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# Maria, Quebec

Maria (French pronunciation:) is a municipality in Quebec, Canada.

## History

Maria had been the location of a Mi'kmaq summer coastal community prior to European settlement. In 1774, the area began to be settled by American Loyalists, and Scottish and Irish settlers. In 1842, the geographic township was formed, named in honour of Lady Maria Howard, wife of Guy Carleton and third daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Effingham.
In 1845, the Township Municipality of Maria was established, dissolved, and re-established in 1855. In 1860, the place experienced rapid development when a group of Acadians arrived and founded the Parish of Sainte-Brigitte-de-Maria.
In 1977, Maria changed status from township municipality to just municipality.

## Demographics

| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1861 | 1,823 | — |
| 1871 | 2,138 | +17.3% |
| 1881 | 2,298 | +7.5% |
| 1891 | 2,433 | +5.9% |
| 1901 | 2,460 | +1.1% |
| 1911 | 2,342 | −4.8% |
| 1921 | 1,946 | −16.9% |
| 1931 | 2,172 | +11.6% |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1941 | 2,181 | +0.4% |
| 1951 | 1,520 | −30.3% |
| 1956 | 1,583 | +4.1% |
| 1961 | 1,696 | +7.1% |
| 1966 | 1,951 | +15.0% |
| 1971 | 2,004 | +2.7% |
| 1976 | 2,042 | +1.9% |
| 1981 | 2,277 | +11.5% |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1986 | 2,461 | +8.1% |
| 1991 | 2,491 | +1.2% |
| 1996 | 2,581 | +3.6% |
| 2001 | 2,458 | −4.8% |
| 2006 | 2,401 | −2.3% |
| 2011 | 2,536 | +5.6% |
| 2016 | 2,615 | +3.1% |
| 2021 | 2,760 | +5.5% |
Source: Statistics Canada :
Mother tongue:
* English as first language: 2.5%
* French as first language: 95.1%
* English and French as first language: 0.9%
* Other as first language: 0.9%

## Economy

The main economy of the municipality is the hospital which serves the entire region. The hospital of Maria was built between New Richmond and Carleton-sur-Mer.

## Notable people

Marie-Christine Lévesque, author
# Lindsay Sparkes

Lindsay E. Sparkes (born August 6, 1950 in North Vancouver, British Columbia as Lindsay Davie) is a Canadian curler. She is a three-time Canadian champion, world champion and Olympic demonstration champion.
In 1976, Sparkes and her team of Dawn Knowles, Robin Klassen, Lorraine Bowles won her first provincial and her first national championship. In 1979, the team returned to the national championship, and won again. This qualified them for the inaugural 1979 Royal Bank of Scotland World Women's Curling Championship. The team lost in the semi-final to Switzerland.
In 1984, Sparkes and her new team of Linda Moore, Debbie Orr and Laurie Carney won her third provincial title, and finished in 3rd place at that year's national championship (at that point, called the Tournament of Hearts.) The following season, Sparkes and Moore switched positions, and the team won another provincial and went on to claim the 1985 Scott Tournament of Hearts title, beating Newfoundland in the final. At the 1985 World Championships, the team won the gold medal, defeating Scotland in the final. The 1986 Scott Tournament of Hearts would mark the first event where the defending champion could return as Team Canada, and the team lost in the final to Ontario.
The team was chosen by the Canadian Olympic Committee to represent Canada at the 1988 Winter Olympics where curling was a demonstration sport. The team won the gold medal, defeating Sweden in the final.
Sparkes' final appearance at the Hearts was in 1997 as an alternate for the Kelley Owen (Law) rink.
# Jyotish Mitter

Jyotish Mitter (April 1926 – 29 June 1971) was an Indian cricketer. He played six first-class matches for Bengal between 1950 and 1959.
# Nicola Hughes (actress)

Nicola Hughes is an English dancer, singer and actress of Antiguan descent.

