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# Banque de Gestion et de Financement

The Management and Financing Bank (French: Banque de Gestion et de Financement), or BGF, is a bank based in Bujumbura, Burundi.

## History

The Société de Gestion et de Financement (SOGEFI) was created in 1992 by a group of businessmen, with no public office. On 1 April 1996 the BGF was created by the same group as a commercial bank, taking over the assets of SOGEFI. The bank managed deposits, withdrawals, credit, exchange, investment, treasury, discount of effects, commissions and resumption of participation. Capital was 600 million BIF in 1996, and equity was 430 million BIF.
BGF expanded into several provinces of Burundi. As of 2024 it had 9 public offices in Bujumbura Mairie, and had opened 16 agencies:
    Headquarters (1996)Mwaro (1999)Gatumba (2001)Kayanza (2004)Ngozi (2004)Muyinga (2004)Rumonge (2006)Makamba (2007)Orée du Golf and Gitega (2011)Ruyigi (2012)Avenue du Commerce (2014)BCM (2018)Muramvya (2019)Petro Muha (2020)Kinindo (2023)
As of 2008 BGF had 146 employees in eight branches. It had 32.7 billion BIF in assests, 22.7 billion BIF in deposits and 20.1 billion BIF of loans. It had 13,632 accounts, about 10% of the total in Burundi at that time.
In April 2021 the bank celebrated its 25th anniversary in Bujumbura at a ceremony attended by Prosper Bazombanza, vice-president of Burundi. By 2021 capital was 27 billion BIF and equity was 33 billion BIF. The bank was entirely owned by private citizens of Burundi.
In April 2021 the Trade and Development Fund of the TDB Group issued a partial risk guarantee facility of 500 million BIF to the Women's Initiative for Self-Empowerment (WISE), a micro-finance institution established in 2007. This would allow WISE to borrow 1 billion BIF, or about US$510,000, from BGF, which WISE would lend to women as small and medium enterprise loans, particularly in agribusiness and trade.
In 2024 BGF was one of ten banks that had been approved by the Banque de la République du Burundi (BRB) as a Treasury Valuation Specialist.
# Scottholm, Syracuse

Scottholm is an historic housing development in the Meadowbrook neighborhood of Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York. It has been registered as a National Historic District. It is bounded by Salt Springs Road on the north; Brookford Road and East Avenue on the east; Meadowbrook Drive on the south; and Scottholm Terrace on the west. Scottholm consists of single‐family homes of varying styles built in the early 20th century. When it was built, Scottholm was marketed to upper middle class and upper class residents. Today, the area attracts a diverse population of white collar, academic, and creative class professionals. Nottingham High School, in the Syracuse City School District, is nearby.

## Scottholm Tract Historic District

The Scottholm Tract Historic District is a national historic district encompassing 266 contributing buildings, 1 contributing structure, and 1 contributing site in an exclusively residential section of Syracuse. The neighborhood is well regarded for its architectural and landscape diversity. Winding boulevards and tree-lined streets feature noteworthy examples of Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Mission Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style residential architecture. Scottholm is characterized by its Garden City town planning principles and manicured landscaping.
Development of the area began with creation of Genesee Turnpike, now Genesee Street in the 1830s, but what would become “Scottholm Estates” was sketched out in 1914 and lots were sold beginning in 1915. The survey identifies about 30 houses as dating from 1915–1925. Most date from the late 1920s and early 1930s, suggesting the effects of the Depression took a while to be fully felt by Syracuse's white collar professionals who made up a substantial portion of the neighborhood residents. Some of the houses were designed by local architect Ward Wellington Ward.
Scottholm was designed by a landscape architect and planner Arthur C. Comey following the popular ideals for new garden suburbs easily reached by streetcar from urban commercial centers. These new developments, of which Syracuse has several notable examples, are typified by winding streets, mandated setbacks and front yards, organized tree-planting alongside sidewalks, and various protective covenants regarding ownership qualifications. The historic stone gates at the entrances to the Scottholm neighborhood on East Genesee Street remain in place.
Located in the district are the separately listed Poehlman House, Sanderson House at 112 Scottholm Terrace, and Sanderson House at 301 Scottholm Boulevard. Other notable buildings include the Scott Family Farmhouse.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
# Fateh Khan Dodai

Fateh Khan Dodai the son of Malik Sohrab Khan Dodai was a member of one of the most powerful families of Gujarati noblemen who probably came from Sindh.

