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# Dirk West

Gerald Glynn "Dirk" West (October 23, 1928 – July 26, 1996) was an editorial cartoonist, journalist, and mayor from Lubbock, Texas, most famous for his caricatures of collegiate mascots. He was born in Littlefield, Texas, but his family moved to Lubbock soon after. He attended Texas Tech University where he drew cartoons for The University Daily student newspaper. He appeared as "Uncle Dirk" on a local children's program for three years while heading up his advertising agency, West Advertising. Beginning in the 1960s, he cartooned for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.

## Life

West was born October 23, 1928, in Littlefield, Texas, to James Marion and Ethel Raye Bennett West. He attended Lubbock High School and drew cartoons for the school newspaper. He died of a heart attack on July 26, 1996, in Lubbock, Texas.

## Mascot cartoons

West's most famous works featured caricatures of the sports mascots of various universities, mostly those of the Southwest Conference (and later the Big 12 Conference), but other schools appeared as well, usually because they were playing Texas Tech. His cartoons appeared in program books, on posters, and in magazines.
Two of his characters would eventually be officially adopted by their respective universities: Texas Tech's Raider Red and the University of Nebraska's Herbie Husker.
West drew a semi-weekly one-panel comic in the Avalanche-Journal's sports section where he would lampoon college mascots and coaches alike, as well as the stereotypes of various universities. Thus there was the dim-witted Texas A&M Aggie, the devout but overemotional Baylor Bear, the arrogant University of Texas at Austin Longhorn and of course Raider Red, whose bullet-riddled Stetson showed by the number of holes the number of game losses for Texas Tech so far that season.
West would alter the image of his characters over the course of a sports season. A winning team's mascot would gradually get larger and tougher, the fans of losing teams would find their mascots growing thinner as the weeks went by.

## Politics

After serving several years on the local Parks and Recreation Board and the city council, West was elected mayor of Lubbock in 1978, but disliked politics so much as a result that he did not run for a second term (his single term ran from 1978 to 1980). He returned to his advertising agency and his cartooning, both of which he kept up until his death from a heart attack in 1996.
An exhibition dedicated to West and his work opened September 25, 2005, at the Museum of Texas Tech University. It ran through January 2006.
# TakeLessons

TakeLessons was an online platform that connected students with instructors for a variety of subjects offering both online and in-person individual and group lessons. The online marketplace covered topics including in areas like cooking, music, languages, academic subjects, and professional training.
The platform was launched in 2007 in San Diego initially for music teaching. In 2021, Microsoft acquired the platform.
The last day to book lessons was August 15, 2024 and the website closed on November 15, 2024.
# Mr. Mommaga

Mr. Mommaga (transl. Mr. Grandson) is a 2016 Indian Kannada-language drama film directed by N. Ragavan and starring Rangayana Raghu, Ravi Gowda and Oviya. A remake of director's own Tamil film Manjapai (2014), it was released on 28 May 2016.

## Cast

* Rangayana Raghu as Ravi's grandfather
* Ravi Gowda as Ravi
* Oviya as Ramya
* Avinash as Ramya's father
* Kuri Prathap as Auto driver
* Bullet Prakash as Traffic Inspector
* M. N. Lakshmi Devi
* Yuvina Parthavi as Anjali
* Satyajith as Eye Doctor
* Srinath Vasishta as Ravi's boss
* Malavalli Saikrishna as Ramana
* Yathiraj as Company employee

## Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by N. R. Raghunanthan. The film's audio was released with at a ceremony in April 2016, with film industry personalities including Ganesh, Duniya Vijay, and Amulya sharing the stage with political attendees such as H. D. Kumaraswamy.

## Reception

The film was released on 28 May 2016 across Karnataka. A critic from Times of India gave the film a positive review, noting that "this comic film is worth a watch, if you like a hearty dose of comedy with some little bit of weeps too". A reviewer from Chitratara noted "it is Rangayana Raghu variety of performances makes you to sit in the theatres and watch".
# Sheila Abed

Sheila Raquel Abed de Zavala is a Paraguayan lawyer and politician.

