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# Wirt Sikes

William Wirt Sikes (November 23, 1836 – August 18, 1883) was an American journalist and writer, perhaps best known today for his writings on Welsh folklore and customs.

## Early life

William Wirt Sikes was born in Watertown, New York, the son of William Johnson Sikes, a prominent local physician. He was the seventh of eleven children, of whom only six survived to adulthood. Sikes himself was seriously ill as a child and almost lost his hearing, so he was largely educated at home. At fourteen he went to work for a printer and learned how to set type. He supported himself thereafter by typesetting, contributing to local newspapers, and giving temperance lectures.
At the age of nineteen, on August 28, 1855, he married Jeannette Annie Wilcox (1837–1889); they had two children, George Preston Sikes (1856–1957) and Clara Jeanette Sikes (1858–1956).

## Career in America

In 1856 he was working at the Utica Morning Herald as a typesetter and contributor. He published a book of stories and poems, A Book for the Winter-Evening Fireside, in 1858. He spent time in Chicago working at newspapers there, and around 1860 worked on a paper called City and Country in Nyack, New York. In 1862 he was given the job of canal inspector in Chicago for the state-owned Illinois and Michigan Canal. While in Chicago he was separated from his wife, by mutual consent; they divorced in 1870.
Between 1865 and 1867 he went to New York City to work on newspapers there; he took a special interest in the lives of the poor there. He continued to write, publishing stories in The Youth's Companion, Oliver Optic's Magazine, and others. He published two novels, The World's Broad Stage (serialized in the Toledo Blade) and One Poor Girl (1869). Sikes gave lectures and was represented by the Boston Lyceum Bureau from 1869 to 1871; he married fellow lecturer Olive Logan on December 27, 1871.

## In Europe

After their marriage the couple went to Europe, where they continued to practice journalism. Sikes produced a biographical and critical piece on the Wiertz Museum for Harper's Magazine in 1873 which was later reprinted by the museum.
In June 1876 Sikes was appointed U.S. Consul at Cardiff, Wales. Over the next few years Sikes produced a number of pieces on Welsh folklore, mythology, and customs, collected as British Goblins; Welsh Folk-Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends, and Traditions (1880) and Rambles and Studies in Old South Wales (1881). He also wrote Studies of Assassination (1881). He died in Brompton in 1883 and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey.
Sikes is said to have used as many as thirty pseudonyms for his prolific output, as well as material published under his own name. As "Burton Saxe" he wrote the dime novel The Black Hunter; or, The Cave Secret (American Tales #22, 1865).

## A literary appreciation

In George Presbury Rowell's memoir Forty Years an Advertising Agent, he recalls a column in the New York Tribune, "wherein certain literary characters were reviewed in grades and classes, beginning with - I don't remember whom, Thackeray perhaps, and descending, as the editor expressed it, 'down to Wirt Sikes'".
# Gottlieb Sigmund Gruner

Gottlieb Sigmund Gruner (1717–1778), cartographer and geologist, was the author of the first connected attempt to describe in detail the snowy mountains of Switzerland.
His father, Johann Rudolf Gruner (1680–1761), was pastor of Trachselwald, in the Bernese Emmenthal (1705), and later (1725) of Burgdorf, and a great collector of information relating to historical and scientific matters; his great Thesaurus topographico-historicus totius ditionis Bernensis (4 vols, folio, 1729–1730) still remains in manuscript, but in 1732 he published a small work entitled Deliciae urbis Bernae, while he possessed an extensive cabinet of natural history objects.
Naturally such tastes had a great influence on the mind of his son, who was born at Trachselwald, and educated by his father and at the Latin school at Burgdorf, not going to Bern much before 1736, when he published a dissertation on the use of fire by the heathen. In 1739 he qualified as a notary, in 1741 became the archivist of Hesse-Homburg, and in 1743 accompanied Prince Christian of Anhalt-Schaumburg to Silesia and the university of Halle.
He returned to his native land before 1749, when he obtained a post at Thorberg, being transferred in 1764 to Landshut and Fraubrunnen. It was in 1760 that he published in 3 vols. at Bern his chief work, Die Eisgebirge des Schweizerlandes (bad French translation by M. de Kéralio, Paris, 1770). The first two volumes are filled by a detailed description of the snowy Swiss mountains, based not so much on personal experience as on older works, and a very large number of communications received by Gruner from numerous friends; the third volume deals with glaciers in general, and their various properties.
Though in many respects imperfect, Gruner's book sums up all that was known on the subject in his day, and forms the starting-point for later writers. The illustrations are very curious and interesting. In 1778 he republished (nominally in London, really at Bern) much of the information contained in his larger work, but thrown into the form of letters, supposed to be written in 1776 from various spots, under the title of Reisen dunch die merkwurdigsten Gegenden Helvetiens (2 vols).
# Ally Lundström

Alice "Ally" Lundström or Flodström (born 15 November 1935) is a Swedish former competitive figure skater. She is the 1957 Nordic champion and a two-time Swedish national champion (1956–57). She represented Sweden at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo.
As a junior, Lundström was a member of Luleå SK. During her senior career, her skating club was Stockholms ASK.