## History

During the Mughal period, Malik Sohrab Khan Dodai son of Doda Soomra came to south Punjab from Makran with his three sons Malik Ghazi Khan Dodai, Malik Ismail Khan Dodai and Malik Fateh Khan Dodai, who later formed Derajat. He remained allied with opposing powers. In the initial struggle between Emperor Humayun and Sher Shah Suri and later between Emperor Humayun and his brothers, the Rind appeared to be with Humayun, while Lashars chose to support Sher Shah and, later, the rebellious brothers of Humayun. During the confusion that followed the flight of Emperor Humayun to Persia, a pashtoon tribal union, headed by Fateh Khan Dodai, occupied Multan. However, after regaining the throne of India, he sent an army under the command of General Hebat Khan who, after a bloody battle, defeated the pashtoon, and the Mughals retook Multan. During the reigns of Emperor Akbar the Great and Emperor Shah Jahan, Balochistan was under firm Mughal control. According to Raverty (1888), during Akbar's reign, the Mughal governor of Multan, Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, sent many punitive expeditions against the Baloch. However, there is no mention of any significant encounter with the Baloch tribes during the reign of Emperor Jahangir.
For a short period, this Pashtoon confederacy was also able to occupy the prosperous region of Multan. As observed earlier, during the confusion that followed the flight of Mughal Emperor Humayun to Persia, the Pashtoon tribal union headed by Fateh Khan Dodai occupied Multan which was later retook by the Mughals Army under the command of General Hebat Khan on the orders of Emperor Humayun.
# Norwich Village Historic District

The Norwich Village Historic District encompasses the compact village center of Norwich, Vermont. The village was developed mainly in the first half of the 19th century, benefiting in importance from the 1820 founding of what is now Norwich University (since relocated to Northfield). The district has well-preserved examples of architecture ranging from the late 18th century to the early 20th century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

## Description and history

The town of Norwich was chartered in 1761 and settled the following decade. Its original town center was located north of the present village, which rose in significance due to its location nearer fertile lands adjacent to the Connecticut River, and the 1820 establishment of the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy, now Norwich University. The village population peaked about 1830, declining due to westward migration, and the eventual relocation of the academy to Northfield; its original campus was destroyed by fire in the 1860s. A few homes survive from the early settlement period of the 18th century, with most of its architecture reflecting the Federal and Greek Revival periods of the first half of the 19th century. A number of Colonial Revival buildings were added in the early 20th century, and there are a modest number of Late Victorian buildings, notably the Norwich Inn.
The spine of the historic district is a section of United States Route 5 and Main Street north of Interstate 91, and extends along some of the cross streets. Buildings are mostly set on small lots, with modest setbacks from the street. The main focal point of the district is the village green, located at the junction of US 5 and Main Street. Arrayed around the green are municipal buildings, including the town hall, library, and post office, as well as several churches and the town's elementary school. The town's general store, Dan and Whits, is on the west side of Main Street, north of this junction and adjacent to the Norwich Inn.
# Hermit kingdom

The term hermit kingdom is an epithet used to refer to any country, organization or society that willfully isolate itself off, either metaphorically or physically, from the rest of the world. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is commonly cited as a prominent example of a hermit kingdom in the present day.

## Historic use: Korea

The first country to be described as a "hermit kingdom" was Korea during the Joseon dynasty, in William Elliot Griffis's 1882 book Korea: The Hermit Nation. Korea, which had become increasingly isolationist since the 17th century, was frequently described as a hermit kingdom until 1905, when it became a protectorate of Japan.