## Biography

Abed studied law at the National University of Asunción; afterwards she obtained a Master in Environmental Law at the Université de Limoges. She has experience in environmental topics in the framework of the United Nations.
On 15 August 2013 she was sworn in as Minister of Justice and Labor of Paraguay in the cabinet of President Horacio Cartes. In April 2020, alongside international affairs experts Claudia S. de Windt and Maria Amparo Alba, Abed founded the Inter-American Institute on Justice and Sustainability (IIJS) in the city of Washington, D.C., in United States of America where the organization has its headquarters.
# Cordelia Gundolf

Cordelia Gundolf (30 November 1917 – 10 September 2008) was an Italian language educator in Australia, and an expert in Italian literature, publishing a number of works on the topic.

## Background

Born in Munich, Germany on 31 November 1917, Gundolf came from a famous literary family, being the daughter of Friedrich Gundolf and godchild of Melchior Lechter, a noted graphic artist. She originally worked in Rome as a translator. Gundolf's grandfather was Jewish; her mother was concerned this would make problems for the family following Adolf Hitler's accession to power in Germany, so she asked Albert Einstein, a family friend for advice. Following his advice, they fled to Capri, and then to Rome. Her first work, "Myrtles and Mice: Leaves from the Italian Diary of Cordelia Gundolf" was published in 1935.

## Career

Gundolf worked as a translator before applying for the position of Italian language lecturer at the University of Melbourne in 1960. This was the start of teaching at University of Melbourne, and some of the first teaching of Italian in Australia. Upon the death of the previous department head, she became the head of the Italian Language Department. She continued to teach and also publish work on the Italian language, but developed, as her principal interest, an expert knowledge of Italian literature. She published widely in this area.
Gundolf died of liver cancer on 10 September 2008 in Benalla, Victoria.
# Esther Byer-Suckoo

Esther R. Byer-Suckoo (born 1968) is a Barbadian physician and politician. She is the former Barbados Minister of Labor and a member of the Democratic Labour Party.

## Early life and education

Esther Byer-Suckoo was born on September 10, 1968, in Saint George. She attended St. Luke's Primary School and Queen's College. She proceeded to attend University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica. She earned her PhD as a physician in 1993. After graduation, she worked at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Bridgetown in the Barbados.

## Career

Byer-Suckoo founded the Ellerton Medical Centre in 1997. In 2001 and 2005, she served as a medical missionary in Malawi and Uganda, respectively.
In January 2008, she was elected to the Parliament of Barbados, representing South Saint George. In 2010, she was named Barbados Minister of Labor. In 2018, she ran for Parliament again.
# Anthony Gaeta

Anthony R. Gaeta (September 8, 1927 – December 26, 1988) was a Staten Island, New York politician. A Democrat, Gaeta served as Staten Island's Borough President from 1977 to 1984. Over the course of 39 years in public service, Gaeta also held positions as a tax collector for the Real Property Assessment Bureau, as chief of staff to Congressman John M. Murphy, and as a city council member.
Gaeta was born in West Brighton and graduated from McKee High School in 1945. He served in the armed forces for a short time, and afterward continued his education at New York and Cornell Universities. His career as a public servant began in 1949.
As a staffer and an administrator, Gaeta worked to improve roads, sewers, and schools in Staten Island. He also worked on the creation of the Staten Island Greenbelt environmental program. Anthony R. Gaeta retired in 1984. He died of a heart attack on December 26, 1988.
# Robert F. Wagner Jr. (deputy mayor)

Robert Ferdinand Wagner III (January 6, 1944 – November 15, 1993) was an American politician and public servant. He was a New York City civic leader who served as the Deputy Mayor of the City of New York, and President of the New York City Board of Education. He is often confused with his father of the same name, Robert F. Wagner Jr., who served as Manhattan Borough President and Mayor of the City of New York during Robert III's youth. He was also the grandson of Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner I. He changed his name to Robert F. Wagner Jr. after his father dropped the "Jr".

