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# Waghäusel

Waghäusel (German pronunciation:, locally; South Franconian: Woghaisl) is a town located in the Rhine valley in the south-western state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Waghäusel consists of 3 townships which are the core town (1236 residents), Kirrlach (9347 residents), and Wiesental (9596 residents) [as of March 31, 2006]. Wiesental and Kirrlach are located on Bertha Benz Memorial Route.
Among the 3 townships, Wiesental occupies the largest land area of 21.2 km² followed by Kirrlach with 19.4 km² and the core town with 0.22 km².

## Sights

* Pilgrimage church of Mary with monastery
* Baroque castle "Eremitage"
* Daytaller House in Kirrlach
* Gothic wood carved altar in the Catholic Church of Kirrlach
* Old-German wine tavern in Kirrlach (liquor license since July 15, 1700)

## International relations

Waghäusel is twinned with the following towns:
* Caldicot, Wales
* Flattach, Austria
* Szigetújfalu, Hungary
# Rowing at the 2005 Mediterranean Games

The Rowing Competition at the 2005 Mediterranean Games was held in the Cuevas del Almanzora Canal in Almería, Spain from 30 June to 2 July 2005.

## Medalists
### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Single sculls | Simone Raineri (ITA) | Nikola Stojić (SCG) | Davor Mizerit (SLO) |
| Lightweight single sculls | Fabrice Moreau (FRA) | Mete Yeltepe (TUR) | Lorenzo Bertini (ITA) |
| Coxless pairs | Italy (ITA) Luca Agamennoni Dario Lari | Greece (GRE) Ioannis Christou Nikolaos Pagounis | Egypt (EGY) Mohamed Gomaa El Bakry Yehia |
| Lightweight coxless pairs | France (FRA) Jean-Christophe Bette Franck Solforosi | Italy (ITA) Catello Amarante Salvatore Amitrano | Turkey (TUR) İhsan Emre Vural Ahmet Yumrukaya |
| Double sculls | Italy (ITA) Alessio Sartori Matteo Stefanini | Turkey (TUR) Saim Kaya Sami Kaya | Slovenia (SLO) Rok Kolander Matej Prelog |
| Lightweight double sculls | Greece (GRE) Vasileios Polymeros Nikolaos Skiathitis | France (FRA) Frédéric Dufour Arnaud Pornin | Italy (ITA) Leonardo Pettinari Nicola Moriconi |

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Single sculls | Elisabetta Sancassani (ITA) | Caroline Delas (FRA) | Nuria Domínguez (ESP) |
| Lightweight single sculls | Mirna Rajle (CRO) | Chrysi Biskitzi (GRE) | Teresa Mas (ESP) |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Italy (ITA) | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 2 | France (FRA) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | Greece (GRE) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | Croatia (CRO) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Turkey (TUR) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Serbia and Montenegro (SCG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Slovenia (SLO) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Spain (ESP) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | Egypt (EGY) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (9 entries) | Totals (9 entries) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 |
# Weston's Cider

51°59′42″N 2°30′48″W﻿ / ﻿51.9951°N 2.5133°W﻿ / 51.9951; -2.5133
H.Weston & Sons Limited ("Weston's Cider") is a cider and perry producer based in Much Marcle, Herefordshire, England. The family-owned company, founded by Henry Weston, has been making cider in the same location since 1880 and the managing director, Helen Thomas, is a fourth generation member of the Weston family. The company had 230 staff as of 2016.
Weston's use traditional methods in their cider making process, with a large collection of oak vats.
They have their own fruit orchards which are a mixture of bush and standard trees and over 43 acres of organic trees. They also source cider apples from growers within the Three Counties of Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire and a few within the county of Monmouthshire.
Weston's Cider make a variety of different products including perry, organic and low alcohol ciders in the premium cider sector. Their ciders are widely available, locally and nationally as well as in over 40 countries globally.
In response to the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on pub businesses, Weston's donated 1,800 kegs of its Stowford Press cider to its customers, starting from 29 June 2020.
In November 2023 the company was fined £1.4 million after an employee suffered a fatal collision with a half open security barrier.

## Product description

The company has various products available in bottle, can, bag in box and keg formats, including:
* Henry Westons Vintage - Medium Dry (8.2% ABV)
* Stowford Press
* Old Rosie
* Wyld Wood Organic
* Caple Road
* Mortimer’s Orchard
* Rosie’s Pig
* Ranga Ginger Cider
* Perry
The cider mill is also a tourist attraction with daily tours, product sampling and a play park for children. There is a cider shop, tea room and restaurant, all located at The Bounds, Much Marcle, Herefordshire.
# Swimming at the 1959 Summer Universiade

The swimming competition at the 1959 Summer Universiade took place in Turin, Italy.

