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# Robert Simpson (cricketer)

Robert Simpson (born 8 July 1962) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played for Cheshire. He was born in Altrincham.
Simpson, who played in the Minor Counties Championship and Minor Counties Trophy in 1983, made a single List A appearance for the side in the same season, in the NatWest Trophy, against Kent. From the middle order, he scored a single run.
# Miroslav Cvijanović

Miroslav Cvijanović (born 14 May 1985) is a Slovenian retired footballer. He played for Primorje, Bilje, Olimpija Ljubljana, Krka, and Kras Repen.

## Personal life

He is a cousin of Goran Cvijanović, who is also a former footballer.
# Arthur Ricketts

Arthur James Ricketts (27 August 1913 – April 2000) played first-class cricket for Somerset in one match in 1936. He was born at Farmborough, Somerset and died in Somerset too, though the exact date and place of his death is not known.
Ricketts had one of the briefest of all first-class cricket careers. He was picked, alongside Jack White and Horace Hazell, as a third slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler for Somerset's match against Surrey at Taunton; in a rain-ruined game, he did not bowl in Surrey's innings, and when rain finished the match at close of play on the second day with Somerset at 38 for eight, he had not batted. He was never given a second chance.
# Tommy Croombs

Thomas Robert Croombs (13 December 1906 – 15 October 1980) was a speedway rider who finished third in the Star Riders' Championship in 1931, the forerunner to the Speedway World Championship.

## Career

Croombs was born in New Malden, Surrey, England.
He rode for Lea Bridge in 1929 and moved onto the West Ham Hammers in 1930. He stayed with the Hammers until the end of the 1939 season when he retired. In 1947, he made a comeback, riding for West Ham, starting as reserve and then back as a full team member within six weeks.
At retirement he had earned 30 international caps for the England national speedway team.
When West Ham's track, West Ham Stadium was demolished, a road on the new development was named after Croombs.

## World final appearances

* 1937 – London, Wembley Stadium – 16th – 8pts
* 1938 – London, Wembley Stadium – 14th – 8pts

## Players cigarette cards

Croombs is listed as number 10 of 50 in the 1930s' Player's cigarette card collection.
# Jack Simmons (cricketer)

Jack Simmons, MBE (b. 28 March 1941) is a former cricketer who played for Lancashire and Tasmania.

## Early life

Born 28 March 1941, Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire, Simmons grew up there. He attended Accrington Technical School and then Blackburn Technical College, where he proved to be a gifted cricketer. However he did not show enough consistency at an early stage to attract the attention of County selectors. Instead following leaving school he became a journeyman professional cricketer in the lower Lancashire leagues. However his reputation and ability soon developed, and by his late 20s, Lancashire County Cricket Club had begun to scout him.

## First-class career

Simmons was a lower-order right-hand batsman and a right-arm off break bowler who achieved almost iconic status for both the major teams that he played for. Solidly-built, he looked very little like an athlete, yet his close fielding was sharp and he remained fit into his late 40s.
A late arrival in county cricket at the age of 28, Simmons then enjoyed a 20-year career in which he was an integral part of the Lancashire side, though rarely hitting the headlines. His flat bowling trajectory and his accuracy meant that he could be economical in one-day cricket, and he was part of the highly successful Lancashire side under Jack Bond that won the Gillette Cup, the premier one-day competition in England, for three years in a row from 1970 to 1972. Simmons and slow left-arm bowler David Hughes were the first pair of spin bowlers to be used regularly and successfully in one-day cricket, which had previously been the preserve of seam bowling.
In first-class cricket, Simmons reliably contributed more than 500 runs and 50 wickets in most seasons in his career, and at the age of 47, he took 63 wickets in the 1988 season. The affection for "Flat Jack" in Lancashire was shown by his 1980 benefit, which raised £128,000. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1985.
In 1972–73, he was invited to Tasmania to captain the local state side, whose first-class matches were restricted to games against touring sides. In six seasons as captain, Simmons led Tasmania into full first-class status and into the Sheffield Shield competition from 1977–78.

