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# Arnold R. Weber

Arnold Robert Weber (September 20, 1929 – August 20, 2020) was the president of Northwestern University from 1984–1994. His tenure at Northwestern was marked by stabilizing the university's finances and enhancing the Evanston campus environment.

## Biography

Weber was born in a Jewish family in the Bronx, New York, and graduated from the University of Illinois in 1950. At the beginning of his career, Weber was a professor, first at MIT (1957–58), followed by University of Chicago (1958-1973). He then went to Carnegie Mellon University, where he served first as Dean of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (1973–77), and then as provost and professor until 1980. In 1980, he became President of the University of Colorado, where he served until 1984.
His non-university experience includes serving as president of the Civic Committee of The Commercial Club of Chicago, the leading business and civic organization in the metropolitan area, from 1995–1999.
Prior to and during his tenure at Northwestern, Weber served on the boards of many corporations including Burlington Northern Santa Fe Inc., PepsiCo Inc., Tribune Co., John Deere & Company, Aon Corp. and Inland Steel.
During his career, he served as a member of the faculty at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago and as a presidential appointee and economic adviser in the federal government.
He has been inducted into the National Academy of Arbitrators and the National Academy of Public Administration, is a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Weber is the author of eight books, as well as numerous monographs and articles on economic policy, industrial and labor relations, and higher education.
# Stefan Pokorny (designer)

Stefan Alexander Pokorny is an American designer and artist, known for his origination and popularization of miniature three-dimensional terrain systems, now widely used in role-playing games (RPG) including Dungeons & Dragons. Prior to Pokorny's innovation, D&D was generally played on 2-dimensional maps drawn on graph or grid paper, with miniature player pieces. Pokorny's terrains add elaborate 3-D aspects to the environment of play.
To achieve his design objectives, Pokorny developed a proprietary PVC-based casting material he calls Dwarvenite$^®$. Users report it is fairly indestructible and holds its finish well.
Pokorny is a significant figure in the Dungeons & Dragons community, widely known as a "legendary Dungeon Master."

## Early life

At age 2½, Pokorny was adopted by New York architect Jan Hird Pokorny (1914–2008) and his wife Marise Angelucci-Pokorny.

## Career
### Dwarven Forge

In 1996, Pokorny co-founded Dwarven Forge to manufacture and distribute his designs for the first fully modular 3-D terrain systems for games. The business model he developed, based on a series of multi-million-dollar Kickstarter campaigns, continues to fund operations as of 2023, with over $23 million raised to date.

### The Dwarvenaut

Pokorny was the subject of the 2016 documentary feature film, "The Dwarvenaut", exploring him and his role-playing alter ego, The Dwarvenaut.

## Publications

* Pokorny, Stefan (2015). Dungeons, Maps, Drawings and Other Secret Arcana. Independent (Alphabet). ISBN 978-1-4951-8438-3. Retrieved May 27, 2023.
# Drengman Aaker

Drengman Olsen Aaker (September 24, 1839 – March 30, 1894) was an American politician and businessman.

## Biography

Born in Hjartdal, Telemark in Norway, Aaker emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1848 and settled in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. In 1854, Aaker and his family settled in Winneshiek County, Iowa. During the American Civil War, Aaker served in the 12th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
Aaker later lived in Ridgeway, Iowa and was in the mercantile business. In the years following his marriage in 1869 to Christina Andersdatter Turvold (1849–1922), Aaker grew to become a successful business figure in Winneshiek County, being the operator of a lumber yard. Later he was member of the mercantile firm of Galby and Aaker, dealing in grain throughout the 1870s. In the latter part of that decade Aaker sold his lumber yard and became the owner of the Ridgeway Creamery, which later burned to the ground in March 1884.
From 1882 to 1886, Aaker served in the Iowa House of Representatives and was a Republican. Aaker died at his home in Ridgeway, Iowa at age 54.
# C. G. Bridges

