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# Stephanie Siriwardhana

Stephanie Siriwardhana (Sinhala: ස්ටෙෆනි සිරිවර්ධන; born 5 February 1988) is a Sri Lankan-Lebanese TV host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who the winner of 2011 Miss Universe Sri Lanka she represented her country at the 2011 Miss Universe pageant. She is also the main host of The Voice Teens Sri Lanka season 1 and 2.

## Biography

She was born on 5 February 1988 in Kuwait. Her father is Sri Lankan and her mother is Lebanese. She is the eldest of 4 children, and has 3 younger brothers. When she was 3 years old her family moved to Sri Lanka due to the escalation of Gulf War. After finishing her primary education in Sri Lanka she moved to Italy and then to Canada where she graduated with a degree in Journalism, Communications and Political Science from Concordia University in Montreal.
In July 2011 she won the title of Miss Universe in Sri Lanka and represented her country at Miss Universe pageant which was held in Brazil on same year. In 2013, she was crowned as Miss Asia Pacific World Sri Lanka.
She is a member of Global Shapers Community, and has worked as a senator of the 2nd Sri Lankan Youth Parliament. Also she is the founder of Stephanie Siriwardhana Foundation, which intends to support a transitional shelter for sexually abused young girls.

## Filmography

In 2013 she appeared in a song of Kannada film Dirty Picture: Silk Sakkath Maga.
# Heshmatabad, Fars

Heshmatabad (Persian: حشمت اباد, also Romanized as Ḩeshmatābād) is a metropolis in Dadin Rural District, Jereh and Baladeh District, Kazerun County, Fars province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 101, in 21 families.
# Ratnapura District

Ratnapura (Sinhala: රත්නපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කය, Tamil: இரத்தினபுரம் மாவட்டம்) is a district of Sri Lanka in the Sabaragamuwa Province.
This gem-mining centre of Sri Lanka is also a major crossroad between southern plains and the hill country to the east. A bustling market city servicing most of the surrounding towns, many of the prominent gem dealers in Sri Lanka operate from this town. There is a route to Sri Pada from Ratnapura direction. Excursions include Sinharaja Forest Reserve and Udawalawe National Park. The surrounding area is a popular trekking destination and a good place for bird watching. The district is home to Kukulugala, the 18th tallest mountain in Sri Lanka.

## Religion

Religions in Ratnapura District (2011)
The majority of the population are Buddhists. Other religions include Hinduism, Islam and Christianity.
| Religion | Population(2012) |
| Buddhism | 943,464 |
| Hinduism | 101,962 |
| Islam | 24,446 |
| Christianity | 18,056 |
| Other Religion | 79 |

## Major cities

* Ratnapura (Municipal Council)

## Large towns

* Balangoda (Urban Council)
* Embilipitiya (Urban Council)

## Other towns

* Rakwana
* Pelmadulla
* Kuruwita
* Imbulpe
* Godakawela
* Kahawatta
* Eheliyagoda
* Weligepola
* Nivitigala
* Ayagama
* Kalawana
* Kolonna
* Panamure
* Pohorabawa
* Pallebedda
* Udawalawe

## Administration

For the administrative purpose district is divided into 18 Divisional Secretariat divisions
* Eheliyagoda
* Kuruwita
* Kiriella
* Rathnapura
* Elapatha
* Ayagama
* Imbulpe
* Opanayaka
* Pelmadulla
* Nivithigala
* Kalawana
* Balangoda
* Weligepola
* Godakawela
* Kahawaththa
* Embilipitiya
* Kolonna
* Kalthota

### Plantation companies

The Ratnapura district includes areas managed by Five Plantation Companies. Namely, Agalawatte Plantations PLC managed by Mackwoods, Balangoda Plantations PLC managed by Stassens, Pussellawa Plantations PLC, managed by Freelanka, Hapugastenne Plantations PLC Managed by Finlays, and Kahawatte Plantations PLC managed by Forbes.
The ownership of these companies lie with the State.
# Vennelakanti Raghavayya

