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# Bangu (drum)

The bangu (Chinese: 板鼓; pinyin: bǎngǔ), often simply gu (Chinese: 鼓; pinyin: gǔ), is a Chinese frame drum that, when struck by one or two small bamboo sticks, creates a sharp dry sound essential to the aesthetics of Chinese opera. Striking the drum in different places produces different sounds. It is also used in many Chinese chamber music ensembles. The percussion section is very important in Chinese Opera, with battle or 'martial' scenes, which are called wu-chang. The bangu player is the director or conductor of the orchestra, working with the other members of the percussion section to create the right mood for the audience and actors on stage.

## Construction

The drum, which is about 25 cm (10 inches) in diameter and 10 cm (4 inches) deep. The frame of the Bangu drum is made of wedges of hard wood glued together to form a circle. Animal skin is then stretched over the frame of wedges, which is then secured by a metal band. The wedges do not reach the small area in the centre (the drum’s heart or "guxin") where the drum is struck. The bangu is held in its own stand with four iron rings.
Some versions have only three rings and three supporting legs. These versions are usually portable, with a collapsible stand section.

## Guban

When used together with paiban clappers (both played together by a single player, the paiban held in one hand and the bangu played with a stick held in the other) the two instruments are referred to collectively as guban (鼓板). Somewhat confusingly, the clapper is sometimes also referred to, without the drum, as guban.
When used as part of a guban, the bangu is used in several genres of shuochang (Chinese story-singing), as well as in Beijing opera, kunqu, and Yue opera.
# Ranis

Ranis is a town in the Saale-Orla-Kreis district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated 15 km east of Saalfeld, and 30 km south of Jena.

## Demographics
### Historical population

(As of 31 December 1994):
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
| 1779 | 290 | — |
| 1831 | 928 | +2.26% |
| 1885 | 1,888 | +1.32% |
| 1933 | 2,232 | +0.35% |
| 1939 | 2,359 | +0.93% |
| 1994 | 1,972 | −0.33% |
| 1995 | 1,981 | +0.46% |
| 1996 | 1,960 | −1.06% |
| 1997 | 2,060 | +5.10% |
| 1998 | 2,060 | +0.00% |
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
| 1999 | 2,052 | −0.39% |
| 2000 | 2,025 | −1.32% |
| 2001 | 2,034 | +0.44% |
| 2002 | 2,027 | −0.34% |
| 2003 | 2,017 | −0.49% |
| 2004 | 1,982 | −1.74% |
| 2005 | 1,965 | −0.86% |
| 2006 | 1,919 | −2.34% |
| 2007 | 1,884 | −1.82% |
| 2008 | 1,866 | −0.96% |
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
| 2009 | 1,824 | −2.25% |
| 2010 | 1,812 | −0.66% |
| 2011 | 1,744 | −3.75% |
| 2012 | 1,725 | −1.09% |
| 2013 | 1,707 | −1.04% |
| 2014 | 1,690 | −1.00% |
| 2015 | 1,709 | +1.12% |
| 2016 | 1,720 | +0.64% |
Source: Data since 1994: Thuringian State Statistical Bureau. :
* ↑ over 10 years
# To Hell and Back (Mayfair Games)

To Hell and Back is a 1993 role-playing supplement published by Mayfair Games.

## Contents

To Hell and Back is a supplement in which information is included for the settings of Atlantis, Avalon, Faerieland, Selene, and Dante's Hell.

## Reception

Gene Alloway reviewed To Hell and Back in White Wolf #37 (July/Aug., 1993), rating it a 4 out of 5 and stated that "To Hell and Back is a good general supplement, despite being a little uneven. Much is left to the GM in order to make these locales work in their campaign. I do recommend To Hell and Back for those who are looking for some interesting ideas with which to spice up a campaign. And since To Hell and Back is part of the Realms of Fantasy series, perhaps we will see even more places drawn from legend and story."
# Richard Marston

Richard Marston (1847–1917) was an English scenic designer who had a prominent career as a designer for Broadway productions from the 1860s into the early 20th century. After designing new sets for the very first musical, The Black Crook, at Niblo's Garden in 1867, Marston served as the resident scenic designer at first the Union Square Theatre and later the Madison Square Theatre. He was particularly admired for his outdoor set designs.