## Later life

After half a dozen matches in the 1989 English season, Simmons retired. He has been County Chairman of Lancashire County Cricket Club since 1998 and was elected as the Chairman of Cricket for the England and Wales Cricket Board in January 2008.
# Hasan Karmi

Hasan Sa'id Karmi (Arabic: حسن سعيد الكرمي; 1905 – May 5, 2007) was a Palestinian linguist and broadcaster for the BBC Arabic Service.

## Biography

Hasan Karmi was born in Tulkarm (then in the Ottoman Empire). The son of a sharia court judge, Sheikh Sa'id al-Karmi, and the brother of the poet Abd al-Karim al-Karmi. Karmi studied in a local Qur'anic school in Tulkarm and later attended English College in Jerusalem. He joined the British mandate government's education department and won two scholarships, in 1939 and 1945, to study at the Institute of Education in London.

## Practical life

Karmi joined the BBC Arabic Service and worked as a broadcaster for nearly 40 years. He was the creator, writer, and presenter of a weekly literary program called Qawlun ala Qawl (Saying on a Saying) devoted to Arabic poetry and proverbs. For years he also wrote a column in Huna London (London Calling), which the embassy in Saudi Arabia used to distribute on behalf of the BBC Arabic Service. In 1969 Karmi was awarded an MBE for services to the BBC.
Karmi was married to a Syrian woman, Amina, had one son, Ziyad, and two daughters, Siham and Ghada Karmi. He returned to the Middle East, to Jordan, in 1989 and spent his remaining years working on eleven dictionaries, one Arabic-English, the rest English-Arabic.

## Death

He died on 5 May 2007 in Amman, Jordan.

## Articles

* Craig, Sir James (14 May 2007). "Letter: Hasan Karmi". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 May 2007.
* Karmi, Ghada: In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story ISBN 1-85984-694-7 Verso 2002
* Marwan Asmar; Remembering Hassan Al Karmi, the Intellectual I knew, Hackwriters.com
# Jessie Torrance

Jessie Torrance (15 February 1874 – 12 December 1949) was a New Zealand nurse and deaconess.

## Early life

Torrance was born in Dunedin, the second daughter of Scottish immigrants Eliza Wright and John Ainslie Torrance. Torrance's upbringing was heavily influenced by religion - her father was the chaplain at Dunedin's hospital, jail and asylum, a lay preacher and elder in the Presbyterian Church, and later worked for the Patients' and Prisoners' Aid Society. Torrance trained as a nurse at Dunedin Hospital, passing her state registration examinations at the end of 1908.

## Career

On graduating, Torrance went into private nursing, and after the Plunket Society was established in 1907, she became one of the earliest Plunket nurses. She resigned from her position, however, over a disagreement with Plunket's founder Frederic Truby King. St John Ambulance invited her to join their organisation, and she worked for them for 13 years, including during World War I.
Shortly after the devastating 1918 influenza pandemic, Knox Church in Dunedin hired Torrance as a parish nurse; a bequest in 1915 by a local benefactor provided funds for such an appointment. Torrance held a daily clinic in rooms at the Knox Sunday School in Great King Street, made visits to patients in their homes, dispensed medications and lent nursing equipment as needed. She saw anyone in need in the community, and provided social work services as well as nursing. In addition, she tutored students of the church's Missionary Training Unit and nurses who wanted to become deaconesses.
In the 1920s, Torrance was made an honorary deaconess of Knox Church. She retired from nursing in 1943, having served Knox Church for 25 years. She died in Dunedin on 12 December 1949.
# 643

Year 643 (DCXLIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 643 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

## Events
### By place
#### Byzantine Empire

* Emperor Constans II recognises Theodore Rshtuni as ruler of Armenia, after his successful campaign against the Muslims. He names him commander (nakharar) of the Armenian army.
* Maurikios names himself dux of Rome, and revolts against exarch Isaac (Exarchate of Ravenna). He declares Rome's independence from the Exarchate and from the Byzantine Empire.