## Career

Hughes’ first principal theatre role was in The Who's Tommy, playing the Acid Queen at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1996. She followed this up by playing Donna Douglas in The Goodbye Girl at the Albery Theatre, and then Lola in Damn Yankees at the Adelphi Theatre, playing opposite Jerry Lewis.
From 1998 to 1999, Hughes starred as Velma Kelly in the West End revival of Chicago at the Adelphi Theatre, taking up the role from Ute Lemper. Hughes’ other leading roles in the West End include Zarita in Simply Heavenly at the Trafalgar Studios and Fosse at the Prince of Wales Theatre, for which she received her first Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical.
Her most recent West End performance was playing Bess in Sir Trevor Nunn's The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, between November 2006 and June 2007, for which she was again nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
Other theatre roles have included Yum Yum in The Hot Mikado at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury; Bloody Mary in South Pacific at the Grange Park Opera; Follow My Leader, a satirical political revue written by Alistair Beaton, at the Birmingham Rep and the Hampstead Theatre; Zarita in Simply Heavenly at the Young Vic; The Lady in Blues In The Night at the Birmingham Rep; Ain't Misbehavin' at Derby Playhouse; Helene in Sweet Charity at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley and Notes Across a Small Pond at the Bridewell Theatre.
In the summer of 2014, Hughes again played the role of Bess in Porgy and Bess, this time at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, London. The production ran from 17 July to 23 August.
In 2015, Hughes joined the cast of the Sky One show Mount Pleasant for Series 5, playing Jenna.
In 2024, Hughes played the role of Sarah in the musical Opening Night alongside Sheridan Smith at the Gielgud Theatre in London's West End directed by Ivo van Hove.
# RG-7351

RG-7351 is a trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1) partial agonist that is or was under development for the treatment of major depressive disorder. It reached phase 1 clinical trials for this indication in 2010. However, as of November 2023, no further recent development has been reported since July 2016. The drug was developed by Hoffmann-La Roche.
# Daniela Gurz

Daniela Gurz is a Romanian football defender currently playing for ENP Famagusta FC. She has played the Champions League with CFF Clujana, FCM Târgu Mureş and Olimpia Cluj, and she made her debut for the Romanian national team in the 2013 European Championship qualifying against Kazakhstan.
# Shoaymit-e Jaber

Shoaymit-e Jaber (Persian: شعيمطجابر) is a village in Mosharrahat Rural District of Gheyzaniyeh District, Ahvaz County, Khuzestan province, Iran.

## Demographics
### Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 149 in 20 households, when it was in the Central District. The following census in 2011 counted 161 people in 28 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 102 in 21 households, by which time the rural district had been separated from the district in the formation of Gheyzaniyeh District.
# William Lynch

William Lynch may refer to:

## Politicians and lawyers

* William Lynch (diplomat) (c. 1730–1785), British Member of Parliament for Canterbury and Minister to Sardinia
* William Lynch (Lynch law) (1742–1820), claimed to be the basic cause of the "lynch law" term
* William Lynch (Maryland politician) (1788–1857), American politician from Maryland
* William A. Lynch (1844–1907), Ohio lawyer and politician
* William Warren Lynch (1845–1916), Canadian lawyer, politician, and judge in the province of Quebec
* William H. Lynch (fl. 1880s), Mississippi legislator
* William Joseph Lynch (1908–1976), U.S. federal judge
* William Lynch Jr. (1941–2013), Deputy Mayor of New York City under David Dinkins and political consultant
* William B. Lynch (born 1943), Adjutant General of Pennsylvania
* William Lynch (Toronto politician) (fl. 1974)

## Sportsmen

* Bill Lynch (footballer) (1892–1947), Australian rules footballer
* Billy Lynch (Australian footballer) (1909–1985), played for North Melbourne and Essendon
* Billy Lynch (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1900s, and 1910s for England, Yorkshire, and Wakefield Trinity
* Bill Lynch (born 1954), football coach
* William Lynch (hammer thrower) (born 1916), American hammer thrower, runner-up at the 1938 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships

## Others

* William F. Lynch (1801–1865), captain in the Virginia Navy, who commanded southern forces during the Union attack on Fort Fisher, North Carolina
* Willie Lynch, probably fictional author of the dubious William Lynch speech
# Kanam E. J.

Elavunkal Joseph Philip (13 June 1926 – 13 June 1987), popularly known by his pen name Kanam EJ, was a Malayalam novelist, short story writer, and lyricist. Along with his contemporary, Muttathu Varkey, he was known for a genre of sentiment-filled romantic fiction known as painkili (janapriya) novel in Malayalam literature, written with the common man in mind. Philip started the well known Malayalam weekly Manorajyam and served as its editor.