Vennelakanti Raghavaiah B.A., B.L. (June 1897 – 24 November 1981) was a social worker and Indian freedom activist. He was affectionately called "Girijan Gandhi" for his service to the Adivasi people.
He is born at Singapeta village in Kovur Taluq of Nellore district to Vennelakanti Papayya and Subbamma. He completed Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees from Madras University. He joined the Indian National Congress led by Mahatma Gandhi and participated in the Non-cooperation movement and Salt Satyagraha, and was jailed for 21 months. He was again arrested for participating in Quit India movement.
He was elected to the Combined Madras State from the Nellore constituency for two terms. He held the position of parliamentary secretary in 1946 headed by Tanguturi Prakasam. During his tenure, he fought for the scrapping of the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871.
He received Padma Bhushan from Government of India in 1973.
# John Laporte (politician)

John Laporte (November 4, 1798 – August 22, 1862) was a Jacksonian member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He also was the 26th Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

## Biography

John Laporte was born in Asylum, Pennsylvania. He was Auditor of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, in 1827 and 1828. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1828 to 1832 and served as speaker in 1831 and 1832.
Laporte was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1836. He served as associate judge of Bradford County from 1837 to 1845. He was interested in the development of the North Branch Canal and served as surveyor general of Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1851. He was engaged in banking at Towanda, Pennsylvania, from 1850 to 1862.
He died in Philadelphia in 1862, aged 63; he was interred in the family cemetery at Asylum, Pennsylvania, near Towanda. Laporte, Pennsylvania is named after him.

## Sources

* United States Congress. "John Laporte (id: L000094)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
* The Political Graveyard
U.S. House of Representatives :
| Preceded byRichard Coulter | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district 1833–1837 | Succeeded bySamuel Wells Morris |
# Chapman Johnson

Chapman Johnson (March 12, 1777 – July 12, 1849) was a nineteenth-century American politician from Virginia.

## Early life

Johnson was born in Louisa County. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from the College of William and Mary in 1802.

## Career

As an adult, Johnson lived in Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia. He was elected Mayor of Staunton in 1808, and then served in the Virginia state Senate beginning in 1811 through 1831 from a district made up of Augusta, Rockbridge and Pendleton Counties.
In the War of 1812, Johnson was the elected captain of a volunteer company and was appointed aide to General James Breckinridge. He was governor of the University of Virginia from 1819 to 1845, and rector from 1836 to 1845.
Johnson was elected as a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. There he was elected by the Convention to serve on the Legislative Committee. He was one of four delegates elected from the senatorial district made up his home district.
During the debates, he was a floor leader for the White Basis Party in the Convention, seeking reapportionment of the state legislature to represent citizens only, without weighting the legislature by counting slaves held as property. The existing regime made the eastern slave-holding counties a permanent majority in the General Assembly opposing direct election of the Governor and internal improvements to connect the western and eastern regions of the state.

## Death

Chapman Johnson died July 12, 1849, at Richmond, Virginia.
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# Khvodlan

Khvodlan (Persian: خودلان, also Romanized as Khvodlān) is a village in Khosrowabad Rural District, Chang Almas District, Bijar County, Kurdistan province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 368, in 85 families. The village is populated by Kurds.
# Water polo at the 1971 Pan American Games

Water polo was contested for men only at the 1971 Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia.

## Competing teams

Six teams contested the event.
* Argentina
* Brazil
* Canada
* Cuba
* Mexico
* United States

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's water polo | United States | Cuba | Mexico |
# Neckarsulm station

Neckarsulm station is a railway station in the municipality of Neckarsulm, located in the Heilbronn district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
# William Humble Ward, 10th Baron Ward

William Humble Ward, 10th Baron Ward (1781 – 6 December 1835) was a clergyman who succeeded to the Dudley Barony.

## Early life

He was the son of Humble Ward and wife Susannah Beecroft. His paternal grandparents were the Rev. William Ward (younger brother of the 1st Viscount Dudley and Ward, both sons of William Ward and grandsons of Hon. William Ward, himself a younger son of the 1st Baron Ward) and Elizabeth Hawkes.
He was educated at Eton College before attending Queens' College, Cambridge.