## Life and career

Born in Brighton, East Sussex, England in 1847, Richard Marston was the son of the celebrated Shakespearean actor Henry Marston and his wife, the actress Mrs. Henry Marston (née Georgina Caroline Noel). Before coming to the United States in 1867, Marston followed his parents into the profession of acting in his native city.
Marston left Brighton for New York City and embarked upon a career as a scenic designer. His first scenic designs for Broadway were made in 1867 for The Black Crook; a work which had premiered the year before at Niblo's Garden and was regarded as the very first musical. Marston was brought in to create new sets for the show mid-way through its long run; replacing the original sets built by the author of The Black Crook, Charles M. Barras. This was followed by the designs for The White Fawn (1868); a work which was intended as the successor to The Black Crook but which failed to gain the same popularity as the original.
Marston had lengthy careers as the resident scenic designer at two Broadway theatres, first the Union Square Theatre and later the Madison Square Theatre. He died in 1917.

## Partial list of Broadway productions

* The Black Crook (premiered 1866; Marston's new sets added in 1867, Niblo's Garden)
* Rose Michel (1875, Union Square Theatre)
* My Partner (1879 and 1880 revival, Union Square Theatre)
* A Parisian Romance (1883, Union Square Theatre)
* Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1887, Madison Square Theatre)
* 1492 (1893)
* Gismonda (1894)
* The Devil's Deputy (1894)
* Fleur‐de‐Lis (1895)
* The Great Diamond Robbery (1895)
* Half a King (1896)
* Cyrano de Bergerac (1898)
* Erminie (1899)
* The Ameer (1899)
* A Little Bit of Everything (1904)
* The Prodigal Son (1905)
* A Marriage of Reason (1907)
* The Right Way (1907)
# Floating Staircase

Floating Staircase is a ghost story/mystery novel by American writer Ronald Malfi. It was published in 2011 by Medallion Press, with a limited edition hardcover collectors edition from Thunderstorm Books, which contained an original author's "Afterward" not in the paperback novel. The novel was nominated by the Horror Writers Association for a Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, and it won a Gold IPPY Award for best horror novel of 2011.

## Synopsis

Following the success of his latest novel, Travis Glasgow and his wife Jodie buy their first house in the western Maryland town of Westlake, across the street from Travis' brother Adam and his family. At first, everything is picture perfect, from the beautiful lake behind the house to the rebirth of the friendship between Travis and Adam. Travis also begins to overcome the darkness of his childhood and the guilt he has harboured since his younger brother's tragic drowning for which Travis holds himself responsible. Soon, though, the new house begins to lose its allure. Strange noises wake Travis at night, and his dreams are plagued by ghosts. Barely glimpsed shapes flit through the darkened hallways, but strangest of all is the bizarre set of wooden stairs that rises cryptically out of the lake behind the house. Travis becomes drawn to the structure, but the more he investigates, the more he uncovers the truth about the Dentmans, the family who owned his house previously, and how young Elijah Dentman had drowned in the lake behind the house in circumstances eerily similar to Travis' brother.

## Connections to other novels

The protagonist Travis Glasgow is also mentioned in Malfi's 2004 novel, The Fall of Never, although only peripherally, as the author of a novel titled Silent River. This is the name of one of Travis Glasgow's books as mentioned in Floating Staircase.
In Chapter 17 of Floating Staircase, Travis hallucinates a dream in which he believes he is "married to a woman with a monster growing in her belly, and my name was Alan, and we lived by our own special lake in a different part of the country." This is a direct reference to Alan Hammerstun, the protagonist in Malfi's novel Cradle Lake. In Cradle Lake, Alan Hammerstun has a similar dream where he believes he is Travis Glasgow, although Travis's name is not used in that text.