#### Europe

* King Rothari of the Lombards issues the Edictum Rothari, which is the first codification of Lombard law (written in Latin). The edict guarantees rights only for Lombard subjects.
* Duke Leuthari II has Otto, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, murdered. He is succeeded by Grimoald the Elder, the eldest son of Pepin of Landen.

#### Britain

* King Cynegils of Wessex dies after a 32-year reign, and is succeeded by his son Cenwalh (who is still pagan); he marries the sister of King Penda of Mercia (approximate date).

#### Persia

* Peroz III, son of Yazdegerd III, the last Sassanid king of Persia, flees to territory under the control of the Tang dynasty in China (approximate date).

#### Africa

* Arab–Byzantine War: Arab armies continue their military expansion into North Africa and lay siege to Tripoli. The city is captured after one month.
* 'Amr ibn al-'As sends a detachment to Sabratha (modern Libya). The city puts up feeble resistance, but soon surrenders and agrees to pay Jizya.

#### Asia

* Chinese prefectural government officials travel to the capital of Chang'an, to give the annual report of the affairs in their districts. Emperor Taizong discovers that many have no proper quarters to rest in, and are renting rooms with merchants. Therefore, Taizong orders the government agencies in charge of municipal construction to build every visiting official his own private mansion in the capital.
* A Chinese embassy is sent to the North Indian Empire. They are invited by Emperor Harsha, who holds a Buddhist convocation at the capital Kannauj, which is attended by 20 kings and thousands of pilgrims.
* Taizong commissions artist Yan Liben to paint the life-size portraits of 24 government officials in the Lingyan Pavilion, to commemorate their service and contributions to the founding of the Tang dynasty.

### By topic
#### Religion

* Æbbe establishes a monastery at Ebchester, known as Kirk Hill at St Abb's Head near Coldingham (Scotland).

## Births

* Fazang, Chinese Buddhist patriarch (d. 712)
* Li Zhong, prince of the Tang dynasty (d. 665)

## Deaths

* April 29 – Hou Junji, chancellor of the Tang dynasty
* September 19 – Goeric, bishop of Metz
* Cynegils, king of Wessex (approximate date)
* Maurikios Chartoularios, Byzantine rebel leader
* Otto, mayor of the palace (Austrasia)
* Wei Zheng, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (b. 580)
# Senad Jahić

Senad Jahić (born 13 May 1987) is a Slovenian football defender.
# Chiesa di Gesù e Maria, Reggio Calabria

The Chiesa di Gesù e Maria is a Roman Catholic church located in the city of Reggio Calabria in the region of Calabria, Italy.
The damaged church at the site was razed after the 1908 earthquake and rebuilt in a neoclassical-style. It has three naves. On the right is the Funeral monument to Giuseppe Molisani. The church houses a modern bronze Via Crucis by the sculptor Ennio Tesei. The two angels on the main altar support a throne, and the reliefs on the two lecterns are by the sculptor Pasquale Panetta.
# Timothy Richings

Timothy 'Tim' William Richings (born 21 August 1962) is a former English cricketer. Richings was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace.
In 1992, Richings made his debut for Dorset in the 1992 Minor Counties Championship against Shropshire. From 1992 to 1998, Richings played 46 Minor County matches for Dorset, with his final match for the county coming against Staffordshire in the final of the 1998 Minor Counties Championship which ended in a draw.
In his debut season, Richings also made his debut and his List-A debut for Dorset against Hampshire in the 1st round of the 1992 NatWest Trophy, where on debut he scored his only List-A half century with a score of 74*. From 1992 to 1998 he represented Dorset in 4 List-A matches, with his final match coming against Hampshire in the 1st round of the 1998 NatWest Trophy.
In his 4 List-A matches for the county he scored 128 runs at a batting average of 42.66.
# Dick Siebert