## Men’s events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m freestyle | Igor Lushkovskiy (URS) | 57.0 | Andrzej Salamon (POL) | 57.7 | Paolo Pucci (ITA) | 58.0 |
| 400 m freestyle | Igor Lushkovskiy (URS) | 4:43.8 | Ling (GDR) | 4:46.5 | Mario Liotti (ITA) | 4:57.9 |
| 1500 m freestyle | Kadar (HUN) | 19:55.7 | Strasser (FRG) | 20:07.0 | José Cossio (ESP) | 20:10.3 |
| 100 m backstroke | Gilberto Elsa (ITA) | 1:05.7 | Georgiy Kuvaldin (URS) | 1:06.5 | Mihovil Dorčić (YUG) | 1:06.6 |
| 200 m breaststroke | Hans-Joachim Tröger (FRG) | 2:42.9 | Roberto Lazzari (ITA) | 2:42.9 | Andrzej Klopotowski (POL) | 2:45.1 |
| 200 m butterfly | Fritz Dennerlein (ITA) | 2:21.9 | Grigoriy Kiselyov (URS) | 2:25.1 | Pavel Pazdírek (TCH) | 2:25.2 |
| 4 × 200 m freestyle relay | Italy (ITA) | 8:53.1 | Hungary (HUN) | 9:07.7 | West Germany (FRG) | 9:08.8 |
| 4 × 100 m medley relay | Italy (ITA) | 4:20.4 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 4:27.6 | West Germany (FRG) | 4:28.5 |

## Women’s events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m freestyle | N. Sacco (ITA) | 1:09.7 | Ludmila Kottková (TCH) | 1:10.3 | Koosje van Voorn (NED) | 1:12.7 |
| 400 m freestyle | Ludmila Kottková (TCH) | 5:33.3 | Christine Gosden (GBR) | 5:42.9 | N. Sacco (ITA) | 5:43.3 |
| 100 m backstroke | Rita Androsoni (ITA) | 1:20.7 | Tindall (GBR) | 1:28.0 | Bosch (FRG) | 1:28.8 |
| 200 m breaststroke | Christine Gosden (GBR) | 2:59.2 | Alessandra Salvi (ITA) | 3:08.2 | Schiemenz (FRG) | 3:21.1 |
| 100 m butterfly | Valentina Pozdnyak (URS) | 1:13.9 | Christine Gosden (GBR) | 1:14.6 | Cornelia Hruska (ITA) | 1:28.1 |
| 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | Great Britain (GBR) | 4:54.9 | West Germany (FRG) | 5:02.9 | Italy (ITA) | 5:06.4 |
| 4 × 100 m medley relay | Italy (ITA) | 5:25.5 | Great Britain (GBR) | 5:32.8 | West Germany (FRG) | 5:47.4 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Italy (ITA) | 7 | 2 | 5 | 14 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 | Great Britain (GBR) | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 4 | West Germany (FRG) | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | East Germany (GDR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Spain (ESP) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (11 entries) | Totals (11 entries) | 15 | 15 | 15 | 45 |
# Swimming at the 1961 Summer Universiade

The swimming competition at the 1961 Summer Universiade took place in Sofia, Bulgaria.

## Men’s events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m freestyle | Keigo Shimizu (JPN) | 57.4 | Andrzej Salamon (POL) | 57.6 | Kiyoshi Fukui (JPN) | 57.9 |
| 400 m freestyle | Tatsuo Fujimoto (JPN) | 4:30.9 | Murray McLachlan (RSA) | 4:32.3 | Tomashiro Matsuki (JPN) | 4:35.1 |
| 1500 m freestyle | Murray McLachlan (RSA) | 18:19.8 | Tomashiro Matsuki (JPN) | 18:21.6 | Tatsuo Fujimoto (JPN) | 18:23.1 |
| 100 m backstroke | Shigeo Fukushima (JPN) | 1:05.3 | Vsevolod Tarasov (URS) | 1:05.8 | Vlastimil Kreek (TCH) | 1:05.9 |
| 200 m breaststroke | Yuriy Funikov (URS) | 2:41.4 | Yoshiaki Shikiishi (JPN) | 2:41.5 | Hans-Joachim Tröger (FRG) | 2:43.2 |
| 200 m butterfly | Haruo Yoshimuta (JPN) | 2:20.2 | Grigoriy Kiselyov (URS) | 2:25.5 | Hermann Lotter (FRG) | 2:28.8 |
| 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | Japan (JPN) Keigo Shimizu(57.9) Kiyoshi Fukui(57.9) Haruo Yoshimuta(56.2) Tatsuo Fujimoto(56.7) | 3:48.7 | Soviet Union (URS) | 3:57.2 | Hungary (HUN) | 3:58.1 |
| 4 × 100 m medley relay | Japan (JPN) Shigeo Fukushima(1:04.4) Yoshiaki Shikiishi(1:13.9) Haruo Yoshimuta(1:11.9) Tatsuo Fujimoto (56.9) | 4:17.1 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 4:18.5 | Soviet Union (URS) | 4:21.4 |