C. G. Bridges was an American politician.
He was elected to the Iowa Senate from 1864 to 1868, and practiced law in Decatur City. He left Iowa for Kansas after completing his single term as a Republican state senator representing District 6. Bridges then founded the Doniphan County Dispatch, which published its first issue on November 21, 1868. In 1875, Bridges and his wife sold land in Doniphan County to John F. Wilson.
# Northern Trading Company

The Northern Trading Company was an enterprise engaged in the fur trading business in the north of Canada, with outposts in the Athabasca-Mackenzie River district in Alberta and the Northwest Territories during the early 20th century. They were in direct competition with the Hudson's Bay Company, and controlled an estimated eight per cent of the fur trading market in the north by 1922.
Its principal was Colonel J.K. "Peace River Jim" Cornwall, who got a start in the Peace River and Lesser Slave Lake district in the early 1900s and expanded north after the 1911 takeover of Hislop & Nagle and their fur trading posts in the Northwest Territories.
Northern Trading was engaged in river transportation, primarily to service its own fur trading posts, but they also provided commercial passenger and freight service on their steam-driven vessels. The company went into receivership in 1926 and struggled to remain in business for the next seven years while under the management of creditors. In 1931, the company was liquidated, with all stock being sold to the Hudson's Bay Company, and its transportation arm being sold and reorganized as Northern Waterways Limited.
# Lorenzo Costa

Lorenzo Costa (1460 – 5 March 1535) was an Italian painter.

## Biography

He was born at Ferrara, but moved to Bologna by his early twenties, and was probably influenced by the Bolognese School. However, many artists worked in both cities, and thus some consider him a product of the School of Ferrara. It is possible that he trained with Cosimo Tura.
In 1483, he painted the famous Bentivoglio Altarpiece and other frescoes on the walls of the Bentivoglio chapel in San Giacomo Maggiore. He was a great friend of Francesco Francia, who was much influenced by him. In 1509 he moved to Mantua to become the court painter of Marquis Francesco Gonzaga and Isabella d'Este. For the latter's studiolo in the Ducal Palace, he painted the Allegory of Isabella d'Este's Coronation (now at the Louvre) and the Reign of Comus, two mythological paintings based on Mantegna's drawings.
He died at Mantua in 1535. His sons Ippolito and Girolamo were also painters, as was Girolamo's son, Lorenzo the Younger. Contemporaries who worked with or under him include Cosimo Tura, Dosso Dossi, Ludovico Mazzolino, Lorenzo Leonbruno, and Niccolò Pisano.
# Stange (surname)

Stange is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bernd Stange (born 1948), German football manager
* Daniel Stange (born 1985), American Major League Baseball pitcher
* Howie Stange (1924–1990), American musician
* Hugh Stanislaus Stange (1894–1966), American playwright
* Iekeliene Stange (born 1984), Dutch fashion model
* Janne Stange (born 1986), Norwegian football defender
* Lee Stange (1936–2018), former Major League Baseball pitcher
* Mary Zeiss Stange (1950–2024), American academic
* Rodolfo Stange (1925–2023), Chilean politician
* Stanislaus Stange (1862–1917), Anglo-American lyricist and playwright
* Ulrike Stange (born 1984), German handball player
* Ute Stange (born 1966), German rower
# Baby Doll Combs

Baby Doll Combs (1947–1960) was a registered Quarter Horse mare and a prominent rodeo horse. She was posthumously inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame and the ProRodeo Hall of Fame.

## Background

Foaled in 1947, Baby Doll Combs, also known as just Baby Doll, was bred by H. M. Boetick of Bloomfield, Iowa, and registered with the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA), as registration number 81,497. At the time of registration, Willard Combs owned her, a steer wrestler or bulldogger who competed in the rodeo circuit in the 1950s. Combs purchased her from Bill Oduum of Pryor, Oklahoma, in 1955, paying $3,200 for her. Combs not only rode Baby Doll himself, but also allowed other wrestlers to ride her in return for a cut of the prize money.