## Competitive highlights

International :
| Event | 50–51 | 52–53 | 53–54 | 54–55 | 55–56 | 56–57 |
| Winter Olympics | | | | | 19th | |
| World Champ. | | | 18th | | | |
| Nordic Champ. | | | 3rd | 3rd | | 1st |
| National |||||||
| Swedish Champ. | 1st J | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 1st |
| J = Junior level |||||||
# Gueraïchene

Gueraïchene or Igueraïchene is a village in the Boumerdès Province in Kabylie, Algeria.

## Location

The village is surrounded by Soumâa and the town of Thenia in the Khachna mountain range.
# Hiram K. Evans

Hiram Kinsman Evans (March 17, 1863 – July 9, 1941) served part of one term as a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 8th congressional district.
Born in Walnut Township, Wayne County, Iowa, Evans attended the country schools and Seymour and Allerton (Iowa) High Schools. He graduated from the University of Iowa College of Law at Iowa City, Iowa in 1886. He was admitted to the bar that year, and commenced practice in Holdrege, Nebraska. He moved to Seymour, Iowa in 1887, and to Corydon, Iowa in 1889 and continued the practice of law. He served as prosecuting attorney for Wayne County, Iowa from 1891 to 1895.
He was elected to one two-year term as member of the Iowa House of Representatives in 1896 and 1897. He was appointed as a member of the board of regents of the University of Iowa, serving from 1897 to 1904. He was elected mayor of Corydon, serving from 1901 to 1903. He was a judge of the third judicial district of Iowa from 1904 until 1923, when he resigned.
In 1923, Horace M. Towner resigned his seat representing Iowa's 8th congressional district in the U.S. House, soon after his sixth term began, when President Warren G. Harding appointed him Governor of Puerto Rico. In a special election, Evans was elected as a Republican to serve out the remainder of Towner's term in the Sixty-eighth Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1924. In all, Evans served from June 4, 1923, to March 3, 1925.
After returning from Washington, Evans resumed the practice of law in Corydon. He was appointed by the Governor of Iowa as a member of the State Board of Parole on July 1, 1927, and served to July 1, 1933. He died in Corydon on July 9, 1941, and was interred in Corydon Cemetery.
# Sinking of the Roman fleet (255 BC)

The Sinking of the Roman fleet in July 255 BC in the Strait of Sicily was the worst maritime accident in antiquity and in the entire history of shipping. Up to 100,000 people died.

## Background

During the First Punic War, the two consuls of 255 BC, Servius Fulvius Paetinus Nobilior and Marcus Aemilius Paullus, were tasked with evacuating the Roman survivors of the Battle of Tunes. They were given 350 warships for this rescue mission in North Africa, which they had to prepare. The sailors and oarsmen were provided by Rome's “seafaring allies” (socii navales). This fleet probably left at the beginning of June. On the outward journey, the consuls defeated a smaller Carthaginian fleet at Cape Hermaion. With few losses of their own, they captured 114 enemy ships, bringing the total size of this fleet to over 450 ships. In Clypea, the survivors of the defeated expeditionary army were taken on board, who also had some ships at their disposal. Raids were undertaken on the North African mainland. Supply problems forced the consuls to return to Rome prematurely. The ships of this large fleet were steered by a minimum number of sailors, although it can be assumed that Carthaginian prisoners were used as oarsmen.

## Storm and disaster

The return voyage was to be used for piracy and plundering in Carthaginian-controlled territory, thus bringing in additional prestige and booty. For this reason, the consuls ordered them to sail along the dangerous southern coast of Sicily against the advice of the helmsmen. The coast of Kamikos and Agrigento was under Roman control, but after Heraclea Minoa it was Carthaginian territory. In July, the Roman fleet was caught in a heavy storm near Kamarina. 384 of the total of 464 ships sank or were wrecked on the rocks near the coast. Tens of thousands of rowers, sailors and soldiers died. Many bodies and shipwrecks were washed up on the coast. Around 80 ships managed to sail around Cape Pachynon and reach the port of Syracuse.