## Women’s events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m freestyle | Anna Karin Larsson (SWE) | 1:07.6 | Hilda Zeier (YUG) | 1:07.7 | Anna Ragasová (TCH) | 1:08.1 |
| 400 m freestyle | Hilda Zeier (YUG) | 5:14.4 | Hilda-Danuta Zachariasiewicz (POL) | 5:38.0 | Ludmila Kottková (TCH) | 5:45.1 |
| 100 m backstroke | Larisa Viktorova (URS) | 1:13.6 | Magdolna Dávid (HUN) | 1:16.1 | Maria Both (ROM) | 1:16.7 |
| 200 m breaststroke | Sanda Iordan (ROM) | 2:59.6 | Christine Gosden (GBR) | 3:00.8 | Alla Kovalenko (URS) | 3:01.2 |
| 100 m butterfly | Valentina Pozdnyak (URS) | 1:13.8 | Yelena Antonova (URS) Anna Karin Larsson (SWE) | 1:16.0 | |
| 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | Soviet Union (URS) | 4:39.5 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 4:41.2 | Poland (POL) | 4:52.2 |
| 4 × 100 m medley relay | Soviet Union (URS) | 5:04.5 | Romania (ROM) | 5:12.2 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 5:15.7 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 6 | 2 | 3 | 11 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 5 | 4 | 2 | 11 |
| 3 | Romania (ROM) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | South Africa (RSA) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 8 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (11 entries) | Totals (11 entries) | 15 | 16 | 14 | 45 |
# Fontenay-le-Pesnel

Fontenay-le-Pesnel (French pronunciation: ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
# Loucelles

Loucelles (French pronunciation: ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
# Tessel

Tessel (French pronunciation: ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
# German Kudryashov

German Nikolayevich Kudryashov (Russian: Герман Николаевич Кудряшов; born 26 September 1964 in Moscow) is a former Russian football player.
# Triphenylcarbethoxymethylenephosphorane

Triphenylcarbethoxymethylenephosphorane is an organophosphorus compound with the chemical formula Ph$_3$PCHCO$_2$Et (Ph = phenyl, Et = ethyl). It is a white solid that is soluble in organic solvents.
The compound is a Wittig reagent. It is used to replace oxygen centres in ketones and aldehydes with CHCO$_2$Et.
# Civilian subject to service discipline

A civilian subject to service discipline is someone who, whilst not a member of the German or British Armed Forces, is nevertheless subject to some aspects of British or German military law and the military justice system.

## Categories

The Armed Forces Act 2006 defines who is a civilian subject to service discipline. The main categories are:
* civilians on board a military ship when afloat, or on board a military aircraft when in flight
* civil servants working in support of the armed forces, when in a designated area (see below)
* civilians employed by NATO by reason of the United Kingdom's membership of NATO, when outside the British Islands
* civilians employed by certain support organisations, when in a designated area
** The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI)
** Service Children's Education
** The Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC)
** The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association - Forces Help
* civilians living with or staying with a service person or other civilian subject to service discipline, when in a designated area
* others designated by the Defence Council, for example contractors deployed on operations

## Designated areas

The following countries are designated areas in respect of civil servants, employees of support organizations and civilians living with or staying with either of those:
* Brunei
* Falkland Islands
* Germany
* Gibraltar
* Saudi Arabia
* Afghanistan
* Iraq
The following countries are designated areas in respect of civilians living with or staying with a service person:
* Belize
* Brunei
* Falkland Islands
* Germany
* Gibraltar
* Saudi Arabia
* Cyprus
* Turkey
* The Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia
* Kuwait
* Oman
These definitions will therefore include, for example, family members living with a soldier stationed in Germany.
Civilians subject to service discipline may be tried in the Service Civilian Court or by the Court Martial (although the Court Martial will be made up of civilian, not military, members).