## Reception

The book received generally favorable reviews, with some reviewers touting it as "well-developed and unpredictable" and a "must-read novel." A reviewer for the New York Journal of Books stated, "Floating Staircase deserves to stand alongside a Stephen King or a Dean Koontz--at their best...[it is] a mature horror yarn, but, deep down, it is also an exploration of obsessions, and in particular the obsession it takes to be a writer." Publishers Weekly called the book's ending "surprising and expertly set up."
# Peter T. Farrell

Peter T. Farrell (November 12, 1900 – November 9, 1992) was an American judge from Queens, New York City, who served as a judge on Queens County Court and the New York Supreme Court, where he primarily handled criminal cases. Farrell was best known for presiding over the trial of bank robber Willie Sutton, who was sentenced to 30 to 120 years in Attica State Prison, before Farrell suspended the sentence in 1969 because of Sutton's deteriorating health.

## Early life and education

Farrell was born in the Manhattan section of New York City and grew up in the neighborhood of Corona in Queens. He graduated from Newtown High School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1922 and was awarded his law degree in 1925 by the Fordham University School of Law.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Queens Co., 3rd D.) in 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935 and 1936.
He was a member of the New York State Senate (3rd D.) from 1937 to 1943, sitting in the 160th, 161st, 162nd, 163rd and 164th New York State Legislatures. He resigned his seat in 1943 to become a judge of the Queens County Court.

## Judicial career

In 1943, Farrell was elected to serve on the Queens County Court and spent most of his judicial career on criminal cases. He served as the court's senior judge from 1945 until 1961, when the court was abolished and its responsibilities consolidated into the New York Supreme Court. He was the senior judge in Queens on the Supreme Court, Criminal Term, until he stepped down in 1976.
Farrell presided over the 1952 trial of bank robber Willie Sutton in which Sutton had been charged with the 1950 heist of $63,942 from a branch of the Manufacturers Trust Company in Sunnyside, Queens, part of more than $2 million he was estimated to have stolen from various banks over the course of his career in crime. Sutton was found guilty and given a sentence of 30 to 120 years in Attica State Prison.
Farrell suspended Sutton's sentence in December 1969, ruling that Sutton's good behavior in prison and his deteriorating health due to emphysema justified the suspension of the sentence. After the ruling was delivered, Sutton said "Thank you, your Honor. God bless you" and started crying as he was led out of the court building. Sutton still had to receive a suspension of a separate 30-year-to-life sentence he had received in Brooklyn in 1952 and then could be released on parole from a 1930 conviction. Sutton would ultimately die in 1980.

## Death

Farrell died at age 91 on November 9, 1992, of pneumonia at his home in Manhasset, New York. He was survived by his wife, the former Agnes Byrne, as well as by two daughters and 10 grandchildren.
# Evan Waldrep

Evan Waldrep (born May 8, 1997) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for CE Carroi in the Segona Divisió.

## Career
### College

Waldrep played at Creighton University in his freshmen and sophomore years and then transferred to Grand Canyon University for the 2017 season. He was named one of the top three Division I "impact transfers" by Top Drawer Soccer.

### Professional

Waldrep was signed by Phoenix Rising FC on February 14, 2018. He also played for FC Tucson of the Premier Development League in 2016.
On August 12, 2019, California United Strikers FC announced they had signed Waldrep ahead of their inaugural season in the National Independent Soccer Association. He played in each of the team's regular season games during the fall and started in the West Coast Championship against Los Angeles Force which his team won via penalty kicks.
# Rachel Ruddy

Rachel Ruddy is a senior Dublin ladies' footballer. She was a member of the Dublin teams that won the All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship in 2010, 2017 and 2019. In 2017 she received her second All Star award. Ruddy has also played for the Dublin senior camogie team.

## Early years, family and education

Ruddy is the daughter of Vivian Ruddy, a former Ballyboden Wanderers Gaelic footballer who originally came from Achill Island. Her sister, Ciara Ruddy, has also played for the Dublin senior ladies' football team. Ruddy graduated in physiotherapy from Trinity College Dublin.