## Career

A clergyman in the Church of England, Ward served as rector at Himley, Staffordshire, before succeeding his second cousin John Ward as the 10th Baron Ward of Birmingham on 6 March 1833.

## Personal life

On 22 May 1816, Ward married Amelia Pillans (c. 1797–1882), a daughter of William Gooch Pillans, Esq. of Bracondale, Norfolk. Together, they were the parents of:
* William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (1817–1885), who married Selina Constance de Burgh, daughter of Hubert de Burgh, in 1851. After her death that same year, he married Georgina Elisabeth Moncreiffe, daughter of Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Baronet and Lady Louisa Hay-Drummond (a daughter of the 11th Earl of Kinnoull), in 1865.
* Hon. Humble Dudley Ward (1821–1870), who Eleanor Louisa Hawkes, daughter of Thomas Hawkes, MP for Dudley, in 1843.
* Hon. Julia Susannah Ward (d. 1902), who married Rt. Rev. Thomas Legh Claughton, Bishop of St Albans, a son of Thomas Claughton, MP for Newton, in 1842.
Lord Ward died on 6 December 1835. His widow, the dowager Baroness Ward, died on 23 May 1882.

### Descendants

Through his son Humble, he was a grandfather of Amelia Alice Julia Ward (wife of Lt.-Gen. James Keith Fraser, son of Lt.-Col. Sir James Fraser, 3rd Baronet, and parents of Sir Keith Fraser, 5th Baronet), Henrietta Maria Ward (wife of George Stewart Forbes, a son of Sir Charles Forbes, 3rd Baronet), and William Humble Dudley Ward (who married Hon. Eugenie Brett, a daughter of the 1st Viscount Esher, parents of William Dudley Ward).
Through his daughter Julia, he was a grandfather of Gilbert Henry Claughton (1856–1921), who was created a baronet of The Priory in the Parish of Dudley, in 1912, and Amelia Maria Claughton (wife of Lt.-Col. Hon. Augustus Anson, a son of the 1st Earl of Lichfield, and after his death, George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll).
# Chebyshev lambda linkage

In kinematics, the Chebyshev Lambda Linkage is a four-bar linkage that converts rotational motion to approximate straight-line motion with approximate constant velocity. It is so-named because it looks like a lowercase Greek letter lambda (λ). The precise design trades off straightness, lack of acceleration, and the proportion of the driving rotation that is spent in the linear portion of the full curve.
The example to the right spends over half of the cycle in the near-straight portion. The coupler (link 3) point stays within 1% positional tolerance while intersecting the ideal straight line 6 times.
The linkage was first shown in Paris on the Exposition Universelle (1878) as "The Plantigrade Machine". The Chebyshev Lambda Linkage is a cognate linkage of the Chebyshev linkage.
The Chebyshev Lambda Linkage is used in vehicle suspension mechanisms, walking robots, and rover wheel mechanisms. In 2004, a study completed as a Master of Science Thesis at Izmir Institute of Technology introduced a new mechanism design by combining two symmetrical Lambda linkages to distribute the force evenly on to ground with providing the straight vertical wheel motion. It was then designed, manufactured, and tested in the Earth Rover Project of Los Angeles City College Electronics Club.
# Andrew Stuart (Ohio politician)

Andrew Stuart (August 3, 1823 – April 30, 1872) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Stuart moved to Pittsburgh with his mother in 1834. He received limited schooling. He worked in a newspaper office. He moved to Steubenville, Ohio, in 1850, where he was editor of the American Union 1850-1857.
Stuart was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection. He engaged in the shipping business on the Gulf of Mexico and in the transportation of mails and supplies from Leavenworth, Kansas, to Santa Fe, New Mexico. He resided in Washington, D.C., from 1869 until his death, April 30, 1872. He was interred in Union Cemetery, Steubenville, Ohio.