## Rodeo career

Baby Doll competed in the Rodeo Cowboys Association (RCA) which was renamed the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) in 1975. In 1955, Combs younger brother, Benny, won the steer wrestling world championship with Baby Doll. Then, in 1957, Combs himself won the world steer wrestling championship with her. Her one and only foal was Checotah Star, a result of an accidental breeding in 1957. Between 1953 and her death in 1960 she earned over $400,000 ($4,119,685 in current dollars) in prize money, and in 1957 when she won the title for Combs, she also carried the riders who finished second, third, fourth and fifth in the standings. Bill Linderman, a hall of fame and famous rodeo cowboy, once said that "Baby Doll knew bulldogging better than some of the guys who rode her."
When mature, Baby Doll Combs was a bay mare who weighed about 1,030 pounds and stood about 14.1 hands (57 inches, 145 cm) high. She had a blaze and a left hind sock as her only white markings. A short horse is an advantage to a steer wrestler, as it's closer to the steer.

## Death and honors

Baby Doll Combs died of a ruptured intestine in 1960. She died at a Kansas rodeo, but her owner had her returned to Checotah, Oklahoma, where he lived so that she could be buried on his ranch. Many of the cowboys who had earned money off her were present at the ceremony, and a photograph of them at the graveside appeared in Life Magazine.
Baby Doll Combs was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 2004. The PRCA honored her in 1979 by inducting her into their ProRodeo Hall of Fame in the inaugural group of inductees.
# Frederick A. Pike

Frederick Augustus Pike (December 9, 1816 – December 2, 1886) was a U.S. Representative from Maine.

## Biography

Born in Calais, Massachusetts (now in Maine), Pike attended the common schools and the Washington Academy, East Machias, Maine. He was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1837. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Calais, Washington County, Maine in 1840. In 1846 he married future American author Mary Hayden Green, daughter of Elijah Dix Green and Hannah Caflin Hayden. He served as mayor of Calais in 1852 and 1853. He served as member of the State house of representatives 1858-1860 and served as speaker in 1860.
Pike was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1869). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Naval Affairs (Fortieth Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1868. He resumed the practice of law. He was again a member of the State house of representatives in 1870 and 1871. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress. He died in Calais, Maine, December 2, 1886. He was interred in Calais Cemetery.
# Jane Cutler

Jane Cutler (born September 24, 1936 in New York) is an American writer, who primarily writes novels for children.

## Biography

Cutler was born in 1936 in Bronx, New York, United States. At age 6, she moved to Clayton, Missouri and attended Glenridge School, where she was encouraged to write and participate in sports and drama. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English at Northwestern University in 1958 and a Master of Arts in creative writing at San Francisco State University in 1982.
After graduating from San Francisco State University, Cutler spent ten years raising her three children before publishing her first book in 1991. Besides her work as a professional book writer, Cutler has taught children's writing and short story writing at San Francisco State University and Foothill College. Cutler currently lives in San Francisco, California. In addition to her children, she also has one grandchild.

## Career and honors

Cutler primarily writes books for small children, but she has also written novels for older readers – young adults, including The Song of the Molimo and My Wartime Summers. Though Cutler often chooses serious topics for her writings, such as war, cultural differences, and learning disabilities; her works are described as "never out of reach of her young readers."
In some of her fiction books, Cutler mixes real people and events with imaginary ones. She also does researches about subjects in her works, such as studying about red-legged frog before writing Leap, Frog, and studying about World War II in Europe before writing My Wartime Summers.
Cutler's first picture book for children was Darcy and Gran Don't Like Babies, published in 1993. In 1999, she was chosen by The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books as one of the rising stars of the year.
Cutler received a Herbert Wilner Award for short fiction in 1982 and a PEN prize for short fiction in 1987. In 1994, her book My Wartime Summers became a Notable Social Studies Trade Book (NCSS/CBC). In 1996, Mr. Carey's Garden garnered her a Show Me Readers Award nomination by Missouri Association of School Librarians. Another book, Rats! was listed among Hawaii’s List of Suggested Titles for the 1998 Nene Award.
The next year, Cutler published Spaceman, which received nominations for a 2000 William Allen White Children's Book Award. Her 1999 children book The Cello of Mr. O was one of her most successful works, receiving a Patterson Prize for Books for Young People, a Zena Sutherland Award for Children's Literature, a New Mexico Land of Enchantment Book Award, and a Golden Kite Award nomination. This book was adapted into a musical in Japan.
Cutler's 1998 book The song of Molimo was nominated for a Lamplighter Award 2001-1002.
# Samuel Butman