## Reactions

Despite this catastrophe, both consuls celebrated a triumph for their victory at Cape Hermaion and a raid on Cossyra (Pantelleria); in addition, Aemilius Paullus was honored in Rome with a columna rostrata.
For the historian Polybius, the boundless Roman tenacity and boldness, which did not even bend to the laws of nature, led to the loss of the Roman fleet in the storm off Kamarina.
# Bakary

Bakary is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:

## Given name

* Bakary Diakité (born 1980), Malian football player
* Bakary Dibba (born 2001), Danish basketball player
* Bakary Koné (Burkinabé footballer) (born 1988), Burkinabé football player
* Bakary Sako (born 1988), Malian football player
* Bakary Saré (born 1990), Belgian football player
* Bakary Soro (born 1985), Ivoirian football player
* Bakary Soumaré (born 1985), Malian football player

## Surname

* Abubakar Khamis Bakary, Tanzanian politician
* Djibo Bakary (1922–1998), Nigerien politician
# Zwettl

Zwettl (German pronunciation:; Central Bavarian: Zwedl; Czech: Světlá) is a town and district capital of the Austrian state of Lower Austria. It is chiefly known as the location of Zwettl Abbey, first mentioned in October 1139.

## History

The name originates from Slavic "svetla" meaning "glade". Although the etymology suggests an early population of Slavic people no archeological evidence has been found yet. Zwettl was founded by the knights of Kuenring and was first mentioned in a monastery record in 1139. It was granted town privileges on December 28, 1200. Today, the Cistercian convent in Zwettl houses the only remaining manuscript of the life of the beguine mystic Agnes Blannbekin.

## Geography

Zwettl has a total area of 98.9 square miles (256.7 km$^2$). The town is found in the middle of Waldviertel at the confluence of the Kamp and Zwettl rivers at the upper part of Kamptal. After Vienna and Wolfsberg in Carinthia, it is the third largest municipality in Austria by area.

## People

* (Johann) Michael von Puchberg (1741–1822), promoter and estate administrators of Mozart, merchant, philanthropist, born here
* Georg Ritter von Schönerer, (1842–1921), died here
* Hugo Jury, (1887–1945), physician and National Socialist politician, lived here
* Benno Mengele (1898–1971), electrical engineer, born here
* Walter Nowotny, (1920–1944), Luftwaffe officer, lived here
* Peter Härtling, (born 1933), writer and poet, lived here
* Josef Haslinger (born 1955), writer, born here (de)
* Christoph Jank (born 1973), footballer
* Florian Metz, (born 1985), footballer, born here
* Andreas Haider-Maurer (born 1987), tennis player
* Andreas Onea (born 1992), Paralympic swimmer, born here
# Britt-Marie Smedh

Britt-Marie Smedh (born 22 March 1955) is a former Swedish breaststroke swimmer who represented Stockholmspolisens IF. Smedh participated in the 1972 Summer Olympics, finishing 7th in the 100 m breaststroke, 10th in the 200 m breaststroke and 8th in the 4 × 100 m medley relay.
Smedh is mother to Swedish Olympic medalist Therese Alshammar.

## Clubs

* Stockholmspolisens IF
# Kabylia football team

The Kabylia football team is the team representing the Kabyle people, who live in Kabylia. They are not affiliated with FIFA or CAF, and therefore cannot compete for the FIFA World Cup or the Africa Cup of Nations.
Kabylia have played in the 2018 ConIFA World Football Cup qualification.