## Sources

* United States Congress. "Andrew Stuart (id: S001031)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
# Alexander Zasyadko (general)

Alexander Dmitrievich Zasyadko (Russian: Александр Дмитриевич Засядко; Ukrainian: Олександр Дмитрович Засядько; 1779 – 8 June [O.S. 27 May] 1837) was a Russian general of Cossack origin. A military engineer, he played an important role in the development of rocket artillery in Russia.

## Biography

Zasyadko was born into a Cossack (his father had been the head of artillery of the Zaporozhian Cossacks) family in the village of Lyutenka, in the Poltava Governorate. In 1797, Zasyadko graduated from the Artillery and Engineering Szlachta Cadet Corps [ru] in Saint Petersburg (today the building of the Cadet Corps hosts the A.F. Mozhaysky Military-Space Academy).
In 1815, Zasyadko began his work on military gunpowder rockets. He built rocket-launching platforms, which allowed to fire in salvos (6 rockets at a time), and gun-laying devices, and also developed a tactics for the military use of rocket weaponry. In 1820, Zasyadko was appointed head of the Petersburg Armory, the Okhtensky Powder Factory, a pyrotechnic laboratory, and the first Higher Artillery School in Russia. In 1826 he was appointed chief of staff of the Russian artillery. The following year he was in charge of the Artillery Headquarters of the Russian army and took part in the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829, in which his rockets played an important role during the sieges of Brăila and Varna.
Zasyadko organised the development and production of rockets in a specialised workshop, and created the first rocket sub-unit in the Russian Imperial Army. Promoted to lieutenant general in 1829, due to ill health he retired from active service in 1834, settling in the Kharkov area, where his wife's estate was located. He passed away in 1837.

## Legacy and commemoration

* The crater Zasyadko on the far side of the Moon is named after him.
* In 2003 a stamp in honour of Zasyadko was issued in Ukraine.
# Karl von Crämer

Karl von Crämer (1818–1902), Bavarian politician, had a very remarkable career, rising gradually from a mere workman in a factory at Doos near Nuremberg to the post of manager, and finally becoming part proprietor of the establishment. Leaving business in 1870 he devoted his time entirely to politics.
From 1848 he had been a member of the Bavarian second chamber, at first representing the district of Erlangen-Fürth, and afterwards Nuremberg, which city also sent him after the war of 1866 as its deputy to the German customs parliament, and from 1871 to 1874 to the first German Reichstag. He sat in these bodies as a member of the Progressive party (Fortschrittspartei), and in Bavaria was one of the leaders of the Liberal (Freisinnige) party. His eloquence had a great hold upon the masses. As a parliamentarian he was very clear-headed, and thoroughly understood how to lead a party. For many years he was the reporter of the finance committee of the chamber. In 1882, on account of his great services in connection with the Bavarian National Exhibition of Nuremberg, the order of the crown of Bavaria was conferred upon him, carrying with it the honor of nobility. He died at Nuremberg on 31 December 1902.
# Diving at the 1975 Pan American Games

This page shows the results of the Diving Competition for men and women at the 1975 Pan American Games, held from October 12 to October 26, 1975 in Mexico City, Mexico. There were two events, for both men and women.

## Medal table

| Place | Nation | | | | Total |
| 1 | United States | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 2 | Canada | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Mexico | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Total | Total | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |

## Medalists
### Men

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 3m springboard | Tim Moore United States | Phil Boggs United States | Carlos Girón Mexico |
| 10m platform | Carlos Girón Mexico | Tim Moore United States | Kent Vosler United States |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 3m springboard | Jennifer Chandler United States | Elizabeth Carruthers Canada | Cynthia McIngvale United States |
| 10m platform | Janet Nutter Canada | Janet Ely United States | Linda Cuthbert Canada |
# Gerhard Skiba

Gerhard Skiba (1947 – 15 March 2019) was an Austrian politician of the Austrian Social Democratic Party elected mayor of the city of Braunau am Inn in 1989. He became internationally known after setting up a memorial stone for the victims of Fascism in front of the house where Adolf Hitler was born.