## Biography

Robert III was the son of Robert Ferdinand Wagner II and his first wife Susan. Robert III was nine years old when his father, the Manhattan Borough President, was elected to the first of three terms as the Mayor of The City of New York. He was educated at the Buckley School in Manhattan, Phillips Exeter Academy, graduated from Harvard University in 1965, studied abroad at the University of Sussex, and then earned an MPA with a concentration in Urban Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

## Public service

Wagner was an elected City Councilman-at-large in Manhattan. He lost the Democratic primary for Manhattan Borough President (his father's old job) to Andrew Stein in 1977, which seemingly ended the possibility of Wagner ascending to higher elected office. He served as Deputy Mayor for Policy, Head of the City Planning Commission, Head of the Health and Hospitals Commission, and President of the New York City Board of Education under New York City Mayor Edward Koch.
Wagner later served as a Senior Policy Adviser to New York City mayors and New York governors for over twenty years. Primarily a Democrat, he supported Republican-Liberal Rudolph Giuliani in his candidacy for mayor against David Dinkins. At the time of his death, Wagner was serving as Senior Policy Adviser to Mayor-Elect Giuliani, who was expected to return Wagner to his post as a Deputy Mayor; was chairman of the civic group Citizens Union; was vice-president of the polling organization LH Research; and had expressed an interest in joining the Democratic Presidential administration of Bill Clinton in an urban policy capacity – his expertise.

## Death

On November 15, 1993, Wagner died in San Antonio, Texas, while researching a book he was writing on urban America. He had complained of flu-like symptoms to friends in the two days preceding his death, but had not sought medical treatment. He was survived by his younger brother Duncan. A memorial service was held for him at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
# Elise Gravel

Elise Gravel (born 1977) is a Canadian writer from Montreal, Quebec.
Gravel's original books and graphic novels focus on wacky and often gross content. In 2012, she won a Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration in French for her book La clé à molette.
Gravel has written more than thirty books, and her work has been translated into over twelve languages. She studied graphic design, before becoming an illustrator. Gravel publishes in both English and in French.
She is the daughter of writer François Gravel and Murielle Grégoire. As of 2024, she is married with two daughters.
In 2022, the Writers' Trust of Canada awarded Gravel the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People in honour of her body of work.
In February 2024, the Jewish Public Library of Montreal moved her books to their closed stacks, following Instagram posts that the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs described as antisemitic. A few days later, the library restored the books.

## Selected work

* Le Grand Antonio (2014), translated into English as The Great Antonio (2017), biography of Antonio Barichievich, known as The Great Antonio
# Apocalyptic Revelation

Apocalyptic Revelation is the second album by Brazilian death metal band Krisiun.

## Credits

* Moyses Kolesne – guitars
* Max Kolesne – drums
* Alex Camargo – bass, vocals
# Aricò

Aricò or Arico is an Italian surname, mainly found in Southern Italy (Sicily, Calabria). Notable people with the surname include:
* José Aricó, Argentine sociologist
* Kim Barnes Arico, American basketball coach
* Larry Arico, American football coach
* Pedro Arico Suárez, Argentine footballer
* Rodolfo Aricò, Italian painter
* Antonio Aricò, Mediterranean Designer
# Lloyd Aldrich

Lloyd Aldrich was an American civil engineer from Los Angeles who ran against Fletcher Bowron in 1949 for Los Angeles mayor.

## Personal information

Lloyd Aldrich was born in Marion, Kansas on July 1, 1886. When Aldrich was three months old, his parents moved to Los Angeles, California and when he was 12 he was orphaned and ended up living with his older brother in Colorado.

## Education

Aldrich graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

## Early career

As a college graduate, he traveled west to work on engineering projects in Colorado and California. Aldrich was fortunate enough to be one of President Teddy Roosevelt's hunting partners.
In the late 1930s, the Government in the city of Los Angeles undertook a regional transportation planning effort, forming the basis for the first and largest freeway system build in the United States. Lloyd Aldrich was the chief engineer for this project, and had a plan to create a wide expressway and transit system to link downtown Los Angeles with the suburbs. His plan was thoughtful, and it was indicative of using the ideas of the people in an effort to involve them in the very infrastructure they were using. However, his plan was quickly halted because there wasn't enough funding. As a result, the government overtook the project.

## Retirement

Once Aldrich was retired, in 1955, he took part in private consulting work.

## Death

Lloyd Aldrich died at age 81 on July 21, 1967.
# R. B. More

Ramchandra Babaji More (1 March 1903 – 11 May 1972) was a political leader and campaigner with a particular focus around the struggle against the Caste system in India and Class exploitation in the Indian subcontinent.