## Current squad

The following players were called up for the 2018 ConIFA World Football Cup.
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
| 1 | 1GK | Murad Koulougli | (1987-09-10) 10 September 1987 (age 37) | 0 | 0 | JS Imazighen |
| 24 | 1GK | Rahim Belaid | (1990-05-31) 31 May 1990 (age 34) | 0 | 0 | CS Mont-Royal Outremont |
| 4 | 2DF | Idir Belasla | (1999-11-20) 20 November 1999 (age 25) | 2 | 0 | ASSM Savigneux |
| 8 | 2DF | Khelifa Drider | (1993-06-25) 25 June 1993 (age 31) | 2 | 0 | Petit Bard Montpellier |
| 9 | 2DF | Elhadi Boukir | (1987-09-09) 9 September 1987 (age 37) | 2 | 0 | CD Barrio Obrero |
| 10 | 2DF | Ahmed Simoud | (1993-12-16) 16 December 1993 (age 31) | 1 | 0 | Université Lille 1 |
| 14 | 2DF | Yacine Irnatene | (1987-01-01) 1 January 1987 (age 37) | 0 | 0 | Dagenham & Redbridge |
| 18 | 2DF | Idir Bouali | (1987-12-13) 13 December 1987 (age 37) | 0 | 0 | UM Bejaia |
| 19 | 2DF | Lyes Mihoubi | (1995-10-04) 4 October 1995 (age 29) | 0 | 0 | ORB Akbou |
| 7 | 3MF | Ilyas Hadid | (2000-01-01) 1 January 2000 (age 24) | 2 | 1 | US Créteil II |
| 6 | 3MF | Yanis Kemache | (1995-06-07) 7 June 1995 (age 29) | 2 | 0 | USM Malakoff |
| 11 | 3MF | Amara Hamadache | (1991-04-02) 2 April 1991 (age 33) | 2 | 0 | Villeneuve St. Georges |
| 12 | 3MF | Idir Lamhene | (1997-12-29) 29 December 1997 (age 26) | 0 | 0 | US Sidi Belloua |
| 13 | 3MF | Hocine Mohammedi | (1988-05-03) 3 May 1988 (age 36) | 0 | 0 | AC Finchley |
| 17 | 3MF | Walid Daira | (1998-05-10) 10 May 1998 (age 26) | 0 | 0 | ES Tigzirt |
| 20 | 3MF | Malik Amerkane | (1988-02-13) 13 February 1988 (age 36) | 0 | 0 | ES Azzefoun |
| 22 | 4FW | Nadjim Bouabbas | (1999-03-01) 1 March 1999 (age 25) | 2 | 2 | US Rungis |
| 3 | 4FW | Enzo Mezaib | (1998-01-05) 5 January 1998 (age 26) | 2 | 0 | Conflans |
| 16 | 4FW | Bachir Ghuersa | (2000-10-01) 1 October 2000 (age 24) | 2 | 0 | Villeneuve St. Georges |
| 2 | 4FW | Abderrezak Chennit | (1998-01-15) 15 January 1998 (age 26) | 0 | 0 | JS Akbou |
| 5 | 4FW | Karim Ouarab | (1999-07-21) 21 July 1999 (age 25) | 0 | 0 | JS Kabylie |
| 21 | 4FW | Nafa Belmellat | (1987-01-26) 26 January 1987 (age 37) | 0 | 0 | AC Finchley |

## Notable players

* Nadjim Bouabbas - national team top scorer
# Thacher Longstreth

William Thacher Longstreth (November 4, 1920 – April 11, 2003) was a Republican member of the Philadelphia City Council who was perhaps best known for his long tenure and unique image.
Longstreth, a graduate of Princeton University, was an eighth-generation Philadelphian born to Quakers William Collins (b. 1882) and Nella (née Thacher) Longstreth, who married in 1917. William C. Longstreth owned the Longstreth Motor Car Company and his family lived in Haverford, Pennsylvania, and was affluent until the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Thacher was a cousin of President Herbert Hoover and his maternal grandmother, Ella Hoover Thacher was the president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union for many years. In 1970, he led the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and spearheaded the drive to hold the annual Earth Day commemoration in Philadelphia. That event became one of the biggest Earth Day events in the nation. He was also instrumental in the creation of the Greater Delaware Valley Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. He was predeceased by his half sister, Nella Cameron Downward (1913–1997). His younger brother, Frank Hoover Longstreth (b. 1922) died in 2008.
He was a two-time Republican nominee for Mayor of Philadelphia, first in 1955, losing to Richardson Dilworth, and again in 1971, losing to Frank Rizzo.
He was initially elected to Philadelphia's City Council in 1967, resigning his seat to run for Mayor in 1971. While a member of City Council, he served as a sideline reporter on Philadelphia Eagles radio broadcasts on WIP in 1969 and 1970. Longstreth was again elected to Council in 1983, defeating incumbent councilwoman Beatrice Chernock for the at-large seat he had vacated twelve years earlier to run for Mayor. He would remain in office until his death. During his tenure on Council, Longstreth helped support the efforts of Edmund Bacon to bring an urban renaissance to Philadelphia. He was also well known for wearing bow ties and argyle socks.
He suffered from Parkinson's disease, and died of a pulmonary embolism while on vacation in Naples, Florida.
# Taylor Map of New York

The Taylor Map is an engraved map of New York City, produced by Will L. Taylor for Galt & Hoy in 1879. The map depicts the entire length of the island of Manhattan, although not to scale, and is surrounded by period advertisements and portraits of various businesses in New York and New Jersey. Original prints sold for $10 "on spring rollers", or $12.50 "in black walnut or gilt case with handsome cornice".
The original map was 188 by 107 centimetres (74 in × 42 in), printed on four 97 by 55 centimetres (38 in × 22 in) sheets. The Taylor Map was one of the first true attempts to label all roads and piers and to depict buildings using a vanishing perspective.

