) is a seductress of married men, dragging them to the brink of ruin. Vera resolves to seduce Count San Remo, the lover of her best friend, the Countess Bianca Stagno-Bellincioni (played by Ileana Leonidoff). Bianca, in the midst of depression, falls off her horse and dies. Vera feels guilty and commits suicide.

## Characteristics

The film sets are characteristic of the Futurist movement. They were designed by Enrico Prampolini who used geometric shapes based on a strong black/white contrast: spiral, diamond, chess, symbolic figures (cats, masks spewing smoke). Painted scenes often interact with the characters, creating a world of illusions where it is difficult to distinguish fact from fiction. As the film progresses, it becomes more and more abstract to reflect Vera's increasing confusion.
The oppressive and anti naturalistic visions can be seen as a preamble to the German expressionist cinema, which was notably inspired by the style of Prampolini.

## Gallery

* A scene from Thaïs
* A scene from Thaïs
* A lattice of pointed poles
* A scene with real smoke
# Taalam Acey

Taalam Acey (born September 16, 1970) is an American spoken-word artist. In 1999, he left his position lecturing senior-level accounting at Rutgers University to become a full-time performance poet.

## Early years

Acey was born in Newark, New Jersey.

## Career

Acey was a member of the 1999 New York City slam team representing the Nuyorican Cafe. He was the 2000 Grand Slam Champion of London's Paddington International Poetry Festival. He was also the 2000–2001 "New Jersey Slam Master" and the District of Columbia's Black Words Grand Slam Champion.
Acey was one of four poets selected by Essence magazine to perform at the 2001 Essence Music Festival in New Orleans. He was also one of five poets featured in the New Jersey Performing Arts Center's 'Theater of the Spoken Word.' Acey has lectured on performance poetry at the University of California, Berkeley's Center for Urban Education.
His first spoken-word video "When the Smoke Clearz" was shown in film festivals in Los Angeles, New York, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam. The video was nominated for a 2002 Sundance Film Festival Online Award.
His work has been featured in New Jersey Star-Ledger (July 2001) and Essence, Philadelphia Weekly (December 2005). Marc Smith, the founder of slam poetry, used examples of Acey's poetry in his book: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Slam Poetry..

## Published works
### Literary

* Eyes Free: The Memoir, Word Supremacy Press, 2003
* What You Deserve, a novel, Word Supremacy Press, 2006
* Troubled Soul Refinery, poetry compilation, Word Supremacy Press, 2007
* Excellent Exposure, essays and poems, Word Supremacy Press, 2009

### Recorded performances/CD

* Morally Bankrupt One: The Wickedest Man in Babylon (1999)
* Morally Bankrupt Two: Pain Remover (2000)
* Morally Bankrupt Final: Mood Demystify (2000)
* Code Blues (2001)
* Blues Resurgence (2002)
* Belief System (2003)
* Pieces of Change Disc 1 (2005)
* Pieces of Change Disc 2 (2005)
* Underground Heavy (2006)
* The Market 4 Change (2007)
* Self Construct (2007)
* California Suite (2008)
* The Market 4 Change, Volume 2 (2009)
# Liternum

Liternum was an ancient town of Campania, southern central Italy, near "Patria lake", on the low sandy coast between Cumae and the mouth of the Volturnus. It was probably once dependent on Cumae. In 194 BC it became a Roman colony. Although Livy records that the town was unsuccessful, excavation reveals a Roman town existed there until the 4th century AD.

## History

The town is mainly famous as the residence of the elder Scipio Africanus, who withdrew from Rome and died there. His tomb and villa are described by Seneca the Younger in his Moral Letters to Lucilius. In letter LXXXVI, Seneca describes the villa as being built with squared stone blocks with towers on both sides.
In Ovid's Metamorphoses Liternum is mentioned for its mastic trees: lentisciferum... Liternum. Augustus Caesar is said to have conducted a colony of veterans to Liternum.
The construction of the Via Domitiana through Liternum made it a posting station, but the town later had a malaria outbreak and went into decline. In 455, the town was pillaged and destroyed by Genseric, king of the Vandals.
Excavations between 1930 and 1936 brought to light some elements of the city center (a forum with a podium temple from the early years of the town, a basilica and a small theater). Outside the city walls, the remains of the amphitheater and the necropolis have been identified.
# William F. Sieker

William F. Sieker (January 28, 1849 – August 28, 1930) was an American farmer and politician.
Born in Lippe-Detmold, Germany, Sieker emigrated with his parents to the United States and settled on a farm, near the unincorporated community of Franklin, in the town of Herman, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. Sieker was a farmer and would teach school during the winter. He served as Herman Town Clerk and as Herman Town Board Chairman. Sieker served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1895 and 1897 and was a Republican. Sieker died at his home near Franklin.
# Richard M. Russell

Richard Manning Russell (March 3, 1891 – February 27, 1977) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Cambridge on March 3, 1891, to Governor William Russell and Margaret Manning Swan. Russell attended Middlesex School in Concord. He graduated from Harvard University in 1914 and from Harvard Law School in 1917.
During World War I, he served as a second lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Third Field Artillery, and as a first lieutenant and communications officer of the One Hundred and Fifty-first Field Artillery Brigade. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Boston. He was a member of the Cambridge City Council and served as Mayor of Cambridge.
He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth Congress (January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1937). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress, for election in 1950 to fill a vacancy in the Eighty-first Congress, and for election in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress. He resumed the practice of law in Boston and resided in Essex, where he died February 27, 1977. His interment was in Pine Hill Cemetery in Tewksbury.
# Esperança da Costa

Esperança Maria Eduardo Francisco da Costa (born 3 May 1961) is an Angolan biologist, university researcher-teacher and politician who is currently serving as the fourth vice president of Angola since 15 September 2022.
She was the deputy head of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) party for the 2022 Angolan general elections. With the party's victory, she became Vice President of Angola on 15 September 2022.