## Early life

He was born on 1 March 1903, in a Dalit/Scheduled Caste family of agricultural workers at the Ladavli village in Mahad Tehsil in the state of Maharashtra. At the age of 11, he began his struggle against untouchability. With the aid of some social reformers, he began sending letters to the British government for being denied admission to Mahad High School despite being awarded a scholarship on completing his primary education.

## Political career
### Civil rights campaign

He was the main organizer of Mahad Satyagraha of 19–20 March 1927, which was led by Dr B. R. Ambedkar. More originally wrote a detailed account of Mahad Satyagraha in Marathi. The struggle of Dalits at Mahad for asserting their rights to access the public tank, the Chavadar tank, was arguably the first civil rights struggles in history. R.B. More was also the organizer of another convention at Mahad, Manusmriti Dahan Din (Manusmriti Burning Day), which was also led by Babasaheb Ambedkar. This convention took place on 25–26 December 1927, in which thousands of Dalits gathered together to publicly burn a copy of the Manusmriti. Ambedkar also addressed a separate meeting of Dalit women, as part of the convention at Mahad, asking them to shun social practices that perpetuate inequality.

### Communist party

In spite of the fact that More joined the then Communist Party of India in 1930, under the influence of Marxism-Leninism, he and Dr. Ambedkar continued to maintain mutual admiration for each other's work. More consistently raised the issue of caste discrimination prevalent in Indian society at different forums of the Communist Party. He had sent a specific note on the "Problem of Untouchability and the Caste System" to the leadership of the party before third party congress in 1953. More submitted the note to the Politburo on 23 December 1953 with a request to place it before the forthcoming Party Congress. This note was later revised and sent again in 1957 and 1964. Along with appraising the contribution of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar in the struggle for social justice, it emphasized the necessity of taking up issues of caste and social discrimination as an essential ingredient of class struggle. He also participated in the freedom struggle against British and working class movement with great vigor and remained "one of the most respected leaders of the CPI(M) till his death on 11 May 1972". He was elected to State Committee of CPI(M) in 1964. He started the weekly meeting, Jeevanmarg, of the CPI(M) Maharashtra state committee on 14 April 1965, the anniversary of Ambedkar's birth.
# George Musso

George Francis Musso (April 8, 1910 – September 5, 2000) was an American professional football guard and offensive tackle who spent his entire 12-year career for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1982.

## Early life

Musso was the son of a coal miner who starred in high school sports in Collinsville, Illinois, and was therefore offered an athletic grant to attend James Millikin University. His father, who initially planned to pull him out of school after he completed his "primary" education, grudgingly allowed George to attend college.

## College career

Musso attended Millikin University and was a standout in football, basketball, baseball, and track. Millikin was in the "Little 19" conference that included such teams as Eureka, Lombard, and Augustana. In 1929, Musso played against future President Ronald Reagan, who played guard for Eureka College and weighed about 175 pounds; Eureka lost to Musso and Millikin 45–6. Musso was already larger than most linemen of his era, playing college ball at 6' 2", 255 pounds. In 1933, Musso played in the East-West All-Star game, held in Chicago; it was there he first got the attention of George Halas.

## Professional career

Halas, who had doubts the small school Musso could make it in the NFL, offered Musso a $90 a game contract (this was half rate for regular players at that time). Musso agreed and, although he struggled at first, became the centerpiece of the Bears line for 12 years. One reason the Bears of that era were called "Monsters of the Midway" was their imposing size—Musso, who played professionally at 270 pounds, was one of the largest Bears and one of the largest players in the league. His teammates called him "Moose." He played offensive tackle until 1937 when he moved to guard. He was the first to win All-NFL at two positions; tackle (1935), and guard (1937). He played middle guard or nose tackle on defense his entire career.
Musso captained the Chicago Bears for nine seasons, playing on the line with other NFL notables as Link Lyman, Joe Kopcha, Walt Kiesling, Bulldog Turner, Joe Stydahar, and Danny Fortmann. He played in seven NFL championship games, with the Bears winning four (1933, 1940, 1941, and 1943). He was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1982. Of note, in 1935 as an NFL lineman, Musso played against Gerald Ford of Michigan in the 1935 College All-Star game.