## Locations

At the bottom of the map is the Brooklyn Bridge, although the bridge was not yet completed at the time of the map's publication. Included in the locations depicted are factories, such as the Matthiessen and Wiechers Sugar Refining Works shown on the right, businesses such as the Fifth Avenue Hotel and Brown & Pray Carriage Builders, and locations such as Manhattan Beach.

## Ads

The map is bordered by advertisements for "The Brewsters of 25th Street", "Dixon Crucible Co.", the "European Salicyclic Medicine Co", "E. Aug. Neresheimer, Importer of Diamonds", "Robert T Hoy - Banker & Broker" and "WM. Rogers, with Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co, manufacturers of the finest quality of silver electro plated ware".
# Lorenzo Richelmy

Lorenzo Richelmy (born 25 March 1990) is an Italian actor, best known to audiences outside of Italy for his performance as the title character in the Netflix original series Marco Polo. Prior to being cast in the series, he appeared in several Italian television shows and films.

## Early life

Richelmy was born in La Spezia to parents Marco and Vivienne and moved to Rome with his family when he was four. He attended the liceo classico Giovanni Paolo II di Ostia Lido. Having begun his career as a child, Richelmy was the youngest actor ever accepted to the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role |
| 2002 | Il pranzo della domenica | Daniele |
| 2010 | Fat Cat | Burro |
| 2012 | 100 metri dal paradiso | Tommaso |
| 2013 | The Third Half | Samuel |
| 2013 | La terra e il vento | Leonardo |
| 2014 | Sotto una buona stella | Niccolò Picchioni |
| 2014 | Hybris | Fabio |
| 2017 | The Girl in the Fog | Agent Borghi |
| 2017 | Rainbow: A Private Affair | Giorgio |
| 2018 | Reckless | Roberto Rossi |
| 2018 | Ride | Max Falco |
| 2019 | Dolceroma | Andrea Serrano |
| 2020 | Il talento del calabrone | DJ Steph |
| 2022 | The Bunker Game | Gregorio |
| 2022 | Jumping from High Places | Massimo Di Lorenzo |
| 2023 | Eravamo bambini | Walter |
| 2024 | Here Now | Komandante |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2008–2009 | I liceali | Cesare Schifani | Main cast (season 1-2) |
| 2012 | Sposami | Danilo | Episode: "Episode 2" |
| 2013 | Borgia | Sidonius Grimani | Episode: "Transfiguration" |
| 2013 | Una Ferrari per due | Fabio Marchitelli | Television film |
| 2014–2016 | Marco Polo | Marco Polo | Lead role |
| 2019 | Sanctuary | Enzo | Main role |
| 2022 | Hotel Portofino | Roberto Aldani | Main role |
| 2023 | Fifteen-Love | Gianluca Barzagni | Main role |
| 2024 | Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story | Francesco Pesce | Main role |
# Wulfhild of Norway

Wulfhild of Norway (1020 – 24 May 1071; Old West Norse: Úlfhildr Ólafsdóttir, Swedish: Ulfhild Olofsdotter) was a Norwegian princess, and a duchess of Saxony by marriage to Ordulf, Duke of Saxony.

## Life

Wulfhild was born in 1020 as the only legitimate child of King Olaf Haraldsson of Norway and his wife Astrid Olofsdotter of Sweden. Her illegitimate half-brother was Magnus the Good. She was likely born and raised in Sarpsborg.
In 1028, she accompanied her parents to Vestlandet, and in 1029, she left Norway for Sweden with them. It is not determined whether she followed her father and half-brother on their trip to Kievan Rus' or remained in Sweden with her mother, but she did live in Sweden between the death of her father in 1030 until she returned with her half-brother Magnus to Norway in 1035, when he became king. Wulfhild is described as a beauty, and is thought to have been greatly respected as the only legitimate child of her father and daughter of a saint.
On 10 November 1042, she was married to Ordulf, son of Bernard II, Duke of Saxony. This marriage was supposed to strengthen the alliance between Saxony and Denmark; her half-brother expected the support of her consort to strengthen his position in Denmark by fighting the Wends. The marriage ceremony was celebrated in Schleswig during these political negotiations, officiated by the archbishops of Schleswig and Bremen. Her husband did remain loyal to the alliance, but the information about Wulfhild is limited and nothing is known about any of her opinions.
Wulfhild and Ordulf had a son, Magnus, Duke of Saxony.