## Early life

In 1992, representatives from Bautzen, Mauthausen, Wunsiedel and other towns with an “unwelcome heritage” followed his invitation for the 1st Braunau Contemporary History Days. "Old city": 750 years Braunau am Inn was the title of the 19th Contemporary History Days in September 2010.
On 11 August 2000, Skiba invited Gunter Demnig, an artist from Cologne to lay four Stolpersteine for victims of the National Socialism in Braunau am Inn.
Gerhard Skiba was awarded the Elfriede Grünberg Prize in 2007 to honor his merits to struggle National Socialism. The award is named after Holocaust-Victim Elfriede Grünberg. In 2006 also Leopold Engleitner (104), the oldest survivor of the concentration camps Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrück, received the Elfriede Grünberg Prize.
In 2007, he presented the Trapp Family with the Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer Award, which was founded in order to honor Austrians who stood up for and represented Austria in an extraordinary way abroad.
On 23 September 2010, Skiba resigned for health reasons.
# Valentine Ratz

Valentine Ratz (November 12, 1848 – March 1, 1924) was a Canadian lumber merchant and politician in the province of Ontario.
Born in St. Jacobs, County of Waterloo, Canada West, the son of Jacob Ratz, Ratz received his education at Pine Hill Public School. As a lumber merchant, he was President of the South River Lumber Company of Parry Sound District. In 1879 he entered the municipal council of the Township of Stephen and was Deputy Reeve and Reeve. He was also elected Warden of the County of Huron in 1886. In 1873, Ratz married Mary Yagers. He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of Middlesex North in the general election of 1896. A Liberal, he was defeated in the 1900 federal election and was re-elected in the 1904 federal election. He was summoned to the Senate of Canada for the senatorial division of Parkhill, Ontario on the advice of Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier in 1909. He served until his death in Guelph in 1924.
vte1896 Canadian federal election: Middlesex North :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| | Liberal | Valentine Ratz | 2,184 |
| | Conservative | William H. Hutchins | 2,122 |
vte1900 Canadian federal election: Middlesex North :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| | Conservative | John Sherritt | 2,221 |
| | Liberal | Valentine Ratz | 2,008 |
vte1904 Canadian federal election: Middlesex North :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| | Liberal | Valentine Ratz | 1,894 |
| | Liberal | Robert Boston | 1,598 |
# Belden Shale

The Belden Shale is a geologic formation in Colorado near the town of McCoy. It preserves fossils dating back to the Carboniferous period.
# Demey metro station

Demey (French pronunciation:) is a Brussels Metro station on the eastern branch of line 5. It is located in the municipality of Auderghem, in the south-eastern part of Brussels, Belgium. It is named after a former Mayor of Auderghem, Gustave Demey.
The metro station opened on 17 June 1977. Until the opening of the extension to Herrmann-Debroux in 1985, Demey station was the eastern terminus of line 1A. Then, following the reorganisation of the Brussels Metro on 4 April 2009, it is served by the extended east–west line 5.
# Joseph Fornance

Joseph Fornance (October 18, 1804 – November 24, 1852) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1839 to 1843.

## Biography

Joseph Fornance born in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1832, and commenced practice in Norristown, Pennsylvania. He served as president of the council of the Borough of Norristown. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1834.

### Congress

Fornance was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1842.

### Later career and death

He resumed the practice of his profession, and died in Norristown in 1852. He was interred in Montgomery Cemetery, in West Norriton Township, Pennsylvania, near Norristown.

### Legacy

Fornance nominated future Civil War Major General and Democratic presidential candidate Winfield Scott Hancock for the United States Military Academy at West Point.

## Sources

* United States Congress. "Joseph Fornance (id: F000276)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
* The Political Graveyard
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# Darkesh

Darkesh (Persian: دركش) is a village in Almeh Rural District, Samalqan District, Maneh and Samalqan County, North Khorasan province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 872, in 218 families.
# Konamar

Konamar (Persian: كنامار, also Romanized as Konāmār; also known as Kūna Mār) is a village in Babarashani Rural District, Chang Almas District, Bijar County, Kurdistan province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 110, in 28 families. The village is populated by Kurds.