## Playing career
### Clubs
#### Ballyboden St Enda's

Ruddy has won senior Leinster and Dublin camogie championships with Ballyboden St Enda's. Between 2010 and 2014 she helped the club complete a five in a row of Dublin titles. Her team mates at Ballyboden included Emer Lucey, Ciara Lucey and her sister, Ciara Ruddy. Ruddy was also a member of the Ballyboden team that won the 2010 Dublin Ladies' Senior Football Championship. She also played for Ballyboden in the 2017 Dublin final.

#### Dublin University GAA

While attending Trinity College Dublin, Ruddy played camogie for Dublin University GAA.

#### Singapore Gaelic Lions

While working as a physiotherapist in Singapore, Ruddy played for Singapore Gaelic Lions.

### Inter-county
#### Ladies' Gaelic football

Ruddy made her senior inter-county debut for Dublin in 2010 against Laois. She was a member of the Dublin team that won the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final. In 2010 she also won her first All Star. She also played in the 2014 final against Cork but missed the 2015 and 2016 finals because of a back injury. She was subsequently a member of the Dublin teams that won the 2017, and 2019 All-Ireland finals. In 2017 Ruddy won her second All Star.
| | All-Ireland Finals | Place | Opponent | Goal/Points |
| 1 | 2010 | Winners | Tyrone | 0–2 |
| 2 | 2014 | Runner up | Cork | 0–3 |
| 3 | 2017 | Winners | Mayo | 0–0 |
| 4 | 2019 | Winners | Galway | 0–1 |

#### Camogie

Ruddy has also played for the Dublin senior camogie team. In 2008 she was nominated for an All-Star.

## Personal life

Ruddy works as a physiotherapist at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin. It is a tradition that All-Ireland champions visit this hospital after the final. In September 2019 Ruddy hosted her Dublin team mates during their visit. On 19 October 2019 Ruddy married Seamus Conboy in Ravello, Italy.

## Honours
### Ladies' Gaelic football
#### Dublin

* All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship
** Winners: 2010, 2017, 2019: 3
** Runner up: 2014 1

#### Ballyboden St Enda's

* Dublin Ladies' Senior Football Championship
** Winners: 2010:
** Runner up: 2017

#### Individual

* All Stars
** Winner: 2010, 2017 : 2

### Camogie
#### Ballyboden St Enda's

* Leinster Senior Club Camogie Championship
** Winners: 2008
* Dublin Senior Club Camogie Championships
** Winners: 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
# Khromivka

Khromivka (Ukrainian: Хромівка) is a village located in Bakhmut Raion of Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. Administratively, it is part of Soledar urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.

## History

In 2023, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there was tense fighting close to the village.
# Cyrus Thompson

Cyrus Thompson (February 8, 1855 – November 20, 1930) was a politician and leader of the Populist Party in North Carolina. He served as North Carolina Secretary of State for one term, from 1897 to 1901.

## Life

Thompson studied medicine at the University of Virginia Medical School and Tulane University School of Medicine where he received a degree in 1878. Thompson, a medical doctor and farmer, represented Onslow County in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1883, and in the North Carolina Senate in 1885. Both times, he was elected as a Democrat. Thompson became a leader in the Farmers Alliance and bolted from the Democrats to become a Populist.

## Personal life

He married his wife, Florence Garland Kent, in 1882. They had ten children.
# Shiho Kohata

Shiho Kohata (高畑 志帆, Kohata Shiho, born November 12, 1989) is a Japanese footballer who has played a defender for club sides as well the Japan national team.

## Club career

Kohata was born in Hiroshima Prefecture on November 12, 1989. After graduating from Waseda University, she joined Urawa Reds in 2012. She was selected Best Young Player awards in 2012 season. She was also selected Best Eleven in 2014 season. She played 124 matches for the club in L.League until 2018 season. She left the club end of 2018 season. In February 2019, she joined AS Harima Albion.

## National team career

In May 2014, Kohata was selected by the Japan national team for the 2014 Asian Cup. She debuted on May 18 against Jordan. Japan won the championship. She played two games for Japan until 2015.