## Cold War uses

During the Cold War, Enver Hoxha's Albania was widely considered a "hermit kingdom" as it was a Stalinist regime, did not allow ordinary citizens out of the country, and pursued autarky to become entirely self-sufficient. Unlike North Korea, Hoxha's regime, after the Sino-Albanian split, refused to ally with anyone and was hostile towards the entire world, which made it more isolationist than North Korea, which was then Stalinist but was allied with other Eastern Bloc states and did not become isolationist until after the end of the Cold War.

## Modern use

Today, the term is often applied to North Korea in news and social media, and in 2009, it was used by Hillary Clinton, then the United States Secretary of State. Other current countries considered isolationist "hermit kingdoms" include Turkmenistan, Belarus, Eritrea, and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Historically, the term has been applied to Nepal, Ladakh, and Bhutan in the Himalayas.

## Other uses

The term "hermit kingdom" has also been used to describe Western Australia when it closed its borders during the COVID-19 pandemic.
# McCurdy Smokehouse

The McCurdy Smokehouse is a former industrial fish processing facility on the waterfront of Lubec, Maine. Operated between about 1906 and 1991, it is believed to be the last intact early 20th-century herring processing facility in the state. It is now owned by a local preservation group, hosts a museum and other facilities. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

## Description and history

The McCurdy Smokehouse is set on a collection of adjacent pile wharves on the Lubec waterfront, near the junction of Water and School Streets. It is an assemblage of nine buildings, some purpose-built, some adapted to the purpose, which were mostly built between 1895 and 1941. All are wood frame structures, one and two stories in height. The oldest building is a c. 1860 Greek Revival retail building, which was adapted for use by the operators of the smokehouse as a warehouse sometime between 1921 and 1933.
The history of the smokehouse begins in 1907, when Robert McBridge purchased an unused wharf and built a smokehouse on it. He also acquired several adjacent buildings, that had previously housed other businesses, and adapted them for the specialized activities related to pickling and smoking herring. McBride's was one of thirteen herring smokehouses in Lubec, and the complex, expanded by his successors in the business, operated until 1991. From 1959 to 1995 the complex was owned by members of the McCurdy family. It was sold in 1995 to Lubec Landmarks, dedicated to its preservation. They have adapted the skinning/packing shed to house a museum on Lubec history, and are seeking adaptive uses for the other elements of the complex.
During the January 2018 North American blizzard, the facility's former brining shed collapsed. Portions of the structure were found across the Lubec Narrows on the shore of Campobello Island in Canada. Recovery of the remains is complicated in part by legal disputes over Canadian salvage rights.
# Bristow, Kansas

Bristow is a ghost town in Independence Township, Osborne County, Kansas, United States.

## History

Emley was issued a post office in 1872. The post office was renamed Bristow in 1876, then discontinued in 1901. There is nothing left of Bristow.
# Earl Sande

Earl Harold Sande (November 13, 1898 – August 19, 1968) was an American Hall of Fame jockey and thoroughbred horse trainer.

## Early life in South Dakota

Born in Groton, South Dakota, Earl Sande started out as a bronco buster in the early 1900s but then became a successful American quarter horse rider before switching to thoroughbred horse racing in 1918.

## Career

Sande joined Cal Shilling and Johnny Loftus as a contract rider for Commander J. K. L. Ross. In 1919, he tied an American record with six wins on a single racecard at Havre de Grace Racetrack. He went on to ride for noted owners such as Harry F. Sinclair, and Samuel D. Riddle and was the leading money-winning jockey in the United States in 1921, 1923, and again in 1927. He won both the Belmont Stakes five times and the Jockey Club Gold Cup on four occasions, the Kentucky Derby three times and the Preakness Stakes once. In 1923, he won 39 stakes races for Harry F. Sinclair's Rancocas Stable, ten of which were on ultimate Horse of the Year winner Zev, including the Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes, and a match race against England's Epsom Derby winner Papyrus. Sande's most famous wins came aboard Gallant Fox in 1930 when he won the U.S. Triple Crown.
Sande's fame was such that he was immortalized in a number of poems by Damon Runyon.