Samuel Butman (April 30, 1788 – October 9, 1864) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. A farmer and War of 1812 veteran, Butman served in the Maine State House before entering the U.S. House of Representatives, where he represented Maine's seventh congressional district. Late in life he entered the Maine State Senate, where he served as the chamber's president.
Butman was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on April 30, 1788. His family moved to Dixmont in present-day Maine (then a region of Massachusetts) in 1805. There his father, an American Revolutionary War veteran, worked as a farmer.
During the War of 1812, Butman served as captain of a militia company that participated in the ill-fated Battle of Hampden. In 1820, he attended the state constitutional convention. Two years later, in 1822, he was elected to the Maine State House, and served that year and from 1826 to 1827. Butman left the state legislature to serve in the 20th and 21st Congresses (March 4, 1827 – March 3, 1831) in the U.S. House of Representatives as a representative of Maine's seventh district.
In 1846, Butman was county commissioner of Penobscot County. He served in the State Senate and was its president in 1853. He died in Plymouth, Maine, on October 9, 1864.
# George Evans (American politician)

George Evans (January 12, 1797 – April 6, 1867) was an American lawyer and politician from the state of Maine. A member of the United States Whig Party, he served in both houses of the United States Congress and as Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives.

## Early life and career

Evans was born in Hallowell, Massachusetts (now in Maine) where he grew up. He graduated from Bowdoin College where he had been a prominent member of the Peucinian Society. He studied law with Frederic Allen of Gardiner, and settled there to practice.
He was elected to the Maine House of Representatives and served from 1826 to 1830; from 1829 to 1830 he was the Speaker of the House.

## Tenure in Congress

In 1829, he was elected to a seat in the United States House of Representatives in a special election called after Peleg Sprague resigned to take a seat in the United States Senate. Evans served in the House from 1829 to 1841. He served as chairman of the committee on expenditures of the department of the treasury from 1829 to 1831.
In 1841, Evans resigned from the House to take a seat in the United States Senate. He served as chairman of the Senate Committee on Manufactures from 1841 to 1843, chairman of the Committee on Finance from 1841 to 1845 and chairman of the Committee on Territories from 1845 to 1847. James G. Blaine later wrote of Evans's renown in, among other things, matters of finance:
   Upon entering the Senate, he [Evans] was complimented with a distinction never before or since conferred on a new member. He was placed at the head of the Committee on Finance, taking rank above the long list of prominent Whigs, who then composed the majority in the chamber. The tenacity with which the rights of seniority are usually maintained by senators enhances the value of the compliment to Mr. Evans. Mr. Clay, who had been serving as chairman of the committee, declined in his favor with the remark that "Mr. Evans knew more about the finances than any other public man in the United States."
Evans served in the Senate until 1847 when he was defeated in an attempt to be reelected to a second term.

## Career after Congress

Evans then practiced law in Portland, Maine and continued to be involved in politics. From 1849 to 1850, he served as chairman of the commission that determined and settled the financial claims of U.S. citizens against Mexico; the United States had assumed these claims under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo following the Mexican–American War. He also served as Maine Attorney General during the 1850s.

## Slave ownership

According to research conducted in 2022 by The Washington Post, Evans owned at least one slave during his lifetime. He was identified as the only member of Congress from Maine to have owned a human being.

## Death

He died in Portland, Maine and is buried in the Oak Grove Cemetery in Gardiner, Maine.
# Sheldon Rampton

Sheldon Rampton is an American editor and author. He was editor of PR Watch, and is the author of several books that criticize the public relations industry.