## National team statistics

Japan national team :
| Year | Apps | Goals |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 0 |
# Ireland, Indiana

Ireland is an unincorporated community in Madison Township, Dubois County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

## History

The town was founded on land purchased from the United States government by John Stewart, a native of Ireland, on December 23, 1816. The earliest settlers, most being Protestant, came from Virginia, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. These early settlers lived in the Irish Settlement, the area that is now the northern Madison Township.
The town was once intended to be called American City, but changed to Ireland when the name was not approved by the post office department. The town was laid out by John Stewart's son James, and four others. The first town map is dated May 20, 1865, but had been a small village many years before that.
The Ireland post office has been in operation since 1853. Ireland's school system was absorbed by Greater Jasper Consolidated Schools in 1970, with the middle school being torn down in 1989. The current Ireland Elementary School was built in 1990 on the site of the old middle school.
On the night of February 28, 2017, an EF2 tornado associated with the February 28, 2017, tornado outbreak struck Ireland. Several homes were destroyed, however no injuries were reported.

## Religion

Ireland is home of St. Mary's Church, a Roman Catholic church.

## Geography

Ireland is located 4 miles west of downtown Jasper on State Road 56 in the northeast portion of Madison Township. On the western edge of the town lies the Alder Creek, a tributary of the Patoka River.
Besides the valley caused by the Alder Creek, the area around Ireland is a mostly flat plain that can stretch for miles at certain points.

## Demographics

The United States Census Bureau delineated Ireland as a census designated place in the 2022 American Community Survey.

## Education

Madison Township is in Greater Jasper Consolidated Schools.
Previously Ireland had its own high school, known as Madison Township High School. The school colors were green and white, and the mascot was the "spuds" (meaning potatoes). A new building was being built circa 1948. In 1970 the school merged into Jasper High School.
# Charles Reginald Schirm

Charles Reginald Schirm (August 12, 1864 – November 2, 1918) was a U.S. Representative from Maryland.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland to German immigrants, Schirm attended the public schools. He commenced, but did not complete, an apprenticeship in iron molding, and attended Washington & Jefferson College of Washington, Pennsylvania. He went on to teach school in Pennsylvania and Maryland. He studied law, was admitted to the Baltimore County bar in 1896, and practiced. He also served as member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1898 to 1900, and as counsel to the board of police commissioners of the city of Baltimore in 1899 and 1900.
Schirm was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1903), but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress. He later served as delegate to the Bull Moose National Convention in 1912, and continued the practice of law in Baltimore, where he died. He is interred in Loudon Park Cemetery.

## Personal life

On March 8, 1891, Schirm married Annie Maude Charlton in Lily Dale, New York.
# Richard E. Aaron

Richard E. Aaron (April 23, 1949 – December 8, 2016) was a music photographer. In a career which spanned over three decades hi photography and work was in feature films, television, menus, video, corporate public relations, entertainment publicity, and on album covers.

## Career

Aaron photographed approximately 4,000 musical artists over his career. He photographed Prince, David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, James Brown, Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, the Sex Pistols, the Who, and members of the Beatles among many other legendary acts. Among his most notable shoots was Peter Frampton's 1976 album cover, Frampton Comes Alive! Aaron was the photographer behind Paul McCartney on Time magazine's Paul McCartney/Wings Over America cover. Aaron shot Mick Fleetwood and Fleetwood: The Visitor in Africa (RCA Records). He was awarded an honorary master's degree from Brooks Institute in 2008.
On December 8, 2016, Aaron died of kidney disease at the age of 67. Jeff Jampol, Aaron's friend, said Aaron had been battling the disease for several years. Jampol has managed The Doors, Janis Joplin, Rick James, Otis Redding, The Mamas & the Papas, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, the Ramones, and Muddy Waters among other artists with his Jam Inc. company.
# Li Zhuo

Li Zhuo (Chinese: 李卓; pinyin: Lǐ Zhuō; born December 4, 1981, in Tieling, Liaoning) is a Chinese weightlifter. She competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, winning the silver medal in the 48 kg class.