## Early life and career

Philip was born on 13 June 1926 as the son of Elavunkal Joseph in Kanam, a small village in Kottayam district of Kerala. He attended MHSS Kangazha and passed Malayalam Higher. After schooling he joined military service. He returned to Kottayam after the military service and joined CMS Middle School Kanam, as a teacher. Later he served as Malayalam Pandit in CMS schools of Mundakayam, Kumpalampoika, Punnavely and Kottayam. Philip quit teaching and joined the popular Malayalam Weekly Malayala Manorama as a journalist. In 1967 he resigned from Malayala Manorama and started his own Malayalam Weekly called Manorajyam. He later sold it to George Thomas of Keraladwani.

### Literary career

Kanam emerged as one of the popular writers of Malayalam fiction during the 1960s and 1970s. He mainly wrote social novels based on the Christian community of Kerala. He was a prolific writer and has written about 100 novels. Almost all of his novels were published in serial installments (Neendakatha) in Malayala Manorama Weekly. One of his novels, Bharya, was adapted into a Malayalam film with the same title. The 1962 film was directed by Kunchacko and starring Sathyan and Ragini. Kanam also wrote lyrics to few Malayalam films.

### Death

Kanam died on his 61st birthday in 1987.

## Selected works

* Pampanathi Panjozhukunnu
* Ee Arayekkar Nintethanu
* Nee Bhoomiyude Uppakunnu
* Bharthavu
* Bharya
* Adhyapika
* Kaattumaram
# Colombia at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics

Colombia competed at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China, from 22–30 August 2015.

## Medalists

| Medal | Athlete | Event | Date |
| Gold | Caterine Ibargüen | Triple jump | 24 August |

## Results

(q – qualified, NM – no mark, SB – season best)

### Men
#### Track and road events

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank |
| Rafith Rodríguez | 800 metres | 1:46.39 | 3 Q | 1:45.63 | 6 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Gerard Giraldo | 3000 metres steeplechase | 9:16.47 | 12 | — | — | did not advance | did not advance |
| Éider Arévalo | 20 kilometres walk | — | — | — | — | 1:21:13 | 7 |
| Kenny Martín Pérez | 20 kilometres walk | — | — | — | — | 1:29:31 | 50 |
| José Leonardo Montaña | 20 kilometres walk | — | — | — | — | 1:23:53 | 22 |
| Luis Fernando López | 50 kilometres walk | — | — | — | — | 3:55:43 PB | 20 |

#### Field events

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Position | Distance | Position |
| Mauricio Ortega | Discus throw | 62.54 q | 11 | 62.01 | 11 |

### Women
#### Track and road events

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank |
| Muriel Coneo | 1500 metres | 4:08.31 NR | 10 q | 4:18.14 | 12 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Muriel Coneo | 3000 metres steeplechase | 9:55.53 | 10 | — | — | did not advance | did not advance |
| Sandra Arenas | 20 kilometres walk | — | — | — | — | 1:33:24 | 19 |

#### Field events

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Position | Distance | Position |
| Caterine Ibargüen | Triple jump | 14.42 | 2 Q | 14.90 SB | |
| Yosiris Urrutia | Triple jump | 13.84 | 12 q | 14.09 | 10 |
| Flor Ruiz | Javelin throw | 57.25 | 27 | did not advance | did not advance |

#### Combined events – Heptathlon

| Athlete | Event | 100H | HJ | SP | 200 m | LJ | JT | 800 m | Final | Rank |
| Evelis Aguilar | Result | did not start | did not start | did not start | did not start | did not start | did not start | did not start | did not start | did not start |

## Sources

* Colombian team
# Vesele, Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast

Vesele (Ukrainian: Веселе) is a village located in Bakhmut Raion of Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is located 20 kilometres (12 mi) northeast of Bakhmut.

## History
### Russo-Ukrainian War
#### Russian invasion of Ukraine

On 8 September 2023, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that the Ukrainian military engaged in operations near the village. On 18 January 2024, the Russian defence ministry claimed Russian troops captured Vesele after a local offensive. The ministry's claims could not be independently verified at the time.
# Yurivka, Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast

Yurivka (Ukrainian: Юр'ївка) or Yuryivka is a village in Toretsk urban hromada, Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.