## Retirement

Following his retirement in 1932, Earl Sande remained in the industry as a trainer. In 1938 he was the United States' leading trainer and by the mid-1940s owned and operated his own racing stable.
In 1955, Earl Sande was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. His life story was told in the 2004 book by Richard J. Maturi titled "Triple Crown Winner: The Earl Sande Saga" (ISBN 0-9607298-5-2).
Earl Sande died in 1968 in a Jacksonville, Oregon nursing home.
# Heteroxyidae

Heteroxyidae is a family of sponges belonging to the order Axinellida.
Genera:
* Acanthoclada Bergquist, 1970
* Alloscleria Topsent, 1927
* Alveospongia Santos, Pinheiro, Hajdu & Van Soest, 2016
* Desmoxya
* Didiscus Dendy, 1922
* Heteroxya Topsent, 1898
* Julavis Laubenfels, 1936
* Myrmekioderma Ehlers, 1870
* Negombo Dendy, 1905
* Parahigginsia Dendy, 1924
# Scottsville Downtown Commercial Historic District

The Scottsville Downtown Commercial Historic District, in Scottsville, Kentucky is a 14 acres (5.7 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
It included 29 contributing buildings and three non-contributing ones. It includes Scottsville's Public Square, which was site of the Allen County Courthouse until 1965, and it extends roughly one block north and south on Court St., and one block east and west on Main St.
The buildings are primarily one- and two-story brick and wood-frame with brick veneer commercial buildings, built between 1881 and 1946.
# The Liberation of Christian and Yazidi Children of Iraq

The Liberation of Christian and Yazidi Children of Iraq or CYCI foundation is a Canadian non-profit organization that aims to free Christian and Yazidi women captured and forced into sex slavery by ISIS.

## History

In 2014, Steve Maman connected with negotiators in Baghdad, Iraq to build a network to rescue Yazidi and Christian women and girls sold into sexual servitude by ISIS. Maman founded the Liberation of Christian and Yazidi Children of Iraq in June 2015. Maman often visited Morocco and Iraq to purchase vintage cars to bring them back for his classic car dealership based in Montreal. During this time, he made contacts that would go on to help build his network of brokers within the ISIS-controlled areas.
In June 2015, Maman founded the CYCI foundation with a team of negotiators in Iraq who would rescue the girls by paying brokers. The foundation started raising funds for their operations through volunteer donations and a GoFundMe account. Maman currently serves as the president of the foundation.
In August 2015, Gill Rosenberg, the first female foreigner to join YPJ forces fighting ISIS joined the organization as a volunteer.

## Negotiations

The CYCI foundations is primarily involved in negotiating with brokers in ISIS controlled territories for the release of captured Yazidi women and girls. The organization releases funds to their members based in Iraq who pay brokers for releasing the women. The organization first takes the rescued women and girls internally displaced persons camp in Kurdistan and later makes efforts to re-unite them with their families. CYCI raises funds through donations made on the official website and through crowdfunding portals including GoFundMe. According to Maman, each rescue costs between $1000 and $3000.

## Criticism

Members of the Yazidis community which includes Babasheikh Kherto Ismael, the Yazidi spiritual leader, and those involved in outreach and humanitarian support dispute Maman's work and call for a greater transparency and oversight in the work with minority populations fleeing Iraq.

## Steve Maman

Steve Maman, (born March 1, 1973), is a Jewish-Canadian businessman, entrepreneur, social worker, and the founder of the CYCI foundation. Maman was born in Morocco on March 1, 1973, and was raised in Montreal, Canada where he became a vintage car dealer. Maman is married and is a father of six.
Maman has often mentioned Oskar Schindler as an inspiration for the organization in his interviews and is often referred to as Jewish Schindler by news portals.
# Joe Norris (artist)

Joe Norris (17 March 1925 – 8 March 1996) was a Canadian folk artist who painted images of his environment in Lower Prospect, Nova Scotia and places he learned about through television in crisp shapes, strong design and bright colour. He created wall paintings and painted furniture as well as models of villages, boats and lighthouses.
Norris has a secure place among the "Classic or First-Wave Folk Artists" in Nova Scotia, because like other members of this group, he started making art before the groundbreaking exhibition of Folk Art of Nova Scotia of 1976. In 1978, a museum director, Bruce Ferguson called him "the Matisse of folk art". In 2000 Bernard Riordon, the director of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, called him one of the greatest folk artists in Nova Scotia, a "Nova Scotia icon and a national treasure".