Richard Walther Siebert (February 19, 1912 – December 9, 1978) was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball who had an 11-year career from 1932, 1936–1945. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals, both of the National League, and the Philadelphia A's of the American League. He was elected to the American League All-Star team in 1943.
Born in Fall River, Massachusetts, he grew up in Cass Lake and Saint Paul, Minnesota.
In an 11-year major league career, Siebert compiled a .282 batting average (1104-3917), scoring 439 runs, with 32 home runs and 482 RBI in 1035 games played. His on-base percentage was .332 and slugging percentage was .379. Primarily a first baseman, he recorded a .990 fielding percentage.
Following his playing career, Siebert became head baseball coach at the University of Minnesota in 1948, where he would remain until his death. The "Chief" went on to become one of the greatest coaches in college baseball history and helped develop baseball at all levels in Minnesota. He finished with a 754–361–6 record and a .676 winning percentage, far and away the most in school history at the time; he has since been passed by current coach John Anderson. He sent five different teams to the College World Series and brought home three NCAA titles in 1956, 1960 and 1964. His teams also captured 12 Big Ten titles, and he endured only three losing seasons.
In addition to coaching the Minnesota Gophers, during the 1950s Siebert was a player/coach for the Litchfield Optimists, the Willmar Rails, and the Minneapolis Kopps Realty teams in Minnesota amateur Town Team Baseball. This arrangement allowed Siebert to evaluate talent and coach his Gophers players during the collegiate off-season.
Siebert served as the president of the American College Baseball Coaches Association. Among his many honors and accolades, Siebert was twice named as college baseball's Coach of the Year, was a member of the College Baseball Hall of Fame, and was a recipient of college baseball's highest award, the Lefty Gomez Trophy, which recognizes an individual who has made an outstanding contribution and given service to the development of college baseball.
Siebert died at age 66 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His son, Paul Siebert, pitched for the Astros, Padres and Mets from 1974 to 1978. On April 21, 1979, Minnesota renamed its baseball stadium Siebert Field in Siebert's honor.
# Richard Sharp (rugby union)

Richard Adrian William Sharp OBE (born 9 September 1938) is an English retired rugby union player. Born in India during the British Raj, his family moved to Cornwall, England, where he was educated at Montpelier School, Paignton and Blundell's School in the neighbouring county of Devon and at Balliol College, Oxford. He is a former player at Redruth R.F.C., Wasps FC, Bristol FC and England (14 caps) rugby union fly-half and captain. He played for England while at Oxford and led England to the Five Nations title in 1963. He played cricket for Cornwall in the Minor Counties Championship between 1957 and 1970.
He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1986 New Year Honours, for services to Sport, particularly in the South West.
Bernard Cornwell named the fictional character Richard Sharpe after him.
# Mount Wakakusa

Mount Wakakusa (若草山, Wakakusa-yama), also known as Mount Mikasa (三笠山 Mikasa-yama), is a 342-metre-high (1,122 ft) hill located to the east of Nara Park in the city of Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The mountain's name literally means "young grass". The mountain is closed from December 12th to March 17th and cannot be accessed.
On the fourth Saturday of January year, the dead grass of Mount Wakakusa is burned in an annual festival known as Yamayaki (山焼き literally "mountain burning").

## Yamayaki festival

On the fourth Saturday of January, the dead grass on Mount Wakakusa is burned in an annual festival known as Yamayaki (山焼き literally "mountain burning"). The tradition supposedly originated from a boundary dispute between two temples, Tōdai-ji and Kōfuku-ji in 1760; after mediation failed, the entire mountain was set ablaze. Other explanations suggest that the extermination of wild boar or other pests was the original purpose. The festival today begins with a ceremonial igniting by representatives of both temples, followed by a fireworks display. The festival has sometimes been postponed or cancelled because of poor weather or during wartime.
The burning of Mount Wakakusa as part of the annual festival can be seen from the city of Nara and many other locations in the northern part of the Nara Basin. It can be viewed at a further distance from the Aeon Mall Yamato-kōriyama multilevel parking lot, and from buildings in the cities of Kashihara and Gose. The blazing hillside is also visible from Mount Kongō, Mount Ikoma, Hōzan-ji and the ryokan street directly below it. The most popular viewing locations, however, include Nara Park near the five-storied pagoda of Kōfuku-ji, Oike pond near Yakushi-ji, and Heijō Palace.