## History

On 26 July 2023, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, children were evacuated from the village.
# Idiodonus

Idiodonus is a genus of true bugs belonging to the family Cicadellidae.
The species of this genus are found in Europe and Northern America.
Species:
* Idiodonus acus
* Idiodonus albifrons
# Violin Sonata No. 2 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 94a (sometimes written as Op. 94bis), was based on the composer's own Flute Sonata in D, Op. 94, written in 1942 but arranged for violin in 1943 when Prokofiev was living in Perm in the Ural Mountains, a remote shelter for Soviet artists during the Second World War. Prokofiev transformed the work into a violin sonata at the prompting of his close friend, the violinist David Oistrakh. It was premiered on 17 June 1944 by David Oistrakh and Lev Oborin.

## Structure

The work is about 24 minutes long and consists of four movements:
* Moderato
* Presto • Poco più mosso del • Tempo I
* Andante
* Allegro con brio • Poco meno mosso • Tempo I • Poco meno mosso • Allegro con brio
The work is highly classical in design as it opens with a sonata movement which is followed by a scherzo, a slow movement, and a finale. The violin part is replete with virtuosic display but is also highly lyrical and elegant, evidence of the work's inception as a sonata for flute.
# 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships – Women's club throw

The women's club throw at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships was held at the Stade du Rhône from 20 to 29 July 2013.

## Medalists

| Class | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| F31/32/51 | Maroua Ibrahmi Tunisia | Becky Richter Canada | Josie Pearson United Kingdom |
# Nüba

Nüba (Chinese: 女魃; pinyin: nǚbá), also known as Ba (魃) and as Hanba (旱魃), is a Chinese drought deity. "Ba" is her proper name, with the nü being an added indication of being feminine and han meaning "drought".

## Legend

Ba is the daughter of the Yellow Emperor (Huangdi) whom she aided during his Battle at Zhuolu against Chiyou. After Chiyou had fielded a wind god (Feng Bo) and a rain god (Yu Shi), Ba descended from heaven to use her drought power to defeat their wind and rain powers. She is one of the first goddesses attested to in Chinese literature, appearing in the early collection of poetry, the Shijing, as well as in the later Shanhaijing. Nüba can be considered to be an ancient Chinese mythical drought demon. After having descended from Heaven to aid Huangdi at Zhuolu, instead of returning to heaven, Ba wandered to the northern parts of the earth. Wherever Ba appeared, there would be a drought. In the Book of the Later Han, Yinglong was connected as a companion to Nüba in the myth. They fought simultaneously against Chiyou's forces. This relationship led to the mythological romance of Nüba and Yinglong in later centuries. She is one of the four ancestors of the jiangshi. She became a jiangshi by one part of Denglong's soul entering her body.

## Appearance

Ba is described in the Shanhaijing as dressed in green clothes. In the Shenyijing of the Han dynasty or Six Dynasties times, she is described as being about two to three chis in height, but otherwise looking like a person, who walked naked as fast as the wind.

## Rain ceremonies

Up through the middle of the twentieth century, ceremonies to produce rain were held in many regions of China. The basic idea of these ceremonies, which could last several hours, was to drive Ba out of the region. Once Ba was chased away, then the drought was thought to depart along with her and rain would then be sure to soon commence.
# Joseph Girard (historian)

Joseph Girard (French pronunciation:; 11 February 1881 – 26 May 1962) was a French historian, librarian and museum curator. He was born and died in Avignon, where an avenue is named after him.

## Life

He gained a licence to practice law before studying at the École Nationale des Chartes, where in 1903 he gained a diploma as a palaeographer-archivist. He was curator of the musée Calvet and its library from 1906 until 1949, when he became curator of the Palais des papes. Later he also became curator of art and antiquities of Vaucluse. Between 1909 and 1958, he published eleven works and studies on his work in the archives at the Palais des papes.
Anticlericalist and republican by nature, he married Marie-Thérèse Fabre de Loye (a fervent Catholic and most eligible young woman in Drôme) in Bouchet. They had two daughters and three sons, Henri, René, Marthe, Marie and Antoine.