## After the NFL

Musso retired to Edwardsville, Illinois, and began a restaurant business. He served as the Madison County, Illinois, sheriff and treasurer from the 1950s through the 1970s. He died in his home in Edwardsville in 2000.
# K. K. Abid Hussain Thangal

Abid Hussain Thangal is an Indian politician, who has been MLA of Kottakkal, Kerala since 2016.

## 2021 Kerala State Assembly election

Thangal defeated N.A Muhammed Kutty (Mammuty) from Nationalist Congress Party in 2021 assembly elections in Kottakkal (State Assembly) constituency. He secured a vote share of 51.08% and a winning margin of 16,588 votes.
2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kottakkal :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | IUML | PROF. ABID HUSSAIN THANGAL | 81,700 | 51.08% | 2.74 |
| | NCP | N. A. MUHAMMED KUTTY (MAMMUTY) | 65112 | 40.71 | 2.5 |
| | BJP | P. P. GANESAN | 10796 | 6.75% | 2.14 |
| | Independent | AYISHA | 328 | 0.21% | N/A |
| | Independent | BINDHU DEVARAJAN | 481 | 0.3% | 0.12 |
| | Independent | MOHAMED KUTTY | 675 | 0.042% | N/A |
| | Independent | SAINUL ABID THANGAL | 173 | 0.11% | 0.1 |
| | NOTA | NOTA | 668 | 0.42% | 0.12 |
| Margin of victory | Margin of victory | Margin of victory | 16,588 | 10.37% | 0.24 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,59,933 | 72.35% | 2.3 |
| | IUML hold | IUML hold | Swing | 2.74 | |
# Grassington & Threshfield railway station

Grassington & Threshfield railway station (or Threshfield station) was a railway station that served the town of Grassington and village of Threshfield, in North Yorkshire, England.

## History

The Yorkshire Dales Railway constructed the line to Grassington & Threshfield, with services operated by the Midland Railway, to provide better links for local villages to the nearby town of Skipton. It diverged at Embsay Junction, and ran through the Dales, with a station at Rylstone, past the then 'Swinden Lime Works' (today known as Swinden Quarry), and a further 3 miles (5 km) to Threshfield. Despite being the line's terminus, Grassington & Threshfield was built as a through station, because there were proposals to continue the line further north up the Dales to Kettlewell, and thence to Leyburn, to join the line to Hawes on the Wensleydale Railway. That was never done.
The station, which opened with the line in mid-1902, had two platforms, each with a run-round loop, and a goods shed and cattle dock with their own sidings. Another siding branched west towards Skirethorns Quarry, ending at the rear of a set of terraced houses known as Woodlands Terrace. Limestone was brought down from the quarry by a tramway to Woodlands Terrace, where it was transferred to trains.
On 22 September 1930, after only 28 years, the LMS withdrew regular passenger services due to poor patronage. However, excursion traffic continued for more than 30 years thereafter, as did general goods traffic and stone traffic from the nearby quarry. The end of quarrying in the early 1960s eventually led to the complete closure of the station, and the northern end of the branch, on 11 August 1969.

## The Site Today

The track was lifted on the final section north of Swinden Quarry in 1971 and the old station buildings were demolished soon afterwards. A housing estate now occupies the site.

## Embsay Junction

Embsay Junction was laid at the opening of the line in 1902 to take trains from Skipton to Rylstone Station and Threshfield station. The branch was single throughout.
The other direction was the Skipton to Ilkley Line across the Dales, with stations at Embsay, Bolton Abbey, Addingham and finally ending up at Ilkley. The line was double-tracked, as it formed a useful relief route for the busy main line via Keighley. The Ilkley line was closed in 1966, but the signal box at the junction remained in use until July 1969 (to give access for track-lifting trains and to the quarry siding at Embsay). The remaining double track portion down to Skipton was singled at the same time.
# Bagotville (tugboat)

Bagotville is a tugboat built in Les Méchins, Quebec in 1964.
The Bagotville was one of the tugs that helped install the pipes for Toronto's deep lake water cooling project. She was also one of the tugs that attempted to free the lake freighter George M. Carl, when ship ran aground off the Humber River, in October 1975.