## Career

In 1995, Rampton teamed with John Stauber as co-editors of PR Watch, a publication of the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD). They were described as liberal, and their writings are regarded by some members of the public relations industry as one-sided and hostile, but their work drew wide attention. ActivistCash, a website hosted by Washington lobbyist Richard Berman, has castigated them as "self-anointed watchdogs," "scare-mongers," "reckless" and "left-leaning." Rampton and Stauber have in turn argued that the ActivistCash critique contains a number of "demonstrably false" claims. According to a review in The Denver Post, their 1995 book, Toxic Sludge Is Good for You, offered "a sardonic, wide-ranging look at the public relations industry."
After leaving the Center for Media and Democracy in 2009, Rampton became a website developer, joining an open government initiative led by New York State Senate chief information officer Andrew Hoppin. In 2010, Hoppin and Rampton co-founded NuCivic, an open source software company, which they sold in December 2014 to GovDelivery, a software services company now known as Granicus. Rampton currently works as a software engineer at Granicus. He also serves on the board of directors of Global Energy Monitor (GEM), a non-governmental organization that catalogs fossil fuel and renewable energy projects worldwide in support of clean energy.

## Writings by Rampton

* With Liz Chilsen:
** Friends In Deed: The Story of US-Nicaragua Sister Cities (1987)
* With John Stauber:
** Toxic Sludge Is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry (1995)
** Mad Cow U.S.A.: Could the Nightmare Happen Here? (1997)
** Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future (2001)
** Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq (2003)
** Banana Republicans (2004)
** The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Mess in Iraq (2006)
# Yuri Nagaytsev

Yuri Anatolyevich Nagaytsev (Russian: Юрий Анатольевич Нагайцев, Latvian: Jurijs Nagaicevs; born 19 April 1973) is a Latvian football coach and a former player of Russian descent. He is an assistant coach with FC Baltika Kaliningrad.

## Coaching career

On 11 September 2022, Nagaytsev was appointed caretaker manager of the Russian Premier League club FC Akhmat Grozny, following dismissal of Andrei Talalayev. Nagaytsev worked as Talalayev's assistant at his last five clubs at that point, including Akhmat. Sergei Tashuyev was appointed as permanent manager on 22 September 2022. Nagaytsev continued working with Talalayev after that.
# William Moody (Maine politician)

William Moody (July 10, 1770 – March 15, 1822) was an American politician from Maine. Moody, a resident of Saco, Maine and a Democratic-Republican, served in the Massachusetts Senate for 8 years (1804 to 1812). Moody represented Saco at the Maine Constitutional Convention and was elected to the first Maine Senate in 1820. He took over as President of the Maine Senate after the resignation in June 1820 by John Chandler, who was elected to the U.S. Senate by the Maine Legislature. He also served at the same time as Sheriff of York County. He died unexpectedly on March 15, 1822.
# XO-2 (disambiguation)

XO-2 is a star.
XO-2 may also refer to:
* XO-2Nb, an extrasolar planet orbiting XO-2.
* OLPC XO-2, a design study of the One Laptop per Child computer
* Douglas XO-2, a variant of the Douglas O-2 U.S. Army Air Corps interwar observation plane
# Jonas Wheeler

Jonas Wheeler (February 9, 1789 – May 1, 1826) was an American politician and lawyer. Born in Concord, Massachusetts, Wheeler graduated from Harvard College in 1810. He served as Justice of the Peace, the first representative of Camden, Maine to the Maine House of Representatives and Camden's State Senator. He was the President of the Maine Senate from 1825 until his death in May 1826.
# William Willis (Maine politician)

William Willis (1794–1870) was a Portland, Maine lawyer, historian, and politician, and was the partner of William Pitt Fessenden. He was member of the Maine State Senate in 1855 and Mayor of Portland, Maine in 1857, president of the Maine Historical Society (1856–1865), and president of the Maine Central Railroad. In 1864 he was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society.
Bowdoin College, which granted him an honorary degree in 1867, has a small collection of his correspondence, drafts of his writing, and estate information.

## Selected bibliography

* Willis, William (1833). The History of Portland from its First Settlement. Portland, Maine: Day, Fraser & Co.
* Willis, William (1863). A History of the Law, the Courts, and the Lawyers of Maine, from Its First Colonization to the Early Part of the Present Century. Portland, Maine: Bailey & Noyes.