## Early life and career

Norris, one of nine children, was born in Halifax, and with his family moved to Lower Prospect, Nova Scotia just south of Halifax when he was seven years old. His father died when he was nine and he had to leave school after grade four to support his mother.
At age 15 during a bout of pleurisy, he began to paint and did so occasionally thereafter. From age 16 to 29, he worked in construction in Halifax and then as a lobster fisherman for 20 years. He only became a full-time painter in 1973 after a heart attack forced him into an early retirement at the age of 49.
At first, he sold paintings to local people and to tourists, then was discovered by Chris Huntington, an American artist and art dealer, who purchased his work from 1975 until 1982. In 1976, his paintings were included in the Folk Art of Nova Scotia exhibition at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia which travelled to the National Gallery of Canada in 1978. In 1978, the Dalhousie Art Gallery held the exhibition Joe Norris: Paintings and Furniture. In 1979, Norris's first solo show outside Nova Scotia took place at the Mira Godard Gallery in Toronto. In 1983, Norris was included in the exhibition by the National Museum of Man (today the Canadian Museum of History) titled From the Heart, which toured Canada. In 2000, a major retrospective titled Joe Norris: Painted Visions of Nova Scotia accompanied by a book of the same name by Bernard Riordon was created by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia was circulated to public galleries in Canada.

## Selected public collections

Norris's paintings are in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Canadian Museum of History.
# McFarland Heights

McFarland Heights, a neighborhood in Florence in Lauderdale County, Alabama, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017 as a historic district.
According to the Alabama Historical Commission: "McFarland Heights Historic District in Florence, Lauderdale County, is located on a bluff overlooking the Tennessee River. The neighborhood developed as Florence's first exclusive suburban development. Built over a period of about 45 years, (1920-1966) McFarland Heights has a wealth of high style buildings, most of which maintain their historic integrity. The houses reflect the transition from pre- to post-World War II suburban American architecture, with one notable dwelling designed by Frank Lloyd Wright."
The Rosenbaum House is the Wright work.
# Interpretation of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ

The Interpretation of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ (Croatian: Tlmačenie od muki Gospoda našego Isuhrsta) is a 15th-century work of narrative prose written in Glagolitic alphabet by the Glacolitic priest (at the time deacon) Simon Greblo.

## History

This liturgical book was written in Roč by the resident calligrapher and glagolitic scribe Simon Greblo in 1493. It is a work of narrative prose, and it deals with the "pain of Jesus and Mary on Good Friday." The document was written in Roč, which at the time was one of the centers of Croatian culture. It is the first of the only three known works by Greblo that have survived to this day; the others being the Quadriga by spiritual law (Kvadriga duhovnim zakonom), 1493; and the Quadragesimale (Kvarezimal), 1498. Greblo completed this work when he was still a deacon (žakan oko lit). He completed the manuscript on March 5, 1493. In the same year, Greblo became a priest

## Description

This book is one of the best preserved Glagolitic manuscripts and is of great significance to the history of Croatian literature. Greblo's Interpretation of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ was bound in one volume in 1516. It was inherited by Jerolim Greblo and sold in 1547 to the priest Matej Mejak. It was thought that Simon Greblo had died shortly before Jerolim Greblo's inheritance. However, it has been established that he probably died shortly after the last entry in the Account Book of the Brotherhood of St. Bartholomew in 1529. The book traveled through Istria and Krk, and in 1962 it was permanently deposited in the vault of the National and University Library in Zagreb.
The language of Greblo's texts is Chakavian, with a consistently carried out Liburnian Ekavization and rare Paleo-Slavicisms. Greblo's calligraphy in this manuscript, modest and refined, is considered one of the most beautiful in Croatian Glagolitic history. However, apart from the text's "high artistic value, both in the literary sense and in the visual sense, given the fact that Greblo was a top calligrapher of cursive Glagolitic, the originality of its linguistic expression is regularly emphasized."