## Comparison with other countries

The list of civilians who are subject to service discipline is more extensive than in some other countries—for example, in the United States, civilian spouses, dependents, and guests of military personnel are not included in the list of people subject to that country's Uniform Code of Military Justice.
# Bourgeauville

Bourgeauville (French pronunciation: ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
# Henry Horne (basketball)

Henry Horne is an American former basketball player known for his college career at Lafayette College. A native of Piscataway, New Jersey, Horne played for three seasons for the Lafayette Leopards (1972–75). In his senior year, Horne averaged 11.3 points, 11.4 rebounds, and 1.9 assists per game while helping lead them to an East Coast Conference West Division championship. He was named to the All-ECC First Team and was ECC co-Player of the Year with American's Wilbur Thomas.
Horne never played professionally, instead opting for a lifelong career in education administration.
# Fierville-les-Parcs

Fierville-les-Parcs is a commune in the Calvados department. It's situated in the Normandy region of northwestern France.
# Le Breuil-en-Auge

Le Breuil-en-Auge (French pronunciation: , literally Le Breuil in Auge) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
# Isa Khan Laghmani

Isa Khan Laghmani (Pashto: عیسی‌خان لغماني, born 1987) is soldier of the Afghanistan National Army. He was called the hero of Afghanistan after he killed 6 suicide attackers alone in the Kabul Parliament attack on June 22, 2015.

## Kabul Parliament attack

On June 22, 2015, the Taliban detonated a car bomb outside the National Assembly in Kabul, and Taliban fighters attacked the building with assault rifles and RPGs. A Taliban fighter driving a car loaded with explosives managed to get through security checkpoints before detonating the vehicle outside the parliament's gates. Six Taliban insurgents with AK-47 rifles and RPGs took up positions in a construction site nearby. Members of Parliament were evacuated to safety, while security forces battled the insurgents in a two-hour gun battle. Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said all seven attackers were killed by police and no MPs were wounded.
The UN mission in Afghanistan said a woman and a child were killed in the attack, and forty civilians were injured. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that it was timed to coincide with a parliamentary speech of the new defense minister Mohammed Masoom Stanekzai. Lieutenant General Abdul Rahman Rahimi, Kabul's Chief of Police, said that the police will investigate how the attackers got so close to parliament.

### Killing of 6 attackers

Afghan National Army staff sergeant Isa Khan Laghmani is believed to have killed three insurgents attempting to storm the parliament in the attack.

### President and chief executive officer awards

He was praised by Mohammad Ashraf Ghani for his actions. Posters with Khan's face have appeared in the capital, in what has been described as a "rare spontaneous show of support" for the country's security forces.
# Saint-Philbert-des-Champs

Saint-Philbert-des-Champs (French pronunciation: ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
# Annebault

Annebault (French pronunciation: ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

## Geography

Annebault is located in the pays d'Auge, 17 kilometers from Lisieux.

## Toponymy

The village Annebault was first mentioned as Olnebac in the beginning of the 12th century, and as Ounebaus in 1195.
Several different theories have been proposed to explain the origins of this name. French linguist René Lepelley has proposed that the name comes from the Old Norrois "almr balkr", or "splitting of the elm". On the other hand, Ernest Nègre, toponymist and specialist in Occitan, has offered that it is derived from the Germanic personal name Allinus followed by the Old Norse bekkr. Yet another theory, courtesy of Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing, holds that Annebault derives from the Germanic personal name Hanno followed by Germanic bald, or bold. Ultimately, despite this plethora of suggestions, the origins of "Annebault" remain obscure.

## History

The vestiges of a feudal moat, possibly dating to the tenth century, can be found to the south of the town, in the nearby forest.

## Personalities

Claude d'Annebault (circa 1495-1552) was a French military man who became an admiral and was named Admiral of France in 1544.
# A Gentleman's Agreement

A Gentleman's Agreement is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by David Smith and starring Gayne Whitman, Nell Shipman, Juan de la Cruz, Jacob Abrams, and Hattie Buskirk. The film was released by Vitagraph Company of America on July 29, 1918.

## Cast

* Gayne Whitman as Allen Spargo (as Alfred Whitman)
* Nell Shipman as Theresa Kane
* Juan de la Cruz as Lemuel Antree
* Jacob Abrams as Prof. Kane (as Jake Abraham)
* Hattie Buskirk as Mrs. Kane
* J. Carlton Wetherby as Jerry Pitkin (as Jack Wetherby)
* Al Ernest Garcia as Manager of Mine (as Al Garcia)
* Patricia Palmer as Kate Leonard

## Preservation

The film is now considered lost.
# Carqueiranne

Carqueiranne (French:, locally; Occitan: Carcairana or Carqueirana) is a commune in the Var department, administrative region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (historically Provence), Southeastern France.
It is known now as a tourist seaside resort with good windsurfing nearby, at Almanarre Beach.