## Works

* Le palais des papes d'Avignon, Éd. Bernaud, Avignon, 1904.
* Un musée du moulage au palais des papes, Annuaire de la société des amis du palais des papes, 1912.
* Au palais des papes : le musée des moulages, Annuaire de la société des amis du palais des papes, 1913.
* Le palais des papes. Guide officiel du visiteur, Éd. Commission municipale du palais des papes, 1913.
* Au palais des papes. Le musée des moulages. Les travaux de restauration. Les peintures du palais des papes, Annuaire de la société des amis du palais des papes, 1914.
* Avignon au temps des papes, Annuaire de la société des amis du palais des papes, 1921.
* Avignon après les papes, Annuaire de la société des amis du palais des papes, 1922.
* Avignon. Histoire et Monuments, Éd. Dominique Seguin, Avignon, 1924.
* Catalogue illustré du Musée Calvet, 1924.
* Avignon, histoire sommaire, guide des monuments, 1930.
* Avignon, ses monuments, ses Hôtels, ses trésors d'Art, 1930.
* L'ancienne église du collège des jésuites et le musée lapidaire d'Avignon, Mémoire de l'Académie de Vaucluse, 1933.
* Avignon avant les papes, Annuaire de la société des amis du palais des papes, 1935.
* Les Villeneuve-Martignan et leur Hôtel à Avignon, Mémoire de l'Académie de Vaucluse, 1935.
* L'Hôtel des Laurens à Avignon, Annuaire de la société des amis du palais des papes, 1938.
* Vaucluse, essai d'histoire locale, Éd. Aubanel, Avignon, 1944, in collaboration with Joseph Sautel, Sylvain Gagnière and Hyacinthe Chobaut.
* Le cloître du palais des papes, Annuaire de la société des amis du palais des papes et des monuments d'Avignon, T. XXX et XXXI, 1951–1952.
* Les aménagements du palais des papes pour le couronnement d'Innocent VI, Mémoire de l'Académie de Vaucluse, T. I, 1953.
* Le vivier du pape, Annuaire de la société des amis du palais des papes et des monuments d'Avignon, T. XXX et XXXI, 1953–1954.
* Histoire du Musée Calvet, 1955.
* Les Baroncelli à Avignon, 1957.
* Évocation du Vieil Avignon, Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris, 1958 et réédition 2000, ISBN 270731353X
# Lasioglossum bidentatum

Lasioglossum bidentatum, also known as the Lasioglossum (Sudila) bidentatum, is a species of bee in the genus Lasioglossum, of the family Halictidae. The species is mispellingly known as specific name bidendatum in some books.
# Tony Rand

Anthony Eden Rand (September 1, 1939 – May 1, 2020) was an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the North Carolina General Assembly from 1981 to 1989 and again from 1995 to 2009.

## Early life

Rand was born in southern Wake County, North Carolina, and graduated from Garner High School in 1957. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1961 and a law degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law 1964.

## Career

After serving for seven years, Rand left the Assembly to launch an unsuccessful bid for Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina in 1988, losing to Jim Gardner. Rand returned to the state Senate in 1995, where he served until his resignation in 2009. His district included Bladen and Cumberland counties. A lawyer and consultant from Fayetteville, North Carolina, Rand served as Senate Majority Leader from 2001 through 2009. He was succeeded in the leadership post by Martin Nesbitt.
In 2007, Rand proposed in Senate Bill S1557 that the state formally apologize for slavery and the denial of civil rights that followed after slavery.
On May 28, 2008, Rand filed North Carolina Senate Bill 2079 requiring North Carolina college students to mentor public school-age children in order to receive a bachelor's degree. The bill was named for Eve Carson and Abhijit Mahato, two students murdered in North Carolina in 2008.
After leaving the Senate, Rand was appointed to head the state Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission. He was also chairman of the board of Law Enforcement Associates Corp. Later, he was chairman of the North Carolina Education Lottery Commission.

## Personal life

Rand had two children, including attorney Ripley Rand, who served as United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina. Rand died of cancer on May 1, 2020, in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. He was 80.
# Lucie Guay

Lucie Guay (born December 12, 1958) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed in the early 1980s. She was born in Montreal and won a bronze medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
# Balkrishna Mohoni

Balkrishna Mohoni (15 April 1901 – 7 April 1980) was an Indian cricket umpire. He stood in eleven Test matches between 1949 and 1956. Mohoni played 11 first-class matches for Maharashtra, between 1934/35 and 1941/42.