## Gallery

* Overlooking Nara
* Night view of Nara
* Viewed from Heijō Palace (with Mt Kasuga on the right)
* Yakushiji and Mount Wakakusa seen from Oike pond
* Burning the dead grass, with accompanying fireworks
* Burning the dead grass (animation)
# Tomaž Murko

Tomaž Murko (born 7 February 1979) is a Slovenian retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
He was a member of Maribor for most of his career, where he played in the 1990s and 2000s and made 130 league appearances. With the club, he won seven league titles and three national cups.

## Honours

Maribor
* Slovenian Championship: 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03
* Slovenian Cup: 1996–97, 1998–99, 2003–04
Aluminij
* Slovenian Second League: 2010–11, 2011–12
# Jim Cooper (American football)

James Albert Cooper (born September 28, 1955) is an American former professional football offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at Temple University.

## Early life

Cooper attended Cardinal Dougherty High School in Philadelphia, not far from the Temple campus. He was a two sport athlete, earning varsity letters in football,], and track.
He was the Catholic League champ in the shot put. His teammates elected him captain in both sports during his senior year.

## College career

Cooper accepted a football scholarship from Temple University. He played both on the offensive and defensive lines, before settling at offensive tackle, where he was a three-year starter.
He was inducted into the Philadelphia Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame.

## Professional career

Cooper was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the sixth round (164th overall) of the 1977 NFL draft. It proved difficult at first, almost being traded to the Denver Broncos along with fullback Jim Jensen and getting released at the end of training camp on September 9. On September 16, he was re-signed after Jim Eidson was lost for the year with a knee injury. He took advantage of this second opportunity, by learning 3 positions (Tackle, Guard, Center) and becoming the most versatile offensive lineman on the team. As a rookie, he mostly backed up both guard positions.
In 1978, he was listed as the backup at center. In 1979, he started the first 11 games at right tackle, while Rayfield Wright was recovering from a knee injury.
In 1980, he took over the starting position after Wright retired. center John Fitzgerald nicknamed the Cowboys offensive line as the "Four Irishmen and a Scott", when it was formed by him, Fitzgerald, Pat Donovan, Tom Rafferty and Herb Scott.
In the 1982 season, he helped blocked on Tony Dorsett's record 99-yard touchdown run against the Minnesota Vikings.
In 1984, he missed half of the season, after being injured on a bizarre accident, when he slipped while rising from a table at a night club, while watching Monday Night Football. He dislocated his right ankle and in the process broke a bone and ligaments. He was replaced by Phil Pozderac the rest of the season.
In 1985, he started 15 games, missing the season finale with a neck injury. Cooper retired in 1986, after being injured most of that year. He finished his career after playing in 133 games, including 2 Super Bowls.

## Personal life

After retirement, he focused on managing his family owned company Industrial Container Services.
# Paul Rice (cricketer)

Christopher Paul Edgar Rice (22 February 1948 – 16 February 2013) was an English cricketer. Rice was a left-handed batsman. He was born at Exeter, Devon.
Rice made his debut for Suffolk in the 1979 Minor Counties Championship against Buckinghamshire. Rice played Minor counties cricket for Suffolk from 1979 to 1982, which included 23 Minor Counties Championship appearances. He made his List A debut against Buckinghamshire in the 1979 Gillette Cup. He made three further List A appearances, the last of which came against Derbyshire in the 1981 NatWest Trophy. In his four List A matches, he scored 62 runs at an average of 15.50, with a high score of 45. In 1985, he made five appearances in the Minor Counties Championship for Norfolk.
He died at Halesworth, Suffolk on 16 February 2013.