## Saint-Exupéry

The town has a literary claim to fame as well. In early August 1944, an unidentifiable body wearing French military colours was found near here, which was long believed to be that of famous novelist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince.
In 1998, a bracelet known to be his, with a fragment of cloth still attached, was found in the sea east of Riou Island (south of Marseille). In 2000, a crashed P-38 Lightning was found in the seabed off the coast of Marseille, near where the bracelet was found, and it was confirmed to be the one that Saint-Exupéry was flying.
However, it remains plausible that ocean currents could have carried the body from the crash site to Carqueiranne - a distance less than 80 kilometres (50 mi) by sea - over the course of several days, which is the time difference between the crash on 31 July 1944, and the discovery of the body.
# Tom Høyem

Tom Høyem (born 10 October 1941) is a Danish and German politician, and former headmaster in the European Schools.

## Political career in Denmark

Between September 1982 and September 1987, Høyem served as Minister for Greenland within the Danish government under the premiership of Poul Schlüter. He was succeeded by Mimi Jakobsen.
On 14 September 1984, Høyem was awarded the honour of kommandør af Dannebrogordenen.
Høyem has served as independent election observer for Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe on behalf of the Danish government in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Ukraine, the State of Palestine and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

## Headmaster in the European Schools

Between 1987 and 2015, Høyem served successively as the Director (headmaster) of the European School, Culham (1987–1994), the European School, Munich (1994–2000), and the European School, Karlsruhe (2000–2015).

## Political career in Germany

In 1994, Høyem joined the Freie Demokratische Partei, the German liberal party, and in 2004 he was elected to serve on the Gemeinderat (council) of the city of Karlsruhe.
# José Antonio Villaseñor y Sánchez

José Antonio Villaseñor y Sánchez was an 18th-century geographer, historian, and mathematician in New Spain. He was born in San Luis Potosí, Mexico and studied at San Ildefonso in Mexico City. He became an accountant, and later official cosmographer (geographer) of New Spain.
Following royal instructions, Viceroy Pedro Cebrián, 3rd Count of Fuenclara ordered him to prepare an official estimate of the population of New Spain, to be transmitted to the Court. The estimate was completed in April 1744, and the population was found to be 3,865,000. He also produced a plan of Mexico City (1750).

## Works

* Pantómetra matemática combinatoria de las leyes de la plata de toda ley (1733).
* Theatro Americano, descripción general de los reinos y provincias de la Nueva España y sus jurisdicciones (2 vols., 1746–48; 2nd ed. 1952). This work is a valuable source for colonial historians.
* Matemático cómputo de los astros (1756).
# TV Azteca Honduras

TV Azteca Honduras is a Mexican-owned Honduran broadcast television channel owned by TV Azteca.

## History

On September 5, 2013, CONATEL (Comisión Nacional de Telecomunicaciones: i.e.: National Telecommunications Commission) put television channel 60 and other channels up for sale, several of them with local coverage and one with full coverage. TV Azteca offered 61 million lempiras for the acquisition of the 60 UHF signal and would be awarded a 15-year concession.
# Garuda's abduction of Queen Kakati

Garuda's abduction of Queen Kakati is a famous Buddhist tale about the former lives of the Buddha, called a Jataka.
In this story, the Buddha was born in a previous life as the king of Benares, and therefore was still a Bodhisattva, and ruled with his beloved queen, Kakati. The royal solar bird Garuda came to the court disguised as a man and gambled with the king. He then became enamored of the queen and abducted her. He carried her off to his nest by the Simbali-Lake and there lived with her.
When Garuda heard of the king's great sadness and of his true love for Kakati, he restored her to him.
The story is one of those related by the bird Kunala, in the kunala Jataka. The story is also very close to that of the Sussondi Jataka.
According to Buddhist mythology, the Garudas were enemies to the nāga, a race of intelligent serpents, whom they hunt. The Garudas at one time caught the nāgas by seizing them by their heads; but the nāgas learned that by swallowing large stones, they could make themselves too heavy to be carried by the Garudas, wearing them out and killing them from exhaustion. This secret was divulged to one of the Garudas by the ascetic Karambiya, who taught him how to seize a nāga by the tail and force him to vomit up his stone (Pandara Jātaka, J.518).
* Garuda in the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara
* Garuda's abduction of Queen Kakati. Greco-Buddhist art or Gandhara. 200-400 CE.
* Garuda relief Gandhara.
* Garuda carrying off Naga youths.