## Biography

Esperança da Costa was born in Luanda, Angola, on 3 May 1961. In her youth, during the country's decolonization process, she was part of the Youth Movement of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (JMPLA) and the Organization of Angolan Women (OMA).

### Scientific career

She studied biology at Agostinho Neto University (UAN), graduating in 1985. Between 1983 and 1984, she specialized at the Botany Center of the Tropical Scientific Research Institute in Lisbon, Portugal.
When she returned to Luanda, she was appointed assistant in plant biology at Agostinho Neto University (UAN), becoming head of the biology department in 1986. Between 1986 and 1990, she was responsible for the development of the Luanda Herbarium.
In 1990, she began her master's degree in plant productivity at the Technical University of Lisbon, followed, in 1992, to a doctorate in phytoecology at the same university, completed in 1997.
Upon returning to Angola, she was readmitted as a professor at Agostinho Neto University, becoming director of the Luanda Herbarium and assistant professor of plant biology.
She then served as vice-director of Scientific Affairs and, from 2002, vice-rector for University Expansion at UAN until 2007. Between 2007 and 2010, she was the National Director of the Expansion of Higher Education at the Ministry of Higher Education, supervising the national construction of campuses and new higher education institutions. She acted as director of the UAN Botany Center between 2010 and 2020.

### Political career and vice presidency

She was elected to the Central Committee of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in 2019, being appointed by President João Lourenço as Secretary of State of Fishing in 2020.
She contested and won the 2022 Angolan general elections as the running mate of João Lourenço. She assumed office as Vice President of Angola on 15 September 2022.
# Triathlon at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games

The Triathlon competition at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games was held in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
The tournament was scheduled to be held from 24–25 July at the Balneario de Rincón at Porta del Sol.

## Medal summary
### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Olympic distance | Francisco Serrano (MEX) | Crisanto Grajales (MEX) | Tyler Butterfield (BER) |

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Olympic distance | Claudia Rivas (MEX) | Flora Duffy (BER) | Fiorella D'Croz (COL) |

### Team events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's Olympic distance | Mexico | Costa Rica | Guatemala |
| Women's Olympic distance | Mexico | Colombia | Puerto Rico |
| 4xmixed relays | Mexico | Colombia | Costa Rica |
# Franklin J. Maloney

Franklin John Maloney (March 29, 1899 – September 15, 1958) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

## Early life

Franklin John Maloney was born on March 29, 1899, in Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University School of Law in 1922 and was admitted to the bar in 1923.

## Career

After graduating, Maloney practiced law in Philadelphia.
Maloney was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1944. He was elected as a Republican to the 80th Congress in 1946, serving from January 3, 1947, to January 3, 1949. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948, defeated by Democrat Earl Chudoff. During his term in office, he served in the foreign affairs, merchant marine and the fisheries committees.
Maloney resumed practicing law in Philadelphia.

## Personal life

Maloney married Ann Price. They had one son, Daniel. He lived at 5120 Newhall Street in Philadelphia.
Maloney died on September 15, 1958, at Woman's Medical College Hospital in Philadelphia. He was buried at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.
# Edwin H. May Jr.

Edwin Hyland May Jr. (May 28, 1924 – February 20, 2002) was an American businessman and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, May graduated from Wethersfield High School, Wethersfield, Connecticut, 1942. He graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1948. He was in the United States Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1945. Thereafter, he was both a business and an insurance and executive. May was the co-chairman of the inaugural Insurance City Open (now the Travelers Championship) at the Wethersfield Country Club.
May was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fifth Congress in 1956. May voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Eighty-sixth Congress in 1958. May was Connecticut state Republican chairman from 1958 to 1962, an unsuccessful candidate for Republican nomination for governor of Connecticut in 1962, and a delegate to the Connecticut constitutional convention in 1965. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1968.
He died on February 20, 2002, in Fort Pierce, Florida. May was posthumously inducted into the Connecticut State Golf Association the same year.
# RZ Pyxidis

RZ Pyxidis is eclipsing binary system in the constellation Pyxis, made up of two young stars less than two millions years old. Both are hot blue-white stars of spectral type B7V and are around 2.5 times the size of the Sun. One is around five times as luminous as the sun and the other around four times as luminous. The system is classified as a Beta Lyrae variable, the apparent magnitude ranging from 8.83 to 9.72 over 0.66 days.
# Chet Pollert

Chet Pollert (born April 20, 1955) is an American politician. He is a member of the North Dakota House of Representatives from the 29th District, serving since 1998. He is a member of the Republican party.
In November 2018, members of the House Majority Republican party chose Pollert as their Majority Leader. In the North Dakota legislature, the Majority Leader holds the most powerful position in the chamber (as opposed to most states, where the Speaker of the House holds this position). The previous leader, Representative Al Carlson was defeated in his reelection campaign.